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<DIV1 TYPE="title page">
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<P>MEMORABLE HISTORICK De&s;criptiones draven.</P>
<P>From the Sacred Bookes in|&s;ert in the &s;ub&s;equent page.</P>
<P>By ALEXANDER GARDEN.</P>
<P><FIGURE>
<Q>NIL PENNA, SED USUS.</Q>
<FIGDESC>printer's device of Gerrit Moulert</FIGDESC>
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<P>Prented AT MIDDELBVRGH, By GERRIT MOVLERT, Anno 1637.</P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="list of books of the Bible">
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<LIST>
<ITEM>Gene&s;is.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Exodus.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Leviticus.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Deuteronomie.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Io&s;hua.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Iudges.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Ruth.</ITEM>
<ITEM>1 Samuel.</ITEM>
<ITEM>2 Samuel.</ITEM>
<ITEM>1 Kinges.</ITEM>
<ITEM>2 Kinges.</ITEM>
<ITEM>E&s;ther.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Iob.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Tobit.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Ezekiel.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Daniel.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Ionah.</ITEM>
<ITEM>2 Maccabees.</ITEM>
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<DIV1 TYPE="dedication">
<PB REF="2">
<HEAD>TO The de&s;ervedly wor&s;hipfull and wi&s;ely wirtous <HI>SIR</HI> THOMAS BVRNETT of Leyes kinght Baronett.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Right Wor&s;hipfull</SALUTE></OPENER>
<L>_SIR be yow plead&s;'d J pray</L>
<L>To Read that with re&s;pective love I lay</L>
<L>Your wor&s;hips learn'd and linx-like eyes before</L>
<L>A five month's work, and noght a moment more</L>
<L>Some Select'd dravghts &s;uckd from the &s;acred Story</L>
<L>Noght vpon hope of Honor, Gain, or Glory</L>
<L>Nor on Conceat, of &s;kill, or knoledge hye</L>
<L>This Interpri&s;e at all attempted J</L>
<L>No but that better with that ble&s;&s;ed Booke</L>
<L>I might acquented come this ta&s;t J Tooke.</L>
<L>Knowing the &s;ubject, vits diviner merits</L>
<L>Nor are poluted, and Imperfect Sperits</L>
<L>And of all mortall mo&s;t vn-meet is mine</L>
<L>For it, &s;o, worthie, weaighty, and divine</L>
<L>Yet my attempt, once may prove profitable</L>
<L>T' incourage one, t' acqueat him&s;elfs more able</L>
<L>Yen Sir woutchafe, to look vpon my Lines</L>
<L>Suppo&s;e, for &s;uch a proe&s;ence poor propine.</L>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your wor-in all affectonat duetye divoted AL. GARDEN.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<DIV1 TYPE="to the reader">
<PB REF="3">
<HEAD>To the READER.</HEAD>
<L>THink nought the&s;e Ver&s;es vented are by me</L>
<L>Which efter in the&s;e Sheets in&s;ert yow &s;ee</L>
<L>For ony profite or aplau&s;e of fame</L>
<L>Or Reputation that may ri&s;e be Thame</L>
<L>No motion &s;uch by my immortall mynd</L>
<L>Induc'd, and me the&s;e to compond, inclynd</L>
<L>But in my curt prepond Epi&s;tle, Thair</L>
<L>My motiwes all and cau&s;es I declare</L>
<L>Hope then for no high &s;tile nor &s;tately &s;trame</L>
<L>Or figur'd Phra&s;es from a loftie Braine</L>
<L>Nor for Hyperbolees, that great Jngines</L>
<L>V&s;e for to fraught with, and to larde their Lines</L>
<L>No nought a Sillab &s;uch &s;hall Thow &s;ee heir</L>
<L>But &s;imply all, is &s;aid, and &s;aid, Sincear.</L>
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<LG>
<HEAD><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"></HEAD>
<L>_HEav'n, Earth, and &s;eae, round, eirc'lare &s;phericall,</L>
<L>Of ane rude mixed Ma&s;s, God made them all.</L>
<L>He &s;tampt, with &s;tarrs, the heavne, and with the&s;e lights</L>
<L>The Sun and Moone, devyded dayes from nights</L>
<L>Bea&s;tes, fi&s;hes, foules, he creat of all kinde</L>
<L>And fitly each, it's Element a&s;&s;ign'de</L>
<L>The liquid waters, from the earthly ma&s;s,</L>
<L>He <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">parats, and them a-part did place,</L>
<L>The thin, hote, moi&s;t, and &s;ubtile Aer, above,</L>
<L>The cold drie earth, about, h' a&s;&s;ign'd to move</L>
<L>And tuixt the earth, and fire, that all jmbraces</L>
<L>The aer and water providentlie places</L>
<L>And &s;eeing all, that he had done, was Good</L>
<L>He made man &s;yne to his &s;imilitude.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Gene&s;is Chap. <HI>2.</HI></HEAD>
<L>WHan God of Heav'ne, and Earth, had form'd the frame,</L>
<L>And made ane end of all the ho&s;te of Thame,</L>
<L>Into the body that he builded hath,</L>
<L>H' jnfui&s;'d a &s;oule, and breath'd a living breath,</L>
<L>And when he thus, perfectly fram'd the &s;ame</L>
<L>From Rud reed earth, he did, him Adam name</L>
<L>Man &s;o created, perfect, pure and cha&s;te,</L>
<L>God in his Garden, Paradi&s;e him plac't,</L>
<L>And there with freedonie full, before his fall,</L>
<L>To eat of ev'rie frute, and to v&s;e all,</L>
<L>Excepting that of knoledge he be&s;trait,</L>
<L>Command and charge prohibit was to eat.</L>
<L>And when he &s;hould, that Tree of knowledge cun</L>
<L>He then &s;hould dye, that day, and be vndone.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Gene&s;. <HI>2.</HI></HEAD>
<L>THe Lord God Adam, &s;ound a &s;leep he layd,</L>
<L>And Eva of, one of his ribs, hes made</L>
<L>Then with divine, inimitabill art,</L>
<L>Clo&s;'d cleanly vp, with fle&s;h, the emptie part.</L>
<L>And when he did awake the woman Than,</L>
<L>His fle&s;h and bone, God offred to the man</L>
<L>Whom Adam when, he finds, &s;o fitly fram'd</L>
<L>(Made out of Man) he hes her woman nam'd</L>
<L>And as his Wife, he hes her jntertaind</L>
<L>For God there fir&s;t the Mar'age rites ordaind</L>
<L>A &s;traght conjunction, and a &s;acred band</L>
<L>In Paradi&s;e kint be the Lords command.</L>
<L>Injoyning Them, therefore to joyne there handes</L>
<L>And maried, To multiplie, commands.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB REF="4">
<HEAD>Gene&s;is. <HI>3.</HI></HEAD>
<L>THe Serpent Eve, induced with Deceat,</L>
<L>And Adam, &s;he inveits, and he, did eat.</L>
<L>(O Lamentable for ev'r, and fearfull fact,</L>
<L>That did there State, &s;o marr and murnfull mak,)</L>
<L>The frute forbidd'n of knovledge Good, and Euill,</L>
<L>And heirby both, deluded by the Devill</L>
<L>From puritie, and there perfection fall,</L>
<L>And &s;o &s;uck'd in, the Sinn Originall.</L>
<L>Ambitions both, too greedily began,</L>
<L>To lay the Ground greef, of the Greefes of Man.</L>
<L>There mi&s;beleef, and blindne&s;s yet both blind</L>
<L>Into there fault, and fall, enforc'd, they find</L>
<L>And liable therefore, to Death, they be,</L>
<L>Them&s;elfes, and &s;ince, all there po&s;teritie.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Gene&s;is <HI>3.</HI></HEAD>
<L>THe frute once eaten, opned ar their eyes,</L>
<L>And they, there ovvne poore nakedne&s;s e&s;pyes.</L>
<L>Wherefore they both, vnto a figge Tree came,</L>
<L>And pulld &s;ome Leaves, and &s;evved of the &s;ame,</L>
<L>For to be Brecches, to them both, to hold,</L>
<L>There Shame vn&s;ene, and clothe them from the cold.</L>
<L>Before they ta&s;te, of that &s;eque&s;trat Tree</L>
<L>They knew noght that, they bare and naked be.</L>
<L>No figg-tree leav's, nor figge tree Trunks, could beild-them</L>
<L>Nor from th' All-&s;eeing-eye could &s;heeld-them</L>
<L>Nor could tho&s;e figge tree leaves (tho cloith there &s;kins)</L>
<L>Pre&s;erve vn&s;ene, there Tre&s;pa&s;s, nor there Sinns.</L>
<L>No no, there Con&s;cience for there Crime, did call</L>
<L>And God without, within, he Saw them all.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Gene&s;is <HI>3.</HI></HEAD>
<L>THe voyce of God, they in the Garden heard,</L>
<L>And faultie hid, them for there falt, a feard.</L>
<L>But heavne, nor earth, nor them, the dark&s;ome deep,</L>
<L>From there Creator, knowing all, could keep.</L>
<L>Excu&s;es put a part, They mu&s;t apeare</L>
<L>And an&s;ver to the poynts, that he &s;ould &s;peare.</L>
<L>That dreadfull voyce, that Thunder did re&s;emble,</L>
<L>Made heav'ne, and earth, and Man muche more, to tremble.</L>
<L>He calld, they come, h' accu&s;'d, and they confe&s;s'd</L>
<L>And guiltie both, Grant that they haue Trang&s;gre&s;sd.</L>
<L>The Woman, He, the Serpent, She, They &s;ay</L>
<L>This foul defection, drew on ws, this day.</L>
<L>And Ws, Invegled with, its wicked wit</L>
<L>To <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">at that balefull, and forbidd'ne Bit.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB REF="4">
<HEAD>Gene&s;is <HI>3.</HI></HEAD>
<L>A Cur&s;e to them, a Time, God hes denune'd</L>
<L>And puni&s;hments, to it, for ev'r pronune'd.</L>
<L>And &s;aid, becau&s;e this deed, &s;lie Serpent Thow</L>
<L>Thow did, ay on, thy Belly &s;hall thovv bow</L>
<L>And lick the Du&s;t, without &s;aueguard, or &s;heeld</L>
<L>A boue all Bea&s;ts, accur&s;ed of the fielde.</L>
<L>Al&s;o betnix, the vomans &s;eed, and Thee,</L>
<L>Shall ev'r be di&s;cord, and Ennimitie.</L>
<L>And be a&s;&s;ur'd, that for this Sin, thy Seed</L>
<L>May brui&s;e Hers heele, but hers, &s;hall brak thy head.</L>
<L>Then of Goat-&s;kins, to them, he Garments gave</L>
<L>And from, his Paradi&s;e divine, them drave:</L>
<L>Then &s;et a Cherub, with a flamming &s;word</L>
<L>To watch it as, is wretin in his word.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Gene&s;is <HI>3.</HI></HEAD>
<L>VVIth Toil, and Travell, Adam, griefe, and Sweat</L>
<L>His living earneth, and his Bread did eat.</L>
<L>And vvas con&s;traind, to do, to dig, to delfe</L>
<L>His Mothers Bo&s;ome, to &s;uport him &s;elf.</L>
<L>Becau&s;e God for his Crime the earth accur&s;s'd</L>
<L>And made it bring forth Breers, of vveeds, the vvor&s;t.</L>
<L>And &s;ince, to &s;in, he did obey his vvife</L>
<L>With Great vexation, &s;hall he lead his life.</L>
<L>And Eva &s;o vvith vnacquainted fitts</L>
<L>In bringing out her Bairnes vvith &s;orrovv &s;its.</L>
<L>And &s;urely &s;ubject &s;hall be her de&s;ire</L>
<L>And plainly pro&s;trat to her Lords Impire.</L>
<L>E&s;trangd and far from that contentement great</L>
<L>That they injoyed, in There fir&s;t e&s;tate.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Gene&s;is <HI>4.</HI></HEAD>
<L>THe Sones of Adam now be Time, began</L>
<L>To &s;acrifice, as vvas, the Cu&s;tome than.</L>
<L>The Sheep-herd Abel, his fir&s;t Lambs he taks</L>
<L>And of the fat, of Them, oblation makes.</L>
<L>And Cain, of, the frutage of the Ground</L>
<L>He &s;acrifiede, the fir&s;t that He hes found</L>
<L>The elder Cains did the Lord reiect</L>
<L>And younger Abels fauour and re&s;pect</L>
<L>Cain heirfoir, in furie, and Di&s;dain</L>
<L>His ble&s;&s;ed Brother Abel here doth brain.</L>
<L>And out of vvoodne&s;s, vvraethfull, and Invy</L>
<L>Committs this Murther, Irreligiou&s;ly.</L>
<L>The Lord then marks him to be knovvne herefore</L>
<L>To be his Brothers Butcher ever more.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB REF="5">
<HEAD>Gene&s;. <HI>6.</HI> &amp; <HI>7.</HI></HEAD>
<L>HOw &s;oone God &s;ies, the Sinns of men grow great,</L>
<L>All man kinde he, to overthrow did Threat,</L>
<L>And did a hunder yeer before fore&s;how,</L>
<L>To N'oa by water all the worlds orethrow,</L>
<L>And he be preaching for mans Sinne, declaird,</L>
<L>All earthly peri&s;h &s;hould, and none be &s;paird.</L>
<L>The Lord commands him then, to build the Arke,</L>
<L>And when perfected was, and wroght, that warke,</L>
<L>Him&s;elf, his wife, his Childring, and there Wives,</L>
<L>All &s;uch as God decreed to &s;ave there Lives,</L>
<L>Of living Things at lea&s;t, takes to him Thair,</L>
<L>For e&s;ter pleni&s;hing the earth. a pair:</L>
<L>Clean, and vnclean, they enter in, and than,</L>
<L>To flow the vniver&s;all flood began.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Gene&s;. <HI>7.</HI></HEAD>
<L>THe vindow's of the Heavens ar opned large,</L>
<L>And all the waters in the clouds, di&s;charge.</L>
<L>The Caverns of the earth, ca&s;t vp there bryne,</L>
<L>That long into there Ludgings low hes lyn,</L>
<L>The floods, and fontans, from there heads, and &s;prings,</L>
<L>There watrie &s;tore, into abundance brings.</L>
<L>Aboue, and vnder, all at once, j&s;he' out,</L>
<L>Each pore a &s;pring, each &s;pring, a &s;peat did &s;pout:</L>
<L>And with a wrackfull all ore&s;preading &s;peat,</L>
<L>Oretop'd the talle&s;t Trees, and montans great.</L>
<L>Five months and more, the earth the&s;e floods oreflow,</L>
<L>That Land nor Sea, nor mont nor medow &s;how.</L>
<L>Than they decre&s;sd, and rejncaled there &s;tore.</L>
<L>Vnto the bounds whair they had bein before.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Gene&s;is <HI>8.</HI></HEAD>
<L>THe waters all con&s;uming cour&s;e decayd,</L>
<L>The Arke on the Armenians montanes &s;tayd,</L>
<L>And no more on that world of Seas did flot,</L>
<L>But as God wold, a Ground the Arke it got,</L>
<L>The tw&s;tes of Trees, the Cronns of montans Grene,</L>
<L>And late dronnd Woods, and Valeys, dry ar &s;ene.</L>
<L>The winds all blew, and Arid earth did make,</L>
<L>And then the Dove, and olive brauche broght bake,</L>
<L>But &s;ent to try the drouth, at once before,</L>
<L>She flew abroad, and bake returnd no more.</L>
<L>And N'oa, and his, alive are le&s;t alone,</L>
<L>When all the re&s;t, on earth were drownd eache one.</L>
<L>Then ore the vnivers they Rule and Ragne,</L>
<L>And as the mono-monarches &s;ole Remain.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB REF="5">
<HEAD><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"></HEAD>
<L>NOvv N'oa him&s;elf, and all vvith him vvithin,</L>
<L>The arcke j &s;he, out, and to de&s;cend begin</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hair all (&s;aif Cham, that ever did debord)</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e&s;olue to rander. Thanks vnto the Lord.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd vnto him, ane altear do vp rai&s;e,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">o &s;acrifice thereon, and offer prai&s;e,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd vvith their humbled harts, his povv're proclame,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hat by all others had pre&s;erved Thame.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">he Lord thence &s;mell'd ane &s;weet &s;av'ring &s;mell,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd &s;aid, into his hart, vnto him &s;elf</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">o more for mans &s;aik, vvill I cur&s;e the ground,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">or &s;mit againe all living in this mund:</L>
<L>but vvhil the earth Remains, there &s;hall be ay,</L>
<L>Succeeding Sea&s;ons, &s;eed Time, night, and day</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Gene&s;. <HI>9.</HI></HEAD>
<L>GOd &s;pake to Noa, ble&s;&s;'d him and contramands,</L>
<L>The &s;hedding humane blood, with humane hands.</L>
<L>Then Reconfirmed wedlock with his word.</L>
<L>And there declard, the povver of the &s;word,</L>
<L>With what authoritie to man is geven,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">re Things created that be vnder heavne,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">o him and his, great ble&s;&s;ings, did he grant,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">and vp with Them and knit his covenant:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd gives for ev'r, a &s;igne to make it Good</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> ri&s;ing Raine-bovv in a watrie cloud.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd when he &s;ies that circling arch he &s;hall,</L>
<L>His former covenant, to minde Recall.</L>
<L>In witne&s;s that, the waters, &s;hall no more,</L>
<L>Drown all the World, as they had done before.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Gene&s;. <HI>9.</HI></HEAD>
<L>E&s;ter the drovning deludge No'a began,</L>
<L>To plant his vines, and play the hou&s;e band man.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd drank thereof, and drunk thereon became,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd then vncover'd he is &s;een be Cham.</L>
<L>That mock'd, and Je&s;ted at his aged father,</L>
<L>No no but cur&s;ed he contemnd him rather,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd went, and told it Japhet, and Iu&s;t Sem.</L>
<L>but he again, re-clothed is by Them.</L>
<L>That &s;tep, be &s;tep, both backward to him go</L>
<L>Le&s;t that vn&s;eemly They &s;hould &s;ee him &s;o.</L>
<L>Heirfore he ble&s;&s;ed both the one, and other,</L>
<L>and Iu&s;tly cur&s;ed Cham, there wicked brother.</L>
<L>The &s;eed, of the&s;e Three &s;ones, the earth ore &s;pred</L>
<L>and all thar borne be &s;ince, of them are bred.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB REF="6">
<HEAD><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"></HEAD>
<L>THe poeple here, intends to bouild a Toure</L>
<L>In there proud thoughts, to counterchek Gods powre</L>
<L>With there A&s;&s;i&s;ters that, that Time one Tongve</L>
<L>Spake all and vvere from Cham accur&s;ed &s;prong.</L>
<L>But God from heav'ne, there hautie hartes beheld</L>
<L>An hovv vvith pride, and high contempt they &s;vveld.</L>
<L>Heirfore he vvill, in there attempt, and aime</L>
<L>Vn-do and di&s;apoynt them in the &s;ame.</L>
<L>For they that but one languadge &s;poake before</L>
<L>He chang'd and cau&s;'d them mutter mony more.</L>
<L>And &s;o confounded all, that noght one Brother</L>
<L>Did vnder&s;tand a vvord, &s;poak be ane other.</L>
<L>God then, he dois divide them, and con&s;traine</L>
<L>To quyte that vvorke, that they began in vaine.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Gene&s;is <HI>12.</HI></HEAD>
<L>THe Lord calld Abram, and Directions gave</L>
<L>To queat his countrie, and his kinred lave.</L>
<L>And to ane other land directly draw</L>
<L>That in his Iourney thither, he &s;hould &s;havv.</L>
<L>The Land that he had de&s;tinat to give</L>
<L>To him and his, for ever in to live.</L>
<L>Wherein he &s;hould, be Great, and Greatlie he</L>
<L>Great as his name, a Ble&s;&s;ing great, &s;hould be.</L>
<L>There, &s;hould he ble&s;s, that ble&s;&s;ed him, all Tho&s;e</L>
<L>And cur&s;e them all, that cur&s;sd him, as his foes.</L>
<L>His Wife, his flocks, and familie they go</L>
<L>And Lot vvith him, his Brother &s;one al&s;o.</L>
<L>Then come, thereto, ane Altar he hes Reard</L>
<L>Wnto the Lord, that vnto him apeard.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Gene&s;is <HI>13.</HI></HEAD>
<L>ABraham pa&s;t, and vp from Egypt vvent</L>
<L>And greatumly, God did his Goods augment.</L>
<L>For in all Riches him encrea&s;s he vvold</L>
<L>In cattell, coyne, in Silver, and in Gold.</L>
<L>And lykvvi&s;e Lot, he hes Incre&s;sd, his &s;tore</L>
<L>And daylie did, augment it, more and more.</L>
<L>But Abrams heard-men, and Lots Sheep-heards Iarre.</L>
<L>And for a pa&s;ture move, among them vvarr.</L>
<L>But vvhen there actions Abram, vnder&s;tands</L>
<L>He meekly moves, Lot to divide there bands</L>
<L>And to the Right, or to the left hand Go</L>
<L>Lot then prepares and &s;ince de&s;ird-did &s;o.</L>
<L>For &s;uch encre&s;s and &s;tore of Goods, they had</L>
<L>That hardly could, they be together fed.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB REF="6">
<HEAD>Gene&s;is <HI>13.</HI></HEAD>
<L>THen Lot lift vp his, eyes and vnder&s;tood</L>
<L>That all the plains, and groudd about vvas Good.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd dreading &s;tay, &s;hould dravv on more di&s;dain</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">herefore to th' ea&s;t, he Tendeth vvith his Traine</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> Land vvell gra&s;s'd, and vvatred vvell vvas it</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> Land for heard-men, and their flocks mo&s;t fit.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">eirfore therein, he myndeth to Remaine</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd pitch'd his palions, into Sodoms plain.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">or all the vvale is lovv, neer Iourdans Shoir</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s vvatred vvell, of pa&s;ture had lyke &s;tore.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd plentifully &s;tood, and &s;tuffd did &s;tand</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s once vvas Eden, or as Egypt Land.</L>
<L>Before the all-con&s;uming angre of the Lord</L>
<L>The&s;e cities Sodome, and Gomorr' devourd.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Gene&s;is <HI>14.</HI></HEAD>
<L>WHen Iidall King of nations, and the Re&s;t,</L>
<L>That joynd vvith him in Battell had oppre&s;t</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">he Sodomit, and the Gomoran King</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hey &s;poild there Goods, and captive Lot did bring</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd on his &s;ub&s;tance, as there pry&s;e, they prey,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ut Abram arm'd, Invades them on there vvay</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">oyld, and defate, and &s;martly them he &s;mot</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd in Tryumph, brought home his nephevv Lot.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hen doth he chargd vvith &s;poyls in triumph &s;o</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">o Melchi-zedeck, King of Salem Go.</L>
<L>Who ble&s;sd, and brought to Abram, bread, and vine</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd Abram there &s;olemlie offred &s;ine.</L>
<L>To him of the&s;e, his Spoyls, the Tithes of all</L>
<L>Goods of the&s;e Kings, that did before him fall.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Gene&s;is <HI>16.</HI></HEAD>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">N Can'an, Abram, ten yeeres hes t'emaind</L>
<L>And Sarais vvomb, from bearing vvas re&s;traind</L>
<L>Which greevd her much, and did torment her &s;till</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd as &s;he meand, &s;he vvold go mend her ill.</L>
<L>When &s;urely She, her Belly barren &s;ees</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd thus, to &s;ecundarie helpes, &s;he flies.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">or vvnto Abraham her Lord, &s;he &s;aid</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">eire, I haue Hagar, and Egyptian mayde</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> give her to thee, v&s;e her, for it may</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e, Childring I, obtaine be her &s;ome day.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> bram obeyd, and in to Hagar vvent</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd knevv her, vvha conceavv'd Incontinent.</L>
<L>Then proud of that conception in her eyes,</L>
<L>Her dame, and mi&s;tres Sarai, did de&s;pi&s;e.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB REF="7">
<HEAD><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"></HEAD>
<L>SArai contemnd much mov'de there with Remains,</L>
<L>Expo&s;tulats, with Abram, and complains.</L>
<L>And tells him plinly for her kindne&s;s novv,</L>
<L>She is mi&s;-v&s;d, vvrong'd, and contemned too.</L>
<L>Yea prays the Lord, to judge betinxt. Them tuo.</L>
<L>But abram &s;eeing her iucen&s;ed &s;o.</L>
<L>Hagar be his authorit' and command,</L>
<L>Is &s;et to &s;uffer, vvnder Sarais hand.</L>
<L>Who hardly delt vvith her, heirfore a-dread</L>
<L>And fearing vvor&s;e, far from her mi&s;tres fled.</L>
<L>But a&s;ked by the angel, vvhence &s;he came,</L>
<L>She an&s;verd fleing from hir angrie dame.</L>
<L>Then, to Returne againe, her, he, commands</L>
<L>And humble her vvholly, vnder Sarais hands.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Gene&s;is <HI>17.</HI></HEAD>
<L>THe Lord Iehova mo&s;t alimghtye here,</L>
<L>Wnto his &s;ervand Abram, did apeare.</L>
<L>And made him promei&s;e, for to multiplie</L>
<L>And him, and his, t' incre&s;s exceedinglie.</L>
<L>Be&s;ide great, ble&s;&s;ings, he to him do is grant,</L>
<L>And knits vvith him, for ever his conveuant.</L>
<L>Than chang'd from Abram vvnto abraham,</L>
<L>and her for Sara, Sarai, call'd to name.</L>
<L>Yea al&s;o vnto her, he granted more,</L>
<L>To beare a &s;one that, barren vvas before,</L>
<L>But Abr'am langh'd into his hart for he,</L>
<L>Hes thonght it &s;trange and vvounderfull to be,</L>
<L>Since he him&s;elf a hunder yeeres vvas old,</L>
<L>And Sarai nyntie numbred had, and Told.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Gene&s;. <HI>18.</HI></HEAD>
<L>AGaine the Lord to Abram did apeare</L>
<L>As he &s;at in, or to his Tent durr, neare.</L>
<L>And when he look'd, Three men he &s;tanding &s;avv,</L>
<L>That then approatch'd, and towards him did draw.</L>
<L>To tho&s;e three angels then he bovvd, and ran</L>
<L>And offred to his Lord his &s;ervice than,</L>
<L>Which they accept, and then there breakfa&s;t done,</L>
<L>God &s;aid that Sarai, &s;he &s;hould haue a &s;one,</L>
<L>And then their he declaird, and did impart,</L>
<L>To Abram, that he Sodom, vvill evert.</L>
<L>For of there wickedne&s;s, to him the cryes,</L>
<L>Had monted o're, the Elements and &s;kyes,</L>
<L>Th' abominations all, that therein be,</L>
<L>Vn-nat'rall &s;ins, and be&s;tialitie,</L>
<L>That rankly rages, and reignes them among,</L>
<L>With wenge ance he, he vvill, revenge ere long.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB REF="7">
<HEAD>Gene&s;is <HI>19.</HI></HEAD>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e Lord their ills and naughtines did nots,</L>
<L>And &s;ent his Angels, to his &s;ervand Lot,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ring him thence for kindled vvas his tre,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">o con&s;ume, the&s;e Cities, all vvith fire.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hen, that &s;at at Sodom gat, them &s;ies,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ry&s;ing bow'd donne to the earth, his eyes,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">humblie prayes them to his hou&s;e but thay,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;s but e&s;ter they turne in and &s;tay.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> Sodomits, prea&s;s Lot, and th' Angels &s;ought,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">lv'd t' abu&s;e, and knovv Them, in there Thought.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> therefore vvold, brak vp his Gates perforce,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">erminnig to deall vvith Lot no vvor&s;e.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">t lo the Lord vvith blindde&s;s brands them Thair,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">et &s;ightle&s;s &s;earch, They vvill, but knevv not vvhair.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Gene&s;. <HI>19.</HI></HEAD>
<L>He Angels Lot, then out of Sodom led,</L>
<L>And from the Sodomitick furie fred.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">o vp the montans vnto Zoar flevv,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">e firie haile and burning &s;torme t'e&s;chevv.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">s efter Lot, his daughters, and his wife,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">y had pull'd out, for to prae&s;erve there life,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">mmanding &s;traitly, none to be &s;o bold,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> to look back vnle&s;s they Peri&s;h vvold:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> Lot his vvife, offended in this falt,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">d therefore turn'd vvas, to a Toure of Salt,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">en vvhen they vvere farr from the Citie vvalls,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">oode of fire, and burning Brim&s;tone falls.</L>
<L>That Cities all, and Men vvithin did burne,</L>
<L>And in the plains, did all to a&s;hes turne.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Gene&s;. <HI>19.</HI></HEAD>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">t Thus and his, pre&s;erved from the fire,</L>
<L>To leave that citie Zoar, did de&s;ire.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> left it Then, and vvent therefrom, for feare,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> to a mont, and in a Cave, duell'd thair.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> daughters vvanting Companie of Men,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">k and to gether hes agried then,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">drink there Father drunk, and make him &s;o,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">en Cup-&s;hot both Them, but his knoledge kno<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">ch They haue done, and in the elder goth,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> younger next, and &s;o he lyes vvith both.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> of this vvyld, jnce&s;tous meiting, Lot,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">-ammi he, and Moab both begot.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd as in Sin conceav'd, the Scripture &s;ayes,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">erver&s;e vvere they, and thers, in all there vvayes.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB REF="8">
<HEAD>Gene&s;is <HI>20.</HI></HEAD>
<L>A Braham to the South, his Iournay Takes,</L>
<L>And into Gerar, he his duelling makes.</L>
<L>Syne &s;aid that Sarai fearing for his life.</L>
<L>His Si&s;ter vvas, albeit indeed his vvife.</L>
<L>Abimelech, the King of Gerar Thair</L>
<L>Perceiving Sarai, beautifull and fair</L>
<L>And hearing Abram her his &s;i&s;ter call</L>
<L>And &s;he her &s;elf t'affect her he did fall.</L>
<L>Then taks her from her Lord, but God con&s;trains</L>
<L>That he hir per&s;on, in no poynt prophanes.</L>
<L>And dreadfully him in a dreame, did threat</L>
<L>And his vvith death, and a de&s;truction great</L>
<L>Gif he did noght, to Abram her re&s;tore</L>
<L>Pure and vn tuiched, as &s;he vvas before.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Gene&s;is <HI>21.</HI></HEAD>
<L>THe promi&s;e of the Lord, as is foretold</L>
<L>To Abraham, and Sarai being old,</L>
<L>At the &s;et Time, accompli&s;h'd vvas, and done</L>
<L>And She her Travell tooke, and boore a Sone.</L>
<L>Out of vvho&s;e loyns, in his ovvne Tyme, &s;hould &s;pring</L>
<L>That ever ble&s;&s;ed, Prophet, Pree&s;t, and Kiug.</L>
<L>Abraham eight dayes e&s;ter at the lea&s;t,</L>
<L>His Is'ac circomci&s;d, and made a fea&s;t.</L>
<L>And as young Is'ac grew, I&s;mael Ie&s;ted</L>
<L>Which Sarais mynd, much moved and mole&s;ted</L>
<L>That &s;he did eagerly, to Abram plaine</L>
<L>Of I&s;maels mirding, mockage, and di&s;daine.</L>
<L>But Abraham t'ev eit, all &s;turrs and &s;trife</L>
<L>Puts I&s;ma'l, and his mother, from his Wife.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Gene&s;is <HI>21.</HI></HEAD>
<L>VVHo wandring in the vvoods, and vvilderne&s;s,</L>
<L>Both ar by thir&s;t, brought into &s;trange di&s;tre&s;s.</L>
<L>That evven the Mother, pitie for to &s;ee</L>
<L>Layes him a pairt, le&s;t that &s;he &s;py him die</L>
<L>Than than the vveeping, of the child a&s;cends</L>
<L>And dovne the Confort, of the Lord di&s;cends.</L>
<L>For loe, the Angel doth, there mvrning heir</L>
<L>And opned vp hir eyes, and made them cleir</L>
<L>And there to hir, A vvell of vvater &s;hois,</L>
<L>Wherevvith her Sone, to quench their thri&s;t She gois.</L>
<L>He gives Her confort, and forbids hir dread</L>
<L>But tend her Sone, for he vvill make him head</L>
<L>(By hei&s;ing him, to Honours and E&s;tate)</L>
<L>Yea and a father of a Nation Great.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB REF="8">
<HEAD><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"></HEAD>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">re faithfull Abram, be the Lord's command</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> Noght faut but freelie lifteth vp his hand.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> Immolat, and offer to the daeth</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> deare&s;t childe, for to approve his faeth.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> act almo&s;t, above Beleefe, to &s;ee</L>
<L>father his Sole Sone to Sacrifie.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">edient, and gladly is'ac gois</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">d that be willingly, will &s;uffer &s;hois.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">e true and lively Type, that &s;hould fore&s;ho</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">at for our &s;innes, Gods Sone, &s;hould &s;uffer &s;o.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">old, the Lord, Abrams belief, and faith</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">him for Rightcou&s;nes, Imputed hath</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">d holds his hand, tht it is noght defyld</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">th I&s;acs guiltle&s;s Blood, the Cho&s;en Chyld.</L>
<L>And doth a t'amme, provide for &s;acrifice</L>
<L>That he, intangled in a Thicked &s;ies.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Gene&s;is <HI>23.</HI></HEAD>
<L>Arai, Abrahams cha&s;te, and vertous wife</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ix&s;core and &s;even yeer old, departs this life.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> whom, her loving hu&s;band Abram moans</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">d te&s;tifies, his griefe, with mony groans.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">en after weeping, from her &s;ight aro&s;e</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">d for to buy, a Beriall hee gois.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">aham dolorons, a field, did buy</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> her, and him, and his, therein to ly</L>
<L>Hebron lay this field, therein a Cave,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">t Abram fitte&s;t thought, and &s;ought to have.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">erein the Iu&s;tne&s;s of the Man, is &s;howne</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">t no whair burie wold, but in his owne.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">our hundreth &s;ilver Shekels he hes payd</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">herefore, and then, ther in his dead, hes layd.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Gene&s;is <HI>24.</HI></HEAD>
<L>Braham old, his elde&s;t &s;ervand he</L>
<L>Prayd for to put, his hand, below his Thie</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> by, th' almightie God of all, to &s;wear</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">t he &s;hould none, Into Canaan There</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">e to his Sone for wife, but &s;earch and find</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">is owne Countrie, an, of his owne kind.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">man then hartly to the Lord, did pray</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ro&s;per him, in his adois, that day.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> faithfullie, all that his Lord, directs</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">romi&s;es, and punct wallie effects.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ecca than, as wold the Lord, it fell</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> and hir drawing water at a well.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> by the conference, that they fell in,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> new, &s;he was, ane of his Ma&s;ters kin.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">en gladly gwes, hir Armelets, and ear-ringhs</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">d Laban home, him, to his Inns he brings.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB REF="9">
<HEAD>Gene&s;is <HI>24.</HI></HEAD>
<L>REbeccas freinds, vnto the Lord, committ,</L>
<L>Her vvedding and the vvhole effect of it.</L>
<L>Then vvith content, She is, for Js'ac geven,</L>
<L>Ble&s;sd be hir freinds, &s;he gois, and ble&s;sd from heav'ne,</L>
<L>To Abrams hou&s;e, they Them directl' adre&s;t,</L>
<L>An Evening as the Sun &s;unck in the We&s;t,</L>
<L>It chanced Is'ac and It happned That</L>
<L>He to the fields vvent out to Meditate</L>
<L>And lifting vp his eyes, abroad to vieu,</L>
<L>A court of Camels nearc, he coming knevv;</L>
<L>His &s;ervand told, vnto Rebecca Than</L>
<L>That there vvas I&s;aac, that &s;hould be hir man</L>
<L>There then She lights, he lovingly imbracd-her,</L>
<L>And in his Mother Sarais Tent, he plac'd-her.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Gene&s;is <HI>25.</HI></HEAD>
<L>A Braham charg'd, vvith mony happie yeeres,</L>
<L>A hundreth &s;evntie five compleit, expires.</L>
<L>A faithfull man, beloved of the Lord,</L>
<L>With grace, and heavnly Giftes, jndevv'd, and &s;tor'd.</L>
<L>And yet before expiring, and his daeth</L>
<L>His Goods, and Store, to Jzaac did bequeath.</L>
<L>And vvhat, he had, as deare&s;t to him Their,</L>
<L>Gives him that &s;hould, be of the promi&s;e heire.</L>
<L>To Mi&s;hpelach, the Cave that he had bought,</L>
<L>Is by his Sones, there to be buried brought.</L>
<L>(With great Lament and mourning much among</L>
<L>All tho&s;e that knevv and did to him belong)</L>
<L>And layes him there, all vvith there vveeping eyes,</L>
<L>Where with his Sarai &s;ide for &s;ide he lyes.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Gene&s;is <HI>25.</HI></HEAD>
<L>NOvv Izac fourtie yeeres, had livde, his Life,</L>
<L>When he Rebecca vvedded to his Wife.</L>
<L>But boore no Bairnes, to him, vvherefore he come,</L>
<L>And prayd the Lord, to ble&s;s hir barren vvomb.</L>
<L>The Lord is Good, and Gratious to his ovvne,</L>
<L>And that he vvas intreated heir, is &s;hovvne</L>
<L>He heard his Cry, and gave vvhat he did crave,</L>
<L>For his Rebecca efter did conceave.</L>
<L>And &s;hortly boore, tvvo male-contending Tvvines,</L>
<L>Who&s;e &s;trugling in hir bellie fir&s;t beginnes.</L>
<L>A combat vvounderfull for to con&s;idder,</L>
<L>Tuo Brether babs, vnborne, to brall, togither,</L>
<L>For at their birth, in Story is jn rolld,</L>
<L>The younger-borne, the elders heell did hold.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB REF="9">
<HEAD>Gene&s;is <HI>25.</HI></HEAD>
<L>THe Sonnes of I&s;ac waxing wight, and &s;trong</L>
<L>Wp with there Yeeres, these di&s;po&s;itions &s;prong.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd by the trad, that they did take them too</L>
<L>Wheretoo they wer inclijnd declare, they doe.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">h' one as he wax'd, and vnto manhead grew</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;av a hunter was, and wild bea&s;tes &s;lew.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd oft in woods, and wilderne&s;s remaines</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ut Iacob dweld, in Tentes, and on the plaines.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">ak his elder E&s;aw, did re&s;pect</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd Iacob more, his Mother did affect.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ut E&s;avv, one day earning for to eat</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd madly hungrie, for a mea&s;s of meat.</L>
<L>Blu&s;h may he ev'r, and Tremble when it is Told</L>
<L>His Primo-genit t'oom, and Birth-right-&s;old.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Gene&s;is <HI>26.</HI></HEAD>
<L>A Famine, Into Izaks dayes began.</L>
<L>But God his Lord, provijds for him his Man.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd vnto him appeares, and does him &s;ho</L>
<L>What land, he &s;hould e&s;chew, and whair to go.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">is promi&s;es, to Abram, pa&s;t before</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">o him, his Sonne, he hes renew'd once more.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">o Gerar than, t' Abimelech the King</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e gois, that o're the Phili&s;tims, did Reigne.</L>
<L>Whair he his wife, calld Si&s;ter, for re&s;pectes</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ut efter to be circum&s;pect, neglects.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">or once, he &s;porting with hir thair it chane'd</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">bimelech, out of his window, Glane'd</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd &s;ees the &s;ame whereat he &s;ome what mowed</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">id Izak call mode&s;tlie reprowed.</L>
<L>That had, denyd his wife, becau&s;e among</L>
<L>His people &s;ome one, might haue done hir wrong.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Gene&s;. <HI>26.</HI></HEAD>
<L>NOw whill the famyn, and the dearth remaind</L>
<L>In Pale&s;tine, was Js'ak Intertaind.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd all his flocks, &s;till favourd be the Lord</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> Gerar mightelie, incre&s;sd, and &s;tord.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">bimelech, perceaving his e&s;tate</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hus multiplie, and more and more, grow great.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e Iz'ak then, intreats, vvith fained Love</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">om him, and his Phili&s;tims, to removve.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hence Iz'ak pa&s;t, re&s;olved to remaine</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd pitch'd his palions, Into Gerar-plain.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd vvhill the dearth, into that land did le&s;t</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">o digg vp vvater vvells, he him adre&s;t.</L>
<L>The heards in Gerar, then, the&s;e pits, they cleame</L>
<L>And &s;hrevvdlie &s;tryve vvith Jzaks men, for them.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB REF="10">
<HEAD>Gene&s;. <HI>26.</HI></HEAD>
<L>ABimelech proud, hatefull, in his hart</L>
<L>Bids Is'ak from, his Pale&s;tene, depart.</L>
