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By ALEXANDER GARDEN.  NIL PENNA, SED USUS.  printer's device of Gerrit Moulert 
printed AT MIDDELBURGH, By GERRIT MOULERT, Anno 1637.   


Genesis.  
Exodus.  
Leviticus.  
Deuteronomie.  
joshua.  
judges.  
Ruth.  
1 Samuel.  
2 Samuel.  
1 Kings.  
2 Kings.  
Esther.  
job.  
Tobit.  
Ezekiel.  
Daniel.  
jonah.  
2 Maccabees.    

TO The deservedly worshipful and wisely wirtous SIR THOMAS BURNETT of Leyes knight Baronett.  
Right Worshipful  
SIR be you pleadsed I pray  
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Some Selected draughts suckd from the sacred Story  
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This Enterprise at all attempted I  
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Nor are polluted, and Imperfect Spirits  
And of all mortal most un-meet is mine  
For it, so, worthy, weaighty, and divine  
Yet my attempt, once may prove profitable  
T' encourage one, t' acqueat themselves more able  
Then Sir woutchafe, to look upon my Lines  
Suppose, for such a proesence poor propine.  
Your worin all affectonat duty divoted AL. GARDEN.   

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Which efter in these Sheets insert you see  
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Or Reputation that may rise be Thame  
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Induced, and me these to compond, inclined  
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〈…〉  
Heaven, Earth, and seae, round, eirc'lare spherical,  
Of one rude mixed Mass, God made them all.  
He stamped, with stars, the heaven, and with these lights  
The Sun and Moon, divided days from night's  
Beasts, fishes, fowls, he create of all kind  
And fitly each, it's Element assigned  
The liquid waters, from the earthly mass,  
He ●●parats, and them apart did place,  
The thin, hot, moist, and subtle Aer, above,  
The cold dry earth, about, he assigned to move  
And tuixt the earth, and fire, that all embraces  
The aer and water providentlie places  
And seeing all, that he had done, was Good  
He made man sign to his similitude.   

Genesis Chap. 2.  
When God of Heav'ne, and Earth, had formed the frame,  
And made one end of all the host of Thame,  
Into the body that he builded hath,  
HE jnfuised a soul, and breathed a living breath,  
And when he thus, perfectly framed the same  
From Rud reed earth, he did, him Adam name  
Man so created, perfect, pure and chaste,  
God in his Garden, Paradise him placed,  
And there with freedonie full, before his fall,  
To eat of every fruit, and to use all,  
Excepting that of knowledge he bestrait,  
Command and charge prohibit was to eat.  
And when he should, that Tree of knowledge cun  
He then should dye, that day, and be undone.   

Genes. 2.  
THe Lord God Adam, sound a sleep he laid,  
And Eva of, one of his ribs, hes made  
Then with divine, inimitabill art,  
Closed cleanly up, with flesh, the empty part.  
And when he did awake the woman Than,  
His flesh and bone, God offered to the man  
Whom Adam when, he finds, so fitly framed  
(Made out of Man) he hes her woman named  
And as his Wife, he hes her jntertaind  
For God there first the Mar'age rites ordained  
A straght conjunction, and a sacred band  
In Paradise kint be the Lords command.  
Enjoining Them, therefore to join there hands  
And married, To multiply, commands.   

Genesis. 3.  
THe Serpent Eve, induced with Deceat,  
And Adam, she inveits, and he, did eat.  
(O Lamentable for e'er, and fearful fact,  
That did there State, so mar and murnfull make,)  
The fruit forbidden of knouledge Good, and Evil,  
And heirby both, deluded by the Devil  
From purity, and there perfection fall,  
And so sucked in, the Sinn Original.  
Ambitions both, too greedily began,  
To lay the Ground grief, of the Griefs of Man.  
There misbeleef, and blindness yet both blind  
Into there fault, and fall, enforced, they find  
And liable therefore, to Death, they be,  
Themselves, and since, all there posterity.   

Genesis 3.  
THe fruit once eaten, opened are their eyes,  
And they, there own poor nakedness espies.  
Wherefore they both, unto a fig Tree came,  
And pulled some Leaves, and sewed of the same,  
For to be Breeches, to them both, to hold,  
There Shame unseen, and cloth them from the cold.  
Before they taste, of that sequestrate Tree  
They knew naught that, they bore and naked be.  
No figtree leaves, nor fig tree Trunks, could beild-them  
Nor from th' All-seeing-eye could sheeld-them  
Nor could those fig tree leaves (though cloith there skins)  
Preserve unseen, there Trespass, nor there Sins.  
No no, there Conscience for there Crime, did call  
And God without, within, he Saw them all.   

Genesis 3.  
THe voice of God, they in the Garden heard,  
And faulty hid, them for there fault, a feared.  
But heaven, nor earth, nor them, the darksome deep,  
From there Creator, knowing all, could keep.  
Excuses put a part, They must appear  
And ansver to the points, that he sold spear.  
That dreadful voice, that Thunder did resemble,  
Made heav'ne, and earth, and Man much more, to tremble.  
He called, they come, he accused, and they confessed  
And guilty both, Grant that they have Trangsgressd.  
The Woman, He, the Serpent, She, They say  
This foul defection, drew on ws, this day.  
And Ws, Invegled with, it's wicked wit  
To ●at that baleful, and forbidd'ne Bit.   

Genesis 3.  
A Curse to them, a Time, God hes denuneed  
And punishments, to it, for e'er pronuneed.  
And said, because this deed, sly Serpent Thou  
Thou did, ay on, thy Belly shall thou bow  
And lick the Dust, without saveguard, or shield  
A 'bove all Beasts, accursed of the field.  
Also betnix, the vomans' seed, and Thee,  
Shall e'er be discord, and Ennimitie.  
And be assured, that for this Sin, thy Seed  
May bruise Hers heel, but hers, shall brak thy head.  
Then of Goatskins, to them, he Garments gave  
And from, his Paradise divine, them drove:  
Then set a Cherub, with a flaming sword  
To watch it as, is wretin in his word.   

Genesis 3.  
With Toil, and Travel, Adam, grief, and Sweat  
His living earneth, and his Bread did eat.  
And was constrained, to do, to dig, to delfe  
His Mother's Bosom, to support himself.  
Because God for his Crime the earth accursed  
And made it bring forth Breers, of weeds, the worst.  
And since, to sin, he did obey his wife  
With Great vexation, shall he lead his life.  
And Eva so with unacquainted fits  
In bringing out her Bairnes with sorrow sits.  
And surely subject shall be her desire  
And plainly prostrate to her Lord's empire.  
Estranged and far from that contentment great  
That they enjoyed, in There first estate.   

Genesis 4.  
THe Sons of Adam now be Time, began  
To sacrifice, as was, the Custom than.  
The Shepherd Abel, his first Lambs he takes  
And of the fat, of Them, oblation makes.  
And Cain, of, the fruitage of the Ground  
He sacrifiede, the first that He hes found  
The elder cain's did the Lord reject  
And younger Abel's favour and respect  
Cain heirfoir, in fury, and Disdain  
His blessed Brother Abel here doth brain.  
And out of woodness, wraethfull, and Invy  
Commits this Murder, Irreligiously.  
The Lord than marks him to be known herefore  
To be his Brother's Butcher ever more.   

Genes. 6. & 7.  
HOw soon God sies, the Sins of men grow great,  
All man kind he, to overthrow did Threat,  
And did a hunger year before foreshow,  
To N'oa by water all the world's overthrow,  
And he be preaching for man's Sin, declaird,  
All earthly perish should, and none be spaird.  
The Lord commands him then, to build the Ark,  
And when perfected was, and wrought, that work,  
Himself, his wife, his Childring, and there Wives,  
All such as God decreed to save there Lives,  
Of living Things at least, takes to him Thair,  
For ester plenishing the earth. a pair:  
Clean, and , they enter in, and than,  
To flow the universal flood began.   

Genes. 7.  
THe vindow's of the Heavens are opened large,  
And all the waters in the clouds, discharge.  
The Caverns of the earth, cast up there brine,  
That long into there Ludging low hes lyn,  
The floods, and fontans, from there heads, and springs,  
There watery store, into abundance brings.  
Above, and under, all at once, jshe ' out,  
Each poor a spring, each spring, a speat did spout:  
And with a wrackful all o'erspreading speat,  
Oretoped the tallest Trees, and montans great.  
Five months and more, the earth these floods o'erflow,  
That Land nor Sea, nor mont nor meadow show.  
Than they decressd, and rejncaled there store.  
Unto the bounds whair they had bein before.   

Genesis 8.  
THe waters all consuming course decayed,  
The Ark on the Armenians montanes stayed,  
And no more on that world of Seas did flot,  
But as God would, a Ground the Ark it got,  
The twstes of Trees, the Cronns of montans Grene,  
And late dronnd Woods, and Valleys, dry are seen.  
The winds all blue, and Arid earth did make,  
And then the Dove, and olive brauche brought bake,  
But sent to try the drought, at once before,  
She flew abroad, and bake returned no more.  
And N'oa, and his, alive are lest alone,  
When all the rest, on earth were drowned each one.  
Then o'er the univers they Rule and Ragne,  
And as the mono-monarches sole Remain.   

〈…〉  
Now N'oa himself, and all with him within,  
The arcke j she, out, and to descend begin  
●hair all (saif Cham, that ever did debord)  
●esolue to rander. Thanks unto the Lord.  
●nd unto him, one altear do up raise,  
●o sacrifice thereon, and offer praise,  
●nd with their humbled hearts, his pow're proclaim,  
●hat by all others had preserved Thame.  
●he Lord thence smelled one prince sav'ring smell,  
●nd said, into his hart, unto himself  
●o more for man's saik, will I curse the ground,  
●or smit again all living in this mund:  
but whil the earth Remains, there shall be ay,  
Succeeding Seasons, seed Time, night, and day   

Genes. 9  
GOd spoke to Noa, blessed him and contramands,  
The shedding humane blood, with humane hands.  
Then Reconfirmed wedlock with his word.  
And there declared, the power of the sword,  
With what authority to man is given,  
●re Things created that be under heaven,  
●o him and his, great blessings, did he grant,  
●and up with Them and knit his covenant:  
●nd gives for e'er, a sign to make it Good  
〈◊〉 rising Rainbow in a watery cloud.  
●nd when he sies that circling arch he shall,  
His former covenant, to mind Recall.  
In witness that, the waters, shall no more,  
Drown all the World, as they had done before.   

Genes. 9  
Ester the drouning deludge No'a began,  
To plant his vines, and play the house band man.  
●nd drank thereof, and drunk thereon became,  
●nd then uncovered he is seen be Cham.  
That mocked, and Jested at his aged father,  
No no but cursed he contemned him rather,  
●nd went, and told it Japhet, and Just Sem.  
but he again, reclothed is by Them.  
That step, be step, both backward to him go  
Lest that unseemly They should see him so.  
Heirfore he blessed both the one, and other,  
and justly cursed Cham, there wicked brother.  
The seed, of these Three sons, the earth over spread  
and all that borne be since, of them are bred.   

〈…〉  
THe people here, intends to bovild a Tower  
In there proud thoughts, to counterchek God's power  
With there Assisters that, that Time one Tongve  
Spoke all and were from Cham accursed sprung.  
But God from heav'ne, there haughty hearts beheld  
An how with pride, and high contempt they swelled.  
Heirfore he will, in there attempt, and aim  
Undo and disappoint them in the same.  
For they that but one languadge spoke before  
He changed and caused them mutter money more.  
And so confounded all, that naught one Brother  
Did understand a word, spoke be one other.  
God then, he dois divide them, and constrain  
To quite that work, that they began in vain.   

Genesis 12.  
THe Lord called Abram, and Directions gave  
To queat his country, and his kindred lave.  
And to one other land directly draw  
That in his journey thither, he should shaw.  
The Land that he had destinat to give  
To him and his, for ever in to live.  
Wherein he should, be Great, and Greatly he  
Great as his name, a Blessing great, should be.  
There, should he bless, that blessed him, all Those  
And curse them all, that curssd him, as his foes.  
His Wife, his flocks, and family they go  
And Lot with him, his Brother sone also.  
Then come, thereto, one Altar he hes Reared  
Wnto the Lord, that unto him apeard.   

Genesis 13.  
ABraham past, and up from Egypt went  
And greatumly, God did his Goods augment.  
For in all Riches him encreass he would  
In cattles, coin, in Silver, and in Gold.  
And likewise Lot, he hes Incressd, his store  
And daily did, augment it, more and more.  
But Abraham's herdsmen, and Lots Shepherds jar.  
And for a pasture move, among them war.  
But when there actions Abram, understands  
He meekly moves, Lot to divide there bands  
And to the Right, or to the left hand Go  
Lot then prepares and since desird-did so.  
For such encress and store of Goods, they had  
That hardly could, they be together fed.   

Genesis 13.  
THen Lot lift up his, eyes and understood  
That all the plains, and groudd about was Good.  
●nd dreading stay, should draw on more disdain  
●herefore to th' east, he Tendeth with his Train  
〈◊〉 Land well grassed, and watered well was it  
〈◊〉 Land for herdsmen, and their flocks most fit.  
●eirfore therein, he mindeth to Remain  
●nd pitched his palions, into Sodoms plain.  
●or all the wale is low, near jourdans' Shoir  
●s watered well, of pasture had like store.  
●nd plentifully stood, and stuffed did stand  
●s once was Eden, or as Egypt Land.  
Before the all-consuming anger of the Lord  
These cities Sodom, and Gomorr' devoured.   

Genesis 14.  
WHen jidall King of nations, and the Rest,  
That joined with him in Battle had oppressed  
●he Sodomit, and the Gomoran King  
●hey spoilt there Goods, and captive Lot did bring  
●nd on his substance, as there prize, they pray,  
●ut Abram armed, Invades them on there way  
●oyld, and defate, and smartly them he smote  
●nd in Triumph, brought home his nephew Lot.  
●hen doth he charged with spoils in triumph so  
●o Melchizedeck, King of Salem Go.  
Who blessed, and brought to Abram, bread, and vine  
●nd Abram there solemnly offered sine.  
To him of these, his Spoils, the Tithes of all  
Goods of these Kings, that did before him fall.   

Genesis 16.  
●N Can'an, Abram, ten years hes t'emaind  
And Sarais womb, from bearing was restrained  
Which grieved her much, and did torment her still  
●nd as she meant, she would go mend her ill.  
When surely She, her Belly barren sees  
●nd thus, to secundary helps, she flies.  
●or wnto Abraham her Lord, she said  
●eire, I have Hagar, and Egyptian maid  
〈◊〉 give her to thee, use her, for it may  
●e, Childring I, obtain be her some day.  
〈◊〉 bram obeyed, and in to Hagar went  
●nd knew her, wha conceavved Incontinent.  
Then proud of that conception in her eyes,  
Her dame, and mistress Sarai, did despise.   

〈…〉  
SArai contemned much mov'de there with Remains,  
Expostulats, with Abram, and complains.  
And tells him plinly for her kindness now,  
She is mis-usd, wronged, and contemned too.  
Yea prays the Lord, to judge betinxt. Them tuo.  
But abram seeing her iucensed so.  
Hagar be his authorit' and command,  
Is set to suffer, wnder Sarais hand.  
Who hardly dealt with her, heirfore a-dread  
And fearing worse, far from her mistress fled.  
But asked by the angel, whence she came,  
She ansverd fleeing from her angry dame.  
Then, to Return again, her, he, commands  
And humble her wholly, under Sarais hands.   

Genesis 17.  
THe Lord jehova most alimghtye here,  
Wnto his servand Abram, did appear.  
And made him promeise, for to multiply  
And him, and his, t' incress exceedingly.  
Beside great, blessings, he to him do is grant,  
And knits with him, for ever his convevant.  
Than changed from Abram wnto abraham,  
and her for Sara, Sarai, called to name.  
Yea also unto her, he granted more,  
To bear a sone that, barren was before,  
But Abr'am langhed into his hart for he,  
Hes thonght it strange and wonderful to be,  
Since he himself a hunger years was old,  
And Sarai eighteen numbered had, and Told.   

Genes. 18.  
Again the Lord to Abram did appear  
As he sat in, or to his Tent durr, near.  
And when he looked, Three men he standing saw,  
That then approatched, and towards him did draw.  
To those three angels then he bowed, and ran  
And offered to his Lord his service than,  
Which they accept, and then there breakfast done,  
God said that Sarai, she should have a sone,  
And then their he declaird, and did impart,  
To Abram, that he Sodom, will evert.  
For of there wickedness, to him the cries,  
Had monted o'er, the Elements and skies,  
Th' abominations all, that therein be,  
Vnnat'rall sins, and bestiality,  
That rankly rages, and reigns them among,  
With wenge ance he, he will, revenge ere long.   

Genesis 19  
●e Lord their ills and naughtiness did notes,  
And sent his Angels, to his servand Lot,  
●ring him thence for kindled was his three,  
●o consume, these Cities, all with fire.  
●hen, that sat at Sodom got, them sies,  
arising bowed done to the earth, his eyes,  
●humblie prays them to his house but they,  
●ss but ester they turn in and stay.  
〈◊〉 Sodomites, preass Lot, and th' Angels sought,  
●●lv'd t' abuse, and know Them, in there Thought.  
〈◊〉 therefore would, brak up his Gates perforce,  
●erminnig to deal with Lot no worse.  
●●t lo the Lord with blinddess brands them Thair,  
●et sightless search, They will, but knew not whair.   

Genes. 19  
He Angels Lot, than out of Sodom led,  
And from the Sodomitick fury fred.  
●●o up the montans unto Zoar flew,  
●●e fiery hail and burning storm t'eschew.  
●●s efter Lot, his daughters, and his wife,  
●●y had pulled out, for to praeserve there life,  
commanding straight, none to be so bold,  
〈◊〉 to look back unless they Perish would:  
〈◊〉 Let his wife, offended in this fault,  
●●d therefore turned was, to a Tower of Salt,  
●●en when they were far from the City walls,  
brood of fire, and burning Brimstone falls.  
That Cities all, and Men within did burn,  
And in the plains, did all to ashes turn.   

Genes. 19  
●●t Thus and his, preserved from the fire,  
To leave that city Zoar, did desire.  
〈◊〉 left it Then, and went therefrom, for fear,  
〈◊〉 to a mont, and in a Cave, duelled their.  
〈◊〉 daughters wanting Company of Men,  
●●k and to gether hes agried then,  
●●drink there Father drunk, and make him so,  
●●en Cupshot both Them, but his knowledge kno●  
●●ch They have done, and in the elder goth,  
〈◊〉 younger next, and so he lies with both.  
〈◊〉 of this wild, jncestous meiting, Lot,  
●●-ammi he, and Moab both begot.  
●nd as in Sin conceived, the Scripture says,  
perverse were they, and there's, in all there ways.   

Genesis 20.  
A Braham to the South, his journay Takes,  
And into Gerar, he his duelling makes.  
Sign said that Sarai fearing for his life.  
His Sister was, albeit indeed his wife.  
Abimelech, the King of Gerar Thair  
Perceiving Sarai, beautiful and fair  
And hearing Abram her his sister call  
And she herself t'affect her he did fall.  
Then takes her from her Lord, but God constrains  
That he her person, in no point profanes.  
And dreadfully him in a dream, did threat  
And his with death, and a destruction great  
Give he did naught, to Abram her restore  
Pure and vn tuiched, as she was before.   

Genesis 21.  
THe promise of the Lord, as is foretold  
To Abraham, and Sarai being old,  
At the set Time, accomplished was, and done  
And She her Travel took, and boor a Sun.  
Out of whose loins, in his own Time, should spring  
That ever blessed, Prophet, Priest, and Kiug.  
Abraham eight days ester at the least,  
His Is'ac circomcisd, and made a feast.  
And as young Is'ac grew, Ishmael jested  
Which Sarais mind, much moved and molested  
That she did eagerly, to Abram plain  
Of Ismaels' mirding, mockage, and disdain.  
But Abraham t'ev eit, all sturrs and strife  
Puts Isma'l, and his mother, from his Wife.   

Genesis 21.  
Who wand'ring in the woods, and wilderness,  
Both are by thirst, brought into strange distress.  
That ewen the Mother, pity for to see  
Lays him a pairt, lest that she spy him die  
Than than the weeping, of the child ascends  
And down the Comfort, of the Lord descends.  
For lo, the Angel doth, there murning heir  
And opened up her eyes, and made them cleir  
And there to her, A well of water shois,  
Wherewith her Sun, to quench their thirst She gois.  
He gives Her comfort, and forbids her dread  
But tend her Sun, for he will make him head  
(By heising him, to Honours and Estate)  
Yea and a father of a Nation Great.   

〈…〉  
●●re faithful Abram, be the Lord's command  
〈◊〉 Naught fault but freely lifteth up his hand.  
〈◊〉 Immolat, and offer to the daeth  
〈◊〉 dearest child, for to approve his faeths.  
〈◊〉 act almost, above Belief, to see  
father his Sole Sun to Sacrifice.  
obedient, and gladly is'ac gois  
●●d that be willingly, will suffer shois.  
●●e true and lively Type, that should foresho  
●●at for our sins, Gods Sun, should suffer so.  
●●old, the Lord, Abraham's belief, and faith  
●him for righteousness, Imputed hath  
●●d holds his hand,  it is naught defyld  
●●th Isaac's guiltless Blood, the Chosen Child.  
And doth a t'amme, provide for sacrifice  
That he, entangled in a Thicked sies.   

Genesis 23.  
Arai, Abraham's chaste, and virtuous wife  
sixscore and seven year old, departs this life.  
〈◊〉 whom, her loving husband Abram moans  
●●d testifies, his grief, with money groans.  
●●en after weeping, from her sight arose  
●●d for to buy, a Beriall he gois.  
●●aham dolorons, a field, did buy  
〈◊〉 her, and him, and his, therein to lie  
Hebron lay this field, therein a Cave,  
●●t Abram fittest thought, and sought to have.  
●●erein the justness of the Man, is shown  
●●t no whair bury would, but in his own.  
●●our hundreth silver Shekels he hes paid  
●herefore, and then, there in his dead, hes laid.   

Genesis 24.  
Braham old, his eldest servand he  
Prayed for to put, his hand, below his Thy  
〈◊〉 by, th' almighty God of all, to swear  
●●t he should none, Into Canaan There  
●●e to his Sun for wife, but search and find  
●●is own Country, an, of his own kind.  
●●man then heartily to the Lord, did pray  
●rosper him, in his adois, that day.  
〈◊〉 faithfully, all that his Lord, directs  
●●romises, and punct wally effects.  
●ecca than, as would the Lord, it fell  
〈◊〉 and her drawing water at a well.  
〈◊〉 by the conference, that they fell in,  
〈◊〉 new, she was, one of his Master's kin.  
●●en gladly gwes, her Armlets, and ear-ringhs  
●●d Laban home, him, to his Inns he brings.   

Genesis 24.  
REbeccas friends, unto the Lord, commit,  
Her wedding and the whole effect of it.  
Then with content, She is, for Js'ac given,  
Blessed be her friends, she gois, and blessed from heav'ne,  
To Abraham's house, they Them directl' addressed,  
An Evening as the Sun sunk in the West,  
It chanced Is'ac and It happened That  
He to the fields went out to Meditate  
And lifting up his eyes, abroad to vieu,  
A court of Camel's nearc, he coming knew;  
His servand told, unto Rebecca Than  
That there was Isaac, that should be her man  
There then She lights, he lovingly imbracd-her,  
And in his Mother Sarais Tent, he plac'd-her.   

Genesis 25.  
A Braham charged, with money happy years,  
A hundreth seuntie five complete, expires.  
A faithful man, beloved of the Lord,  
With grace, and heaunly Gifts, jndevved, and stored.  
And yet before expiring, and his daeths  
His Goods, and Store, to Jzaac did bequeath.  
And what, he had, as dearest to him Their,  
Gives him that should, be of the promise heir.  
To Mishpelach, the Cave that he had bought,  
Is by his Sons, there to be buried brought.  
(With great Lament and mourning much among  
All those that knew and did to him belong)  
And lays him there, all with there weeping eyes,  
Where with his Sarai side for side he lies.   

Genesis 25.  
Now Izac forty years, had lived, his Life,  
When he Rebecca wedded to his Wife.  
But boor no Bairnes, to him, wherefore he come,  
And prayed the Lord, to bless her barren womb.  
The Lord is Good, and Gracious to his own,  
And that he was entreated heir, is shown  
He heard his Cry, and gave what he did crave,  
For his Rebecca efter did conceive.  
And shortly boor, two male-contending Twines,  
Whose struggling in her belly first begins.  
A combat wonderful for to considder,  
Tuo Brether babs, unborn, to brawl, together,  
For at their birth, in Story is in rolld,  
The younger-borne, the eldersheell did hold.   

Genesis 25.  
THe Sons of Isac waxing wight, and strong  
Wp with there Years, these dispositions sprung.  
●nd by the trad, that they did take them too  
Wheretoo they were inclijnd declare, they do.  
●h' one as he waxed, and unto manhood grew  
●sav a hunter was, and wild beasts slew.  
●nd oft in woods, and wilderness remains  
●ut jacob dwelled, in Tents, and on the plains.  
●●ak his elder Esaw, did respect  
●nd jacob more, his Mother did affect.  
●ut Esaw, one day earning for to eat  
●nd madly hungry, for a meass of meat.  
Blush may he e'er, and Tremble when it is Told  
His Primo-genit t'oom, and Birth-right-sold.   

Genesis 26.  
A Famine, Into Izaks days began.  
But God his Lord, provijds for him his Man.  
●nd unto him appears, and does him sho  
What land, he should eschew, and whair to go.  
●is promises, to Abram, passed before  
●o him, his Son, he hes renewed once more.  
●o Gerar than, t' Abimelech the King  
●e gois, that o'er the Philistines, did Reign.  
Whair he his wife, called Sister, for respects  
●ut efter to be circumspect, neglects.  
●or once, he sporting with her their it chaneed  
●bimelech, out of his window, Glaneed  
●nd sees the same whereat he some what mowed  
●id Izak call modestly reprowed.  
That had, denied his wife, because among  
His people some one, might have done her wrong.   

Genes. 26.  
NOw while the famine, and the dearth remained  
In Palestine, was Js'ak Entertained.  
●nd all his flocks, still favoured be the Lord  
〈◊〉 Gerar mightily, incressd, and stored.  
●bimelech, perceaving his estate  
●hus multiply, and more and more, grow great.  
●e Iz'ak then, entreats, with feigned Love  
●●om him, and his Philistines, to remowe.  
●hence Iz'ak past, resolved to remain  
●nd pitched his palions, Into Gerar-plain.  
●nd whill the dearth, into that land did lest  
●o dig up water wells, he him addressed.  
The herds in Gerar, then, these pits, they cleame  
And shrewdlie stryve with Jzaks men, for them.   

