grounde Which done she went and stoode in hir Tent dore and séeing Baruck pursuing Sisera she went mette hym saying Come and go with mée and I will shewe thée the man whome thou séekest and so he followed Iael who brought him into hir tent where Sisera laye dead Iair was a Gileadite borne He had .xxx. sonnes which were men of authoritie for they rode vppon .xxx. Asses colts And they had xxx Cities lying in the lande of Gilead which Cities were called the townes of Iair He reigned .xxij. yeares After whose death the Children of Israel fell to wickednesse agayne and serued Baalim and Astharoth the gods of Siria other straunge gods for the which the Lord was wroth with Israel and solde them into the hands of the Philistynes and Ammonites which oppressed them so sore by the space of .xviij. yeares That thâ—y were fayne to cry for helpe of the lord Who then sayde vnto them Dyd not I when yée cryed vnto mée deliuer you from the Egiptians the Amorites the Ammonites the Philistines the Sidonites the Amalakites and the Moabites which nacions had oppressed you And yet haue ye now forsaken me and serue theyr gods Therfore crie vnto these gods whom yée haue chosen and let them helpe you in your tribulacion for I will deliuer you no more Oh Lord said they we haue sinned doe vnto vs whatsoeuer pleaseth thée Then had the Lord so great compassion and pittie on the miserye of Israel that he styrred vp a man one Iephtah who by the power of God saued them Iames the sonne of Zebede and brother to Iohn was a poore fisherman and being in the ship with his father mending of his net Iesus came by and called him who immediately left his shippe his father and all and went after Iesus and was one of his Apostles and receyued with his brother the name of Bonarges which is to saye The sonnes of thunder Math. 10. a. Iames the lesse was the sonne of Alphâ—us and Marie sister to Marie the Lords mother And being bishop He suffered martyrdome in the. vi yere of Nero. of Ierusalem he wrote to the Iewes that were scattered abroade after the persecution and death of Steuen Instructing them with sundry precepts howe to order their lyues 2 Tim. 3. b. Iannes and Iambres were twoo false Sorcerers of Egypt who in the time of Moses with their enchantments Exo. 7. b. went about to put those miraculous woonders out of credence that Moses by the power of God did And euen as they withstoode Moses so do the aduersaries of the Gospell at this day and euer will resist the truth vnder a certaine false pretence of godlynesse Gen. 9. d. Iapheth was the youngest of Noes thrée sonnes who being enformed of his fathers vnséemely lying a The nations that came of his children Of Gomer came the Italians Of Magog the Scitians of them the Turkes Of Madai the Medes Of Iauan the Greekes Of Tubal the Spanyards Of Mosoch the Moscouites and of Tiras the Thracians Lanquet sléepe in his Tent tooke a garment and bare it betwene him and Sem on their shoulders and comming toward their father ashamed to looke on his nakednesse tourned their faces backwarde and so couered their fathers priuiâ—ies For the which déede Noe hauing knowledge thereof blessed them saying to Iapheth on this wise God shall enlarge Iapheth and he shall dwell in the Tentes of Sem and Canaan shall be their seruant ¶ Iapheth perswading or entycing Iairus was * Mark. 5. c. d one of the Rulers of the Synagoge among the Iewes whose daughter of the age of twelue yeares lay sicke and at the poynt of death And hearing of the fame of Iesus went and fell downe at his féete beséeching him that he would come home to his house lay his hande vpon his daughter that by the touching therof she might be safe and lyue And while there was an occasion giuen whereby to reforme the vnperfect fayth of the Ruler and that by the ensample of a woman diseased with an issue of bloude .xij. yeares there came certaine * Luk. 8. f. g. messengers from the Rulers house which sayde vnto him that his daughter was deade wherefore it shoulde not néede to trouble the Maister anye further Then Iesus perceyuing the Ruler to be as a man in dispayre sayde vnto him Be not afrayde for although thy daughter be deade in déede onely beléeue and thy daughter shall liue And so Iesus went home to the Rulers house and raised vp his daughter from death to life ¶ Iairus Lightning or being lightned Gen. 5. d. Iared was the sonne of Mahalaleel who liued an hundred sixtie and two yeares and then begat Henoch and liued after that eyght hundred yeares and begat sonnes and daughters And when he had liued in all nine hundred sixtie and two yeares he dyed ¶ Iared Commaunding or descending 2. Mac. b. 4. cap. Iason was a wicked man and so desirous of honor that he laboured his owne brother Onias out of the hye Priestes office promising Antiochus the King to gyue him for the same thrée hundred and thrée score talentes of siluer and of another rent foure score And also if the King woulde licence him to set vp a place for exercise a place for the youth and to name them of Ierusalem Antiochians he promised an hundred and fiftie Talents And when these things was graunted to Iason and that he had got the superioritie he beganne immediately to drawe his kinsmen to the customes of the heathen abolishing the lawes and priuiledges of the Iewes he brought in newe statutes contrary to the lawe of god So that thorowe the exceeding wickednesse of this vngodly man Iason the people had a great desire to follow the maner of the Gentyles The Priestes also had no lust in seruing the Lorde but in casting the stone and such wanton sportes Nowe after thrée yeres when Iason shoulde paye the King his money which he had promised for his brothers office he sent it by one whome he most trusted called Menclaus who gate the office from Iason as appeareth more plainly in his storie Then Iason being thus deceyued by Menelaus was fayne to flye into the lande of the Ammonites remayning there till he might spye a time to be reuenged And when hée hearde the rumor that went abrode of Antiochus death he gat him a bonde of men to the number of a thousande or mo and came sodenlye vppon the Citie killing and slaying his owne Citizens without mercie regarding neyther kinne nor friende But neuerthelesse when he coulde not spéede of his purpose he fledde into the lande of the Ammonites againe Where in the ende it came to this poynt that he was accused to Areta King of the Arabians and so abhorred of all men and he was pursued from Citie to Citie and driuen into Egypt And going from thence to the Lacedemonians thinking by
lesse fauour to the sonnes of Berzelai for their fathers sake than euer he himselfe had done ¶ Berzelai Made of yron or as harde as yron 2. Reg. 11. ca. Bethsabe was the daughter of Eliam and wyfe to Urias which was with Ioab in the Kings warres On a tyme as Bethsabe was washing hir selfe in hir priuye garden alone It chaunced King Dauid to looke out at a window in his palace saw hir whose bewty so rauished the King that forthwithall he sent for the woman and committed adulterie with hir and so sent hir home againe Then shortly after she perceyuing hir selfe with chylde sent the King worde thereof who then partly to hide his owne fault and partly to saue the woman from daunger of the lawe sent for Urias to come home But when Dauid sawe that Urias woulde not company with his wyfe Bethsabe he returned him backe againe to Ioab with a letter which caused Urias quickly to be dispatched out of his lyfe after whose death Bethsabe became Dauids wyfe and brought forth the chylde conceyued in adulterie which liued not long but dyed After that she 12. f. conceyued agayne and brought forth Salomon Lastly when Dauid was fallen into extréeme age and that she sawe Adonia the son of Agith begin to aspire to the kingdome of his father yet liuing she went by the counsell of Nathan the Prophet who had taught hir hyr lesson vnto Dauid hir husbande And making hir humble obeysance vnto the King as he sate in his Chamber and Abisag the Sunamite ministring vnto him he sayde vnto hir what is the matter She aunswered my Lorde thou swarest by the Lorde thy God vnto thine handmayde saying assuredly Salomon thy sonne shall reigne after me and he shall sit vpon my seate And behold now is Adonia King and thou my Lord the king knowest it not He hath offred Oxen fat Cattell and many shéepe and hath called all the Kings sonnes and Abiathar the Priest and Ioab the Captaine of the hoste But Salomon thy seruant hath he not bidden And nowe my Lorde O King the eyes of all Israell wayte on thée that thou shouldest tell them who ought to sit on the seate of my Lorde the King after him for else when my Lorde the King shall sléepe wyth his fathers I and my sonne Salomon shall be sinners The Quéene had no sooner ended hir tale but the Prophet Nathan came and confirmed hir wordes Wherevpon the King assured Bethsabe that Salomon hir son shoulde be that daye proclaymed to reigne in his steade The Quéene then humbling hir selfe with thankes desired of God that hir Lorde King Dauid might liue for euer Looke more in the historie of Adonia ¶ Bethsabe The seauenth daughter or the daughter of an Othe Exo. 31. a. 35. d. 36. 