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straunger amonge you in youre londe ye shall not vexe him He shal dwell with you euen as one that is at home amonge you thou shalt loue him as y e self for ye youre selues also were straungers in the lande of Egipte I am the LORDE youre God Ye shal not deale wrōgeously in iudgmēt with meteyarde with weight with measure A true balaunce a true weight a true Epha a true Hin shal be amōge you For I am the LORDE youre God which brought you out of the londe of Egipte that ye shulde kepe do all my statutes and lawes for I am the LORDE The XX. Chapter ANd the LORDE talked with Moses and saide Tell the children of Israel Who so euer he be amonge the children of Israel or eny straunger that dwelleth in Israel which geueth of his sede vnto Moloch the same shall dye the death the people of the lande shal stone him I wyll set my face agaynst that man and wyll rote him out from amōge his people because he hath geuen of his sede vnto Moloch and defyled my Sanctuary vnhalowed my holy name And though the people of the londe loke thorow the fyngers vpon that man which hath geuen of his sede vnto Moloch so that they put him not to death yet wyl I set my face agaynst the same man agaynst his generacion And him and all that go a whorynge with him after Moloch wyll I rote out from amonge their people Yf eny soule turne him to y e soythsayers and expounders of tokens so that he goeth a whorynge after them I wyl set my face agaynst the same soule and wyl rote him out from amonge his people Sanctifie youre selues therfore be holy for I am holy euen youre God And kepe ye my statutes and do them for I am y e LORDE that sanctifieth you Who so euer curseth his father or his mother shall dye the death his bloude be vpon him because he hath cursed his father or mother He that breaketh wedlocke with eny mās wife shal dye the death both the aduouterer and y e aduouteresse because he hath broken wedlocke with his neghbours wife Yf eny man lye with his fathers wife so y t he vncouer his fathers preuyte they shal both dye the death their bloude be vpō thē Yf eny man lye w t his doughter in lawe they shall dye both of them for they haue wrought abhominacion their bloude be vpon them Yf eny man lye with the mankynde as with womankynde they haue wrought abhominacion shal both dye the death their bloude be vpon them Yf eny man take a wyfe and hir mother therto the same hath wrought wickednes he shal be burnt with fyre and so shal they also that there be no wickednes amōge you Yf eny man lye with a beest he shall dye the death and the beest shal be slayne Yf a woman medle with a beest so y t she haue to do w t it thou shalt put her to death and the beest also they shall dye the death their bloude be vpon them Yf eny man take his sister his fathers doughter or his mothers doughter and se hir preuyte and she agayne se his secretes it is a wicked thinge They shal be roted out in the sight of their people For he hath vncouered his sisters preuyte he shal beare his synne Yf a man lye with a woman in the tyme of hir sicknesse and vncouer hir secretes open vp hir founteyne and she vncouer the fountayne of hir bloude they shall both be roted out from amonge their people Thou shalt not vncouer the preuytie of thy mothers sister and of thy fathers sister for soch one hath vncouered his nexte kynswoman and they shal beare their synne Yf eny man lye with his vncles wyfe the same hath vncouered the preuytie of his vncle they shal beare their synne without children shal they dye Yf eny man take his brothers wyfe y t is an vncleane thinge they shal be without children because he hath vncouered his brothers secretes So kepe now all my statutes my lawes do them y t the lōde whither I brynge you to dwell therin spewe you not out And walke not ye in y e statutes of the Heithen which I shal cast out before you For all soch thinges haue they done I haue abhorred thē But I saye vnto you Ye shall possesse their londe For I wyll geue you to enheritaunce a lōde that floweth with mylke and hony I am the LORDE youre God which haue separated you from the nacions that ye also shulde separate the cleane beestes frō the vncleane and the vncleane foules from the cleane not to defyle youre soules vpon beestes vpon foules vpon all that crepeth on the grounde which I haue separated vnto you that they shulde be vncleane Therfore shall ye be holy vnto me for I the LORDE am holy which haue separated you frō the nacions that ye shulde be myne Yf a man or woman be a soythsayer or an expounder of tokens the same shall dye the death they shal be stoned their bloude be vpon them The XXI Chapter ANd the LORDE sayde vnto Moses Speake to y e prestes y e sonnes of Aaron saye vnto thē A prest shal defyle him self vpō no soule of his people but vpon his nexte kynne y t belongeth vnto him as vpon his mother vpō his father vpō his sonne vpō his doughter vpon his brother vpon his sister which is yet a virgin hath bene no mans wife which belongeth vnto him vpon her maie he defyle himself Morouer he shal not defyle him self vpō eny ruler in his people to vnhalowe him self He shall make no crowne also vpon his heade ner shaue of his beerd nether shall they cut out eny markes ī their fleshe They shal be holy vnto their God and not vnhalowe y e name of their God for they offre the sacrifice of the LORDE the bred of their God therfore shal they be holy They shal take no whore ner one that is defyled or y t is put awaye from hir huszbande for he is holy vnto his God therfore shal he sanctifie him self for he offreth the bred of thy God He shal be holy vnto the for I am holy euen the LORDE that sanctifieth you Yf a prestes doughter fall to whoringe she shal be burnt with fyre for she hath shamed hir father He that is hye prest amonge his brethren vpō whose heade the anoyntinge oyle is poured and his hande fylled y t he might be arayed with the vestimentes shal not vncouer his heade ner cut his clothes shal come at no deed shal defyle him self nether vpon father ner mother He shall not go out of the Sanctuary that he vnhalowe not the Sanctuary of his God For y e crowne of the anoyntinge oyle of his God is vpon him for I am the LORDE A virgin shal he

in the night season was fyre therin in y e sight of all y e house of Israel in all their iourneis The ende of the seconde boke of Moses called Exodus The thirde boke of Moses called Leuiticus What this boke conteyneth Chap. I. The ordre and vse of burnt offerynges whether it be of small or greate catell or of foules Chap. II. Of meat offerynges with fyne floure c. Chap. III. Of deed offerynges otherwyse called health offrynges peace offrynges or thāk-offerynges and of the fatt Chap. IIII. The offringe for the sinne of a prest of the whole congregacion of the ruler or of eny other meane man Chap. V. The offerynge for swearinge for an erroure or ignoraunce Chap. VI. Of daylie burnt offerynges other oblacions The offerynge of the prest in the daye of his anoyntinge Chap. VII Of thank offerynges Of the fat bloude and of the anoyntinge of the prestes Chap. VIII Of the anoyntinge and consecratynge of Aaron and of his sonnes Chap. IX How Aaron and his sonnes offred for synne how the fyre of God consumed the burnt offerynge Chap. X. The death of Nadab Abihu The prestes were forbydden to drynke wyne and their porcion of the offerynges appoynted them Chap. XI Of cleane and vncleane beastes foules Chap. XII Of the vnclennesse of a woman in childe bedd of hir clensynge or purificacion of hir offerynge Chap. XIII Of Leprosy or Mezell Chap. XIIII The clēsynge of lepers and of their offerynge Chap. XV. Of all maner of vncleane fluxes or yssues both of men and wemen Chap. XVI Aarō might not allwaie go in to the Sanctuary Of the two goates Of fastinge in the seuenth moneth Chap. XVII All offrynges were first brought to the Tabernacle dore No bloude ner deed caryon was to be eaten Chap. XVIII The degrees of consanguynite and affynite And what wemen men ought not to marye Chap. XIX Dyuerse and many commaundemētes and statutes Chap. XX. To geue sede vnto Moloch other vnlaufull thinges are forbydden Chap. XXI How cleane and vndefyled the prestes ought to lyue Chap. XXII How the prestes and their housholdes ought to be how the offerynges ought to be vsed Chap. XXIII Of the holy dayes and hye feastes namely the Sabbath Easter Whyt sondaye otherwise called the feast of wekes the feast of Tabernacles c. Chap. XXIIII Of the oyle for the lampes and lightes Of the shewbred Punyshment for cursynge and blasphemy Chap. XXV Of the rest of the seuenth yeare libertye of the Fiftieth yeare otherwyse called the yeare of Iubylie the yeare of hornes blowinge or the trompet yeare Chap. XXVI Swete louynge promyses of God for all soch as wyl kep● his commaundemētes Agayne Maruelous sore plages are threatened vnto them that wyll not harken to his worde Chap. XXVII Of vowes and of the fre yeare Of redemynge or lowsynge out agayne of catell or londe that a man promyseth voweth or dedicateth vnto the LORDE The first Chapter ANd the LORDE called Moses and spake vnto him out of y e Tabernacle of wytnesse and sayde Speake vnto y e childrē of Israel saie vnto them Who so euer amōge you wyl brynge an offerynge vnto the LORDE let him brynge it of y e catell euen of the oxen of the shepe Yf he wyl brynge a burnt offerynge of y e oxen or greate catell thē let him offre a male without blemysh before y e dore of the Tabernacle of wytnesse to reconcyle him self before the LORDE let him laye his hande vpon the heade of the burnt offerynge then shal he be reconcyled so y t God shal be mercifull vnto him And he shall kyll the yonge oxe before y e LORDE and y e prestes Aarons sonnes shal brynge the bloude and sprenkle it rounde aboute vpon the altare that is before the dore of the Tabernacle of wytnesse And the slrynne shal be flayne from of the burnt offerynge and it shal be hewen in peces And the sonnes of Aaron the prest shal make a fyre vpon the altare and laye wod aboue ther on and y e peces the heade and the fatt shal they laye vpon the wodd that lyeth vpon y e fyre on the altare But y e bowels legges shal be waszshen with water and the prest shal burne alltogether vpon the altare for a burntsacrifice this is an offerynge of a swete sauoure vnto the LORDE Yf he wyl offre a burntsacrifice of the small catell that is of the lambes or goates then let him offre a male without a blemysh And he shall kyll it before the LORDE euen at the corner of the altare on the north syde before y e LORDE And the prestes Aarons sonnes shal sprenkle his bloude rounde aboute vpon y e altare and it shal be hewen in peces And the prest shall laye them with the heade and the fatt vpon the wodd that lyeth vpon the fyre on the altare But the bowels and y e legges shal be waszshen with water And y e prest shal offre it alltogether and burne it vpon y e altare for a burntsacrifice This is an offerynge of a swete sauoure vnto the LORDE But yf he wil offre a burntsacrifice of y e foules vnto the LORDE then let him offre it of the turtill doues or of y e yonge pigeons And the prest shal brynge it vnto the altare and wrynge the neck of it a sunder that it maye be burnt vpon the altare and let the bloude of it runne out vpon the sydes of the altare and the croppe of it with the fethers shal be cast vpon the heape of aszshes besyde the altare towarde the east and he shall deuyde the wynges of it but not breake thē cleane of And thus shall the prest burne it vpon the altare euen vpon the wodd that lyeth vpō the fyre for a burntsacrifice This is an offerynge of a swete sauoure vnto the LORDE The II. Chapter WHan a soule wyll offre a meat offerynge vnto the LORDE then shal it be of fyne floure and he shal poure oyle vpon it and put frankencense theron so brynge it vnto Aarons sonnes the prestes Then shal one of them take his handefull of the same floure and oyle with all the frankēcense and burne it for a remembraunce vpon the altare This is an offeringe of a swete sauoure vnto the LORDE As for y e remnaunt of the meat offerynge it shal be Aarons and his sonnes This shal be y e most holy of the offerynges of the LORDE But yf he wyll brynge a meat offerynge of that which is baken in the ouen then let him take swete cakes of wheate mixte with oyle and vnleuended wafers anoynted with oyle Neuertheles yf thy meat offerynge be enythinge of that which is fryed in the panne then shal it be of fyne swete floure myxte with oyle And thou shalt cut it in peces poure oyle theron so is it a meat offerynge But yf thy meat offeringe be ought broyled on the gredyron then shalt

of thy wyne presse and thou shalt reioyse in thy feast thou and thy sonne thy doughter thy seruaunte thy mayde the Leuite the straunger the fatherlesse and the wedowe that are within y e gates Seuen dayes shalt thou kepe y e feast vnto the LORDE thy God in the place that he hath chosen For the LORDE thy God shal blesse the in all thy frutes and in all the workes of thine hādes Therfore shalt thou be glad Thre tymes in the yeare shal all thy males appeare before the LORDE thy God in the place that he shall chose namely in the feast of vnleuended bred in the feast of wekes and in the feast of Tabernacles He shal not appeare emptie before the LORDE but euery one after the gifte of his hande acordinge to the blessinge that the LORDE thy God hath geuen the. The XVII Chapter IVdges officers shalt thou ordeyne within all y e gates which y e LORDE thy God geueth the amōge thy trybes y t they maye iudge the people with righteous iudgment Thou shalt not wrest the lawe Thou shalt knowe no personne also ner take giftes For giftes blynde the eyes of y e wyse peruerte y e righteous causes Loke what righte is y t shalt thou folowe that thou mayest lyue possesse the londe which the LORDE thy God shal geue the. Thou shalt plante no groue of what so euer trees it be nye vnto the altare of the LORDE thy God which thou makest the. Thou shalt set the vp no piler which y e LORDE y e God hateth Thou shalt offre vnto the LORDE thy God no oxe or shepe that hath a blemish or eny euell fauourednesse on it for that is abhominacion vnto the LORDE thy God Yf there be founde amonge you within eny of thy gates which the LORDE y e God shal geue y e a man or woman that worketh wickednesse in y e sighte of the LORDE thy God so that he transgresseth his couenaūte and goeth and serueth other goddes worshippeth them whether it be Sōne or Mone or eny of the hooste of heauen which I haue not commaunded and it is tolde the thou hearest of it Then shalt thou make diligent search therfore And yf thou fyndest that it is so of a trueth that soch abhominacion is wroughte in Israel then shalt thou brynge forth the same man or y e same womā which haue done soch euell vnto thy gates and shalt stone them to death At the mouth of two or thre witnesses shal he dye that is worthy of death At the mouth of one witnes shal he not dye The handes of the witnesses shal be the first to kyll him and thē y e handes of all the people that thou mayest put awaye the euell from the. Yf a matter be to harde for the in iudgmēt betwixte bloude and bloude betwixte plee and plee betwixte stroke and stroke and yf there be matters of stryfe within thy gates then shalt thou ryse and go vp vnto y e place that y e LORDE thy God hath chosen and shalt come to the prestes the Leuites to the iudge which shal be at that tyme and shalt axe They shal shewe the how to iudge and thou shalt do therafter as they saye vnto the in y e place which the LORDE hath chosen and thou shalt take hede that thou do acordinge vnto all y t they teach the. Acordinge to the lawe y t they teach the after the iudgment that they tell y e shalt thou do so that thou turne not asyde from y e same nether to the righte hande ner to the lefts And yf eny man deale presumptuously so that he herkeneth not vnto the prest which stondeth to do seruyce vnto the LORDE thy God or to the Iudge the same shal dye and thou shalt put awaye the euell from Israel that all y e people maye heare and feare and be nomore presumptuous Whan thou art come in to y e londe which the LORDE thy God shal geue the takest it in possession and dwellest therin and shalt saie I wil set a kinge ouer me as all the nacions haue aboute me thē shalt thou set him to be kynge ouer the whom the LORDE thy God shal chose One of thy brethren shalt thou sett to be kynge ouer the. Thou mayest not set a straūger ouer the which is not thy brother Onely let him not haue many horses y t he brynge not y e people againe in to Egipte thorow y e multitude of horses for as moch as y e LORDE hath sayde vnto you that from hence forth ye shulde come nomore this waye agayne He shall not haue many wynes also that his hert be not turned awaye Nether shal he gather him syluer and golde to moch And whan he is set vpon the seate of his kingdome he shal take of the prestes the Leuites this seconde lawe and cause it be wrytten in a boke and that shall he haue by him and he shall rede therin all the dayes of his life that he maye lerne to feare y e LORDE his God to kepe all the wordes of this lawe all these ordinaūces so that he do therafter He shall not lifte vp his herte aboue his brethren and shall not turne asyde from the commaundement nether to the right hāde ner to the lefte that he maye prolōge his dayes in his kyngdome he and his children in Israel The XVIII Chapter THe prestes the Leuites all the trybe of Leui shal haue no parte ner enheritaunce w t Israel The offerynges of y e LORDE his enheritaunce shal they eate Therfore shal they haue no inheritaunce amonge their brethren because the LORDE is their enheritaūce as he hath saide vnto thē This shal be y e prestes dutye of the people of thē that offre whether it be oxe or shepe so that they geue vnto the prest the shulder and both the chekes and the brest And the first frutes of thy corne of thy wyne and of thy oyle and the first of thy shepe sheringe For the LORDE thy God hath chosen him out of all thy trybes to stonde and mynyster in the name of the LORDE he and his sonnes all the dayes of their life Yf a Leuite come out of eny of thy gates or out of eny place of all Israel where he is a gest and cōmeth with all the desyre of his soule vnto the place which the LORDE hath chosen to mynister in the name of the LORDE his God like as all his brethren y e Leuites which stonde there before the LORDE thē shal he haue like porcion of meate with the other besydes that which he hath of the solde good of his fathers Whan thou commest in to y e londe which the LORDE thy God shal geue y e thou shalt not lerne to do y e abhominacions of these nacions that there be not founde amonge you y t maketh his sonne or doughter

haue geuen you and to heare the wordes of my seruauntes the prophetes whom I sent vnto you rysynge vp tymely and still sendinge Yf ye will not folowe thē I saye then will I do to this house as I dyd vnto Silo and will make this cite to be abhorred of all the people of the earth And the prestes the prophetes and all the people herde Ieremy preach these wordes in the house of the LORDE Now when he had spoken out all the wordes that the LORDE commaunded him to preach vnto all the people then the prestes the prophetes and all the people toke holde vpon him and sayde thou shalt dye How darrest thou be so bolde as to saye in the name of the LORDE it shal happen to this house as it dyd vnto Silo and this cite shal be so waist that no man shal dwell there in And when all the people were gathered aboute Ieremy in the house of the LORDE the prynces of Iuda herde of this rumoure they came soone out of the kinges Palace in to the house of the LORDE and sat them downe before the new dore of the LORDE Then spake the prestes and the prophetes vnto the rulers to all the people these wordes This man is worthy to dye for he hath preached agaynst this cite as ye youre selues haue herde with youre eares Then sayde Ieremy vnto the rulers and to all the people The LORDE hath sente me to preach agaynst this house agaynst this cite all the wordes that ye haue herde Therfore amende youre wayes and youre advysementes and be obedient vnto the voyce of the LORDE youre God so shal the LORDE repēt of the plage y t he had deuysed agaynst you Now as forme I am in youre hondes do with me as ye thinke expediēt and good But this shall ye knowe yf ye put me to death ye shal make youre selues this cite all the inhabitours there of giltie of innocent bloude For this is of a treuth that the LORDE hath sente me vnto you to speake all these wordes in youre eares Then sayde the rulers and the people vn the prestes and prophetes This man maye not be condemned to death for he hath preached vnto vs in the name of the LORDE oure God The Elders also of the londe stode vp sayde thus vnto all the people Micheas the Morascite which was a prophet vnder Ezechias kinge of Iuda spake to all the people of Iuda Thus saieth the LORDE of hoostes Sion shal be plowed like a felde Ierusalē shal be an heape of stones the hill of the LORDES house shal be turned to an hie wod Dyd Ezechias y e kinge of Iuda the people of Iuda put him to deeth for this No verely but rather feared y e LORDE made their praier vnto him For the which cause also y e LORDE repented of the plage y t he had deuysed agaynst them Shulde we then do soch a shamefull dede agaynst oure soules There was a prophet also that preached stiffly in the name of the LORDE called Vrias the sonne of Semeia of Cariathiarim this mā preached also agaynst this cite agaynst this lōde acordinge to all as Ieremy saieth Now when Ioachim the kinge with all the estates prynces had herde his wordes the kinge went aboute to slaye him When Vrias perceaued that he was afrayed fled departed in to Egipte Then Ioachim the kinge sent seruauntes in to the lōde of Egipte Namely Elnathā the sonne of Achbor certayne men w t him in to Egipte which fetched Vrias out of Egipte brought him vnto kinge Ioachim that slewe him with the swearde cast his deed body in to y e comō peoples graue But Ahicam the sonne of Saphan helped Ieremy that he came not in to the hondes of the people to be slayne The XXVII Chapter IN the begynnynge of the reigne of Ioachim the sonne of Iosias kynge of Iuda came this worde vnto Ieremy from the LORDE which spake thus vnto me Make the bondes chaynes and put them aboute thy neck sende thē to the kinge of Edom the kinge of Moab the kinge of Amon the kinge of Tirus to the kinge of Sidon that by the messaungers which shal come to Ierusalem vnto Sedechias the kinge of Iuda and byd them saye vnto their masters Thus saieth the LORDE of hoostes the God of Israel speake thus vnto yo r masters I am he that made the earth the men y e catell that are vpon the grounde with my greate power outstretched arme haue geuen it vnto whom it pleased me And now will I delyuer all these londes in to the power of Nabuchodonosor the kinge of Babilon my seruaunt The beestes also of the felde shal I geue him to do him seruyce And all people shal serue him his sonne and his childes children vntil the tyme of the same lōde be come also Yee many people greate kinges shal serue him Morouer that people kingdome which wil not serue Nabuchodonosor and that wil not put their neckes vnder y e yock of the kinge of Babilon the same people will I viset with swearde with honger with pestilence vntill I haue consumed them in his hondes saieth the LORDE And therfore folowe not youre prophetes soythsayers expounders of dreames charmers witches which saye vnto you ye shal not serue the kinge of Babilon For they preach you lies to bringe you farre from youre londe that I might cast you out destroye you But the people that put their neckes vnder the yock of the kinge of Babilon serue him those I willet remayne still in their owne lōde saieth the LORDE they shal occupie it dwell there in All these thinges tolde I Sedechias the kinge of Iuda and sayde Put youre neckes vnder the yock of the kinge of Babilon and serue him his people that ye maye lyue Why wilt thou and thy people perish with the swearde with honger with pestilence like as the LORDE hath deuysed for all people that wil not serue the kinge of Babilon Therfore geue no eare vnto those prophetes that tell you Ye shall not serue the kinge of Babilon for they preach you lies nether haue I sent them saieth the LORDE how be it they are bolde falsely for to prophecie in my name that I might y e sooner dryue you out that ye might perish with yo r preachers I spake to the prestes also and to all the people Thus saieth the LORDE Heare not the wordes of those prophetes that preach vnto you saye Beholde the vessels of the LORDES house shall shortly be brought hither agayne from Babilon For they prophecie lies vnto you Heare them not but serue the kinge of Babilon y t ye maye lyue Wherfore will ye make this cite to be destroyed But yf they be true prophetes in very dede and yf the worde of

y t they haue borne false wytnes agaynst me beholde I must dye where as I neuer dyd eny soch thinges as these men haue maliciously inuented agaynst me And y e LORDE herde hir voyce For whē she was led forth to death y e LORDE raised vp y e sprete of a yōge childe whose name was Daniel which cried w t a loude voice I am clene frō this bloude Thē all y e people turned thē towarde him saide What meane these wordes y t thou hast spokē ▪ Daniel stode in y e myddest of thē sayde Are ye soch fooles O ye childrē of Israel y t ye cā not discerne Ye haue here condēned a daughter of Israel vnto death and knowe not the trueth wherfore Go syt on iudgment agayne for they haue spoken false witnesse agaynst her Wherfore the people turned agayne in all the haist And the elders that is the principall heades sayde vnto him come sit downe here amonge vs and shewe vs this matter seynge God hath geuen the as greate honoure as an elder And Daniel sayde vnto them Put these two asyde one from another and then shal I heare them When they were put a sunder one from another he called one of them and sayd vnto him O thou olde canckerde carle that hast vsed thy wickednesse so longe thine vngracious dedes which thou hast done afore are now come to light For thou hast geuen false iudgmentes thou hast oppressed the innocent and letten the giltie go fre where as yet the LORDE saieth The innocent and righteous se thou slaye not Wel than yf thou hast sene her tel me vnder what tre sawest thou them talkynge together He answered Vnder a Molbery tre And Daniel sayde very wel Now thou leist euen vpon thine heade Lo the messaunger of the LORDE hath receaued the sentence of him to cut y e in two Then put he him asyde and called for the other and sayde vnto him O thou sede of Canaan but not of Iuda Fayrnesse hath disceaued the and lust hath subuerted thine herte Thus dealte ye afore with the daughters of Israel and they for feare consented vnto you but the daughter of Iuda wolde not abyde youre wickednesse Now tell me than vnder what tre didest thou take them speakinge together He answered vnder a pomgranate tre Then sayde Daniel vnto him very wel now thou leyst also euen vpō thine heade The messaunger of the LORDE stondeth waytinge with the swerde to cut the in two and to slaye you both With that all the whole multitude gaue a greate shoute and praysed God which allwaye delyuereth them y t put their trust in him And they came vpon the two elders whom Daniel had conuicte with their owne mouth that they had geuen false witnesse and dealte with them euen likewyse as they wolde haue done with their neghbouresse Yee they dyd acordinge to the lawe of Moses and put them to death Thus the innocent bloude was saued the same daye Thē Helchias his wife praysed God for their daughter Susanna with Ioachim hir huszbonde and all y e kinrede that there was no dishoneste founde in her From that daye forth was Daniel had in greate reputaciō in the sight of y e people The ende of the story of Susanna The story of Bel which is the xiiij Chapter of Daniel after the Latin THere was at Babilon an ymage called Bel and there were spent vpon him euery daye xij cakes xl shepe and sixe greate pottes of wine Him dyd the kynge worshipe himself and wente daylie to hono r him but Daniel worshiped his owne God And the kynge sayde vnto him Why dost not thou worshipe Bel he answered and sayde Because I maye not worshipe thinges that be made w t hondes but the lyuynge God which made heauen and earth and hath power vpon all flesh The kynge sayde vnto him thinkest thou not y t Bel is a lyuynge God Or seist thou not how moch he eateth and drynketh euery daye Daniel smyled and sayde O kynge disceaue not thyselfe This is but made of claye within and of metall without nether eateth he euer eny thinge Then the kynge was wroth and called for his prestes and sayde vnto them Yf ye tell me not who this is that eateth vp these expenses ye shal dye But yf ye can certifie me that Bel eateth them then Daniel shall dye for he hath spoken blasphemy agaynst Bel. And Daniel sayde vnto the kynge let it so be acordinge as thou hast sayde The prestes of Bel were lxx besyde their wyues and children And the kynge wente with Daniel in to the temple of Bel. So Bels prestes sayde Lo we wil go out set thou y e meate there O kynge poure in the wyne then shutt the dore fast and seale it with thine owne signet and tomorow when thou commest in yf thou fyndest not that Bel hath eaten vp all we wil suffre death or els daniel that hath lyed vpon vs. The prestes thought them selues sure ynough for vnder y e altare they had made a preuy intraunce there wente they in euer and ate vp what there was So when they were gone forth the kynge set meates before Bel. Now Daniel had cōmaunded his seruauntes to bringe aszshes and these he siffted thorow out all the temple that the kynge might se. Then wente they out sparre the dore sealinge it with y e kynges signet and so departed In y e night came the prestes with their wyues and children as they were wonte to do and ate and dronke vp all In the mornynge be tymes at the breake of the daye the kynge arose Daniel with him And the kynge sayde Daniel are the seales whole yet He answered Yee o kynge they be whole Now as soone as he had opened the dore the kinge loked vnto y e altare and cried with a loude voyce Great● art thou o Bel and with the is no disceate Then laughed Daniel and helde the kynge that he shulde not go in and sayde Beholde the pauement marcke well whose fotesteppes are these The kynge sayde I se the fotesteppes of men women and children Therfore the kynge was angrie and toke the prestes with their wyues and childrē they shewed him y e preuy dores where they came in ate vp soch thinges as were vpon y e altare For the which cause y e kynge slewe them delyuered Bel in to Daniels power which destroyed him and his temple And in that same place there was a greate dragon which they of Babilon worshipped And y e kynge sayde vnto Daniel sayest thou y t this is but a god of metall also lo he liueth he eateth drinketh so y t thou cāst not saye that he is no lyuinge God therfore worshipe him Daniel sayde vnto y e kinge I wil worshipe the LORDE my God he is y e truelyuynge God as for this he is not the God of life But geue me leaue o kynge