Genes. 26.  
ABimelech proud, hateful, in his hart  
Bids Is'ak from, his Palestene, depart.  
And he obeys, for to eschew offence  
To Beer-sheba, he remowed Thence.  
Yet the Philistim seeing, that the Lord  
In all his ways, Izak incressd, and stored.  
Therefore he posted, for to pitch, and plant  
With him a friendship, leagve, and Covenant.  
That each, to oter, alwise, to there ends  
Should do no harm, but faethfullie be friends.  
Izak, he feasts him then, and on the morn  
They mutwallie, the covenant, have sworn.  
And thus they great, one, in the others Grace  
Remain, and then, the King depairts in peace.   

Genesis 27.  
IZ'ak waxd old, and both his eyes grew dim  
Than he his first-born-Esaw, called to Him:  
And charged him, as oft he used, and wont  
To search, and seek for venison, and hunt  
That he, might cat thereof, and efter this  
Before his daeths, his first borne Esaw bliss.  
But God heirin, he had his hand, no doubt  
And otherwise, this Blessing brought about  
Nor Izak had, determinat, before  
To give it unto Esaw eldest borne.  
Rebecca heard, and jacob, did advise  
For to supplant, his Brother be disgvise.  
And with Praevention, and a mess, of Meat  
The Blessing from his firstborn Brother get.   

Genes. 28.  
Alone, while jacob journeys, on his way  
To ease, and rest him, on some stones he lay.  
Whair fall'n a sleep, amids his rest, he sies  
From earth, a Ladder reaching to the skies.  
And thairon Angels, they appear, and sho  
T' ascend, descend, and up, and down, it go.  
O but behold, the Lord apeard, to Sat  
Above in Heaune, upon the Top of it  
And unto jacob, from the same, he said  
I am the God, thy Fathers hes obeyed.  
Thairfoir this Land, whereon Thou lies, here I  
Will give to thee, and Thy Posterity.  
And as the Dust, I shall thy Seed increass  
And on the Earth, all nations in Thee, bless.   

Genesis 29.  
Acob on journey to the East, it fell  
He came, where herdsmen, watered at a Well.  
●here Camels, and there flocks, then rolled thereon  
●nd covered closely, the fontane, with a stone.  
●e then demands them, if They Laban knew  
●●ey ansverd yea, and to him Rachel, show  
●●at was his daughter, and that there did keep  
●nto her father's use, a flock of Sheep.  
●hom he salutes, and kissed, and hes, her Told  
〈◊〉 was her kinsman, and the stone then rolled  
●●m the fonts mouth, that efter, as She list  
〈◊〉 flocks, might thither come, and quench there thirst.  
Then to her father's house, he doth Repair  
And Lea first, than Rachel married their.   

Genesis 30.  
Achel, long Time, her Belly barred, remains  
And sies it shut, She heirupon complains.  
●●d did her sister Leah, much envy  
●●t She hes sein, so , in Child-bedly.  
〈◊〉 she herself, despised, as She susposed  
●●use, her Belly barran was, and closed.  
●●fore, unto her Lord, She says, by Thee  
〈◊〉 I no Childring, I shall surely dye.  
●ise, and wilful women, so debord  
〈◊〉 will not bide, the leisure, of the Lord.  
●●st, the Lord, minds her, and hears her moan  
want of Childring, and he grants her one.  
●nd when, her Time, of Travel to her Came  
●●e boor a Boy, and joseph called his name.   

Genesis 31.  
●●ban perceawes, still jacobs' wealth, augment  
Therefore, he murmurs, and is mal-content.  
Sons complain, he frouns, upon him too  
〈◊〉 doth naught use him, as he wont to do.  
●●e grudge, against him is, because, that They  
〈◊〉 God is with him, and assists him ay.  
●●acob with his wives, concludes, herefore  
〈◊〉, to Iz'ak, and to serve, no more.  
〈◊〉 with his families, and flocks, by day  
〈◊〉 march out and, they move forth on there way  
Rachel stole, her Father's Goods, that be  
●●oushold. Things, that he did hold, most high.  
〈◊〉 father searched Them, and she sat on These  
fenowed with, her monthly disease.   

Genesis 33.  
IAcob, into his journay home, did hear  
That than his Brother Esaw, did draw near.  
He called to mind, the wrong, he did, his Brother  
By the advice, and Conunsall of his Mother.  
Which brodds him some what, and that bree him fear  
That made him panse, and think upon it there.  
Wherefore his hands, up to the Lord, he lifts  
And prays for Peace, and Esaw pleased, with Gifts.  
Then with an Angel, as a Man, all night  
He wightlie, wrestled hes, while near day light  
And with, that Angel great, he parted not  
while he his Grace, and Benediction got.  
And for a witness, of that wrestling ay  
jacob he halted, to his dying day.   

Genes. 34.  
THe wand'ring Dina ravished, and defyld  
The godly jacobs' only faemel Child.  
Weinen, and wenches, that a gadding go  
And worthily, are oft rewarded so.  
The sight of Novelties, in uncouth places  
Smits with disgrace, and Shame, the farest faces  
Which blot brought on there house, when known, her Brother  
All wroth, and discontent, agree Together  
(Tho Shechemits, for to repait, propone)  
Most guilfullie to be revenged there on  
(No thing but blood into a Bloody Thought  
Will expiate a wrong wnto it wrought.)  
And fiercely slew, the Shechemits when They.  
Were circomcised, and at leaching lay.   

Genes. 37.  
WHen joseph, did attend, his Father's Sheep  
A Time when he awaked efter sleep.  
His Apparitions, visions, and his Dream  
Unto his Brether, he declared Them.  
Who spitefully, disdain him, and envy  
For prating o'er Them of Supremacy  
What, said They, shall, thou Boy, above ws Reign  
And we thy wassals, and thy men Remain.  
Thus grudge they greatly, and him highly hate  
Whill he his visions, and his dreams relate.  
They muse among Them, how they meetest may  
Put the divining joseph done, some day.  
The father's low, likewise, unto the boy  
Tempts them for to dispatch him, and destroy.   

〈…〉  
HIs Brether hearding, into Dothan lands  
jacob there, joséph, for to go commands.  
To visit them, and for to look, how lucks  
Into the Leasurs, of these fields, there flocks  
He gois in search, of them, and at the last  
He hears, they are, to Dothan pasturs passed.  
Whair when he come, joseph the dreamer They  
Or the most part, conclood, to kill, and slay.  
But Rew-ben ruled, with a righter sp're it  
To kill, or murder him, he thought not meet.  
But seemed, as pleased, that in a Cistern dry  
He should be put, to perish there, hard by.  
Yet with a mind, to save his life, and taken  
Him thence, to gwe him to his father back.   

Genesis 37.  
●Uda his little Brother, pieties much  
Therefore his life he will naught, they shall touch.  
Nor with there hands, so fearss, and cruel prove  
And merciless, to murder jacobs' love.  
But they, they will, some other way devise  
To rub the Boy, that eye sore, from there eyes.  
Although, they will not slay, yet they will starve him  
And with, unkyndlie kyndness, so will serve him.  
Then they, some Mid'anitish merehants spy  
With spyceries, going unto Egypt by.  
They go to counsel, and concludes thereon  
That they to Them, will cooped him, and dispone  
Which for some tuentie Pieces, they have done  
Selling there Brother, and there Fathers Sun.   

Genes. 37.  
THe Brether then, their they did kill a kid  
This to be-blood, there Brother's coat they did.  
They rend, and than, his party colourd-Coat  
With that same blood, they sprinkle it, and spot  
Which. when, old jacob sees, berayed with blood  
He tinks gone wrong, and vandring through some wood.  
Their he is butchered, by some bloody Beast  
Too good a morsel, for so gross a Guest)  
His members peece-mail separat, and shorn  
His flesh, made food, and with its teeth alltorne  
●e toar his clothes then longryme dools, and dwynes  
And sorrowful puts sackcloth, on his loins  
●e much amazed for that male our doth murne  
And woved his grey hairs to the Grave shall turn  
With grief and sorrow, for his dearest Child  
Consumed with merciless, and mensters wild.   

Genesis 3●.  
THamar, by Onan frustrate, judas Sun  
And what was promised to her, undone.  
She knowing juda was in use to keep  
At such a Season, for to shear, his sheep.  
The raiments sable, that in doole, before  
And in her widow'ed she used, and wore.  
She pute a part, and by a Subtlety  
To mend herself, thus doth attempt, and try.  
Her father be the Law, to circomwein  
That had, to frustrate her, the Author bein.  
Disguised, and vvailed her face, in neat array  
She purposely, hes placed her, in his way.  
Whom for an whore, he took her, by attire  
And did herefore, to deal with her, desire.   

Genesis 38.  
THamar the Time, takes right, for at the same  
juda upon his journay, to her came.  
And takes her for, a prostitute, and woos  
And with fair fitting words, t' Induce her dois.  
Dealt with, as she desired, than she, demands  
What recompense, shall she have, at his hands  
If fne allow, that he with her, shall lie  
Who well apleased, did presently reply  
To send a kid, and for her promised wage  
His Cloak and Signet, she will have in pleage  
His staff also, in tokin that, that day  
So covenanted, and accorded They.  
Then knew he her, unknown, and withher mells  
And she conceived, and her belly Swells.   

Genesis 38.  
UP She arose, and home She did repair  
And juda to his flocks, his sheep to shear.  
Returned, she would, (as she was wont) remain  
And on her widow. Garment gois again.  
And widow like contmews their, for few  
Or none, what they committed had, yet knew.  
He than, did taken a kid, and to her send  
By Hiraches hand, he Adullameit, his fremd.  
For to redeem, his Garment, staff and ring  
That she in gadge, got at there Barganing.  
Hirach made search, for her, a Harlot thought  
But he his Travels tint, and tried her nought.  
For none such their, was known in  case  
Nor did their haunt, a Harlot in that place.   

Genesis 38.  
NOw, after three months, Tamar is reported  
That with some friend, in private she had sported.  
For fame, oft busiest in badst Things  
Fresh news, of suchlike slips, and o'resights brings.  
But lo, when juda hears she is with Child  
And as in whoordome he supponed, defyld.  
He damns, and judged her, by the fire, to die  
And that for her supposed, In purity.  
Wha when brought forth, to suffer, She declares  
Her child was his, to whom, pertamd these wares.  
The staff, and Clok, and the gold signet that  
As pledges for, the promised kid she got.  
Which tokins sein, by juda tried, and known  
Acknowledged, and there confessed his own.  
And heirfore publicly proclaim he must  
That She is righteous, and he .   

Genesis 39  
THe Ismaleets, that had young joseph bought  
Be daily trawell, him to Egypt brought.  
And sold him unto Pot●phar, a man  
Chief Captane of the Guard, of Pharo then.  
Who loving joseph, did to him, commit  
His house, and all the Gouvernment of it.  
●or he hes favour, in the Enuches' sight  
because he sies him just and walk upright.  
The Lord with joseph, was, and did at large  
Hess and incress, all that he had in charge.  
●ut Lo his master's wife, him, she doth eye  
●nd sies him fair, and falls in fantasy.  
Than shame less so solistes him for to lie  
And know her fleshly, but he doth deny.   

Genesis 39  
But one day all Inflammed with leachrons' fire  
And Tickled with intemperate Desire.  
●ut  senss, of ather Shame, or Sin  
●r to the room regard, that She was in.  
●ost lewdly like a Luster, one that low'de  
unmodestly beyond all measure mov'de.  
●●lls joseph by the Clock, and would entice  
●●im as before, but he resolved, denyis  
●nd leaves his Garment with her, and he flies  
●●t when herself, so much disdained, She sies  
●●e calls her household men, and shameless bold  
●●e impudent and whorish lie she told.  
Yea hes resolved of falsoods, on the worst  
And falsl' affirmed, that he would her have forced.   

Genes. 39  
TH' Incontenent, and vitions woman now  
A villainy and wicked wrong, did wow.  
And unto Potiphar, hes made Complent  
Upon a pure, and spotless Innocent.  
Wha (howsone moved with a vanton wife  
That seemed to love, and now sought josephs' life)  
Albeit an Innocent, and harmless, he  
Hes put this Guil●less in Captivity.  
And caused him in a Carser be enclosed  
That was for Trators, to the King composed.  
But with him was the Lord, and he Got grace  
And favour from, the keeper of the place.  
For all, that their, were Captive, and in Bands  
Allowed by the keeper, he commands.   

Genes. 40.  
INto lese Majesty, or some such Thing  
Tuo Officiars, had faulted to the King.  
The Butler chief, and Master Bakar both  
Whereat t'h Egyptian Phar'o waxed wrath  
And will naught with, this there, Trespass dispense  
But tried, will pumsh where he finds, th' offence.  
These he hes caused, commit where joseph lay  
And by direction, he o'resies them ay.  
Each one of These, a sleep, they dreamed one night  
A diverse dream, that did Them both affright.  
Which the nixt day, to joseph they declair  
And he interprets Them, unto Them their.  
He tells the Butlars, to his honour tended  
And told the Bakers, he should be suspended.   

Genesis 41.  
KIng Phar'o one night, in his Bed, at Rest  
Tuo dreadful dreams, his slesping spreit oppressed.  
seven fat fair kine, and Seaun, as lean, and lank  
And Seaun, thin ears of corn, and seaun as rank  
Sprang up, and in, a meadow, did appear  
Unto him, by a River running near  
The lean, the fat, the Thin, the rank, devore  
Yet nather of Them, fuller are the more.  
Then called he for, his wisemen all, but none  
Of these Magicians, could his dreams expone.  
The Butler then, remember joseph would  
That his advancement by his dream foretold.  
And Pharo tells, a youth in Prison lay  
That would his dreams, be wit divine bewray.   

Genesis 41.  
When all the visards, that in Epypt were  
In exposition of these dreams, did err.  
The Hebrew joseph, is, from Bands released  
And in the presence of Kinh Phar'o placed.  
Th' Egyptian then, his visions doth record  
And joseph there, arffirmes alone, the Lord.  
It is, and naught in him, in such a Case  
That can give Phar'o ansver, and in peace.  
Yet he inspired, the dreams, declares, and Clears  
By famine, and by Plenty, twice seav'ne years.  
The twice seav'ne Ears, and kine to years h'alloods  
Of want, and wealth to come, and then concloods  
With and divine devise, for to prevent  
Intime of fullness, famine Imminent.   

Genesis 41.  
When joseph had these Dreams exponed, and cleared  
Th'Egyptian Monarch hes, the man admeered.  
And second to himself, in all his Land  
Commits, to him the Care, and chief command.  
And herefore gave, his Signet, in a Sign  
To make him be obeyed nixt the King.  
In Linen pure, and purple, he is clad  
And through the Cities, and the Land is led.  
To have, of all men honour, and Respect.  
For so did Phar'o, Ordane, and direct.  
A pompous Chariot, caused the King provide  
For joseph nixt, the Royal one, to ride.  
For he will have him higher honours have  
Nor ever Egypt to a stranger gave.   

Genesis 41.  
THe years of plenty come, as was fore shown  
All Grain, and Corn, is in abundance growde.  
And as the Prophet joseph Prae expressed  
Above belief, in Egypt all Increst.  
joseph herefore, provides and doth praepare  
For the approaching penury, to spare.  
He herefore from, all Limits of the Lands  
To carry to the Cities, Corn, commands.  
Ye a from all hamlets, farms, and fields, for store  
T'abundance daily, he adds more, and more  
His wondrous wisdom, owerwent his years  
And in his prudent Providence apeeres.  
And so much wheat, and grain, together Masses  
That these all reakning, Counpt, and measure passes.   

Genesis 41.  
A Senath joseph wife is brought to bed  
And of tuo mailes tuo Tvins delivered  
This his Asenah daughter was to One  
Potipherah the Priest or Prince of O N  
Manasseth he hes named the elder Brother  
And Ephraim he called hes the other  
These names upon respects that moy'de him So  
(Declared into the Text) he grave these Tuo  
They both were borne before that Egypt found  
The fury of the famine in the Land  
And when that famine raged th' Egyptians rrn  
And cried and crawed some Corn from Phar'o than  
The King to joseph them directs, and he  
With sing'lar Prudence doth there want suplie.   

Genesis 42.  
THe force of famine o'er the earth incressed  
And entered jacobs' house and it distressed  
while prudently he to his Sons did say  
Why gare you so, and do amared stay  
I know in Egypt there is Corn herefore  
Take money go, and buy-for ws some store  
Lest that into the famine you and I  
And all our Household perish heir and dye  
They go to buy and joseph hes them known  
And questions them (but keeps himself wnshowne)  
They have one Brother more, and One is nought  
Said they, and joseph bids that he be brought  
There Silver secretly put in each, Sack  
Unknown they Carry to there Father bake  
But Simeon, a pledge dois their remane  
while they come back with Beniamine again.   

Genes. 43.  
WIth much entreating jacob mov'de did twin  
With his delight his dear Son Beniamine  
The Brether double moneys tack and go  
To Egypt for more Corn provided foe  
But Benjamin, when joseph sies he went  
And weep for joy so did his heart relent  
His brother Simeon than he hes in larged  
And the Commander of his house hes charged  
Some dainty fatlings for to kill and slay  
Since that these men should be his Guests that day  
Most librally h'intreats Them every Guest  
But Benjamin be fyve tyms by the rest  
His mess was more, because he was his Brother  
An urerein, and both borne be one Mother.   

Genes. 44.  
When joseph so had cherished Them he makes  
His chief o're-sier for to fill there Sack's  
And therein put the moneys that they had  
And in the Sack of Benjamin the Lad.  
Who was the least and youngest one of Those  
His moneys and his Silver Cup t'enclose  
Directed so, all done, by break of day  
They load there Asses and they went away  
The Cup is challenged and they promise all  
That he that hes it die therefore he shall  
Its fund with Benjamin then dolorous  
They all return again to josephs' house  
Whair juda for his liberty Entreats  
And all there former Conference repeats  
Last offers,  him a slawe to be  
Lest for his loss there Father jacob die.   

Genesis 45.  
NO longer joseph could his tears contain  
Vnbraking on't and bursting from his eyn  
Nor longer will delay nor be vushowne  
But make him there, to all his Brether known  
Then kissed he Benjamin and weeped for joy  
And kissed the rest in low and weeped also  
●oseph declaird that God had send him Thair  
For them in time of famine to Prepair.  
Then told they Phar'o that these Hebrew men  
Be josephs' Brether and were with him then  
Then Phar'o glade th' Egyptian king commands  
To bring there Father unto Egypt lands  
They told there Father joseph lives: and he  
Is glad to go and sie him o'er he die.   

Genesis 46.  
THen jacob journay took and rested next  
A T Beer-sheba says the sacred Text  
And sacrifird according to his word  
Unto th' Almighty Izaks loving Lord  
Who unto Isr'el did appear in sight.  
And called him jacob, jacob on the night  
Then said I am thy Father's God wherefore.  
To go to Egypt henceforth fear no more.  
I have a care of Thee and thy estate  
And there shall make Thee Multiply and Great  
I will go down and with Thee there remane  
And thence I shall re-bring thee back again.  
But there thou shall expire, depart and die  
And joseph there shall lock and louk thine eye.   

Genesis ●●●  
IAcob to Pharo gois in Egypt stays  
He numbers their and efter ends his days.  
And yet the famine did in Egypt rage  
And naught its fury did relent nor Suage.  
But cruelly both man and Beast did grieve them  
When they have nought to live on nor relieve them.  
The people when there Grain was gone they run  
And cries to joseph all their Coin was done  
Yet seek they Bread he tells Them they have store  
And he will sell them bread and corn therefore  
That spent Themselves there duelling Goods and ground  
They pass for food for they must needs befund  
So joseph bought for Corn all Egypt land  
And so did over Egypt all Command.   

Genesis 48.  
WHen aged israels dying day drew nigh  
A hundreth forty seven year old was he.  
josephs' two Sons are made unto him known  
Whom he acknoledgd and took as his own.  
To bless Them hestreached forth his hands, the Right  
On Ephrams' Head yet naught for want of Sight  
But purposely for Ephrame should be great  
And much surmonnt Manasseth in estate  
Doubtless the Lord commanded so the man  
Prophetically to bless these Brether than  
Then Is'rel said to Joseph now I die  
But God shall both protect and prosper Thee  
And to thy father's land from whence thou come  
To brook thy double Partage bring Thee home.   

Genesis 49.  
OLd jacob blesses all his Sons be name  
And one by one bestows it upon Thame.  
To Reuben and the Rest convened Thair  
What shall befall them efter did declair.  
To Juda he prophetically Told  
The Sceptre still he in his house should hold  
while Shiloch come that shall the people tie  
In efter times to him eternally  
To every one of Them his fate he shows  
And when he finds he fants and weaker grows  
He charged them then and made them all to swear  
To Mas-pelach his Body dead to bear  
And in his Father's country lay't in Grave  
Which is by Mamre into Abraham's cave.  
Then jacob in his Bed pulled up his feet  
Divinly ended and gave up his spirit.   

Genesis 50.  
With all pomp funeral in solemn sort  
The Sons of Jacob do his Corpse transpor  
●nd lays t'has balmed Body in a Grave  
●t Mach-pelach by Mamre in the Cave  
●hen joseph with his Brether back did go  
●et for there former fault they doubt him (though  
●e passed all there unkindness strenge)  
●hat now he would, take there, of Them revenge  
●ut godly joseph he assures them all  
●hat their unkindness he will never recall  
●ut nvr'she them as a father ever more  
●nd for there welfare still provide Them store  
●et swore he them and th'Hebrews their that they  
●is Bones should Bury where his fathers lay  
Then joseph old his childring sies  
And then in Peace this happy prophet dies.   

Genesis 50.  
PIvinly lowed joseph died when  
He aged was a hunger year and Ten  
A man whom God directed all his days  
And did advance him very wondrous ways  
A blessing for his Brether Sire and friends  
●ow'de and admit'de of Egypt all, he ends  
Then boveld was the Body with praetence  
To be transported by his Brether Thence  
As when he lay a dying they before  
At his desire Solemnly to him swore  
Yet to a fit time they thought it best  
To laid Imbalind in Egypt in a Chest  
while They from thence with honour might it have  
And bury it Into his father's grave.   

Exodus Chap. 1.  
IN Egypt Isr'el and his Sons all dead  
Yet there incredibly increfsd there seed  
For all Things ever hes incressed and stored  
That blessed hes been and favoured be the Lord  
while that it happened that there Regned a new  
An other King nor ever joseph knew  
Who hearing that the Hebrews their of few  
In so short time, to so great numbers grew  
And fearing that his peace they should perturb  
He minds to rain, and all there Courses curb  
With Tyresome Tasks, and working with there hands  
And for to bear brick burdens them commands  
To weary, wrack them and to keep them under  
But more and more they waxed unto his wonder.   

Exodus 1.  
TH' Egyptian sies there servile slaurie wile  
Gains naught, but what he greene's for, dois begvyle  
Then compassed he and casts an other course  
Naught better bontt a wickeder and worse  
He charged the midwyves, then that they, each boy  
Into the Birth should murder and destroy  
And if it were a maid than they should spair  
And kill none but a mail or manchyld their  
Perversely whair men are disposed to ill  
Means seldom wants for to affect there will  
Yet did they multiply and grew the more  
That thus to kill and cut them short they shore  
The women feared the Lord and did it nought  
Wherefore he prospered Them and with them wrought   

Exodus 1.  
THe Tyrant Phar'o finding that his will  
(The midvives merciful) did naught forth fill  
In killingh of the Hebrew nails: he did command  
All the Egyptian people in his Land  
That they no Hebrew female nor a maid  
Should once pursue to death drown nor invade  
For in his block-head-brain and wit unvise  
He thought no harm to him by These could rise  
But all the nails he bids (o cruel King)  
That in the River they, and flood should fling  
Which carelessly by cruel hearted men  
There instantly is executed Then  
To cut and curb th' incressnig afterward  
Of the true Ghrafts into the Lord's wineyard.   

Exodus 2.  
THe cruelty of the Egyptian Prence  
Made the Hebrew dames with piety dispense  
And with there pity and a tinder heart  
(Into th' outcasting of there Childring) part  
Lo as exemplified and wieulie hear  
In Moses exposition dois appear  
Left desolate alone the infant lay  
Expond to perish on the River Bray  
But God above compassion had and He  
Of Moses fate did otherwise decree  
And had resolved by his ministering hand  
To bring his israel out of Egypt Land  
In thrie months old he was cast out and after  
Was fund among the flags be Phar'os' daughter.   

Exodus 2.  
●He little Boy fund in a pitched Ark  
By God preserved for a worthy wark  
●●to one Hebrew nurse is gevin to feed  
〈◊〉 natural mother and his dame indeed  
●●w grew the child and then the Hebrew broght-him  
〈◊〉 Pharos daughter for her Son She thought him  
〈◊〉 Boy was lovely pleasant in her eye  
●●●d did indeed delight her greatumlie  
〈◊〉 called him Moses and her reason show  
●●●ause from water dying she him drew  
〈◊〉 God his safety wrought and brought about  
●●t none but Phar'os' child sold draw him out  
●o be a means agains her Father's mind  
●o safe a Salver of the Hebrew kind.   

Exodus 2.  
●Ow in those days when Moses waxed stroug  
To sie his Hebrew Brether thinking loug  
〈◊〉 went and See the Burdens that they buire  
〈◊〉 all th' indignities that they endure  
●●●ich could not bot molest and move his mind  
〈◊〉 Pity and compassion all inclined  
〈◊〉 when he sies where one Egyptian  
〈◊〉 boldly beat and hurt one Hebrew man  
●●●spights thereat and Separats them Twain  
〈◊〉 in revenge the Memphit man did slay  
●●●n waroly looked, lest any should him sie  
●●●by an other Hebrw sein was he  
●is Carcase then as he could with his hand  
●e buried there and hid it in the Sand.   

Exodus 2.  
●He second time went Moses forth an found  
Tuo Isralits' much at contentionn stand  
〈◊〉 for some sort of Odds and difference that  
〈◊〉 fallen betinxt them though he knws not what  
●●●he reweills the Smitter with rebooke  
〈◊〉 hardly with his Reprehension took  
〈◊〉 men incensed with fury hardly knaw  
themselves nor whom to they a duty awe)  
〈◊〉 said who made thee judge in this debate  
●●●vill thou kill me as thou killed of late  
〈◊〉 Egyptian here: so Moses clearly knew  
〈◊〉 it was known that he th' Egyptian slew  
〈◊〉 dreading further danger and for sear  
●e fled to Midian and Tarried their.   

Exodus 2.  
THe slaughter thus revealed King Pharo send  
Horsemen and foot To search and apprehend  
And bring him th'Hebrew Moses that had slain  
Yea eun in Egypt one Egyptian  
In the repairing wrong and righting than  
The injury done to one Hebrew man  
For Moses was the man that from above  
God in compassionn pity and his Love  
Had made and prae appointed for to be  
The instrument to set his people free  
But fear gave feet and feddred him his wing  
To post from peril of that Tyrant King  
And in his flight did by a fontane stay  
That in the field and land of Midian lay.   

