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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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Make the gentiles to wonder at thy mighty power, & use thy strength to the health of the kindred of Jacob. All these young infants beseech the here of. part C And there fathers also with tears, let it be seen to all gentiles, O Lord, ye thou helpest us, & that ⟨image 141⟩thou hast not turned thy face from us, *but that thou haste not forgotten us, no not in our enemies land, O lord do even so. Zurich part S When Eleazarus had made an end of his prayers thus, the king & all his great company was come with his beasts to the horse coursing place, which when the Jews saw, they made a great shot to heaven insomuch that all the walls sounded thereof, even that the people wept sore. Then the glorious, omnipotent and true God showing his holy face, opened his *heavenly gates, from whence there came two Angels terrible to look upon, whom did also save the Jews. They let there enemies army and filled them with fear & trouble, and bound them with such fetters that they might not stir. Then trembled the kings body, and began to forget his prefull boldness, *the beasts also turned against the men that were in harness and trod them under the feet and killed them. *So the king turned his anger into pity, & to bewail those things that he had done before. For when he hard the cry, after that saw them all trodden to death weeping, and ⟨image 141⟩angerly rebuking his friends. part D Ye abuse ye king quod he, & passe all tyrants in cruelty, ye go about to take spirit & life from men, which have done for you, devising proud things that be not for the profit of my realm. Who hath sent hither & unworthily put out of there houses these men, which kept the holds of our realm faithfully. Who hath so cruelly punished those men, which even from the beginning, hath been above all nations most loving unto us. Zurich part T Lose the bounds that they unjustly be bound with all, I say lose them, and let them go safe for there good deeds that they have done before, let go the children of the omnipotent and living God which from the time of our ancestors to this day hath kept the state of our realm untroubled. And those words spake he and they incontinent being loosed when they had escaped death, praised the holy God their saviour.