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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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11. Staffe.

[In Abrams time, Idolatry did raigne]

In Abrams time, Idolatry did raigne:
God therefore called him from Chaldea land.
VVho taking Tent on back, away he came
And followed God, as child doth Nurses hand:
To him God promised great seed. After the same
To Abram, God gaue Abraham to name.