Exodus 2.  
WHen Moses in his flight had rraveld long  
Ester the righting of the Hebrews wrong  
He wearied was, with walking on the way  
Thearfoir to ease him is constrained to stay  
And while he rests him at a fontane than  
Seav'ne daughters of the Priest of Midian  
Come to that Cistern and these springing Rocks  
For to refresh and water there their flocks  
But then come herdsmen, haunting their, and they  
Unmannerly, would dryve these maids away  
And stubbornly, debarr them for to bring  
The needful waters, from that running spring  
But Moses did them from encumbrance keep  
And watered all there Goats and flocks of Sheep.   

Exodus 2.  
THe virgins from the well reverted tell  
What with the Shepherds their to Them befell  
Who would not suffer them in any Case  
With these there flocks t'approach unto that place  
And how a man they by the fontane found  
That did withhold from them the heards-mens' hand  
And drew there water in their Troghs and Cuds  
That did suffice to water all there Goods  
There father taxed them then that they had nought  
Him that had help them so home with them brought  
They went and brought him and there father when  
He came, most kindly did entreat the man  
Then of these Daughter's Se'vne he gives him one  
Zipporah called and she bore him a Sun.   

Exodus 2.  
●N tract of Time the King of Egypt dies  
And th' Israleits in bondage Sighs and cries  
And these there Groans and cries that they were wont  
To spire, and spend, up to the hauns did monr  
Sprang through the air, the Clouds in sunder tears  
And enters all in the Almighty's ears  
He knows there Carces, there Griefs, regrats, and groans  
And will have mind and mercy on there moans.  
His Covenant kint with, his Servands' kind  
Abraham and his Sons he hes in mind  
●o looked the Lord upon their Stress extreme  
And shortly shall send Comfort unto Thame  
For all that trust in him and cry for aid  
He will support them as himself hes Said.   

Exodus 3.  
●N Horeb monr where Moses used to keep  
His father Iethroes herds and flocks of sheep  
The Angel of the Lord there did appear  
●nto a Bush un-brunt, but burning clear  
And did with sundry Circomstances sho  
That he will have him Into Egypt go.  
For he had heard his Servands long in Thrall  
There Sighs, there sorrow's grief and Groan all)  
●nto proud Phar'o the Egyptian King  
from thence his Hebrew Israleits to bring  
oppressed with bearing brick in burdens still  
●o satisfy a Tyrant's wicked will  
He said he sold Insttuct him what to say  
And plague all Egypt if he disobey.   

Exodus 3 & 4.  
HEre Moses doubts and hardly will believe  
That th'israelites will credit to him give  
●or trust said he that from a living flame  
●y Lords command to me his servand came  
●or that my Lord would make me messenger  
●o be the Israleits deliverer  
●hen said the Lord what is that in thy hand  
●e ansverd him and said it was a wand  
●ast thou it down said he, and lo the form  
word● grown a Serpent or a creeping worm  
〈◊〉 an tack it by the tail and thou shall sie  
●●●●mrne a Rod and now no Serpent be  
〈…〉 said he in thy Bosom thrust thy hand  
〈◊〉 dravinged forth he it a leprous found  
〈◊〉 ●once again he says Thrust thou it in  
〈◊〉 ●●aks it forth a fresh flesh coloured skin  
Go fordward then and these 〈…〉 he Signs  
That there belief and creded with them brinpes.   

Exodus 4.  
YEt Moses would eschew and fain would fly  
This noble Charge and to the Lord said he  
I am nought eloquent and want of it  
And my slove tongue makes me therefore unfit  
The Lord with Moses he was angry then  
And said to him● who gave a mouth to man  
But I, go then and I will gwe The speech  
And thee there all what thou should say shall teach  
Yet once more Moses heirabout contests  
And one moresit to send the Lord requests  
The Lord then weary wrath wit him did say  
Do I naught know thy Brother by the way  
The Levit A'ron thou shall meet who shall  
Speak wnto Phar'o and delyver all.   

Exodus 4.  
THen Moses went and did with Ara'on meet  
That graciously each other gladly greet  
Then past to Egypt and together call  
The heads of every house of Isr'el all  
Ar'on the Love of God wnto them their  
With there delw'rance quickly, doth declare  
Of all the words that God to Moses spoke  
He doth to Them a true rehcarsall make  
And in there presence with a wounding eye  
Strange wounders wrought among them there they sie  
The miracles that God to Mofes show  
He did them in there presence all of new  
Then they belewed confirmed in there mind  
And all to worship bowed and inclined.   

Exodus 5.  
MOses and Aa'ron unto Phar'o gois  
And the almighty's mind and message shois  
Commanding that his people long in stress  
He would let go wnto the wilderness  
To him there Lord the God almighty that  
They might a feast solemnly celebrat  
No but King Pharo hardened had his heart  
And would not suffer Isr'al thence to pairt  
But spightfullie commanded dowblie more  
To make there tasks nor they had bein before  
The people with Moses and with Ar'on than  
IT expostulat and for to grudge began  
And herefore Moses dois to God regrate  
(Since he with Pharaoh dealt) there worse estate.   

Exadus 7.  
THe men of God to Ph●●● gois again  
And profits nothing with that Prince profane  
He will not grant the people nor accord  
To let them go and offer to the Lord  
For deepl' endured and hardened is his hart  
That he will naught permit them to departed  
The Prophets than their Budding Rods down throws  
And their the miracles to Pharo shows  
Then strak they Nile, 
1. Plague.  Egypt's enriching flood  
And it turned Tart black and in bitter Blood  
Th' Egyptian Magis with there charmed Rods  
Will so work wounders to there pagan Gods  
But as there rods turned Serpents creeps and Crall  
The living rod of Aaron cates them all.   

Exadus 8.  
PRoud pharoh's hart yet stiff and steeled did stand  
That it no ear could give to God's command  
Nor be brought to believe though he had sein  
His might in miracles befoir his eyen  
Wherefore he sent past number numberless  
Infinite frogs all Egypt to distress 
2. Plague.   
So that these noisome Things Innumerable  
Crept up on Pharos Bed and Pharos table  
Yea naught a foot of field in Egypt be  
That from these all defyling frogs is free  
Than Pharo Moses dois entreat that he  
Would pray to God and make these frogs all die  
Moses requested be King Pharo prays  
And heard, the Lord these frogs consumes and slays   

Exodus 8.  
TO Pharos hart such cursedness still cleaves  
That naught his wont hardness yet it leaves  
The wounders wrought so visible and strange  
His marble mind did nevir mint to change  
But quit of these again his hart he arms  
And Aaron smott the dust and lice in swarms 
3. Plague.   
Through Egypt all (Goshen except) increst  
And multiplied o'er all on man and beast  
King Pharos Magi and Enchamters too  
Assay to bring forth Lice but nought could do●  
Then they enforced before King Phar'o brought  
Acknowledge that the Lord these wounders wrought  
Yet Pharos hardened hart and wicked will  
Endured remained and stiff continued still.   

Exodus 8.  
THen on 〈…〉 the Lord sent flight's of flies  
That non the clouds for Clusters of them sies 
4. Plague   
On men and beasts on house and sields they fall  
And merv'lously they multiply on all  
Yet was the Hebrews Goshen (to record)  
Free from the plague praeserved be the Lord  
The flinty hearted. Pharo now espies  
That on his Land Gods heavy judgement lies  
And he no power no, nor means had man  
That Egypt from that Curse delyver can  
Therefore (constrained) Moses to pray commands  
An dhe t'entreat the Lord holds up his hands  
God heard his prair and then the flies depart  
But hardened yet holds out King Phar'os' hart.   

Exodus 9  
THe fist Time Moses Pharo doeth demand  
To suffer Israel to departed his Land  
Bur hardened is his hart, Endured in ill  
Herefore the Lord a Morame sent to kill  
The beasts of every kind through Egypt all 
5. Plague   
But naught a beast in Goshen perish shall  
And all one day that be in Egypt bounds  
The forceful finger of the Lord confounds  
The herds and flocks in field the fowls that fly  
The Camel and the Colt dropped done and dye  
This mighty Moram in th' almighty's wraeths  
All Bestial Bands in Egypt dryves to death  
But Pharos hart is hardened yet the faster  
And still stays th' Ebrews to go serve there master.   

Exodus 9  
FOr Pharos stubborn and hard heartedness  
With scab and Boatch the Lord will Egypt press  
And heirfore he the Prophets both commands  
In th' Aer to throw some ashes from there hands  
Which shortly efter into dust did turn  
And Man and Beast with Boatch and Blisters burn 
6. Plague   
That neither of these kinds therefrom was free  
But therewith, all, and each, o'er plastred be  
Then flew from heav'ne fire thunder hail and Rain 
7. Plague   
That mightily plague's all upon the plain  
And yet where Isra'l is in Goshen Land  
The earth and aer but storms unstressed stand  
Now Pharo sies his Sin and Egypt's grief  
And prays the Prophets pray for there relliefe  
And promises to let the people Go  
Yet hardens his hart and efter dois not so.   

Exodus 10.  
Endured Pharo wilful yet with stands  
And God sent Grasshoppers in Egypt Lands 
●. Plague   
Of these innumerable numbers Than  
The earth o'recoverd from the sight of man  
And all the herbs, that hail and thunder left  
Like hungry Harpies they ray up and reft  
So that nothing in Egypt growing green  
Nor blade nor leaf they vnconsumed was sein  
Pharo again doth for to grant begin  
Agains the Lord his wickedness and Sin  
Imploring Moses to the Lord to pray  
That he his wraeth would from that land allay.  
Moses then prayed and to the Lord inclined  
Who sent a strong stiff gall, and western wound  
Which those Grasshoppers to the Sea did post  
That none was sein on all th' Egyptian coast  
But God endured the hart of Phar'o So  
That yet he let's the Isralits' to Go.   

Exodus 10.  
THe Lord to Moses his command hes given  
For to stretch out his hands up towards heaun  
That darkness on the land without all light  
For thrie days may wrap Egypt in one night 
●. Plague   
Obedient Moses lifting up his fist  
The Land is all oremantled with a mist  
And dreadful darkness is o'er Egypt spread  
And all with thick and pitchy clouds o'recled  
So palpably and gross the darkness shows  
That what to do or whair to go none knows  
All buried as in night and darkness lies  
But light of day or sight of cheerful skies  
Than Pharo seemed content that th'Hebrews they  
Except there cattles should go all away  
In Goshen yet whair israel liw'de was light  
Delightful day and undistemperd night  
To be a witness that the Lord was their  
He keeped untroubled both the earth and aer  
But God the Lord ty is Pharos hart up so  
That he the Hebrews hinders yet to go.   

Exodus 12.  
WHen God had promised Israel to enlarge  
He institute the Passower and did charge  
With circumstances for to eat the Lamb  
As he apoynts and had ordained the same  
Moses and Aaron he directs to tell  
Unto his Congregation Israel  
How ewrie nou●●●old or the 〈…〉  
To eat the ●asso're sold itself prepair  
With girded Loins kint Shoes and staff in hands  
Andwhen they kill their Lambs to stroke commands  
There liutels with the Blood that shall record  
The Passover of the Angel of the Lord  
Which Israls saifety did foreshow, aright  
And Egypt's first borne slaughter, the nixt night.   

Exodus 12.  
AT midnight or the dawning of the Morn  
The Angel of the Lord killed the first Borne 
10 Plague   
Of man and beast that then in Egypt Iwde  
Non then was spaird nor from that Plague reprieved  
But those of that of the house of Isra'l be  
From all the Ten plagues they were fenced and free  
No house there was in Egypt from the East  
But there in killed was one unto the west  
The mempheits moan, there maest and murnfull cry  
Upon the morn rose up and reathched the skies  
When they before them their stark dead and cold  
There first borne man and beast streatched out behold  
They unto Pharo madly roaring rin  
And tells what God onthere first borne had done  
They pray him than that he will favour sho  
At last and at the people of Isral Go.  
To adore and serve there God or certanly  
They for his Induration all should dye,   

Exodus 12.  
Pvnished with plagues and be the people pressd  
Pharo at last for there relief thought best  
To let the people pas then did the Brether call  
And thence commands them with there Ebrews all  
The Prophets than conveines them moir and less  
And altogether to depairt address  
while willingly th' Egyptians to them gave  
What of there wealth, and riches, they would have  
Jewels, gold, and Garments than they borrow  
Against there great Migration on the morrow  
And then they plenishd with th' Egyptian spoil  
Dislodge to leave and march from memphit soil  
In numbered men six hundreth thou sand Lives  
Besyds there strangers Childring and there wives.   

Exodus 13.  
TH' almighty God Jehove the Hebrew Bands  
To celebrat a public feast commands  
In memory and in remembrance  
Of that there wonderful deliverance  
〈…〉 And that they should in efter times to come  
All the first borne that open shall the womb  
The mail of man and beast allenarlie  
To him their Lord as his still Sanctify  
And on that day wnto there Sons declair  
What he the Lord ten times did for them their  
Unto that Tyrannous hard hearted King  
When he from Bondage did there Fathers bring.   

Exodus 13.  
DEad josephs' bones in Egypt long before  
Moses transports that israel sometime swore  
Wnto him when infirm himself he found  
To bury Them into the promised Land  
God led them nought the ways that nearest are  
Lest the Philistines in there march make war  
But th' Ebrews armed that wise Conductor he  
Brought them about the shores of the red sea  
And in a Cloud before Them he be day  
Through defart wilderness directs there way  
And lest they strayed and through long trawell Tyre  
By night he lights them with a flame of fire.  
The Cloud nor Colum never went away  
Alternatly but passed before them ay.   

Exadus 14. & 15.  
WHen gone away was israel God procured  
That Pharos hart was hardened and Endured  
So that he stirs and Egypt armed all  
Perforce the Hebrew Camp for to recall  
And heirfore with, his people posts a pace  
As he were of a flying foe in chase  
The Hebrews fear, when they see Pharo Budge  
And all aghast, against there Guider grudge  
He prays, and God commands to Rod the Sea  
That shall give way, and soon divided be  
Moses did so, and th'Hebrews saife and sound  
Past trogh but all th'Egyptians there are drowned  
Israel then, in praise, with one accord  
A thankful Song, with joy, song to the Lord.   

Exodus 15.  
HEre Miriam the matron Prophetess  
Unto the Lord her thankful praise t'express  
Holds up a sounding Timbrel in her hands  
Backed with the Beauties of the Hebrev Bands  
And sweitly singing all there woyces raise  
A Psalm of Triumph and a Song of Praise  
〈…〉  
On Pharo, his Egyptians, and Those  
That durst to him and his profess them foes  
His mighty powar in that Song is shown  
Whereby the horse and Riders as o'rethrowne  
And all confounded that from Egypt came  
With horror terror dreudfull death and shame.   

Exodus 15.  
When Isral was from Pharos forces fred  
To desert Sur, Moses there guided, them led  
Whair in that waist, and wilderness thrie days  
All as they passed but drink or water stays  
To Marah than they came, whair bitterness  
Of waters their, there Palates much oppress  
They plain and Moses much perplexed in Spreit  
Cries and the Lord converts these lour to sweit  
God them enjoins th'observing of his Laws  
And unto Them his Ordinances shawes  
Which give they keep and do then he will nought  
Plague Them with These that he on Egypt brought  
I am the Lord said he that can disease  
Bring when I will and heal it when I please.   

Exodus 15.  
THan they removed and come to Elim land  
Whair fontans tvelf and seauntie Palms they found  
A proper place, as pleasant profitable  
Into there journay for to ease them able  
The Lord there Pames with pleasure he will mix  
And try there patience these, extremes betuix  
Now they abundance have, anon a●●skant  
And God again, with wealth repays there want  
The Lord his own he proofs but naught to perish  
And as he checks so he his Saints shall cherish  
In Marah tart there water was but hear  
In Elim it was healthsome sweit and clear  
And there the pleasant Palm's, the dainty date  
Into all plenty offers them to eat.   

Exodus 16  
FRom Elim Isra'l gois and enters in  
The Deserts and the wilderness of Sin  
That is tvix Elim and mont-Sinai placed  
A hill so oft with God's great presence graced  
Into the second month the fiftenth day  
Of there Migration heir arrived they  
The people murmur and for hunger cry  
And wext the worthy Moses woundrously  
〈…〉  
And therefore said to Moses he should rain  
Bread from the heaun and that of such a size  
That daily night and should there wants suffice  
In this to them the Lord did show his Love  
And by such means there thankfulness would prove.   

Exodus 16.  
MOses and Aaron t'Isr'el said you shall  
This night know God from Egypt brought you all.  
The Glory of your God again said They  
●ow all shall sie the morn when it is day  
Whair you shall wiew if that you be not blind  
●is kindness unto you, so oft to him unkind  
Your bold Repining and your grudge he  
●e hairs agains himself, for naught are we  
●et in all plenty and abundance great  
●e from the Aer shall give you flesh to eat  
●he flesh at night a blast of wind shall bring  
●nd bread it shall come when the day shall spring  
Then like the Rain and thickest showers of hail  
Among there Tents in fleets down came the quail.   

Exodus 16.  
Again the Glory of the Lord divine  
And goodness with the Sun did to them shine  
〈◊〉 when the dew was dried on the Ground  
●canded Ball small like hoar frost was fund  
●nd nevir sein before that heaunly Rain  
●coverd all and Tapestry the Plain  
●nd when the people of Israel saw it than  
●●ey said one to one other it was MAN  
●●t knew it naught although they gawet a name  
●●t it, was, the Bread, praepard for Thame  
●●ses declared; a grain shourd down from heaven  
〈◊〉 from there God t'apease there Grudging geaune  
Which every one should gather it and use  
As God's commandment direct them dois.   

Exodus 16.  
●Hill Manna on the ground before them lay  
Together it God hes prescrywed the way  
〈◊〉 it appointed hes for their repast  
〈◊〉 but on day and for no more to last  
●●ept such as was gathered on the sixth  
●●serve the Sabbath that succeeded nixt  
〈◊〉 some was dissobedient and brak  
〈◊〉 Statutes that God thereanent did make  
〈◊〉 did o'er night some pocked up in store  
●●ugnant to he Law geune on't before  
He could naught, would naught wiew there ways perverts  
But in the morning they have fund it stank  
And full of worms with smell and savour Rank.   

Exodus 16.  
THe Saboth sacred to the Lord orda'nd  
And nought to be with weekly works profaned  
To bake and seethe all on the sixth he dois  
Command, that they would on the seunt day use  
And yet ungrateful Israleits some go  
Together Manna and profaned it so  
When they should worship as the Lord commands  
And naught work as they weekly wrought with hands  
while Moses checks and chyds and dois them shaw  
Debording thus there breaking of the Law  
And then seveirly charged Israll wholly  
T'observe for eur the seav'nt, the Saboth holy  
And in remembrance to observe it ay  
Israel since hes rested the seunt day.   

Exodus 16.  
MOses conform to God's command and will  
Of MAN bids Aron then one Omer fill  
Unto the end that efter it may be  
Preserved and shown to our posterity  
(This man was like Cor'ander seed almast  
But white resembling wafers in the Taste)  
That it the Bread was that there Fathers fed  
Into the wilderness when they were fred  
From thraldom by the Lords almighty hand  
That they were under into Egypt Land  
Then Aaron did, as Moses did direct  
And filled one Omer full to that effect  
Then placed it in the Testimon' or Ark  
To be thereof for'ever more a mark.   

Exodus 17.  
THe camp from Sin to Riphidim remowes  
That there much pain for want of water proves  
And therefore murmur mutiny and grudge  
Yea dois agains the Prophets Brag and budge  
All into ire, hot fury, rage and wraeth  
Ready to rise to stone him straght to daeth  
Then Moses mov'de did at there crying cry  
To god, and he advisd him by and by  
That he in Horeb with his Rod sold smit  
The Rock of Riphidim and then from it  
Sold come a current and a fontane fall  
To queuch there thirst and satisfy them all  
〈…〉  
He aids them still in there distressed-state.   

Exodus 17.  
PRoud Amalek of Esaus of spring one  
To fight with Isral drew his army on  
And when they over at Riphidim ariv'de  
To josua the Powar was prescrived  
And unto him was all the war commit  
The manner and the managing of it  
while Moses went with Aron and with Hur  
To Horebs head before the armeis' stur  
Where Moses lifting up his hands did pray  
And His prewaild while holdm up were they  
But while they heavy waxed and weary than  
Th' Amalekets prewaild o'er came and wan  
But when these tuo suports his hands, in fight  
Then Amalek was foiled and put to slight.   

Exodus 18.  
IEthro the Priest or Prince of Midian  
Zipporas Sire Moses Good-father Than  
Herd how the Hebrews, God from Egypt brought  
And what by Moses there for Them he wrought  
Herefore resolves and doth himself address  
Whair with his wife and Childring Moses meet  
And gladly other kiss salute and Greet  
To Jethro Moses then doth truly tell  
What God in Egypt wrought for Israel  
Than jethro joyful for so fair effects  
He humbly glad his holy hart erects  
And altars as the use was he dois raise  
To worship God on and to offer praise.   

Exodus 18.  
NOw when that jethro Moses sitting Saw  
Discussing causes by the Course of Law  
Considering by the weighty Charge his pains  
That in discharging thereof he sustains  
He with a judgement solid deep and wise  
His sone in law thus Moses doth advise  
Thou cumbered are discussing every cause  
Therefore show Them the ordinance and Laws  
And stand before and to the Lord velate  
The manner of each Mater and the State  
Then some among the people pick and chnise  
That t'ease you in your judgements you may use  
Men fearing God and men of courage all  
That with you justly judge in Isr'el shall.   

Exodus 19  
THe Israleits from Riphidim arose  
And marching fordward to Mount-Sinai gois  
And at the holy Sacred montane They  
Stint all there Tents incamp them their and stay  
But Moses called be the Lord ascends  
And humbly there his will and pleasure tends  
Who charged him to Israel to say  
Give they his woice will hear, and words obey  
They shall be his by a renewed Birth  
Beyond all people spiring on the earth  
Th' Almighty's mind then Moses doth declare  
And bids the people purif ' and prepare  
There Spirits. there persons, clothing and array  
And Sanctiffe them all for the third day.   

Exodus 19  
THe Prophet Moses as the Lord appoints  
Commands the people for to clang there jointes  
And clothing wash that then they all may be  
Pure in the presence of th' all piercing eye  
For lo the Lord the third day efter shall  
Be seen on Sinai mont before them all  
And straight charges Them charged be the Lord  
That none march up the mont nor tonche its Board  
And if they do, as lives the Lord said he  
That Soul shallbe persd through and surely die  
The people then preparing all aright  
T'apeare more pure in the Almighty's Sight  
They went not to there wives but did abstain  
From all that could pollute Them or profane.   

Exodus 19  
Upon the third day as the Lord foreshow  
Long, Shrill and from above the Trumpet blew  
The people trembling and with Terror stands  
By Sinais border holding up there hands  
Deafened there ears, with thunder from the skies  
And with the lightning dazzled are there eyes.  
For statlie Sinais sacred Top was all  
Clad with a crown of fire and burning Ball  
But that shrill sounding Trump and thundering noise  
Is drowned and deafened with a stronger woice  
That from the Montane in the waley roars  
And through the Breasts of Isral brakes and Boars  
From Gods own sacred month with dreadful awe  
while he to Moses there dois gwe his Law.   

Exodus 32.  
while holy Moses on the moan. attended  
The Lords directions humbly bovved and bended  
The people murmured that Moses stayed  
And from the mont so lonh delayed  
Wherefore they ran to Aaron and implore him  
Yea cried to give them Gods to go beforethem  
Thus that they knew not, they did cry and call  
What of thai Moses was become at all  
He bids, and they Obey, and to him brings  
There golden Bracelets and there wiwes earrings  
Thereof he casts a Calf and efter raised  
Ane Altar to be put upon and praised  
Ingrateful all forgetting too too soon  
What God for there Deliverance had done  
But (disobedient) unto that Calf or kow  
Nor it more brutish, they do bend or bow.   

Exodus 32.  
T'Idolatrize the people rudly rin.  
And Aaron rashl' assents unto there Sin  
while Moses with the Lord on Sinai mont Sits  
Their bad blind-zeal Idolatry commits  
For to that Idol that was made before  
Out of there Yewels and there earrings store  
They raise one Altar where upon dois stand  
The Calf that Aaron fashoud with his hand  
And on the morn the people offerings bring  
And sacrifice unto that senseless Thing  
while God above wrath unto Moses says  
Thy people lo perverted have there ways  
Therefore be gone my wraeths waxed hot, doth fume  
And shall in it, Them for his slip consume  
But Moses prayed and did God's favour find  
That he from th' ill he meant them changed his mind.   

Exodus 32.  
THere God foregottin and Religion true  
The host debord to drink and dancing drew  
And most prophanly when there Phyfes did sound  
●bout there Idol they did trip a round  
●o more remembering God that so much wrought  
When he from Egypt them and bondage brought  
●hey sit affecting error and the Truth disgust  
●●d dalts in them there own desires and lust  
●ow they are random run with a loose rain  
●nd at there pleafir they will prove profane  
〈◊〉 they will naught be bund nor longer live  
●biect unto the Law that God did give  
But they will worship Gods of there own gold  
As vanely they conceit off vnconrolled.   

Exodus 32.  
WHen Moses prayer had Gods wraeth revoked  
That high and hotly 'gainst the people smoked  
He from the Lord and montans' top did draw  
With those two sacred Tables of the Law  
Which he did carry be the Lords command  
Wreit with the holy finger of his hand  
But when descended with his ears and eyes  
The people all profaned he hears and sies  
And in the Camp the Calf erected Hylas  
His wraeths began to wax and fiercely fry  
His hart could naught th' Abomnation bear  
But with a holy divine anger there  
Which there trespass in him did move and make  
He threw the Tabels down and both he brak   

Exodus 32.  
YEt did naught Moses wraeth and Ire heir end  
But further yet it flew and did extend  
That golden Calf that for there God they chuisd  
He break it boldly and to powder bruised  
And pulverizd to apprehend the Sin  
The more, he made the people drink it In  
His brother nixt rebuikes and much missaid-him  
And for th'abuse did to his face, up braid-him  
That he had suffered Isral to begin  
And slide in such Idolatrous a Sin  
Than he this fault profane to expiate  
The Sons of Levi he together gatt  
And armed with the sword they kill and slay  
And with thrie thousand Hebrews straved the way   

Exodus 32 and 33.  
THe morning come Moses to israel says  
Foul is your fall erronions was your ways  
And men of israel ye Gods wrath do mass  
Agains your persons for your proud Trespass  
Yet I will once ascend t'assay and sie  
If his displeasure I can pacify  
Up moses went before the Lord and falls  
Doune on the Ground and then for mercy calais  
Confessing there that Isrels Sins was great  
Yet for there pardon he doth humbly treat  
And wishes rather that his name shall be  
Rasd from the Books of Life ev'rlastingly  
Then Israls brak and Dissobedience  
Be naught forgeun them and there foul offence  
●●r Lo Almighty Lord thy mercies here  
〈◊〉 to thy people's Pardon shall appear  
Yet God was greud and angry that they had  
The golden Calf and molten Image made.   

