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cause_n	let_v	lord_n	see_v	4,698	5	3.6890	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17379	A very true pronosticacio[n], with a kalender, gathered out of the moost auncyent bokes of ryght holy astronomers for the yere of our lorde M. CCCCC. xxxvj. And for all yeres here after perpetuall. Translated out of latyn in to Englysshe by Iohn Ryckes preest. Cum priuilegio Regali.	Brunfels, Otto, 1488-1534.; Ryckes, John.	1536 (1536)	STC 421.17; ESTC S111371	20,048	64

whiche doth hym seruyce agaynst his people Rede Hieremy xxvij the last ende ¶ That false prophetes whiche teache the liberty of the flesshe are not to be herde ¶ Hiere xxvij Be not wyllynge to heare your prophetes and sothsayers dreame reders augurers enchaunters which saye to you Ye shall not serue the kynge of Babylon For they prophecye lyes vnto you that they mought make you farre from your countrey and cast you out and that ye sholde perysshe In the same chapiter Heare not the wordes of your false prophetes c. ¶ Of Antechryst ¶ Euery one that speketh agaynst Chryste and cleueth to the pleasures of this worlde that shortly shall perysshe is Antechryst .j. Iohan .ij. It is sure that there be many Antechrystes But the very hye principall Antechryst is begon to be reueled and declared in these our dayes by holy scriptures / whiche vntyl he be destroyed with the spryte of the mouth of our lorde Iesus Chryst / shall rule and rage cruelly in the worlde Daniel .xj. And there shall fall of them that be well lerned so that they shall be tryed by fyre and chosen out and made whyte vnto the tyme appoynted For yet an other tyme shall be and a kynge shall do after his owne wyll and shall be lyfte vp in pryde and magnyfyed agaynst euery god And shall speke great thynges agaynst the god of goodes and he shall prospere tyll the wrath of god be perfourmed For the diffinicion is so set And he shall not regarde the god of his fathers shall be in the cōcupiscences of women neyther he shal care for any goddes For he shall ryse agaynst al thynges And he shall honoure the god Maozim in his place and shall worshyp a god that his fathers neuer knewe with golde / syluer / precyous stone / other precious thinges ¶ Of the state of religyon and papystes ¶ Math. xv Chryst sayth All the plantacion which my heuenly father haue not planted / shall be plucked vp by the rote The more they shall enforce to defende theyr lyuynge before god abomynable so moche more shall theyr myscheues and symulacions be made open to all the worlde He that hath eares for to heare / let hym heare what are wryten Iohan .v. ¶ Of the reformacion of Chrystes chyrche ¶ Onely god knoweth the christyan chyrche for it is spirituall and knowen onely by the spiryte wherfore to god onely whiche is a spiryte it is entyerly knowen This chyrche as longe as it cleueth fast to the worde of god it can not but stande sure yf not / soone it peryssheth How euer so moche other thynge is constytute and ordeyned in counselles of preestes / bysshoppes / and pryncys of this worlde For as we said before euery plantacion that my heuenly father haue not planted shall be plucked vp by the roote Rede in the Actes .v. and to the Romayns .xiiij. ¶ Of the Iewes ¶ Of the Iewes blyndnes the scripture is full blessed is he that vnderstande it and vnto his ende dothe abyde the grace mercy of god Rom̄ xj My bretherne I wyll not that ye forgete this mysterye leest you be hye mynded or wyse in your owne conceyte For blyndnes chaunced partly in Israell vntyll the fulnes of gentyles shall cōme in / and so the whole Israell shall be saued For god is stronge ynough to graffe them in agayne ¶ Of sygnes of the last daye ¶ Many sygnes of the last daye wherof Chryste maketh mencyon Math. xxiiij are seen and fulfylled all redy Therfore lyfte vp your heades ye chrysten men / for your redempcion draweth nere ¶ The conclusyon THis our pronosticacyon gentyll reader nedeth no declaracyon of phylosophye or astrologye whiche is of mannes inuencyon for it is foūded vpon the onely euerlastynge worde of the omnipotent god / whose power no man may resyst / and vnder whome they bowe and obey that beareth vp this worlde Iob. ix Let no man therfore contempne these thynges / neyther resyst the trewth openly knowen / interpretyng them any otherwyse than our lorde Iesus Chryst hath interpreted oneles we be despoyled of the grace and mercy whiche we haue obteyned by hym .j. Iohan. iij. But rather let hym enforce