37. and 38. cap. Bezaleel the sonne of Uri of the Tribe of Iuda and Ahaliab of the Tribe of Dan were two cunning workemen most speciallye endued with the spirite of God to worke all maner curious worke that was to be wrought in Golde Siluer Brasse Woode Stone or with Néedle worke so that by these two the Tabernacle of wytnesse with all things pertayning therevnto was most artificially made ¶ Bezaleel in the shadowe of God. Gen. 29. f. 30. a. 35. d. Bilha was a yong Damosell which serued Laban the father of Rachel and when Rachel shoulde be maried to Iacob Laban gaue Bilha his mayde to Rachel his daughter to be hâ—â— seruaunt And when Rachel perceyued she coulde bâ—â—re Iacob no children she gaue Bilha hir mayde vnto him to be his wyfe who conceyued by Iacob and brought him forth two sonnes the one Dan and the other Nephtaly ¶ Bilha Olde or fading Gen. 14. a. b. Birsa was one of the foure Kinges that fought agaynst fiue other Kings in the vale of Siddim ¶ Birsa in Euill or in iniquitie or condemned or a sonne that looketh back Reade Arioch Ruth 2. 3. 4. Boos the sonne of Salomon was a great rich man dwelling in a Citie called Bethléem within the lande of Iuda Who on a tyme going to the fieldes to looke vpon his Reapers and finding there a yong Damosell a leasing demaunded of his workemen â–ª what she was To whome answere was made she was a straunger come with Naomie out of the Countrie of Moab Then went Boos to the Mayde and sayde hearest thou my daughter Here is a notable example for all riche Farmers which bee so vnmercifull y they wil not suffer their needy neyghbour to lease in their grouÌ„d wheras Boos was so mercifull to this straunger whose nation were enimies to gods people go to no other fielde a leasing I charge thée so long as Haruest tyme endureth but to myne tary here by my Maydens and gather as much as thou wilt and spare not for no man shall let thée neither yet hurt thée And when thou art hungry and a thirst go with my Maidens and eate and drinke such as they haue for they shall not denie thée And so departing from hir he went to his men seruants commaunding them to intreate hir gentlye and to leaue some sheaues on the grounde for the nonce for hir to take vp without shame Nowe after this it chaunced Boos to haue knowledge that this yong Damosell was his kinsewoman and that it was his lot to marrie hir which he was well content to doe considering hir to be a woman of good report and of much vertue But yet for as much as he knewe another to be more neare of kinne to hir than he he could not defraude him of his right therefore to knowe what he woulde doe in this matter he went and called his kinseman before the Congregation and sayde Sir we haue here a kinswoman lately returned out of the lande of Moab one Naomie and she will sell a péece of lande which was our brother Elimelechs If thou be disposed to buie it doe if not then tell me for there is none to challenge it saue thou and I next vnto thée Then sayde he to Boos I will purchase it Well sayde Boos looke what day thou buyest the lande of Naomie thou must also take * He woulde haue the land but not the woman Ruthe the Moabite to wyfe to rayse vp the name of the deade vpon his enheritance Then he reuoking his worde agayne sayde that he coulde not purchase it for marring of his owne inheritance Therefore take thou my right and purchase it and so drew of his * The maner of purchasing â–ª shooe and gaue it to Boos for that was the custome of olde in Israel concerning purchasing and chaunging of inheritaunce to plucke of his shooe and giue it to his neyghbour in witnesse that the thing betwéene them was truely bought and solde Then Boos hauing his kinsemans shooe sayd vnto the people ye are witnesses all this day that I haue bought all that was Elimelechs all that pertayned to his two sonnes *
Countrey and the cause of my flying to Tharsus that thou wast a mercyfull God full of compassion long suffering and of great goodnesse and wouldest repent thée of the euill And now O Lord forasmuch as I am founde false in my sayings take I beséeche thée my lyfe from mée for I had rather dye than lyue And so Ionas got him out of the Citie and made him a booth on the East side thereof And as he sate vnder the shadow of his booth to sée what shoulde become of the Citie the Lord caused a wylde Vine to spring ouer his heade to giue him more shadowe to defende the heate of the Sunne from him whereof Ionas was very glad But on the next morrowe when he perceyued the Vyne withered awaye and that for lacke of the shadowe thereof he waxed faynt thorow the feruent heate of the Sunne which burned him so sore he wished in himselfe that he might die Then sayde the Lorde to Ionas doest thou well to be angrie for the wylde Vine Yea sayde he very well euen vnto death If thou than quoth the Lord hast had pittie vpon the wylde vine whereon thou bestowedst no labour nor madest it growe which sprang vp in one night and perished in an other Howe much more ought I to haue pittie vppon Niniue that great Citie wherein are sixe score thousande persons that cannot discerne betwéene their right hande and their left beside much cattell And thus was Ionas reprooued of God for his disobedience ¶ Ionas a Doue 1. Reg. 13. a. Ionathas the sonne of King Saule was a valiant man in all his actes who helped his father so mightily agaynst 14. cap. the Philistynes that at the first brunt he bette downe the strongest holde they had And after that the Philistynes being pitched in Michmas into the which passage lay two sharpe rockes He sayde to his Armour bearer come and let vs go ouer toward the Philistynes garrison peraduenture the Lorde will worke with vs for it is no harde thing with him to saue with many or with fewe we will go ouer and shewe our selues to these vncircumcised * Ionathas spake this by the spirite of Prophecie And if they saye on this wyse vnto vs Tarie vntill we come vnto you then will we stande still and not remooue But if they say come vp vnto vs then will we go vp for the Lorde hath surely deliuered them into our hands and this shall be a signe vnto vs So they went without the knowledge of Saul and shewed themselues vnto the Philistynes who when they sawe them sayde in derision sée howe the Ebrues are crept out of the holes wherein they had hydde themselues but the watchmen sayde vnto them come vp vnto vs and we will shewe you a thing Then sayde Ionathas to his Armour bearer come vp after me for the Lorde hath deliuered them into the handes of Israel And so Ionathas clammered vp the rocke vpon his handes and féete and his Armour bearer after him And when the Philistines sawe the face of Ionathas they were so sodeinly smytten with feare that they fell downe before him so that Ionathas and his man slue twentie of them and put all the reast to flight And when the watchmen of Saul saw the Philistynes scattered abrode and smitten downe as they went they tolde it to the King who caused a search to be made to knowe who was gone out of the hoste and not a man was founde lacking saue Ionathas and hys Armour