all Idolatrize and to fass worship fall âââerefore the Lord the King of Ashur sends ãâã Israel a captive Comprehends ãâã did the Prince and people in prison cast ãâã did Samaria tack in at last ãâã then in that deforc'd afflicted tovvne ãâã Assyrians he set in Garisone ãâã with a hatefull and a hostile hand âââul'd it rudly and perforce command âââe heathen yet the Lord they did noght feare ââbowd to Idols in his Isrel there Wherefore he send in Lions to devour Them âhat peece maile rent and all in Gobbets tore them 2 Kings 18 Chap. ââshea reigning into Israel ââân his trid yeer to Hezekiah fell âââins and helme of Iuda for to hold âân he himself was tvventie fyve yeir old ââince that servd the Lord and did adore him ââauid did his Eather good before him ââolish'd th' altars and the places hie ââritaments vnto Idolatrie ââsen Serpent made in Moses dayes âââk it doune and into peeces brayes ââa three yeeres is besieg'd and taken ââel captive of the Lord forsaken Because as stringers they ãâ¦ã And nought his will divine nor voyoâ obayd 2 Kings 18. chap. THe Ruler Rabshaketh of Ashurs host A wyld out cast before the Lord and lossd T' incamp his Tents and Palions pitched doune Before the Citie and the sacred Toune And with his hell hounds altogether gross'd Begins to Bandie gainst the Lord and boast His powar he despisd his Truth contemnd And boldly too his blessed name blaspheam'd Israels strength and all the might of Man Yea and the hand of heven he skorned Than And in disdaine Gods greatness did disgust Dissvading Isrel in his strength to Trust And all the venome of a wicked Tongue That foole agains the firmament hes sloung 2 Kings 19 Chap. WHich when the holy Hezekiah heares He in the Temple to complaie compears And with a sorie soule and heavie heart Depressd he from all his people apart With Sack cloth clad hisroy all Robbs all rent Most wofull for Gods wrong his wowes vp vvent Great God said he that tuixt the Cherubs âââell In mercie novv remember Israell And heare there blasphemies that but all feare The Glorie of they name and Honour Teare The Lord hes heard him and by Isay told That vaine Rud Railers words revenge he wouid And keep vntouch'd that Time be one of Them In that vnhallovv'd host Ierusalem And did of them one night of life deprive A hunder fourscore Thousand men and five 2 Kings 19 chap. SEnach ãâã th' Assyrian Prince perverse When God did kill his men and horse disperse He pausd noght therevponn nor did repent But to his vaine Gods for to worship went And litle knew he that had scap'd abroad That he at home had by himself the Rod Which beath him should for all his blasphemies And gainst Gods Hebrevvs his Hostilities For vvhill th' Idolatrous and careless King Adores his Nishroch a dead and naughtles Thing Adramelech and Shatezer his brood Vn naturall both his Sonnes they shed his blood ãâ¦ã back they kill ãâ¦ã ãâã Nishroch heares noght nor his slaughter sies 2 Kings 20 Chap. âHe holy Hezekia that ador'd ãâã And walk'd in Trueth alwayes before the Lord ãâã âut this Time was sicke to death and lay âân Ishai send from God to him did say ãâã Thow thy house to rest and order all ãâã Thow must dye and live no more Thovv shall ãâã King then turnd and prayd and shedding teares âââats for life and lo the Lord he heares âââoyce his sorrovv sies and syne he sayes âââsay tell him I will length his dayes ãâã to the yeeres that he hes liv'de before ãâã adioyne and adde too fifteen more ãâã this shal be the Signe to try it trevv âââhaddovv look and in the Diâl wiovv ââhen bright and cleare the Sunne thovv shyning sies ââhall than backvvard bend whole ton degrees 2 Kings 20 Chap. âââg Hezekiah of his Sickness whole ãâã almighties might extreamly dois extole ââach-baladan then Baboâs Prince ãâã Hezekiah a Benevolence âââe his Love vnlook'd for to repay âââength and Treasure did before them lay âââay hotly him reprov'de heirfore âââll his Seed with Babel-Bondage shore âââid he their They captive shall be led âââll that he and his fore-bears had ââânnes in Babell they shall Enuches be âââord foretold me there Captivitie ââân Iuda's godly Hezekiah dyes ãâã his shrew'd Sonne Manass his place supplies 2 Kings 21 Chap. ãâã Ezekiah dead Manasse reignes ãâã first prophane of the prophanest Kinges ââân a furie of false worship burnes âââith him Isrel to his vomit turnes ãâã revolts themselfs they Rebimieres ââât on Idols as the Divels desires ââânation was there vnder Heven ãâã and they wer all vnto it geven âââfore Gods prophet hes praepreatchd to them âââe and strats once of Ierusalem âââier vvrack and from the found the fall âââd Them that shal be therein all Manasse then expââd ãâ¦ã Ammon his Sonne in stated in his stead And wicked Ammon by his Servands Traiâe Iosias just succeeds his Father slame 2 Kings 22 Chap. WHen King Iosiah to governe began Azealous holy good and godly man Materials all and means he first made clare And gave them that the Temple did repare Then in a hollovv woult within the ground The Lavv Hilkiah hid before hes found Then Prince and Preist the people together dravv That vnto them then might be red the Lavv Whair Prince and Priest and prophets promisd all The statuts there insert observe they shall The people likewise there the oath they took To stand to all into that blessed Book And in there harts and Soules t'indent it deep And vvovv'd the Lavv and lords commands to keep Iosiah then a Prophetess hes speared Who all the Lords will hes declard and cleard 2 Kings 23 Chap. THe Lavv ' book fund and red therefrom the vord Prince Prophets Priest and people all accord And by their oath attested whair they stand To keep the Covenant and Gods command Iosiah then the Idol dead of B'aâ He braks and his blind Priests he killd them all This Prince the passo're then he caus'd proclame And celebrats it in Ierusalem Conjurers he where with the land was cloyd T' observe the Lavv gevne be the Lord destroyd This pious Prince that be God guyds his raigne By Pharo yet was in Megiddo slaine Iehoahaz succeeds but captive taen Iehojakim his Sonnes cround King again 2 Kings 24 Chap. NOvv Nebuchadnezzar Babels great King His bands blood breathing did ' gainst Iuda bring But vanting force t' affront Them in the fields Iehoiakim then to the Time he yeelds And three yeeres slave to him and Tributare Iehoiakim and Iuda iustly are For with the Lords consent these slraits extreame For Curssd Manasseths Sinns was layd on Them The mony murders that he did committ With th' other Sinns cryd for a venceance yet âââkim novv vvith his Fathers dead âââachin raigne rased in his stead ãâã he praevaricat and still he strayes ãâã had his Fathers done before his dayes
raigne and Edom than âââuisd them a King and to rebell began And Ahazia efter Iorams reigne Governd Iuda and became there King 2 Kings 9 chap. WHen Iehu crovned King in Isrel raigne These were his doings his exployts amang ãâã honam as the Lord to kill directed ãâã quickly he performd it and effected âând Ahazia King of Iuda Then ââo his flight is killd too be his men ââân Iehu vp to Isrel marâchd of mynd âând that vitch the worst of women kind ãâã Prophet killer carnell Iezebell ãâã for fire a faggot fit for hell Whâââ ãâ¦ã And there dead bruisd and felled with the fall Doggs hands and harns except hes all devoird As was praeprophesied be the Lord. 2 Kings 10 chap. ACcording to the word and divine will Iehu to Ahab seventy Sormes causd kill And to the court in heapes brought all there heads Deriding then demands who did these deads This fatall Game on Ahabs Sonnes begun All Ahazias house like race had Run For of his Brether fourtie he and Two Met on the way and slew them all also Then Baals Priests that God of stock or Stone He at the altar caught and killd each one Non that in Isrel serve and bow'd his knee To Baal than but all that day did die His Altars he destroyes yet never Tvines From Ieroboams wyld and wicked Sinns Then efter Iehu was expird and dead Iehoahaz his Sonne steerd in his Stead 2 Kings 11 Chap. FIerce Athalia sies hir Sone expird And herefore she to be reveng'd desird Then on a curst conclusion she doth fall To kill and killd the Royall Childring all Ioash except that from hir cruell knife By Iehosheba had praeservd his Life And by Iehoida crovnd and anoynted Who Athalia to be slaine apoynted Iehoida dispenser of the word Betuix the Prince the people and the Lord Humblie a Leagve and Covenant contracts Then all conjoyn and Baals Idols bracks His Altars and his Temples they o'rethrew And Mattan their his Priest they stoutly slew 2 Kings 12 Chap. IN Iehus sevnt yeer Ioash reigne began A Prince that govern'd well and warely than Whill Priest Iehoida taught him the word All that he did was good before the Lord He had a tinder Zeale and constant care The Temples ruind parts for to repair He stirrd his tyme and quick attendance taks And much provisionn he for money maks The Syrian Prince that boldly braved Them And threatened Iuda and Ierusalem ãâã with a present oâ ãâ¦ã ââequyred by his Fathers former Kings ââho he to pass and part with them was laâth ââes coold the Cummig heat of Hazols vvraeth Yet in the fourty yeer that he did reigne By tuo vnfaithfull servoinds he was slaine 2 Kings 13 Chap. ââN Ioash tventie thrid Iehoahaz ãâã The Sonne of Iehu King in Isrel was âââdolatrous as Ieroboam he âââeparted nought from his impietie ââherefore the Lord delyverd him to Bands ãâã Hazael the King of Arams hands ââhill that to God he humblie bovve and bends ââhen then the Lord to him deliveres sends ââash Iehoahar his Sonne and here âââe be the Lord was his deliverar ââet left he nought his deeds Idolatrous ââhat cleav'd so fast to Ieroboams house Iehoahaz then ends his dayes and dyes And in Samaria he buried lyes 2 Kings 13 Chap. ELisha sick to Ioash 'ore he dies Gainst Aram Isrels Tryumphes prophesies âând then his Spirit that the Lord inspires ââor to be wray his will in peace expird ââhe man of God that so oft had declard ââis maisters mynd and for no perrill spaird ââisha dead and Dul ' interred than ââhill as they go t'ingrave ane oter man ââome bands of Moabits then Isrels foes ââhem selfes in armes to them in erindd shois ââherefore a bassed on Elisha's bones ââhe dead man these into his Tomb impons And woundrously no soner twichd by those His sacred bones but he vpstands and gois 2 Kings 14 chap. A Mazia Ioash-Sonne of Iuda King In tuentie five yeer old began his reigne âând as his Father Ioash walk'd vpright ââet not as David did in Iovas sight ââor the hie places vver noght taken away âât in Them incense sacrificed Thay ââd when to him the Kingdome was conferm'd ââainst his Fathers Murderars he armd ââd those King killers he again hes slaine ââat durst th' anointed of the Lord prophane The ãâ¦ã Took Sela and ten Thowsand of them slew Then Amazia challengis to warre King Ioash then that was the stronger farr 2 Kings 14. chap. VPon the Provocation both the Kinges There hostes and armies to the Batell Bringes Where Isrel as the stronger in Estate Iuda out justed and its foree defate And when the Batale brock in was and lost They took the King and Captane of the host And than on Salem with there force falls The Temple spoild brack and bet doune the walls The Treasure that vnto the King pertaind And hostages they took that there remaind Then death did end the dait of Ioha'sh dayes A stout and valiant King in all his wayes Then Ierobo'me succeeds his Father syne And Zacharia vnto him be Lyne 2 Kings 15 chap. SExtein yeer old was Azaria