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A06870	The lyues of holy sainctes, prophetes, patriarches, and others, contayned in holye Scripture so farre forth as expresse mention of them is delyuered vnto vs in Gods worde, with the interpretacion of their names: collected and gathered into an alphabeticall order, to the great commoditie of the Chrystian reader. By Iohn Marbecke. Seene and allowed, according to the Queenes Maiesties iniunctions.	Merbecke, John, ca. 1510-ca. 1585.	1574 (1574)	STC 17303; ESTC S111997	238,675	369

hast slayne hym with the swoorde of the Children of Ammon Nowe therefore the swoorde shall neuer depart from thine house bicause thou hast despised mée and taken the wyfe of Urias the Hethite to be thy wyfe Wherefore thus sayth the lord Beholde I will styrre vp euill against thée euen out of thine owne house and will take thy wyues before thyne eyes and giue them vnto thy neighbour and he shall lye with thy wyues in the sight of the Sunne For thou dyddest it secretly but I will doe this thing before all Israel and in the open Sunne light Then sayde Dauid I haue sinned agaynst the Lorde Well sayde Nathan the Lord hath also put awaye thy sinne thou shalt not dye Howbeit bycause of dooing this déede thou hast giuen the enimies of the Lorde a cause to blaspheme the childe that is borne vnto thée shall surely dye And so Nathan departed Finally what tyme as Adonya had taken vpon him to rule the Kingdome vnwitting to his Father Dauid Nathan came to the King and sayde My Lorde O King hast thou sayde Adonya shall raygne after mée and he shall sit vpon my seate For he is gone downe this daye and hath slayne many Oxen and fat shéepe and hath called all the Kings sonnes and the Captayne of the hoste and Abiathar the Priest and beholde they eate and drincke before him and saye God saue King Adonya But mée thy seruaunt Sadocke the Priest and Banaiahu and thy seruaunt Salomon hath he not called Is this thing done by my Lorde the King and thou hast not shewed it vnto thy seruaunt who shoulde sit on the seate of my Lorde the King after him And when the King had declared hys minde and will Nathan and Sadocke the Priest went and annoynted Salomon King. Nathaniel which was a man woonderfull desirous of Messias comming was brought to Christ by Philip who finding him vnder a figge tree sayde O Nathaniel I can tell thée tydings we haue founde him of whom Moses in the Lawe and the Prophetes did write euen Iesus the Sonne of Ioseph of Nazareth Is that true quoth he can there any good thing come out of Nazareth if thou doest not beléeue me quoth Philip come and sée thy selfe And as Nathaniel was comming with Philip to Iesus he sayth of him thus Behold a right Israelite in whome is no guile Nathaniel perceyuing that Iesus knewe him sayde How knowest thou me I knewe thée sayde Iesus before that Philip called thée I sawe thée when thou wast vnder the figge trée Then sayde Nathaniel Rabbi thou art the sonne of God thou art the King of Israel Neptalin ex multis seruatus saepe periclis Corniger infestus ceruus ut a c●●●●us Nostra tribus tētaque fuit saepissime bello Sed bonitate dei mox liberat●●●it Nehemia a Iewe borne was Cupbearer to Artaxerses King of Persia a man of great learning and holynesse who being in great fauour with the sayde King obtayned both licence and ayde to reedifie the Citie of Ierusalem Nycanor being a great Prince vnder Demetrius and an vtter enimie vnto the Iewes was sent with a mightie hoste against Iudas Machabeus who notwithstanding the hatred that he had to the Iewes yet vnto Iudas himselfe he bare a secrete good will and loue in his heart and counsayled him when they met togithers to talke of peace to take a wyfe and to bring forth children But for all that his malice was so great agaynst the rest of the Iewes and his heart so puft vp with pride thorowe his inuincible power and strength that he helde vp his hande against the house of God making an othe that he woulde destroye it and breake downe the Aultar and consecrate the temple of God to Bacchus And thinking all this but a tryfle to bring to passe sold the Iewes before he came at them promising to euerye one that woulde buye them foure score and ten Iewes for one talent But this blasphemer who had brought a thousande Merchantes with him to buye the Iewes ▪ was by the helpe and power of God for all his stoute bragges shortly ouerthrowen and so discomfited that he himselfe was faine to chaunge his apparell and to slie alone to Antioche with great dishonour and sh●nne Finally attempting to fight agayne with Iudas vpon the Sobboth day he was at last by the mightie hande of God slayne Whose heade Iudas commaunded to be set vppon the Castle at Ierusalem and his threatening hande to be hanged against the temple and his blasphemous tongue cutte in péeces and cast to the Birdes to be deuoured Nichodemus was one of the heade men amonge the secte of the Phariseys but not the best learned although his mynde were lesser corrupt than the other This man fauoured