<L>And he obeyes, for to e&s;chew offence</L>
<L>To Beer-sheba, he removved Thence.</L>
<L>Yet the Phili&s;tim &s;eeing, that the Lord</L>
<L>In all his wayes, Izak incre&s;sd, and &s;tord.</L>
<L>Therefore he po&s;ted, for to pitche, and plant</L>
<L>With him a freind&s;hip, leagve, and Covenant.</L>
<L>That each, to oter, alwi&s;e, to there ends</L>
<L>Should doe no harme, but faethfullie be frends.</L>
<L>Izak, he fea&s;ts him then, and on the morne</L>
<L>They mutvvallie, the covenant, haue &s;worne.</L>
<L>And thus they great, ane, in the others Grace</L>
<L>Remain, and then, the King depairts in peace.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Gene&s;is <HI>27.</HI></HEAD>
<L>IZ'ak waxd old, and both his eyes grew dim</L>
<L>Than he his fir&s;t-born-E&s;aw, calld to Him:</L>
<L>And charged him, as oft he v&s;d, and wount</L>
<L>To &s;earch, and &s;eeke for veni&s;on, and hunt</L>
<L>That he, might cat thereof, and efter this</L>
<L>Before his daeth, his fir&s;t borne E&s;avv bli&s;&s;e.</L>
<L>But God heirin, he had his hand, no doubt</L>
<L>And othervvi&s;e, this Ble&s;&s;ing brought about</L>
<L>Nor Izak had, determinat, beforne</L>
<L>To give it vnto E&s;aw elde&s;t borne.</L>
<L>Rebecca heard, and Iacob, did advi&s;e</L>
<L>For to &s;uplant, his Brother be di&s;gvi&s;e.</L>
<L>And with Praevention, and a mea&s;e, of Meat</L>
<L>The Ble&s;&s;ing from his fir&s;t-borne Brother get.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Gene&s;. <HI>28.</HI></HEAD>
<L>ALon, whill Iacob Iourneys, on his way</L>
<L>To ea&s;e, and re&s;t him, on &s;ome &s;tons he lay.</L>
<L>Whair falne a &s;leep, amids his re&s;t, he &s;ies</L>
<L>From earth, a Ladder reaching to the &s;kyes.</L>
<L>And thairon Angels, they appeare, and &s;ho</L>
<L>T' a&s;cend, de&s;cend, and vp, and dovvne, it go.</L>
<L>O but behold, the Lord apeard, to Sit</L>
<L>Aboue in Heavne, vpon the Top of it</L>
<L>And vnto Iacob, from the &s;ame, he &s;aid</L>
<L>I am the God, thy Fathers hes obayd.</L>
<L>Thairfoir this Land, vvhereon Thow lyes, here I</L>
<L>Will giue to thee, and Thy Po&s;teritie.</L>
<L>And as the Du&s;t, I &s;hall thy Seed increa&s;s</L>
<L>And on the Earth, all nations in Thee, ble&s;s.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB REF="10">
<HEAD>Gene&s;is <HI>29.</HI></HEAD>
<L>Acob on journey to the Ea&s;t, it fell</L>
<L>He came, where heard-men, watred at a Well.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">here Camels, and there flocks, then roll'd thereon</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd coverd clo&s;s, the fontane, with a &s;tone.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e then demands them, if They Laban knew</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">ey an&s;verd yea, and to him Rachel, &s;hew</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">at was his daughter, and that there did keep</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nto hir fathers v&s;e, a flock of Sheep.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hom he &s;aluts, and ki&s;sd, and hes, hir Told</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> was hir kin&s;-man, and the &s;tone then roll'd</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">m the fonts mouth, that efter, as She li&s;t</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> flocks, might thither come, and quench there thri&s;t.</L>
<L>Then to her fathers hou&s;e, he doth Repair</L>
<L>And Lea fir&s;t, then Rachel maryed thair.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Gene&s;is <HI>30.</HI></HEAD>
<L>Achel, long Time, hir Belly barrd, remains</L>
<L>And &s;ies it &s;hut, She heirvpon complains.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">d did hir &s;i&s;ter Leah, muche envy</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">t She hes &s;ein, &s;o o&s;t, in Child-bedly.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> &s;he hir &s;elfe, de&s;pi&s;d, as She &s;u&s;po&s;'d</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">u&s;e, hir Belly barran vvas, and clo&s;'d.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">fore, vnto her Lord, She &s;ayes, by Thee</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> I no Childring, I &s;hall &s;urely dye.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">i&s;e, and vvilfull wemen, &s;o debord</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> vvill not byde, the lea&s;ure, of the Lord.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">&s;t, the Lord, mynds her, and heares hir moane</L>
<L>vvant of Childring, and he grants hir one.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd vvhen, hir Tyme, of Travell to hir Came</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">e boore a Boy, and Io&s;eph calld his name.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Gene&s;is <HI>31.</HI></HEAD>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">ban perceavves, &s;till Iacobs vvelth, augment</L>
<L>Therefore, he murmurs, and is mal-content.</L>
<L>Sonnes complain, he frouns, vpon him too</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> doth noght v&s;e him, as he vvount to do.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">e grudge, againes him is, becau&s;e, that Thay</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> God is vvith him, and a&s;&s;i&s;ts him ay.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">acob vvith his vvifes, concludes, herefore</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word">, to Iz'ak, and to &s;erve, no more.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> vvith his families, and flocks, by day</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> martch out and, they move furth on there vvay</L>
<L>Rachel &s;tole, hir Fathers Goods, that be</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">ou&s;hold. Things, that he did hold, mo&s;t hie.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> father &s;earchd Them, and &s;he &s;at on The&s;e</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">novved vvith, hir monethly di&s;ea&s;e.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB REF="11">
<HEAD>Gene&s;is <HI>33.</HI></HEAD>
<L>IAcob, into his Iournay home, did heare</L>
<L>That than his Brother E&s;aw, did draw neer.</L>
<L>He calld to mynd, the wrong, he did, his Brother</L>
<L>By the advi&s;e, and Co~un&s;all of his Mother.</L>
<L>Which brodds him &s;ome what, and that bree him feare</L>
<L>That made him pan&s;e, and think vpon it there.</L>
<L>Wherefore his hands, vp to the Lord, he liftes</L>
<L>And prayes for Peace, and E&s;aw plea&s;d, with Giftes.</L>
<L>Then with an Angel, as a Man, all night</L>
<L>He wightlie, wre&s;tled hes, whill neer day light</L>
<L>And with, that Angel great, he parted not</L>
<L>Whill he his Grace, and Benediction got.</L>
<L>And for a witne&s;s, of that wre&s;tling ay</L>
<L>Iacob he halted, to his dying day.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Gene&s;. <HI>34.</HI></HEAD>
<L>THe wandring Dina ravi&s;h'd, and defyld</L>
<L>The godly Iacobs only faemel Chyld.</L>
<L>Weinen, and wenches, that a gadding go</L>
<L>And worthely, ar oft rewarded &s;o.</L>
<L>The &s;ight of Novelties, in vncouth places</L>
<L>Smits with di&s;grace, and Shame, the fare&s;t faces</L>
<L>Which blot brought on there hou&s;e, when known, hir Brother</L>
<L>All wroth, and di&s;content, agree Together</L>
<L>(Tho Shechemits, for to repait, propone)</L>
<L>Mo&s;t guilfullie to be revengd there on</L>
<L>(No thing but blood into a Bloody Thought</L>
<L>Will expiat a wrong wnto it wrought.)</L>
<L>And fear&s;ly &s;lew, the Shechemits when Thay.</L>
<L>VVer circomci&s;ed, and at leaching lay.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Gene&s;. <HI>37.</HI></HEAD>
<L>WHen Io&s;eph, did attend, his Fathers Sheep</L>
<L>A Tyme when he awaked efter &s;leep.</L>
<L>His Aparitions, vi&s;ions, and his Dreame</L>
<L>Vnto his Brether, he declared Them.</L>
<L>VVho &s;pightfully, di&s;daine him, and envy</L>
<L>For prating o're Them of Supremacy</L>
<L>VVhat, &s;aid They, &s;hall, thow Boy, aboue ws Raigne</L>
<L>And we thy wa&s;&s;als, and thy men Remaine.</L>
<L>Thus grudge they greatly, and him highly hate</L>
<L>VVhill he his vi&s;ions, and his dreames relate.</L>
<L>They mu&s;e among Them, how they meete&s;t may</L>
<L>Put the divining Io&s;eph donne, &s;ome day.</L>
<L>The fathers lowe, likwi&s;e, vnto the boy</L>
<L>Temp<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s them for to di&s;patch him, and de&s;troy.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB REF="11">
<HEAD><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"></HEAD>
<L>HIs Brether hearding, into Dothan lands</L>
<L>Iacob there, Io&s;&eacute;ph, for to go commands.</L>
<L>To vi&s;it them, and for to look, hovv lucks</L>
<L>Into the Lea&s;urs, of the&s;e fields, there flocks</L>
<L>He gois in &s;earch, of them, and at the la&s;t</L>
<L>He heares, they ar, to Dothan pa&s;turs pa&s;t.</L>
<L>Whair vvhen he come, Io&s;eph the dreamer Thay</L>
<L>Or the mo&s;t part, conclood, to kill, and &s;lay.</L>
<L>But Revv-ben ruled, vvith a righter &s;p're it</L>
<L>To kill, or murther him, he thought not meet.</L>
<L>But &s;eem'd, as plea&s;'d, that in a Ci&s;tern dry</L>
<L>He &s;hould be put, to peri&s;h there, hard by.</L>
<L>Yet vvith a mynd, to &s;aue his life, and tak</L>
<L>Him thence, to gvve him to his father back.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Gene&s;is <HI>37.</HI></HEAD>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">Uda his litle Brother, pieties much</L>
<L>Therefore his life he vvill noght, they &s;hall touch.</L>
<L>Nor vvith there hands, &s;o fear&s;s, and cruell prove</L>
<L>And mercile&s;s, to murther Iacobs love.</L>
<L>But they, they vvill, &s;ome other vvay devi&s;e</L>
<L>To rub the Boy, that eye &s;ore, from there eyes.</L>
<L>Altho, they vvill not &s;lay, yet they vvill &s;terve him</L>
<L>And vvith, vnkyndlie kyndne&s;s, &s;o vvill &s;erve him.</L>
<L>Then they, &s;ome Mid'aniti&s;h merehants &s;py</L>
<L>With &s;pyceries, going vnto Egypt by.</L>
<L>They go to coun&s;all, and concluds thereon</L>
<L>That thay to Them, vvill coopt him, and di&s;pone</L>
<L>Which for &s;ome tuentie Peeces, they haue done</L>
<L>Selling there Brother, and there Fathers Sone.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Gene&s;. <HI>37.</HI></HEAD>
<L>THe Brether then, their they did kill a kid</L>
<L>This to be-blood, there Brothers coat they did.</L>
<L>They rent, and than, his party colourd-Coat</L>
<L>With that &s;ame blood, they &s;prinkle it, and &s;pot</L>
<L>Which. vvhen, old Iacob &s;ees, berayd vvith blood</L>
<L>He tinks gone vvrong, and vandring through &s;ome vvood.</L>
<L>Their he is bucherd, by &s;ome bloody Bea&s;t</L>
<L>Too good a mor&s;el, for &s;o gro&s;s a Gue&s;t)</L>
<L>His members peece-mail &s;eparat, and &s;horne</L>
<L>His fle&s;h, made food, and vvith its teeth alltorne</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e toar his clothes then longryme dools, and dwynes</L>
<L>And &s;orrofull puts &s;ackcloath, on his loynes</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e much amaz'd for that male our doth mvrne</L>
<L>And woved his gray haires to the Grave &s;hall turne</L>
<L>With griefe and &s;orrow, for his deere&s;t Chyld</L>
<L>Con&s;um'd with mercile&s;s, and men&s;ters wyld.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB REF="12">
<HEAD>Gene&s;is <HI>3<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">.</HI></HEAD>
<L>THamar, by Onan fru&s;trat, Iudas Sone</L>
<L>And vvhat vvas promi&s;ed to hir, vndone.</L>
<L>She knovving Iuda was in v&s;e to keep</L>
<L>At &s;uch a Sea&s;on, for to &s;hear, his &s;heep.</L>
<L>The rayments &s;able, that in doole, before</L>
<L>And in hir widovv'ed &s;he v&s;'d, and vvore.</L>
<L>She pute a part, and by a Subtilty</L>
<L>To mend hir &s;elf, thus doth attempt, and try.</L>
<L>Hir father be the Lavv, to circomvvein</L>
<L>That had, to fru&s;trat hir, the Author bein.</L>
<L>Di&s;gui&s;d, and vvail'd hir face, in neat aray</L>
<L>She purpo&s;ly, hes plac'd hir, in his way.</L>
<L>Whom for an whore, he tooke hir, by attire</L>
<L>And did herefore, to deale vvith her, de&s;ire.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Gene&s;is <HI>38.</HI></HEAD>
<L>THamar the Tyme, taks right, for at the &s;ame</L>
<L>Iuda vpon his journay, to hir came.</L>
<L>And taks hir for, a pro&s;titute, and woos</L>
<L>And with fair fitting words, t' Induce hir dois.</L>
<L>Delt with, as &s;he de&s;ir'd, then &s;he, demands</L>
<L>VVhat recompence, &s;hall &s;he haue, at his hands</L>
<L>If fne allow, that he with hir, &s;hall ly</L>
<L>Who well aplea&s;'d, did pre&s;ently reply</L>
<L>To &s;end a kid, and for hir promi&s;'d wage</L>
<L>His Cloke and Signet, &s;he will haue in pleage</L>
<L>His &s;taffe al&s;o, in tokin that, that day</L>
<L>So covenanted, and accorded Thay.</L>
<L>Then knew he hir, vnknowne, and with-her mells</L>
<L>And &s;he conceaved, and hir belly Svvells.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Gene&s;is <HI>38.</HI></HEAD>
<L>VP She aro&s;e, and home She did repair</L>
<L>And Iuda to his flocks, his &s;heep to &s;hear.</L>
<L>Return'd, &s;he wold, (as &s;he vvas vvount) remain</L>
<L>And on hir vvidovv. Garment gois againe.</L>
<L>And vvidovv like contmevvs thair, for fevv</L>
<L>Or non, vvhat they committed had, yet knevv.</L>
<L>He than, did tak a kid, and to hir &s;end</L>
<L>By Hirachs hand, h' Adullameit, his fremd.</L>
<L>For to redeeme, his Garment, &s;taffe and ring</L>
<L>That &s;he in gadge, got at there Barganing.</L>
<L>Hirach made &s;earch, for hir, a Harlot thought</L>
<L>But he his Travels tint, and tryd hir nought.</L>
<L>For none &s;uch their, vvas known in ony cace</L>
<L>Nor did their hant, a Harlot in that place.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB REF="12">
<HEAD>Gene&s;is <HI>38.</HI></HEAD>
<L>NOw, after three monthes, Tamar is reported</L>
<L>That vvith &s;ome freind, in privat &s;he had &s;ported.</L>
<L>For fame, oft bu&s;ie&s;t in badde&s;t Thinges</L>
<L>Fre&s;h nevves, of &s;uchlike &s;lips, and o're&s;ights brings.</L>
<L>But lo, when Iuda hears &s;he is vvith Chyld</L>
<L>And as in vvhoordome he &s;uppon'd, defyld.</L>
<L>He damns, and judg'd hir, by the fyre, to die</L>
<L>And that for hir &s;uppo&s;'d, Im puritie.</L>
<L>Wha vvhen brought foorth, to &s;uffer, She declares</L>
<L>Hir chyld vvas his, to vvhom, pertamd the&s;e vvares.</L>
<L>The &s;taff, and Clok, and the gold &s;ignet that</L>
<L>As pledges for, the promi&s;'d kid &s;he gat.</L>
<L>Which tokins &s;ein, by Iuda try'd, and knovvne</L>
<L>Acknovvledged, and there confe&s;sd his ovvne.</L>
<L>And heirfore publictlie proclame he mu&s;t</L>
<L>That She is righteous, and he vnju&s;t.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Gene&s;is <HI>39.</HI></HEAD>
<L>THe I&s;maleets, that had yong Io&s;eph bought</L>
<L>Be daylie travvell, him to Egypt brought.</L>
<L>And &s;old him vnto Pot<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">phar, a man</L>
<L>Chiefe Captane of the Guard, of Pharo than.</L>
<L>VVho loving Io&s;eph, did to him, committ</L>
<L>His hou&s;e, and all the Gouvernment of it.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">or he hes fauour, in the Enuches &s;ight</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ecau&s;e he &s;ies him ju&s;t and vvalk vpright.</L>
<L>The Lord vvith Io&s;eph, vvas, and did at large</L>
<L>He&s;s and incre&s;s, all that he had in charge.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ut Lo his ma&s;ters vvife, him, &s;he doth eye</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd &s;ies him fair, and falls in fanta&s;ie.</L>
<L>Than &s;ham le&s;s &s;o &s;oli&s;tes him for to ly</L>
<L>And knovv hir fle&s;hly, but he doth deny.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Gene&s;is <HI>39.</HI></HEAD>
<L>BVt one day all Inflamm'd vvith leachrons fire</L>
<L>And Tickled vvith intemperat De&s;ire.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ut ony &s;en&s;s, of ather Shame, or Sinne</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">r to the roome reguard, that She vvas in.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">o&s;t leudly like a Lu&s;ter, one that lovv'de</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nmode&s;tly beyond all mea&s;ure mov'de.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">lls Io&s;eph by the Clock, and vvold inty&s;e</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">im as before, but he re&s;olv'd, denyis</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd leaves his Garment vvith hir, and he flies</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">t vvhen hir &s;elf, &s;o much di&s;daind, She &s;ies</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">e calls hir hou&s;hold men, and &s;hamele&s;s bold</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">e impudent and vvhori&s;h lye &s;he told.</L>
<L>Yea hes re&s;olvd of fal&s;oods, on the vvor&s;t</L>
<L>And fal&s;l' affirm'd, that he vvold hir haue forc'd.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB REF="13">
<HEAD>Gene&s;. <HI>39.</HI></HEAD>
<L>TH' Incontenent, and vicions woman now</L>
<L>A villanie and wicked wrong, did wow.</L>
<L>And vnto Potiphar, hes made Complent</L>
<L>Vpon a pure, and &s;potle&s;s Innocent.</L>
<L>Wha (how&s;one moved with a vanton wife</L>
<L>That &s;eemd to love, and now &s;ought Io&s;ephs life)</L>
<L>Albeit an Innocent, and harmele&s;s, he</L>
<L>Hes put this Guil<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">le&s;s in Captivitie.</L>
<L>And cau&s;d him in a Car&s;er be inclo&s;'d</L>
<L>That was for Trators, to the King compo&s;'d.</L>
<L>But with him was the Lord, and he Got grace</L>
<L>And favour from, the keeper of the place.</L>
<L>For all, that their, wer Captive, and in Bands</L>
<L>Allowed by the keeper, he commands.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Gene&s;. <HI>40.</HI></HEAD>
<L>INto le&s;e Maie&s;tie, or &s;ome &s;uch Thing</L>
<L>Tuo Officiars, had faulted to the King.</L>
<L>The Butler chiefe, and Ma&s;ter Bakar both</L>
<L>Whereat t'h Egyptian Phar'o waxed wroth</L>
<L>And will noght with, this there, Tre&s;pa&s;s di&s;pence</L>
<L>But try'd, will pum&s;h where he finds, th' offence.</L>
<L>The&s;e he hes cau&s;d, commit where Io&s;eph lay</L>
<L>And by direction, he o're&s;ies them ay.</L>
<L>Each one of The&s;e, a &s;leep, they dream'd one night</L>
<L>A divers dreame, that did Them both affright.</L>
<L>VVhich the nixt day, to Io&s;eph they declair</L>
<L>And he interprets Them, vnto Them thair.</L>
<L>He tells the Butlars, to his honor tended</L>
<L>And told the Bakers, he &s;hould be &s;u&s;pended.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Gene&s;is <HI>41.</HI></HEAD>
<L>KIng Phar'o one night, in his Bed, at Re&s;t</L>
<L>Tuo dreadfull dreames, his &s;lesping &s;preit oppre&s;t.</L>
<L>Seav'n fat fair kine, and Seavn, as lean, and lanke</L>
<L>And Seavn, thin eares of corn, and &s;eavn as rank</L>
<L>Sprang vp, and in, a meadow, did apeare</L>
<L>Vnto him, by a River running neare</L>
<L>The lean, the fat, the Thin, the rank, devore</L>
<L>Yet nather of Them, fuller are the more.</L>
<L>Then call'd he for, his wi&s;e-men all, but none</L>
<L>Of the&s;e Magitians, could his dreams expone.</L>
<L>The Butlar then, remember Io&s;eph wold</L>
<L>That his advancement by his dream foretold.</L>
<L>And Pharo tells, a youth in Pri&s;on lay</L>
<L>That wold his dreames, be wit divine bewray.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB REF="13">
<HEAD>Gene&s;is <HI>41.</HI></HEAD>
<L>VVHen all the vi&s;ards, that in Epypt wer</L>
<L>In expo&s;ition of the&s;e dreams, did err.</L>
<L>The Hebrew Io&s;eph, is, from Bands relea&s;t</L>
<L>And in the prae&s;ence of Kinh Phar'o plac'd.</L>
<L>Th' Egyptian then, his vi&s;ions doth record</L>
<L>And Io&s;eph there, arffirmes alon, the Lord.</L>
<L>It is, and noght in him, in &s;uch a Cace</L>
<L>That can giue Phar'o an&s;ver, and in peace.</L>
<L>Yet he in&s;pir'd, the dreams, declares, and Cleares</L>
<L>By famyn, and by Plentie, twi&s;e &s;eav'ne yeeres.</L>
<L>The twi&s;e &s;eav'ne Eares, and kine to yeeres h'alloods</L>
<L>Of want, and welth to come, and then concloods</L>
<L>With and divine devi&s;e, for to praevent</L>
<L>Intime of fulnes, famine Imminent.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Gene&s;is <HI>41.</HI></HEAD>
<L>WHan Io&s;eph had the&s;e Dreams expon'd, and clear'd</L>
<L>Th'Egyptian Monarch hes, the man admeer'd.</L>
<L>And &s;econd to him &s;elf, in all his Land</L>
<L>Committs, to him the Care, and chiefe command.</L>
<L>And herefore gave, his Signet, in a Signe</L>
<L>To make him be obeyed nixt the King.</L>
<L>In Linning pure, and purple, he is cled</L>
<L>And throgh the Cities, and the Land is led.</L>
<L>To have, of all men honor, and Re&s;pect.</L>
<L>For &s;o did Phar'o, Ordane, and direct.</L>
<L>A pompous Charet, cau&s;'d the King provide</L>
<L>For Io&s;eph nixt, the Royall ane, to Ryde.</L>
<L>For he will haue him higher honors have</L>
<L>Nor ever Egypt to a &s;tranger gave.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Gene&s;is <HI>41.</HI></HEAD>
<L>THe yeeres of plentie come, as was fore &s;howne</L>
<L>All Graine, and Corne, is in abundance growde.</L>
<L>And as the Prophet Io&s;eph Prae expre&s;t</L>
<L>Above beleefe, in Egypt all Incre&s;t.</L>
<L>Io&s;eph herefore, provids and doth praepare</L>
<L>For the approaching penurie, to &s;pare.</L>
<L>He herefore from, all Limits of the Lands</L>
<L>To carie to the Cities, Corne, commands.</L>
<L>Ye a from all hamlets, farmes, and fields, for &s;tore</L>
<L>T'abundance daylie, he adds more, and more</L>
<L>His woundrous wi&s;dome, owerwent his yeeres</L>
<L>And in his prudent Prouidence apeeres.</L>
<L>And &s;o much wheat, and grain, together Ma&s;&s;es</L>
<L>That the&s;e all reakning, Counpt, and mea&s;ure pa&s;&s;es.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB REF="14">
<HEAD>Gene&s;is <HI>41.</HI></HEAD>
<L>A Senath Io&s;eph wife is brought to bed</L>
<L>And of tuo mailes tuo Tvins deliuered</L>
<L>This his A&s;enah daughter was to One</L>
<L>Poti-pherah the Prie&s;t or Prince of O N</L>
<L>Mana&s;&s;eth he hes nam'de the elder Brother</L>
<L>And Ephraim he called hes the other</L>
<L>The&s;e names vpon re&s;pects that moy'de him So</L>
<L>(Declar'd into the Text) he grave the&s;e Tuo</L>
<L>They both were borne before that Egypt fand</L>
<L>The furie of the famyne in the Land</L>
<L>And when that famyn rag'd th' Egyptians rrn</L>
<L>And cry'd and cravved &s;ome Corne from Phar'o than</L>
<L>The King to Io&s;eph them directs, and he</L>
<L>With &s;ing'lar Prudence doth there want &s;uplie.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Gene&s;is <HI>42.</HI></HEAD>
<L>THe force of famyn o're the earth incre&s;s'd</L>
<L>And entred Iacobs hou&s;e and it di&s;tre&s;s'd</L>
<L>Whill prudentlie he to his Sonnes did &s;ay</L>
<L>Why gare yovv &s;o, and doe amared &s;tay</L>
<L>I knovv in Egypt there is Corne herefore</L>
<L>Take money go, and buy-for ws &s;ome &s;tore</L>
<L>Le&s;t that into the famyn yow and I</L>
<L>And all our Hou&s;hold peri&s;h heir and dye</L>
<L>They go to buy and Io&s;eph hes them knovvne</L>
<L>And que&s;tions them (but keeps him&s;elf wn&s;hovvne)</L>
<L>They haue one Brother more, and One is nought</L>
<L>Said they, and Io&s;eph bids that he be brought</L>
<L>There Silver &s;ecretly put in each, Sacke</L>
<L>Vnknovvne they Carie to there Father bake</L>
<L>But Simeon, a pledge dois their remane</L>
<L>Whill they come back with Beniamine againe.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Gene&s;. <HI>43.</HI></HEAD>
<L>WIth much intreating Iacob mov'de did twin</L>
<L>With his delight his deere Sonne Beniamine</L>
<L>The Brether double moneys tack and go</L>
<L>To Egypt for more Corne provided fo</L>
<L>But Beniamin, when Io&s;eph &s;ies he went</L>
<L>And weep for joy &s;o did his heart relent</L>
<L>His brother Simeon than he hes in larg'd</L>
<L>And the Commander of his hou&s;e hes charg'd</L>
<L>Some dainty fatlings for to kill and &s;lay</L>
<L>Since that the&s;e men &s;hould be his Gue&s;ts that day</L>
<L>Mo&s;t librally h'intreats Them evrie Gue&s;t</L>
<L>But Beniamin be fyve tym's by the re&s;t</L>
<L>His mea&s;e was more, becau&s;e he was his Brother</L>
<L>An vrerein, and both borne be one Mother.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB REF="14">
<HEAD>Gene&s;. <HI>44.</HI></HEAD>
<L>VVHen Io&s;eph &s;o had cheri&s;hd Them he makes</L>
<L>His chiefe o're-&s;ier for to fill there Sack's</L>
<L>And therein put the moneys that they had</L>
<L>And in the Sack of Beniamin the Lad.</L>
<L>Who was the lea&s;t and younge&s;t ane of Tho&s;e</L>
<L>His moneys and his Silver Cup t'inclo&s;e</L>
<L>Directed &s;o, all done, by break of day</L>
<L>They load there A&s;&s;es and they went avvay</L>
<L>The Cup is challeng'd and they promi&s;e all</L>
<L>That he that hes it die therefore he &s;hall</L>
<L>It's fund with Beniamin then dollorous</L>
<L>They all returne againe to Io&s;ephs hou&s;e</L>
<L>Whair Iuda for his libertie Intreats</L>
<L>And all there former Conference repeats</L>
<L>La&s;t offers, therefor him a &s;lavve to be</L>
<L>Le&s;t for his lo&s;s there Father Iacob die.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Gene&s;is <HI>45.</HI></HEAD>
<L>NO longer Io&s;eph could his tears contein</L>
<L>Vnbraking ont and bur&s;ting from his eyn</L>
<L>Nor longer will delay nor be vu&s;hovvne</L>
<L>But make him there, to all his Brether knovvne</L>
<L>Then ki&s;s'd he Benjamin and weep'd for jo</L>
<L>And ki&s;s'd the re&s;t in lovve and weep'd al&s;o</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">o&s;eph declaird that God had &s;end him Thair</L>
<L>For them in tyme of famyn to Prepair.</L>
<L>Then told they Phar'o that the&s;e Hebrew men</L>
<L>Be Io&s;ephs Brether and vvere with him then</L>
<L>Then Phar'o glade th' Egyptian king commands</L>
<L>To bring there Father vnto Egypt lands</L>
<L>They told there Father Io&s;eph lives: and he</L>
<L>Is glad to go and &s;ie him 'ore he die.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Gene&s;is <HI>46.</HI></HEAD>
<L>THen Iacob journay took and re&s;ted next</L>
<L>A T Beer-&s;heba &s;ayes the &s;acred Text</L>
<L>And &s;acrifird according to his word</L>
<L>Vnto th' Almighty Izaks loving Lord</L>
<L>Who vnto I&s;r'el did appeare in &s;ight.</L>
<L>And call'd him Iacob, Iacob on the night</L>
<L>Then &s;aid I am thy Fathers God wherefore.</L>
<L>To go to Egypt henceforth feare no more.</L>
<L>I have a care of Thee and thy e&s;tate</L>
<L>And there &s;hall mak Thee Multiply and Great</L>
<L>I will go dovne and with Thee there remane</L>
<L>And thence I &s;hall re-bring thee back agane.</L>
<L>But there thovv &s;hall expire, depart and die</L>
<L>And Io&s;eph there &s;hall lock and lovk thine eye.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB REF="15">
<HEAD>Gene&s;is <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters"></HEAD>
<L>IAcob to Pharo gois in Egypt &s;tayes</L>
<L>He numbers thair and efter ends his dayes.</L>
<L>And yet the famyn did in Egypt rage</L>
<L>And noght its furie did relent nor Swage.</L>
<L>But cruelly both man and Bea&s;t did grieve them</L>
<L>When they hane nought to live on nor releive them.</L>
<L>The people when there Grain was gon they run</L>
<L>And cryes to Io&s;eph all their Coyne was done</L>
<L>Yet &s;eeke they Bread he tells Them they have &s;tore</L>
<L>And he will &s;ell them bread and corne therefore</L>
<L>That &s;pent Them&s;elves there duellings Goods and ground</L>
<L>They pa&s;s for foode for they mu&s;t needs befund</L>
<L>So Io&s;eph bought for Corne all Egypt land</L>
<L>And &s;o did over Egypt all Command.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Gene&s;is <HI>48.</HI></HEAD>
<L>WHen aged I&s;r'els dying day drew nye</L>
<L>A hundreth fourtie &s;even yeer old was he.</L>
<L>Io&s;ephs two Sonnes are made vnto him knowne</L>
<L>Whom he acknoledgd and took as his owne.</L>
<L>To ble&s;&s;e Them he&s;treach'd furth his hands, the Right</L>
<L>On Ephrams Head yet noght for want of Sight</L>
<L>But purpo&s;ly for Ephrame &s;hould be great</L>
<L>And much &s;urmonnt Mana&s;&s;eth in e&s;tate</L>
<L>Doubtle&s;s the Lord commanded &s;o the man</L>
<L>Prophetickly to ble&s;s the&s;e Brether than</L>
<L>Then Is'rel &s;aid to Jo&s;eph now J die</L>
<L>But God &s;hall both protect and pro&s;per Thee</L>
<L>And to thy fathers land from whence thow come</L>
<L>To brook thy dowble Partage bring Thee home.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Gene&s;is <HI>49.</HI></HEAD>
<L>OLd Iacob ble&s;&s;es all his Sonnes be name</L>
<L>And one by one be&s;tows it vpon Thame.</L>
<L>To Revben and the Re&s;t conveined Thair</L>
<L>What &s;hall befall them efter did declair.</L>
<L>To Juda he prophetically Told</L>
<L>The Scepter &s;till he in his hou&s;e &s;hould hold</L>
<L>Whill Shiloch come that &s;hall the people tye</L>
<L>In efter tymes to him aeternally</L>
<L>To evrie one of Them his fate he &s;howes</L>
<L>And when he finds he fants and weaker growes</L>
<L>He charg'd them then and made them all to &s;weare</L>
<L>To Ma&s;-pelach his Body dead to beare</L>
<L>And in his Fathers countrie lay't in Grave</L>
<L>Which is by Mamre into Abrams cave.</L>
<L>Then Iacob in his Bed pull'd vp his feet</L>
<L>Divinly ended and gave vp his &s;preet.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB REF="15">
<HEAD>Gene&s;is <HI>50.</HI></HEAD>
<L>VVIth all pomp funerall in &s;olemne &s;ort</L>
<L>The Sonnes of Jacob do his Corps tran&s;por</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd layes thas balmed Body in a Grave</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">t Mach-pelach by Mamre in the Cave</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hen Io&s;eph with his Brether back did go</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">et for there former fault they doubt him (tho</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e pa&s;&s;ed all there vnkyndne&s;&s;e &s;trenge)</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hat now he wold, take there, of Them revenge</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ut godly Io&s;eph he a&s;&s;ures them all</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hat their vnkindne&s;s he will nev'r recall</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ut nvr'&s;he them as a father ever more</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd for there wel-fare &s;till provide Them &s;tore</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">et &s;wore he them and th'Ebrews thair that thay</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">is Bones &s;hould Burie where his fathers lay</L>
<L>Then Io&s;eph old his childring &s;ies</L>
<L>And then in Peace this happie prophet dies.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Gene&s;is <HI>50.</HI></HEAD>
<L>PIvinly lowed Io&s;eph died when</L>
<L>He aged was a hunder yeer and Ten</L>
<L>A man whom God directed all his dayes</L>
<L>And did advance him verie woundrous wayes</L>
<L>A ble&s;&s;ing for his Brether Sire and frends</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ow'de and admit'de of Egypt all, he ends</L>
<L>Then boveld was the Body with praetence</L>
<L>To be tran&s;ported by his Brether Thence</L>
<L>As when he lay a dying they before</L>
<L>At his de&s;ire Solemnly to him &s;wore</L>
<L>Yet to a fitter tyme they thought it be&s;t</L>
<L>To lay'd Imbalind in Egipt in a Che&s;t</L>
<L>Whill They from thence with honour might it have</L>
<L>And burie it Into his fathers grave.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Exodus Chap. <HI>1.</HI></HEAD>
<L>IN Egipt I&s;r'el and his Sonnes all dead</L>
<L>Yet there incrediblie increfsd there &s;eed</L>
<L>For all Thinges ever hes incre&s;s'd and &s;tord</L>
<L>That ble&s;s'd hes bene and favour'd be the Lord</L>
<L>Whill that it hapned that there Regn'd a new</L>
<L>An other King nor ever Io&s;eph knew</L>
<L>Who hearing that the Hebrews thair of few</L>
<L>In &s;o &s;hort time, to &s;o great numbers grew</L>
<L>And fearing that his peace they &s;hould perturb</L>
<L>He mynds to raine, and all there Cour&s;es curb</L>
<L>With Tyre&s;ome Ta&s;kes, and working with there hands</L>
<L>And for to beare brick burdens them commands</L>
<L>To wearie, wrack them and to keep them vnder</L>
<L>But more and more they wax'd vnto his wounder.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB REF="16">
<HEAD>Exodus <HI>1.</HI></HEAD>
<L>TH' Egyptian &s;ies there &s;ervile &s;lavrie wile</L>
<L>Gains noght, but what he greens for, dois begvyle</L>
<L>Then compa&s;'d he and ca&s;ts an other cour&s;e</L>
<L>Noght better bo~tt a wickeder and wor&s;e</L>
<L>He charg'd the mid-vvyves, then that they, each boy</L>
<L>Into the Birth &s;hould murther and de&s;troy</L>
<L>And if it were a mayd then they &s;hould &s;pair</L>
<L>And kill none but a maile or manchyld thair</L>
<L>Perver&s;ly whair men ar di&s;po&s;'d to ill</L>
<L>Means &s;eldome wants for to affect there will</L>
<L>Yet did they multiplie and grevv the more</L>
<L>That thus to kill and cutt them &s;hort they &s;hore</L>
<L>The wemen feard the Lord and did it nought</L>
<L>Wherefore he pro&s;perd Them and with them wrought</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Exodus <HI>1.</HI></HEAD>
<L>THe Tyranne Phar'o finding that his will</L>
<L>(The mid-vives mercifull) did noght foorth fill</L>
<L>In killingh of the Hebrew mails: he did command</L>
<L>All the Egyptian people in his Land</L>
<L>That they no Hebrew female nor a mayd</L>
<L>Should once per&s;ew to death drovne nor invade</L>
<L>For in his block-head-brain and witt vnvi&s;e</L>
<L>He thought no harme to him by The&s;e could ry&s;e</L>
<L>But all the mails he bids (o cruell King)</L>
<L>That in the River thay, and flood &s;hould fling</L>
<L>Which carele&s;ly by cruell hearted men</L>
<L>There in&s;tantlie is executed Then</L>
<L>To cut and curb th' incre&s;snig afterward</L>
<L>Of the trve Ghrafts into the Lords wineyard.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Exodus <HI>2.</HI></HEAD>
<L>THe crueltie of the Egyptian Prence</L>
<L>Made the Ebrew dames vvith pietie di&s;pence</L>
<L>And vvith there pitie and a tinder heart</L>
<L>(Into th' outca&s;ting of there Childring) part</L>
<L>Lo as exemplified and vvievlie heare</L>
<L>In Mo&s;es expo&s;ition dois appeare</L>
<L>Left de&s;olat alon the infant lay</L>
<L>Expond to peri&s;h on the River Bray</L>
<L>But God above compa&s;&s;ion had and He</L>
<L>Of Mo&s;es fate did otherwi&s;e decree</L>
<L>And had re&s;olv'd by his mini&s;tring hand</L>
<L>To bring his I&s;rall out of Egypt Land</L>
<L>In thrie months old he was ca&s;t out and after</L>
<L>Was fund among the flaggs be Phar'os daughter.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB REF="16">
<HEAD>Exodus <HI>2.</HI></HEAD>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">He litle Boy fund in a pitched Arke</L>
<L>By God pre&s;erved for a worthie wark</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">to ane Ebrew nource is gevin to feed</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> nat'rall mother and his dame indeed</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">w grew the chyld and then the Ebrew broght-him</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> Pharos daughter for hir Sonne She thoght him</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> Boy was lovely plea&s;ant in hir eye</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">d did indeed delight hir greatumlie</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> call'd him Mo&s;es and hir rea&s;one &s;hew</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">au&s;e from water dying &s;he him drew</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> God his &s;afetie wrought and broght about</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">t none but Phar'os chyld &s;ould draw him out</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">o be a means agains hir Fathers minde</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">o &s;afe a Salver of the Ebrevv kinde.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Exodus <HI>2.</HI></HEAD>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">Ovv in tho&s;e dayes vvhen Mo&s;es waxed &s;troug</L>
<L>To &s;ie his Hebrevv Brether thinking loug</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> went and Savv the Burdens that they buire</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> all th' indignities that they indure</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">ich could not bot mole&s;t and move his mind</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> Pitie and compa&s;&s;ion all inclynd</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> when he &s;ies where ane Egyptian</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> boldly beat and hurt ane Hebrew man</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">&s;pights therat and Separats them Tway</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> in revenge the Memphit man did &s;lay</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">n waroly look'd, lea&s;t any &s;hould him &s;ie</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">by an other Hebrw &s;ein was he</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">is Carcas then as he could vvith his hand</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e buried there and hid it in the Sand.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Exodus <HI>2.</HI></HEAD>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">He &s;econd time went Mo&s;es foorth an fand</L>
<L>Tuo I&s;ralits much at contentionn &s;tand</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> for &s;ome &s;ort of Odds and diffrence that</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> falne betinxt them tho he knw not vvhat</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">he revveills the Smitter with rebooke</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> hardly vvith his Reprehention took</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> men incen&s;'d vvith fury hardlie knaw</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">m&s;elf nor whom to they a duetie aw)</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> &s;aid who made thee judge in this debate</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">vill thow kill me as thovv kill'd of late</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> Egyptian here: &s;o Mo&s;es clearly knew</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> it was known that he th' Egyptian &s;lew</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> dreading forder danger and for &s;eare</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e fled to Midian and Taried thair.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB REF="17">
<HEAD>Exodus <HI>2.</HI></HEAD>
<L>THe &s;laughter thus reveald King Pharo &s;end</L>
<L>Hor&s;e-men and foote To &s;earch and apprehend</L>
<L>And bring him th'Ebrew Mo&s;es that had &s;laine</L>
<L>Yea evn in Egypt ane Egyptian</L>
<L>In the reparing wrong and righting than</L>
<L>The injurie done to ane Hebrew man</L>
<L>For Mo&s;es was the man that from above</L>
<L>God in compa&s;&s;ionn Pitie and his Love</L>
<L>Had made and prae apoynted for to be</L>
<L>The in&s;trument to &s;et his people free</L>
<L>But feare gave feet and feddred him his wing</L>
<L>To po&s;t from perrill of that Tyran King</L>
<L>And in his flight did by a fontane &s;tay</L>
<L>That in the fielde and land of Midian lay.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Exodus <HI>2.</HI></HEAD>
<L>WHen Mo&s;es in his flight had rraveld long</L>
<L>E&s;ter the righting of the Hebrews wrong</L>
<L>He wearied was, with walking on the way</L>
<L>Thearfoir to ea&s;e him is con&s;traind to &s;tay</L>
<L>And whill he re&s;tes him at a fontane than</L>
<L>Seav'ne daughters of the Prie&s;t of Midian</L>
<L>Come to that Ci&s;tern and the&s;e &s;pringing Rockes</L>
<L>For to refre&s;h and water there thair flockes</L>
<L>But then come heard-men, hanting their, and thay</L>
<L>Unmanerly, wold dryve the&s;e mayds away</L>
<L>And &s;tubbornly, debarr them for to bring</L>
<L>The needfull waters, from that running &s;pring</L>
<L>But Mo&s;es did them from incombrance keep</L>
<L>And waterd all there Goats and flocks of Sheep.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Exodus <HI>2.</HI></HEAD>
<L>THe virgins from the well reverted tell</L>
<L>What with the Sheep-heards thair to Them befell</L>
<L>Who wold not &s;uffer them in any Cace</L>
<L>With the&s;e there flocks t'approach vnto that place</L>
<L>And how a man they by the fontane fand</L>
<L>That did with hold from them the heards-mens hand</L>
<L>And drew there water in their Troghs and Cuds</L>
<L>That did &s;uffice to water all there Goods</L>
<L>There father tax'd them then that they had nought</L>
<L>Him that had help them &s;o home with them brought</L>
<L>They went and brought him and there father whan</L>
<L>He came, mo&s;t kindly did intreat the man</L>
<L>Then of the&s;e Daughters Se'vne he gives him one</L>
<L>Zipporah call'd and &s;he bore him a Sone.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB REF="17">
<HEAD>Exodus <HI>2.</HI></HEAD>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">N tract of Time the King of Egypt dyes</L>
<L>And th' I&s;raleits in bondage Sighes and cryes</L>
<L>And the&s;e there Groans and cryes that they wer wount</L>
<L>To &s;pire, and &s;pend, vp to the havns did monr</L>
<L>Sprang throgh the air, the Clouds in &s;under teares</L>
<L>And enters all in the Almighties eares</L>
<L>He knows there Carces, there Griefes, regrats, and groans</L>
<L>And will haue minde and mercie on there moans.</L>
<L>His Covenant kint with, his Servands kind</L>
<L>Abraham and his Sones he hes in mynd</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">o look'd the Lord vpon their Stre&s;s extreame</L>
<L>And &s;hortly &s;hall &s;end Confort vnto Thame</L>
<L>For all that tru&s;t in him and cry for aide</L>
<L>He will &s;upport them as him &s;elf hes Said.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Exodus <HI>3.</HI></HEAD>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">N Horeb monr where Mo&s;es v&s;'d to keep</L>
<L>His father Iethro's heards and flocks of &s;heep</L>
<L>The Angel of the Lord there did apeare</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nto a Bu&s;h vn-brunt, but burning cleare</L>
<L>And did with &s;undrie Circom&s;tances &s;ho</L>
<L>That he will have him Into Egypt go.</L>
<L>For he had heard his Servands long in Thrall</L>