whan In Iuda cround he to governe began And tuo and fefty yeer a prince supream He reignd and Iudged in Ierusalem And yet his royall reigne this fault defaces That incense they brint in the Hie places But lo the Lord chastiz'd him for the same And smot him so that Leper he became Iotham his Sonne then vnderneath his hand Govern'd his house and Iudged in the Land Insidious Shallum Zacharie did slay And murdred Menahem made him avvay Menahem thus avvay and in his Tomb Pekah his Sonne rose in his royall Roome 2 Kings 15 Chap. IN Isrel whill Pekaihah swayd the sword He walcked wickedly before the Lord And did prophanely jdols dead adore And by one Pekah killed was therefore Then he King killer took into his hand The Croune of Isr'el and did there command But with his bloody murthers he drank in That oftymes branded Ieroboams sinne But Hos'h'a this King killer he betrayd And then himself the sword of Isrel swayd âoâham the second yeer of Pekah than To reigne into Ierusalem began ãâ¦ã and gone Ahaz his Sonne ascends into his Throne 2 Kings 16 Chap. ãâã Haz a bad Sonne of a better Sire The seventein yeer of Pekah his impire ãâã Inda did Guberne but did debord ââd wrought not vprightly before the Lord ãâã with the kings of Isrel Idoliz'd ââd his ovvne Sonne to Moloch sacrifizd ââe kings of Aram and of Isrel Then ââiedgd Ierusalem with hostes of men ãâã the almightye he wold nought permit âââem to Tryumph on him nor to tak it ãâã Ahaz he with Iiglath joynd consent âânvade Damascus and t' assault it went ââey took it Rezin killd with worship wane âââd vnvsd offrings They the Altar stame But when this Prince Idolatrous was dead Then Hezekie his Sonne raigne in his stead 2 Kings 17 Chap. âHill that Hoshea raigne Israel
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
him to Honours and Estate Yea and a father of a Nation Great ãâ¦ã ââre faithfull Abram be the Lord's command ãâã Noght faut but freelie lifteth vp his hand ãâã Immolat and offer to the daeth ãâã dearest childe for to approve his faeth ãâã act almost above Beleefe to see father his Sole Sone to Sacrifie ââedient and gladly is'ac gois ââd that be willingly will suffer shois ââe true and lively Type that should foresho ââat for our sinnes Gods Sone should suffer so ââold the Lord Abrams belief and faith âhim for Rightcousnes Imputed hath ââd holds his hand tht it is noght defyld ââth Isacs guiltless Blood the Chosen Chyld And doth a t'amme provide for sacrifice That he intangled in a Thicked sies Genesis 23. Arai Abrahams chaste and vertous wife âixscore and seven yeer old departs this life ãâã whom her loving husband Abram moans ââd testifies his griefe with mony groans ââen after weeping from her sight arose ââd for to buy a Beriall hee gois ââaham dolorons a field did buy ãâã her and him and his therein to ly Hebron lay this field therein a Cave âât Abram fittest thought and sought to have ââerein the Iustness of the Man is showne âât no whair burie wold but in his owne ââour hundreth silver Shekels he hes payd âherefore and then ther in his dead hes layd Genesis 24. Braham old his eldest servand he Prayd for to put his hand below his Thie ãâã by th' almightie God of all to swear âât he should none Into Canaan There ââe to his Sone for wife but search and find ââis owne Countrie an of his owne kind ââman then hartly to the Lord did pray ârosper him in his adois that day ãâã faithfullie all that his Lord directs ââromises and punct wallie effects âecca than as wold the Lord it fell ãâã and hir drawing water at a well ãâã by the conference that they fell in ãâã new she was ane of his Masters kin ââen gladly gwes hir Armelets and ear-ringhs ââd Laban home him to his Inns he brings Genesis 24. REbeccas freinds vnto the Lord committ Her vvedding and the vvhole effect of it Then vvith content She is for Js'ac geven Blessd be hir freinds she gois and blessd from heav'ne To Abrams house they Them directl ' adrest An Evening as the Sun sunck in the West It chanced Is'ac and It happned That He to the fields vvent out to Meditate And lifting vp his eyes abroad to vieu A court of Camels nearc he coming knevv His servand told vnto Rebecca Than That there vvas Isaac that should be hir man There then She lights he lovingly imbracd-her And in his Mother Sarais Tent he plac'd-her Genesis 25. A Braham charg'd vvith mony happie yeeres A hundreth sevntie five compleit expires A faithfull man beloved of the Lord With grace and heavnly Giftes jndevv'd and stor'd And yet before expiring and his daeth His Goods and Store to Jzaac did bequeath And vvhat he had as dearest to him Their Gives him that should be of the promise heire To Mishpelach the Cave that he had bought Is by his Sones there to be buried brought With great Lament and mourning much among All those that knevv and did to him belong And layes him there all vvith there vveeping eyes Where with his Sarai side for side he lyes Genesis 25. NOvv Izac fourtie yeeres had livde his Life When he Rebecca vvedded to his Wife But boore no Bairnes to him vvherefore he come And prayd the Lord to bless hir barren vvomb The Lord is Good and Gratious to his ovvne And that he vvas intreated heir is shovvne He heard his Cry and gave vvhat he did crave For his Rebecca efter did conceave And shortly boore tvvo male-contending Tvvines Whose strugling in hir bellie first beginnes A combat vvounderfull for to considder Tuo Brether babs vnborne to brall togither For at their birth in Story is jn rolld The younger-borne the elders hee ll did hold Genesis 25. THe Sonnes of Isac waxing wight and strong Wp with there Yeeres these dispositions sprong ând by the trad that they did take them too Wheretoo they wer inclijnd declare they doe âh ' one as he wax'd and vnto manhead grew âsav a hunter was and wild beastes slew ând oft in woods and wilderness remaines âut Iacob dweld in Tentes and on the plaines ââak his elder Esaw did respect ând Iacob more his Mother did affect âut Esavv one day earning for to eat ând madly hungrie for a meass of meat Blush may he ev'r and Tremble when it is Told His Primo-genit t'oom and Birth-right-sold Genesis 26. A Famine Into Izaks dayes began But God his Lord provijds for him his Man ând vnto him appeares and does him sho What land he should eschew and whair to go âis promises to Abram past before âo him his Sonne he hes renew'd once more âo Gerar than t' Abimelech the King âe gois that o're the Philistims did Reigne Whair he his wife calld Sister for respectes âut efter to be circumspect neglects âor once he sporting with hir thair it chane'd âbimelech out of his window Glane'd ând sees the same whereat he some what mowed âid Izak call modestlie reprowed That had denyd his wife because among His people some one might haue done hir wrong Genes 26. NOw whill the famyn and the dearth remaind In Palestine was Js'ak Intertaind ând all his flocks still favourd be the Lord ãâã Gerar mightelie incressd and stord âbimelech perceaving his estate âhus multiplie and more and more grow great âe Iz'ak then intreats vvith fained Love ââom him and his Philistims to removve âhence Iz'ak past resolved to remaine ând pitch'd his palions Into Gerar-plain ând vvhill the dearth into that land did lest âo digg vp vvater vvells he him adrest The heards in Gerar then these pits they cleame And shrevvdlie stryve vvith Jzaks men for them Genes 26. ABimelech proud hatefull in his hart Bids Is'ak from his Palestene depart And he obeyes for to eschew offence To Beer-sheba he removved Thence Yet the Philistim seeing that the Lord In all his wayes Izak incressd and stord Therefore he posted for to pitche and plant With him a freindship leagve and Covenant That each to oter alwise to there ends Should doe no harme but faethfullie be frends Izak he feasts him then and on the morne They mutvvallie the covenant haue sworne And thus they great ane in the others Grace Remain and then the King depairts in peace Genesis 27. IZ'ak waxd old and both his eyes grew dim Than he his first-born-Esaw calld to Him And charged him as oft he vsd and wount To search and seeke for venison and hunt That he might cat thereof and efter this Before his daeth his first borne Esavv blisse But God heirin he had his hand no doubt And othervvise this Blessing brought about Nor Izak had determinat beforne To give it vnto Esaw eldest borne Rebecca heard and Iacob did advise For to suplant
his Brother be disgvise And with Praevention and a mease of Meat The Blessing from his first-borne Brother get Genes 28. ALon whill Iacob Iourneys on his way To ease and rest him on some stons he lay Whair falne a sleep amids his rest he sies From earth a Ladder reaching to the skyes And thairon Angels they appeare and sho T' ascend descend and vp and dovvne it go O but behold the Lord apeard to Sit Aboue in Heavne vpon the Top of it And vnto Iacob from the same he said I am the God thy Fathers hes obayd Thairfoir this Land vvhereon Thow lyes here I Will giue to thee and Thy Posteritie And as the Dust I shall thy Seed increass And on the Earth all nations in Thee bless Genesis 29. Acob on journey to the East it fell He came where heard-men watred at a Well âhere Camels and there flocks then roll'd thereon ând coverd closs the fontane with a stone âe then demands them if They Laban knew ââey ansverd yea and to him Rachel shew ââat was his daughter and that there did keep ânto hir fathers vse a flock of Sheep âhom he saluts and kissd and hes hir Told ãâã was hir kins-man and the stone then roll'd ââm the fonts mouth that efter as She list ãâã flocks might thither come and quench there thrist Then to her fathers house he doth Repair And Lea first then Rachel maryed thair Genesis 30. Achel long Time hir Belly barrd remains And sies it shut She heirvpon complains ââd did hir sister Leah muche envy âât She hes sein so ost in Child-bedly ãâã she hir selfe despisd as She suspos'd ââuse hir Belly barran vvas and clos'd ââfore vnto her Lord She sayes by Thee ãâã I no Childring I shall surely dye âise and vvilfull wemen so debord ãâã vvill not byde the leasure of the Lord. ââst the Lord mynds her and heares hir moane vvant of Childring and he grants hir one ând vvhen hir Tyme of Travell to hir Came ââe boore a Boy and Ioseph calld his name Genesis 31. ââban perceavves still Iacobs vvelth augment Therefore he murmurs and is mal-content Sonnes complain he frouns vpon him too ãâã doth noght vse him as he vvount to do ââe grudge againes him is because that Thay ãâã God is vvith him and assists him ay ââacob vvith his vvifes concludes herefore ãâã to Iz'ak and to serve no more ãâã vvith his families and flocks by day ãâã martch out and they move furth on there vvay Rachel stole hir Fathers Goods that be ââoushold Things that he did hold most hie ãâã father searchd Them and she sat on These âânovved vvith hir monethly disease Genesis 33. IAcob into his Iournay home did heare That than his Brother Esaw did draw neer He calld to mynd the wrong he did his Brother By the advise and CoÌunsall of his Mother Which brodds him some what and that bree him feare That made him panse and think vpon it there Wherefore his hands vp to the Lord he liftes And prayes for Peace and Esaw pleasd with Giftes Then with an Angel as a Man all night He wightlie wrestled hes whill neer day light And with that Angel great he parted not Whill he his Grace and Benediction got And for a witness of that wrestling ay Iacob he halted to his dying day Genes 34. THe wandring Dina ravish'd and defyld The godly Iacobs