bearer Then Saule with all his hoste folowed after the Philistynes charging the people which had long bene without sustenance on paine of death no man to touch any foode vntill he were that day auenged on his enimies And so the people being sore opprest with hunger and comming into a woode where much Hony laye vpon the grounde durst not for their liues comfort themselues with one droppe thereof Then Ionathas being faint and not knowing the charge of his father tasted a little hony with the ende of his rodde and was greatlye comforted and refreshed therewith And being told what daunger he had incurred for breaking his fathers commaundement he sayde My Father hath troubled the lande in making such an extreme lawe for séeing that I haue receyued my strength agayne by tasting a little of this hony howe much more shoulde the people if they had eaten of the spoile of their enimies which they found haue bene the stronger and more able to haue made a greater slaughter among the Philistynes than they haue done But neuerthelesse for this offence of Ionathas lottes were cast and Ionathas iudged to suffer death wherevpon the people cryed out to Saule saying Shall Ionathas dye which hath so mightily defended Israel God forbid as truely as the Lorde liueth there shall not one heaire of his heade fall vnto the grounde for he hath wrought with God this day And so the people deliuered Ionathas After this Ionathas fell into such loue and amitie with Dauid whome Saule his father persecuted that he made a bonde with him which was neuer dissolued betwéene them And at his first acquaintance with Dauid he put off his robe and gaue it to him with hys other garments euen to his sworde Bowe and Girdle And whatsoeuer from that day forth was sayde done or wrought by Saule his father agaynst Dauid that woulde Ionathas finde the meanes to staye and pacifie whereby many times he saued Dauid from the cruelty of Saule and so continued his faythfull friende during his lyfe Finally in battell with his father against the Philistynes he was slayne ¶ Ionathas the gift of the Pigeon or Doue 1. Mac. 2. 2. Ionathas the yoongest sonne of Mathathias and brother to Iudas Machabeus did so valiauntly behaue 9. c. himselfe in the warres that the Iewes after the death of Iudas his brother made him their chiefe gouernour who at length vanquished Bachides Whereby his 10. cap. same so encreased that both Demetrius and Alexander sought to be in league with him But forsomuch as Demetrius had vexed Israel before Ionathas mistrusting Demetrius forsooke his offer and agréed to Alexander who had alwayes bene his friende and so continued as his storie declareth After this he vanquished Appolonius Captayne of Demetrius hoste brent the Citie of Azotus with the Temple of Dagon subdued Ascalon and with great victorie returned to Ierusalem where for his worthye prowesse he receyued a coller of golde from Alexander Finallye after long prosperitie in 12. f. g. 13. c. warres he was betrayed by one Triphon in the Citie of Ptolomais and afterwarde most piteously put to death ¶ Of Ionathas sonne of Abiathar the Priest looke in the storie of Ahimaaz the sonne of Sadoch 2. Reg. 21. d. Ionathas the sonne of Simea Dauids brother encountred with a mightie Gyant who had on euery hande sixe fingers and on euery foote so many toes and slue him 4. Reg. 3. cap. Ioram the sonne of Achab
all his posteritie for euer Achis was the sonne of Maoth king of Geth who on a tyme when Dauid feygned himselfe to be mad before him sayde vnto his seruaunts that brought him on this wyse What meane you Sirs to bring this madde felowe before me haue I so great néede of madde men that ye haue brought this man to playe the mad Bedlem in my presence Awaye with him I saye out of my house At this time Achis despised Dauid and woulde not receyue him but the next time he came againe with his bonde of men and their housholdes he retayned them all and gaue vnto Dauid the Citie of Zikleg to dwell in and had him in such estimation that when he himselfe shoulde go with the Phylistines to battell agaynst the Israelites he then tooke Dauid with him and made him the kéeper of his person for the which the Philistines were sore offended with Achis and woulde not suffer him to go in their company so long as Dauid was with him wherfore Achis for feare of the Philistines displeasure intreated Dauid to go home agayne and so went Achis forth wyth the Philistines against king Saul Ada There be two women of this name in the Bible The one was Lameches wyfe and mother to Iaball The other was the daughter of Elom the Hethite and wyfe to Esau Iacobs brother Adam was the first man that God created and had dominion of all the beastes and fowles of the earth and to euery beast and fowle he gaue his proper name God set him at the first in a place of passing ioye full of all maner of fruitefull trées pleasaunt both to the eye and in taste whereof he might eate at will and was not prohibit saue only from the trée of knowledge of good and euil for whensoeuer he tasted of that trée God tolde him he shoulde surely dye Nowe Adam being in this goodly paradise of pleasure God thought it good to make him a companion to beare him company And so casting Adam into a sounde sléepe he tooke out a ryb of his side whereof he made the woman and brought hir to Adam who by and by confessed hir to be of his bone and fleshe and from that tyme forth they liued togythers as man and wyfe in all purenesse and innocencie of lyfe till that by the subtiltie of olde Satan the Serpent who had deceyued the woman he was entysed by his wife to eate of the forbidden trée Which thing he had no sooner done but both their cies were opened to sée in what case they were And when they sawe themselues all naked and bare they were so ashamed that they made them garments to couer their priuities and hid themselues that the Lorde shoulde not sée them But Adam being founde out of God and demaunded wherefore he had hid him alleaged bicause he was naked And also to excuse his transgression he burdened God with his fault bicause he had giuen him the woman which had allured him to eate of the Trée But neuerthelesse for as much as Adam had obeyed the voice of his wyfe and neglected the Lordes precept God cursed the earth for his sake and droue him forth of that welthy place for to liue in sorow and care and be subiect to death and all other calamities and miseries of the worlde both he and all his ofspring for euer In the Byble is mention made both of sonnes and daughters which Adam had of Heua his wyfe but none of their names be rehearsed saue onely Cain Habel and Seth. He liued nine hundreth and thirtie yeares Adonia was a goodly yong man the sonne of Dauid borne vnto him in Hebron of his wyfe Agith When Adonia perceyued his father to be féeble and weake thorowe extreme age he began to exalt himselfe saying he woulde be king And gat him both horses and Charets and also footemen to runne before him euen lyke a king to the which hys father sayd nothing nor woulde not displease hym but let him alone and do what he would And so Adonia procéeded in his purpose and by the counsell of Ioab the Captaine and Abiathar the Priest who tooke his part he made a great sacrifice of shéepe and Oxen wherevnto he called his brethren and also the kings seruantes who eating and drinking before him with great reioysing sayde God saue king Adonia But assoone as Dauid had knowledge of Berseba his Mother and Nathan the Prophet howe all the case stoode he commaunded Sadocke the Priest and Nathan to annoynt Salomon and to set hym vppon his owne Mule and so to go forth and proclaime him king Which newes was no sooner come into the new Kings Courte but euery man shrunke away for feare leauing Adonia all alone Who then for hys owne safegarde fled to the Tabernacle of the Lorde and woulde not from thence till Salomon graunted him his pardon vpon condicion that hereafter he woulde be quiet and a good man And so being pardoned he departed quietly home to his house But after this when Dauid his father was deade Adonia casting his fauour vpon Abisag the Sunamite went to