commeth by hearing the word preached and saluation commeth by Faith It is true as you say that all men that haue Faith shall be saued but all that heare the word shall not haue Faith because they are not prepared by a precedent grace and therefore all shall not be saued that heare the word preached Rom 1. Saint Paul speaking to the Romanes concerning the excellent vse of Gods word saith that it is a sauour of life vnto life and a sauour of death vnto death meaning that as in a red hot sword there are actions of two natures the one to cut the other to burne euen so in the preaching of Gods word there are actions of two natures the one a meanes of life eternall to them that beleeue the other a meanes of death eternall to them that beléeue not And it is said that many are called Mat. 22. but few chosen that is to say many are inuited to saluation as to the mariage of the kings sonne but few regard it few beleeue it and fewer liue according vnto it therefore many are damned and few are saued because they want Faith The preaching of the word is as the sowing of séede Mat. 13. wherof some fals in good ground the residue which is the greater part fals into pestiferous places so then by these words of Christ not all that heare the word preached shall be saued As Manna was a wholesome meate to some so was it filthy and poysonfull to others And as wine is good for the sound and whole man but dangerous for the sicke man euen so the word of God is good and profitable for some and very hurtfull for others and yet God is not the author of euill because of them that want Faith neither yet is the ministerie of his word vnperfect or vnbefitting his royall glory which is declared as well in those that are lost as in those that are found The Parishioner demandeth what else is to be done besides the hearing of Preaching Parishioner NOw in all humilitie and plainenes as one seasoned with a desire of farther knowledge and as one seized with a good opinion of your abilitie and conscience to teach I aske you with all reuerence what else shall I learne out of your last doctrine The young man said vnto Christ Mat. 19.24 what shall I doe to inherite eternall life intending that he had soundly performed all the commandements so say I all that you haue spoken concerning the preaching of Gods word I hau in heart subscribed vnto what other duty doe I owe at home after the preaching thereof Mat. 13.12 I remember what Christ said to his Disciples he that hath to him it shall be giuen and from him that hath not shall be taken that which he hath In his holy feare therefore and in the reuerent accompt of that knowledge which his Maiestie hath vnfolded and afforded vnto me by you lest by omission the same should be taken from me I aske you againe the third time what other dutie do I owe in priuate to the holy word preached after the hearing thereof in publicke Math. 25.1 to 14. Math 7.24 There are two sorts of Virgins spokē of in Scripture and two sorts of Builders both sorts had in a sort the commendation of Christ but when his Maiestie had reuiewed them both he found the one negligent the other ignorant and therefore he pronounceth one fearefull iudgement against them both Whose example moueth me to feare and to care least by too much labouring the wrong way and by too little labouring the right way I be found guilty of punishment and accessary to my eternall destruction Well then here I offer to discharge you vpon your answer and here I take the charge vpon my selfe if I follow not your direction The Pastor answereth the word must be meditated and priuately exercised Pastor THere are two necessary causes or impulsiue reasons for the reading meditating and conferring of Gods word in euery householder and his household at home after the hearing of Gods holy word preached there is one reason which doth necessarily concerne euery housholder for his owne part as if he had no houshold to wit that he by reading meditating and conference may be encreased in knowledge confirmed in memory and strengthned in Faith Two or thrée places for proofe will be sufficient because one place will be sufficient to condemnation for him that doth neglect it The Iewes séeking to kill Christ because he had healed a sicke man on the Saboth day and because he made himselfe equall with God his holy Maiestie moderately and mildely preacheth vnto them and refers them to the reading and conferring of the same which publikely they had often heard of him and of others Againe the blessing which the holy Ghost pronounceth in the first Psalme is appertaining to euery man that meditateth and exerciseth himselfe in the word of God in which generall allowance we must conclude also euery householder that doth meditate and exercise himselfe vpon Gods word and it must follow in a necessary consequence that he who doth not meditate and exercise himselfe in Gods word is cursed Saint Luke recordeth the example of the Noble men at Berea Act. 17.1 to 13. who hauing heard Paul preach searched the Scripture daily whether those things were so which Paul preached Sithence God setteth them forth to their great commendation in his Church vniuersall why may it not suffice to make men of modestie contented to yeelde the like obedience to his holy ordinance The other cause or impulsiue reason of meditating exercising and conferring vpon the Scriptures is the bettering and encrease of knowledge for the quickning of memory and for the strengthning of Faith in the chiidren and seruants of euery such householder or maister of familie as hée shall answer for the bloud of euery one that doe offend the Maiestie of God ignorantly not knowing the Scriptures For as the bloud of euery Parishioner that dieth ignorantly in his sinne shall be required of the Pastor euen so will the Lord require the bloud of Son Daughter and Seruant bond or frée that dieth ignorantly in his sinne at the hands of euery such maister of a familie Deu. 6.4 to 10. Moses hauing receiued to this purpose a charge from God to discharge himselfe he chargeth householders after this manner First to heare Gods word in these words O Israel heare Secondly that their conuersation be answerable to that which they heard consisting in these words take heede to doe it Thirdly he points out one thing thrée times in one verse to wit a reward consisting in these words Iehouah our God Iehouah our God Iehouah is one meaning Christ Iesus the second person in Trinitie who is become theirs or one with them that heare his word and doe it and lastly hee particulateth vnto them what specially he would haue done vpon paine of frustrating of all that was done before and of that which should