only faemel Chyld Weinen and wenches that a gadding go And worthely ar oft rewarded so The sight of Novelties in vncouth places Smits with disgrace and Shame the farest faces Which blot brought on there house when known hir Brother All wroth and discontent agree Together Tho Shechemits for to repait propone Most guilfullie to be revengd there on No thing but blood into a Bloody Thought Will expiat a wrong wnto it wrought And fearsly slew the Shechemits when Thay VVer circomcised and at leaching lay Genes 37. WHen Ioseph did attend his Fathers Sheep A Tyme when he awaked efter sleep His Aparitions visions and his Dreame Vnto his Brether he declared Them VVho spightfully disdaine him and envy For prating o're Them of Supremacy VVhat said They shall thow Boy aboue ws Raigne And we thy wassals and thy men Remaine Thus grudge they greatly and him highly hate VVhill he his visions and his dreames relate They muse among Them how they meetest may Put the divining Ioseph donne some day The fathers lowe likwise vnto the boy Tempâs them for to dispatch him and destroy ãâ¦ã HIs Brether hearding into Dothan lands Iacob there Ioséph for to go commands To visit them and for to look hovv lucks Into the Leasurs of these fields there flocks He gois in search of them and at the last He heares they ar to Dothan pasturs past Whair vvhen he come Ioseph the dreamer Thay Or the most part conclood to kill and slay But Revv-ben ruled vvith a righter sp're it To kill or murther him he thought not meet But seem'd as pleas'd that in a Cistern dry He should be put to perish there hard by Yet vvith a mynd to saue his life and tak Him thence to gvve him to his father back Genesis 37. âUda his litle Brother pieties much Therefore his life he vvill noght they shall touch Nor vvith there hands so fearss and cruell prove And merciless to murther Iacobs love But they they vvill some other vvay devise To rub the Boy that eye sore from there eyes Altho they vvill not slay yet they vvill sterve him And vvith vnkyndlie kyndness so vvill serve him Then they some Mid'anitish merehants spy With spyceries going vnto Egypt by They go to counsall and concluds thereon That thay to Them vvill coopt him and dispone Which for some tuentie Peeces they haue done Selling there Brother and there Fathers Sone Genes 37. THe Brether then their they did kill a kid This to be-blood there Brothers coat they did They rent and than his party colourd-Coat With that same blood they sprinkle it and spot Which vvhen old Iacob sees berayd vvith blood He tinks gone vvrong and vandring through some vvood Their he is bucherd by some bloody Beast Too good a morsel for so gross a Guest His members peece-mail separat and shorne His flesh made food and vvith its teeth alltorne âe toar his clothes then longryme dools and dwynes And sorrofull puts sackcloath on his loynes âe much amaz'd for that male our doth mvrne And woved his gray haires to the Grave shall turne With griefe and sorrow for his deerest Chyld Consum'd with merciless and mensters wyld Genesis 3â THamar by Onan frustrat Iudas Sone And vvhat vvas promised to hir vndone She knovving Iuda was in vse to keep At such a Season for to shear his sheep The rayments sable that in doole before And in hir widovv'ed she vs'd and vvore She pute a part and by a Subtilty To mend hir self thus doth attempt and try Hir father be the Lavv to circomvvein That had to frustrat hir the
store T'abundance daylie he adds more and more His woundrous wisdome owerwent his yeeres And in his prudent Prouidence apeeres And so much wheat and grain together Masses That these all reakning Counpt and measure passes Genesis 41. A Senath Ioseph wife is brought to bed And of tuo mailes tuo Tvins deliuered This his Asenah daughter was to One Poti-pherah the Priest or Prince of O N Manasseth he hes nam'de the elder Brother And Ephraim he called hes the other These names vpon respects that moy'de him So Declar'd into the Text he grave these Tuo They both were borne before that Egypt fand The furie of the famyne in the Land And when that famyn rag'd th' Egyptians rrn And cry'd and cravved some Corne from Phar'o than The King to Ioseph them directs and he With sing'lar Prudence doth there want suplie Genesis 42. THe force of famyn o're the earth incress'd And entred Iacobs house and it distress'd Whill prudentlie he to his Sonnes did say Why gare yovv so and doe amared stay I knovv in Egypt there is Corne herefore Take money go and buy-for ws some store Lest that into the famyn yow and I And all our Houshold perish heir and dye They go to buy and Ioseph hes them knovvne And questions them but keeps himself wnshovvne They haue one Brother more and One is nought Said they and Ioseph bids that he be brought There Silver secretly put in each Sacke Vnknovvne they Carie to there Father bake But Simeon a pledge dois their remane Whill they come back with Beniamine againe Genes 43. WIth much intreating Iacob mov'de did twin With his delight his deere Sonne Beniamine The Brether double moneys tack and go To Egypt for more Corne provided fo But Beniamin when Ioseph sies he went And weep for joy so did his heart relent His brother Simeon than he hes in larg'd And the Commander of his house hes charg'd Some dainty fatlings for to kill and slay Since that these men should be his Guests that day Most librally h'intreats Them evrie Guest But Beniamin be fyve tym's by the rest His mease was more because he was his Brother An vrerein and both borne be one Mother Genes 44. VVHen Ioseph so had cherishd Them he makes His chiefe o're-sier for to fill there Sack 's And therein put the moneys that they had And in the Sack of Beniamin the Lad. Who was the least and youngest ane of Those His moneys and his Silver Cup t' inclose Directed so all done by break of day They load there Asses and they went avvay The Cup is challeng'd and they promise all That he that hes it die therefore he shall It's fund with Beniamin then dollorous They all returne againe to Iosephs house Whair Iuda for his libertie Intreats And all there former Conference repeats Last offers therefor him a slavve to be Lest for his loss there Father Iacob die Genesis 45. NO longer Ioseph could his tears contein Vnbraking on t and bursting from his eyn Nor longer will delay nor be vushovvne But make him there to all his Brether knovvne Then kiss'd he Benjamin and weep'd for jo And kiss'd the rest in lovve and weep'd also âoseph declaird that God had send him Thair For them in tyme of famyn to Prepair Then told they Phar'o that these Hebrew men Be Iosephs Brether and vvere with him then Then Phar'o glade th' Egyptian king commands To bring there Father vnto Egypt lands They told there Father Ioseph lives and he Is glad to go and sie him 'ore he die Genesis 46. THen Iacob journay took and rested next A T Beer-sheba sayes the sacred Text And sacrifird according to his word Vnto th' Almighty Izaks loving Lord Who vnto Isr'el did appeare in sight And call'd him Iacob Iacob on the night Then said I am thy Fathers God wherefore To go to Egypt henceforth feare no more I have a care of Thee and thy estate And there shall mak Thee Multiply and Great I will go dovne and with Thee there remane And thence I shall re-bring thee back agane But there thovv shall expire depart and die And Ioseph there shall lock and lovk thine eye Genesis âââ IAcob to Pharo gois in Egypt stayes He numbers thair and efter ends his dayes And yet the famyn did in Egypt rage And noght its furie did relent nor Swage But cruelly both man and Beast did grieve them When they hane nought to live on nor releive them The people when there Grain was gon they run And cryes to Ioseph all their Coyne was done Yet seeke they Bread he tells Them they have store And he will sell them bread and corne therefore That spent Themselves there duellings Goods and ground They pass for foode for they must needs befund So Ioseph bought for Corne all Egypt land And so did over Egypt all Command Genesis 48. WHen aged Isr'els dying day drew nye A hundreth fourtie seven yeer old was he Iosephs two Sonnes are made vnto him knowne Whom he acknoledgd and took as his owne To blesse Them hestreach'd furth his hands the Right On Ephrams Head yet noght for want of Sight But purposly for Ephrame should be great And much surmonnt Manasseth in estate Doubtless the Lord commanded so the man Prophetickly to bless these Brether than Then Is'rel said to Joseph now J die But God shall both protect and prosper Thee And to thy fathers land from whence thow come To brook thy dowble Partage bring Thee home Genesis 49. OLd Iacob blesses all his Sonnes be name And one by one bestows it vpon Thame To Revben and the Rest conveined Thair What shall befall them efter did declair To Juda he prophetically Told The Scepter still he in his house should hold Whill Shiloch come that shall the people tye In efter tymes to him aeternally To evrie one of Them his fate he showes And when he finds he fants and weaker growes He charg'd them then and made them all to sweare To Mas-pelach his Body dead to beare And in his Fathers countrie lay 't in Grave Which is by Mamre into Abrams cave Then Iacob in his Bed pull'd vp his feet Divinly ended and gave vp his spreet Genesis 50. VVIth all pomp funerall in solemne sort The Sonnes of Jacob do his Corps transpor ând layes thas balmed Body in a Grave ât Mach-pelach by Mamre in the Cave âhen Ioseph with his Brether back did go âet for there former fault they doubt him tho âe passed all there vnkyndnesse strenge âhat now he wold take there of Them revenge âut godly Ioseph he assures them all âhat their vnkindness he will nev'r recall âut nvr'she them as a father ever more ând for there wel-fare still provide Them store âet swore he them and th'Ebrews thair that thay âis Bones should Burie where his fathers lay Then Ioseph old his childring sies And then in Peace this happie prophet dies Genesis 50. PIvinly lowed Ioseph died when He aged was a hunder
