Blesse: godes blessinges are his giftes/ as in the firste chaptre he blessed them saynge: growe & multiplye & haue dominion &c. And in the .ix. chaptre he blessed Noe & his sonnes & gaue thẽ dominiõ over all beestes & authoryte to care thẽ And God blessed Abrahã with catell ãd other ryches. And Iacob desyred Esau to receaue y^e blessinge which he brought him/ y^t is the preasent & gifte. God blessed the .vij. daye/ y^t is/ gaue it a prehemynence y^t men shuld rest therein from bodely laboure & lerne to know the will of god & his lawes & how to worke their workes godly all the weke after. God also blesseth all nations in Abrahams seed/ that is/ he turneth his loue & favoure vnto thẽ and geveth thẽ his spirite and knowledge of the true waye/ ãd lust and power to walke therin/ and all for christes sake Abrahams sonne. Cain/ so is it writen in Hebrue. Notwithstõdinge whether we coll him Cain or caim it maketh no matter/ so we vnderstand the meaninge. Euery lande hath his maner/ that we call Ihon the welchemen call Evan: the douch hãce. Soch differẽce is betwene the Ebrue/ greke and laten: and that maketh them that translate out of the ebrue varye in names from them that translate out of laten or greke. Curse: Godes curse is the takynge awaye of his benefytes. As god cursed the erth and made it baren. So now hunger/ derth/ warre/ pestilence and soch like are yet ryght curses and signes of the wrath of God vnto the vnbeleuers: but vnto them that knowe Christ/ they are very blessinges and that wholsome crosse & true purgatorye of oure flesh/ thorow which all must go that will lyue godly ãd be saued: as thou readest Mat .v. Blessed are they that suffre persecution for rightewesnes sake. &c. And hebrewes .xi. The lorde chastyseth whom he loveth and scorgeth all the children that he receaveth. Eden: pleasure Firmament: the skye.