held with Rehoboam and dwelt at Ierusalem did serue the Lord and worshipped him according to the religion of their fathers Par. Seeing this great and royall kingdome was so diuided I would know what kings successiuely raigned in the one and in the other I pray you therefore distinguish them Past I thinke the knowledge therfore wil be very necessary and very much for your good Therefore I will lay them downe particularly as they were diuided the Kings of Iudah by themselues and the Kings of Israel by themselues with such prophets one or more as liued in their times The first particular concerning the Kings of Iudah at Ierusalem Rehoboam was crowned king at Sichem 1 King 12.1 to 25.14.21 to 31. as heire apparant to Salomon his father All the people with great applaudite and gladnesse receiued him desiring onely some mittigation of their taxations which his father had laid vpon them But he refusing the counsell of the old graue Councellours and admitting of young mens Counsell answered them with words of great cruelty and disdaine Whereupon the people answered with one consent and with great resolution What portion haue we in Dauid We haue no inheritance in the sonne of Ishai to your tents O Israel Now sée to thy owne house Dauid Then fled King Rehoboam to Ierusalem And two tribes onely held with him to wit Iuda and Beniamin The other ten tribes held with Ieroboam and chose him to be their King The people of Iudah committed wickednesse in the sight of the Lord they sinned as did their fathers and there were Sodomites in the land whose abominations they followed Therefore in the first yeare of Rehoboams raigne the King of Egypt came vp against the citie Ierusalem tooke the treasures of the Lords house and the Treasures of the Kings house and caried away all the shields of gold which Salomon had made In stead whereof Rehoboam afterwards made brasen shields This King was one and forty yeares old when he began to raigne hée continued seauentéene yeares hée slept with his fathers and was buried in the house of Dauid Par. Was it well done of the subiects so to answer their lawfull king and afterwards to rebell as you haue set downe Past I must néedes say that they did euill in respect of their owne sinfull inclinations 1 Kin. 12.15 to 25. and rebellious hearts And yet it is most certaine that God did accomplish his absolute will and decrée therein which he had spoken by his Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite as appeares also by the retraite which the King made vpon the Lords commandement that he should not striue with them Par. Who was the next King Past Abijah 1 Kin. 15.1.2 to 10. 2 Chr. 13. who liued wickedly in the sight of his subiects and his heart was not vpright in the sight of God He raigned thrée yeares and died Par. Who was the third King Past Asa his sonne and he did that which was right in the sight of God For he droue the Sodomites out of the land 1 Kin 15.8 to 25. and did put away Idols So vpright was he in the execution of iustice and so zealous in the Lords worke that he fauoured not his mother when she was taken with Idolatry And though all the monuments of Idolatry were not taken away by him because indéede hée could not yet his heart was vpright in Gods sight in respect of his desire and good will Hée established religion and brought such things into the house of God as his father had dedicated to that vse It happened in his time that Baasha King of Israell came vp against Iudah and built Ramah so that none could goe in nor out to Asa their King Thereupon Asa tooke great treasures and sent vnto the King of Aram with speciall request that hée would deliuer him and his people out of the hands of Baasha whereunto the King of Aram harkned and sent his captaines and smote diuers cities in Israell Hereupon Baasha left Asa and returned Afterwards Asa being very old became diseased in his féete and when hée had raigned one and forty yeares he died and was buried with his fathers Par. Who was the fourth King Past Iehosaphat his sonne who raigned in his stead In the third yeare of his raigne 1 King 15.24.22 1 to 55. he and Ahab King of Israell consented together against the King of Aram for the winning and recouering againe of Ramoth Gilead but Iehosaphat would first know the Lords pleasure therein from the mouth of one of his Prophets He was fiue and thirty yeares old when he began to raigne and raigned two and fifty yeares in the good wayes of Asa his father He died and was buryed with his fathers Par. Who was the fift King Past Iehoram 1 King 22.50 2 King 8.16.17 to 25. the sonne of Iehosaphat who began his raign when he was two and twenty yeares old He behaued himselfe as the kings of Israel he maried with the daughter of wicked Ahab and liued as the house of Ahad did Yet the Lord being mercifull 2 King 8.24.25.26.27.28.9.27.28 would not destroy Iudah for Dauids sake So Iehoram died and was buried in the citie of Dauid Par. Who was the sixt King Past Ahaziah the sonne of Iehoram who succéeded in the kingdome His mothers name was Athalia the daughter of Omri King of Israell and hée also walked in the wayes of Ahab as did his father being the rather drawne thereunto through his vnlawfull match in mariage He went with Ioram the sonne of Ahab to warre against Hazaell the King of Aram but Iehu slew him in the pursuite of Iehoram his brother in law And he was buried in the sepulcher of his fathers in the citie of Dauid Par. Who was the seauenth King Past Iehoash the sonne of Ahaziah He through the great prouidence of God 2 King 11 1. to the end 12.1 to the end was preserued from Iehu who slew all his brethren and from Athalia the mother of Ahaziah who also slew all the kings séede because she might raigne ouer Israell as Quéene But when he was sixe yéeres old Iehosheba his Nurse who had kept him secretly brought him to Iehoiada the priest who tooke captaines ouer hundreds with the guard and gaue them an order for their places and what they should doe in the behalfe of the yong heire apparant And when all things were wel contriued they brought forth Iehoash and proclaimed him king and forth with they slew Athalia the vsurping Quéene Then Iehoâ—ada the priest being the protector of the King went and destroyed the house of Baal with the Altars and Images that were in the Land Which being done the King was established and the subiects were quiet He did that which was right in the sight of God as Iehoiada the priest had taught him For he caused a chest with a hole bored therein to be set néere the Altar wherein such as would might cast a piece of siluer towards
the repairing of the Temple And in short time there was found ouer and aboue the repairing such store of money as was sufficient to make bowles of gold and instruments of siluer in great abundance for the Temple At which time came Hazaell the king of Aram with a mighty army against Gath and intending also to come against Ierusalem Iehoash the King of Iudah tooke the hallowed things that his forefathers had prepared for the Temple and so he departed into his owne Land where he was slaine by two of his owne seruants And he was buried with his fathers in the city of Dauid after he had raigned forty yeares in Ierusalem Par. Who was the eight King Past Amaziah 2 King 14.1 to 21. the sonne of Ioash succéeded in the kingdome This King did behaue himselfe vprightly in the sight of God according to all which his father had done yet the people did sacrifice in the high places He slew them which had killed his father but not their children according to that which was written The fathers shall not be put to death for the children nor the children for the father but euery man shall die for his owne sinne Afterwards hée warred with the Edomites and slew many thousands And not being therewith content he also challenged the King of Israell who answered him disdainefully But Amaziah was wilfull and would not be quiet Whereupon the King of Israell in open field tooke Amaziah brake downe the wals of Ierusalem spoyled the Temple and the people of their treasure and then returned to Samaria Amaziah liued after that warre fiftéene yeares There was a conspiracy against him in Ierusalem whereupon he fled