Selected quad for the lemma: book_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	write_n	write_v	writer_n	265	4	7.7662	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17967	The thre bokes of cronicles, whyche Iohn Carion (a man syngularly well sene in the mathematycall sciences) gathered wyth great diligence of the beste authours that haue written in Hebrue, Greke or Latine Whervnto is added an appendix, conteynyng all such notable thynges as be mentyoned in cronicles to haue chaunced in sundry partes of the worlde from the yeare of Christ. 1532. to thys present yeare of. 1550. Gathered by Iohn Funcke of Nurenborough. Whyche was neuer afore prynted in Englysh. Cum priuilegio ad imprimendum solum.; Cronica. English	Carion, Johannes, 1499-1537 or 8.; Funck, Johann, 1518-1566.; Lynne, Walter.	1550 (1550)	STC 4626; ESTC S107499	318,133	586

the commaundement of God geuen they fell into the daunger of synne and death But forasmuch as all this is clearly written in the holy Bible out of the whiche they oughte to be learned it is invaine to speake thereof here it is sufficient onelye to aduertish the reader that the worlde standeth by these beginninges and that Adam and Heua are created of God whyche are the ofspringe of all mankinde Moreouer about the very time of creation dyd God institute the ciuyll adminystratyon when he gaue Adam power ouer all those thynges that are in the earth and sea that he shoulde vse them and should sett a good order in all those thinges that are exteriour That commaundemente of God is the springe and beginninge of all lawes and whatsoeuer ciuile ordinaunces there are are begonne of it the whiche are approued and alowed of God by reason of this commaundemente geuen to Adam The churche hath her begynnynge here also For the commaundemente wherein they shoulde exercyse theyr fayeth and feare before God was here geuen but whan they began to synne hath God disclosed the power of Sathan and against it hath promysed the Gospell or glad tydynge of the womans sede that is of Christe that Christe shoulde come and wayst Sathans kyngdome and shoulde delyuer vs from synne and death into liberte Thys was the fyrst preachinge of the Gospell whiche beganne the churche and Christus kyngdome For in the churche muste not onely be preached the commaundementes of good workes but also the forgeuenesse of synnes by Christ for thereby onelye are we reconciled to God and endure agaynst death and all maner of temtation whan by fayth we take the promyse of forgeuenesse of synnes And of thys wyse toke Adam and Heua consolacion out of the word that Christe was promysed and of these two persons is the churche fyrste begonnne Besyde thys was it necessary also they should suffer temporall afflictions for they were dryuen out of paradyse that is they were subiecte to death and all maner of other myseries and so lyued theyr dayes in laboure and trauayl in that lande which the Iewes possessed afterwarde For it is written that they were created by the cytye Damascus Of Cain and Abel SCrypture sayth that Adam and Heua broughte forth children and that Cain slewe hys brother Abel And here begynneth the persecution of the sayntes of the wicked men and is and example very dredefull For thys manslaughter happened for none other cause than for y ● seruice of god the which whan it is done purely Sathan can not abyde it for the whyche cause he sturreth Cain to slaye his brother that the worde of God and syncere doctrine maye be quenched And this dede sheweth howe vehement is the ire of Sathan and rage also what mannes fraylnesse and blindnesse is There are by the waye rehearsed in this history weyghty and graue preachinges of the iudgement of Christ to come of the dredefull vengeaunce for sheddinge of bloude the whiche to rehearse here were to longe Cain after that he fled hys fathers sight he began to buylde the citye called Enoch Hys chyldren inuented all maner of handycraftes and sciences Finally for the manslaughter was he punished for he dyed a lyke kynde of death Of Seth. AFter this was Seth boren to Adam thys man beynge famous and renomed for his endeuour of honest and godlynesse enforced after Abel to auaunce and augment Gods kyngdome Of this Seth were afterward engendred holy fathers and the remnaunt of thys kynred remayned But the posterytie of Cain was whole drowned in the floude Iosephus wytnesseth that Adam and Seth made two tables the one of brasse the other of stone and that in them wer grauen the worde of God and prophesyes by the whiche the worde of God was kepte He wryteth moreouer that they diuided the yeare into twelue monethes and that they