Exodus 33.  
THe Prophet in the Tabernacle walks  
And with the Lord familiarly Talks  
●ho unto him dois intimat his will  
●nd shows his Angel shall Guide Isra'l still  
●●at shall the accursed Cananeits out cast  
●nd lay't for them his people of Israll waist  
●●e Hittites, Hivits, Amorits and all  
●●us and Perizzits they perish shall  
●●t Isral sad, and sorrowful did sho  
●●at God himself denied with Them to Go  
●●en Moses to march up the Lord commands  
●●ith all the people to the promised Lands  
That to there father Abram long before  
And since unto his Seed to give he svore.   

Exodus 33.  
Unto the Lord humbly did Moses pray  
From th' Host his Ire to pacis ' and allay  
●●d in his mercies for to make it known  
●●at he there God and they were all his own  
●●e Lord than his petitions did approve  
●●d grants Them in his favour and his love  
〈◊〉 more to sie (hot with a holy fire)  
〈◊〉 glory of the Lord he doth desire  
●hich God likewise did grant him of his Grace  
〈◊〉 none could live (he said) and sie his face  
〈◊〉 in a rocky cloven God hes him placed  
●●d show his bake-Partes as he by him paced  
Part of his Glory in the going by  
He doth permit his Moses to espy.   

Exodus 34.  
●He Lord again commands that Moses hue  
For those he brak, Two other Tables new  
●●ereon he will with his own finger grave  
〈◊〉 self same precepts that before he gave  
●●ses the morn with Them the mont ascends  
〈◊〉 in a Cloud from Heaune the Lord descends  
〈◊〉 there before him stood and did proclaim  
〈◊〉 Lords almighty and Eternal name  
〈◊〉 the went and passed before his face  
〈◊〉 strong, most merciful, and full of Grace  
〈◊〉 is the Lord but Rigour fraught with Ruthe  
〈◊〉 slow of goodness full and Truth  
Wherefore my precepts keep that I Command  
This day and you shall have the holy land.   

Exodus 34.  
WHen God Almighty on the holy hill  
His mind to Moses had declared and will  
When he had fully fasted forty days  
(For he none less upon Mont-Sinai stays)  
The Lord dismisd him from the mont again  
And he descends directly to the plain  
The Princes of the people go to Greet  
And mirthfully there Captane Moses meet  
But when his face transfigurd they look on  
And sies that by the wonted sort it shone  
They are afraid and dread for to draw near  
And in his shining presence to appear  
But Moses called Them than they and he  
And Aaron talk together tenderly.   

Exodus 34.  
THe Prophet speaking with the Prince's heir  
The people aproatch and do them draw near  
But Moses for the shining of his face  
He is constrained to covert in that place  
So beautiful and brightly there it shone  
That no eye durst behold nor looks thereon  
But wailed as he there in there presence stands  
He carefully declares the Lords commands  
That on Mont-Sinai he received be word  
Of mouth from God the everliving Lord  
And these Directions charging Them that they  
For eur observe and never disobey  
Upon the peril that's pronunced and more  
If they do fall as have used before.   

Exodus 36. & 25.  
THe westments and the wessels necessare  
That for the daily worship useful are  
The Lord will have them fashoud formed and framed  
As they shall efter noted be and named  
The Ark shallbe of Cedar Shittim wood  
Without corrupting durabill and good  
Lined well within and all without over Rolld  
With well wrought and engraune Plates of Gold  
The Cloth and Carpet for the Covenant  
To make it beautiful and Bellishant  
It shallbe silver silk and scarlet wool  
Embroidered bravely and made beautiful  
With Barrs ingrossed in Gold and Golden Rings  
Whereon when it transported is, it hinges.   

Exodus 37. & 25.  
THe Seat propitiatarie and the place  
Where God in mercy should appear and Grace  
●●d whence should ishe his Oracles divine  
〈◊〉 will have made of purest gold and fine  
●hose length tuo Cubits and an half should be  
●●d half an less in breadth ordaned He  
●●o Cherubims of tried Gold likewise  
〈◊〉 cowered with there wings he did devise  
●●d these he hes appointed for to place  
〈◊〉 one oposit to the Others face  
●here efter, should betuix there wings be gev'en  
●●we truethfull ansvers from the God of Heaven  
●●ich mercy Seat his Statutes do Command  
●ove the golden crowned Ark to stand  
Because decreed he had and did ordane  
The Testimony therein to remain.   

Exodus 37. & 25.  
●Almightie Moses for to make commands  
Of Shittim wood, with cunning Craftesmens' hands  
●●ised for his worship wenerable  
〈◊〉 set Shewbread thereon a gold-clade Table  
●●ose wright work wrought and fitly formed and mad  
●●s all with gold ingraune and over-laide  
●●d all above well fashioned and fret  
●olden Crown like stour de luces set  
〈◊〉 length thereof set down, and hight, and bread  
〈◊〉 these Supra noted Chapters Read  
●hes caused likewise Goblets make of Gold  
●fumes and Incense to preserve and hold  
And Show Bread set upon that Tabled Board  
Eternally to offer to the Lord.   

Exodus 37. & 25.  
●He Lord likewise heir Moses doth direct  
For Lights a Luminare for to erect  
Candlestick as we may know be ours  
●●ose bowing Branches seaune, bears up, seaun flowers  
●●carie lights of flaming fires to be  
●●pes in the Sanctuar' Incressantlie  
●●ose mettle shall be of the purest Gold  
〈◊〉 Bowls that shall about the Branches fold  
〈◊〉 ●●oures, and Base, that bears upon the Ground  
〈◊〉 so be of the fynnest to be fund  
〈…〉 and Snuff-dishes likewise Too  
〈…〉 be made, as God had shown him, how  
〈…〉 it thereon seaun lamps ay burning Bright  
〈…〉 to that, that is before it, Light   

Exodus 37 & 30.  
BEzaleel of Shittim wood he takes  
And thereof, their the Incense Altar makes  
A cubit long in Length, the Breadth, so right  
But raised higher Tuo, it was in height  
About, it crowned was, with gold above  
The Lords command and Artes-mans' Art t'approve  
Round Barrs, and rings, but gualther's framed square  
With gold wark garnished and o'er laid all whair  
The Cupes that should perfumes and Incense hold  
They were also of pure and perfect Gold  
The pure perfumes and pleasant Incense too  
He hes composed as th' Apothecars do  
And therewith filled, and fird, the Censers Thair.  
Whose sugared smell, pierced and perfurnd the aer.   

Exodus 38. & 27.  
THe Altar of brunt offerings offereth next  
To be entreated of into the Tex  
Bezaleel by Moses so much praised  
To build began and entered, up to raised  
Of Shittim wood the Bulk or Body was  
And all o'reclad with coverlets of Brass  
Five Cubits long, five Cubits broad: and hie  
This Altar was, no more at all, but thrie  
And all the Instruments, that there be named  
And fit therefore, of Beaten Brass was framed  
Also the Grate, that stood within it He  
Knits like a net of wire most Cunningly  
A Lav'r likewise he of the women's Glasses  
Made: that the best, of Brass, for brightness passes   

Exodus 39 & 28.  
A Aron the Priest's apparel they prepare  
A goodly Garment glorious and fair  
Th' Ephod of Gold blue silk and scarlet Read  
Of Linen pure and purple for his head  
The gold is wrought in wire and leanid out long  
To Show and set it these silkworks among  
Embroidered were the Shoulders rund about  
And curiously with needle knots cast out  
On every side thereof one Onyx stone  
They set engraven with Israls' name thereon  
Which on the Shoulders of the Ephod stands  
To bear a Record of the Lords commands  
A Breast plate more they make the form four square  
A piece of gold exceeding rich and rare  
And thereupon enchase four rows at once  
Of pure, imprysable and precious stones.   

Exodus 40.  
GOd th' all director Moses doth direct  
To rear the Tabernacle and it erect  
And all the Appertenances that pertained  
Unto it to adduce them, he Ordained  
Into the first of months on the first day  
He should it raise and longer nought delay  
And as enjoined he was he thereto bringers  
The Ark and all the other holy Things  
And with the Veil wrought with embroidered wark  
He covered closely and over-waild the Ark  
Also he brought as order did require  
The Table too and lights the Lamps with fire  
Aaron investes his Sons, anoints Them too  
And what to serve, God should be done, did do.   

Exodus 40.  
THus, this was done, into the second year  
Efter that They from Egypt did reteere  
The Tabernacle seized then Moses came  
And set the Testimony in the same  
Then with the veil he hes it closely up shut  
●ow soon the Ark therein was placed and put  
●he merciseate above the Ark he placed  
●hat with a Coronet of Gold was graced  
●he Laver set Moses and Aaron both  
●ith his two Sons to wash them therein goeth  
●nd than the court upread enclosing round  
Whairon the Tabernacle stood) the Ground  
●oses at last the veil hung up lats fall  
〈◊〉 in this work he finished hes all  
And God above into a Cloud did hover  
And all the work did over-vail and cover.   

Exodus 40.  
while as the Lord into a cloud above  
The Tabernacle abode and did naught move  
●hair the most glorious Glory of the Lord  
●he Tabernacle filled all up and stored  
〈◊〉 that for Moses their there was no place  
〈◊〉 full of majesty divine and grace  
●●ere was a presence heaunly and divine  
〈◊〉 there the Glory of the Lord did shine  
〈◊〉 when the Sun and day was down: the Cloud  
〈◊〉 o'er the Ark and Tabernacle stood  
〈◊〉 aproatching of the night a none  
〈…〉 of fire streams and clearly shone  
〈◊〉 as by day into the darkest night  
〈◊〉 camp was clear and in a lamp of light   

Exodus 40.  
THe moving or night marching of the Cloud  
To Isral was a certain Sign and Good  
Ather unstirrd to stay stand still and tarry  
Or forward thence there Host and Camp to carry  
But if it did ascend and higher moved  
The Camp then forward martchd and more removed  
But if it did descend, and there did stay  
They martchd no more, but in there ludging lay  
And naught a foot, to fair, did they intent  
while they it sie, begin again t'ascend  
And when they journay should, remove, and rise  
The cloud went on, before Them through the skies  
By day into a Cloud and on the night  
God was a fire, to show all Isr'all light.   

Leviticus 9 Chap.  
T'Approve the Priestly office is from heaven  
A certain Sign and sure assenting gevin  
while Aaron's offering on the Altar lies  
A Sacred flame come flashing from the skies  
And opinly in all the people's eyes  
Consumed and quickly eat the Sacrifice  
The wounding Israleits all looking on  
That Blais breathed from above brunt every Bone  
The then believing host to humble it gois  
And thankful thoughts to God again upthrois  
And publicly his prases there proclaim  
For all the Blessings he bestow ' on Thame  
The Prophets then for this there Thankfulness  
The people present sanctify and bless.   

Leviticus 10.  
A'rons' tuo Sons Nadab and Abihu  
A gross misdeed before the Lord they do  
A nonted once there office to exers  
Out of presumption and a Spirit perverss  
They proudl' aspire no rather they conspire  
To fill there Censers full of forran fire  
And than advance and to the altar go  
Never used their to offer incense so  
Contrary quit unto the Lords command  
That should have ever inviolable stand  
But from the Lord a flaming fire forth flew  
That boldly brint and both the Brether slay  
To show that God will naught beserved by wain  
Unwise inventions of a worsely Brain.   

〈…〉  
THe judgements of the Lord thus sharply seized  
Upon these Brether that his Spirit displeased  
●nto the horror of the Hebrew host  
●hat by there own delicts there Lives had lost  
●or worshipping agains his divine will  
●pon them fell th' inevitabill ill  
●o teach all others that they ne●it presume  
●ut of a Brain Fantastic filled with fume  
●he Lord's vine zard to work it otherways  
●or he directs and in his Law done lays  
●hen these two mangled miserable men  
●●r careed from the Congregation than  
A sad and doolfull evidence for thame  
Both of there deeds, there Sin and Shame.   

Leviticus 24.  
●Nto the Host was one Egyptian man  
But by his Mother of the Trib of Dan  
●hat going out did so from duty row  
●hat in the host he with an hebrew strove  
●nd in the brawl that was begun by Thame  
〈◊〉 Egyptian did the God of hosts blasphame  
●hey take the man and him to Moses led  
●nd then the Lord eftsoon to Moses said  
●ause thou be brought that bold blasphemer out  
●nd make the men that heard (than there about)  
●●e Lord blasphemd, lay on there hands uponhim  
●nd then to death let all the Hebrews stone-him  
Which instantly they execute and act  
A fit reward for his unfaithful fact.   

Deuterovomie 34. Chap.  
THe Prophet Moses to Mont Nebo gois  
From whence the Lord the promised land him shois  
●hat milk and honey flowing land the same  
Which he so oft had heght to Abraham  
●●t only having sein it did declare  
●hat he should nev're go ov're nor enter Their  
●he Servand of the Lord then Moses dies  
●nd buried be him into Moab lies  
●●t never man yet lived to this day  
●hat knew the place whair God did Moses lay  
〈◊〉 hundreth years and to them twenty told  
●hen he expired was the Prophet old  
〈◊〉 Prophet such whose like yet never non  
〈◊〉 Israel arose when he was gone  
A Prophet full endued with heaunly Grace  
〈◊〉 God conferred with and knew face to face.   

〈…〉  
FAmiliar Moses with the Lord and loved  
Before, from this mortelitie removed  
That manfully, marched from the memphit lands  
(Divinly aided) with the Hebrev bands  
But the almighty eyeing ay his awne  
Albeit their Ductor, he had from them drawn  
Yet to their Good, and Glory of his name  
An oter Tutor, tenders unto Them  
In josua courageously Inclined  
HE infunds morefire in his magnanime mind  
And o'er his Isrel limited at large  
Gave him the conduct, and the Captans Charge  
Commanding and encouraging the man  
To join the people and pas jordan then.   

josua 1.  
THe worthy Duke, to this Command thus called  
And Isrel general in State installed  
God now again renews to cheer Them more  
The promise of the promised Land before  
He marks there marks from the wilderness  
And from Mont-lebanon to Euphrates.  
Thence makes the Sea there Border by the west  
Where Phoebus' Car declyns and runs to rest  
Then says to josua that worthy Thair  
Yet to incress and kindle his Cowrage mair  
while he shall Rule and Captane their Command  
No heathen foe before his face shall stand  
If as his Servand Moses night and day  
HE observe his mandates and his Laws obey   

josua 1.  
TO incowrage josua God renowats  
And oft hies promised aid he iterats  
Yet with direction that he all his days  
Keep his Commands and walk into his ways  
The Captane than the Congregation all  
He convocats and dois before him call  
Indicting and directing Them that They  
Be ready in their arms on the third day  
To pass o'er jordan that far famons flood  
Neerby whose Bankis Israel's standarts stood  
The Reubenits and Gadits dress also  
though seized on this hither side to Go  
And willingly will venture with the rest  
while each one of their portions be possessed.   

〈…〉  
while that the people a providing are  
Victuals and arms for marching necess are  
●he Captain finds it fit to send before  
●uo Speculators prudent to explore  
●he people there Pou're purposes and places  
●s is convement in such war-like Caces  
●he Spies from Shittim send advance and go  
●nd enters Rahabs' house in jericho  
●ut yet these Spies are in there spying spied  
●nd Rachab to reweale Them temptd and tried  
●earing her Country's futur fall and foil  
appointed Isr'el for a Prey and spoil  
They on their promese preserved are by her  
And secretly unsem they saife Retire.   

josua 3. Chap.  
TH'explorators aproatch the Tents tell there  
The Cananits astomshment and fear  
●pon the news the Sun of Nun commands  
●he under afficiars of all the Bands  
〈◊〉 pass and charge the people with power express  
●or to remove to be in readmesse  
●owsone the Levits to be marched they mark  
●●fore tuo Thousand cubits with the Ark  
●hen josua the people all enjoins  
〈◊〉 sanctify themselves and lave their loins  
〈◊〉 cause said he the Lord to morrow shall  
●ork woundrously in presence of you all  
Then to the Levit Priests said he avaunt  
And go before ws with the Covenant.   

josua 3.  
TO josua the Sun of Nun than said the Lord  
I will advance Thee as awoutchd my word  
●●d as I with my servand Moses so with Thee  
〈◊〉 thy advancement I will do said he  
〈◊〉 Isrel then sage Josua did say  
●'almighty marches you among this day  
〈◊〉 for a Sign this shall you understand  
●hat he shall give you all the Heathen land  
〈◊〉 jordan while the Ark advance before you.  
●●rtch efter on and going God adore you)  
●●wsoon the Priests shall touth the rivers brink  
〈◊〉 bears the ark the Billows back shall shrink  
〈◊〉 they before that did the gravel cover  
〈◊〉 part themselves to give you passage over   

joshua 4. Chap.  
THe Ark and Priests in Iorden dry  
while all the people perrilless pass by  
O wondrous walk a deed divine and vounder  
Done only by the Thrower of the Thunder  
Then josua in Iorden, did command  
Eternally as Tropheas there to stand  
And to be witness of that wondrous wark  
On that same place where paused the Priests and Ark  
Twell men of the twell Tribes twell Stones to Rear  
And then eight other on there backs to bear  
To Gilgall thence but to the same effect  
And to remember this These their t'erect  
But th'Ark and Isrel dryfoot thus past throw  
The flood again as it was wont did flow.   

josua 5. Chap.  
THe Stones upreard t'averr the verity  
Of there strange passage to post eritie  
The rumour of which admirable Chance  
The hearts of all the heathen lords so lance  
And strangely struck them stupefied and stonird  
So that never shall there Courage be Reconird  
Tha ' amazed look like men already lossd  
And while they hear but of the Hebrew host  
The Lord commands that circomcision than  
Be used to every Hebrew mail or man  
On whom the hallowed incisers hand  
Hath naught bein since they come from Egypt land  
An Angel armed to Nuns soon then apeard  
Conferred confirmed him and his Courage Reared.   

josua 6. Chap.  
THe army and the Ark through Iorden go  
Just over against the town of jericho  
And marched while that directed they set down  
And drew there Trenches round about the Town  
The grave Commander that the Camp conducted  
How to attempt it by the Lord instructed  
The people then again and Priests he taught  
How that, that City circled should be caught  
Seven Priests with Ram-horne Trumpets passed before  
The Ark and th'army followed while They Roar  
Seaun days they compassed the City so  
And as enjoined so oft about it go.  
Then on the seaunt they sound and shouted all  
while that vntviched flat fell the City wall:   

〈…〉  
THe city entered as the Lord had doomed  
(Metals except) and all with fire consumed  
The slain of both the Sex into the Streets  
Together in the Gore defyld there fleets  
Yet Rachab is and hers by promise past  
Preserved saifly in that public wast  
The Spies that in there pity she praeserud  
No less with love into the sacked her served  
For all saif she t'inevitable Ire  
Were sold and sold to slaughter sword and fire  
There all are execrable and accurssd  
That therein are or that therein were nursed  
And all from heaun are curssd, and curssd shalbo  
That jericho minds to Re edify.   

josua 7. chap.  
A Chan an Israelite Religious  
Proves reprobat and Sacrilegious  
Wherefore Gods grief to grow and glow gins  
Against all Isrell for his sedret Sins  
His Ire inkendled thus so boyles and burns  
That from their help his holy hand it turns  
As they tried true while that with Ai they fight  
With few their greater force is put to flight  
while josua before the Lord did fall  
And with his Cries contreit for help did call  
The Lord reveals the Sin and Achan is  
Upon confession he and what was his  
His Blood his Brood his house and all at once  
Brint up with fire and felled to death with stories.   

josua 8. chap.  
A Chan thus punished and thus Isrell purged  
The Lord appeased, he josua efter urged  
And said my Servant fant not dread nor doubt  
Thou of my Aid but be of courage stout  
And now with all thy men of arms arise  
To Ai advance and it with power surprise  
For I have geun thee therein every thing  
The Substance their the Subjects Crown and king  
And there with do, for I command thee so  
In all as thou hes done with jericho  
Then by one ambush he hes foiled them  
Then Town surprised and fired, sin spoilt Them  
The King is catched alive, and efter he  
As God gave charge was hanged upon a Tree.   

〈…〉  
THus that they triumphed by God's helping hand  
Well did the chief of th' Ebreus understand  
Wherefore that wise Commander wills that they  
Thankful therefore and grate to God be ay  
In Ebal mont they than one Altar raise  
Naught hambred on with hands his name to praise  
And offers thereon offerings as they knaw  
Agried with his will and Moses Law  
The altar raised and God there praised the Grave  
Grand Captane then the Law on Stones did Ghrave  
And therein Blissing, Cursins all and Threats  
He publicly to them reads and repeats  
Into the praesens of the people all  
The Stranger as the hebrew natural   

josua 9 chap.  
AI thus sacked, some nightbour kings to those  
As open Enemies to Isrel rose  
But lo from Gibeon disgvysed some  
As messengers unto the army come  
Israel by deceat to Circemvein  
And peril by that policy praeveen  
With Garments torn and but with Tags of Shoes  
That they are Straugers these disgvysed does  
Make Isrel think that They be come to Crave  
A leagve of Love and friendship fain would have  
The Suit (deceived) the guided of Isr'el grantis  
The Gibonits' deceitful Supplicants  
But they detected efter for the same  
The duke to drudgrie Them and their Condamne   

josua 10. chap.  
FYve Kings together with vindictive spirit  
Their warlike force and armies all uneit  
And out agains the town of Gibeon sped  
That Irues with Israls' head contracted had  
But unto him submissive Suits they send  
The he is foederats would now defend  
Who for their Causes were enclosed about  
With five King's forces strong men stern and stout  
Then Isrels Captane with his Cohorts rose  
To free the Gibonits' and fight there foes  
whom in his violent and wrakfull wraeth  
He utterly undoes and drove to daeths  
And such as fled defeated with his force  
Felled in the flight with Hail a fate found worss.   

〈…〉  
THe day whereon these armies where o'rethrowne  
The Lord his great Love hes to Isr'el shown  
A wondrous day and admirable one  
Whose like before nor since was nevir none  
At joshua his prayer and request  
The great Governor God Almightiest  
A whole day stayed them Sun in Gibeon  
And moon into the valley Aialon  
And not a point come down declined nor changed  
While Isrell was on all there foes revenged  
The Kings they kill when all the slaughter ended  
And then the five upon five Trees suspended  
Kings, Cities, Subjects of the Hills and all  
The plains beside subdued before them fall.   

josua 11. chap.  
A Crowd of Kings by south east, west and north  
March (for to force the force of Isrel) forth  
There numbers great near out of number be  
As Dust on earth or Sand into the Sea  
But God bad Isrel be of Courage Good  
And fear no force nor men nor multitude  
For he before that time of day to morrow  
●laine and consumed to there shame and sorrow  
Before the face of victor Isrell shall  
Deliver Them forced and defeated all  
Israel confident upon his word  
●As well they might) assaults them with the Sword  
And horribly makes havok of their host  
In killing from the meanest to the most.   

josua 11.  
AS joshua from that Attempt reteard  
For such victorious Chances Inly Cheered  
The Town of Hazor he took in his way  
And all th' Inhabitants (non saife) did slay  
Yea all from Halak montane unto Gad  
That by Hostility he takin had  
Therein a living soul nor fight man  
As God commanded him he left not than  
For hardened was from heaven there hearts that they  
●ight from the earth in wraeth be wippd away  
●f Anakims the Cities so he Sacks  
And utterly them selves with wars he wracks  
The Conques than he amongst the Tribs divyds  
●nd then in peace sins wars their th' Ebreus bids   

〈…〉  
Victonriou Isrel by the Lord's assistance  
Agains there great and all there forced resistance  
Of Cities, Valaes' Montans and the Plains  
But fear of force, possessed in peace remains  
On jordains eastren side and on its west  
By South and North they peaceably possessed  
No petty portion nor a little Land  
Did joshua and Israel command  
The Lord their Battles and all subdevved  
And naught their forces well enough they knew it  
It is lands their Swords in their subjection brings  
The subjects armed of one and threttie Kings  
The Hebreus by his help there hosts o'erthrew  
And all their Kings consumed killed and slew.   

josua 13. chap.  
THe Lord called joshua and to him told  
That he was weak with years and waxed old  
And yet much land remained and Lordships many  
Vnentred with and unpossessd with any  
Therefore the Lord he hes enjoined him their  
And how he should divide them did declare  
To give nine Tribs whole portions he commands  
And unto thrie to give but half part lands.  
Since Moses unto Reuben and to Gad  
On this side Iorden gev'n a portion had  
Ilk Trib its march there seurally is shown  
That each of them might know what was their own  
To Levi yet no foot of Ground he gave  
But ordained Them the Sacrifice to have.   

josua 14. Chap.  
THe Land of Canaan divided aff  
Among the former nine Tribs and a half  
Caleb the constant Kenezeit, the same  
That entered first the Land to Nun's son came  
And said to him now forty years and more  
His since unto Moses dead before  
God spoke our God most great and Glorious  
In Cadesh-bernea concerning us  
Than he that day swore by th' almighty God  
To give us that whereon our feet should trod  
Wherefore my Captane godly grave and Sage  
I crave the same now for my heritage  
Which josua gladgly grants and Caleb blessed  
And him and his with Hebron hes possessed   

josua 20. Chap.  
THe Lord directed joshua as judge  
T'apoynt with Isrel Cities of Refudge  
(He speak the people and protests and They  
Obtempre and the will divine Obey)  
For such as do by accident or chance  
Unwillingly or yet by Ignorance  
Kill and cut off by force and blood a Brother  
An Israleit yea yet or any other  
Where they may faif and sure preserved be  
(while th' high Priest livand then depairt and die)  
From the Revenger of the slain and than  
He may return unto his house again  
So did the Lord Relief for these ordain  
That  man, as is foreshown had slain.   

josua 22. Chap.  
TO Reuben and to Gad and to Manasses Heirs  
joshua his Kinsman Patriots declares  
That as the Lord and Moses had commanded  
They faithfully had with there Bethrens banded  
And nought forsook Them while they were possessed  
Of all the promised Land in Peace and rest  
Therefore go with the blessing of the Lord  
To your possessions upon Iordans Board  
But care to live my Brether I befeech  
As do is our Law allow instruct and teach  
Back they return and built an Altar by  
The river brink and renders reasons why  
Howbeet the Tribs therewith took first offence  
Yet having heard them with the deed dispenss.   

josua 23. Chap.  
NOw joshua waxd old, by Age infirm,  
Into the faith the Tribs for to confirm  
Exhorts them gravely, all with one accord  
The serve sincearl' obey and low the Lord  
He tells them there how oft for them he fought  
And to that Day what for them he had wrought  
He shows his promises were all perfected  
And to his glore and to their good effected  
Therefore he entreats Commands them and dois prey  
That e'er his will and Bidding they obey  
And tells them if they do decline and swerve  
And unto Idol God's bow down and serve  
Lest be him to the fury of their foes  
●●●he will wax them with a Thousand woes.   

judges 1. Chap.  
NO sooner judah was installed into  
The ruler's room when he began to do  
And presently with all his Men of arms  
He strikes up stoutly shrill and loud alarms  
And with kene-dagd unconquerable Courage  
He forced his foes and did their Country forage  
There King Adombezek he hes caught him  
And his own lesson learnt to others taught him  
For as his form was to afflict his foes  
He cuts from him his Thumbs and points of Toes  
A just reward for Tyranes he confessed  
That sev'ntie Kings himself had so distressed  
The Lord heirfoir his fate hes framed so  
Conformly to be used by his foe.   

judges 2. Chap.  
THe Lord with Isrel discontended stands  
That they with Can'an had contracted bands  
Yet penitent they do repent therefore  
And for there fault and trespass d●●e deplore  
Through all the Life and days of Io●●ua  
And of the Elders that out-liv'de de them all  
They did naught disobey nor yet debord  
But served sincerely by the Law the Lord  
Yet howsoone he and they departed all  
From true divine to worship false they fall  
The Lord then left them? and what then, were They  
But unto Spoilers all, a spoil, and prey  
Left be the Lord what be Empires though great  
Nought but a morsel to a meaner State   

judges 3. Chap.  
FIve Princes of the Philistines remained  
Yet in the Land unforced or constrained  
With whom the Ebreus (to Gods will averss  
join, Marry, League with them, and do converss  
So God forget in Bal'am they believe  
And unto Asheroth there worship Give  
Wherefore the Lord gave o'er and sold them hath  
To Chushan King of Aram in his wrath  
Where they in Bondage bid and serve seaun years  
As in the story penned more large appears  
But when they cried to God and did repent them  
A Saviour to save them soon he sent Them  
So did deliver quickly Israel  
By Kenaz-sone there Captane Oth'niel.   

josua 24.  
YEt joshua the people's Spirits to pierce  
Doth unto them God's money he ps●ch●arss  
And if unthankful tells them to their shame  
Partic'larly what he hes done to Them  
Then heart'ly them exhorts at home abroad  
And elsewhere else for to give glore to God  
With free and full consent than ansverd They  
Our God his voice and word they would obey  
Then covenants he with them their that day  
And to be witness of their wows for ay  
Beneath an growing oak or olive Tree  
For eur to stand a Stone up pitched he  
It heard your wowes he said if that you Trod  
A wry and efter do deny your God.   

josua 24.  
THen all their Business as each one list  
They go about liceneed and desinist  
Now that Grand Captane joshua selected  
By God and to conduct his Hosts directed  
Who with great valour and great wisdo●●ie to  
The Lords directions dreadlesly did d●  
And virtously upright in all his waves  
●w'de to that Hour before the Lord his days  
The hundreth tent year running of his age  
●eath puts a point unto his pilgrimage  
This worthy wise this Captane bold and brave  
This gracious judge this Stats man great and grave  
With Isrels woeful all and weeping eyes  
In Timnath nn Mont Ephraim buried lies.   

judges 1. Chap.  
THat worthy josua the Hebreus head  
As is declaird before defunct and dead  
●et God his own Elect he neur deserts  
●if they contim we his with holy hearts  
●ut duly dois for there support provide  
●or he into his Isrel gives a Guide  
conveniently to govern and conduct them  
●●d into all that a pertains i'instruct them  
●●t they will needs to him cry for and claim  
〈◊〉 Captane and Command over Them  
〈◊〉 then apoynts that judah shall command  
●●●●hold the rains of Rule into his hand  
〈◊〉 he exalt him will and give him might  
〈◊〉 come and quell the Cananits in fight.   

