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A Briefe of the Bibles History

Drawne First into English Pohesy, and then illustrated by apt Annotations: whereto is now added a Synopsis of the Bibles Doctrine. The third Aedition, in sundry things amended and enlarged. By Henoch Clapham
  

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[As Adam gun the former World, so this]

As Adam gun the former World, so this
By Noah was, begun. Of Cham there came
The Canaanites, accurst for works amisse:
Of Iaphet sprong the Gentiles hight by name.
Of blessed Shem, came Heber, Abram eke,
From whome the Israelites their bloud-rowle seek.