We may be instructed hereby
To keep ourselves from evil, and that all ought to repent.
For Jesus Christ hath said it, and in Saint Luke it is written,
That all those shall perish that shall not so do.
Now to those that escaped, God made a promise,
That the world should never more perish by water;
And they believing it were multiplied.
But that good which God did them they soon forgat,
Being men of little faith, and so great fear,
That they did not throughly believe the words of the Lord.
But they believed that the waters should again trouble the world,
And thought of building a tower to retire into,
Yea and they began it (as it is written)
Intending to make it so large, and so high, and so great,
That the top thereof might reach to heaven, but alas they could not accomplish their design.
For they displeased God thereby, the which also he then demonstrated.
This great city was called Babylon,
And now it is called Confusion, by reason of its ruinous condition.
There was then but one only language amongst men,
But that they might not understand each other, God made a division
That so they might not finish what they had begun.
The which languages then spread throughout all the world.
After this they sinned grievously, renouncing the law, that is the law of nature.
For the Scripture saith, and it may be evidently proved,
That five cities perished which did evil,
Being sentenced by God to fire and brimstone.
He destroyed the wicked, and the good he delivered,
That is Lot and his family, which the angel brought out,
They were four, but one was condemned,
For the woman looked back, breaking the command.
Here’s now an example for all mankind,
That they ought to take heed of that which God forbids.
In those days lived Abraham, a man well-pleasing God,
Who begat a patriarch of who came the Jews,
And these were a noble people in the fear of the Lord,
Who lived in Egypt, among other wicked people,
Where they were oppressed and straitened a long time,
And but crying to the Lord he sent unto them Moses,
And delivered his people, and destroyed other nations.
They passed through the Red Sea, as through a dry and pleasant place,
But their enemies who persecuted them, perished all in the waters,
Many other signs did God then give to his people;
Feeding them forty years on the wilderness, and giving them the law,
In two tables of stone, which he sent by Moses,
Which they found written, and nobly ordained.
They demonstrated that there was a Lord of all men,
Whom they ought to believe, and love with all their heart, as likewise to fear and serve him to the end,
And that everyone should love his neighbour as himself:
That they should give counsel to widows, and defend the fatherless,
That they should receive the poor into their houses, and clothe the naked,
That they  should feed the hungry, and conduct the traveller;
And in sum keep carefully this his law,
Promising to those that kept it, the heavenly kingdom.