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<P><HI REND="blackletterType">Timothy</HI>'s <HI REND="blackletterType">Le&s;&s;on:</HI> Or, A SUMMARY RELATION Of the Hi&s;torical Part of HOLY SCRIPTURE, Plainly and familiarly Comprized in Metre, for the Help of Memory, and In&s;truction of the Ignorant.</P>
<P>By <HI>E. G.</HI> Ma&s;ter in Arts, and Phy&s;ician of the Ho&s;pital of St. <HI>Bartholomew,</HI> of the Foundation of Queen ELIZABETH, of the City of <HI>GLO&V;CESTER.</HI></P>
<P><HI>The Fourth Impre&s;&s;ion Corrected and Amended.</HI></P>
<Q><BIBL><HI>DEUT. 11.19.</HI></BIBL>
<P>You &s;hall teach them your Children, &s;peaking of them, when thou &s;ittest in thine Hou&s;e, and when thou walk|est by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou ri&s;est up.</P></Q>
<Q><BIBL><HI>COLOS. 3.16.</HI></BIBL>
<P>Let the Word of Christ dwell plenteou&s;ly in you; teach|ing and admoni&s;hing your &s;elves in P&s;alms, and Hymns, and &s;piritual Songs, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></P></Q>
<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed in the Year, 1699.</P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="poem">
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<HEAD><HI>In</HI> MOMUM.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>WAS <HI>Momus</HI> (trow you) whelp'd in Butcher's Stall,</L>
<L>That he re&s;embles &s;o that greedy kind?</L>
<L>For mark: the wor&s;t that is of men let fall,</L>
<L>Lying in mid&s;t of better Fare, half pin'd,</L>
<L>He chambers, as a bait plea&s;ing his mind.</L>
<L>Fie on him, fie, that he &s;o curri&s;h lie,</L>
<L>Should joy in that, which others do defie.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Or was he of that Cur's mo&s;t &s;piteful Brood,</L>
<L>Which &s;ate in Crib, keeping the Ox from meat?</L>
<L>For he from others keeps that whol&s;om Food,</L>
<L>Which (hungry Souls) they &s;eek for with their &s;weat,</L>
<L>And yet him&s;elf di&s;dains thereof to eat.</L>
<L>O cur&s;ed Envy! that to &s;tray the more,</L>
<L>Will even him&s;elf lead way unto death's door.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Or rather &s;prang he from that helli&s;h Hound,</L>
<L>That welcome damned Souls to <HI>Pluto</HI>'s place?</L>
<L>He &s;o doth triumph when ought may be found</L>
<L>In others, that may turn to their di&s;grace.</L>
<L>(O worthy progeny! O noble race!)</L>
<L>What e're he deemed was, be &s;ure of this,</L>
<L>Were he a <HI>God,</HI> yet now a <HI>Dog</HI> he is.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>What, what a <HI>Dog?</HI> and &s;hould his &s;narling bay,</L>
<L>Scare men from that the wi&s;e have healthful tri'd?</L>
<L>No, worthy <HI>Ja&s;on</HI> held on in his way,</L>
<L>Tho' he might &s;eem by Sea and Land deny'd,</L>
<L>By Bulls repell'd, by Dragons fell envied.</L>
<L>Shall hope of Trea&s;ures earthly &s;o inflame,</L>
<L>And &s;hall not heavenly much more do the &s;ame?</L>
</LG>
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<DIV1 TYPE="to the reader">
<PB N="4" REF="4">
<HEAD>The Author to the Curious READER.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L><HI>I</HI> Leave Perfection of a Poet's Skill,</L>
<L>(which doth with &s;ilver Rays poor Ru&s;ticks daunt</L>
<L>To <HI>Silve&s;ter's,</HI> and to <HI>Du Barta's</HI> quill,</L>
<L>and &s;uch as harbour where the <HI>Mu&s;es</HI> haunt;</L>
<L>Bathing in Cry&s;tal Streams of rare Conceits,</L>
<L>conceiting what they li&s;t of any &s;ubject,</L>
<L>Subjecting what&s;oever them delights,</L>
<L>unto their Wit and Art, their natures object.</L>
<L>To &s;uch leave I, the Maje&s;ty</L>
<L>of Poetry divine:</L>
<L>More rife is their Dexterity,</L>
<L>their Wits more ripe than mine.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>There needs no Garland where the Wine is good,</L>
<L>nor Colours, where the Sub&s;tance is mo&s;t pure:</L>
<L>Sincerity by Truth hath ever &s;tood,</L>
<L>and &s;hall, &s;o long as doth the Truth endure,</L>
<L>More Truth than Sacred Verity,</L>
<L>no Creature can require.</L>
<L>And who &s;o likes Simplicity,</L>
<L>lo here his full De&s;ire.</L>
</LG>
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<DIV1 TYPE="lesson">
<DIV2 N="1" TYPE="part">
<PB N="5" REF="4">
<HEAD>THE FIRST PART Of the SUM of the HOLY HISTORY.</HEAD>
<DIV3 N="1" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>SECT. <HI>I.</HI></HEAD>
<L>IN the Beginning GOD alone,</L>
<L>did Heaven and Earth create;</L>
<L>He &s;pake the Word, and it was done,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Gene&s;is.</HI> Chap. 1.</NOTE></L>
<L>as Scriptures do relate.</L>
<L>The Earth had neither Form nor Face,</L>
<L>the Darkne&s;s covered all,</L>
<L>When thus he made in &s;ix days &s;pace,</L>
<L>the Creatures great and &s;mall.</L>
<L>The fir&s;t Day he commanded Light,</L>
<L>The Darkne&s;s to prevent:</L>
<L>The &s;econd Day he rear'd in &s;ight,</L>
<L>the &s;tately Firmament:</L>
<L>The third, the Earth with Fruits adorn'd,</L>
<L>the &s;welling Sea debars;</L>
<L>The fourth, the Sun and Moon were form'd,</L>
<L>with all the Glorious Stars:</L>
<PB N="6" REF="5">
<L>The fifth, the Fi&s;h with Scales and Fins,</L>
<L>and then the feathered Foul:</L>
<L>The &s;ixth, the Bea&s;ts and creeping things,</L>
<L>and then that living Soul,</L>
<L>Which that one God, in Per&s;ons Three,</L>
<L>did make by Con&s;ultation,</L>
<L>With purpo&s;e that the &s;ame &s;hould be,</L>
<L>the Mirror of Creation.</L>
<L>Even Male, and Female perfect man,</L>
<L>right Holy, Wi&s;e, and Ju&s;t:</L>
<L>For he did bear God's Image then,</L>
<L>though he were made of Du&s;t.</L>
<L>Thus having fini&s;h't all with &s;peed,</L>
<L>and ble&s;t them, and prote&s;ted,</L>
<L>That each thing made was good indeed,</L>
<L>the &s;eventh Day he re&s;ted.</L>
<L>For <HI>Adam</HI>'s Aid, who was alone,</L>
<L>the Lord God formed <HI>Eve:</HI></L>
<L>Fle&s;h of his fle&s;h, Bone of his bone,</L>
<L>and unto them did give,</L>
<L>A Sovereign Power in <HI>Paradi&s;e,</HI></L>
<L>to rule by Sea and Land.</L>
<L>And all the Creatures did rejoyce,</L>
<L>to do what they command;</L>
<L>And all the Fruits were theirs for meat,</L>
<L>that in the Garden grew;</L>
<L>Save one alone, which if they eat,</L>
<L>Death certain &s;hall en&s;ue.</L>
<L>But <HI>Eve</HI> for all that li&s;tened</L>
<L>unto the Serpent's lies,</L>
<L>And took and eat the Fruit forbid;</L>
<L>yea, <HI>Adam</HI> ate likewi&s;e,</L>
<L>And thereby thought like God to be;</L>
<L>but for this great Offence,</L>
<L>Poor Souls! to &s;hame and mi&s;ery</L>
<L>they were ca&s;t out from thence.</L>
<PB N="7" REF="5">
<L>Now wretched Man was wrapt in woe,</L>
<L>and in his loyns his Heirs,</L>
<L>For cur&s;ed and corrupt they go:<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ver&s;e <HI>15.</HI></NOTE></L>
<L>yet to prevent de&s;pairs,</L>
<L>God promi&s;ed them to re&s;tore</L>
<L>unto a State more &s;table,</L>
<L>And <HI>Eve</HI> unto her Husband bore,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. <HI>4.</HI></NOTE></L>
<L><HI>Cain</HI> and his brother <HI>Abel.</HI></L>
<L><HI>Abel</HI> was &s;lain by cur&s;ed <HI>Cain,</HI></L>
<L>who did his Goodne&s;s &s;corn,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Anno mun|di, 130.</NOTE></L>
<L>But <HI>Evah</HI> did conceive again,</L>
<L>and godly <HI>Seth</HI> was born.</L>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="2" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>SECT. <HI>II.</HI></HEAD>
<L>FRom <HI>Seth</HI> did &s;pring a Race of Men</L>
<L>religious and upright,</L>
<L>Yea <HI>Henoch</HI> walkt with God, and then</L>
<L>was taken out of &s;ight.</L>
<L>His Grand-child <HI>Lamech</HI> did beget</L>
<L><HI>Noah:</HI> and then began,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Anno 1056</NOTE></L>
<L>The Sons of God their face to &s;et,</L>
<L>on Daughters fair of Man:</L>
<L>Thence Giants came and mungrel kind,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. <HI>6.</HI></NOTE></L>
<L>on whom the Lord did frown,</L>
<L>And for their &s;in and wicked mind,</L>
<L>did threat the World to drown.</L>
<L><HI>Noah</HI> alone on Earth did live,</L>
<L>uprightly; him God &s;ent,</L>
<L>And did an hundred Years them give,</L>
<L>and twenty to repent.</L>
<L>Mean while built <HI>Noah</HI> at his Charge,</L>
<L>an Ark three &s;tories high:</L>
<L>The wicked World liv'd &s;till at large,</L>
<L>and dream'd that <HI>Noe</HI> did lie:</L>
<PB N="8" REF="6">
<L>Till Fountains bur&s;t, and open &s;tood,</L>
<L>Heaven's windows all,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. <HI>7.</HI></NOTE> for rain,</L>
<L>Which quickly caus'd a fearful Flood,</L>
<L>for down it pours amain,</L>
<L>And all the Earth with ruin fills;<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Anno</HI> 1656.</NOTE></L>
<L>Men, Bea&s;ts, and Birds mu&s;t die,</L>
<L>When as the Flood above the Hills</L>
<L>flow'd fifteen Cubits high.</L>
<L>Which rag'd well near a Year about,</L>
<L>and then was <HI>Noah</HI> bidden</L>
<L>To bring tho&s;e living Creatures out,</L>
<L>which in the Ark were hidden.</L>
<L>And out they came, both they and theirs,</L>
<L>four Women and four Men,</L>
<L>The unclean Creatures all by pairs,</L>
<L>the clean by &s;evens; and then,</L>
<L>They offer'd Sacrifice,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. <HI>8.</HI></NOTE> God &s;mell'd</L>
<L>a &s;mell of Re&s;t; wherefore</L>
<L>He promi&s;ed though Man rebell'd</L>
<L>to drown the World no more:</L>
<L>And plac'd the Rainbow for a pledge</L>
<L>and did again vouch&s;afe</L>
<L>To Man, a Sovereign Priviledge</L>
<L>above the Bea&s;ts,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. <HI>9.</HI></NOTE> and gave</L>
<L>Their fle&s;h for Food. Thus having made</L>
<L>a Covenant of Peace,</L>
<L>With <HI>Noah</HI> and his Sons; he bad</L>
<L>they &s;hould Mankind increa&s;e.</L>
<L>Of <HI>Japhet</HI> did the Gentiles &s;pring,</L>
<L>of <HI>Cham</HI> the <HI>Canaanite,</HI></L>
<L>Who cur&s;t was for uncovering</L>
<L>his Father's &s;hameful &s;ight,</L>
<L>But <HI>Sem</HI> unto the Ble&s;&s;ed Line,</L>
<L>was Heir, and from him came,</L>
<L>A Race and Progeny Divine</L>
<L>to Father <HI>Abraham.</HI></L>
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<L>Now all the World, in &s;peech was one,</L>
<L>and did to build con&s;pire</L>
<L>A <HI>Babel,</HI> and confu&s;ion</L>
<L>they gained for their hire.</L>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="3" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>SECT. <HI>III.</HI></HEAD>
<L>THis <HI>Abraham</HI> a faithful Man,</L>
<L>left Land and Kindred all,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Anno</HI> 2008.</NOTE></L>
<L>And wandring up and down he ran</L>
<L>where e're his God did call.</L>
<L>From <HI>&V;r</HI> he went to <HI>Canaan,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. <HI>12.</HI></NOTE></L>
<L>with <HI>Sara</HI> and with <HI>Lot,</HI></L>
<L>To &s;ettle there he &s;carce began</L>
<L>but that by Famine hot,</L>
<L>To <HI>Aegypt</HI> he was forc'd to flie,</L>
<L>where fearing much his life,</L>
<L>Before King <HI>Pharaoh</HI> fainingly</L>
<L>he did deny his Wife.</L>
<L>To <HI>Bethel</HI> he goes back again,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. <HI>13.</HI></NOTE></L>
<L>where Strife began to grow,</L>
<L>'Twixt <HI>Lot</HI> and him; for Wealth amain,</L>
<L>did in upon them flow.</L>
<L>Old <HI>Abraham,</HI> with humble Heart,</L>
<L>to younger <HI>Lot</HI> gave place,</L>
<L>And in di&s;tre&s;s did take his part</L>
<L>and re&s;cue him in cha&s;e.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. <HI>14.</HI></NOTE></L>
<L><HI>Melchizedec</HI> did him meet and ble&s;s,</L>
<L>but childle&s;s &s;till he &s;taid,</L>
<L>Till <HI>I&s;hmael;</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. <HI>16.</HI></NOTE> and that increa&s;e</L>
<L>was but by <HI>Sara</HI>'s Maid:</L>
<L>Yet God by &s;pecial Promi&s;es,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Chap.</HI> 13.16.15.5.17.6. <HI>Chap.</HI> 17.</NOTE></L>
<L>him&s;elf did often tie,</L>
<L>As Heavens Stars, and &s;and of Seas,</L>
<L>his Seed to multiply.</L>
<PB N="10" REF="7">
<L>And &s;eal'd it with a Sacrament,</L>
<L>to him and his Heirs Male;</L>
<L>When &s;olemnly he did appoint,</L>
<L>to circumci&s;e them all.</L>
<L>Mean time he did him entertain,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Jam.</HI> 2.23.</NOTE></L>
<L>very familiarly;</L>
<L>Much like a Friend,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. <HI>18.</HI></NOTE> as was mo&s;t plain,</L>
<L>when <HI>Sodom</HI>'s &s;inful cry</L>
<L>Did pierce the Skies, and God down came,</L>
<L>and if but Ten good Men</L>
<L>Could there been found; for <HI>Abraham,</HI></L>
<L>the Lord had &s;par'd it then.</L>
<L>So Fire and Brim&s;tone fearfully</L>
<L>from Heaven fell apace,</L>
<L>And furnace-like the &s;moak did fly:<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. <HI>19.</HI></NOTE></L>
<L>ju&s;t <HI>Lot</HI> in better ca&s;e,</L>
<L>To little <HI>Zoar</HI> fled for life,</L>
<L>where in a drunken mood,</L>
<L>On's Daughters (having lo&s;t his Wife)</L>
<L>he got a * cur&s;ed Brood.</L>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="4" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>SECT. <HI>IV.</HI></HEAD>
<L>THence <HI>Abraham</HI> went to <HI>Gerar</HI> Land,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. <HI>20.</HI></NOTE></L>
<L>where he again for fear,</L>
<L>Deny'd his Wife, but by God's Hand,</L>
<L><HI>Abimelech</HI> did forbear.</L>
<L>Long had he waited, hope was pa&s;t,</L>
<L>yet &s;till he did believe;</L>
<L>And God remembred him at la&s;t,</L>
<L>and <HI>Sara</HI> did Conceive:<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. <HI>21.</HI></NOTE></L>
<L>And in her old Age <HI>I&s;aac</HI> bare,</L>
<L>and nur&s;t him on her knee,</L>
<L>And joyful <HI>Abram</HI> did not &s;pare</L>
<L>to make a fea&s;t; but &s;ee</L>
<PB N="11" REF="7">
<L>This only Son, and only Heir,</L>
<L>of Promi&s;e God Commands,</L>
<L>To be both &s;lain,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Anno</HI> 2108</NOTE> and burnt with fire</L>
<L>and that by <HI>Abram</HI>'s hand.</L>
<L>Well: he obey'd, and call'd his Men,</L>
<L>Wood, Knife, and &s;ome he took,</L>
<L>On, to the place they go, and when</L>
<L>was bent the deadly Stroke</L>
<L>God &s;taid his hand, and in the &s;tead</L>
<L>of <HI>I&s;aac</HI> there was ty'd,</L>
<L>A Ram for Sacrifice. Indeed</L>
<L>here <HI>Abraham</HI>'s Faith was try'd.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. <HI>22.</HI></NOTE></L>
<L>His Son thus &s;par'd, his godly Care</L>
<L>was next about to &s;py,</L>
<L>For him a Wife, and therefore &s;ware</L>
<L>his Man's Fidelity.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. <HI>24.</HI></NOTE></L>
<L>Who full religiou&s;ly perform'd</L>
<L>the Office on him laid,</L>
<L>And with <HI>Rebeckah</HI> &s;oon return'd,</L>
<L>a fair and vertuous Maid;</L>
<L>Whom <HI>I&s;aac</HI> married, but &s;till,</L>
<L>She barren was, they pray'd:</L>
<L>God heard, and granted all their Will,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. <HI>25.</HI></NOTE></L>
<L>and further to her &s;aid;</L>
<L>The Babes that in her Womb did &s;trive,</L>
<L>were Twins and Nations twain,</L>
<L>The younger &s;hould prevail and thrive,</L>
<L>the elder &s;hould remain</L>
<L>A &s;ervant: <HI>E&s;au</HI> was his Name,</L>
<L>and as he Veni&s;on &s;ought,</L>
<L>And back again well wearied came,</L>
<L>his Brother <HI>Jacob</HI> bought</L>
<L>His Birth-right for a Me&s;s of Broth,</L>
<L>mean while was <HI>I&s;aac</HI> ble&s;&s;ed,</L>
<L>Though envious Phili&s;tines be wroth,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Chap.</HI> 26. <HI>ver.</HI> 14, 15.</NOTE></L>
<L>and him with Wrongs oppre&s;&s;ed.</L>
<PB N="12" REF="8">
<L>When Age came on and Eyes waxt dim,</L>
<L>then &s;olemnly he meant,</L>
<L>To ble&s;s his Son, requiring him,</L>
<L>Veni&s;on for that intent.</L>
<L>About goes <HI>E&s;au</HI> with his Bow,</L>
<L>but <HI>Jacob</HI> doth prevent him;</L>
<L>The means his Mother did him &s;how,</L>
<L>and cunningly pre&s;ent him,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. <HI>7.</HI></NOTE></L>
<L>In <HI>E&s;au</HI>'s Clothes and Skins of Kids,</L>
<L>unto his Father; who</L>
<L>Mi&s;tru&s;ts the Voice and therefore bids,</L>
<L>come near to feel and know.</L>
<L>With fat of Earth, and Heaven's Dew,</L>
<L>with happy Seed and Kin,</L>
<L>He ble&s;t him (reverend was the &s;hew)</L>
<L>and then came <HI>E&s;au</HI> in.</L>
<L>And he with Tears and piteous Moan,</L>
<L>the Ble&s;&s;ing &s;ought in vain,</L>
<L>He came too late, alas 'twas gone,</L>
<L>with that he beat his Brain</L>
<L>To &s;eek and work Revenge, and then</L>
<L>the days (quoth he) make &s;peed,</L>
<L>Of mourning for my Father, when</L>
<L>I'll &s;lay him for this Deed.</L>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="5" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>SECT. <HI>V.</HI></HEAD>
<L>THen did <HI>Rebeckah</HI> forthwith call,</L>
<L>and &s;end <HI>Jacob</HI> away,</L>
<L>Le&s;t <HI>E&s;au</HI> &s;hould upon him fall,</L>
<L>his bloody Vow to pay.</L>
<L>And <HI>I&s;aac</HI> charg'd him (taking leave)</L>
<L>to play a wi&s;er part,</L>
<L>Then <HI>E&s;au,</HI> who did vex and grieve,</L>
<L>by heathen Wives his Heart.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. <HI>21.</HI></NOTE></L>
<PB N="13" REF="8">
<L>But he &s;hould to his Uncle go,</L>
<L>and match in godly Race,</L>
<L>And ble&s;&s;ing &s;hould be with him; &s;o,</L>
<L>he went out from their face:</L>
<L>As he in fields that night did &s;leep,</L>
<L>in <HI>Haran</HI> on a Stone;</L>
<L>By Dream he &s;aw a Ladder &s;teep</L>
<L>from Heaven; and thereon</L>
<L>The Angels pa&s;&s;ing, and above</L>
<L>God &s;tanding all in view,</L>
<L>The ble&s;&s;ed Promi&s;e of his Love,</L>
<L>with <HI>Jacob</HI> to renew.</L>
<L>There <HI>Jacob</HI> vow'd the Lord to fear:</L>
<L>thence on he went apace,</L>
<L>Inquiring in the fields to hear,</L>
<L>of <HI>Laban</HI>'s dwelling place.</L>
<L>The Shepherds &s;hew'd him readily,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 29.</NOTE></L>
<L>his Cou&s;in <HI>Rachel</HI> there:</L>
<L>Whom he &s;aluted chearfully,</L>
<L>and &s;he could not forbear,</L>
<L>But ran and carry'd home the News:</L>
<L>then <HI>Laban</HI> hies to meet him,</L>
<L>To dwell there he mu&s;t not refu&s;e,</L>
<L>where all his Kindred greet him:</L>
<L>A match was made, and &s;even Years</L>
<L>for <HI>Rachel</HI> &s;erve he mu&s;t;</L>
