to that Day what for them he had wrought He shewes his promises wer all perfected And to his glore and to their good effected Therefore h' intreats Commands them and dois pray That ev'r his will and Bidding they obay And tells them if they do declyne and swerve And vnto Idoll Gods bovv doune and serve Lest be him to the fury of their foes âââhe vvill vvex them vvith a Thovvsand woes Iudges 1. Chap. NO sooner Iudah was install'd into The rulers roome when he began to do And presently with all his Men of armes He stricks vp stoutly shrill and loud alarmes And with kene-dagd vnconquerable Corage He forc'd his foes and did their Countrie forage There King Adom-bezek he hes caught him And his ovvne lesson learnd to others taught him For as his forme was to afflict his foes He cutts from him his Thumbs and poynts of Toes A just reward for Tyranes he confessd That sev'ntie Kinges himself had so distressd The Lord heirfoir his fate hes framed so Conformly to be vsed by his foe Iudges 2. Chap. THe Lord with Isrel discontended stands That they with Can'an had contracted bands Yet penitent they do repent therefore And for there fault and trespass dââe deplore Through all the Life and dayes of Ioââua And of the Elders that out-liv'de de them all They did noght disobey nor yit debord But serv'd sincearly by the Law the Lord Yet howsoone he and they departed all From true divine to worschip false they fall The Lord then left them and what then wer They But vnto Spoilers all a spoill and prey Left be the Lord what be Impires tho great Nought but a morsell to a meaner State Iudges 3. Chap. FIve Princes of the Philistims remaind Yet in the Land vnforced or constraind With whom the Ebreus to Gods will averss Ioyne Marie League with them and do converss So God forget in Bal'am they belive And vnto Asheroth there worship Give Wherefore the Lord gave o're and sold them hath To Chushan King of Aram in his wrath Where they in Bondage byd and serve seavn yeeres As in the story pen'd more large apeares But when they cryed to God and did repent them A Saviour to save them soone he sent Them So did deliver quickly Israel By Kenaz-sone there Captane Oth'niel Iosua 24. YEt Ioshua the peoples Sprits to pierce Doth vnto them Gods mony he psâchâarss And if vnthankfull tells them to their shame Partic'larly what he hes done to Them Then heartly them exhorts at home abrod And elsewhere else for to give glore to God With free and full consent then ansverd They Our God his voice and vvord they wold obey Then covenants he with them their that day And to be witness of their wows for ay Beneath an grovving oke or olive Tree For evr to stand a Stone vp pitched he It heard your vvovves he said if that yow Trod A wry and efter do deny your God Iosua 24. THen all their Business as each one list They go about liceneed and desinist Now that Grand Captane Ioshua selected By God and to conduct his Hosts dirâcted Who with great valor and great wisdoââie to The Lords directions dreadlesly did dâ And virtously vpright in all his waves âvv'de to that Houre before the Lord his dayes The hundreth tent yeer running of his age âeath puts a poynt vnto his pilgrimage This worthy wise this Captane bold and brave This gratious Iudge this Stats man great and grave With Isrels wofull all and vveeping eyes In Timnath nn Mont Ephraim buried lyes Iudges 1. Chap. THat worthie Iosua the Hebrevs head As is declaird before defunct and dead âet God his ovvne Elect he nevr deserts âif they contim we his with holy hearts âut duly dois for there support provide âor he into his Isrel gives a Guide âonveniently to governe and conduct them ââd into all that a pertains i'instruct them âât they will needs to him cry for and clame ãâã Captane and Commande over Them ãâã then apoynts that Iudah shall command ââââhold the rains of Rule into his hand ãâã he exalt him will and give him might ãâã come and quell the Cananits in fight Judges 3. Chap. WHen Ehud had the King of Moab kill'd And with ten thovvsands fall the field-had filld Of Moabits that in the Battaill fell By heavn assisted-hands of Israel Shamgar a goad-groome and a Rustick Boore Guyded by God vvas nixt there Governour And so vvith sacred strenght and stomak stord Of Philistims that Iov'as Iacob shord And only vvith his oxen Goad o'rethrevv And vvho but horror hears't sex hundreth slew The Israleits they are preserved so From furie