to Lachis and the conspiratours followed after him and slew him there and brought him to be buried at Ierusalem after he had raigned nine and twenty yeares Par. Who was the ninth King Past 2 Kin. 14.21.15.1 to 8. Azariah his sonne was made King when he was sixtéene yeares old He did vprightly in the Lords sight yet because the high places were not taken away where the people offered sacrifice the Lord smote him with Leprosie vntill his dying day and Ioathan his sonne gouerned the kingdome vnder him two and fifty yeares and so dyed Par. Who was the tenth King Past 2 King 15.7.32 to the end Ioathan the sonne of Azariah immediately after his father tooke the kingdome as lawfull heire He did vprightly in the Lords sight but yet he had not taken away the high places whereon they burnt Intense And then the Lord sent against him and Iudah Rozin the King of Aram and Pekah the sonne of Remeliah king of Israell And when hée had raigned sixtéene yeares he dyed and was buried with his fathers in Ierusalem Par. Who was the eleauenth King Past Ahaz 2 King 16.1 to the end the sonne of Ioathan raigned in his stead Hée walked in the wayes of the kings of Israell and made his sonne to goe through fire after the abhominations of the heathen and hée offered burnt incense Wherefore the Lord raysed the King of Aram and the King of Israell against him At which time he called not for Gods assistance but sent presents vnto the King of Ashur crauing his ayde whereunto the King of Ashur condescended He was twenty yeares old when he began his raign he continued 16. yeares most irreligiously and prophanely and so died Par. Who was the twelfth King Past 2 King 16.20.18.1.2.3.4 to 9.13 to the end 19.20 Hezekiah his sonne raigned and ruled so religiously so zealously and so faithfully as that the holy Ghost witnesseth none was like him amongst all the Kings of Iudah that went before him neither were any such after him And therefore the Lord God of heauen was with him which made him to prosper in all things that hée tooke in hand In his time euen in the fouretéenth yeare of his raigne Senacherib the King of Ashur came against all the strong cities of Iudah and tooke them Then Hezekiah sent vnto him desiring him to take those treasures which he had sent and to be at peace with him and his people He receiued the treasures and yet neuerthelesse most tyrannously and trecherously he sent Rabsaketh with an huge army against him who most blasphemously railed at reuiled the King and the Lord God of heauen Then the King of Iudah and his Nobility went into the house of the Lord with their cloathes rent and with teares to pray vnto the Lord for helpe Then Esay the Prophet as being sent from God comforted them saying Be not afraid for thus the Lord hath said The King of Ashur shall returne into his owne land and there shall be discomfited So Rabsaketh presently returned and found it so indéede For the King of Aethiopia was come vp to fight against him Neuerthelesse Rabsaketh sent men with railing Letters vnto Hezekiah the King Which Letters hée spreads open in the Lords sight with many prayers and teares The Lord heard him at large and sent an Angell which destroyed the Assirian army and as he was in the Temple worshipping his idoll god two of his owne sonnes slew him About that time Hezekiah fell sicke vnto death and through his great intercession to God he recouered within thrée dayes and liued fiftéene yeares after as the Prophet Esay had said vnto him The Lord promised also to defend him from the King of Ashur And because he might be assured thereof he gaue him a signe in Ahaz diall of ten degrées backward At the same time came the King of Babels sonne with letters and a present to visite him whom he entertained very royally and shewed him all his treasures At which déede the Lord was angry and sent Esay to tell him that in time to come all his treasures and his people should be carried away captiue into Babilon He was fiue and twenty yeares old when he began to raigne and raigned nine and twenty yeares Par. What doe you specially obserue in these foure last recited Kings to wit Azariah Ioathan Ahaz and Hezekiah Past It appeares that almighty God did specially fauour them in that hée gaue them fiue Prophets of whom they might inquire for the Lords will Esay Ioel. Hosea Amos. Micha Par. Who was the thirteenth king Past Manastes his sonne 2 Kin. 20.21.21.1 to 19. He wrought wickednes in the Lords sight and liued in open view of his subiects after the abhominations of the Heathen whom the Lord had cast out before him For whatsoeuer his holy Fathers had done to the honour and seruice of God he wrought cleane contrary and gaue himselfe to witchcraft sorcery familiar spirits and such like He did leade the people from the Lord and he enforced Iudah to sinne and he shed much innocent blood Wherefore the Lord God of Israell said I will bring an euill vpon Israell that who so heareth it both his eares shall tingle I will forsake the remnant of mine inheritance and I will deliuer them into the hands
posteritie should inherit the throne of Israel vnto the fourth generation But yet hée continued in the sinnes of Ieroboam the sonne of Nebat who made Israell to sinne Almighty God did then lothe the people Israell and smote them with the sword of Hazael Hée raigned eight and twenty yeares and then dyed Par. Who was Prophet vnder this wicked King Past Elisha who had annoynted him King vpon the Lords commandement and who was well knowne vnto him to be specially fauoured of GOD as did appeare by his admirable workes Of whom hée might haue learned how to frame his heart and his hands according to right Par. Who was the tenth King in Samaria Past 2 King 10 35.2 Ichoahaz his sonne who liued as Ieroboam that made the people to sin and he departed not from his sinnes And therefore the Lord being angry with Israell deliuered them into the hands of Hazael king of Aram who vexed them very sore and wasted them so with the sword as that there remayned for Ichoahaz the King but tenne Chariots fifty Horsemen and of all the people but tenne thousand footmen After he had raigned seauentéene yeares he dyed Par. Who was the eleauenth king Past 2 King 13 9. to 14. Ioash his sonne He also liued like Ieroboam and so dyed after hée had raigned sixtéene yeares 2 Kin. 13.13.14 to 21. Elisha was yet liuing of whom he might haue learned the Lawes of the Lord. And then the Prophet also dyed Par Who was the twelfth king in Samaria Past Ieroboam his sonne And hée did euill in the Lords sight 2 Kings 13 13.14.23 to the end as did Ieroboam the sonne of Nebat He restored the coasts of Israell from the entring of Hamath vnto the sea of the Wildernesse according as the Lord had foretold by his Prophet Ionah who had decréed not to put out the name of Israel though they had sinned sore After he had raigned one and forty yeares he dyed Par. Who was the next in succession Past Zachariah his sonne 2 King 14 29.15.8.9.10 Hée departed not from the sinnes of Ieroboam the sonne of Nebat He raigned sixe moneths in Samaria and then was slaine by Shallum according as the Lord had said by his Prophet to Iehu to wit that his séede should sit vpon his seate vnto the fourth generation Par. Who was the foureteenth King Past Shallum the sonne of Iabesh 2 King 15 10. to 16. who conspired against Zachariah the king and slew him and afterward succéeded in the Kingdome Hée raigned one moneth and then was also