<L>But <HI>Leah</HI> in the light appears,</L>
<L>&s;o fal&s;e was <HI>Laban</HI>'s tru&s;t.</L>
<L>Well, &s;even more he was content,</L>
<L>to &s;erve for his Beloved,</L>
<L>And thought the time full quickly &s;pent,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 29. <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 20. Chap. 31.38, 39.</NOTE></L>
<L>though full of Toyl it proved.</L>
<L>God ble&s;&s;ed <HI>Laban</HI> for his &s;ake,</L>
<L>but him he ble&s;t much more.</L>
<L>Whatever Wages he did take,</L>
<L>to him was Gain and Store.</L>
<PB N="14" REF="9">
<L>Then <HI>Laban</HI> did envy his Wealth,</L>
<L>yet loath to let him go,</L>
<L>But <HI>Jacob</HI> fled away by &s;tealth,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 31.</NOTE></L>
<L>and made him (following) know</L>
<L>The wrong he did; and both good Friends,</L>
<L>after a chiding parted.</L>
<L>Then <HI>Jacob</HI> in his Journey &s;ends</L>
<L>to pacifie hard-hearted</L>
<L><HI>E&s;au</HI> his Brother, who in Arms</L>
<L>was then again&s;t him bent;</L>
<L>But God prevented all the Harms,</L>
<L>and <HI>E&s;au</HI> did relent.</L>
<L>So <HI>Jacob</HI> called <HI>I&s;rael,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 32.</NOTE></L>
<L>(for God had chang'd his Name</L>
<L>When he prevail'd at <HI>Peniel</HI>)</L>
<L>in peace to <HI>Shechem</HI> came.</L>
<L>Here <HI>Dinah</HI> did a gadding go</L>
<L>and to her &s;elf brought Shame:</L>
<L>And to the <HI>Shechemites</HI> much wo,</L>
<L>and to her Brethren Blame.</L>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="6" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>SECT. <HI>VI.</HI></HEAD>
<L>THence up to <HI>Bethel</HI> had he word,</L>
<L>to go to pay his Vow</L>
<L>Of Holy Wor&s;hip,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 35.</NOTE> for the Lord</L>
<L>again to <HI>Canaan</HI> now;</L>
<L>From <HI>Padan Aram</HI> had him &s;et;</L>
<L>where mightily he grew</L>
<L>In Family and Sub&s;tance great:</L>
<L>his Sons Names here en&s;ue.</L>
<L><HI>Reuben, Dan, Levi, Simeon,</HI></L>
<L><HI>I&s;&s;achar,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 29.30.</NOTE> <HI>Napthalin,</HI></L>
<L><HI>A&s;er, Gad, Judah, Zebulon,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Jo&s;eph</HI> and <HI>Benjamin.</HI></L>
<L>The&s;e Twelve were Patriarchs, who&s;e Seed,</L>
<L>&s;till multiplied more,</L>
<PB N="15" REF="9">
<L>Even to tho&s;e Thou&s;ands promi&s;ed</L>
<L>&s;o oft and long before.</L>
<L><HI>Judah</HI> the Royal Line enjoy'd,</L>
<L>who for a Deed ami&s;s,</L>
<L>Had <HI>Tamar</HI>'s Life with fire de&s;troy'd,</L>
<L>but that the Fault was his.</L>
<L>Young <HI>Jo&s;eph Jacob</HI>'s Joy,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 37.</NOTE> the re&s;t</L>
<L>&s;till &s;tomached and &s;pited,</L>
<L>Yet Hatred he de&s;erved lea&s;t,</L>
<L>had him his Brethren righted;</L>
<L>For Envy they con&s;pir'd to kill,</L>
<L>but <HI>Reuben</HI> did per&s;wade;</L>
<L>Yet &s;ecretly they did him &s;ell,</L>
<L>to Men of Merchants Trade;<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 38.</NOTE></L>
<L>Who &s;old him unto <HI>Potiphar,</HI></L>
<L>where though he lived cha&s;te,</L>
<L>And faithfully him&s;elf did bear,</L>
<L>yet was in Pri&s;on ca&s;t.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 39.</NOTE></L>
<L>But God beheld his Mi&s;ery,</L>
<L>and gave him Wi&s;dom great;</L>
<L>By which he was advanced high,</L>
<L>even next to <HI>Pharaoh</HI>'s Seat.</L>
<L>For when the King no Re&s;t could find,</L>
<L>of Dreams that him had pa&s;t,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 41.</NOTE></L>
<L>Th' ungrateful Butler then to mind</L>
<L>doth <HI>Jo&s;eph</HI> call at la&s;t.</L>
<L>And then he was from Pri&s;on &s;ent,</L>
<L>and &s;et before the King;</L>
<L>Where he to <HI>Pharaoh</HI>'s great Content,</L>
<L>Expounded every thing.</L>
<L>Be&s;ides, he &s;hew'd a ready way,</L>
<L>the Famine to with&s;tand,</L>
<L>Which <HI>Pharaoh</HI> lik'd, and then did lay</L>
<L>on him the Charge in hand.</L>
<L>So by him was Provi&s;ion made,</L>
<L>again&s;t the time of Need:</L>
<PB N="16" REF="10">
<L>Wherewith (to <HI>Pharaoh</HI>'s gainful Trade)</L>
<L>all <HI>Aegypt</HI> he did feed.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 47. <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 14.17.19.</NOTE></L>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="7" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>SECT. <HI>VII.</HI></HEAD>
<L>OLD <HI>Jacob</HI> and his Sons al&s;o,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 42.</NOTE></L>
<L>were pinch'd with Penury,</L>
<L>Wherefore he charged them to go</L>
<L>and Food in <HI>Aegypt</HI> buy.</L>
<L>They went with Grief, and bought in Fear,</L>
<L>not dreaming of their Brother,</L>
<L>Nor did he Countenance them bear</L>
<L>more kind than any other;</L>
<L>Till when they came to him again,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 45.</NOTE></L>
<L>Affection was &s;o great,</L>
<L>He could no longer it contain,</L>
<L>within his Brea&s;t for heat.</L>
<L>With weeping Eye and joyful Tongue,</L>
<L>he then did plainly tell,</L>
<L>He was their Brother <HI>Jo&s;eph,</HI> whom</L>
<L>to <HI>Aegypt</HI> they did &s;ell.</L>
<L>The Joy of either was &s;o much,</L>
<L>that neither now could bear it;</L>
<L>Their &s;obbing Pa&s;&s;ion was &s;uch,</L>
<L>that <HI>Pharaoh</HI>'s Hou&s;e did hear it.</L>
<L>Who under&s;tanding what they were,</L>
<L>commanded pre&s;ently,</L>
<L>With Charets, Hor&s;e, and Furniture</L>
<L>for <HI>Jacob</HI> they &s;hould hie.</L>
<L>So He with all his Family,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Anno</HI> 2298. Chap. 46.</NOTE></L>
<L>came thither out of hand;</L>
<L>And welcomed mo&s;t lovingly,</L>
<L>were plac'd in <HI>Go&s;hen</HI> Land.</L>
<L>In <HI>Go&s;hen</HI> Land did <HI>Jacob</HI> &s;ee</L>
<L>the fulne&s;s of his days,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 47.</NOTE></L>
<PB N="17" REF="10">
<L>And in his Sons Pro&s;perity,</L>
<L>his fill of earthly Joys.</L>
<L>But &s;olemnly before his Death,</L>
<L>he ble&s;t his Sons each one:<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 49.</NOTE></L>
<L>And <HI>Jo&s;eph</HI> eke gave up the Breath,</L>
<L>e're many Years were gone.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 50.</NOTE></L>
<L>Now when the&s;e Fathers both were dead,</L>
<L>and &s;till their Seed did grow:</L>
<L>There ro&s;e a <HI>Pharaoh</HI> in his &s;tead,</L>
<L>that did not <HI>Jo&s;eph</HI> know.</L>
<L>He Tyrant-like with heavy Hand,</L>
<L>of Bondage pre&s;t them down,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Exodus.</HI> Chap. 1.</NOTE></L>
<L>And gave the Midwives &s;trait command,</L>
<L>the Males to kill or drown.</L>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="8" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>SECT. <HI>VIII.</HI></HEAD>
<L>BOrn in the&s;e Flames was <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> mild,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Anno</HI> 2428.</NOTE></L>
<L>and by God's Providence,</L>
<L>Though ca&s;t in River Flags (poor Child)</L>
<L>yet was he freed thence;</L>
<L>By <HI>Pharaoh</HI>'s Daughter, who did take,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 2.</NOTE></L>
<L>and keep him as her own;</L>
<L>Until he came to Man's E&s;tate,</L>
<L>when fearing to be known,</L>
<L>For killing an <HI>Aegyptian;</HI> he</L>
<L>for&s;ook the Court and fled:</L>
<L>And all this was by God's Decree,</L>
<L>who&s;e Work mu&s;t now be &s;ped.</L>
<L>For God had heard the grievous Cry,</L>
<L>of <HI>Hebrews</HI> &s;ore oppre&s;&s;ed,</L>
<L>And <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> he meant to imploy</L>
<L>in having it redre&s;&s;ed.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 3.</NOTE></L>
<L>And called and &s;ent him away,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 4.</NOTE></L>
<L>to proud King <HI>Pharaoh;</HI></L>
<PB N="18" REF="11">
<L>Requiring him without delay</L>
<L>to let his People go.</L>
<L>But <HI>Pharaoh</HI> did the Lord de&s;pi&s;e,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Anno</HI> 2508.</NOTE></L>
<L>and asked what was he?</L>
<L>Increa&s;ing more and more their Cries,</L>
<L>by greater Cruelty.</L>
<L>The Lord to tame this Tyrant &s;tout,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 5.</NOTE></L>
<L>and his own Folk to right,</L>
<L>With <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> &s;endeth <HI>Aaron</HI> out,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 7.</NOTE></L>
<L>to make him know his Might.</L>
<L>They cau&s;ed Blood, Frogs, Lice, and Flies,</L>
<L>with Murrain, Scabs, and Hail;</L>
<L>And Gra&s;hoppers and darkened Skies,</L>
<L>all <HI>Aegypt</HI> to a&s;&s;ail;<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 8.</NOTE></L>
<L>Excepting <HI>Go&s;hen</HI> Land,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 9.</NOTE> where dwelt</L>
<L>God's People <HI>I&s;rael.</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 10.</NOTE></L>
<L>Yet <HI>Pharaoh</HI>'s Heart did nothing melt,</L>
<L>for &s;till he did rebel.</L>
<L>Then was the Pa&s;&s;over ordain'd,</L>
<L>and with the Pa&s;chal Blood,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 12.</NOTE></L>
<L>The Po&s;ts of all their Doors were &s;tain'd,</L>
<L>for their Safegard and Good;</L>
<L>Le&s;t that the Angel pa&s;&s;ing by,</L>
<L>&s;hould &s;mite them with the re&s;t:</L>
<L>For he the Fir&s;t-born did de&s;troy,</L>
<L>of <HI>Aegypt</HI> Man and Bea&s;t:</L>
<L>Which Slaughter caus'd them dreadfully</L>
<L>at Midnight up to &s;tart,</L>
<L>And to entreat with woful Cry,</L>
<L>all <HI>I&s;rael</HI> to depart.</L>
<L>From <HI>Aegypt</HI> then they forced went,</L>
<L>with borrowed Jewels plenty,</L>
<L>When they in <HI>Aegypt</HI> Years had &s;pent</L>
<L>four Hundred Ten and Twenty.</L>
<L>But <HI>Pharaoh</HI> did repent the Deed,</L>
<L>and forthwith did not &s;lack,</L>
<PB N="19" REF="11">
<L>With Men and Chariots to make &s;peed</L>
<L>again to bring them back.</L>
<L>And to the Red-Sea them pur&s;u'd,</L>
<L>they pa&s;&s;ed thorow dry,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 14.</NOTE></L>
<L>He followed with Courage proud,</L>
<L>but in the mid&s;t did lie.</L>
<L>For God affrighted Man and Hor&s;e,</L>
<L>and made his Chariots fall;</L>
<L>The Sea return'd with raging Force,</L>
<L>and drowned King and all.</L>
<L>Of this &s;o &s;trange Deliverance,</L>
<L>was then a godly Song,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 15.</NOTE></L>
<L>Recorded for Remembrance,</L>
<L>and &s;o they march't along.</L>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="9" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>SECT. <HI>IX.</HI></HEAD>
<L>ABout this time (the learned Judge)</L>
<L>did patient <HI>Job</HI> endure,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Job.</NOTE></L>
<L>All Mi&s;chiefs that the Devil's Grudge,</L>
<L>and Malice could procure</L>
<L>To Children, Servants, Goods, good Name,</L>
<L>to Body, and to his Mind;</L>
<L>By Fire, Sword, Whirlwinds, Botch and Blain,</L>
<L>by Wife and Friends unkind.</L>
<L>Who long and large Di&s;cour&s;e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> had,</L>
<L>to prove him plagu'd for &s;in,</L>
<L>Whereby they did Affliction add,</L>
<L>to Mi&s;ery he was in.</L>
<L>And to &s;uch Pa&s;&s;ions did him drive,</L>
<L>'twixt hearts De&s;pair and Hope,</L>
<L>That Fle&s;h and Spirit did &s;trongly &s;trive,</L>
<L>and &s;carce to Breath gave &s;cope:</L>
<L>But God at la&s;t, Ju&s;t <HI>Job</HI> commends,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 42.</NOTE></L>
<L>and doubl'd his former Weal,</L>
<PB N="20" REF="12">
<L>And check't his three cen&s;orious Friends,</L>
<L>but now to <HI>I&s;rael.</HI></L>
<L>The Lord their God in open &s;ight</L>
<L>directed them the way;<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 13.</NOTE></L>
<L>By fiery Pillar in the Night,</L>
<L>and &s;hady Cloud by Day.</L>
<L>With Angel's Food and Waters fine,</L>
<L>from Rocks that forced Stream,</L>
<L>He fill'd them,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 15.24.16.3.17.3.</NOTE> yet they did repine</L>
<L>full oft, e're that they came</L>
<L>To <HI>Sinai;</HI> where the God of Might</L>
<L>in Glory did appear</L>
<L>And <HI>I&s;rael</HI> trembled at the &s;ight:<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 19.</NOTE></L>
<L>nor dur&s;t,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 20.</NOTE> nor might come near.</L>
<L>There did He give the Ten Commands,</L>
<L>and other Laws did Write,</L>
<L>For to contain them in the Bands</L>
<L>of Holine&s;s and Right.</L>
<L>There did he unto <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> &s;how<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 26.</NOTE></L>
<L>the Tabernacle's Frame;</L>
<L>In every Point he taught him how</L>
<L>to make and u&s;e the &s;ame.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 28.</NOTE></L>
<L>There made he choice of <HI>Levi</HI>'s Tribe,</L>
<L>the Prie&s;thood to attend.</L>
<L>And did their Duties all de&s;cribe</L>
<L>at large from End to End.</L>
<L>Mean while had <HI>I&s;rael</HI> made a Calf,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 32.</NOTE></L>
<L>and grievou&s;ly offended;</L>
<L>But <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> Zeal in God's behalf,</L>
<L>de&s;erves to be commended:</L>
<L>Who &s;harply puni&s;h'd with the Sword,</L>
<L>about three Thou&s;and Men,</L>
<L>And earne&s;tly be&s;ought the Lord,</L>
<L>to &s;pare the Remnant then.</L>
<L>God granted it,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 33, 34.</NOTE> and promi&s;ed</L>
<L>his Angel &s;hould (in Token</L>
<PB N="21" REF="12">
<L>Of Love) them lead; and then he did</L>
<L>renew the Tables broken.</L>
<L>Full forty Days and forty Nights,</L>
<L>was <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> in the Hill,</L>
<L>Recording what the Lord indites,</L>
<L>his Precepts, Laws and Will.</L>
<L>Familiarly and face to face,</L>
<L>and fa&s;ting from all Food,</L>
<L>He waited in that Holy Place:</L>
<L>and thence he came and &s;tood</L>
<L>In pre&s;s of People to recite</L>
<L>all that the Lord had &s;aid;<NOTE PLACE="marg">Cap. 34.30.</NOTE></L>
<L>What time his Face did &s;hine &s;o bright,</L>
<L>as made them much afraid.</L>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="10" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>SECT. <HI>X.</HI></HEAD>
<L>WHen as the Tabernacle now,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Anno</HI> 2510.</NOTE></L>
<L>was fini&s;hed and reared:</L>
<L>And with Appurtenances due,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 40.</NOTE></L>
<L>well furni&s;hed appeared.</L>
<L>Towards <HI>Canaan</HI> the promis'd Land,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Numbers.</HI> Chap. 10.</NOTE></L>
<L>that flow'd with Milk and Hony,</L>
<L>They marched forth Band after Band,</L>
<L>with &s;tubborn Hearts and &s;tony.</L>
<L>For by the way they &s;oon forgot</L>
<L>Gods Mercy and his Power;</L>
<L>And car'd not how they him provok'd</L>
<L>to Anger every hour.</L>
<L>They long for Fle&s;h, they MANNA loath,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 11.</NOTE></L>
<L>and back they will retire.</L>
<L>They fret at GOD and <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> both,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 14.</NOTE></L>
<L>for cro&s;&s;ing their de&s;ire:</L>
<L>Nor would they warned be, though they</L>
<L>his dreadful Judgments &s;aw</L>
<PB N="22" REF="13">
<L>On them inflicted day by day,</L>
<L>which liv'd not under Law.</L>
<L>As <HI>Korah,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 16.</NOTE> <HI>Dathan, Abiram,</HI></L>
<L>with thou&s;ands more among,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 12.</NOTE></L>
<L><HI>Nadab, Abihu, Miriam,</HI></L>
<L>and &s;uch as Serpents &s;tung.</L>
<L>Yet tempted they the Lord &s;o long,</L>
<L>and with &s;o high an hand;</L>
<L>That in his Wrath he &s;wore, not one,</L>
<L>&s;hould enter to the Land.</L>
<L>Save <HI>Jo&s;hua</HI> and <HI>Caleb,</HI> who</L>
<L>returning with the Spies,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 14.</NOTE></L>
<L>Affirm'd the Truth that they did know,</L>
<L>and cro&s;s'd their Fellows Lies.</L>
<L>So wandred they in Wilderne&s;s,</L>
<L>the &s;pace of forty Years;</L>
<L>Till all were dead that did tran&s;gre&s;s;</L>
<L>as by God's Book appears.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 26.64.</NOTE></L>
<L>Their Sons he then did forward bring,</L>
<L>'gain&s;t all that kept them back,</L>
<L>As <HI>Sihon, Og,</HI> and <HI>Moab</HI>'s King,</L>
<L>who&s;e Name was <HI>Balaack.</HI></L>
<L>Who hired <HI>Balaam</HI> them to cur&s;e,</L>
<L>and &s;o thought to mole&s;t them;</L>
<L>But for him&s;elf it was much wor&s;e,</L>
<L>for <HI>Balaam</HI> three times ble&s;t them:</L>
<L>He and tho&s;e two, and five Kings more,</L>
<L>which were of <HI>Midian,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 21.24.</NOTE></L>
<L>Were in revenge of <HI>Baal-peor,</HI></L>
<L>&s;ubdued, &s;poiled, &s;lain.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 22.</NOTE></L>
<L>Here <HI>Reuben</HI>'s Tribe, and <HI>Gad</HI> al&s;o,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 31.</NOTE></L>
<L>their Heritage po&s;&s;e&s;t,</L>
<L>On promi&s;e they &s;hould marching go</L>
<L>in Arms before the re&s;t.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 25.17, 18.</NOTE></L>
<L>Here <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> named every one</L>
<L>that &s;hould the Land divide,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 32. Numb. 34.</NOTE></L>
<PB N="23" REF="13">
<L>And gave a fit Po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion</L>
<L>unto each &s;everal Tribe.</L>
<L>And now mu&s;t <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> make an End,</L>
<L>as did his Fathers all:</L>
<L>Wherefore he did not time mi&s;pend,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Deut. <HI>31.</HI></NOTE></L>
<L>but pre&s;ently did call</L>
<L>For <HI>Jo&s;hua,</HI> and gave him Charge,</L>
<L>the People to conduct,</L>
<L>Whom he by Sermons long and large,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 28.29.30.32.33.</NOTE></L>
<L>divinely did in&s;truct.</L>
<L>Which with a &s;weet and Swan-like Song,</L>
<L>in heavenly wi&s;e he ended;</L>
<L>And ble&s;t the Tribes each one along,</L>