Christ but durst not be knowne thereof for feare of the Iewes wherefore he came to Iesus by night secretlye saying Rabbi we knowe that thou art a teacher come from God for no man could doe such myracles as thou doest except God were with him Iesus Verilye verilye I saye vnto thée except a man be borne from aboue he cannot sée the kingdome of god Nichodemus howe can a man be borne when he is olde can he enter into his Mothers wombe and bée borne againe Iesus Verilye verily I say vnto thée except a man be borne of the water and of the spirite he cannot enter into the kingdome of God that which is borne of the fleshe is fleshe and that which is borne of the spirite is spirite Maruell not thou that I sayde vnto thée ye must be borne from aboue The wynde bloweth where it lysteth and thou hearest the sounde thereof but canst not tell whence it commeth or whither it goeth So is euery one that is borne of the spirite Nichodemus howe can these thinges be Iesus Art thou a maister in Israel and knowest not these things Verily verily I say vnto thée we speake that we know and testifie that we haue séene and ye receyue not our witnesse If I haue tolde you earthly things and ye beléeue not how shall ye beléeue if I tell you of heauenly things c. This man afterwarde answered for Iesus and sayde to the Phariseys what time as they had sent Ministers to apprehende him doth our lawe iudge any man before it heare him Finally at the death of Christ to honour his buriall he bought of Myre and Aloes mingled togither about an hundred pounde weyght and came with Ioseph of Aramathia to take downe the body of Iesus and wounde it in linnen clothes with the odours as the maner of the Iewes was to burie and layde him in his sepulchre Nicholas a Conuert of Antioche was one of the seauen Deacons ordeyned in the Congregation to doe seruice in necessarie things of the bodye that the Apostles might waite onely vpon the worde of God who notwithstanding fell into a foule heresie which S. Iohn

hande and giuen it to Dauid And moreouer sayth he to Saule the Lorde will deliuer the Israelites into the handes of the Philistines and tomorrow shalt thou and thy Sonnes be with mée And on the next day Saule being ouercome of the Philistynes and his thrée Sonnes slayne for anguishe of heart fell vpon his owne sworde and killed himselfe after he had reygned fortie yeares Sara the daughter of Aram was Abrahams wife And perceyuing that the Lorde had restrayned hir from bearing of children she gaue Abraham leaue to take Agar hir Mayden to wife But when she saw hir selfe despised of hir mayde which had conceyued she began to be so sharpe and quicke with Agar that she made hir runne awaye Neuerthelesse at the humble submission of Agar Sara receyued hir agayne Then Sara passing foorth till she came to the age of foure score and ten yeres it chaunced she hearde the Aungel of the Lorde as she stoode in hir Tent say vnto Abraham that Sara his wyfe should haue a childe which wordes séemed so impossible vnto hir that she laughed within hir selfe and sayde Is it of a surety that I shall beare a sonne Shall I now giue my selfe to lust being olde and my Lord olde also And when she had talked thus to hir selfe the Aungell of the Lorde demaunded of Abraham wherefore his wyfe dyd laugh as though it were quoth he to harde a thing for God to performe his promise Then she being asked the question denyed it for she was afrayde saying that she laughed not And so Sara iudging him faythfull which had promised brought forth a sonne at the time apointed of God and called his name Isaac And when the Childe was borne she sayde God hath made mée a laughing stocke for all that heare will laugh at mée Who woulde haue sayde to Abraham that Sara shoulde haue giuen Children sucke for I haue borne him a sonne in his olde age After this when Sara perceyued Ismael the sonne of Agar as he played with Isaac to be a mocker she sayde vnto Abraham put awaye this bonde mayde hir sonne for the sonne of this bonde woman shall not be eyer with my sonne Isaac Finally when Sara had lyued one hundred and seuen an twentie yeres she dyed in Kiriat Arba Which is also called Hebron And was buryed in the double Caue which Abraham had bought of the sonnes of Heth. Sara the daughter of Raguel had seauen husbands one after an other which men before they had lyen with hir were all slayne of the Deuill Asmodius to the great discomfort and heauinesse of the yoong woman And yet the more to aggreuate hir sorowe hir fathers Maydens when she did correct them for their faults woulde slaunder hir on this wyse saying God let vs neuer sée sonne nor daughter of thée more vpon earth thou kyller of thy husbandes wilt thou kyll vs also as thou hast done them Which woordes were so gricuous to Sara that she got hir vp to an hygh chamber of hir house where she continued thrée dayes and thrée nightes in prayer beséeching God that he woulde vouchsafe to lowse hir out of that rebuke or else to take hir out of y earth For thou knowest O Lorde that I