to applye hym faste from ignoraunce and lyes vnto the trewthe whiche is god hym selfe to whome onely be honour and glory for euer Amen The wyll of the lorde be done Act. xxj ¶ To the chrysten reders LO good reders here may you se what the cause is of all the punyshmentes plages myseryes that god sendeth vpon vs that is bycause we do not obserue the lawes of god / nor do not lyue accordynge to his worde And not as many bothe do thinke and saye that these newe lawes newe lernynges are the causes Is not this newe lernynge the very trewe worde of god Elles let them cōme and proue the contrary But now that lyght is cōme in to this worlde they that haue be brought vp in darknes loue better darknes than lyght / yea rather they hate the lyght and wyll not cōme at it / leest theyr ypocrysye and theyr cerymonyous good workes after the inuencions of men sholde appere nought and worthy to be reproued Those sorte wolde I exhorte to cōme whyles they haue lyght and beleue in it leest remaynynge here in theyr inwarde darknes they be kest in to the outwarde darknes where shall be euer sorowe and mysery ¶ An other sorte there is the more pytye that seme to fauour the lyght of goddes worde and folowe and fauour the preachers therof but they seke the libertie of the flesshe and not of the spirite lyuynge after theyr fleshly lustes and after the noughty fashyon of the worlde in couetousnes / ambicion / pryde with infynyte other euylles / onely sekyng for theyr owne profytes and pleasures / though it be to theyr chrystyan brothers greate detriment This cōmeth of inordynate loue that men haue to them selues whiche is cause of moche other euyll and neuer can bryng forth good frute of fayth / thus contynuynge to the ende of theyr lyfe ledde contynually ferre out of charite through theyr propre loue yet they thynke than to be saued by their fayned fayth Whiche I feare me for lacke of testimony of good workes shall be disalowed at the daye of iudgement whan Chryste shall saye I was hungry / and ye gaue me no meate and so forthe This sorte lette that other sorte from cōmynge to the lyght And it is to be feared that these cōmunycacions in this pronosticacion shall fall vpon vs / not bycause we forsake obedyence to the bysshop of Rome and his lawes whiche hathe ledde vs in to darknes and out of the ryght way to godwarde / nor bycause of this newe preachynge after the very worde of god but bycause the worde is now so often and so playnly preached vnto vs / and we remayne styll after the olde fashyon / as the cityes dyd where Chryst preached Corosayn Betzayda and Capernaum / whome he reproued and cursed bycause they receyued not his wordes so often shewed vnto them The grounde that is well tylled sowen and hath often rayne in season / and yet brynge forth no good frute sayth saynt Paule is cursed of the owner Therfore let vs so heare the trewe worde of god / that we may chaunge our lyuynge / and lyue accordynge vnto his worde and I doubte not we shall obtayne his mercyfull promyses and benedictions that he promyseth to the kepers of his lawes and lyue after his worde by the grace of Chryst by whose merytes and helpe we may bryng all thynges well to passe / and haue not onely these tēporall blessynges / but also spirituall / true fayth / remyssyon of synnes / preseruacion in grace / and assuraūce of the kyngdome of heuen whiche I beseche hym to graunte vs. Amen ¶ This treatyse or pronosticacion is seen redde and examyned by me Iohn̄ Hylsey bysshop of Rochester ¶ Plinius in the .xviij. booke and .xxxiij. chapyter of his naturall hystory AL thynges that are cutte / plucked / slypte or lopped / are best to be done in the latter ende of the moone Meddle not with dunge but in the wane of the moone Moost specyally dunge your lande in the last quarter Gelde your pygges / calues / wether lammes and kyddes in the decrease of the moone Put your egges vnder the henne at the newe moone Make your dyches or holes for to plante in / aboute the full of the moone at nyght Whan it is full moone couer the rootes of your trees In moyst places sowe your sede / betwixt the newe moone and the olde / or aboute foure dayes before or after They wyll also that ye wenowe your corne or sedes and laye them vp aboute the last endyng of the moone And to sowe sedes whyles the moone is ouer the erth and must be pressed whan the moone is vnder the erth ¶ Imprynted at London in Flete strete / at the sygne of the sonne by me Iohn̄ Byddell Cum priuilegio Regali ¶ Iohn̄ Byddell