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The opening of the wo[r]des of the prophet Ioell, in his second and third chapters rehersed by Christ in Mathewe .xxiiii. Marke .xiii. Luke .xxi. and by Peter Actes .ii. concerning the signes of the last day. Compiled by Robert Crowley in the yeare of our Lord. M. D.XLVI. And perused againe by the same. Anno 1566.
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Crowley, Robert, 1518?-1588.
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their craft For poore men will Be begging still So long as ought is lafte But they wil spy A remedy For that you may be sure Saying they ought To giue them nought That do them no pleasure Thus yerely they Do fetch away The gaynes that doth arise By tenth increase Of mens riches After the largest sise But for to féede Such as haue néede These fellows take no thought But let them pike In euery dike All wéedes filthy and nought Thus they wander As shéepe that were Forsaken of their guide Feading themselfe With all such pelfe As growes in the field wide But out alas In how hard case Are they whose shepherdes are Of Gods preachers Become butchers Prouder than Lucifer The murren rot Is on their lot Their health is sore decayde No remedie They must néedes die Vnlesse God be their ayde Shepeherdes are dead And we are led Be them that flée vs fro When as they should Do what they could To saue vs from our foe Yea rather they Make vs obey Our aduersaries minde Bidding vs trust To be found iust By meanes that they do finde Thus they lapped in A shepeherdes skin Do say they wil vs féede With ghostly foode Holesome and good At all times when we néede But when these do Minister to Vs as they do but selde Their medicines are Such mixed ware As few sicke men haue felde There are also Some other mo Whose names I dare not tell Which beare them bolde For redy gold The flocke of Christ to sell These with Iudas Which damned was For selling Christ our hed Are like certaine In extreme paine To make their endlesse bedde Vnlesse by grace They do imbrace Gods worde and aske mercy For their sinne is No lesse than his Since they sell Christes body In like daunger Is the byer And all that condescende But chiefly they That should alway Such great abuse amende All kinges therfore Ought much the more To loke vpon their charge For all the land Lieth on their hand Be it neuer so large Let vs therfore Pray euermore That good K. Henries thought May be enclinde Such meanes to finde That Christes flocke be not bought But that we may Haue them alway To leade vs in and out That for our health To lose the wealth Of this worlde will not doubt Such doubtlesse will Walke to the hill Of gods word with their flock Going before Them euermore Like men of Dauids stock Then shall their shepe After them skippe In life worthy their name So that there shall Be nought at all In them worthy of blame For they shall heare His voyce so cleare And sée him go so bright Before their face That they may trace His foote both day and night No darkenesse can Trouble them than No cloud shal duske their sight They shall not stray Out of the way Bicause their guide is bright O ioyfull thing God graunt our king Grace to sée vs his flocke Ledde on this sorte For our comforte By guides of Dauids stocke Then shall we sing Prayse to our king And glory to the Lorde Of Israell With whose Gospell Our life should then accorde 4 IT followeth next Now in the Text Great earthquakes shal be séene Which shal cast downe Both tower and towne And great castels I wéene Now let vs sée Whether there bée In our dayes any towne Castell or tower That through the power Of the earthquake is downe But that we might Therin iudge right The causes must be knowen That do so make The earth to quake That townes are ouerthrowen In this we must Their iudgement trust That haue writ of the same Sith their writing Teacheth nothing That is worthy of blame All such men do Consent vnto This thing putting no doubt But vapours make The earth to shake When they séeke a way out In caues hollow These vapours grow To such a multitude That at the last They will out brast No strength can them include Then cast they downe Both tower and towne That is nigh to the place No maner wight May welde their might Nor looke for any grace What say we than If that in man These vapours may be found Should we looke for Then any more The shaking of the ground No that were vayne For then certayne We might looke for a beast Like to a Beare Which should appeare After saint Iohns beheast Nor drinke the pleasant drinke How should Vintners And Victulers Liue then as you do thinke God hath all sent For to be spent And not to whord in store Why should not than A Gentleman Eate it paying therfore Should a vile slaue So fine foode haue As one of noble blood Or should a king Lacke any thing That is dainty and good But let a king Marke well this thing And teach his nobles all That fine féeding Helpeth nothing To life celestiall And they that thinke Their meate and drinke Should passe others so farre Ought well to know That high and low Are made of one matter King Salomon Saith all is one A poore man