obserued fyrste the course of starres and taught it For it had not bene possible that the minde of man coulde haue attayned to the searching of so high and wounderfull things without God had opened them the knowledge of them Wherfore to Adam and Seth we must ascribe the word of god the figures of the letters and the greatest sciences Ther are also many witnesses among the Grekes that the writinge and all sciences are come of the Iewes aunceters For Herodotus writeth in his fyfte boke that the Grekes haue receaued theyr sciences and letters of the Phenices The age of Adam was nyne hundreth and thirty yeares and reached vntill the time of Noes father but he dieth hundreth and. 26. yeares before Noe was borne But in this tyme is written to be happened nothinge worthy of rehearsall vntyll Noes tyme saue only genealogy that in the meane whyle we maye know surelye of whom it behoued Christ to be borne But neuerthelesse by the waye maketh scripture mention of the death of Enoch that he be taken vp by God the whiche dede God hath sett before the worldes eyen that it mighte know and beleue that there is immortalitie after thys lyfe and that God shall iudge and saue the good truely but punish the wycked Of the Floud THE scripture maketh mention that the worlde was punished of God and ioyneth therto the occasions thereof namely that it begann to peier and amonge the chefest of the euels are named the despisynge of God aduoutry and tyranny in the which is vsed all maner of wylfulnesse and wantonnesse For of this wyse saieth the text The childeren of holy men beganne to become tyrauntes vpon earth by the which is signified that whan Gods worde was despised and hys worshyp they liued vnmaneredly and an vnbrydeled lyfe they oppressed the weake and poore accordinge to their pleasure and vsed wylfulnesse of rulinge as they would For cause of these thinges did God threaten the worlde wyth the floude and before the same should come he wylled Noe to preach it an hundreth yeare before that some beynge conuerted mighte be saued Whan Noe was sixe hundreth yeare olde came the floude and accordinge to Goddes commaundement went he into the arcke with his wyfe and his thre sonnes Sem Cham and Iaphet taking with them their wiues and was saued The residue of men and beastes hath the floude taken awaye and destroied And are from the creation of the world vntyll the tyme of the floude thousand sixe hundreth and sixe and fiftye yeares Of the tyme after the Floude WHan Noe had now ben aboue an half yeare in the arcke and that the floud mynyshed the arcke rested vpon the hyghesthyl of Armenia and after the yeres ende whan the earth beganne to drye Noe was commaunded of God to leaue the arcke wherein he had now ben a whole yeare Than dyd God ordeine as it were a new worlde agayne For fyrst he gaue hys worde by the which he promysed not to drowne the world agayne and in token of certayntye he gaue the Raynebowe which shulde admonysh

course was through the celestiall or heauenly sygnes Cancer Leo Virgo and Libra where it was sene nomore nether appeared any more after that Not long after in October rose a warre in Switzer lande For to they of Tzurich stopped the passages that to their neghburs of zugia Vria Suicia Siluia and Lucerne noman coulde bryng corne salte and other victuals Wherfore they armed thē against those of Tzurich They met eche other w t displaied banners they of Tzurich beyng vanquished with thre fieldes had the worst In the fyrst battayll was slayne the preacher of Tzurich Huldrich zwinglius In the meane tyme endeuoured they of Stralborow and Constance their neighbours to make an accorde among the cōfederated And thus after .viij. monethes and .vi. wekes was the vproure alayed Of thē of Tzurich died about fyue thousande of the other syde a fewe The yeare M D. xxxii came Charles the Emperoure againe out of Brabant into Germany and came in Marche with his brother kyng Ferdinand to Regenspurg to kepe a parliament Thithercame the deputies sent frō the Imperial cities There came also many princes or at the leaste their Ambassadours Not very long before that Constantinople was taken by the Turkes I reade there was a solitary man not farre from the citie Constantinople and he shuld haue prophecied that the Turkes in dede should winne Constantinople and should roote out the kyngdom of the Grekes but anone after foure score yeres should they lose Constantinople agayn and that the Turkes should be rooted out of Europa But that tyme sence Cōstantinople was wonne is expired the last yeare A most connyng Astronomer also at Naples called Laurētius Miniatensis scholemaister to Pontanus