Judges 3. Chap.  
WHen Ehud had the King of Moab killed  
And with ten thowsands fall, the field-had filled  
Of Moabits that in the Battle fell  
By heaun assisted-hands of Israel  
Shamgar a goad-groome and a Rustic Boor  
Guided by God was nixt there Governor  
And so with sacred strength and stomach stored  
Of Philistines that Iov'as jacob shord  
And only with his oxen Goad o'rethrew  
And (who but horror hearest) sex hundreth slew  
The Israleits they are preserved so  
From fury of the Philistim there foe  
God th'Hebrews heathen foes their hostile anger  
Cooled by a Goad-groome courage silly Sanger.   

judges 4. Chap.  
DEbora judging Isr'el sent to war  
Barak that Sis'ra did debell and darr  
And with ten thousand Isralits' in fight  
All jabins' power did foil and put to flight  
Then Sisra fled on foot and e●ter w●nt  
Trained by a woman jael to hir● Tent  
Who thirsting there and efter travel tired  
To rest and ease him he a while desired  
Entreating her his name naught to be wray  
To any that demands for him that day  
But when she sies him sleeping and at rest  
To do a worthy deed this dame addressed  
And drove a nail into his Temples deep  
So laid him in one ever lasting Sleep.   

judges 5. Chap.  
Harken you Princes and do hear you Kings  
The praiseful songs our Soul and voces singes  
Unto Israel's God before whose face  
The earth dois shake and th' Heavens do rain apace  
The mountains melt and leapt like lambs before him  
Rise Barak rise and Deborah adore-him  
Deborah up and Barak both arise  
And give God praise that hes geun you the prize  
And force to foil, the Philistines, your foes  
That for to raze, and ruin Isr'el, rose  
Your Touns but trade lay desolate and waste  
And none by th' High, but by the by ways past  
while I Deborah aided be the Lord  
The foes of jacob bet with Baraks' sword.   

Judges 6. Chap.  
ISrael oft distressed, as oft relude  
Be God, transgressd again and God have grieved  
Herefore this Lord as in the lion's Iaws  
Them in the danger of the Midian thraws  
Where they in Bondage servitude and thrall  
Seaun year from Den to den are hunted all  
There grain, there corns, there asses, net an Sheep  
And what for to preserve there Lives they keep  
When they (secure) thought surely to enjoy it  
The Mid'anits, and Amalek destroy it  
Then pitifully spoilt Isrel lies  
Acknowledging her miss for mercy cries  
And God eur gracious their groans he hears  
And by a Prophet, checks them, and he cheers   

judges 6.  
When God upon the people's penitence  
Had be his Prophets shown Them there offence  
And oft his Grace, to Them so oft ingrat  
When wickedly they had praevaricat  
His Angel yet appears to Gedeon  
●n Oprah by one Oak Ioash-his-●●ne  
●ndewed with his Grace he tells him than  
The Lord was with him strong and valiant man  
And doth command him in that strength and might  
●or to go forth and Isrel free by fight  
●e craves a Sign and God gives by a fleece  
●oth wet and dry (naught that faiznd one of Greece)  
A double one, so gedeon's faeth confermes  
And strait agains the Midanits he arms   

judges 7. Chap.  
THe Lord heir to the host of Hehrewes shows  
That his and naught their force, there foes over throws  
●or yet with multitudes off men will he  
subdue and dissipat there Encinie  
wherefore he Gedeon to chufe commands  
〈◊〉 that shall lap the water with there hands  
●●d naught those that he in their drinking sies  
●●on the water brinks to bow their knies  
〈◊〉 all of these that laped at the most  
●●●●mber was three hunger in the host  
〈◊〉 Gedeon with these three hunger than  
〈◊〉 do●ne agains the men of Midian  
〈◊〉 ●itchers, lamps, and with his Trumpets sounds  
〈…〉 there hearts and all there host confounds.   

judges 8. Chap.  
THe Ephramits proud through there power in pride  
With Gedeon there Captane chief they Chid  
But in depressing his own deeds he races  
What they had done, and so there Spleen apases  
And told them he but vanquished the men  
But they both took and killed then Princes than  
Than he disposed to pass o'er Iorden ●●ood  
From them of Succoth for his men sought food  
Which they refuisd wherefore when God (he wowes)  
Zebah and Salmunn' in his hands he throws  
To be revenged and for there ansver rash  
In woods with Briers and Thorns to tear there flesh  
In Penvel too, resuised as a foe  
He heghts condignly to acquyt there no   

judges 8. Chap.  
HEre Gedeon with his host o'er jordan gois  
And Zebah and Zalmunna caught his foes  
Where fyftein thousand armed are (in there host)  
With this three hunger skatred killed and erossd  
Succoth and Penvel promised before  
There men with Briers and Thorns he whippd and tore  
There Elders: and there citizens he slay  
And therefore promised forteless over threw  
Unto the captive Kings than he converts  
And perd with dearth there deeds and there deserts  
For they in Tabor pitiless had spilld  
His Brethers blood and cruelly them killed  
But be the Lord made powerful and strong  
He freed Isrel and revenged her wrong   

judges 8. Chap.  
Now Isrel by God guiding Gedeon  
Delivered are and fred from all there fo●n  
They grate in thankfulness I think there Love  
Thus they will to there Captane prudent prove  
Come Gedeon said they and be our King  
And o'er ws efter Thee thy Sons shall regne  
For warlike worthy Thou and valiant Man  
Delyverd ws from men of Median  
No God forbidden again said He that I  
Over mine mount up, mint, or presome so hie  
The sacred holy and the heavenly pow'rs  
Give you your judges, Guides, and Governors  
None of my Sons, nor joash-gedeon  
Shall regne o'er you no, but the Lord alone.   

judges 8. Chap.  
while thus they urge him to become there King  
He doth entreat them for one other Thing  
There earrings spoilt and partage in the pray  
They gladly grant to give them and obey  
Whereof an Ephod he did make and placed it  
In Ophraah where Isrel changed and chased it  
And wand'ring efter it a whoring went  
To God ingrate and Dissobedient  
Which efter Ged'ons daeth was f●●d of all  
His house and seventy Sons the ●at all fall  
For Gedeon dead Israel went a w●y  
Debord and dotted on Idolatry  
For th' Ephod efter They did trudge and Trod  
And Baal-berith they did make their God.   

judges 9 Chap.  
ABimelech that was the hand maids Son  
Of Isrels gallant gu●der Gedeon  
With violent and with a wicked will  
Did on an Stone his seventy Brether kill  
And when these seunty with the sword were slain  
He caught the crown and then perforce did reign  
On Gezizzim then jotham lifts his woce  
And parables to Sechem did propose  
That Gaal Ebeds Sun in arms and Ire  
Against th' usurping Tyrant did conspire  
And goes against Abimelech to fight  
Whom in the field, he foils and dryves to flight  
And is at Tebez, by a woman wounded  
Then by his page, thereto desired, confounded   

judges 10. Chap.  
THat fratriced th' usurpinh Tyrant dead  
Hurt with a woman's hand upon the head  
Whereat disdaneing in a frantic Rage  
Therefore he will dispatched be by his Page  
Then Tolapuah's-dodo's soon, that day  
●n Israel began the sword to sway  
And under him They twenty thrie years out  
Had peace, for he, was pious, prudent, stout  
●●t he deceased; to Judge them jair rose  
●nd Isrels galay he to govern gois  
●●ereat the Heline he stands and stoutly steires  
〈◊〉 guides it Gravely tuo and tuenty years  
〈◊〉 Judged in justice and he svayd the sword  
〈◊〉 the direction of the divine word.   

judges 10. Chap.  
I Air expired, the people foully fall  
And vorship vainly Ashtaroth and B'al  
With sin and shame, there Souls and Lives they load  
while they do bow to ewrie pagan God  
Wherhfore inkendled was and set on fire  
Against them then Godsall everting Ire  
And they are hurled by him into the hands  
Off th'Ammonites and the Philistim Bands  
Who aughtene years, press wax and them constrain  
Beyond the River Iorden that remain  
The Ammonits', they march o'er in there might  
'Gainst Boniamin and judah for to fight  
So Isrel for her sin (deserving more)  
And Idol worship is tormented sore   

judges 11. Chap.  
When Is'aks sons did for there Sins repent  
Gods kindled wraith is quenched and did re●ent  
And Iphtah he one outcast be his Brother  
The Sun and seed too off one whorish mother  
Whom they depisd and had before refuild  
Now they to be there Guide and chieftan chuisd  
Instated Iphtah while he undertaks  
With Ammon war a mad rash wow he makes  
To Sacrifice to offer up and burn  
Whom first he victor meets at his return  
Up gois he then against them and the Lord  
Forced them perforce fall under Iptahes' sword  
But see a triumph dolorous and sorry  
By the said sequel off the sacred story.   

judges 11 Chap.  
Whill this grand Captane this great victory go  
And money Souls in twenty City's smote  
From Aroer to Minnith every man  
Were conquered, killed and owerthrown than  
Yet this victorious Glorious Iphtah Lo  
The Triumph of his wars hes turned to woe  
His only daughter in his Home retreits  
T'appland his victorees her Father meets  
Whose wiew recalled his wow and sternly touch  
His tinder heart that he amazed much  
Laments and out of season sorrows now  
For his too headless, rash and witless now  
Yet resolute he sealed what he had said  
And Immolats the pure and spotless maid   

judges 12. Chap.  
THe Ephramits in Isr'el in there numbers  
To confident raise and incress new Cumbers  
And naught with Iphtah only on there peril  
But to there own undoing ruin quarrel  
And all in arms they will insplene and spite  
Burn up his house, and with there Captane fight  
Then Iphtah all the men off Gilead  
He raised that able to bear arms he had  
And Ephramits defate to let them know  
He was there Master by there overthrow  
And two and thirty Thousand at that time  
Perished of Them for there presumptuous Crime  
And seune years efter that his Reign began  
But once unwise departs this worthy man   

judges 12. Chap.  
IPhtah deceased Ibzan the Bethlemit  
Seun years in Isrel fat and Judged it  
And threttie Sons and threttie daughters he  
Begot a populous Posterity  
Expired this judge in Bethlem buried lies  
Nixt Elon judging ten years did arise  
And efter daeth in Aialon interred  
Then to his place nixt Abdon is preferred  
And he had forty Sons, and threttie Oyes  
(When he to Rule and judge in Isrel gois)  
That as it were t'express there powar passes  
And daily rod, upon the Colts of Asses  
In Isrel then this Abdon judgd eight years  
And efter waxing weak and aged expires.   

judges 13. Chap.  
YEt Isrel still did his old Bias sollow  
And in the weels of his vain worship wallow  
Wherefore the Lord of hosts delivered him  
To fly and fall from the Philistim  
But o the vounderfull great Grace of God  
Tho they walk wickedly and by ways Trod  
And hold as naught the honour of his name  
Yet low and kindness he did threap on thame  
And by his Angel unto Man'aths barren Fere  
With Promise of a Sun he doth appear  
Who Izaks seed from Philistines shall free  
〈◊〉 he a Nazarite unrasd shallbe  
The strongest then of men was Samson borne  
●hose strength into his Tresses stood unshown.   

judges 14. Chap.  
THe Sun of Man'ath of the Trib of Dan  
Indewd divinly ' bow the Strength of man  
while he to Timnath went to woe he did  
A Lion tear all like a Tinder kid  
Into whose Boulk he some time efter sies  
With honey swelled a humming swarm of Bees  
Whereof he eats and to his mar'age Gone  
Ane emblem dark there Samson did propon  
But to resolveed solisted was his wife  
Which efter grew the ground and stirred the strife  
That money Soul and Philistim hes slain  
And such as never could be agreed again  
while being blind a house full he o'erthrew  
And with himself all the Philistines slay.   

judges 15. Chap.  
SAmson the Sun of Man'ath now at length  
As he did grow God blessed and gave him strength  
And stirred thereby to mary was inclined  
And taken to wife a Philistim be kind  
But in his absence to wrong him they  
To his Companz'on gave his wife away  
Werefore into the harvest time of wheat  
Three hundreth foxes by the Tails he knet  
And fire brands fixed fast betwixt each tuo  
Than to the fields of the Philistines so  
He drove them to their wheat and standing corn  
That quickly knidled all and did them burn  
There Rickes there vine yards and there olives all  
Before the fury of the fire they fall.   

judges 15.  
THe Philistines inflammed with rage and Ire  
For setting of there vines and Corns infire  
With resolutionn all in arms arose  
And for to be revenged on Samsom gois  
Who though his Brether band him with a Cord  
Yet strengthened with the powar of the Lord  
From Etan Rock when he descends his Bands  
Like flax he brak that were about his hands  
And armed but with a jawbone of one ass  
Did to encounter all there army pass  
A Thousand there a wonder to be told  
Dead dang he down, and felled before him fold  
But pain with thirst he prays and God then braks  
A Tooth and of the jaw a fontaine makes.   

judge's 〈◊〉. Chap.  
SAmson gone down to Gazra was bewrayed  
And by them their to force him was for laid  
But he into one Harlot's house did sleep  
To midnight while they watch and ward did keep  
Than up he rose and by maigne strength extorts  
And from there hinges heissd there City ports  
And unamated marched to the mount  
Which doth that holy hill of Hebron front  
And efter this his fancies doth him move  
One Dalila for to affect and Love  
Wha though he had from God, Gifts greater Geune  
Nor all the heathen that liv'de under hev'ne  
Yet did his woman's wicked wit surprise  
And Samson sold unto his Enemies.   

judges 16.  
THe Philistines with his so matchless might  
So oft undone destroyed and forced in fight  
And dreading dangers and Events much worse  
Will do be frand that they could not with force  
For Delila they do entice to Try  
Wherein the virtue of his strength did lie  
Thrice urged this vanton Samson to reweall  
And he so oft, his Secrets did conceal  
But with her flatrie fare overcome declares  
The treasure of his Strength stood in his hairs  
Which by her Cunningly cut off and shorn  
Blind by his foes a mockery made and scorn  
Yet prays and with himself by strength extreme  
O'rethrowes the house and thowsands killed of Them  
Thus with the Philistines he fought and fell  
When he had twenty years judged Israel.   

judges 16.  
THis Man by God praepromisd oer his Birth  
Incomparablie strongest on the earth  
That oft unarmed among his armed foes  
Men multituds and hudgest hosts o'rethrois  
Yea only with the jaw bone of an ass  
Did Camps cut down as Syth-men shears the grass  
Whill constant he to his Creator cleaves  
And naught his Lord to him so librall leaves  
No wit could wn no no nor valour wrong  
Nor  croft o'er come this Champion strong  
But having blabbed the Secrets of his heart  
This facile Samson did the Lord desert  
Wha to his foes, and by a woman then  
A Prey become as other common men   

judges 17. Chap.  
ANe Ephramit the monies that before  
H'abstracted from his mother did restore  
Wherefore she had, all the surrepters first  
(Whom now she blessed) banned bitterly and Cursed  
And these praeordaind to one use profane  
She gives them to that Idol-use again  
The worship so profaned, the Law she braks  
And with these monies Idly Idols makes  
An Ephod Michah then makes in his house  
And consecrats his Sun Religious  
There was no King in Isrel in those days  
Wherefore they all praevaricat, and strays  
And but regrait for Sin regard of Shame  
Did and Commits what best contented Them.   

judges 18. Chap.  
THe Trib of Dan five men send out to Try  
The Territors that in Mont-Ephraim lie  
For fully naught were they as all the rest  
In Can'an off there Partages possessed  
And findinged for them with sex hunger men  
They martchd to Michahs' Inn in Ephraim then  
And th'Idols found and th'Ephod in his house  
There with a Levit Priest Idolatrous  
All which they took and as there prize and pray  
They there with unto Laish went therd way  
Which they surprise and fird brint down to dust  
And slew the men that no such ill mistrust  
The town they built again and called it Dan  
And worshipped there Michahs' stolen Idols than  
For in these days no King in Isrel reign  
And they did all as what they would tho wrang.   

judges 19 Chap.  
NO King the sword that day in Isrel swayed  
Nor non the Lords command nor Law obeyed  
As in a beastly bad abuse was seen  
Upon a Levit wife or Concubene  
From Bethlem juda unto Ephraim home  
The Levit with wife to Geb'eah come  
Whair multitude where they werludged repair  
And monstrously yea in humanly Their  
Avickedness beyond invention used  
And viciously all night the vife abused  
while on the morrow so they did her wrong  
Her husband finds her dead laid all a long  
Who to the Tribs did send her cut in parts  
To venge her wrong to move there manly hearts.   

judges 20. Chap.  
THe Tribes the mangled martyr having seen  
They as one man at Mispeth doth convene  
Four hunger thousand men before the Lord  
Which valorous was for to wield the sword  
And did demand the men that wrought this same  
From Benjamin that they might punish thame  
But they maintained the wrong and did one day  
Off Isrel two and twenty Thousand slay  
And on the nixt they them again o'erthrew  
And were of Isrel aughtein Thousand slew  
But humbly when they to the Lord did pray  
Then Benjamin they bet down the third day  
And did th' abused Levits wrong revenge  
When from there Sins they to the Lord did change.   

judges 21. Chap.  
WHen under Isrels' sword and almost all  
The Benjamits killed did succumb and fall  
Yet Totaly to raze and ruin more  
That Tribe to God solemnedly they swore  
Never to converss nor live with them there lives  
Nor deign to give their daughters to there vives  
Yet were they sorry that there fury fell  
Had thus lapped off a limne from Israel  
They therefore to these Benjamits prescrives  
●y force a form to furnish Them with vives  
●our hunger maids in Gelead unslain  
They save and only for their use ordain  
And into Shiloh willed Them at there fest  
To lie in wait and ravish Them therest.   

Ruth. 2.  
Chilions' Ruth, the Moabitish maid  
To Naomi her mother in Law she said  
●et me unto his field go glean I pray  
●●to whose eyes I favour find this day  
●hen to the field of Boaz she is gone  
●nd there behind the Reapers gleaned on  
●hen Boaz there is come from Bedlam  
●hom they do Bless, and he rebresseth Them?  
●e asks who Ruth was then, and one doth show  
●●at She Naomi's daughter was in Law  
●●om he did cherish much and bids her still  
〈◊〉 his maids glean efter as she will  
●nd so her forms affects that sin he takes-her  
(He was her kinsman) and his wife he makes-her   

1 Samuel Chap. 1.  
TVo wives the Ephramit Elkanah had  
Ane bearing and, one barren in his Bed  
The fruitful used Penninah with reproatch  
The barren Hannah to up brayed and broatch  
Wherewith She inwardly (affirms the Text  
Of times tormented, wearied was, and wext  
Herefore to God that all afflictions Souzes  
Makes sweet her plaints in prayer forth she powr●s  
Who heard her Groans (though Ely much mistook  
Her gesture, and as drunk did her rebook)  
And grants her Suit, inconment required  
A Sun called Samvel, so much desired  
Whom as before, awowed be her word  
A Nazarite again gives to the Lord   

1 Samuel 2. chap.  
WHen Hannah had all finished and done  
The Temple Rites in offering there her Sun  
This holy Hanna did her heart strings tune  
That she might with her woves her voice conjune  
And into sweet and sacred sober lays  
She sang her maker's mercies, Power and praise  
His majesty and money mighty deeds  
That all in heav'ne and all on earth exceeds  
And with a  and dainty aer  
She quaverd clearly his great wounders their  
The Lord a Prophet then to Eli sends  
Who bitterly the Priest remiss repr'ends  
That slowly checked or never chastizd child  
Who wicked vicious wanton were and wild   

1 Samuel 3 Chap.  
THe word was precious than the Scripture says  
For there no vision was in Elis days  
And as he lay that time his eyes waxd dim  
And Samuel served before the Lord for him  
Then sleeping, Samuel by the Lords called Thrice  
And he to Eli rinns when he did rise  
For so did Samvel before the word  
Revealed was unto him of the Lord  
Yet God again came to him and foresho'es  
Eli, his house, and children's over throves  
For God was grieved with him that he would naught  
Chastise his Childring as a father aught  
And what God spoke naught in a point he spaird  
But it to Eli every jo●e declord.   

1 Samuel 4. Chap.  
●He Sons and Seed of Abra'm Ifrael  
Are spurred and spokin to by Samuel  
●●n past they forth t'oppugn the Philistines  
〈◊〉 they are forced and slaughted for there sins  
●●d in that fight four thousand of them fells  
〈◊〉 the iniquities of Israel  
●●en to the camp the Covenant they brought  
●●d once again with the Philistines fought  
●●ho they were afraid, dreadful and doubts  
●●en for the Arks approatch the people shouts  
〈◊〉 with there power the Ebreus they Repel  
●●d threttie thousand of there foot men fell  
The Ark surprised, Hophin and Phineas fall  
And Eli broke his neck for loss of all   

1 Samuel 5. chap.  
●He Irreligious Philistines and Rash  
To Dagon did, half fish, and half of flesh  
●●e sacred Ark and Covenant transport  
●●in a Triumph and a braving sort  
〈◊〉 God agrees naught with the devil of hell  
〈◊〉 Dagon on his face before it fell  
〈◊〉 to try masterless they mont again  
〈◊〉 by the holy Ark sets that profane  
〈◊〉 God can naught by Belial abid  
●●r Satan have a consort by his syd  
〈◊〉 it was fallen there found upon the morn  
●●e head and hands from it cut off and torn  
And while to Gath and Ekron they have sent it  
Of Ashdod They with th'Emrods were tormented   

1 Samuel 6. chap.  
●Ev'ne months among the Philistines remained  
The sacred Ark with heathen hands profaned  
●●en with there Priests the people purposed take  
〈◊〉 send the Covenant to Israel back  
〈◊〉 that they plagved were they all perceive it  
●●d sies they had naught health while that they have it  
〈◊〉 empty home they do naught fittest hold  
●●d therefore doth there with send gifts of gold  
●●●pt in the form of Emerods' and Myss  
〈◊〉 with Idolaters God for a price  
〈◊〉 gifts of gold would pass o'er and dispenss  
〈◊〉 ●here vain vorship with the wild offence  
●●aine and unwise Idolaters think no  
〈◊〉 can be glozed gulled and beguiled so  
When feftie thousand of there lives he took  
〈◊〉 cashly dared in the Ark to look.   

1. Samuel 7. chap.  
THe Ark of God, that the Philistines fet  
The Israleits again in Kiriath set  
And twenty year (a long time there) abode  
In Kirath-searnn the Ark of God  
The Prophet Samuel the People prays  
To leave there lewd, shameful, and sinful, ways  
And do no more, as they had done, debord  
Nor with there wickeduess provock the Lord  
Then th' Idols, Ashtaroth, they put away  
And efter wous the Lord alone t'obey  
Before there God grants and confessed there Sin  
And with the Philistines to fight begin  
But God disperssd them with affright and wonder  
By the rud rumbling of a roaring thunder  
Then are they smitt'n slanghtered and fell  
By the daeth dinting sword of Israel   

1. Samuel 8. chap.  
SAmuel, his Sons his place for to supply  
O'er Isre'l judges than appointed he  
Who strangers from his steps extremely strays  
And wrongously perverted justice ways  
There hands with Bribes defiled were and filled  
And wrested all as there affections willed  
The People to there father then complain  
And crave a King to rule o'er them and Reign  
Whereat he discontent to them declares  
What under Kings shall be there Cross and cares  
Yet still the people they do press him ever  
And t'have a Prince (importunate) persever  
Who as the Lord directed him there claim  
Yet grieved for them jngrait grants unto thame.   