<L>and forthwith he a&s;cended</L>
<L>Mount <HI>Nebo,</HI> unto <HI>Pi&s;gah</HI> Top,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 34.</NOTE></L>
<L>whence as he did &s;urvey,</L>
<L>The <HI>Canaan</HI> Land, the earthly Hope,</L>
<L>God took his Soul away,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Anno</HI> 2549.</NOTE></L>
<L>To Heavens re&s;t; and buried then,</L>
<L>his Body none know where,</L>
<L>When Peerle&s;s he among&s;t all Men,</L>
<L>had lived &s;ix&s;core Year:</L>
<L>And yet his Eye-&s;ight did not dim,</L>
<L>nor Natures Forces wither;</L>
<L>There <HI>I&s;rael</HI> lamented him,</L>
<L>for thirty Days together.</L>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="11" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>SECT. <HI>XI.</HI></HEAD>
<L>THen did the Lord call <HI>Jo&s;hua,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Jo&s;hua <HI>1.</HI></NOTE></L>
<L>and bid him to be Strong,</L>
<L>And tru&s;t in him who is his Stay,</L>
<L>and boldly go along.</L>
<L>So he the Captain &s;ends out Spies,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 2.</NOTE></L>
<L>whom <HI>Rahab</HI> &s;afe did hide,</L>
<L>And they return'd in joyful wi&s;e,</L>
<L>which made them to provide</L>
<PB N="24" REF="14">
<L>To pa&s;s with &s;peed into the Land,</L>
<L>at <HI>Jo&s;hua</HI> his Word,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 3.</NOTE></L>
<L>The <HI>Jordan</HI> Waters back did &s;tand,</L>
<L>and Pa&s;&s;age dry afford.</L>
<L>In mid&s;t whereof in open view,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 4.</NOTE></L>
<L>they did a Pillar rear,</L>
<L>The Circumci&s;ion they renew,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 5.</NOTE></L>
<L>the <HI>Manna</HI> cea&s;ed there.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 6.</NOTE></L>
<L>Then &s;et they upon <HI>Jericho,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 7.</NOTE></L>
<L>and al&s;o upon <HI>Ai.</HI></L>
<L>But <HI>Achan</HI>'s Sin did work them wo,</L>
<L>and from the Conque&s;t &s;tay,</L>
<L>The <HI>Gibeonites</HI> by Subtilty</L>
<L>were &s;aved,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 9.</NOTE> but the ca&s;e</L>
<L>Of all the re&s;t, was for to die,</L>
<L>and give God's People place:</L>
<L>Who ca&s;t them out, and did them kill,</L>
<L>with a victorious Hand,</L>
<L>For this the Sun and Moon &s;tood &s;till,</L>
<L>at <HI>Jo&s;hua</HI>'s Command.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 10.</NOTE></L>
<L>When he had now fully po&s;&s;e&s;t,</L>
<L>each &s;everal Tribe in order,</L>
<L>And given to all Content and Re&s;t</L>
<L>By Lot in every Border:</L>
<L>Religiou&s;ly he did them pre&s;s,</L>
<L>a Holy League to make,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 24.</NOTE></L>
<L>For him and his,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 25.</NOTE> he did profe&s;s</L>
<L>none other God to take:</L>
<L>And them and theirs he did adjure</L>
<L>to fear this God for ay.</L>
<L>So having &s;eal'd the Covenant &s;ure,</L>
<L>he pa&s;s'd by Death away.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Anno</HI> 2566.</NOTE></L>
<L>Full &s;oon had they the Lord forgot,</L>
<L>when <HI>Jo&s;hua</HI> was dead,</L>
<L>Then <HI>Judah</HI> had the Charge and Lot</L>
<L>their Armies forth to lead,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 1</NOTE></L>
<PB N="25" REF="14">
<L>But for their great Tran&s;gre&s;&s;ions,</L>
<L>and League with <HI>Canaanite,</HI></L>
<L>God gave them to Oppre&s;&s;ions,</L>
<L>of cruel Men of Might.</L>
<L>Who &s;poyl'd them without Mean or End,</L>
<L>and did them &s;orely grieve,</L>
<L>Until their God did Judges &s;end,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 2.</NOTE></L>
<L>their Grievance to relieve;</L>
<L>Again&s;t King <HI>Cu&s;han</HI>'s Tyranny,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 3.</NOTE></L>
<L>&s;tout <HI>Othniel</HI> rai&s;ed he,</L>
<L>And when fat <HI>Eglon</HI> made them cry,</L>
<L>lame <HI>Ehud</HI> made them free.</L>
<L>'Gain&s;t <HI>Si&s;era</HI> of <HI>Canaan,</HI></L>
<L>did <HI>Deborah</HI> prevail,</L>
<L>Now <HI>Ruth</HI> obtain'd that hone&s;t Man,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 4.</NOTE></L>
<L>when nearer kin did fail,</L>
<L>'Gain&s;t <HI>Midian</HI> a mighty Ho&s;t,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 7.</NOTE></L>
<L>march'd Captain <HI>Gideon.</HI></L>
<L>Bloody <HI>Abimelech</HI> did boa&s;t;<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 9.</NOTE></L>
<L>he next would Reign or none,</L>
<L>The proud oppre&s;&s;ing <HI>Ammonite,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 11.</NOTE></L>
<L>by <HI>Iphtah</HI> was &s;ubdued;</L>
<L>The <HI>Phili&s;tines</HI> for all their Spite,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 15.</NOTE></L>
<L>the Birth of <HI>Samp&s;on</HI> rued.</L>
<L>Who&s;e matchle&s;s Strength miraculous,</L>
<L>was over-match'd by Guile,</L>
<L>Of <HI>Dalilah</HI> perfideous<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 16.</NOTE></L>
<L>who wrought his Bane the while.</L>
<L>When none among&s;t them rul'd as King,</L>
<L>each what he li&s;ted did:</L>
<L>Then <HI>Micah</HI> made a molten thing,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 17.</NOTE></L>
<L>and it he wor&s;hipped.</L>
<L>And at &s;uch time, that hainous &s;in,</L>
<L>upon the <HI>Levite</HI>'s Wife,</L>
<L>'Twixt <HI>I&s;rael</HI> and <HI>Benjamin,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 19.</NOTE></L>
<L>co&s;t many a thou&s;ands life.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 20.</NOTE></L>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="12" TYPE="section">
<PB N="26" REF="15">
<HEAD>SECT. <HI>XII.</HI></HEAD>
<L><HI>ELI</HI> was Judge in <HI>I&s;rael,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>1</HI> Sam.</NOTE></L>
<L>when for his Sons lewd ways,</L>
<L>God threatned him by <HI>Samuel.</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 3.</NOTE></L>
<L>that he a Scourge would rai&s;e:</L>
<L>This <HI>Samuel</HI> a righteous Man,</L>
<L>was la&s;t of all that judged,</L>
<L>And in his time the Kings began,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Anno</HI> 2905.</NOTE></L>
<L>for then the people grudged;</L>
<L>And being male-content and &s;ad,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 8.</NOTE></L>
<L>would have a King to Reign,</L>
<L>O're them as other Nations had,</L>
<L>which was to <HI>Samuel</HI>'s pain.</L>
<L>But yet the Lord did them appoint,</L>
<L>a goodly Man and tall,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 9.</NOTE></L>
<L>And <HI>Samuel</HI> did him anoint</L>
<L>their King; his Name was <HI>Saul.</HI></L>
<L>A Princely Mind God to him gave,</L>
<L>with Complements of Place;</L>
<L>And he with <HI>Jonathan</HI> did brave</L>
<L>His Enemies oft in Cha&s;e.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 13.</NOTE></L>
<L>Yet God that him advanc'd &s;o high,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 14.</NOTE></L>
<L>from Toyl and A&s;&s;es Care;</L>
<L>He di&s;obey'd when fooli&s;hly,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 15.2.</NOTE></L>
<L>King <HI>Agag</HI> he did &s;pare.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 15.</NOTE></L>
<L>Therefore the Lord did him reject,</L>
<L>and little <HI>David</HI> cho&s;e,</L>
<L>Anointed <HI>I&s;rael</HI>'s King Elect,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 16.</NOTE></L>
<L>when he &s;hould <HI>Saul</HI> Depo&s;e.</L>
<L>Now great <HI>Goliah</HI> plaid his Prize,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 17.</NOTE></L>
<L>but <HI>David</HI> knockt him down,</L>
<L>The People &s;hout with joyful Cries,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 18.</NOTE></L>
<L>and give him chief Renown.</L>
<PB N="27" REF="15">
<L><HI>Saul</HI> bit the Lip at <HI>David</HI>'s Prai&s;e,</L>
<L>and hated him the more;</L>
<L>Yea, &s;ought his Life all manner ways,</L>
<L>and chas'd him like a Boar.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 19, 20.</NOTE></L>
<L>With Javelin and with threatning Sword,</L>
<L>with Troops of Hor&s;e and Men,</L>
<L>From Hou&s;e and Home, from Bed and Board,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 22, 23.</NOTE></L>
<L>from De&s;art, Den to Den.</L>
<L>Forced he was him&s;elf to fain,</L>
<L>with <HI>Achi&s;h</HI> to be mad,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 21.</NOTE></L>
<L>And for Defence to entertain</L>
<L>lewd Runnagates was glad.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 21.</NOTE></L>
<L>But <HI>Jonathan</HI> his faithful Friend,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 18.</NOTE></L>
<L>at no time did for&s;ake him,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 19.</NOTE></L>
<L>And ever did him warning &s;end,</L>
<L>when <HI>Saul</HI> us'd means to take him.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 20.</NOTE></L>
<L>Although for it he did engage,</L>
<L>him&s;elf in Danger deep,</L>
<L>For &s;uch was <HI>Saul</HI>'s &s;u&s;picious Rage,</L>
<L>none might his Coun&s;el keep.</L>
<L><HI>Abimelcch</HI> did give him Bread<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 22.</NOTE></L>
<L>in his Nece&s;&s;ity,</L>
<L>But for it he was murdered,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 22.</NOTE></L>
<L>and all his Progeny.</L>
<L>Had <HI>David</HI> labour'd like for like,</L>
<L>his Enemy to repay,</L>
<L>He had both time and place to &s;trike,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 24.</NOTE></L>
<L>and Soldiers bad him &s;lay:<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 26.</NOTE></L>
<L>When they were come in Cave alone,</L>
<L>when with him fa&s;t a&s;leep,</L>
<L>But he the Lord's Anointed one,</L>
<L>from harm did &s;afely keep.</L>
<L>And that he did both Mercy love,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 25.</NOTE></L>
<L>and bloody Vengeance flee,</L>
<L>When churli&s;h <HI>Nabal</HI> did him move,</L>
<L>wi&s;e <HI>Abigail</HI> did &s;ee.</L>
<PB N="28" REF="16">
<L>Now <HI>Saul</HI> with Envy almo&s;t pin'd,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 23.</NOTE></L>
<L>and driven to di&s;tre&s;s,</L>
<L>Sought by a wretched Witch to find,</L>
<L>&s;ome Comfort and Redre&s;s.</L>
<L>Of which he fail'd, and in the field</L>
<L>as de&s;perately he fought.</L>
<L>His Sons were &s;lain,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 31.</NOTE> his Soldiers yield,</L>
<L>and ga&s;tly he be&s;ought</L>
<L>His Armor-bearer him to kill;</L>
<L>but he the deed abhor<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">'d,</L>
<L>His own Heart blood he then did &s;pill,</L>
<L>with his own Hand and Sword.</L>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="13" TYPE="section">
<HEAD><HI>SECT.</HI> XIII.</HEAD>
<L>THen <HI>David</HI> was proclaim'd and reign'd<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>2</HI> Sam. Anno <HI>2945.</HI></NOTE></L>
<L>in <HI>Hebron, Judah</HI>'s King:</L>
<L>But <HI>I&s;hbo&s;heth</HI> had <HI>I&s;rael</HI> gain'd,</L>
<L>by <HI>Abners</HI> coun&s;elling.</L>
<L>Long War was 'twixt the Hou&s;es both,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 2.</NOTE></L>
<L>of <HI>David</HI> and of <HI>Saul,</HI></L>
<L>Till <HI>Abner</HI> with his new King Wroth</L>
<L>to <HI>David</HI>'s &s;ide did fall.</L>
<L>This <HI>Abner</HI> and eke <HI>I&s;hbo&s;heth,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 3.</NOTE></L>
<L>were &s;lain by Villany:</L>
<L>But <HI>David</HI> did lament their death,</L>
<L>and Murderers all defie,</L>
<L>And being now e&s;tabli&s;hed,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 4.</NOTE></L>
<L>&s;ole King of all the Land:</L>
<L>And &s;eeing each thing pro&s;pered,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 5.</NOTE></L>
<L>that he did take in hand:</L>
<L>He &s;olemnly doth think it fit,</L>
<L>to fetch the Ark more near him,</L>
<L>But <HI>&V;zzah</HI>'s Death did hinder it,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 6.</NOTE></L>
<L>God's Judgment did &s;o fear him.</L>
<PB N="29" REF="16">
<L>Yet afterward he brought it on,</L>
<L>and purpo&s;ed to rear,</L>
<L>A Hou&s;e for God; but he would none,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 7.</NOTE></L>
<L>as <HI>Nathan</HI> made appear.</L>
<L>When he had all his Foes &s;ubdu'd,</L>
<L>and as a Monarch reign'd,</L>
<L>In Peace and Ea&s;e; &s;ee what en&s;u'd,</L>
<L>his upright Life was &s;tain'd,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 11.</NOTE></L>
<L>With Murder and Adultery,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 12.</NOTE></L>
<L>whereof though he repented,</L>
<L>Yet was he puni&s;h'd diver&s;ly</L>
<L>with haps to be lamented.</L>
<L>Fir&s;t <HI>Ab&s;alom</HI> &s;hed <HI>Amnon</HI>'s Blood,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 13.</NOTE></L>
<L>for Ince&s;t then he ro&s;e,</L>
<L>And like a Villain armed &s;tood,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 15.</NOTE></L>
<L>his Father to depo&s;e.</L>
<L><HI>Achitophel</HI> that crafty Wretch</L>
<L>had chief hand in this Matter,</L>
<L>But <HI>Hu&s;hai</HI> did him o're-reach,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 17.</NOTE></L>
<L>by Skill he had to flatter.</L>
<L><HI>Shimei</HI> doth cur&s;e, and rail,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 19.</NOTE> and throw</L>
<L>&s;tones at him as he fled,</L>
<L><HI>Sheba</HI> doth now Rebellion blow,</L>
<L>but for it lo&s;t his Head.</L>
<L>The Peoples ha&s;ty numbering,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 24.</NOTE></L>
<L>co&s;t &s;eventy thou&s;and Lives,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>1</HI> Kings.</NOTE></L>
<L>And la&s;tly in his aged Years,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 1.</NOTE></L>
<L>the Son a Wanton bred,</L>
<L>Even <HI>Adoniah</HI> boldly tears</L>
<L>the Crown from off his Head.</L>
<L>This Prophet after God's own heart.</L>
<L>this &s;weet P&s;alm-&s;inging Prince,</L>
<L>Did to his God at la&s;t depart,</L>
<L>with Peace of Con&s;cience.</L>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="4" TYPE="section">
<PB N="30" REF="17">
<HEAD>SECT. <HI>IV.</HI></HEAD>
<L>NExt him did <HI>Salomon</HI> his Son,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Anno</HI> 2985.</NOTE></L>
<L>the Kingdoms Scepter &s;way,</L>
<L>There never &s;ate on regal Throne,</L>
<L>his peer unto this day.</L>
<L>For Wealth,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>1</HI> Kings.</NOTE> for State, for princely Port,</L>
<L>for Plenty and for Peace,</L>
<L>For Wi&s;dom rare, and great re&s;ort;</L>
<L>which made his Fame increa&s;e.</L>
<L>Witne&s;s his Sentence in that Ca&s;e,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 3.</NOTE></L>
<L>of Queans crying out of Wrongs,</L>
<L>His Purveiance,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 4.</NOTE> his hor&s;es Race,</L>
<L>his Proverbs, Writings, Songs:</L>
<L>Witne&s;s the Glorious Temple,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 6.</NOTE> which</L>
<L>he built for God's Great Name;</L>
<L>The Carvings, Coverings, Hangings rich,</L>
<L>the Trea&s;ures of the &s;ame.</L>
<L>Witne&s;s his Prayers that excel,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 8.</NOTE></L>
<L>for Words, for Zeal, for Fitne&s;s,</L>
<L>His Offerings wonderful and well</L>
<L>may that wi&s;e Queen bear witne&s;s.</L>
<L>Who wondring at the comon fame,</L>
<L>unto his Court re&s;orted,</L>
<L>To hear and &s;ee; and when &s;he came,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 107.</NOTE></L>
<L>loe! half was not reported.</L>
<L>Yet <HI>Solomon</HI> who had the&s;e Mines</L>
<L>of Wi&s;dom and of Trea&s;ure,</L>
<L>By many Wives and Concubines,</L>
<L>and &s;urfeiting in Plea&s;ure;</L>
<L>Was drawn from true Religion<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 11.</NOTE></L>
<L>and from Sincerity,</L>
<L>To wicked Super&s;tition,</L>
<L>and gro&s;s Idolatry.</L>
<PB N="31" REF="17">
<L>For which God's Judgment did begin,</L>
<L>his Kingdom rent in twain,</L>
<L><HI>Judah</HI> alone and <HI>Benjamin,</HI></L>
<L>did to his Heirs remain.</L>
<L>The other Tribes, in number Ten,</L>
<L>from their Allegiance fell;</L>
<L>Set up a King, and nam'd him then,</L>
<L>the King of <HI>I&s;rael.</HI></L>
<L>His Throne was at <HI>Samaria</HI></L>
<L>on which he ruled them;</L>
<L>But <HI>Judah</HI>'s Seat Imperial,</L>
<L>was fair <HI>Jeru&s;alem.</HI></L>
<L>And there did <HI>Rehoboam</HI> reign,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Anno</HI> 3015</NOTE></L>
<L>when <HI>Shi&s;hak</HI> rob'd the Temple:<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 12.</NOTE></L>
<L>And next him, his Son <HI>Abiam,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 14.</NOTE></L>
<L>the wor&s;e for his ill Example.</L>
<L>Then <HI>A&s;a,</HI> then <HI>Jeho&s;aphat,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 15.14.</NOTE></L>
<L>both good and holy Kings,</L>
<L>For reformation; &s;aving that,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 22.43.</NOTE></L>
<L>they let alone &s;ome things.</L>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="5" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>SECT. <HI>V.</HI> Kings of <HI>I&s;rael.</HI></HEAD>
<L>MEan time, in <HI>I&s;rael, Nebat</HI>'s Son,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 12.</NOTE></L>
<L>King <HI>Jeroboam</HI> reigned.</L>
<L>Who fir&s;t, at <HI>Bethel</HI> and at <HI>Dan,</HI></L>
<L>tho&s;e Calves and Prie&s;ts ordained,</L>
<L><HI>Nadab</HI> his Son, King <HI>Baa&s;a,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 15.</NOTE></L>
<L>King <HI>Elah,</HI> and King <HI>Zimri,</HI></L>
<L>Did for the Crown each other &s;lay.</L>
<L>&s;o likewi&s;e did King <HI>Omri:</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 16.</NOTE></L>
<PB N="32" REF="18">
<L>But his Son <HI>Ahab</HI> with his Wife,</L>
<L>that cur&s;ed <HI>Jezabel,</HI></L>
<L>Exceeded in ungodly Life,</L>
<L>and to &s;uch Fur<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> fell:</L>
<L>That good <HI>Eliah</HI> fled for fear,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 17.</NOTE></L>
<L>who was by Ravens fed;</L>
<L>Who rais'd the Widows Son mo&s;t dear,</L>
<L>who laid <HI>Baal</HI>'s Prophets dead.</L>
<L>By whom King <HI>Ahab</HI> warning had;<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 18.</NOTE></L>
<L>but words did naught prevail,</L>
<L>Nor Famine,nor yet <HI>Benhadad,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ver&s;e</HI> 2.</NOTE></L>