wrote these verses in his boke .lx. yeres ago concernyng the coniunction of Iupiter and Saturnus in the sygne Cancer the whiche he sayeth shall be and was in the yeare thousande fyue hundreth and foure last past That age succedyng oures vpon the heles Shalbe better and more prayse worthy Lytle of oure lawe shall it disanull scarcely But the greueous and harde to suffer thynges In holy matters shall it auoyde doubtlesse All kynd of wickednesse and also holy pryde A kyng also shall it geue vs harmelesse Who shall the worlde ende and peoples represse Rebellyng naciōs shall he subdue to the empyre And the whole worldes dominiō shall he possesse These verses are moste worthy to be marked and I woulde not passe them ouer because of the renowme of the moste famous Emperour For what hygher prayse can be in the Emperour then that he calleth hym a Harmelesse kyng euen as Iohn Lichteberg sayde of hym The shamefast of visage shall raygne euery where At Magdeburg is founde C. yere ago a Latine cronicle wherin are these wordes Of the bloude of Charles the Emperour and the kynges of Fraūce shalbe borne an Emperoure called Charles thesame shal haue dominion in all Europa by whom also the decayed estate of the church shalbe repared and the auncient glory of the empyre shalbe restored For there shall come a people that shalbe called people without heade and than we to the priestes Peters lytle shyppe shall suffre greate force but the waues shall crasse at the last and it shall haue victory Greate and dredefull mutacions of al kyngdomes are at hande and the settyng store by monkes shall peryshe The Beaste of the West and the Lion of the Easte shall haue dominion of the whole worlde and the Christians shallwander through Asia in sauegarde fyftene yeares but after that shal dredeful thynges be herde of Antichriste Abbas Ioachim saieth in the ende of Ieremye A great Egle shall come whiche shall ouercome euery man saue one who at the last beynge despysed shalbe for saken of the people I fynde also another prophecie whiche is renowmed The Emperoure shalbe awaked as a man fallen into a swete slepe The same shalbe counted of men as deade and shall go vp vpon the greate sea and inuade the Turkes and shall ouercome them he shall leade their wyues and Chyldren captiues Greate feare and drede shall ouerwhelme the Turkes their wyues and chyldren shall wepe and lamente all the Turkes landes shalbe geuen ouer in to the Emperours handes of Rome I haue herde a Portingale saye that an Astronomer should haue sayde to Ferdinandus oure Emperoures greate graundefather that the Turkysh empyre shoulde be subdued and ouerthrowen by a kyng of Spayne and that the same should haue interpretated the kyng to be Ferdinande But Ferdinande should haue answered That he shoulde not do it but hys heyres that should succede hym Other emdences more that are yet restyng wyl I at this tyme passe ouer God the father of mercy geue and graunte Christendom victory and grace for the glories sake of his godly name Amen Moreouer the thinges that shal yet happen shal doutlesse marke greate and wyse men whiche are now in this settyng forth of warre As for me I haue onely rehersed suche thynges of this preparacion of the settynge forth to warre as I was sure of and therefore do I now make an ende of wrytynge In the moneth of September this yeare was a Comete sene agayne certayn wekes two houres before Sunne rysyng and toward the Easte Whē I sawe it it was in Virgo to my iudgemen stretched his brandyshynge tayll betwene the South West But by reason of the gloumynge and cloudy ayer in these contreis coulde it not be sene here Howbeit who wil not iudge it to be a fearfullthing that two Cometes haue bene sene in the space nerehande of twelue monethes and seyng the Comete of the last yere namely of the yere M D. xxxi dyd not appeare without the hurte of Easte and North for it semed to threaten those partes For the tyrannyshe Turke fell into Hungary and Eastenryche kyng Christiernus goyng into Dennemarck with a greate nauy to demaunde againe his kyngdome yelded hymselfe into Frederick hys fathers brothers the kyng of Denmarck handes Christiernus also his sonne that was brought vp in the Emperours court dyed Veryly it is to be feared also that the Comete of this yeare of M D. xxxij do signifye greate euell to the partes of Italy and the Rene. The ende of the Cronicle The cōclusion of this Cronicle of Iohn Carion A boke of Chronicles ought to cōprehende moste greatest thynges in a feate order so that the rekenyng of the yeares and the chefe alteracions that befall into the religion and other greate thynges may be ryght obserued and knowen For it can not be that all thynges that are done in one realme can be written in one boke though it were great by reason of the sundry circumstaunces and occasions of y ● businesses the whiche must chefely be consydered Of this wyse truely wrote Herodotus Theucydi des Xenophon Titꝰ Liuius histories The other are onely to be called Cronicle writers whiche also ought not to take vpon them the name of History wryters For they do brefely shewe thynges done