of the Philistim there foe God th'Ebrevs heathen foes their hostile anger Cool'd by a Goad-groome courage sillie Sanger Iudges 4. Chap. DEbora judging Isr'el sent to vvarre Barak that Sis'ra did debell and darr And vvith ten thovvsand Isralits in fight All Iabins povvre did foile and put to flight Then Sisra fled on foote and eâter vvânt Traind by a vvoman Iael to hirâ Tent Who thristing there and efter travell tyr'd To rest and ease him he a vvhile desir'd Intreating hir his name noght to be vvray To any that demands for him that day But vvhen she sies him sleeping and at rest To doe a vvorthie deed this dame adrest And drave a naile into his Tempels deep So layd him in ane ever lasting Sleep Iudges 5. Chap. HEarken yovv Princes and do heare yovv Kinges The praisefull songes our Soule and voces singes Unto Israels God before vvhose face The earth dois shake and th' Heavens do rain apace The montains melt and leapt like lambs before him Rise Barak rise and Debora adore-him Debora vp and Barak both arise And give God praise that hes gevn yovv the prise And force to foile the Philistims your foes That for to raze and ruine Isr'el rose Your Touns but trade lay desolate and vvast And non by th' Hie but by the by vvayes past Whill I Debora ayded be the Lord The foes of Iacob bet vvith Baraks svvord Judges 6. Chap. ISrael oft distressd as oft relvde Be God transgressd again and God have grievd Herefore this Lord as in the lions Iaw's Them in the danger of the Midian thraws Where they in Bondage servitude and thrall Seavn yeere from Den to den ar hunted all There grain there cornes there asses net an Sheep And what for to preserve there Lives they keep When they secure thought surely to enjoy it The Mid'anits and Amalek distroy it Then pitifully spoyled Isrel lyes Acknovvledging hir miss for mercie cryes And God evr gratious their groans he heares And by a Prophet checks them and he cheares Iudges 6. VVHen God vpon the peoples penitence Had be his Prophets showne Them there offence And oft his Grace to Them so oft ingrat When wickedly they had praevaricat His Angel yet apeares to Gedeon ân Oprah by ane Oke Ioash-his-ââne ândewed with his Grace he tells him than The
MEMORABLE HISTORICK Descriptiones draven From the Sacred Bookes insert in the subsequent page By ALEXANDER GARDEN NIL PENNA SED USUS Prented AT MIDDELBVRGH By GERRIT MOVLERT Anno 1637. Genesis Exodus Leviticus Deuteronomie Ioshua Iudges Ruth 1 Samuel 2 Samuel 1 Kinges 2 Kinges Esther Iob. Tobit Ezekiel Daniel Ionah 2 Maccabees TO The deservedly worshipfull and wisely wirtous SIR THOMAS BVRNETT of Leyes kinght Baronett Right Worshipfull SIR be yow pleads'd J pray To Read that with respective love I lay Your worships learn'd and linx-like eyes before A five month's work and noght a moment more Some Select'd dravghts suckd from the sacred Story Noght vpon hope of Honor Gain or Glory Nor on Conceat of skill or knoledge hye This Interprise at all attempted J No but that better with that blessed Booke I might acquented come this tast J Tooke Knowing the subject vits diviner merits Nor are poluted and Imperfect Sperits And of all mortall most vn-meet is mine For it so worthie weaighty and divine Yet my attempt once may prove profitable T' incourage one t' acqueat himselfs more able Yen Sir woutchafe to look vpon my Lines Suppose for such a proesence poor propine Your wor-in all affectonat duetye divoted AL. GARDEN To the READER THink nought these Verses vented are by me Which efter in these Sheets insert yow see For ony profite or aplause of fame Or Reputation that may rise be Thame No motion such by my immortall mynd Induc'd and me these to compond inclynd But in my curt prepond Epistle Thair My motiwes all and causes I declare Hope then for no high stile nor stately strame Or figur'd Phrases from a loftie Braine Nor for Hyperbolees that great Jngines Vse for to fraught with and to larde their Lines No nought a Sillab such shall Thow see heir But simply all is said and said Sincear ãâ¦ã HEav'n Earth and seae round eirc'lare sphericall Of ane rude mixed Mass God made them all He stampt with starrs the heavne and with these lights The Sun and Moone devyded dayes from nights Beastes fishes foules he creat of all kinde And fitly each it 's Element assign'de The liquid waters from the earthly mass He ââparats and them a-part did place The thin hote moist and subtile