Bethsabe Salomons mother requesting hir to speake vnto the King that he would gyue hym Abisag to wyfe Then Salomon hearing his mothers request perceyued that Adonia being the elder brother went about to aspyre to the kingdome wherefore to preuent hys purpose he put him to death Adonibesech King of the Cananites was of such might and power that he subdued seuentie Kinges who being all brought into his Courte he cutte of their thumbes and great toes and made them gather their meate vnder his Table whych great crueltie he shewed vnto them being puft vp wyth pryde and ostentation of his victory This wicked King chaunced to reigne ouer the Cananites when Iuda had the gouerning of the host of Israel agaynst whome Iuda began his conquest and slewe the Cananites and put Adonibesech to flyght but beyng sore pursued the men of Iuda tooke him and cut of both his thumbes and great toes which thing the tyrant confessed hymselfe by and by to be the iust iudgement of God for as he had done to other so had he worthilye receyued agayne And so he was caryed to Ierusalem and there dyed Adramelech the sonne of Senacherib king of Assyria with his brother Saresa slewe their father in the Temple as he was worshipping his God Nisroch and fled into the lande of Armenia leauing Asarhaddon their other brother to possesse the kyngdome after their father Aduram was receyuer of all Roboams trybute and being sent in Commission to pacifie the people which were deuided and fallen from the King they for hatred they bare to Roboam tooke this man and stoned hym to death Agag was a very fat man and king of the Amalekites which Nation God had commaunded to be vtterly destroyed And bicause King Saul had reserued Agag aliue and
farre excéeded all other in wysedome and learning that Salomon was compared vnto them Darius in taking of Babilon slue King Balthasar and possessed his kingdome In the seconde yeare of his raigne he graunted the same licence vnto the Iewes to builde againe the Citie of Ierusalem and the house of God that King Cyrus had graunted to them in the first yeare of his raigne And for so much as the worke had béene much hindered from the first yeare of Cyrus vnto the seconde yeare of this King Darius he gaue a strayte commaundement that whosoeuer dyd from hencefoorth hinder or let that worke a Beame shoulde be taken from that mans house and he hanged thereon and his house made a dunghill And so the buylding went forwarde with spéede and was perfectly finished in the sixte yeare of his raigne Dathan and Abiram were the sonnes of Eliab and two of the chiefe Captaynes with Chore in the insurrection against Moses on whom God tooke such vengeance that he caused the earth to open and swallow them vp quick Reade the story of Chore. Dauid was the yoongest sonne of Isai and by Gods commaundement annoynted King of Israell Saule yet raigning of the Prophet Samuel Wherefore Saule fearing that Dauid would defeate him of his kingdome vexed hym with continuall persecution during the which tyme Dauid shewed notable examples both of pacience and true obedient seruice to Saule his soueraigne Lorde And first to shew his obedient and faithfull heart to his Prince and loue he bare to his countrey he put himselfe in daunger to fight with that great monster Goliah and slue him of whome the king and all the host of Israell stoode in great feare And after this act also when Saule of enuie that the women in their daunce had giuen to Dauid more prayse than to him threwe his Iauelin at Dauid as he stoode and played on his Harpe before him to haue nayled him fast to the wall Dauid auoyded and armed himselfe with pacience and neuer sought other meanes to reuenge In so much that when Saule by the prouidence of God came into the Caue to ease himselfe in the which Caue Dauid lay hid for feare of Saul he woulde not being prouoked put foorth his hande to hurt his mayster But cut of a péece of the hemme of his coate in token that he might haue killed him And yet after that it sore repented him that he had done so much injury vnto his soueraigne Lorde and maister although he was his most gréeuous enimy and euery houre sought his death Also when he came into the host of Saule and founde the King and his men fast a sléepe he woulde not for his owne priuate cause though Iehu slue two Kinges at Gods commaundement lay his hand vpon the Lords annointed but onely that he shoulde know that Dauid was there might haue béene reuenged tooke his speare and pot of water which stoode at his heade and went hys waye Finally when it pleased God to deliuer him of his enimie in battaile against the Philistines one to get thanke of Dauid brought vnto him Saules crowne and the Bracelet that he wore on hys arme certifying him of the Kings death and that he with his owne handes had killed him whose acte dyd so much abhorre Dauid that he thought the man not woorthy to lyue but put him to death by and by Read more of Dauids pacient suffering and obedient seruice in the story of Michol Ionathas Ahimelech Achis and Absalon his sonne Nowe when Saule was dead Dauid was admitted king and reigned ouer Iuda .vij. yeares after which time expired he reigned both ouer Israel and Iuda .xxxiij. yeares And dyd that which was good in the sight of God and put his trust confidence in the Lord God of Israel so that before nor after him was not his like He cleaued so vnto the Lord that God of him bare witnesse that he had founde a man according to his hearts desire To him God made a promise that Christ shoulde come of his séede for the which cause Christ of the Prophets is called the sonne of Dauid To this holy Prophet God gaue many victories and excellent giftes which are touched in other stories and yet among all his vertues he suffred him to fall into the abhominable vice of adulterie and homicide and most gréeuously punished him for the same who notwithstanding after earnest repentaunce was receyued agayne into the fauour of God and neuer after offended in that sinne more Finally after many conflictes with his enimies he died after he had reigned .xl. yeares leauing Salomon his sonne to succéede him Debora the wyfe of one Lapidoth was a Prophetesse and the fourth Iudge and gouernour of the people of Israel who by the power and pleasure of God and helpe of Barack the Captayne of hir armie deliuered them from the Tyrannie of King Iabyn and of Sisera his Captaine generall putting the king to a great foyle in flying of his Captain Sisera Thorow the which victorie the Israelites were restored to libertie and their enimies the Cananites vtterly confounded She iudged Israel .xl. yeares Demas was Christes Disciple a great while and a faythfull minister to Paule and neuer shranke from him nor his doctrine so long as all things prospered well with Paule But when he saw Paule cast in pryson and in daunger of his life for the Gospels sake He forsooke both him and his doctrine and imbraceing the worlde conueighed himselfe to Thessalonica Such there be that so long as pleasure profite fauour honour glory or riches doe followe the worde of God so long will they fauour the same But when affliction persecution losse of goods riches landes possessions or such like aduersities doe come then they doe as Demas dyd forsake the Gospel and followe the worlde Demetrius the sonne of Sceleucus came from Rome with a small company of men to a certaine Citie of his owne lying vpon the Sea coast and prepared an armie to go to Antioche the Citie of his Progenitours where he founde Antiochus and Lisias which both he caused to be slayne and being stablished in his kingdom he began through the wicked counsell of Alcimus whom he had made hye Priest to séeke the destruction of the Iewes sending foorth diuers armies against them in the which he spedde diuersly Finally the sonne of noble Antiochus mooued warre agaynst hym and in battell slue him Demetrius the sonne of Demetrius being in the lande of Creta at his fathers death made haste homewarde to take possession of his Kingdome And being stablished therein he began to waxe mightie â–ª â—y reason that Ptolomy King of Egipt had withdrawne his fauour from Alexander his sonne in law and taken his daughter Cleopatra from him and giuen hir to Demetrius And also for as much as Ptolomy and Alexander lyued not long after the strife