bee God for they knewe ryght well that they were wood and stone but they were of this opinion that this worke and this seruice pleased God and that he would be worshipped of this maner where as yet God wil not be worshypped by vnfaythfulnesse without onely Christe by what maner of worke or fashion soeuer it be And so could thei neuer be sure whether God were fauourable to them for no man can surely persuade hymselfe the same without the manifest promyse of God and without Christ The heade then of all Idolatry is to truste in a peculiar and in a forged worshyp of God excogitated of hys awne hed and in the meane season neuerthelesse to doubte in tribulations whether God will be fauourable This doute I saye is the principall parte of Idolatry And the vngodly whiche neuerthelesse estemeth hym self good and wise doth in this point much differ from the tren christian godly Such an vngodly man hath goodly vertues very shynyng workes but his hart doubteth whether God be fauourable to him As for a godly man and true Christian may wel be lesse then he cōcerning other vertues but in his hart he is surely persuaded that he is in the fauour of God according to y e promises for sitting in a chere vpō the denne prophecied of thinges to come out of the whiche denne in the meane whyle came smoke blast of windes Of this wise is it sayd to haue bene happened at Delphis After that these prophecies were supposed to be written of the priestes as vndouted south saynges and because they were doutfully written they might bee taken diuersly These were deceates of the deuel wherewith he begiled the worlde Of Homerus and Hesiodus BY the Grekes only were first the best learned poetes whiche were partly musicians partly priestes some of them also were w 〈…〉 sene in phisyck and astronomy These comprysed their wysdome and learnyng with verses short sentences But among them whose workes are yet manyfest were Homerus and Hesiodus the chiefe Cassius writteth that Homerus liued after the battaill of Troie thre hundreth and thre scor 〈…〉 yeres and before the fondacion of Rome euen there about whyche maye bee gathered to haue bene about that tyme when Iosaphat reigned in Iewry His dwellyng was at Smyrna whiche lieth in the forth part of Asia where the moost auncient of the Grekes dwelled whiche were called Iones and Acolidas And all though Homerus was not myghtye in gouernaunce of the common wealth it semeth yet that he vsed the cōpany of the greatest princes of all Greke For he described of the best m 〈…〉 ner the kynred and ofspringe nearehande of a 〈…〉 princes and his bokes are euen a myrour of all ciuyl occupation and princely vertues For he hath paynted and set forth all thynges that can befall in gouerning a commune welth Besydes this also what is the duety of princes and great men in there counsels gathered together and in other afferes whatsoeuer they be he hath set them forth so conningly that he semeth to be most exercysed in parliamentes and diuising of most weyghty matters apperteining to kingdomes Moreouer the sage wryters dyd neuer prayse so highly no poetes writing as the poetry of Homer the whiche Alexander the great would neuer suffre to be out of his handes because he might haue wherout he might be admonished and taught of the duety and vertues of an excellent kynge Hesiodus as wytnesseth Porphirius lyueth an hundreth yeare after Homer He was a neighbure or priest of the mount Helicon where was a greate and a famous temple His writinges are for the most parte sermones of good maners For they are short sentences comprisinge the pyth of all kynd of vertues but they treate nothinge of Christe For thys heauenly doctryne was hydden to the Gentyls Thys poetes writinges conteyne also as it were a iust and perpetuall Kalendar ordeyned after the course of the Sonne and the obseruation of those starres whiche shewe the difference of the yeare Thys boke is worthy to be learned by rote of yonge chyldren and it semeth that wyse men of Grece haue in tymes past apprehend theyr chyldrē here to knowe these noble sciences But the poet Hesiodus a man of notable learnynge and temperaunce at the ende dyed wretchedly by some of