A briefe chronologie of the holie scriptures as plaine and easie as may be, according to the extent of the seuerall historicall bookes thereof. Comprised first in a few verses to a short vievve for some helpe of memorie: and afterward more particularly layd forth and explaned, for a further light to the course and proceeding of the holy sorte. With a catalogue of the holy prophets of God, as touching the times wherein they prophesied.

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A briefe chronologie of the holie scriptures as plaine and easie as may be, according to the extent of the seuerall historicall bookes thereof. Comprised first in a few verses to a short vievve for some helpe of memorie: and afterward more particularly layd forth and explaned, for a further light to the course and proceeding of the holy sorte. With a catalogue of the holy prophets of God, as touching the times wherein they prophesied.

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London :: Printed by Iohn Harison [3], for Thomas Man,

1600.

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Bible -- Chronology -- Early works to 1800.

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"A briefe chronologie of the holie scriptures as plaine and easie as may be, according to the extent of the seuerall historicall bookes thereof. Comprised first in a few verses to a short vievve for some helpe of memorie: and afterward more particularly layd forth and explaned, for a further light to the course and proceeding of the holy sorte. With a catalogue of the holy prophets of God, as touching the times wherein they prophesied." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A03887.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 20, 2024. content_copy

Contents

• title page
• To the Reader.
• A briefe Chronologie of the holy Scriptures. Comprised first in a few verses.
• A more full opening and expla∣ning of the former verses, for a further light to the course of the Storie, according to the Index of the letters prefixed vnto them, and first con∣cerning GENESIS. 2368. yeares.
  • EXODVS 146 yeares.
  • LEVITICVS, only one moneth.
  • NVMBERS, 38 yeares, and 9 moneths.
  • DEVTERONOMIE, two moneths at the least, which make vp the 39. yeare of the booke of Numbers, and rea∣cheth to the end of the fortith yeare that Mo∣ses spake to Israell.
  • IOSHVAH, 17 yeares.
  • IVDGES, 299 yeares.
  • 1. Booke of SAMVEL, 80 yeares.
  • 2. Booke of SAMVEL, 40 yeares.
  • 1. Booke of KINGS, 117 yeares.
  • 2. Booke of KINGS, 345 yeares.
  • 1. Booke of CHRONICLES.
  • 2. Booke of CHRONICLES, continueth the Storie 25 yeares longer then 2. Kings.
  • EZRA, NEHEMIAH, and DANIEL, 490 yeares.
  • EZRA.
  • NEHEMIAH.
  • ESTER.
  • DANIEL.
  • From the Creation of man to the death of our Sauiour yeares 3966 by the former account.
  • From the birth of our Sauiour Christ to this present yeare of the same our Lord Iesus Christ his reigne, are 1600 yeares.
• A Catalogue of the holy Pro∣phetes of God, as well of those so called, whose Prophesies are not expressedly recorded, as of the rest: according to the order and course of the times wherein they pro∣phesied, by a distribution of them into certaine Classes or companies. And first, of the Prophets among the Patriarches or chiefe Fathers before the Flood.
  • Prophetes, such as were Patri∣arches, or chiefe Fathers of the people of God, since the flood to the time of the Iudges, which was the space of more then 700 yeares.
  • Prophetes, such as were in the time of the Iudges, and so forth to the beginning of the reigne of the Kings.
  • Prophetes, such as were from the beginning of the reigne of the kings of Iudah and Israel, the which we are to consider of, vnder ma∣ny companies. But first concerning some of the Kings themselues.
  • Prophetes, such as God sent spe∣cially to Iuda, and to the Kings thereof, after that the ten tribes were departed from them.
  • Prophetes which the Lord sent to the tenne tribes of Israel, and to the Kinges thereof, after that they were departed from the tribe of Iudah.
  • Prophetes, vvhich prophesied more iointly, both cōcerning Iuda, & also concer∣ning Israel, after their separation: yea, and some of thē, euen after the captiuities of either of them.
  • Prophetes, vvhich prophesied more spially concerning forreigne nations.
  • Prophetes of the newe Testament.
  • The Conclusion.
• The few errata escaped in some bookes of this Impression.