slaine Par. Who was the fifteenth King Past 2 King 15.14 to 23. Mahanaen the sonne of Gady who went vp from Tirzah and came to Samaria and slew Shallum the King and raigned in his stead This Mahanaen was a most fierce and cruell man For hée destroyed Tiphsah and all that were therein and ript the women that were with childe because they opened not vnto him Hée exacted a thousand talents of siluer from his Subiects to giue vnto the king of Ashur for peace He dyed after hée had raigned tenne yeares in Samaria Par. Who succeeded this cursed King Par. 2 King 15.23 to 27. Pekahiah his sonne Hée also did euill in the sight of the Lord and departed not from the sinnes of Ieroboam the sonne of Nebat which made Israell to sinne Hée raigned two yeares and then was slaine by Pekah the sonne of Remeliah his Captaine Par. Who succeeded this king Past Pekah 2 King 15 27 to 31. who also liued like to Ieroboam Hée raigned twenty yeares and then Hoshea the sonne of Elah wrought treason and slew him Par. Who was the eighteenth King Past Hoshea the sonne of Elah 2 King 15 30.17.1 to the end obtained the crowne by treason He did euill but not as other kings that went before him The fourth Particular concerning the captiuating of the Kings of Israell THen Salmanasar king of Ashur came vp against Samaria furiously as if hée had béene the messenger of the Lords wrath as hée was indéede and besieged Samaria thrée yeares But when hée had gotten it he carryed away Israel to Ashur and put them in prisons at Halah at Habor and in the Cities of the Medes because they hearkened not to the voyce of the Lord but went a whoring after their owne inuentions And the King of Ashur brought folke from Babell and from those barbarous coasts and placed them in Samaria in stead of the people of Israell which people also regarded not the true God Wherefore God sent Lions and slew the wealthiest of them The king of Ashur hearing thereof sent one of the Priests which he had carryed from Samaria that hée might teach the people to know the God of the country Which Priest dwelt at Bethell and taught them the feare of the Lord. But yet they serued their Gods after the manner of the nations about them So these nations feared the Lord and serued their Images also Par. What shall I obserue in the Prophesie of Ezekiel Past Ezekiel was ordayned by the diuine prouidence of God to be a comforter of the people Israell all the time of their captiuitie at Babilon Par. What say you concerning Daniel Past Nabuchadnezar at the time of the captiuating of Israell and the winning of Ierusalem brought Daniell with ten thousand more to Babilon where hée proued most skilfull in the Arabian Sirian and Chaldean tongues and so highly in the sauour of God as that he could speake of secrets that were present and of secrets that were for to come concerning Gods people and in the mercifulnesse of God became a comfortable teacher amongst the people of Israel during seauenty yeares Par. Why was this great and mighty nation so ruinated Past It was the wrath and high displeasure of the almighty vpon them for their vnthankfulnesse for their cruelty one towards another for the contempt of his lawes and violating of his Sabaoths as the Prophet Ieremy sets downe at large Par. They were a mighty strong nation and a fierce and they had a city Ierusalem which was compassed about with twelue hils with three walles one within another with gates of iron and brasse with many Turrets Towres and Castles and within the city was the Towre of Dauid wherein were a thousand Shields and all the Targets of the mighty I aske you therefore how came it to passe that they were ouercome and their Citie ransacked Past It is true as you say in the iudgement of the most valiant Souldiers of the world they were inuincible But this was a matter foretolde and threatned by Prophets many yeares before And Daniel himselfe in the first Chapter reports that the Lord gaue them vp into the hands of Nabuchadnezar to doe with them and with their treasures what he would Par. I pray you tell me somewhat concerning Babilon and Nabuchadnezar Past The Assirian Chaldean or Babilonian Monarchie successiuely had 36. Kings or Monarches who ruled and
spake in olde â—ime as they were moued by the holy Ghost by meanes of which Spirit Moses was able to set downe as is specified in the said booke all that was spoken and done 2400. yeares before he was borne and of all things else most profoundly that should befall the children of Israell many hundred yeares after he was buryed yea most directly of things that should be performed vntill the birth of Christ The Prophets likewise doe testifie that they spake nothing of themselues concerning things to come but as the Lord by his Spirit did informe them which they vttered in these words Thus saith the Lord. The foure Euangelists in like manner disposing themselues seuerally to yéeld famous and renowmed testimony of Christ Iesus the holy Messiah they so agréed in their writings though many yeares and many miles sundred them as that their Gospels being compared together they al agrée for matter of waight and substance as if they had béen personally present the one with the other at one time And S. Paul writing his Epistles alwayes confessed that he deliuered them nothing for matter of doctrine and life more then that which was taught him and that which hée had receiued from the Lords owne hand directly All which manner of writing and forme of spéech plainely publisheth to all ages for euer the truth and dignitie of Gods word the plainnesse thereof to some and the profunditie therof to others Par. Now it remaineth by order to expostulate vpon the Creation which you said is one of the chiefest and most memorable matters in the first Obseruation tell me therefore what did God create the first day Past God made all things excéeding good euen out of that which was then without any preiacent matter or out of nothing and that not all together which he might well haue done but as it were by degrées day by nay night after night vpon diuine deliberation The very title or name giuen to this book imports in effect this wonderfull worke or creation of almightie God whence it is called Genesis that is to say a begetting generation or creation And the first day he created that stately Element of Fire which he gathered out of the whole masse setting it in the heauens as a glorious Globe whence it is said he made Light which indéede is nothing else but a qualitie of Fire in which wonderfull worke hée brought light out of darknesse as an Element impugning the former In this day hee created those celestiall Spirits which are called Angels Par. What was the second work Past The second dayes worke was that liuely Element of the ayre or firmament or as I may say more properly that vaste or void place betwixt the earth and the clouds which made a separation betwixt water and water and which giues breath and life to all liuing things The third day he made the Element of water which hée caused to retire into more proper places which fitly according to the qualitie thereof was called the Seas to wit a gathering together of waters The fourth Element of Earth which according to the qualitie thereof was called Dry land was also made and so continueth as vpon a firme foundation The generall creation of compound bodies were ordained for the inhabitants of this great element Earth In this general earthly creation