<L>There Sighes, there &s;orrow's griefe and Groanings all)</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nto proude Phar'o the Egyptian King</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">rom thence his Hebrew I&s;raleits to bring</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ppre&s;sd with bearing brick in burdens &s;till</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">o &s;atisfie a Tyrans wiked will</L>
<L>He &s;aid he &s;ould In&s;ttuct him what to &s;ay</L>
<L>And plague all Egypt if he di&s;obey.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Exodus <HI>3</HI> &amp; <HI>4.</HI></HEAD>
<L>HEre Mo&s;es doubts and hardly will beleive</L>
<L>That th'I&s;raleits will credit to him give</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">or tru&s;t &s;aid he that from a living flame</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">y Lords command to me his &s;ervand came</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">or that my Lord wold make me me&s;&s;inger</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">o be the I&s;raleits deliverer</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hen &s;aid the Lord what is that in thy hand</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e an&s;verd him and &s;aid it was a wand</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">a&s;t thow it downe &s;aid he, and lo the forme</L>
<L>word<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> growne a Serpent or a creeping worme</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> an tack it by the tail and thon &s;hall &s;ie</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="4 letters">mrne a Rod and now no Serpent be</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> &s;aid he in thy Bo&s;ome thru&s;t thy hand</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> draving't furth he it a leprous fand</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">once again he &s;ay's Thru&s;t thow it in</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">aks it furth a fre&s;h fle&s;h colourd &s;kin</L>
<PB REF="18">
<L>Go fordward then and the&s;e <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> he Signes</L>
<L>That there beliefe and creded with them brinpes.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Exodus <HI>4.</HI></HEAD>
<L>YEt Mo&s;es wold e&s;chevv and faine wold flie</L>
<L>This noble Charge and to the Lord &s;aid he</L>
<L>I am nought eloquent and want of it</L>
<L>And my &s;love toung maks me therefore vn&s;it</L>
<L>The Lord with Mo&s;es he was angrie than</L>
<L>And &s;aid to him<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> who gaue a mouth to man</L>
<L>But I, go then and I will gwe The &s;peache</L>
<L>And thee there all what thow &s;hould &s;ay &s;hall teach</L>
<L>Yet once more Mo&s;es heirabout conte&s;ts</L>
<L>And ane more&s;it to &s;end the Lord reque&s;ts</L>
<L>The Lord then werie wroath wit him did &s;ay</L>
<L>Doe I noght knovv thy Brother by the way</L>
<L>The Levit A'ron thovv &s;hall meet who &s;hall</L>
<L>Speak wnto Phar'o and delyver all.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Exodus <HI>4.</HI></HEAD>
<L>THen Mo&s;es went and did with Ara'on meet</L>
<L>That gratiou&s;ly each other gladly greet</L>
<L>Then pa&s;t to Egypt and together call</L>
<L>The heads of evrie hou&s;e of I&s;r'el all</L>
<L>Ar'on the Love of God wnto them thair</L>
<L>With there delw'rance quickly, doth declare</L>
<L>Of all the woordes that God to Mo&s;es &s;pak</L>
<L>He doth to Them a trve rehcar&s;all make</L>
<L>And in there pre&s;ence with a woundring eye</L>
<L>Strange wounders wroght among them there they &s;ie</L>
<L>The miracles that God to Mofes &s;hew</L>
<L>He did them in there pre&s;ence all of new</L>
<L>Then they belew'd confirmed in there minde</L>
<L>And all to wor&s;hip bowed and inclynd.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Exodus <HI>5.</HI></HEAD>
<L>MO&s;es and Aa'ron vnto Phar'o gois</L>
<L>And the almighties mynd and me&s;&s;age &s;hois</L>
<L>Commanding that his people long in &s;tre&s;&s;e</L>
<L>He wold let go wnto the wilderne&s;&s;e</L>
<L>To him there Lord the God almightie that</L>
<L>They might a fea&s;t &s;olemnly celebrat</L>
<L>No but King Pharo hardned had his heart</L>
<L>And wold not &s;uffer I&s;r'al thence to pairt</L>
<L>But &s;pightfullie commanded dovvblie more</L>
<L>To make there ta&s;ks nor they had bein before</L>
<L>The people with Mo&s;es and with Ar'on than</L>
<L>T' expo&s;tulat and for to grudge began</L>
<L>And herefore Mo&s;es dois to God regrate</L>
<L>(Since he with Pharao delt) there wor&s;e e&s;tate.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB REF="18">
<HEAD>Exadus <HI>7.</HI></HEAD>
<L>THe men of God to Ph<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters"> gois againe</L>
<L>And profits nothing with that Prince prophane</L>
<L>He will not grant the people nor accord</L>
<L>To lett them go and offer to the Lord</L>
<L>For deepl' indurd and hardned is his hart</L>
<L>That he will noght permit them to depart</L>
<L>The Prophets than their Budding Rods doune throvves</L>
<L>And their the miracles to Pharo &s;hovves</L>
<L>Then &s;trak they Nile,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>1.</HI> Plague.</NOTE> Egypts enriching flood</L>
<L>And it turn'd Tart black and in bitter Blood</L>
<L>Th' Egyptian Magi with there charmed Rods</L>
<L>Will &s;o vvorke wounders to there pagan Gods</L>
<L>But as there rods turn'd Serpents creeps and Crall</L>
<L>The living rod of Aaron cates them all.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Exadus <HI>8.</HI></HEAD>
<L>PRoud Pharohs hart yet &s;tiffe and &s;teeld did &s;tand</L>
<L>That it no ear could giue to Gods command</L>
<L>Nor be broght to beleiue tho he had &s;ein</L>
<L>His might in miracles befoir his eyne</L>
<L>Wherefore he &s;ent pa&s;t number numberle&s;s</L>
<L>Infinit froggs all Egypt to di&s;tre&s;s<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>2.</HI> Plague.</NOTE></L>
<L>So that the&s;e noy&s;ome Things Innumerable</L>
<L>Creept vp on Pharos Bed and Pharos table</L>
<L>Yea noght a foote of field in Egypt be</L>
<L>That from the&s;e all defyling froggs is free</L>
<L>Than Pharo Mo&s;es dois intreat that he</L>
<L>Wold pray to God and make the&s;e froggs all die</L>
<L>Mo&s;es reque&s;ted be King Pharo prayes</L>
<L>And heard, the Lord the&s;e froggs con&s;umes and &s;layes</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Exodus <HI>8.</HI></HEAD>
<L>TO Pharos hart &s;uch cur&s;edne&s;s &s;till cleaves</L>
<L>That noght his vvonted hardnes yet it leaves</L>
<L>The vvounders vvroght &s;o vi&s;ible and &s;trange</L>
<L>His marble minde did neuir mint to change</L>
<L>But quyt of the&s;e again his hart he armes</L>
<L>And Aaron &s;mott the du&s;t and lyce in &s;warmes<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>3.</HI> Plague.</NOTE></L>
<L>Throgh Egypt all (Go&s;hen except) incre&s;t</L>
<L>And multiplied o're all on man and bea&s;t</L>
<L>King Pharos Magi and Enchamters too</L>
<L>A&s;&s;ay to bring foorth Lyce but nought could do<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>Then they enforc'd before King Phar'o brought</L>
<L>Acknowledge that the Lord the&s;e wounders wroght</L>
<L>Yet Pharos hardned hart and wicked vvill</L>
<L>Indur'd remaind and &s;tiffe continevved &s;till.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB REF="19">
<HEAD>Exodus <HI>8.</HI></HEAD>
<L>THen on <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> the Lord &s;ent flightes of flies</L>
<L>That non the clouds for Clu&s;ters of them &s;ies<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>4.</HI> Plague</NOTE></L>
<L>On men and bea&s;ts on hou&s;e and &s;ields they fall</L>
<L>And merv'lou&s;ly they multiplie on all</L>
<L>Yet was the Hebrews Go&s;hen (to record)</L>
<L>Free from the plague prae&s;erved be the Lord</L>
<L>The flintie harted. Pharo now e&s;pyes</L>
<L>That on his Land Gods heavie Iudgement lyes</L>
<L>And he no pow'r no, nor means had man</L>
<L>That Egypt from that Cur&s;e delyuer can</L>
<L>Therefore (con&s;traind) Mo&s;es to pray commands</L>
<L>An dhe t'intreat the Lord holds vp his hands</L>
<L>God heard his prair and then the flies depart</L>
<L>But hardned yet holds out King Phar'os hart.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Exodus <HI>9.</HI></HEAD>
<L>THe fi&s;t Time Mo&s;es Pharo do'th demand</L>
<L>To &s;uffer I&s;rael to depart his Land</L>
<L>Bur hardned is his hart, Indur'd in ill</L>
<L>Herefore the Lord a Morame &s;ent to kill</L>
<L>The bea&s;tes of evrie kind throgh Egypt all<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>5.</HI> Plague</NOTE></L>
<L>But noght a bea&s;t in Go&s;hen peri&s;h &s;hall</L>
<L>And all one day that be in Egypt bounds</L>
<L>The forcefull finger of the Lord confounds</L>
<L>The heards and flocks in field the foules that flie</L>
<L>The Camel and the Colt drop'd donne and dye</L>
<L>This mightie Moram in th' almighties wraeth</L>
<L>All Be&s;tiall Bands in Egypt dryves to death</L>
<L>But Pharos hart is hardned yet the fa&s;ter</L>
<L>And &s;till &s;tays th' Ebrews to go &s;erve there ma&s;ter.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Exodus <HI>9.</HI></HEAD>
<L>FOr Pharos &s;tubborne and hard hartedne&s;&s;e</L>
<L>With &s;cab and Boatch the Lord will Egypt pre&s;&s;e</L>
<L>And heirfore he the Prophets both commands</L>
<L>In th' Aer to throw &s;ome a&s;hes from there hands</L>
<L>Which &s;hortly efter into du&s;t did turne</L>
<L>And Man and Bea&s;t with Boatch and Bli&s;ters burne<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>6.</HI> Plague</NOTE></L>
<L>That neither of the&s;e kindes therefrom was free</L>
<L>But therewith, all, and each, ore pla&s;tred be</L>
<L>Then flew from heav'ne fire thunder haile and Raine<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>7.</HI> Plague</NOTE></L>
<L>That mightely plagues all vpon the plaine</L>
<L>And yet where I&s;ra'l is in Go&s;hen Land</L>
<L>The earth and aer but &s;tormes vn&s;tre&s;&s;ed &s;tand</L>
<L>Now Pharo &s;ies his Sinne and Egypts grief</L>
<L>And pray's the Prophets pray for there relliefe</L>
<L>And promi&s;es to let the people Go</L>
<L>Yet hardens his hart and efter dois not &s;o.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB REF="19">
<HEAD>Exodus <HI>10.</HI></HEAD>
<L>INdured Pharo wilfull yet vvith &s;tandes</L>
<L>And God &s;ent Gra&s;hoppers in Egypt Landes<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">.</HI> Plague</NOTE></L>
<L>Of the&s;e innumerable numbers Than</L>
<L>The earth o'recoverd from the &s;ight of man</L>
<L>And all the herbs, that hail and thunder left</L>
<L>Lyke hungrie Harpies they raye vp and reft</L>
<L>So that nothing in Egypt grovving green</L>
<L>Nor blade nor leafe theye vncon&s;um'd vvas &s;ein</L>
<L>Pharo againe doth for to grant begin</L>
<L>Agains the Lord his vvickedne&s;s and Sin</L>
<L>Imploring Mo&s;es to the Lord to pray</L>
<L>That he his vvraeth vvold from that land alay.</L>
<L>Mo&s;es then prayd and to the Lord inclind</L>
<L>Who &s;ent a &s;trong &s;tiff gall, and vve&s;tern vvind</L>
<L>Which tho&s;e Gra&s;hoppers to the Sea did po&s;t</L>
<L>That none vvas &s;ein on all th' Egyptian coa&s;t</L>
<L>But God indur'd the hart of Phar'o So</L>
<L>That yet he letts the I&s;ralits to Go.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Exodus <HI>10.</HI></HEAD>
<L>THe Lord to Mo&s;es his command hes geven</L>
<L>For to &s;treach out his hands vp tovvards heavn</L>
<L>That darkne&s;s on the land vvithout all light</L>
<L>For thrie dayes may vvrap Egypt in one night<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">.</HI> Plague</NOTE></L>
<L>Obedient Mo&s;es lifting vp his fi&s;t</L>
<L>The Land is all oremantled vvith a mi&s;t</L>
<L>And dreadfull darkne&s;s is o're Egypt &s;pred</L>
<L>And all vvith thick and pitchie clouds o'recled</L>
<L>So palpablie and gro&s;&s;e the darkne&s;s &s;hovvs</L>
<L>That vvhat to doe or vvhair to go none knovvs</L>
<L>All buried as in night and darkne&s;s lyes</L>
<L>But light of day or &s;ight of chearfull &s;kyes</L>
<L>Then Pharo &s;eemd content that th'Ebrevvs thay</L>
<L>Except there cattell &s;hould go all avvay</L>
<L>In Go&s;hen yet vvhair I&s;ra'l livv'de vvas light</L>
<L>Delightfull day and vndi&s;temperd night</L>
<L>To be a vvitne&s;s that the Lord vvas thair</L>
<L>He keep'd vntroubled both the earth and aer</L>
<L>But God the Lord ty is Pharos hart vp &s;o</L>
<L>That he the Hebrevvs hinders yet to go.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Exodus <HI>12.</HI></HEAD>
<L>WHen God had promi&s;d I&s;rael to inlarge</L>
<L>He in&s;titute the Pa&s;&s;ovver and did charge</L>
<L>With circum&s;tances for to eat the Lamb</L>
<L>As he apoynts and had ordaind the &s;ame</L>
<L>Mo&s;es and Aaron he directs to tell</L>
<L>Vnto his Congregation I&s;rael</L>
<PB REF="20">
<L>How evvrie nou<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">old or the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"></L>
<L>To eat the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">a&s;so're &s;ould it &s;elf prepair</L>
<L>With girded Loyns kint Shoes and &s;taffe in hands</L>
<L>And-when they kill their Lambs to &s;troak commands</L>
<L>There liutels with the Blood that &s;hall record</L>
<L>The Pa&s;sover of the Angel of the Lord</L>
<L>Which I&s;rals &s;aifety did fore&s;hovv, aright</L>
<L>And Egypts fir&s;t borne &s;laughter, the nixt night.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Exodus <HI>12.</HI></HEAD>
<L>AT midnight or the davvning of the Morne</L>
<L>The Angel of the Lord killd the fir&s;t Borne<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>10</HI> Plague</NOTE></L>
<L>Of man and bea&s;t that then in Egypt Iwde</L>
<L>Non then was &s;paird nor from that Plague repriv'd</L>
<L>But tho&s;e of that of the hou&s;e of I&s;ra'l be</L>
<L>From all the Ten plagues they wer fenc'd and free</L>
<L>No hou&s;e there was in Egypt from the Ea&s;t</L>
<L>But there in kill'd was ane vnto the vve&s;t</L>
<L>The mempheits moan, there mae&s;t and mvrnfull crye</L>
<L>Vpon the morne ro&s;e vp and reathch'd the &s;kyes</L>
<L>When they before them thair &s;tark dead and cold</L>
<L>There fir&s;t borne man and bea&s;t &s;treatch'd out behol<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>They vnto Pharo madlie roaring rin</L>
<L>And tells vvhat God onthere fir&s;t borne had done</L>
<L>They pray him than that he vvill favour &s;ho</L>
<L>At la&s;t and lat the people of I&s;ral Go.</L>
<L>To adore and &s;erve there God or certanly</L>
<L>They for his Induration all &s;hould dye,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Exodus <HI>12.</HI></HEAD>
<L>PVni&s;h'd vvith plagues and be the people pre&s;sd</L>
<L>Pharo at la&s;t for there reliefe thought be&s;t</L>
<L>To let the people pas then did the Brether call</L>
<L>And thence commands them vvith there Ebrews all</L>
<L>The Prophets then conveines them moir and le&s;s</L>
<L>And altogether to depairt addre&s;s</L>
<L>Whill vvillingly th' Egyptians to them gave</L>
<L>What of there welth, and riches, they wold have</L>
<L>Jevvels, gold, and Garments then they borrovv</L>
<L>Again&s;t there great Migration on the morrovv</L>
<L>And then they pleni&s;hd vvith th' Egyptian &s;poyl</L>
<L>Di&s;lodge to leave and martch from memphit &s;oil</L>
<L>In numbred men &s;ix hundreth thovv &s;and Lives</L>
<L>Be&s;yds there &s;trangers Childring and there vvives.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Exodus <HI>13.</HI></HEAD>
<L>TH' almightie God Jehoue the Hebrevv Bands</L>
<L>To celebrat a publict fea&s;t commands</L>
<L>In memorie and in rememberance</L>
<L>Of that there vvounderfull deliverance</L>
<PB REF="20">
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 span"> And that they &s;hould in efter tymes to come</L>
<L>All the fir&s;t borne that oppen &s;hall the vvomb</L>
<L>The mail of man and bea&s;t allenarlie</L>
<L>To him their Lord as his &s;till Sanctifie</L>
<L>And on that day vvnto there Sones declair</L>
<L>What he the Lord ten times did for them thair</L>
<L>Vnto that Tyrannous hard harted King</L>
<L>When he from Bondage did there Fathers bring.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Exodus <HI>13.</HI></HEAD>
<L>DEad Io&s;ephs bones in Egypt long before</L>
<L>Mo&s;es tran&s;ports that I&s;ra'l &s;ometyme &s;wore</L>
<L>Wnto him when infirme him&s;elf he fand</L>
<L>To burie Them into the promi&s;'d Land</L>
<L>God led them nought the vvayes that neere&s;t ar</L>
<L>Le&s;t the Phili&s;tims in there martch make warr</L>
<L>But th' Ebrevvs arm'd that vvi&s;e Conductor he</L>
<L>Brought them about the &s;hores of the red &s;ea</L>
<L>And in a Cloud before Them he be day</L>
<L>Through defart wilderne&s;s directs there way</L>
<L>And le&s;t they &s;trayd and throgh long travvell Tyre</L>
<L>By night he lights them vvith a flame of fire.</L>
<L>The Cloud nor Colum never vvent away</L>
<L>Alternatly but pa&s;t before them ay.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Exadus <HI>14.</HI> &amp; <HI>15.</HI></HEAD>
<L>WHen gone avvay vvas I&s;ra'l God procur'd</L>
<L>That Pharos hart vvas hardned and Indur'd</L>
<L>So that he &s;tirrs and Egypt armed all</L>
<L>Perforce the Hebrevv Camp for to recall</L>
<L>And heirfore with, his people po&s;ts a pace</L>
<L>As he wer of a flieing foe in chace</L>
<L>The Hebrevvs fear, when they &s;ee Pharo Budge</L>
<L>And all aga&s;t, againes there Guider grudge</L>
<L>He prayes, and God commands to Rod the Sea</L>
<L>That &s;hall give way, and &s;oone devided be</L>
<L>Mo&s;es did &s;o, and th'Ebrevvs &s;aife and &s;ound</L>
<L>Pa&s;t trogh but all th'Egyptians there ar drovnd</L>
<L>I&s;rael then, in prai&s;e, with one accord</L>
<L>A thankfull Song, with Ioy, &s;ong to the Lord.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Exodus <HI>15.</HI></HEAD>
<L>HEre Miriam the matron Prophete&s;s</L>
<L>Vnto the Lord hir thankfull prai&s;e t'expre&s;s</L>
<L>Holds vp a &s;ounding Timbrell in hir handes</L>
<L>Back'd with the Beauties of the Hebrev Bandes</L>
<L>And &s;weitly &s;inging all there woyces rai&s;e</L>
<L>A P&s;alme of Tryumph and a Song of Prai&s;e</L>
<PB REF="21">
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"></L>
<L>On Pharo, his Egyptians, and Tho&s;e</L>
<L>That dur&s;t to him and his profe&s;s them foes</L>
<L>His mightie povvar in that Song is &s;hovvne</L>
<L>Wherby the hor&s;e and Riders as o'rethrovvne</L>
<L>And all confounded that from Egypt came</L>
<L>With horror terror dreudfull death and &s;hame.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Exodus <HI>15.</HI></HEAD>
<L>VVHen I&s;ral vvas from Pharos forces fred</L>
<L>To de&s;art Sur, Mo&s;es there Guyd, them led</L>
<L>Whair in that wa&s;t, and wilderne&s;s thrie dayes</L>
<L>All as they pa&s;t but drink or vvater &s;tayes</L>
<L>To Marah then they came, whair bitterne&s;s</L>
<L>Of waters thair, there Palats much oppre&s;s</L>
<L>They plaine and Mo&s;es much perplex'd in Spreit</L>
<L>Cryes and the Lord converts the&s;e lovr to &s;vveit</L>
<L>God them injoyns th'ob&s;erving of his Lavves</L>
<L>And vnto Them his Ordinances &s;hawes</L>
<L>Which giue they keep and do then he will nought</L>
<L>Plague Them with The&s;e that he on Egypt brought</L>
<L>I am the Lord &s;aid he that can di&s;ea&s;e</L>
<L>Bring when I will and heale it when I plea&s;e.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Exodus <HI>15.</HI></HEAD>
<L>THan they removd and come to Elim land</L>
<L>Whair fontans tvelf and &s;eavntie Palmes they fand</L>
<L>A proper place, as plea&s;ant profitable</L>
<L>Into there journay for to ea&s;e them able</L>
<L>The Lord there Pames with plea&s;ure he will mix</L>
<L>And try there patience the&s;e, extreams betuix</L>
<L>Novv they abundance haue, anone a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">&s;kant</L>
<L>And God again, vvith vvelth repayes there want</L>
<L>The Lord his owne he proofs but noght to peri&s;h</L>
<L>And as he checks &s;o he his Saincts &s;hall cheri&s;h</L>
<L>In Marah tart there water was but heare</L>
<L>In Elim it was health&s;ome &s;weit and cleare</L>
<L>And there the plea&s;ant Palm's, the daintie date</L>
<L>Into all plentie offers them to eat.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Exodus <HI>16</HI></HEAD>
<L>FRom Elim I&s;ra'l gois and enters in</L>
<L>The De&s;arts and the vvilderne&s;s of Sin</L>
<L>That is tvix Elim and mont-Sinai plac'd</L>
<L>A hill &s;o oft with Gods great prae&s;ence grac'd</L>
<L>Into the &s;econd month the fiftenth day</L>
<L>Of there Migration heir arived thay</L>
<L>The people murmur and for hunger cry</L>
<L>And wext the worthie Mo&s;es woundrou&s;ly</L>
<PB REF="21">
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"></L>
<L>And therefore &s;aid to Mo&s;es he &s;hould raine</L>
<L>Bread from the heavn and that of &s;uch a &s;i&s;e</L>
<L>That daylie night and &s;hould there wants &s;uffice</L>
<L>In this to them the Lord did &s;hew his Love</L>
<L>And by &s;uch means there thankfulne&s;s wold prove.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Exodus <HI>16.</HI></HEAD>
<L>MO&s;es and Aaron t'I&s;r'el &s;aid yow &s;hall</L>
<L>This night know God from Egypt brought yow all.</L>
<L>The Glory of your God againe &s;aid Thay</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ow all &s;hall &s;ie the morne when it is day</L>
<L>Whair yow &s;hall wiew if that yow be not blind</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">is kindne&s;s vnto yow, &s;o oft to him vnkind</L>
<L>Your bold Repyning and your grudgings he</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e heares agains him &s;elf, for naught ar we</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">et in all plentie and abundance great</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e from the Aer &s;hall give yow fle&s;h to eat</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">he fle&s;h at night a bla&s;t of wind &s;hall bring</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd bread it &s;hall come when the day &s;hall &s;pring</L>
<L>Then like the Rain and thicke&s;t &s;houres of hail</L>
<L>Among there Tents in fleets down came the quail.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Exodus <HI>16.</HI></HEAD>
<L>AGaine the Glory of the Lor divine</L>
<L>And goodne&s;s with the Sunne did to them &s;hine</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> when the dew was dried on the Ground</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">canded Ball &s;mall lyke hoar fro&s;t was fund</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd neuir &s;ein before that heavnly Raine</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">coverd all and Tape&s;tried the Plaine</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd when the people of I&s;raell &s;aw it than</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">ey &s;aid ane to ane other it was MAN</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">t knew it noght altho they gawet a name</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">t it, was, the Bread, praepard for Thame</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">&s;es declard; a grain &s;hourd doun from heavne</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> from there God t'apea&s;e there Grudging geavne</L>
<L>Which evrie one &s;hould gather it and v&s;e</L>
<L>As Gods commandement direct them dois.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Exodus <HI>16.</HI></HEAD>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">Hill Manna on the ground before them lay</L>
<L>Togather it God hes pre&s;cryw'd the way</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> it apoynted hes for their repa&s;t</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> but on day and for no more to la&s;t</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">ept &s;uch as was gatherd on the Sixt</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">&s;erve the Sabboth that &s;ucceeded nixt</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> &s;ome was di&s;&s;obedient and brak</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> Statuts that God thereanent did make</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> did ore night &s;ome pocked vp in &s;tore</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">ugnant to he Law gevne ont before</L>
<PB REF="22">
<L>He could noght, wold noght wiew there wayes perve<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">s</L>
<L>But in the morning they haue fund it &s;tank</L>
<L>And full of wormes with &s;mell and &s;avour Rank.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Exodus <HI>16.</HI></HEAD>
<L>THe Saboth &s;acred to the Lord orda'nd</L>
<L>And nought to be with weekly works prophand</L>
<L>To bake and &s;eeth all on the Sixt he dois</L>
<L>Command, that they wold on the &s;evnt day v&s;e</L>
<L>And yet vngratfull I&s;raleits &s;ome go</L>
<L>Togather Manna and prophaind it &s;o</L>
<L>When they &s;hould wor&s;hip as the Lord commands</L>
<L>And noght worke as they weekly wroght with hands</L>
<L>Whill Mo&s;es checks and chyds and dois them &s;haw</L>
<L>Debording thus there braking of the Law</L>
<L>And then &s;eveirly charged I&s;rall wholly</L>
<L>T'ob&s;erve for evr the &s;eav'nt, the Saboth holy</L>
<L>And in remembrance to ob&s;erve it ay</L>
<L>I&s;rael &s;ince hes re&s;ted the &s;evnt day.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Exodus <HI>16.</HI></HEAD>
<L>MO&s;es conforme to Gods command and will</L>
<L>Of MAN bids Aron then ane Omer fill</L>
<L>Vnto the end that efter it may be</L>
<L>Pre&s;ervd and &s;howne to our po&s;teritie</L>
<L>(This man was like Cor'ander &s;eed alma&s;t</L>
<L>But whyte re&s;embling wafers in the Ta&s;te)</L>
<L>That it the Bread was that there Fathers fed</L>
<L>Into the wilderne&s;s when they wer fred</L>
<L>From thraldome by the Lords almightie hand</L>
<L>That they wer vnder into Egypt Land</L>
<L>Then Aaron did, as Mo&s;es did direct</L>
<L>And filld ane Omer full to that effect</L>
<L>Then plac'd it in the Te&s;timon' or Arke</L>
<L>To be thereof for'ever more a mark.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Exodus <HI>17.</HI></HEAD>
<L>THe camp from Sin to Riphidim removves</L>
<L>That there much paine for want of water proves</L>
<L>And therefore murmur muteny and grudge</L>
<L>Yea dois agains the Prophets Brag and budge</L>
<L>All into ire, hote furie, rage and wraeth</L>
<L>Redy to ri&s;e to &s;tone him &s;traght to daeth</L>
<L>Then Mo&s;es mov'de did at there crying cry</L>
<L>To god, and he advi&s;d him by and by</L>
<L>That he in Horeb with his Rod &s;ould &s;mitt</L>
<L>The Rock of Riphidim and then from it</L>
<L>Sould come a current and a fontane fall</L>
<L>To queuch there thri&s;t and &s;atisfie them all</L>
<PB REF="22">
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"></L>
<L>He aids them &s;till in there di&s;tre&s;&s;ed-&s;tate.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Exodus <HI>17.</HI></HEAD>
<L>PRoud Amalek of E&s;avs of &s;pring one</L>
<L>To fight with I&s;ral drew his armie on</L>
<L>And when they over at Riphidim ariv'de</L>
<L>To Io&s;ua the Povvar vvas pre&s;criv'd</L>
<L>And vnto him was all the warr committ</L>
<L>The maner and the managing of it</L>
<L>Whill Mo&s;es went with Aron and with Hur</L>
<L>To Horebs head before the armeis &s;tur</L>
<L>Where Mo&s;es lifting vp his hands did pray</L>
<L>And His prewaild whill holdm vp wer thay</L>
<L>But whill they heavie wax'd and wearie than</L>
<L>Th' Amalekets prewaild o're came and wan</L>
<L>But when the&s;e tuo &s;uports his hands, in fight</L>
<L>Then Amalek was foild and put to &s;light.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Exodus <HI>18.</HI></HEAD>
<L>IEthro the Pree&s;t or Prince of Midian</L>
<L>Zipporas Sire Mo&s;es Good-father Than</L>
<L>Heard how the Hebrews, God from Egypt brought</L>
<L>And what by Mo&s;es there for Them he wrought</L>
<L>Herefore re&s;olves and doth him &s;elf addre&s;s</L>
<L>Whair with his wife and Childring Mo&s;es meet</L>
<L>And gladly other ki&s;s &s;alute and Greet</L>
<L>To Jethro Mo&s;es then doth truly tell</L>
<L>What God in Egypt wroght for I&s;raell</L>
<L>Than Iethro Ioyfull for &s;o fair effects</L>
<L>He humblie glad his holy hart erects</L>
<L>And altars as the v&s;e was he dois rai&s;e</L>
<L>To wor&s;hip God on and to offer prai&s;e.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Exodus <HI>18.</HI></HEAD>
<L>NOw when that Iethro Mo&s;es &s;itting Saw</L>
<L>Di&s;cu&s;&s;ing cau&s;es by the Cour&s;e of Law</L>
<L>Con&s;idring by the weghtie Charge his pains</L>
<L>That in di&s;charging thereof he &s;u&s;tains</L>
<L>He with a Iudgement &s;olid deep and wi&s;e</L>
<L>His &s;one in law thus Mo&s;es doth advi&s;e</L>
<L>Thovv cumbred ar di&s;cu&s;&s;ing evrie cau&s;e</L>
<L>Therefore &s;hevv Them the ordinance and Laws</L>
<L>And &s;tand before and to the Lord velate</L>
<L>The maner of each Mater and the State</L>
<L>Then &s;ome among the people pick and chni&s;e</L>
<L>That t'ea&s;e yow in your Iudgments yovv may v&s;e</L>
<L>Men fearing God and men of cowrage all</L>
<L>That with yovv ju&s;tly Iudge in I&s;r'el &s;hall.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB REF="23">
<HEAD>Exodus <HI>19.</HI></HEAD>
<L>THe I&s;raleits from Riphidim aro&s;e</L>
<L>And martching fordward to Mount-Sinai gois</L>
<L>And at the holy Sacred montane Thay</L>
<L>Stent all there Tents incamp them thair and &s;tay</L>
<L>But Mo&s;es called be the Lord a&s;cends</L>
<L>And humblie there his will and plea&s;ure tends</L>
<L>Who charged him to I&s;rael to &s;ay</L>
<L>Giue they his woice will heare, and wordes obay</L>
<L>They &s;hall be his by a renewed Birth</L>
<L>Beyond all people &s;piring on the earth</L>
<L>Th' Almighties mynd then Mo&s;es doth declare</L>
<L>And bids the people purif' and prepare</L>
<L>There Sprits. there per&s;ons, clothing and aray</L>
<L>And Sanctiffe them all for the thrid day.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Exodus <HI>19.</HI></HEAD>
<L>THe Prophet Mo&s;es as the Lord appoynts</L>
<L>Commands the people for to clenge there Iointes</L>
<L>And cloathings vva&s;h that then they all may be</L>
<L>Pure in the prae&s;ence of th' all pear&s;ing eye</L>
<L>For lo the Lord the thrid day efter &s;hall</L>
<L>Be &s;ene on Sinai mont before them all</L>
<L>And &s;traitly charges Them charg'd be the Lord</L>
<L>That none martch vp the mont nor tonche its Bord</L>
<L>And if they do, as lives the Lord &s;aid he</L>
<L>That Soule &s;halbe per&s;d through and &s;urely die</L>
<L>The people then preparing all aright</L>
<L>T'apeare more pure in the Almighties Sight</L>
<L>They went not to there wives but did ab&s;taine</L>
<L>From all that could pollute Them or prophane.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Exodus <HI>19.</HI></HEAD>
<L>VPon the third day as the Lord fore&s;hew</L>
<L>Long, Shrill and from aboue the Trumpet blew</L>
<L>The people trimbling and with Terror &s;tands</L>
<L>By Sinais border holding vp there hands</L>
<L>Deafned there eares, with thunder from the &s;kyes</L>
<L>And with the lightning dazled ar there eyes.</L>
<L>For &s;tatlie Sinais &s;acred Top was all</L>
<L>Cled with a crowne of fire and burning Ball</L>
<L>But that &s;hrill &s;ounding Trump and thundring noi&s;e</L>
<L>Is drownd and deafned with a &s;tronger woice</L>
<L>That from the Montane in the waley roares</L>
<L>And throgh the Brea&s;tes of I&s;ral brakes and Boares</L>
<L>From Gods owne &s;acred month with dreadfull aw</L>
<L>Whill he to Mo&s;es there dois gwe his Law.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB REF="23">
<HEAD>Exodus <HI>32.</HI></HEAD>
<L>WHill holy Mo&s;es on the mone. attended</L>
<L>The Lords directions humblie bovv'd and bended</L>
<L>The people murmured that Mo&s;es &s;tayd</L>
<L>And from the mont &s;o lonh delayd</L>
<L>Wherefore they ran to Aaron and implore him</L>
<L>Yea cryd to give them Gods to go before-them</L>
<L>Thus that they knevv not, they did cry and call</L>
<L>What of thai Mo&s;es was become at all</L>
<L>He bids, and they Obey, and to him brings</L>
<L>There golden Bracelets and there wivves ear-rings</L>
<L>Thereof he ca&s;ts a Calf and efter rai&s;d</L>
<L>Ane Altar to be put vpon and prai&s;d</L>
<L>Ingratefull all forgetting too too &s;one</L>
<L>What God for there Deliverance had done</L>
<L>But (di&s;obedient) vnto that Calf or kow</L>
<L>Nor it more bruti&s;h, they do bend or bow.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Exodus <HI>32.</HI></HEAD>
<L>T'Idolatrize the people rudly rin.</L>
<L>And Aaron ra&s;hl' a&s;&s;ents vnto there Sin</L>
<L>Whill Mo&s;es with the Lord on Sinai mont Sits</L>
<L>Their bad blind-zeal Idolatrie commits</L>
<L>For to that Idoll that vvas made before</L>
<L>Out of there Yewels and there ear-rings &s;tore</L>
<L>They rai&s;e ane Alter where vpon dois &s;tand</L>
<L>The Calf that Aaron fa&s;houd with his hand</L>
<L>And on the morne the people offrings bring</L>
<L>And &s;acrifice vnto that &s;en&s;les Thing</L>
<L>Whill God aboue wroath vnto Mo&s;es &s;ayes</L>
<L>Thy people lo perverted haue there wayes</L>
<L>Therefore be gon my wraeth wax'd hot, doth fume</L>
<L>And &s;hall in it, Them for his &s;lip con&s;ume</L>
<L>But Mo&s;es prayd and did Gods favour find</L>
<L>That he from th' ill he ment them changd his mind.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Exodus <HI>32.</HI></HEAD>
<L>THere God foregottin and Religion trew</L>
<L>The ho&s;t debord to drink and dancing drew</L>
<L>And mo&s;t prophanly when there Phyfes did &s;ound</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">bout there Idoll they did trip a round</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">o more remembring God that &s;o much wrought</L>
<L>When he from Egypt them and bondage brought</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hey &s;it affecting error and the Truth di&s;gu&s;t</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">d dalts in them there ovvne de&s;irs and lu&s;t</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ovv they ar randon run with a lo&s;e rain</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd at there pleafir they will prove prophane</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> they will noght be bund nor longer live</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">biect vnto the Law that God did give</L>
<PB REF="24">
<L>But they will wor&s;hip Gods of there ovvne gold</L>
<L>As vanely they conceit off vnconroll'd.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Exodus <HI>32.</HI></HEAD>
<L>WHen Mo&s;es prayer had Gods wraeth revoked</L>
<L>That high and hotly gain&s;t the people &s;moaked</L>
<L>He from the Lord and montans top did draw</L>
<L>With tho&s;e two &s;acred Tables of the Law</L>
<L>Which he did carie be the Lords command</L>
<L>Wreit with the holy finger of his hand</L>
<L>But when de&s;cended with his eares and eyes</L>
<L>The people all prophand he heares and &s;ies</L>
<L>And in the Camp the Calf erected Hy</L>
<L>His wraeth began to vvax and fiercely fry</L>
<L>His hart could noght th' Abomnation bear</L>
<L>But with a holy divine anger thear</L>
<L>Which there tre&s;pa&s;s in him did move and make</L>
<L>He threvv the Tabels dovne and both he brak</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Exodus <HI>32.</HI></HEAD>
<L>YEt did noght Mo&s;es wraeth and Ire heir end</L>
<L>But forder yet it flew and did extend</L>
<L>That golden Calf that for there God they chui&s;d</L>
<L>He break it boldly and to pouder brui&s;d</L>
<L>And pulverizd to apprehend the Sin</L>
<L>The more, he made the people drink it In</L>
<L>His brother nixt rebuikes and much mi&s;&s;aid-him</L>
<L>And for th'abu&s;e did to his face, vp braid-him</L>
<L>That he had &s;uffred I&s;ral to begin</L>
<L>And &s;lyde in &s;uch Idolatrous a Sin</L>
<L>Then he this falt prophane to expiat</L>
<L>The Sones of Levi he together gatt</L>
<L>And armed vvith the &s;word they kill and &s;lay</L>
<L>And with thrie thovv&s;and Hebrevvs &s;trav'd the way</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Exodus <HI>32</HI> and <HI>33.</HI></HEAD>
<L>THe morning come Mo&s;es to I&s;rall &s;ayes</L>
<L>Foull is your fall erronions was your wayes</L>
<L>And men of I&s;rall ye Gods wrath do ma&s;s</L>
<L>Agains your per&s;ons for your proud Tre&s;pa&s;s</L>
<L>Yet I will once a&s;cend t'a&s;&s;ay and &s;ie</L>
<L>If his di&s;plea&s;ure I can pacifie</L>
<L>Vp mo&s;es vvent before the Lord and falls</L>
<L>Dovne on the Ground and then for mercie callis</L>
<L>Confe&s;&s;ing there that I&s;rels Sins was great</L>
<L>Yet for there pardon he doth humblie treat</L>
<L>And wi&s;hes rather that his name &s;hall be</L>
<L>Ra&s;d from the Books of Life ev'rla&s;tingly</L>
<L>Then I&s;rals brak and Di&s;&s;obedience</L>
<L>Be noght forgevn them and there foul offence</L>
<PB REF="24">
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">r Lo Almighty Lord thy mercies here</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> to thy peoples Pardon &s;hall apeare</L>
<L>Yet God was grevd and angrie that they had</L>
<L>The golden Calf and molten Image made.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Exodus <HI>33.</HI></HEAD>
<L>THe Prophet in the Tabernacle walkes</L>
<L>And with the Lord familiarly Talkes</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ho vnto him dois intimat his will</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd &s;hew's his Angel &s;hall Guide I&s;ra'l &s;till</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">at &s;hall the accur&s;ed Cananeits out ca&s;t</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd lay't for them his people of I&s;rall wa&s;t</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">e Hittits, Hivits, Amorits and all</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">us and Perizzits they peri&s;h &s;hall</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">t I&s;ral &s;ad, and &s;orrovvfull did &s;ho</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">at God him &s;elf denyd with Them to Go</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">en Mo&s;es to martch vp the Lord commands</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">ith all the people to the promi&s;d Landes</L>
<L>That to there father Abram long before</L>
<L>And &s;ince vnto his Seed to give he &s;vore.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Exodus <HI>33.</HI></HEAD>
<L>VNto the Lord humblie did Mo&s;es pray</L>
<L>From th' Ho&s;te his Ire to paci&s;' and alay</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">d in his mercies for to make it knovvne</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">at he there God and they wer all his ovvne</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">e Lord than his petitions did aprove</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">d grantes Them in his favour and his love</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> more to &s;ie (hot with a holy fire)</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> glory of the Lord he doth de&s;ire</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hich God likevi&s;e did grant him of his Grace</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> none could live (he &s;aid) and &s;ie his face</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> in a rockie cleft God hes him plac'd</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">d &s;hevv his bake-Partes as he by him pac'd</L>
<L>Part of his Glory in the going by</L>
<L>He doth permit his Mo&s;es to e&s;py.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Exodus <HI>34.</HI></HEAD>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">He Lord againe commands that Mo&s;es hevv</L>
<L>For tho&s;e he brak, Tvvo other Tables nevv</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">ereon he will with his owne finger grave</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> &s;elf &s;ame precepts that before he gave</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">&s;es the morne with Them the mont a&s;cends</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> in a Cloud from Heavne the Lord de&s;cends</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> there before him &s;tood and did proclame</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> Lords almighty and Eternall name</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> the went and pa&s;t before his face</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> &s;trong, mo&s;t mercifull, and full of Grace</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> is the Lord but Rigour fraught with Ruthe</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> &s;lovv of goodne&s;s full and Truth</L>
<PB REF="25">
<L>Wherefore my praecepts keep that I Command</L>
<L>This day and yow &s;hall have the holy land.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Exodus <HI>34.</HI></HEAD>
<L>WHen God Almighty on the holy hill</L>
<L>His minde to Mo&s;es had declard and vvill</L>
<L>When he had fully fa&s;ted fourtie dayes</L>
<L>(For he none le&s;s vpon Mont-Sinai &s;tayes)</L>
<L>The Lord di&s;mi&s;d him from the mont again</L>
<L>And he de&s;cends directly to the plain</L>
<L>The Princes of the people go to Greet</L>
<L>And mirthfully there Captane Mo&s;es meet</L>
<L>But when his face transfigurd they looke on</L>
<L>And &s;ies that by the wounted &s;ort it &s;hon</L>
<L>They ar affraid and dread for to dravv neare</L>
<L>And in his &s;hyning pre&s;ence to apeare</L>
<L>But Mo&s;es called Them then they and he</L>
<L>And Aaron talk together tenderlie.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Exodus <HI>34.</HI></HEAD>
<L>THe Propher &s;peaking vvith the Princes heire</L>
<L>The people aproatch and do them dravv neir</L>
<L>But Mo&s;es for the &s;hyning of his face</L>
<L>He is con&s;traind to covert in that place</L>
<L>So beavtifull and brightly there it &s;hon</L>
<L>That no eye dur&s;t behold nor looks thereon</L>
<L>But vvaild as he there in there pre&s;ence &s;tands</L>
<L>He carefully declares the Lords commands</L>
<L>That on Mont-Sinai he receav'd be vvord</L>
<L>Of mouth from God the everliving Lord</L>
<L>And the&s;e Directions charging Them that thay</L>
<L>For evr ob&s;erve and never di&s;obay</L>
<L>Vpon the perrill thats pronunc'd and more</L>
<L>If they do fall as have v&s;'d before.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Exodus <HI>36.</HI> &amp; <HI>25.</HI></HEAD>
<L>THe we&s;tments and the we&s;&s;els nece&s;&s;are</L>
<L>That for the dayly wor&s;hip v&s;efull are</L>
<L>The Lord vvill have them fa&s;houd form'd and fram'd</L>
<L>As they &s;hall efter noted be and nam'd</L>
<L>The Arke &s;halbe of Cedar Shittim wood</L>
<L>Without corrupting durabill and good</L>
<L>Lyn'd well within and all vvithout ore Rolld</L>