yeer and Ten A man whom God directed all his dayes And did advance him verie woundrous wayes A blessing for his Brether Sire and frends âow'de and admit'de of Egypt all he ends Then boveld was the Body with praetence To be transported by his Brether Thence As when he lay a dying they before At his desire Solemnly to him swore Yet to a fitter tyme they thought it best To lay'd Imbalind in Egipt in a Chest Whill They from thence with honour might it have And burie it Into his fathers grave Exodus Chap. 1. IN Egipt Isr'el and his Sonnes all dead Yet there incrediblie increfsd there seed For all Thinges ever hes incress'd and stord That bless'd hes bene and favour'd be the Lord Whill that it hapned that there Regn'd a new An other King nor ever Ioseph knew Who hearing that the Hebrews thair of few In so short time to so great numbers grew And fearing that his peace they should perturb He mynds to raine and all there Courses curb With Tyresome Taskes and working with there hands And for to beare brick burdens them commands To wearie wrack them and to keep them vnder But more and more they wax'd vnto his wounder Exodus 1. TH' Egyptian sies there servile slavrie wile Gains noght but what he greens for dois begvyle Then compas'd he and casts an other course Noght better boÌtt a wickeder and worse He charg'd the mid-vvyves then that they each boy Into the Birth should murther and destroy And if it were a mayd then they should spair And kill none but a maile or manchyld thair Perversly whair men ar dispos'd to ill Means seldome wants for to affect there will Yet did they multiplie and grevv the more That thus to kill and cutt them short they shore The wemen feard the Lord and did it nought Wherefore he prosperd Them and with them wrought Exodus 1. THe Tyranne Phar'o finding that his will The mid-vives mercifull did noght foorth fill In killingh of the Hebrew mails he did command All the Egyptian people in his Land That they no Hebrew female nor a mayd Should once persew to death drovne nor invade For in his block-head-brain and witt vnvise He thought no harme to him by These could ryse But all the mails he bids o cruell King That in the River thay and flood should fling Which carelesly by cruell hearted men There instantlie is executed Then To cut and curb th' incressnig afterward Of the trve Ghrafts into the Lords wineyard Exodus 2. THe crueltie of the Egyptian Prence Made the Ebrew dames vvith pietie dispence And vvith there pitie and a tinder heart Into th' outcasting of there Childring part Lo as exemplified and vvievlie heare In Moses exposition dois appeare Left desolat alon the infant lay Expond to perish on the River Bray But God above compassion had and He Of Moses fate did otherwise decree And had resolv'd by his ministring hand To bring his Israll out of Egypt Land In thrie months old he was cast out and after Was fund among the flaggs be Phar'os daughter Exodus 2. âHe litle Boy fund in a pitched Arke By God preserved for a worthie wark ââto ane Ebrew nource is gevin to feed ãâã nat'rall mother and his dame indeed ââw grew the chyld and then the Ebrew broght-him ãâã Pharos daughter for hir Sonne She thoght him ãâã Boy was lovely pleasant in hir eye âââd did indeed delight hir greatumlie ãâã call'd him Moses and hir reasone shew âââause from water dying she him drew ãâã God his safetie wrought and broght about âât none but Phar'os chyld sould draw him out âo be a means agains hir Fathers minde âo safe a Salver of the Ebrevv kinde Exodus 2. âOvv in those dayes vvhen Moses waxed stroug To sie his Hebrevv Brether thinking loug ãâã went and Savv the Burdens that they buire ãâã all th' indignities that they indure âââich could not bot molest and move his mind ãâã Pitie and compassion all inclynd ãâã when he sies where ane Egyptian ãâã boldly beat and hurt ane Hebrew man âââspights therat and Separats them Tway ãâã in revenge the Memphit man did slay ââân waroly look'd least any should him sie âââby an other Hebrw sein was he âis Carcas then as he could vvith his hand âe buried there and hid it in the Sand. Exodus 2. âHe second time went Moses foorth an fand Tuo Isralits much at contentionn stand ãâã for some sort of Odds and diffrence that ãâã falne betinxt them tho he knw not vvhat âââhe revveills the Smitter with rebooke ãâã hardly vvith his Reprehention took ãâã men incens'd vvith fury hardlie knaw âââmself nor whom to they a duetie aw ãâã said who made thee judge in this debate âââvill thow kill me as thovv kill'd of late ãâã Egyptian here so Moses clearly knew ãâã it was known that he th' Egyptian slew ãâã dreading forder danger and for seare âe fled to Midian and Taried thair Exodus 2. THe slaughter thus reveald King Pharo send Horse-men and foote To search and apprehend And bring him th'Ebrew Moses that had slaine Yea evn in Egypt ane Egyptian In the reparing wrong and righting than The injurie done to ane Hebrew man For Moses was the man that from above God in compassionn Pitie and his Love Had made and prae apoynted for to be The instrument to set his people free But feare gave feet and feddred him his wing To post from perrill of that Tyran King And in his flight did by a fontane stay That in the fielde and land of Midian lay Exodus 2. WHen Moses in his flight had rraveld long Ester the righting of the Hebrews wrong He wearied was with walking on the way Thearfoir to ease him is constraind to stay And whill he restes him at a fontane than Seav'ne daughters of the Priest of Midian Come to that Cistern and these springing Rockes For to refresh and water there thair flockes But then come heard-men hanting their and thay Unmanerly wold dryve these mayds away And stubbornly debarr them for to bring The needfull waters from that running spring But Moses did them from incombrance keep And waterd all there Goats and flocks of Sheep Exodus 2. THe virgins from the well reverted tell What with the Sheep-heards thair to Them befell Who wold not suffer them in any Cace With these there flocks t' approach vnto that place And how a man they by the fontane fand That did with hold from them the heards-mens hand And drew there water in their Troghs and Cuds That did suffice to water all there Goods There father tax'd them then that they had nought Him that had help them so home with them brought They went and brought him and there father whan He came most kindly did intreat the man Then of these Daughters Se'vne he gives him one Zipporah call'd and she bore him a Sone Exodus 2. âN tract of Time the King of Egypt dyes And th' Israleits in
bondage Sighes and cryes And these there Groans and cryes that they wer wount To spire and spend vp to the havns did monr Sprang throgh the air the Clouds in sunder teares And enters all in the Almighties eares He knows there Carces there Griefes regrats and groans And will haue minde and mercie on there moans His Covenant kint with his Servands kind Abraham and his Sones he hes in mynd âo look'd the Lord vpon their Stress extreame And shortly shall send Confort vnto Thame For all that trust in him and cry for aide He will support them as him self hes Said Exodus 3. âN Horeb monr where Moses vs'd to keep His father Iethro's heards and flocks of sheep The Angel of the Lord there did apeare ânto a Bush vn-brunt but burning cleare And did with sundrie Circomstances sho That he will have him Into Egypt go For he had heard his Servands long in Thrall There Sighes there sorrow's griefe and Groanings all ânto proude Phar'o the Egyptian King ârom thence his Hebrew Israleits to bring âppressd with bearing brick in burdens still âo satisfie a Tyrans wiked will He said he sould Insttuct him what to say And plague all Egypt if he disobey Exodus 3 4. HEre Moses doubts and hardly will beleive That th'Israleits will credit to him give âor trust said he that from a living flame ây Lords command to me his servand came âor that my Lord wold make me messinger âo be the Israleits deliverer âhen said the Lord what is that in thy hand âe ansverd him and said it was a wand âast thow it downe said he and lo the forme wordâ growne a Serpent or a creeping worme ãâã an tack it by the tail and thon shall sie ââââmrne a Rod and now no Serpent be ãâ¦ã said he in thy Bosome thrust thy hand ãâã draving't furth he it a leprous fand ãâã âonce again he say's Thrust thow it in ãâã ââaks it furth a fresh flesh colourd skin Go fordward then and these ãâ¦ã he Signes That there beliefe and creded with them brinpes Exodus 4. YEt Moses wold eschevv and faine wold flie This noble Charge and to the Lord said he I am nought eloquent and want of it And my slove toung maks me therefore vnsit The Lord with Moses he was angrie than And said to himâ who gaue a mouth to man But I go then and I will gwe The speache And thee there all what thow should say shall teach Yet once more Moses heirabout contests And ane moresit to send the Lord requests The Lord then werie wroath wit him did say Doe I noght knovv thy Brother by the way The Levit A'ron thovv shall meet who shall Speak wnto Phar'o and delyver all Exodus 4. THen Moses went and did with Ara'on meet That gratiously each other gladly greet Then past to Egypt and together call The heads of evrie house of Isr'el all Ar'on the Love of God wnto them thair With there delw'rance quickly doth declare Of all the woordes that God to Moses spak He doth to Them a trve rehcarsall make And in there presence with a woundring eye Strange wounders wroght among them there they sie The miracles that God to Mofes shew He did them in there presence all of new Then they belew'd confirmed in there minde And all to worship bowed and inclynd Exodus 5. MOses and Aa'ron vnto Phar'o gois And the almighties mynd and message shois Commanding that his people long in stresse He wold let go wnto the wildernesse To him there Lord the God almightie that They might a feast solemnly celebrat No but King Pharo hardned had his heart And wold not suffer Isr'al thence to pairt But spightfullie commanded dovvblie more To make there tasks nor they had bein before The people with Moses and with Ar'on than T' expostulat and for to grudge began And herefore Moses dois to God regrate Since he with Pharao delt there worse estate Exadus 7. THe men of God to Phâââ gois againe And profits nothing with that Prince prophane He will not grant the people nor accord To lett them go and offer to the Lord For deepl ' indurd and hardned is his hart That he will noght permit them to depart The Prophets than their Budding Rods doune throvves And their the miracles to Pharo shovves Then strak they Nile 1. Plague Egypts enriching flood And it turn'd Tart black and in bitter Blood Th' Egyptian Magi with there charmed Rods Will so vvorke wounders to there pagan Gods But as there rods turn'd Serpents creeps and Crall The living rod of Aaron cates them all Exadus 8. PRoud Pharohs hart yet stiffe and steeld did stand That it no ear could giue to Gods command Nor be broght to beleiue tho he had sein His might in miracles befoir his eyne Wherefore he sent past number numberless Infinit froggs all Egypt to distress 2. Plague So that these noysome Things Innumerable Creept vp on Pharos Bed and Pharos table Yea noght a foote of field in Egypt be That from these all defyling froggs is free Than Pharo Moses dois intreat that he Wold pray to God and make these froggs all die Moses requested be King Pharo prayes And heard the Lord these froggs consumes and slayes Exodus 8. TO Pharos hart such cursedness still cleaves That noght his vvonted hardnes yet it leaves The vvounders vvroght so visible and strange His marble minde did neuir mint to change But quyt of these again his hart he armes And Aaron smott the dust and lyce in swarmes 3. Plague Throgh Egypt all Goshen except increst And multiplied o're all on man and beast King Pharos Magi and Enchamters too Assay to bring foorth Lyce but nought could doâ Then they enforc'd before King Phar'o brought Acknowledge that the Lord these wounders wroght Yet Pharos hardned hart and wicked vvill Indur'd remaind and stiffe continevved still Exodus 8. THen on ãâ¦ã the Lord sent flightes of flies That non the clouds for Clusters of them sies 4. Plague On men and beasts on house and sields they fall And merv'lously they multiplie on all Yet was the Hebrews Goshen to record Free from the plague praeserved be the Lord The flintie harted Pharo now espyes That on his Land Gods heavie Iudgement lyes And he no pow'r no nor means had man That Egypt from that Curse delyuer can Therefore constraind Moses to pray commands An dhe t' intreat the Lord holds vp his hands God heard his prair and then the flies depart But hardned yet holds out King Phar'os hart Exodus 9. THe fist Time Moses Pharo do'th demand To suffer Israel to depart his Land Bur hardned is his hart Indur'd in ill Herefore the Lord a Morame sent to kill The beastes of evrie kind throgh Egypt all 5. Plague But noght a beast in Goshen perish shall And all one day that be in Egypt bounds The forcefull finger of the Lord confounds The heards and flocks in field the foules