his Maiestie goeth forward as from things that were vnperfect to that which was perfecter till at last he came to the most perfect as from trées hearbs and plants which haue onely life whereby they grow and increase vnto beasts which haue an increasing and a sensitiue life and from thence to Adam who hath a reasonable life with the increasing and sensitiue which Element of Earth his diuine Maiestie stored with all kinde of commodities méete for the vse of mankinde to be and to remaine for euer This order of Creation vpon a sodaine view may seeme strange to wit that God made corne grasse trées hearbes and such like to grow and to haue their being before celestiall bodies as the Sunne the Moone and Starres whence corne grasse and such like haue their growth and influence But being rightly and aduisedly considered the Almighty Creator shewes that increase propagation preseruation of all things consists onely in him and by him and not from the vertue of celestiall creatures as men haue imagined and spoken The fourth day God made lights the Sunne to rule the day the Moone and the Starres to gouerne the night both which are very great that they might the better giue light to the darke earth being so farre from the heauens These two great ornaments in the heauens doe distinguish betwixt day and night the moneth from the yeare one moneth from another and summer from winter The first day and night hée created in the night fishes in the day birds Fishes were compounded of the foure elements especially of the element of water whence it commeth that they liue in the waters Birds were made of all foure elements but especially of the ayre whence it comes that they take pleasure in the ayre The sixt day and night he made all sorts of beasts some to goe and some to créepe some wilde some tame God then made man in both kindes plurally to wit male and female and yet of single bodies the better to helpe one another and therefore said It is not good for man to be alone I will make him an helper like vnto himselfe He was made after all other creatures that hée might in the beholding thereof laud and magnifie his Creator The whole Trinitie deliberated and consulted concerning him which he did not concerning any other creature The seauenth day God dedicated by his owne rest and ceasing from labour for an euerlasting rest amongst all posterities For when heauen and earth was finished and furnished God said Behold I haue made all things and loe they are exceeding good Hée blessed that day he hallowed it and sanctified it to his owne honour and glory and to the commemoration of the eternall ioy peace and comfort of Adam who was fallen and risen againe in Christ Iesus Adam rested and sanctified that very next and first Sabaoth with inuocations and offerings c. Par. Seeing that God made all things so deliberately and as hee said exceeding good why did hee afterward destroy them with the inundations of waters Past Almighty God saw that the wickednes of man was great on earth and all the imaginations of his heart was euill continually the sonnes of God marryed with the daughters of men onely because they were faire and it repented the Lord that hée had made man therefore he said I will destroy man from the face of the earth Par. What say you of our first father Adam and of his originall Past Adam was made or created in the sixt day being Friday before the Iewish Sabaoth Par. What was that breath which God infused into Adam Past It was an immortall an inuisible and an Angelicall or
promise or blessing Past It was that in his séede all nations of the earth should be blessed in which words was Christ Iesus the Messiah closely and secretly promised The third Particular Par. Declare briefely the story of Zodomes burning Past After the Lord had béene with Abraham to renue the promise vnto him concerning a Sonne his Maiesty imparts vnto him the desolation and destruction hanging ouer Zodom and Gomorrha because of their sinnes Whereupon Abraham being moued with pity intreateth the Lord for them whose request was heard vpon condition that if there were found ten righteous he would not destroy the wicked for their sakes which ten not being found the fire came downe from heauen and destroied all sauing Lot his wife and two daughters Par. Why did God impart the destruction of these wicked men to him might not he haue done it without his priuity Past Yea God might haue done then as now Gen. 18.18.19 what he would and without the knowledge of any sauing that Abraham was to be a great Nation and I know him saith the Lord that he will command his household that they kéepe the way of the Lord to doe righteousnesse Par. What is meant by this that is said Gen. 18.1.2 The Lord appeared to Abraham and in the next verse Behold three men appeared vnto him as he sat in his Tent Past Therein was declared the singularity and plurality of persons in the Deity one in thrée and thrée in one which the holy man Abraham manifested by their entertainment For it is said hée saw thrée but he reuerenced and worshipped one Par. How came it to passe that Lot hauing had such speciall fauour committed incest with his owne daughters a double sin doubly performed Past Almighty God in the vprightnesse of his iustice gaue him and his daughters into their owne wils or rather into reprobate mindes to worke such vncleannesse of the flesh shewing thereby how greatly he had sinned by infidelity when he forsooke the citie Zoar which God had granted him for feare of the fire which was round about him but nothing neare to hurt him and would rather depend and relie vpon his owne wits and prouision The fourth Particular Par. Rehearse briefely the story of Isaac Past This Isaac is he of whom the promise was made Gen. 21.1 to Abraham his father in the chapters going before who should multiply in number as the sand at the shore of the Sea and as the Starres in heauen out of whose séede also Christ should be expected for The manner of his conception and birth was so admirable as did in some sort foretell and prefigure Christ For it is said that he was an hundred yeares old when Isaac was borne yea so old was he and his wife that they had left off to be together as man wife which made her to laugh when the matter was moued vnto her Neuerthelesse according to the time which the Lord God had foretold Sarah conceiued and Isaac was born According to which admirable conception Christ was conceiued and according to which wonderfull birth Christ was borne both the one and the other were performed duely and substantially beyond the vse of reason and beyond the vnderstanding of all men Par. What haue we to learn herein to wit by the strangenesse of Isaacs conception and birth Past By the conception birth of Isaac which was not to be déemed in the vse of reason all men are driuen from themselues as it were to abiure the expostulation with flesh and bloud when as the Lord hath giuen out his word For howsoeuer it may séeme vnto the naturall man vnpossible and incredible yet to the spirituall man who hath the eyes of faith fixed on Gods promises the same things are easte Par. It is said that Isaac was circumcised the eight day after he was borne Gen. 17.10 I would know of you what was meant by it Past Circumcision was a couenant betwéen God and Abrahams séed Or circumcision was called a couenant because it signified or was a sacrament of a Couenant had the promise of grace annexed vnto it This