<L>With well wrought and engravne Plates of Gold</L>
<L>The Cloth and Carpet for the Covenant</L>
<L>To make it beavtifull and Belli&s;hant</L>
<L>It &s;halbe &s;ilver &s;ilk and &s;karlet wool</L>
<L>Imbrodred bravely and made beavtifull</L>
<L>With Barrs ingro&s;s'd in Gold and Golden Ringes</L>
<L>Whereon vvhen it tran&s;ported is, it hinges.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB REF="25">
<HEAD><HI>Exodus</HI> 37. <HI>&amp;</HI> 25.</HEAD>
<L>THe Seat propitiatarie and the place</L>
<L>Where God in mercie &s;hould apear and Grace</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">d whence &s;hould i&s;he his Oracles divine</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> will haue made of pure&s;t gold and fyne</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ho&s;e length tuo Cubits and an half &s;hould be</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">d half an le&s;s in breadth ordaned He</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">o Cherubims of tryed Gold likewi&s;e</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> cower't with there winges he did devi&s;e</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">d the&s;e he hes apoynted for to place</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> one opo&s;it to the Others face</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">here efter, &s;hould betuix there winges be gev'en</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">we truethfull an&s;vers from the God of Heaven</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">ich mercie Seat his Statuts do Command</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ove the golden crouned Arke to &s;tand</L>
<L>Becau&s;e decred he had and did ordane</L>
<L>The Te&s;timonie therein to remaine.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Exodus <HI>37.</HI> &amp; <HI>25.</HI></HEAD>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">Almightie Mo&s;es for to make commands</L>
<L>Of Shittim wood, with cunning Craftes-mens hands</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">i&s;ed for his wor&s;hip wenerable</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> &s;et Shew-Bread thereon a gold-clade Table</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">o&s;e wright worke wrought and fitly form'd and mad</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">s all with gold ingravne and over-laide</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">d all above well fa&s;honed and frett</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">olden Croune like &s;toure de luces &s;et</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> lenght thereof &s;et downe, and hight, and bread</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> the&s;e Supra noted Chapters Read</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hes cau&s;d likevi&s;e Goblets make of Gold</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">fumes and Incen&s;e to pre&s;erve and hold</L>
<L>And Shew Bread &s;et vpon that Tabled Boord</L>
<L>Eternally to offer to the Lord.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD><HI>Exodus</HI> 37. <HI>&amp;</HI> 25.</HEAD>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">He Lord likewi&s;e heir Mo&s;es doth direct</L>
<L>For Lights a Luminare for to erect</L>
<L>Candle-&s;ticke as we may know be ours</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">o&s;e bowing Branches &s;eavne, bears vp, &s;eavn floures</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">carie lights of flamming fires to be</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">pes in the Sanctuar' Incre&s;&s;antlie</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">o&s;e mettall &s;hall be of the pure&s;t Gold</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> Boules that &s;hall about the Branches fold</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">oures, and Ba&s;e, that beares vpon the Ground</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> &s;o be of the fynne&s;t to be fund</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> and Snuff-di&s;hes likewi&s;e Too</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> be made, as God had &s;howne him, how</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> it thereon &s;eavn lampes ay burning Bright</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> to that, that is before it, Light</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB REF="26">
<HEAD>Exodus <HI>37</HI> &amp; <HI>30.</HI></HEAD>
<L>BEzaleel of Shittim vvood he takes</L>
<L>And thereof, thair the Incen&s;e Alter makes</L>
<L>A cubit long in Length, the Breadth, &s;o right</L>
<L>But rai&s;ed higher Tuo, it was in hight</L>
<L>About, it crovned was, with gold above</L>
<L>The Lords command and Artes-mans Arte t'approve</L>
<L>Round Barrs, and rings, but <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">alters framed &s;quare</L>
<L>With gold wark garni&s;h'd and o're laid all whair</L>
<L>The Cupes that &s;hould perfumes and Incen&s;e hold</L>
<L>They wer al&s;o of pure and perfect Gold</L>
<L>The pure perfumes and plea&s;ant Incen&s;e too</L>
<L>He hes compo&s;'d as th' Apothecars do</L>
<L>And therewith fild, and fird, the Cen&s;ers Thair.</L>
<L>Who&s;e &s;ugred &s;mell, pear&s;'d and perfurnd the aer.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Exodus <HI>38.</HI> &amp; <HI>27.</HI></HEAD>
<L>THe Altar of brunt offrings offreth next</L>
<L>To be intreated of into the Tex</L>
<L>Bezaleel by Mo&s;es &s;o muche prai&s;d</L>
<L>To build began and ent'red, vp to rai&s;'d</L>
<L>Of Shittim wood the Bulk or Body was</L>
<L>And all o'reclad with coverlets of Bra&s;s</L>
<L>Five Cubits long, five Cubits broad: and hie</L>
<L>This Alter was, no more at all, but thrie</L>
<L>And all the In&s;truments, that there be nam'd</L>
<L>And fit therefore, of Beaten Bra&s;s was fram'd</L>
<L>Al&s;o the Grate, that &s;tood within it He</L>
<L>Knits like a net of wier mo&s;t Cunninglie</L>
<L>A Lav'r likevvi&s;e he of the Wemens Gla&s;&s;es</L>
<L>Made: that the be&s;t, of Bra&s;s, for brightne&s;s pa&s;&s;es</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Exodus <HI>39.</HI> &amp; <HI>28.</HI></HEAD>
<L>A Aron the Prie&s;ts aparell they prepare</L>
<L>A goodly Garment glorious and fair</L>
<L>Th' Ephod of Gold blew &s;ilk and &s;karlet Read</L>
<L>Of Linning pure and purple for his head</L>
<L>The gold is wrought in wier and leanid out long</L>
<L>To Shew and &s;et it the&s;e &s;ilk-works among</L>
<L>Imbrodred were the Shoulders rund about</L>
<L>And curiou&s;ly with nedle knots ca&s;t out</L>
<L>On evrie &s;ide thereof ane Onix &s;tone</L>
<L>They &s;et ingraven with I&s;rals name thereon</L>
<L>Which on the Shoulders of the Ephod &s;tands</L>
<L>To beare a Record of the Lords commands</L>
<L>A Brea&s;t plate more they make the form four &s;quare</L>
<L>A peece of gold exceeding rich and rare</L>
<L>And therevpon enchace four rovves at once</L>
<L>Of pure, impry&s;able and precious &s;tons.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB REF="26">
<HEAD>Exodus <HI>40.</HI></HEAD>
<L>GOd th' all director Mo&s;es doth direct</L>
<L>To reare the Tabernacle and it erect</L>
<L>And all the Appertenances that pertaind</L>
<L>Vnto it to adduce them, he Ordaind</L>
<L>Into the fir&s;t of monthes on the fir&s;t day</L>
<L>He &s;hould it rai&s;e and longer nought delay</L>
<L>And as injoynd he was he thereto bringers</L>
<L>The Arke and all the other holy Thinges</L>
<L>And with the Vaile wrought vvith imbrodred wark</L>
<L>He coverd clo&s;s and over-waild the Arke</L>
<L>Al&s;o he brought as order did require</L>
<L>The Table too and lights the Lamps vvith fire</L>
<L>Aaron inve&s;tes his Sones, anoynts Them too</L>
<L>And what to &s;erve, God &s;hould be done, did do.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Exodus <HI>40.</HI></HEAD>
<L>THus, this vvas done, into the &s;econd yeere</L>
<L>Efter that They from Egypt did reteere</L>
<L>The Tabernacle &s;ea&s;d then Mo&s;es came</L>
<L>And &s;et the Te&s;timonie in the &s;ame</L>
<L>Then with the vaile he hes it clo&s;s vp &s;hut</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ovv &s;oone the Arke therein vvas plac'd and put</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">he merci&s;eate aboue the Arke he plac'd</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hat vvith a Coronet of Gold vvas grac'd</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">he Laver &s;et Mo&s;es and Aaron both</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ith his tvvo Sones to wa&s;h them therein goeth</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd than the court vpread inclo&s;ing round</L>
<L>Whairon the Tabernacle &s;tood) the Ground</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">o&s;es at la&s;t the vaile hung vp lats fall</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> in this vvorke he fini&s;hed hes all</L>
<L>And God above into a Cloud did hover</L>
<L>And all the vvork did over-vail and cover.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Exodus <HI>40.</HI></HEAD>
<L>WHill as the Lord into a cloud above</L>
<L>The Tabernacle aboad and did noght move</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hair the mo&s;t glorious Glory of the Lord</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">he Tabernacle filld all vp and &s;tord</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> that for Mo&s;es thair there was no place</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> full of maie&s;tie divine and grace</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">ere was a pre&s;ence heavnly and divine</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> there the Glory of the Lord did &s;hyne</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> vvhen the Sunne and day vvas doune: the Cloud</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> o're the Arke and Tabernacle &s;tood</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> aproatching of the night a none</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> of fire &s;treams and clearly &s;hon</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> as by day into the darke&s;t night</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> camp vvas cleare and in a lamp of light</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB REF="27">
<HEAD>Exodus <HI>40.</HI></HEAD>
<L>THe moveing or night marching of the Cloud</L>
<L>To I&s;ral was a certaine Signe and Good</L>
<L>Ather vn&s;tirrd to &s;tay &s;tand &s;till and tarie</L>
<L>Or forward thence there Ho&s;t and Camp to carie</L>
<L>But if it did a&s;cend and higher mov'd</L>
<L>The Camp then forward martchd and more removd</L>
<L>But if it did di&s;cend, and there did &s;tay</L>
<L>They martchd no more, but in there ludgings lay</L>
<L>And noght a foot, to fair, did they intend</L>
<L>Whill they it &s;ie, begin again t'a&s;cend</L>
<L>And when they journay &s;hould, remove, and ry&s;e</L>
<L>The cloud went on, before Them throgh the &s;kyes</L>
<L>By day into a Cloud and on the night</L>
<L>God was a fire, to &s;hew all I&s;r'all light.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Leviticus <HI>9.</HI> Chap.</HEAD>
<L>T'Approve the Prie&s;tly office is from heaven</L>
<L>A certaine Signe and &s;ure a&s;&s;enting gevin</L>
<L>Whill Aarons offring on the Alter lyes</L>
<L>A Sacred flamme come fla&s;hing from the &s;kyes</L>
<L>And opinly in all the peoples eyes</L>
<L>Con&s;um'd and quickly eat the Sacrifice</L>
<L>The woundring I&s;raleits all looking on</L>
<L>That Blais breathd from above brunt evrie Bone</L>
<L>The then beleiving hoa&s;t to humble it gois</L>
<L>And thankfull thonghts to God again vpthrois</L>
<L>And publictly his pra&s;es there proclame</L>
<L>For all the Ble&s;&s;ings he be&s;tow' on Thame</L>
<L>The Prophets then for this there Thankfulnes</L>
<L>The people pre&s;ent &s;anctifie and ble&s;s.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Leviticus <HI>10.</HI></HEAD>
<L>A'Rons tuo Sones Nadab and Abihu</L>
<L>A gro&s;s mi&s;-deed before the Lord they do</L>
<L>A nonted once there office to exers</L>
<L>Out of pre&s;umption and a Sprit perver&s;s</L>
<L>They proudl' a&s;pire no rather they con&s;pyre</L>
<L>To fill there Cen&s;ers full of forran fire</L>
<L>And than advance and to the alter go</L>
<L>Nev'r v&s;ed thair to offer incen&s;s &s;o</L>
<L>Contrary quyt vnto the Lords command</L>
<L>That &s;hould have ever inviolable &s;tand</L>
<L>But from the Lord a flamming fire foorth flevv</L>
<L>That boldly brint and both the Brether &s;levv</L>
<L>To &s;hovv that God will noght be&s;erv'd by waine</L>
<L>Vnvvi&s;e inventions of a vvor&s;ely Brain.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB REF="27">
<HEAD><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"></HEAD>
<L>THe judgements of the Lord thus &s;harply &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">a&s;'d</L>
<L>Vpon the&s;e Brether that his Sp'rit di&s;plea&s;'d</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nto the horrour of the Hebrew ho&s;t</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hat by there owne delicts there Lives had lo&s;t</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">or wor&s;hiping agains his divine will</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">pon them fell th' inevitabill ill</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">o teach all others that they ne<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">it pre&s;ume</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ut of a Braine Phanta&s;tick filld with fume</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">he Lords vine zard to worke it otherwayes</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">or he directs and in his Law donne layes</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hen the&s;e two mangled mi&s;erable men</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">r careed from the Congregation then</L>
<L>A &s;ad and doolfull evidence for thame</L>
<L>Both of there deeds, there Sin and Shame.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Leviticus <HI>24.</HI></HEAD>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">Nto the Ho&s;te was ane Egyptian man</L>
<L>But by his Mother of the Trib of Dan</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hat going out did &s;o from dutie rowe</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hat in the ho&s;te he with an hebrew &s;trove</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd in the brall that was begun by Thame</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> Egyptian did the God of ho&s;tes bla&s;phame</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hey take the man and him to Mo&s;es led</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd then the Lord eft&s;oon to Mo&s;es &s;aid</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">au&s;e thow be broght that bold bla&s;phemer out</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd make the men that heard (then there about)</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">e Lord bla&s;phemd, ley on there hands vpon-him</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd then to death let all the Hebrews &s;tone-him</L>
<L>Which in&s;tantly they execute and act</L>
<L>A fit reward for his vnfaithfull fact.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Deuterouomie <HI>34.</HI> Chap.</HEAD>
<L>THe Prophet Mo&s;es to Mont Nebo gois</L>
<L>From whence the Lord the promi&s;d land him &s;hois</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hat milk and hony flowing land the &s;ame</L>
<L>Which he &s;o oft had heght to Abraham</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">t only having &s;ein it did declare</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hat hee &s;hould nev're go ov're nor enter Thair</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">he Servand of the Lord then Mo&s;es dyes</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd buried be him into Moab lyes</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">t never man yet lived to this day</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hat knew the place whair God did Mo&s;es lay</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> hundreth yeers and to them twentie told</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hen he expired was the Prophet old</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> Prophet &s;uch who&s;e like yet never non</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> I&s;rael aro&s;e when he was gone</L>
<L>A Prophet full indew'd with heavnly Grace</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> God conferrd with and knew face to face.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB REF="28">
<HEAD><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"></HEAD>
<L>FAmiliar Mo&s;es with the Lord and lov'de</L>
<L>Before, from this mortelitie remov'de</L>
<L>That manfully, martch'd from the memphit landes</L>
<L>(Divinly aided) with the Hebrev bandes</L>
<L>But the almighty eyeing ay his avvne</L>
<L>Albeit their Ductor, he had from them dravvne</L>
<L>Yet to their Good, and Glory of his name</L>
<L>An oter Tutor, tenders vnto Them</L>
<L>In Io&s;ua couragiou&s;ly Inclinde</L>
<L>H' infunds morefire in his magnanime mind</L>
<L>And o're his I&s;rel limited at large</L>
<L>Gaue him the conduct, and the Captans Charge</L>
<L>Commanding and encouraging the man</L>
<L>To Ioyn the people and pas Iordan than.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Io&s;ua <HI>1.</HI></HEAD>
<L>THe worthie Duke, to this Command thus call'd</L>
<L>And I&s;rel generall in State in&s;tall'd</L>
<L>God novv again renevvs to cheare Them more</L>
<L>The promi&s;e of the promi&s;'d Land before</L>
<L>He markes there markes from the wilderne&s;s</L>
<L>And from Mont-lebanon to Euphrates.</L>
<L>Thence maks the Sea there Bordour by the vve&s;t</L>
<L>Where Phoebus Car declyns and runs to re&s;t</L>
<L>Then &s;ayes to Io&s;ua that vvorthie Thair</L>
<L>Yet to incre&s;s and kindle his Covvrage mair</L>
<L>Whill he &s;hall Rule and Captane their Command</L>
<L>No heathen foe before his face &s;hall &s;tand</L>
<L>If as his Servand Mo&s;es night and day</L>
<L>H' ob&s;erve his mandats and his Lavves obey</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Io&s;ua <HI>1.</HI></HEAD>
<L>T' incovvrage Io&s;ua God renovvats</L>
<L>And oft hies promi&s;d ayd he iterats</L>
<L>Yet vvith direction that he all his dayes</L>
<L>Keep his Commands and walke into his vvayes</L>
<L>The Captane than the Congregation all</L>
<L>He convocats and dois before him call</L>
<L>Indicting and directing Them that Thay</L>
<L>Be ready in their armes on the thrid day</L>
<L>To pas o're Iordan that far famons flood</L>
<L>Neerby vvo&s;e Bankis I&s;raels &s;tandarts &s;tood</L>
<L>The Revbenits and Gadits dre&s;s al&s;o</L>
<L>Thongh &s;ea&s;ed on this hither &s;ide to Go</L>
<L>And vvillingly vvill venter vvith the re&s;t</L>
<L>Whill each one of their portions be po&s;&s;e&s;sd.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB REF="28">
<HEAD><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"></HEAD>
<L>WHill that the people a providing are</L>
<L>Victuals and armes for martching nece&s;s ar</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">he Captaine finds it fit to &s;end before</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">uo Speculators prudent to explore</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">he people there Pou're purpo&s;es and places</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s is convement in &s;uch war-like Caces</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">he Spyes from Shittim &s;end advance and go</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd enters Rahabs hou&s;e in Iericho</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ut yet the&s;e Spies are in there &s;pying &s;pyed</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd Rachab to revveale Them temptd and try'd</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">earing hir Countries futur fall and foil</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">poynted I&s;r'el for a Prey and &s;poyle</L>
<L>They on their prome&s;es pre&s;erv'd are by hir</L>
<L>And &s;ecretly vn&s;em they &s;aife Retyre.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Io&s;ua <HI>3.</HI> Chap.</HEAD>
<L>TH'explorators aproatch the Tents tell there</L>
<L>The Cananits a&s;tom&s;hment and feare</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">pon the nevvs the Sone of Nun commands</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">he vnder afficiars of all the Bands</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> pa&s;&s;e and charge the people with povv'r expre&s;s</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">or to remove to be in readme&s;&s;e</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ovv&s;one the Levits to be martch'd they mark</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">fore tuo Thou&s;and cubits with the Ark</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hen Io&s;ua the people all injoynes</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> &s;anctifie them &s;elfes and lave their loyns</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> cau&s;e &s;aid he the Lord to morrovv &s;hall</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ork vvoundrou&s;ly in pre&s;ence of yovv all</L>
<L>Then to the Levit Prie&s;ts &s;aid he avant</L>
<L>And go before vvs vvith the Covenant.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Io&s;ua <HI>3.</HI></HEAD>
<L>TO Io&s;ua the Sone of Nun then &s;aid the Lord</L>
<L>I will advance Thee as avvovtchd my word</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">d as I vvith my &s;ervand Mo&s;es &s;o vvith Thee</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> thy advancement I will doe &s;aid he</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> I&s;rel then &s;age Jo&s;ua did &s;ay</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">'almighty martches yovv among this day</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> for a Signe this &s;hall yovv vnder&s;tand</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hat he &s;hall give yovv all the Heathen land</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> Iordan whill the Ark advance before yovv.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">rtch efter on and going God adore yovv)</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">vv&s;oon the Prie&s;ts &s;hall touth the rivers brink</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> beares the ark the Billovvs bak &s;hall &s;hrink</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> they before that did the gravell cover</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> part them &s;elf to give yovv pa&s;&s;age over</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB REF="29">
<HEAD>Io&s;hua <HI>4.</HI> Chap.</HEAD>
<L>THe Arke and Prie&s;ts in Iorden dry</L>
<L>Whill all the people perrille&s;s pa&s;&s;e by</L>
<L>O woundrous walk a deed divine and vounder</L>
<L>Done only by the Thrower of the Thunder</L>
<L>Then Io&s;ua in Iorden, did command</L>
<L>Eternally as Tropheas there to &s;tand</L>
<L>And to be witne&s;s of that woundrous wark</L>
<L>On that &s;ame place where pau&s;'d the Prie&s;ts and Ark</L>
<L>Twell men of the twell Tribes twell Stones to Reare</L>
<L>And then twelf other on there backs to beare</L>
<L>To Gil-gall thence but to the &s;ame effect</L>
<L>And to remember this The&s;e their t'erect</L>
<L>But th'Ark and I&s;rel dry-foot thus pa&s;t throw</L>
<L>The flood againe as it was wount did flow.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Io&s;ua <HI>5.</HI> Chap.</HEAD>
<L>THe Stones vp-reard t'averr the veritie</L>
<L>Of there &s;trange pa&s;&s;age to po&s;t eritie</L>
<L>The rumor of which admirable Chance</L>
<L>The hearts of all the heathen lords &s;o lance</L>
<L>And &s;trangely &s;trook them &s;tupified and &s;tonird</L>
<L>So that nev'r &s;hall there Curage be Reconird</L>
<L>Tha' amazed looke like men alreadie lo&s;sd</L>
<L>And whill they heare but of the Hebrew ho&s;t</L>
<L>The Lord commands that circomci&s;ion than</L>
<L>Be v&s;'d to evrie Hebrew mail or man</L>
<L>On whom the hallowed inci&s;ers hand</L>
<L>Hath noght bein &s;ince they come from Egypt land</L>
<L>An Angel arm'd to Nuns &s;one then apeard</L>
<L>Conferrd confirm'd him and his Courage Reard.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Io&s;ua <HI>6.</HI> Chap.</HEAD>
<L>THe armie and the Ark throgh Iorden go</L>
<L>Iu&s;t ore again&s;t the Toun of Iericho</L>
<L>And martch'd whill that directed they &s;et doune</L>
<L>And drew there Trenches round about the Tovne</L>
<L>The grave Commander that the Camp conducted</L>
<L>How to attempt it by the Lord in&s;tructed</L>
<L>The people then againe and Prie&s;ts he taught</L>
<L>How that, that Citie circled &s;hould be caught</L>
<L>Seaven Prie&s;ts with Ram-horne Trumpets pa&s;t before</L>
<L>The Ark and th'Armie followd whill They Roare</L>
<L>Seavn dayes they compa&s;&s;ed the Citie &s;o</L>
<L>And as injoynd &s;o oft about it go.</L>
<L>Then on the &s;eavnt they &s;ound and &s;howted all</L>
<L>Whill that vntvich'd flat fell the Citie wall:</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB REF="29">
<HEAD><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"></HEAD>
<L>THe citie entred as the Lord had doomd</L>
<L>(Mettals except) and all with fire con&s;um'd</L>
<L>The &s;lain of both the Sex into the Streets</L>
<L>Together in the Gore defyld there fleets</L>
<L>Yet Rachab is and hers by promi&s;e pa&s;t</L>
<L>Pre&s;erved &s;aifly in that publict wa&s;t</L>
<L>The Spyes that in there pitie &s;he prae&s;ervd</L>
<L>No le&s;s with love into the &s;ackt her &s;ervd</L>
<L>For all &s;aif &s;he t'inevitable Ire</L>
<L>Wer &s;old and &s;old to &s;laughter &s;word and fire</L>
<L>There all are execrable and accur&s;sd</L>
<L>That therein are or that therein wer nurc'd</L>
<L>And all from heavn are cur&s;sd, and cur&s;sd &s;halbo</L>
<L>That Iericho mynds to Re edifie.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Io&s;ua <HI>7.</HI> chap.</HEAD>
<L>A Chan an I&s;ralite Religious</L>
<L>Proves reprobat and Sacrilegious</L>
<L>Wherefore Gods griefe to grow and glow begins</L>
<L>Again&s;t all I&s;rell for his &s;ecreit Sinns</L>
<L>His Ire inkendled thus &s;o boyles and burnes</L>
<L>That from their help his holy hand it turnes</L>
<L>As they tryd trew whill that with Ai they fight</L>
<L>With few their greater force is put to flight</L>
<L>Whill Io&s;ua before the Lord did fall</L>
<L>And with his Cryes contreit for help did call</L>
<L>The Lord reveals the Sin and Achan is</L>
<L>Vpon confe&s;&s;ion he and what was his</L>
<L>His Blood his Brood his hou&s;e and all at once</L>
<L>Brint vp with fire and fell'd to death with &s;tories.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Io&s;ua <HI>8.</HI> chap.</HEAD>
<L>A Chan thus puni&s;h'd and thus I&s;rell purg'd</L>
<L>The Lord apea&s;d, he Io&s;ua efter vrg'd</L>
<L>And &s;aid my Seruant fant not dread nor doubt</L>
<L>Thow of my Aide but be of courage &s;tout</L>
<L>And now with all thy men of armes ari&s;e</L>
<L>To Ai advance and it with pow'r &s;uppri&s;e</L>
<L>For I have gevn thee therein evrie thing</L>
<L>The Sub&s;tance their the Subiects Croune and king</L>
<L>And there with doe, for I command thee &s;o</L>
<L>In all as thow hes done with Iericho</L>
<L>Then by ane ambu&s;h he hes foyled them</L>
<L>Then Toune &s;uppri&s;d and firde, &s;yn &s;poyled Them</L>
<L>The King is catch'd alive, and efter he</L>
<L>As God gave charge was hang'd vpon a Tree.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB REF="30">
<HEAD><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"></HEAD>
<L>THus that they triumphd by Gods helping hand</L>
<L>Well did the chiefe of th' Ebrevs vnder&s;tand</L>
<L>Wherefore that wi&s;e Commander wills that they</L>
<L>Thankfull therefore and grate to God be ay</L>
<L>In Ebal mont they then ane Altar rai&s;e</L>
<L>Noght hambred on with hands his name to prai&s;e</L>
<L>And offers thereon offrings as they knaw</L>
<L>Agried with his will and Mo&s;es Lavv</L>
<L>The altar rai&s;d and God there prai&s;d the Grave</L>
<L>Grand Captane then the Law on Stons did Ghrave</L>
<L>And therein Bli&s;&s;ings, Cur&s;ins all and Threats</L>
<L>He publictly to them reads and repeats</L>
<L>Into the prae&s;ens of the people all</L>
<L>The Stranger as the hebrew naturall</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Io&s;ua <HI>9.</HI> chap.</HEAD>
<L>AI thus &s;ack'd, &s;ome nightbour kings to tho&s;e</L>
<L>As open Enemies to I&s;rel ro&s;e</L>
<L>But lo from Gibeon di&s;gvy&s;ed &s;ome</L>
<L>As me&s;&s;ingers vnto the armie come</L>
<L>I&s;raell by deceat to Circemvein</L>
<L>And perrill by that policie praeveen</L>
<L>With Garments torne and but with Tags of Shooes</L>
<L>That they are Straugers the&s;e di&s;gvy&s;ed does</L>
<L>Mak I&s;rel think that They be come to Crave</L>
<L>A leagve of Love and frend&s;hip faine wold have</L>
<L>The Suit (deceavde) the Guyd of I&s;r'el grantis</L>
<L>The Gibonits deceitfull Supplicants</L>
<L>But they detected efter for the &s;ame</L>
<L>The duke to drudgrie Them and their Condamne</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Io&s;ua <HI>10.</HI> chap.</HEAD>
<L>FYve Kings together with vindictive Spreet</L>
<L>Their warlike force and armies all vneit</L>
<L>And out agains the tovne of Gibeon &s;ped</L>
<L>That Irues with I&s;rals head contracted had</L>
<L>But vnto him &s;ubmi&s;&s;ive Suits they &s;end</L>
<L>The he is foederats wold now defend</L>
<L>Who for their Cau&s;es wer inclo&s;d about</L>
<L>With five Kings forces &s;trong men &s;tern and &s;tout</L>
<L>Then I&s;rels Captane with his Cohorts ro&s;e</L>
<L>To free the Gibonits and fight there foes</L>
<L>whom in his violent and wrakfull wraeth</L>
<L>He vterly vndoes and drave to daeth</L>
<L>And &s;uch as fled defeated with his force</L>
<L>Feld in the flight vvith Hail a fate fand wor&s;s.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB REF="30">
<HEAD><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"></HEAD>
<L>THe day whereon the&s;e armies where o'rethrovvne</L>
<L>The Lord his great Love hes to I&s;r'el &s;hovvne</L>
<L>A vvoundrous day and admirable one</L>
<L>Who&s;e like before nor &s;ince was neuir none</L>
<L>At Io&s;hua his prai'r and reque&s;t</L>
<L>The great Governour God Almightie&s;t</L>
<L>A whole day &s;tayed the~ Sunne in Gibeon</L>
<L>And moone into the valey Aialon</L>
<L>And not a poynt come dovne declynd nor chang'd</L>
<L>Whil I&s;rell was on all there foes reveng'd</L>
<L>The Kings they kill when all the &s;laughter ended</L>
<L>And then the five vpon five Trees &s;u&s;pended</L>
<L>Kings, Cities, Subiects of the Hils and all</L>
<L>The plaines be&s;ide &s;ubdued before them fall.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Io&s;ua <HI>11.</HI> chap.</HEAD>
<L>A Croud of Kings by &s;outh ea&s;t, we&s;t and north</L>
<L>Martch (for to force the force of I&s;rel) forth</L>
<L>There numbers great neer out of number be</L>
<L>As Du&s;t on earth or Sand into the Sea</L>
<L>But God bad I&s;rel be of Courage Good</L>
<L>And feare no force nor men nor multitude</L>
<L>For he before that tyme of day to morrovv</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">laine and con&s;umed to there &s;hame and &s;orr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">w</L>
<L>Before the face of victor I&s;rell &s;hall</L>
<L>Deliver Them forc'd and defeated all</L>
<L>I&s;raell confident vpon his word</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">As well they might) a&s;&s;aults them with the Sword</L>
<L>And horriblie maks havok of their ho&s;t</L>
<L>In killing from the meane&s;t to the mo&s;t.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Io&s;ua <HI>11.</HI></HEAD>
<L>AS Io&s;hua from that Attempt reteard</L>
<L>For &s;uch victorious Chances Inly Cheard</L>
<L>The Toune of Hazor he took in his vvay</L>
<L>And all th' Inhabitants (non &s;aife) did &s;lay</L>
<L>Yea all from Halak montane vnto Gad</L>
<L>That by Ho&s;tilitie he takin had</L>
<L>Therein a living &s;oule nor fighting man</L>
<L>As God commanded him he left not than</L>
<L>For heardned was from heavne there harts that thay</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ight from the earth in vvraeth be vvippd avvay</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">f Anakims the Cities &s;o he Sacks</L>
<L>And vtterly them &s;elfs with vvarrs he wracks</L>
<L>The Conques then h' amongs the Tribs divyds</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd then in peace &s;ins warrs their th' Ebrevs byds</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB REF="31">
<HEAD><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"></HEAD>
<L>VIcto~rious I&s;rel by the Lords a&s;&s;i&s;tance</L>
<L>Agains there great and all there forc'd re&s;&s;i&s;tance</L>
<L>Of Cities, Valaes Montans and the Plains</L>
<L>But feare of force, po&s;&s;e&s;sd in peace remains</L>
<L>On Iordains ea&s;tren &s;yde and on its we&s;t</L>
<L>By South and North they peaceablie po&s;&s;e&s;t</L>
<L>No pettie portion nor a litle Land</L>
<L>Did Io&s;hua and I&s;rael command</L>
<L>The Lord their Battels and all &s;ubdevv'd</L>
<L>And noght their forces well inough they knew it</L>
<L>It is lands their Swords in their &s;ubiection brings</L>
<L>The &s;ubiects arm'd of ane and threttie Kings</L>
<L>The Hebrevs by his help there ho&s;ts orethrew</L>
<L>And all their Kings con&s;umed killd and &s;lew.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Io&s;ua <HI>13.</HI> chap.</HEAD>
<L>THe Lord call'd Io&s;hua and to him told</L>
<L>That he was weak with yeeres and waxed old</L>
<L>And yet much land remaind and Lord&s;hips many</L>
<L>Vnentred with and vnpo&s;&s;e&s;sd with any</L>
<L>Therefore the Lord he hes enjoynd him thair</L>
<L>And how he &s;hould devide them did declare</L>
<L>To give nyne Tribs whole portions he commands</L>
<L>And vnto thrie to give but half part lands.</L>
<L>Since Mo&s;es vnto Ruben and to Gad</L>
<L>On this &s;ide Iorden gev'n a portion had</L>
<L>Ilk Trib its martch there &s;evrally is &s;howne</L>
<L>That each of them might know what was their owne</L>
<L>To Levi yet no foot of Ground he gave</L>
<L>But ordaind Them the Sacrifice to have.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Io&s;ua <HI>14.</HI> Chap.</HEAD>
<L>THe Land of Canaan devided aff</L>
<L>Among the former nyne Tribs and a half</L>
<L>Caleb the con&s;tant Kenezeit, the &s;ame</L>
<L>That entred fir&s;t the Land to Nuns &s;onne came</L>
<L>And &s;aid to him now fourty yeeres and more</L>
<L>His &s;ince vnto Mo&s;es dead before</L>
<L>God &s;pake our God mo&s;t great and Glorious</L>
<L>In Cade&s;h-bernea concernyng vs</L>
<L>Then he that day &s;wore by th' almighty God</L>
<L>To give vs that whereon our feet &s;hould trod</L>
<L>Wherefore my Captane godly grave and Sage</L>
<L>I crave the &s;ame now for my heritage</L>
<L>Which Io&s;ua gladgly grants and Caleb ble&s;sd</L>
<L>And him and his with Hebron hes po&s;&s;e&s;sd</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB REF="31">
<HEAD>Io&s;ua <HI>20.</HI> Chap.</HEAD>
<L>THe Lord directed Io&s;hua as Iudge</L>
<L>T'apoynt with I&s;rel Cities of Refudge</L>
<L>(He &s;peake the people and prote&s;ts and Thay</L>
<L>Obtempre and the will divine Obey)</L>
<L>For &s;uch as do by accident or chance</L>
<L>Vnwillingly or yet by Ignorance</L>
<L>Kill and cut aff by force and blood a Brother</L>
<L>An I&s;raleit yea yet or any other</L>
<L>Where they may faif and &s;ure pre&s;erved be</L>
<L>(Whill th' high Prie&s;t livand then depairt and die)</L>
<L>From the Revenger of the &s;lain and than</L>
<L>He may returne vnto his hou&s;e again</L>
<L>So did the Lord Reliefe for the&s;e ordain</L>
<L>That ony man, as is fore&s;howne had &s;laine.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Io&s;ua <HI>22.</HI> Chap.</HEAD>
<L>TO Reuben and to Gad and to Mana&s;&s;es Heires</L>
<L>Io&s;hua his Kin&s;-man Patriots declares</L>
<L>That as the Lord and Mo&s;es had commanded</L>
<L>They faithfully had with there Bethren banded</L>
<L>And nought for&s;ook Them whill they wer po&s;&s;e&s;sd</L>
<L>Of all the promei&s;t Land in Peace and re&s;t</L>
<L>Therefore go with the bli&s;&s;ing of the Lord</L>
<L>To your po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ions vpon Iordans Bord</L>
<L>But care to live my Brether I befeech</L>
<L>As do is our Law allow in&s;truct and teach</L>
<L>Bak they returne and built an Altar by</L>
<L>The river brink and renders rea&s;ons why</L>
<L>Howbeet the Tribs therewith took fir&s;t offence</L>
<L>Yet having heard them with the deed di&s;pen&s;s.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Io&s;ua <HI>23.</HI> Chap.</HEAD>
<L>NOw Io&s;hua waxd old, by Age infirme,</L>
<L>Into the faith the Tribs for to confirme</L>
<L>Exhorts them gravely, all with one accord</L>
<L>The &s;erve &s;incearl' obey and lovve the Lord</L>
<L>He tells them there hovv oft for them he faught</L>
<L>And to that Day what for them he had wrought</L>
<L>He &s;hewes his promi&s;es wer all perfected</L>
<L>And to his glore and to their good effected</L>
<L>Therefore h' intreats Commands them and dois pray</L>
<L>That ev'r his will and Bidding they obay</L>
<L>And tells them if they do declyne and &s;werve</L>
<L>And vnto Idoll Gods bovv doune and &s;erve</L>
<L>Le&s;t be him to the fury of their foes</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">he vvill vvex them vvith a Thovv&s;and woes.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB REF="32">
<HEAD>Iudges <HI>1.</HI> Chap.</HEAD>
<L>NO &s;ooner Iudah was in&s;tall'd into</L>
<L>The rulers roome when he began to do</L>
<L>And pre&s;ently with all his Men of armes</L>
<L>He &s;tricks vp &s;toutly &s;hrill and loud alarmes</L>
<L>And with kene-dagd vnconquerable Corage</L>
<L>He forc'd his foes and did their Countrie forage</L>
<L>There King Adom-bezek he hes caught him</L>
<L>And his ovvne le&s;&s;on learnd to others taught him</L>
<L>For as his forme was to afflict his foes</L>
<L>He cutts from him his Thumbs and poynts of Toes</L>
<L>A ju&s;t reward for Tyranes he confe&s;sd</L>
<L>That &s;ev'ntie Kinges him&s;elf had &s;o di&s;tre&s;sd</L>
<L>The Lord heirfoir his fate hes framed &s;o</L>
<L>Conformly to be v&s;ed by his foe.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Iudges <HI>2.</HI> Chap.</HEAD>
<L>THe Lord with I&s;rel di&s;contended &s;tands</L>
<L>That they with Can'an had contracted bands</L>
<L>Yet penitent they do repent therefore</L>
<L>And for there fault and tre&s;pa&s;s d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">e deplore</L>
<L>Through all the Life and dayes of Io<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">ua</L>
<L>And of the Elders that out-liv'de de them all</L>
<L>They did noght di&s;obey nor yit debord</L>
<L>But &s;erv'd &s;incearly by the Law the Lord</L>
<L>Yet how&s;oone he and they departed all</L>
<L>From true divine to wor&s;chip fal&s;e they fall</L>
<L>The Lord then left them? and what then, wer They</L>
<L>But vnto Spoilers all, a &s;poill, and prey</L>
<L>Left be the Lord what be Impires tho great</L>
<L>Nought but a mor&s;ell to a meaner State</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Iudges <HI>3.</HI> Chap.</HEAD>
<L>FIve Princes of the Phili&s;tims remaind</L>
<L>Yet in the Land vnforced or con&s;traind</L>
<L>With whom the Ebreus (to Gods will aver&s;s</L>
<L>Ioyne, Marie, League with them, and do conver&s;s</L>
<L>So God forget in Bal'am they belive</L>
<L>And vnto A&s;heroth there wor&s;hip Give</L>
<L>Wherefore the Lord gave o're and &s;old them hath</L>
<L>To Chu&s;han King of Aram in his wrath</L>
<L>Where they in Bondage byd and &s;erve &s;eavn yeeres</L>
<L>As in the &s;tory pen'd more large apeares</L>
<L>But when they cryed to God and did repent them</L>
<L>A Saviour to &s;ave them &s;oone he &s;ent Them</L>
<L>So did deliver quickly I&s;rael</L>
<L>By Kenaz-&s;one there Captane Oth'niel.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB REF="32">
<HEAD>Io&s;ua <HI>24.</HI></HEAD>
<L>YEt Io&s;hua the peoples Sprits to pierce</L>
<L>Doth vnto them Gods mony he ps<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ch<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ar&s;s</L>
<L>And if vnthankfull tells them to their &s;hame</L>
<L>Partic'larly what he hes done to Them</L>
<L>Then heartly them exhorts at home abrod</L>
<L>And el&s;ewhere el&s;e for to give glore to God</L>
<L>With free and full con&s;ent then an&s;verd They</L>
<L>Our God his voice and vvord they wold obey</L>
<L>Then covenants he with them their that day</L>
<L>And to be witne&s;s of their wows for ay</L>
<L>Beneath an grovving oke or olive Tree</L>
<L>For evr to &s;tand a Stone vp pitched he</L>
<L>It heard your vvovves he &s;aid if that yow Trod</L>
<L>A wry and efter do deny your God.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Io&s;ua <HI>24.</HI></HEAD>
<L>THen all their Bu&s;ine&s;s as each one li&s;t</L>
<L>They go about liceneed and de&s;ini&s;t</L>
<L>Now that Grand Captane Io&s;hua &s;elected</L>
<L>By God and to conduct his Ho&s;ts dir<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">cted</L>
<L>Who with great valor and great wi&s;do<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">ie to</L>
<L>The Lords directions dreadle&s;ly did d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>And virtou&s;ly vpright in all his waves</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">vv'de to that Houre before the Lord his dayes</L>
<L>The hundreth tent yeer running of his age</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">eath puts a poynt vnto his pilgrimage</L>
<L>This worthy wi&s;e this Captane bold and brave</L>
<L>This gratious Iudge this Stats man great and grave</L>
<L>With I&s;rels wofull all and vveeping eyes</L>
<L>In Timnath nn Mont Ephraim buried lyes.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Iudges <HI>1.</HI> Chap.</HEAD>
<L>THat worthie Io&s;ua the Hebrevs head</L>