them but vnto his disciples he expounded all thinges pryuately And the same daye at euen he sayde vnto them let us passe ouer And they let the people go and toke him as he was in the shippe and there were mo shippes with him And there arose a greate storme of wynde and daszhed the wawes in to the shippe so that the shippe was full And he was behynde in the shippe and slepte vpon a pelowe And they awoke him sayde vnto him Master Carest thou not that we perishe And he arose and rebuked y e wynde and sayde vnto the see Peace and be styll And the wynde was layed there folowed a greate calme And he sayde vnto them Why are ye so fearfull How is it that ye haue no faith And they feared exceadingly sayde one to another What is he this For wynde and see are obedient vnto him The V. Chapter ANd they came ouer vnto the other syde of the see in to the countre of the Gaderenites And whan he wēte out of the shippe there met him a mā possessed of an vncleane sprete which had his dwellinge in the graues And no man coude bynde hym no not with cheynes for he was oft bounde with fetters cheynes and pluckte the cheynes in sunder and brake the fetters in peces and no man coude tame him And he was allwaye both daye and night vpon the mountaynes and in the graues crienge and beatinge him self with stones But whan he sawe Iesus afarre of he ranne and fell downe before him and cried loude and sayde What haue I to do with the O Iesus thou sonne of y e Hyest God I charge the by God that thou torment me not Neuertheles he sayde vnto him Go out of the man thou foule sprete And he axed him What is thy name And he answered and sayde My name is Legion for there be many of vs. And he prayed him instantly that he wolde not sende them awaye out of that countre And euen there in the mountaynes there was a greate heerd of swyne fedynge and all the deuyls praied him and sayde Let vs departe in to the swyne And anone Iesus gaue them leue Then the foule spretes wente out and intred in to the swyne And the heerd of swyne ranne heedlinges in to y e see with a storme They were aboute a two thousande swyne and were drowned in the see And the swyne herdes fled and tolde it in the cite and in the countre And they wente out for to se what had happened and came to Iesus and sawe hym which was possessed and had had y e legion that he sat and was clothed and in his right mynde and they were afrayed And they that had sene it tolde them what had happened to the possessed and of the swyne And they beganne to praye him that he wolde departe out of their coastes And whan he came in to the shyppe the possessed prayed him that he might be with him Neuertheles Iesus wolde not suffre hī but saide vnto hī Go ī to y e house to thine awne and tell thē how greate benefites the LORDE hath done for y e and how he hath had mercy vpon the. And he wente his waye and beganne to publish in the ten cities how greate benefites Iesus had done for him And euery man marueyled And whan Iesus passed ouer agayne by shippe there gathered moch people vnto him and was by the see syde And beholde there came one of the rulers of the synagoge whose name was Iairus And whan he sawe him he fell downe at his fete and besought him greatly sayde My doughter is at the poynte of death let it be thy pleasure to come and laye thine honde vpon her that she maye be whole and lyue And he wente with him and moch people folowed him and thronged him And there was a woman which had had the bloude yssue twolue yeares and had suffred moch of many phisicians and spent all that she had and was not helped but rather in worse case Whan she herde of Iesus she came behynde amonge the people and touched his garment For she sayde Yf I maye but touch his clothes I shal be whole And immediatly y e fountayne of hir bloude was dryed vp and she felt in hir body y t she was healed of the plage And forth with Iesus felt in himself the power that was gone out of him and turned him aboute amōge the people and sayde Who hath touched my clothes And his disciples sayde vnto him Thou seist that the people thrusteth the and sayest Who hath touched me And he loked aboute to se her that had done it As for the woman she feared and trembled for she knew what was done in her and came and fell downe before him and tolde him the whole trueth And he sayde vnto her Doughter thy faith hath made the whole go thy waye in peace be whole of thy plage Whyle he yet spake there came certayne from the ruler of the synagoges house and sayde Thy doughter is deed why troublest thou the master eny more But Iesus herde right soone the worde that was spoken and sayde vnto the ruler of the synagoge Be not thou afrayed beleue onely And he suffred no mā to folowe him but Peter and Iames and Ihon his brother And he came in to the ruler of the synagoges house and sawe the busynes and them that wepte and wayled greatly and he wente in and sayde vnto them Why make ye this a doo and wepe The mayde is not deed but slepeth And they laughed him to scorne And he droue them all out and toke the father and mother of the mayde and them that were with him and wente in where the mayden laye And he toke the maydē by the honde and sayde vnto her Thabith a Cumi which is by interpretaeion Maydē I saye vnto the Aryse And immediatly the mayden arose and walked She was twolue yeare olde and they were astonnyed out of measure And he charged them strately that no man shulde knowe of it and sayde vnto them that they shulde geue her to eate The VI. Chapter ANd he departed thence and came in to his awne countre and his disciples folowed him And whā y e Sabbath came he begāne to teach in their synagoge And many that herde it marueled at his lernynge and sayde From whēce hath he these thinges And what wyszdome is this y t is geuē him soch actes as are done by his handes Is not this the Carpenter the sonne of Mary and the brother of Iames and Ioses and of Iude and Symon Are not his sisters here with vs also And they were offended at him But Iesus saide vnto thē A prophet is nowhere lesse set by thē in his awne countre at home amonge his awne And he coude not shew one miracle there but layed his handes vpon a few sicke and healed them And he marueyled

they wayted for him And beholde there came a man named Iairus and he was a ruler of the synagoge and fell at Iesus fete besought him that he wolde come in to his house For he had but one doughter vpon a twolue yeare of age and she laye at y e poynt of death And as he wente the people thronged him And a womā hauynge the bloudyssue twolue yeares which had spent all hir substaunte vpon phisicians and coude be healed of none came behynde touched the hemme of his garmēt and immediatly hir yssue of bloude was staunched And Iesus sayde Who hath touched me But whan they all denyed Peter sayde and they that were with him Master the people thronge the and thrust the and thou sayest Who hath touched me Iesus saide Some body hath touched me for Ifele that there is vertue gone out fro me But whan the woman sawe that she was not hyd she came trēblynge and fell downe before him and tolde him before all the people for what cause she had touched him how she was healed immediatly And he sayde vnto her Doughter be of good comforte thy faith hath made the whole go thy waye in peace Whyle he yet spake there came one frō y e ruler of y e synagoges house and sayde vnto him Thy doughter is deed disease not the master Whan Iesus herde that he answered him and sayde Feare not beleue onely and she shal be made whole But whan he came in to the house he suffred no man to go in saue Peter and Iames and Ihō and the father and mother of the mayden They wepte all and sorowed for her But he sayde Wepe not for she is not deed but * slepeth And they laughed hī to scorne knowynge well that she was deed But he thrust them all out and toke her by the hande and cryed and sayde Maydē aryse And hir sprete came agayne she arose straight waye And he cōmaunded to geue her meate And hir elders were astonnyed But he charged them that they shulde tell no man what was done The IX Chapter ANd he called the twolue together and gaue them power and auctorite ouer all deuels and that they might heale diseases And he sent thē out to preach the kyngdome of God and to heale y e sicke and sayde vnto them Ye shal take nothinge with you by the waye nether staff ner scryppe ner bred ner money ner haue two coates And into what house so euer ye entre there abyde tyll ye go thence And who so euer receaue you not departe out of the same cite and shake of the dust from youre fete for a wytnesse ouer them And they departed and wente thorow the townes preachinge y e Gospell healynge euery where Herode the Tetrarcha herde of all that was done by him And he toke care for so moch as it was sayde of some Ihō is rysen agayne from the deed of some Elias hath appeared of some One of the olde prophetes is rysen agayne And Herode sayde Ihō haue I beheaded who is this then of whō I heare soch thinges And he desyred to se him And the Apostles came agayne and tolde him how greate thinges they had done And he toke them to him and wente asyde into a solytary place by the cite called Bethsaida Whan the people knew of it they folowed him And he receaued them and spake vnto them of the kyngdome of God and healed soch as hade nede therof But the daye beganne to go downe Then came the twolue to him and sayde vnto him let the people departe frō the that they maye go in to the townes rounde aboute and in to y e vyllagies where they maye fynde lodgynge meate for we are here in y e wyldernesse But he sayde vnto them Geue ye them to eate They sayde We haue nomore but fyue loaues and two fyszhes Excepte we shulde go bye meate for so moch people for there were vpon a fyue thousande men But he sayde vnto his disciples Cause them to syt downe by fifties in a cōpany And they dyd so and made them all to syt downe Then toke he the fyue loaues and two fiszhes and loked vp towarde heauē and sayde grace ouer them brake them and gaue them to the disciples to set thē before the people And they ate and were all satisfied And there were taken vp of that remayned to them twolue baskettes full of broken meate And it fortuned whan he was alone and at his prayer and his disciples with him he axed them and sayde Whom saye the people that I am They answered and sayde They saye thou art Ihon the baptist Some that thou art Elias Some that one of the olde prophetes is rysen agayne But he sayde vnto them Whom saye ye that I am Then answered Peter and sayde Thou art the Christ of God And he charged them strately and commaunded them that they shulde tell this vnto no mā and sayde For the sonne of man must suffre many thinges and be cast out of the Elders and of y e hye prestes and scrybes and be put to death and ryse agayne the thirde daye Then sayde he vnto them all Yf eny mā wil folowe me let hī denie himself take vp his crosse daylie folowe me For who so euer wil saue his life shal lose it But who so loseth his life for my sake shal saue it For what auauntage hath a man though he wanne the whole worlde and loseth himself or runneth in dammage of himself Who so is ashamed of me and of my sayenges of him shall the sonne of mā also be ashamed whan he commeth in his glory and in the glory of his father and of the holy angels I saye vnto you of the treuth there be some of them that stonde here which shall not taist of death tyll they se the kyngdome of God And it fortuned that aboute an eight dayes after these wordes he toke vnto him Peter Ihon and Iames and wente vp in to amoūt for to praye And as he prayed the shappe of his countenaunce was chaunged of another fashion and his garment was whyte and shyned and beholde two men talked with him Which were Moses and Elias that appeared gloriously and spake of his departynge which he shulde fulfill at Ierusalem As for Peter and them that were with him they were full of slepe But whan they awoke they saw his glory and the two men stondynge with him And it chaunsed whan they departed frō him Peter sayde vnto Iesus Master here is good beynge for vs. Let vs make thre tabernacles one for the one for Moses and one for Elias and wyst not what he sayde But whyle he thus spake there came a cloude and ouershadowed them And they were afrayed whan the cloude couered them And out of the cloude there came a voyce which sayde This is my deare sonne heare him And

¶ Because that whan thou goest to study in holy scripture thou shuldest do it with reuerence therfore for thy instruction louynge admonicion therto the Reuerende father in god Nicolas Bisshoppe of Salisbury hath prescrybed the this prayer folowynge taken out of the same O Lorde God almyghtye whiche longe agoo saydest by the mouthe of Iames thyn Apostle If any of you lacke wysdom let hym aske it of God whiche geueth it plenteously to all men and casteth no man in the tethe and it shal be geuen hym Heare my peticion for this thy promes sake Let my prayer ascende luckely in to thy syght lyke incense Let thy● eare be attent vnto my depe desyre Geue me wysdome which is eue● assistent about thy seate And put me not out from amonge 〈…〉 for I am thy seruaunt and y e sonne of thy handmayde ▪ 〈…〉 her I meane thy godly wysedome out of thyne holy heauens and from the trone of thy maiestye that she maye be with me and laboure with me y t I may knowe what is acceptable in thy syght Oh lerne me goodnes nurtoure and knowlege for I beleue thy commaundementes Thou art good and gracyous instructe me in thyne ordynaunces Let myne hertie besechynge ascende in to thy presence Geue me vnderstondynge accordynge to thy worde Oh geue me vnderstōdynge and I shall kepe thy lawe Yee I shall kepe it with all myne herte Shewe me thy wayes o Lorde teache me thy patthes Leade me in to thy trueth and lerne me for thou art the God of my helth And on the do I depende alway Heare now my voyce O Lorde with which I haue cryed vnto the. Haue mercy vpon me and gracyouslye heare me for Iesus Christes sake oure Lorde which lyueth and reygneth with the his father the holy goost worlde without ende Amen ¶ After the ende of any Chapter yf thou wylt thou mayest saye these verses folowynge LEade me o Lorde in thy waye and let me walke in thy trueth Oh let myne herte delyte in fearynge thy name Ordre my goynges after thy worde that no wyckednes reygne in me Kepe my steppes within thy patthes lest my fete turne in to any contrary waye Vnto the most victorious Prynce and oure most gracyous soueraigne Lorde kynge Henry the kynge of Englonde and of Fraunce lorde of Irlonde c. Defendour of the Fayth and vnder God the chefe and suppreme heade of the Church of Englonde ¶ The ryght iust administracyon of the lawes that God gaue vnto Moses and vnto Iosua the testimonye of faythfulnes that God gaue of Dauid the plenteous abundaunce of wysdome that God gaue vnto Salomon the lucky and prosperous age with the multiplicacyon of sede whiche God gaue vnto Abraham and Sara his wyfe be geuē vnto you most gracyous Prynce with your dearest iust wyfe and most vertuous Pryncesse Quene Anne Amen CAiphas beynge bysshope of that yeare lyke a blynde prophete not vnderstandyng what he sayd prophecied that it was better to put Christ vnto death then that all the people shulde perysshe he meanyng that Christ was an heretike a deceauer of the people a destroyer of the lawe and that it was better therfore to put Christ vnto death thā to suffre hym for to lyue and to deceaue the people c. where in very dede Christ was the true prophete the true Messias and the onely true Sauiour of the worlde sent of his heauenly father to suffre the moste cruell most shamefull and most necessary death for our redempcyon accordyng to y e meanynge of the prophecie truely vnderstonde Euen after the same maner y e blynde bysshoppe of Rome that blynde Baalam I saye not vnderstondynge what he dyd gaue vnto your grace this tytle Defendour of the fayth onely bycause your hyghnes suffred your bysshoppes to burne Gods worde the rote of fayth and to persecute the louers and mynisters of y e same where in very dede the blynde bysshoppe though he knewe not what he dyd prophecied that by the ryghteous admynistracyon and contynuall diligence of youre grace the fayth shulde so be defended that Gods worde the mother of Fayth with the frutes therof shulde haue his fre course thorowe out all Christendome but specyally in your realme Yf your hyghnesse now of your pryncely benignite wyll pardon me to compare these two bysshoppes I meane bysshoppe Caiphas and the bysshoppe of Rome theyr prophecies together I doute not but we shal fynde them agree lyke brethren though the one be a Iewe and the other a counterfayre Christian. Fyrst Caiphas prophecied that it was better to put Christ vnto death then that the people shulde perysshe The bysshoppe of Rome also not knowynge what he prophecied gaue youre grace this tytle Defendour of the fayth The trueth of both these prophecies is of the holy goost as was Baalams prophecie though they that spake thē knewe not what they sayd The trueth of Caiphas prophecie is that it was necessary for mans saluacyon that Christ by his death shulde ouercome death and redeme vs. And the trueth of oure Baalams prophecie is y t your grace in very dede shulde defende the Fayth Yee euen the true fayth of Christ no dreames no fables no heresie no papisticall inuencions but the vncorrupte fayth of Gods most holy worde which to set forth praysed be the goodnes of God and increace youre gracyous purpose your hyghnes with youre most honorable councell applyeth all his studye and endeuoure These two blynde bysshopes now agree in y e vnderstādyng of theyr prophecies for Caiphas taketh Christ for an heretike Oure Balaā taketh the worde of Christ for heresie Caiphas iudgeth it to be a good dede to put Christ vnto death that he shulde not deceaue the people Oure Balaam calleth defendynge of the fayth the suppressyng kepyng secrete and burnyng of the worde of fayth lest the lyght thereof shulde vtter his darknes lest his owne Decretales Decrees his owne lawes and constitucions his owne statutes and inuencions shulde come to none effecte lest his intollerable exactions and vsurpacions shulde lose theyr strengthe lest it shulde be knowen what a thefe and murtherer he is in the cause of Christ and how haynous a traytoure to God and man in defraudynge all Christen kynges prynces of theyr due obedience lest we youre graces subiectes shulde haue eyes in the worde of God at the last to spye out his crafty conueyaūce and iuglynges and lest men shulde se how sore he and his false Apostles haue deceaued all Christendome specyally youre noble realme of Englonde Thus your grace seyth how brotherly the Iewysh bysshoppe and oure Balaam agree together not onely in myter and outwarde appearaunce but as the one persecuted the Lorde Iesus in his owne persone so doth the other persecute his worde and resysteth his holy ordynaunce in the auctorite of his anoynted kynges For so moche nowe as the worde of God is the onely trueth that dryueth awaye all

in him and to herken vnto his voyce After the death of Moses doth Iosue brynge the people in to the lōde of promes where God doth wonderous thynges for his people by Iosue which distributeth y e londe vnto them vnto euery trybe theyr possession But in theyr wealth they forgat the goodnes of God so that oft tymes he gaue thē ouer in to the hande of theyr enemies Neuertheles whan so euer they called faithfully vpon him and conuerted he delyuered them agayne as the boke of Iudges declareth In the bokes of the kynges is descrybed the regiment of good and euell prynces and how the decaye of all nacions commeth by euel kynges For in Ieroboam thou seyst what myschefe what ydolatrye soch like abhominacyon foloweth whā the kynge is a maynteyner of false doctryne ād causeth the people to synne agaynst God which fallinge awaye from gods worde increased so sore amonge them that it was the cause of all theyr sorowe and misery the very occasion why Israel first and then Iuda were caryed awaye in to captyuite Agayne in Iosaphat in Ezechias and in Iosias thou seyst the nature of a vertuous kynge He putteth downe the houses of ydolatrye seyth that his prestes teach nothynge but y e lawe of God cōmaundeth his lordes to go with them and to se that they teach the people In these kynges I saye thou seyst the cōdicyon of a true defender of y e fayth for he spareth nether cost ner laboure to manteyne the lawes of God to seke the welth prosperite of his people and to rote out the wicked And where soch a prince is thou seyst agayne how God defendeth him and his people though he haue neuer so many enemyes Thus wente it with thē in the olde tyme and euen after y e same maner goeth it now with vs God be praysed therfore ād graunte vs of his fatherly mercy that we be not vnthankfull lest where he now geueth vs a Iosaphat an Ezechias yee a very Iosias he sende vs a Pharao a Ieroboam or an Achab. In the two first bokes of E●dras in Hester thou seyst the delyueraunce of the people which though they were but fewe yet is it vnto vs all a speciall cōforte for so moch as God is not forgetfull of his promes but bryngeth them out of captiuite acordynge as he had tolde them before In the boke of Iob we lerne comforte and pacience in that God not onely punysheth the wicked but proueth tryeth the iust and righteous howbeit there is noman innocent in his sighte by dyuerse troubles in this lyfe declaryng therby y t they are not his bastardes but his deare sonnes and that he loueth them In the Psalmes we lerne how to resorte onely vnto God in all oure troubles to seke helpe at him to call onely vpon him to satle oure myndes by paciēce how we ought in prosperite to be thankfull vnto him The Prouerbes and the Preacher of Salomon teach vs wysdome to knowe God oure owne selues and the worlde and how vayne all thynges are saue onely to cleue vnto God As for the doctryne of the Prophetes what is it els but an earnest exhortacion to eschue synne to turne vnto God a faythfull promes of the mercy ād pardon of God vnto all them y t turne vnto him and a threatenyng of his wrath to the vngodly sauynge that here and there they prophecye also manifestly of Christ of y e expulsion of the Iewes and callynge of the Heythen Thus moch thought I to speake of y e olde Testament wherin almyghtie God openeth vnto vs his myghtye power his wysdome his louynge mercy righteousnesse for the which cause it oughte of no man to be abhorred despysed or lyghtly regarded as though it were an olde scripture y t nothyng belōged vnto vs or y t now were to be refused For it is Gods true scripture testimony which the Lorde Iesus commaundeth the Iewes to search who so euer beleueth not the scripture beleueth not Christ and who so refuseth it refuseth God also The New Testament or Gospell is a manyfest and cleare testymony of Christ how God perfourmeth his ooth and promes made in the olde Testament how the New is declared and included in the Olde and the Olde fulfylled and verifyed in the New Now where as the most famous interpreters of all geue sondrye iudgmentes of the texte so farre as it is done by y e sprete of knowlege in the holy goost me thynke noman shulde be offended there at for they referre theyr doinges in mekenes to the sprete of trueth in the congregacyon of god sure I am that there commeth more knowlege and vnderstondinge of the scripture by theyr sondrie translacyons then by all the gloses of oure sophisticall doctours For that one interpreteth somthynge obscurely in one place the same trans●ateth another or els he him selfe more manifestly by a more playne vocable of the same meanyng in another place Be not thou offended therfore good Reader though one call a scrybe that another calleth a lawyer or elders that another calleth father mother or repentaunce that another calleth pennaunce or amendment For yf thou be not disceaued by mens tradiciōs thou shalt fynde nomore dyuersite betwene these termes then betwene foure pens and a grote And this maner haue I vsed in my translacyon callyng it in some place pennaunce that in another place I call repentaunce and that not onely because the interpreters haue done so before me but that the aduersaries of the trueth maye se how that we abhorre not this worde pēnaunce as they vntruly reporte of vs no more then the interpreters of latyn abhorre penitere whan they reade resipiscere Onely oure hertes desyre vnto God is that his people be not blynded in theyr vnderstondyng lest they beleue pennaunce to be ought saue a very repētaunce amēdment or conuersyon vnto God and to be an vnfayned new creature in Christ and to lyue acordyng to his lawe For els shall they fal in to the olde blasphemy of Christes bloude and beleue that they thē selues are able to make satisfaccion vnto God for theyr awne synnes from the which erroure god of his mercy and plēteous goodnes preserue all his Now to conclude for so moch as all the scripture is wrytten for thy doctryne ensample it shal be necessary for the to take holde vpon it whyle it is offred the yee and with ten handes thankfully to receaue it And though it be not worthely ministred vnto the in this translacyon by reason of my rudnes Yet yf thou be feruēt in thy prayer God shal not onely sende it the in a better shappe by the mynistracyon of other that beganne it afore but shall also moue the hertes of them which as yet medled not withall to take it in hande and to bestowe the gifte of theyr vnderstondynge theron as well in oure language as other famous interpreters do in other languages And I praye God that

The bless●nges promised vnto thy father and my fore elders go mightely after the desyre of the hyest in the worlde these shal light on Iosephs heade and on the toppe of his heade that was separate from his brethren Ben Iamin a rauyshinge wolfe In the mornynge shal he deuoure the praye but in the euenynge he shal deuyde the spoyle All these are the twolue trybes of Israel and this is it that their father spake vnto them whan he blessed them euery one with a sundrye blessynge And he commaunded them and sayde vnto them I shal be gathered vnto my people burye me with my fathers in y e caue which is in the felde of Ephron the Hethite in the dubble caue that lyeth ouer against Mamre in y e lande of Canaā which Abrahā bought with the felde of Ephron the Hethite for a possession to burye in There buryed they Abrahā Sara his wife there buried they Isaac also Rebecca his wife their buried I Lea in the good of the felde of the caue therin which was bought of the Hethites And whan Iacob had ended this commaundement vnto his children he pluckte his fete together vpon the bed and died and was gathered vnto his people Thē fell Ioseph vpon his fathers face and wepte and kyssed him The L. Chapter ANd Ioseph cōmaūded his seruaūtes y e Phisiciās to embawme his father And the Phisicians embawmed Israel tyll fourtye dayes were ended for so longe endured the dayes of embawminge the Egipcians bewayled him seuentye dayes Now whan the mournynge dayes were ended Ioseph spake vnto Pharaos housholde sayde Yf I haue founde fauo r in youre sight thē speake vnto Pharao and saie My father hath taken an ooth of me sayde Beholde I dye burye me in myne owne graue which I dygged for myself in the lāde of Canaan Therfore wyl I now go vp and burye my father and come agayne Pharao saide Go thy waye vp and burye thy father acordinge as thou hast sworne vnto him So Ioseph wēte vp to burye his father And there wēte w t him all Pharaos seruaūtes y t were the elders of his courte and all y e elders of the lande of Egipte all Iosephs housholde and his brethren and his fathers housholde Onely their children shepe oxen left they in y e lāde of Gosen toke their iourney vp with him vpō charettes and horses and the company was exceadinge greate Now whan these came to the playne of Atad y t lyeth beyonde Iordane they made there a very greate and bytter lamentacion he mourned for his father seuē dayes And whā the people in the lande the Cananites sawe the mournynge in the playne of Atad they sayde The Egipciās make there greate lamētacion Therfore is the place called The lamentacion of the Egipcians which lyeth beyonde Iordane And his children dyd as he had cōmaunded them and caried him to y e lande of Canaan and buried him in y e dubble caue that Abraham bought with the felde for a possession to bury in of Ephron y e Hethite ouer ageynst Mamre So Ioseph toke his iourney agayne in to Egipte with his brethren and with all those that wente vp with him to burye his father whan they had buried him But Iosephs brethrē were afrayed whā their father was deed and sayde Ioseph might happly haue indignacion at vs and recompense vs all the euell that we dyd vnto him therfore let they saye vnto him Thy father commaunded before his death and sayde Thus shal ye saye vnto Ioseph O for geue thy brethren the offence and their synne that they dyd so euell vnto the. O forgeue now this trespace of vs the seruauntes of thy fathers God But Ioseph wepte whan they spake so vnto him And his brethren wente and fell downe before him and sayde Beholde here are we thy seruauntes Ioseph sayde vnto thē Feare ye not for I am vnder God Ye thought euell ouer me but God hath turned it vnto good to do as it is come to passe this daye for the sauynge of moch people Therfore be not ye now afrayed I wyl care for you and youre children And he comforted them and spake louyngly vnto them Thus dwelt Ioseph in Egipte with his fathers house and lyued an hūdreth and ten yeare and sawe Ephrayms children vnto y e thirde generacion In like maner the children of Machir the sonne of Manasses begat children also vpon Iosephs lappe And Ioseph sayde vnto his brethren I dye and God wyl vyset you and brynge you out of this lande to the lande that he sware vnto Abraham Isaac and Iacob Therfore toke he an ooth of the childrē of Israel and sayde Whan God shal vyset you thē cary my bones frō hence So Ioseph dyed whā he was an hūdreth and ten yeare olde and they embawmed him layed him in a chest in Egipte The ende of the first boke of Moses called Genesis The seconde boke of Moses called Exodus What this boke conteyneth Chap. I. The childrē of Israel increase in Egipte The kynge commaundeth to slaye thē and to drowne them Chap. II. The byrth of Moses which is layed vpō the water Pharaos doughter taketh him and bringeth him vp He slayeth one of the Egipcians and flyeth his waye in to Madian where he marieth The children of Israel crye vnto the LORDE Chap. III. God appeareth vnto Moses in the bush and sendeth him vnto the kynge and the people Chap. IIII. Moses is loth to go excuseth himself But the LORDE enfourmeth him maketh him stronge and comforteth him Moses taketh leue of his father in lawe to go vnto his people Chap. V. Moses and Aaron go vnto the kynge which oppresseth the people the more Chap. VI. God geueth Moses more instrucciō and sendeth him vnto the people The trybes are nombred Chap. VII Moses and Aaron go vnto the kynge and shewe tokens before him but the kynge waxeth hard harted Chap. VIII After many tokens Pharao graunteth to let the people go but assone as the plage ceaseth he is as vngodly as afore Chap. IX There commeth a death amōge all the catell thē commeth the sores blaynes and the hayle Chap. X. The greshoppers and darcknes in Egipte Pharao forbyddeth Moses to come eny more in his sight Chap. XI The LORDE promiseth to brynge yet another plage vpon Egipte and cōmaundeth the Israelites to borowe Iewels of syluer and golde of the Egipcians Chap. XII The vse of the Easterlambe God slayeth all the firstborne Pharao dryueth all the people out of the lande Chap. XIII God commaundeth to sanctifie all the firstborne vnto him and carieth them towarde the lande of promyse not the next waye but thorow the wyldernes by a cloude in the daye tyme and a pyler of fyre in the night Chap. XIIII Pharao foloweth vpō the people of God which delyuereth his owne carieth them thorow the reed see drowneth the enemies therin Chap. XV. Moses and the