that flie The Camel and the Colt drop'd donne and dye This mightie Moram in th' almighties wraeth All Bestiall Bands in Egypt dryves to death But Pharos hart is hardned yet the faster And still stays th' Ebrews to go serve there master Exodus 9. FOr Pharos stubborne and hard hartednesse With scab and Boatch the Lord will Egypt presse And heirfore he the Prophets both commands In th' Aer to throw some ashes from there hands Which shortly efter into dust did turne And Man and Beast with Boatch and Blisters burne 6. Plague That neither of these kindes therefrom was free But therewith all and each ore plastred be Then flew from heav'ne fire thunder haile and Raine 7. Plague That mightely plagues all vpon the plaine And yet where Isra'l is in Goshen Land The earth and aer but stormes vnstressed stand Now Pharo sies his Sinne and Egypts grief And pray's the Prophets pray for there relliefe And promises to let the people Go Yet hardens his hart and efter dois not so Exodus 10. INdured Pharo wilfull yet vvith standes And God sent Grashoppers in Egypt Landes â Plague Of these innumerable numbers Than The earth o'recoverd from the sight of man And all the herbs that hail and thunder left Lyke hungrie Harpies they raye vp and reft So that nothing in Egypt grovving green Nor blade nor leafe theye vnconsum'd vvas sein Pharo againe doth for to grant begin Agains the Lord his vvickedness and Sin Imploring Moses to the Lord to pray That he his vvraeth vvold from that land alay Moses then prayd and to the Lord inclind Who sent a strong stiff gall and vvestern vvind Which those Grashoppers to the Sea did post That none vvas sein on all th' Egyptian coast But God indur'd the hart of Phar'o So That yet he letts the Isralits to Go. Exodus 10. THe Lord to Moses his command hes geven For to streach out his hands vp tovvards heavn That darkness on the land vvithout all light For thrie dayes may vvrap Egypt in one night â Plague Obedient Moses lifting vp his fist The Land is all oremantled vvith a mist And dreadfull darkness is o're Egypt spred And all vvith thick and pitchie clouds o'recled So palpablie and grosse the darkness shovvs That vvhat to doe or vvhair to go none knovvs All buried as in night and darkness lyes But light of day or sight of chearfull skyes Then Pharo seemd content that th'Ebrevvs thay Except there cattell should go all avvay In Goshen yet vvhair Isra'l livv'de vvas light Delightfull day and vndistemperd night To be a vvitness that the Lord vvas thair He keep'd vntroubled both the earth and aer But God the Lord ty is Pharos hart vp so That he the Hebrevvs hinders yet to go Exodus 12. WHen God had promisd Israel to inlarge He institute the Passovver and did charge With circumstances for to eat the Lamb As he apoynts and had ordaind the same Moses and Aaron he directs to tell Vnto his Congregation Israel How evvrie nouâââold or the ãâ¦ã To eat the âasso're sould it self prepair With girded Loyns kint Shoes and staffe in hands And-when they kill their Lambs to stroak commands There liutels with the Blood that shall record The Passover of the Angel of the Lord Which Israls saifety did foreshovv aright And Egypts first borne slaughter the nixt night Exodus 12. AT midnight or the davvning of the Morne The Angel of the Lord killd the first Borne 10 Plague Of man and beast that then in Egypt Iwde Non then was spaird nor from that Plague repriv'd But those of that of the house of Isra'l be From all the Ten plagues they wer fenc'd and free No house there was in Egypt from the East But there in kill'd was ane vnto the vvest The mempheits moan there maest and mvrnfull crye Vpon the morne rose vp and reathch'd the skyes When they before them thair stark dead and cold There first borne man and beast streatch'd out beholâ They vnto Pharo madlie roaring rin And tells vvhat God onthere first borne had done They pray him than that he vvill favour sho At last and lat the people of Isral Go. To adore and serve there God or certanly They for his Induration all should dye Exodus 12. PVnish'd vvith plagues and be the people pressd Pharo at last for there reliefe thought best To let the people pas then did the Brether call And thence commands them vvith there Ebrews all The Prophets then conveines them moir and less And altogether to depairt address Whill vvillingly th' Egyptians to them gave What of there welth and riches they wold have Jevvels gold and Garments then they borrovv Against there great Migration on the morrovv And then they plenishd vvith th' Egyptian spoyl Dislodge to leave and martch from memphit soil In numbred men six hundreth thovv sand Lives Besyds there strangers Childring and there vvives Exodus 13. TH' almightie God Jehoue the Hebrevv Bands To celebrat a publict feast commands In memorie and in rememberance Of that there vvounderfull deliverance ãâ¦ã And that they should in efter tymes to come All the first borne that oppen shall the vvomb The mail of man and beast allenarlie To him their Lord as his still Sanctifie And on that day vvnto there Sones declair What he the Lord ten times did for them thair Vnto that Tyrannous hard harted King When he from Bondage did there Fathers bring Exodus 13. DEad Iosephs bones in Egypt long before Moses transports that Isra'l sometyme swore Wnto him when infirme himself he fand To burie Them into the promis'd Land God led them nought the vvayes that neerest ar Lest the Philistims in there martch make warr But th' Ebrevvs arm'd that vvise Conductor he Brought them about the shores of the red sea And in a Cloud before Them he be day Through defart wilderness directs there way And lest they strayd and throgh long travvell Tyre By night he lights them vvith a flame of fire The Cloud nor Colum never vvent away Alternatly but past before them ay Exadus 14. 15. WHen gone avvay vvas Isra'l God procur'd That Pharos hart vvas hardned and Indur'd So that he stirrs and Egypt armed all Perforce the Hebrevv Camp for to recall And heirfore with his people posts a pace As he wer of a flieing foe in chace The Hebrevvs fear when they see Pharo Budge And all agast againes there Guider grudge He prayes and God commands to Rod the Sea That shall give way and soone devided be Moses did so and th'Ebrevvs saife and sound Past trogh but all th' Egyptians there ar drovnd Israel then in praise with one accord A thankfull Song with Ioy song to the Lord. Exodus 15. HEre Miriam the matron Prophetess Vnto the Lord hir thankfull praise t' express Holds vp a sounding Timbrell in hir handes Back'd with the Beauties of the Hebrev Bandes And sweitly singing all there woyces raise A Psalme of
Tryumph and a Song of Praise ãâ¦ã On Pharo his Egyptians and Those That durst to him and his profess them foes His mightie povvar in that Song is shovvne Wherby the horse and Riders as o'rethrovvne And all confounded that from Egypt came With horror terror dreudfull death and shame Exodus 15. VVHen Isral vvas from Pharos forces fred To desart Sur Moses there Guyd them led Whair in that wast and wilderness thrie dayes All as they past but drink or vvater stayes To Marah then they came whair bitterness Of waters thair there Palats much oppress They plaine and Moses much perplex'd in Spreit Cryes and the Lord converts these lovr to svveit God them injoyns th'observing of his Lavves And vnto Them his Ordinances shawes Which giue they keep and do then he will nought Plague Them with These that he on Egypt brought I am the Lord said he that can disease Bring when I will and heale it when I please Exodus 15. THan they removd and come to Elim land Whair fontans tvelf and seavntie Palmes they fand A proper place as pleasant profitable Into there journay for to ease them able The Lord there Pames with pleasure he will mix And try there patience these extreams betuix Novv they abundance haue anone aââskant And God again vvith vvelth repayes there want The Lord his owne he proofs but noght to perish And as he checks so he his Saincts shall cherish In Marah tart there water was but heare In Elim it was healthsome sweit and cleare And there the pleasant Palm's the daintie date Into all plentie offers them to eat Exodus 16 FRom Elim Isra'l gois and enters in The Desarts and the vvilderness of Sin That is tvix Elim and mont-Sinai plac'd A hill so oft with Gods great praesence grac'd Into the second month the fiftenth day Of there Migration heir arived thay The people murmur and for hunger cry And wext the worthie Moses woundrously ãâ¦ã And therefore said to Moses he should raine Bread from the heavn and that of such a sise That daylie night and should there wants suffice In this to them the Lord did shew his Love And by such means there thankfulness wold prove Exodus 16. MOses and Aaron t'Isr'el said yow shall This night know God from Egypt brought yow all The Glory of your God againe said Thay âow all shall sie the morne when it is day Whair yow shall wiew if that yow be not blind âis kindness vnto yow so oft to him vnkind Your bold Repyning and your grudgings he âe heares agains him self for naught ar we âet in all plentie and abundance great âe from the Aer shall give yow flesh to eat âhe flesh at night a blast of wind shall bring ând bread it shall come when the day shall spring Then like the Rain and thickest shoures of hail Among there Tents in fleets down came the quail Exodus 16. AGaine the Glory of the Lor divine And goodness with the Sunne did to them shine ãâã when the dew was dried on the Ground âcanded Ball small lyke hoar frost was fund ând neuir sein before that heavnly Raine âcoverd all and Tapestried the Plaine ând when the people of Israell saw it than ââey said ane to ane other it was MAN âât knew it noght altho they gawet a name âât it was the Bread praepard for Thame ââses declard a grain shourd doun from heavne ãâã from there God t'apease there Grudging geavne Which evrie one should gather it and vse As Gods commandement direct them dois Exodus 16. âHill Manna on the ground before them lay Togather it God hes prescryw'd the way ãâã it apoynted hes for their repast ãâã but on day and for no more to last ââept such as was gatherd on the Sixt ââserve the Sabboth that succeeded nixt ãâã some was dissobedient and brak ãâã Statuts that God thereanent did make ãâã did ore night some pocked vp in store ââugnant to he Law gevne on t before He could noght wold noght wiew there wayes perveââs But in the morning they haue fund it stank And full of wormes with smell and savour Rank Exodus 16. THe Saboth sacred to the Lord orda'nd And nought to be with weekly works prophand To bake and seeth all on the Sixt he dois Command that they wold on the sevnt day vse And yet vngratfull Israleits some go Togather Manna and prophaind it so When they should worship as the Lord commands And noght worke as they weekly wroght with hands Whill Moses checks and chyds and dois them shaw Debording thus there braking of the Law And then seveirly charged Israll wholly T' observe for evr the seav'nt the Saboth holy And in remembrance to observe it ay Israel since hes rested the sevnt day Exodus 16. MOses conforme to Gods command and will Of MAN bids Aron then ane Omer fill Vnto the end that efter it may be Preservd and showne to our posteritie This man was like Cor'ander seed almast But whyte resembling wafers in the Taste That it the Bread was that there Fathers fed Into the wilderness when they wer fred From thraldome by the Lords almightie hand That they wer vnder into Egypt Land Then Aaron did as Moses did direct And filld ane Omer full to that effect Then plac'd it in the Testimon ' or Arke To be thereof for'ever more a mark Exodus 17. THe camp from Sin to Riphidim removves That there much paine for want of water proves And therefore murmur muteny and grudge Yea dois agains the Prophets Brag and budge All into ire hote furie rage and wraeth Redy to rise to stone him straght to daeth Then Moses mov'de did at there crying cry To god and he advisd him by and by That he in Horeb with his Rod sould smitt The Rock of Riphidim and then from it Sould come a current and a fontane fall To queuch there thrist and satisfie them all ãâ¦ã He aids them still in there distressed-state Exodus 17. PRoud Amalek of Esavs of spring one To fight with Isral drew his armie on And when they over at Riphidim ariv'de To Iosua the Povvar vvas prescriv'd And vnto him was all the warr committ The maner and the managing of it Whill Moses went with Aron and with Hur To Horebs head before the armeis stur Where Moses lifting vp his hands did pray And His prewaild whill holdm vp wer thay But whill they heavie wax'd and wearie than Th' Amalekets prewaild o're came and wan But when these tuo suports his hands in fight Then Amalek was foild and put to slight Exodus 18. IEthro the Preest or Prince of Midian Zipporas Sire Moses Good-father Than Heard how the Hebrews God from Egypt brought And what by Moses there for Them he wrought Herefore resolves and doth him self address Whair with his wife and Childring Moses meet And gladly other kiss salute and Greet To Jethro Moses then doth truly tell What God in Egypt wroght for Israell