<L>As is declaird before defunct and dead</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">et God his ovvne Elect he nevr de&s;erts</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">if they contim we his with holy hearts</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ut duly dois for there &s;upport provide</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">or he into his I&s;rel gives a Guide</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">onveniently to governe and conduct them</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">d into all that a pertains i'in&s;truct them</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">t they will needs to him cry for and clame</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> Captane and Commande over Them</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> then apoynts that Iudah &s;hall command</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="4 letters">hold the rains of Rule into his hand</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> he exalt him will and give him might</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> come and quell the Cananits in fight.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB REF="33">
<HEAD>Judges <HI>3.</HI> Chap.</HEAD>
<L>WHen Ehud had the King of Moab kill'd</L>
<L>And with ten thovv&s;ands fall, the field-had filld</L>
<L>Of Moabits that in the Battaill fell</L>
<L>By heavn a&s;&s;i&s;ted-hands of I&s;rael</L>
<L>Shamgar a goad-groome and a Ru&s;tick Boore</L>
<L>Guyded by God vvas nixt there Governour</L>
<L>And &s;o vvith &s;acred &s;trenght and &s;tomak &s;tord</L>
<L>Of Phili&s;tims that Iov'as Iacob &s;hord</L>
<L>And only vvith his oxen Goad o'rethrevv</L>
<L>And (vvho but horror hears't) &s;ex hundreth &s;lew</L>
<L>The I&s;raleits they are pre&s;erved &s;o</L>
<L>From furie of the Phili&s;tim there foe</L>
<L>God th'Ebrevs heathen foes their ho&s;tile anger</L>
<L>Cool'd by a Goad-groome courage &s;illie Sanger.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Iudges <HI>4.</HI> Chap.</HEAD>
<L>DEbora judging I&s;r'el &s;ent to vvarre</L>
<L>Barak that Si&s;'ra did debell and darr</L>
<L>And vvith ten thovv&s;and I&s;ralits in fight</L>
<L>All Iabins povvre did foile and put to flight</L>
<L>Then Si&s;ra fled on foote and e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ter vv<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nt</L>
<L>Traind by a vvoman Iael to hir<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Tent</L>
<L>Who thri&s;ting there and efter travell tyr'd</L>
<L>To re&s;t and ea&s;e him he a vvhile de&s;ir'd</L>
<L>Intreating hir his name noght to be vvray</L>
<L>To any that demands for him that day</L>
<L>But vvhen &s;he &s;ies him &s;leeping and at re&s;t</L>
<L>To doe a vvorthie deed this dame adre&s;t</L>
<L>And drave a naile into his Tempels deep</L>
<L>So layd him in ane ever la&s;ting Sleep.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Iudges <HI>5.</HI> Chap.</HEAD>
<L>HEarken yovv Princes and do heare yovv Kinges</L>
<L>The prai&s;efull &s;onges our Soule and voces &s;inges</L>
<L>Unto I&s;raels God before vvho&s;e face</L>
<L>The earth dois &s;hake and th' Heavens do rain apace</L>
<L>The montains melt and leapt like lambs before him</L>
<L>Ri&s;e Barak ri&s;e and Debora adore-him</L>
<L>Debora vp and Barak both ari&s;e</L>
<L>And give God prai&s;e that hes gevn yovv the pri&s;e</L>
<L>And force to foile, the Phili&s;tims, your foes</L>
<L>That for to raze, and ruine I&s;r'el, ro&s;e</L>
<L>Your Touns but trade lay de&s;olate and vva&s;t</L>
<L>And non by th' Hie, but by the by vvayes pa&s;t</L>
<L>Whill I Debora ayded be the Lord</L>
<L>The foes of Iacob bet vvith Baraks &s;vvord.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB REF="33">
<HEAD>Judges <HI>6.</HI> Chap.</HEAD>
<L>ISrael oft di&s;tre&s;sd, as oft relvde</L>
<L>Be God, tran&s;gre&s;sd again and God have grievd</L>
<L>Herefore this Lord as in the lions Iaw's</L>
<L>Them in the danger of the Midian thraws</L>
<L>Where they in Bondage &s;ervitude and thrall</L>
<L>Seavn yeere from Den to den ar hunted all</L>
<L>There grain, there cornes, there a&s;&s;es, net an Sheep</L>
<L>And what for to pre&s;erve there Lives they keep</L>
<L>When they (&s;ecure) thought &s;urely to enjoy it</L>
<L>The Mid'anits, and Amalek di&s;troy it</L>
<L>Then pitifully &s;poyled I&s;rel lyes</L>
<L>Acknovvledging hir mi&s;s for mercie cryes</L>
<L>And God evr gratious their groans he heares</L>
<L>And by a Prophet, checks them, and he cheares</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Iudges <HI>6.</HI></HEAD>
<L>VVHen God vpon the peoples penitence</L>
<L>Had be his Prophets &s;howne Them there offence</L>
<L>And oft his Grace, to Them &s;o oft ingrat</L>
<L>When wickedly they had praevaricat</L>
<L>His Angel yet apeares to Gedeon</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">n Oprah by ane Oke Ioa&s;h-his-<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">ne</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ndewed with his Grace he tells him than</L>
<L>The Lord was with him &s;trong and valiant man</L>
<L>And doth command him in that &s;trength and might</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">or to go foorth and I&s;rel free by fight</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e craves a Signe and God gives by a fleece</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">oth wet and dry (noght that faiznd ane of Greece)</L>
<L>A double ane, &s;o Gedeons faeth confermes</L>
<L>And &s;traight agains the Midanits he armes</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Iudges <HI>7.</HI> Chap.</HEAD>
<L>THe Lord heir to the ho&s;t of Hehrevves &s;hovves</L>
<L>That his and noght their force, there foes ore throwes</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">or yet with multitudes off men will he</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">bdue and di&s;&s;ipat there Encinie</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">Vherefore he Gedeon to chufe commands</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> that &s;hall lap the water with there hands</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">d noght tho&s;e that he in their drinking &s;ies</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">on the water brinks to bow their knies</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> all of the&s;e that laped at the mo&s;t</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="4 letters">mber was three hunder in the ho&s;t</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> Gedeon with the&s;e three hunder than</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> do<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ne agains the men of Midian</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">itchers, lamps, and with his Trumpets &s;oundes</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> there hearts and all there ho&s;te confoundes.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB REF="34">
<HEAD>Iudges <HI>8.</HI> Chap.</HEAD>
<L>THe Ephramits proud through there povv'r in pryd</L>
<L>With Gedeon there Captane chiefe they Chyd</L>
<L>But in depre&s;&s;ing his owne deeds he ra&s;es</L>
<L>What they had done, and &s;o there Splene apa&s;es</L>
<L>And told them he but vanqui&s;hed the men</L>
<L>But they both tooke and kill'd then Princes then</L>
<L>Than he di&s;po&s;d to pa&s;s o're Iorden <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">ood</L>
<L>From them of Succoth for his men &s;ought food</L>
<L>Which they refui&s;d wherefore when God (he wovves)</L>
<L>Zebah and Salmunn' in his hands he throvves</L>
<L>To be revengd and for there an&s;ver ra&s;he</L>
<L>In vvoods vvith Briers and Thornes to teare there fle&s;h</L>
<L>In Penvel too, re&s;ui&s;ed as a foe</L>
<L>He heghts condignly to acquyt there no</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Iudges <HI>8.</HI> Chap.</HEAD>
<L>HEre Gedeon vvith his ho&s;t o're Iordan gois</L>
<L>And Zebah and Zalmunna cought his foes</L>
<L>Where fyftein thovv&s;and arm'd ar (in there ho&s;t)</L>
<L>With this three hunder &s;katred kill'd and ero&s;sd</L>
<L>Succoth and Penvel promi&s;ed before</L>
<L>There men vvith Briers and Thornes he vvhippd and tore</L>
<L>There Elders: and there citizens he &s;levv</L>
<L>And therefore promi&s;ed fortele&s;s ore threvv</L>
<L>Vnto the captive Kings then he converts</L>
<L>And perd vvith da<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">th there deeds and there de&s;erts</L>
<L>For they in Tabor pitile&s;se had &s;pilld</L>
<L>His Brethers blood and cruelly them killd</L>
<L>But be the Lord made povverfull and &s;trong</L>
<L>He freed I&s;rel and reveng'd hir wrong</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Iudges <HI>8.</HI> Chap.</HEAD>
<L>NOvv I&s;rel by God guyding Gedeon</L>
<L>Deliuerd are and fred from all there fo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">n</L>
<L>They grate in thankfulne&s;s I think there Love</L>
<L>Thus they vvill to there Captane prudent prove</L>
<L>Come Gedeon &s;aid they and be our King</L>
<L>And o're vvs efter Thee thy Sonnes &s;hall regne</L>
<L>For warr-like worthie Thovv and valiant Man</L>
<L>Delyverd vvs from men of Median</L>
<L>No God forbid again &s;aid He that I</L>
<L>Ore mine mount vp, mint, or pre&s;ome &s;o hye</L>
<L>The &s;acred holy and the heav'nly povv'rs</L>
<L>Give yovv your Iudges, Guids, and Governour<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>None of my Sones, nor Ioa&s;h-Gedeon</L>
<L>Shall regne o're yovv no, but the Lord alon.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB REF="34">
<HEAD>Iudges <HI>8.</HI> Chap.</HEAD>
<L>WHill thus they vrge him to become there King</L>
<L>He doth intreat them for ane other Thing</L>
<L>There ear-rings &s;poyld and partage in the pray</L>
<L>They gladly grant to give them and obay</L>
<L>Whereof an Ephod he did make and plac'd it</L>
<L>In Ophraah where I&s;rel chang'd and chac'd it</L>
<L>And vvandring efter it a whoring vvent</L>
<L>To God ingrate and Di&s;&s;obedient</L>
<L>Which efter Ged'ons daeth vvas f<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">d of all</L>
<L>His hou&s;e and &s;eventy Sones the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">at all fall</L>
<L>For Gedeon dead I&s;rael went a w<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">y</L>
<L>Debord and dotted on Idolatry</L>
<L>For th' Ephod efter They did trudge and Trod</L>
<L>And Baal-berith they did make their God.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Iudges <HI>9.</HI> Chap.</HEAD>
<L>ABimelech that vvas the hand maids Son</L>
<L>Of I&s;rels gallant gu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">der Gedeon</L>
<L>With violent and with a wicked will</L>
<L>Did on an Stone his &s;eventie Brether kill</L>
<L>And when the&s;e &s;evnty with the &s;word wer &s;lain</L>
<L>He caught the Croun and then perforce did reigne</L>
<L>On Gezizzim then Iotham lifts his woce</L>
<L>And parables to Sechem did propo&s;e</L>
<L>That Gaal Ebeds Sone in armes and Ire</L>
<L>Again&s;t th' v&s;urping Tyranne did con&s;pire</L>
<L>And goes againes Abimelech to fight</L>
<L>Whom in the field, he foyls and dryves to flight</L>
<L>And is at Tebez, by a woman wounded</L>
<L>Then by his page, thereto de&s;ird, confounded</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Iudges <HI>10.</HI> Chap.</HEAD>
<L>THat fratriced th' v&s;urpinh Tyran dead</L>
<L>Hurt with a womans hand vpon the head</L>
<L>Whereat di&s;daneing in a frantick Rage</L>
<L>Therefore he vvill di&s;patchd be by his Page</L>
<L>Then Tolapuah's-dodo's &s;one, that day</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">n I&s;rael began the &s;word to &s;way</L>
<L>And vnder him They twentie thrie yeers out</L>
<L>Had peace, for he, was pious, prudent, &s;tout</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">t he decea&s;t; to Judge them Iair ro&s;e</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd I&s;rels galay he to governe gois</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">ereat the Heline he &s;tands and &s;toutly &s;teires</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> guyds it Gravely tuo and tuenty yeeres</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> Iudg'd in Iu&s;tice and he &s;vayd the &s;word</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> the direction of the divine word.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB REF="35">
<HEAD>Iudges <HI>10.</HI> Chap.</HEAD>
<L>I Air expird, the people foully fall</L>
<L>And vor&s;hip vainly A&s;htaroth and B'al</L>
<L>With &s;in and &s;hame, there Soules and Lives they load</L>
<L>Whill they do bovv to evvrie pagan God</L>
<L>VVherefore inkendled was and &s;et on fyre</L>
<L>Again&s;t them then Gods-all everting Ire</L>
<L>And they ar hurl'd by him into the hands</L>
<L>Off th'Ammonits and the Phili&s;tim Bands</L>
<L>VVho aughtene yeeres, pre&s;s wex and them con&s;train</L>
<L>Beyond the River Iorden that remain</L>
<L>The Ammonits, they martch o're in there might</L>
<L>'Gain&s;t Boniamin and Iudah for to fight</L>
<L>So I&s;rel for hir &s;in (de&s;erving more)</L>
<L>And Idoll vvor&s;hip is tormented &s;ore</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Iudges <HI>11.</HI> Chap.</HEAD>
<L>WHan Is'aks &s;ones did for there Sins repent</L>
<L>Gods kindled vvraith is quench'd and did re<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ent</L>
<L>And Iphtah he ane outca&s;t be his Brother</L>
<L>The Sone and &s;eed too off ane whori&s;h mother</L>
<L>VVhom they depi&s;d and had before refuild</L>
<L>Novv they to be there Guyde and chieftan chui&s;d</L>
<L>In&s;tated Iphtah whill he vndertaks</L>
<L>VVith Ammon vvarr a mad ra&s;h vvovv he maks</L>
<L>To Sacrifice to offer vp and burne</L>
<L>VVhom fir&s;t he victor meets at his returne</L>
<L>Up gois he then again&s;t them and the Lord</L>
<L>Forc'd them perforce fall vnder Iptahes &s;word</L>
<L>But &s;ee a triumph dolorous and &s;ory</L>
<L>By the &s;aid &s;equell off the &s;acred &s;tory.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Iudges <HI>11</HI> Chap.</HEAD>
<L>VVHill this grand Captane this great vict'rie goe</L>
<L>And mony Soules in tvventie Cities &s;mot</L>
<L>From Aroer to Minnith evrie man</L>
<L>VVer conquerd, killd and ovverthrown than</L>
<L>Yet this victorious Glorious Iphtah Lo</L>
<L>The Tryumph of his vvarrs hes turnd to vvo</L>
<L>His only daughter in his Home retreits</L>
<L>T'appland his victorees hir Father meets</L>
<L>VVho&s;e vvievv recall'd his vvovv and &s;ternly touche</L>
<L>His tinder heart that he amazed muche</L>
<L>Laments and out of &s;ea&s;one &s;orrovvs now</L>
<L>For his too headle&s;s, ra&s;h and witle&s;s novv</L>
<L>Yet re&s;olute he &s;eald what he had &s;aid</L>
<L>And Immolats the pure and &s;potle&s;s maid</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB REF="35">
<HEAD>Iudges <HI>12.</HI> Chap.</HEAD>
<L>THe Ephramits in I&s;r'el in there numbers</L>
<L>To confident rai&s;e and incre&s;s new Cumbers</L>
<L>And noght with Iphtah only on there perrell</L>
<L>But to there ovvne vndoing ruine quarrell</L>
<L>And all in armes they will in&s;plene and &s;pight</L>
<L>Burne vp his hou&s;e, and with there Captane fight</L>
<L>Then Iphtah all the men off Gilead</L>
<L>He rai&s;d that able to beare armes he had</L>
<L>And Ephramits defate to let them know</L>
<L>He was there Ma&s;ter by there overthrow</L>
<L>And tvvo and fourtye Thovv&s;and at that time</L>
<L>Peri&s;hd of Them for there pre&s;umptuous Crime</L>
<L>And &s;evne yeeres efter that his Reigne began</L>
<L>But once vnvvi&s;e departs this worthie man</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Iudges <HI>12.</HI> Chap.</HEAD>
<L>IPhtah decea&s;t Ibzan the Beth-lemit</L>
<L>Sevn yeeres in I&s;rel fatt and Judged it</L>
<L>And threttie Sones and threttie daughters he</L>
<L>Begot a populous Po&s;teritie</L>
<L>Expird this Iudge in Bethlem buried lyes</L>
<L>Nixt Elon judging ten yeeres did ari&s;e</L>
<L>And efter daeth in Aialon interrd</L>
<L>Then to his place nixt Abdon is preferrd</L>
<L>And he had fourtie Sones, and threttie Oyes</L>
<L>(When he to Rule and Iudge in I&s;rel gois)</L>
<L>That as it wer t'expre&s;&s;e there povvar pa&s;&s;es</L>
<L>And daylie rod, vpon the Colts of A&s;&s;es</L>
<L>In I&s;rel then this Abdon Iudgd eight yeers</L>
<L>And efter waxing weak and ag'd expires.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Iudges <HI>13.</HI> Chap.</HEAD>
<L>YEt I&s;rel &s;till did his old Bias &s;ollovv</L>
<L>And in the weels of his vaine wor&s;hip vvallovv</L>
<L>Wherefore the Lord of ho&s;tes deliverd him</L>
<L>To fly and fall from the Phili&s;tim</L>
<L>But o the vounderfull great Grace of God</L>
<L>Tho they walk wickedly and by wayes Trod</L>
<L>And hold as naught the honour of his name</L>
<L>Yet lovve and kindne&s;s he did threap on thame</L>
<L>And by his Angel vnto Man'aths barren Pheere</L>
<L>With Promi&s;e of a Sone he doth appeare</L>
<L>Who Izaks &s;eed from Phili&s;tims &s;hall free</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> he a Nazarite vnra&s;d &s;halbe</L>
<L>The &s;tronge&s;t then of men was Sam&s;on borne</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ho&s;e &s;trength into his Tre&s;&s;es &s;tood vn&s;hovvne.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB REF="36">
<HEAD>Iudges <HI>14.</HI> Chap.</HEAD>
<L>THe Sone of Man'ath of the Trib of Dan</L>
<L>Indevvd divinly 'bovve the Strength of man</L>
<L>Whill he to Timnath went to woo he did</L>
<L>A Lion teare all like a Tinder kid</L>
<L>Into who&s;e Boulk he &s;ome time efter &s;ies</L>
<L>With honny &s;weld a humming &s;warme of Bees</L>
<L>Whereof he eats and to his mar'age Gon</L>
<L>Ane emblem darke there Sam&s;on did propon</L>
<L>But to re&s;olve't &s;oli&s;ted was his vvife</L>
<L>Which efter grevv the ground and &s;tirrd the &s;trife</L>
<L>That mony Soule and Phili&s;tim hes &s;laine</L>
<L>And &s;uch as nev'r could be agreed againe</L>
<L>Whill being blind a hou&s;e full he orethrevv</L>
<L>And with him&s;elf all the Phili&s;tims &s;levv.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Iudges <HI>15.</HI> Chap.</HEAD>
<L>SAm&s;on the Sone of Man'ath novv at length</L>
<L>As he did grovv God ble&s;sd and gave him &s;trength</L>
<L>And &s;tirr'd thereby to marye was inclynd</L>
<L>And tooke to wife a Phili&s;tim be kind</L>
<L>But in his ab&s;ence to wrong him thay</L>
<L>To his Companz'on gave his wife away</L>
<L>VVerefore into the harve&s;t time of wheat</L>
<L>Three hundreth foxes by the Tails he knet</L>
<L>And fyre brands fixed fa&s;t betuixt each tuo</L>
<L>Than to the fields of the Phili&s;tims &s;o</L>
<L>He drave them to their wheat and &s;tanding corne</L>
<L>That quickly knidled all and did them burne</L>
<L>There Rickes there vyne yards and there olives all</L>
<L>Before the fury of the fire they fall.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Iudges <HI>15.</HI></HEAD>
<L>THe Phili&s;tims inflamm'd with rage and Ire</L>
<L>For &s;etting of there vines and Cornes infire</L>
<L>VVith re&s;olutionn all in armes aro&s;e</L>
<L>And for to be reveng'd on Sam&s;om gois</L>
<L>VVho tho his Brether band him vvith a Cord</L>
<L>Yet &s;trengthned vvith the povvar of the Lord</L>
<L>From Etan Rock vvhen he de&s;cends his Bands</L>
<L>Like flax he brak that wer about his hands</L>
<L>And arm'd but with a Iavv-bone of ane a&s;s</L>
<L>Did to encounter all there armie pa&s;s</L>
<L>A Thovv&s;and there a wounder to be told</L>
<L>Dead dang he doune, and fell'd before him fold</L>
<L>But paind vvith thri&s;t he prayes and God then braks</L>
<L>A Tooth and of the Iavv a fontaine maks.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB REF="36">
<HEAD>Iudges <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word">.</HI> Chap.</HEAD>
<L>SAm&s;on gone dovvne to Gazra was bevvrayd</L>
<L>And by them thair to force him was for layd</L>
<L>But he into ane Harlots hou&s;e did &s;leep</L>
<L>To midnight whill they watch and ward did keep</L>
<L>Than vp he ro&s;e and by maigne &s;trength extorts</L>
<L>And from there hinges hei&s;sd there Citie ports</L>
<L>And vnamated martched to the mount</L>
<L>Which doth that holy hill of Hebron front</L>
<L>And efter this his fancies doth him move</L>
<L>One Dalila for to affect and Love</L>
<L>VVha tho he had from God, Giftes greater Gevne</L>
<L>Nor all the heathen that liv'de vnder hev'ne</L>
<L>Yet did his womans wicked witt &s;uppri&s;e</L>
<L>And Sam&s;on &s;old vnto his Enemies.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Iudges <HI>16.</HI></HEAD>
<L>THe Phili&s;tims with his &s;o matchle&s;s might</L>
<L>So oft vndone de&s;troyd and forc'd in fight</L>
<L>And dreading dangers and Events much wor&s;e</L>
<L>VVill do be frand that they could not with force</L>
<L>For Delila they doe inti&s;e to Try</L>
<L>VVherein the virtue of his &s;trength did ly</L>
<L>Thri&s;e vrg'd this vanton Sam&s;on to revveall</L>
<L>And he &s;o oft, his Secrets did conceall</L>
<L>But with hir flatrie farre ouercome declares</L>
<L>The trea&s;ure of his Strength &s;tood in his haires</L>
<L>Which by hir Cunningly cutt off and &s;horne</L>
<L>Blind by his foes a mockrie made and &s;korne</L>
<L>Yet prayes and with him&s;elf by &s;trength extreame</L>
<L>O'rethrovves the hou&s;e and thovv&s;ands kill'd of Them</L>
<L>Thus with the Phili&s;tims he fought and fell</L>
<L>VVhen he had tvventie yeeres judg'd I&s;rael.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Iudges <HI>16.</HI></HEAD>
<L>THis Man by God praepromi&s;d er his Birth</L>
<L>Incomparablie &s;tronge&s;t on the earth</L>
<L>That oft vnarm'd among his armed foes</L>
<L>Men multituds and hudge&s;t ho&s;tes o'rethrois</L>
<L>Yea only with the Iavv bone of an a&s;&s;e</L>
<L>Did Camps cut dovne as Syth-men &s;hears the gra&s;s</L>
<L>VVhill con&s;tant he to his Creator cleaves</L>
<L>And noght his Lord to him &s;o librall leaves</L>
<L>No witt could vvn no no nor valour wrong</L>
<L>Nor ony croft ore come this Champion &s;trong</L>
<L>But having blabd the Secrets of his heart</L>
<L>This facil Sam&s;on did the Lord de&s;ert</L>
<L>VVha to his foes, and by a woman then</L>
<L>A Prey become as other common men</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB REF="37">
<HEAD>Iudges <HI>17.</HI> Chap.</HEAD>
<L>ANe Ephramit the moneis that before</L>
<L>H'ab&s;tracted from his mother did re&s;tore</L>
<L>Wherefore &s;he had, all the &s;urrepters fir&s;t</L>
<L>(Whom novv &s;he ble&s;sd) bann'd bitterly and Cur&s;t</L>
<L>And the&s;e praeordaind to ane v&s;e prophane</L>
<L>She gives them to that Idol-v&s;e again</L>
<L>The wor&s;hip &s;o prophand, the Law &s;he braks</L>
<L>And with the&s;e moneis Idely Idols maks</L>
<L>An Ephod Michah then maks in his hou&s;e</L>
<L>And con&s;ecrats his Sone Religious</L>
<L>There was no King in I&s;rel in tho&s;e dayes</L>
<L>Wherefore they all praevaricat, and &s;trayes</L>
<L>And but regrait for Sinne regard of Shame</L>
<L>Did and Commits what be&s;t contented Them.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Iudges <HI>18.</HI> Chap.</HEAD>
<L>THe Trib of Dan five men &s;end out to Try</L>
<L>The Territors that in Mont-Ephraim ly</L>
<L>For fully noght wer thay as all the re&s;t</L>
<L>In Can'an off there Partages po&s;&s;e&s;sd</L>
<L>And finding't for them with &s;ex hunder men</L>
<L>They martchd to Michahs Inne in Ephraim then</L>
<L>And th'Idols fand and th'Ephod in his hou&s;e</L>
<L>There with a Levit Prie&s;t Idolatrous</L>
<L>All which they tooke and as there pri&s;e and pray</L>
<L>They there with vnto Lai&s;h went therd way</L>
<L>Which they &s;uppri&s;e and fird brint doune to du&s;t</L>
<L>And &s;lew the men that no &s;uch ill mi&s;tru&s;t</L>
<L>The towne they built again and call'd it Dan</L>
<L>And wor&s;hip'd there Michahs &s;tolne Idols than</L>
<L>For in the&s;e dayes no King in I&s;rel raigne</L>
<L>And they did all as what they wold tho wrang.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Iudges <HI>19.</HI> Chap.</HEAD>
<L>NO King the &s;word that day in I&s;rel &s;wayd</L>
<L>Nor non the Lords command nor Lavv obayd</L>
<L>As in a bea&s;tly bad abu&s;e was &s;ene</L>
<L>Vpon a Levit wife or Concubene</L>
<L>From Beth-lem Iuda vnto Ephraim home</L>
<L>The Levit with vvife to Geb'eah come</L>
<L>Whair multitud<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> vvhere they werludg'd repair</L>
<L>And mon&s;trou&s;ly yea in humanly Thair</L>
<L>Avickedne&s;s beyond invention v&s;'d</L>
<L>And vitiou&s;ly all night the vife abu&s;d</L>
<L>Whill on the morrow &s;o they did hir wrong</L>
<L>Hir hu&s;band finds her dead layd all a long</L>
<L>Who to the Tribs did &s;end hir cut in parts</L>
<L>To venge her vvrong to move there manly harts.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB REF="37">
<HEAD>Iudges <HI>20.</HI> Chap.</HEAD>
<L>THe Tribes the mangled martyr having &s;ene</L>
<L>They as one man at Mi&s;peth doth convene</L>
<L>Four hunder thovv&s;and men before the Lord</L>
<L>Which valerous was for to wield the &s;word</L>
<L>And did demand the men that wroght this &s;ame</L>
<L>From Benjamin that they might puni&s;h thame</L>
<L>But they maintaind the wrong and did one day</L>
<L>Off I&s;rel two and twentie Thovv&s;and &s;lay</L>
<L>And on the nixt they them again o'rethrew</L>
<L>And wer of I&s;rel aughtein Thow&s;and &s;lew</L>
<L>But humblie when they to the Lord did pray</L>
<L>Then Benjamin they bet doune the thrid day</L>
<L>And did th' abu&s;ed Levits wrong revenge</L>
<L>When from there Sinns they to the Lord did change.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Iudges <HI>21.</HI> Chap.</HEAD>
<L>WHen vnder I&s;rels &s;word and almo&s;t all</L>
<L>The Benjamits kild did &s;uccumb and fall</L>
<L>Yet Totaly to raze and ruine more</L>
<L>That Tribe to God &s;olemnedly they &s;wore</L>
<L>Nev'r to conver&s;s nor live with them there lives</L>
<L>Nor daigne to give their daughters to there vives</L>
<L>Yet wer they &s;ory that there furie fell</L>
<L>Had thus lapp'd off a limne from I&s;rael</L>
<L>They therefore to the&s;e Benjamits pre&s;crives</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">y force a forme to furni&s;h Them with vives</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">our hunder maydes in Gelead vn&s;laine</L>
<L>They &s;ave and only for their v&s;e ordaine</L>
<L>And into Shiloh will'd Them at there fe&s;t</L>
<L>To ly in waite and ravi&s;h Them there&s;t.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Ruth. <HI>2.</HI></HEAD>
<L>CHilions Ruth, the Moabiti&s;h mayd</L>
<L>To Naomi her mother in Law &s;he &s;aid</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">et me vnto his field go glean I pray</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">to who&s;e eyes I favour find this day</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hen to the field of Boaz &s;he is gone</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd there behind the Reapers gleaned on</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hen Boaz there is come from Beth-lehem</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hom they do Ble&s;s, and he rebre&s;&s;eth Them?</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e a&s;ks who Ruth was then, and one doth &s;how</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">at She Naomi's daughter was in Law</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">om he did cheri&s;h much and bids her &s;till</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> his maids glean efter as &s;he will</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd &s;o hir formes affects that &s;yn he takes-her</L>
<L>(He was hir kin&s;-man) and his wife he makes-her</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB REF="38">
<HEAD><HI>1</HI> Samuel Chap. <HI>1.</HI></HEAD>
<L>TVo wives the Ephramit Elkanah had</L>
<L>Ane bearing and, ane barren in his Bed</L>
<L>The frutefull v&s;'d Penninah with reproatch</L>
<L>The barren Hannah to vp brayd and broatch</L>
<L>Wherewith Shee inwardly (affirmes the Text</L>
<L>Of times tormented, weried was, and wext</L>
<L>Herefore to God that all afflictions Souzes</L>
<L>Makes &s;weet hir plaints in pray'r furth &s;he povvr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s</L>
<L>Who heard hir Groans (tho Ely much mi&s;took</L>
<L>Hir ge&s;ture, and as drunk did hir rebook)</L>
<L>And grants her Sute, inconment requird</L>
<L>A Sone calld Samvel, &s;o much de&s;ird</L>
<L>Whom as before, awowed be her vvord</L>
<L>A Nazarite againe gives to the Lord</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD><HI>1</HI> Samuel <HI>2.</HI> chap.</HEAD>
<L>WHen Hannah had all fini&s;hed and done</L>
<L>The Temple Rites in offring there hir Sone</L>
<L>This holy Hanna did hir heart &s;trings tune</L>
<L>That &s;he might with hir woves hir voice conjune</L>
<L>And into &s;weet and &s;acred &s;obir layes</L>
<L>She &s;ang hir makers mercies, Pow're and prai&s;e</L>
<L>His maie&s;tie and mony mightie deeds</L>
<L>That all in heav'ne and all on earth exceeds</L>
<L>And with a delicat and daintie aer</L>
<L>She quaverd clearly his great wounders thair</L>
<L>The Lord a Prophet then to Eli &s;ends</L>
<L>Who bitterly the Prie&s;t remi&s;s repr'ends</L>
<L>That &s;lovvly checkd or nev'r cha&s;tizd chyld</L>
<L>VVho wicked vitious wanton wer and wild</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD><HI>1</HI> Samuel <HI>3</HI> Chap.</HEAD>
<L>THe word was pretious than the Scripture &s;ayes</L>
<L>For there no vi&s;ion was in Elis dayes</L>
<L>And as he lay that time his eyes waxd dimme</L>
<L>And Samuel &s;erv'd before the Lord for him</L>
<L>Then &s;leeping, Samuel by the Lords call'd Thri&s;e</L>
<L>And he to Eli rinns when he did ry&s;e</L>
<L>For &s;o did Samvel before the word</L>
<L>Revealed was vnto him of the Lord</L>
<L>Yet God againe came to him and fore&s;ho'es</L>
<L>Eli, his hou&s;e, and Childrens over throves</L>
<L>For God was grievd with him that he wold noght</L>
<L>Cha&s;tize his Childring as a father ought</L>
<L>And what God &s;pake noght in a point he &s;paird</L>
<L>But it to Eli ev'rie jo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e declord.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB REF="38">
<HEAD><HI>1</HI> Samuel <HI>4.</HI> Chap.</HEAD>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">He Sones and Seed of Abra'm Ifrael</L>
<L>Are &s;purrd and &s;pokin to by Samuel</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">n pa&s;t they furth t'oppugne the Phili&s;tims</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> they are forc'd and &s;laughted for there &s;inns</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">d in that fight foure thow&s;and of them fels</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> the iniquities of I&s;raell</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">en to the camp the Covenant they broght</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">d once again with the Phili&s;tims foght</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">ho they wer affrayd, dreadfull and doubts</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">en for the Arks approatch the people &s;houts</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> with there pow'r the Ebrevs they Repell</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">d threttie thovv&s;and of there foot men fell</L>
<L>The Ark &s;uppri&s;d, Hophin and Phineas fall</L>
<L>And Eli brok his neck for lo&s;se of all</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD><HI>1</HI> Samuel <HI>5.</HI> chap.</HEAD>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">He Irreligious Phili&s;tims and Ra&s;h</L>
<L>To Dagon did, half fi&s;h, and half of fle&s;h</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">e &s;acred Arke and Covenant tran&s;port</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">in a Tryumph and a braving &s;ort</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> God agrees noght with the devill of hell</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> Dagon on his face before it fell</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> to try ma&s;terles they mont again</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> by the holy Arke &s;ets that prophane</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> God can noght by Belial abyd</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">r Sathan haue a con&s;ort by his &s;yd</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> it was fallen there found vpon the morn</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">e head and hands from it cutt off and torne</L>
<L>And whill to Gath and Ekron they haue &s;ent it</L>
<L>Of A&s;hdod They with th'Emrods wer tormented</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD><HI>1</HI> Samuel <HI>6.</HI> chap.</HEAD>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">Ev'ne monthes among the Phili&s;tims remaind</L>
<L>The &s;acred Arke with heathen hands prophaind</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">en with there Prie&s;ts the people purpo&s;d take</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> &s;end the Covenant to I&s;rael back</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> that they plagved wer they all perceave it</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">d &s;ies they had noght helth whill that they have it</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> emptie home they doe noght fitte&s;t hold</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">d therefore doth there with &s;end giftes of gold</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">pt in the forme of Emerods and My&s;s</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> with Idolaters God for a pryce</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> giftes of gold wold pa&s;s o're and di&s;pen&s;s</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">here vain vor&s;hip with the wild offence</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">aine and vnvvi&s;e Idolaters think no</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> can be gloz'd gull'd and beguyled &s;o</L>
<L>When feftie thovv&s;and of there lives he took</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> ca&s;hly dared in the Ark to look.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB REF="39">
<HEAD><HI>1.</HI> Samuel <HI>7.</HI> chap.</HEAD>
<L>THe Ark of God, that the Phili&s;tims fet</L>
<L>The I&s;raleits again in Kiriath &s;et</L>
<L>And twentie yeer (a long time there) abod</L>
<L>In Kirath-&s;earnn the Ark of God</L>
<L>The Prophet Samuel the People prayes</L>
<L>To leave there lewd, &s;hamefull, and &s;infull, wayes</L>
<L>And do no more, as they had done, debord</L>
<L>Nor with there wickedue&s;s provock the Lord</L>
<L>Then th' Idols, A&s;htaroth, they put away</L>
<L>And efter wous the Lord alon t'obay</L>
<L>Before there God grants and confe&s;sd there Sin</L>
<L>And with the Phili&s;tims to fight begin</L>
<L>But God di&s;per&s;sd them with affright and wounder</L>
<L>By the rud rumbling of a roaring thunder</L>
<L>Then are they &s;mitt'n &s;langhtered and fell</L>
<L>By the daeth dinting &s;word of I&s;raell</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD><HI>1.</HI> Samuel <HI>8.</HI> chap.</HEAD>
<L>SAmuel, his Sones his place for to &s;upplie</L>
<L>O're I&s;re'l Iudges then appoynted he</L>
<L>Who &s;trangers from his &s;tepps extreamly &s;trayes</L>
<L>And wrongou&s;ly perverted Iu&s;tice wayes</L>
<L>There hands with Bribs defyled were and filld</L>
<L>And wre&s;ted all as there affections willd</L>
<L>The People to there father then complaine</L>
<L>And crave a King to rule o're them and Raigne</L>
<L>Whereat he di&s;content to them declares</L>
<L>What under Kinges &s;hall be there Cro&s;s and cares</L>
<L>Yet &s;till the people they do pre&s;s him ever</L>
<L>And t'have a Prince (importunat) per&s;ever</L>
<L>Who as the Lord directed him there clame</L>
<L>Yet grieud for them jngrait grants unto thame.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD><HI>1.</HI> Samuel <HI>9.</HI> chap.</HEAD>
<L>KI&s;h, Saule, his Sone, to go in que&s;t commanded</L>
<L>Efter &s;ome a&s;&s;es, from the Re&s;t di&s;banded</L>
<L>He with a &s;ervand only with him Thay</L>
<L>Did mony Province pas, and went much way</L>
<L>But travell tint, there walking was in vaine</L>
<L>Nor could they get the A&s;ses &s;trayd again</L>
<L>When they had Shalmi &s;ought and Iemini</L>
<L>To Ramah-Zophim their, went he, and he</L>
<L>Then did the Servand Saul to &s;earch, advy&s;e</L>
<L>That Citie where, was &s;aid a Seer lyi&s;s</L>
<L>Which he agreed to go too and heard tell</L>
<L>There was that &s;acred Seer Samuel</L>
<L>Who by the Lord fore warnd Saul comming meets</L>
<L>Whom he to th'hie Place, to the fea&s;t juveets.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB REF="39">
<HEAD><HI>1</HI> Samuel <HI>10.</HI> Chap.</HEAD>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">Han Samuel Saule, had in the hie place plac'd-him</L>
<L>In the fir&s;t Roome, and fir&s;t of all did fea&s;t-him</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> on the Morne the nixt &s;ucceeding day</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> Prophet Saul convoyed on his way</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> by the knovledge of his Serving man</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> &s;one of Ki&s;h t'inaug'rat he began</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> from a viole with the Oile anoynted</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> privatlye as had the Lord apoynted</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> as he forvad on his journay &s;etts</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> Samuel Saul there &s;ome praedictions getts</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="4 letters">ynted Saul is from him&s;elf e&s;trang'd</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> God to prophe&s;ie his heart hes choingd</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">he peoples Sins the Prophet Samvel &s;havves</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">ul King again by &s;ort the people dravves.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD><HI>1</HI> Samuel <HI>11.</HI> Chap.</HEAD>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">Aha&s;h th' Ammonite did interpri&s;e</L>
<L>To ruine Gile'ad and inrag'd did ri&s;e</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> they of Iabe&s;h vnto Saul re&s;ort</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> get again&s;t the Ammonits &s;upport</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">o quickly Iacob hes conveened then</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> &s;ight three hunder threttie thovv&s;and men</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> by the morrow promi&s;d to relive them</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> naughtie Naha&s;h that did gall and grieve them</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> ho&s;t (a hudge on) he did pairt in three</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> therewith vp to Gil'ad marcheth he</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">erewith his valour by the morning watche</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> Camp of Naha&s;h carele&s;&s;e he did catche</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd fur'ou&s;ly with force o're whelm'd them all</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">r catchd, or killd, o're threw, or made them thrall.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD><HI>1</HI> Samuel <HI>12.</HI> Chap.</HEAD>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">He &s;acred Samvel be his mothers word</L>
<L>Before he was, divoted to the Lord</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">h his Integritie and Candor good</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> I&s;rel tell and there Ingratitood</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">o there God and with a Griefe declares</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">ft, &s;o great, deliverances of thaires</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">h there vnthankfull gratele&s;nes again</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> there pre&s;ence he hes made mo&s;t plain</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> check'd them chiefly for that fooli&s;h thing</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">hill God reign'd o're Them for to &s;eek a King</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> by a Miracle of Hail and Thunder</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> them confe&s;sd, when there Tre&s;pa&s;s they ponder</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e to hold them be the Lord did heart them</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> never wold (if they did &s;o) de&s;ert them.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB REF="40">
<HEAD><HI>1.</HI> Samuel <HI>13.</HI> chap.</HEAD>
<L>WHen Saul had ruld one yeer in I&s;rael</L>
<L>And only Tuo he reigned there it fell</L>
<L>The Gari&s;on that gnarded in the hill</L>
<L>Braw Ionathan did did them o'recome and kill</L>
<L>Thaire&s;ter Saul him &s;elf his trumpet blew</L>
<L>And all his men of armes tohether drew</L>
<L>Which fight and rumor of there frends defait</L>
<L>Flew to the Phili&s;tims with great regrat</L>
<L>Who threttie thow&s;aud Chariots, and more</L>
<L>Sex Thow&s;aud hor&s;emen have arm'd out therefore</L>
<L>Whereat the I&s;ralits in &s;trait, affrayd</L>
<L>Di&s;per&s;ed and hiddin into Caverne &s;tayd</L>
<L>But &s;ome pa&s;t Iorden tho the land of Gad</L>
<L>And &s;ome affrighted fled to Giliad.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD><HI>1.</HI> Samuel <HI>13.</HI> chap.</HEAD>
<L>LOon the People for te Prince his Sins</L>
<L>The wraeth of God to grow and glow begins</L>
<L>Saul wold not &s;tay whil Samuel come unto him</L>
<L>But &s;acrifice he will which did undo him</L>
<L>Wherefore the Prophet to this Timrous man</L>
<L>Denun'ct the Iudgement of thi almightie than</L>
<L>And boldly told this Di&s;&s;obedient</L>
<L>For contravening Gods commandiment</L>
<L>His glorions Croune, but lately, to him geven</L>
<L>Shall from his head, and hou&s;e be quickly reven</L>
<L>And I&s;rel too, to the Phili&s;tim &s;hall</L>
<L>Be in &s;uch &s;laverie, &s;ervitood and thrall</L>
<L>That Smiths, to &s;harp a Share, to till the grounen</L>
<L>Nor Sword, nor Speare in I&s;rel &s;hall befunen.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD><HI>1.</HI> Samuel <HI>14.</HI> chap.</HEAD>
<L>COuragious Ionathan doth here conferr</L>
<L>On high attempts with his awne Armiger</L>
<L>Then with the valour of there valiant hand</L>
<L>They tuo a&s;&s;ault a &s;trong Phili&s;tim band</L>
<L>A wounderfull of wounder to Relate</L>
<L>That tuo a Troop &s;hould as a front, defate</L>
<L>Iudeed it had bene vounderfull if noght</L>
<L>The high Iehove for Ionathan had foght</L>
<L>Saul than by oath and Interdiction &s;trait</L>
<L>The ho&s;t too night inhibit hes to dat</L>
<L>But Ionathan knew not what was enacted</L>