<L>who &s;trongly did a&s;&s;ail</L>
<L><HI>Samaria:</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 21.</NOTE> yet for all that</L>
<L>he killed <HI>Naboth</HI> ju&s;t,</L>
<L>And after got <HI>Jeho&s;aphat,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 22.</NOTE></L>
<L>to &s;erve unto his Lu&s;t.</L>
<L>For cro&s;&s;ing which, poor <HI>Micaiah,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ver&s;e</HI> 27.</NOTE></L>
<L>was in the Dungeon ca&s;t,</L>
<L>But <HI>Jo&s;aphat</HI> in Battel &s;aw,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Verse</HI> 34.</NOTE></L>
<L>proud <HI>Ahab</HI> &s;lain at la&s;t.</L>
<L>His Son took place when he was dead,</L>
<L>even wicked <HI>Ahaziah,</HI></L>
<L>And after him was <HI>Joram</HI> Head,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 1.</NOTE></L>
<L>as then did good <HI>Eliah,</HI></L>
<L>In fiery Chariot take his flight</L>
<L>to Heaven;<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 2.</NOTE> and in his place,</L>
<L>His Spirit did on <HI>Eli&s;ha</HI> light,</L>
<L>with double Power and Grace.</L>
<L>To work great Miracles,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 4.</NOTE> as by</L>
<L>the increa&s;ed Oyl was proved,</L>
<L>And by <HI>Naaman</HI>'s Lepro&s;ie,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 5.</NOTE></L>
<L>which &s;trangely he removed.</L>
<L>And by the Plenty prophe<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">ed,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 7.</NOTE></L>
<L>in &s;tarv'd <HI>Samaria,</HI></L>
<L>Which the proud Prince that &s;aid he ly'd,</L>
<L>to his &s;mall comfort &s;aw.</L>
<PB N="33" REF="18">
<L>But <HI>Jehu</HI> did this <HI>Joram</HI> quell,</L>
<L>and reigned in his &s;tead,</L>
<L>He &s;lew al&s;o vile <HI>Jezebel,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 9.</NOTE></L>
<L><HI>Baal</HI>'s Prie&s;ts and <HI>Ahab</HI>'s Seed:<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 10.</NOTE></L>
<L>His wicked Son <HI>Jehoahaz,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 13.</NOTE></L>
<L>&s;ucceeded;<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ver&s;. <HI>3.4.</HI></NOTE> and the next</L>
<L>Was his Son <HI>Joa&s;h:</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Ver&s;. <HI>25.</HI></NOTE> either was</L>
<L>by <HI>Aram</HI>'s Armies vext.</L>
<L>Next <HI>Joa&s;h, Jeroboam</HI>'s Plea,</L>
<L>and Place was to &s;ucceed,</L>
<L>Now <HI>Jonas</HI> threatned <HI>Ninivy,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 14.23.</NOTE></L>
<L>but they repent with &s;peed.</L>
<L>Now did <HI>Ho&s;ea</HI> take his Text,</L>
<L>and <HI>Amos</HI> Prophe&s;ie,</L>
<L>But <HI>Jeroboam</HI> dead,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 15.</NOTE> the next</L>
<L>was his Son <HI>Zachary.</HI></L>
<L>Whom <HI>Shallum</HI> &s;lew in open fight<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ver&s;e</HI> 10.</NOTE></L>
<L>and reigned in his &s;tead,</L>
<L>But <HI>Menahem</HI> did him requite,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ver&s;.</HI> 14.</NOTE></L>
<L>and in his Seat &s;ucceed.</L>
<L>Then <HI>Pekahiah, Men'hem</HI>'s Son,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ver&s;.</HI> 23.</NOTE></L>
<L>did wear the Crown until</L>
<L>His Captain <HI>Pekah</HI> &s;eiz'd thereon,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ver&s;.</HI> 25.</NOTE></L>
<L>and did his Sovereign kill.</L>
<L>Nor had this <HI>Pekah</HI> reigned long,</L>
<L>but he receiv'd his Doom,</L>
<L><HI>Ho&s;hea</HI> did revenge the Wrong,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ver&s;.</HI> 30.</NOTE></L>
<L>and reigned in his room</L>
<L>In his time did <HI>Salmanazer,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 17.</NOTE></L>
<L>be&s;iege <HI>Samaria</HI> &s;trong,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>ver&s;.</HI> 6.</NOTE></L>
<L>And took <HI>Ho&s;hea</HI> Pri&s;oner,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Anno</HI> 3265.</NOTE></L>
<L>and led with him along,</L>
<L>All <HI>I&s;rael</HI> into <HI>Syria,</HI></L>
<L>where they did &s;till remain,</L>
<L>And planted in <HI>Samaria,</HI></L>
<L>of his <HI>A&s;&s;yrian</HI> Train.</L>
<PB N="34" REF="19">
<L>Whom God by Lyons did mole&s;t,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ver&s;.</HI> 25.</NOTE></L>
<L>for their Idolatries,</L>
<L>Which made them get an <HI>Hebrew</HI> Prie&s;t,</L>
<L>to teach them better ways.</L>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="16" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>SECT. <HI>XVI.</HI> The Kings of <HI>Judah.</HI></HEAD>
<L>THus leaving <HI>I&s;rael</HI> di&s;po&s;&s;e&s;t,</L>
<L>the cour&s;e of Story brings</L>
<L>Us back to <HI>Judah,</HI> which was ble&s;t,</L>
<L>with more religious Kings.</L>
<L>There next unto <HI>Jeho&s;ophat,</HI></L>
<L>did his Son <HI>Joram</HI> Reign,</L>
<L>Then <HI>Ahaziah,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. <HI>8.</HI></NOTE> then up&s;tart</L>
<L><HI>Athalia</HI> who had &s;lain</L>
<L>All the Kings Sons that &s;he could catch;<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. <HI>11.</HI></NOTE></L>
<L>young <HI>Joa&s;h</HI> &s;cap't alone,</L>
<L>By help of Friends, who made a Match,</L>
<L>to place him on his Throne.</L>
<L>He reign'd and did God's Hou&s;e repair,</L>
<L>and left them when he died</L>
<L>King <HI>Ama&s;t,</HI> his hopeful Heir,</L>
<L>then <HI>Joel</HI> prophe&s;ied.</L>
<L><HI>&V;zziah Amaziah</HI>'s Son,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. <HI>12.</HI></NOTE></L>
<L>was &s;truck with Lepro&s;ie.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. <HI>14.</HI></NOTE></L>
<L>As he did reign,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. <HI>15.</HI></NOTE> and then begun</L>
<L><HI>I&s;aiah</HI>'s Prophe&s;ie.</L>
<L><HI>Jotham</HI> a Prince of God's behe&s;t,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. <HI>16.</HI></NOTE></L>
<L>&s;ucceeded next <HI>&V;zziah:</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. <HI>18.</HI></NOTE></L>
<L>And after him <HI>Ahaz</HI> that bea&s;t,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Anno</HI> 3260.</NOTE></L>
<L>and then reign'd <HI>Hezekiah.</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. <HI>18.</HI></NOTE></L>
<L>Again&s;t him proud <HI>Senacherib,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. <HI>19.</HI></NOTE></L>
<L>&s;ent railing <HI>Rab&s;hekee,</HI></L>
<PB N="35" REF="19">
<L>Who to his co&s;t was an&s;wered,</L>
<L>and caus'd with &s;hame to flee.</L>
<L>Now was the Prophet <HI>Micak</HI> heard,</L>
<L>and <HI>Nahum:</HI> but we find,</L>
<L>That this good King from death re&s;erv'd<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 20.</NOTE></L>
<L>towards <HI>Babel</HI> is too kind.</L>
<L>Next him, his Son <HI>Mana&s;&s;e</HI> reign'd,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 21.</NOTE></L>
<L>a wicked cruel King,<NOTE PLACE="marg">1 <HI>Chron.</HI> 33.12, 13.</NOTE></L>
<L>Until he was in <HI>Babel</HI> chain'd:</L>
<L>but thence God did him bring.</L>
<L><HI>Ammon</HI> a man profanely vain,</L>
<L>his Father wor&s;e way took,</L>
<L>And was by his own &s;ervants &s;lain:</L>
<L>now preached <HI>Habakkuk.</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">2 <HI>Kings</HI> 21.13.</NOTE></L>
<L>Then young <HI>Jo&s;iah, Ammon</HI>'s Son,</L>
<L>a worthy Prince and zealous,</L>
<L>Made &s;uch a Reformation<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 12.</NOTE></L>
<L>as was and will be famous.</L>
<L>Now <HI>Jeremiah</HI> Trumpet-like</L>
<L>cries out; and <HI>Zephaniah:</HI></L>
<L>But <HI>Necho</HI>'s men in Battel &s;trike,</L>
<L>and kill good King <HI>Jo&s;iah.</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 23.</NOTE></L>
<L>His Son <HI>Jehoahaz</HI> the Crown</L>
<L>obtain'd; but reign'd not long,</L>
<L>For <HI>Pharaoh Necho</HI> put him down,</L>
<L>and c<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ain'd with Fetters &s;trong;<NOTE PLACE="marg">2 <HI>Kings</HI> 24 1.</NOTE></L>
<L>And plac'd his Brother in his room,</L>
<L><HI>Jehoiakim</HI> by name,<NOTE PLACE="marg">2 <HI>Chron.</HI> 36.4.</NOTE></L>
<L>Who <HI>Babel</HI>'s Va&s;&s;al did become</L>
<L>for three Years &s;pace with &s;hame.</L>
<L>And then rebelling brought again<NOTE PLACE="marg">Anno 3389.</NOTE></L>
<L>great <HI>Nebuchadnezzar.</HI></L>
<L>With all his huge and warlike Train:</L>
<L>who took him Pri&s;oner,</L>
<L>And bound and carried him away,</L>
<L>with whom to <HI>Babylon,</HI></L>
<PB N="36" REF="20">
<L><HI>Ezekiel</HI> and <HI>Mordecai,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">1 <HI>Chron.</HI> 3.16.</NOTE></L>
<L>and <HI>Daniel</HI> are gone,</L>
<L>With other moe of Royal Seed,<NOTE PLACE="marg">2 <HI>Kings</HI> 24.8.</NOTE></L>
<L>young <HI>Jechoni</HI> alone,<NOTE PLACE="marg">ver&s;. 10, 11.</NOTE></L>
<L>Was left behind in's Fathers &s;tead:</L>
<L>to &s;it on <HI>Judah</HI>'s Throne;</L>
<L>Nor &s;ate he long but <HI>Babel</HI> doth,</L>
<L>his Souldiers &s;tout command,</L>
<L>To fetch him and his Trea&s;ure both,</L>
<L>and Chief Men of the Land.</L>
<L>His Unkle <HI>Zedekiah</HI> plac'd,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Anno</HI> 3399.</NOTE></L>
<L>was in his room, and c<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">owned;</L>
<L>Who likewi&s;e did rebel at la&s;t,</L>
<L>but <HI>Babel</HI>'s King &s;o frowned,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 24.17.</NOTE></L>
<L>That up again&s;t <HI>Jeru&s;alem,</HI></L>
<L>the fourth time that he came,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>ver.</HI> 17.20.</NOTE></L>
<L>He by &s;trong Siege &s;o &s;tarved them,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 25.</NOTE></L>
<L>that Warriours fled with &s;hame.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ver&s;e</HI> 3.5.</NOTE></L>
<L>King <HI>Zedekiah</HI> al&s;o fled,</L>
<L>but <HI>Chaldees</HI> quickly caught him,</L>
<L>And that due Judgment might be had,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 25.</NOTE></L>
<L>they unto <HI>Riblah</HI> brought him,</L>
<L>And &s;lew his Sons before his face,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ver&s;e</HI> 6.</NOTE></L>
<L>and then put out his Eyes,</L>
<L>And chained him with all Di&s;grace,</L>
<L>that el&s;e they could devi&s;e.</L>
<L>And &s;o to <HI>Babel</HI> they return,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Anno.</HI> 3400.</NOTE></L>
<L>with Pri&s;oners and with Prey,</L>
<L>The Temple after that they burn,</L>
<L>and take all thence away.</L>
<L>Yea,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ver&s;e</HI> 8, 9.</NOTE> burnt the Palace fair and rich,</L>
<L>which <HI>Solomon</HI> did build:</L>
<L>And all the goodly Hou&s;es which</L>
<L><HI>Jeru&s;alem</HI> did yield.</L>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="17" TYPE="section">
<PB N="37" REF="20">
<HEAD><HI>SECT.</HI> XVII.</HEAD>
<L>BEing now at <HI>Babel</HI> fa&s;t in Hold,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Dantel.</NOTE></L>
<L>the fine&s;t Wits were &s;ought,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 1.</NOTE></L>
<L>Or captive Children to be &s;chool'd,</L>
<L>and <HI>Chaldee</HI> learning taught.</L>
<L>There <HI>Daniel</HI> among the re&s;t,</L>
<L>did to &s;uch Ripene&s;s come,</L>
<L>That when a Dream the King oppre&s;t,</L>
<L>and Wizzards all were dumb.</L>
<L>The Dream forgotten, he di&s;clos'd,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 2.</NOTE></L>
<L>which was an Image great<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ver&s;e</HI> 27.</NOTE></L>
<L>Of Metals different compos'd,</L>
<L>from head unto the feet.</L>
<L>This made the King much to admire,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ver&s;e <HI>4, 6.</HI></NOTE></L>
<L>him and his fellows all,</L>
<L>Yet three were ca&s;t into the fire,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 3.</NOTE></L>
<L>for that they would not fall</L>
<L>Before his Image hugely trim:</L>
<L>but fire could take no hold.</L>
<L>Another Dream then vexed him,</L>
<L>which <HI>Daniel</HI> did unfold;<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 4.</NOTE></L>
<L>And eke the &s;tate of future Times,</L>
<L>Of Monarchs Crowns &s;urpri&s;ing.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 7, 8, 11, 12.</NOTE></L>
<L>Of Chri&s;t preci&s;ely he divines</L>
<L>and of the Deads ari&s;ing,</L>
<L>But <HI>Babel</HI>'s King re&s;tored back,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 4.</NOTE></L>
<L>from Bea&s;ts made better end,</L>
<L>Next him reign'd <HI>Evilmerodach,</HI></L>
<L>even <HI>Jeconiah</HI>'s Friend,</L>
<L>To him &s;ucceded <HI>Bal&s;hazzar.</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Jer.</HI> 20.</NOTE></L>
<L>who in his drunken Fea&s;t,</L>
<L>Did neither God nor's People &s;pare,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 25.</NOTE></L>
<L>for Bla&s;phemy and Je&s;t;</L>
<PB N="38" REF="21">
<L>Till fingers writing on a wall,</L>
<L>dazling his very &s;ight,</L>
<L>Did &s;o his Countenance appall,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ver&s;e</HI> 8.</NOTE></L>
<L>was never man &s;o fright.</L>
<L>This Writing <HI>Daniel</HI> did expound</L>
<L>unto his further pain,</L>
<L>For even that night he was uncrown'd,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ver&s;e</HI> 30.</NOTE></L>
<L>and by <HI>Darius</HI> &s;lain.</L>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="18" TYPE="section">
<HEAD><HI>SECT.</HI> XVIII.</HEAD>
<L>WHen now full &s;eventy Years were &s;pent,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Anno</HI> 3458.</NOTE></L>
<L>in their Captivity,</L>
<L>King <HI>Cyrus</HI> Proclamation &s;ent,</L>
<L>for their Delivery.</L>
<L><HI>Zerubbabel</HI> doth then retire,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ezra.</HI> Chap. 1.</NOTE></L>
<L>with all the Temples Trea&s;ure.</L>
<L>And full Commi&s;&s;ion to repair</L>
<L>the Ruins at their plea&s;ure.</L>
<L>But crafty Foes did plot apace,</L>
<L>the Lord's Work to with&s;tand,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 4.</NOTE></L>
<L>By flattering Speech unto their face.</L>
<L>and Letters under hand;</L>
<L>Yea, <HI>Haman</HI>'s Hatred cankered,</L>
<L>had clean de&s;troy'd them all,</L>
<L>Had not Queen <HI>E&s;ther</HI> ventured,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>E&s;ther.</HI> Chap. 3.</NOTE></L>
<L>and &s;av'd them from the Thrall,</L>
<L>Then <HI>Haggai,</HI> al&s;o <HI>Zachary,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ezra.</HI> Chap. 5.</NOTE></L>
<L>the &s;lackne&s;s do reprove;</L>
<L>And &s;hortly after <HI>Malachi,</HI></L>
<L>their lack of Zeal and Love.</L>
<L>At la&s;t the Temple fini&s;hed,</L>
<L>was by <HI>Zerubbabel,</HI></L>
<L>And <HI>Nehemi</HI> with Letters &s;ped,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Nehemia.</HI> Chap. 2.</NOTE></L>
<L>to build the Walls as well.</L>
<PB N="39" REF="21">
<L>Which he perform'd for all the hate</L>
<L>of Enemies prophane,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 6.15.</NOTE></L>
<L><HI>Tobiah,</HI> wicked <HI>Sanballat,</HI></L>
<L>and wor&s;e <HI>Samaritane.</HI></L>
<L>And then he kept a &s;olemn Fea&s;t,</L>
<L>whereat the Law was read,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 4. <HI>Ver&s;e</HI> 1, 2. Chap. 8.</NOTE></L>
<L>And &s;eal'd a Covenant with the re&s;t,</L>
<L>their God to &s;erve and dread.</L>
<L>Next Kings and Dukes, the <HI>Maccabees,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 10.</NOTE></L>
<L>(as Stories do recite)</L>
<L>Did rule them: but the Monarchies,</L>
<L>&s;till top't them by their Might.<NOTE PLACE="marg">1 <HI>The</HI> Baby|lonians.</NOTE></L>
<L>In &s;uch Subjection did they mourn,<NOTE PLACE="marg">2 <HI>The</HI> Gre|cians.</NOTE></L>
<L>four hundred Years, and odd,</L>
<L>Until <HI>Me&s;&s;iah,</HI> Chri&s;t was born,<NOTE PLACE="marg">3 <HI>The</HI> Ro|mans.</NOTE></L>
<L>true Man and very God.</L>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="list of dukes">
<PB N="40" REF="22">
<HEAD>The Dukes of <HI>David</HI>'s Stock, after the Return out of Cap|tivity.</HEAD>
<LIST>
<ITEM>1 <HI>Jeconias,</HI> Jer. 52.</ITEM>
<ITEM>2 <HI>Shelathiel,</HI> Hag. 1.</ITEM>
<ITEM>3 <HI>Zorobabel.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>4 <HI>Reza.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>5 <HI>Joanna.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>6 <HI>Judas Hyrcanus.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>7 <HI>Jo&s;eph Primus.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>8 <HI>Abner Semei.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>9 <HI>Eli Mattathia.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>10 <HI>Azar Mahat.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>11 <HI>Nagid Artaxad.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>12 <HI>Haggai Eli.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>13 <HI>Ma&s;lot Naum.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>14 <HI>Amos Syrac.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>15 <HI>Mattathia Siloath.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>16 <HI>Jo&s;eph Secundus.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>17 <HI>Janna Hyrcanus.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>This <HI>Janna</HI> was &s;lain by <HI>Antiochus Epi|phanes</HI> King of <HI>Syria,</HI> who tyrannized over them, until <HI>Mattathias</HI> the high Prie&s;t arm|ed and encouraged his Sons again&s;t him; who drave him out of the Countrey, and &s;ucce&s;&s;ively reigned in his room.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="list of princes and kings">
<PB N="41" REF="22">
<HEAD>The Princes and Kings of the <HI>Family</HI> of the <HI>Maccabees.</HI></HEAD>
<LIST>
<ITEM>1 <HI>Judas Macchabeus</HI> the Son of <HI>Mattathias,</HI> reigned&mdash;5 years.</ITEM>
<ITEM>2 <HI>Jonathan</HI> an other Son&mdash;19 years.</ITEM>
<ITEM>3 <HI>Simon</HI> a third Son&mdash;8 years.</ITEM>
<ITEM>4 <HI>Johannes Hyrcanus</HI>&mdash;31 years.</ITEM>
<ITEM>5 <HI>Ari&s;tobulus</HI> his Son&mdash;1 year.</ITEM>
<ITEM>6 <HI>Alexander Janneus</HI>&mdash;27 years.</ITEM>
<ITEM>7 <HI>Alexandra</HI> his Wife&mdash;9 years.</ITEM>