couenant of circūcision in the particular consideratiōs therof hath relation to the Sacrament of Baptisme by comparison the one doth expound the other and by the right vse or nature of both the latter doth abolish the former The fift Particular Par. Declare first in some sort briefely the storie of Iacob Past Gen. 27.28.29 Isaac had two sons Esau his eldest and Iacob his yongest This Iacob hauing gotten the blessing of his father which by birth-right was due to Esau he fled away into a strange land for feare of his brother and hauing nothing but his staffe when hée went ouer Iordane was faine to lie all night in the maine fields where appeared vnto him a vision of Angels ascending and descending vpon a ladder and withall hée heard a voyce that said vnto him I will not leaue thée nor forsake thée vntill I haue brought my purpose to an end This Iacob by the diuine prouidence of God was brought to Haran where Laban his Vncle dwelt with whom he continued 21. yeares In which time hée had gotten twelue Sonnes and exceeding great store of goods and cattell and then returned vnto his own land as the Lord commanded him and as hée trauailed the Lord appeared vnto him againe after another sort to his comfort When he came safe to his owne land immediately he built an Altar for the seruice of the Lord. Par. Declare vnto me what is to be obserued in his twelue Sons Past You shal sée in these twelue holy Fathers descending of Iacob the performance of Gods promises made vnto Abraham for in them hée reneweth his Church stablisheth the same and beautifieth it with diuine ceremonies Sacrifices and Sacraments to be solemnized vntill Christ promised Messiah Reade their stories in Gen. 49. Par. Declare them by their names Past 1 Ruben 2 Simeon 3 Leui. 4 Iudah 5 Dan. 6 Nepthalie 7 Gad. 8 Asher 9 Isachar 10 Zabulon 11 Ioseph 12 Beniamin The sixt Particular Par. Declare vnto me the story of Ioseph Past Gen. 37. and 39. Iacob loued Ioseph his yongest sonne exceeding tenderly wherefore his brethren hated him and deuised to haue starued him in a pit but when they saw Carriers passing by they tooke him vp againe out of the pit and sold him vnto them who brought him to Egypt where in short time he grew in such fauour with the King as that he was made Lord and gouernour ouer all the land of Egypt By meanes whereof Iacob his father and his brethren came and dwelt in Goshen being the best place of the land because of the excéeding great famine that was in all the world Par. What are we to learne out of this historie of Ioseph and his brethren Past We are first to obserue the vnnaturall affection of Iosephs brethren in hating of him when he had done them no hurt at all
siluer and iewels of gold and raiment and immediately after they had eaten the Passeouer they went their way out of Egypt And Moses commanded the people to dedicate that day in which they were deliuered from Egypt for a remembrance Exod. 13.17.18 that GOD might be honoured God guided them in their way towards Canaan by a cloudy pillar in the day and by a pillar of fire in the night not the next way which was but forty dayes iourney but by the way of the Wildernesse which was forty yeares iourney Par. Moses saith in Genesis and in Deut. that 70. Gen. 46.27 Deut. 10.22 Acts 7.14 persons came to Egypt and no more how comes it to passe that S. Luke saith that there came 75. persons and how can you reconcile them Past S. Luke speaketh not exactly of the time in which they came into Egypt but rather of the time of Iacobs continuance in Egypt therefore hée taketh a large scope in his computation to make vp his number of 75. persons to wit by reckoning Er and Onan who dyed in Canaan and Manasses and Ephraim the sonnes of Ioseph being already in Egypt with the Patriarch Iacob himselfe and thus Moses and Luke are reconciled plainely Par. How can it be said by Moses Gene. 15.13 Acts 7.6 that the people of Israel were but 215. yeares in Egypt whereas Saint Luke saith they were 400. yeares there Past The 400. yeares must néedes beginne when the seede of Israel was first in affliction vnder Ismael who at the birth of Isaac was reiected and cast out so it fals out right and not otherwise Par. How can this act of Gods people be allowed or tollerable to wit that they should borrow the Egyptians goods and so carry them away deceitfully Past The people of Israell indéede had iewels of siluer and iewels of gold and rayment of the Egyptians but not as borrowed and lent For thus said the Lord Exod. 3 21 22. I will make this people to be fauoured of the Egyptians so that when they goe they shall not goe empty Exod. 11.2.3 For euery woman shall aske of her neighbours Iewels of siluer Iewels of gold and raiment and put them on their sonnes and daughters and so shall you spoyle the Egyptians Thus the people Israell were charged to doe by Moses their gouernour and this charge hee receiued from the Lord and they did accordingly So thus you sée plainely how God disposed of his owne goods to his owne special people which was iust in him and holy obedience in them Par. Why did God lead the people as it were round about and not the next way to Canaan Past Exod. 13.17.18 God himselfe answereth it thus because the Philistines being a fierce and a most sauage cruell people who would haue spoyled them by wars because they might not be discouraged thereby therefore the Lord sent them the farther way about and withall because in their iourney thorow the wildernes they might sée the wonderful works of God miraculously féeding with bread from heauen with water out of flint stones and preseruing them from the rage of wilde beasts The third Particular Par. Declare vnto me the story of Pharaohs drowning briefly Past When it was tolde the King that all Israell was gone out of his land Exod. 14.5 c. he was in a great wrath and therefore he tooke 600. chosen chariots and all the chariots of Egypt Captaines ouer euery one of them and ouertooke the hoast of Israel as they were camping by the great Sea The people of Israel being excéedingly afraid at his comming cryed out vnto the Lord and murmured against Moses And Moses being a faithfull man and valiant encouraged them saying Stand stil feare not behold the saluation of the Lord which he will shew to you this day For the Egyptians whom ye see this day yee shall neuer see againe the Lord shall fight for you therefore hold your peace And the Lord said vnto Moses Stretch out thine hand with thy rod vpon the Sea and diuide it and let the children of Israell goe on dry ground thorow the middest thereof And so Moses did as the Lord commanded him and the sea ranne together in heapes or as bankes on both sides so as the people of Israell went ouer dry shod and the Egyptians séeing them passe pursued after them and were all drowned For at the commandement of the Lord the Seas returned in the former place Par. What shall we learne out of this Past There are many things well worth the marking specially thrée things First his diuine prouidence in preuenting the slaughter of his people Israel by the Egyptians who fiercely followed after them Secondly that he vseth to tempt and to try his owne people how they will behaue themselues in dangers Thirdly it did declare the omnipotent power of Gods glorious Maiesty mastring and ouer-ruling the raging Seas hurling them on heapes this way and that way as he would opening and shutting dispersing and gathering together to the