foundation

He is like a man which built an house, and digged deepe, and layd the foundation on a rocke. And when the flood arose, the streame beat vehemently vpon that house, and could not shake it: for it was founded vpon a rocke.

But he that heareth, and doeth not, is like a man that without a foundation built an house vpon the earth: against which the streame did beate vehemently, and immediatly it fell, and the ruine of that house was great.

That the blood of all the Prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation,

Lest haply after hee hath laide the foundation, and is not able to finish it, all that behold it, begin to mock him,