neuer had desire vnto man and that I haue kept my soule cleane from all vncleanlye lust I haue not kept companie with those that passe there time in sporte neyther haue I made my selfe partaker with them that walke in light behauiour neuerthelesse an husbande haue I consented to take not for my pleasure but in thy feare Now peraduenture eyther I haue béene vnwoorthye of them or else were they vnméete for me for thou happily hast kept me for an other husbande And thus making hir prayers to God he hearde hir and sent yong Toby to be hir husband who being ioyned togither in Matrimonie lyued all their dayes an holy lyfe in the feare and lawes of God. Seba the sonne of Bichri assoone as Dauid was restored to his Kingdome agayne begun a new insurrection and got all Israel to followe hym saue onelye the men of Iuda which stacke fast by Dauid and as he came into the Citie of Abell to the which Ioab followed hym the Gouernesse of the citie being a woman of wisedome smote off the heade of Seba and threwe it ouer the Wall to Ioab and so the commocion ceased Sceua was a Iewe borne and the chiefe Priest among the Iewes This man had seauen sonnes who for lucre sake to purchase vnto themselues a great name thereby attempted to cast out euill spirites by inuocation of the name of the Lorde Iesus as Paule dyd saying vnto the man possessed we coniure you in the name of Iesus whome Paule preacheth that ye depart out of the man To whom the spirite aunswered and sayde Iesus I knowe and Paule I knowe but who are yée and as soone as he had spoken these woordes the man in whome the euill spirite was ranne vpon them and got the ouer hande on them In so much that they had much a doe to escape with their lyues and scarce got at the last naked and wounded out of the house And this example of the sonnes of Sceua being bruted abrode among the Iewes and Gentiles many which beléeued came to Paule and confessed their offences And besyde that diuers other which had vsed suche curious craftes of Coniurasions brought their bookes and burned them before all men the price whereof were counted at fiftie thousande Siluerlinges Sela the yoongest sonne of Iuda being growen to perfect age and not giuen to Thamar in mariage according to his Fathers promise was the occasion of Thamars playing the myswoman with Iuda hir Father in lawe Sela the sonne of Arphaxad of the generacion of Sem was the Father of Eber whome he begot when he was thirtie yeares of age and lyued after the birth of Eber foure hundred and thrée yeares Which make in the whole foure hundred and .xxxiij. yeares Sem the eldest Sonne of Noe receyued prayse of his Father bycause he couered his nakednesse as he laye vncouered in his Tent. Sem at the age of an hundred yeares begot Arphaxat twoo yeares after the floud and lyued after fiue hundred yeares .2 Ense meo cecidere uiri dum uindico stuprū Germanae fracto federe quod pepig● Hinc pater iratus Sijmeoni dira precatus Nostraque posteritas heu masedicta fuit Sennacherib King of Assiria was a mightie prince which séeing that Salmanasar his predycessour had conquered the King of Israel and made them Tributaries thought it good to set vpon the King of Iuda who at that tyme was the godly and most noble Ezechias And when Sennacherib had gotten into his handes all the chiefe Cities of Iuda and Beniamin saue onely Ierusalem he besieged that also with such might and power that Ezechias was fayne to submit himselfe to the mercie of Sennacherib offering him tribute

the Garpen as hir maner was with twoo of hir Maydens onely to wash hir selfe these twoo hidde themselues in the Garden agaynst hir comming And assoone as the Maydens had shut the Drcharde doores and were gone for Oyle and Sope for their Mystresse the twoo Elders came vppon Susanna and sayde The Garden doores be nowe shut that no man can sée vs and we burne in lust towardes thée therefore consent and lye with vs if thou wilt not we will beare witnesse agaynst thée that a yoong man was in the Drchard with thée and therefore thou sen●t away thy Maydens Then Susanna sighed and sayde If I doe followe your minds it will be my death and if I consent not vnto you I cannot escape your handes It is better for mée to fall into your handes without the déede dooing than to sinne in the sight of the Lorde and with that cryed out with a lowde voyce and the Elders cryed out agaynst hir which clamour on both parties was so great that it was hearde among the Seruauntes without which ranne to the Orcharde doore and burst it open to sée what the matter was And when the seruaunts had heard the Elders report of Susanna they were greatly ashamed for there was neuer such a reporte made of Susanna before And so on the next morowe the twoo Elders full of mischieuous imaginacions declared the matter to Ioachym hir husband to bring hir to death And when she was come with hir father and mother hir Children and all hir kinne to be iudged according to the law she stoode before the twoo wicked Iudges with hir face couered who commaunded to