1. Samuel 9 chap.  
KIsh, Saul, his Sun, to go in quest commanded  
Efter some asses, from the Rest disbanded  
He with a servand only with him They  
Did money Province pas, and went much way  
But travel tint, there walking was in vain  
Nor could they get the Asses strayed again  
When they had Shalmi sought and jemini  
To Ramah-Zophim their, went he, and he  
Then did the Servand Saul to search, advyse  
That City where, was said a Seer lyiss  
Which he agreed to go too and heard tell  
There was that sacred Seer Samuel  
Who by the Lord fore warned Saul coming meets  
Whom he to th'high Place, to the feast juveets.   

1 Samuel 10. Chap.  
●Han Samuel Saul, had in the high place plac'd-him  
In the first Room, and first of all did feast-him  
〈◊〉 on the Morn the nixt succeeding day  
〈◊〉 Prophet Saul convoyed on his way  
〈◊〉 by the knouledge of his Serving man  
〈◊〉 soon of Kish t'inaug'rat he began  
〈◊〉 from a viol with the Oil anointed  
〈◊〉 privatlye as had the Lord appointed  
〈◊〉 as he forvad on his journay sets  
〈◊〉 Samuel Saul there some predictions gets  
●●●●ynted Saul is from himself estranged  
〈◊〉 God to prophesy his heart hes choingd  
●he people's Sins the Prophet Samvel shawes  
●●ul King again by sort the people draws.   

1 Samuel 11. Chap.  
●Ahash th' Ammonite did enterprise  
To ruin Gile'ad and enraged did rise  
〈◊〉 they of jabesh unto Saul resort  
〈◊〉 get against the Ammonits' support  
●●o quickly jacob hes convened then  
〈◊〉 sight three hunger threttie thousand men  
〈◊〉 by the morrow promised to relive them  
〈◊〉 naughty Nahash that did gall and grieve them  
〈◊〉 host (a huge on) he did pairt in three  
〈◊〉 therewith up to Gil'ad marcheth he  
●●erewith his valour by the morning watch  
〈◊〉 Camp of Nahash careless he did catch  
●nd fur'ously with force o'er whelmed them all  
●r catched, or killed, o'er threw, or made them thrall.   

1 Samuel 12. Chap.  
●He sacred Samvel be his mother's word  
Before he was, divoted to the Lord  
●●h his Integrity and Candour good  
〈◊〉 Isrel tell and there Ingratitood  
●●o there God and with a Grief declares  
●●ft, so great, deliverances of thaires  
●●h there unthankful gratelesnes again  
〈◊〉 there presence he hes made most plain  
〈◊〉 checked them chief for that foolish thing  
●●hill God reigned o'er Them for to seek a King  
〈◊〉 by a Miracle of Hail and Thunder  
〈◊〉 them confessed, when there Trespass they ponder  
〈◊〉 ●e to hold them be the Lord did heart them  
〈◊〉 never would (if they did so) desert them.   

1. Samuel 13. chap.  
WHen Saul had ruled one year in Israel  
And only Tuo he reigned there it fell  
The Garrison that gnarded in the hill  
Braw jonathan did did them o'ercome and kill  
Thairester Saul himself his trumpet blue  
And all his men of arms tohether drew  
Which fight and rumour of there friends defait  
Flew to the Philistines with great regrat  
Who threttie thowsaud Chariots, and more  
Sex Thowsaud horsemen have armed out therefore  
Whereat the Isralits' in straight, afraid  
Dispersed and hiddin into Caverne stayed  
But some past Iorden though the land of Gad  
And some affrighted fled to Giliad.   

1. Samuel 13. chap.  
LOon the People for te Prince his Sins  
The wraeth of God to grow and glow gins  
Saul would not stay whil Samuel come unto him  
But sacrifice he will which did undo him  
Wherefore the Prophet to this Timrous man  
Denun'ct the judgement of thy almighty than  
And boldly told this Dissobedient  
For contravening God's commandment  
His glorions Crown, but lately, to him given  
Shall from his head, and house be quickly reven  
And Isrel too, to the Philistim shall  
Be in such slavery, servitood and thrall  
That Smiths, to sharp a Share, to till the grounen  
Nor Sword, nor Spear in Isrel shall befunen.   

1. Samuel 14. chap.  
Courageous jonathan doth here confer  
On high attempts with his own Armiger  
Then with the valour of there valiant hand  
They tuo assault a strong Philistim band  
A wonderful of wonder to Relate  
That tuo a Troop should as a front, defate  
judeed it had been vounderfull if naught  
The high jehove for jonathan had fought  
Saul than by oath and Interdiction straight  
The host too night inhibit hes to dat  
But jonathan knew not what was enacted  
And therefore by the eating honey brack it  
Before king Saul swore and awoued in wraeths  
That jonathan should doubtless die the daeth  
But all the People did with stand that he  
That doughtely delivered Them should die.   

1 Samuel 15. Chap.  
●He Prophet Samuel to Saril repairs  
And what the Lord will have him do declares  
〈◊〉 told him God had him anointed King  
●●d for to prove more thankful for that thing  
〈◊〉 wise willed him to obey the word  
〈◊〉 this most bountiful and loving Lord  
●●e to tall slaughter and destruction than  
〈◊〉 Amalek, vife, veuch, boy, beast, and man  
〈◊〉 dois denunce and Saul commands to slay  
●●d vipt them from the world all away  
●●en Saul eft soon the Sword of Isr'el drew  
●●d all that race unto Havilah slew  
〈◊〉 Agag spaird, there King and best of Beasts  
〈◊〉 serve for Sacrifice and solemn feasts  
But God aggrieved for his great neglect  
Did Saul by Samvel utterly reject.   

1 Samuel 16. Chap.  
what God directed what Saul to do neglected  
From grace herefore in justice is dejected.  
〈◊〉 miserable and wretched is there case  
●o ne'er so great that rins in God's disgrace  
●e holy Spirit of God th' unhappy man  
〈◊〉 his deserts, deserts and leaus him than  
●●d in his Room an evil and wicked one  
●●tortour the desarted Saul is gone  
●●d when he violently waxed sits  
〈◊〉 is advised with some Servands wits  
〈◊〉 send for David on his harp to play  
●●e fury of the raging fendt ' allay  
Who while he stood and sweetly played before-him  
The foul Spirit stirred not nor no more it tore-him   

1 Samuel 17. Chap.  
godless Goliath graceless great and grim  
Israel's foe the faithless Philistim  
●●rmes with Blasphemies doth brag and boast  
●●d furiously affronts the Hebrev host  
●●esh confiding and his worth in war  
〈◊〉 Isrel doth to fight and duel dare  
〈◊〉 faithless fool agains the Lord he fought  
●●d by a Boy was to confussonn brought  
●●●ins the Lords elect the arm of Man  
●●ke a Rotten reed and empty can  
〈◊〉 Ishar's sone but efter israel King  
●●●●ht with saul's sword but with his shepherd sling  
●●at God blaspheamers tongue distempered stilled  
〈◊〉 with no Cannon but a Stones cast killed   

1 Samuel 18 Chap.  
HEir jonathans' and David's love gins  
Enduring both there days, that never Tvins  
David's deserving and his Innocence  
Attracted so, th' affection of the Prince  
That Soul to Soul, was kint so they affected  
And dearly each, each other, eur respected  
But hateful Saul, did David's worth invy  
And money trams, did to entrap him try  
But all the Father's felonous intents  
The warly varning of the Sun, praevents  
And David's fame, through famous facts arose  
In felling the Philistines Isrels foes  
Saul knew thereby, the Lord loved and mantaind him  
And though he dread him deadly yet disdained him.   

1 Samuel 19 chap.  
THat reprobat King Saul enured to ill  
Th' anointed of the Lord would David kill  
And jonathan his Sun directs the fact to further  
And all his Servands to commit the Murder  
But jonathan did truly David love  
And told him all, and did these Plots disprove  
Than Saul to slay him in his ludging sent  
But michal's wisdom, did his will, prevent  
First She did lay one Image in his Bed  
And to b' obscure it with a carpet clad  
And when they searched for David, she did say  
That their her Lord sick and diseased lay  
Yet by a window down she lets him go  
And worthy David was delyverd so.   

1 Samuel 20. Chap.  
THe noble David in great danger brought  
And by King Saul for to be slain oft sought  
From Naioh fled to jonathan to plain  
Of saul's despite to him and high disdain  
Demanding deeply what misdone had he  
And what his Sin was and iniquity  
That he committed that his Fathers wraeth  
Sought hotly his destruction and his daeths  
But kindly jonathan comforts and cheares-him  
And re affirms th'affection that he beares-him  
And by three arrows shot suspectless Signs  
Discovers Saul his Father's fierce designs  
Which madly did malicious Saul incense  
Unto the slaughter of his Sun the prence.   

1. Samuel 21.  
When these tuo Princess had reneued there word  
And Covenant of love before the Lord  
David to Nob, to Ahimilech then fled  
Where he was with the sacred Shewbread fed  
And desolate of arms support did crave  
And from the Priest god great Goliath glave  
Than he to Ashish past, and as he had  
Distracted been, he faiznd, and made him mad  
For hearing Achish servands of him say,  
〈◊〉 this naught David, Ishays sone, said thai  
That killed and slew, and unto thou sands ten  
●or Saul on thousand did destroy of men  
And herefore doubting of some further dangers  
He counterfeits him fur'ous to these strangers.   

1. Samuel 22. chap.  
DAvid from Gath unto Adullam gois  
To be their surer fenced from his foes  
●nd when his Brether heard that he was their  
Wire more distressed men they to him repair  
〈◊〉 Mizpeth then, than he, to Hareth thence  
●ent with four hundreth men for his defensss  
●ul hearing then whair David did remain  
●nd that he now past publicly and plain  
●●eg did charge Ahimilech that he  
〈◊〉 David both with meat and arms supply  
〈◊〉 than his Servands that about him stands  
〈◊〉 kill the Priest and all his house commands  
〈◊〉 they refuisd to do't and draw there sword  
〈◊〉 sacrifice those sacred to the Lord  
But desprad Dog, that Doeg did belive  
Kill cruelly there anghtie Priests and five.   

1. Samuel 23. chap.  
●Ob quyt destroyed, the Priests all killed saif one  
That was to David with the Ephod gone  
〈◊〉 Philistines than unto Keilah came  
〈◊〉 proudly spoilt the Garners of the same  
〈◊〉 David asked and did consult the Lord  
〈◊〉 should smit them that so Keilah shord  
〈◊〉 Lord commands and he came to't and fought  
〈◊〉 them, and, away there cattles borough  
〈◊〉 Saul infists and yet will David slay  
〈◊〉 ●od was with him and preserved him ay  
〈◊〉 woods of Ziph saif he abode  
〈◊〉 six hundreth guarded all by God  
〈◊〉 ●onathan went to him too that wood  
〈◊〉 ●●ard him kindly with his comfort good.   

1 Samuel 24. Chap.  
Soul yet insistes and seekis out David still  
Madly resolved destroy him yet he will  
O but whom God praeserves protects and keeps  
Tho all the world invade securely sleeps  
And though Saul sought him with three thousand men  
That in the Cave lay at Engedi then  
God yet among the best of all his Bands  
Saul hes delivered into David's hands  
For entering in that Cave to ease him their  
David his lap unseen away did shaer  
And cried if he, had been his foe, as thought  
He might have killed him their and yet would naught  
Nor ever should his heart nor hand accord  
To touch nor kill th' anointed of the Lord.   

1 Samuel 24. chap.  
WHen Saul had seen his cloak lap cutted their  
And David as his Lord his life did spair  
He knew th' almighty that all men commands  
Had then deliured him in David's hands  
Tuiched then with senss of Sin and feeling dipped  
His wro●ghs to him, lift up his voice and wept  
Than publicly professd that David had  
Done good for ewil, to him, unblessd, and bad  
And willingly awoved, avanced and Raised  
The worthy David's righteousness and praised  
His noble deed that spaird while with his knife  
He at his pleasure might have reft his life  
And freely their confessed, he knew, he King  
Sold be of Isrel efter him and Reign  
And therefore swore him efter he was dead  
For to be good and gracious to his seed.   

1 Samuel 25. chap.  
THat judge and Prophet that in Israel  
Ruled forty years, deceased here Samuel  
Then David wens down to the wilderness  
Of Paran and from thence in his distress  
To Naball in the Time of Shering sent  
Ten youths to seek from him a supplement  
But clunish Naball David's grace abused  
For churl of churls he churlishly refuisd  
And with a judgement rash did both despyise  
And David's messengers his meat denies  
Whairfore the Prince resolved to revenge it  
The gracious Abigail his mind hes changed  
Whom David efter Nabals' death in marriage  
Did wed for wit, and for her vettous carriage:   

〈…〉  
●Ho David in his danger brought forebore  
To kill King Saul as is declaird before  
●et he unthankful and forgetful Too  
That God by David did and yet might do  
unmindful of his oath and Covenant  
●ose up in arms, and then past to supplant  
retired, royal, loyal, David then  
〈◊〉 Hachilah, with his six hunger men  
●hen with Abishai, David only they  
●ent down by night where Saul a sleeping lay  
●nd might as he before have killed him there  
●et spaird: and only took his pot, and Spear  
And then did from a hill to Abner cry  
And show his Lord his Love and Loyalty   

1 Sam. 27 chap.  
DAuid so oft persewed, searched for and sought  
Considered with himself resolved and thought  
●hat he to Gath would unto Achish go  
●nd from King Saul his searching saife him so  
●here with his army David gone, no more  
●as he by Saul sought as he used before  
●auid in Gad a dwelling he desired  
●nd Ziklag got incontinent required  
〈◊〉 he found favour into Achish eyes  
●ho much upon his wit and worth relies  
●hen David went and did invade and charge  
●he Cananits from Shur to Egypt's werge  
And smote both man and wife and all hes flame  
And with the spoils to Achish gois again.   

1 Sam. 28 chap.  
●Chish with his Philistines fierce and fell  
Assembled go against Saul and Israel  
●hen th' heathen Prince with librall words and large  
●ves David in the host the chiefest charge  
●nd promised him the honour for to keep  
〈◊〉 person by his speeches lulled a sleep  
〈◊〉 Prophet dead Saul at there force afraid  
●●at witch of Endor he implores and prayed  
●●at She would Samvel from the dead recall  
〈◊〉 tell him in these wars th' event of all  
〈◊〉 desperate Saul one simulat arose  
●●at slew his futur fall among his foes  
And did for dissobeying God foretell  
To morrow Bondage unto Israel.   

〈…〉  
〈…〉 with a● there men or might  
Against the Isralits' conjoined to fight  
The Princes or the Captanes of the host  
Consult, conclood and Achish their accost  
And angry all with David ask their King  
Why he that Hebrew did to battle bring?  
Is he naught Servand unto Saul said they  
And herefore mayb' our adversar this day  
But Achish from his faith did still excuse him  
And they in doubt and dread of him refuse him  
So that their King constrained (is with commend  
Of David's worth) back him to Ziklag send  
While the Philistines, for to wrak in war  
The Israleit in Ire advancing are.   

1 Samuel 30. Chap.  
o'er David did to Ziklag back return  
Th' Amalakits did it invest and burn  
And all the vives and Bairnes that there they found  
With all their Goods they gleaned with strength of hand  
David's Ahinoam and Abigall  
In that surprise are Prisoners with all  
Then murning every man his loss bemoand  
And all most all distranghted David stoned  
But humble he upon the Lord relyd  
That to his suit, yea, willingly replied  
Then with four hunger of his hardy host  
Agains the Town supprisers he did post  
And by th' Egyptian guide come whair they lay  
All scattered on the field he did them slay  
(Four hundreth sole except) and all thought lost  
Regaind again supprised by th' heathen host   

1 Sam. 31 Chap.  
THe Philistines with Isrel join and fight  
And Isr'el is defate and put to flight  
The Sons of Saul the Princes of the Land  
Fall their and die by the Philistines hand  
Good jonathan is slain, and Saul is wounded  
And all the circumcised host confounded  
Who hes naught God to guide and go before them  
Pismeers and meikle more men may devore them  
Saul wounded sies that he hes lossd the day  
His Sons and army slain he wished to be away  
Then called his armiger and did command him  
To thrust him through but he, he did withstand him  
Despairdly then himself he stabs and dies  
And so self killed beside his Servand lies.   

2 Sam. 1 Chap.  
●O two days efter David's back return  
From Chase of those that did his City burn  
〈◊〉 third, there come a man, that hes declaird  
〈◊〉 Saul and all the hebrew host misfard  
〈◊〉 longing Prince how all had sped then spears  
〈◊〉 jonathan and saul's self slaughter hears  
〈◊〉 all the armies foil and overthroe  
●●ich news invads this worthy with such woe  
〈◊〉 near with grief his Breast blown up did burst  
〈◊〉 pitied he and praised him though accursed  
〈◊〉 for his faithful friend did much lament  
〈◊〉 caused he kill, that slave that Saul had shent  
〈◊〉 teach all Trators to attempt, and dare  
〈◊〉 tuich those that, of God, anointed are.   

2 Sam. 2 chap.  
〈◊〉 their daeths deplorable but most  
〈◊〉 jonathan with Saul his Father lossd  
maunsell craved from the Lord of heav'ne  
〈◊〉 his God again unto him geune  
〈◊〉 designed by Samvel before  
●●bron he anointed  once more  
●●anks and vvoved reward to them that had  
〈◊〉 Saul, the men of Gilead  
●bner lo saul's Captane chief Revound  
●ahan'an Ishbosheth brought and crowned  
〈◊〉, and joab met, confer and then  
〈◊〉 unto tuelf encounters of their men  
●●ers are forced and Asahel is slain  
〈◊〉 reteirs and Abner walks the plain   

2 Sam. 3 Chap.  
〈◊〉 saul's and David's house nought petty jarres  
〈◊〉 there was wrakefull long and vi'lent war's  
●ron be, sex Sons, brought forth and borne  
〈◊〉 all house of David to adorn  
●●eth sone of Saul, Abner accused  
〈◊〉 his Father's Concubine had used  
〈◊〉 angry chaffed to be chected  
〈◊〉 Ish bosheth, and his Side rejected  
〈◊〉 reconceild to David sends  
〈◊〉 conditions hears him, and are friends  
〈◊〉 come, his plots to him he imparts  
〈◊〉 there, and thence, in peace departs  
〈◊〉 known to David called again  
〈◊〉 ●●ously by joab talking Slain   

2 Samuel 4 Chap.  
DAuid displeased, for Abners daeth that day  
His blood and burden doth on joab lay  
Ishboshet hearing then of Abners fall  
Dishearned is and his adherents all  
Rechab and Ban'ath Captans of some Bands  
Into Ishbosheths' Blood imbrews there hands  
while as he sleeping lay a bed at noon  
This bloody deed by Rimmons sons is done  
They then to David brought Ishbosherhs head  
But as demerits their trespass they Speed  
For killing of the righteous in his house  
Disdained of David they are odious  
And to be killed there feet cut off and hands  
Their bulks to hang in Hebron he commands   

2 Sam. 5 Chap.  
THen all the Tribs to Hebron did repair  
And were Petitioners to David their  
Desiring he, would for there saifteis saik  
The royal ensigns of all Isr'el Take  
He that while Saul ragne in the former days  
Forewent all Isrel in there martial frays  
And whom to God had said that he should feed  
And be o'er Isr'el Captane and there head  
They crown him then of jud ' and Isrel King  
Advisd with God than he his bands did bring  
To Baalperazim and trampled twice  
Bet there and forced the Philistim lyie  
As God directed David did and smote  
From Geba unto Gezar all he got.   

2 Sam. 6 Chap.  
THe Ark of God that had remained long  
In Gibeah with threttie thousand strong  
David transported twice and then he placed it  
Into his City and with courtains caced it  
Vzzath by God that did attempt to twitch  
The Ark is killed for his too daring much  
To learn us in the worship of the Lord  
Naught to orewa●k his will into his word  
David before the people and ark advanced  
And Harped holily and sang and danced  
Herefore saul's Daughter Michal in her eyes  
As doing basely, David did despise  
Wherefore she punished was: for ewer efter  
Her Barrenness began that never left her.   

2 Samuel 7. Chap.  
WHen God had round about geun David rest  
And he sat in his house condignly dressed  
〈◊〉 peace and plenty to the Prophet than  
●he Royal Prince and Psalmist thus began  
behold in lasting Shittim and in Cedat trees  
With antique art ingraune we duel thou sies  
And God in Tabernacles and in Tents  
That rings and rops and pins for standers stents  
Nathan then said do as desires thine hart  
●or God is with Thee and assists thy part  
David designed to build then to the Lord  
〈◊〉 house of worship but be nathan's word  
Prohibit its from Heaven for to be done  
For thats reserved for Solomon his Sun.   

2 Samuel 7. Chap.  
THe Lord the Secret searcher of the Soul  
David's design, did tho divine control  
〈◊〉 Labour that, he had allowed alone  
Unto his Sun succeeding Solomon  
●is benefits, than he, as good, as great  
●id by his Prophet to the Prince repeat  
●ow from a Shepherd boy he did him bring  
〈◊〉 be o'er his below'de and choosing King  
●nd when his days did end and he hence gone  
〈◊〉 strongly establish would and stay his throne  
Unto his Sun, and always efter this  
●nto his Seed the Sceptre ever bliss  
The pious Prince then pithelie and plain  
Gods grace his Gifts and Greatness grants again   

2 Samuel 8. chap.  
THe faithful King comforted and confermd  
Agains the faithless Philistines hes armed  
And those that in his reach and grips he got  
●or bondage he reserved or smartly smote  
〈◊〉 matched the Moabits and them o'erthrew  
●et saifd a third, when he the Tuo-part slew  
〈◊〉 smote prince Hadadezer that did press  
〈◊〉 enlarge his limits at swift Euphrates  
●nd of the Aramits he killed then  
succouring Zaboth tuentie two Thousand men  
●rass, Silver, sheelds of Gold that guarded them  
〈◊〉 in Triumph brought to jerusalem  
For non withstood from heaun his helped Strength  
But fettered all, or felled were at the length.   

2. Samuel 9 chap.  
THis victor King in wars a Prince in peace  
Of equal justice bounty Love and Grace  
Th' effectis of friendship faethfull and intear  
Into his doings is decypherd heir  
He asks if yet there any be among  
The people that to Saul or his belong  
They find one Ziba out saul's serving man  
That show a Sun lived then to jonathan  
Lame Mephibosheth of his feet unable  
Whom David highly hold and honourable  
And for his Father's saik his Love he shows  
Then saul's whole Steddings upon him bestows  
And at his table worthily always  
He treats and intertains him all his days.   

2. Samuel 10. chap.  
THe noble nature and the excellence  
In David's disposition of a Prince  
And basely how and bar brously repaid  
The Prophet properly hes heir displayed  
The Spirit of David it did boil and burn  
To quit old kindness with a courtess turn  
And unto this effect his Servands send  
Whom th' Ammonits' as spies did apprehend  
And in despite with all dishonour dois  
The noble men ambassadors abuse  
Which wrong for to revenge he doth arise  
Fought, and defate, and tryumphd on them twice  
To learn all lawless and unthankful To  
With whom to deal, how, when, and what to do   

2 Samuel 11. Chap.  
WHen spring approatchd and days to length began  
joab martchd forth with Isrels armies then  
And as he was a Cheiftane chose and stout  
He roundly Rabbah belted hes about  
while David rests and Lash at Salem lies  
Whence from a Terrace Bathsheba he spies  
And by her Beauty caught became its thrall  
And with her in Adultery dois fall  
Than to that fact that he had fallin in  
He joined blood a cruel crying Sin  
And poor Vriah he expond and killed  
As led his Lust and wanton humours wild  
Then as the Prophet called her his one lamb  
He efter took to be his wife and dame   

2 Samuel 12. Chap.  
THe Prophet Nathan by the Lord appointed  
T'expostulat with David his anointed  
●●ake in a mystic parable and masked  
●nd him of his Adulterous actions asked  
〈◊〉 is lust injustice, he hes taxed their  
●nd to reprove his Stuprie did naught spair  
●nd heart'ly humble, he for mercy cries  
●●th for his murder and Adultries  
●●'effects and fruit whereof by divine wraith  
●●one efter birth, is quickly caught, be daeth  
●●en Solomon of Bethsheba is borne  
●●d Rabbah taen, straight besieged before  
The Captives captive their, he saws with Axes  
He cuts and carves them stents and draws and raxes   

2 Samuel 13. chap.  
ammon inflamed with lust and fleshly fire  
And what was worse incestuous desire  
〈◊〉 sister Thamar being fair he loved  
〈◊〉 David by a crafty counsel moved  
●nd her to Ammon seening sick and She  
●ent in as she directed was to do  
〈◊〉 wicked Ammon like a villain wild  
〈◊〉 maid ministering forced and defyld  
〈◊〉 efter hotter nor he low'de before  
●hen he had whored her than he hates her more  
〈◊〉 Absalon inveits him to a feast  
〈◊〉 for his rapt to be revenged mayst  
And at the table set his life did taken  
For his vnnat'rall and incestous fact   

2 Samuel 14. Chap.  
WHen Absalon long efter Ammon's daeths  
Had felt the weight of his wronged Fathers wraeth  
〈◊〉 fleemd was from the favours of his face  
●●nk in the Sea and dephs of his disgrace  
〈◊〉 by a woman joab did devise  
〈◊〉 pardon his Trespass the Prince t' intize  
〈◊〉 affection fatherly and Love  
〈◊〉 David's melting mind to mercy move  
〈◊〉 Geshur then be joab he is sought  
〈◊〉 by him back to jerusalem brought  
〈◊〉 Absalon for Beauties and his hair  
●●●ovnd, esteemed, so excellently fair  
Yet tuo years there he relegat remained  
●efore unto a presence he attained.   

2 Samuel 15. Chap.  
WIth flattries false although fair seeming shows  
Prond Absalon in Isrel pop'lar grows  
H'insumats himself in all men's grace  
Placed in the court Portch in a public place  
For all that offers honours unto him  
He claves be craft so to the Crown to climb  
By tratrons Heads to help his bad desire  
H'attempts unto, th' Imper ' all place, t'aspire  
His father flies and on mont Olive stays  
And all the Plots and purposes he prays  
Propond b' Ahitophel his State to stress  
That God would turn them into foolishuess  
And Hushai there his Servand, to the end  
T'oppose, and to uncase there counsels send.   

2 Samuel 16 Chap.  
Unfaithful Ziba to his master fails  
And Shimei doggishly at David rails  
His currish kind and naughty nature showing  
By barking basely and by stoubolts throwing  
Abishai would the churlish fellow smit  
But myldly David did prohibit it  
And doth confess that he there cursing stands  
And but by bidding and the Lords commands  
Who then said he dare crave and ask the man  
Why thus he curseth and he raileth than  
My Sun, my Blood, my bowels, hunts me lo  
And Wherefore may naught Shimei now do so  
Then suffer him to curse and let him be  
God may heirefter, heirfore look on me  
As falls Achitophel did heir advise  
The Lewd Sun with his father's pairties lies.   