<L>And therfore by the eating hony brack it</L>
<L>Before king Saul &s;wore and awou'd in wraeth</L>
<L>That Ionathan &s;hould doubtle&s;s die the daeth</L>
<L>But all the People did with &s;tand that he</L>
<L>That doughtely deliverd Them &s;hould die.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB REF="40">
<HEAD><HI>1</HI> Samuel <HI>15.</HI> Chap.</HEAD>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">He Prophet Samuel to Saril repairs</L>
<L>And what the Lord will haue him do declares</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> told him God had him anoynted King</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">d for to prove more thankfull for that thing</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> wi&s;ly will'd him to obey the word</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> this mo&s;t bountifull and loving Lord</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">e to tall &s;laughter and de&s;truction than</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> Amalek, vife, veuch, boy, bea&s;t, and man</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> dois denvnce and Saul commands to &s;lay</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">d vipt them from the world all away</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">en Saul eft &s;oone the Sword of I&s;r'el drew</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">d all that race vnto Havilah &s;lew</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> Agag &s;paird, there King and be&s;t of Bea&s;tes</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> &s;erve for Sacrifice and &s;olemne fea&s;tes</L>
<L>But God agrieved for his great neglect</L>
<L>Did Saul by Samvel vterly reiect.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD><HI>1</HI> Samuel <HI>16.</HI> Chap.</HEAD>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">VHat God directed what Saul to doe neglected</L>
<L>From grace herefore in Iu&s;tice is deiected.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> mi&s;erable and wretched is there cace</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">o n'er &s;o great that rins in Gods di&s;grace</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e holy Sp'rit of God th' vnhappie man</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> his de&s;arts, de&s;arts and leavs him than</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">d in his Roome an evill and wicked one</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">tortour the de&s;arted Saul is gone</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">d when he violently wexed &s;its</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> is advi&s;ed with &s;ome Servands wits</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> &s;end for Dauid on his harpe to play</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">e furie of the rageing fendt' allay</L>
<L>Who whill he &s;tood and &s;weetly playd before-him</L>
<L>The foul Sprit &s;tirrd not nor no more it tore-him</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD><HI>1</HI> Samuel <HI>17.</HI> Chap.</HEAD>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">Odle&s;s Goliah gracele&s;s great and grim</L>
<L>I&s;raels foe the faithle&s;s Phili&s;tim</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">rmes with Bla&s;phemies doth brag and boa&s;t</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">d furiou&s;ly affronts the Hebrev ho&s;t</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">e&s;h confiding and his worth in warr</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> I&s;rel doth to fight and duel dar</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> faithle&s;s foole agains the Lord he fought</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">d by a Boy was to confu&s;&s;onn brought</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">ins the Lords elect the arme of Man</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">ke a Rotten reed and emptie can</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> I&s;har's &s;one but efter I&s;r'els King</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="4 letters">ht with Sauls &s;word but with his &s;heepherd &s;ling</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">at God bla&s;pheamers toung di&s;tempred &s;till'd</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> with no Cannon but a Stons ca&s;t kill'd</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB REF="41">
<HEAD><HI>1</HI> Samuel <HI>18</HI> Chap.</HEAD>
<L>HEir Ionathans and Dauids love begins</L>
<L>Induring both there dayes, that never Tvins</L>
<L>Dauids de&s;erving and his Innocence</L>
<L>Attracted &s;o, th' affection of the Prince</L>
<L>That Soul to Soul, was kint &s;o they affected</L>
<L>And dearly each, each other, evr re&s;pected</L>
<L>But hatefull Saul, did Dauids worth invy</L>
<L>And mony trams, did to intrap him try</L>
<L>But all the Fathers fellonous intents</L>
<L>The warly varning of the Sone, praevents</L>
<L>And Dauids fame, throgh famous facts aro&s;e</L>
<L>In felling the Phili&s;tims I&s;rels foes</L>
<L>Saul knew thereby, the Lord lov'de and mantaind him</L>
<L>And tho he dread him deadly yet di&s;daind him.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD><HI>1</HI> Samuel <HI>19.</HI> chap.</HEAD>
<L>THat reprobat King Saul invr'd to ill</L>
<L>Th' anoynted of the Lord wold Dauid kill</L>
<L>And Ionathan his Sone directs the fact to further</L>
<L>And all his Servands to committ the Murther</L>
<L>But Ionathan did truely Dauid love</L>
<L>And told him all, and did the&s;e Plotts di&s;prove</L>
<L>Than Saul to &s;lay him in his ludging &s;ent</L>
<L>But Michals vvi&s;dome, did his will, prevent</L>
<L>Fir&s;t She did lay ane Image in his Bed</L>
<L>And to b' ob&s;cure it with a carpet cled</L>
<L>And when they &s;earch't for Dauid, &s;he did &s;ay</L>
<L>That their hir Lord &s;ick and di&s;ea&s;ed lay</L>
<L>Yet by a window doune &s;he lets him go</L>
<L>And worthie Dauid was delyverd &s;o.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD><HI>1</HI> Samuel <HI>20.</HI> Chap.</HEAD>
<L>THe noble Dauid in great danger brought</L>
<L>And by King Saul for to be &s;lain oft &s;ought</L>
<L>From Naioh fled to Ionathan to plaine</L>
<L>Of Sauls di&s;pight to him and high di&s;daine</L>
<L>Demanding deeply what mi&s;done had he</L>
<L>And what his Sinne was and iniquitie</L>
<L>That he committed that his Fathers wraeth</L>
<L>Sought hotly his de&s;truction and his daeth</L>
<L>But kindly Ionathan conforts and cheares-him</L>
<L>And re affirmes th'affection that he beares-him</L>
<L>And by three arrowes &s;hott &s;u&s;pectles Signes</L>
<L>Di&s;covers Saul his Fathers fierce de&s;ignes</L>
<L>Which madly did malicious Saul incence</L>
<L>Vnto the &s;laughter of his Sone the prence.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB REF="41">
<HEAD>1. <HI>Samuel</HI> 21.</HEAD>
<L>VVHen the&s;e tuo Princes had reneu'd there word</L>
<L>And Covenant of love before the Lord</L>
<L>David to Nob, to Ahimilech then fled</L>
<L>Where he was with the &s;acred Shew-bread fed</L>
<L>And de&s;olat of armes &s;upport did crave</L>
<L>And from the Prie&s;t god great Golias glave</L>
<L>Then he to A&s;hi&s;h pa&s;t, and as he had</L>
<L>Di&s;tracted bene, he faiznd, and made him mad</L>
<L>For hearing Achi&s;h &s;ervands of him &s;ay,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> this noght David, I&s;hays &s;one, &s;aid thai</L>
<L>That killd and &s;lew, and unto thow &s;ands ten</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">or Saul on thow&s;and did de&s;troy of men</L>
<L>And herefore doubting of &s;ome forder dangers</L>
<L>He counterfits him fur'ous to the&s;e &s;trangers.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD><HI>1.</HI> Samuel <HI>22.</HI> chap.</HEAD>
<L>DAvid from Gath unto Adullam gois</L>
<L>To be their &s;urer fen&s;ed from his foes</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd when his Brether heard that he was thair</L>
<L>With more di&s;tre&s;sd men they to him repair</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> Mizpeth then, then he, to Hareth thence</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ent with four hundreth men for his defen&s;&s;s</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ul hearing then whair David did remain</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd that he now pa&s;t publictly and plain</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">eg did charge Ahimilech that he</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> David both with meat and armes &s;upply</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> than his Servands that about him &s;tands</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> kill the Prie&s;t and all his hou&s;e commands</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> they refui&s;d to do't and draw there &s;word</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> &s;acrifice tho&s;e &s;acred to the Lord</L>
<L>But de&s;prad Dog, that Doeg did belive</L>
<L>Kill cruelly there anghtie Prie&s;ts and five.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD><HI>1.</HI> Samuel <HI>23.</HI> chap.</HEAD>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">Ob quyt de&s;troy'd, the Prie&s;ts al kill'd &s;aif one</L>
<L>That was to David with the Ephod gone</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> Phili&s;tims then unto Keilah came</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> proudly &s;poyld the Garners of the &s;ame</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> David a&s;k'd and did con&s;ult the Lord</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> &s;hould &s;mitt them that &s;o Keilah &s;hord</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> Lord commands and he came to't and fought</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> them, and, away there cattell brough</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> Saul infi&s;ts and yet will David &s;lay</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">od was with him and pre&s;erv'd him ay</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> woods of Ziph &s;aif he aboad</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> &s;ix hundreth guarded all by God</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">onathan went to him too that wood</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">ard him kindly with his confort good.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB REF="42">
<HEAD><HI>1</HI> Samuel <HI>24.</HI> Chap.</HEAD>
<L>SAul yet in&s;i&s;tes and &s;eekis out Dauid &s;till</L>
<L>Madly re&s;olvd de&s;troy him yet he will</L>
<L>O but whom God prae&s;erves protects and keepes</L>
<L>Tho all the worlde invade &s;ecurely &s;leeps</L>
<L>And tho Saul &s;ought him with three thov&s;and men</L>
<L>That in the Cave lay at Engedi then</L>
<L>God yet among the be&s;t of all his Bands</L>
<L>Saul hes deliverd into Dauids hands</L>
<L>For entring in that Cave to ea&s;e him thair</L>
<L>Dauid his lappe vn&s;een avvay did &s;haer</L>
<L>And cry'd if he, had bene his foe, as thought</L>
<L>He might have killd him thair and yet wold noght</L>
<L>Nor ever &s;hould his heart nor hand accord</L>
<L>To touch nor kill th' anoynted of the Lord.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD><HI>1</HI> Samuel <HI>24.</HI> chap.</HEAD>
<L>WHen Saul had &s;ene his cloak lappe cutted thair</L>
<L>And Dauid as his Lord his life did &s;pair</L>
<L>He knew th' almightie that all men commands</L>
<L>Had then delivred him in Dauids hands</L>
<L>Tuiched then with &s;en&s;s of Sinne and feeling deept</L>
<L>His wro<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">ghs to him, lift vp his voice and weept</L>
<L>Than publictly profe&s;sd that David had</L>
<L>Done good for evvil, to him, vnble&s;sd, and bad</L>
<L>And willingly awov'd, avanc'd and Rai&s;d</L>
<L>The worthie Dauids rightou&s;ne&s;s and prai&s;d</L>
<L>His noble deed that &s;paird whill with his knyfe</L>
<L>He at his plea&s;ure might haue reft his lyfe</L>
<L>And freely their confe&s;sd, he knew, he King</L>
<L>Sould be of I&s;rel efter him and Reigne</L>
<L>And therefore &s;wore him efter he was dead</L>
<L>For to be good and gratious to his &s;eed.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD><HI>1</HI> Samuel <HI>25.</HI> chap.</HEAD>
<L>THat Iudge and Prophet that in I&s;rael</L>
<L>Ruld fourty yeeres, decea&s;d here Samuel</L>
<L>Then Dauid wens doune to the wilderne&s;s</L>
<L>Of Paran and from thence in his di&s;tre&s;s</L>
<L>To Naball in the Tyme of Shering &s;ent</L>
<L>Ten youthes to &s;eek from him a &s;uppliment</L>
<L>But cluni&s;h Naball Dauids grace abu&s;d</L>
<L>For churle of churles he churli&s;hly refui&s;d</L>
<L>And with a Iudgement ra&s;h did both de&s;pyi&s;e</L>
<L>And Dauids me&s;&s;ingers his meat denyes</L>
<L>Whairfore the Prince re&s;olved to revenge it</L>
<L>The gratious Abigail his mynd hes changed</L>
<L>Whom Dauid efter Nabals death in mariage</L>
<L>Did wed for wit, and for hir vettous cariage:</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB REF="42">
<HEAD><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"></HEAD>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">Ho Dauid in his danger brought forebore</L>
<L>To kill King Saul as is declaird before</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">et he vnthankfull and forgetfull Too</L>
<L>That God by Dauid did and yet might do</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nmyndfull of his oath and Covenant</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">o&s;e vp in armes, and then pa&s;t to &s;upplant</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">etired, royall, loyall, Dauid then</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> Hachilah, with his &s;ix hunder men</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hen with Abi&s;hai, Dauid only thay</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ent dovne by night where Saul a &s;leeping lay</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd might as he before have killd him there</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">et &s;paird: and only took his pot, and Spear</L>
<L>And then did from a hill to Abner cry</L>
<L>And &s;hevv his Lord his Love and Loyalty</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD><HI>1</HI> Sam. <HI>27</HI> chap.</HEAD>
<L>DAuid &s;o oft per&s;ew'd, &s;earch'd for and &s;ought</L>
<L>Con&s;idred with him &s;elf re&s;olvd and thought</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hat he to Gath would vnto Achi&s;h go</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd from King Saul his &s;earching &s;aife him &s;o</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">here with his armie Dauid gon, no more</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">as he by Saul &s;ought as he v&s;d before</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">auid in Gad a dwelling he de&s;irde</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd Ziklag got incontinent requird</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> he fand favour into Achi&s;h eyes</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ho much vpon his wit and worth relyes</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hen Dauid went and did invade and charge</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">he Cananits from Shur to Egypts werge</L>
<L>And &s;mot both man and wife and all hes &s;lame</L>
<L>And with the &s;poyls to Achi&s;h gois againe.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD><HI>1</HI> Sam. <HI>28</HI> chap.</HEAD>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">Chi&s;h with his Phili&s;tims fierce and fell</L>
<L>A&s;&s;embled go again&s;t Saul and I&s;rael</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hen th' heathen Prince with librall words and large</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ves Dauid in the ho&s;t the chiefe&s;t charge</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd promi&s;d him the honor for to keep</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> per&s;on by his &s;peaches lull'd a &s;leep</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> Prophet dead Saul at there force affrayd</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">at witch of Endor he implores and prayd</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">at She wold Samvel from the dead recall</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> tell him in the&s;e warrs th' event of all</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> de&s;prat Saul one &s;imulat aro&s;e</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">at &s;lew his futur fall among his foes</L>
<L>And did for di&s;&s;obeying God foretell</L>
<L>To morrovv Bondage vnto I&s;rael.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB REF="43">
<HEAD><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"></HEAD>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> with a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> there men or might</L>
<L>Again&s;t the I&s;ralits conjoynd to fight</L>
<L>The Princes or the Captanes of the hoa&s;t</L>
<L>Con&s;ult, conclood and Achi&s;h their acco&s;t</L>
<L>And angrie all with Dauid a&s;k their King</L>
<L>VVhy he that Hebrevv did to battail bring?</L>
<L>Is he noght Servand unto Saul &s;aid thay</L>
<L>And herefore mayb' our adver&s;ar this day</L>
<L>But Achi&s;h from his faith did &s;till excu&s;e him</L>
<L>And they in doubt and dread of him refu&s;e him</L>
<L>So that their King con&s;traind (is with commend</L>
<L>Of Dauids worth) back him to Ziklag &s;end</L>
<L>Whil the Phili&s;tims, for to wrak in warr</L>
<L>The I&s;raleit in Ire advanceing are.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD><HI>1</HI> Samuel <HI>30.</HI> Chap.</HEAD>
<L>ORe Dauid did to Ziklag back returne</L>
<L>Th' Amalakits did it inve&s;t and burne</L>
<L>And all the vives and Bairnes that there they fand</L>
<L>With all their Goods they gleand with &s;trength of hand</L>
<L>Dauids Ahinoam and Abigall</L>
<L>In that &s;uppri&s;e ar Pri&s;oners with all</L>
<L>Then mvrning evrie man his lo&s;&s;e bemoand</L>
<L>And al mo&s;t all di&s;tranghted David &s;tond</L>
<L>But humble he vpon the Lord relyd</L>
<L>That to his &s;uite, yea, willingly replyd</L>
<L>Then with four hunder of his hardie hoa&s;t</L>
<L>Agains the Toune &s;uppri&s;ers he did poa&s;t</L>
<L>And by th' Egyptian guid come whair they lay</L>
<L>All &s;cattred on the field he did them &s;lay</L>
<L>(Four hundreth &s;ole except) and all thought lo&s;t</L>
<L>Regaind again &s;uppri&s;'d by th' heathen hoa&s;t</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD><HI>1</HI> Sam. <HI>31</HI> Chap.</HEAD>
<L>THe Phili&s;tims vvith I&s;rel joyne and fight</L>
<L>And I&s;r'el is defate and put to flight</L>
<L>The Sones of Saul the Princes of the Land</L>
<L>Fall their and die by the Phili&s;tims hand</L>
<L>Good Ionathan is &s;lain, and Saul is wounded</L>
<L>And all the circumci&s;ed hoa&s;t confounded</L>
<L>Who hes noght God to guid and go before them</L>
<L>Pi&s;meers and meikle more men may devore them</L>
<L>Saul vvounded &s;ies that he hes lo&s;sd the day</L>
<L>His Sones and armie &s;lain he wi&s;hd to be away</L>
<L>Then call'd his armiger and did command him</L>
<L>To thru&s;t him through but he, he did with&s;tand him</L>
<L>De&s;pairdly then him&s;elf he &s;tabs and dyes</L>
<L>And &s;o &s;elf kill'd be&s;ide his Servand lyes.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB REF="43">
<HEAD><HI>2</HI> Sam. <HI>1</HI> Chap.</HEAD>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">O two dayes efter Dauids back returne</L>
<L>From Chace of tho&s;e that did his Citie burne</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> thrid, there come a man, that hes declaird</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> Saul and all the hebrevv ho&s;t misfard</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> longing Prince hovv all had &s;ped then &s;peares</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> Ionathan and Sauls &s;elf &s;laughter heares</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> all the armies foil and overthroe</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">ich nevvs invads this worthie with &s;uch woe</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> neir with griefe his Bre&s;t blovvne vp did bur&s;t</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> pitied he and prai&s;d him tho accur&s;d</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> for his faithfull frend did much lament</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> cau&s;d he kill, that &s;lave that Saul had &s;hent</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> teach all Trators to attempt, and darre</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> tuich tho&s;e that, of God, anoynted are.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD><HI>2</HI> Sam. <HI>2</HI> chap.</HEAD>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> their daeth deplorable but mo&s;t</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> Ionathan with Saul his Father lo&s;&s;d</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">un&s;ell craved from the Lord of heav'ne</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> his God again vnto him gevne</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> de&s;ign'd by Samvel before</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">bron he anoynted is once more</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">anks and vvov'd revvard to them that had</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> Saul, the men of Gilead</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">bner lo Sauls Captane chief Reuound</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ahan'an I&s;hbo&s;heth brought and crovnd</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word">, and Ioab met, conferr and then</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> vnto tuelf encounters of their men</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">ers are forc'd and A&s;ahel is &s;laine</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> reteirs and Abner vvalks the plaine</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD><HI>2</HI> Sam. <HI>3</HI> Chap.</HEAD>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> Sauls and Dauids hou&s;e nought pettie Iarres</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> there was wrakefull long and vi'lent warrs</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ron be, &s;ex Sones, brought forth and borne</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> all hou&s;e of Dauid to adorne</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">eth &s;one of Saul, Abner accu&s;'d</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> his Fathers Concubine had v&s;'d</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> angrie chaffed to be chected</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> I&s;h bo&s;heth, and his Side reiected</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> reconceild to Dauid &s;ends</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> conditions hears him, and are frends</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> come, his plots to him h' imparts</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> there, and thence, in peace departs</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">novvne to Dauid calld again</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">ou&s;ly by Ioab talking Slaine</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB REF="44">
<HEAD><HI>2</HI> Samuel <HI>4</HI> Chap.</HEAD>
<L>DAuid di&s;plea&s;d, for Abners daeth that day</L>
<L>His blood and burden doth on Ioab lay</L>
<L>I&s;hbo&s;het hearing then of Abners fall</L>
<L>Di&s;hearned is and his adherents all</L>
<L>Rechab and Ban'ath Captans of &s;ome Bands</L>
<L>Into I&s;hbo&s;heths Blood imbrews there hands</L>
<L>Whill as he &s;leeping lay a bed at noone</L>
<L>This bloody deed by Rimmons &s;ones is done</L>
<L>They then to Dauid brought I&s;hbo&s;herhs head</L>
<L>But as demerits thir tre&s;pa&s;s they Speed</L>
<L>For killing of the righteous in his hou&s;e</L>
<L>Di&s;daind of Dauid they ar odious</L>
<L>And to be killd there feet cutt off and hands</L>
<L>Their bulks to hing in Hebron he commands</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD><HI>2</HI> Sam. <HI>5</HI> Chap.</HEAD>
<L>THen all the Tribs to Hebron did repair</L>
<L>And vver Petitioners to Dauid thair</L>
<L>De&s;iring he, wold for there &s;aifteis &s;aik</L>
<L>The royall en&s;ignes of all I&s;r'el Take</L>
<L>He that whill Saul ragne in the former dayes</L>
<L>Forewent all I&s;rel in there martiall frayes</L>
<L>And whom to God had &s;aid that he &s;hould feed</L>
<L>And be ore I&s;r'el Captane and there head</L>
<L>They croune him then of Iud' and I&s;rel King</L>
<L>Advi&s;d with God then he his bands did bring</L>
<L>To Baal-perazim and trampled twi&s;e</L>
<L>Bett there and forced the Phili&s;tim lyie</L>
<L>As God directed Dauid did and &s;mot</L>
<L>From Geba vnto Gezar all he got.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD><HI>2</HI> Sam. <HI>6</HI> Chap.</HEAD>
<L>THe Arke of God that had remained long</L>
<L>In Gibeah with threttie thovv&s;and &s;trong</L>
<L>Dauid tran&s;ported tvvi&s;e and then he plac'd it</L>
<L>Into his Citie and with courtains cac'd it</L>
<L>Vzzath by God that did attempt to tvvich</L>
<L>The Arke is killd for his too darring much</L>
<L>To learne vs in the wor&s;hip of the Lord</L>
<L>Noght to orewa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">k his will into his word</L>
<L>Dauid before the people and arke advanced</L>
<L>And Harped holily and &s;ang and danced</L>
<L>Herefore Sauls Daughter Michal in hir eyes</L>
<L>As doing ba&s;ly, Dauid did de&s;pi&s;e</L>
<L>Wherefore &s;he puni&s;hd was: for evver efter</L>
<L>Hir Barrenne&s;s began that never left hir.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB REF="44">
<HEAD><HI>2</HI> Samuel <HI>7.</HI> Chap.</HEAD>
<L>WHen God had round about gevn Dauid re&s;t</L>
<L>And he &s;at in his hou&s;e condignly dre&s;t</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> peace and plenty to the Prophet than</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">he Royall Prince and P&s;almi&s;t thus began</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ehold in la&s;ting Shittim and in Cedat trees</L>
<L>With antique arte ingravne we duell thovv &s;ies</L>
<L>And God in Tabernacles and in Tents</L>
<L>That rings and rops and pins for &s;tanders &s;tents</L>
<L>Nathan then &s;aid do as de&s;ires thyn hart</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">or God is with Thee and a&s;&s;i&s;ts thy part</L>
<L>Dauid de&s;ign'd to build then to the Lord</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> hou&s;e of wor&s;hip but be Nathans word</L>
<L>Prohibit its from Heav'n for to be done</L>
<L>For thats re&s;ervd for Salomon his Sone.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD><HI>2</HI> Samuel <HI>7.</HI> Chap.</HEAD>
<L>THe Lord the Secret &s;earcher of the Soule</L>
<L>Dauids de&s;igne, did tho divine controule</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> Labor that, he had allovvde alone</L>
<L>Vnto his Sone &s;ucceeding Salomon</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">is benefits, then he, as good, as great</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">id by his Prophet to the Prince repeat</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ovv from a Sheepheard boy he did him bring</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> be o're his belovv'de and cho&s;ing King</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd when his dayes did end and he hence gone</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> &s;trongly &s;tabli&s;h wold and &s;tay his throne</L>
<L>Vnto his Sone, and alway efter this</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nto his Seed the Scepter ever bli&s;s</L>
<L>The pious Prince then pithelie and plaine</L>
<L>Gods grace his Giftes and Greatne&s;s grants again</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD><HI>2</HI> Samuel <HI>8.</HI> chap.</HEAD>
<L>THe faithfull King conforted and confermd</L>
<L>Agains the faithle&s;s Phili&s;tims hes armd</L>
<L>And tho&s;e that in his reach and grips he gott</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">or bondage he re&s;ervd or &s;martly &s;mot</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> match'd the Moabits and them o'rethrew</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">et &s;aifd a thrid, when he the Tuo-part &s;lew</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> &s;mot prince Hadadezer that did pre&s;s</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> enlarge his limits at &s;wift Euphrates</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd of the Aramits he killed then</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">cc'ring Zaboth tuentie two Thou&s;and men</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ra&s;s, Silver, &s;heelds of Gold that guarded them</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> in Tryumph brought to Ieru&s;alem</L>
<L>For non with&s;tood from heavn his helped Strenght</L>
<L>But fetterd all, or felld wer at the length.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB REF="45">
<HEAD><HI>2.</HI> Samuel <HI>9.</HI> chap.</HEAD>
<L>THis victor King in warrs a Prince in peace</L>
<L>Of equall Iu&s;tice bountye Love and Grace</L>
<L>Th' effectis of frend&s;hip faethfull and intear</L>
<L>Into his doings is decypherd heir</L>
<L>He a&s;ks if yet there any be among</L>
<L>The people that to Saul or his belong</L>
<L>They find one Ziba out Sauls &s;erving man</L>
<L>That &s;hevv a Sone livde then to Ionathan</L>
<L>Lame Mephi-bo&s;heth of his feet vnable</L>
<L>Whome Dauid highly hold and honorable</L>
<L>And for his Fathers &s;aik his Love he &s;hovves</L>
<L>Then Sauls whole Steddings vpon him be&s;tovves</L>
<L>And at his table vvorthely alvvayes</L>
<L>He treats and intertains him all his dayes.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD><HI>2.</HI> Samuel <HI>10.</HI> chap.</HEAD>
<L>THe noble nature and the excellence</L>
<L>In Dauids di&s;po&s;ition of a Prince</L>
<L>And ba&s;ly hovv and bar brou&s;ly repayd</L>
<L>The Prophet properly hes heir di&s;playd</L>
<L>The Sprit of Dauid it did boyle and burne</L>
<L>To quyt old kindne&s;s vvith a courte&s;s turne</L>
<L>And vnto this effect his Servands &s;end</L>
<L>Whom th' Ammonits as &s;pyes did apprehend</L>
<L>And in di&s;pight with all di&s;honor dois</L>
<L>The noble men amba&s;&s;adours abu&s;e</L>
<L>Which vvrong for to revenge he doth ari&s;e</L>
<L>Fought, and defate, and tryumphd on them twy&s;e</L>
<L>To learne all lavvle&s;s and vnthankfull To</L>
<L>With vvhom to deale, hovv, vvhan, and what to doe</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD><HI>2</HI> Samuel <HI>11.</HI> Chap.</HEAD>
<L>WHen &s;pring approatchd and dayes to length began</L>
<L>Ioab martchd foorth with I&s;rels armies than</L>
<L>And as he was a Cheiftane cho&s;e and &s;tout</L>
<L>He roundly Rabbah belted hes about</L>
<L>Whill Dauid re&s;ts and La&s;h at Salem lyes</L>
<L>Whence from a Tarras Bath&s;heba he &s;pyes</L>
<L>And by hir Beautie caught became its thrall</L>
<L>And with hir in Adulterie dois fall</L>
<L>Than to that fact that he had fallin in</L>
<L>He joyned blood a cruell crying Sin</L>
<L>And poore Vriah he expond and killd</L>
<L>As led his Lu&s;t and vvanton humors vvild</L>
<L>Then as the Prophet calld hir his ane lambe</L>
<L>He efter tooke to be his vvife and dame</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB REF="45">
<HEAD><HI>2</HI> Samuel <HI>12.</HI> Chap.</HEAD>
<L>THe Prophet Nathan by the Lord apoynted</L>
<L>T'expo&s;tulat with Dauid his anoynted</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">ake in a mi&s;tick parable and ma&s;ked</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd him of his Adultrous actions a&s;ked</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> is lu&s;t inju&s;tice, he hes taxed thair</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd to reprove his Stuprie did noght &s;pair</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd heartly humble, he for mercie cryes</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">th for his murther and Adultries</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">'effects and frute whereof by divine wraith</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">one efter birth, is quickly caught, be daeth</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">en Salomon of Beth&s;heba is borne</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">d Rabbah taen, &s;traitly be&s;ieg'd beforne</L>
<L>The Captives captive thair, he &s;avves with Axes</L>
<L>He cutts and carves them &s;tents and dravvs and raxes</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD><HI>2</HI> Samuel <HI>13.</HI> chap.</HEAD>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">Mmon inflamd with lu&s;t and fle&s;hly fire</L>
<L>And what vvas wor&s;e ince&s;tuous de&s;ire</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> &s;i&s;ter Thamar being fair he lov'de</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> Dauid by a craftie coun&s;ell movde</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd hir to Ammon &s;eening &s;icke and Shee</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ent in as &s;he directed was to doe</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> wicked Ammon like a villane wyld</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> mayd mini&s;tring forced and defyld</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> efter hoter nor he lovv'de before</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hen he had whord hir than he hates hir more</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> Ab&s;olon inveits him to a fea&s;t</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> for his rapt to be revenged mai&s;t</L>
<L>And at the table &s;et his life did tak</L>
<L>For his vnnat'rall and ince&s;tous fact</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD><HI>2</HI> Samuel <HI>14.</HI> Chap.</HEAD>
<L>WHen Ab&s;alom long efter Ammons daeth</L>
<L>Had felt the vvaight of his wrong'd Fathers wraeth</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> fleemd was from the favours of his face</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">nk in the Sea and dephs of his di&s;grace</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> by a vvoman Ioab did devi&s;e</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> pardon his Tre&s;pas the Prince t' intize</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> affection fatherly and Love</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> Dauids melting mynd to mercie move</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> Ge&s;hur then be Ioab he is &s;ought</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> by him back to Ieru&s;alem brought</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> Ab&s;alom for Beavties and his hair</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">ovnd, e&s;teemd, &s;o excellently fair</L>
<L>Yet tuo yeers there he relegat remaind</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">efore vnto a pre&s;ence he attaind.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB REF="46">
<HEAD><HI>2</HI> Samuel <HI>15.</HI> Chap.</HEAD>
<L>WIth flattries fal&s;e altho fair &s;eeming &s;howes</L>
<L>Prond Ab&s;olon in I&s;rel pop'lar growes</L>
<L>H'in&s;umats him &s;elf in all mens grace</L>
<L>Plac'd in the court Portch in a publict place</L>
<L>For all that offers honors unto him</L>
<L>He claves be cra&s;t &s;o to the Croune to clim</L>
<L>By tratrons Heads to help his bad de&s;ire</L>
<L>H'attempts unto, th' Imper' all place, t'a&s;pire</L>
<L>His father flies and on mont Olive &s;tayes</L>
<L>And all the Plotts and purpo&s;es he prayes</L>
<L>Propond b' Ahitophel his State to &s;tre&s;&s;e</L>
<L>That God wold turne them into fooli&s;hue&s;s</L>
<L>And Hu&s;hai there his Servand, to the end</L>
<L>T'oppo&s;e, and to unca&s;e there coun&s;els &s;end.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD><HI>2</HI> Samuel <HI>16</HI> Chap.</HEAD>
<L>VNfaithfull Ziba to his ma&s;ter failes</L>
<L>And Shimei doggi&s;hly at David railes</L>
<L>His curri&s;h kinde and naughty nature &s;howing</L>
<L>By barking ba&s;ly and by &s;toubolts throwing</L>
<L>Abi&s;hai wold the churli&s;h fellow &s;mit</L>
<L>But myldly David did prohibit it</L>
<L>And doth confe&s;s that he there cur&s;ing &s;tands</L>
<L>And but by bidding and the Lords commands</L>
<L>Who then &s;aid he dar crave and a&s;ke the man</L>
<L>Why thus he cur&s;eth and he rayleth than</L>
<L>My Sone, my Blood, my bowels, hunts me lo</L>
<L>And Wherefore may noght Shimei now do &s;o</L>
<L>Then &s;uffer him to cur&s;e and let him be</L>
<L>God may heirefter, heirfore looke on me</L>
<L>As fals Achitophel did heir advi&s;e</L>
<L>The Lew'd Sone with his fathers pairties lyes.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD><HI>2</HI> Samuel <HI>17.</HI> Chap.</HEAD>
<L>AChitophel agains his Lord con&s;pires</L>
<L>And force to follow from his Sone de&s;ires</L>
<L>A vitions coun&s;all gave his wicked witt</L>
<L>But Hu&s;hai hateing him opponis to it</L>
<L>And be&s;ome lurking frends acquaints his Prence</L>
<L>With there pervers and tracterous pretence</L>
<L>Then wi&s;e and worthie David apprehends</L>
<L>The danger and departed with his freinds</L>
<L>But lo whill Hu&s;hai Ab&s;olon advi&s;ed</L>
<L>Achitophel fand al his plotts de&s;pi&s;ed</L>
<L>Then on his a&s;se fled lyke a furie fell</L>
<L>And in his awne hou&s;e he hes hangd him &s;elf</L>
<L>No better recompence can Trea&s;on crave</L>
<L>Nor end more happie &s;hould a Trator have.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB REF="46">
<HEAD><HI>2.</HI> Samuel <HI>18.</HI> chap.</HEAD>
<L>VNnatural unwi&s;e, unworthie Ab&s;alon</L>
<L>With I&s;rel is agains his father gon</L>
<L>Di&s;loyall all, all up in armes they ar</L>
<L>And that to wage witg worthie David warr</L>
<L>T'hen he all his into thrie Bands Devids</L>
<L>And gave them Ioab and tuo other guids</L>
<L>T'he Battell joyns and Ab&s;alon in fight</L>
<L>VVith all his followers ar put to flight</L>
<L>And lo him&s;elf fa&s;t by his flaxin hair</L>
<L>Hings on ane Oak betuixt the earth and air</L>
<L>VVhair Ioab contrare to the kings command</L>
<L>Thri&s;e thru&s;ts him throgh and killd him with his hand</L>
<L>This bloody end on Ab&s;olon did bring</L>
<L>Di&s;toyalty unto his Sire and King.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD><HI>2.</HI> Samuel <HI>19.</HI> chap.</HEAD>
<L>DAvid into a &s;ecret Chalmer turnes</L>
<L>And for his &s;laine &s;u&s;pended &s;one their murnes</L>
<L>And Ioab checke yea chyds him that did &s;ho</L>
<L>Such greef and &s;orrow for his fallen foe</L>
<L>Thus roghly ron&s;ing him to ri&s;e will have him</L>
<L>Abroad or threats his lieges all will leave him</L>
<L>Th' afflicted King con&s;enting ro&s;e and &s;ate</L>
<L>In the mo&s;t publict and frequented gate</L>
<L>VVhair they that er&s;t rebelld per&s;ewd and &s;hore him</L>
<L>Again re&s;tord and humblie bow'd before him</L>
<L>True Mephibo&s;heth meets the King ans tryes</L>
<L>A tru&s;tid prince in &s;pight of Zibas lies</L>
<L>Barzillai leaves the King and homvards tends</L>
<L>And I&s;rel jarrs vvith Iuda and contends</L>
<L>And each of them for Right and intere&s;t</L>
<L>Into the King &s;trive &s;tifli and conte&s;t.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD><HI>2.</HI> Samuel <HI>20.</HI> chap.</HEAD>
<L>SHeba the Sone of the Bichri then aro&s;e</L>
<L>And &s;tirrd up I&s;rel to be Davids foes</L>
<L>Ioab Ama&s;a meets and &s;eemd to ki&s;s</L>
<L>But kills and treachrou&s;ly contrived this</L>
<L>And Sheba with his Powr to Abel is pa&s;t</L>
<L>VVhair Ioab with his forces followd fa&s;t</L>
<L>And did that citie circom&s;iedge around</L>
<L>And by womans witt a mean is found</L>
<L>To &s;aif the Citie and it was indeed</L>
<L>VVhat Ioab crau'de and come fore, Shebas head</L>
<L>The wittie working of that woman wi&s;e</L>
<L>The I&s;raleits and Citizens inti&s;e</L>
<L>To &s;aif the Toune, and get the Rebels Grace</L>
<L>To kill the Trator Sheba in that place</L>
<PB REF="47">
<L>Which dead once done She vnto Ioab calls</L>
<L>And throvv's to him the head doune from the walls</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD><HI>2</HI> Samuel <HI>21</HI> Chap.</HEAD>
<L>IN Dauids dayes thrie yeers a famyn fearce</L>
<L>Did enter I&s;rel and hir entrals pear&s;s</L>
<L>And herefore Dauid did the Lord demand</L>
<L>And to much blood to be the cau&s;e he fand</L>
<L>That then vpon the Sones of Saul remaind</L>
<L>Which hes all I&s;rell maculat and &s;taind</L>
<L>Wherefore to blan&s;h that bloody Sin he gives</L>
<L>Vnto the Gib'onites of them that lives</L>
<L>Sev'ne men the Sones and &s;eed of Saul amaing</L>
<L>Whom in revenge they did &s;u&s;pend and hang</L>
<L>The Phili&s;tims with four tall Captans &s;trong</L>
<L>That had bein enemies to I&s;rel long</L>
<L>Four tyms into four Battals come to &s;troaks</L>
<L>Who&s;e Captans &s;taves be beames and &s;turdy oaks</L>
<L>Into the&s;e fight wer forced bett and &s;lain</L>
<L>By Dauid and his doers dead remain</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD><HI>2</HI> Samuel <HI>22.</HI> Chap.</HEAD>
<L>DAuid returd from vvars victorious</L>
<L>Prai&s;d God mo&s;t good, mo&s;t great, mo&s;t glorious</L>
<L>His Povvar he proclamd extold his &s;trength</L>
<L>And laude and glore gives to his Lord at length</L>
<L>His mercies maie&s;tie and mightines</L>
<L>And grief agains th' vngodly dois expre&s;s</L>
<L>Him in his woundrous works he magnifies</L>
<L>Who bowes the heavns, from whom the thunder flies</L>
<L>And for his ovvne &s;o oft deliverance</L>
<L>His glorious Goodne&s;s greatly dois advance</L>
<L>And pa&s;&s;ing all my powers to repeat</L>
<L>He glorifies the God of Ho&s;tes mo&s;t great</L>
<L>And promi&s;es to prai&s;e and to proclame</L>
<L>And &s;ing for evr the honor of his name.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD><HI>2.</HI> Samuel <HI>23.</HI> chap.</HEAD>
<L>THe la&s;t words that King Dauid &s;pake &s;uppond</L>
<L>(Noght dying) but when he his P&s;almes compond</L>
<L>The Sone of I&s;hai that vvas &s;et on hie</L>
<L>Aman created King by Gods decree</L>