Aer above The cold drie earth about h' assign'd to move And tuixt the earth and fire that all jmbraces The aer and water providentlie places And seeing all that he had done was Good He made man syne to his similitude Genesis Chap. 2. WHan God of Heav'ne and Earth had form'd the frame And made ane end of all the hoste of Thame Into the body that he builded hath H' jnfuis'd a soule and breath'd a living breath And when he thus perfectly fram'd the same From Rud reed earth he did him Adam name Man so created perfect pure and chaste God in his Garden Paradise him plac't And there with freedonie full before his fall To eat of ev'rie frute and to vse all Excepting that of knoledge he bestrait Command and charge prohibit was to eat And when he should that Tree of knowledge cun He then should dye that day and be vndone Genes 2. THe Lord God Adam sound a sleep he layd And Eva of one of his ribs hes made Then with divine inimitabill art Clos'd cleanly vp with flesh the emptie part And when he did awake the woman Than His flesh and bone God offred to the man Whom Adam when he finds so fitly fram'd Made out of Man he hes her woman nam'd And as his Wife he hes her jntertaind For God there first the Mar'age rites ordaind A straght conjunction and a sacred band In Paradise kint be the Lords command Injoyning Them therefore to joyne there handes And maried To multiplie commands Genesis 3. THe Serpent Eve induced with Deceat And Adam she inveits and he did eat O Lamentable for ev'r and fearfull fact That did there State so marr and murnfull mak The frute forbidd'n of knovledge Good and Euill And heirby both deluded by the Devill From puritie and there perfection fall And so suck'd in the Sinn Originall Ambitions both too greedily began To lay the Ground greef of the Greefes of Man There misbeleef and blindness yet both blind Into there fault and fall enforc'd they find And liable therefore to Death they be Themselfes and since all there posteritie Genesis 3. THe frute once eaten opned ar their eyes And they there ovvne poore nakedness espyes Wherefore they both vnto a figge Tree came And pulld some Leaves and sevved of the same For to be Brecches to them both to hold There Shame vnsene and clothe them from the cold Before they taste of that sequestrat Tree They knew noght that they bare and naked be No figg-tree leav's nor figge tree Trunks could beild-them Nor from th' All-seeing-eye could sheeld-them Nor could those figge tree leaves tho cloith there skins Preserve vnsene there Trespass nor there Sinns No no there Conscience for there Crime did call And God without within he Saw them all Genesis 3. THe voyce of God they in the Garden heard And faultie hid them for there falt a feard But heavne nor earth nor them the darksome deep From there Creator knowing all could keep Excuses put a part They must apeare And ansver to the poynts that he sould speare That dreadfull voyce that Thunder did resemble Made heav'ne and earth and Man muche more to tremble He calld they come h' accus'd and they confess'd And guiltie both Grant that they haue Trangsgressd The Woman He the Serpent She They say This foul defection drew on ws this day And Ws Invegled with it s wicked wit To âat that balefull and forbidd'ne Bit. Genesis 3. A Curse to them a Time God hes denune'd And punishments to it for ev'r pronune'd And said because this deed slie Serpent Thow Thow did ay on thy Belly shall thovv bow And lick the Dust without saueguard or sheeld A boue all Beasts accursed of the fielde Also betnix the vomans seed and Thee Shall ev'r be discord and Ennimitie And be assur'd that for this Sin thy Seed May bruise Hers heele but hers shall brak thy head Then of Goat-skins to them he Garments gave And from his Paradise divine them drave Then set a Cherub with a flamming sword To watch it as is wretin in his word Genesis 3. VVIth Toil and Travell Adam griefe and Sweat His living earneth and his Bread did eat And vvas constraind to do to dig to delfe His Mothers Bosome to suport him self Because God for his Crime the earth accurss'd And made it bring forth Breers of vveeds the vvorst And since to sin he did obey his vvife With Great vexation shall he lead his life And Eva so vvith vnacquainted fitts In bringing out her Bairnes vvith sorrovv sits And surely subject shall be her desire And plainly prostrat to her Lords Impire Estrangd and far from that contentement great That they injoyed in There first