shal be here after for they couered the londe and made it darcke And they ate vp all the herbes in y e londe all the frutes vpon the trees which remayned from y e hayle left no grene thinge behinde in the trees herbes vpon the felde in all the lande of Egipte Then Pharao called for Moses Aaron in all y e haist saide I haue synned against the LORDE yo r God agaynst you forgeue me my synne this once also pray the LORDE yo r God y t he maye take awaye fro me this death onely And he wēte out from Pharao prayed vnto the LORDE Thē the LORDE turned a maruelous strōge west wynde and toke vp the greshoppers ca●● them in to the reed see so that there was not one left in all the quarters of Egipte But the LORDE hardened Pharaos hert that he let not the childrē of Israel go The LORDE sayde vnto Moses Stretch out thine hāde towarde heauen that it be so darck in the londe of Egipte y t it maye be felt And Moses stretched out his hāde towarde heauen thē was there a thicke darcknesse in all the londe of Egipte thre dayes so y t in thre dayes no mā sawe another nor rose vp from y e place where he was But w t the childrē of Israel there was light in their dwellinges Then Pharao called for Moses sayde Go yo r waye serue the LORDE onely leaue yo r shepe yo r oxen here let yo r childrē go w t you also Moses sayde Thou must geue vs offringes and brent offerynges that we maye do sacrifice vnto the LORDE o r God Oure catell shal go w t vs and there shal not one hooffe be left behynde for we must take therof for the seruyce of the LORDE o r God Morouer we knowe not wherwithall we shal serue y e LORDE tyll we come thither But the LORDE hardened Pharaos hert y t he wolde not let them go And Pharao sayde vnto him Get the hence fro me bewarre that thou come nomore in my sight For loke what daie so euer thou cōmest in my sight thou shalt dye Moses answered Euē as thou hast sayde I wil come nomore in thy sight The XI Chapter ANd the LORDE sayde vnto Moses I wil yet brynge a plage vpon Pharao and Egipte after y t shal he let you go from hence shal not onely let all go but also dryue you hence Therfore saye now vnto the people y t euery man borowe of his neghboure euery woman of his neghbouresse Iewels of syluer golde for the LORDE shal geue the people fauo r in the sight of y e Egipciās And Moses was a very greate man in the lande of Egipte in y e sight of Pharaos seruauntes in the sight of the people And Moses sayde Thus sayeth the LORDE At mydnight wil I go out in the lande of Egipte all y e first borne in the lande of Egipte shall dye from Pharaos first sonne y t sytteth vpon his seate vnto the first sonne of the mayde seruaunte which is behynde y e myll all the first borne amonge the catell there shal be a greate crie in all the lande of Egipte soch as neuer was ner shal be But amonge all the childrē of Israel there shall not a dogg quatch w t his tonge fro men vnto catell y t ye maye knowe how y t the LORDE hath put a differēce betwixte Egipte Israel Thē shal all these thy seruauntes come downe vnto me fal at my fote saye Get the out thou all the people that are vnder the. After that wyl I departe And he wēte frō Pharao w t a wroth full displeasure The LORDE saide vnto Moses Pharao herkeneth not vnto you y t many wōders maye be done in y e lāde of Egipte And Moses Aaron dyd all these wōders before Pharao but y e LORDE hardened his hert y t he wolde not let y e childrē of Israel go out of his londe The XII Chapter THe LORDE sayde vnto Moses Aaron in the londe of Egipte This moneth shal be with you y e first moneth at it ye shall begynne the monethes of the yeare Speake ye vnto all the congregacion of Israel saye Vpon y e tenth daye of this moneth let euery one take a lābe or a kydd where a housholder is to euery house a lābe But yf the housholde be to few for a lambe thē let him his neghbo r y t is next vnto his house take it acordinge to the nombre of y e soules and counte to the lambe what euery man maye eate But it shal be a lambe with out blemish a male of a yeare olde From amonge the lambes goates shal ye take it And ye shal kepe it vnto y e fourtene daye of the moneth And euery man of the congregacion of Israel shal slaye it aboute the eueninge And they shal take of his bloude and stryke it on both the syde postes of the dore and on the vpperdore post of the house that they eate it in And so shal they eate flesh y e same night rosted at the fyre vnleuended bred and shal eate it with sowre sawse Ye shal not eate it rawe ner sodden with water but onely rosted at the fyre his heade w t his fete and pertenaunce And ye shal leaue nothynge of it ouer vntyll the mornynge but yf eny thinge be left ouer vntyll the mornynge ye shal burne it with fyre Of this maner shal ye eate it Ye shal be gyrded aboute youre loynes and haue youre shues vpon youre fete and staues in yo r handes and ye shal eate it with haist for it is y e LORDES Passeouer For in the same night wil I go thorow the londe of Egipte smyte all the firstborne in the lande of Egipte from men vnto catell vpon all the goddes of Egipte wyll I do execucion Euen I the LORDE And the bloude shal be youre token vpon the houses wherin ye are y t whan I se the bloude I maye passe ouer and that the plage happen not vnto you to destroye you whan I smyte the londe of Egipte And this daye shall ye haue for a remembraunce and ye shall kepe it holy for a feast vnto the LORDE ye all youre posterities for a perpetuall custome Seuen dayes shall ye eate vnleuended bred namely vpon the first daie shal ye leaue of with leuended bred in youre houses Who so euer eateth leuended bred from the first daye vnto y e seuenth that soule shall be roted out from Israel The first daye shall be called holy amonge you and the seuenth also No maner of worke shall ye do therin saue what belongeth to the meate for all maner of soules that onely maye ye do for you And kepe you to leuended bred For euen vpon that same daye wil I brynge youre armies

offered vnto God Then came Aaron and all y e elders of Israel to eate bred with Moses father in lawe before God On the next morow sat Moses to iudge the people and the people stode roūde aboute Moses from the momynge vntyll y e euen But whan his father in lawe sawe all that he dyd with the people he sayde What is this that thou doest with the people Wherfore syttest thou alone and all y e people stonde rounde aboute from the morninge vntyll the euen Moses answered him The people come to me axe councell at God for whan they haue eny thinge to do they come vnto me that I maye iudge betwixte euery one his neghboure and shewe them the statutes of God and his lawes His father in lawe sayde vnto him It is not well that thou doest Thou weeriest thy self and the people that is with the. This busynesse is to sore for the thou canst not perfourme it alone But herken vnto my voyce I will geue the councell and God shall be with the. Be thou vnto the people to God warde and brynge the causes before God and prouide them with statutes and lawes that thou mayest shewe thē the waie wherin they shulde walke and the workes that they shulde do But loke out amonge all the people for honest men that feare God soch as are true hate couetousnes make these rulers ouer them some ouer thousandes ouer hundredes ouer fiftie and ouer ten that they maye allwaye iudge the people But where there is eny greate matter that they brynge the same vnto the and iudge the small causes them selues so shall it be lighter for the yf they beare the burthen with the. Yf thou shalt do this then mayest thou endure the thinge that God chargeth the withall and all this people maie go peaceably vnto their place Moses herkened vnto the voyce of his father in lawe and dyd all that he sayde And he chose honest men out of all Israel and made them heades ouer the people some ouer thousandes ouer hundredes ouer fiftie and ouer ten that they might allwaye iudge the people As for soch causes as were herde they brought them vnto Moses and iudged the small matters them selues So Moses let his father in lawe departe in to his owne londe The XIX Chapter IN the thirde moneth after that the children of Israel were gone out of the londe of Egipte they came the same daye in to the wyldernes of Sinai for they were departed from Raphidim and wolde in to the wyldernes of Sinai and there they pitched in the wyldernes ouer against the mounte And Moses wente vp vnto God And the LORDE called vnto him out of the mount and sayde Thus shalt thou saye vnto the house of Iacob and tell the children of Israel Ye haue sene what I haue done vnto the Egipcians and how I haue borne you vpon Aegles wynges brought you vnto my self Yf ye wyll harken now vnto my voyce and kepe my couenaunt ye shal be myne owne before all people for the whole earth is myne and ye shall be vnto me a presterly kingdome and an holy people These are the wordes that thou shalt saye vnto the children of Israel Moses came and called for the elders of the people and layed before them all these wordes that the LORDE had commaunded And all the people answered together and sayde All that the LORDE hath sayde wyll we do And Moses tolde the wordes of the people vnto the LORDE agayne And the LORDE sayde vnto Moses Beholde I wyll come vnto the in a thicke cloude that the people maye heare my wordes which I speake vnto the and beleue the for euer And Moses shewed the wordes of the people vnto the LORDE The LORDE sayde vnto Moses Go vnto the people and sanctifie thē to daye and tomorow y t they maye wash their clothes and be ready agaynst the thirde daye for vpon the thirde daye shall the LORDE come downe vpon mount Sinai before all the people And set markes rounde aboute the people and saye vnto them Bewarre that ye go not vp in to y e mount ner touch y e border of it For who so euer toucheth y e moūt shal dye y e death There shal no hāde touch it but he shall either be stoned or shot thorow whether it be beest or man it shal not lyue Whan the horne bloweth then shal they come vp vnto the mounte Moses wente downe from the mount vnto the people and sanctified them And they waszshed their clothes And he sayde vnto them Be ready agaynst the thirde daye and no man come at his wife Now whan the thirde daye came and it was early it beganne to thonder and lighten and there was a thicke cloude vpon the mount and a noyse of a trompet exceadinge mightie And the people that were in the tentes were afrayde And Moses brought the people out of the tentes to mete w t God and they stode vnder the mount But all mount Sinai smoked because y e LORDE came downe vpō it with fyre And the smoke therof wente vp as the smoke of a fornace so that the whole mount was exceadinge terrible And the noyse of the trompet wēte out and was mightie Moses spake God answered him loude Now whan the LORDE was come downe vpon mount Sinai euen vpon the toppe of it he called Moses vp vnto y e toppe of the mount And Moses wente vp Then sayde the LORDE vnto him Go downe and charge the people y t they preasse not vnto the LORDE to se him and so many of them perishe The rulers also that come nye vnto y e LORDE shal sanctifie themselues lest the LORDE smyte thē But Moses sayde vnto the LORDE The people can not come vp vpon mount Sinai for thou hast charged vs sayde Set markes aboute the mount and sanctifie it The LORDE sayde vnto him Go thy waye get y e downe Thou and Aaron with the shalt come vp but the rulers and y e people shal not preasse to come vp vnto y e LORDE lest he smyte thē And Moses wente downe to the people and tolde them The XX. Chapter ANd the LORDE spake all these wordes and sayde I am the LORDE thy God which haue brought the out of the londe of Egipte from y e house of bondage Thou shalt haue none other Goddes in my sight Thou shalt make the no grauen ymage ner eny symilitude nether of it that is aboue in heauen ner of it that is beneth vpon earth ner of it that is in the water vnder the earth Worshipe them not and serue them not for I the LORDE thy God am a gelouse God vysitinge y e synne of the fathers vpon the children vnto y e thirde and fourth generacion of them that hate me And do mercye vpō many thousandes that loue me and kepe my commaundementes Thou shalt not take the name of y e LORDE thy God in vayne

wyszdome in to the hertes of all that are wyse that they shall make all that I haue commaunded the the Tabernacle of wytnesse the Arke of wytnesse the Mercyseate theron and all the ornamentes of y e Tabernacle the table and his apparell the candilsticke and all his apparell the altare of incense the altare of burnt offerynges w t all his apparell the lauer with his fote the mynistrynge vestimentes of Aaron y e prest and the garmentes of his sonnes to serue like prestes the anoyntinge oyle and the incēse of spyces for y e Sāctuary All that I haue commaunded the shal they make And the LORDE talked vnto Moses and sayde Speake vnto the children of Israel and saye Kepe my Sabbath for it is a token betwene me and you and youre posterities that ye maye knowe how that I am the LORDE which haloweth you therfore kepe my Sabbath for it shal be holy vnto you Who so vnhaloweth it shall dye the death For who so doth eny worke therin shal be roted out from amonge his people Sixe dayes shall men worke but vpon the seuenth daye is the Sabbath the holy rest of the LORDE Who so doth eny worke vpon the Sabbath daye shall dye the death Therfore shal the children of Israel kepe the Sabbath that they maye kepe it also amonge their posterities for an euerlastynge couenaunt An euerlastynge token is it betwixte me and the children of Israel For in sixe dayes made the LORDE heauē earth but vpon y e seuenth daye he rested and was refreshed And whan the LORDE had made an ende of talkinge with Moses vpon the mount Sinai he gaue him two tables of witnesse which were of stone and wrytten with the fynger of God The XXXII Chapter BVt whan the people sawe that Moses made lōge taryenge to come downe frō the mount they gathered thē together agaynst Aaron sayde vnto him Vp and make vs goddes to go before vs for we can not tell what is become of this man Moses that brought vs out of Egipte Aaron sayde vnto them Plucke of the golden earynges from the eares of youre wynes of yo r sonnes of yo r doughters brynge them vnto me Then all the people pluckte of their golden earynges from their eares brought them vnto Aaron And he toke them of their handes fashioned it w t a grauer And they made a molten calfe and sayde These are thy goddes O Israel that brought the out of the londe of Egipte Whan Aaron sawe that he buylded an altare before him and caused it be proclamed and sayde Tomorow is the LORDES feast And they arose vp early in the mornynge and offred burnt offerynges and brought dead offerynges also Then the people sat them downe to eate and drynke rose vp to playe But the LORDE sayde vnto Moses Go get the downe for thy people whom thou broughtest out of the londe of Egipte haue marred all they are soone gone out of the waie which I commaunded them They haue made them a molten calfe and haue worshipped it offred vnto it sayde These are thy goddes O Israel that brought the out of the lande of Egipte And the LORDE sayde vnto Moses I se that it is a styffnecked people and now suffre me that my wrath maye waxe whote ouer them that I maye consume them so wil I make a greate people of the. But Moses be sought the LORDE his God sayde Oh LORDE wherfore wil thy wrath waxe whote ouer thy people whom thou hast brought out of the lōde of Egipte w t greate power a mightie hāde Wherfore shulde the Egipcians speake saye He hath brought thē for their myschefe to slaye them in the mountaynes and to destroye thē vtterly from the earth O turne the from the fearcenesse of y e wrath be gracious ouer the wickednesse of thy people Remembre thy seruaūtes Abraham Isaac and Israel vnto whō thou swarest by thyne owne self and saydest I wil multiplye youre sede as the starres of heauen and all the londe that I haue promysed you wil I geue vnto youre sede they shall inheret it for euer Thus the LORDE repented of the euell which he sayde he wolde do vnto his people Moses turned him wente downe from the mount and in his hande he had the two tables of wytnesse which were wryttē vpon both the sydes and were Gods worke the wrytinge was the wrytinge of God therin Now whan Iosua herde the noyse of y e people as they shouted he sayde vnto Moses This is a noyse of warre in the hoost He answered It is not a noyse of them that haue the victory and of them that haue the worse but I heare a noyse of synginge at a daunse Whan he came nye vnto the hoost and sawe the calfe and the daunsynge he was moued with wrath and cast the ●ables out of his hande and brake them beneth the mount And he toke the calfe that they had made and brent it with fyre and stamped it vnto poulder and strowed it in the water gaue it vnto the children of Israel to drynke sayde vnto Aaron What dyd this people vnto the that thou hast brought so greate a synne vpon them Aaron sayde Let not the wrath of my lorde waxe fearce thou knowest that this is a wicked people They sayde vnto me Make vs goddes to go before vs for we can not tell what is become of this man Moses y t brought vs out of the londe of Egipte I sayde vnto them Who so hath golde let him plucke it of and geue it me and I cast it in the fyre therof came this calfe Now whan Moses sawe that the people were naked for Aaron whan he set them vp made them naked to their shame he wēte in to the gate of the hoost and sayde who so belongeth vnto the LORDE let him come hither vnto me Then all the children of Leui gathered them selues vnto him and he sayde vnto them Thus sayeth the LORDE the God of Israel Euery man put his swerde by his syde and go thorow in and out from one gate to another in the hoost and slaye euery man his brother frende neghboure The children of Leui dyd as Moses sayde vnto them And there fell of the people the same daye thre thousande men Thē sayde Moses Cōsecrate youre handes this daie vnto the LORDE euery man vpon his sonne and brother that the prayse maye be geuen ouer you this daye On the morow Moses sayde vnto the people Ye haue done a greate synnne Now I wil go vp vnto the LORDE yf peraduenture I maye make an attonement for youre synnes Now whā Moses came agayne vnto y e LORDE he saide Oh this people haue done a greate synne haue made them goddes of golde Now for geue them their synne yf not thē wype me out of y e boke that thou hast wrytten The LORDE sayde

earth and fed him with the increase of the felde He caused him sucke hony out of the rocke and oyle out of the harde stone Butter of the kyne and mylke of the shepe with the fat of the lambes and rammes of the sonnes of Basan and he goates with the fat of the kydneys and wheate And gaue him drynke of the very bloude of grapes And whan he was fat and had ynough he waxed wanton He is fat and thicke and smothe hath letten God go that made him and despysed the rocke of his saluacion He hath prouoked him to indignacion thorow straunge goddes and thorow abhominacion hath he angred him They offred vnto felde deuels not vnto their God Vnto goddes whom they knewe not euē vnto new goddes y t came newly vp whom their fathers honoured not Thy rocke that begat y e hast thou despysed and hast forgotten God that made the. And whan the LORDE sawe it he was moued vnto wrath ouer his sonnes and his doughters And he sayde I wyll hyde my face from them I wyll se what their ende shal be for it is a frowarde generacion they are childrē in whom is no fayth They haue prouoked me in it that is not God w t their vanites haue they angred me And I agayne wil prouoke them by those that are no people by a foolish nacion wil I anger them For the fyre is kyndled in my wrath and shal burne vnto y e nethermost hell and shal consume the londe with the increase therof and set the foundacions of y e mountaynes on fyre I wil heape myscheues vpō them I wil spende all myne arowes at them They shal pyne awaye thorow honger be consumed of the feuers and of bytter sicknesses I wil sende amonge them y e tethe of beestes and furious serpentes Without shall the swearde robbe them feare in the chambers both the yonge man and yonge woman the suckynge children w t the gray headed man I wyll saye Where are they I shall make their remembraunce to ceasse from amonge men Yf the wrath of the enemies were not gathered lest their enemies shulde be proude might saie Oure hande is hye and The LORDE hath not done all this For it is a people wherin is no councell and there is no vnderstondinge in them O that they were wyse vnderstode this that they wolde cōsidre what shulde happē vnto them herafter How cōmeth it y t one shall chace a thousande of them and y t two shal put ten thousande to flyghte Is it not so euen because their rocke hath solde them and because the LORDE hath geuen them ouer For oure rocke is not as their rocke of this are oure enemies iudges themselues Their vyne is of the vyne of Sodom and of the feldes of Gomorra their grapes are the grapes of gall they haue bytter clusters Their wyne is the poyson of Dragons the furious gall of Adders Is not this hid with me and sealed vp in my treasures Vengeaunce is myne and I wyll rewarde in due season Their fote shall slyde for the tyme of their destrucciō is at honde and the thinge that is to come vpon them maketh haiste For the LORDE shall iudge his people and shal haue compassion on his seruauntes For he shal considre that their power is awaie and that it is gone with them which were shut vp and remayned ouer And he shal saye Where are their goddes their rocke wherin they trusted Of whose sacrifices they ate y e fatt and dranke the wyne of their drynk offeringes Let them ryse vp and helpe you and be youre proteccion Se now that I I am and that there is none other God but I. I can kyll and make alyue what I haue smytten that can I heale and there is noman able to delyuer out of my hande For I wil lifte vp my hande to heauen wyl saye I lyue euer Yf I whet y e edge of my swerde and my hande take holde of iudgment then wyll I auenge me on myne enemies and rewarde them that hate me I wil make myne arowes dronken with bloude and my swerde shal eate flesh ouer y e bloude of the slayne and ouer the captyuite and in that the enemies heade shall be discouered Reioyse ye Heythen with his people for he wil auenge the bloude of his seruauntes and wyl auenge him on his enemies wil be mercifull vnto the londe of his people And Moses came and spake all the wordes of this songe in the eares of the people he and Iosua the sonne of Nun. Now whā Moses had made an ende of speakinge all these wordes vnto all Israel he sayde vnto thē Take to hert all y e wordes which I testifye vnto you this daye that ye commaunde youre children to obserue and do all the wordes of this lawe For it is no vaine worde vnto you but it is yo r life this worde shal prolonge youre life in y e londe whither ye go ●uer Iordane to conquere it And y e LORDE spake vnto Moses y e same daie sayde Get the vp to this mount Abarim vpon mount Nebo which lyeth in y e londe of the Moabites ouer agaynst Iericho beholde the londe of Canaan which I shall geue vnto the children of Israel in possessiō And dye thou vpon the mount whan thou art come vp and be gathered vnto thy people like as Aaron thy brother dyed vpon mount Hor and was gathered vnto his people ▪ Because ye trespaced agaynst me amonge the children of Israel by the water of stryfe at Cades in the wildernesse of Zin and sanctified me not amonge the children of Israel For thou shalt se the londe ouer against the which I geue vnto y e children of Israel but thou shalt not come in to it The XXXIII Chapter THis is the blessynge wherwith Moses the man of God blessed y e childrē of Israel before his death and saide The LORDE came from Sinai and rose vp vnto thē from Seir. He appeared fro mount Paran and came w t many thousande sayntes At his righte hande is there a lawe of fyre for them O how loued he the people All his sayntes are in his hande they shall set them selues downe at thy fete and receaue of thy wordes Moses commaunded vs the lawe which is the enheritaunce of the congregacion of Iacob And he was in the fulnesse of the kynge helde y e rulers of y e people together with the trybes of Israel Let Ruben lyue and not dye and his people be fewe in nombre This is the blessynge of Iuda And he sayde LORDE heare the voyce of Iuda and brynge him vnto his people Let his hādes multiplye him and let him be helped frō his enemies And vnto Leui he sayde Thy perfectnes and y e lighte be acordinge vnto the man of thy mercy whō thou hast tempted at Massa whan ye stroue by

the water of stryfe He that sayeth vnto his father and to his mother I se him not and to his brother I knowe him not and to his sonne I wote not of him those haue obserued thy wordes and kepte y e couenaunt they shal teach Iacob thy iudgmentes and Israel thy lawe they shal laie incense before thy nose burnt offeringes vpon thine altare LORDE blesse thou his power accepte the workes of his handes smyte the loynes of them y t ryse vp agaynst him of them that hate him that they lifte not vp them selues And to Ben Iamin he saide The beloued of the LORDE shal dwell in hope on him All the daye longe shal he wayte vpon him and shal dwell betwene his shulders And to Ioseph he sayde His londelieth in the blessynge of the LORDE there are noble frutes of heauen of the dew and of the depe that lyeth beneth There are noble frutes of the increase of the Sonne and noble rype frutes of y e monethes And of y e toppes of the mountaynes of olde and of the hilles allwaye and of the noble frutes of y e earth and of 〈◊〉 fulnesse therof The good will of him that dwelleth in the buszshe come vpon the heade of Ioseph and vpon y e toppe of his heade that was separated frō amonge his brethren His bewtye is as a firstborne oxe and his hornes are as y e hornes of an Vnicorne with the same shal he puszshe the nacions together euen vnto the endes of the worlde These are the thousandes of Ephraim and the thousandes of Manasse And vnto Zabulon he sayde Reioyse Zabulon of thy outgoynge but reioyse thou Isachar of thy tentes They shall call the people vnto y e hyll and there shal they offre y e offeringes of righteousnes For they shal sucke the abundaunce of the see and the treasures hyd in the sonde And to Gad he sayde Blessynge haue Gad which maketh rowme He dwelleth as a lyon and spoyleth the arme and the toppe of the heade And he sawe his begynnynge that y e heape of the teachers laye hydd there and came with the rulers of the people and executed the righteousnesse of the LORDE and his iudgment on Israel And to Dan he sayde Dan a yonge lyon he shal flowe from Basan And to Nephtali he saide Nephtali shal haue abundaunce of pleasure shal be full of the blessynge of the LORDE his possession shal be towarde the west and south And to Asser he sayde Asser be blessed w t sonnes accepted be he with his brethren and dyppe his fote in oyle Yron and brasse be on thy shues Thyne age be as thy youth There is no God as the God of the iust He that sytteth vpon heauen be thy helpe And his glory is in the cloudes that is the dwellynge of God from the beginnynge and vnder the armes of the worlde And he shal dryue out thyne enemye before the and saye Be destroyed And Israel shall dwell safe alone The eye of Iacob shal be vpon y e londe where corne and wine is heauen also shal droppe with dewe Happye art thou Israel who is lyke vnto the O thou people y t art saued by the LORDE which is thy helpe shylde and the swerde of thy glorye Thyne enemies shal pyne awaye and thou shalt treade vpon the height of them The XXIIII Chapter ANd Moses wente from the felde of y e Moabites vp vnto mount Nebo vpō y e toppe of moūt Pisga ouer agaynst Iericho And the LORDE shewed him all the londe of Gilead vnto Dan and all Nephtali and the londe of Ephraim and Manasse and all the londe of Iuda vnto y e vttemost see and towarde the south and the region of the playne of Iericho the cite of the palme trees euen vnto Zoar. And the LORDE sayde vnto him This is the londe that I sware vnto Abraham Isaac and Iacob and sayde I wyll geue it vnto thy sede Thou hast sene it with thine eyes but thou shalt not go ouer thither So Moses y e seruaunt of the LORDE died there in the londe of the Moabites acordinge vnto the worde of y e LORDE And he buried him in a valley in the londe of the Moabites ouer agaynst the house of Peor And noman knewe of his graue vnto this daye And Moses was an hundreth and twentye yeare olde whan he dyed his eyes were not dymme and his chekes were not fallen And the children of Israel weped for Moses in y e felde of the Moabites thirtie daies and the dayes of the wepynge and mournynge for Moses were fulfilled And Iosua the sonne of Nun was filled with y e sprete of wyszdome for Moses had layed his hande vpon him and the children of Israel herkened vnto him and dyd as the LORDE commaunded Moses And there arose no prophet more in Israel like vnto Moses whom the LORDE knewe face to face in all tokens and wonders which the LORDE sent him to do in y e londe of Egipte vnto Pharao and to all his seruaūtes and his londe and in all this mightie hande and greate visions which Moses dyd in the sighte of all Israel The ende of the fifte boke of Moses called Deuteronomion The seconde parte of the olde Testament The boke of Iosua The boke of the Iudges The boke of Ruth The first boke of the Kynges The seconde boke of the Kynges The thirde boke of the Kynges The fourth boke of the kynges The first boke of the Cronicles The seconde boke of the Cronicles The first boke of Eszdras The seconde boke of Eszdras The boke of Hester The boke of Iosua What this boke conteyneth Chap. I. After the death of Moses God cōmaūdeth Iosua to get him vp and to go with the people ouer Iordane in to the londe of promes Chap. II. Two spyes are sent vnto Iericho and Rahab lodgeth them Chap. III. Iosua goeth forth with the people vnto Iordane The Leuites are ordeyned to go beforewith the Arke The one parte of Iordane stondeth styll the other renneth downe and the people go thorow it drye shodd Chap. IIII. Twolue stones doth Iosua cause to be taken out of Iordane and setteth them vp at Gilgall for a remembraunce Chap V. The kynges beyonde Iordane are afrayed The people in Gilgall are circumcysed They eate the Passeouer and vnleuended bred Chap. VI. How Iericho is wonne and taken Chap. VII The Israelites are put to flight before their enemies because one of thē had stollen of it that shulde haue bene damned and vtterly destroyed The trespacer is stoned vnto death Chap VIII The cite of Hai is wonne the people slayne the kynge taken alyue and hanged the cite brent Iosua buyldeth an altare vnto the LORDE The blessynges and curses are red Chap. IX The Heythen kynges prepare thē selues agaynst Israel The Gabaonites saue their lyues by crafte and suttyltie Chap. X. The Heythen laye sege to Gabaon but Iosua helpeth them and wynneth a greate felde commaundeth the Sonne