reason of kinred to haue had some succour of them he was not regarded but suffered to perishe in a straunge land no man mourning for him nor putting him into hys graue ¶ Iason He that maketh whole a Phisition Iecksan looke Iocsan 4. Reg. 23. f. Iehoahas the sonne of Iosias was .xxiij. yeare olde when he began to reygne ouer Iuda and had not reygned thrée moneths or that Pharao Necho King of Egipt came and put him downe and set vp his brother in hys steade And put the lande to a tribute of an hundred Talents of Siluer and one of Golde and caryed Iehoahas away into Egypt where he dyed ¶ Iehoahas The possession of the Lorde 4. Reg. 23. g. 24. a. Iehoakym the sonne of Iosias was .xxv. yeares of age when he began to reygne ouer Iuda and dyd that which was euill in the sight of the Lorde His name was chaunged from Eliakim to Iehoakym by Pharao Necho King of Egypt which came and deposed his brother This Kyng dyed in the way as they led him prisoner into Babilon Reade Ieremie 22. e. Iehoahas and made him King in his steade and mersced the lande as before is sayde in Iehoahas For the payment of which money Iehoakym taxed the land and leuyed of euery man according to his habilitie and payde the money to Pharao After this came Nabuchodonosor King of Babilon and besieged Ierusalem to whome Iehoakym yéelded and serued Nabuchodonosor thrée yeares and then rebelled agaynst him into whose hande the Lorde deliuered him so that the King of Babilon tooke him and bounde him in twoo chaynes and caried him and all the vessels of the Lordes house into Babilon This King reigned a .xj. yeares ¶ Iehoakym the Rysing or aduenging of the Lorde * He is called also Iechonias Math. 1. b Iehoachin 4. Reg. 24. b. c. d. was the sonne yof Iehoakm who at the age of xviij yeares began to reigne ouer Iuda and did euill in the sight of the Lorde as his fathers before him He had not reygned thrée moneths or that the King of Babilon came and deposed him making Mathania his fathers brother King in his steade chaunging his name from Mathania to Zedekia and caryed Iehoachym away into Babilon where he remayned in pryson xxxviij yeares after euen vntill the comming of Euilmerodach King of Babilon after Nabuchodonosor hys father who had such a mynde to Iehoachym that he deliuered him out of prison and exalted him aboue all the Princes in Babilon and fedde him at his owne table all the dayes of his lyfe ¶ Iehoachin the Resurrection of the Lorde 4. Reg. 13. a. b. c. Iehoahas the sonne of Iehu began his reygne ouer Israel in the .xxiij. yeare of the reygne of Ioas the sonne of Ahaziahu King of Iuda and walked so wickedly in the sinnes of Ieroboam by worshipping the Calues which he had erected that God deliuered him into the handes of Hazael and his sonne Benhadad Kinges of Siria which destroyed the people of Israel and vexed them so sore that they made the Israelites like threshed dust yet neuerthelesse when Iehoahas humbled himselfe and besought the Lord he hearde him and had such pitie compassion on the misery of Israel that he deliuered him out of the Sirians subiection which had brought him so lowe that they had left him but fiftie horsemen ten Charets and ten thousande footemen He reygned xvij yeares and then dyed and was buryed in Samaria leauing behinde him his sonne Ioas to reigne in his steade ¶ Iehoahas Apprehending possesing or seeyng 4. Reg. 11. ca. Iehoiada was the hye Byshop and Priest in the dayes of Ahaziahu King of Iuda whose daughter he maryed named Iehosabeth He preserued Ioas the yongest sonne of Ahaziahu his father in lawe sixe yeares in the Lordes house and in the seauenth yeare he brought him forth and proclaimed him king And being his gouernour and protectour trayned him vp in all godlynesse and vertue So that so long as Iehoiada liued the King 2. Par. 24. d. walked in all the wayes of the Lorde from the which he swarued after the death of this good Bishop Iehoiada Who liued 130. yeares and for his faythfulnesse towardes God and his people was most honorablye buried in the Citie of Dauid among the Kings ¶ Iehoiada the Knowledge of the Lorde 4. Reg. 11. a. Iehosabeth was the daughter of Ahaziahu King of Iuda and wyfe to Iehoiada the hie Bishop of the Iewes 2. Par. 22. d. And when Atthalia hir Graundmother went about to destroy the Kings séede shée stole awaye Ioas hir yoongest brother from among the Kings sonnes and hid both him and his Nurse in hir owne Chamber with hir husbands consent the space of .vj. yeares and so preserued him that he perished not with the reast of hir brethren ¶ Iehosabeth the fulnesse of the Lorde 4. Reg. 9 ca. Iehu the sonne of Nimsi was annoynted King ouer Israel by Eliseus the Prophet for to destroye the house of Achab his mayster And being commaunded to go about it with spéede he began first with Ioram which lay at Iezrael to be healed of his wounds which the Sirians had giuen him And as Iehu was comming thitherward the watchman espying a company comming toward the Citie tolde the King who then sent out an horseman to méete them and to knowe whether they came peaceably or no. And when the Messenger came to Iehu he sayde The King woulde knowe whether it be peace or no What hast thou to doe with peace quoth Iehu turne thée behinde me and so the messenger turned behynde Iehu and went backe no more and likewyse the second Then the watchman tolde the King that he thought by the dryuing of the Charret it shoulde be Iehu that was comming for he driueth quoth he as he were mad The King hearing that he made him readye to warre and tooke Ahaziahu King of Iuda with him and went toward Iehu and met him in the furlong of Naboth saying is There was a Prophete also called Iehu the sonne of Hanani which prophecied of the destruction of Baasa King of Israel and his posterity Read. 3. Reg. 16. a. b. it peace Iehu or no What peace should it be quoth he so long as the whooredomes of thy mother Iezabel hir witchcrafts are so great and so in the Battell Iehu shot Ioram to the heart with an arrow killed him And fell vpon Ahaziahu and slue him also And so procéeding forth to Iezrael he came thither and found Iezabel looking out at a windowe And as he demaunded of the companye about hir who was on his side and woulde for his sake cast hir downe two or thrée of hir Chamberlaines threw hir out at the windowe and brake hir necke notwithstanding bicause she was a Kings daughter he caused hir to be buryed Then he sent his letters to Samaria 10. cap. commaūding those which had the gouernance of Achabs seauentie sonnes
dead yet shall he lyue and whosoeuer lyueth and beléeueth in mée shall not dye Beléeuest thou this Yea Lord quoth Martha I beléeue that thou art Christ the sonne of God which shoulde come into the worlde After this when Iesus came to the place where Lazarus was buryed and had commaūded the stone of his graue to be taken away Martha sayde Lorde by this tyme he stincketh for he hath béene dead foure dayes Sayde not I vnto thée quoth Iesus that if thou diddest beléeue thou shouldest sée the glory of god And so she saw hir brother Lazarus restored from death to lyfe to the glory of God and hir great comfort Mathathias the sonne of Simeon the Priest which was of the stocke kynred of Ioaris had fiue valyaunt men to his sonnes dwelt in Modyn remayning steadfast in the lawes of God notwithstanding the great calamities that were come vpon the people of Iuda and Ierusalem for the which Mathathias made pytteous Lamentacion crying vpon God to strengthen him and his sonnes agaynst the heathen that had so wasted the people and defyled his sanctuary And whyle he his sonnes were thus mourning in Sackcloth for the destruction of the holy Citie Antiochus the King sent certayne Commissioners to the Citie of Modyn to compell such Iewes as were thither fled to forsake their owne lawes and to serue the Idols of the heathen Who after they had turned the heart of many spake to Mathathias on this wise Thou arte sayde