preseruation of his holy people and to the vtter destruction of the wicked Wherein is shewed that how great soeuer the power and deuises be against the Church or any part therof it auails nothing The Fourth Particular Concerning the 42. standings stations or habitations of the people Israell as they trauelled in forty yeares space towards Canaan Which progresse or iourney of theirs serueth very well to direct a mans memory in all things that were done during that time whereof some of them were pleasant and some vnpleasant And also it serueth to put vs in minde of our trauell or peregrination towards the land of the liuing Some of which standings stations or habitations being Emphaticall I will set downe with their deriuations and what was famously done in euery of them Par. What is the first Standing or place of their Habitations Past The first place where they rested is called Ramases Exod. 12. Numb 33.1.2 which signifieth wormes meate giuing vs to vnderstand that such is the nature of mankinde to wit subiect to corruption and to perishing that trauel towards the celestial kingdome of heauen and therefore he that will haue a prosperous progresse must wholly depend vpon the power of God Here the people of Israell did eate the Passeouer being girded about hauing staues in their hands and shooes on their féete the 15. day of the moneth Abib at euening which moneth was part of Aprill and part of May according to the computation of the Hebrewes And it was called the first moneth of the yeare which pointed vnto the time of the yeare in which Adam fell and in which Christ should die This Passeouer had relation to the promised Messiah Iesus Christ who iust according to this time in which Adam fell should be sacrificed for the sinnes of those that did expect for him in the flesh by faith They did eate it being girded about with slaues in their hands and hauing shooes on their
of their enemies and they shall be robbed and spoyled Manasses was twelue yeares old when hée began to raigne and hée raigned fiue and fifty yeares in Ierusalem Par. Who was the next king Past 2 King 21.18.19.20 to the end 22.23 Ammon his sonne such a father such a sonne The Lord stirred vp his seruants against him who slew him in his own house He was twenty years old when he began to raigne and he raigned two yeares Par. Who was his successour Past Iosiah his sonne He did vprightly in the sight of the Lord as did his father Dauid he turned not to the right hand nor to the left And he tooke seuere order for the reformation of religion Wherefore the Lord reuealed vnto him the booke of the Law which was hid in the Temple And when he heard it read for griefe that Religion had so long béene extinguished and the name of God abused he rent his cloathes and wept sore Then he commanded his officers to inquire after the Lord by some Prophet And they found a Prophetesse in Ierusalem who answered them that the Lord would plague Iudah and Ierusalem for their idolatry but would spare Iosiah the King Then he with all the Elders of the people went into the Temple where he read the booke of God with a tender heart vnto them And afterwards he entred into couenant with the Lord for the people that they should serue him all the dayes of their liues and the people yéelded vnto it with one consent Then did the king purge the Temple and all his kingdome of Baall and of all that did appertaine vnto his seruice He brake downe also the Altar at Bethell and all the monuments of idolatry which Ieroboam had made He held a Passeouer the like was not holden since the daies of the Iudges nor the like in any Kings dayes Yet would not the Lords wrath be appeased towards the people because they had so long wallowed as it were in wickednesse Pharao Necho king of Egypt slew Iosiah at Megiddo He was eight yeares old when he entred into the kingdome and he raigned one and thirty yeares He was buried at Ierusalem in the sepulcher of his fathers Ieremie and Zophonie were Prophets in his time Par. Who was the sixteenth king Past Iehoahaz his sonne 2 King 23.31.32.33 He did euill in the sight of the Lord. Wherefore he sent Pharao the king of Egypt against him who imprisoned him thrée moneths which was all the time of his raigne And he did put the land to an excéeding great tribute Par. Who was the next king Past Eliakim 2 King 23.34.24.1 to 7. the second sonne of Iosiah who was made king by Pharao Necho the king of Egypt and he turned his name to Iehoiakim the rather because he was a wicked man Then came Nabuchadnezar King of Babell and tooke him but afterwards he rebelled against the King Wherefore he sent an hoste of the Chaldeans and of the Aramites Moabites and Ammonites against Ierusalem and Iudah to destroy it as the Lord had spoken by his Prophets Ichoiakim was fiue twenty yeares old when he began to raigne and he raigned 11. yeares in Ierusalem and then dyed Ieremy and Zophony were Prophets in his time Par. Who was successour to Ichoiakim Past 2 King 24.8 Ichoiakim his sonne He was eightéene yeares old when hée began to raigne and hée raigned thrée moneths wickedly The second Particular of the fift Obseruation concerning the captiuitie of Iudah and Ierusalem Then came Nabuchadnezar the King of Babell against Ierusalem and besieged it And hauing wonne the Citie with great losse of bloud he tooke the King his Mother and the Nobilitie with tenne thousand such as hée liked and carryed them to Babilon with all the treasures of the Lords house And Nabuchadnezar made Mattaniah his Vncle King in his stead whose name hée changed to Zedechiah 2 Kings 24 17.25 who then was one and twentie yeares olde and hée raigned eleauen yeares in Ierusalem wickedly insomuch that the Lord was fiercely bent against Iudah and Ierusalem to destroy them vtterly Hée therefore stirred vp Nabuchadnezar againe with all his hoast to ransacke and vtterly to destroy Ierusalem the house of Dauid and the Temple Thus you may sée Ierusalem was destroyed thrée times Ieremie and Zophonie were Prophets in his time of whom he might haue heart and knowne the will waies of the Lord. Par. Now I pray you set mee downe in like manner the particular stories of the Kings of Israel whose place and seate was at Samaria with the Prophets one or more as they liued Past 1 King 11.26 to 49. 2 King 12.12.13.14 to 21. Ieroboam was the sonne of Nebat an Ephradite of Zereda Salomons Seruant He was a strong man and valiant The Prophet Ahijah fore-tolde him by a signe that the Kingdome of Israel should be diuided into two parts and that he should be king of the one part Salomon hearing thereof sought to kill him which made him to flye into Egypt But when Salomon was dead it fell out so indéede as you may read for hée had ten Tribes that held with him where as Rehoboam the lawfull heyre and the Kings sonne had but two Tribes Which fauour at Gods hands might haue made him humble and zealous after religion but hée imagined that if the people did serue the Lord as they vsed at Ierusalem they would turne and rebell Therefore hée made them Idols at Bethel and Dan and ordained them priests of the inferiour sort of people and commanded the people to worship those Idols for their God Herein he thought to haue done wisely but the Prophet reprehended him in the open congregation and the Lord strucke that hand of his wherewith he would haue stricken the Prophet with such numnesse or drinesse as he was not able to helpe himselfe And the Altar claue a sunder at that time as the man of God desired Then the King was fayne to make intercession vnto the Prophet that God would restore him his hand And at another time the Prophet Ahijah tolde him as from the Lord that for the wickednesse hée had done to prouoke his Maiestie withall there should not be left of him nor of his generation so much as one Dogges should eate his stocke in the Citie and the Fowles of the ayre in the field Hée raigned two and twenty yeares and then dyed Ahijah was a Prophet in his dayes Par. Who was the second King of Samaria Past 1 King 14 20.15.25 to 29. Nadab his sonne He raigned two yeares and did that which was wicked as did his father Ieroboam And Baasha the sonne of Ahijah of the house of Isachar conspired against him and slew him at Gibbethon which did belong to the Philistines Ahijah and Iehu were Prophets in his time Par. Who was the third King of Samaria Past Baasha the sonne of Ahijah of Isachar 1 King 15 16. to the end 16.1 to 7. who warred against