to sto●de styll hangeth vp fyue kynges and taketh the cities Chap. XI The Heythē kynges gather thē selues together agaynst Israel but they are discomfited and their cities wonne Chap. XII The names of the kynges whom Iosua and the Israelites slewe are here rehearsed euen one and thirtye Chap ▪ XIII The remnaunt of the londe on this syde Iordane Chap. XIIII The dealinge out of the londe Chap. XV. The londe that fell vnto Iuda by lott Chap. XVI The lot of Ephraim Chap. XVII The lot and porcion of Manasse Chap. XVIII Men are sent out of the seuen trybes to consyder the londe and to deale it out The porcion of Ben Iamin Chap. XIX The porcion of Simeon Zabulon Isachar Aser Nephtali and Dan. Chap. XX. The partinge out of the fre cities Chap. XXI Of the cities and suburbes of the Leuites Chap. XXII The two tribes and a halfe are sen● home agayne with a charge to be diligent in kepynge Gods commaundement Of the altare of witnesse Chap. XXIII Iosua calleth the people together before his death exorteth them to cleue fast to the commaundementes of the LORDE Chap. XXIIII He calleth the people together i● Sichem and rehearceth the benefites of God vnto thē The couenaūt with God is renewed Iosua dyeth and so doth Eleasar The first Chapter AFter the death of Moses the seruaunt of the LORDE spake the LORDE vnto Iosua y e sonne of Nun Moses mynister My seruaunt Moses is deed vp now and go ouer this Iordane thou and all this people in to the londe that I haue geuen the children of Israel All the places that the soles of youre fete shal treade vpon haue I geuen vnto you as I sayde vnto Moses From the wyldernesse and this Libanus vnto the greate water Euphrates all the londe of the Hethites vnto the greate see towarde the west shal be youre border There shall noman be able to withstonde y t all thy life longe And like as I was with Moses so wil I be with the also I will not fayle the nether forsake the. Be stronge and bolde for vnto this people shalt thou deuyde y e londe which I sware vnto their fathers to geue it them Be strōge therfore and very bolde that thou mayest kepe and do euery thynge acordinge to the lawe that Moses my seruaunt commaunded the. Turne not asyde from it nether to the righte hande ner to the lefte y t thou mayest deale wysely whither so euer thou goest And let not the boke of this lawe departe out of thy mouth but exercyse thy selfe therin daie and nighte that thou mayest kepe and do euery thinge acordinge to it that is wryttē therin Then shalt thou prospere in thy waies and deale wysely Lo I haue commaunded the to be stronge and bolde Feare not and be not afrayed for the LORDE thy God is with y e whither so euer thou goest Then commaunded Iosua the officers of the people and sayde Go thorow the hoost and charge y e people and saye Prepare you vytayles for ouer thre dayes shal ye go ouer this Iordane that ye maye come in and take possession of the londe which the LORDE youre God shal geue you And to the Rubenites Gaddites and to the halfe trybe of Manasse sayde Iosua Thynke vpon the worde that Moses the seruaunt of y e LORDE spake vnto you and sayde The LORDE yo r God hath brought you to rest and geuen you this londe Let youre wyues and children and catell remayne in y e londe that Moses gaue you on this syde Iordane But ye youre selues as many as be fightinge men shal go forth before youre brethren in harnesse and helpe them tyll the LORDE haue broughte youre brethren to rest also as well as you that they also maye take possession of the londe which the LORDE yo r God shal geue them Then shal ye turne agayne in to the londe of youre possession that ye maye enioye it which Moses the seruaunt of the LORDE hath geuen you on this syde Iordane towarde y e Easte And they answered Iosua and sayde All that thou hast commaunded vs wyll we do and whither so euer thou sendest vs we wyl go thither Like as we haue obeyed Moses so wyl we be obedient also vnto the Onely that the LORDE thy God be with y e like as he was with Moses Who so euer disobeyeth thy mouth and herkeneth not vnto thy wordes in all that thou hast commaunded vs shal dye Onely be thou stronge and bolde The II. Chapter IOsua the sonne of Nun sent out two spyes preuely from Setim and sayde vnto them Go youre waye loke vpon the londe and Iericho They wente forth and came in to y e house of an harlot called Rahab and laye there Then was it tolde the kynge of Iericho Lo there are men come in this nighte from the childrē of Israel to spye the londe Then sent the kynge of Iericho vnto Rahab saynge Delyuer the men forth that are come vnto the in to thy house for they are come to spye out the whole londe Now as for the two men the woman had hyd them and sayde There came men in vnto me in dede but I knewe not whence they were And at the shuttinge in of the gate whan it was darcke they wente out so y t I can not tell whither they be gone folowe soone after them for ye shal ouertake them But she had caused them to clymme vp vnto the house toppe and hyd them vnder the stalkes of flaxe that she had prepared her vpō the toppe of the house Howbeit the men folowed after them in y e waye towarde Iordane euen vnto the ferye and whan they that folowed vpon them were gone forth the gate was shut And or euer the men layed them downe to slepe she wente vp to them vnto the house toppe and sayde vnto thē I knowe that the LORDE shal delyuer you the londe for the feare of you is fallen vpon vs and all the inhabiters of the londe are discoraged at youre commynge For we haue herde how the LORDE dryed vp the water in the reed see before you whā ye departed out of Egipte and what ye dyd vnto the two kynges of the Amorites Sihon and Og beyonde Iordane how ye roted them out and destroyed them And sence we herde therof oure hert hath failed vs nether is there a good stomacke more in eny man by the reason of youre commynge For the LORDE yo r God is both the God aboue in heauē and beneth vpon earth Sweare now then vnto me euen by the LORDE for so moch as I haue dealte mercifully with you that ye wyl also shewe mercy vpon my fathers house and geue me a true token that ye wyl let my father lyue and my mother my brethren and my sisters and all that they haue and delyuer oure soules from death The men sayde vnto her Yf we shewe not mercy and faithfulnesse vpon

first Chapter IN y e tyme whan the Iudges ruled there was a derth in the londe And there wente a mā from Bethleē Iuda to take his iourney in to the londe of the Moabites w t his wife and two sonnes which man was called Eli Melech and his wife Naemi his two sonnes the one Mahelon and the other Chilion these were Ephrates of Bethleem Iuda And whan they came in to the londe of y e Moabites they dwelt there And Eli Melech Naemis huszbande dyed she was left behinde w t hir two sonnes which toke Moabitish wyues the one was called Arpa the other Ruth And whan they had dwelt there ten yeare they dyed both Mahelon and Chilion so that the woman remayned desolate of both hir sonnes and hir huszbande Then gat she her vp w t both hir sonnes wyues wente agayne out of the lōde of y e Moabites for she had herde in the londe of the Moabites y t the LORDE had visited his people geuen them bred so she departed from y e place where she was both hir sonnes wyues w t her And as they wēte by the waye to come agayne in to the londe of Iuda she sayde vnto both hir sonnes wyues Go yo r waye turne backe ether of you to hir mothers house the LORDE shewe mercy vpon you as ye haue done on thē y t are deed on me The LORDE graunte you y t ye maie fynde rest ether of you in hir huszbādes house whom ye shal get and she kyssed them Then lift they vp their voyce and wepte sayde vnto her We wil go with the vnto y e people But Naemi sayde Turne agayne my doughters why wolde ye go with me How can I haue children eny more in my body to be youre huszbandes Turne agayne my doughters and go youre waye for I am now to olde to take an huszbande And though I shulde saye I hope this night to take an huszbande to brynge forth children yet coulde ye not tary tlll they were growne vp for ye shulde be to olde so that ye coulde haue no huszbandes No my doughters therfore am I sory for you for y e hāde of the LORDE is gone forth ouer me Then lifte they vp their voyce and wepte yet more and Arpa kyssed hir mother in lawe and turned backe againe but Ruth abode styll by her Neuertheles she sayde Beholde thy syster in lawe is turned backe vnto hir people and to hir god turne thou againe also after thy sister in lawe Ruth answered Speake not to me therof that I shulde forsake the and turne backe from the whither so euer thou goest thither wil I go also and loke where thou abydest there wil I abide also Thy people is my people thy God is my God Loke where thou diest there wil dye and euen there wil I also be buried The LORDE do this and that vnto me death onely shal departe vs. Now whan she sawe that she was stedfastly mynded to go with her she spake nomore to her therof So they wente on both together till they came vnto Bethleem And whan they were come in to Bethleem the whole cite was moued ouer them and sayde Is not this Naemi Neuerthelesse she sayde vnto them call me not Naemi but Mara for the Allmightie hath made me very sory I departed full but the LORDE hath brought me home agayne emptye Why call ye me then Naemi whā the LORDE hath broughte me lowe and the Allmightie hath made me sory It was aboute the tyme of the begynninge of the barlye haruest whan Naemi and his sonnes wife Ruth y e Moabitysse came agayne from the londe of the Moabites vnto Bethleem There was a kinsman also of y e kynred of Eli Melech Naemis huszbande whose name was Boos which was an honest man The II. Chapter ANd Ruth the Moabitisse saide vnto Naemi Let me go in to y e felde gather eares of corne after him in whose sight I shal finde fau● She sayde vnto her Go y t waie my doughter She wēte on came gathered after y e reapers in y e feld And it fortuned that the same felde was the enheritaunce of Boos which was of the kynred of Elimelech and beholde Boos came from Bethleem and sayde vnto the reapers The LORDE be with you They answered The LORDE blesse the. And Boos sayde vnto his yongman which had the ouersight of y e reapers Whose damsell is this The yonge man that was set ouer y e reapers answered and sayde It is the damsell the Moabitisse which came agayne with Naemi from the londe of the Moabites And she sayde Let me plucke vp and gather I praie the betwene the sheues after the reapers and thus is she come and hath stonde here euer sence the mornynge and within a litle whyle she wolde haue bene gone home agayne Then sayde Boos vnto Ruth Hearest thou my doughter Thou shalt not come vpon another mans londe to gather and go not awaye from hence but tary with my dāsels and loke where they reape in y e felde go thou after them for I haue cōmaunded my seruauntes that no man touch the. And yf thou be a thyrst go thy waye to the vessell drynke where my seruauntes drawe Then fell she downe vpon hir face and bowed hir self downe to the earth and sayde vnto him How haue I founde this fauoure in y e sighte that thou woldest knowe me which am yet a straunger Boos answered and sayde vnto her It is tolde me alltogether what thou hast done vnto thy mother in lawe after thy huszbādes death how that thou hast left y e father and thy mother and thy natiue countre and art come to a people whom thou hast not knowne afore The LORDE recompence the thy doinge and thy rewarde be parfecte w t the LORDE God of Israel vnto whom thou art come to put thy trust vnder his wynges She sayde let me fynde fauoure syr before thyne eyes for thou hast comforted me and spoken frendly vnto thy handmaydē where as I am not yet like one of y e handmaydēs Boos sayde vnto her Whan it is eatinge tyme come hither and eate of the bred and dyppe thy morsell in the vyneger And she sat hir downe besyde the reapers And he set parched come before her and she ate was satisfyed and lefte ouer And whā she rose to gather Boos commaunded his seruauntes and sayde Let her gather betwene the sheues also and do her no dishonestye and cast of the sheues vnto her and let it lye that she maye gather it vp and se that noman reproue her for it So she gathered in the felde vntyll euen and she shaked out what she had gathered and it was allmost an Epha of barlye and she toke it vp and came in to the cite and shewed hir mother in lawe what she had gathered She toke forth also and gaue her of that which was left wherof she was satysfyed Thē sayde hir

vncle He tolde vs y t the asses were foūde But of y e kyngdome he tolde him nothinge what Samuel had sayde Samuel called the people together vnto the LORDE to Mispa and spake vnto the children of Israel Thus saieth y e LORDE the God of Israel I broughte Israel out of Egipte and delyuered you from the hande of y e Egipcians and from the hande of all the kyngdomes that oppressed you But now haue ye refused yo r God which hath helped you out of all youre sorowes and troubles ye haue saide vnto him Set a kinge ouer v● Well stonde ye now before y e LORDE acordinge to youre trybes and kynreds Now whan Samuel had brought forth all the trybes of Israel the trybe of Ben Iamin was taken And whan he had broughte forth the trybe of Ben Iamin with his kynreds the kynred of Matri was takē Saul the sonne of Cis was takē And they sought him but they founde him not Then axed they further at the LORDE whether he was for to come thither The LORDE answered Beholde he hath hyd him selfe amonge y e vessels Then ranne they thither and fetched him And whan he stode amonge the people he was hygher by the heade then all the people And Samuel sayde vnto all the people There se ye him whom the LORDE hath chosen for in all the people there is none like him Then gaue all the people a shoute and sayde God saue the new kynge Samuel tolde the people all the lawe of the kyngdome and wrote it in a boke and layed it before the LORDE And Samuel let all the people go euery one to his awne house And Saul wente home also vnto Gibea and there wente with him one parte of the hoost whose hertes God had touched But the childrē of Belial sayde What shal this felowe helpe vs and despysed him broughte him no presente But he made him as though he herde it no● The XI Chapter NAhas y e Ammonite wēte vp layed sege vnto Iabes in Gilead And all the men of Iabes sayde vnto Nahas Be at one with vs we wyll serue the. But Nahas y e Ammonite answered them I wil make a couenaunt with you of this condicion that I maye thrust out all youre right eyes and put you to shame amonge all Israel Then sayde all the Elders of Iabes vnto him Geue vs seuen dayes respyte that we maye sende messaungers into all y e coastes of Israel Yf there be then no sauioure we wyl go forth vnto the. So the messaungers came vnto Gibea of Saul and spake this before the eares of the people Then all y e people lifte vp their voyce and wepte And beholde Saul came after the oxen out of the felde and sayde What ayleth the people that they wepe So they tolde him the earande of the men of Iabes Then came the sprete of God vpon him whan he had herde these wordes and his wrath was sore moued and he toke a couple of oxen and hewed them in sunder and sent them in to all the coastes of Israel by the messaungers sayenge Who so euer goeth not forth after Saul and Samuel his oxen shal be thus dealte withall Then fell the feare of the LORDE vpon the people so that they wente forth like as one man and they were tolde at Basek and of the childrē of Israel there were thre hundreth thousande men and thirtie thousande of the children of Iuda And they spake vnto the messaungers that were come Saye thus to the men of Iabes in Gilead Tomorow shal ye haue helpe whan y e Sonne is at the whotest Whan y e messaungers came and tolde this to the men of Iabes they were glad And the men of Iabes sayde Tomorow wyll we come forth vnto you that ye maye do vnto vs what so euer it pleaseth you And on y e nexte morow Saul set the people in thre partes and came into the hoost aboute the mornynge watch and smote the Ammonites tyll the daye was at the whotest As for those y t remayned they were so scatred that two of them abode not together Then sayde the people vnto Samuel Where are they that sayde Shulde Saul raigne ouer vs Delyuer vs here the men that we maye put them to death But Saul sayde There shal noman dye this daye for to daye hath the LORDE geuen health in Israel Samuel sayde vnto the people Come let vs go vnto Gilgall and renue the kyngdome there Then wente all the people vnto Gilgall and there they made Saul kinge before the LORDE at Gilgal and offred deed offeringes before the LORDE And Saul with all the men of Israel reioysed there greatly The XII Chapter SAmuel sayde vnto all Israel Beholde I haue herkened vnto youre voyce in all that ye sayde vnto me and haue made a kynge ouer you And now lo there goeth youre kynge before you As for me I am waxen olde and graye heered and my sonnes are with you and I haue gone before you fro my youth vp vnto this daye Beholde here am I ▪ answere ye agaynst me before the RORDE and his anoynted yf I haue taken eny mans oxe or asse yf I haue done eny man violence or wronge If I haue oppressed eny mā yf I haue receaued a gifte of eny mans hande and kepte it secretly I wil restore it you agayne They saide ▪ Thou hast done vs nether violence ner wronge nether oppressed ner taken ought of eny mans hande He sayde The LORDE be witnesse agaynst you and so be his anoynted this daye that ye haue founde nothinge in my hāde They saide Yee they shal be witnesses And Samuel sayde vnto the people The LORDE which made Moses and Aaron and broughte youre fathers out of the londe of Egipte is here present Stōde forth now therfore that I maye iudge you before the LORDE ouer the righteousnes of the LORDE which he hath done for you and youre fathers Whan Iacob was come in to Egipte youre fathers cryed vnto the LORDE And he sent Moses and Aaron to brynge youre fathers out of Egipte and to cause them for to dwell in this place But whan they forgat the LORDE their God he solde them vnder the power of Sissera the captayne at Hazor and vnder the power of the Philistynes and vnder the power of the kinge of the Moabites which foughte agaynst them But they cried vnto the LORDE and sayde We haue synned in that we haue forsaken the LORDE and serued Baalim and Astaroth But now deliuer vs from the hande of oure enemies and we wyl serue the. Then the LORDE sent Ierubaal Bedan Iephthae and Samuel delyuered you from youre enemies rounde aboute and caused you to dwell safe But whan ye sawe that Nahas the kynge of the children of Ammon came agaynst you ye sayde vnto me Not thou but a kynge shal raigne ouer vs where as notwithstōdinge youre God was youre kynge

For it is no harde matter for the LORDE to helpe by many or by fewe Then answered him his wapen bearer Do all that is in thine hert go on thy w●rie beholde I am with the euen as thine hert wyll Ionathas sayde Well than Whan we are gone ouer to the men and come within the sighte of them yf they saye stonde styll tyll we come to you then wyll we stonde styll in oure place and not go vp to them But yf they saye Come vp to vs we wyll go vp to them thē hath the LORDE delyuered them in to oure hande and this shal be a token for vs. Now whan they came both in the sighte of the Philistynes watch the Philistynes sayde Se y e Hebrues are gone out of their holes that they were crepte in to And the men in the watch answered Ionathas and his wapē bearer and sayde Come vp to vs and we wyll teach you what the matter is Then sayde Ionathas to his weapen bearer Come vp after me the LORDE hath delyuered them into Israels hande And Ionathas clamme vp with handes and fete and his wapen bearer after him And Ionathas smote them downe before him and his wapē bearer slewe behynde him so that the first slaughter that Ionathas and his wapen bearer dyd was vpō a twentye men with in the length of halue an aker of londe which a pare of oxen maye tyll in one daye And there came a fearfulnes and flight in the hoost vpon the felde and amonge all the people of the watch and vpon the destroyers there came a fearfulnes also and flight so that the londe was in a rumoure and there came a flight thorow God And Sauls watchmē at Gibea Bē Iamin sawe that y e multitude gat them awaye and ranne to and fro Saul sayde vnto the people that was with him Tell and se which of vs is gone awaye And whan they nombred beholde Ionathas his wapen bearer was not there Then saide Saul vnto Ahia Brynge hither the Arke of God for at that tyme was the Arke of God with the children of Israel And whyle Saul was yet speakynge to the prest the multitude in the Philistynes hoost gat vp ranne and was greate And Saul sayde vnto the prest Withdrawe thine hande And Saul cried and all the people that was with him and came to the battayll And beholde euery mans swerde was agaynst another and there was a very greate rumoure The Hebrues also that were with y e Philistynes afore and had gone vp with them in the hoost on euery syde ioyned them selues vnto Israel which were with Saul and Ionathas And all the men of Israel which had hyd thē selues vpon mount Ephraim whan they herde that the Philistynes fled folowed after them in the battayll Thus y e LORDE helped Israel at that tyme and y e battayll lasted vnto Bethauen And whan the men of Israel came forth Saul charged all the people the same daye and sayde Cursed be euery man which eateth bred vntyll euen that I maye auenge me on myne enemies Then all the people taisted no bred And all the people of the londe came in to the wodd But there laye hony vpon the felde and whan the people came in to the wodd heholde the hony flowed but no man put of it to his mouth with his hāde for the people were afraied because of the ooth As for Ionathas he had not herde that his father had charged the people and he put forth his staff that he had in his hande and dypped the ende of it in y e hony c●mbe and turned his hande to his mouth and his eyes were lighted Then answered one of the people and sayde Thy father hath charged the people and sayde Cursed be euery mā that eateth oughte this daye Neuertheles the people were faynte Then sayde Ionathas My father hath troubled the londe Se how lighte myne eyes are become because I haue taisted a litle of this hony Yf the people this daie had eatē of the spoyle of their enemies that they founde the slaughter shulde haue bene greater agaynst the Philistynes Yet smote they the Philistynes the same daye fro Michmas vnto Aialon and the people were very weery And y e people turned to the spoyles and toke shepe and oxen and calues and slewe them vpon the earth and ate them with the bloude Then was it tolde Saul Beholde the people synne agaynst the LORDE in that they eate bloude He ●ayde Ye haue done euell roll vnto me now a greate stone And Saul sayde morouer Go abrode amōge the people and saye vnto them that euery one brynge me his oxe and his shepe and slaye them here that ye maye eate and not to synne agaynst the LORDE with eatynge of bloude Then broughte all the people euery one his oxe with his hāde the same nighte and slewe them there And Saul buylded an altare vnto y e LORDE This is the first altare that he buylded vnto the LORDE And Saul sayde Let vs go downe after the Philistynes by nighte and spoyle them tyll it be cleare mornynge that we let none escape They answered Do what so euer pleaseth the. But the prest sayde Let vs go nye here vnto God And Saul axed at God Shal I go downe here after y e Philistines wilt thou delyuer thē in to Israels hande Neuertheles he answered him not at that tyme. Then sayde Saul Let all the armyes of the people come hither and make search and se in whom is this synne at this tyme. For as truly as God the Sauioure of Israel lyueth though it be in my sonne Ionathas he shal dye And no man answered him of all the people And he sayde vnto all Israel Be ye on the one syde I my sonne Ionathas wyl be on this syde The people sayde vnto Saul Do as it pleaseth the. And Saul sayde vnto the LORDE the God of Israel Do thou that right is Thē was Ionathas and Saul taken but the people wente forth fre Saul sayde Cast the lot ouer me and my sonne Ionathas So Ionathas was takē And Saul sayde vnto Ionathas Tell me what hast thou done Ionathas tolde him sayde I taisted a litle hony with the staff that I had in my hande and beholde must I dye therfore Thē sayde Saul God do this and that vnto me Ionathas thou must dye the death But the people sayde vnto Saul Shulde Ionathas dye that hath done so greate health in Israel this night God forbyd As truly as the LORDE lyueth there shal not one heer of his heade fall vpon y e earth for with God hath he wroughte at this tyme So the people delyuered Ionathas that he dyed not Then wente Saul vp from the Philistynes and the Philistynes wente vnto their place But whan Saul had cōqu●red the kyngdome ouer Israel he foughte against all his enemyes rounde aboute against the Moabites agaynst the childrē of Ammon agaynst the

me and he himselfe hath taughte thy handmayden all these wordes that I shulde turne this matter of this faszshiō this hath Ioab thy seruaunt done But my lorde is wyse as the wyszdome of an angell of God so that he knoweth all thynges vpon earth Then sayde the kynge vnto Ioab Beholde I haue done this go thy waye therfore and brynge the childe Absalom agayne Then fell Ioab vpon his face vnto the grounde and worshipped and thanked the kynge and sayde This daye doth thy seruaunt perceaue that I haue founde grace in thy syghte my lorde the kynge in that the kynge doth as his seruaunt hath sayde So Ioab gat him vp and wente vnto Gesur and broughte Absalom to Ierusalem But the kinge sayde Let him go againe in to his house and not se my face Thus Absalom came agayne to his house and sawe not y e kynges face But in all Israel there was not so fayre and so maruelous goodly a man as Absalom From the sole of his fote vnto the toppe of his heade there was not one blemysh in him And whan his heade was rounded that was comonly euery yeare for it was to heuy for him so that it must nedes haue bene rounded the heer of his heade weyed two hūdreth Sicles after y e kynges weight And vnto Absalom there were borne thre sonnes and one doughter whose name was Thamar and she was a woman of a fayre bewtye So Absalom abode two yeare at Ierusalem and sawe not the kynges face And Absalom sent for Ioab that he mighte sende him to the kynge And he wolde not come to him But he sent the seconde tyme yet wolde he not come Then sayde he vnto his seruauntes Ye knowe Ioabs pece of londe that lyeth by myne and he hath barlye theron go youre waye therfore and set fyre vpon it So Absaloms seruauntes sett fyre vpon Ioabs pece of londe Then Ioab gat him vp and came to Absalom in to the house and sayde vnto him Wherfore haue thy seruauntes set fire vpon my pece of londe Absalō sayde vnto Ioab Beholde I sent for the and caused to saye vnto the Come hither that I maye sende the to the kynge and to saye Wherfore came I from Gesur It were better for me that I were there yet Let me therfore se the kynges face But yf there be eny trespace in me then put me to death And Ioab wente in to the kynge and tolde him And he called Absalom to come in to the kynge and he worshipped vpon his face to the grounge before the kynge And the kynge kyssed Absalom The XV. Chapter ANd after this it fortuned that Absalom caused to prepare himselfe chearettes and horses and fyftye men which were his fote mē And Absalō gat him vp allwaye early in the mornynge and st●de in the waye by the porte and whan eny man had a matter which shulde come to the kynge for iudgment Absalom called vnto him and sayde ▪ Of what cite art thou Yf he sayde the●● thy seruaunt is of one of the trybes of Israel then sayde Absalom vnto him Beholde thy matter is righte and plaine but there is noman appoynted y t of the kynge to heare the. And Absalom sayde O who setteth me to be iudge in y e londe that euery man which hath a plee or matter to do in y e lawe might come to me that I might helpe him to right And whan eny man came to him to do worshippe to do him obeisaunce he put forth his hāde and helde him kyssed him After this maner dyd Absalom vnto all Israel whan they came to the lawe vnto the kynge and so dyd he steale awaye the hert of y e men of Israel After fortye yeares sayde Absalom vnto the kynge I wil go and perfourme my vowe at Hebron which I made vnto the LORDE For thy seruaunt made a vowe whan I dwelt at Gesur in Siria and saide Whan y e LORDE bryngeth me agayne to Ierusalem I shal do a Gods seruyce vnto the LORDE The kynge sayde vnto him Go thy waye in peace And he gat him vp and wente vnto Hebron But Absalom had sent out spyes in all the trybes of Israel sayenge Whan ye heare the noyse of the trompe saye Absalom is made kynge at Hebron There wente with Absalom two hundreth men called from Ierusalem but they wente on symply and knewe not of the matter Absalom sent also for Achitophel the Gilonyte Dauids counceler out of his cite Gilo Now whan he did the sacrifice the conspiracion was mightie and the people ranne together and multyplied with Absalom Then came one which tolde Dauid and sayde that the hert of euery man in Israel folowed Absalom Dauid sayde vnto all his seruauntes that were with him at Ierusasem Vp let vs fle for here shall be no escapynge for vs before Absalom Make haist that we maye be goynge lest he ouertake vs and catch vs and dryue some mysfortune vpon vs and smyte the cyte with the edge of the swerde Then sayde the kynges seruauntes vnto him Loke what my LORDE y e kinge choseth beholde here are thy seruauntes And the kynge wente forth on fote w t all his housholde But ten concubynes lefte he to kepe the house And whan the kynge and all the people came forth on fote they wēte farre from home and all his seruauntes wente by him and all the Chrethians and Plethians and all the Gethites euen sixe hundreth men which were come on fote from Gath wente before the kynge And the kynge sayde vnto Ithai y e Gethite Why goest thou also with vs Turne backe and byde with the kynge for thou art a straunger get the hence agayne vnto thy place Thou camest yesterdaye and to daye thou iuperdest to go with vs As for me I wyl go whither I can turne thou backe agayne and mercy and faithfulnes happen vnto thy brethren with the Ithai answered and sayde As truly as the LORDE lyueth and as truly as my lorde the kynge lyueth loke in what place my lorde the kynge shal be whether it chaunce to life or death there shal thy seruaunt be also Dauid sayde vnto Ithai Then come and go with vs. So wente Ithai the Gethite and all his men and the whole multitude of the children that were with him And all the lande wepte with loude voyce and all the people with them And the kynge wēte ouer the broke Cedron and all the people wente ouer by the waye that goeth to the wyldernes And beholde Sadoc was there also and all the Leuites that were with them they bare y e Arke of the couenūat of God and set it there And Abiathar wente vp tyll all the people came out of the cite But the kynge sayde vnto Sadoc Brynge the Arke of God in to the cite agayne Yf I shal fynde grace before the LORDE he shall fetch me agayne and shall let me se it and the house of it But yf he saye thus I haue no pleasure to y

