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THE ARGVMENT OF GENESIS ''Creation of Heauen and Earth, and other Creatures, and lastly of Man chap. 1. and 2. The second part is of the transgression and fal of man, and his casting out of Paradise, of multiplication of men, and of sinne, though stil some were iust, of the general floud, that drowned al except eight persons, & few other liuing creatures of the earth, from the third chap. to the 8. The third part is of the new increase and multiplication of the same, from 8. chap. to the 11. The fourth, of the confusion of tongs and the diuision of nations, in the 11. chap. The fift relateth Abrahams going forth of his country, Gods promise, that in his seede al Nations should be blessed, and the commandment of Circumcision, from the 12. chap. to the 21. The sixth part recounteth the progeny, and other blessings, especially the great vertues of Abraham, Isaac, and Iacob, from the 21. chap. to the 37. The seuenth part reporteth the selling of Ioseph into Aegypt, his aduancement there, from the 37. chap. to the 46. The eight and last part is of Iacob and his progenies going into Aegypt, their intertainment there, and of Iacobs, finally of Iosephs death, in the fiue last chapters.''

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