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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33291	The holy history in brief, or, An abridgment of the historical parts of the Old and New Testament by Samuel Clark ...	Clark, Samuel, 1626-1701.	1690 (1690)	Wing C4492; ESTC R11701	93,511	201

Air Clouds Abysses Precipices listen to the Voice and Command of God of the Word and of their Love O God! O Power O Love What Word What Speech and what Voice In fine this glorious and happy moment which saw the Birth of Times and Seasons being arrived the Eternal God seeing no Object out of Himself which could deserve his Love and besides this Love being incited by a holy desire of communicating it self that Nothing which has but the bare Name given it became immediately a fruitful Abyss of Essences and Nature was engendred out of it by the sole power of the Divinity Talon's Holy History cap. 1. GENESIS CHAP. I. THE World had a Beginning which was by Creation and it was made in the space of six days On the first day was made the rude Mass or Matter of all things and afterwards the Light On the second the Firmament or space from the Earth to the Highest Heavens On the third the Sea and Dry Land stockt with all sorts of Trees Herbs and Plants and more especially the Garden of Eden On the fourth he furnish'd the Heavens with their Host of Sun Moon and Stars On the fifth he stockt the Air and Waters with Fowl and Fish On the sixth he stor'd the Earth with all sorts of Creatures that live upon it and then having thus furnish'd the World in all the parts of it he made Man after his own Image and made him King of this lower World giving him Dominion over the Works of his Hands CHAP. II. On the seventh day God rested from the Work of Creation and blessed and sanctify'd it for a Sabbath-day The Man which he had made he called Adam and plac'd him in Eden forbidding him to eat of the Tree of Knowledge under pain of death He brought all the Beasts and Birds to him to give 'em Names He cast him into a deep sleep took out one of his Ribs built it into a Woman and gave her to Adam to Wife whom he was hereby taught to look upon still as part of himself He called her Name Eve CHAP. III. This first Couple being tempted by Satan in the Serpent transgress'd the Command of God and did eat of the forbidden Fruit whereupon being arraigned by God he first dooms the Serpent to a more ignominious kind of Food and Motion and especially the Devil that his Head should be broken by the Seed of the Woman the Messiah who was now promis'd to our first Parents as the Restorer of the Creation and Destroyer of the works of the Devil Then he dooms the Woman to pain in Child-bearing and to a more uneasie subjection to her Husband And lastly he dooms the Man to labour and travel in tilling and dressing the ground which was now curst for his sake and afterwards drives 'em out of Paradise CHAP. IV. To Adam and Eve were born first Cain a Tiller of the Ground then Abel a Keeper of Sheep These brought Offerings to the Lord who accepted Abel's but rejected Cain's whereupon Cain was wroth and slew his Brother Abel for which God curst him and made him a Vagabond yet set a mark upon him that none should kill him Lamech one of his Posterity was the first that transgrest the Institution of Marriage by having two Wives CHAP. V. Afterwards Adam had another Son called Seth one of whose Posterity was Enoch who was one that had much communion with God and so God translated him Soul and Body to Heaven to assure us that there is a state of happiness in another World both for Soul and Body CHAP. VI VII God being provok'd by Man's wickedness threatens to destroy all Mankind by a Flood commands Noah to make an Ark into which himself Wife and Children and some of every sort of Cattel Fowl and Creeping things entring were shut in by God and preserved when all the rest of Mankind and all on the Land were drowned in the Flood CHAP. VIII IX At length the Earth being dried God bids Noah come forth and bring out all with him whereupon Noah built an Altar and offered Burnt-offerings thereon wherewith God was well-pleased and blessed Noah and his Sons and made a Covenant with 'em that he 'd no more destroy the Earth by Water of which the Bow in the Clouds was made a Token After this Noah being drunk lay uncovered in his Tent which Cham espying tells his two Brethren of it in derision but they going backwards carried a Mantle and covered him for which Noah curses Cham and his Posterity and blesses Shem and Japhet CHAP. XI I IX All the Earth being now of one Language they consulted to eternise their memory before they were separated one from another by building a City and Tower which should reach up to Heaven but God defeats their design by confounding their Language whereupon the place was called Babel and they were scattered abroad upon the face of the Earth CHAP. X. One of Cham's Grandchildren was Nimrod who was a great Tyrant and laid the Foundation of the Assyrian Monarchy which ended in Belshazzar Dan. 5.30 31. CHAP. X XI Among the Posterity of Shem was Terah who was Abram's Father Abram took Sarai to Wife and they came to Haran with their Father Terah who died there CHAP. XII Then God appears to Abram and calls him from Haran to go to Canaan and promises to make him a great Nation and that in him all the Families of the Earth should be blessed accordingly Abram goes into Canaan with Lot his Nephew to Sichem where God appeared to him and promis'd to give that Land to his Seed A Famine coming upon that Land Abram goes into Egypt to sojourn where he denies his Wife and Pharaoh takes her but finding that she was Abram's Wife he sends her to him and away they go CHAP. XIII And came to Bethel But Abram's Cattel and Lot's being so numerous they could not continue together and therefore agreed to part Abram gives Lot his Choice who chooses the Plain of Jordan towards Sodom and Abram continued in Canaan God renews his Grant of Canaan to him and his Seed which he promis'd should be as the dust of the Earth Then Abram came to Mamre CHAP. XIV After this there rose war between the King of Elam and the Kings of Sodom and the other Cities of the Plain wherein the King of Elam had the better and plundered Sodom and Gomorrah carrying away Lot among others and his Goods News whereof being brought to Abram he pursues after them with his trained Servants and recovers all again At his return Melchesideck King of Jerusalem and Priest of the true God meets him with Bread and Wine and blesses him to whom Abram gave the Tenth of all the Spoils he had taken and then restores all to the King of Sodom without reserving any thing to himself CHAP. XV. After this God appears again to Abram promising to be his Shield and exceeding great reward and upon Abram's bemoaning the want of a Child to be his