and a king Are first gotten And then borne And differ yet nothing Then are they fed With milke and bread Both like both waile and wéepe A like both crie A like both lie A like both wake and sléepe The mighty King Is found nothing Better than the begger For by his birth He is but erth The best is no better All loose their strength By age at the length All die and fall to dust This thing to bée True ye may sée In their graues if you lust The noble blood Doth them no good Whē they rot in the ground Nor when they come To the last dome Where beggers shal be crounde Some king shall stand At the left hand And say when did we sée The Lord lacke ought And we haue nought Holpe thy necessitie But once for all To them Christ shall Say get you hence from me Downe into hel Where you must dwell For your iniquitie When ye denied To them that cried Asking helpe in my name Euen than was I In misery The scripture sayth the same So harde iudgement Toward them is bent That haue all thing plentie How harde they fare Taking no care That are in poueriie For riche men are They that should care For the poore impotent Both goodes and landes Are in their handes Which serue for that intent God gaue great power And like honour To some bicause they should Defend the rest Which are opprest With thirst hunger and cold Should they then make Reuell and take Their pleasure day and night Letting the poore Man lacke succour Whō they should ayde by right No they shall pay At the last day All that they haue mispent At cardes and dice And other vice And excesse of rayment Broches and ringes With other thinges Which are had in great price Helpeth nothing To good liuing But rather vnto vice For honestie Will alwayes bée Content with necessaries Then must excesse Be wickednesse For they are contraries Do you
they say Out of the way Such errours are vp sprong Feare to displease Desire of ease And cloked flattery As I suppose Hath made men glose Gods worde so subtilly But if the kings With their lordings Would lead the daunce aright We may be bold The poore men would Follow with all their might You kings therefore Couet no more One to subdue the rest But let your strife Be in good life Which of you can rule best Desire not To rule them that Refuse your imperie But do intend Them to defend That serue you willingly And you lordings Leaue your diggings And your raising of rentes Take not such fines To by you wines For God knoweth your intents And you merchantes Be not seruantes To coueteous desire But sell and bie All thinges truely And God shall giue you hier Briefly all ye That of Christ be Cognomed Christians Study to moue In heauen aboue This earthly inhabitance Let men know that You regarde not This worldly vanitie But let them sée That your workes bée Fruites of Gods veritie Then shall your méede As farre excéede When Christ shall iudge vs all Theirs that by sinne Would heauen winne As the frée doth the thrall 6 NOw let vs sée If the Moone bée Blud as christ prophecied That we may trie What mysterie Vnder the wordes lieth I did you tell As I thinke well That since the world begunne Both day and night Haue all their light At the beames of the sunne This if you list Is tried soonest By marking the Moones light Which doth alway Growe and decay As we may iudge by sight The cause of this Vndoubted is The vnequall distaunce Of the Moone from The Sunne by whom She doth hir light auaunce Marke if ye list That side soonest Receiueth light alway That is next to The Sunne and so The other doth decay Yea if you marke That side is darke That is fromwarde the sunne When that is bright Both day and night That Phoebus shineth on Aske if ye will Them that can skill And they wil not make strange That Phoebus bright Should haue full light Both at full and at change For they haue found That she is round And that halfe is aye bright Which is not straunge Though at the chaunge It be out of our sight For at that tide The further side From vs is toward the Sunne So that no light Sheweth to our sight To be vpon the Moone If this Moone should Be bloud none could Make the scriptures agrée For the great dome Saith Paule shall come Vpon men sodainlie Euen when men say All care away All thinges are in good plight This sodaine day Shall men affray As a théefe in the night If a théefe do Giue warning to Him whose house he wil breake Then may we say This sodaine day Shall not lie in our necke But I say if The subtile théefe Giue no warning before Then to thinke the Moone bloud to be We were deceiued sore Then let vs sée What it may bée That Christ meaneth in this place Endeuouring Aboue all thing To apply to his grace The Moone I call That sort through all To whō God giueth not grace To attaine to Such things as do Godly knowledge increase For all the light That shineth bright On them is from the sunne Which is no doubte The very roote That Gods grace lighteth on Of these Christ saith Your fruitefull faith Sheweth you to be the light Of this world round And of the ground The salte your surname hight This Moone no nay Is bloud this day For all their desire is To sée men fry And then they cry O godly sacrifice These men can