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A brief and compendious table, in a manner of a concordance opening the way…A brief and compendiouse table, in a maner of a concordaunce openyng the waye…
A brief and compendious table, in a manner of a concordance opening the way to the principal histories of the whole Bible, and the most co[m]mon articles grounded and comprehended in the new Testament and old, in manner as amply as doeth the great concordau[n]ce of the Bible. Gathered and set forth by Henry Bollynger, Leo Jude, Conrad Pelican, and by the other ministers of the church of Tygurie. And now first imprinted in English. D.M.L. [sic] The third book of the Maccabees a book of the Bible also printed unto this book which was never before translated or printed in any English Bible. The contents of this book are contained in the next leaf.A brief and compendiouse table, in a maner of a concordaunce openyng the waye to the principall histories of the whole Bible, and the moste co[m]mon articles grounded and comprehended in the newe Testament and olde, in maner as amply as doeth the great concordau[n]ce of the Bible. Gathered and set furth by Henry Bollynger, Leo Iude, Conrade Pellicane, and by the other ministers of the church of Tygurie. And nowe first imprinted in Englyshe. D.M.L. [sic] The third boke of the Machabees a booke of the Bible also prynted vnto this boke which was neuer before translated or prynted in any Englyshe Bible. The contents of this booke are conteyned in the next leafe.
London: printed by S. Mierdman for Gwalter Lynne, 1550
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Zurich part L When this was done and that he heard say that certain of there nation was gone privily out of the city, and did often bewail this shameful misery of there brethren, being angry, he commanded them also to be handled after the same manner ⟨image 135⟩that the other were, there punishment nothing to be diminished, and that all there kindred by name should be attainted. For he said that he would not take any of them in to painful service, but that in one day he would slay them all with such punishment as hath not been devised. So they were proclaimed traitors most bitterly, and the sessions was kept continually from the rising of the sun to the going down and yet was it not xl. days. part D *In the mean time the king full of great and continual joy, kept feasts before all the Images, his mind far from the truth and with a wicked mouth praising dumb things which could nether speak nor help, and against all reason blaspheming the God of night, and after that, when the scribes had showed the king, that they were able to punish the Jews no longer for the great multitude of them, for many of them was scattered abroad in the country, some yet at whom and some in other places so that it was a thing impossible to do for all the officers in Egypt, the king threatened them sore, ⟨image 136⟩as though they had bin hired to help them for gifts. Yet so it fortuned that they persuaded him showing evidently that they lacked both paper and pens to serve them, And this was the plain work of his providence, which did send help to the Jews from heaven.
Zurich part L When this was done and that he heard saye that certeyne of ther nacyon was gone pryuelye out of the cytye, and dyd often bewayle thys shamfull mysery of there bretheren, beynge angrye, he commaunded them also to be handled after the same maner ⟨image 135⟩that the other were, there punyshement nothynge to be diminyshed, and that al there kyndred by name shoulde be attaynted. For he sayde that he woulde not take any of them in to paynful seruyce, but that in one day he would slay them al with such punyshment as hath not bene dyuysed. So they were proclamid traytours most bytterlye, and the sessyons was kept continewally from the rysynge of the sonne to the goinge downe and yet was it not xl. daies. part D