they a noble man of hye reputacion and great in this Citie and hast many Children and brethren Come thou first of all and fulfill the Kinges commaundement lyke as the heathen haue done and the men of Iuda with such as remayne at Ierusalem and so shalt thou and thy sonnes be in fauour with the King and greatly enriched Nay said Mathathias Though all Nations vnder the Kinges Dominion fall away euerye man from the law of their fathers yet will I my sonnes my brethren walke in the lawes of our Fathers God forbid we shoulde forsake the lawes and ordinaunces of God we will not for no mannes pleasure transgresse our religion or breake the Statutes of our Lawe And as he had spoken these woordes a certayne Iewe came foorth and openlye in the sight of all men dyd sacrifice vnto the Idols vpon the Aultar in the citie of Modyn according to the Kings commaundement which thing so grieued Mathathias that for very zeale he had to the lawes of God he start him vp and ranne vpon the Iewe and kylled both him the Commissioner that compelled him so to doe ranne his way crying thorowe the Citie and saying to the people whosoeuer is seruent in the law and will kéepe and stande by the couenaunt let hym followe mée So he and his sonnes fled into the mountayns and many other godly men with their wyues and children and all that they had got them into the Wildernesse And being there the heathen went agaynst them on the Sabaoth daye and slue man woman and Childe for on that day the Iewes would make no resistance but woulde dye in their innocencie Then Mathathias hearing of this was verie sorye and counsayling with his friends sayde If we doe as our brethren hath done and not to fight for our lyues our lawes the heathen will soone roote vs all out of the earth wherevpon they concluded that whosoeuer dyd bid them battell on the Sabaoth daye that they woulde rather manfully fight for their lawes than to dye as their brethren had done before Vpon the which conclusion came the whole Synagoge of the Iewes with all such as were fled for persecution to Mathathias And being gathered togithers they were so great an hoste that they feared not their enimies but fell vpon them and slue a great number And by their force and strength they went about the coastes of Israel and destroyed the Aultars circumcised their children and kept their lawes in spite of all their beards Finally when the tyme of his death drewe nyghe he called all his sonnes before him exhorting them to preferre the lawes and wealth of their Countrey before their owne lyues and ordayned Symon his eldest sonne to be as it were theyr Father and Iudas Machabeus to be their Captayne and so giuing them his blessing he dyed and was burned in his Fathers Sepulchre in the Citie of Modyn Mathathias the sonne of Symon was killed with his Father at a Banket which Ptolomy his brother in lawe had prepared for them in a Castle of hys called Doche. Mathathias the sonne of Absalemus stacke by Ionathas when all his men forsooke him and fled the fielde sane Iudas the sonne of Calphi S. MATTHAEVS EVANGELISTA Cap. ◠VBI EST QVI NATVS EST REX IVDAEORVM VIDIMVS ENIM STELLAMEIVS IN ORIENTE ET VENIMVS ADORAE◠Mathias was a saithful Disciple of Christ and one that had his conuersacion alwayes among the Apostles ruen from the beginning of Christs preaching to the last ende And now for as much as Iudas the Traytour was fallen from Christ he with an other godly man called Ioseph or Barsabas was appointed to stande in election which of them twoo shoulde succéede in the place of Iudas ▪ And when the Apostles had made their prayers to God and giuen fóorth their lottes the lotte fell on Mathias and so he was counted with the eleuen Apostles Mathusalah was the sonne of Henoch and lyued and hundred eyghtie and seauen yeares and begot Lamech And after that he lyued seauen hundred an eyghtie twoo yeares and ▪ begot sonnes and daughters and when he had lyued in all nyne hundred and thrée score an nyne yeares he died Melchisedech is called King of Salem and the hye Priest of the most high god When Abraham had rescued Lot his nephew out of the handes of the Assirians and was returned from the slaughter of the Kings Melchisedech met him with breade and wyne to refreshe Abraham and his souldiours and blessed him saying Blessed be Abraham vnto the hye God possessor of heauen and earth and blessed be the high God which hath deliuered thine enimies vnto thy hande And Abraham gaue him tythes of all things The Scripture reporteth Melchisedech to be without father without mother without kynne and hath neyther beginning of his dayes neither yet ende of his lyfe but is lykened vnto the sonne of God and continueth a Priest for euer Menelaus was brother to Simon and Lysimachus twoo as vngracious as himselfe This ambicious man by deceyte got the hye Priestes office from Iason on this wyse When that good and godlye man Onias had the superioritie Iason his brother found the meanes to corrupt Antiochus the King with money and so gotte the office ▪ out of his brothers handes And when the time came that Iason shoulde pay the money to Antiochus he sent it by the hande of Menelaus in whome he had great confidence
hast slayne hym with the swoorde of the Children of Ammon Nowe therefore the swoorde shall neuer depart from thine house bicause thou hast despised mée and taken the wyfe of Urias the Hethite to be thy wyfe Wherefore thus sayth the lord Beholde I will styrre vp euill against thée euen out of thine owne house and will take thy wyues before thyne eyes and giue them vnto thy neighbour and he shall lye with thy wyues in the sight of the Sunne For thou dyddest it secretly but I will doe this thing before all Israel and in the open Sunne light Then sayde Dauid I haue sinned agaynst the Lorde Well sayde Nathan the Lord hath also put awaye thy sinne thou shalt not dye Howbeit bycause of dooing this déede thou hast giuen the enimies of the Lorde a cause to blaspheme the childe that is borne vnto thée shall surely dye And so Nathan departed Finally what tyme as Adonya had taken vpon him to rule the Kingdome vnwitting to his Father Dauid Nathan came to the King and sayde My Lorde O King hast thou sayde Adonya shall raygne after mée and he shall sit vpon my seate For he is gone downe this daye and hath slayne many Oxen and fat shéepe and hath called all the Kings sonnes and the Captayne of the hoste and Abiathar the Priest and beholde they eate and drincke before him and saye God saue King Adonya But mée thy seruaunt Sadocke the Priest and Banaiahu and thy seruaunt Salomon hath he not called Is this thing done by my Lorde the King and thou hast not shewed it vnto thy seruaunt who shoulde sit on the seate of my Lorde the King after him And when the King had declared hys minde and will Nathan and Sadocke the Priest went and annoynted Salomon King. Nathaniel which was a man woonderfull desirous of Messias comming was brought to Christ by Philip who finding him vnder a figge tree sayde O Nathaniel I can tell thée tydings we haue founde him of whom Moses in the Lawe and the Prophetes did write euen Iesus the Sonne of Ioseph of Nazareth Is that true quoth he can there any good thing come out of Nazareth if thou doest not beléeue me quoth Philip come and sée thy selfe And as Nathaniel was comming with Philip to Iesus he sayth of him thus Behold a right Israelite in whome is no guile Nathaniel perceyuing that Iesus knewe him sayde How knowest thou me I knewe thée sayde Iesus before that Philip called thée I sawe thée when thou wast vnder the figge trée Then sayde Nathaniel Rabbi thou art the sonne of God thou art the King of Israel Neptalin ex multis seruatus saepe periclis Corniger infestus ceruus ut a câ—â—â—â—us Nostra tribus teÌ„taque fuit saepissime bello Sed bonitate dei mox liberatâ—â—â—it Nehemia a Iewe borne was Cupbearer to Artaxerses King of Persia a man of great learning and holynesse who being in great fauour with the sayde King obtayned both licence and ayde to reedifie the Citie of Ierusalem Nycanor being a great Prince vnder Demetrius and an vtter enimie vnto the Iewes was sent with a