Rheims Douai [1582], THE NEVV TESTAMENT OF IESVS CHRIST, TRANSLATED FAITHFVLLY INTO ENGLISH out of the authentical Latin, according to the best corrected copies of the same, diligently conferred vvith the Greeke and other editions in diuers languages: Vvith Argvments of bookes and chapters, Annotations, and other necessarie helpes, for the better vnderstanding of the text, and specially for the discouerie of the Corrvptions of diuers late translations, and for cleering the Controversies in religion, of these daies: In the English College of Rhemes (Printed... by Iohn Fogny, RHEMES) [word count] [B09000].
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THE ARGVMENT OF THE BOOKE OF EXODVS.
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Moyses having prosecuted in Genesis, the sacred historie of the
Church, vnto Iosephs death, containing the space of 2310. yeares, continueth
the same in Exodus, for 145. yeares more. note VVhere he first briefly recounteth,
how a smal number of Israelites, especially after the death of Ioseph,
being much increased, a new King (risen in the meane time, who
knew not Ioseph) together with other Ægyptians, enuying their better
partes, both of bodie and minde, and more fortunate progres in wealth; fearing
also lest they stil multiplying, either by their owne forces, or ioyning
with other foreners, might spoile Ægypt, and returne into Chanaan; and
hating their Religion, because they acknowledged, one onlie, eternal, omnipotent
God, denying and detesting the new imaginarie goddes of the Ægyptians;
resolued and publickly decreed, by oppre&esset;ion to hinder their increasing, &
to keepe them vnder bondage seruitude. note But God almightie, who had chosen
them for his peculiar people, did not only so conserue and multiplie them, that
of seuentie persons, which came into Ægypt, in the space of two hundred and
fiefteene yeres, there were six hundred thousand men, able to beare armes, besides
wemen, children, and old men, which by estimation might be three millions
in al, but amongst other most strange and miraculous workes, especally deliuered
one Hebrew infant from drowning. whom afterwards he made the
Guide, and supreme Gouernour of the same people; by him admonished the
King to cease persecuting, and diuers waies plagued him & his people for their
obdurat and obstinate crueltie. note note In fine called away, and mightily deliuered
his owne people; drowned that king and al his armie, in the red sea, the Israelites
wonderfully pa&esset;ing through, as in a drie chanel, the waters standing on
both sides, like two walles. In the desert, fed them miraculously with Manna,
and gaue them al necessaries, defending them also from enimies. note Then God, hauing
thus selected and seuered his people from al other nations, gaue them a
written in law, as wel of Moral, as Ceremonial and Iudicial preceptes, with the
maner of making the Tabernacle, erecting Altares, consecrating Priects, with
the institution of daylie Sacrifice, and of al vestures, veselles, & other holie
things belonging to the seruice of God. note So this booke may be diuided into three
partes. First is declared the Israelites seruile affliction in Ægypt, with their
deliuerie from thence: in the fieftene first chapters. Then how they were maintained
in the desert, and prepared to receiue a law: in the foure next chapters.
In the other 21. chapters, the lavv is prescribed, instructing them hovv to liue
tovvards God, and al men.
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THE BOOKE OF EXODVS. IN HEBREW VEELLE SEMOTH.
Rheims Douai [1582], THE NEVV TESTAMENT OF IESVS CHRIST, TRANSLATED FAITHFVLLY INTO ENGLISH out of the authentical Latin, according to the best corrected copies of the same, diligently conferred vvith the Greeke and other editions in diuers languages: Vvith Argvments of bookes and chapters, Annotations, and other necessarie helpes, for the better vnderstanding of the text, and specially for the discouerie of the Corrvptions of diuers late translations, and for cleering the Controversies in religion, of these daies: In the English College of Rhemes (Printed... by Iohn Fogny, RHEMES) [word count] [B09000].
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