2 Samuel 17. Chap.  
AChitophel agains his Lord conspires  
And force to follow from his Sun desires  
A vitions counsel gave his wicked wit  
But Hushai hating him opponis to it  
And bosom lurking friends acquaints his Prence  
With there perverses and tracterous pretence  
Then wise and worthy David apprehends  
The danger and departed with his friends  
But lo while Hushai Absalon advised  
Achitophel found all his plots despised  
Then on his ass fled like a fury fell  
And in his own house he hes hanged himself  
No better recompense can Treason crave  
Nor end more happy should a Traitor have.   

2. Samuel 18. chap.  
Unnatural unwise, unworthy Absalon  
With Isrel is agains his father gone  
Disloyal all, all up in arms they are  
And that to wage witg worthy David war  
T'hen he all his into thrie Bands Divides  
And gave them joab and tuo other guides  
T'he Battle joins and Absalon in fight  
With all his followers are put to flight  
And lo himself fast by his flaxin hair  
Hangs on one Oak betwixt the earth and air  
Whair joab contrary to the kings command  
Thrice thrusts him through and killed him with his hand  
This bloody end on Absalon did bring  
Distoyalty unto his Sire and King.   

2. Samuel 19 chap.  
DAvid into a secret Chalmer turns  
And for his slain suspended soon their murnes  
And joab check yea chyds him that did sho  
Such grief and sorrow for his fallen foe  
Thus roghly ronsing him to rise will have him  
Abroad or threats his liege's all will leave him  
Th' afflicted King consenting rose and sat  
In the most public and frequented gate  
Whair they that erst rebelld persewd and shore him  
Again restored and humbly bowed before him  
True Mephibosheth meets the King ans tries  
A trustid prince in spite of Zibas lies  
Barzillai leaves the King and homvards tends  
And Isrel jars with juda and contends  
And each of them for Right and interest  
Into the King strive stifli and contest.   

2. Samuel 20. chap.  
SHeba the Sun of the Bichri then arose  
And stirred up Isrel to be David's foes  
joab Amasa meets and seemed to kiss  
But kills and treachrously contrived this  
And Sheba with his Power to Abel is past  
Whair joab with his forces followed fast  
And did that city circomsiedge around  
And by woman's wit a mean is found  
To saif the City and it was indeed  
What joab craved and come fore, Shebas head  
The witty working of that woman wise  
The Israleits and Citizens entice  
To saif the Town, and get the Rebel's Grace  
To kill the Traitor Sheba in that place  
Which dead once done She unto joab calls  
And throw's to him the head down from the walls   

2 Samuel 21 Chap.  
IN David's days thrie years a famine fierce  
Did enter Isrel and her entrails pearss  
And herefore David did the Lord demand  
And to much blood to be the cause he found  
That then upon the Sons of Saul remained  
Which hes all Isrell maculat and stained  
Wherefore to blansh that bloody Sin he gives  
Unto the Gib'onites of them that lives  
Sev'ne men the Sons and seed of Saul amaing  
Whom in revenge they did suspend and hang  
The Philistines with four tall Captans strong  
That had bein enemies to Isrel long  
Four times into four Battals come to strokes  
Whose Captans staves be beams and sturdy oaks  
Into these fight were forced bet and slain  
By David and his doers dead remain   

2 Samuel 22. Chap.  
DAuid returd from wars victorious  
Praised God most good, most great, most glorious  
His Powar he proclamd extolled his strength  
And laud and glore gives to his Lord at length  
His mercy's majesty and mightiness  
And grief agains th'  dois express  
Him in his wondrous works he magnifies  
Who bows the heauns, from whom the thunder flies  
And for his own so oft deliverance  
His glorious Goodness greatly dois advance  
And passing all my powers to repeat  
He glorifies the God of Hosts most great  
And promises to praise and to proclaim  
And sing for eur the honour of his name.   

2. Samuel 23. chap.  
THe last words that King David spoke suppond  
(Naught dying) but when he his Psalms compond  
The Sun of Ishai that was set on high  
Aman created King by God's decree  
Israel's Psalmist and its singer sweet  
Thus saith, a Prophet and a Prince compleet  
Th' almighty God I grant above my merit  
Breathed in my Breast, spoke in me by his Spirit  
And promised that I should regne and bear  
O'er just men rule, men that the Lord did fear  
And as o'er th' earth the morning Sun did shine  
Illustrious from my loins should be my live  
〈◊〉 aggots for fire) be rasd and thrown away  
His worthies last he one by one doth name  
And gives to all the Glory due to Them.   

2 Samuel 24. Chap.  
from pride cur'ositie and fond desire  
David will know his pow'res in his empire  
●●erefore commands to note up all and number  
〈◊〉 men of Isrel to there cost and cumber  
〈◊〉 by his searchers found that they were then  
〈◊〉 thretein hunger thousand feghtan men  
〈◊〉 God by Gad declared what he intended  
〈◊〉 was a fault which highly him offended  
〈◊〉 King reputes, Gad doth thrie plagves propone  
〈◊〉 of the thrie David acceptis of one  
〈◊〉 fall into the fingers of the Lord  
●●efuseing famine and the bloody Sword)  
Who with infection that through Isrel flew  
●nto three days whole seventy thousand slay   

I Book of ye Kings. 1. Chap.  
●Ow when King David seventy years was old  
Heat natural hence, his blood was i'll and cold  
〈◊〉 covered him with clothes but all for nought  
〈◊〉 they a virgin brave Abishag brought  
〈◊〉 in his Bed and bosom lay and so  
〈◊〉 chafe and cherish him yet knew her no  
〈◊〉 weakened age made Adoniah rise  
●●●urp his Father's crown to interpryse  
●●an and Bethsheba the King acquent  
〈◊〉 Adoniahs' treacherous intent  
〈◊〉 bids the Priest and Prophet soon begun  
●●oynt and Crown his Sun young Solomon  
●●'usurper flees and to the altar gois  
〈◊〉 Solomon on hops him mercy shois   

1 Kings 2 Chap.  
●●uid a man agreeing with God's mind  
●alking the way of mortals and mankind  
〈◊〉 Solomon and heartl ' exhorts him than  
〈◊〉 the prudent Prince and worthy man  
〈◊〉 the Lord and walk in all his ways  
〈◊〉 stand to his Statutes all his day's  
〈◊〉 knows quoth he the bed from whence thowsprong  
●●ow for Thee I did they Brether wrong  
●●fore acquyt th' in all and every Thing  
〈◊〉 or can become a perfect King  
Howbeit to punish him, himself had spaird  
This holy Prophet then and hardy Prince  
As  that before or reigned since  
Departs in peace and most devoutly dies  
And in his City David buried lies   

1 Kings 2 Chap.  
When Absalon the Captain joab slays  
Contrar command into King David's days  
And efter blo'tted with the guiltless blood  
Of Abner and Amasa Captains good  
To David in his days did nought revenge  
Yet took to hart these three out rages strange  
And did direct his Sun to recompense  
When he was dead as did deserve th' offence  
But naught to suffer yet in  case  
Perfidious joab to depairt in peace  
Wherefore the King to kill him did command  
Whom to the altar fled for fear they found  
And by Benayah there to be example  
To bloody Captains killed was in the Temple   

1 Kings 2 Chap.  
THe Prince departed and put in his grave  
Then Adoniah would Abishag have  
And as is said efter his Father's life  
By Bershabe demands her to his wife  
But Solomon disliking that caused slay  
And Adoniah killed to death that day  
Abiathar with joab that conspired  
When Adoniah erst the Crown desired  
The King he would naught smit him with the Sword  
Because a Priest once sacred to the Lord  
But he degrads him from his Charge disgraced  
And Zadok sacred in the Prlest-hood placed  
Benayah efter then advanced he  
To be the Cheeftan of his Chivalry   

1 Kings 3 Chap.  
WIth Egypt Solomon a marriage makes  
And Pharos daughter to his vife he takes  
And unto David's fort from Memphis stream  
Brought her while walled was jerusalem  
Then to the Prince in Gib'on God apeard  
And what of him he would demand and speard  
Who in a meek and holy humblness  
God's great and money favours did confess  
And since he had created him a King  
He songht true visidome in his governing  
〈…〉  
With all his other graces under heaven  
And first the Plea that the two Harlots moved  
His voundrous wisdom and his proudence proved   

1 Kings 4 Chap.  
THe Princes, Peers and great men one by one  
Heir are insert that served Solomon  
With all purveyance great and Glorious  
belonging to his rich and royal house  
●he numbers of hts strong and stalled horses  
●hat he himself and his Cavaliers corpses  
●express his Power wealth and riches great  
●atchless magnificence and mighty state  
〈◊〉 flowing from the favours of the Lord  
●●he Prophet pertinently dois record  
●●is all exceeding wise enlarged hart  
〈◊〉 heaven in earth and in the profound part  
●nd th'all compr'ending knowledge of this Prince  
surpassing all that lived before or since  
Among the monuments of mortal men  
Expressed is here by this Prophetic pen.   

1 Kings 5 Chap.  
●Iram the Tiriam King with Solomon  
Congratulats his monting Isrels throne  
●nd he again with honour Servands send  
●hat him to Hiram kindly did commend  
●nd show his Father David for his wars  
With nightbour nations and intestine jars  
●nd piously he in his time intended  
●ould nought begin the Temple nor yet end it  
〈◊〉 when God gave him rest he set him foir it  
〈◊〉 build a house for worship of the Lord  
●●erefore there royal master Solomon  
requests for Cedars from his Lebanon  
Into which wondrous work employed were then  
A hunger fourscore and thrie thousand men.   

1 Kings 6 Chap.  
When for that famous fabric fitly are  
All things made ready neat and necessare  
〈◊〉 hundreth fourscore years efter that day  
〈◊〉 God from Egypt th' Ebrews brought away  
〈◊〉 four year current of the regne naught gone  
〈◊〉 David's wise and sage Senc Solomon  
〈◊〉 stately Structure of the Temple than  
〈◊〉 fore named numbers for to build began  
〈◊〉 in seven years this wondrous works intended  
〈◊〉 expression pompously was ended  
〈…〉  
In these few years was finished be Them  
And God (if he obedient remain)  
To Solomon reiterats again  
His promise past and will perform it streaght  
That to his Father David he had heaght.   

1 Kings 7 Chap.  
NOw while the Church than ' accomplish and conclood  
The sage and great King Solomon thought good  
Efter the works for worship of the Lord  
To have a house nixt for the King decord  
He heirfore t'enter instantly ordanes  
But sparing of expenses or of Pains  
Then all the Arts-men exquisite at once  
Gold, silver, Cedar, Brass, and marble stones  
With curious craft and past all creded care  
They melt they moold, cut Squinsion carve an square  
And for the Prince's palaces erects  
Exceeding princely rich in all respects  
But Hiram highly hes out hyid the rest  
And passing all compare some pieces dressed.   

1 Kings 8 Chap.  
Full finished these fair and famous works  
Of his Magnificence immortal marks  
The heads of Tribes and Isrels elders all  
Together he did convocatt and call  
The Ark from Obed for to bring with them  
Unto the Temple in jerusalem  
Which by the Levites and the Priests it fet  
And their with all Solemnity was set  
The Tabernacle and each sacred Thing  
The holy vessels all with them they bring  
Then Solomon past number numbers takes  
Of Sheep and Beeus and there oblation makes  
And while the Priests the offered offerings kills  
Into a Cloud the Lord the Temple fills  
The people than he blessed and preachd at length  
The pour and Praises of the God of Strength   

1 Kings 9 Chap.  
AGains god as before in Gibeon  
Apeard aproachd and spoke to Solomon  
Protesting of his Statutes will and way  
His word and Law he bid be and obey  
He will to him (to David what before  
Was promised) do and perform much more  
The royal Crown that did decore his head  
He sattle shall for eur unto his Seed  
〈◊〉 go a gadding efter other God's  
●●an than peremptorly he doth him tell  
●he honour of the house of Israel  
And Grandour that it gloreed in that day  
He would obscure and quickly catch away   

1 Kings 9 chap.  
●Ome Cities Solomon grate and benign  
To quit his kindness gave the Tyrian King  
●●eat gallant Spirits a gottin Good requights  
●nd freely favours to refound delights  
●●e Canaanites unkilld in th' Bbrew wars  
●●is thrice sage King hes made them Tributars  
●●e Hivites, Amorites and Perizzites  
〈◊〉 hopeless Hittites and the jebusites  
●●at yet the Hebrews did remain among  
〈◊〉 naught be Limb nor Line to them belong  
●●is mightiest and Monarch then most Great  
●●us having stayed and stablishd his estate  
And regning in all Rest resold he would  
To Ophir send a fleet to fett him Gold.   

1 Kings 10 chap.  
●He wisdom great of Solomon on earth  
So others passed before and since his Birth  
●●at riding on report with vinges of fame  
●●ew and to the Queen of Sheba came  
●●o far beyond the rising morn almast  
●●sie this sapient King come from the east  
〈◊〉 efter seen, fame sparing and report  
●●lling Truth of him she said, Shot short  
●●sk'd and money Questions did demand  
〈◊〉 most of God to know and understand  
〈◊〉 Solomon did solve all that she sought  
〈◊〉 he knew all and hid from him was nought  
〈◊〉 Majesty might and Magnificence  
〈◊〉 plamly spies of this unpeered Prince  
●hen they gave other gifts and She again  
returned to the East with all her Train.   

1 Kings 11 Chap.  
●He Charge that God to his great King had given  
〈◊〉 his apearing to him tuyse from heaven  
〈◊〉 serve his Statutes and t'obey his Law  
〈◊〉 his desires, to do them, did with draw  
〈◊〉 Thousand stranger women wyves  
〈◊〉 Concubines he keeped in their Lives  
●●fore the Lord was wroth and stirred him foes  
●●●ring all his days his unfrends shois  
And for his carerers' Carriage and 〈◊〉  
And to his maker's Proecepts small respect  
He do is foretell him from his Sun and Seed  
That he ten Tribs shall take and from his head  
Shall rend the crown, and to his great disgrace  
Set Nebats Sun his servand in his place   

1 Kings 11 Chap.  
EFter the Prophet, jeroboam Told  
In renting of his garment how God would.  
Taken ten Tribs from the Groune and leave but on  
To Rehoboam efter Solomon  
And him it pleased that pity for to take  
But only for his Servand David's sake  
And in this chapter tvyse to manifest  
His love to David he hes this expressed  
But now this mighty monarches all among  
This wealthiest and wisest to that ragne  
And into highest honour in all eyes  
Expired then, did end his days, and dies  
That ragne there forty years, by David's Tomb  
In David's city they this Prince inhume   

1 Kings 12 chap.  
THis man whom God gave greatest wisdom too  
Defunct and Rehoboam regning now  
The people and elders all salute him King  
And sit consulting on his Governing  
But he the Counsel of the aged and wise  
Did for th' imprudence of the young despise  
And hardly heirfore brooking this neglect  
Ten Tribes there jeroboam King elect  
And so fell from the Sun of Solomon  
Th' incensed Tribs of Isrel all saife on  
The Seer then charged by the Lord by night  
Prohibits Rehoboam's force to fight  
For that revolt by him than did begin  
For salomon's and Rehoboam's Sin  
And jeroboam King elected thus  
God grossly greeus, and grows Idolatrous.   

1 Kings 13. chap.  
While jeroboam at the Altar stands  
Teither a Prophet God to go commands  
T'expostulat and it to threaten thus  
There whair you offer incense myrrh and thus  
To David's house once shall be borne a Boy  
That thereupon the Prophets shall destroy  
And as you spend upon it now perfume  
The Bones of men he thereon shall consume  
〈◊〉 in the rest he halted and he strayed  
●nd did the will and went the ways of man  
〈◊〉 dissobeyd the Lords directious Than  
●nd herefore while the Prophet home did pass  
●lon at leasour riding on his ass  
The Lord a Lion sent that did him slay  
(Because he disobeyed him) on the way   

1 Kings 14 Chap.  
THe Sun of jeroboam falling sick  
H'intends to try the Prophet with a Trick  
●nd unto him his wife send in disguise  
〈◊〉 make a Gul of Him that God made wise  
〈◊〉 he unvaild her by the Lord's prevention  
●nd told the vanity of that intention  
●nd that declaird that from the divine wraeth  
●nto there child, approached a present daeth  
●nd for her Lord's defection from his makar  
●hat did his worship unto Idols sacrar  
●hat Crown, that God, from David's seed, did sever  
●●om him and his, he would rend it for ever  
And all that unto him attingent be  
The Lord from th'earth shall sweep ev'rlastinglie.   

1 Kings 15 Chap.  
THe aughten year of jeroboams reign  
Abiram then in juda reignod king  
〈◊〉 all the vicked ways he walked in  
〈◊〉 as his Father Rehoboam Sinned did Sin  
〈◊〉 yet for David's sake when he was dead  
〈◊〉 with a Son his princely place suppleid  
〈◊〉 one and forty upright did stand  
〈◊〉 as King David, did govern that land  
〈◊〉 Asa died and with his Fathers laid  
●●osaphat his Sun the Sceptre swayed  
〈◊〉 Nadab jeroboam sone began  
〈◊〉 Asas reign to rule in Isrel than  
〈◊〉 Bassa killed him and King eftor smote  
〈◊〉 that of jeroboams line he got  
And as the Lord foretold both great and sin all  
He slew and utterly destroyed them all   

1 Kings 16 chap.  
●Asha to regne upraised be the Lord  
As jeroboam sinned and did debord  
●efore this Lord for his Iniquity  
〈◊〉 forfalted his Posterity  
〈◊〉 while that Elach efter him did reign  
〈◊〉 Captane Zimri that did serve this King  
And by his death the Crown this rebel got  
But when to Isrel was the treason told  
The host crowned Omri and him for King him hold  
That Irizak with his warriors did invest  
And it perforce he entered hes and pre●st  
Disloyal and despairing Zimbri than  
With his false treason to be twichd began  
And to the strength as castle he returns  
Himself and it and all within it burns  
A recompense for such profane appointed  
That Durst be bold to kill the Lords anointed   

1 Kings 17 Chap.  
ELiah lo the Prophet did declare  
To Achab the approaching famine their  
(But God did feed and fostered him with Ravens  
Penned Parendars that foars along the heauns)  
That shortly should for want of dew and rain  
The people and Land to money straits constrain  
For all the Abominations great and Sin  
That Omri and himself had sliddin in  
Then famine, dearth, and want was in the I and  
And God the Prophet than he did command  
Eastivard in Cherith-brook himself to hyda  
And there his pleasure to attend and bide  
Flesh then and Bread upon that river bank  
The Ravens brought him and he waters drank  
For whom th' Almighty dois mantain and cherish  
Shall prosper when th' impious all shall perish   

1 Kings 17 Chap.  
GOd by his word Eliah-bids again  
Go to Zareptah city and remain  
Whair he before him at the gate shall find  
A vidow poor in poverty prove kind  
He found her their and did her then entreat  
To bring him water and some bread to eat  
She ansverd as the Lord did live that all  
Her store of meal was but a measure small  
Together with a little oil that dois  
Sustain her and her Sun into a Cruse  
Which Elie bids her bring and than he blesses  
And they continevved so and ne'er decresses  
The blessings of the Lord to minds content  
They be abundance and sufficient  
The vidow for her Sun departed, grieved  
But Helie prayed, twiched him, and he revived   

1 Kings 18 Chap.  
EFter from Cherith Elie the third year  
Was gone again God did to him appear  
〈◊〉 ●rait Command and Charge express to go  
〈◊〉 to the sacrilegious Achab so  
〈◊〉 in that fearful famine, drought, and dearth  
〈◊〉 would send Raine t'irrignat the earth  
●●d Obadiah than hide in Tuo Caves  
●●m death a hunger holy Prophets saves  
●●e by miracle the people moves  
●●d him the Lords true Prophet he approves  
●●n he commands the people soon to slay  
〈◊〉 Bralish all and Prophets falls that day  
●●nd as the Lord had heght he did obtain  
〈◊〉 prayer in the people's presence Rain.   

1 Kings 19 Chap.  
●●om jezebel while that Eliah fled  
●hat solemnly to slay him moved had  
●●y an Angel as he sleeping lay  
〈◊〉 in the deserts he had went a day  
●●h'd and bidden rise and take him meat  
●here finds vivers by his head to eat  
●●d and water drank and on the ground  
●ovne again and fallis a sleeping sound  
●●●ce more God awaks him and did say  
●●p and eat and dress Thee to thy way  
〈◊〉 hes a woage forty days in length  
●●●p he rose and stepped in the strength  
●●●t he eaten had and drank and than  
●●●eb hill went up the holy man  
●●●rd yet more he dois declare him too  
●●eturne what he will have him do  
●●el and jehu he doth him appoint  
●●ges and Elish Priest in his place t'anoynt.   

1 Kings 20 Chap.  
●●adad King of Aram up in arms  
●●d with steel Charrets men and horse in swarms  
●●old Bravadoes and unbryled Bralls  
●●ed strictly the Samarian walls  
●hat fierce famine sternly struck and stung  
〈◊〉 peer, and poor, the aged and the young  
●●●m the fury of that famine free  
〈◊〉 destressd in danger were to die  
●●od a Comfort by his Prophet sends  
●●rie promised Achab with his friend's  
〈◊〉 th' event and ishew of the fight  
〈◊〉 wise fell fortunate and Right  
〈◊〉 ●●hadad Ahab's peace in end  
〈◊〉 ●●y did reprehend  
〈◊〉 him did a sentence sharp proclaim  
〈◊〉 he heavy to his house went hame.   

1 Kings 21 chap.  
AHab his avarice and 'Greed agrest  
And covetous desire that could naught rest  
Although he could all Isrel then Command  
Without that Parcel of poor Naboths Land  
Heir is imprinted in a brook of Brass  
To b'evr a witness of his great disgrace  
But bloody jezebel the fell and fex  
The cross the Curse and shame of all her sex  
Both with deceat and cruelty at once  
The innocent Naboth bet and brained with stones  
But God repeyd their Tyranny extreme  
With total ruin, death, disgrace, and sha●●  
Yet Ahab by Eliah taxed he rends  
His Garments and his trespass he reputes   

1 Kings 22 Chap.  
IEhosophat and Ahab both as Brether  
To fight the Aramits agree together  
And faethless both, into there foolishness  
Consult there Prophets falls on there success  
Who ansver friendly (although falls) they find  
And the success to sort unto there mind  
Michayah yet that truly served God  
They asked that from th' impostors free abode  
Who well inspired and by the spirit made wise  
Told the true issue of their enterprise  
Heirfore Zidkiiah a false Prophet than  
Madlyk commoude did smit the godly man  
The battle joined, Ahab defate, they slew  
And things foretold of him fol forth all true   

1 Kings 22 Chap.  
AHaz'a nixt his Father killed and dead  
A Successor and his here reign in his stead  
A godless wicked and a urongous' King  
Incongr'ous in his carriage course and reign  
In all his doings he did eur debord  
And fell both from the Law and from the Lord  
His Fathers here into his worship vane  
As jeroboam all wise as Profane  
No but jehosophat evin from his youth  
As walked his. Father still stood to the truth  
And never did from what was right decline  
But did obey the word and will divine  
Yet th' Idol-Altars in high places placed  
Into his days they were not all defaced  
His other worthy deeds they a● set down  
In juda Annals unto his renown.   

1 Chapter.  
●Hen Ahaziah King of Israel  
Down throw a Lattesse of a window fell  
●●d unto Baalzebub (send to try  
●he that time in that disease should dye)  
●●e God of Ekron and the God of flies  
●●om to th' unfaithful used to Sacrifice  
herefore th' almighty (by Eliah) wraeth  
●●etold the messenger their Masters daeth  
wherefore the Prince the Prophet t'apprehend  
●●o Captains, each with fifty Soldiers send  
●●ut the God of Isrel in his Ire  
●●se fifties from the heavens confounds with fire  
●●nd as declared the King concludes his day's  
●●horam then his Sun his Sceptre sways   

1 Kings 2 Chap.  
eliahs dwelling days on earth o'er drev'n  
●he Lord resolved to take him hence to heaven  
〈◊〉 with Elisha he to jordan gois  
〈◊〉 by seprating it, his powar shois  
●●prit prophetic doubled than he gives  
〈◊〉 Elisha that his Lord out lives  
〈◊〉 than a fiery Car with flaming horses  
●●e soon and suddan Separation forces  
〈◊〉 in the Car caught with a whirling wind  
〈◊〉 was and left his Cloka behind  
〈◊〉 a then so in his faith confides  
〈◊〉 there with he the waves strikes and divides  
〈◊〉 walls and springs by him tart and amare  
●●wre made sweet of harmful healthful are  
〈◊〉 curssd the Boys that mocked him and therefore  
●●er torn in Pieces by the Tusked Boar   

1 Kings 3 Chap.  
Hil I'horam Judged the Isralits' among  
●●ehosaphat o'er Them of juda Reign  
●horam wicked was and did not right  
●as sincere in his Creator's Sight  
●●ght so foully as his Father fell  
〈◊〉 his monstrous mother jezabel  
●●et he adheard and cleaved to the Sin  
●●croboam Nebats Sun fell in  
Kings with anger then 'gainst Mesha swelled  
〈◊〉 his Moabits that than rebelld  
●●y Elisha are stirred up to fight  
●●d o'er match the Moabits by might  
Then Me●●a with his Sun 〈…〉  
And sacrificed him to asvage his Gods  
Which monstrous fact when Isrel understands  
For pity thereof They reteird there Bands   

2 Kings 4 Chap.  
ELisha by the heaunly help incressd  
Oil to a vidow for her debts distressed  
In such abundant quantity and store  
That all defrayed and yet enough to fore  
And for the Shunamite he did implore  
By prayer a Sun that had naught one before  
And this child waxed sickly and expired  
But he reviv'de him by his Dame desired  
The pottage likewise he made sweet of sour  
When meal among that vild vine he did power  
And with but tuenty loaus of Barley kind  
He fed a hunger and left store behind  
The Lord alone by him these vounders wrought  
And but his help Elisha he did nought.   

2 Kings 5 Chap.  
NAaman Captane of th' Assyrian host  
A Leper hopeless of his health almost  
Than by one Hebrew wench in war surprised  
To journay to Elisha is advisd  
Eliahs' deer and double spirited Man  
A Prophet in Samaria spirand than  
Who by his word divine, (a voundrous change)  
To wash him, did this loathsum Leper clang  
This Prophet yet no recompense would have  
Nor for the Leprous cure no coin receive  
But lo his groom Gehazi full of greed  
Gain and tuo garments got and for his deed  
That which Naaman did infect before  
Shall cleave to him and his for ever more   

2 Kings 6 Chap.  
YEt voundrous wonderful are wrought be him  
Elisha made in water Iren swim  
And all the King of Arams' Counsel sealed  
Unto the King of Isrel he revealed  
And herefore Aram of his men almost  
The choice and best he choosed of his host  
And secreitly unto Samaria send  
The holy Prophet for to apprehend  
But million more with fiery Charets stand  
To guard Elisha by the Lords command  
The Prophet prayed t' unshut his servands eyes  
Who th' heaunly host ●end for to guard the●● sies  
〈◊〉 Sama●a and they knew him nought  
●●●o God preserved him Be and there Prince  
●●om Arams injury and violence   

2 Kings 7 Chap.  
while that th' Assyrian Samaria s●●gd  
Such furious famine there in reign and raged  
●●at inhuman and loathsome to Relate  
〈◊〉 woman with consent her Sun did eat  
〈◊〉 herefore King Ihoram swore Elishas' life  
●●ould pay the price of that stup pendious strife  
〈◊〉 he pronounced and b' inspiration said  
〈◊〉 morrow shall this borough abound with Bread  
〈◊〉 th' infidull that would not trust his word  
●●●d see the same but in the throng was smord  
●●●cause a pallid faint and Trembling fear  
unmatched the Aramits entrenched There  
〈◊〉 And th' only sound of Arms without the Sight  
Confounded fearfully put all to ●light.   