mightie hoste against Iudas Machabeus who notwithstanding the hatred that he had to the Iewes yet vnto Iudas himselfe he bare a secrete good will and loue in his heart and counsayled him when they met togithers to talke of peace to take a wyfe and to bring forth children But for all that his malice was so great agaynst the rest of the Iewes and his heart so puft vp with pride thorowe his inuincible power and strength that he helde vp his hande against the house of God making an othe that he woulde destroye it and breake downe the Aultar and consecrate the temple of God to Bacchus And thinking all this but a tryfle to bring to passe sold the Iewes before he came at them promising to euerye one that woulde buye them foure score and ten Iewes for one talent But this blasphemer who had brought a thousande Merchantes with him to buye the Iewes â–ª was by the helpe and power of God for all his stoute bragges shortly ouerthrowen and so discomfited that he himselfe was faine to chaunge his apparell and to slie alone to Antioche with great dishonour and shâ—nne Finally attempting to fight agayne with Iudas vpon the Sobboth day he was at last by the mightie hande of God slayne Whose heade Iudas commaunded to be set vppon the Castle at Ierusalem and his threatening hande to be hanged against the temple and his blasphemous tongue cutte in péeces and cast to the Birdes to be deuoured Nichodemus was one of the heade men amonge the secte of the Phariseys but not the best learned although his mynde were lesser corrupt than the other This man fauoured Christ but durst not be knowne thereof for feare of the Iewes wherefore he came to Iesus by night secretlye saying Rabbi we knowe that thou art a teacher come from God for no man could doe such myracles as thou doest except God were with him Iesus Verilye verilye I saye vnto thée except a man be borne from aboue he cannot sée the kingdome of god Nichodemus howe can a man be borne when he is olde can he enter into his Mothers wombe and bée borne againe Iesus Verilye verily I say vnto thée except a man be borne of the water and of the spirite he cannot enter into the kingdome of God that which is borne of the fleshe is fleshe and that which is borne of the spirite is spirite Maruell not thou that I sayde vnto thée ye must be borne from aboue The wynde bloweth where it lysteth and thou hearest the sounde thereof but canst not tell whence it commeth or whither it goeth So is euery one that is borne of the spirite Nichodemus howe can these thinges be Iesus Art thou a maister in Israel and knowest not these things Verily verily I say vnto thée we speake that we know and testifie that we haue séene and ye receyue not our witnesse If I haue tolde you earthly things and ye beléeue not how shall ye beléeue if I tell you of heauenly things c. This man afterwarde answered for Iesus and sayde to the Phariseys what time as they had sent Ministers to apprehende him doth our lawe iudge any man before it heare him Finally at the death of Christ to honour his buriall he bought of Myre and Aloes mingled togither about an hundred pounde weyght and came with Ioseph of Aramathia to take downe the body of Iesus and wounde it in linnen clothes with the odours as the maner of the Iewes was to burie and layde him in his sepulchre Nicholas a Conuert of Antioche was one of the seauen Deacons ordeyned in the Congregation to doe seruice in necessarie things of the bodye that the Apostles might waite onely vpon the worde of God who notwithstanding fell into a foule heresie which S. Iohn
Iuda This man slue Pekahia his owne Lorde and so vsurped the Crowne He kept the wayes of Ieroboam as his Predecessors did He made warre against Iuda and slue of them in one day sixe hundred thousande and tooke twoo hundred thousande of women sonnes and daughters prisoners and caried them awaye to Samaria purposing to haue kept them in bondage and slauerye all their lyfe long But being admonished by Oded the Prophete he newe arayed them and sent them home agayne After this God stirred vp Thiglah King of Assiria agaynst him which came and dispossessed him of all the lande of Nephtalim and caried away his people Finally Hosea the sonne of Ela conspired against Pekah and slue him after he had reygned twentie yeares and was King after him Peleg was the sonne of Eber of the generation of Sem. His brothers name was Iocktan At the age of thirtie yeares he begot Rew and lyued after that twoo hundred and nyne yeares In this mans dayes was the lande deuided by reason of the diuersitie of language which happened at the buylding of Babell Persis was a man singularlye beloued of S. Paule for his diligence in setting foorth the Gospell as doth appeare by his woordes saying Salute the welbeloued Persis which laboured much in the Lorde Peter otherwise called Symon the sonne of Ionas dwelt in the Citie of Bethsaida and from a Fisher man was called to be an Apostle into whose house Christ vouchedsafe to come and heale his wiues mother of hir feuer Peter was of that audacitie and boldnesse that he went vppon the water which was to great an enterprise for hym to performe without the helpe of Christ his mayster who séeing hym thorowe weakenesse of fayth in daunger of drowning saued him Agayne when Christ dyd shew vnto his Disciples how that he must go to Ierusalem and suffer many things of the Elders and of the Priestes and Scribes and be put to death and the thyrde daye ryse agayne which thing he spake to plucke out of their hearts that false opinion they had of his temporall Kingdome Peter tooke him asyde and began to rebuke hym saying Mayster looke to thy selfe this shall not be vnto thée with whose rashe zeale Christ was so offended that he called him Sathan laying to his charge that he fauoured not the thinges that were of God but of men Also when Peter sawe Christ being transfigured talke with Moses Elias he was so rauished with that sight that he sayde vnto him Lorde here is good being for vs If thou wilt let vs make here thrée Tabernacles One for thée and one for Moses and one for Elias Furthermore when Christ sayde vnto his Disciples the night he knew he shoulde be apprehended that all they shoulde be offended bicause of him Peter trusting to much to his owne strength sayde Though all men be offended bycause of thée yet will not I forsake thée Naye I will suffer death rather than I will denye thée And to performe this promise when Iudas came with a multitude of the hygh Priestes seruaunts with swoordes and staues to take Christ Peter drewe out his swoorde and smote off the eare of one of the hygh Priestes seruauntes For whose foolishe hardynesse Christ rebuked him sharplye and bade him put vp his swoorde Then Peter séeing his mayster ledde awaye and all his fellowes fled and gone woulde not séeme vtterly to forsake his mayster but followed a farre off at length in the darcke as vnknowne entered into the Court of Caiphas And sitting among the ministers warming him by the fyre a wenche came to him and sayde arâ— not thou one of this mannes Disciplâ—s No sayde he Yes but thou arte quoth an other for I dyd sée thée with him in the Garden Peter denyed agayne saying that he dyd not know him Then certayne which stoode by knowing Peter sayde surely thou arte one of them for thy speach doth bewray thée Then began Peter to cursse and banne swearing and denying that euer he knewe hym And immediatelye the Cocke dyd crowe Peter nowe remembring the wordes of Christe which had sayde vnto him that before the Cocke dyd crowe he shoulde denye him thrise was touched with inwarde repentaunce and went out and wept bitterly And after he had lost the presence of his mayster he went to his olde occupasion of fishing agayne And as he with other his companions had laboured all the long night in vayne and were comming to lande Iesus which stoode on the shore asked if they had any meate who not knowing what he was sayde they had none Then cast out your Net quoth he on the right side of the Ship and yée shall spéede and so they cast out their net and were not able to drawe it to lande agayne for the multitude of fishes