that folowed Absalō thē shulde euery man be discoraged which els is valeaunt hath a hert like a lyō for all Israel knoweth that thy father is stronge and that all they which be with him are mightie men But this is my coūcell that thou gather together all Israel from Dan vnto Berseba in nombre as the sonde of the See and go thou thine owne person amonge them then wil we fall vpon him in what place we finde him and wyll ouerwhelme him euen as the dew falleth vpon the earth so that we shal not leaue one of him and of all his men But yf he resorte in to a cite then shal all Israel cast roapes aboute the same cite and drawe it in to the riuer so that there shal not one stone of it be founde Then sayde Absalom and euery man in Israel The councell of Chusai the Arachite is better then Achitophels councell But the LORDE broughte it so to passe that y e good councell of Achitophel was hyndred that the LORDE mighte brynge euell vpon Absalom And Chusai sayde vnto Sadoc Abiathar the prestes Thus and thus hath Achitophel counceled Absalom and the Elders in Israel but so and so haue I counceled Sende now therfore in all the haist and tell Dauid and saye Abyde not all nighte in the playne felde of the wyldernes but get the ouer that the kynge be not swalowed vp and all the people that is with him As for Ionathas and Ahimaaz they stode by the well of Rogel and a damsell wente thither and tolde them They wente on their waye and tolde kynge Dauid for they durst not be sene to come in to the cite But a lad sawe them and tolde Absalom Neuertheles they wente on their waye and came to a mans house at Bahurim which had a well in his courte and they wēte downe in to it And the woman toke and spred a couerynge ouer the welles mouth strowed firmentye corne theron that it was not perceaued Now whan Absaloms seruauntes came to the woman in to the house they sayde where is Ahimaaz and Ionathas The womā sayde vnto them They are gone ouer the litle water And whā they soughte and founde them not they wente agayne to Ierusalem And whan they were gone they clymmed vp out of the well and wente their waye and tolde Dauid y e kynge and sayde vnto Dauid Get you vp and go soone ouer y e water for thus and thus hath Achitophel geuen councell agaynst you Then Dauid gat him vp and all the people that was with him and passed ouer Iordane tyll it was cleare mornynge And there was not one but he wente ouer Iordane Whan Achitophel sawe that his coūcell wente not forth he sadled his asse gat him vp and wēte home in to his cite and put his house to poynte and hanged him selfe and dyed and was buried in his fathers graue And Dauid came to Mahanaim and Absalom wente ouer Iordane all the men of Israel w t him And Absalom had set Amasa ouer the hoost in Ioabs steade Amasa was the sonne of a man whose name was Iethra a Iesraelite which laye with Abigail the doughter of Nahas the sister of Zeru Ia Ioabs mother But Israel and Absalom pitched in Gilead Whan Dauid was come to Mahanaim Nahas of Rabbath of the childrē of Ammon and Machir the sonne of Ammiel of Lodebar and Barsillai a Gileadite of Roglim broughte bedstuffe tapestrie worke basens earthen vessell where barly meel parched corne beenes otemeell ryse hony butter shepe and fat oxen vnto Dauid and to y e people that was with him for to eate for they thought The people shall be hongrie weerye and thirstye in the wyldernes The XVIII Chapter ANd Dauid mustred the people y t was with him and set captaynes ouer thē ouer thousandes and ouer hundreds And sent out of the people one thirde parte vnder Abisai the sonne of Zeru Ia Ioabs brother and one thirde parte vnder Ithai the Gethite And the kynge sayde vnto the people I wyll go forth with you also Neuertheles the people sayde Thou shalt not go forth for though we fle or die halfe of vs they shal not regarde vs. For thou art as ten thousande of vs. Therfore is this better that thou mayest helpe vs out of the cite The kynge sayde Loke what ye are content withall that wyl I do And the kynge stode in the gate and all the people wente forth by hundreds and by thousandes And y e kinge cōmaunded Ioab and Abisai and Ithai and sayde Intreate me the yonge man Absalom gently And all the people herde it whā the kynge cōmaunded all the captaynes concernynge Absalom And whan the people were come forth in to the felde agaynst Israel the battayll beganne in the wod of Ephraim And the people of Israel were smitten there before Dauids seruauntes so that there was a greate slaughter the same daye of twentye thousande men And the battaill was scatred abrode there in the londe And the wod consumed moch more people the same daye then the swerde consumed And Absalom met Dauids seruauntes and rode vpon a Mule And whan the Mule came vnder a greate thicke Oke tre his heade toke holde on the Oke and so hanged he betwene heauen and earth but the Mule ranne awaye from vnder him Whan a certayne man sawe that he tolde Ioab and saide Beholde I sawe Absalom hange vpō an Oke tre And Ioab saide vnto the mā y t tolde it him Beholde sawest thou that why smotest thou him not there to the groūde so wolde I haue geuen the of myne awne behalfe ten syluerlynges and a gyrdell The man sayde vnto Ioab Yf thou haddest weyed me a thousande syluerlynges in my handes yet wolde I not haue layed my handes on the kynges sonne For the kynge commaunded the and Abisai and Ithai before oure eares and sayde Kepe me the yonge man Absalom Or yf I had dyssembled vpon the ioperdy of myne owne soule for so moch as nothinge shulde be hyd from y e kinge thou thy selfe shuldest haue stōde against me Ioab sayde Not so I wil vpon him before thy face Then toke Ioab thre speares in his hande and thrust Absalom thorow y e hert while he was yet alyue vpon the Oke And ten yōge men Ioabs weapenbearers came aboute him and smote him to death Then blewe Ioab the trompe and broughte the people agayne that they shulde folowe nomore vpon Israel For Ioab wolde fauoure the people And they toke Absalom and cast him in the wod in to a greate pytt and layed a greate heape of stones vpon him And all Israel fled euery one vnto his tente Absalom had set him vp a piler whyle he was yet alyue which stode in the kynges valley for he sayde I haue no sonne therfore shall this be a remembraunce of my name and he called the piler after his owne name And vnto this daie it is yet called Absaloms place Ahimaas the sonne of

kynge of Israel and sayde vnto him Go thy waye and strength the and take hede and loke well what thou doest for whan the yeare is aboute the kynge of Syria shall come agaynst the of the new For the kynge of y e Syrians seruauntes sayde vnto him Their goddes are goddes of the mountaynes therfore haue they gotten the victory But let vs fyghte with them on the playne and thou shalt se that we shal ouercome them Do thus put awaye the kynges euery one from his place and set dukes in their steades and appoynte the an hoost as was that which thou hast lost horses charettes as the other were and led vs fight agaynst thē in the plaine and thou shalt se that we shal haue the victory He cōsented vnto their voyce and dyd so Now whan the yeare was gone aboute Benadab appoynted the Sirians and wente vp towarde Aphek to fighte agaynst Israel and the childrē of Israel mustured and prouyded them selues with vytailes and wēte to mete them and pitched their tētes ouer against them like two litle flockes of goates but the londe was full of the Syrians And there came a man of God and sayde vnto the kynge of Israel Thus sayeth the LORDE Because the Syrians haue sayde that the LORDE is a God of the moūtaynes and not a God of the valleys therfore haue I geuen all this greate heape in to thy handes that ye maye knowe how that I am y e LORDE And they pitched their tentes right ouer agaynst them seuen dayes But vpon y e seuenth daye they wente together in to the battayll and the children of Israel smote of the Sirians an hundreth thousande fote men in one daye and the remnaunt fled to Aphek in to the cite and the wall fell vpon the other seuen and twenty thousande men And Benadab fled also vnto the cite in to a litle chamber Then sayde his seruauntes vnto him Beholde we haue herde that the kynges of the house of Israel are mercifull kinges Let vs therfore put sack cloth aboute oure loynes and halters aboute oure neckes go forth to the kynge of Israel peraduenture he shal let y e soule lyue And they put sack cloth aboute their loynes and halters aboute their neckes and came to the kynge of Israel and sayde Benadab thy seruaunt sayeth vnto the O let my soule lyue He sayde yf he be yet alyue he is my brother And the men toke him shortly at his worde and expounded it for them selues and sayde Yee Benadab is thy brother He sayde Come and brynge him Thē wente Benadab forth vnto him and he caused him to syt vpon the charet and sayde vnto him The cities that my father toke from thy father wyl I geue the agayne And make thou stretes for thyselfe at Damascō as my father did at Samaria so wyl I let the go with a bonde of peace And he made a couenaunt with him and let him go Then spake there a man amonge the children of the prophetes vnto his neghboure by the worde of the LORDE I praye the smite me But he refused to smite him Then saide he vnto him because thou hast not herkened vnto the voyce of the LORDE beholde therfore shall there a lyon smyte the whan thou goest fro me· And whan he wente frō him a lyon founde him and slewe him And he founde another man and sayde I praye the smyte me And the man smote him and wounded him Then wente the prophet and stepte vnto the kynge by the waye syde and altered his face with aszshes And whan the kynge wente by he cried vpon y e kynge and sayde Thy seruaunt wente forth in to the battayll and beholde there wente one asyde and broughte a man vnto me and sayde Kepe this mā yf he be myssed thy soule shall be in steade of his soule or els thou shalt weye downe an hundreth weighte of syluer And whyle thy seruaunt had here there to do he was awaye The kynge of Israel sayde vnto him It is thine owne iudgment thou hast geuen it thyselfe Then put he the aszshes from his face in all the haist And the kynge of Israel knewe him that he was one of the prophetes And he sayde vnto him Thus sayeth the LORDE Because thou hast let the damned man go therfore shall thy soule be for his soule and thy people for his people And the kynge of Israel departed vnto his house beinge troubled in his mynde and full indignacion and came to Samaria The XXI Chapter AFter these actes it fortuned that Naboth the Iesraelite had a vyniarde at Iefreel besyde the palace of Achab kynge of Samaria And Achab spake to Naboth and sayde Geue me thy vynyarde I wyll make me an herbgarden therof because it is so nye my house I wyl geue the a better vynyarde for it or yf it please the I wyll geue the syluer for it as moch as it is worth But Naboth sayde vnto Achab The LORDE let that be farre fro me that I shulde geue y e my fathers heretage Then came Achab home beinge moued and full of indignacion because of the worde that Naboth the Iesraelite had spoken vnto him sayde I wyl not geue the my fathers inheritaunce And he laied him downe vpon his bed and turned his face asyde and ate no bred Then Iesabel his wyfe came in to him and sayde vnto him What is y e matter that thy sprete is so cōbred and that thou eatest no bred He sayde vnto her I haue spokē vnto Naboth the Iesraelite and sayde Geue me thy vynyarde for money or yf it please y t I wyl geue the another for it But he sayde I wyll not geue the my vynyarde Then sayde Iesabel his wyfe vnto him What kingdome were in Israel yf thou diddest it Stonde vp and eate bred I wyl get the the vynyarde of Naboth the Iesraelite And she wrote a letter vnder Achabs name and sealed it with his signet and sent it vnto y e Elders and rulers in his cite which dwelt aboute Naboth and wrote thus in y e letter Proclame a fast and set Naboth aboue in the people and set two men of Belial before him to testifye and saye Thou hast blasphemed God and the kynge And brynge him forth and stone him to death And the Elders and rulers of his cyte which dwelt in his cite dyd as Iesabel had commaunded them acordynge as she had wrytten in the letter that she sent vnto them and they proclamed a fast and caused Naboth to syt aboue amonge the people Then came the two men of Belial and stode before him and testyfyed agaynst Naboth in y e presence of the people and sayde Naboth hath blasphemed God and the kynge Then broughte they him out of the cite and stoned him to death And they sent Iesabel worde sayenge Naboth is stoned put to death Whā Iesabel herde that Naboth was stoned and deed she sayde vnto Achab Vp and take possession of the vynyarde of Naboth

man of God He sayde Go thy waye sell the oyle and paye the creditour but lyue thou and y e sonnes of the resydue And it fortuned at y e same tyme that Eliseus wente vnto Sunem And there was a riche woman which helde him to eate with her as he passed oft thorow y t waye he wēte in vnto her ate w t her And she sayde vnto hir huszbande Beholde I perceaue that this is an holy man of God which goeth euer thorow this waye let vs make hī a litle chamber of boordes set a bed a table a stole a candelsticke therin that whan he commeth vnto vs he maye resorte thither And it fortuned vpon a tyme that he came in layed him downe in the chamber slepte therin And he saide vnto Gehasi his childe Call this womā of Sunem And whā he had called her she stode before him He sayde vnto him Speake thou vnto her beholde thou hast mynistred vnto vs in all these thinges what shal I do for the Hast thou eny matter to be spoken for to the kynge or to the chefe captayne of the hoost She sayde Idwell amonge my people He sayde What hast thou then to do Gehasi sayde Alas she hath no sonne and hir huszbāde is olde He sayde Call her And whā he had called her she stode at the dore And he sayde Aboute this tyme yf y e frute can lyue thou shalt enbrace a sonne She sayde Alas no my lorde thou man of God lye not vnto thy handmayden And the woman conceaued and bare a sonne aboute the same tyme whā the frute coulde lyue acordynge as Eliseus had sayde vnto her But whan y e childe was growne it fortuned y t he wente forth to his father vnto the reapers sayde vnto his father Oh my heade my heade He saide vnto his seruaūt Bringe him to his mother And he toke him and broughte him to his mother and she set him vpon hir lappe vntyll y e noone daye thē he dyed And she wente vp and layed him vpō the bed of the man of God shut the dore and wēte forth called hir huszbande sayde vnto him Sende me one of the seruaūtes and an Asse I wyl go quyckly vnto the man of God and come agayne He sayde Why wilt thou go vnto him To daye is it nether new moone ner Sabbath She sayde Well And she sadled the asse sayde to the yongman dryue forth and kepe me not bak with rydinge and do as I byd the. So she wente and came to the man of God vnto mount Carmell Whā the man of God sawe her ouer agaynst him he sayde vnto his childe Gehasi Beholde the Sunamitisse is there runne now mete her and axe her yf it go well with her and hir huszbande hir sonne She sayde Well But whan she came to the man of God vpon y e mount she helde him by his fete And Gehasi stepte to her to put her awaye But y e man of God sayde Let her alone for hir soule is in heuynes and the LORDE hath hyd it fro me and not shewed it me She sayde Whan desyred I a sonne of my lorde Sayde I not y t thou shuldest not mocke me He sayde vnto Gehasi Girde vp thy loynes and take my staffe in thy hande and go thy waye Yf eny man mete the salute him not and yf eny man salute the thanke him not and laye thou my staffe vpon y e childes face But the childes mother sayde As truly as the LORDE lyueth and as truly as y e soule lyueth I wyll not leaue the. Then gat he vp and wente after her As for Gehasi he wente before them and layed the staffe vpon the childes face but there was nether voyce ner felynge And he wente agayne to mete him and shewed him and sayde The childe is not rysen vp And whan Eliseus came in to the house beholde y e childe laye deed vpō his bed And he wēte in shut the dore on thē both made his prayer vnto the LORDE wente vp layed him selfe vpon the childe layed his mouth vpon the childes mouth and his eyes vpon his eyes and his handes vpon his handes so stretched him selfe forth vpon him so y t the childes body was warme And he rose vp wente in to the house once hither and thither wente vp layed him selfe a longe vpon him Then nesed the childe seuē tymes and afterwarde the childe opened his eyes And he cried vpon Gehasi and sayde Call the Sunamitisse And whan he had called her she came in vnto him He sayde Take there thy sonne Then came she and fell at his fete and worshipped vnto the grounde and toke hir sonne and wente forth But whā Eliseus came againe vnto Gilgal there was a derth in the londe the prophetes children dwelt before him he sayde vnto his seruaunt Set on a greate pot and make potage for the children of the prophetes Then wente there one in to the felde to gather herbes and founde a Cucumbers stalke gathered wylde Cucumbers therof his cotefull And whan he came he chopped it small for potage to the pott for they knewe it not And whā they poured it forth for the mē to eate they ate of y e potage they cried and sayde O thou man of God death is in the pot for they mighte not eate it Neuertheles he sayde Brynge meel hither And he put it in the pot sayde Poure it out for the people that they maye eate And then was it not bytter in the pot There came a man from Baal Salisa broughte the man of God bred of the first frutes namely twentye barlye loaues new corne in his garment But he sayde Geue it vnto y e people that they maye eate His mynister sayde How shall I geue an hūdreth men of this He sayde Geue it vnto the people that they maye eate For thus sayeth the LORDE They shal eate and there shall be lefte ouer And he set it before them so that they ate and there lefte ouer acordinge to y e worde of the LORDE The V. Chapter NAaman the chefe captayne of the kynge of Syria was an excellēt mā in the sighte of his lorde and moch set by for thorow him the LORDE gaue health vnto Syria and he was a mightie man but a leper And there had men of warre fallen out of Syria and caried awaye a litle damsel out of the londe of Israel the same was in seruyce with Naamās wife and sayde vnto hir mastresse O that my master were with the prophet at Samaria he wolde heale him from his leprosy Then wente he in to his lorde and tolde him and sayde Thus and thus hath the damsel of the londe of Israel spoken The kynge of Syria sayde Go thy waye then I wyl wrytte a letter vnto the kynge of Israel And he wente and toke with him ten hundreth weighte of syluer and sixe

Eloth and broughte it agayne vnto Iuda after that the kynge was fallen on slepe with his fathers In the fyftenth yeare of Amasias the sonne of Ioas kynge of Iuda was Ieroboam the sonne of Ioas kynge ouer Israel at Samaria one and fortye yeare And he dyd that which was euell in the sighte of the LORDE and departed not from all the synnes of Ieroboam the sonne of Nebat which caused Israel for to synne But the borders of Israel broughte he agayne from Hemath vnto y e see that lyeth in the playne felde acordinge to the worde of the LORDE God of Israel which he spake by his seruaunt Ionas y e sonne of Amithai the prophete which was of Gath Epher For the LORDE considered the myserable affliccion of Israel how that euen they which were shut vp and desolate were awaye and that there was no helper in Israel And the LORDE sayde not that he wolde destroye the name of Israel from vnder heauē And he helped thē by Ieroboam the sonne of Ioas. What more there is to saye of Ieroboam and all that he dyd and of his power how he foughte and how broughte Damascon and Hemath agayne vnto Iuda in Israel beholde it is wrytten in the Cronicles of the kynges of Israel And Ieroboam fell on slepe with his fathers with the kynges of Israel And Zacharias his sonne was kynge in his steade The XV. Chapter IN the seuen twentieth yeare of Ieroboam kynge of Israel reigned Asarias the sonne of Amasias kynge of Iuda and was sixtene yeare olde whan he was made kynge and reigned two and fyftye yeare at Ierusalem His mothers name was Iechalia of Ierusalē And he dyd righte in the sighte of the LORDE acordinge to all as dyd Amasias his father sauynge that they put not downe the hye places For the people dyd sacryfice and brent incense yet vpon the hye places Howbeit the LORDE smote the kynge so that he was leper vnto his death and dwelt in a frye house But Iotham the kynges sonne ruled the house and iudged the people in the londe What more there is to saye of Asarias all y t he dyd beholde it is wrytten in the Cronicles of the kynges of Iuda And Asarias fell on slepe with his fathers was buried with his fathers in the cite of Dauid Iotham his sonne was kynge in his steade In the eight and thirtieth yeare of Asarias kynge of Iuda was Zacharias the sonne of Ieroboam kynge ouer Israel at Samaria sixe monethes And he dyd y t which was euell in the sighte of the LORDE euen as his fathers dyd He departed not from y e synnes of Ieroboam the sonne of Nebat which caused Israel for to synne And Sellum the sonne of Iabes conspyred agaynst him and smote him in the presence of y e people and slewe him was kynge in his steade What more there is to saie of Zacharias beholde it is wrytten in the Cronicles of the kynges of Israel And this is it y t the LORDE sayde vnto Iehu Thy children shall syt vpō the seate of Israel vntyll the fourth generacion And euen so came it to passe Sellum the sonne of Iabes reigned in y e nyne thirtieth yeare of Asarias kynge of Iuda reigned one moneth at Samaria For Menahem the sonne of Gadi wēte vp from Thirza came to Samaria and smote Sellum the sonne of Iabes at Samaria slewe him and was kynge in his steade What more there is to saye of Sellum of his sedicion which he stered vp beholde it is wrytten in the Cronicles of the kynges of Israel At the same tyme dyd Manahem smyte Tiphsa all y t were therin the coastes therof from Thirza because they wolde not let him in and smote all their wemen w t childe and rypte them vp In the nyne thirtieth yeare of Asarias kynge of Iuda beganne Manahem the sonne of Gad to reigne ouer Israel ten yeares at Samaria and dyd that which was euell in the sighte of the LORDE As longe as he lyued departed he not from y e synnes of Ieroboam the sonne of Nebat which caused Israel for to synne And Phul the kynge of Assiria came in to the lōde And Manahem gaue vnto Phul a thousande talentes of syluer to holde with him and to cōfirme him in the kyngdome And Manahem raysed vp a taxe in Israel vpon the richest fiftye Sycles of syluer vpon eueryman to geue vnto y e kynge of Assiria So the kynge of Assiria wēte home agayne and taried not in the londe What more there is to saye of Manahem all y t he dyd beholde it is wrytten in the Cronicles of the kynges of Israel And Manahem fell on slepe w t his fathers And Pecahia his sonne was kynge in his steade In the fiftieth yeare of Asarias kynge of Iuda beganne Pecahia the sonne of Manahem to reigne ouer Israel at Samaria two yeare and dyd that which was euell in the sighte of the LORDE for he departed not frō the synnes of Ieroboam y e sonne of Nebat which caused Israel for to synne And Pecah the sonne of Romelia his knyghte conspyred agaynst him smote him at Samaria in y e palace of the kynges house w t Argob and Ariah and fiftye men w t him of y e childrē of Gilead slewe him was kynge in his steade What more there is to saye of Pecahia all that he dyd beholde it is wrytten in the Cronicles of the kynges of Israel In the two and fiftieth yeare of Asarias kynge of Iuda beganne Pecah the sonne of Romelia to reigne ouer Israel at Samaria twentye yeare dyd that which was euell in the sighte of y e LORDE for he departed not from the synnes of Ieroboam the sonne of Nebat which caused Israel for to synne In the tyme of Pecah the kynge of Israel came Teglatphalasser the kynge of Assiria toke Eion Abel Beth Maecha Ianoha Kedes Hasor Gilead Galile and all the londe of Nephtali caried thē awaye in to Assiria And Osea the sonne of Ela conspyred agaynst Pecah the sonne of Romelia slue him and was kynge in his steade in the twētieth yeare of Iotham the sonne of Osias What more there is to saye of Pecah all that he dyd beholde it is wrytten in the Cronicles of the kynges of Israel In the seconde yeare of Pecah the sonne of Romelia kynge of Israel was Iotham the sonne of Osias kynge of Iuda was fyue and twentye yeare olde whan he was made kynge and reigned sixtene yeare at Ierusalem His mothers name was Ierusa the doughter of Sadok And he dyd y t which was righte in y e sighte of the LORDE acordinge vnto all as dyd Osias his father ▪ sauynge that he put not downe the hye places for the people offred brent incense yet vpon the hye places He buylded the hye poete of the house of the LORDE What more there