sing None other thing But burne burne hang draw Let no man scape Out of our shrape Be he wise man or daw Try we our might Say they in fight Against our enimies It shall be good To sée their blood Runne out before our eies Let vs possesse All their richesse Let the knaues liue no more Shall we suffer Them to prosper That set by vs no store It is noble To be manfull Fie on all wretched knaues That to vs preach And would vs teach To liue like wretched slaues Let eche man try It manfully what should we passe for lawes They were not made For to be had Amongest other than dawes Who would regard A knaue coward That dare not strike a stroke Say what you can He is no man But rather a dead stocke It is manhood To shed your blood For eche good fellowes sake He is a mome Iohn dwell at home That feareth a fray to make Alas this song Hath last so long That the Moone is all blood They thinke nothing But bloodsheding To be manly and good They take no shame To beare the name Of Christ whose doctrine is Full of méekenesse And forgiuenesse Eche one of others mis. And yet they will Shead mans bloud still As it were none offence But Christ shall quell Such into hell To make them recompence Thus he shall say At the last day To this noble manhood Auoyde from me All you that be The sheaders of mans bloode Then shall méekenesse Come and possesse Euerlasting glory And sufferance Inheritaunce That is not transitorie To the Iewes sterne Christ sayth go learne What this may signify I haue in price No sacrifice I delight in mercy Leaue tiranny And shew mercy Therfore ye men of power For he that is Cruell shall mis Of mercy in that hower Marke this thing well That the Gospell Teacheth to them shall bée Iudgement without Mercy no doubte That shew extremitie 7 THe Sunne is bright And giueth light As he hath done alway And shall do still Euen vntill The very iudgement day For as it did Till Noe entred Into the arke shine bright So shall it do Till Christ come to Iudge all the worlde aright Some other thing Is the meanyng Therfore of Christ where he Sayth Phoebus bright Shall loose his light Before this day shall be We do knowe all The naturall Light of this worlde to be The sunne and so Alludyng to The spirite thus say may we Like as the Sunne Since he begunne His course hath giuen vs light So hath the secte Of Christes electe Bene glorious in our sight Wherfore he might Say thus of right The Sunne shall be darkened When he meaneth Their light faileth That haue to me harkened Such as professe All holinesse And would be called the light Of this worlde wide Shall ere that tide Be as darke as midnight Their life shall bée All vanitie They shall say and not do They shall offende And not amende Nor for their misse be wo. This greate darkenesse Shall them oppresse Sayth Christ let vs therfore Marke this tyme well For the Gospell May be fulfilled this houre Do not men boast In euery coast That their trust is onely In Iesus Christ Sonne of the hiest And yet liue vngodly They that professe This perfectnesse Are of Christ called the light Of this worlde wide Which at this tide Do shine nothing so bright As they did once When they did renounce All worldely vanitie Hauing no minde Treasures to finde That are but transitorie For Epicure Sought not pleasure So much as these men do That do vse most To make such boast Of Christ whom they cleane to Soft feather beds And for their heads Pillows wel stuft with downe No kynde of ease Can them well please Either in fielde or towne They may not eate Such kynde of meate As God giueth plenty They will not dine Without some fine Dishes that be deintie They will not spare For them that are Opprest with pouertie They take no kéepe Though other wéepe So they be not hungrie I can not tell Whether in hell May be lesse charitie Than is this day In most that say We know Gods veritie None take such care For dainty fare As they none passe lesse howe They get richesse So they possesse Therof plenty ynowe Their Simonie And vserie I thinke is right well knowne For all that may Be wonne that way Is counted for their owne Thus they are darke For their good warke Doth not shine in mens sight Though they professe Such perfectnesse As ought to shine full bright We may apply This prophecy To Gods worde affirming It to be darke Through the leude warke Of dunsecall learning The Moone also May be like to Mans vayne inuentions Which are this day I dare well say Bloudy intentions But I seyng The misse liuing Of all degrées this day Haue chose rather And thinke better To take the other way This haue I tolde Euen as I could The signes of the last day To be all past And that in hast The trumpetter shall say Fall in aray Fall in aray All ye of Adams stocke The shepehearde will Come from the hill To disseuer his flocke Then without let The shéepe shall get Them vnto his right side The goates shall stande At the left hande Iudgement for to abide God graunt that we May faithfull be And then we shall not misse At the last day To take the way Into eternall blisse FINIS IMPRINTED AT LONdon by Henry Bynneman for Iohn Charlewood dwelling in Barbican at the signe of the halfe Eagle and the Key