him did a sentence sharp proclame ãâã he heavie to his house went hame 1 Kings 21 chap. AHab his avarice and Greed agrest And covetous desire that could noght rest Altho he could all Isrel then Command Without that Parcel of poore Naboths Land Heir is imprinted in a brook of Brass To b'evr a witness of his great disgrace But bloody Iezebel the fell and fex The cross the Curse and shame of all hir sex Both with deceat and crueltie at once The innocent Naboth bett and braind with stons But God repeyd their Tirany extreame With totall ruine death disgrace and shaââ Yet Ahab by Eliah taxd he rents His Garments and his trespas he repents 1 Kings 22 Chap. IEhosophat and Ahab both as Brether To fight the Aramits agree together And faethless both into there foolishnes Consult there Prophets fals on there succes Who ansver frendly altho fals they find And the success to sort vnto there mynd Michayah yet that truely served God They ask'd that from th' impostors free abod Who well inspird and by the sprit made wyse Told the true ishue of their interprise Heirfore Zidkiiah a false Prophet than Madlyk commovde did smit the godly man The battell joynd Ahab defate they slew And things fortold of him foll forth all trew 1 Kings 22 Chap. AHaz'a nixt his Father killd and dead A Successor and his here raigne in his stead A godless wicked and a vrongous King Incongr'ous in his cariage course and reigne In all his doings he did evr debord And fell both from the Law and from the Lord His Fathers here into his worship vane As Ieroboam all wyse as Prophane No but Iehosophat evin from his youth As walk'd his Father still stood to the truth And never did from what was right decline But did obey the word and will divine Yet th' Idol-Altars in high places plac'd Into his dayes they wer not all defac'd His other worthie deeds they aâ set doune In Iuda Annals vnto his renoune 1 Chapter âHen Ahaziah King of Israel Doune throw a Lattesse of a window fell ââd vnto Baal-zebub send to try âhe that time in that dise ase should dye ââe God of Ekron and the God of flyes ââom to th' vnfaithfull vsd to Sacrifice âârefore th' almighty by Eliah wraeth ââetold the messinger their Maisters daeth ââherefore the Prince the Prophet t' apprehend ââo Captains each with fifty Souldiars send ââut the God of Isrel in his Ire ââse fifties from the hevens confounds with fire âând as declard the King concluds his dayes ââhoram then his Sone his Scepter swayes 1 Kings 2 Chap. ââiahs dwelling dayes on earth o're drev'n âhe Lord resolv'd to take him hence to heven ãâã with Elisha he to Iordan gois ãâã by seprating it his povvar shois ââprit prophetick doubled then he gives ãâã Elisha that his Lord out lives ãâã than a firie Car with flamming horses ââe soone and suddan Separation forces ãâã in the Car caught with a whirling wind ãâã was and left his Cloka behind ãâã a then so in his faith confides ãâã there with he the waves strikes and devides ãâã walls and springs by him tart and amare ââwre made sweet of harmefull healthfull are ãâã curssd the Boyes that mock'd him and therefore ââer torne in Pieces by the Tusked Bore 1 Kings 3 Chap. Hil I'horam Iudg'd the Isralits amang ââehosaphat o're Them of Iuda Raigne âhoram wicked was and did not right âas sinceare in his Creators Sight ââght so fouly as his Father fell ãâã his monstrous mother Iezabel ââet h' adheard and cleaved to the Sinne ââcroboam Nebats Sone fell in Kinges with angre then gainst Mesha swell'd ãâã his Moabits that than rebelld âây Elisha are stirrd vp to fight ââd o're match the Moabits by might Then Meââa with his Sone ãâ¦ã And sacrifizd him to asvage his Gods Which monstrous fact when Isrel vnderstands For pitie thereof They reteird there Bands 2 Kings 4 Chap. ELisha by the heavnly help incressd Oyle to a vidovv for hir debtes distressd In such aboundant quantitie and store That all defrayd and yet ynough to fore And for the Shunamite he did implore By pray'r a Sone that had noght ane before And this child wax'd sickly and expird But he reviv'de him by his Dame desird The pottage likwise he made sweet of soure When meal among that vild vine he did povvre And with but tuenty loavs of Barly kind He fed a hunder and left store behind The Lord alone by him these vounders wrought And but his help Elisha he did nought 2 Kings 5 Chap. NAaman Captane of th' Assyrian host