What this boke conteyneth Chap. I. Of the kyngdome of Salomon to whom the LORDE appeareth and Salomon maketh his prayer vnto him Chap. II. How Salomon deuyseth to buylde the temple of the LORDE Chap. III. How he begynneth to buylde and after what faszshion Chap. IIII. Of the ornamentes of the temple Chap. V. The Arke is broughte in to the temple c. Chap. VI. Salomon speaketh vnto the people prayseth God and beseketh him to heare soch as make their prayer in the temple Chap. VII The fyre commeth from heauen consumeth the sacrifice The kynge the people offre The LORDE appeareth vnto Salomon and promyseth to heare him Chap. VIII Salomon buyldeth cities and subdueth the Heythen Of his captaynes and of his wife Chap. IX The Quene of Saba bringeth presentes vnto Salomon receaueth giftes of him Salomon dyeth Chap. X. Roboam oppressynge the people maketh them to fall awaye from him Chap. XI The LORDE wil not suffre Roboam kynge of Iuda Bē Iamin to fighte agaynst Israel He buyldeth cities Chap. XII Roboam forsaketh the lawe of the LORDE The kynge of Egipte commeth vpon him The LORDE delyuereth him Chap. XIII Of Abia Ieroboam their warres Chap. XIIII XV. Of kynge Asa. Chap. XVI Baesa cōmeth vp against Asa which agreeth with him therfore is he rebuked Chap. XVII Of the reigne of Iosaphat Chap. XVIII Iosaphat maketh frendshippe with Achab and helpeth him to fight Chap. XIX Iehu rebuketh Iosaphat for helpynge the vngodly Iosaphat amendeth and lyueth well Chap. XX. The Moabites Ammonites with the Syrians and Edomites go forth agaynst Iosaphat which prayeth vnto God and he helpeth him Chap. XXI Iosaphat dyeth Ioram his sonne is made kynge slayeth his brethren and forsaketh the LORDE Edom falleth awaye from Iuda God punysheth Ioram Chap. XXII Ochosias is made kinge and taketh parte with Achabs sonne Chap. XXIII Ioiada maketh Ioas kynge commaundeth to slaye Athalia Chap. XXIIII Whyle Ioiada lyueth kynge Ioas doth well but after his death he forsaketh the LORDE And because Zacharias reproueth him he cōmaundeth to stone him to death His awne seruauntes kyll him vpon his bed Chap. XXV Of kynge Amasias which smyteth the Edomites He worshippeth their Idols therfore the prophet reproueth him He wyll nedes fight with the kynge of Israel which ouercommeth him and taketh him Chap. XXVI Of kynge Osias other wyse called Vsia or Azarias of his buyldinges how he became leper for his presumpcion Chap. XXVII Of Iothams reigne of his buyldinges and of his warres Chap. XXVIII Of the wicked kynge Achas Chap. XXIX XXX.XXXI Of the verteous kynge Ezechias and of his noble actes Chap. XXXII Sennacherib layeth sege to Ierusalem Ezechias comforteth the people Sennacherib threateneth but the LORDE delyuereth Iuda Ezechias is sicke and recouereth Chap. XXXIII Of the reigne of Manasses and of his amendment from his wickednes Of kynge Ammon his sonne Chap. XXXIIII XXXV Of the reigne and most vertuous actes of kynge Iosias and of his death Chap. XXXVI Thre monethes reigneth Ioachas after whom reigneth Eliachim other wyse called Ioachim whom Nabuchodonosor carieth vnto Babilon and in his steade reigneth Ioachim his sonne which also is led awaye captayne vnto Babilon Sedechias is made kynge and at the last caried awaye presoner with all the people and Ierusalem destroyed The first Chapter ANd Salomon the sonne of Dauid was stablyshed in his kyngdome and the LORDE his God was with him made him exceadinge greate And Salomon spake vnto all Israel to the captaynes ouer thousandes and ouer hundreds to the Iudges and to all y e prynces in Israel and to the chefest fathers so that they wente Salomon and the whole congregacion with him vnto the hye place which was at Gibea for there was y e Tabernacle of y e witnesse of God which Moses the seruaunt of the LORDE had made in y e wyldernesse For Dauid had brought vp the Arke of God from Kiriath Iarim whan he had prepared for it for he had pitched a tent for it at Ierusalem As for y e brasen altare which Bezaleel the sonne of V●● the sonne of Hur had made it was there before the habitacion of the LORDE and Salomon and the congregacion soughte God And Salomon offred a thousande burntofferynges vpō the brasen altare that stode before the Tabernacle of witnesse In the same nighte appeared God vnto Salomon and sayde vnto him Axe what shal I geue the And Salomon sayde vnto God Thou hast done greate mercy vnto my father Dauid ●nd hast made me kynge in his steade Now LORDE God let y e worde that thou hast p●omysed vnto my father Dauid be verified for thou hast made me kynge ouer a people which is as many in nōbre as the dust vpon the earth Graunte me wyszdome therfore and knowlege y t I maye go out and in before this people for who is able to iudge this greate people of thine Then sayde God vnto Salomon For so moch as thou art so mynded and hast not desyred riches ner good ner hono r ner the soules of thine enemies ner longe life but hast requyred wyszdome and knowlege to iudge my people ouer whom I haue made the kynge wyszdome therfore and knowlege be geuen the. Morouer riches good and honoure wyll I geue the so that soch one as thou hath not bene before the amōge the kynges nether shal be after the. So came Salomon from the hye place which was at Gibeon vnto Ierusalē from y e Tabernacle of witnesse and reigned ouer Israel And Salomon gathered him charettes and horsmen so that he had a thousande and foure hundreth charettes twolue thousande horsmen and those appoynted he to be in the charet cities and with the kynge at Ierusalem And the kynge broughte it so to passe that there was as moch syluer golde at Ierusalē as stones and as many Ceders as the Molberyes trees that are in the valleys And there were horses broughte vnto Salomon out of Egipte the kynges marchauntes fetched them from Kena for moneye And they came vp and broughte out of Egipte a charet for sixe hūdreth syluer pēs and an horse for an hundreth and fiftye Thus broughte they also vnto all the kynges of the Hethites and to the kynges of y e Syrians The II. Chapter ANd Salomon thoughte to buylde an house vnto the name of the LORDE an house for his kyngdome and tolde out thre score and ten thousande men to beare burthens and foure score thousande that hewed tymber vpō the mount and thre thousande and sixe hundreth officers ouer them And Salomon sent vnto Hiram the kynge of Tyre sayenge As thou dyddest with my father sendedst him Ceder trees to builde an house for to dwell in euen so do thou w t me also Beholde I wyl buylde an house vnto the name of the LORDE my God to sanctifie it for to burne good incense before him and allwaye to prepare y e

e prest had commaunded and euery one toke his men that entred on the Sabbath w t those y t wente of on the Sabbath for Ioiada y e prest suffred not those two companies to parte asunder And Ioiada y e prest gaue the captaynes ouer hundreds speares shyldes and kynge Dauids weapens which were in the house of God and set all the people euery one w t his weapen in his hande from the righte corner of the house vnto the lefte corner of the altare and to the house warde aboute the kynge And they broughte forth the kynges sonne set the crowne vpon his heade and gaue them the wytnesse made him kynge And Ioiada w t his sonnes anoynted him sayde God saue the kynge But whan Athalia herde the noyse of y e people y t ranne together and praysed y e kynge she wente forth to the people in to y e house of the LORDE and loked and beholde y e kynge stode in his place at y e intraunce and the rulers and trompettes aboute y e kynge and all the people of the londe were glad blewe the trompes and there were syngers y t coulde playe w t all maner of musicall instrumentes But she rēte hir clothes sayde Sedicion sedicion Neuertheles Ioiada y e prest gat him forth with the captaynes ouer hundreds and rulers of the hoost and sayde vnto them Brynge her forth betwene y e walles who so euer foloweth her shal be slayne with y e swerde for the prest had cōmaunded that she shulde not be slayne in y e house of the LORDE And they layed handes on her And whan she came at the intraunce of the horsgate of the kynges house they put her to death there And Ioiada made a couenaunt betwene him and all the people and the kynge y t they shulde be the people of the LORDE The wēte all the people in to the house of Baal and destroyed it brake downe his altares ymages slewe Mathan the prest of Baal before the altare And Ioiada appoynted y e officers in the house of the LORDE amōge the prestes Leuites whom Dauid had ordeyned for y e house of the LORDE to offre burnt sacrifices vnto y e LORDE as it is wrytten in the lawe of Moses w t ioye songes made by Dauid And y e porters set he at y e gates of y e house of y e LORDE y t none shulde entre which were defiled w t eny maner of thinge And he toke the captaynes ouer hūdreds and the mightie men and lordes of y e people and all the people of the londe and brought the kinge downe from the house of the LORDE and broughte him thorow the hye porte of the kynges house and caused the kinge sit vpon the seate royall And all the people of the lōde were glad and the cite was at rest But Athalia was slayne with the swerde The XXIIII Chapter IOas was seuen yeare olde whan he was made kynge and reigned fortie yeare at Ierusalē His mothers name was Zibea of Berseba And Ioas dyd that which was right in the sight of the LORDE as longe as Ioiada the prest lyued And Ioiada gaue him two wiues he begat sonnes doughters Afterwarde deuysed Ioas to renue the house of the LORDE gathered together the prestes and Leuites sayde vnto thē Go forth vn to all the cities of Iuda gather the money of all Israel to repayre y e house of God yearly and do it righte soone but the Leuites made no haist Then the kynge called Ioiada the pryncipall and sayde vnto him Why lokest thou not vnto the Leuites y t they bringe in from Iuda and Ierusalem the colleccion which Moses the seruaunt of the LORDE appoynted to be gathered amōge Israel for the Tabernacle of witnes For y t vngodly Athalia hir sonnes haue waisted the house of God and all that was halowed for the house of the LORDE haue they bestowed on Baalim Then commaunded the kynge to make a chest and to set it without at the intraunce of the house of the LORDE caused it to be proclamed in Iuda and Ierusalē that they shulde bringe in to the LORDE the collecciō which Moses the seruaūt of God appointed vnto Israel in y e wildernes Thē were all y e rulers glad so were all y e people brought it and cast it in to the chest tyll it was full And whan the tyme was y t the Leuites shulde brynge the Arke at y e kinges cōmaundement whan they sawe y t there was moch money therin then came the kinges scrybe he y t was appoynted of the chefe prest and emptyed the chest and caried it againe in to his place Thus dyd they euery daye so that they gathered moch money together And y e kinge Ioiada gaue it vnto y e workmasters of y e house of the LORDE and they hired masons carpenters to repayre the house of y e LORDE and men that coulde worke in yron and brasse to repayre the house of y e LORDE And the labourers wrought so that y e repairinge in y e worke wente forwarde thorow their hande and they set the house of God in his bewtye and made it stronge And whan they had perfourmed this they brought the resydue of the money before the kynge and Ioiada wherof there were made vessels for the house of the LORDE vessels for the ministracion and burnt offeringe spones and ornamentes of golde and siluer And they offred burnt offerynges allwaye in the house of the LORDE as longe as Ioiada lyued And Ioiada waxed olde and had lyued longe ynough and dyed was an hundreth and thirtie yeare olde whan he dyed and they buried him in the cite of Dauid amonge the kynges because he had done good vnto Israel and towarde God his house And after the death of Ioiada came the rulers in Iuda and worshipped the kynge Then consented the kynge vnto thē And they forsoke the house of the LORDE God of their fathers and serued y e groues and ymages Then came y e wrath of the LORDE vpō Iuda and Ierusalem because of this trespace of theirs Yet sent he prophetes vnto thē y t they shulde turne vnto the LORDE they testified vnto thē but they wolde not heare And the sprete of God came vpon Zachary the sonne of Ioiada the prest which stode ouer y e people sayde vnto thē Thus sayeth God Wherfore do ye transgresse the cōmaundementes of the LORDE which shall not be to yo r prosperite for ye haue forsaken y e LORDE therfore shal he forsake you Neuertheles they conspyred agaynst him stoned him at y e kynges cōmaundement in y e courte of the house o● the LORDE And Ioas y e kinge thought not on the mercy y t Ioiada his father had done for him but slewe his sonne Notwithstondinge whā he dyed he sayde The LORDE shal loke vpon it and requyre

the LORDE as his father Amasias had done and soughte God as longe as Zacharias lyued which taughte in the visyons of God and as longe as he sought the LORDE God made him to prospere For he wente forth and foughte agaynst the Philistynes and brake downe y e walles of Gath and the walles of Iabne and the walles of Aszdod and buylded cities aboute Aszdod amonge the Philistynes For God helped him agaynst the Philistines against the Arabians agaynst them of Gur Baal agaynst the Meunites And y e Ammonites gaue Osias presentes his name came in to Egipte for he was exceadinge stronge And Osias buylded towres at Ierusalem vpon the cornerporte and on the valley gate and on other corners and made them stronge He buylded castels also in the wyldernesse and dygged many welles for he had many catell both in the medewes and in the playnes huszbandmen also and wynegardeners on the mountaynes and on Carmel for he delyted in huszbandaye And Osias had an hoost of men of warre goynge forth to the battaill which were nōbred vnder the hande of Ieiel the scrybe of Maesa the offycer vnder the hāde of Hanania of the kynges rulers And the nombre of the chefe fathers amonge the stronge mē of warre was two thousande and syxe hundreth And vnder the hande of the hoost thre hundreth thousande and seuen thousande and fyue hundreth mete for the battayll in the strength of an armye to helpe the kinge agaynst the enemies And Osias prepared for all the hoost shyldes speares helmettes brestplates bowes and slyngstones And at Ierusalē he made ordinaunce cōningly to be vpon the towres and in the pynnacles to shute arowes and greate stones And the fame of him came farre abrode because he was specially helped tyll he became mightie And whan his power was greate his hert arose to his awne destruccion for he trespaced agaynst the LORDE his God and wente in to the temple of the LORDE to burne incense vpon the altare of incense But Asarias the prest wente after him and foure score prestes with him valeaunt men and withstode kynge Osias and saide vnto him It belongeth not vnto thy offyce Osias to burne incense vnto the LORDE but vnto the prestes belongeth it euen vnto the children of Aaron which are halowed to burne incense Go forth out of the Sanctuary for thou offendest and it shall be no worshippe vnto the before God the LORDE And Osias was wroth and had a censoure in his hande And whyle he murmured with the prestes the leprosy spronge out of his foreheade in the presence of the prestes in the house of the LORDE before the altare of incense And Asarias the chefe prest turned his heade towarde him and so dyd all the prestes and beholde he was leper in his foreheade And they put him out from thence Yee he made haist himselfe to go forth for his plage came of the LORDE Thus became Osias y e kynge a leper vnto his death and dwelt full of leprosye in a fre house for he was put out of the house of the LORDE But Ioram his sonne had the ouersight of the kynges house and iudged the people in the l●nde What more there is to saie of Osias both first and last Esay the sonne of Amos hath wrytten it And Osias fell on slepe w t his fathers and they buryed him with his fathers in the pece of grounde beside y e kynges sepulcres for they sayde He is leporous And Iotham his sonne was kynge in his steade The XXVII Chapter IOtham was fyue and twentye yeare olde whan he was made kynge and reigned sixtene yeare at Ierusalem His mothers name was Ierusa the daughter of Sadoc he dyd righte in the sighte of the LORDE as did Osias his father sauynge y t he wente not in to the temple of the LORDE and the people yet marred them selues He buylded the hye porte of the house of y e LORDE and on the wall of Ophel buylded he moch and buylded the cities vpon the mountaynes of Iuda and in the woddes buylded he castels and towres And he fought with the kinge of the children of Ammon and ouer came them so that the childrē of Ammon gaue him y e same yeare an hundreth talentes of siluer ten thousande quarters of wheate and ten thousande of barlye So moch dyd the children of Ammon geue him also in y e seconde thirde yeare Thus became Iotham mightye for he gyded his wayes before the LORDE his God What more there is to saye of Iotham all his warres vnd his waies beholde it is wrytten in y e boke of the kinges of Israel Iuda Fyue and twentye yeare olde was he whan he was made kynge reigned sixtene yeare at Ierusalē And Iothā fell on slepe w t his fathers they buryed him in the cite of Dauid and Achas his sonne was kynge in his steade The XXVIII Chapter AChas was twentye yeare olde whan he was made kynge and reigned sixtene yeare at Ierusalem and dyd not that which was righte in the sighte of the LORDE as did Dauid his father but walked in the wayes of the kinges of Israel and made molten ymages vnto Baalim and brent incense in the valley of the children of Hennon and brēt his awne sonnes in y e fire after the abhominacions of the Heithen whō the LORDE expelled before the childrē of Israel And he dyd sacrifice and brent incense vpon the hye places and vpon the hilles and amōge all grene trees Therfore dyd the LORDE his God delyuer him in to the hande of the kynge of Syria so that they smote him and caryed awaye a greate multitude of his men presoners and broughte them to Damascon He was geuen also vnder the hande of the kynge of Israel so y t he dyd a greate slaughter vpon him For Pecah the sonne of Romelia smote in Iuda an hundreth twentye thousande in one daye which all were valeaunt men euē because they had forsaken y e LORDE God of their fathers And Sichri a mightie mā of Ephraim slewe Maeseia y e kinges sonne Asri●am the prynce of the house El●ana the nexte vnto the kynge And the children of Israel caried of their brethren presoners two hundreth thousande wemen sonnes and doughters and toke a greate spoyle from them and broughte the spoyle vnto Samaria But euē there was there a prophet of y e LORDE whose name was Obed which wēte out to mete y e hoost that came to Samaria and sayde vnto them Beholde because the LORDE God of youre fathers is wroth at Iuda therfore hath he geuen them ouer in to youre handes but ye haue slayne them so abhominably that it is come vnto heauē Now thinke ye to subdue the children of Iuda and Ierusalem to be bondmen and bond maydens vnto you Is not this a trespace then w t you agaynst the LORDE yo r God Herken now vnto me and sende y e presoners hence agayne whom

flesh and ioyned me together with bones synowes Thou hast graunted me life and done me good and the diligent hede that thou tokest vpon me hath preserued my sprete Though thou hydest these thinges in thine hert yet am I sure that thou remembrest thē all Wherfore didest thou kepe me when I synned and hast not clensed me fro myne offence Yf I do wickedly wo is me therfore Yf I be rightuous yet darre I not lift vp my heade so full am I of confucion and se myne owne misery Thou huntest me out beynge in heuynesse as it were a Lyon and troublest me out of measure Thou bringest fresh witnesses agaynst me thy wrath increasest thou vpon me very many are the plages that I am in Wherfore hast thou brought me out of my mothers wombe O that I had perished that no eye had sene me Yf they had caried me to my graue as soone as I was borne then shulde I be now as though I had neuer bene Shall not my short life come soone to an ende O holde the fro me let me alone that I maye ease my self a litle afore I go thyther from whence I shal not turne agayne Namely to that londe of darcknesse shadowe of death yee in to that darck clowdy londe deadly shadowe where as is no ordre but terrible feare as in the darcknesse The XI Chapter THen answered Sophar the Naamathite and sayde Shulde not he that maketh many wordes be answered Shulde he that bableth moch be commended therin Shulde men geue eare vnto the only Thou wilt laugh other men to scorne shal no body mocke the agayne Wilt thou saye vnto God The thinge that I take in honde is perfecte I am clene in thy sight O that God wolde speake and open his lippes agaynst the that he might shewe the out of his secrete wyszdome how many folde his lawe is then shuldest thou knowe that God had forgotten the because of thy synnes Wilt thou fynde out God with thy sekynge wilt thou attayne to the perfectnesse of the Allmightie He is hyer thē heauē what wilt thou do Deper thē hell how wilt thou then knowe him His length exceadeth the length of the earth and his bredth y e bredth of the see Though he turne all thinges vp syde downe close them in or thrust thē together who darre check him therfore For it is he that knoweth the vanite of men he seyth their wickednesse also shulde he not then considre it A vayne body exalteth him self and the sonne of man is like a wylde asses foale Yf thou haddest now a right herte liftest vp thine hondes towarde him yf thou woldest put awaye the wickednesse which thou hast in honde so that no vngodlynesse dwelt in thy house Then mightest thou lift vp thy face without shame thē shuldest thou be sure and haue no nede to feare Then shuldest thou forget thy misery and thynke nomore vpon it then vpon the waters that runne by Then shulde thy life be as cleare as the noone daye and sprynge forth as the mornynge Then mightest thou haue comforth in the hope that thou hast slepe quyetly when thou art buried Then shuldest thou take thy rest and no mā to make the afrayed yee many one shulde set moch by the. As for the eyes of the vngodly they shal be consumed and not escape their hope shal be misery and sorow of mynde The XII Chapter SO Iob answered and sayde Then no doute ye are the men alone and wyszdome shal perish with you But I haue vnderstōdinge as well as ye and am no lesse then ye Yee who knoweth not these thinges Thus he that calleth vpō God and whom God heareth is mocked of his neghboure the godly innocent man is laughed to scorne Godlynesse is a light despysed in y e hertes of the rich is set for them to stomble vpon The houses of robbers are in wealth and prosperite they that maliciously medle agaynst God dwel without care yee God geueth all thinges richely with his honde Axe the catell they shal enfourme the the foules of the ayre and they shall tell y e Speake to the earth and it shall shewethe Or to the fyshes of the see and they shal certifie the. What is he but he knoweth that y e hōde of the LORDE made all these In whose honde is the soule of euery lyuynge thinge and the breth of all men Haue not the eares pleasure in hearinge and the mouth in tastinge the thinge that it eateth Amonge olde personnes there is wyszdome and amonge the aged is vnderstōdinge Yee with God is wyszdome and strength it is he that hath councell foreknowlege Yf he breake downe a thinge who can set it vp agayne Yf he shutt a thinge who wil open it Beholde yf he witholde the waters they drye vp Yf he let thē go they destroye the earth With him is strength and wyszdome he knoweth both the disceauer and him that is disceaued He carieth awaye the wyse men as it were a spoyle and bryngeth the iudges out of their wyttes He lowseth the gyrdle of kynges and gyrdeth their loynes with a bonde he ledeth awaye the prestes in to captiuyte and turneth the mightie vp syde downe He taketh the verite from out of the mouth disapoynteth y e aged of their wyszdome He poureth out confucion vpon prynces and cōforteth them that haue bene oppressed Loke what lyeth hyd in darcknesse he declareth it opēly and the very shadowe of death bringeth he to light He both increaseth the people and destroyeth them He maketh them to multiplie and dryueth them awaye He chaungeth the herte of the prynces and kynges of the earth and disapoynteth them so that they go wādringe out of the waye and grope in the darcke without light stackeringe to and fro like droncken men The XIII Chapter LO all this haue I sene with myne eye herde with myne eare vnderstonde it Loke what ye knowe that same do I knowe also nether am I inferior vnto you Neuerthelesse I am purposed to talke with the Allmightie and my desyre is to comon with God As for you ye are work masters of lyes and vnprofitable Phisicians alltogether Wolde God ye kepte youre tonge that ye might be taken for wyse men Therfore heare my wordes and pondre the sentence of my lippes Will ye make answere for God with lyes and māteyne him with disceate Wil ye accepte y e personne of God and intreate for him Shal that helpe you when he calleth you to rekenynge Thynke ye to begyle him as a man is begyled Punysh you shall he and reproue you yf ye do secretly accepte eny personne Shall he not make you afrayed when he sheweth himself Shal not his terrible feare fall vpō you youre remembraunce shal be like the dust youre pryde shal be turned to claye Holde youre tonges now and let me speake for there is some thinge come

I was in heuynesse I thought vpō God whē my hert was vexed then dyd I speake Sela. Thou heldest myne eyes wa●●●ge I was so feble that I coude not speake Then remembred I the tymes of olde the yeares that were past I called to remembraunce my songe in the night I commoned with myne owne herte and sought out my sp●ete Wil the LORDE cast out for euer Wil he be nomore intreated Is his mercy cleane gone Is his promyse come vtterly to an ende for euermore Hath the LORDE forgotten to be gracious Or hath he shut vp his louynge kyndnesse in displeasure Sela. At the last I came to this poynte that I thought O why art thou so foolish the right honde of the most hyest can chaunge all Therfore wil I remembre the workes of the LORDE and call to mynde thy wonders of olde tyme. I wil speake of all thy workes and my talkynge shal be of thy doinges Thy waye o God is holy who is so greate mightie as God Thou art the God that doth wonders thou hast declared thy power amonge the people Thou with thine arme hast delyuered thy people euen the sonnes of Iacob and Ioseph Sela. The waters sawe y e o God y e waters sawe y e were afrayed y e depthes were moued The thicke cloudes poured out water y e cloudes thōdered and thy arowes wente abrode Thy thonder was herde rounde aboute the lighteninges shone vpon the grounde the earth was moued and shoke withall Thy waye was in the see and thy pathes in the greate waters yet coude no man knowe thy fotesteppes Thou leddest thy people like a flocke of shepe by the honde of Moses and Aaron The LXXVII A psalme of Asaph HEare my lawe o my people encline yo r eares vnto y e wordes of my mouth I wil open my mouth in parables and speake of thinges of olde Which we haue herde and knowne and soch as oure fathers haue tolde vs. That we shulde not hyde them from the children of the generacions to come but to shewe the honoure of the LORDE his might and wonderfull workes that he hath done He made a couenaunt with Iacob and gaue Israel a lawe which he cōmaunded oure forefathers to teach their children That their posterite might knowe it and the children which were yet vnborne To the intent y t when they came vp they might shewe their children the same That they also might put their trust in God not to forget what he had done but to kepe his cōmaundementes And not to be as their forefathers a frowarde and ouerthwarte generacion a generacion that set not their herte a right and whose sprete was not true towarde God Like as the children of Ephraim which beynge harnessed and carienge bowes turned them selues backe in the tyme of battayll They kepte not the couenaūt of God wolde not walke in his lawe They forgat what he had done and the wonderfull workes that he had shewed for them Maruelous thinges dyd he in the sight of their fathers in the londe of Egipte euen in the felde of Zoan He deuyded the see and let them go thorow it and made the waters to stonde like a wall In the daye tyme he led them with a cloude and all the n●ght thorow with a light of fyre He cloaue the hard rockes in the wildernesse and gaue them drynke therof as it had bene out of the greate d●●pth He brought waters out of the 〈◊〉 rocke so that they gushed out like 〈…〉 Yet for all this they synned agaynst him and prouoked the most hyest in the wildernesse They tempted God in their hertes and requyred meate for their lust For they spake agaynst God and sayde Yee yee God shal prepare a table in the wyldernesse shall he Lo he smote the stony rocke that the watery streames gushed out and the streames flowed withall but how can he geue bred and prouyde flesh for his people When the LORDE herde this he was wroth so the fyre was kyndled in Iacob and heuy displeasure agaynst Israel Because the● beleued not in God and put not their trust in his helpe So he commaūded the cloudes aboue and opened the dores of heauen He rayned downe Manna vpō them for to eate and gaue them bred from heauen Then ate they angels fode for he sent them meate ynough He caused the east wynde to blowe vnder the heauen and thorow his power he brought in the south wynde He made flesh to rayne vpon them as thicke as dust and fethered foules like the sonde of y e see He let it fall amōge their tētes roūde aboute their habitaciōs So they ate were fylled for he gaue them their owne desyre They were not dispoynted of their lust But whyle y e meate was yet in theyr mouthes The heuy wrath of God came vpō thē slewe y e welthiest of thē smote downe y e chosen men of Israel But for all this they synned yet more and beleued not his wōderous workes Therfore their dayes were consumed in vanite and sodenly their yeares were gone When he slewe them they sought him and turned them ●arly vnto God They thought then that God was their socoure and that the hye God was their redemer Neuerthelesse they dyd but flater him in their mouthes and dissembled with him in their tonges For their herte was not whole with him nether continued they in his couenaunt But he was so mercifull that he forgaue their mysdedes and destroyed them not Yee many a tyme turned he his wrath awaye and wolde not suffre his whole displeasure to aryse For he considered y t they were but flesh euen a wynde that passeth awaye and commeth not agayne O how oft haue they greued him in the wildernesse How many a tyme haue they prouoked him in the deserte They turned backe tempted God and moued the holy one in Israel They thought not of his hāde in y e daye when he delyuered them from the hande of y e enemie How he had wrought his miracles in Egipte and his wōders in the londe of Zoan How he turned their waters in to bloude so that they might not drynke of the ryuers How he sent lyse amonge them to eate them vp and frogges to destroye them How he gaue their frutes vnto the catirpiller and their laboure vnto the greshopper How he bett downe their vynyardes with hayle stones and their Molbery trees with the frost How he smote their catell with haylestones and their flockes with hote thōder boltes How he sent vpon them y e furiousnesse of his wrath anger displeasure with trouble and fallinge in of euel angels When he made a waye to his fearfull indignaciō and spared not their soules from death yee and gaue their catell ouer to the pestilence When he smote all the firstborne in Egipte the most principall and mightiest in y e dwellinges of Ham. But as for his owne people