2 Kings 8 Chap.  
〈◊〉 Lisha doth the Shunamite fore arm  
〈◊〉 from futur famine of th' ensweing harm  
mistelling dearth and Barrenness seven years  
peremptorly that approatch appears  
●●●d naught in sho but certanly itt shall  
●●●sly afflict juda and Isrel all  
〈◊〉 slew sicklike Benhadad sold naught die  
〈◊〉 convalesh of his Infirmity  
〈◊〉 by fore knowledge than his fate he found  
〈◊〉 at he should dye and by Hazalels hand  
●●●ich come to pas and shortly in his place  
●●●e th' Aramits he manadged the mace  
●●●oram in juda reign and Edom than  
●●●uisd them a King and to rebel began  
And Ahazia efter jorams reign  
Governed juda and became there King   

2 Kings 9 chap.  
WHen jehu crowned King in Isrel reign  
These were his doings his exploits among  
〈◊〉 honam as the Lord to kill directed  
〈◊〉 quickly he performed it and effected  
●●nd Ahazia King of juda Then  
●●o his flight is killed too be his men  
●●●n jehu up to Isrel mar●chd of mind  
●●nd that vitch the worst of women kind  
〈◊〉 Prophet killer carnel jezebel  
〈◊〉 for fire a faggot fit for hell  
Wh●●● 〈…〉  
And there dead bruised and felled with the fall  
Dogs (hands and harns except) hes all devoird  
As was praeprophesied be the Lord.   

2 Kings 10 chap.  
ACcording to the word and divine will  
jehu to Ahab seventy Sormes caused kill  
And to the court in heaps brought all there heads  
Deriding then demands who did these deads'  
This fatal Game on Ahabs' Sons begun  
All Ahazias house like race had Run  
For of his Brether forty he and Two  
Met on the way and slew them all also  
Then Baal's Priests that God of stock or Stone  
He at the altar caught and killed each one  
Non that in Isrel serve and bowed his knee  
To Baal than but all that day did die  
His Altars he destroys yet never Tvines  
From jeroboams wild and wicked Sins.  
Then efter jehu was expired and dead  
jehoahaz his Son steered in his Stead.   

2 Kings 11 Chap.  
FIerce Athalia sies her Sun expired  
And herefore she to be revenged desired  
Then on a cursed conclusion she doth fall  
To kill and killed the Royal Childring all  
joash except: that from her cruel knife  
By jehosheba had praeserud his Life  
And by jehoida crowned and anointed  
Who Athalia to be slain appointed  
jehoida dispenser of the word  
Betuix the Prince, the people and the Lord  
Humbly a Leagve and Covenant contracts  
Then all conjoin and Baal's Idols bracks  
His Altars and his Temples they o'erthrew  
And Mattan their his' Priest they stoutly slew   

2 Kings 12 Chap.  
IN jehus seunt year joash reign began  
A Prince that governed well and warily than  
while Priest jehoida taught him the word  
All that he did was good before the Lord  
He had a tinder Zeal and constant care  
The Temples ruined parts for to repair  
He stirred his time and quick attendance takes  
And much provisionn he for money makes  
The Syrian Prince that boldly braved Them  
And threatened juda and jerusalem  
〈◊〉 with a present o● 〈…〉  
●●equyred by his Father's former King's  
●●ho he to pass, and part with them was la●th  
●●es cooled the Cummig heat of Hazols wraeth  
Yet in the forty year that he did reign  
By tuo unfaithful servoinds he was slain   

2 Kings 13 Chap.  
●●N joash tventie third jehoahaz  
〈◊〉 The Son of jehu King in Isrel was  
●●●dolatrous as jeroboam he  
●●●eparted nought from his impiety  
wherefore the Lord delyverd him to Bands  
〈◊〉 Hazael the King of Arams' hands  
●●hill that to God he humbly bow and bends  
●●hen, then, the Lord, to him deliveres sends  
●●ash, jehoahar his Son and here  
●●●e be the Lord was his deliverar  
●●et left he nought his deeds Idolatrous  
●●hat cleaved so fast to jeroboam house  
jehoahaz, then ends his days, and dies  
And in Samaria he buried lies   

2 Kings 13 Chap.  
ELisha sick to joash o'er he dies  
'Gainst Aram Isrels Triumphs prophecies  
●●nd then his Spirit that the Lord inspires  
●●or to be wray his will in peace expired  
●●he man of God that so oft had declared  
●●is master's mind and for no peril spaird  
●●isha dead and Dul' interred than  
●●hill as they go t'ingrave one oter man  
●●ome bands of Moabits than Isrels foes  
●●hem selves in arms to them in erindd shois  
wherefore a bassed on Elisha's bones  
●●he dead man these into his Tomb impons  
And woundrously no sooner twichd by those  
His sacred bones but he upstands and gois   

2 Kings 14 chap.  
A Mazia joash-sonne of juda King  
In tuentie five year old began his reign  
●●nd as his Father joash walked upright  
●●et not as David did in jovas sight  
●●or the high places were naught taken away  
●●t in Them incense sacrificed They  
●●d when to him the Kingdom was confermed  
●●ainst his Father's Murderars he armed  
●●d those King killers he again hes slain  
●●at durst th' anointed of the Lord profane  
The 〈…〉  
Took Sela and ten Thousand of them slew  
Then Amazia challengis to war  
King joash then that was the stronger far.   

2 Kings 14. chap.  
Upon the Provocation both the Kings  
There hosts and armies to the Battle Brings  
Where Isrel as the stronger in Estate  
juda out jousted and its foree defate  
And when the Batale brock in was and lost  
They took the King and Captane of the host  
And than on Salem with there force falls  
The Temple spoilt brack and bet down the walls  
The Treasure that unto the King pertained  
And hostages they took that there remained  
Then death did end the dait of Ioha'sh days  
A stout and valiant King in all his ways  
Then Ierobo'mes succeeds his Father sign  
And Zacharia unto him be Line   

2 Kings 15 chap.  
SExtein year old was Azaria when  
In juda crowned he to govern began  
And tuo and fefty year a prince supreme  
He reigned and judged in jerusalem  
And yet his royal reign this fault defaces  
That incense they brint in the High places  
But lo the Lord chastised him for the same  
And smote him so that Leper he became  
jotham his Son then underneath his hand  
Governed his house and judged in the Land  
Insidious Shallum Zacharie did slay  
And murdered Menahem made him away  
Menahem thus away and in his Tomb  
Pekah his Son rose in his royal Room   

2 Kings 15 Chap.  
IN Isrel while Pekaihah swayed the sword  
He walked wickedly before the Lord  
And did profanely jdols dead adore  
And by one Pekah killed was therefore  
Then he King killer took into his hand  
The Crown of Isr'el and did there command  
But with his bloody murders he drank in  
That oftimes branded jeroboam sin  
But Hos'h'a this King killer he betrayed  
And then himself the sword of Isrel swayed  
●o●ham the second year of Pekah than  
To reign into jerusalem began  
〈…〉 and gone  
Ahaz his Son ascends into his Throne   

2 Kings 16 Chap.  
〈◊〉 Has a bad Son of a better Sire  
The seventein year of Pekah his empire  
〈◊〉 Inda did Guberne but did debord  
●●d wrought not uprightly before the Lord  
〈◊〉 with the kings of Isrel Idolised  
●●d his own Son to Moloch sacrificed  
●●e kings of Aram and of Isrel Then  
●●iedgd jerusalem with hosts of men  
〈◊〉 the almighty he would nought permit  
●●●em to Triumph on him nor to taken it  
〈◊〉 Ahaz he with jiglath joined consent  
●●nvade Damascus and t'assault it went  
●●ey took it, Rezin killed, with worship wane  
●●●d unusd offerings They the Altar stame  
But when this Prince Idolatrous was dead  
Then Hezekie his Son reign in his stead.   

2 Kings 17 Chap.  
●Hill that Hoshea reign Israel all  
Idolatrise, and to fass worship fall  
wherefore the Lord the King of Ashur sends  
〈◊〉 Israel a captive Comprehends  
〈◊〉 did the Prince and people in prison cast  
〈◊〉 did Samaria tack in at last  
〈◊〉 then in that deforced afflicted town  
〈◊〉 Assyrians, he set in Garisone  
〈◊〉 with a hateful and a hostile hand  
●●●ul'd it rudly and perforce command  
●●●e heathen yet the Lord they did naught fear  
●●bowd to Idols in his Isrel there  
Wherefore he send in Lions to devour Them  
●hat piece mail rend and all in Gobbets tore them   

2 Kings 18 Chap.  
●●shea reigning into Israel  
●●●n his tried year to Hezekiah fell  
●●●ins and helm of juda for to hold  
●●n he himself was twenty fyve yeir old  
●●ince that served the Lord and did adore him  
●●auid did his Either good before him  
abolished th' altars and the places hie  
●●ritaments unto Idolatry  
●●sen Serpent made in Moses days  
●●●k it down and into pieces brays  
●●a three years is besieged and taken  
●●el captive of the Lord forsaken  
Because as stringers they 〈…〉  
And nought his will divine nor voyol obeyed.   

2 Kings 18. chap.  
THe Ruler Rabshaketh of Ashurs' host  
A wild out cast before the Lord and lossd  
T' incamp, his Tents and Palions pitched down  
Before the City and the sacred Town  
And with his hell hounds altogether grossed  
Gins to Bandy 'gainst the Lord and boast  
His powar he despised, his Truth contemned  
And boldly too his blessed name blasphemed  
Israel's strength and all the might of Man  
Yea and the hand of heaven he scorned Than  
And in disdain God's greatness did disgust  
Dissvading Isrel in his strength to Trust  
And all the venom of a wicked Tongue  
That fool agains the firmament hes sloung.   

2 Kings 19 Chap.  
WHich when the holy Hezekiah hears  
He in the Temple to complaie compears  
And with a sorry soul, and heavy heart  
Depressd he from all his people apart  
With Sack cloth clad, hisroy all Robs all rent  
Most woeful for Gods wrong his wowes up went  
Great God said he that tuixt the Cherubs ●●●ell  
In mercy now remember Israel  
And hear there blasphemies that but all fear  
The Glory of they name and Honour Tear  
The Lord hes heard him and by Isay told  
That vain Rud Railers words revenge he wovid  
And keep untouched that Time be one of Them  
In that vnhallovved host jerusalem  
And did of them one night of life deprive  
A hunger fourscore Thousand men and five.   

2 Kings 19 chap.  
SEnach 〈◊〉 th' Assyrian Prince perverse  
When God did kill, his men and horse disperse  
He pausd naught thereuponn nor did repent  
But to his vain Gods for to worship went  
And little knew he that had scaped abroad  
That he at home had by himself the Rod  
Which beath him should for all his blasphemies  
And 'gainst Gods Hebrews his Hostilities  
For whill th' Idolatrous and careless King  
Adores his Nishroch a dead and naughtles, Thing  
Adramelech and Shatezer his brood  
Vn natural both his Sons they shed his blood  
〈…〉 back, they kill 〈…〉  
〈◊〉 Nishroch hears naught, nor his slaughter sies   

2 Kings 20 Chap.  
●He holy Hezekia that adored  
〈◊〉 And walked in Truth always before the Lord  
〈◊〉 ●ut this Time was sick to death and lay  
●●n Ishai send from God to him did say  
〈◊〉 Thou thy house to rest and order all  
〈◊〉 Thou must dye and live no more Thou shall  
〈◊〉 King then turned and prayed and shedding tears  
●●●ats for life and lo the Lord he hears  
rejoice, his sorrow sies, and sign he says  
●●●say tell him I will length his day's  
〈◊〉 to the years that he hes liv'de before  
〈◊〉 adjoin and add too fifteen more  
〈◊〉 this shallbe the Sign, to try it true  
●●●haddow look and in the Di●l wiow  
●●hen bright and clear the Sun thou shining sies  
●●hall than backward bend whole tun degrees   

2 Kings 20 Chap.  
●●●g Hezekiah of his Sickness whole  
〈◊〉 almighty's might extremely dois extol  
●●ach-baladan then Babo●s Prince  
〈◊〉 Hezekiah a Benevolence  
●●●e his Love unlooked for to repay  
●●●ength and Treasure did before them lay  
●●●ay hotly him reprov'de heirfore  
●●●ll his Seed with Babel-Bondage shore  
●●●id he their, They captive shall be led  
●●●ll that he and his forebears had  
●●●nnes in Babel they shall Enuches be  
●●●ord foretold me there Captivity  
●●●n Iudas godly Hezekiah dies  
〈◊〉 his shrewd Son Manass his place supplies   

2 Kings 21 Chap.  
〈◊〉 Ezekiah dead, Manasse reigns  
〈◊〉 first profane of the profanest Kings  
●●●n a fury of false worship burns  
●●●ith him Isrel to his vomit turns  
〈◊〉 revolts, themselves they Rebimieres  
●●●t on Idols as the Devil's desires  
●●●nation was there under Heaven  
〈◊〉 and they were all unto it given  
●●●fore Gods prophet hes praepreatchd to them  
●●●e and strats once of jerusalem  
●●●ier wrack and from the found the fall  
●●●d Them that shallbe therein all  
Manasse then exp●●d, 〈…〉  
Ammon his Son in stated in his stead  
And wicked Ammon by his Servands Trai●e  
(josias just succeeds his Father) slame   

2 Kings 22 Chap.  
WHen King josiah to govern began  
Azealous holy good and godly man  
Materials all and means he first made clare  
And gave them that the Temple did repair  
Then in a hollow wilt within the ground  
The Law Hilkiah hide before hes found  
Then Prince and Priest the people together draw  
That unto them then might be read the Law  
Whair Prince and Priest and prophets promised all  
The statutes there insert observe they shall  
The people likewise there the oath they took  
To stand to all into that blessed Book  
And in there hearts and Souls t'indent it deep  
And vvovved the Law, and lords commands to keep  
josiah then a Prophetess hes speared  
Who all the Lords will hes declared and cleared   

2 Kings 23 Chap.  
THe Law ' book fund and red therefrom the word  
Prince Prophets, Priest and people all accord  
And by their oath attested whair they stand  
To keep the Covenant and Gods command  
josiah then the Idol dead of B'a●  
He braks and his blind Priests he killed them all  
This Prince the passo're then he caused proclaim  
And celebrats it in jerusalem  
Conjurers he, where with the land was cloyed  
T'observe the Law geune be the Lord, destroyed  
This pious Prince that be God guides his reign  
By Pharo yet was in Megiddo slain  
jehoahaz succeeds but captive taen  
jehojakim his Sons crowned King again.   

2 Kings 24 Chap.  
Now Nabuchadnezzar Babel's great King  
His bands blood breathing did 'gainst juda bring  
But vaunting force t'affront Them in the fields  
jehoiakim then to the Time he yields  
And three years slave to him and Tributare  
jehoiakim and juda justly are  
For with the Lords consent these slraits extreme  
For Curssd Manasseths' Sins was laid on Them  
The money murders that he did commit  
With th' other Sins cried for a venceance yet  
●●●kim now with his Father's dead  
●●●achin reign razed in his stead  
〈◊〉 he praevaricat and still he strays  
〈◊〉 had his Fathers done before his days.   

2 Kings 24 Chap.  
〈◊〉 King of Babel then his Servands arms  
●●●nd send them 'gainst the rebel jews in swarms  
〈◊〉 pulats rheir lands their City's sacks  
〈◊〉 with their hostile hands all hawock makis  
〈◊〉 march then on and with there hosts they hem  
unmelted round about jerusalem  
●●●kim backed but with forces slender  
●●●d himself, and City too, to render  
●●●e in her rvins, wrack and overthrew  
●●●ory erst, and greatness, than they show  
●●●ing a Captive than is carried thence  
●●●edekie Crovn● by the Babel Prence  
●●●nassd he up, a mass beyond all measure  
●●●den vessels, Gold, and goodly Treasure  
〈◊〉 with the Captius all, and every one  
passports this rich spoil unto Babylon   

2 Kings 25 chap.  
〈◊〉 City sieged, was brought to voundrous straits  
〈◊〉 famine vemen their awne Bowels eats  
●●●er thrie years siege so was it shakin  
●●●cibly was brokin up and taken  
●●●rat house for worship, wonder once  
●●●his mund was then a mont of Stones  
●●●ghted Zedekiah they have sought  
●●●o Bands to Babel's King him brought  
●●●nes they kill and killed to him are shown  
●●●pless Prince hes both his eyes out thrown  
●●●m catened to a Carcer carry  
●●●age and in blindness there to tarry  
●●●on his people permitted these oppressions  
〈◊〉 there gross sins and there great Transgression.   

Ester 16 Chap.  
〈◊〉 Haman that did all the jews envy  
Mordecay's naught bowing going by  
●●●ore the Persian Prince intysed he  
●●●me Them all, by his decreit to dye  
●●●ordecay did call on God, and Go  
〈◊〉 and exhonrts her to do so  
〈◊〉 prayer near the Presenoe drawn  
●●●ntreat as Mordecay the Jew  
〈◊〉 formed and she did favour find  
〈◊〉 the King's heart unto her inclined  
And by one other Edict, then proclaimed  
That former cruel one, it was reclaimed  
And Haman that the king and jews had wronged  
Full fifty Cubits high was hiesed and hanged.   

job. 2 chap.  
THat dreadful Enemy to man the Devil  
Devising e'er to wrack and work him ewill  
Upon just job (God suffering did assay  
To tempt and try his patience ewrie way  
Vith boils his Body he, behind before  
And from each side to side assault him sore  
while with a Pot shared all his Skin he scrapes  
For no part of his Skin from Scabs escapes  
His wicked wife bids, him blaspheme and die  
But sweetly all his Soars yet suffered he  
His faithful friends to visit come and wiew him  
And weeped all when none of them there knew him  
But patiented job never opened once his lips  
For to curse God for all his cruel whips.   

Ezechiel 37 Chap.  
THe Prophet is transported to a field  
By Gold and their Bones numberless beheld  
Then did the Lord demand him if these Bones  
So blanshed could live that ver departed once  
He ansverd thus thou knows o Lord God than  
Says prophecy upon them Sun of man  
Which when I had obeyed, they begood  
To re assume their Sinews flesh and blood  
He prophesied again and lo they braeth  
And army huge resussitat from daeths  
Stand up all living men, and They (Said he)  
The Bones of-all the house of Isr'el be  
Which from there graves and Sepulcures I shall  
So smetyme home to their own land recall.   

Daniel 3 chap.  
THe Babel King one Image up did raise  
And all commands to worship it and praise  
His Lord convend he open court did hold  
For dedication of that God of Gold  
But their three faithful jews aback abode  
And would not bow unto that Idol God  
Wherefore they threw them in a furnace hot  
But from the Lord their God support they got  
And therein They unharmed with th' Angel we●●  
while that their Burri'oes with the fire were b●●●●  
Then much affrighted Babel's King conf●●● 〈…〉  
Their God was God of God's almightie●●  
Come Shadrach Meshach and Abednego.   

Daniel 5 chap.  
WHen Belshazzar a proud and impious Prince  
Into all Riot pride and Insolence  
With thousand Princes with him at a feast  
And Concubines as many to almaist  
Profaning their the Coups where with tha ' adored  
In Israel sometime the living Lord  
O but amidds there mirth behold a hand  
That wrait before them on the wall did stand  
Some secreit words 
† 〈…〉, Mene ●●●vphar●● 〈…〉.  unto Them all unknoune  
But Daniel resolved them and hes shown  
That for the kings great wickedness and wrong  
His life and Crown he should both loss o'er long  
And that same night this Prince proud and profane  
His reign is rend from him and he is slain.   

Daniel 14 chap.  
THe pranks pernition of the Priests of Bel  
Revealed are be the Prophet Daniel  
Bel then pulled down and the displeased Prince  
Confounded all the Priests for there offence  
And then the Dragon that indeed did live  
Ane whom to Cyrus did false worship give  
Then Dan'el he commands as others all  
To worship it and flat before it fall  
But he refuisd, and would the Prince permit  
He laid his Life to kill and master it  
Then took he pitch Bitumen fat and hair  
And boiled together, there with killed it their  
The God of hosts was jealous of his Glore  
And by his Daniel did he that theirfore   

Daniel 14 chap.  
FOr this despite as these Idol'ters' thought  
All with envy agains the Prophet wrought  
And in a rage agains their King they rise  
And for the kill of the Dragon cries  
Yea they upbraid him to his face and tell  
That he is turned jew with Daniel  
They press him to deliver him and drawn  
Him to the Lion's den and their him threw  
For those forefamized a fitting feast  
By kind a bloody and a cruel Beast  
But God still Dan'el from there fury fred  
And by the hand of Abacuk him fed  
God e'er preserus them in most per'lons places  
Whom in his Love and favour he embraces   

〈…〉  
THe Sins of Nineveh God from the skies  
Beholds and sies with his alseing eyes  
His worship wronged and but profaned his name  
Yet will premonish or he punish Thame  
And jonah to be warner he inveets  
Of all the naughtiness of Nineveets  
But rebel careless of his Charge than he  
Fled unto jarshish to eschevved be Sea  
But lo a Tempest stirred be God arose  
And he to light the Ship by lot be those  
(Is o'er board thrown) that then with him did Sail  
By providence yet kepped by a whail.  
Tho careless he his Lords command did brak  
Yet would he save him for his mercy's sake   

jonah 2 & 3 Chap.  
THen ceased the rage and roaring of the Sea  
When headlong hurled into it was he  
But while he in that whails big belly lies  
Perplexed in Spreit he prayed to God and cries  
Thrie days and nights that hell-like house within  
abides rebellious jonah for his Sin  
A Type of Christ that did presigure plain  
That he thrie days should in the Grave remain  
His crying from that hollow wilt ascends  
And God at last his loving ear he lends  
Thair to and did that monstrous fish command  
To lay the Prophet out a life on Land  
Then spoke the Lord to him to this effect  
In Nineveh go do as I direct   

jonah 2 & 3 Chap.  
IOnah reliude low humbled did record  
With thankful heart the mercies of the Lord  
Then unto Nineveh, in haste he hies  
And one day's journey, entered in he cries  
(For it was great, as  in the east  
And thrie day's journey long, and large at least)  
That notably the Ninivites annoyed  
Yet forty days and It shallbe destroyed  
This warning Bell through out the City Rung  
The people thickly to the Temple throng  
And with there Prince apparelled in sack cloth  
Repent, and pray t'appease God with them wrath  
He sies them humble and hears there hearts desire  
Then with their Pardon pacisies his Ire.   

〈…〉  
●●●e Tobit reakins out and doth Relate  
●●●s parentage, his Carriage and Estate  
●●●st declares in Enemessars reign  
●●●yrian King, he was a captive caen  
●●●e unto his Brether heir with all  
●●●nde in their afflictions doth recall  
●●●htousnes he likewise doth record  
●●●s zeal and worship of the Lord  
nineveh his Care he doth declare  
●●●ying his Brether dying their  
●●●ght for be Sennacherib perforce  
〈◊〉 himself and fled for fear of worss  
〈◊〉 by a friend that did at court remain  
●●●s restored unto Grace again,   

Tobit 6 chap.  
●●●as by his Father Tobit sent  
●●●th Raphael wnknowne to Gabel went  
〈◊〉 they had that by them did abid  
〈◊〉 Angel was his good and gracious Guide  
●●●st day they at night to Tigris came  
●●●obie took a fish into the same  
〈◊〉 heart and Liwer th' Angel caused preserve  
〈◊〉 perfume, one other time to serve  
●●●ges then they come and Raph'el said  
●●●ght Thou shall take to thy wife a maid  
●●●sings Daughter Raguel, since that  
〈◊〉 the Law to Thee is destinat  
●●●ontrare Raph'el Toby reasoned their  
wodowes her when these Things he did declare.   

Tobit 8 Chap.  
●●●as wedding as before intended  
●●●ith Rag'els daughter Saranow is ended  
●●●er feasting They go in to rest  
●●●om of purpose for them dressd  
〈◊〉 the Lord told Toby he assumes  
●●●es heart and fird the place perfumes  
〈◊〉 of how soon the fend the smell hes fund  
〈◊〉 and was by th' Angel efter bund  
〈◊〉 and his vife then rose and pray  
●●●undly sleeped together while the day  
●●●icked Spirit that slay the seune before  
●●●d thence fleemed from Them for ewermore  
〈◊〉 Raguel, for Grace thus granted Them  
●●●sd and praised the God of hosts supreme   

〈…〉  
THe moneys that from Gabel Toby sought  
The Angel Raph'el it receavved and brought  
The mar'age feast performed Tobias makes  
Him ready with his wife and journey takes  
Then Raguel much favour to them shows  
And half of all his Goods on them bestows  
Upon the way Together going so  
His Guide commands him home before to go  
And tell his Father blind, both more and less  
In all his ways, his prosperous success  
And with the fishes Gall, t' anoint his eyes  
Who quickly efter, as before, he sies  
Than gladly dois, he Tobies wife receive  
And grateful, Glore, to God for all he gave   

2 Maccabees 7 Chap.  
SEven Brether that Svines flesh refuisd to eat  
Skin-tirrd are tried with torturing torments great  
For what the Law prohibits they refuise  
And rather all, for to be chastizd chuise  
By death and bid what Buchery can do  
Than to that base abomination bow  
And efter other, each, there suffered more  
Nor  torted, ever had before  
Yet holily exhorting other all  
T'incress their Courage, on the Lord they call  
And full of hope when these short pains are past  
To rise again, they leave to live at last  
Their mother martyred last with strokes extreme  
Fearless and faithful fell and followed Them.   

2 Maccabees.  
SImon the Treasure in the Temple sealed  
Spiting the Priest to Hel'dore revealed  
Who by his King Seleucus charged came  
And from the Treasury toock out the same  
Onias then the Priest and people pray  
while God that sacrilegious stooth did stay  
And by his armed Angels shining bright  
Heliodore is whipped in Isr'el sight  
And to the earth blind is he beaten down  
And deadlyke Senseless lieth therein swoon  
while for Onias' prayer God for gives  
The robrie and the man again revives  
Then th' Angels their directs him to declare  
Th' almighty's pow're that he proved their.   
FINIS.   

printed AT MIDDELBURGH, GERRIT MOULERT Anno 1637.