A Leper hopeless of his health almost Than by ane Hebrevv wench in warr supprisd To journay to Elisha is advisd Eliahs deer and double sprited Man A Prophet in Samaria spirand than Who by his word divine a voundrous change To wash him did this loathsum Leper clenge This Prophet yet no recompence wold have Nor for the Leprous cure no coyne receave But lo his groome Gehazi full of greed Gain and tuo garments got and for his deed That which Naaman did infect before Shall cleaue to him and his for ever more 2 Kings 6 Chap. YEt voundrous wounderfull are wronght be him Elisha made in water Iren swimme And all the King of Arams Counsel seald Vnto the King of Isrel he reveald And herefore Aram of his men almost The choyse and best he chused of his host And secreitly vnto Samaria send The holy Prophet for to apprehend But millious more with firie Charets stand To guard Elisha by the Lords command The Prophet prayd t' vnshut his servands eyes Who th' heavnly host âend for to guard theââ sies ãâã Samaâa and they knew him nought âââo God preserv'd him Isââl and there Prince ââom Arams injurie and violence 2 Kings 7 Chap. WHill that th' Assyrian Samaria sââgd Such furious famyn there in raigne and rag'd ââat inhumane and loathsome to Relate ãâã woman with consent hir Sone did eat ãâã herefore King Ihoram swore Elishas life ââould pay the price of that stup pendious strife ãâã he pronounc'd and b' inspiration said ãâã morrow shall this brough abound with Bread ãâã th' infidull that wold not trust his word âââd see the same but in the throng was smord âââcause a pallid faint and Trembling feare âââatchd the Aramits intrenched There ãâã And th' only sound of Armes without the Sight Confounded fearfully put all to âlight 2 Kings 8 Chap. ãâã Lisha doth the Shunamite fore arme ãâã from futur famyn of th' ensweing harme âââtelling derth and Barreness seven yeeres âââemptorly that approatch appeares âââd noght in sho but certanly itt shall âââsly afflict Iuda and Isrel all ãâã slew siclyke Benhadad sould noght die ãâã convalesh of his Infirmitie ãâã by fore knoledge then his fate he fand ãâã at he should dye and by Hazalels hand âââich come to pas and shortly in his place âââe th' Aramits he manadged the mace âââoram in Iuda
estate Genesis 4. THe Sones of Adam now be Time began To sacrifice as vvas the Custome than The Sheep-herd Abel his first Lambs he taks And of the fat of Them oblation makes And Cain of the frutage of the Ground He sacrifiede the first that He hes found The elder Cains did the Lord reiect And younger Abels fauour and respect Cain heirfoir in furie and Disdain His blessed Brother Abel here doth brain And out of vvoodness vvraethfull and Invy Committs this Murther Irreligiously The Lord then marks him to be knovvne herefore To be his Brothers Butcher ever more Genes 6. 7. HOw soone God sies the Sinns of men grow great All man kinde he to overthrow did Threat And did a hunder yeer before foreshow To N'oa by water all the worlds orethrow And he be preaching for mans Sinne declaird All earthly perish should and none be spaird The Lord commands him then to build the Arke And when perfected was and wroght that warke Himself his wife his Childring and there Wives All such as God decreed to save there Lives Of living Things at least takes to him Thair For ester plenishing the earth a pair Clean and vnclean they enter in and than To flow the vniversall flood began Genes 7. THe vindow's of the Heavens ar opned large And all the waters in the clouds discharge The Caverns of the earth cast vp there bryne That long into there Ludgings low hes lyn The floods and fontans from there heads and springs There watrie store into abundance brings Aboue and vnder all at once jshe ' out Each pore a spring each spring a speat did spout And with a wrackfull all orespreading speat Oretop'd the tallest Trees and montans great Five months and more the earth these floods oreflow That Land nor Sea nor mont nor medow show Than they decressd and rejncaled there store Vnto the bounds whair they had bein before Genesis 8. THe waters all consuming course decayd The Arke on the Armenians montanes stayd And no more on that world of Seas did flot But as God wold a Ground the Arke it got The twstes of Trees the Cronns of montans Grene And late dronnd Woods and Valeys dry ar sene The winds all blew and Arid earth did make And then the Dove and olive