vnto him dois intimat his will ând shew's his Angel shall Guide Isra'l still ââat shall the accursed Cananeits out cast ând lay 't for them his people of Israll wast ââe Hittits Hivits Amorits and all ââus and Perizzits they perish shall âât Isral sad and sorrovvfull did sho ââat God him self denyd with Them to Go ââen Moses to martch vp the Lord commands ââith all the people to the promisd Landes That to there father Abram long before And since vnto his Seed to give he svore Exodus 33. VNto the Lord humblie did Moses pray From th' Hoste his Ire to pacis ' and alay ââd in his mercies for to make it knovvne ââat he there God and they wer all his ovvne ââe Lord than his petitions did aprove ââd grantes Them in his favour and his love ãâã more to sie hot with a holy fire ãâã glory of the Lord he doth desire âhich God likevise did grant him of his Grace ãâã none could live he said and sie his face ãâã in a rockie cleft God hes him plac'd ââd shevv his bake-Partes as he by him pac'd Part of his Glory in the going by He doth permit his Moses to espy Exodus 34. âHe Lord againe commands that Moses hevv For those he brak Tvvo other Tables nevv ââereon he will with his owne finger grave ãâã self same precepts that before he gave ââses the morne with Them the mont ascends ãâã in a Cloud from Heavne the Lord descends ãâã there before him stood and did proclame ãâã Lords almighty and Eternall name ãâã the went and past before his face ãâã strong most mercifull and full of Grace ãâã is the Lord but Rigour fraught with Ruthe ãâã slovv of goodness full and Truth Wherefore my praecepts keep that I Command This day and yow shall have the holy land Exodus 34. WHen God Almighty on the holy hill His minde to Moses had declard and vvill When he had fully fasted fourtie dayes For he none less vpon Mont-Sinai stayes The Lord dismisd him from the mont again And he descends directly to the plain The Princes of the people go to Greet And mirthfully there Captane Moses meet But when his face transfigurd they looke on And sies that by the wounted sort it shon They ar affraid and dread for to dravv neare And in his shyning presence to apeare But Moses called Them then they and he And Aaron talk together tenderlie Exodus 34. THe Propher speaking vvith the Princes heire The people aproatch and do them dravv neir But Moses for the shyning of his face He is constraind to covert in that place So beavtifull and brightly there it shon That no eye durst behold nor looks thereon But vvaild as he there in there presence stands He carefully declares the Lords commands That on Mont-Sinai he receav'd be vvord Of mouth from God the everliving Lord And these Directions charging Them that thay For evr observe and never disobay Vpon the perrill that 's pronunc'd and more If they do fall as have vs'd before Exodus 36. 25. THe westments and the wessels necessare That for the dayly worship vsefull are The Lord vvill have them fashoud form'd and fram'd As they shall efter noted be and nam'd The Arke shal be of Cedar Shittim wood Without corrupting durabill and good Lyn'd well within and all vvithout ore Rolld With well wrought and engravne Plates of Gold The Cloth and Carpet for the Covenant To make it beavtifull and Bellishant It shal be silver silk and skarlet wool Imbrodred bravely and made beavtifull With Barrs ingross'd in Gold and Golden Ringes Whereon vvhen it transported is it hinges Exodus 37. 25. THe Seat propitiatarie and the place Where God in mercie should apear and Grace ââd whence should ishe his Oracles divine ãâã will haue made of purest gold and fyne âhose length tuo Cubits and an half should be ââd half an less in breadth ordaned He ââo Cherubims of tryed Gold likewise ãâã cower't with there winges he did devise ââd these he hes apoynted for to place ãâã one oposit to the Others face âhere efter should betuix there winges be gev'en ââwe truethfull ansvers from the God of Heaven ââich mercie Seat his Statuts do Command âove the golden crouned Arke to stand Because decred he had and did ordane The Testimonie therein to remaine Exodus 37. 25. âAlmightie Moses for to make commands Of Shittim wood with cunning Craftes-mens hands ââised for his worship wenerable ãâã set Shew-Bread thereon a gold-clade Table ââose wright worke wrought and fitly form'd and mad ââs all with gold ingravne and over-laide ââd all above well fashoned and frett âolden Croune like stoure de luces set ãâã lenght thereof set downe and hight and bread ãâã these Supra noted Chapters Read âhes causd likevise Goblets make of Gold âfumes and Incense to preserve and hold And Shew Bread set vpon that Tabled Boord Eternally to offer to the Lord. Exodus 37. 25. âHe Lord likewise heir Moses doth direct For Lights a Luminare for to erect Candle-sticke as we may know be ours ââose bowing Branches seavne bears vp seavn floures ââcarie lights of flamming fires to be ââpes in the Sanctuar ' Incressantlie ââose mettall shall be of the purest Gold ãâã Boules that shall about the Branches fold ãâã ââoures and Base that beares vpon the Ground ãâã so be of the fynnest to be fund ãâ¦ã and Snuff-dishes likewise Too ãâ¦ã be made as God had showne him how ãâ¦ã it thereon seavn lampes ay burning Bright ãâ¦ã to that that is before it Light Exodus 37 30. BEzaleel of Shittim vvood he takes And thereof thair the Incense Alter makes A cubit long in Length the Breadth so right But raised higher Tuo it was in hight About it crovned was with gold above The Lords command and Artes-mans Arte t' approve Round Barrs and rings but ââalters framed square With gold wark garnish'd and o're laid all whair The Cupes that should perfumes and Incense hold They wer also of pure and perfect Gold The pure perfumes and pleasant Incense too He hes compos'd as th' Apothecars do And therewith fild and fird the Censers Thair Whose sugred smell pears'd and perfurnd the aer Exodus 38. 27. THe Altar of brunt offrings offreth next To be intreated of into the Tex Bezaleel by Moses so muche praisd To build began and ent'red vp to rais'd Of Shittim wood the Bulk or Body was And all o'reclad with coverlets of Brass Five Cubits long five Cubits broad and hie This Alter was no more at all but thrie And all the Instruments that there be nam'd And fit therefore of Beaten Brass was fram'd Also the Grate that stood within it He Knits like a net of wier most Cunninglie A Lav'r likevvise he of the Wemens Glasses Made that the best of Brass for brightness passes Exodus 39. 28. A Aron the Priests aparell they prepare A goodly Garment glorious and fair Th' Ephod of
Gold blew silk and skarlet Read Of Linning pure and purple for his head The gold is wrought in wier and leanid out long To Shew and set it these silk-works among Imbrodred were the Shoulders rund about And curiously with nedle knots cast out On evrie side thereof ane Onix stone They set ingraven with Israls name thereon Which on the Shoulders of the Ephod stands To beare a Record of the Lords commands A Breast plate more they make the form four square A peece of gold exceeding rich and rare And therevpon enchace four rovves at once Of pure imprysable and precious stons Exodus 40. GOd th' all director Moses doth direct To reare the Tabernacle and it erect And all the Appertenances that pertaind Vnto it to adduce them he Ordaind Into the first of monthes on the first day He should it raise and longer nought delay And as injoynd he was he thereto bringers The Arke and all the other holy Thinges And with the Vaile wrought vvith imbrodred wark He coverd closs and over-waild the Arke Also he brought as order did require The Table too and lights the Lamps vvith fire Aaron investes his Sones anoynts Them too And what to serve God should be done did do Exodus 40. THus this vvas done into the second yeere Efter that They from Egypt did reteere The Tabernacle seasd then Moses came And set the Testimonie in the same Then with the vaile he hes it closs vp shut âovv soone the Arke therein vvas plac'd and put âhe merciseate aboue the Arke he plac'd âhat vvith a Coronet of Gold vvas grac'd âhe Laver set Moses and Aaron both âith his tvvo Sones to wash them therein goeth ând than the court vpread inclosing round Whairon the Tabernacle stood the Ground âoses at last the vaile hung vp lats fall ãâã in this vvorke he finished hes all And God above into a Cloud did hover And all the vvork did over-vail and cover Exodus 40. WHill as the Lord into a cloud above The Tabernacle aboad and did noght move âhair the most glorious Glory of the Lord âhe Tabernacle filld all vp and stord ãâã that for Moses thair there was no place ãâã full of maiestie divine and grace ââere was a presence heavnly and divine ãâã there the Glory of the Lord did shyne ãâã vvhen the Sunne and day vvas doune the Cloud ãâã o're the Arke and Tabernacle stood ãâã aproatching of the night a none ãâ¦ã of fire streams and clearly shon ãâã as by day into the darkest night ãâã camp vvas cleare and in a lamp of light Exodus 40. THe moveing or night marching of the Cloud To Isral was a certaine Signe and Good Ather vnstirrd to stay stand still and tarie Or forward thence there Host and Camp to carie But if it did ascend and higher mov'd The Camp then forward martchd and more removd But if it did discend and there did stay They martchd no more but in there ludgings lay And noght a foot to fair did they intend Whill they it sie begin again t' ascend And when they journay should remove and ryse The cloud went on before Them throgh the skyes By day into a Cloud and on the night God was a fire to shew all Isr'all light Leviticus 9. Chap. T' Approve the Priestly office is from heaven A certaine Signe and sure assenting gevin Whill Aarons offring on the Alter lyes A Sacred flamme come flashing from the skyes And opinly in all the peoples eyes Consum'd and quickly eat the Sacrifice The woundring Israleits all looking on That Blais breathd from above brunt evrie Bone