take the cloth from hir face that at the least they might be satisfied with hir bewtie which thing being done The Iudges stoode vp and layed their handes vpon the heade of Susanna saying As we were walking in the Orcharde alone this woman came in with hir twoo Maydens whom she sent awaye from hir making fast the Orcharde doore after them Then starte their vp a yoong fellowe which laye hidde in the Garden and went vnto hir laye with hir Then we which stoode in a corner séeing this wickednesse ●anne vnto them and saw them as they were togither but we coulde not holde the fellowe for he was stronger than we and got open the doore and leaped out And when we demaunded of hir what fellow it was she woulde not tell vs This is the matter and we be witnesse of the same Then Susanna cryed out and sayde O euerlasting God thou searcher of heartes thou that knowest all things before they come ▪ to passe ▪ thou wotest that they haue borne false witnesse agaynst mée And beholde I muste dye whereas I neuer intended anye such thing as these men haue maliciously ymagined agaynst mée And as she was ledde towarde the place of execution the Lorde of Heauen which hearde hir prayer raysed vp the spirite of a little Childe called Daniel who cryed with a lowde voyce ▪ saying I am cleane from the bloude of this woman And when the people hearde that they stayed to knowe of the Childe what he ment by his woordes O yée Children of Israel sayde he are yée such fooles that without examinacion and knowledge of the truth ye haue condemned a daughter of Israel returne agayne to iudgement for they haue borne false witnesse agaynst hir Then the people went backe agayne and the Elders tooke Daniel and set him among them in iudgement Who when he had commaunded the twoo false witnesses to be seuered that he might examine them he called the one before hym and sayde O thou that arte olde in a wicked lyfe nowe thy sin●es which thou hast committed afore tyme are come to light Tell mée vnder what Trée thou sawest this woman and the yoong fellowe togither he sayde vnder a Mulbery Trée Now veryly quoth Daniel thou hast lyed and arte woorthy of death in that thou hast oppressed the innocent and letten the guiltie go frée contrarie to the woordes of the Lorde which sayth The innocent and righteous sée thou slay not Then he called the other and sayde O thou séede of Canaan but not of Iuda Bewtie hath disceyued thée and lust hath subverted thine heart Thus haue ye dealt with the daughters of Israel and they for feare consented vnto you but the daughters of Iuda woulde not abyde your wickednesse Now tell mée vnder what Trée dyddest thou take them companying togither He aunswered vnder a Pyne Trée Nowe verily sayde Daniel thou hast lyed also agaynst thine head The messenger of the Lord standeth wayting with the swoorde to cut thée in twoo and so to destroye you both And with that the whole assembly cryed with a lowde voyce and praysed God which so myraculously had preserued Susanna that daye And so fell vppon the twoo wicked Iudges and according to the law of Moses put them both to death ¶ Susanna one of those godly women which followed Christ and his Apostles relieuing them with hir substaunce as much as laye in hir power T. TAddeus was one of the twelue Apostles Act. 24. a. Tartullus was a certayne Dratour the which Ananias the hye Priest had brought with him to informe Felix the ruler agaynst Paule And when Paule was brought foorth Tartullus began to accuse hym saying Séeing that we lyue in great quietnesse by the meanes of thée and that many good thinges are done vnto this nacion thorowe thy prouidence that we euer alowe and in all places most mightie Felix with all thanks Notwithstanding that I be not tedyous vnto thée I praye thée that thou wouldest heare vs of thy curtesie a few words For we haue founde this man a Pestilent fellowe and a moouer of debate vnto all the Iewes thoroweout the Worlde and a maintayner of the sect of the Nazarites And hath also inforced to pollute the Temple whom we tooke and woulde haue iudged according to our law But the hygh captayne Lysias came vpon vs and with great violence tooke him away out of our handes commaunding his accusers to come vnto thée Of whome thou mayst if thou wilt inquyre knowe the certaynetie of all these thinges whereof we accuse him Tartullus a sals●reporter or a teller of tales a lyer Gen. 11. d. Terah was the sonne of Nahor the Sonne of Serug He at the age of seuentie yeres begot Abraham but he had before by an other wife Nahor and Haran All the dayes that Terah lyued were two hundred and fiue yere ¶ Terah Smelling ¶ Looke in the story of Abraham Rom. 16. d. Tercius was the name of him that wrote the Epistle of S. Paule to the Romaynes whyle Paule endited it saying on this wyse I Tercius salute you which wrote this Epistle in the Lord. ¶ Tercius a Latine worde 2. Reg. 13. a. b. c. d. Thamar the daughter of Dauid was so bewtiefull a yoong woman that Ammon hir brother fell sicke for hir loue And when she had visited Ammon at