Then the King of Moab sallied forth to have broken his way thro' the Quarters of the King of Edom but he was driven back then he took his Eldest Son and offered him for a Burnt-Offering upon the Wall whereupon they rais'd the Siege CHAP. IV. As Elisha was returning home a certain Prophets Widow met him and made her moan to him that her Husband had left her in debt and there was nothing to pay so that the Creditors were about to seize upon her two Sons for Bond-men Then he had her borrow empty Vessels and pour out of the Pot of Oyl which she had in the House into the Vessels till they were full and then sell the Oyl and pay the Debt Elisha was wont to come often to the House of a great Woman in Shunem who entertain'd him very kindly whereupon understanding she had no Child he calls for her and tells her that she should have a Son which came to pass This Child when was he grown up fell ill and died Then she took him and laid him on the Bed where Elisha us'd to lie and rode in all hast to acquaint him with it who went with her and went into the Chamber where the Child lay and prayed to the Lord and stretch'd himself upon the Child and the Child waxed warm and he reviv'd and he deliver'd him to his Mother At Gilgal the Pot being set on to make some Broth for the Prophets they happened to put in some unwholsom unsavoury Herb so that they could not eat of it but Elisha cast a little meal into the Pot and so made the Broth sit for use A Present being brought him of twenty Barly Loaves with them he fed an hundred Men. CHAP. V. Naaman General of the Army of the King of Syria was a Leper and hearing by an Hebrew Maid That there was a Prophet in Samaria that could cure him he procures a Letter to the King of Israel that he might be cured of his Leprosie When the King of Israel read the Letter he thought it was only a Trick to pick a quarrel with him but Elisha hearing of it sent to the King to send this person to him So when Naaman and all his Retinue came to Elisha's Door he only sent one to him to bid him go and wash in Jordan seven times and he should be cured Naaman took this for a great Affront and so went away in a Rage But some of his Servants argued the matter with him and perswaded him so that he went to Jordan and dipt himself seven times in the River and was perfectly healed Then he came back to the Prophets House and acknowledged the God of Israel to be the true God and offers him a Reward but he refused it Then he beg'd pardon for the Idolatry he had been formerly guilty of and Elisha dismis'd him with a friendly farewel But Elisha's Servant Gehazi ran after Naaman and by a Lie got two Talents of Silver and two Changes of Raiment which he hid in the House and came to his Master But his Master asking him where he had been he told another Lie and excus'd what he had done before but his Master knowing what was done told him That the Leoprosie of Naaman should cleave to him and his Seed for ever CHAP. VI. One going to cut some Timber for the use of the Prophets which grew near Jordan his Ax Head fell into the River which he was much concern'd at because it was borrow'd and complaining of it to Elisha he threw in a stick to the place where it fell and the Ax Head did swim and so he had it again The King of Syria making appointments to surprize the King of Israel at several places Elisha still warned him of 'em and so sav'd him The King of Syria thinking his own Servants had betray'd his Counsels was much troubled at it but understanding it was Elisha's doing he sent a great Company to Dothan who compass'd the City to take him which his Servant perceiving in the morning was greatly afraid But the Prophet said Fear not for they that are with us are more than they that are with them Then upon Elisha's Prayer his eyes were open'd and he saw the Mountain full of Horses and Charets of Fire round about Elisha and also those People were smitten with blindness so that he led 'em into the midst of Samaria and then opened their Eyes but he would not suffer the King of Israel to do 'em any hurt but caused great provision to be made for 'em and so sent 'em away At another time Benhadad besieged Samaria so that there was a very great Famine there and as the King passed along a Woman complained to him of her Neighbour That whereas they had agreed to boyl and eat their Children by turns this Woman having done her part the other refus'd to perform hers which the King hearing rent his Clothes and imputing all this Evil to Elisha he sent one to cut off his Head But Elisha was aware of it and bids the Company that was with him to stop the Messenger at the Door and not suffer him to come in But the King himself followed immediately after and upon discourse between 'em he said This evil is from the Lord why should I wait for him any longer CHAP. VII But Elisha told him from God That on the morrow there should be great plenty in Samaria which a Lord that was with the King hearing would not believe whereupon Elisha told him he should see it with his Eyes but not eat thereof On the morrow four Lepers venturing into the Camp of the Syrians found that they were all fled for the Lord had caused 'em to hear a noise of Charets and Horses and a great Host whereupon they fled in great hast for their Lives These Tidings the Lepers brought to the City so the King sent to discover the truth of it and they found it to be as was related So the People went out and spoiled the Camp of the Syrians whereby it came to pass that there was great plenty as Elisha foretold But the unbelieving Lord being appointed by the King to keep the Gate that the People might not all run out of the City they were so eager upon the Spoil that they trod him to death And so the Prophets words were fulfilled CHAP. VIII Elisha warns the Shunamite whose Son he had rais'd to life of a Famine that was coming so she went and sojourned in the Land of the Philistines But when the Famine was over she returned again and came to petition the King for her Land again which it seems was seiz'd upon in her absence and Providence so order'd it that at that very nick of time the King was talking with Gehazi concerning the Miracles of Elisha and of his raising a dead Child to Life whereupon spying this Woman he said This is the Woman and this is her Son So the King appointed an Officer to restore all that was hers Then