Asa the King of Iudah insomuch that the King of Iudah was faine to hyre the King of Aram to assist him And there continued wars betwéene Asa and Baasha all their dayes to the great terrour and vndoing of the subiects on both sides Wherefore the Lord sent Iehu saying Forasmuch as I haue exalted thee out of the dust and thou notwithstanding hast walked in all the wayes of Ieroboam and hast made my people Israel to sinne behold I will take away thy posteritie and will make thy house like his house So hée dyed hauing raigned foure and twenty yeares Iehu was a Prophet in his time Par. Who was the fourth King Past 1 King 16 8.9 Ela the sonne of Baasha Hée continued at Tirzah where Zimri his seruant killed him as he was drunke in his Stewards house after hée had raigned two yeares 1 King 16 9.10.11 to 19. Zimri raigned as King in the roome of Ela whom he had slaine He also slew all that pertained to Baasha euen euery one that were his friends or wel-willers according to that which the Lord had spoken by his Prophet Iehu because he and Ela his son had enforced the people of Israel to sinne against the Lord. When the people were in campe against Gibethon had heard that Zimri had slaine the King did set himselfe as king in his throne 1 King 16.16 to 28. they made Omri Captaine of the hoast King ouer Israell And when Zimri saw that the Citie Tirzah was taken hée went into his Palace and burnt himselfe and the Kings house and so dyed Then the people were diuided into two parts the one halfe followed Tibni the sonne of Ginath to make him king the other followed Omri to make him king But the people that followed Omri preuailed So Tibni dyed and Omri raigned twelue yeares wickedly as did Ieroboam and so dyed Par. Who was the fift king of Samaria Past Ahab his sonne 1 King 16 29.17.18.19.20.21.22 1. to 41. who did worse in the Lords sight then all that went before him And for the greater increase of his wickednesse hée marryed the Daughter of the Zidonian king who brought him to set vp Baall as a God And thus hée continued two and twenty yeares Hée had 450. false Prophets 1 King 7.1.2 to the end 18.1 to the end 19.1 to the end 2 Kin. 1.2 Eliah the Prophet of the Lord was in his time and an hundred other Prophets who laboured all that they could to conuert him But hée neuerthelesse encreased in wickednesse and slew all that called vpon the name of the Lord. Almighty God made the heauens as brasse and the earth as iron for the space of thrée yeares according to the words of Eliah insomuch as that there was a great dearth and famine But the Lord prouided miraculously for Eliah by the hands of the widow of Sarepta and by other meanes In the third yeare the Lord sent Eliah to Ahab who with his wife Iezabel excéeded in crueltie killing the Lords seruants and séeking in all Nations to finde him also But when Eliah met the King hée tolde him to his face that his sinne was the cause of Gods displeasure against Israel Afterwards Eliah and the people agréed that the God who answered by fire whether it were Baal or the God of Israel the same should be taken for the true GOD from thence forth And when the people had séene that Baal could doe nothing in the time of néede and the great power of God so admirable they cryed out and said The Lord is God the Lord is God And then the Lord of his mercy gaue them raine at the prayer of Eliah And yet notwithstanding this great worke of God by the hand of Eliah Iezabel the Quéene sought to kill Eliah so that hée was faine to hide himselfe and to flye from place to place as hée did before But the Lord had speciall care of him The assurance whereof was manifested vnto him by the miraculous worke of God renting the mountaines breaking the rockes and shaking the earth Iezabel his wife caused Naboth to be slaine that shée might enioy his Vineyard and againe the Lord of his mercies sent his Prophet Eliah to reproue him that hée might repent Afterwards Ahab was slaine in the battell with the king of Siria and hée was buryed in Samaria but his armour and his Chariot being washed in the poole of Samaria the dogs licked his bloud according to the word of the Lord after he had raigned two and thirty yeares Par. Who succeeded this wicked King Ahab in Samaria Past 1 King 22.51 2 King 1.1 to the end Ahaziah his sonne But he did worse as the holy Ghost reports For hée walked in the wayes of his Father in the wayes of his mother and in the way of Ieroboam the sonne of Nebat And when hée was sicke hée consulted with a witch hée dyed when hée had raigned two yeares Eliah was his Prophet through the mercy of God from whose mouth hée might haue knowne the minde of the Lord but hée would not Therefore in signe of Gods fearefull iudgements his Captaines ouer fifties were destroyed with fire from heauen at the prayer of Eliah Par. Who was the ninth king Past Iehoram his sonne 2 Kings 1.17.3.1 to the end 9. to the end Hée was not so wicked as his father nor so wicked as his mother For hée tooke away the Image of Baal that his father had set vp and yet hée cleaued to the abhomination of Ieroboam which made Israell to sinne and departed not there-from The king of Moab paid tribute vnto the king of Israell but when Ahab was dead hée refused to pay as he had done before Then king Iehoram tooke with him the king of Iudah and the king of Edom with all their power and went to warre against the king of Moab And when they came to a place where they wanted water Elisha being earnestly requested declared vnto them what successe they should haue against Moab and the Lord ministred vnto them a whole valley of water without winde or raine according as Elisha had said Hée was slaine of Iehu after hée had raigned twelue yeares 2 Kin. 4.1 to the end 5.1 to the end 6.1 to the end 7. to the end 8.1 to 16. Elisha was in his time who wrought many wonderfull things for the confirmation of his zeale and faith in the Lords businesse but it tooke no effect in him Par. Who succeeded Iehoram in Samaria Past Iehu a Captaine dwelling in Ramoth Gilead the sonne of Iehosaphat 2 Kin. 9.1 to the end 10.1 to the end the sonne of Nimshi according as the Lord had appoynted Hée slew Iehoram and his Wife Iezabell whose flesh the Dogges did eate according as the Prophet had foretolde Hée slew Ahabs Priests and all the sonnes of Ahab as the Lord had said Hée threw downe the Image of Baall and all that appertained vnto him Wherefore the Lord promised him that his