hys frendes whych dyd euyl recompence hym for hys good dedes Of the buildinge of the citye Rome PRoca Kynge of Alba had two sonnes Numitor and Amulius Nowe had the father determined to geue the kyngdom to hys sonne Numitor because he was the elder but Amulius that was the yonger droue hym out and vsurped to hym the kyngdome And lest he myght feare any daūger by the yssue of Numitor he stew hys sonne Agistus by fraude hys brothers doughter ▪ Rhea Syluia bounde he wyth a vowe of perpetual chastitye in the company of the virgins Uestales But she beynge made greatwith chylde brought forth two twynnes whych afterwarde were called Romulus and Remus But whan Amulius knew of thys dede he caused the mother to be kept in pryson and the chyldren to be trowen into the floude of Tyber to drowne them Whan the chyldren were now set at the brinke of y e water by chaunce came a wolfesse out of the nexte mountaynes which gaue thē soucke vntil they were founde of the Kynges shepherde who bringinge them home toke them hys wyfe to nouryshe Wherfore whan they were waxen greate and herde of the pretended murther in theyre youth of Amulius and that the Kyngdome was taken from theyr vncle Numitor by force they determyned to auenge the tyranny and by occasion slew kynge Amulius restorynge theyr vncle Numitor into his Kyngdome Of thys wyse doth God not suffre vnrighteousnesse to be vnpunished Romulus and Remus brethren buylded afterwarde a citye in hat place where they were founde and layde Whan stryfe was rysen amonge the brethren for so much as they were equal in age strength whiche of them shulde raygne they agreed that the Gods should iudge it so that whose shulde haue the greater flyght or voyces of byrdes the same shulde beare rule To Remus therefore dyd fyrst flye syxe great rauens afterwarde flew twelue for Romulus Now whan Remus demaunded the Kyngdome by reason of the fyrst flyght ther rose agayne debate betwene the brethren It is a wonder how fearcely mens myndes betossed wyth couetousenes to beare rule nother can it lightelysuffer and be quiet But what nedeth many wordes At the last rayse a commotion Remus was slayne and Romolus raygned alone of whome also hath Rome the name By this appeareth that y e citye of Rome was buylded by the posteritye of Eneas For Syluia the mother of Romulus had hyr sprynge of Eneas But for as muche as Romulus Father was vnknowen they fayneth that the god Mars was he because of a more honester cloke or pretence of the ●aute But how Romolus dyd ordeyne hys kyngdom

certayne letter by hym to Pope Paule directed Also this yeare in the Moneth of Iuly dyed at Basill that excellent Clarke Erasmus of Roterdame beyng about the age of .lxx. yeares who was a special instrument of God to restore the Greke and Latine tonges agayne to their puritie Whiche also hath done no small seruice with his writinges towardes the settyng furth of the Gospell the true lyght of our soules as euery wyse man may right well perceyue and gather by his wrytynges wherof he hath left behynde hym a greate sorte and in a maner innumerable bookes IN the yeare of our lorde MDxxxvij euen in the begynning of the yere began certayne preuy practyses and conspiracies to be wrought agaynst the Euangelicall Princes and their confederates For the Pope sought all the meanes possible to stirre vp some commotion and dissention in Germany and had procured all ready by the meanes of the Duke of Brounswike called Henry the younger and brought to passe by certayne byshops namely the byshippe of Mence with other that the Duke George of Saxon shoulde assiste the Duke of Brunswyke with money to inuade Iohn Frederike Duke of Saxon and electour imperiall and Philippe Land graue of Hessene whiche Practise and conspiracy was begonne so preuely and kept so close that if God had not specially preserued the fauoures of hys worde it myght haue turned them to muche wo and trouble For the Duke of Brunswyke had all ready assembled a competent nombre of men within his lande and that so preuely that many dyd afterwarde wonder at it But when he thought with hys adherentes that the matter had bene sure almyghty God red their treasurer Duke George out of the way by death sodaynely or euer any man suspected hys infirmitie And so succeded Duke Henry into his brothers heritage whiche had kept hys Court poorely many yeares at Fryburgh in the lande of Myssene beyng a good laudable and Euangelicall Prince And albeit that Duke George brother to the sayed Duke Henry was also in his actes and gouernaunce a very wyse and circumspecte Prince and experte in cyuyle policies as his buyldynges and townes which he hath left