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Memorable historick descriptiones draven [sic]. From the sacred bookes insert in the subsequent page. By Alexander Garden..
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Garden, Alexander, 1585?-1634?
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1637
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STC 11596.5; ESTC S92632
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MEMORABLE HISTORICK Descriptiones draven From the Sacred Bookes insert in the subsequent page By ALEXANDER GARDEN NIL PENNA SED USUS Prented AT MIDDELBVRGH By GERRIT MOVLERT Anno 1637. Genesis Exodus Leviticus Deuteronomie Ioshua Iudges Ruth 1 Samuel 2 Samuel 1 Kinges 2 Kinges Esther Iob. Tobit Ezekiel Daniel Ionah 2 Maccabees TO The deservedly worshipfull and wisely wirtous SIR THOMAS BVRNETT of Leyes kinght Baronett Right Worshipfull SIR be yow pleads'd J pray To Read that with respective love I lay Your worships learn'd and linx-like eyes before A five month's work and noght a moment more Some Select'd dravghts suckd from the sacred Story Noght vpon hope of Honor Gain or Glory Nor on Conceat of skill or knoledge hye This Interprise at all attempted J No but that better with that blessed Booke I might acquented come this tast J Tooke Knowing the subject vits diviner merits Nor are poluted and Imperfect Sperits And of all mortall most vn-meet is mine For it so worthie weaighty and divine Yet my attempt once may prove profitable T' incourage one t' acqueat himselfs more able Yen Sir woutchafe to look vpon my Lines Suppose for such a proesence poor propine Your wor-in all affectonat duetye divoted AL. GARDEN To the READER THink nought these Verses vented are by me Which efter in these Sheets insert yow see For ony profite or aplause of fame Or Reputation that may rise be Thame No motion such by my immortall mynd Induc'd and me these to compond inclynd But in my curt prepond Epistle Thair My motiwes all and causes I declare Hope then for no high stile nor stately strame Or figur'd Phrases from a loftie Braine Nor for Hyperbolees that great Jngines Vse for to fraught with and to larde their Lines No nought a Sillab such shall Thow see heir But simply all is said and said Sincear 〈…〉 HEav'n Earth and seae round eirc'lare sphericall Of ane rude mixed Mass God made them all He stampt with starrs the heavne and with these lights The Sun and Moone devyded dayes from nights Beastes fishes foules he creat of all kinde And fitly each it 's Element assign'de The liquid waters from the earthly mass He â—â—parats and them a-part did place The thin hote moist and subtile Aer above The cold drie earth about h' assign'd to move And tuixt the earth and fire that all jmbraces The aer and water providentlie places And seeing all that he had done was Good He made man syne to his similitude Genesis Chap. 2. WHan God of Heav'ne and Earth had form'd the frame And made ane end of all the hoste of Thame Into the body that he builded hath H' jnfuis'd a soule and breath'd a living breath And when he thus perfectly fram'd the same From Rud reed earth he did him Adam name Man so created perfect pure and chaste God in his Garden Paradise him plac't And there with freedonie full before his fall To eat of ev'rie frute and to vse all Excepting that of knoledge he bestrait Command and charge prohibit was to eat And when he should that Tree of knowledge cun He then should dye that day and be vndone Genes 2. THe Lord God Adam sound a sleep he layd And Eva of one of his ribs hes made Then with divine inimitabill art Clos'd cleanly vp with flesh the emptie part And when he did awake the woman Than His flesh and bone God offred to the man Whom Adam when he finds so fitly fram'd Made out of Man he hes her woman nam'd And as his Wife he hes her jntertaind For God there first the Mar'age rites ordaind A straght conjunction and a sacred band In Paradise kint be the Lords command Injoyning Them therefore to joyne there handes And maried To multiplie commands Genesis 3. THe Serpent Eve induced with Deceat And Adam she inveits and he did eat O Lamentable for ev'r and fearfull fact That did there State so marr and murnfull mak The frute forbidd'n of knovledge Good and Euill And heirby both deluded by the Devill From puritie and there perfection fall And so suck'd in the Sinn Originall Ambitions both too greedily began To lay the Ground greef of the Greefes of Man There misbeleef and blindness yet both blind Into there fault and fall enforc'd they find And liable therefore to Death they be Themselfes and since all there posteritie Genesis 3. THe frute once eaten opned ar their eyes And they there ovvne poore nakedness espyes Wherefore they both vnto a figge Tree came And pulld some Leaves and sevved of the same For to be Brecches to them both to hold There Shame vnsene and clothe them from the cold Before they taste of that sequestrat Tree They knew noght that they bare and naked be No figg-tree leav's nor figge tree Trunks could beild-them Nor from th' All-seeing-eye could sheeld-them Nor could those figge tree leaves tho cloith there skins Preserve vnsene there Trespass nor there Sinns No no there Conscience for there Crime did call And God without within he Saw them all Genesis 3. THe voyce of God they in the Garden heard And faultie hid them for there falt a feard But heavne nor earth nor them the darksome deep From there Creator knowing all could keep Excuses put a part They must apeare And ansver to the poynts that he sould speare That dreadfull voyce that Thunder did resemble Made heav'ne and earth and Man muche more to tremble He calld they come h' accus'd and they confess'd And guiltie both Grant that they haue Trangsgressd The Woman He the Serpent She They say This foul defection drew on ws this day And Ws Invegled with it s wicked wit To â—at that balefull and forbidd'ne Bit. Genesis 3. A Curse to them a Time God hes denune'd And punishments to it for ev'r pronune'd And said because this deed slie Serpent Thow Thow did ay on thy Belly shall thovv bow And lick the Dust without saueguard or sheeld A boue all Beasts accursed of the fielde Also betnix the vomans seed and Thee Shall ev'r be discord and Ennimitie And be assur'd that for this Sin thy Seed May bruise Hers heele but hers shall brak thy head Then of Goat-skins to them he Garments gave And from his Paradise divine them drave Then set a Cherub with a flamming sword To watch it as is wretin in his word Genesis 3. VVIth Toil and Travell Adam griefe and Sweat His living earneth and his Bread did eat And vvas constraind to do to dig to delfe His Mothers Bosome to suport him self Because God for his Crime the earth accurss'd And made it bring forth Breers of vveeds the vvorst And since to sin he did obey his vvife With Great vexation shall he lead his life And Eva so vvith vnacquainted fitts In bringing out her Bairnes vvith sorrovv sits And surely subject shall be her desire And plainly prostrat to her Lords Impire Estrangd and far from that contentement great That they injoyed in There first