that were caught in it And as Peter was haling vp the net and heard Iohn say it was Iesus which stoode vpon the shore he left the net and sprange into the Sea to Iesus This is that Peter vppon whose confession Christ when Peter acknowledged him to be the sonne of the liuing God â—yd buylde his Congregacion Finally to stablish Peter in the office of an Apostle Christ commaunded him earnestlye thrée times to féede his shéepe Giuing him also forewarning of his death Phaltiel the sonne of Lays would not séeme to disobey the will of King Saule when of hatered he had taken his daughter Mychol from Dauid and gaue hir to him but thankefully receyued hir and gentlye entertayned Michol so long as the King hir Father lyued who being dead then Dauid required to haue his wyfe Michol agayne And at the daye of hir deliueraunce to Abner to be restored to Dauid he brought hir on the waye and came behinde hir wéeping till they came to a place called Bahurim And there at Abners commaundement he returned home agayne Pharao There be diuers Kinges of this name expressed in Scripture What time as Abraham came into Egipt with Sara his wyfe who was reported to Pharao to be a woman of an excellent bewtie hée tooke hir home to his house and gentlye entertayned the woman without any spot of dishonestie and also entreated Abraham well for hir sake But when he perceyued that God had plagued his house for kéeping the woman from hir husbande he called Abraham vnto him and sayde Why haste thou done this vnto mée Wherefore dyddest thou not tell mée that she was thy wyfe Why saydest thou she is my sister that I shoulde take hir to be my wyfe Nowe therefore beholde thy wyfe take hir and go thy waye and gaue a commaundement that no man shoulde hurt them eyther in person or goodes An other Pharao there was that delyuered Ioseph out of Prison to expounde his dreames And for the excellent wisedome and knowledge that he sawe to be in Ioseph he made hym Ruler and Gouernour of all the lande of Egipt and shewed
reporteth 1. Par. 4. b. ‡ Iacob made the like vowe Reade his storie ¶ Iabes Sorowe Iudic. 4. a. * Which Citie beinge brent of Iosua was afterwarde buylded againe of the Canaanites ¶ Iabyn Vnderstanding Gen. 25. c. d. 27. cap. 28. cap. * Christ is the Ladder whereby God â–ª and man are ioyned togither and by whome the Angels mynister vnto vs all graces by him are giuen vnto vs and we by him ascende into heauen 29. cap. * The cause why Iacob was deceiued was that in olde time the wife was couered with a vayle when shee was brought to hir husbande in signe of chastitie and shamefastnes Gen. 30. e. f. g. * Iacob herin vsed no deceyte for so much as hee did it at gods coÌ„mandement 31. cap. Gen. 32. cap. Gen. 33. cap. 46. cap. 49. d. 50. a. b. c. ¶ Iacob a Supplantur Gen. 10. d. ¶ Iacktan a little one or Lothsomnesse or Contencion Iudic. 4. c. d. * Now was the prophecie of Debora fulfilled whiche shee prophecied to Barak saying this iorney that thou takest vppon thee now shal not bee for thine honor for the Lorde shall sell Sifera into the hand of a woman ¶ Iael a Do or ascending Iudic. 10. cap. ¶ Iair Lightened Math. 4. d. Mar. 3 c. He was put to death by Agrippa who had to name also Herode Act. ¶ Iames a Tripper or 12. a. Cooper Deceyuour An beele the sole of the foote a foote steppe Gen. 14 Four Kinge against fyue Kedorlaomor the generation of seruitude or the house of bondage Gen. 25. ◠¶ Ketura smelling sweete lyke spice or perfuming or bounde Gen. 29. cap. ¶ Laban Whyte Gen. 4. c. d 5. c. d. ¶ Lamech Poore or smitten Iohn 11. cap. Iohn 12. a. ¶ Lazarus the Helpe or succour of God or Gods Court. Luk. 16. e. f. g. * Some doe vnderstande by AbrahaÌ„s bosome the fayth of Abraham And some the place where those do rest which dye in the fayth of Abraham Which place is not expressed in Scripture Gen. 29. c. ca. * The Mandrake is a kind of herbe whose roote hath a certain likenesse of the figure of a man. 30. b. c. ¶ Lea Paynfull or wearyed Gen. 29. g. 34. cap. Num. 18. c. d. Deut. 10. c. Iosua 13. d. ¶ Leuy Ioyned or Coupled Exod. 6. c. 2. Reg. 3. a. 1. Par. 3. a. 3. Reg. 1â— a. c. ¶ Maacha a Woman pressed or bruised 1. Mac. 2. 3. ¶ Machabeus a Strikeâ— a Fighter Reade Iudas Machabeus 2. Reg. 9. 2. Amiel was Father to Bethsabe King Dauids wife ¶ Machir Selling or knowing 4. Reg. 15. c. d ¶ Manahen a Comforter or Leader of them or a preparing of heate Act. 13. â— 4. Reg. 21. ca. 2. Par. 33. ca. Manasses put Esay the prophet who was his father in lawe to death Reade the annotasion in the storie of Esay ¶ Manasses Forgetfull or forgetfulnesse Ester 2. cap. Marbocheus liued 198. yeares as Philo witnesseth ¶ Mardocheus a bitter contricion or repentaunce Math. 1. c. Luke 1. c. d. In the booke called Fasciculus temporum it is sayd that this Virgin was the daughter of Ioachim and Anna and was about the age of .xvi. yeres when shee brought forth Christ Mar. 1â— d. 16. a. Act. 12. c. Iohn 12. â— Luke 7. f. g. * Magdalena signifieth â–ª magnified or exalted Luk. 10. g. Iohn 19. â— 20. 2. b. c. d. ¶ Marke Fyled or rubbed Act. 12. b. 14. d. 15. g. Luke 10. g. Iohn 11. cap. ¶ Martha Bitter or Prouoking 1. Mac. 2. cap. ¶ Mathathias the gift of the Lorde 1. Mac. 16. c. 1. Mac. 11. g. Act. â— d. Lottes ¶ Mathias the Lords Gift Gen. 5. c. ¶ Mathusalah he sent his death or the weapons of his death Gen. 14. d. Heb. 7. 2. ¶ Melchisedech King of Righteousnesse â— Mac. 4. c. ca ¶ Menelaus Strength of the people 1. Reg. 18. d. ¶ Merob Fighting or chyding or 2. Reg. 21. b. multiplying ‡ 4. Reg. 5. ¶ Naaman Fayre or beawtifull 1. Reg. 25. a. b ¶ Nabal a Foole. 3. Reg. 21. ca. ¶ Naboth Speach or prophecying Dan. 1. a. 2. cap. He reygned â— 4. yeares and was called the scurge of God. He was before the incarnation of Christ 633. yeares Cooper ¶ Nabuchodonosor the Mourning of the Generation 3. Reg. 15. ◠¶ Nadab a Prince or liberall 1. Reg. 11. ca. Iudic. 11. cap. ¶ Nahas a Snake or Serpent or gessing or diuining Gen. 11. d. ¶ Nahor Hoarse or Angry Ruth 1. cap. ¶ Naomy Faire or commely or prouoking much â— Reg. 7. 2. 12. cap. Dauid had a sonne called Nathan also 2. Reg. 5. c. ¶ Nathan Giuen or giuing Iohn 1. c. ¶ Nathaniel the gift of God. 2. Esd 1. cap. ¶ Nehema the comfort or rest of the Lorde the Lordes direction 1. Mac. 7. c. d. 2. Mac. 14. d. e. f. 8. cap. 1. Mac. 7. d. e. 2. Mac. â—5 ca. Nicanor which was one of the seuen Dâ—cons Act. 6. a. ¶ Nicauor a Conquerour Valiant Iohn 3. a. b. 7. g. 19. g. ¶ Nichodemus Innocent bloude Act. 6. a. His heresie was this That euery man might iefully vse euery woman that he lusted ¶ Nicholas the victorie of the common people Gen. 10. b. 11. a. ¶ Nymrod Rebellious Gen. 5. d. 6. cap. 7. cap. 8. cap. Gen. 9. b. c. d. ¶ Noe Rest. Ruth 4. d. 1. Par. 16. d. 2 Reg. 6. b. c. ¶ Obed Edom the seruant of Edom or a seruant Edomite 3. Reg. 1â— a. b. c. ¶ Obedia seruaunt of the Lorde 2. Par â–ª 28. b. c ¶ Oded holding vp or erecting Num. 21. g. Deu. 3. a. 29. b ¶ Og a Cake or breade baked vnder the ashes Gen. 38. a. ¶ Onan Sorow or Iniquitie Coll. 4. b. Phile. cap. ¶ Onesimus Apparell or a garment 2. Timo. 1. d. ¶ Onesiphorus bringing profit 2. Mac. 3 cap. 4. cap. ¶ Onias the strength of the Lorde Exod. 35. a. Iudic. 7. g. ¶ Oreb a crowe or sweete or a suretie or euening tyme. 1. Par. 21. c. d. In the seconde booke of Kinges chap. 24. d. He is called Areâ—na ¶ Ornan Reioysing Ruth 1. cap. ¶ Orpha a Necke Iudith 6. c. d. 7. c. ¶ Osias the Lorde Sauiour or the health of the Lorde Iudic. 1. c. 3. b. ¶ Othoniel the tyme or houre of God. 4. Reg. 15. e. ¶ Pekahia the Lordes opening 4. Reg. 15. e. f 2. Par. 28. b. c Ge. 10. d. 11. ◠¶ Peleg a diuision Rom. 16. â— Math. 4. e. Luke 4. f. Math. 14. â— 16. c. 17. a. Math. 26. c. ca Iohn 18. b. 21. cap. Math. 16. c. ¶ Peter a Stone or Rocke 1. Reg. 25. g. Lyra sayeth that Psaltiel was a learned man And knowynge Michol to be Dauids lowfull wyfe he reserued hir as his sister and wept for ioye that shee was without dishonesty restored to Dauid againe * Gen. 12. c. d Pharao was a generall name giuen to the Kings of Egypt 41. cap. 47. cap. Exod. 1. cap. Exod. 5. cap. 7. 8.