<L>I&s;raels P&s;almi&s;t and its &s;inger &s;weet</L>
<L>Thus &s;aith, a Prophet and a Prince compleet</L>
<L>Th' almighty God I grant above my merit</L>
<L>Breathd in my Brea&s;t, &s;pake in me by his Sperit</L>
<L>And promi&s;ed that I &s;hould regne and beare</L>
<L>O're ju&s;t men rule, men that the Lord did feare</L>
<L>And as ore th' earth the morning Sunne did &s;hyne</L>
<L>Illu&s;trous from my loyns &s;hould be my liue</L>
<PB REF="47">
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> aggots for fire) be ra&s;d and throwne away</L>
<L>His worthies la&s;t he one by one doth name</L>
<L>And gives to all the Glory due to Them.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD><HI>2</HI> Samuel <HI>24.</HI> Chap.</HEAD>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">Rom pride cur'o&s;itie and fond de&s;ire</L>
<L>David will knovv his povv'res in his impire</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">erefore commands to note vp all and number</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> men of I&s;rel to there co&s;t and cumber</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> by his &s;earchers fand that they wer then</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> thretein hunder thov&s;and feghtan men</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> God by Gad declard what he intended</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> was a fault which highly him offended</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> King repents, Gad doth thrie plagves propone</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> of the thrie Dauid acceptis of one</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> fall into the fingers of the Lord</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">efu&s;eing famyn and the bloody Sword)</L>
<L>Who with infection that throgh I&s;rel flevv</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nto three dayes wholl &s;eventie thou&s;and &s;levv</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>I. Booke of ye Kings. <HI>1.</HI> Chap.</HEAD>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">Ow when King Dauid &s;eventie yeeres was old</L>
<L>Heat nat'rall hence, his blood was chill and cold</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> coverd him with clothes but all for nought</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> they a virgin brave Abi&s;hag brought</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> in his Bed and bo&s;ome lay and &s;o</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> chafe and cheri&s;h him yet knew hir no</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> weakned age made Adoniah ry&s;e</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">urp his Fathers croune to interpry&s;e</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">an and Beth&s;heba the King acquent</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> Adoniahs treacherous intent</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> bids the Prie&s;t and Prophet &s;one begon</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">oynt and Croune his Sone young Salomon</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">'u&s;urper flees and to the alter gois</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> Salomon on hops him mercie &s;hois</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD><HI>1</HI> Kings <HI>2</HI> Chap.</HEAD>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">uid a man agreeing with Gods mynd</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">alking the way of mortals and mankind</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> Solomon and heartl' exhorts him than</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> the prudent Prince and worthie man</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> the Lord and walk in all his wayes</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> &s;tand to his Statuts all his dayes</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> knows quod he the bed from whence thow&s;prong</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">ow for Thee I did they Brether wrong</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">fore acquyt th' in all and evrie Thing</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> or can become a perfect King</L>
<PB REF="48">
<L>Howbeit to puni&s;h him, him&s;elf had &s;paird</L>
<L>This holy Prophet then and hardie Prince</L>
<L>As ony that before or reigned &s;ince</L>
<L>Departs in peace and mo&s;t devoutly dyes</L>
<L>And in his Citie David buried lyes</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD><HI>1</HI> Kings <HI>2</HI> Chap.</HEAD>
<L>VVHan Ab&s;olon the Captain Ioab &s;layes</L>
<L>Contrar command into King Dauids dayes</L>
<L>And efter blo'tted with the guiltle&s;s blood</L>
<L>Of Abner and Ama&s;a Captains good</L>
<L>To Dauid in his dayes did nought revenge</L>
<L>Yet took to hart the&s;e three out rages &s;trange</L>
<L>And did direct his Sone to recompence</L>
<L>When he was dead as did de&s;erve th' offence</L>
<L>But noght to &s;uffer yet in ony cace</L>
<L>Perfidious Ioab to depairt in peace</L>
<L>Wherefore the King to kill him did command</L>
<L>Whom to the alter fled for feare they fand</L>
<L>And by Benayah there to be exemple</L>
<L>To bloody Captains killd was in the Temple</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD><HI>1</HI> Kings <HI>2</HI> Chap.</HEAD>
<L>THe Prince departed and put in his grave</L>
<L>Then Adoniah wold Abi&s;hag have</L>
<L>And as is &s;aid efter his Fathers life</L>
<L>By Ber&s;habe demands hir to his wife</L>
<L>But Salomon di&s;lyking that cau&s;d &s;lay</L>
<L>And Adoniah killd to death that day</L>
<L>Abiathar with Ioab that con&s;pird</L>
<L>When Adoniah er&s;t the Crovne de&s;ird</L>
<L>The King he wold noght &s;mit him with the Sword</L>
<L>Becau&s;e a Prie&s;t once &s;acred to the Lord</L>
<L>But he degrads him from his Charge di&s;grac'd</L>
<L>And Zadok &s;acred in the Prle&s;t-hood plac'd</L>
<L>Benayah efter then advanced he</L>
<L>To be the Cheeftan of his Chivalrie</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD><HI>1</HI> Kings <HI>3</HI> Chap.</HEAD>
<L>WIth Egypt Salomon a mariage makes</L>
<L>And Pharos daughter to his vife he takes</L>
<L>And vnto Dauids fort from Memphis &s;treame</L>
<L>Brought her whill walled was Ieru&s;alem</L>
<L>Then to the Prince in Gib'on God apeard</L>
<L>And what of him he wold demand and &s;peard</L>
<L>VVho in a meeke and holy humblne&s;s</L>
<L>Gods great and mony favours did confe&s;s</L>
<L>And &s;ince he had created him a King</L>
<L>He &s;onght true vi&s;idome in his governing</L>
<PB REF="48">
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"></L>
<L>VVith all his other graces vnder heaven</L>
<L>And fir&s;t the Plea that the two Harlots moved</L>
<L>His voundrous wi&s;dome and his proudence proved</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD><HI>1</HI> Kings <HI>4</HI> Chap.</HEAD>
<L>THe Princes, Peeres and great men one by one</L>
<L>Heir are in&s;ert that &s;erved Salomon</L>
<L>VVith all purveyance great and Glorious</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">elonging to his rich and royall hou&s;e</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">he numbers of hts &s;trong and &s;talled hor&s;es</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hat he him&s;elf and his Cavalliers cor&s;es</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">expre&s;s his Pow're welth and riches great</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">atchle&s;s magnificence and mighty &s;tate</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> flowing from the favours of the Lord</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">he Prophet pertinently dois record</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">is all exceeding wi&s;e inlarged hart</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> heaven in earth and in the profound part</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd th'all compr'ending knoledge of this Prince</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">rpa&s;&s;ing all that livde before or &s;ince</L>
<L>Among the monuments of mortall men</L>
<L>Expre&s;sd is here by this Prophetick penne.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD><HI>1</HI> Kings <HI>5</HI> Chap.</HEAD>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">Iram the Tiriam King with Salomon</L>
<L>Congratulats his monting I&s;rels thron</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd he agane with honor Servands &s;end</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hat him to Hiram kindly did commend</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd &s;hew his Father Dauid for his warrs</L>
<L>VVith nightbour nations and inte&s;tine Iarres</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd piou&s;ly he in his tyme intended</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ould nought begin the Temple nor yet end it</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> when God gave him re&s;t he &s;et him foir it</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> build a hou&s;e for wor&s;hip of the Lord</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">erefore there royall mai&s;ter Salomon</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">eque&s;ts for Cedars from his Lebanon</L>
<L>Into which woundrous work imployd wer then</L>
<L>A hunder four&s;core and thrie thov&s;and men.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD><HI>1</HI> Kings <HI>6</HI> Chap.</HEAD>
<L>VVHen for that famous fabrick fitly are</L>
<L>All things made ready neat and nece&s;&s;are</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> hundreth four&s;core yeeres efter that day</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> God from Egypt th' Ebrevvs brought away</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> four yeer current of the regne noght gone</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> Dauids wi&s;e and &s;age Senc Salomon</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> &s;tatly Structure of the Temple than</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> fore nam'd numbers for to build began</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> in &s;even yeeres this wondrous works intended</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> expre&s;&s;ion pompou&s;ly was ended</L>
<PB REF="49">
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"></L>
<L>In the&s;e few yeeres was fini&s;hed be Them</L>
<L>And God (if he obedient remaine)</L>
<L>To Salomon reiterats againe</L>
<L>His promi&s;e pa&s;t and will performe it &s;treaght</L>
<L>That to his Father Dauid he had heaght.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD><HI>1</HI> Kings <HI>7</HI> Chap.</HEAD>
<L>NOw whill the Churche tha' accompli&s;h and conclood</L>
<L>The &s;age and great King Salomon thought good</L>
<L>Efter the works for wor&s;hip of the Lord</L>
<L>To haue a hou&s;e nixt for the King decord</L>
<L>He heirfore t'enter in&s;tantly ordanes</L>
<L>But &s;paring of expences or of Paines</L>
<L>Then all the Arts-men exqui&s;it at once</L>
<L>Gold, &s;ilver, Cedar, Bra&s;s, and marble &s;tones</L>
<L>With curious craft and pa&s;t all creded care</L>
<L>They melt they moold, cut Squin&s;ion carve an &s;quare</L>
<L>And for the Princes palaces erects</L>
<L>Exceeding princely riche in all re&s;pects</L>
<L>But Hiram highly hes out hyid the re&s;t</L>
<L>And pa&s;&s;ing all compare &s;ome pieces dre&s;t.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD><HI>1</HI> Kings <HI>8</HI> Chap.</HEAD>
<L>FVll fini&s;hed the&s;e fair and famous warkes</L>
<L>Of his Magnificence immortall markes</L>
<L>The heads of Tribes and I&s;rels elders all</L>
<L>Together he did convocatt and call</L>
<L>The Ark from Obed for to bring with them</L>
<L>Vnto the Temple in Ieru&s;alem</L>
<L>Which by the Levites and the Prie&s;ts it fet</L>
<L>And their with all Solemnitie was &s;et</L>
<L>The Tabernacle and each &s;acred Thing</L>
<L>The holy ve&s;&s;els all with them they bring</L>
<L>Then Solomon pa&s;t number numbers takes</L>
<L>Of Sheep and Beevs and there oblation makes</L>
<L>And whill the Prie&s;ts the offred offrings kills</L>
<L>Into a Cloud the Lord the Temple fills</L>
<L>The people than he ble&s;sd and preachd at length</L>
<L>The pour and Prai&s;es of the God of Strength</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD><HI>1</HI> Kings <HI>9</HI> Chap.</HEAD>
<L>AGains god as before in Gibeon</L>
<L>Apeard aproachd and &s;pake to Salomon</L>
<L>Prote&s;ting of his Statuts will and way</L>
<L>His vvord and Lavv he byd be and obay</L>
<L>He will to him (to Dauid what before</L>
<L>Was promi&s;ed) doe and performe much more</L>
<L>The royall Croune that did decore his head</L>
<L>He &s;attle &s;hall for evr vnto his Seed</L>
<PB REF="49">
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> go a gadding efter other Gods</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">an than peremptorly he doth him tell</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">he honour of the hou&s;e of I&s;rael</L>
<L>And Grandour that it gloreed in that day</L>
<L>He wold ob&s;cure and quickly catch away</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD><HI>1</HI> Kings <HI>9</HI> chap.</HEAD>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">Ome Cities Salomon grate and benigne</L>
<L>To quyt his kindne&s;s gave the Tyrian King</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">eat gallant Sp'rits a gottin Good requights</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd freely favours to refound delights</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">e Cananites vnkilld in th' Bbrevv vvarrs</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">is thri&s;e &s;age King hes made them Tributars</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">e Hivites, Amorites and Perizzites</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> hople&s;s Hittites and the Iebu&s;ites</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">at yet the Hebrevvs did remaine among</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> noght be Limme nor Line to them belong</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">is mightie&s;t and Monarch then mo&s;t Great</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">us having &s;tayd and &s;tabli&s;hd his e&s;tate</L>
<L>And regning in all Re&s;t re&s;old he would</L>
<L>To Ophir &s;end a fleet to fett him Gold.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD><HI>1</HI> Kings <HI>10</HI> chap.</HEAD>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">He wi&s;dome great of Salomon on earth</L>
<L>So others pa&s;sd before and &s;ince his Birth</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">at riding on report with vinges of fame</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">ew and to the Queen of Sheba came</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">o far beyond the ri&s;ing morne alma&s;t</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">&s;ie this &s;apient King come from the ea&s;t</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> efter &s;ene, fame &s;paring and report</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">lling Trueth of him &s;he &s;aid, Shot &s;hort</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">&s;k'd and mony Que&s;tions did demand</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> mo&s;t of God to know and vnder&s;tand</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> Salomon did &s;olve all that &s;he &s;ought</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> he knew all and hid from him was nought</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> Maie&s;ty might and Magnificence</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> plamly &s;pyes of this vnpeered Prince</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hen they gave other giftes and She again</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">eturned to the Ea&s;t with all hir Train.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD><HI>1</HI> Kings <HI>11</HI> Chap.</HEAD>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">He Charge that God to his great King had Geven</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> his apearing to him tuy&s;e from heven</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> &s;erve his Statuts and t'obey his Law</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> his de&s;ires, to doe them, did with draw</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> Thow&s;and &s;tranger wemen wyves</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> Concubins he keeped in their Lives</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">fore the Lord was wroth and &s;tirrd him foes</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">ring all his dayes his vnfrends &s;hois</L>
<PB REF="50">
<L>And for his carerers Carrage and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"></L>
<L>And to his makers Proecepts &s;mall re&s;pect</L>
<L>He do is foretell him from his Sone and Seed</L>
<L>That he ten Tribs &s;hall take and from his head</L>
<L>Shall rent the Croun, and to his great di&s;grace</L>
<L>Set Nebats Sone his &s;ervand in his place</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD><HI>1</HI> Kings <HI>11</HI> Chap.</HEAD>
<L>EFter the Prophet, Ieroboam Told</L>
<L>In renting of his garment how God wold.</L>
<L>Tak ten Tribs from the Groune and leave but on</L>
<L>To Rehoboam efter Salomon</L>
<L>And him it plea&s;d that pitie for to take</L>
<L>But only for his Servand Dauids &s;ake</L>
<L>And in this chapter tvy&s;e to manife&s;t</L>
<L>His love to Dauid he hes this expre&s;sd</L>
<L>But now this mighty monarchs all amang</L>
<L>This welthie&s;t and wi&s;e&s;t to that ragne</L>
<L>And into highe&s;t honor in all eyes</L>
<L>Expired then, did end his dayes, and dyes</L>
<L>That ragne there fourtie yeers, by Dauids Tomb</L>
<L>In Dauids citie they this Prince inhume</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD><HI>1</HI> Kings <HI>12</HI> chap.</HEAD>
<L>THis man whom God gave greate&s;t vi&s;dome too</L>
<L>Defunct and Rehoboam regning novv</L>
<L>The people and elders all &s;alute him King</L>
<L>And &s;it con&s;ulting on his Governing</L>
<L>But he the Coun&s;ell of the ag'd and wi&s;e</L>
<L>Did for th' imprudence of the young de&s;pi&s;e</L>
<L>And hardly heirfore brooking this neglect</L>
<L>Ten Tribes there Ieroboam King elect</L>
<L>And &s;o fell from the Sone of Salomon</L>
<L>Th' incen&s;ed Tribs of I&s;rel all &s;aife on</L>
<L>The Seer then charg'd by the Lord by night</L>
<L>Prohibits Rehoboams force to fight</L>
<L>For that revolt by him than did begin</L>
<L>For Salomons and Rehoboams Sinne</L>
<L>And Ieroboam King elected thus</L>
<L>God gro&s;ly greevs, and grows Idolatrous.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD><HI>1</HI> Kings <HI>13.</HI> chap.</HEAD>
<L>WHil Ieroboam at the Altar &s;tands</L>
<L>Teither a Prophet God to go commands</L>
<L>T'expo&s;tulat and it to threaten thus</L>
<L>There whair yow offer incen&s;s mirrhe and thus</L>
<L>To Dauids hou&s;e once &s;hall be borne a Boy</L>
<L>That therevpon the Prophets &s;hall de&s;troy</L>
<L>And as yow &s;pend vpon it now perfume</L>
<L>The Bones of men he thereon &s;hall con&s;ume</L>
<PB REF="50">
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> in the re&s;t he halted and he &s;trayd</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd did the vvill and went the wayes of man</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> di&s;&s;obeyd the Lords directious Than</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd herefore whill the Prophet home did pa&s;s</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">lon at lea&s;our ryding on his a&s;&s;e</L>
<L>The Lord a Lyon &s;ent that did him &s;lay</L>
<L>(Becau&s;e he di&s;obayd him) on the way</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD><HI>1</HI> Kings <HI>14</HI> Chap.</HEAD>
<L>THe Sone of Ieroboam falling &s;icke</L>
<L>H'intends to try the Prophet with a Trick</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd vnto him his wife &s;end in di&s;gui&s;e</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> make a Gul of Him that God made wi&s;e</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> he vnvaild hir by the Lords prevention</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd told the vanitie of that intention</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd that declaird that from the divine wraeth</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nto there chyld, approachd a prae&s;ent daeth</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd for hir Lords defection from his makar</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hat did his wor&s;hip vnto Idols &s;acrar</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hat Croune, that God, from Dauids &s;eed, did &s;ever</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">om him and his, he wold rent it for ever</L>
<L>And all that vnto him attingent be</L>
<L>The Lord from th'earth &s;hall &s;weep ev'rla&s;tinglie.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD><HI>1</HI> Kings <HI>15</HI> Chap.</HEAD>
<L>THe aughten yeer of Ieroboams reigne</L>
<L>Abiram then in Iuda reignod king</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> all the vicked wayes he walcked in</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> as his Father Rehoboam Sin'd did Sin</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> yet for Dauids &s;ake when he was dead</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> with a Sonne his princely place &s;uppleid</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> ane and fourty vpright did &s;tand</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> as King Dauid, did governe that land</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> A&s;a dyed and with his Fathers layd</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">o&s;aphat his Sone the Scepter &s;wayd</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> Nadab Ieroboams &s;one began</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> A&s;as reigne to rule in I&s;rel than</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> Ba&s;ha killd him and King eftor &s;mot</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> that of Ieroboams lyne he got</L>
<L>And as the Lord fortold both great and &s;in all</L>
<L>He &s;lew and vterly de&s;troyd them all</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD><HI>1</HI> Kings <HI>16</HI> chap.</HEAD>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">A&s;ha to regne vprai&s;ed be the Lord</L>
<L>As Ieroboam &s;inn'd and did debord</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">efore this Lord for his Iniquitie</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> forfalted his Po&s;teritie</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> whill that Elach efter him did reigne</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> Captane Zimri that did &s;erve this King</L>
<PB REF="51">
<L>And by his death the Croune this rebell got</L>
<L>But when to I&s;rel was the Trea&s;one told</L>
<L>The ho&s;t cround Omri and him for King him hold</L>
<L>That Irizak with his warriours did inve&s;t</L>
<L>And it perforce he enterd hes and pre<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">st</L>
<L>Di&s;loyall and di&s;paring Zimbri than</L>
<L>With his fals trea&s;on to be twichd began</L>
<L>And to the &s;trength as ca&s;tell he returnes</L>
<L>Him&s;elf and it and all within it burnes</L>
<L>A recompence for &s;uch prophane apoynted</L>
<L>That Dur&s;t be bold to kill the Lords anoynted</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD><HI>1</HI> Kings <HI>17</HI> Chap.</HEAD>
<L>ELiah lo the Prophet did declare</L>
<L>To Achab the aproaching famyn thair</L>
<L>(But God did feed and fo&s;terd him with Ravens</L>
<L>Penn'd Parendars that foars along the heavns)</L>
<L>That &s;hortly &s;hould for want of dew and raine</L>
<L>The people and Land to mony &s;traits con&s;train</L>
<L>For all the Abominations great and Sinne</L>
<L>That Omri and him&s;elf had &s;liddin in</L>
<L>Then famyn, dearth, and want was in the I and</L>
<L>And God the Prophet then he did command</L>
<L>Ea&s;tivard in Cherith-brook him&s;elf to hyda</L>
<L>And there his plea&s;ure to attend and byde</L>
<L>Fle&s;h then and Bread vpon that river bank</L>
<L>The Ravens brought him and he waters drank</L>
<L>For whom th' Almighty dois mantain and cheri&s;h</L>
<L>Shall pro&s;per when th' impious all &s;hall peri&s;h</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD><HI>1</HI> Kings <HI>17</HI> Chap.</HEAD>
<L>GOd by his word Eliah-bids again</L>
<L>Go to Zareptah citie and remain</L>
<L>Whair he before him at the gate &s;hall find</L>
<L>A vidow poore in povertie prove kynd</L>
<L>He fand hir thair and did hir then intreat</L>
<L>To bring him water and &s;ome bread to eat</L>
<L>She an&s;verd as the Lord did live that all</L>
<L>Hir &s;tore of meal was but a mea&s;ure &s;mall</L>
<L>Together with a litle oyle that dois</L>
<L>Su&s;tain hir and hir Sone into a Cru&s;e</L>
<L>Which Elie bids hir bring and than he ble&s;&s;es</L>
<L>And they continevv'd &s;o and nee'r decre&s;&s;es</L>
<L>The ble&s;&s;ings of the Lord to minds content</L>
<L>They be abundance and &s;ufficient</L>
<L>The vidow for hir Sone departed, grieved</L>
<L>But Helie prayd, twich'd him, and he revived</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD><HI>1</HI> Kings <HI>18</HI> Chap.</HEAD>
<L>EFter from Cherith Elie the thrid yeer</L>
<L>Was gone again God did to him apear</L>
<PB REF="51">
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">rait Command and Charge expres to go</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> to the &s;acrilegious Achab &s;o</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> in that fearfull famyn, drouth, and dearth</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> would &s;end Raine t'irrignat the earth</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">d Obadiah than hid in Tuo Caves</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">m death a hunder holy Prophets &s;aves</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">e by miracle the people moves</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">d him the Lords true Prophet he approves</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">n he commands the people &s;oone to &s;lay</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> Brali&s;h all and Prophets fals that day</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">nd as the Lord had heght he did obtain</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> prayer in the peoples pre&s;ence Rain.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD><HI>1</HI> Kings <HI>19</HI> Chap.</HEAD>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">om Iezebell whill that Eliah fled</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hat &s;olemly to &s;lay him moved had</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">y an Angel as he &s;leeping lay</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> in the de&s;erts he had went a day</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">h'd and bidden ry&s;e and take him meat</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">here finds vivers by his head to eat</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">d and water drank and on the ground</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ovne againe and fallis a &s;leeping &s;ound</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">ce more God awaks him and did &s;ay</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">p and eat and dre&s;s Thee to thy way</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> hes a woage fourtie dayes in length</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">p he ro&s;e and &s;tepped in the &s;trength</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">t he eaten had and drank and than</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">eb hill went vp the holy man</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">rd yet more he dois declare him too</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">eturne what he will have him doo</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">el and Iehu he doth him apoynt</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">ges and Eli&s;h Prie&s;t in his place t'anoynt.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD><HI>1</HI> Kings <HI>20</HI> Chap.</HEAD>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">adad King of Aram vp in armes</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">d with &s;teel Charrets men and hor&s;e in &s;warmes</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">old Bravados and vnbryled Bralls</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">ed &s;trictly the Samarian walls</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hat fierce famyn &s;ternly &s;truk and &s;tung</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> peer, and poor, the aged and the young</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">m the furie of that famine free</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> de&s;tre&s;sd in danger wer to die</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">od a Comfort by his Prophet &s;ends</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">rie promi&s;d Achab with his frends</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> th' event and i&s;hevv of the fight</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> wy&s;e fell fortunat and Right</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">hadad Achabs peace in end</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">y did reprehend</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> him did a &s;entence &s;harp proclame</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> he heavie to his hou&s;e went hame.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB REF="52">
<HEAD><HI>1</HI> Kings <HI>21</HI> chap.</HEAD>
<L>AHab his avarice and Greed agre&s;t</L>
<L>And covetous de&s;ire that could noght re&s;t</L>
<L>Altho he could all I&s;rel then Command</L>
<L>Without that Parcel of poore Naboths Land</L>
<L>Heir is imprinted in a brook of Bra&s;s</L>
<L>To b'evr a witne&s;s of his great di&s;grace</L>
<L>But bloody Iezebel the fell and fex</L>
<L>The cro&s;s the Cur&s;e and &s;hame of all hir &s;ex</L>
<L>Both with deceat and crueltie at once</L>
<L>The innocent Naboth bett and braind with &s;tons</L>
<L>But God repeyd their Tirany extreame</L>
<L>With totall ruine, death, di&s;grace, and &s;ha<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"></L>
<L>Yet Ahab by Eliah taxd he rents</L>
<L>His Garments and his tre&s;pas he repents</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD><HI>1</HI> Kings <HI>22</HI> Chap.</HEAD>
<L>IEho&s;ophat and Ahab both as Brether</L>
<L>To fight the Aramits agree together</L>
<L>And faethle&s;s both, into there fooli&s;hnes</L>
<L>Con&s;ult there Prophets fals on there &s;ucces</L>
<L>Who an&s;ver frendly (altho fals) they find</L>
<L>And the &s;ucce&s;s to &s;ort vnto there mynd</L>
<L>Michayah yet that truely &s;erved God</L>
<L>They a&s;k'd that from th' impo&s;tors free abod</L>
<L>Who well in&s;pird and by the &s;prit made wy&s;e</L>
<L>Told the true i&s;hue of their interpri&s;e</L>
<L>Heirfore Zidkiiah a fal&s;e Prophet than</L>
<L>Madlyk commovde did &s;mit the godly man</L>
<L>The battell joynd, Ahab defate, they &s;lew</L>
<L>And things fortold of him foll forth all trew</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD><HI>1</HI> Kings <HI>22</HI> Chap.</HEAD>
<L>AHaz'a nixt his Father killd and dead</L>
<L>A Succe&s;&s;or and his here raigne in his &s;tead</L>
<L>A godle&s;s wicked and a vrongous King</L>
<L>Incongr'ous in his cariage cour&s;e and reigne</L>
<L>In all his doings he did evr debord</L>
<L>And fell both from the Law and from the Lord</L>
<L>His Fathers here into his wor&s;hip vane</L>
<L>As Ieroboam all wy&s;e as Prophane</L>
<L>No but Ieho&s;ophat evin from his youth</L>
<L>As walk'd his. Father &s;till &s;tood to the truth</L>
<L>And never did from what was right decline</L>
<L>But did obey the word and will divine</L>
<L>Yet th' Idol-Altars in high places plac'd</L>
<L>Into his dayes they wer not all defac'd</L>
<L>His other worthie deeds they a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;et doune</L>
<L>In Iuda Annals vnto his renoune.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB REF="52">
<HEAD><HI>1</HI> Chapter.</HEAD>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">Hen Ahaziah King of I&s;rael</L>
<L>Doune throw a Latte&s;&s;e of a window fell</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">d vnto Baal-zebub (&s;end to try</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">he that time in that di&s;e a&s;e &s;hould dye)</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">e God of Ekron and the God of flyes</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">om to th' vnfaithfull v&s;d to Sacrifice</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">refore th' almighty (by Eliah) wraeth</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">etold the me&s;&s;inger their Mai&s;ters daeth</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">herefore the Prince the Prophet t'apprehend</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">o Captains, each with fifty Souldiars &s;end</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">ut the God of I&s;rel in his Ire</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">&s;e fifties from the hevens confounds with fire</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">nd as declard the King concluds his dayes</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">horam then his Sone his Scepter &s;wayes</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD><HI>1</HI> Kings <HI>2</HI> Chap.</HEAD>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">iahs dwelling dayes on earth o're drev'n</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">he Lord re&s;olv'd to take him hence to heven</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> with Eli&s;ha he to Iordan gois</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> by &s;eprating it, his povvar &s;hois</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">prit prophetick doubled then he gives</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> Eli&s;ha that his Lord out lives</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> than a firie Car with flamming hor&s;es</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">e &s;oone and &s;uddan Separation forces</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> in the Car caught with a whirling wind</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> was and left his Cloka behind</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> a then &s;o in his faith confides</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> there with he the waves &s;trikes and devides</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> walls and &s;prings by him tart and amare</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">wre made &s;weet of harmefull healthfull are</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> cur&s;sd the Boyes that mock'd him and therefore</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">er torne in Pieces by the Tu&s;ked Bore</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD><HI>1</HI> Kings <HI>3</HI> Chap.</HEAD>
<L>Hil I'horam Iudg'd the I&s;ralits amang</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">eho&s;aphat o're Them of Iuda Raigne</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">horam wicked was and did not right</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">as &s;inceare in his Creators Sight</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">ght &s;o fouly as his Father fell</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> his mon&s;trous mother Iezabel</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">et h' adheard and cleaved to the Sinne</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">croboam Nebats Sone fell in</L>
<L>Kinges with angre then gain&s;t Me&s;ha &s;well'd</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> his Moabits that than rebelld</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">y Eli&s;ha are &s;tirrd vp to fight</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">d o're match the Moabits by might</L>
<PB REF="53">
<L>Then Me<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">a with his Sone <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"></L>
<L>And &s;acrifizd him to a&s;vage his Gods</L>
<L>Which mon&s;trous fact when I&s;rel vnder&s;tands</L>
<L>For pitie thereof They reteird there Bands</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD><HI>2</HI> Kings <HI>4</HI> Chap.</HEAD>
<L>ELi&s;ha by the heavnly help incre&s;sd</L>
<L>Oyle to a vidovv for hir debtes di&s;tre&s;sd</L>
<L>In &s;uch aboundant quantitie and &s;tore</L>
<L>That all defrayd and yet ynough to fore</L>
<L>And for the Shunamite he did implore</L>
<L>By pray'r a Sone that had noght ane before</L>
<L>And this child wax'd &s;ickly and expird</L>
<L>But he reviv'de him by his Dame de&s;ird</L>
<L>The pottage likwi&s;e he made &s;weet of &s;oure</L>
<L>When meal among that vild vine he did povvre</L>
<L>And with but tuenty loavs of Barly kind</L>
<L>He fed a hunder and left &s;tore behind</L>
<L>The Lord alone by him the&s;e vounders wrought</L>
<L>And but his help Eli&s;ha he did nought.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD><HI>2</HI> Kings <HI>5</HI> Chap.</HEAD>
<L>NAaman Captane of th' A&s;&s;yrian ho&s;t</L>
<L>A Leper hopele&s;s of his health almo&s;t</L>
<L>Than by ane Hebrevv wench in warr &s;uppri&s;d</L>
<L>To journay to Eli&s;ha is advi&s;d</L>
<L>Eliahs deer and double &s;prited Man</L>
<L>A Prophet in Samaria &s;pirand than</L>
<L>Who by his word divine, (a voundrous change)</L>
<L>To wa&s;h him, did this loath&s;um Leper clenge</L>
<L>This Prophet yet no recompence wold have</L>
<L>Nor for the Leprous cure no coyne receave</L>
<L>But lo his groome Gehazi full of greed</L>
<L>Gain and tuo garments got and for his deed</L>
<L>That which Naaman did infect before</L>
<L>Shall cleaue to him and his for ever more</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD><HI>2</HI> Kings <HI>6</HI> Chap.</HEAD>
<L>YEt voundrous wounderfull are wronght be him</L>
<L>Eli&s;ha made in water Iren &s;wimme</L>
<L>And all the King of Arams Coun&s;el &s;eald</L>
<L>Vnto the King of I&s;rel he reveald</L>
<L>And herefore Aram of his men almo&s;t</L>
<L>The choy&s;e and be&s;t he chu&s;ed of his ho&s;t</L>
<L>And &s;ecreitly vnto Samaria &s;end</L>
<L>The holy Prophet for to apprehend</L>
<L>But millious more with firie Charets &s;tand</L>
<L>To guard Eli&s;ha by the Lords command</L>
<L>The Prophet prayd t' vn&s;hut his &s;ervands eyes</L>
<L>Who th' heavnly ho&s;t <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">end for to guard the<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> &s;ies</L>
<PB REF="53">
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> Sama<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">a and they knew him nought</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">o God pre&s;erv'd him I&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">l and there Prince</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">om Arams injurie and violence</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD><HI>2</HI> Kings <HI>7</HI> Chap.</HEAD>
<L>WHill that th' A&s;&s;yrian Samaria &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">gd</L>
<L>Such furious famyn there in raigne and rag'd</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">at inhumane and loath&s;ome to Relate</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> woman with con&s;ent hir Sone did eat</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> herefore King Ihoram &s;wore Eli&s;has life</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">ould pay the price of that &s;tup pendious &s;trife</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> he pronounc'd and b' in&s;piration &s;aid</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> morrow &s;hall this brough abound with Bread</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> th' infidull that wold not tru&s;t his word</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">d &s;ee the &s;ame but in the throng was &s;mord</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">cau&s;e a pallid faint and Trembling feare</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">atchd the Aramits intrenched There</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> And th' only &s;ound of Armes without the Sight</L>
<L>Confounded fearfully put all to <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">light.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD><HI>2</HI> Kings <HI>8</HI> Chap.</HEAD>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> Li&s;ha doth the Shunamite fore arme</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> from futur famyn of th' en&s;weing harme</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">telling derth and Barrene&s;s &s;even yeeres</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">emptorly that approatch appeares</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">d noght in &s;ho but certanly itt &s;hall</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">&s;ly afflict Iuda and I&s;rel all</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> &s;lew &s;iclyke Benhadad &s;ould noght die</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> convale&s;h of his Infirmitie</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> by fore knoledge then his fate he fand</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> at he &s;hould dye and by Hazalels hand</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">ich come to pas and &s;hortly in his place</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">e th' Aramits he manadged the mace</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">oram in Iuda raigne and Edom than</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">ui&s;d them a King and to rebell began</L>
<L>And Ahazia efter Iorams reigne</L>