<ITEM>8 <HI>Hyrcanus</HI> her Son &s;ucceeded, but <HI>Ari&s;to|bulus</HI> his younger Brother rebelled and made War again&s;t him: wherefore <HI>Hyr|canus</HI> &s;ent Emba&s;&s;adors to <HI>Pompey</HI> the <HI>Ro|man</HI> Captain for Aid. <HI>Pompey</HI> came to <HI>Je|ru&s;alem,</HI> &s;ubdued the Rebels, gave the Go|vernment and Prie&s;thood to <HI>Hyrcanus,</HI> and carried <HI>Ari&s;tobulus</HI> with his two Sons <HI>Alex|ander,</HI> and <HI>Antigonus</HI> Captives towards <HI>Rome. Alexander</HI> e&s;caped by the way, and returned, and got part of <HI>Galilee;</HI> but was taken again by <HI>Gabinius,</HI> and afterward put to death at <HI>Antioch</HI> by <HI>Scipio</HI> the Father-in-law of <HI>Pompey. Antigonus</HI> was &s;et at liber|ty by <HI>Julius Cae&s;ar,</HI> after the Battel between him and <HI>Pompey.</HI> But coming into <HI>Jewry,</HI> he dealt cruelly with his old Uncle <HI>Hyrca|nus</HI> the high Prie&s;t, cutting off his Ears, and bani&s;hing him into <HI>Parthia,</HI> for which Cau&s;e he was taken again, and Executed at <HI>Antioch,</HI> by <HI>Antony, Herod</HI>'s Lieutenant in <HI>Jewry.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
<PB N="42" REF="23">
<P><HI>Herod</HI> al&s;o &s;ent for <HI>Hyrcanus</HI> out of <HI>Par|thia,</HI> and put him to death, and &s;o came the Family of the <HI>Maccabees</HI> fully to an end, and the Kingdom of <HI>Jewry</HI> was e&s;tabli&s;hed to <HI>Herod</HI> and his Heirs.</P>
<DIV3 TYPE="lineage">
<HEAD>The Po&s;terity of <HI>Herod.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THE Kingdom or Province of <HI>Jewry</HI> was given by <HI>Julius Cae&s;ar</HI> to <HI>Antipater</HI> of <HI>Idumea</HI> the Father of <HI>Herod,</HI> in recom|pence of the faithful and good Service which he did in <HI>Aegypt,</HI> in the time of his Wars and Dangers there.</P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>1 <HI>Herod</HI> the Son of <HI>Antipater,</HI> called <HI>He|rod</HI> the Great, was made King by the Senate of <HI>Rome,</HI> and reigned 37 years. He pulled down the Temple, that was built after the Captivity, and built another after the pat|tern of <HI>Solomon</HI>'s, wonderful rich and &s;tately. He put to death <HI>Ari&s;tobulus</HI> and <HI>Alexander</HI> his Sons, upon &s;u&s;picion of Trea&s;on: in his thirtieth Year was Chri&s;t Je&s;us born.</ITEM>
<ITEM>2. <HI>Archelaus</HI> another of his Sons ruled <HI>Judea</HI> nine years.</ITEM>
<ITEM>3. <HI>Herod Antipas</HI> another Son, governed <HI>Galile;</HI> he beheaded <HI>John Bapti&s;t.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>4. <HI>Philip</HI> another Son, governed <HI>Ituria.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>5. <HI>Herod Agrippa,</HI> the Son of <HI>Ari&s;tobulus,</HI> who killed <HI>James,</HI> and was eaten up of Worms, <HI>Acts cap.</HI> 12.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P><HI>Agrippa</HI> his Son (mentioned with <HI>Bernice</HI> his Si&s;ter, <HI>Acts</HI> 25.) being a Child, was carried into <HI>Syria,</HI> and the <HI>Romans</HI> took the Government of <HI>Jewry</HI> again into their own hands, as in former time.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="timeline">
<PB N="43" REF="23">
<HEAD>A Brief Supputation of the Years and Times from the Creation of the World,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Age of the World</NOTE> unto the Birth of Chri&s;t: Collected out of <HI>Junius,</HI> according to the <HI>Scriptures.</HI></HEAD>
<LIST>
<LABEL>Gen. 5.</LABEL>
<ITEM><LIST>
<ITEM><HI>ADam</HI> being 130 years old be|gat <HI>Seth</HI>&mdash; 130</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Seth</HI> at 105 years old begat <HI>Eno&s;h</HI>&mdash; 235</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Eno&s;h</HI> at 90 begat <HI>Kenan</HI>&mdash; 325</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Kenan</HI> at 70 begat <HI>Mahalaleel</HI>&mdash; 395</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Mahalaleel</HI> at 65 begat <HI>Jared</HI>&mdash; 460</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Jared</HI> at 162 begat <HI>Enoch</HI>&mdash; 622</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Enoch</HI> at 65 begat <HI>Methu&s;helah</HI>&mdash; 687</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Methu&s;elah</HI> at 187 begat <HI>Lamech</HI>&mdash; 874</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Lamech</HI> at 182 begat <HI>Noah</HI>&mdash; 1056</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Noah</HI> at 502 begat <HI>Shem</HI>&mdash; 1558</ITEM>
<ITEM>In his 500 year he begat <HI>Japhet,</HI> for thus <HI>Junius</HI> readeth it out of the <HI>Hebrew</HI> (Brother to <HI>Japhet</HI> the El|der,) <HI>Gen.</HI> 10.21.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Shem</HI> at 100 years old old begat <HI>Arpach&s;had</HI> &mdash; 1658</ITEM>
<ITEM>This being two years after the Flood, (which came in <HI>Noah</HI>'s &s;ix hundreth year) it followeth that he was begotten in the five hundred
<PB N="44" REF="24">and &s;econd year of <HI>Noah, Gen.</HI> 11. <HI>ver&s;e</HI> 10.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
</LIST>
<LIST>
<LABEL>Gen. 11</LABEL>
<ITEM><LIST>
<ITEM>1693 &mdash;<HI>Arpach&s;had</HI> at 35 begat <HI>Shelah</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>1723 &mdash;<HI>Shelah</HI> at 30 begat <HI>Heber.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>1759 &mdash;<HI>Heber</HI> at 35 begat <HI>Peleg.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>1787 &mdash;<HI>Peleg</HI> at 30 begat <HI>Reu.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>1819 &mdash;<HI>Reu</HI> at 32 begat <HI>Serug.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>1849 &mdash;<HI>Serug</HI> at 30 begat <HI>Nahor.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>1878 &mdash;<HI>Nahor</HI> at 29 begat <HI>Terah.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Terah</HI> at 70 began to beget Chil|dren (&s;aith <HI>Junius</HI>) and at 130 begat <HI>Abram</HI>&mdash;</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>This plainly appeareth, for <HI>Terah</HI> was 205 years old when he died in <HI>Haran, Gen.</HI> 11.32. and <HI>Abram</HI> going out of <HI>Ha|ran,</HI> &s;hortly after was but 75. <HI>Gen.</HI> 12.4. Now deduct the Son's Age out of the Fa|thers, and there remaineth 130. to <HI>Terah</HI> at <HI>Abram</HI>'s Birth.</P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>2108 <HI>Abraham</HI> at 100 years begat <HI>I&s;aac.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>2168 <HI>I&s;aac</HI> at 60 begat <HI>E&s;au</HI> and <HI>Jacob.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>2293 <HI>Jacob</HI> being 130 years old, goeth down in|to <HI>Aegypt, Gene&s;is</HI> 47.9.</ITEM>
<ITEM>2315 <HI>Jacob</HI> died 17 years after his coming into <HI>Aegypt, Gen.</HI> 47.28.</ITEM>
<ITEM>2368 <HI>Jo&s;eph</HI> died 53 years after his Father <HI>Ja|cob, Gen.</HI> 50.</ITEM>
<ITEM>2428 <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> was born 60 years after the Death of <HI>Jo&s;eph.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>2508 <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> was 80 years old when he &s;tood be|fore <HI>Pharaoh, Exod.</HI> 7.7.</ITEM>
<ITEM>2510 The Tabernacle was reared the &s;econd year after, <HI>Exod.</HI> 40.17.</ITEM>
<ITEM>2549 <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> died 40 years after the departure out of <HI>Aegypt,</HI> and 39 after the Taberna|cle erected, <HI>Deut.</HI> 1.3.</ITEM>
<PB N="45" REF="24">
<ITEM><HI>Jo&s;hua</HI> died 17 years after <HI>Mo&s;es.</HI> 2566</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Othniel</HI> died 40 years after <HI>Jo&s;hua.</HI> 2606</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Ehud</HI> died 80 years after <HI>Othniel.</HI> 2686</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Deborah</HI> died 40 years after <HI>Ehud.</HI> 2726</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Gideon</HI> died 40 years after <HI>Deborah.</HI> 2766</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Abimelech</HI> u&s;urped 3 years. 2769</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Tola</HI> died 23 years after <HI>Abimelech.</HI> 2792</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Jair</HI> died 22 years after <HI>Tola.</HI> 2814</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Iphtah</HI> died 6 years after <HI>Jair.</HI> 2820</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Ibzan</HI> died 7 years after <HI>Iphtah.</HI> 2827</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Elon</HI> died 10 years after <HI>Ibzan.</HI> 2837</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Abdon</HI> died 8 years after <HI>Elon.</HI> 2845</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Samp&s;on</HI> died 20 years after <HI>Abdon.</HI> 2805</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Eli</HI> died 40 years after <HI>Samp&s;on.</HI> 2905</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Samuel</HI> &s;ucceeded to the time of <HI>Saul.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Saul</HI> began his Reign, and reigned alone, and with <HI>Samuel</HI> 40 years. 2905</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>David</HI> reigned 40 years. 2945</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Solomon</HI> reigned 40 years. 2985</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Rehoboam</HI> reigned 17 years. 3025</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Abiam</HI> reigned 3 years. 3042</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>A&s;a</HI> reigned 41 years. 3045</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Jeho&s;aphat</HI> reigned 25 years. 3086</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Jehoram</HI> reigned 4 years after his Fathers Death; having been made <HI>Viceroy</HI> twice in his Father's life-time. Fir&s;t in his &s;e|venteenth year, as appeareth, 1 <HI>King.</HI> 22.51. compared with 2 <HI>King.</HI> 1.17. 3111</ITEM>
<ITEM>And again, in his 22 year, as appeareth 2 <HI>Kings</HI> 3.1. compared with <HI>cap.</HI> 8.16</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Athaliah</HI> reigned 6. 3115</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Joa&s;h</HI> reigned 39 year. 3121</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Ama&s;iah</HI> reigned 29 years. 3160</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>In his &s;eventeenth year (or the fourth of <HI>Jeroboam</HI> King of <HI>I&s;rael</HI>) there was a Con&s;piracy again&s;t him, and he fled to
<PB N="46" REF="25"><HI>Lachi&s;h,</HI> and lived there a bani&s;hed Man 11 years. <HI>&V;zziah</HI> his Son being in the mean &s;pace made King by the common people, 2 <HI>Kings</HI> 14.21. See <HI>Junius</HI> his Note on the place. <HI>&V;zziah</HI> reigned 52 years.</P>
<P>3177 About this time began the <HI>Greek Olym|piads,</HI> by which they made a Computation of all memorable Matters. It was a Game in&s;tituted by <HI>Hercules,</HI> on the Hill <HI>Olympus</HI> in <HI>Greece,</HI> which was held in the beginning of every fifth Year, and continued five days with great Solemnity, and Concour&s;e out of all Countries.</P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>3229 &mdash;<HI>Jotham</HI> reigned alone 15 years.</ITEM>
<ITEM>3244 &mdash;<HI>Ahaz</HI> reigned 16 years.</ITEM>
<ITEM>3260 &mdash;<HI>Hezekiah</HI> reigned 29 years.</ITEM>
<ITEM>3289 &mdash;<HI>Mana&s;&s;e</HI> reigned 55 years.</ITEM>
<ITEM>3344 &mdash;<HI>Ammon</HI> reigned 2 years.</ITEM>
<ITEM>3346 &mdash;<HI>Jo&s;iah</HI> reigned 31 years.</ITEM>
<ITEM>3377 &mdash;<HI>Jehoiakim</HI> reigned 11 years.</ITEM>
<ITEM>3388 <HI>Jeconiah</HI> reigned three months, and was carried captive to <HI>Babel,</HI> 2 <HI>Chron.</HI> 36.</ITEM>
<ITEM>3399 &mdash;<HI>Zedekiah</HI> reigned 11 years.</ITEM>
<ITEM>3425 From <HI>Zedekiah</HI> to the Exaltation of <HI>Jehoia|kim,</HI> 2 <HI>Kings</HI> 25.30.&mdash;26 years.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<DIV3 TYPE="summary">
<HEAD>In Sum.</HEAD>
<LIST>
<ITEM>From the Creation of <HI>Adam,</HI> to the Flood, are &mdash; 1656 years.</ITEM>
<ITEM>From the Flood to the death of <HI>Jo&s;hua,</HI> are &mdash; 910 years.</ITEM>
<ITEM>From <HI>Jo&s;hua</HI> to the death of <HI>Eli,</HI> are &mdash; 339 years.</ITEM>
<ITEM>From <HI>Eli</HI> to the Deportation of <HI>Jeconias,</HI> are &mdash; 473 years.</ITEM>
<PB N="47" REF="25">
<ITEM>From the Captivity of <HI>Jeconias</HI> to the Edict of <HI>Cyrus</HI> for their Deliverance (promi&s;ed <HI>Jerem.</HI> 25.11. and performed in the fir&s;t year of his Reign) are&mdash;70 years.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Anno</HI> 3458.</NOTE></ITEM>
<ITEM>From the Edict of <HI>Cyrus,</HI> beginneth the fir&s;t of <HI>Daniel</HI>'s 70 weeks.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The&s;e 70 weeks are to be expounded as the Sabbaths, or Weeks in the year of Ju|bile, <HI>Levit.</HI> 25.8. and continue in the whole &mdash; 490 yeare.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>The&s;e are divided by <HI>Gabriel</HI> the Angel into three parts, <HI>Dan.</HI> 9.25.</P>
<P>Fir&s;t he appointeth 7 Weeks, or a Sab|bath of Weeks, or a Jubile of 49 years, for the building of the Temple, and re&s;to|ring of the pure Wor&s;hip of God.</P>
<P>Secondly, he appointeth 62 Weeks (which contain 434 years) for repairing of the City, and building the Walls. And the&s;e begin with the Commi&s;&s;ion of <HI>Nehemiah,</HI> (from <HI>Darius, Artaxerzes Longimanus</HI>) <HI>Neh.</HI> 2.9. and reach unto the la&s;t Week in which <HI>Me&s;&s;iah</HI> began to preach.</P>
<P>Thirdly, he &s;peaketh of the la&s;t Week, and divideth it into two parts.</P>
<P N="1">1. In the fir&s;t part, and mid&s;t of it, or in the fourth year, he &s;aith that <HI>Me&s;&s;iah</HI> &s;hall aboli&s;h the Sacrifice and Oblation: namely by offering up him&s;elf once for all, <HI>Heb.</HI> 10.14. Which is more plainly expre&s;|&s;ed, <HI>Dan.</HI> 9.26. where he is &s;aid to be cut off, or Crucified and delivered to Death. But nothing to him, that is, Death &s;hall not prevail over him, but that he &s;hall make good his Judgments upon a rebellious and gain&s;aying People. For it is &s;aid, <HI>(He &s;hall
<PB N="48" REF="26">de&s;troy the City, and the Holy Things.)</HI> or the Temple; and that with &s;uch Severity, as if a flood of Wrath and Judgment &s;wal|lowed up all.</P>
<P>The&s;e 69 weeks and a half week con|tain 487 years, which fall out ju&s;t, by this Account</P>
<P>From the Edict of <HI>Cyrus</HI> to the Re-edi|fying of the Temple,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ezra</HI> 6.15.7.12 <HI>Anno</HI> 3507.</NOTE> and the return of the People, by the Command of <HI>Artaxerxes,</HI> the whole time of <HI>Ezra</HI> his Story, are 49 years.</P>
<P>From the Temple fini&s;hed,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Anno</HI> 3577.</NOTE> to the Repai|ring of the City <HI>Jeru&s;alem,</HI> and the end of <HI>Ar&s;anes</HI> his Reign; the time of <HI>Nehemia</HI>'s Story, &mdash; 70 years.</P>
<P>From thence to the Death of <HI>Alexander</HI> the Great, are &mdash; 12 years.</P>
<P><HI>Alexander</HI> died in the fir&s;t year of the 114 <HI>Olympiad,</HI> and Chri&s;t was Crucified the la&s;t year of the 202 <HI>Olympiad.</HI> Which 89 <HI>Olympiads</HI> contain 356 years, and &s;o is the Sum 487 fully made up.</P>
<P>The latter part,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Anno</HI> 3945.</NOTE> or other half of the week, is referred unto the <HI>Revelation</HI> of the <HI>New Te&s;tament, cap.</HI> 11.3. where it is &s;aid that the two Witne&s;&s;es &s;hall Prophe&s;ie, 1260 days, or 42 months; which make up three years and a half: and &s;o the full number of the 70 weeks.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="2" TYPE="part">
<PB N="49" REF="26">
<HEAD>THE SECOND PART</HEAD>
<DIV3 N="1" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>SECT. <HI>I.</HI></HEAD>
<L>OF <HI>Abram</HI>'s Seed and <HI>David</HI>'s Line</L>
<L>directly Chri&s;t de&s;cended:<NOTE PLACE="marg">Mat. 1. Luke 3.</NOTE></L>
<L>So have th' <HI>Evangeli&s;ts</HI> Divine</L>
<L>by Scripture left commended.</L>
<L>Before him was an Herald &s;ent,</L>
<L>his Coming to proclaim:</L>
<L>Who cry'd in Wilderne&s;s, <HI>Repent,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Mat. 3.</NOTE></L>
<L><HI>the Paths of God make plain.</HI></L>
<L>His Clothing was of Hair and Skin,</L>
<L>his Meat of no great Co&s;t,</L>
<L>And for reproving <HI>Herod</HI>'s &s;in,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Mat. 14.</NOTE></L>
<L>his Head at la&s;t he lo&s;t.</L>
<L>This was that <HI>John</HI> the Bapti&s;t who&s;e</L>
<L>Birth, Name and Office high,</L>
<L>The Angel <HI>Gabriel</HI> did di&s;clo&s;e,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Luke 1.</NOTE></L>
<L>to his Father <HI>Zachary.</HI></L>
<L>Who thought it not to be believ'd,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ver&s;e</HI> 18.</NOTE></L>
<L>and for it was &s;truck dumb,</L>
<L>Till old <HI>Elizabeth</HI> had Conceiv'd</L>
<L>and all to pa&s;s was come.</L>
<L>To <HI>Mary</HI> eke of <HI>Nazaret,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ver&s;e</HI> 26.</NOTE></L>
<L>a Virgin Pure and Cha&s;t,</L>
<PB N="50" REF="27">
<L>With Salutation high and great,</L>
<L>this <HI>Gabriel</HI> did ha&s;te.</L>
<L>Shewing that &s;he mu&s;t Mother be,</L>
<L>God's dear Son forth to bring,</L>
<L>The Holy Gho&s;t by high Decree,</L>
<L>her over&s;hadowing.</L>
<L>And at that very time betroth't</L>
<L>&s;he was to <HI>Jo&s;eph</HI> Ju&s;t:</L>
<L>When being found with Child,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Mat. 1.</NOTE> he thought</L>
<L>that part with her he mu&s;t.</L>
<L>But then an Angel warned him</L>
<L>by Dream to keep her &s;till,</L>
<L>For that &s;he had Conceiv'd within,</L>
<L>was God's own Work and Will,</L>
<L>At <HI>Bethlem</HI> &s;he was brought to Bed,</L>
<L>and <HI>Je&s;us Chri&s;t</HI> was Born,</L>
<L>And in a Manger &s;waddeled,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Luke 2.</NOTE></L>
<L>as one ca&s;t out to &s;corn:</L>
<L>But heavenly Angels made him known</L>
<L>to Shepherds, forthwith they</L>
<L>Found out the Babe, as had been &s;hown,</L>
<L>and publi&s;h't it with Joy.</L>
<L>Then was he Circumcis'd and Nam'd,</L>
<L>and (as the Law indented)</L>
<L>Brought to the Temple, fitly fram'd,</L>
<L>and to the Lord pre&s;ented.</L>
<L>Where Holy <HI>Simeon</HI> did him ble&s;s,</L>
<L>and with a Song embrace him:</L>
<L>And aged <HI>Ann,</HI> a Prophete&s;s,</L>
<L>preach't publickly to grace him.</L>
<L>Yea, Ea&s;tern Wi&s;emen came from far,</L>
<L>and did rich Trea&s;ures bring,</L>
