The First Boke of Moses called Genesis Part 14

To walke with G.o.d is to lyve G.o.dly and to walke in his commaundementes.

Enos walked with G.o.d and was no moare sene: that is/ he lyved G.o.dly and dyed/ G.o.d toke him awaye: that is/ G.o.d hyd his bodye/ as he did Moses d Aarons: lest haplye they shuld haue made an Idoll of him/ for he was a great preacher and an holye man.

Zaphnath paenea/ wordes of Egipte are they (as I suppose) and as moch to saye: as a man to whome secrete thinges be opened/ or an expounder of secrete thinges as some enterprete it.

That Ioseph brought the egiptians in to soch subiection wold seme vnto some a very cruell deade: how be it it was a very equall waye. For they payde by the fifte parte of that that grewe on the grounde. And therwith were they qwytt of all duetyes/ both of rent/ custome/ tribute & toll. And the kinge therwith founde them lordes and all ministres and defended them. We now paye half so moch vnto the prestes only/ besyde their other craftye exactions. Then paye we rent yerely/ though there grow never so litle on the grounde/ And yet when the kinge calleth paye we neuer the lesse. So that if we loke indifferently/ their condition was easyar th? oures/ and but even a very indiffer?t waye/ both for the comen people and the kynge also.

Se therfore that thou loke not on the ensamples of the scripture with worldly eyes: lest thou preferre Cain before Abel/ Ismael before Isaac/ Esau before Iacob/ Ruben before Iuda/ Sarah before Pharez/ Mana.s.ses before Ephraim. And euen the worst before the best/ as the maner of the worlde is.