is hast thou made all men for naught What man is he that lyueth and shal not se death Maye a mā delyuer his owne soule from the honde of hell Sela. LORDE where are thy olde louynge kyndnesses which thou sworest vnto Dauid in thy trueth Remēbre LORDE the rebuke that y e multitude of the people do vnto thy seruauntes how I haue borne it in my bosome Wher w t thine enemies blaspheme the slaūder y e fotesteppes of y e anoynted Thankes be to the LORDE for euermore Amen Amen The LXXXIX psalme A prayer of Moses the man of God LORDE thou art oure refuge from one generacion to another Before the mountaynes were brought forth or euer the earth the worlde were made thou art God from euerlastinge and worlde with out ende Thou turnest man to destruccion Agayne thou sayest come agayne ye children of men For a thousande yeares in thy sight are but as yesterdaye that is past and like as it were a night watch As soone as thou scatrest them they are euen as a slepe and fade awaye sodenly like the grasse In the mornynge it is grene and groweth vp but in the euenynge it is cutt downe and wythered For we consume awaye in thy displeasure and are afrayed at thy wrothfull indignacion Thou ●ettest oure miszdedes before the and oure secrete synnes in the light of thy countenaunce For when thou art angrie all o r dayes are gone we brynge o r yeares to an ende ▪ as it were a tayle that is tolde The daye of oure age are iij. score yeares ten though men be so stronge that they come to iiij score yeares yet is their strength then but laboure and sorowe so soone passeth it awaye we are gone But who regardeth the power of thy wrath thy fearfull terrible displeasure O teach vs to nombre oure dayes that we maye applie oure hertes vnto wyszdome Turne the agayne o LORDE at the last and be gracious vnto thy seruauntes O satisfie vs with thy mercy and that soone so shal we reioyse and be glad all the dayes of oure life Comforte vs agayne now after the tyme that thou hast plaged vs and for the yeares wherin we haue suffred aduersite Shewe thy seruauntes thy worke their children thy glory And the glorious maiesty of the LORDE oure God be vpon vs O prospere thou the worke of oure hondes vpon vs o prospere thou oure hondy worke The XC psalme WHo so dwelleth vnder y e defence of the most hyest abydeth vnder y e shadowe of y e allmightie He shal saye vnto y e LORDE o my hope my stronge holde my God in whō I wil trust For he shal deliuer the frō the snare of the hunter frō the noysome pestilence He shal couer the vnder his wynges that thou mayest be safe vnder his fethers his faithfulnesse and trueth shal be thy shylde and buckler So y t thou shalt not nede to be afrayed for eny bugges by night ner for arowe that flyeth by daye For the pestilēce that crepeth in y e darcknesse ner for the sicknesse y t destroyeth in the noone daye A thousande shal fall besyde the and ten thousande at thy right honde but it shal not come nye the. Yee with thyne eyes shalt thou beholde and se the rewarde of the vngodly For thou LORDE art my hope thou hast set thy house of defence very hye There shal no euell happen vnto the nether shal eny plage come nye thy dwellinge For he shall geue his angels charge ouer the to kepe the in all thy wayes They shal beare the in their hondes that thou hurte not thy fote agaynst a stone Thou shalt go vpō the Lyon and Adder the yonge Lyon and the Dragon shalt thou treade vnder thy fete Because he hath set his loue vpon me I shal delyuer him I shal defende him for he hath knowne my name When he calleth vpon me I shall heare him yee I am with him in his trouble wher out I wil delyuer him and brynge him to honoure With lōge life wil I satisfie him shewe him my saluacion The XCI psalme IT is a good thinge to geue thankes vnto the LORDE and to synge prayses vnto y e name o most hyest To tell of thy louynge kyndnesse early in the mornynge and of thy trueth in the night season Vpon an instrumēt of ten strynges vpon the lu●e and with a songe vpon the harpe For thou LORDE hast made me glad thorow thy workes ▪ and I wil reioyse ouer the operacion of thy hondes O LORDE how glorious are thy workes thy thoughtes are very depe An vnwyse man wil not knowe this a foole wil not vnderstōde it That the vngodly are grene as the grasse and that all the workes of wickednes do florish to be destroyed for euer But thou LORDE o most hyest abydest worlde without ende For lo thy enemies o LORDE lo thy enemies shal perishe and all the workers of wickednes shal be scatred abrode But my horne shal be exalted like the horne of an Vnicorne shal be anoynted with fresh oyle Myne eye also shal se his lust of myne enemies myne eare shall heare his desyre of the wicked y t ryse vp agaynst me The rightuous shal florish like a palme tre and growe like a Cedre of Libanus Soch as be planted in the house of the LORDE be frutefull plenteous grene That they maye shewe how true the LORDE my strēgth is and that there is no vnrightuousnesse in him The XCII psalme THe LORDE is kynge and hath put on glorious apparell the LORDE hath put on his apparell gyrded himself with strēgth he hath made the rounde worlde so sure that it can not be moued From that tyme forth hath y e seate bene prepared thou art from euerlastinge The floudes aryse o LORDE the floudes lift vp their noyse y e floudes lift vp their wawes The wawes of the see are mightie rage horribly but yet the LORDE that dwelleth on hye is mightier Thy testimonies o LORDE are very sure holynesse becommeth thyne house for euer The XCIII psalme O LORDE God to whom vengeaunce belōgeth thou God to whom vengeaunce belongeth shewe thy self Arise thou iudge of the worlde rewarde the proude after their deseruynge LORDE how longe shal the vngodly how longe shal the vngodly tryumphe How longe shal all wicked doers speake so diszdaynedly and make soch proude boastynge They smyte downe thy people o LORDE and trouble thine heretage They murthur the widdowe and the straunger and put the fatherlesse to death And yet they saie Tush the LORDE seyth not the God of Iacob regardeth it not Take hede ye vnwise amonge the people o ye fooles when wil ye vnderstonde He that planted the eare shal he not heare he that made the eye shal not he se He that nurtureth the Heithen and teacheth a man knowlege shal not he punysh The LORDE

him vpō his holy hill for the LORDE oure God is holy The XCIX psalme O Be ioyfull in God all ye lōdes serue the LORDE w t gladnes come before his presence w t ioye Be ye sure y t the LORDE he is God It is he y t hath made vs not we oure selues we are but his people the shepe of his pasture O go youre waye in to his gates thē with thankesgeuynge in to his courtes w t prayse be thākfull vnto him speake good of his name For the LORDE is gracious his mercy is euerlastinge and his treuth endureth from generacion to generacion The C. psalme A thākesgeuynge of Dauid MY songe shal be of mercy and iudgment yee vnto the o LORDE wil I synge O let me haue vnderstondinge in the waye of godlynesse vntill the tyme that thou come vnto me so shal I walke in my house w t an innocent herte I wil take no wicked thinge in honde I hate the synne of vnfaithfulnesse it shal not cleue vnto me A frowarde herte shal departe fro me I wil not knowe a wicked personne Who so preuely slaundreth his neghboure him wil I destroye Who so hath a proude loke an hye stomacke I maye not awaye with him Myne eyes shal loke for soch as be faithfull in the londe y t they maye dwell with me and who so ledeth a godly life shal be my seruaunt There shall no disceatfull personne dwell in my house he that telleth lyes shal not tary in my sight I shal soone destroye all the vngodly of the londe that all wicked doers maye be roted out of the cite of the LORDE The CI. psalme HEare my prayer o LORDE and let my criēge come vnto the. Hyde not thy face fro me in the tyme of my trouble enclyne thine eares vnto me when I call O heare me and that right soone For my dayes are consumed awaye like smoke my bones are brent vp as it were a fyre brande My hert is smyttē downe and wythered like grasse so that I forget to eate my bred For the voyce of my gronynge my bone wil scarse cleue to my flesh I am become like a Pellicane in the wildernes and like an Oule in a broken wall I wake and am euen as it were a sparow sittinge alone vpon the house toppe Myne enemies reuyle me all the daye longe they laugh me to scorne and are sworne together against me I eate ashes with my bred and mengle my drynke with wepynge And that because of y e indignacion and wrath for thou hast taken me vp and cast me awaye My dayes are gone like a shadowe and I am wythered like grasse But thou o LORDE endurest for euer and thy remembraunce thorow out all generacions Arise therfore and haue mercy vpon Sion for it is tyme to haue mercy vpon her yee the tyme is come And why thy seruauntes haue a loue to hir stones it pitieth them to se her in the dust The Heithen shal feare thy name o LORDE and all the kynges of the earth thy maiesty For the LORDE shal buylde vp Sion and shal apeare in his glory He turneth him vnto the prayer of the poore destitute and despyseth not their desyre This shal be written for those y t come after that the people which shal be borne maye prayse the LORDE For He loketh downe from his Sanctuary out of the heauen doth the LORDE beholde the earth That he maye heare the mournynges of soch as be in captinyte and delyuer the children of death That they maie preach the name of the LORDE in Sion and his worshipe at Ierusalem When the people are gathered together and the kyngdomes also to serue y e LORDE He hath brought downe my strength in my iourney and shortened my dayes Yet wil I saye O my God take me not awaye in y e myddest of myne age as for thy yeares they endure thorow out all generacions Thou LORDE in the begynnynge hast layed y e foundacion of the earth and the heauens are the workes of thy hondes They shal perishe but thou shalt endure they all shall wexe olde as doth a garment as a vesture shalt thou chaunge thē and they shal be chaunged But thou art the same and thy yeares shal not fayle The children of thy seruauntes shall contynue their sede shal prospere in y e sight The CII A psalme of Dauid PRayse the LORDE o my soule all that is within me prayse his holy name Prayse the LORDE o my soule forget not all his benefites Which forgeueth all thy synnes and healeth all thy infirmities Which saueth thy life from destruccion and crowneth the with mercy louynge kyndnesse Which satisfieth thy desyre with good thinges makynge the yonge and lusty as an Aegle The LORDE executeth rightuousnesse and iudgment for all them y t suffre wronge He shewed his wayes vnto Moses and his workes vnto the children of Israel The LORDE is full of compassion and mercy longe sufferinge and of greate goodnesse He wil not allwaye be chydinge nether wil he kepe his anger for euer He hath not dealt with vs after oure synnes ner rewarded vs acordinge to oure wickednesses For loke how hye the heauē is in comparison of the earth so greate is his mercy also towarde them that feare him Loke how wyde the east is from the west so farre hath he set oure synnes from vs. Yee like as a father pitieth his owne children euen so is the LORDE mercifull vnto thē that feare him For he knoweth wherof we be made he remembreth that we are but dust That a man in his tyme is but as is grasse florisheth as a floure of the felde For as soone as the wynde goeth ouer it it gone and the place therof knoweth it nomore But the mercifull goodnesse of y e LORDE endureth for euer and euer vpon them y t feare him and his rightuousnesse vpon their childers children Soch as kepe his couenaunt and thinke vpon his commaundementes to do them The LORDE hath prepared his seate in heauē and his kyngdome ruleth ouer all O prayse the LORDE ye angels of his ye that be mightie instrēgth fulfillinge his commaundement that mē maye heare the voyce of his wordes O prayse the LORDE all ye his hoostes ye seruauntes of his that do his pleasure O speake good of the LORDE all ye workes of his in euery place of his dominion prayse thou the LORDE o my soule The CIII psalme PRayse the LORDE o my soule O LORDE my God thou art become exceadinge glorious thou art clothed with maiesty and honoure Thou deckest thy self with light as it were w t a garment thou spredest out the heauen like a curtayne Thou voltest it aboue with waters thou makest the cloudes thy charet and goest vpon the wynges of the wynde Thou makest thine angels spretes and thy ministers flammes of fyre Thou hast layed y e

rightuous eateth and is satisfied but y e bely of the vngodly hath neuer ynough The XIIII Chapter A Wyse womā vpholdeth hir house but a foolish wife plucketh it downe Who so feareth the LORDE walketh in the right path regardeth not him that abhorreth the wayes of the LORDE In the mouth of the foolish is the boostinge of lordshipe but y e lippes of y e wyse wil be warre of soch Where no oxen are there the crybb is emptie but where the oxen laboure there is moch frute A faithfull wytnesse wyl not dyssemble but a false recorde wil make a lye A scornefull body seketh wyszdome fyndeth it not but knowlege is easy to come by vnto him that wil vnderstonde Se y t thou medle not with a foole do as though thou haddest no knowlege The wyszdome of him that hath vnderstondinge is to take hede vnto his waye but the foolishnesse of the vnwyse disceaueth Fooles make but a sporte of synne but there is fauourable loue amōge the rightuous The herte of him that hath vnderstondinge wil nether dispare for eny sorow ner be to presumptuous for eny sodane ioye The houses of the vngodly shal be ouerthrowne but the tabernacles of y e righteus shal florishe There is a waye which some men thinke to be right but the ende therof ledeth vnto death The herte is soroufull euen in laughter and the ende of myrth is heuynesse An vnfaithfull personne shal be fylled with his owne wayes but a good mā wyl bewarre of soch An ignoraūt body beleueth all thinges but who so hath vnderstondinge loketh well to his goinges A wyse man feareth and departeth from euell but a foole goeth on presumptuously An vnpacient man handeleth foolishly but he that is well aduysed doth other wayes The ignoraūt haue foolishnes in possessiō but the wyse are crowned with knowlege The euell shal bowe them selues before y e good and the vngodly shal wayte at the ●●res of the rightuous The poore is hatch euen of his owne neghbours but the riche hath many frendes Who so despyseth his neghbo r doth amysse but blessed is he that hath pyte of the poore They that ymagin wickednes shal be disapoynted but they that muse vpō good thinges vnto soch shal happen mercy and faithfulnesse Diligēt labo r bryngeth riches but where many vayne wordes are truly there is scarcenesse Riches are an ornament vnto the wyse but the ignoraunce of fooles is very foolishnesse A faithfull wytnesse delyuereth so●les but a lyar dysceaueth them The fear● of the LORDE is a strōge holde for vnto his he wyl be a sure defence The feare of the LORDE is a well of life to auoyde the snares of death The increase and prosperite of the comons is the kynges honoure but the decaye of the people is the confuciō of the prynce Pacience is a token of wiszdome but wrath and haistie displeasure is a token of foolishnesse A mery herte is the life of the body but rancoure consumeth awaye the bones He that doth a poore man wrōge blasphemeth his maker but who so hath pitie of the poore doth honoure vnto God The vngodly is afrayed of euery parell but the rightuous hath a good hope euē in death Wyszdome resteth in the herte of him that hath vnderstondinge and he wyll teach them that are vnlerned Rightuousnes setteth vp the people but wyckednesse bryngeth folke to destruccion A discrete seruaunt is a pleasure vnto y e kynge but one y t is not honest prouoketh him vnto wrath The XV. Chapter A Softe āswere putteth downe displeasure but frowarde wordes prouoke vnto anger A wyse tonge commendeth knowlege a foolish mouth blabbeth out nothinge but foolishnesse The eyes of the LORDE loke in euery place both vpon y e good and badd A wholsome tonge is a tre of life but he that abuseth it hath a broken mynde A foole despyseth his fathers correccion but he y t taketh hede whan he is reproued shal haue y e more vnderstōdinge In the house of the rightuous are greate riches but in the increase of the vngodly there is mysordre A wyse mouth poureth out knowlege but y e herte of the foolish doth not so The LORDE abhorreth y e sacrifice of the vngodly but the prayer of the rightuous is acceptable vnto him The waye of the vngodly is an abhominaciō vn●to y e LORDE but who so foloweth righteousnes him he loueth He that forsaketh ye●ight strete shal be sore punyshed who so hateth correccion falleth in to death The hell w t hir payne is knowne vnto the LORDE how moch more then the hertes of men A scornefull body loueth not one y t rebuketh him nether wil he come amonge y e wyse A mery herte maketh a chearfull countenaunce but an vnquyet mynde maketh it heuy A wyse herte wil seke after knowlege but y e mouth of fooles medleth with foolishnesse All the dayes of the poore are miserable but a quyete herte is as a cōtynuall feast Better is a litle with the feare of the LORDE then greate treasure for they are not without sorowe Better is a meace of potage with loue then a fat oxe w t euell will An angrie man stereth vp strife but he y t is pacient stilleth discorde The waye of y e slouthfull is full of thornes but y e strete of the rightuous is well clensed A wyse sonne maketh a glad father but an vndiscrete body shameth his mother A foole reioyseth in foolish thinges but a wyse man loketh well to his owne goinges Vnaduysed thoughtes shal come to naught but where as are men y t can geue councell there is stedfastnesse O how ioyfull a thinge is it a man to geue a conuenient answere O how pleasaunt is a worde spoken in due season The waye of life ledeth vnto heauē y t a man shulde be warre of hell beneth The LORDE wyl breake downe y e house of y e proude but he shal make fast y e borders of y e wyddowe The LORDE abhoreth y e ymaginacions of y e wicked but pure wordes are pleasaunt vnto him The couetous man wr●tteth vp his owne house but who so hateth rewardes shal lyue A rightuous mā museth in his mynde how to do good but y e mynde of the vngodly ymagineth how he maye do harme The LORDE is farre from the vngodly but he heareth y e prayer of the rightuous Like as y e clearnesse of y e eyes reioyseth y e herte so doth a good name fede y e bones The eare y t harkeneth vnto wholsome warnynge and enclyneth therto shall dwell amonge y e wyse He that refuseth to ●e refourmed despyseth his owne soule but he that submytteth himself to correccion is wyse The XVI Chapter THe feare of y e LORDE is y e right scyēce of wyszdome and lowlynes goeth before honor. A man maye well pur●ose a thinge in his harte but y e answere of y e tonge cōmeth of y e LORDE A mā thinketh all

dwelleth vpon the hill of Syon And therfore yf they saye vnto you aske councel at the soythsayers witches charmers and coniurers then make them this answere Is there a people enywhere that a●eth not councel at his God whether it be concernynge the dead or the lyuynge Yf eny man want light let him loke vpon the lawe and the testimony whether they speake not after this meanynge Yf he do not this he stombleth and suffreth hūger And yf he suffre honger he is out of pacience and blasphemeth his kynge and his God Then loketh he vpwarde and downewarde to the earth and beholde there is trouble and darcknesse vexacion is rounde aboute him and the cloude of erroure And out of soch aduersite shall he not escape The jx Chapter EVen like as in tyme past it hath bene well sene that y e londe of Zabulon and the londe of Nepthali where thorow the see waye goeth ouer Iordane in to the londe of Galilee was at the first in litle trouble but afterward sore vexed Neuertheles y e people that haue dwelt in darcknesse shal se a greate light As for them that dwel in the londe of the shadowe of death vpon them shal the light shyne Shalt thou multiplie the people and not increase the ioye also They shal reioyse before the euen as men make mery in haruest and as men that haue gotten the victory when they deale the spoyle For thou shalt breake the yocke of the peoples burthen the staff of hys shulder and the rod of his oppressoure as in y e daye at Madiā Morouer all temerarious and sedicious power yee where there is but a cote fyled w t bloude shal be burnt and fede the fyre For vnto us a childe shal be borne and vnto us a sonne shal be geuē Vpō his shulder shal the kyngdome lye and he shal be called w t his owne name The wōderous geuer of councel the mightie God the euerlastinge father the prynce of peace he shal make no ende to encrease the kyngdome and peace and shal syt vpon the seate of Dauid and in his kyngdome to set vp the same to stablish it with equyte and rightuousnesse from thence forth for euermore This shal the gelousy of the LORDE of hoostes bringe to passe The LORDE sent a worde in to Iacob the same is come in to Israel All the people also of Ephraim and they that dwel in Samaria can saye with pryde and hie stomackes on this maner The tyle worcke is fallen downe but we will buylde it with harder stones The Molbery tymbreys broken but we shal set it vp agayne with Cedre Neuertheles the LORDE shal prepare Rezin the enemie agaynst thē and so ordre their aduersaries that y e Sirians shal laye holde vpon them before and the Philistynes behynde and so deuoure Israel with open mouth After all this the wrath of the LORDE shal not ceasse but yet his hande shable stretched out still For the people turneth not vnto him that chastiseth them nether do they seke the LORDE of hoostes Therfore the LORDE shal rote out of Israel both heade and tale braunch and twygge in one daye By the heade is vnderstonde the Senatoure and honorable man and by y e tale the prophet that preacheth lyes For all they which enfourme the people that they be in a right case soch be disceauers Soch as men thynke also to be perfecte amonge these are but cast awaye Therfore shal the LORDE haue no pleasure in their yonge mē nether fauoure their fatherlesse and wydowes For thei are altogether ypocrites and wicked and all their mouthes speake foly After all this shal not the LORDES wrath ceasse but yet his honde shal be stretched out still For the vngodly burne as a fyre in the bryers and thornes And as it were out of a fyre in a wod or a redebush so ascendeth the smoke of their pryde For this cause shal y e wrath of the LORDE of hoostes fall vpon the londe and the people shal be consumed as it were with fyre no man shal spare his brother Yf a man do turne him to the right honde he shal famesh or to the lefte hande to eat he shal not haue ynough Euery man shal eate the flesh of his owne arme Manasses shal eate Ephraim and Ephraim Manasses and they both shal eate Iuda After all this shal not the LORDEs wrath ceasse but yet shal his honde be stretched out still The tenth chapter WO be vnto you y t make vnrightuous lawes and devyse thinges which be to harde for to kepe wherthorow the poore are oppressed on euery syde and the innocētes of my people are there with robbed of iudgment that wyddowes maye be youre praye and that ye maye robbe the fatherlesse What will ye do in tyme of the visitacion and destruction that shal come from farre To whom will ye renne for helpe or to whom will ye geue youre honoure that he maye kepe it that ye come not amonge the presoners or lye amonge the deed After all this shal not the wrath of the LORDE ceasse but yet shal his honde be stretched out still Wo be also vnto Assur which is a staff of my wrath in whose honde is the rod of my punyshment For I shal sende him amonge those ypocritish poeple amonge the people that haue deserued my disfauoure shal I send him that he maye utterly robbe them spoyle them and treade them downe like the myre in the strete Howbeit his meanynge is not so nether thinketh his harte of this fashion But he ymagineth only how he maye ouerthrowe and destroye moch people for he saieth are not my princes all kynges Is not Calno as easie to wynne as Charchamis Is it harder to conquere Antiochia then Arphad Or is it lighter to ouercome Damascus thē Samaria As who say I were able to wynne the kingdome of the Idolaters and their goddes but not Ierusalem and Samaria Shal I not do vnto Ierusalem and their ymages as I dyd vnto Samaria and their ymages Wherfore the LORDE saieth As soone as I haue perfourmed my whole worcke vpon the Hyl of Syon and Ierusalem thē will I also vyset the noble and stoute kynge of Assiria with his wysdome and pryde For he stondeth thus in his owne cōceate This do I thorow the power of myne owne honde and thorow my wisdome For I am wyse I am he that remoue the londes of the people I robbe their prynces and like one of the worthies I dryue them from their hie seates My honde hath founde out the hoostes of the people as it were a nest And like as egges that were layde here and there are gathered together So do I gather all countrees And there is no man y t darre be so bolde as to touch a fether that ▪ darre open his mouth or once whisper But doth the axe boost itself agaynst him y t heweth therwith or doth the sawe make eny krakinge agaynst

al people and the coueringe wherwith all Gentiles are couered As for death he shal vtterly cōsume it The LORDE God shal wipe awaye the teares from all faces and take awaye the confuciō of his people thorow y e whole worlde For y e LORDE himself hath sayde it At the same tyme shal it be sayde lo this is oure God in whō we put oure trust and he hath healed vs. This is the LORDE that we haue wayted for Let vs reioyse delyte in his health For the hōde of y e LORDE ceaseth vpō this hil But Moab shal be throsshē downe vnder him like as the straw is trodē vnder fete in a dōge hill For he shal stretch out his hōdes vpon him like as a swimmer doth to swymme And w t the power of his hondes shal he cast downe his hie pompe As for his strōge holdes hie walles he shal bur●e them cast thē downe and fell thē to the grounde in to dust The xxvj Chapter THen shal this songe be sunge in the londe of Iuda We haue a strōge citie the walles t●e ordinaūce shal kepe vs. Opē y e gates y t the good people maye go in which laboureth for the treuth And thou which art the doer and hast the matter in honde shalt prouyde for peace euē the peace y t mē hope for in the. Hope stil in the LORDE for in the LORDE God is euerlastinge strēgth For why it is he y t bringeth lowe the hie mynded citesyns casteth downe the proude cities He casteth thē to the groūde yee euē in to y e myre y t they maye be trodē vnder the fete of the symple with the steppes of the poore Thou LORDE cōsidrest the path of y e rigtuous whether it be right whether the waye of y e rightuous be right Therfore LORDE we haue a respecte vnto the waye of thy iudgmentes thy name and thy remēbraunce reioyse the soule My soule lusteth after the all the night lōge my mynde haisteth frely to the. For as soone as thy iudgment is knowne to the worlde thē the inhabitours of the earth lerne rightuousnesse But the vngodly though he haue recaued grace yet lerneth he not rightuousnesse but in that place where he is punished he offendeth feareth not the glory of the LORDE LORDE they wil not se thine hie honde but they shal se it and be confounded whē thou shalt deuoure them with the wrath of the people and with the fyre of thine enemies But vnto vs LORDE prouyde for peace for thou workest in vs all o r workes O LORDE oure God though soch lordes haue dominacion vpon vs as knowe not the yet graūte that we maye only hope in the and kepe thy name in remembraunce The malicious Tyrauntes whē they die are nether in life nor in the resurrectiō for thou visitest thē and rootest thē out and destroyest all the memoryall of them Agayne thou increacest the people o LORDE thou increacest the people thou shalt be praysed and magnified in all y e endes of the worlde The people that seke vnto the in trouble that same aduersite which they complane of is vnto thē a chastenynge before the. Like as a wife w t childe whē hir trauayle cōmeth vpō her is ashamed crieth and suffreth the payne Euē so are we o LORDE in thy sight We are with childe we trauayle beare with the sprete we bringe forth health where thorow the earth is vndestroyed and the inhabitours of the worlde perish not But as for thy dead men and ours that be departed they are in life and resurrection They lie in the earth they wake haue ioye for y t dew is a dew of life light But y e place of the malicious Tyrauntes is fallē awaye So go now my people in to thy chābre and shut the doore to the and suffre now y e twīcklinge of an eye till the wrath be ouerpast For beholde the LORDE wil go out of his habitacion vyset the wickednes of thē that dwell vpon earth He wil discouer the bloude that she hath deuoured she shal neuer hyde thē that she hath murthured The xxvij Chapter THen the LORDE with his heuye great and lōge swearde shal vyset Leuiathā that invincible serpēt euē Leuiathā y t croked serpent and shal slaye the Wallfish in y e see At the same tyme shal mē synge of the vynyarde of Muscatel I the LORDE kepe it and water it in due season I watch daye night that no man breake in to it I beare no euel wil in my mynde Who will compell me that I greatly forgettinge all faith fulnesse shulde burne it vp at once w t thornes bushes Or who will enforce me to kepe or make peace It wil come to this poynte y t Iacob shal be rooted againe and Israel shal be grene beare floures they shal fyll y e whole worlde w t their frute Smyteth he not his smyter as euel as he is smyttē him self Destroieth he not y e murtherers as he is murthured Euery mā recōpenseth w t y e measure y t he receaueth He museth vpō his sore wynde as vpō the dayes of extreme heate And therfore shal the iniquite of Iacob be thus reconciled And so shal he take awaye all y e frute of his synnes As for aulter stones he shal make them all as stones beaten to poulder the Groues and Idols shal not stonde The stronge cities shal be desolate and y e fayre cities shal be left like a wildernes The catel shal fede and lie there and the shepe shal eate it vp Their haruest shal be brent their wyues which were their bewtie when they came forth shal be defyled For it is a people without vnderstōdinge and therfore he y t created them shal not fauoure them and he y t made them shal not be merciful to thē In y t tyme shal y e LORDE shute from y e swifte water of Euphrates vnto y e ryuer of Egipte And there shal the children be chosen out one by one Then shal the greate trompet be blowen so that those which haue bene destroyed in the Assirians londe and those that be scatred abrode in Egipte shal come worshipe the LORDE at Ierusalē vpō the holy mount The xxviij Chapter WO be to y e crowne of pryde to y e dronkē Ephraemites and to the faydinge floure to the glory of his pōpe y t is vpō the toppe of the plēteous valley which mē be ouerladen w t wyne Beholde the strength and power of the LORDE shal breake in to the londe on euery syde like a tempest of hale that beareth downe stronge holdes and like an horrible mightie and ouer flowinge water And the proude crowne of the dronken Ephraemites shal be troden vnderfoote And as for the faydinge floure the glory of his pompe which is vpon the toppe of the plenteous valley