behynde hym beare wytnes yet had he this faulte that he as it happeneth commonly to suche as are worldly wyse had his prudence and hipocriticall conuayaunce so blynded ▪ that he would not cleaue vnto the Gospel where of neuertheles he was not ignoraunt for none other cause then that some Pope or some Cardinall had not set it furth and brought it to lyght but apore frere as was doctor Luther yea he was suche an enemy to the Gospell that he dyd not onely persecute and banyshe hys subiectes that embraced and fauoured the same but also woulde depriue his saied brother Henry of his heritage whyle he cleaued sted fastly to Goddes worde But God tourneth all thynges to the prophite of his b●leuers For when Duke George was in this minde had sought al meanes possible to disherite and dispossesse his brother all was sodaynely turned vpsyde downe For after that Iohn his sonne was departed out of this worlde leauyng no bodely heyre behynde hym in as muche as it was not well possyble for hym to procreate chyldren beyng continually geuen to superfluitie and dronkennes he had yet an other sonne not being endued with to muche witte called Henry vnto whome not withstanding that by the reason of his ●oolysh behaueour he was vnmete to haue the rule gouernaūce of the lande he gaue hym a wyfe of a basse stocke and lowe degree to thende that by this meanes he myght if it were possible obtayne an heire for the lande and defraude his brother of his heritage commaundyng his Phisicians to geue his sayd Sonne good prouisions whereby hys lust myght be the better stirred and prouoked towardes his wyfe But what was the ende Thys hope and expectation continued but a small tyme for within the space of two monethes thesaed yong maried man died Many wyll say and affirme that the Phisicians kylled hym with their confortatiues But it was the worke of God who would haue the Gospell to reigne in the sayed Duchye by the administracion of the sayed Duke Henry For the saied Duke George dyed also shortely after the deceasse of his saied sonne as before is mencioned When nowe the Papistes were thus destitute of their comforte hauyng lost all their hope and expectaciō in that the land and the treasures wherwith they intended and trusted to haue resysted the Gospell was nowe fallen into the handes of hym that would therewith auaunce and promote the same their capitayne Duke Henry of Brunswycke was faine to geue ouer and disperse his army for the money wherwith the souldiours should haue bene paied was now withdrawen Wherfore as it was reported the saied Duke should say that he had rather lost God in heauen then this man Wherby euery Christen man may easely perceyue wheron the hope of the Papistes is grounded But let vs learne here that a Christian may not truste in any man nor feare any mans threatenyng nor yet dyspayre in pouertie and tribulation but must onely put al his trust and confidence in God who is able to breake and ouerthrowe the imaginacions of the proude and to exalte the pore according to the song of Mary he trusteth downe the proude from their seates and lifteth vp the lowely When God had on this wyse deliuered his littel flocke in the lande of Saxon and of Hessen from the craftes and enterpryses of their enemy the said duke Henry succeding in the rowme of his brother deceassed abolyshed the abhominacion of Popysh Idolatry thoroughout all his iurisdiction and dominion and cōmaunded Goddes worde to be preached in all places sincerely and purely for the maintenaunce whereof he sought all about for learned men to geue dilygent attendaunce to the settynge furth of the same After this he dyd also erecte and restore the Scoole of Lipsigh whiche was sore decayed before to the mayntenaunce whereof he dyd institute and appointe speciall priuileges and newe stipendes and ordeined the excellently learned man Ioachim Camerary of Bambery reder in liberall sciences and prouided for other faculties also sage men well learned so that both gods worde also learnyng dyd myghtely increase and florysh agayn in thys lande God graunt it may long continue to the prayse of his mooste holy name In Fraunce was not the warres yet ceased whiche was begonne the yere before For the king was yet mightely armed and came furth in the moneth of Marche towardes the west into the Duchye of Artois whiche is called Picardy where he dyd great harm● and about the .xviij. daye of the same moneth he beseged y ● towne of Hedin which was yelded vp vnto hym the .xiij. day of Aprill next folowing When he had ouercome the sayde towne he furnyshed it and other places lyeng there about with mē and so retourned home again In the meane