<L>Directed by a &s;pecial Star,</L>
<L>to find out <HI>Judah</HI>'s King.</L>
<L>Who wor&s;hipped, and warned were</L>
<L>by God in their return,</L>
<PB N="51" REF="27">
<L>To take good heed, and not come near,</L>
<L>King <HI>Herod</HI> who did burn</L>
<L>With Wrath and Envy 'gain&s;t this new|born</L>
<L>greater King of <HI>Jury,</HI></L>
<L>And being mocked &s;ent and &s;lew</L>
<L>the Infants in a Fury.</L>
<L>But God to <HI>Jo&s;eph</HI> warning gave,</L>
<L>to <HI>Aegypt</HI> thence to fly,</L>
<L>The Babe and Mother, there to &s;ave,</L>
<L>from <HI>Herod</HI>'s Cruelty.</L>
<L>King <HI>Herod</HI> dead, then ha&s;ted he</L>
<L>to <HI>I&s;rael</HI> again:</L>
<L>But turn'd a&s;ide to <HI>Galilee,</HI></L>
<L>becau&s;e his Son did reign.</L>
<L>And all this was for to acquite</L>
<L>the Prophe&s;ies of old,</L>
<L>From <HI>Aegypt</HI> and a <HI>Nazarite,</HI></L>
<L>to come he was foretold.</L>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="2" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>SECT. <HI>II.</HI></HEAD>
<LG>
<L>AT twelve Years old with Doctors he</L>
<L>in Temple doth di&s;pute;<NOTE PLACE="marg">Luke 2.</NOTE></L>
<L>The Hearers all ama&s;ed be,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ver&s;.</HI> 46.</NOTE></L>
<L>his Mother is al&s;o mute.</L>
<L>At thirty Years he was by <HI>John</HI></L>
<L>Baptiz'd in <HI>Jordan,</HI> and</L>
<L>Proclaimed God's Beloved Son,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Mat. 3.</NOTE></L>
<L>while Heavens open &s;tand.</L>
<L>To Wilderne&s;s then was he led,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Mat. 4.</NOTE></L>
<L>and fa&s;ted forty Days:</L>
<L>The Devil there he vanqui&s;hed,</L>
<L>though tempted many ways.</L>
<L>And &s;o, his Mini&s;try of Weight,</L>
<L>he clo&s;ely &s;ets about:</L>
<PB N="52" REF="28">
<L>He chu&s;eth Twelve Apo&s;tles &s;traight,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Mat. 10. Luke 10.</NOTE></L>
<L>and al&s;o &s;ends them out:</L>
<L>And &s;eventy more, by two and two,</L>
<L>he &s;ent with like Command,</L>
<L>To Preach, to Heal, and to Subdue</L>
<L>the Devils that did with&s;tand.</L>
<L>To quicken them, the more, he did</L>
<L>part of his Glory &s;hew,</L>
<L>Being on the Mount transfigured</L>
<L>into an heavenly Hew.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Mat. 17.</NOTE></L>
<L>Nor was he idle,<NOTE PLACE="marg">John 2.14. Luke 19.45.</NOTE> but did purge,</L>
<L>the Temple fir&s;t and la&s;t,</L>
<L>And &s;till he did Repentance urge</L>
<L>as up and down he pa&s;t.</L>
<L>At <HI>Nazaret</HI> he took his Text</L>
<L>in <HI>E&s;ay</HI>'s Prophe&s;ie:<NOTE PLACE="marg">Matt. 13.</NOTE></L>
<L>Whence hardly &s;caping,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Luke 4.</NOTE> he did next</L>
<L>to <HI>Capernaum</HI> hie.</L>
<L>There Satan &s;hew'd his di&s;content,</L>
<L>but &s;trongly was ca&s;t out.</L>
<L>Unto the great A&s;toni&s;hment,</L>
<L>of all that &s;tood about.</L>
<L>He taught a Doctor of the Law,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Matt. 4. John 3.</NOTE></L>
<L>a Le&s;&s;on new and &s;trange.</L>
<L>In the Woman of <HI>Samaria</HI></L>
<L>he wrought a wondrous Change.<NOTE PLACE="marg">John 4. Matt. 5.</NOTE></L>
<L>He made a Sermon on the Mount,</L>
<L>mo&s;t heavenly and large.</L>
<L>Nine ble&s;&s;ed Sorts he did recount,</L>
<L>and pre&s;s the Preachers Charge.</L>
<L>The Laws of God he likewi&s;e there</L>
<L>did perfectly Expound,</L>
<L>He taught them how to pray,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Matt. 6.</NOTE> and where</L>
<L>and gave them Precepts &s;ound.</L>
<L>For practice of True Piety,</L>
<L>and taking heed al&s;o,</L>
<PB N="53" REF="28">
<L>Of Cares and of Hypocri&s;ie,</L>
<L>and many Duties moe,</L>
<L>Which uttered were in Parable,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Matt. 6.</HI> ver&s;e <HI>26.</HI> Chri&s;t's Parables.</NOTE></L>
<L>or in plain Speeches brought,</L>
<L>Each Word and every Syllable,</L>
<L>with Power upon them wrought.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>By Builders. (<HI>Mat.</HI> 7.24. <HI>Mat.</HI> 21.22. <HI>Luke</HI> 14.28.</L>
<L>Bridegroom. (<HI>Mat.</HI> 9.15. <HI>cap.</HI> 22.2. <HI>cap.</HI> 25.1.</L>
<L>Brides. (<HI>Mat.</HI> 6.26. <HI>cap.</HI> 10.29. <HI>cap.</HI> 23.37.</L>
<L>And Bread. (<HI>Mat.</HI> 15.26. <HI>cap.</HI> 7.9. <HI>John</HI> 6.48.</L>
<L>By Bea&s;ts. (<HI>Mat.</HI> 8.20. <HI>cap.</HI> 7.6, 15. <HI>cap.</HI> 12.34.</L>
<L>Thieves. (<HI>Mat.</HI> 24.43. <HI>Luke</HI> 10.30. <HI>John</HI> 10.1.</L>
<L>Spirits unclean. (<HI>Mat.</HI> 12.27. <HI>&amp; ver&s;e</HI> 47.</L>
<L>By Servants. (<HI>Mat.</HI> 6.24. <HI>&amp;</HI> 18.31. <HI>&amp;</HI> 24.46. <HI>Lu.</HI> 17.7.</L>
<L>Shepherds. (<HI>Mat.</HI> 18.12. <HI>Jo.</HI> 10.11. <HI>Mat.</HI> 9.36. <HI>&amp;</HI> 25.33.</L>
<L>Salt. (<HI>Mat.</HI> 5.13. <HI>Luke</HI> 14.34. <HI>Mark</HI> 9.49.</L>
<L>And Seeds. (<HI>Mat.</HI> 13.3. <HI>cap.</HI> 17.10. <HI>cap.</HI> 13.24. <HI>&amp; v.</HI> 31.</L>
<L>By Net. (<HI>Mat.</HI> 13.47.</L>
<L>New Cloth and Wine. (<HI>Mat.</HI> 9.16. <HI>&amp; ver&s;e</HI> 17.</L>
<L>By Light. (<HI>Mat.</HI> 5.14, 15. <HI>&amp;</HI> 73. <HI>&amp;</HI> 6.22. <HI>John</HI> 8.12.</L>
<L>And Leven. (<HI>Mat.</HI> 13.33. <HI>&amp;</HI> 16.6.</L>
<L>Fea&s;ts. (<HI>Luke</HI> 14. <HI>ver&s;e</HI> 12. <HI>ver&s;e</HI> 8. <HI>ver&s;e</HI> 16.</L>
<L>And Friends. (<HI>Luke</HI> 11.5. <HI>&amp;</HI> 16.9.</L>
<L>By rich Men. (<HI>Luke</HI> 12.16. <HI>&amp;</HI> 16.1.19. <HI>&amp;</HI> 18.10.</L>
<L>Trees. (<HI>Mat.</HI> 7.17. <HI>&amp;</HI> 12.33. <HI>&amp;</HI> 15.13. <HI>&amp;</HI> 21.19. &mdash; <HI>&amp;</HI> 26.32. <HI>Luke</HI> 13.6.</L>
<L>And Trea&s;ure. (<HI>Mat.</HI> 6.19. <HI>&amp;</HI> 12.35. <HI>&amp;</HI> 13.34.52. &mdash; <HI>&amp;</HI> 25.14.</L>
<L>By Children. (<HI>Mat.</HI> 11.16. <HI>&amp;</HI> 18.3. <HI>&amp;</HI> 24.28. <HI>Lu.</HI> 15.11.</L>
<L>Women. (<HI>Mat.</HI> 12.50. <HI>&amp;</HI> 24.41. <HI>Luke</HI> 15.8.</L>
<L>Ways. (<HI>Mat.</HI> 7.13. <HI>John</HI> 14.6.</L>
<L>And Vines. (<HI>Mat.</HI> 21.33. <HI>&amp;</HI> 20. 1 <HI>John</HI> 15.1.</L>
<L>he taught them out of mea&s;ure,</L>
<L>Deep My&s;teries which long lay hid,</L>
<L>which he from Heaven brought</L>
<PB N="54" REF="29">
<L>And by &s;trange Miracles he did</L>
<L>confirm what he had taught.</L>
</LG>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="3" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>SECT. <HI>III.</HI></HEAD>
<L>AT <HI>Cana</HI> he did at their need,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Chri&s;t's Miracles.</HI> John 2. Matt. 14.</NOTE></L>
<L>turn Water into Wine,</L>
<L>And with five Loaves five Thou&s;and fed.</L>
<L>by his great Power Divine.</L>
<L>Another time four thou&s;and Men,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Matt. 15.</NOTE></L>
<L>with &s;even Loaves he filled.</L>
<L>He walked on the Sea,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Mat. 6.26. <HI>&amp;</HI> 15.32.</NOTE> and when</L>
<L>it rag'd, the Waves he &s;tilled.</L>
<L>Cood &s;ight he gave to many blind,</L>
<L><HI>Mat.</HI> 9. <HI>&amp;</HI> 12. <HI>&amp;</HI> 20. <HI>Mark</HI> 8. <HI>John</HI> 9.</L>
<L>And Speech unto the dumb,</L>
<L><HI>Mat.</HI> 9.32. <HI>&amp;</HI> 12.22. <HI>Mat.</HI> 7.32.</L>
<L>The lame, their Limbs do firmly find,</L>
<L><HI>Mat.</HI> 12.10. <HI>Luke</HI> 13.11. <HI>John</HI> 5.8.</L>
<L>The deaf to Hearing come. <HI>Mark</HI> 7.32.</L>
<L>He healed Sickne&s;&s;es long bred.</L>
<L><HI>Mat.</HI> 4.24. <HI>&amp;</HI> 8.6.14. <HI>&amp;</HI> 9.20. <HI>&amp;</HI> 14.26.</L>
<L>Even foul and leprous Evils,</L>
<L><HI>Mat.</HI> 8.3. <HI>Luke</HI> 17.12.</L>
<L>Yea more, he rai&s;ed up the dead,</L>
<L><HI>Luke</HI> 7.12. <HI>Joh.</HI> 11.1. <HI>&amp;</HI> 5.21. <HI>Mark</HI> 5.41.</L>
<L>And di&s;po&s;&s;e&s;t the Devils.</L>
<L><HI>Mat.</HI> 8.29. <HI>&amp;</HI> 9.31. <HI>&amp;</HI> 17.15. <HI>Mark</HI> 9.20.</L>
<L>Yet for all this he was not free,</L>
<L>but had Controllers many,</L>
<L>To carp and quarrel, pry and &s;ee,</L>
<L>if fault they could find any.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Mat. 26.2. Cap. 22.35. John 8.6.</NOTE></L>
<L>Among the re&s;t the Sadducees,</L>
<L>with tho&s;e of <HI>Herod</HI>'s Train,</L>
<PB N="55" REF="29">
<L>The Scribes al&s;o and Phari&s;ees</L>
<L>did ever more remain</L>
<L>His deadly Enemies, and did &s;eek</L>
<L>to trap him in a Snare,</L>
<L>By crafty Que&s;tions, rough or meek,</L>
<L>what way, they did not care.</L>
<L><HI>Mat.</HI> 19.3. <HI>&amp;</HI> 22.16.35. <HI>Mat.</HI> 8.11. <HI>Luke</HI></L>
<L>&mdash; 10.25. <HI>&amp;</HI> 11.15.</L>
<L>But yet his hour was not come,</L>
<L>he &s;till preach't painfully,</L>
<L>And them bequeath'd a heavy Doom,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Matt. 23.</NOTE></L>
<L>for their Hypocri&s;ie.</L>
<L><HI>Jeru&s;alem</HI> her fearful State,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Matt. 24.</NOTE></L>
<L>he did with Grief fore&s;ay,</L>
<L>The manner eke he did relate,</L>
<L>of the la&s;t Judgment-day.</L>
<L>But comforteth his cho&s;en Ones,</L>
<L>with &s;piritual Con&s;olation,</L>
<L>As &s;weetly may be &s;een in <HI>John</HI>'s</L>
<L>divine and long Relation.<NOTE PLACE="marg">John 14.1<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">, 16, 17.</NOTE></L>
<L>And &s;o to <HI>Bethani</HI> he went,</L>
<L>where <HI>Simon</HI> him received;</L>
<L>And <HI>Mary</HI>'s Box upon him &s;pent,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Matt. 26.</NOTE></L>
<L>di&s;&s;embling <HI>Judas</HI> grieved.</L>
<L>Then was the Pa&s;&s;over prepar'd,</L>
<L>and <HI>Judas</HI> pointed out,</L>
<L>A Traitor to his Sovereign Lord:</L>
<L>and then he went about,</L>
<L>A work of Grace, a Sacrament,</L>
<L>a Supper to ordain,</L>
<L>A Seal of Love, a Te&s;tament,</L>
<L>that &s;hould with his remain:</L>
<L>Thence went he to <HI>Mount Olivet</HI></L>
<L>as was his u&s;e to pray,</L>
<L>Of &s;cattering and of Scandal great,</L>
<L>he told them by the way.</L>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="4" TYPE="section">
<PB N="56" REF="30">
<HEAD>SECT. <HI>IV.</HI></HEAD>
<L>MEan while did Prie&s;ts a Council call,</L>
<L>and did his Death con&s;pire,</L>
<L>They hired <HI>Judas</HI> in their Hall,</L>
<L>to work them their de&s;ire:</L>
<L>Who promis'd to effect it &s;o,</L>
<L>as that they &s;hould not mi&s;s;</L>
<L>With him their Captain, on they go,</L>
<L>their Token is a Ki&s;s.</L>
<L>As Chri&s;t in Garden praying was,</L>
<L>with Sighs and Groans mo&s;t deep,</L>
<L>That fearful Cup to have it pa&s;s,</L>
<L>the re&s;t oppre&s;t with &s;leep:</L>
<L>In comes this rude and bloody Rout,</L>
<L>which <HI>Peter</HI> could not bear,</L>
<L>But drew his Sword and laid about,</L>
<L>and cut off <HI>Malchus</HI> Ear;</L>
<L>Which <HI>Je&s;us</HI> heal'd,<NOTE PLACE="marg">John 18.</NOTE> and to their Will,</L>
<L>he yields though at his words,</L>
<L>They fir&s;t gave ground and backward fell,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ver&s;e</HI> 6.</NOTE></L>
<L>though arm'd with Clubs and Swords.</L>
<L>The poor Apo&s;tles fly for fear,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Matt. 26.</NOTE></L>
<L>yea,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ver&s;e</HI> 56.</NOTE> <HI>Peter</HI> thrice denied</L>
<L>His Ma&s;ter;<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 27.</NOTE> <HI>Judas</HI> doth de&s;pair</L>
<L>and hang'd him&s;elf and died.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ver&s;e</HI> 5.</NOTE></L>
<L>To high Prie&s;ts-Hall they led him then,</L>
<L>and witne&s;s fal&s;e &s;uborned:</L>
<L>Spat in his Face,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Matt. 14.</NOTE> and by their Men,</L>
<L>he was both beat and &s;corned.</L>
<L>Then did they him to <HI>Pilate</HI> &s;end,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Matt. 27.</NOTE></L>
<L>where being found mo&s;t clear,</L>
<L>To free him <HI>Pilate</HI> did intend,</L>
<L>and that the <HI>Jews</HI> did fear.</L>
<PB N="57" REF="30">
<L>And then began with Might and Main,</L>
<L>tumultuou&s;ly to cry,</L>
<L>To let loo&s;e <HI>Barabbas</HI> again,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Luke, 23.</NOTE></L>
<L>and <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> to Crucifie.</L>
<L>Nor were the common Souldiers &s;lack,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Matt. 27.</NOTE></L>
<L>to &s;trip him of his Weed,</L>
<L>A Scarlet Robe put on his Back,</L>
<L>and in his Hand a Reed.</L>
<L>And on his Head a Crown of Thorns,</L>
<L>then do they bow the Knee.</L>
<L>So, on him having &s;pent their Scorns,</L>
<L>to <HI>Golgotha</HI> goes he,</L>
<L>They forced <HI>Simon</HI> by the way,</L>
<L>to help him bear his Cro&s;s,</L>
<L>On which they did his Hands di&s;play,</L>
<L>and nail, without remor&s;e:</L>
<L>Betwixt two Thieves they did him place,</L>
<L>and gave him Gall to drink,</L>
<L>They &s;hew'd him all the vile di&s;grace,</L>
<L>that Heart of Man could think:</L>
<L>Thieves, Phari&s;ees, Prie&s;ts, Pa&s;&s;ers by,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Mat. 27.38. Luke 23.34.</NOTE></L>
<L>all &s;coff and wag and Head,</L>
<L>All which he bare mo&s;t patiently,</L>
<L>till all was fini&s;hed.</L>
<L>Then rent the Temple vail in twain,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Matt. 27.</NOTE></L>
<L>the Stones did cleave a&s;under.</L>
<L>The Graves did ope, the dead again,</L>
<L>did ri&s;e and walk with wonder.</L>
<L>The Earth lay trembling, and the Sun</L>
<L>aba&s;h't in darkne&s;s bode,</L>
<L>And then cry'd the Centurion,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Luke 23. Matt. 27.</NOTE></L>
<L>this was the Son of God.</L>
<L>His Body <HI>Jo&s;eph</HI> did take down,</L>
<L>and lap in Linnen &s;weet,</L>
<L>And in a new Tomb of his own,</L>
<L>did bury it as was meet.</L>
<PB N="58" REF="31">
<L>The Prie&s;ts his Re&s;urrection fear'd</L>
<L>and therefore took good heed,</L>
<L>To keep him &s;ure with Watch and Ward,</L>
<L>and &s;eal'd the Tomb with &s;peed.</L>
<L>But he the third Day did ari&s;e,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Matt. 28.</NOTE></L>
<L>as he had them foretold,</L>
<L>Then did the Prie&s;ts, to publi&s;h lies,</L>
<L>corrupt the Guard with Gold.</L>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="5" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>SECT. <HI>V.</HI></HEAD>
<L>CHRIST being Ri&s;en, did appear,</L>
<L>and charged the Eleven,</L>
<L>To Preach and Baptize every where,</L>
<L>by warranty from Heaven.</L>
<L>And purpo&s;ing to furni&s;h them,</L>
<L>with Knowledge, Tongues and Art,</L>
<L>He bids them from <HI>Jeru&s;alem,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 1</NOTE></L>
<L>in no wi&s;e to depart.</L>
<L>Till Promi&s;es performed were;</L>
<L>which &s;aid; out of their &s;ight,</L>
<L>A Cloud to Heaven did him bear,</L>
<L>and two in Garments white,</L>
<L>Did check their gazing, and fore-&s;how</L>
<L>his coming back again.</L>
<L>Then to the City back they go,</L>
<L>where all as one remain</L>
<L>In Prayer and Reque&s;t to God:</L>
<L>there <HI>Pe er</HI> doth propo&s;e</L>
<L>To fill the number that was od;</L>
<L>the Lot <HI>Matthias</HI> cho&s;e.</L>
<L>Upon the day of Penteco&s;t,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap 2.</NOTE></L>
<L>in cloven Tongues like fire,</L>
<L>From Heaven high the Holy Gho&s;t,</L>
<L>th' Apo&s;tles did in&s;pire.</L>
<PB N="59" REF="31">
<L>Then did they in &s;trange Tongues report</L>
<L>the wondrous Works of God,</L>
<L>A&s;toni&s;h't was therewith each &s;ort</L>
<L>of Strangers that abode</L>
<L>Within the City; others mook't,</L>
<L>but <HI>Peter</HI> took their part,</L>
<L>And by his Sermon &s;oundly knock't,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 3.</NOTE></L>
<L>three Thou&s;and at the Heart.</L>
<L>Then <HI>John</HI> and he together joyn'd,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 3.</NOTE></L>
<L>and heal'd the Creeple lame,</L>
<L>To Pri&s;on though they were confin'd,</L>
<L>yet were they freed for &s;hame.</L>
<L>To preach the Truth they were all bold,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 4.</NOTE></L>
<L>and many Wonders wrought,</L>
<L>Nor would they be by Prie&s;ts controll'd</L>
<L>though oft in danger brought.</L>
<L>For they in &s;uffering did rejoyce,</L>
<L>and God &s;ent Help at need;</L>
<L>The <HI>Hypocrites</HI> at <HI>Peter</HI>'s voice,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 5.</NOTE></L>
<L>were &s;uddenly &s;truck dead.</L>
<L>Then did they for poor Widows moan,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 6.</NOTE></L>
<L>&s;even hone&s;t Deacons chu&s;e,</L>
<L>Of which was ble&s;&s;ed <HI>Stephen</HI> one,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 7.</NOTE></L>
<L>who martyr'd was by <HI>Jews.</HI></L>
<L><HI>Saul</HI> was con&s;enting to this deed,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 8</NOTE></L>
<L>and with his threatning &s;ore,</L>
<L>Scattered th' Apo&s;tles far and wide,</L>
<L>but God's Word grew the more.</L>
<L>By <HI>Philip</HI> in <HI>Samaria,</HI></L>
<L>with Power it was taught,</L>
<L>And into <HI>Aethiopia,</HI></L>
<L>'twas by th' <HI>Eunuch</HI> brought:</L>
<L><HI>Dama&s;cus</HI> &s;uccoured many a Saint;</L>
<L>which <HI>Saul</HI> no &s;ooner found,</L>
<L>But to the Prie&s;ts he made Complaint,</L>
<L>for power to bring them bound.</L>
<PB N="60" REF="32">
<L>And quickly &s;ped: but &s;ee a change,</L>
<L>this hot blood-&s;ucking <HI>Saul,</HI></L>
<L>By Vi&s;ion heavenly and &s;trange,</L>
<L>became bold-preaching <HI>Paul.</HI></L>
<L>At <HI>Joppa Peter</HI> rais'd the dead,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 10.</NOTE></L>
<L>and did the Go&s;pel plant,</L>
<L>And in <HI>Cae&s;area</HI> he &s;ped,</L>
<L>Captain <HI>Cornelius</HI> want.</L>
<L>At <HI>Antioch</HI> the Word was &s;pread,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 11.</NOTE></L>
<L>by Preachers there di&s;per&s;t,</L>
<L>Who truly following Chri&s;t the Head,</L>
<L>were there call'd Chri&s;tians fir&s;t.</L>
<L>Now <HI>Herod</HI> &s;tormed:<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 12.</NOTE> <HI>James</HI> was &s;lain,</L>
<L>and <HI>Peter</HI> pri&s;oned fa&s;t:</L>
<L>An Angel loo&s;ed <HI>Peter</HI>'s Chain,</L>
<L>Worms eat the King at la&s;t.</L>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="6" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>SECT. <HI>VI.</HI></HEAD>
<L>BUt <HI>Paul</HI> (call'd <HI>Saul</HI>) &s;urpa&s;t them all,</L>
<L>in Patience and Pains-taking:</L>