The then beleiving hoast to humble it gois And thankfull thonghts to God again vpthrois And publictly his prases there proclame For all the Blessings he bestow ' on Thame The Prophets then for this there Thankfulnes The people present sanctifie and bless Leviticus 10. A'Rons tuo Sones Nadab and Abihu A gross mis-deed before the Lord they do A nonted once there office to exers Out of presumption and a Sprit perverss They proudl ' aspire no rather they conspyre To fill there Censers full of forran fire And than advance and to the alter go Nev'r vsed thair to offer incenss so Contrary quyt vnto the Lords command That should have ever inviolable stand But from the Lord a flamming fire foorth flevv That boldly brint and both the Brether slevv To shovv that God will noght beserv'd by waine Vnvvise inventions of a vvorsely Brain ãâ¦ã THe judgements of the Lord thus sharply sâas'd Vpon these Brether that his Sp'rit displeas'd ânto the horrour of the Hebrew host âhat by there owne delicts there Lives had lost âor worshiping agains his divine will âpon them fell th' inevitabill ill âo teach all others that they neâit presume âut of a Braine Phantastick filld with fume âhe Lords vine zard to worke it otherwayes âor he directs and in his Law donne layes âhen these two mangled miserable men ââr careed from the Congregation then A sad and doolfull evidence for thame Both of there deeds there Sin and Shame Leviticus 24. âNto the Hoste was ane Egyptian man But by his Mother of the Trib of Dan âhat going out did so from dutie rowe âhat in the hoste he with an hebrew strove ând in the brall that was begun by Thame ãâã Egyptian did the God of hostes blasphame âhey take the man and him to Moses led ând then the Lord eftsoon to Moses said âause thow be broght that bold blasphemer out ând make the men that heard then there about ââe Lord blasphemd ley on there hands vpon-him ând then to death let all the Hebrews stone-him Which instantly they execute and act A fit reward for his vnfaithfull fact Deuterouomie 34. Chap. THe Prophet Moses to Mont Nebo gois From whence the Lord the promisd land him shois âhat milk and hony flowing land the same Which he so oft had heght to Abraham âât only having sein it did declare âhat hee should nev're go ov're nor enter Thair âhe Servand of the Lord then Moses dyes ând buried be him into Moab lyes âât never man yet lived to this day âhat knew the place whair God did Moses lay ãâã hundreth yeers and to them twentie told âhen he expired was the Prophet old ãâã Prophet such whose like yet never non ãâã Israel arose when he was gone A Prophet full indew'd with heavnly Grace ãâã God conferrd with and knew face to face ãâ¦ã FAmiliar Moses with the Lord and lov'de Before from this mortelitie remov'de That manfully martch'd from the memphit landes Divinly aided with the Hebrev bandes But the almighty eyeing ay his avvne Albeit their Ductor he had from them dravvne Yet to their Good and Glory of his name An oter Tutor tenders vnto Them In Iosua couragiously Inclinde H' infunds morefire in his magnanime mind And o're his Isrel limited at large Gaue him the conduct and the Captans Charge Commanding and encouraging the man To Ioyn the people and pas Iordan than
Iosua 1. THe worthie Duke to this Command thus call'd And Isrel generall in State install'd God novv again renevvs to cheare Them more The promise of the promis'd Land before He markes there markes from the wilderness And from Mont-lebanon to Euphrates Thence maks the Sea there Bordour by the vvest Where Phoebus Car declyns and runs to rest Then sayes to Iosua that vvorthie Thair Yet to incress and kindle his Covvrage mair Whill he shall Rule and Captane their Command No heathen foe before his face shall stand If as his Servand Moses night and day H' observe his mandats and his Lavves obey Iosua 1. T' incovvrage Iosua God renovvats And oft hies promisd ayd he iterats Yet vvith direction that he all his dayes Keep his Commands and walke into his vvayes The Captane than the Congregation all He convocats and dois before him call Indicting and directing Them that Thay Be ready in their armes on the thrid day To pas o're Iordan that far famons flood Neerby vvose Bankis Israels standarts stood The Revbenits and Gadits dress also Thongh seased on this hither side to Go And vvillingly vvill venter vvith the rest Whill each one of their portions be possessd ãâ¦ã WHill that the people a providing are Victuals and armes for martching necess ar âhe Captaine finds it fit to send before âuo Speculators prudent to explore âhe people there Pou're purposes and places âs is convement in such war-like Caces âhe Spyes from Shittim send advance and go ând enters Rahabs house in Iericho âut yet these Spies are in there spying spyed ând Rachab to revveale Them temptd and try'd âearing hir Countries futur fall and foil âpoynted Isr'el for a Prey and spoyle They on their promeses preserv'd are by hir And secretly vnsem they saife Retyre Iosua 3. Chap. TH'explorators aproatch the Tents tell there The Cananits astomshment and feare âpon the nevvs the Sone of Nun commands âhe vnder afficiars of all the Bands ãâã passe and charge the people with povv'r express âor to remove to be in readmesse âovvsone the Levits to be martch'd they mark ââfore tuo Thousand cubits with the Ark âhen Iosua the people all injoynes ãâã sanctifie them selfes and lave their loyns ãâã cause said he the Lord to morrovv shall âork vvoundrously in presence of yovv all Then to the Levit Priests said he avant And go before vvs vvith the Covenant Iosua 3. TO Iosua the Sone of Nun then said the Lord I will advance Thee as avvovtchd my word ââd as I vvith my servand Moses so vvith Thee ãâã thy advancement I will doe said he ãâã Isrel then sage Josua did say â'almighty martches yovv among this day ãâã for a Signe this shall yovv vnderstand âhat he shall give yovv all the Heathen land ãâã Iordan whill the Ark advance before yovv âârtch efter on and going God adore yovv ââvvsoon the Priests shall touth the rivers brink ãâã beares the ark the Billovvs bak shall shrink ãâã they before that did the gravell cover ãâã part them self to give yovv passage over Ioshua 4. Chap. THe Arke and Priests in Iorden dry Whill all the people perrilless passe by O woundrous walk a deed divine and vounder Done only by the Thrower of the Thunder Then Iosua in Iorden did command Eternally as Tropheas there to stand And to be witness of that woundrous wark On that same place where paus'd the Priests and Ark Twell men of the twell Tribes twell Stones to Reare And then twelf other on there backs to beare To Gil-gall thence but to the same effect And to remember this These their t' erect But th' Ark and Isrel dry-foot thus past throw The flood againe as it was wount did flow Iosua 5. Chap. THe Stones vp-reard t'averr the veritie Of there strange passage to post eritie The rumor of which admirable Chance The hearts of all the heathen lords so lance And strangely strook them stupified and stonird So that nev'r shall there Curage be Reconird Tha ' amazed looke like men alreadie lossd And whill they heare but of the Hebrew host The Lord commands that circomcision than Be vs'd to evrie Hebrew mail or man On whom the hallowed incisers hand Hath noght bein since they come from Egypt land An Angel arm'd to Nuns sone then apeard Conferrd confirm'd him and his Courage Reard Iosua 6. Chap. THe armie and the Ark throgh Iorden go Iust ore against the Toun of Iericho And martch'd whill that directed they set doune And drew there Trenches round about the Tovne The grave Commander that the Camp conducted How to attempt it by the Lord instructed The people then againe and Priests he taught How that that Citie circled should be caught Seaven Priests with Ram-horne Trumpets past before The Ark and th' Armie followd whill They Roare Seavn dayes they compassed the Citie so And as injoynd so oft about it go Then on the seavnt they sound and showted all Whill that vntvich'd flat fell the Citie wall ãâ¦ã THe citie entred as the Lord had doomd Mettals except and all with fire consum'd The slain of both the Sex into the Streets Together in the Gore defyld there fleets Yet Rachab is and hers by promise past Preserved saifly in that publict wast The Spyes that in there pitie she praeservd No less with love into the sackt her servd For all saif she t'inevitable Ire Wer sold and sold to slaughter sword and fire There all are execrable and accurssd That therein are or that therein wer nurc'd And all from heavn are curssd and curssd shalbo That Iericho mynds to Re edifie Iosua 7. chap. A Chan an Isralite Religious Proves reprobat and Sacrilegious Wherefore Gods griefe to grow and glow begins Against all Isrell for his secreit Sinns His Ire inkendled thus so boyles and burnes That from their help his holy hand it turnes As they tryd trew whill that with Ai they fight With few their greater force is put to flight Whill Iosua before the Lord did fall And with his Cryes contreit for help did call The Lord reveals the Sin and Achan is Vpon confession he and what was his His Blood his Brood his house and all at once Brint vp with fire and fell'd to death with stories Iosua 8. chap. A Chan thus punish'd and thus Isrell purg'd The Lord apeasd he Iosua efter vrg'd And said my Seruant fant not dread nor doubt Thow of my Aide but be of courage stout And now with all thy men of armes arise To Ai advance and it with pow'r supprise For I have gevn thee therein evrie thing The Substance their the Subiects Croune and king And there with doe for I command thee so In all as thow hes done with Iericho Then by ane ambush he hes foyled them Then Toune supprisd and firde syn spoyled Them The King is catch'd alive and efter he As God gave charge was hang'd vpon a Tree ãâ¦ã THus that they triumphd by Gods helping hand Well did the chiefe of th' Ebrevs