brauche broght bake But sent to try the drouth at once before She flew abroad and bake returnd no more And N'oa and his alive are lest alone When all the rest on earth were drownd eache one Then ore the vnivers they Rule and Ragne And as the mono-monarches sole Remain ãâ¦ã NOvv N'oa himself and all vvith him vvithin The arcke j she out and to descend begin âhair all saif Cham that ever did debord âesolue to rander Thanks vnto the Lord. ând vnto him ane altear do vp raise âo sacrifice thereon and offer praise ând vvith their humbled harts his povv're proclame âhat by all others had preserved Thame âhe Lord thence smell'd ane sweet sav'ring smell ând said into his hart vnto him self âo more for mans saik vvill I curse the ground âor smit againe all living in this mund but vvhil the earth Remains there shall be ay Succeeding Seasons seed Time night and day Genes 9. GOd spake to Noa bless'd him and contramands The shedding humane blood with humane hands Then Reconfirmed wedlock with his word And there declard the povver of the sword With what authoritie to man is geven âre Things created that be vnder heavne âo him and his great blessings did he grant âand vp with Them and knit his covenant ând gives for ev'r a signe to make it Good ãâã rising Raine-bovv in a watrie cloud ând when he sies that circling arch he shall His former covenant to minde Recall In witness that the waters shall no more Drown all the World as they had done before Genes 9. Ester the drovning deludge No'a began To plant his vines and play the house band man ând drank thereof and drunk thereon became ând then vncover'd he is seen be Cham. That mock'd and Jested at his aged father No no but cursed he contemnd him rather ând went and told it Japhet and Iust Sem. but he again re-clothed is by Them That step be step both backward to him go Lest that vnseemly They should see him so Heirfore he blessed both the one and other and Iustly cursed Cham there wicked brother The seed of these Three sones the earth ore spred and all thar borne be since of them are bred ãâ¦ã THe poeple here intends to bouild a Toure In there proud thoughts to counterchek Gods powre With there Assisters that that Time one Tongve Spake all and vvere from Cham accursed sprong But God from heav'ne there hautie hartes beheld An hovv vvith pride and high contempt they svveld Heirfore he vvill in there attempt and aime Vn-do and disapoynt them in the same For they that but one languadge spoake before He chang'd and caus'd them mutter mony more And so confounded all that noght one Brother Did vnderstand a vvord spoak be ane other God then he dois divide them and constraine To quyte that vvorke that they began in vaine Genesis 12. THe Lord calld Abram and Directions gave To queat his countrie and his kinred lave And to ane other land directly draw That in his Iourney thither he should shavv The Land that he had destinat to give To him and his for ever in to live Wherein he should be Great and Greatlie he Great as his name a Blessing great should be There should he bless that blessed him all Those And curse them all that curssd him as his foes His Wife his flocks and familie they go And Lot vvith him his Brother sone also Then come thereto ane Altar he hes Reard Wnto the Lord that vnto him apeard Genesis 13. ABraham past and vp from Egypt vvent And greatumly God did his Goods augment For in all Riches him encreass he vvold In cattell coyne in Silver and in Gold And lykvvise Lot he hes Incressd his store And daylie did augment it more and more But Abrams heard-men and Lots Sheep-heards Iarre And for a pasture move among them vvarr But vvhen there actions Abram vnderstands He meekly moves Lot to divide there bands And to the Right or to the left hand Go Lot then prepares and since desird-did so For such encress and store of Goods they had That hardly could they be together fed Genesis 13. THen Lot lift vp his eyes and vnderstood That all the plains and groudd about vvas Good ând dreading stay should dravv on more disdain âherefore to th' east he Tendeth vvith his Traine ãâã Land vvell grass'd and vvatred vvell vvas it ãâã Land for heard-men and their flocks most fit âeirfore therein he myndeth to Remaine ând pitch'd his palions into Sodoms plain âor all the vvale is lovv neer Iourdans Shoir âs vvatred vvell of pasture had lyke store ând plentifully stood and stuffd did stand âs once vvas Eden