<L>To preach the Word to great and &s;mall,</L>
<L>he evermore was waking;</L>
<L>By Day, by Night, by Sea, by Land,</L>
<L>by Pen, and eke by Mouth,</L>
<L>Though Perils great were oft at hand,</L>
<L>yet publi&s;h't he the Truth:</L>
<L>Four &s;pecial Journeys did he make,</L>
<L>in le&s;&s;er <HI>A&s;ia</HI> one,</L>
<L>And twice he cro&s;s'd the<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">or <HI>Mare</HI> Aegeum.</NOTE> <HI>Grecian</HI> Lake,</L>
<L>and then to <HI>Rome</HI> is gone.</L>
<L>With him al&s;o the Holy Gho&s;t,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 13.</NOTE></L>
<L>&s;et <HI>Barnabas</HI> apart.</L>
<L>Their Charge was in the heathen Coa&s;t,</L>
<L>the <HI>Gentiles</HI> to convert.</L>
<PB N="61" REF="32">
<L>From <HI>Antioch</HI> they fir&s;t &s;et out,</L>
<L>and unto <HI>Paphos</HI> came:</L>
<L>Where <HI>Sergius</HI> to the Faith was brought,</L>
<L>and <HI>Elimas</HI> to &s;hame,</L>
<L>Then in <HI>Pi&s;idia</HI> did he preach,</L>
<L>and in <HI>Iconion,</HI></L>
<L>He &s;tayed long, and &s;till did teach,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 14.</NOTE></L>
<L>till Stirs cau&s;e him be gone.</L>
<L>Thence did he unto <HI>Ly&s;tra</HI> flee,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 14.</NOTE></L>
<L>and there he heal'd the Lame,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ver&s;e</HI> 11.19.</NOTE></L>
<L>For which, a god, then &s;ton'd, but he,</L>
<L>thence back to <HI>Antioch</HI> came.</L>
<L>Th' Apo&s;tles at <HI>Jeru&s;alem,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 15.</NOTE></L>
<L>did now a Council call,</L>
<L>A fal&s;e Opinion to condemn</L>
<L>which did the Church befal.</L>
<L>A &s;econd Journey they intend,</L>
<L>but <HI>John Mark</HI> doth divide them:</L>
<L><HI>Barnabas</HI> doth to <HI>Cyprus</HI> bend,</L>
<L>but <HI>Paul</HI> and <HI>Sylas</HI> hide them.</L>
<L>Through <HI>Syria</HI> and <HI>Silicia,</HI></L>
<L>and with them they con&s;ort</L>
<L>Young <HI>Timothy,</HI> of whom they have,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 16.</NOTE></L>
<L>a &s;pecial good Report.</L>
<L>To <HI>Macedonia</HI> by night,</L>
<L>they called were and &s;ent,</L>
<L>The Devil there gives God his Right,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ver&s;.</HI> 17.</NOTE></L>
<L>there <HI>Lydia</HI> doth repent,</L>
<L>And eke the Jaylor: forthwith they</L>
<L>to <HI>The&s;&s;alonica</HI> moved,</L>
<L>Thence to <HI>Berea,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 17.</NOTE> where they joy</L>
<L>to &s;ee their preaching proved.</L>
<L>In <HI>Athens</HI> next did <HI>Paul</HI> di&s;pute,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 18.</NOTE></L>
<L>and thence to <HI>Corinth</HI> came,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ver&s;e</HI> 3.</NOTE></L>
<L>Where he with <HI>Aquila</HI> did &s;ute,</L>
<L>and <HI>Cri&s;pus</HI> Chri&s;tian frame.</L>
<PB N="62" REF="33">
<L>There <HI>Gallio</HI> doth &s;hift his hand</L>
<L>though hardly <HI>Jews</HI> complain,</L>
<L>So back he goes to <HI>Syria</HI> and</L>
<L>to <HI>Antioch</HI> again.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ver&s;e</HI> 22.</NOTE></L>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="7" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>SECT. <HI>VII.</HI></HEAD>
<L>THen did he his third Journey ha&s;t,</L>
<L>towards <HI>Graecia</HI> once more.</L>
<L>Through le&s;&s;er <HI>A&s;ia</HI> he pa&s;t,</L>
<L>as he had done before.</L>
<L>At <HI>Ephe&s;us</HI> he made &s;ome &s;tay,</L>
<L>for there the Word prevailed,</L>
<L>There was <HI>Apollo</HI> &s;hew'd the way,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 19.</NOTE></L>
<L>and there <HI>Demetrius</HI> railed.</L>
<L><HI>Philippi</HI> la&s;t he vi&s;ited,</L>
<L>and thence he &s;ailed back,</L>
<L>To <HI>Troas;</HI> where he rais'd the dead</L>
<L>and after did not &s;lack,</L>
<L>Unto <HI>Jeru&s;alem</HI> to come;</L>
<L>yet &s;ailing thither-ward,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 20.</NOTE></L>
<L>The planted Churches all and &s;ome</L>
<L>to &s;ee, he had regard.</L>
<L>(For in his Journies as he went)</L>
<L>he preach'd and Churches planted,</L>
<L>And coming back, was diligent</L>
<L>for to &s;upply what wanted.</L>
<L>He did Confirm them, and Ordain</L>
<L>Elders in every place,</L>
<L>With Fa&s;t and Prayer, and then again</L>
<L>commend them to God's Grace.</L>
<L>At <HI>Ptolemais</HI> one day they bide,</L>
<L>and to <HI>Ce&s;area</HI> walked,</L>
<L>Where <HI>Philip</HI>'s Daughters prophe&s;i'd,</L>
<L>and <HI>Agabus</HI> fore-talked</L>
<L>Of <HI>Paul</HI> his Bands and Sufferings great,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 21.</NOTE></L>
<L>but he was naught di&s;mai'd</L>
<PB N="63" REF="33">
<L>To &s;uffer Death (though they intreat)</L>
<L>he ready was he &s;aid:</L>
<L>So, up he went, and being there</L>
<L>made to them full relation;</L>
<L>With Prai&s;e to God they gladly hear</L>
<L>the <HI>Gentiles</HI> &s;trange vocation.</L>
<L>To plea&s;e the <HI>Jews,</HI> they did advi&s;e</L>
<L>to purifie him there,</L>
<L>But in the Temple Stirs ari&s;e,</L>
<L>and like to co&s;t him dear.</L>
<L>Had not the Captain ceas'd the &s;trife,</L>
<L>and by his great Friend&s;hip,</L>
<L>Account he rendred of his Life,</L>
<L>and Faith, and &s;cap't the Whip.</L>
<L>Then was he brought before the Prie&s;t,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 22.</NOTE></L>
<L>and &s;mitten, but the Fray,</L>
<L>'Twixt <HI>Sadducees, Scribes,</HI> and the re&s;t,</L>
<L>hindred the Plea that day.</L>
<L>Then was he unto <HI>Felix</HI> &s;ent,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 23.</NOTE></L>
<L>his An&s;wer there to make,</L>
<L>Thither al&s;o the high Prie&s;t went,</L>
<L>and did <HI>Tertullus</HI> take:</L>
<L>The Orator, to plead their Ca&s;e;<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 24.</NOTE></L>
<L>but nothing yet they gain'd.</L>
<L>Till <HI>Fe&s;tus</HI> came in <HI>Felix</HI> place,</L>
<L>before him being raign'd,</L>
<L>And King <HI>Agrippa:</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 25.</NOTE> he thinks well</L>
<L>to yield him up in Bands:</L>
<L>But <HI>Paul</HI> to <HI>Cae&s;ar</HI> did appeal,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 26.</NOTE></L>
<L>and &s;o e&s;cap'd their Hands.</L>
<L>To <HI>Italy</HI> then was he bound,</L>
<L>with a Centurions Guard:</L>
<L>But Perils great on Sea they found,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 27.</NOTE></L>
<L>the like hath &s;carce been heard.</L>
<L>To&s;t up and down the Ship at la&s;t,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 27.</NOTE></L>
<L>&s;tuck fa&s;t within the Sand:</L>
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<L>And there was all to pieces da&s;ht:</L>
<L>yet all came &s;afe to Land,</L>
<L>At <HI>Malta:</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap 28.</NOTE> where the Viper quick,</L>
<L>maid the <HI>Barbarians</HI> quail,</L>
<L><HI>Paul</HI> &s;cap'd the Danger, heal'd their &s;ick,</L>
<L>and thence to <HI>Rome</HI> did &s;ail.</L>
<L>Where he arriving was by <HI>Jews,</HI></L>
<L>both met and entertained,</L>
<L>He told the Brethren joyful News,</L>
<L>and two Years there remained</L>
<L>In his own Hou&s;e, but guarded by</L>
<L>a Souldier of the Train,</L>
<L>Until that <HI>Nero</HI> cruelly,</L>
<L>did cau&s;e him to be &s;lain.</L>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="8" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>SECT. <HI>VIII.</HI></HEAD>
<L>AS <HI>Paul</HI> in preaching got the Prize,</L>
<L>&s;o <HI>John</HI> did mount mo&s;t high,</L>
<L>God's Holy hidden My&s;teries,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Revelation.</NOTE></L>
<L>and Secrets to de&s;cry.</L>
<L>Who, in the Spirit, on the Lord's Day,</L>
<L>in <HI>Patmos</HI> bani&s;hed,</L>
<L>Wrote Words divine, and ble&s;t are they</L>
<L>which under&s;tand and read.</L>
<L>Fir&s;t, to the &s;even Churches he</L>
<L>&s;ends healthful Salutation,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 4.</NOTE></L>
<L>Then &s;ets he out God's Maje&s;ty</L>
<L>and Book of <HI>Revelation.</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 5.</NOTE></L>
<L>But &s;even Seals this Book did clo&s;e,</L>
<L>and none could be found out</L>
<L>Worthy the Seals for to unlo&s;e,</L>
<L>till came the Lyon &s;tout</L>
<L>Of <HI>Judah</HI>'s Tribe, the <HI>Lamb once</HI> &s;lain,</L>
<L>he every Seal did open,</L>
<PB N="65" REF="34">
<L>And each Seal drew as in a Chain,</L>
<L>&s;ome &s;trange and &s;pecial Token.</L>
<L>The fir&s;t reveal'd a Hor&s;e milk white,</L>
<L>(the Go&s;pel's Speed and Power)</L>
<L>The &s;econd red,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 6.</NOTE> and did delight</L>
<L>by blood&s;hed to devour.</L>
<L>The third was black, and notice had</L>
<L>of Plague and Famine fell,</L>
<L>The fourth Hor&s;e then full pale and &s;ad,</L>
<L>did <HI>Antichri&s;t</HI> foretel,</L>
<L>The fifth Seal open'd did bewray,</L>
<L>Saints Souls that had been killed;</L>
<L>Which under Heavens Altar lay,</L>
<L>till were the Number filled.</L>
<L>The &s;ixth un&s;ealed, there were &s;een</L>
<L>mo&s;t fearful Signs and Wonders:<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 7.</NOTE></L>
<L>But God &s;eal'd (&s;pite of <HI>Satan</HI>'s &s;pleen)</L>
<L>twelve times twelve thou&s;and Numbers:</L>
<L>La&s;t, opening the &s;eventh Seal,</L>
<L>loe Angels &s;even attend,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 8.</NOTE></L>
<L>Before the Lord,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 11.15.</NOTE> and they reveal</L>
<L>the World's State to the end.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 8.</NOTE></L>
<L>The&s;e Angels &s;even Trumpets had,</L>
<L>but each in order blows,</L>
<L>And for the World would be &s;o bad,</L>
<L>denounced nought but Woes.</L>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="9" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>SECT. <HI>IX.</HI></HEAD>
<L>THen mightily with glorious Look,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 10.</NOTE></L>
<L>Chri&s;t Je&s;us is revealed,</L>
<L>And in his Hand a <HI>little Book,</HI></L>
<L>but open and un&s;ealed.</L>
<L>This Book Saint <HI>John</HI> did take and ate,</L>
<L>and it th' E&s;tate contained,</L>
<PB N="66" REF="35">
<L>Of God's Church pre&s;ent, and of that</L>
<L>her Glory which remained.</L>
<L>For pre&s;ent &s;tate, &s;he never wants,</L>
<L>the preaching of God's Spell,</L>
<L>Two Candle&s;ticks,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 11.</NOTE> two Olive Plants,</L>
<L>two Witne&s;&s;es this tell.</L>
<L>And though &s;he cloath'd be with the Sun,</L>
<L>and on the Moon do tread;</L>
<L>Yet Wars again&s;t her are begun,</L>
<L>by Foes that make her dread:</L>
<L>And fir&s;t the <HI>Dragon</HI> caus'd her flie,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 12.</NOTE></L>
<L>into God's Wilderne&s;s,</L>
<L>But <HI>Michael</HI> from Heaven high,</L>
<L>his Fury doth repre&s;s.</L>
<L>Then did a Bea&s;t make War on her,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 13.</NOTE></L>
<L><HI>&s;even headed, and ten horned.</HI></L>
<L>And after him there did appear</L>
<L>another Bea&s;t adorned.</L>
<L>Like to the Lamb, with Horns but two</L>
<L>yet <HI>Dragon</HI>-like he &s;pake,</L>
<L>And did what the fir&s;t Bea&s;t could do,</L>
<L>compelling all to take</L>
<L>His Mark upon their Fore-head: yet</L>
<L>the <HI>Lamb</HI> had thou&s;ands &s;till,</L>
<L>On Earth,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 14.</NOTE> that him with Prai&s;es greet,</L>
<L>&s;igned to do his Will.</L>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="10" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>SECT. <HI>X.</HI></HEAD>
<L>NOr doth he <HI>Babylon</HI> forget,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 14.</NOTE></L>
<L>th' Idolatrous drunken Whore,</L>
<L><HI>Three</HI> Angels he again&s;t her &s;et,</L>
<L>and after <HI>&s;even</HI> more;</L>
<L>The fir&s;t, by preaching to de&s;cry.</L>
<L>the next, to &s;hew her Fall,</L>
<PB N="67" REF="35">
<L>The third doth Torments notifie,</L>
<L>bequeath'd her Lovers all.</L>
<L>Tho&s;e <HI>&s;even,</HI> &s;even Vials had,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 19.</NOTE></L>
<L>full of the Wrath of God,</L>
<L>Which they pour'd out as they were bad</L>
<L>on all the Earth abroad.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 16.</NOTE></L>
<L>Unto the ruin of the Bea&s;t,</L>
<L>and of the Whore of <HI>Rome:</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 17.</NOTE></L>
<L>That golden purple <HI>Antichri&s;t;</HI></L>
<L>for this her heavy Doom,</L>
<L>Kings of the Earth, and Merchants proud,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 18.</NOTE></L>
<L>take up a Lamentation:</L>
<L>But Holy Saints &s;ing Prai&s;es loud,</L>
<L>for Churches Pre&s;ervation,</L>
<L>Unto the Conquerous of Fame,,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 19.</NOTE></L>
<L>that cloath'd is with the Word,</L>
<L>And bears on <HI>Thigh,</HI> a <HI>mighty Name.</HI></L>
<L>and in <HI>in his Mouth a Sword:</HI></L>
<L>Who &s;ummoned triumphantly,</L>
<L>to his victorious Fea&s;t,</L>
<L>The Fowls that by mid-heaven flie,</L>
<L>as for his Foe, the Bea&s;t,</L>
<L>He with the <HI>Prophet</HI> fal&s;e were ca&s;t</L>
<L>into the Brim&s;tone Lake:</L>
<L>The Sword devoured all the re&s;t,</L>
<L>that part with him did take.</L>
<L>And then the Devil that <HI>Dragon</HI> &s;tout,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 20.</NOTE></L>
<L>that <HI>Serpent</HI> old (once chained,</L>
<L>A thou&s;and years, and then let out,</L>
<L>he fiercely rag'd and reigned,</L>
<L>With <HI>Gog</HI> and <HI>Magog's</HI> armed Strength,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 20.9.</NOTE></L>
<L>whom God con&s;um'd in ire,)</L>
<L>The Devil (I &s;ay) was ca&s;t at length,</L>
<L>in Lake of Brim&s;tone fire.</L>
<L>And with him all the damned Race:</L>
<L>for God comes on his Throne,</L>
<PB N="68" REF="36">
<L>A dreadful Judge, before who&s;e Face,</L>
<L>both Heaven and Earth are gone,</L>
<L>And Hell, and Grave, and Se<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">, and Land,</L>
<L>deliver up their dead;</L>
<L>Who all before the Judge do &s;tand,</L>
<L>and Books are opened;</L>
<L>As they have done, Doom doth begin,</L>
<L>his Work each one commendeth;</L>
<L>The wicked out, the godly in,</L>
<L>and &s;o the Se&s;&s;ion endeth.</L>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="11" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>SECT. <HI>XI.</HI></HEAD>
<L>NOw doth Saint <HI>John</HI> lively de&s;cribe,</L>
<L>the <HI>Church</HI> her glorious State,</L>
<L>Wife of the Lamb, th' e&s;pou&s;ed Bride,</L>
<L><HI>Chri&s;t Je&s;us</HI> heavenly Mate:</L>
<L>Who was found worthy to be clad,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 19.</NOTE></L>
<L>in pure and bright Aray:</L>
<L>And was exhorted to be glad,</L>
<L>again&s;t her Marriage day.</L>
<L><HI>Jeru&s;alem</HI> New, Holy, Great,</L>
<L>from Heaven down de&s;cending,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 21.</NOTE></L>
<L>God and the Lamb there hold their Seat,</L>
<L>it lightning and defending.</L>
<L>The Form it is each way four &s;quare,</L>
<L>the Matter Gold and Pearl,</L>
<L>The Citizens more noble are,</L>
<L>than earthly Lord or Earl,</L>
<L>Twelve Gates there are for Entrance wide,</L>
<L>the Porters Angels &s;tout,</L>
<L>A Wall mo&s;t high on every &s;ide,</L>
<L>doth compa&s;s it about.</L>
<L>The weight of Glory there re&s;erv'd,</L>
<L>can no Man's tongue impart,</L>
<PB N="69" REF="36">
<L>Eye hath not &s;een, Ear hath not heard,</L>
<L>nor enter can Man's Heart.</L>
<L>There is no Sorrow, Pain nor Care,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chap. 22.</NOTE></L>
<L>no want of Cloth or Food,</L>
<L>No Filth, no Darkne&s;s, Cur&s;e, nor Fear,</L>
<L>No want of any Good.</L>
<L>There is of Life the Tree and Spring,</L>
<L>the Store-hou&s;e of all Trea&s;ures:</L>
<L>There Saints triumph, there Angels &s;ing,</L>
<L>in Paradi&s;e of Plea&s;ures.</L>
<L>There lives our Head, let us not &s;lack,</L>
<L>but ever watch and pray:</L>
<L>Our Saviour will come quickly back;</L>
<L>even &s;o, come Lord away.</L>
<P><HI>Sine fine &s;it Laus Deo.</HI></P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="notes">
<PB N="70" REF="37">
<HEAD>Certain Brief Notes collected out of the late and approved <HI>Wri|ters,</HI> for the better Under&s;tan|ding of the Book of the <HI>Re|velation.</HI></HEAD>
<P>SAINT <HI>John</HI> received and wrote this <HI>Apocalyps,</HI> or <HI>Revelation</HI> of the My&s;teries of God, when he was in <HI>Patmos. Patmos</HI> is an I&s;land, lying in the <HI>Aegaean</HI> or <HI>Graecian</HI> Sea, which divideth <HI>A&s;ia</HI> from <HI>Europe,</HI> whither he was bani&s;h|ed by <HI>Domitian</HI> the per&s;ecuting <HI>Emperour</HI> of <HI>Rome,</HI> about the Year 96.</P>
<P>The &s;even Churches to which he wrote were &s;even famous Cities of <HI>A&s;ia</HI> the le&s;&s;er, and <HI>Greece,</HI> where the Go&s;pel was fir&s;t planted.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>The Seven Seals.</HEAD>
<P>THE fir&s;t is referred to the times of the Primitive Church, wherein Chri&s;t by his <HI>Apo&s;tles</HI> and <HI>Mini&s;ters,</HI> &s;ubdued Na|ons to the obedience of the Go&s;pel, <HI>Acts</HI> 2.41.</P>
<PB N="71" REF="37">
<P><MILESTONE N="2"> The &s;econd, is referred to the time of the cruel Per&s;ecutions, under the bloody Emperors, <HI>Caligula, Nero, Domitian;</HI> and the re&s;t, unto the time of <HI>Con&s;tantine,</HI> who comforted the Church.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="3"> The third, &s;hewing the Plagues of Fa|mine, Pe&s;tilence and Wars, that followed the Contempt of the Go&s;pel, is referred, chiefly to the Times of the <HI>Goths, Hunns,</HI> and <HI>Vandals.</HI> (And the&s;e Plagues come on <HI>Hor&s;eback</HI>) noting the generality or di&s;per|&s;ing of them into many Countries.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="4"> The fourth, &s;ome make to &s;ignifie a part of the Plagues fore-mentioned: but more probably it &s;ignifieth <HI>Antichri&s;t;</HI> as King <HI>James</HI> was of opinion. See more in the De&s;cription of <HI>Antichri&s;t</HI> following; and more at large in that Chri&s;tian, Learned, and Magnanimous Premonition of his <HI>Ex|cellent Maje&s;ty,</HI> prefixed to his <HI>Apology</HI> for the <HI>Oath of Allegiance.</HI></P>