vnderstand Wherefore that wise Commander wills that they Thankfull therefore and grate to God be ay In Ebal mont they then ane Altar raise Noght hambred on with hands his name to praise And offers thereon offrings as they knaw Agried with his will and Moses Lavv The altar raisd and God there praisd the Grave Grand Captane then the Law on Stons did Ghrave And therein Blissings Cursins all and Threats He publictly to them reads and repeats Into the praesens of the people all The Stranger as the hebrew naturall Iosua 9. chap. AI thus sack'd some nightbour kings to those As open Enemies to Isrel rose But lo from Gibeon disgvysed some As messingers vnto the armie come Israell by deceat to Circemvein And perrill by that policie praeveen With Garments torne and but with Tags of Shooes That they are Straugers these disgvysed does Mak Isrel think that They be come to Crave A leagve of Love and frendship faine wold have The Suit deceavde the Guyd of Isr'el grantis The Gibonits deceitfull Supplicants But they detected efter for the same The duke to drudgrie Them and their Condamne Iosua 10. chap. FYve Kings together with vindictive Spreet Their warlike force and armies all vneit And out agains the tovne of Gibeon sped That Irues with Israls head contracted had But vnto him submissive Suits they send The he is foederats wold now defend Who for their Causes wer inclosd about With five Kings forces strong men stern and stout Then Isrels Captane with his Cohorts rose To free the Gibonits and fight there foes whom in his violent and wrakfull wraeth He vterly vndoes and drave to daeth And such as fled defeated with his force Feld in the flight vvith Hail a fate fand worss ãâ¦ã THe day whereon these armies where o'rethrovvne The Lord his great Love hes to Isr'el shovvne A vvoundrous day and admirable one Whose like before nor since was neuir none At Ioshua his prai'r and request The great Governour God Almightiest A whole day stayed theÌ Sunne in Gibeon And moone into the valey Aialon And not a poynt come dovne declynd nor chang'd Whil Isrell was on all there foes reveng'd The Kings they kill when all the slaughter ended And then the five vpon five Trees suspended Kings Cities Subiects of the Hils and all The plaines beside subdued before them fall Iosua 11. chap. A Croud of Kings by south east west and north Martch for to force the force of Isrel forth There numbers great neer out of number be As Dust on earth or Sand into the Sea But God bad Isrel be of Courage Good And feare no force nor men nor multitude For he before that tyme of day to morrovv âlaine and consumed to there shame and sorrâw Before the face of victor Isrell shall Deliver Them forc'd and defeated all Israell confident vpon his word âAs well they might assaults them with the Sword And horriblie maks havok of their host In killing from the meanest to the most Iosua 11. AS Ioshua from that Attempt reteard For such victorious Chances Inly Cheard The Toune of Hazor he took in his vvay And all th' Inhabitants non saife did slay Yea all from Halak montane vnto Gad That by Hostilitie he takin had Therein a living soule nor fighting man As God commanded him he left not than For heardned was from heavne there harts that thay âight from the earth in vvraeth be vvippd avvay âf Anakims the Cities so he Sacks And vtterly them selfs with vvarrs he wracks The Conques then h' amongs the Tribs divyds ând then in peace sins warrs their th' Ebrevs byds ãâ¦ã VIctoÌrious Isrel by the Lords assistance Agains there great and all there forc'd ressistance Of Cities Valaes Montans and the Plains But feare of force possessd in peace remains On Iordains eastren syde and on its west By South and North they peaceablie possest No pettie portion nor a litle Land Did Ioshua and Israel command The Lord their Battels and all subdevv'd And noght their forces well inough they knew it It is lands their Swords in their subiection brings The subiects arm'd of ane and threttie Kings The Hebrevs by his help there hosts orethrew And all their Kings consumed killd and slew Iosua 13. chap. THe Lord call'd Ioshua and to him told That he was weak with yeeres and waxed old And yet much land remaind and Lordships many Vnentred with and vnpossessd with any Therefore the Lord he hes enjoynd him thair And how he should devide them did declare To give nyne Tribs whole portions he commands And vnto thrie to give but half part lands Since Moses vnto Ruben and to Gad On this side Iorden gev'n a portion had Ilk Trib its martch there sevrally is showne That each of them might know what was their owne To Levi yet no foot of Ground he gave But ordaind Them the Sacrifice to have Iosua 14. Chap. THe Land of Canaan devided aff Among the former nyne Tribs and a half Caleb the constant Kenezeit the same That entred first the Land to Nuns sonne came And said to him now fourty yeeres and more His since vnto Moses dead before God spake our God most great and Glorious In Cadesh-bernea concernyng vs Then he that day swore by th' almighty God To give vs that whereon our feet should trod Wherefore my Captane godly grave and Sage I crave the same now for my heritage Which Iosua gladgly grants and Caleb blessd And him and his with Hebron hes possessd Iosua 20. Chap. THe Lord directed Ioshua as Iudge T'apoynt with Isrel Cities of Refudge He speake the people and protests and Thay Obtempre and the will divine Obey For such as do by accident or chance Vnwillingly or yet by Ignorance Kill and cut aff by force and blood a Brother An Israleit yea yet or any other Where they may faif and sure preserved be Whill th' high Priest livand then depairt and die From the Revenger of the slain and than He may returne vnto his house again So did the Lord Reliefe for these ordain That ony man as is foreshowne had slaine Iosua 22. Chap. TO Reuben and to Gad and to Manasses Heires Ioshua his Kins-man Patriots declares That as the Lord and Moses had commanded They faithfully had with there Bethren banded And nought forsook Them whill they wer possessd Of all the promeist Land in Peace and rest Therefore go with the blissing of the Lord To your possessions vpon Iordans Bord But care to live my Brether I befeech As do is our Law allow instruct and teach Bak they returne and built an Altar by The river brink and renders reasons why Howbeet the Tribs therewith took first offence Yet having heard them with the deed dispenss Iosua 23. Chap. NOw Ioshua waxd old by Age infirme Into the faith the Tribs for to confirme Exhorts them gravely all with one accord The serve sincearl ' obey and lovve the Lord He tells them there hovv oft for them he faught And
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
to that ragne And into highest honor in all eyes Expired then did end his dayes and dyes That ragne there fourtie yeers by Dauids Tomb In Dauids citie they this Prince inhume 1 Kings 12 chap. THis man whom God gave greatest visdome too Defunct and Rehoboam regning novv The people and elders all salute him King And sit consulting on his Governing But he the Counsell of the ag'd and wise Did for th' imprudence of the young despise And hardly heirfore brooking this neglect Ten Tribes there Ieroboam King elect And so fell from the Sone of Salomon Th' incensed Tribs of Isrel all saife on The Seer then charg'd by the Lord by night Prohibits Rehoboams force to fight For that revolt by him than did begin For Salomons and Rehoboams Sinne And Ieroboam King elected thus God grosly greevs and grows Idolatrous 1 Kings 13. chap. WHil Ieroboam at the Altar stands Teither a Prophet God to go commands T'expostulat and it to threaten thus There whair yow offer incenss mirrhe and thus To Dauids house once shall be borne a Boy That therevpon the Prophets shall destroy And as yow spend vpon it now perfume The Bones of men he thereon shall consume ãâã in the rest he halted and he strayd ând did the vvill and went the wayes of man ãâã dissobeyd the Lords directious Than ând herefore whill the Prophet home did pass âlon at leasour ryding on his asse The Lord a Lyon sent that did him slay Because he disobayd him on the way 1 Kings 14 Chap. THe Sone of Ieroboam falling sicke H'intends to try the Prophet with a Trick ând vnto him his wife send in disguise ãâã make a Gul of Him that God made wise ãâã he vnvaild hir by the Lords prevention ând told the vanitie of that intention ând that declaird that from the divine wraeth ânto there chyld approachd a praesent daeth ând for hir Lords defection from his makar âhat did his worship vnto Idols sacrar âhat Croune that God from Dauids seed did sever ââom him and his he wold rent it for ever And all that vnto him attingent be The Lord from th' earth shall sweep ev'rlastinglie 1 Kings 15 Chap. THe aughten yeer of Ieroboams reigne Abiram then in Iuda reignod king ãâã all the vicked wayes he walcked in ãâã as his Father Rehoboam Sin'd did Sin ãâã yet for Dauids sake when he was dead ãâã with a Sonne his princely place suppleid ãâã ane and fourty vpright did stand ãâã as King Dauid did governe that land ãâã Asa dyed and with his Fathers layd ââosaphat his Sone the Scepter swayd ãâã Nadab Ieroboams sone began ãâã Asas reigne to rule in Isrel than ãâã Basha killd him and King eftor smot ãâã that of Ieroboams lyne he got And as the Lord fortold both great and sin all He slew and vterly destroyd them all 1 Kings 16 chap. âAsha to regne vpraised be the Lord As Ieroboam sinn'd and did debord âefore this Lord for his Iniquitie ãâã forfalted his Posteritie ãâã whill that Elach efter him did reigne ãâã Captane Zimri that did serve this King And by his death the Croune this rebell got But when to Isrel was the Treasone told The host cround Omri and him for King him hold That Irizak with his warriours did invest And it perforce he enterd hes and preâst Disloyall and disparing Zimbri than With his fals treason to be twichd began And to the strength as castell he returnes Himself and it and all within it burnes A recompence for such prophane apoynted That Durst be bold to kill the Lords anoynted 1 Kings 17 Chap. ELiah lo the Prophet did declare To Achab the aproaching famyn thair But God did feed and fosterd him with Ravens Penn'd Parendars that foars along the heavns That shortly should for want of dew and raine The people and Land to mony straits constrain For all the Abominations great and Sinne That Omri and himself had sliddin in Then famyn dearth and want was in the I and And God the Prophet then he did command Eastivard in Cherith-brook himself to hyda And there his pleasure to attend and byde Flesh then and Bread vpon that river bank The Ravens brought him and he waters drank For whom th' Almighty dois mantain and cherish Shall prosper when th' impious all shall perish 1 Kings 17 Chap. GOd by his word Eliah-bids again Go to Zareptah citie and remain Whair he before him at the gate shall find A vidow poore in povertie prove kynd He fand hir thair and did hir then intreat To bring him water and some bread to eat She ansverd as the Lord did live that all Hir store of meal was but a measure small Together with a litle oyle that dois Sustain hir and hir Sone into a Cruse Which Elie bids hir bring and than he blesses And they continevv'd so and nee'r decresses The blessings of the Lord to minds content They be abundance and sufficient The vidow for hir Sone departed grieved But Helie prayd twich'd him and he revived 1 Kings 18 Chap. EFter from Cherith Elie the thrid yeer Was gone again God did to him apear ãâã ârait Command and Charge expres to go ãâã to the sacrilegious Achab so ãâã in that fearfull famyn drouth and dearth ãâã would send Raine t'irrignat the earth ââd Obadiah than hid in Tuo Caves ââm death a hunder holy Prophets saves ââe by miracle the people moves ââd him the Lords true Prophet he approves âân he commands the people soone to slay ãâã Bralish all and Prophets fals that day âând as the Lord had heght he did obtain ãâã prayer in the peoples presence Rain 1 Kings 19 Chap. ââom Iezebell whill that Eliah fled âhat solemly to slay him moved had âây an Angel as he sleeping lay ãâã in the deserts he had went a day ââh'd and bidden ryse and take him meat âhere finds vivers by his head to eat ââd and water drank and on the ground âovne againe and fallis a sleeping sound âââce more God awaks him and did say ââp and eat and dress Thee to thy way ãâã hes a woage fourtie dayes in length âââp he rose and stepped in the strength ââât he eaten had and drank and than âââeb hill went vp the holy man ââârd yet more he dois declare him too ââeturne what he will have him doo ââel and Iehu he doth him apoynt ââges and Elish Priest in his place t'anoynt 1 Kings 20 Chap. ââadad King of Aram vp in armes ââd with steel Charrets men and horse in swarmes ââold Bravados and vnbryled Bralls ââed strictly the Samarian walls âhat fierce famyn sternly struk and stung ãâã peer and poor the aged and the young âââm the furie of that famine free ãâã destressd in danger wer to die ââod a Comfort by his Prophet sends âârie promisd Achab with his frends ãâã th' event and ishevv of the fight ãâã wyse fell fortunat and Right ãâã ââhadad Achabs peace in end ãâã âây did reprehend ãâã