<L>Governd Iuda and became there King</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD><HI>2</HI> Kings <HI>9</HI> chap.</HEAD>
<L>WHen Iehu crovned King in I&s;rel raigne</L>
<L>The&s;e were his doings his exployts amang</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> honam as the Lord to kill directed</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> quickly he performd it and effected</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">nd Ahazia King of Iuda Then</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">o his flight is killd too be his men</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">n Iehu vp to I&s;rel mar<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">chd of mynd</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">nd that vitch the wor&s;t of women kind</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> Prophet killer carnell Iezebell</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> for fire a faggot fit for hell</L>
<PB REF="54">
<L>Wh<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"></L>
<L>And there dead brui&s;d and felled with the fall</L>
<L>Doggs (hands and harns except) hes all devoird</L>
<L>As was praeprophe&s;ied be the Lord.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD><HI>2</HI> Kings <HI>10</HI> chap.</HEAD>
<L>ACcording to the word and divine will</L>
<L>Iehu to Ahab &s;eventy Sormes cau&s;d kill</L>
<L>And to the court in heapes brought all there heads</L>
<L>Deriding then demands who did the&s;e deads</L>
<L>This fatall Game on Ahabs Sonnes begun</L>
<L>All Ahazias hou&s;e like race had Run</L>
<L>For of his Brether fourtie he and Two</L>
<L>Met on the way and &s;lew them all al&s;o</L>
<L>Then Baals Prie&s;ts that God of &s;tock or Stone</L>
<L>He at the altar caught and killd each one</L>
<L>Non that in I&s;rel &s;erve and bow'd his knee</L>
<L>To Baal than but all that day did die</L>
<L>His Altars he de&s;troyes yet never Tvines</L>
<L>From Ieroboams wyld and wicked Sinns.</L>
<L>Then efter Iehu was expird and dead</L>
<L>Iehoahaz his Sonne &s;teerd in his Stead.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD><HI>2</HI> Kings <HI>11</HI> Chap.</HEAD>
<L>FIerce Athalia &s;ies hir Sone expird</L>
<L>And herefore &s;he to be reveng'd de&s;ird</L>
<L>Then on a cur&s;t conclu&s;ion &s;he doth fall</L>
<L>To kill and killd the Royall Childring all</L>
<L>Ioa&s;h except: that from hir cruell knife</L>
<L>By Ieho&s;heba had prae&s;ervd his Life</L>
<L>And by Iehoida crovnd and anoynted</L>
<L>Who Athalia to be &s;laine apoynted</L>
<L>Iehoida di&s;pen&s;er of the word</L>
<L>Betuix the Prince, the people and the Lord</L>
<L>Humblie a Leagve and Covenant contracts</L>
<L>Then all conjoyn and Baals Idols bracks</L>
<L>His Altars and his Temples they o'rethrew</L>
<L>And Mattan their his Prie&s;t they &s;toutly &s;lew</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD><HI>2</HI> Kings <HI>12</HI> Chap.</HEAD>
<L>IN Iehus &s;evnt yeer Ioa&s;h reigne began</L>
<L>A Prince that govern'd well and warely than</L>
<L>Whill Prie&s;t Iehoida taught him the word</L>
<L>All that he did was good before the Lord</L>
<L>He had a tinder Zeale and con&s;tant care</L>
<L>The Temples ruind parts for to repair</L>
<L>He &s;tirrd his tyme and quick attendance taks</L>
<L>And much provi&s;ionn he for money maks</L>
<L>The Syrian Prince that boldly braved Them</L>
<L>And threatened Iuda and Ieru&s;alem</L>
<PB REF="54">
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> with a pre&s;ent o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"></L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">equyred by his Fathers former Kings</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">ho he to pa&s;s, and part with them was la<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">th</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">es coold the Cummig heat of Hazols vvraeth</L>
<L>Yet in the fourty yeer that he did reigne</L>
<L>By tuo vnfaithfull &s;ervoinds he was &s;laine</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD><HI>2</HI> Kings <HI>13</HI> Chap.</HEAD>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">N Ioa&s;h tventie thrid Iehoahaz</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> The Sonne of Iehu King in I&s;rel was</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">dolatrous as Ieroboam he</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">eparted nought from his impietie</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">herefore the Lord delyverd him to Bands</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> Hazael the King of Arams hands</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">hill that to God he humblie bovve and bends</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">hen, then, the Lord, to him deliveres &s;ends</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">a&s;h, Iehoahar his Sonne and here</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">e be the Lord was his deliverar</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">et left he nought his deeds Idolatrous</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">hat cleav'd &s;o fa&s;t to Ieroboams hou&s;e</L>
<L>Iehoahaz, then ends his dayes, and dyes</L>
<L>And in Samaria he buried lyes</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD><HI>2</HI> Kings <HI>13</HI> Chap.</HEAD>
<L>ELi&s;ha &s;ick to Ioa&s;h 'ore he dies</L>
<L>Gain&s;t Aram I&s;rels Tryumphes prophe&s;ies</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">nd then his Spirit that the Lord in&s;pires</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">or to be wray his will in peace expird</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">he man of God that &s;o oft had declard</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">is mai&s;ters mynd and for no perrill &s;paird</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">i&s;ha dead and Dul' interred than</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">hill as they go t'ingrave ane oter man</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">ome bands of Moabits then I&s;rels foes</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">hem &s;elfes in armes to them in erindd &s;hois</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">herefore a ba&s;&s;ed on Eli&s;ha's bones</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">he dead man the&s;e into his Tomb impons</L>
<L>And woundrou&s;ly no &s;oner twichd by tho&s;e</L>
<L>His &s;acred bones but he vp&s;tands and gois</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD><HI>2</HI> Kings <HI>14</HI> chap.</HEAD>
<L>A Mazia Ioa&s;h-Sonne of Iuda King</L>
<L>In tuentie five yeer old began his reigne</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">nd as his Father Ioa&s;h walk'd vpright</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">et not as David did in Iovas &s;ight</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">or the hie places vver noght taken away</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">t in Them incen&s;e &s;acrificed Thay</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">d when to him the Kingdome was conferm'd</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">ain&s;t his Fathers Murderars he armd</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">d tho&s;e King killers he again hes &s;laine</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">at dur&s;t th' anointed of the Lord prophane</L>
<PB REF="55">
<L>The <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"></L>
<L>Took Sela and ten Thow&s;and of them &s;lew</L>
<L>Then Amazia challengis to warre</L>
<L>King Ioa&s;h then that was the &s;tronger farr.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD><HI>2</HI> Kings <HI>14.</HI> chap.</HEAD>
<L>VPon the Provocation both the Kinges</L>
<L>There ho&s;tes and armies to the Batell Bringes</L>
<L>Where I&s;rel as the &s;tronger in E&s;tate</L>
<L>Iuda out ju&s;ted and its foree defate</L>
<L>And when the Batale brock in was and lo&s;t</L>
<L>They took the King and Captane of the ho&s;t</L>
<L>And than on Salem with there force falls</L>
<L>The Temple &s;poild brack and bet doune the walls</L>
<L>The Trea&s;ure that vnto the King pertaind</L>
<L>And ho&s;tages they took that there remaind</L>
<L>Then death did end the dait of Ioha'&s;h dayes</L>
<L>A &s;tout and valiant King in all his wayes</L>
<L>Then Ierobo'me &s;ucceeds his Father &s;yne</L>
<L>And Zacharia vnto him be Lyne</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD><HI>2</HI> Kings <HI>15</HI> chap.</HEAD>
<L>SExtein yeer old was Azaria whan</L>
<L>In Iuda cround he to governe began</L>
<L>And tuo and fefty yeer a prince &s;upream</L>
<L>He reignd and Iudged in Ieru&s;alem</L>
<L>And yet his royall reigne this fault defaces</L>
<L>That incen&s;e they brint in the Hie places</L>
<L>But lo the Lord cha&s;tiz'd him for the &s;ame</L>
<L>And &s;mot him &s;o that Leper he became</L>
<L>Iotham his Sonne then vnderneath his hand</L>
<L>Govern'd his hou&s;e and Iudged in the Land</L>
<L>In&s;idious Shallum Zacharie did &s;lay</L>
<L>And murdred Menahem made him avvay</L>
<L>Menahem thus avvay and in his Tomb</L>
<L>Pekah his Sonne ro&s;e in his royall Roome</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD><HI>2</HI> Kings <HI>15</HI> Chap.</HEAD>
<L>IN I&s;rel whill Pekaihah &s;wayd the &s;word</L>
<L>He walcked wickedly before the Lord</L>
<L>And did prophanely jdols dead adore</L>
<L>And by one Pekah killed was therefore</L>
<L>Then he King killer took into his hand</L>
<L>The Croune of I&s;r'el and did there command</L>
<L>But with his bloody murthers he drank in</L>
<L>That oftymes branded Ieroboams &s;inne</L>
<L>But Hos'h'a this King killer he betrayd</L>
<L>And then him&s;elf the &s;word of I&s;rel &s;wayd</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ham the &s;econd yeer of Pekah than</L>
<L>To reigne into Ieru&s;alem began</L>
<PB REF="55">
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> and gone</L>
<L>Ahaz his Sonne a&s;cends into his Throne</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD><HI>2</HI> Kings <HI>16</HI> Chap.</HEAD>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> Haz a bad Sonne of a better Sire</L>
<L>The &s;eventein yeer of Pekah his impire</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> Inda did Guberne but did debord</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">d wrought not vprightly before the Lord</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> with the kings of I&s;rel Idoliz'd</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">d his ovvne Sonne to Moloch &s;acrifizd</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">e kings of Aram and of I&s;rel Then</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">iedgd Ieru&s;alem with ho&s;tes of men</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> the almightye he wold nought permit</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">em to Tryumph on him nor to tak it</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> Ahaz he with Iiglath joynd con&s;ent</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">nvade Dama&s;cus and t'a&s;&s;ault it went</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">ey took it, Rezin killd, with wor&s;hip wane</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">d vnv&s;d offrings They the Altar &s;tame</L>
<L>But when this Prince Idolatrous was dead</L>
<L>Then Hezekie his Sonne raigne in his &s;tead.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD><HI>2</HI> Kings <HI>17</HI> Chap.</HEAD>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">Hill that Ho&s;hea raigne I&s;rael all</L>
<L>Idolatrize, and to fa&s;s wor&s;hip fall</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">erefore the Lord the King of A&s;hur &s;ends</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> I&s;rael a captive Comprehends</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> did the Prince and people in pri&s;on ca&s;t</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> did Samaria tack in at la&s;t</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> then in that deforc'd afflicted tovvne</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> A&s;&s;yrians, he &s;et in Gari&s;one</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> with a hatefull and a ho&s;tile hand</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">ul'd it rudly and perforce command</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">e heathen yet the Lord they did noght feare</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">bowd to Idols in his I&s;rel there</L>
<L>Wherefore he &s;end in Lions to devour Them</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hat peece maile rent and all in Gobbets tore them</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD><HI>2</HI> Kings <HI>18</HI> Chap.</HEAD>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">&s;hea reigning into I&s;rael</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">n his trid yeer to Hezekiah fell</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">ins and helme of Iuda for to hold</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">n he him&s;elf was tvventie fyve yeir old</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">ince that &s;ervd the Lord and did adore him</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">auid did his Eather good before him</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">oli&s;h'd th' altars and the places hie</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">ritaments vnto Idolatrie</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">&s;en Serpent made in Mo&s;es dayes</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">k it doune and into peeces brayes</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">a three yeeres is be&s;ieg'd and taken</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">el captive of the Lord for&s;aken</L>
<PB REF="56">
<L>Becau&s;e as &s;tringers they <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"></L>
<L>And nought his will divine nor voyo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> obayd.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD><HI>2</HI> Kings <HI>18.</HI> chap.</HEAD>
<L>THe Ruler Rab&s;haketh of A&s;hurs ho&s;t</L>
<L>A wyld out ca&s;t before the Lord and lo&s;sd</L>
<L>T' incamp, his Tents and Palions pitched doune</L>
<L>Before the Citie and the &s;acred Toune</L>
<L>And with his hell hounds altogether gro&s;s'd</L>
<L>Begins to Bandie gain&s;t the Lord and boa&s;t</L>
<L>His powar he de&s;pi&s;d, his Truth contemnd</L>
<L>And boldly too his ble&s;&s;ed name bla&s;pheam'd</L>
<L>I&s;raels &s;trength and all the might of Man</L>
<L>Yea and the hand of heven he &s;korned Than</L>
<L>And in di&s;daine Gods greatne&s;s did di&s;gu&s;t</L>
<L>Di&s;svading I&s;rel in his &s;trength to Tru&s;t</L>
<L>And all the venome of a wicked Tongue</L>
<L>That foole agains the firmament hes &s;loung.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD><HI>2</HI> Kings <HI>19</HI> Chap.</HEAD>
<L>WHich when the holy Hezekiah heares</L>
<L>He in the Temple to complaie compears</L>
<L>And with a &s;orie &s;oule, and heavie heart</L>
<L>Depre&s;sd he from all his people apart</L>
<L>With Sack cloth clad, hisroy all Robbs all rent</L>
<L>Mo&s;t wofull for Gods wrong his wowes vp vvent</L>
<L>Great God &s;aid he that tuixt the Cherubs <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">ell</L>
<L>In mercie novv remember I&s;raell</L>
<L>And heare there bla&s;phemies that but all feare</L>
<L>The Glorie of they name and Honour Teare</L>
<L>The Lord hes heard him and by I&s;ay told</L>
<L>That vaine Rud Railers words revenge he wouid</L>
<L>And keep vntouch'd that Time be one of Them</L>
<L>In that vnhallovv'd ho&s;t Ieru&s;alem</L>
<L>And did of them one night of life deprive</L>
<L>A hunder four&s;core Thou&s;and men and five.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD><HI>2</HI> Kings <HI>19</HI> chap.</HEAD>
<L>SEnach <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> th' A&s;&s;yrian Prince perver&s;e</L>
<L>When God did kill, his men and hor&s;e di&s;per&s;e</L>
<L>He pau&s;d noght therevponn nor did repent</L>
<L>But to his vaine Gods for to wor&s;hip went</L>
<L>And litle knew he that had &s;cap'd abroad</L>
<L>That he at home had by him&s;elf the Rod</L>
<L>Which beath him &s;hould for all his bla&s;phemies</L>
<L>And gain&s;t Gods Hebrevvs his Ho&s;tilities</L>
<L>For vvhill th' Idolatrous and carele&s;s King</L>
<L>Adores his Ni&s;hroch a dead and naughtle&s;, Thing</L>
<L>Adramelech and Shatezer his brood</L>
<L>Vn naturall both his Sonnes they &s;hed his blood</L>
<PB REF="56">
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> back, they kill <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"></L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> Ni&s;hroch heares noght, nor his &s;laughter &s;ies</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD><HI>2</HI> Kings <HI>20</HI> Chap.</HEAD>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">He holy Hezekia that ador'd</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> And walk'd in Trueth alwayes before the Lord</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ut this Time was &s;icke to death and lay</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">n I&s;hai &s;end from God to him did &s;ay</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> Thow thy hou&s;e to re&s;t and order all</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> Thow mu&s;t dye and live no more Thovv &s;hall</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> King then turnd and prayd and &s;hedding teares</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">ats for life and lo the Lord he heares</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">oyce, his &s;orrovv &s;ies, and &s;yne he &s;ayes</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">&s;ay tell him I will length his dayes</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> to the yeeres that he hes liv'de before</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> adioyne and adde too fifteen more</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> this &s;halbe the Signe, to try it trevv</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">haddovv look and in the Di<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">l wiovv</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">hen bright and cleare the Sunne thovv &s;hyning &s;ies</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">hall than backvvard bend whole ton degrees</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD><HI>2</HI> Kings <HI>20</HI> Chap.</HEAD>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">g Hezekiah of his Sickne&s;s whole</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> almighties might extreamly dois extole</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">ach-baladan then Babo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s Prince</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> Hezekiah a Benevolence</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">e his Love vnlook'd for to repay</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">ength and Trea&s;ure did before them lay</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">ay hotly him reprov'de heirfore</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">ll his Seed with Babel-Bondage &s;hore</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">id he their, They captive &s;hall be led</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">ll that he and his fore-bears had</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">nnes in Babell they &s;hall Enuches be</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">ord foretold me there Captivitie</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">n Iuda's godly Hezekiah dyes</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> his &s;hrew'd Sonne Mana&s;s his place &s;upplies</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD><HI>2</HI> Kings <HI>21</HI> Chap.</HEAD>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> Ezekiah dead, Mana&s;&s;e reignes</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> fir&s;t prophane of the prophane&s;t Kinges</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">n a furie of fal&s;e wor&s;hip burnes</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">ith him I&s;rel to his vomit turnes</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> revolts, them&s;elfs they Rebimieres</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">t on Idols as the Divels de&s;ires</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">nation was there vnder Heven</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> and they wer all vnto it geven</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">fore Gods prophet hes praepreatchd to them</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">e and &s;trats once of Ieru&s;alem</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">ier vvrack and from the found the fall</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">d Them that &s;halbe therein all</L>
<PB REF="57">
<L>Mana&s;&s;e then exp<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">d, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"></L>
<L>Ammon his Sonne in &s;tated in his &s;tead</L>
<L>And wicked Ammon by his Servands Trai<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e</L>
<L>(Io&s;ias ju&s;t &s;ucceeds his Father) &s;lame</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD><HI>2</HI> Kings <HI>22</HI> Chap.</HEAD>
<L>WHen King Io&s;iah to governe began</L>
<L>Azealous holy good and godly man</L>
<L>Materials all and means he fir&s;t made clare</L>
<L>And gave them that the Temple did repare</L>
<L>Then in a hollovv woult within the ground</L>
<L>The Lavv Hilkiah hid before hes found</L>
<L>Then Prince and Prei&s;t the people together dravv</L>
<L>That vnto them then might be red the Lavv</L>
<L>Whair Prince and Prie&s;t and prophets promi&s;d all</L>
<L>The &s;tatuts there in&s;ert ob&s;erve they &s;hall</L>
<L>The people likewi&s;e there the oath they took</L>
<L>To &s;tand to all into that ble&s;&s;ed Book</L>
<L>And in there harts and Soules t'indent it deep</L>
<L>And vvovv'd the Lavv, and lords commands to keep</L>
<L>Io&s;iah then a Prophete&s;s hes &s;peared</L>
<L>Who all the Lords will hes declard and cleard</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD><HI>2</HI> Kings <HI>23</HI> Chap.</HEAD>
<L>THe Lavv' book fund and red therefrom the vord</L>
<L>Prince Prophets, Prie&s;t and people all accord</L>
<L>And by their oath atte&s;ted whair they &s;tand</L>
<L>To keep the Covenant and Gods command</L>
<L>Io&s;iah then the Idol dead of B'a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>He braks and his blind Prie&s;ts he killd them all</L>
<L>This Prince the pa&s;&s;o're then he cau&s;'d proclame</L>
<L>And celebrats it in Ieru&s;alem</L>
<L>Conjurers he, where with the land was cloyd</L>
<L>T'ob&s;erve the Lavv gevne be the Lord, de&s;troyd</L>
<L>This pious Prince that be God guyds his raigne</L>
<L>By Pharo yet was in Megiddo &s;laine</L>
<L>Iehoahaz &s;ucceeds but captive taen</L>
<L>Iehojakim his Sonnes cround King again.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD><HI>2</HI> Kings <HI>24</HI> Chap.</HEAD>
<L>NOvv Nebuchadnezzar Babels great King</L>
<L>His bands blood breathing did 'gain&s;t Iuda bring</L>
<L>But vanting force t'affront Them in the fields</L>
<L>Iehoiakim then to the Time he yeelds</L>
<L>And three yeeres &s;lave to him and Tributare</L>
<L>Iehoiakim and Iuda iu&s;tly are</L>
<L>For with the Lords con&s;ent the&s;e &s;lraits extreame</L>
<L>For Cur&s;sd Mana&s;&s;eths Sinns was layd on Them</L>
<L>The mony murders that he did committ</L>
<L>With th' other Sinns cryd for a venceance yet</L>
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<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">kim novv vvith his Fathers dead</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">achin raigne ra&s;ed in his &s;tead</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> he praevaricat and &s;till he &s;trayes</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> had his Fathers done before his dayes.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD><HI>2</HI> Kings <HI>24</HI> Chap.</HEAD>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> King of Babel then his Servands armes</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">nd &s;end them 'gain&s;t the rebel Ievves in &s;warmes</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> pulats rheir lands ther Cities &s;acks</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> with their ho&s;tile hands all hawock makis</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> martch then on and with there ho&s;tes they hem</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">elted round about Ieru&s;alem</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">kim back'd but with forces &s;lender</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">d him&s;elf, and Citie too, to render</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">e in her rvins, wrack and overthrovv</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">ory er&s;t, and greatne&s;s, then they &s;hovv</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">ing a Captive then is caried thence</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">edekie Crovn<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> by the Babel Prence</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">na&s;sd he vp, a ma&s;s beyond all mea&s;ure</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">den ve&s;&s;els, Gold, and goodly Trea&s;ure</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> with the Captivs all, and evrie one</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">&s;ports this rich &s;poyle vnto Babilon</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD><HI>2</HI> Kings <HI>25</HI> chap.</HEAD>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> Citie &s;iegd, was brought to voundrous &s;traits</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> famyn vemen their avvne Bovvels eats</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">er thrie yeeres &s;iege &s;o was it &s;hakin</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">cibly was brokin vp and taken</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">rat hou&s;e for wor&s;hip, wounder once</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">his mvnd was then a mont of Stons</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">ghted Zedekiah they have &s;ought</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">o Bands to Babels King him brought</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">nes they kill and killd to him ar &s;hovvne</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">ple&s;s Prince hes both his eyes out throvvne</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">m catened to a Carcer carie</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">age and in blindne&s;s there to tarie</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">on his people permitted the&s;e oppre&s;&s;ions</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> there gro&s;s &s;ins and there great Tran&s;gre&s;&s;ion.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Ester <HI>16</HI> Chap.</HEAD>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> Haman that did all the Ievves envy</L>
<L>Mordecay's noght bovving going by</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">ore the Per&s;ian Prince inty&s;ed he</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">me Them all, by his decreit to dye</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">ordecay did call on God, and Go</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> and exho~rts her to do &s;o</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> prayer neer the Pre&s;enoe drevv</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">ntreat as Mordecay the Jevv</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> form'd and &s;he did favour find</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> the Kings heart vnto hir inclind</L>
<PB REF="58">
<L>And by ane other Edict, then proclam'd</L>
<L>That former cruell ane, it was reclam'd</L>
<L>And Haman that the king and Iewes had wrang'd</L>
<L>Full fifty Cubits high was hie&s;'d and hang'd.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Iob. <HI>2</HI> chap.</HEAD>
<L>THat dreadfull Enemie to man the Devill</L>
<L>Devi&s;ing ev'r to wrack and work him evvill</L>
<L>Vpon ju&s;t Iob (God &s;uffering did a&s;&s;ay</L>
<L>To tempt and try his pacience ewrie way</L>
<L>Vith boyls his Body hee, behind before</L>
<L>And from each &s;yde to &s;yde a&s;&s;ault him &s;ore</L>
<L>Whill with a Pot &s;hard all his Skin he &s;crapes</L>
<L>For no part of his Skin from Scabs e&s;capes</L>
<L>His wicked wife bidds, him bla&s;phem and die</L>
<L>But &s;weetly all his Soars yet &s;uffred he</L>
<L>His faithfull frends to vi&s;it come and wievv him</L>
<L>And weeped all when none of them there knevv him</L>
<L>But patient Iob nev'r opned once his lipps</L>
<L>For to cur&s;e God for all his cruell whipps.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Ezechiel <HI>37</HI> Chap.</HEAD>
<L>THe Prophet is tran&s;ported to a feild</L>
<L>By Gold and their Bones numberle&s;s beheld</L>
<L>Then did the Lord demand him if the&s;e Bones</L>
<L>So blan&s;h'd could live that ver departed once</L>
<L>He an&s;verd thus thovv knovvs o Lord God than</L>
<L>Say's prophecy vpon them Sone of man</L>
<L>Which when I had obeyed, they begood</L>
<L>To re a&s;&s;ume their Sinevvs fle&s;h and blood</L>
<L>He prophecied againe and lo they braeth</L>
<L>And armie hudge re&s;u&s;&s;itat from daeth</L>
<L>Stand vp all living men, and They (Said he)</L>
<L>The Bones of-all the hou&s;e of I&s;r'el be</L>
<L>Which from there graves and Sepulcures I &s;hall</L>
<L>So &s;metyme home to their ovvne land recall.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Daniel <HI>3</HI> chap.</HEAD>
<L>THe Babel King ane Image vp did rai&s;e</L>
<L>And all commands to wor&s;hip it and prai&s;e</L>
<L>His Lord convend he open court did hold</L>
<L>For dedication of that God of Gold</L>
<L>But their three faithfull Ievves aback abod</L>
<L>And wold not bovv vnto that Idol God</L>
<L>Wherefore they threvv them in a fornace hot</L>
<L>But from the Lord their God &s;upport they got</L>
<L>And therein They vnharm'd with th' Angel we<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"></L>
<L>Whill that their Burri'os with the fire wer b<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="4 letters"></L>
<L>Then muche affrighted Babels King conf<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"></L>
<L>Their God was God of Gods almightie<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"></L>
<PB REF="58">
<L>Come Shadrach Me&s;hach and Abednego.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Daniel <HI>5</HI> chap.</HEAD>
<L>WHen Bel&s;hazzar a proud and impious Prince</L>
<L>Into all Ryot pryde and In&s;olence</L>
<L>With thovv&s;and Princes with him at a fea&s;t</L>
<L>And Concubines as many to almai&s;t</L>
<L>Prophaning their the Coups where with tha' adord</L>
<L>In I&s;rael &s;ometyme the living Lord</L>
<L>O but amidds there mirth behold a hand</L>
<L>That wrait before them on the wall did &s;tand</L>
<L>Some &s;ecreit words<NOTE N="&dagger;" PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span">, Mene <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">vphar|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span">.</NOTE> vnto Them all vnknovne</L>
<L>But Daniel re&s;olv'd them and hes &s;hovvne</L>
<L>That for the kings great wickedne&s;s and wrong</L>
<L>His life and Croune he &s;hould both lo&s;s ore long</L>
<L>And that &s;ame night this Prince proud and prophane</L>
<L>His reigne is rent from him and he is &s;laine.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Daniel <HI>14</HI> chap.</HEAD>
<L>THe prancks pernition of the Prie&s;ts of Bel</L>
<L>Reveald are be the Prophet Daniel</L>
<L>Bel then pull'd dovne and the di&s;plea&s;ed Prince</L>
<L>Confounded all the Prie&s;ts for there offence</L>
<L>And then the Dragon that indeed did live</L>
<L>Ane whom to Cyrus did fal&s;e wor&s;hip give</L>
<L>Then Dan'el he commands as others all</L>
<L>To wor&s;hip it and flatt before it fall</L>
<L>But he refui&s;d, and wold the Prince permit</L>
<L>He layd his Life to kill and mai&s;ter it</L>
<L>Then tooke he pitch Bitumen fat and hair</L>
<L>And boyld together, there with kill'd it thair</L>
<L>The God of ho&s;tes was Iealou&s;e of his Glore</L>
<L>And by his Daniel did he that theirfore</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Daniel <HI>14</HI> chap.</HEAD>
<L>FOr this di&s;pight as the&s;e Idol'ters thought</L>
<L>All with envy agains the Prophet wrought</L>
<L>And in a rage agains their King they ri&s;e</L>
<L>And for the killing of the Dragon cryes</L>
<L>Yea they vpbrayd him to his face and tell</L>
<L>That he is turned Ievv with Daniel</L>
<L>They pre&s;s him to deliuer him and drevv</L>
<L>Him to the Lions den and their him threvv</L>
<L>For tho&s;e forefamized a fitting fea&s;t</L>
<L>By kind a bloody and a cruell Bea&s;t</L>
<L>But God &s;till Dan'el from there furie fred</L>
<L>And by the hand of Abacuk him fed</L>
<L>God ev'r pre&s;ervs them in mo&s;t per'lons places</L>
<L>Whom in his Love and favour he imbraces</L>
</LG>
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<LG>
<PB REF="60">
<HEAD><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"></HEAD>
<L>THe Sinnes of Nineveh God from the &s;kyes</L>
<L>Beholds and &s;ies with his al&s;eing eyes</L>
<L>His wor&s;hip wrongd and but prophand his name</L>
<L>Yet will premoni&s;h or he puni&s;h Thame</L>
<L>And Ionah to be warner he inveets</L>
<L>Of all the naughtine&s;s of Nineveets</L>
<L>But rebell carele&s;s of his Charge then he</L>
<L>Fled vnto Iar&s;hi&s;h to e&s;chevv't be Sea</L>
<L>But lo a Tempe&s;t &s;tirrd be God aro&s;e</L>
<L>And he to light the Ship by lot be tho&s;e</L>
<L>(Is o're boord throvvne) that then with him did Sail</L>
<L>By providence yet kepped by a whail.</L>
<L>Tho carele&s;s he his Lords command did brak</L>
<L>Yit would he &s;ave him for his mercies &s;ake</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Ionah <HI>2</HI> &amp; <HI>3</HI> Chap.</HEAD>
<L>THen cea&s;'d the rage and roaring of the Sea</L>
<L>When headlong hurled into it was he</L>
<L>But whill he in that whails big belly lyes</L>
<L>Perplexd in Spreit he prayd to God and cryes</L>
<L>Thrie dayes and nights that hel-like hou&s;e within</L>
<L>Abyds rebellious Ionah for his Sinne</L>
<L>A Type of Chri&s;t that did pre&s;igure plaine</L>
<L>That he thrie dayes &s;hould in the Grave remain</L>
<L>His crying from that hollovv vvoult a&s;cends</L>
<L>And God at la&s;t his loveing eare he lends</L>
<L>Thair to and did that mon&s;trous fi&s;h command</L>
<L>To lay the Prophet out a lyfe on Land</L>
<L>Then &s;pake the Lord to him to this effect</L>
<L>In Nineveh go doe as I direct</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Ionah <HI>2</HI> &amp; <HI>3</HI> Chap.</HEAD>
<L>IOnah relivde lovv humbled did record</L>
<L>With thankfull heart the mercies of the Lord</L>
<L>Then vnto Nineveh, in ha&s;te he hyes</L>
<L>And one dayes journey, entred in he cryes</L>
<L>(For it was great, as ony in the ea&s;t</L>
<L>And thrie dayes journey long, and large at lea&s;t)</L>
<L>That notablie the Ninivites annoy'd</L>
<L>Yet fourtie dayes and It &s;halbe de&s;troy'd</L>
<L>This warning Bell through out the Citie Rong</L>
<L>The people thickly to the Temple throng</L>
<L>And with there Prince appareld in &s;ack cloath</L>
<L>Repent, and pray t'appea&s;e God with them wroath</L>
<L>He &s;ies them humble and heares there harts de&s;ire</L>
<L>Then with their Pardon paci&s;ies his Ire.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB REF="60">
<HEAD><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"></HEAD>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">e Tobit reakins out and doth Relate</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">s parentage, his Cariage and E&s;tate</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">&s;t declares in Eneme&s;&s;ars raigne</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">yrian King, he was a captive caen</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">e vnto his Brether heir with all</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">nde in their afflictions doth recall</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">htou&s;nes he likevi&s;e doth record</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">s zeale and wor&s;hip of the Lord</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">eveh his Care he doth declare</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">ying his Brether dying thair</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">ght for be Sennacherib perforce</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> him&s;elf and fled for feare of wor&s;s</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> by a frend that did at court remain</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">s re&s;tored vnto Grace again,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Tobit <HI>6</HI> chap.</HEAD>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">as by his Father Tobit &s;ent</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">th Raphael vvnknovvne to Gabel went</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> they had that by them did abyd</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> Angel was his good and gratious Guyde</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">&s;t day they at night to Tygris came</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">obie tooke a fi&s;h into the &s;ame</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> heart and Livver th' Angel cau&s;'d pre&s;erve</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> perfume, ane other tyme to &s;erve</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">ges then they come and Raph'el &s;aid</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">ght Thovv &s;hall take to thy wife a mayd</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">&s;ings Daughter Raguel, &s;ince that</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> the Lavv to Thee is de&s;tinat</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">ontrare Raph'el Tobie rea&s;ond thair</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">ovves hir when the&s;e Things he did declare.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Tobit <HI>8</HI> Chap.</HEAD>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">as wedding as before intended</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">ith Rag'els daughter Saranovv is ended</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">er fea&s;ting They go in to re&s;t</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">om of purpo&s;e for them dre&s;sd</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> the Lord told Tobie he a&s;&s;umes</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">es heart and fird the place perfumes</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> of hovv &s;one the fend the &s;mel hes fund</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> and was by th' Angel efter bund</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> and his vife then ro&s;e and pray</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">undly &s;leep'd together whill the day</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">icked Sprit that &s;levv the &s;evne before</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">d thence fleem'd from Them for evvermore</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> Raguel, for Grace thus granted Them</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">&s;d and prai&s;d the God of ho&s;tes &s;upreame</L>
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<L>THe moneys that from Gabel Tobie &s;ought</L>
<L>The Angel Raph'el it receavv'd and brought</L>
<L>The mar'age fea&s;t perform'd Tobias makes</L>
<L>Him ready with his wife and journey takes</L>
<L>Then Raguel much favour to them &s;hovves</L>
<L>And half of all his Goods on them be&s;towes</L>
<L>Vpon the way Together going &s;o</L>
<L>His Guide commands him home before to go</L>
<L>And tell his Father blind, both more and le&s;s</L>
<L>In all his wayes, his pro&s;perous &s;ucce&s;s</L>
<L>And with the fi&s;hes Gall, t' anoynt his eyes</L>
<L>Who quickly efter, as before, he &s;ies</L>
<L>Than gladlie dois, he Tobies wife receave</L>
<L>And gratefull, Glore, to God for all he gave</L>
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<HEAD><HI>2</HI> Maccabees <HI>7</HI> Chap.</HEAD>
<L>SEven Brether that Svines fle&s;h refui&s;d to eat</L>
<L>Skin-tirrd ar tryed with tortring torments great</L>
<L>For what the Lavv prohibits they refui&s;e</L>
<L>And rather all, for to be cha&s;tizd chui&s;e</L>
<L>By death and byd what Buchery can doe</L>
<L>Than to that ba&s;s abomination bovv</L>
<L>And efter other, each, there &s;uffred more</L>
<L>Nor ony torted, ever had before</L>
<L>Yet holily exhorting other all</L>
<L>T'incre&s;s their Courage, on the Lord they call</L>
<L>And full of hope when the&s;e &s;hort pains ar pa&s;t</L>
<L>To ri&s;e againe, they leave to live at la&s;t</L>
<L>Their mother martyr'd la&s;t with &s;troaks extream</L>
<L>Fearele&s;s and faithfull fell and follovvd Them.</L>
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<HEAD><HI>2</HI> Maccabees.</HEAD>
<L>SImon the Trea&s;ure in the Temple &s;eald</L>
<L>Spighting the Prie&s;t to Hel'dore reveal'd</L>
<L>Who by his King Seleucus charged came</L>
<L>And from the Trea&s;urie toock out the &s;ame</L>
<L>Onias then the Prie&s;t and people pray</L>
<L>Whill God that &s;acrilegious &s;tooth did &s;tay</L>
<L>And by his armed Angels &s;hyning bright</L>
<L>Heliodore is whip'd in I&s;r'el &s;ight</L>
<L>And to the earth blind is he beaten dovne</L>
<L>And deadlyke Sen&s;les lyeth therein &s;wone</L>
<L>Whill for Onias pray'r God for gives</L>
<L>The robrie and the man again revives</L>
<L>Then th' Angels their directs him to declare</L>
<L>Th' almighties povv're that he proved thair.</L>
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<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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