<P><MILESTONE N="5"> The fifth, &s;heweth the &s;afe E&s;tate of them that have &s;uffered for the Truth, being un|der the Altar of God's Protection.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="6"> The &s;ixth, &s;heweth great Alterations, and Commotions of States and Kingdoms; the Devil &s;topping the Cour&s;e of the Go&s;pel; and Chri&s;t pre&s;erving his, in all Corners of the Earth. <HI>Chap.</HI> 7.2.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="7"> The &s;eventh, &s;heweth the Effect of the Devil's Rage, namely the &s;pringing up of Here&s;ies, the fall of Mini&s;ters and Teachers, the height of Corruption and Abomination in the Pope and Turk.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<PB N="72" REF="38">
<HEAD>The Seven Trumpets.</HEAD>
<P>BY the&s;e, God proclaimeth open War with the World; but his Elect are &s;till in &s;afe E&s;tate. <HI>Cap.</HI> 8.3.</P>
<P>The four fir&s;t Trumpets &s;hew the hatch|ing of Here&s;ies and Errors, and the in|crea&s;e of them after the fir&s;t 300 Years.</P>
<P>The three la&s;t &s;hew the full Growth and devili&s;h Power of them, in the Pope, and Turk, to the Affliction of the Church and the final Judgment and Torment of A|thei&s;ts and Papi&s;ts, denounced by three Woes. <HI>Cap</HI> 8.13.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>A De&s;cription of the Church.</HEAD>
<P>SHE is called a Woman, <HI>Chap.</HI> 12.</P>
<P>Fir&s;t, becau&s;e without Chri&s;t her Husband, &s;he is weak and can do nothing.</P>
<P N="2">2. By Conjunction with Chri&s;t &s;he bring|eth forth Children unto God.</P>
<P N="3">3. Becau&s;e her Love and Affection is al|ways &s;et on Chri&s;t her Husband.</P>
<P>She is clothed with the Sun of Righte|ou&s;ne&s;s Chri&s;t Je&s;us.</P>
<P>She treadeth on the Moon, that is, con|temneth the World and earthly things.</P>
<PB N="71" REF="38">
<P>She hath a Crown of Twelve Stars, that is, the Doctrin of the Go&s;pel garni&s;hed with the Mini&s;try of the Twelve Apo&s;tles.</P>
<P>She laboureth of Child; namely and fir&s;t of all Je&s;us Chri&s;t the Heir of all; and then of his Members in all Ages. The de&s;tructi|on of whom, the Dragon did and doth &s;till watch. <HI>Chap.</HI> 12.4.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>A De&s;cription of the Devil.</HEAD>
<P>HE is called a Dragon, <HI>Chap.</HI> 12.3. for his Cruelty and Malice: and a red Dragon, for his thir&s;t and greedy de&s;ire af|ter Blood.</P>
<P>His &s;even Heads &s;hew his manifold &s;lights and &s;ubtilties.</P>
<P>His ten Horns &s;hew his great and dread|ful Power.</P>
<P>His &s;even Crowns, &s;ignifie the Victories he hath gotten.</P>
<P>His Tail, of Ambition, Lu&s;t and Cove|tou&s;ne&s;s, reacheth to Heaven and bru&s;heth down the third part of the Stars: that is, many of the Mini&s;ters, from their glorious Firmament, to the Earth of Shame and Ob|&s;curity. <HI>Ver&s;e</HI> 4.</P>
<P>This Dragon was chained a thou&s;and Years. <HI>Chap.</HI> 20.2.</P>
<P>The&s;e years the Learned do account from the 36 Year of the Birth of Chri&s;t, (for then the Devil began to be mad, becau&s;e the <HI>Jews</HI> being ca&s;t off, the Church of the Gen|tiles began to increa&s;e by the power of the
<PB N="72" REF="39">Go&s;pel preached) until the time of Pope <HI>Hildebrand,</HI> or <HI>Gregory</HI> the Seventh, who was a wretched Conjurer, and familiar of the Devil, and therefore a fit In&s;trument at hand, for the Dragon's devilli&s;h and per&s;e|cuting Purpo&s;es, which Rage and Eager|ne&s;s he executed, during the time of the &s;e|ven Viols, the la&s;t &s;even Plagues.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>A De&s;cription of the fir&s;t Bea&s;t.</HEAD>
<P>HE is called a Bea&s;t, <HI>Chap.</HI> 13.1. and &s;ignifieth in Scripture a Monarchy &s;ometimes, <HI>Dan</HI> 17.4.</P>
<P>He is &s;aid to ri&s;e out of the Sea; that is, out of the boyling and broyling of heathen Nations, did the great City the Queen of the Nations, or Roman Monarchy ari&s;e, to tyrannize over the Church of God. <HI>Chap.</HI> 12.15.</P>
<P>His &s;even Heads &s;ignifie the &s;even Go|vernments of <HI>Rome,</HI> namely, <HI>Kings, Con&s;uls, Decemviri, Dictators, Tribuni militum, Empe|rors</HI> and <HI>Bi&s;hops.</HI> Which la&s;t was not then come when St. <HI>John</HI> wrote. <HI>Chap.</HI> 17.10.</P>
<P>His ten Heads &s;ignifie ten Kings, that is, great Power, large Dominion and Com|mand.</P>
<P>His ten Crowns &s;ignifie many Victories: but in that they are on his Horns, and not on his Heads, it &s;heweth he prevailed more by his Power, than by Subtilty; contrarily the Dragon, who&s;e Heads are &s;aid to be crown|ed. Or as petty Kings u&s;e to wear their
<PB N="73" REF="39">Crowns on their Hats, in token of the Ho|mage they owe, &s;o this Bea&s;t, on his Horns in token of Subjection to the Dragon, of whom he received his Throne and Autho|rity. <HI>Chap.</HI> 13.2.</P>
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<HEAD>The De&s;cription of Antichri&s;t ob|&s;erved by the Learned to be four times fully and definitely &s;et down in this Book.</HEAD>
<DIV3 TYPE="notes on chapter">
<HEAD><HI>CHAP.</HI> 6.8.</HEAD>
<P>FIr&s;t by a pale Hor&s;e,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The fir&s;t De&s;cription.</NOTE> having Death for his Rider, Hell for his Convoy, and Power over the fourth part of the Earth (or <HI>Europe</HI>) to kill with the Sword, and with Hunger (or the Famine of the Word, as the black Hor&s;e did by corporal Famine) and by Bea&s;ts, (as Locu&s;ts and Frogs. <HI>Cap.</HI> 9.16.) by whom &s;he procured the Death &s;piritual of Kings and Nations, that drank of the Cup of her Abominations. This being done, the Souls of the Saints cry for Vengeance, <HI>ver.</HI> 10. and their Cry is heard, and Reque&s;t granted under the &s;ixth Seal, <HI>ver.</HI> 12. <HI>&amp;</HI> 17.</P>
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<DIV3 TYPE="notes on chapter">
<HEAD><HI>CHAP.</HI> 9.1.</HEAD>
<P>MOre at large and in this kind,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The &s;econd De&s;cription.</NOTE> by his Craft and Strength, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></P>
<P>He is called a Star fallen from Heaven; or
<PB N="74" REF="40">&s;ome notable Per&s;on of great Dignity in the Church: falling like <HI>Lucifer,</HI> from giving light unto the World, and erecting a King|dom by a noy&s;om pack of crafty cruel Ver|min. He hath the key of the bottomle&s;s Pit: (Or of Hell it &s;elf,) whither he &s;endeth and letteth in, thou&s;ands of Souls, thorow the &s;moaky Mi&s;ts of Darkne&s;s, Ignorance and Super&s;tition; out of which Smoak, came tho&s;e Locu&s;ts (or Abbots, Cardinals, Monks, Friers, Prie&s;ts and Shavelings) which &s;ting like to Scorpions (or, with damnable Errors and Here&s;ies) all &s;ave the green ones of God, <HI>ver.</HI> 4. And the&s;e &s;o &s;tung, finding no Com|fort in Pardons, Ma&s;&s;es, Merits, Dirges, Cro&s;|&s;es and the like, &s;hall in torment of con&s;ci|ence &s;eek for death and not find it, <HI>ver.</HI> 6.</P>
<P>The&s;e Locu&s;ts are &s;trong and fierce as Hor&s;es; and their Crowns &s;hew them to be Conquerors. They have the faces of Men (or fair pretences of Holine&s;s) but hair of Women (or hearts full of Lu&s;t) Teeth of Ly|ons (to catch enough, and hold fa&s;t enough: witne&s;s the many fat Mor&s;els they did de|vour, where-ever they were &s;eated.) Their King is a bad one, or <HI>Abaddon;</HI> the Devil, and his Vicar the Pope, the &s;poylers and de&s;troyers of the Church of God. Their Doctrin is &s;et down, <HI>ver.</HI> 20. Wor&s;hip of Devils and Idols (or &s;piritual Fornication) Murder (both &s;piritual and corporal) Sor|cery (by Relicks <HI>Agnus Dei</HI>'s, inchanting Prayers to pre&s;erve from Shot, Thunder and the like.) Fornication (corporal, through inordinate Lu&s;ts and Lechery, increa&s;ed by Idlene&s;s and Belly-chear, in both Sexes
<PB N="75" REF="40">re&s;trained from holy Marriage, to a filthy mona&s;tical life, as by many Proofs hath been made apparent,) Theft, (robbing God of his Titles, and be&s;towing them on Anti|chri&s;t:) and cou&s;ening men of their Goods, by Pardons, Jubilees, juggling Wares and Merchandi&s;e.</P>
<P>The de&s;cription is ended, <HI>Chap.</HI> 10.6. Where the Angel &s;weareth, Time &s;hall be no more: and the next Angel or &s;eventh, blowing the &s;eventh Trumpet, doth &s;hew the My&s;tery of God to be fini&s;hed <HI>ver.</HI> 7.</P>
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<DIV3 TYPE="notes on chapter">
<HEAD><HI>CHAP.</HI> 18.11.</HEAD>
<P>THirdly,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The third De&s;cription.</NOTE> by his growth and manner of government. He is called another Bea&s;t (becau&s;e he differs from the former (<HI>ver.</HI> 1.) or civil Roman Emperor, in &s;piri|tual Juri&s;diction, tyrannizing over men by an Eccle&s;ia&s;tical Power, which the Emperors had not. He is &s;aid to ri&s;e out of the Earth (or from a ba&s;e and low E&s;tate, to mount up through the Emperours favour) by little and little. He hath two horns (like the Lamb,) &s;ignifying his Kingdom and his Prie&s;thood, his Civil and Eccle&s;ia&s;tical Power, which he u&s;urpeth from Chri&s;t, but hath indeed from the Dragon; (like whom he &s;pake) in all his Decrees, Canons, Practices and Pro|ceedings. He did all that the fir&s;t Bea&s;t could do, that is, he is &s;trong and mighty, and nothing inferior to the Ethnick Empe|ror, priding him&s;elf in lies and wonders: <HI>ver.</HI> 13. &s;ending fire of Excommunication <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">rom Heaven; deceiving by damnable Do|ctrins
<PB N="76" REF="41">of Devils, <HI>ver&s;e</HI> 14. Killing and burn|ing for Hereticks, all that will not wor&s;hip the Bea&s;t, and marking all that do wor&s;hip, for &s;laves and va&s;&s;als. And this Mark mu&s;t be &s;et in their Foreheads (to &s;ignifie their Profe&s;&s;ion, and to acknowledge their Sub|jection; or in their right hand) to te&s;tifie their ab&s;olute actual obedience to his Com|mands, upon &s;uppo&s;ition that he cannot err. None may buy or &s;ell without this Mark, and therefore Perjury and breach of Pro|mi&s;e and Faith with Chri&s;tians, is a vertue in a Catholick. Now that <HI>Rome</HI> is this Anti|chri&s;tian Bea&s;t, the <HI>Number</HI> doth &s;ignifie and &s;hew, <HI>ver.</HI> 18. and <HI>&amp;</HI> <GAP DESC="foreign">, Latine Ser|vice, Romi&s;h Faith, Romi&s;h Church, and &s;weareth to it in number and mea&s;ure. Up|on this Bea&s;t are &s;even Viols of God's Wrath and Vengeance, prophe&s;ied to be poured out, <HI>Chap</HI> 16. and the &s;eventh being emp|tied, it is &s;aid, <HI>that Babylon came in remem|brance before God,</HI> Ver&s;e 19.</P>
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<DIV3 TYPE="notes on chapter">
<HEAD><HI>CHAP.</HI> 17.3.</HEAD>
<P>LA&s;tly, by his dangerous and deadly Al|lurements, as the true Spou&s;e, (<HI>Chap.</HI> 12.) for here the adulterous Spou&s;e is liken|ed to a Woman; but yet a Whore, for her &s;piritual Adultery; and drunken with the Blood of the Saints, tho' a gorgeous and glorious Whore in outward &s;hew, <HI>ver.</HI> 6. The In&s;cription by which &s;he is to be known, is called a My&s;tery, <HI>Ver&s;e</HI> 5.</P>
<P>Fir&s;t, and &s;he takes her &s;elf to be the Vi&s;ible Head of the Church, the my&s;tical
<PB N="77" REF="41">Body of Chri&s;t, and the Di&s;pen&s;er of the My&s;teries of God.</P>
<P>Secondly, as &s;he de&s;erves indeed, and as the re&s;t of her Titles bear witne&s;s: <HI>ver&s;e</HI> 5. Mother of Whoredoms, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> or a My&s;tery of all Abominations under a pretext of Ho|line&s;s.</P>
<P>Now, this Whore of <HI>Babylon, that</HI> rideth on the Bea&s;t, is not any one Man, but a Suc|ce&s;&s;ion in Government, <HI>Chap.</HI> 17, 18. The Bea&s;t is &s;aid to have &s;even Heads, <HI>Chap.</HI> 13.1. and <HI>Chap.</HI> 17.7. Which are expounded to be <HI>Roma Septicollis,</HI> or <HI>Rome</HI> built on &s;even Hills: the names whereof are the&s;e, <HI>Palatinus, Qui|rinalis, Aventinus, Viminalis, Coelius, Exqui|linus, Capitolinus.</HI> Or el&s;e &s;even Forms of Government, as is &s;hewed before, of which the &s;ixth, <HI>viz.</HI> (the Government by Empe|rors) was in being, when St. <HI>John</HI> wrote: <HI>Chap.</HI> 17. <HI>ver</HI> 10. The &s;eventh was not then come, namely, the Eccle&s;ia&s;tical Govern|ment by Bi&s;hops; which &s;ucceeded at <HI>Rome,</HI> upon the Tran&s;lation of the Imperial Seat to <HI>Con&s;tantinople,</HI> (and was to continue but a &s;hort &s;pace) or, about two hundred &s;even|ty &s;ix Years, <HI>viz.</HI> from the time of <HI>Con&s;tan|tine,</HI> to the time of <HI>Phocas</HI> the Emperor, who gave to <HI>Boniface Bi&s;hop of Rome,</HI> the Title of Univer&s;al Bi&s;hop, and Head of all Churches. And by this means (the perfection of defe|ction, and Popi&s;h Corruption coming in) was brought forth the eighth Bea&s;t, one of the &s;even in &s;hew, becau&s;e &s;till &s;eeming to &s;ucceed the Bi&s;hops in Eccle&s;ia&s;tical Form of Government.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="notes">
<PB N="78" REF="42">
<HEAD>The means by which Antichrist &s;hall be Confounded.</HEAD>
<DIV3 TYPE="notes on chapter">
<HEAD><HI>CHAP.</HI> 11.3.</HEAD>
<P N="1"><MILESTONE N="1"> THey are called two Witne&s;&s;es, and they may &s;ignifie either the old, and new Te&s;taments, both which <HI>Antichrist</HI> hath en|deavoured to di&s;grace, deface, corrupt, &s;up|pre&s;s and de&s;troy, calling the Scripture a no&s;e of Wax, and a dead Letter, a leaden Rule; and preferring the Traditions of Men above them. The&s;e Witne&s;&s;es in the Primitive Church, were cloathed in &s;ack|cloth, and preached Repentance, by the &s;pace of five or &s;ix hundred Years. But ha|ving done their Me&s;&s;age, the Roman Bea&s;t made War upon them, and overcame them, &s;o that they lay open to contempt, cared for of none, under&s;tood of few, and feared of all to be medled withal. (Yea, they were killed) and the very Throat of them cut, by a ge|neral Cen&s;ure, Printed at <HI>Venice, An.</HI> 1562. Which condemneth all for heretical, that contradict their Traditions.</P>
<P>Thus lay their Bodies without Vigor, <HI>Ver.</HI> 8. (as &s;ometimes the Law, until it was revived, 2 <HI>Chron.</HI> 34.14.) and worldly men rejoyced, <HI>Ver.</HI> 10. for now they had liberty
<PB N="79" REF="42">to do what they li&s;ted, a Pardon for all might be procured by their Pur&s;e.</P>
<P>Yet at la&s;t (prai&s;ed be God) we &s;ee the&s;e Witne&s;&s;es to ari&s;e again, and beginning to &s;hine in their former Glory, <HI>ver.</HI> 11.</P>
<P>Which happy Alteration and Exaltation of them, hath bred &s;uch an Earthquake, among the Nations that a good part of them that were in Subjection to that City, are fallen from her, and have rejected her yoke, <HI>Ver&s;e</HI> 13.</P>
<P N="2">2. Or the&s;e Witne&s;&s;es may &s;ignifie the Preachers of the Word. Two only are mentioned, becau&s;e two are &s;ufficient in Law. The&s;e for preaching the fore&s;aid Truth and Doctrin, di&s;covering the Man of &s;in, and his Corruptions, were put to cruel Deaths and Torments; but ro&s;e again in the per&s;on of their Succe&s;&s;ors, &s;upplying their room, and &s;till bearing witne&s;s to the &s;ame Truth. Of which grew that memo|rable and miraculous Ob&s;ervation, <HI>Sanguis Martyrum &s;emen Eccle&s;iae,</HI> the Martyrs Blood the Seed of the Church. The mighty and marvellous power of this Truth, hath of latter times &s;o encrea&s;ed, that many King|doms and great Nations, have in few years been converted thereby, to the true Wor|&s;hip of Almighty God.</P>
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<PB N="80" REF="43">
<HEAD>The &s;even last la&s;t Plagues and Viols of <HI>God's</HI> Wrath.</HEAD>
<DIV3 TYPE="notes on chapter">
<HEAD><HI>CHAP.</HI> 16.1.</HEAD>
<P><MILESTONE N="1"> THe fir&s;t Viol being poured out, there fell a noy&s;om and grievous Sore. Some under&s;tand by it the <HI>Pox,</HI> called <HI>Mor|bus Neapolitanus,</HI> a &s;trange and loath&s;om Ul|cer, which fir&s;t lighted on the ancient chief Crutches and &s;upporters of the <HI>Pope;</HI> name|ly the <HI>Italians, Spaniards</HI> and <HI>Frenchmen,</HI> for their filthy Whoredoms and Bea&s;tline&s;s, in the Year of our Lord, 1494.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="2"> The &s;econd turned the Sea (of the World) into Blood, by <HI>Turki&s;h</HI> and <HI>Popi&s;h</HI> Ma&s;&s;acres, Murders and mortal Wars.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="3"> The third &s;heweth the Increa&s;e of that Plague: It cometh home even to the very Doors, their Rivers and Fountains ran Blood.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="4"> The fourth, cau&s;ed the Sun (by &s;corch|ing and drying) to torment with Dearth, Plagues and &s;undry Di&s;ea&s;es.</P>
<PB N="81" REF="43">
<P><MILESTONE N="5"> The fifth darkened the Kingdom of the Bea&s;t: which is fulfilled in the Revolt of Prote&s;tant Princes, from Obedience to the Pope, and it is to them the greate&s;t Plague of all others, <HI>Ver&s;e</HI> 10.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="6"> The &s;ixth dryed up the River <HI>Euphra|tes,</HI> (which was the be&s;t tru&s;ted defence of the old <HI>Babylon</HI>) that is, con&s;umed the Riches, Honour, Glory and Strength of <HI>Romi&s;h Babylon.</HI> And this maketh the Fi&s;h, nay, the Frogs, to be&s;tir them&s;elves: for it is &s;aid, (that three Frogs came out) a plural number; noting their multitude and threefold direction. For, Fir&s;t they are rai&s;ed and in&s;pired by the Dragon the Devil.</P>
<P>Secondly, they are maintained by the Bea&s;t, <HI>Antichri&s;t.</HI></P>
<P>And thirdly, they are in&s;tructed by the fal&s;e Prophet, the <HI>Apo&s;tatick</HI> Church, to de|fend the Triple-crowned Monarch the <HI>Pope</HI> of <HI>Rome.</HI></P>
<P>Frogs they are fitly named, being indeed Animals of either Element, Air, Earth, and Water, croaking in every Corner to &s;top the Leak, to fill up their <HI>Euphrates,</HI> and to gather again the Kings of the Earth, <HI>Ver&s;e</HI> 14.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="7"> The &s;eventh Viol fore&s;hews the final Overthrow of <HI>Rome,</HI> by Rents, Convul|&s;ions
<PB N="82" REF="44">and Confu&s;ions, Commotions of their City and Kingdom. And in &s;o fearful a manner, as may a&s;toni&s;h even tho&s;e that hear thereof.</P>
<Q><BIBL>Revel. <HI>18.4.</HI></BIBL>
<P>Come out of her my People, that ye be not partakers of her &s;ins, and that ye receive not of her Plagues.</P></Q>
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