their offences are many and their departinge awaye is greate Shulde I then for all this haue mercy vpon the Thy children haue forsaken me and sworne by them that are no goddes And albeit they were bounde to me in mariage yet they fell to aduoutrie and haunted harlottes houses In the desyre of vnclenly lust they are become like the stoned horse euery man neyeth at his neghbours wife Shulde I not correcke this saieth the LORDE Shulde I not be avenged of euery people that is like vnto this Clymme vp vpon their walles beate them downe but destroye them not vtterly cut of their braunches because they are not the LORDES For vnfaithfully hath the house of Israel and Iuda forsaken me saieth the LORDE They haue denied the LORDE and sayde it is not he Tush there shall no miszfortune come vpon vs we shall se nether swearde ner honger As for the warnynge of the prophetes they take it but for wynde yee there is none of these which will tell them that soch thinges shal happen vnto them Wherfore thus saieth the LORDE God of hoostes because ye speake soch wordes beholde The wordes that are in thy mouth will I turne to fyre and make the people to be wod that it maye consume them Lo I will bringe a people vpō you from farre o house of Israel saieth the LORDE a mightie people an olde people a people whose speach thou knowest not nether vnderstōdest what they saye Their arowes are sodane death yee they them selues be very giauntes This people shal eate vp thy frute thy meate yee they shal deuoure thy sonnes and thy doughters thy shepe and thy bullockes They shall eate vp thy grapes fyges As for thy stronge and well fensed cities wherin thou didest trust they shal destroye them with the swearde Neuertheles I will not then haue done with you saieth the LORDE But yf they saye wherfore doth the LORDE oure God all this vnto vs Then answere them because that like as ye haue forsakē me and serued straunge goddes in youre owne londe euen so shall ye serue other goddes also in a straunge londe Preach this vnto the house of Iacob crie it out in Iuda and saye thus Heare this thou folish and vndiscrete people Ye haue eyes but ye se not eares haue ye but ye heare not Feare ye not me saieth the LORDE Are ye not ashamed to loke me in the face which bynde the see with the sonde so that it can not passe his boundes For though it rage yet can it do nothinge and though the wawes therof do swell yet maye they not go ouer But this people hath a false and an obstinate herte they are departed and gone awaye fro me They thinke not in their hartes O let vs feare the LORDE oure God that geueth vs rayne early and late when nede is which kepeth euer still the haruest for vs yearly Neuertheles youre miszdedes haue turned these from you youre synnes haue robbed you herof For amonge my people are founde wicked personnes that priuely laye snares and waite for men to take them and destroye them And like as a net is full of byrdes so are their houses full of that which they haue gotten with falsede and disceate Herof cōmeth their greate substaunce and riches her of are they fat and welthy and are runne awaye fro me with shamefull blasphemies They ministre not the lawe they make no ende of the fatherlesses cause they iudge not the poore acordinge to equite Shulde I not punysh these thinges saieth the LORDE Shulde I not be avenged of all soch people as these be Horrible and greuous thinges are done in the londe The prophetes teach falsely and the prestes folowe them and my people hath pleasure therin What will come therof at the last The VI. Chapter COme out of Ierusalem ye stronge childrē of Ben Iamin blowe vp the trompettes ye Tecuites set vp a token vnto Bethacarem for a plage and a greate misery pepeth out from the North. I will licken the doughter Sion to a fayre and tendre woman and to her shall come the shepherdes with their flockes Their tentes shal they pitch rounde aboute her and euery one shal fede with his honde Make batell agaynst her shal they saye Arise let vs go vp while it is yet daye Alas the daye goeth awaye the night shadowes fall downe Arise let vs go vp by night and destroye hir stronge holdes for thus hath the LORDE of hoostes commaunded Hew downe hir trees and set vp bulworkes agaynst Ierusalē This is the cite that must be punished for in her is all maliciousnes Like as a cōdyte aboundeth in water euē so this citie aboūdeth in wickednes Robbery and vnrightuousnesse is herde in her sorow woundes are euer there in my sight Amēde the o Ierusalem lest I with drawe my herte from the and make the desolate thy londe also y t no man dwel in it For thus saieth the LORDE of hoostes The residue of Israel shal be gathered as the remnaunt of grapes And therfore turne thine honde agayne in to the baszket like the grape gatherer But vnto whom shal I speake whom shal I warne that he maye take hede Their eares are so vncircumcised that they maye not heare Beholde they take the worde of God but for a scorne and haue no lust therto And therfore I am so full of thy indignacion o LORDE that I maye suffre no longer Shed out thy wrath vpon the children that are without and vpon all yonge men Yee the man must be taken presoner with the wife and the aged with the crepel Then ●●uses with their londes and wiues shal be turned vnto straungers whē I stretchout myne hōde vpon the inhabitours of this londe saieth the LORDE For from the leest vnto the most they hange all vpon covetousnes and from the prophet vnto the prest they go all aboute with falsede and lyes And besyde that they heale the hurte of my people with swete wordes sayenge peace peace when there is no peace at all Therfore they must be ashamed for they haue cōmitted abhominacion But how shulde they be ashamed when they knowe nothinge nether of shame ner good nurture And therfore they shal fall amonge the slayne and in the houre when I shall viset them they shal be brought downe saieth the LORDE Thus saieth the LORDE go in to the stretes considre and make inquisicion for the olde waye and yf it be the good and right waye then go therin that ye maye fynde rest for youre soules But they saye we will not walke therin and I will set watchmen ouer you and therfore take hede vnto the voyce of the trompet But they saye we will not take hede Heare therfore ye Gentiles and thou congregacion shalt knowe what I haue deuysed for them Heare thou earth also beholde I will cause a plage come vpon this

sermons then before The XXXVII Chapter SEdechias y e sonne of Iosias which was made kynge thorow Nabuchodonosor kynge of Babilon reigned in the londe of Iuda in the steade off Iechonias the sonne of Ioachim But nether he ner his seruauntes ner the people in the lōde wolde obeye the wordes of y e LORDE which he spake by the prophet Ieremy Neuertheles Sedechias the kynge sent Iuchal the sonne of Selamia and Sophonias the sonne of Maasia the prest to the prophet Ieremy sayenge O praye thou vnto the LORDE oure God for vs. Now Ieremy walked fre amonge the people at that tyme and was not put in preson as yet Pharaos hooste also was come out of Egipte which when the Caldees that beseged Ierusalem perceaued they departed from thence Then came the worde of the LORDE vnto Ieremy the prophet sayēge Thus saieth y e LORDE God of Israel This answere shal ye geue to the kynge of Iuda that sent you vnto me for councell Beholde Pharaos hooste which is come forth to helpe you shall returne to Egipte in to his owne londe But the Caldees shall come agayne fight agaynst this cite wynne it and set fyre vpon it For thus saieth the LORDE disceaue not yo r owne myndes thinkynge on this maner Tush the Caldees go now their waye from vs No they shall not go their waye For though ye had slayne the whole hooste off the Caldees ▪ that besege you and euery one of the slayne laye in his tent yet shulde they stonde vp and set fyre vpon this cite Now whē the hooste of the Caldees was brokē vp from Ierusalē for feare of the Egipcians armye Ieremy went out of Ierusalē towarde the lōde of Ben Iamin to do certayne busynesse there amōge y e people And whē he came vnder Ben Iamyns Porte there was a porter called Ierias the sonne of Selamia y e zōne of Hananias which fell vpō him toke him sayēge y e mynde is to runne to the Caldees Then sayde Ieremy It is not so I go not to the Caldees Neuertheles Ierias wolde not beleue him but brought Ieremy boūde before the princes Wherfore the princes were angrie with Ieremy causinge him to be beaten to be layed in preson in the house of Ionathas the scrybe For he was the ruler of the preson Thus was Ieremy put in to the dongeon preson and so laye there a longe tyme. Then Sedechias the kynge sent for him called him axed him quietly in his owne house sayenge thinkest thou this busynes that now is in honde cōmeth of the LORDE Ieremy answerde yee y t it doth thou sayde he shalt be delyuered in to the kynge of Babilons power Morouer Ieremy sayde vnto kynge Sedechias What haue I offended agaynst y e agaynst thy seruaūtes or agaynst this people that ye haue caused me be put in preson Where are youre prophetes which haue prophecied vnto you and sayde that y e kynge of Babilō shulde not come agaynst you this lōde And therfore heare now o my lorde the kynge let my prayer be accepte before the sende me nomore in to y e house of Ionathas the scrybe that I dye not there Then Sedechias the kynge commaunded to put Ieremy in the fore entrie off the preson and dayly to the geuen him a cake of bred and els no dighte meate vntill all the bred in the cite was eaten vp Thus Ieremy remayned in y e fore entre off the preson The XXXVIII Chapter SAphatias the sonne off Mathā Gedolias the sonne of Pashur Iuchal the sonne of Selamia Pashur the sonne of Malchias perceaued the wordes y t Ieremy had spokē vnto all the people namely on this maner Thus saieth the LORDE Who so remayneth in this cite shall perish ether with the swearde with honger or with pestilence But who so falleth vnto the Caldees shal escape wynnynge his soule for a pray shal lyue For thus saieth the LORDE This cite no doute must be delyuered in to y e power of the kīge of Babilō he also shal wynne it Thē sayde the prynces vnto y e kynge Syr we besech you let this man be put to death For thus he discorageth the hōdes of the soudyers y t be in this cite the hōdes of all the people whē he speaketh soch wordes vnto thē This mā verely laboureth not for peace of y e people but mischefe Sedechias the kinge answered and sayde lo he is in yo r hōdes for y e kīge maye denye you nothinge Then toke they Ieremy and cast him in to the dongeon off Malchias the sonne off Amalech that dwelt in the fore entre off the preson And they let downe Ieremy w t coardes in to a dongeon where there was no water but myre So Ieremy stack fast in the myre Now when Abdemelech the Morian beynge a chamberlayne in the kynges courte vnderstode that they had cast Ieremy in to the dongeon he went out off the kynges house and spake to the kynge which thē sat vnder the porte off Ben Iamin these wordes My lorde the kynge where as these men medle with Ieremy the prophet they do him wronge Namely in that they haue put him in preson there to dye of honger for there is no more bred in the cite Thē the kynge commaūded Abdemelech the Morian and sayde Take from hēce xxx men whom thou wilt drawe vp Ieremy the prophet out of the dongeon before he dye So Abdemelech toke the men w t him went to y e house of Amalech there vnder an almery he gat olde ragges worne cloutes let thē downe by a coarde in to the dongeon to Ieremy And Abdemelech the Morian sayde vnto the prophet Ieremy O put these ragges and cloutes vnder thine arme holes betwixte thē and the coardes ād Ieremy dyd so So they drewe vp Ieremy with coardes and toke him out of the dongeon and he remayned in the fore entrie of the preson Thē Sedechias the kynge sent and caused Ieremy the prophet be called vnto him in to the thirde entrie that was by the house off the LORDE And the kynge sayde vnto Ieremy I wil axe the somwhat but hyde nothinge fro me Thē Ieremy answerde Sedechias Yf I be playne vnto the thou wilt cause me suffre death yf I geue the coūcell thou wilt not folowe me So the kynge swore an ooth secretly vnto Ieremy sayenge As truly as the LORDE lyueth that made vs these soules I will not slaye the ner geue the in to the hōdes of them that seke after thy life Then sayde Ieremy vnto Sedechias Thus saieth y e LORDE off hoostes the God of Israel Yf case be that thou wilt go forth vnto the kynge off Babilons prynces thou shalt saue thy life and this cite shall not be brēt yee both thou and thy housholde shall escape with youre lyues But yff thou wilt not go forth to the kynge off

was xij cubites foure fingers thick and rounde Now vpon the rope were brasen knoppes euery knoppe was fyue cubites hie vpon the knoppes were whopes pomgranates rounde aboute of clene brasse After this maner were both the pilers fashioned with the pomgranates wherof there were an hundreth and xcvj which hanged vpon the whoopes rounde aboute The chefe captayne also toke Sarias y t hie pre●● Sophonias that was chefe next him and the thre kepers of the treasury He toke out of the cite a chamberlayne which was a captayne of the souldyers seuen men that were the kinges seruauntes which were founde in the cite Sepher a captayne that vsed to muster the men of warre with lx men of the countre that were taken in the cite These Nabusaradan the chefe captayne toke caried them to the kinge of Babilon vnto Reblatha and the kinge of Babilon caused them to be put to death at Reblatha in the londe of Hemath And thus Iuda was ledde awaye captyue out of his owne londe This is the summe of the people whom Nabuchodonosor ledde awaye captyue In the seuenth yeare of his reigne he caried awaye of y e Iewes thre thousande thre and twenty In the xviij yeare Nabuchodonosor caried awaye from Ierusalem eight hunderth xxxij personnes In the xxiij yeare of Nabuchodonosor Nabusaradan the chefe captayne toke awaye seuen hundreth xlv Iewes presoners The whole summe of all the presoners is foure thousande and 〈◊〉 hundreth In the xxxvij yeare after that Ioachi● the kinge of Iuda was caried awaye in the xxv daye of the xij Moneth Euilmerodach kinge of Babilon the same yeare y t he reigned gaue Ioachim the kinge of Iuda his pardon and let him out of preson and spake louyngly to him And set his trone aboue y e trones of the other kinges that were with him in Babilon He chaunged also the dothes of his preson yee and he att with him all his life longe And he had a cōtinuall lyuynge geuen him of the kinge of Babilon euery daye a certayne thinge alowed him all the dayes of his life vntill he dyed The ende of the prophet Ieremy The Lamentatacions of Ieremy And it came to passe after Israel was brought in to captiuyte and Ierusalem destroyed that Ieremy the prophet sat wepinge mournynge and makinge his mone in Ierusalem so that w t an heuy herte he sighed sobbed sayenge The first Chapter ALas how sitteth the cite so desolate y t some tyme was full of people how is she become like a wedowe which was the lady of all nacions How is she brought vnder tribute that ruled all londes She wepeth sore in the night so that y e teares runne downe hir chekes for amonge all hir louers there is none that geueth her eny comforte yee hir nexte frendes abhorre her are become hir enemies Iuda is taken presoner because she was defyled for seruynge so many straunge goddes she dwelleth now amonge the Heithen She fyndeth no rest all they that persecuted her toke her and so she dwelleth amonge hir enemies The stretes of Sion mourne because no man commeth more to the solempne feastes All hir gates are desolate hir prestes make lamentacion hir maydens are carefull and she herself is in greate heuynesse Hir enemies are fallen vpon hir heade haue put her to shame because the LORDE hath chastened her for hir greate wickednes hir children are ledde awaye captiue before their enemie All the bewtie of the doughter of Sion is awaye hir prynces are become like wethers that fynde no pasture They are dryuē awaye before their enemie so that they haue no more power Now doth Ierusalem remembre the tyme of hir misery disobedience yee the ioye pleasure y t she hath had in tymes past seynge hir people is brought downe thorow the power of their enemie there is no man for to helpe her hir enemies stōde lokinge at her and laugh hir Sabbath dayes to scorne Ierusalem synned euer more more therfore is she come in decaye All they that had her in honoure despise her for they haue sene hir fylthinesse Yee she sigheth and is a shamed of herselfe Hir skyrtes are defyled she remēbred not what wolde folowe therfore is hir fall so greate and there is no mā to comforte her O LORDE cōsidre my trouble for myne enemie hath the vpper honde The enemie hath put his honde to all the precious thinges that she had yee euen before hir eyes came the Heithen in and out of the Sanctuary whom thou neuertheles hast forbydden to come within thy congregacion All hir people seke their bred with heuynes loke what precious thinge euery man hath that geueth he for meate to saue his life Considre O LORDE and se how vyle I am become O ye all that go fore by beholde and se yf there be eny sorowe like vnto myne wherwith the LORDE hath troubled me in the daye of his fearefull wrath From aboue hath he sent downe a fyre in to my bones and chastened me he hath layed a not for my fete and throwne me wyde open he hath made me desolate so that I must euer be mournynge The yocke of my transgression is come at the last with his honde hath he taken it vp and put it aboute my neck My strength is gone the LORDE hath delyuered me into those hondes wherout I can not quyte myself The LORDE hath destroyed all the mightie men that were in me He hath proclamed a feast to slaughter all my best mē The LORDE hath troden downe the doughter of Iuda like as it were in a wyne presse Therfore do I wepe and myne eyes gusshe out of water for the cōforter that shulde quycken me is farre fro me My children are dryuen awaye for why the enemie hath gotten the ouer honde Sion casteth out hir hōdes and there is no man to comforte her The LORDE hath layed the enemies rounde aboute Iacob and Ierusalem is as it were a menstruous womā in the myddest of them The LORDE is rightuous for I haue prouoked his countenaunce vnto anger O take hede all ye people and considre my heuynes My maydens and my yonge men are led awaye in to captiuyte I called for my louers but they begyled me for my prestes and councelers but they perished euen while they sought for meate to saue their lyues Considre O LORDE how I am troubled my wombe is disquieted my herte turneth aboute in me and I am full of heuynes The swearde hurteth me without and within I am like vnto death They heare my mournynge but there is none that wil comforte me All myne enemies haue herde of my trouble and are glad therof because thou hast done it But thou shalt brynge forth the tyme when they also shal be like vnto me From the shall come all their aduersite thou shalt plucke

to be an abhominacion curse and synne like as it hath happened vnto oure fathers also because of all their wickednesse and departynge from the. O Israel heare the commaundementes of life pondre them well with thine eares that thou mayest lerne wysdome But how happeneth it Israel that thou art in thyne enemies lōde thou art waxen olde in a straūge countre and defyled with the deed Why art thou become like them that go downe to their graues Euē because thou hast forsaken the well of wysdome For yf thou haddest walked in the waye of God truly thou shuldest haue remayned still safe ī thine owne londe O lerne then where discrecion is where vertu is where vnderstōdinge is that thou mayest knowe also frō whence cōmeth longe life a necessary lyuynge the light of the eyes quyetnes Who euer foūde out hir place or who came euer in to hir treasures Where are y e prynces of the Heithen become and soch as ruled the beestes vpon the earth They that had their pastyme with the foules of the ayre they that hoorded vp syluer and golde wherin men trust so moch and made no ende of their gatheringe What is worth of them that coyned siluer and were so carefull and coude not bringe their workes to passe They be roted out and gone downe to hell and other men are come vp in their steade Yonge men haue sene light and dwelt vpon earth but the waye of reformacion haue they not knowne ner vnderstonde the pathes therof nether haue their children receaued it yee right farre is it frō thē It hath not bene herde of in the lōde of Canaan nether hath it bene sene at Theman The Agarenes sought after wisdome but that which is earthly like as the marchauntes of the lōde do They of Theman are connynge also they laboure for wisdome vnderstondinge but y e waye of true wisdome they knowe not nether do they thynke vpon the pathes therof O Israel how greate is the house of God and how large is the place of his possession Greate is he and hath none ende hye and vnmeasurable What is become of those famouse giauntes that were so greate of bodyes and so worthy men of warre Those had not the LORDE chosen nether haue they founde the waye of reformacion therfore were they destroyed and for so moch as they had no wisdome they perished because of their foolishnesse Who hath gone vp in to heauen to take wisdome there brought her downe frō the cloudes Who hath gone ouer the see to fynde her hath chosen her aboue golde and so brought her hither No man knoweth the wayes of wisdome nether is there eny y t can seke out hir pathes But he that woteth all thynges knoweth her he hath founde her out with his foreknowlege This same is he which prepared the earth at the begynnynge fylled it with all maner of foules beestes When he sendeth out the light it goeth whē he calleth it agayne it obeyeth hī w t feare The starres kepe their watch geue their light yee and y t gladly When he calleth them they saye here we be And so with chearfulnes they shewe light vnto him y t made thē This is oure God ād there shall none other be cōpared vnto him It is he y t hath founde out all wisdome and hath geuen her vnto Iacob his seruaunt to Israel his beloued Afterwarde dyd he shewe himself vpon earth and dwelt amonge men The IIII. Chapter THis is the boke off the commaundemētes of God and the lawe y e endureth for euer All they y t kepe it shall come to life but soch as forsake it shall come to death Turne the o Iacob and take holde of it walke by this waye thorow his brightnesse and shyne Geue not thyne honoure to another and thy worshipe to a straunge people O Israel how happie are we seīge that God hath shewed vs soch thynges as are pleasaūt vnto him Be of good cheare thou people of God o thou awnciēt Israel Now are ye solde amonge the Heithen howbeit not for youre vtter destruccion but because ye prouoked God the LORDE to wrath and displeasure therfore were ye delyuered vnto vnto youre enemies For ye displeased the euerlastinge God that made you offerynge vnto deuels and not God Ye haue forgottē him that brought you vp ād youre nurse haue ye greued o. Ierusalem When she sawe that the wrath off God was commynge vpon you she sayde Herkē o ye that dwell aboute Sion for God hath brought me into greate heuynesse ād why I se the captyuyte of my people of my sonnes and doughters which the euerlastynge God will brynge vpon them With ioye dyd I norish them but now must I leaue them with wepynge and sorow Let no man reioyce ouer me wyddowe ād forsaken which for the synnes off my children am desolate of euery man For why they departed from the lawe of God they wolde not knowe his rightuousnes ner walke in the waye off his cōmaundementes and as for the pathes off the treuth and godlynesse they had no lust to go in them O ye dwellers aboute Sion come and let vs call to remembraunce the captiuyte that the euerlastinge God hath brought vpon my sonnes and my doughters He hath brought a people vpon them from farre an vncurteous people and of a straunge lāguage which nether regarde the olde ner pyte the yonge These haue caried awaye the deare beloued of my wyddowes leauynge me alone both desolate and childlesse But alas what can I helpe you Now he y t hath brought these plages vpon you delyuer you also frō the hondes of youre enemies Go youre waye O my children go youre waye for I am desolate and forsaken I haue put of the clothinge of peace and put vpon me the sack cloth off prayer and for my tyme I will call vpon the most hyest Be off good cheare o my children crie vnto the LORDE and he shal delyuer you from the power of the prynces youre enemies For verely I haue euer a good hope off youre prosperous health yee a very gladnesse is come vpon me from the holy one because of the mercy that ye shall haue off oure euerlastinge Sauioure With mournynge and wepinge dyd I let you go fro me but with ioye and perpetuall gladnesse shall the LORDE brynge you agayne vnto me Like as the neghbours of Sion sawe youre captyuite from God Euē so shal they also se shortly youre health in God which shal come on you with greate honoure and euerlastinge worshipe O my children suffre paciētly the wrath that shal come vpon you For the enemie hath persecuted the but shortly thou shalt se his destruccion and shalt treade vpon his necke My derlinges haue gone rough harde wayes for they are led awaye as a flocke that is scatred abrode with the enemies But be of good cōforte o my children crie vnto the LORDE For he that

their strēgth are layed by them that were slayne with the swearde yee amonge the vncircumcised and them which are gone downe in to the pytte Morouer there be all the prynces of the north with all the Sidoniās which are gone downe to the slayne With their feare and strength they are come to confucion and lye there vncircumcised amonge those that be slayne with the swearde and beare their owne shame with them that be gone downe to y e pytte Now when Pharao seyth this he shal be comforted ouer all his people that is slayne with the swearde both Pharao all his hoost saieth y e LORDE God For I haue geuē my feare in the lōde of the lyuynge But Pharao all his people shall ye amōge the vncircumcised and amonge them that be slayne with the swearde saieth the LORDE God The XXXIII Chapter AGayne the worde off the LORDE came vnto me sayenge Thou sonne off man Speake to the childrē of thy people and tell them When I sende a swearde vpon a londe yf the people off the londe take a man off their countre and set him to be their watchman y e same man whā he seyth the swearde come vpon the londe shall blowe the trompet and warne the people Yff a man now heare the noyse off the trompet will not be warned and the swearde come ād take him awaye his bloude shall be vpō his owne heade For he herde the soūde of the trompet and wolde not take hede therfore his bloude be vpon him But yff he will receaue warnynge he shal saue his life Agayne yf the watch man se the swerde come and shewe it not with the trompet so y t the people is not warned yff the swearde come then and take eny man from amōge thē the same shall be taken awaye in his owne synne but his bloude will I requyre off the watchmans honde And now O thou sonne of man I haue made the a watchman vnto the house of Israel that where as thou hearest eny thinge out of my mouth thou mayest warne them on my behalfe Yff I saye vnto the wicked thou wicked thou shalt surely dye and thou geuest him not warnynge that he maye bewarre off his vngodly waye then shall the wicked dye in his owne synne but his bloude will I requyre of thy honde Neuertheles yf thou warne the wicked off his waye to turne from it where as he yet wil not be turned from it then shal he dye because off his synne but thou hast delyuered thy soule Therfore O thou sonne off man speake vnto the house off Israel Ye saye thus Oure offences and synnes lye vpon vs and webe corrupte in them how shulde we then be restored vnto life Tell them As truly as I lyue saieth the LORDE God I haue no pleasure in the death off the wicked but moch rather that the wicked turne from his waye and lyue Turne you turne you from yo r vngodly wayes o ye off the house off Israel Oh wherfore will ye dye Thou sonne off man tell the children off thy people The rightuousnes of the rightuous shall not saue him whan so euer he turneth awaye vnfaithfully Agayne the wickednesse of the wicked shal not hurte him whan so euer he conuerteth from his vngodlynesse And y e rightuousnesse of the rightuous shal not saue his life when so euer he synneth Yff I saye vnto the rightuous that he shall surely lyue and so he trust to his owne rightuousnesse and do synne then shall his rightuousnesse be nomore thought vpon but in the wickednesse that he hath done he shall dye Agayne yff I saye to the wicked thou shalt surely dye and so he turne frō his synnes and do the thinge that is laufull and right In so moch that the same wicked mā geueth the pledge agayne restoreth that he had taken awaye by robbery walketh in the cōmaundementes off life and doth no wrōge Then shall he surely lyue and not dye Yee the synnes that he had done shal neuer be thought vpon For in so moch as he doth now the thynge that is laufull and right he shall lyue And yet the children off thy people saye Tush the waye of the LORDE is not right where as their owne waye is rather vnright When the rightuous turneth from his rightuousnesse and doeth the thynge that is wicked he shall dye therfore But yf the wicked turne from his wickednesse doinge the thinge that is laufull and right he shall lyue therfore Yet ye saye ▪ he waye of y e LORDE is not equall O ye house of Israel I wil iudge euery one of you after his wayes In the xij yeare the v. daye of the x. Moneth of oure captyuyte it happened that one which was fled out of Ierusalem came vnto me and sayde y e cite is destroyed Now the honde of the LORDE had bene vpon me the euenynge afore this man which was escaped came vnto me and had opened my mouth vntyll the mornynge that he came to me Yee he opened my mouth so y t I was nomore domme Then came the worde of y e LORDE vnto me and sayde Thou sonne off man these that dwell in the waisted londe of Israel saye Abraham was but one man ād he had the londe in possessiō now are we many and the londe is geuen vs to possesse also And therfore tell them Thus saieth the LORDE In the bloude haue ye eaten youre eyes haue ye lift vp to Idols and haue shed bloude shal ye then haue the londe in possession Ye leane vpon youre sweardes ye worke abhominacions euery one defyleth his neghbours wife and shal ye then possesse the londe Saye thou these wordes vnto thē Thus saieth the LORDE God As truly as I lyue all ye that dwell in this wildernesse shall be slayne w t the swearde what so is vpon the felde will I geue vnto the beestes to be deuoured those that be in stronge holdes and dennes shall dye off the pestilēce For I wil make the londe desolate and waist and y e pōpe off hir strength shall come to an ende The mountaynes in Israel shal be so waiste that no man shall trauayle therby Then shall they lerne to knowe that I am the LORDE whē I make the lōde waist and desolate because off all their abhominacions that they haue wrought And thou sonne off man the children off thy people y t talke of the by the walles ād in the dores of their houses sayenge one to another come let vs heare what worde is gone forth from the LORDE These come vnto the after y e maner of a greate people yee my people syt downe before the and heare thy wordes but they do not therafter For in their mouthes they shewe themselues as though they were feruent but their herte goeth after their owne couetous lucre And as a balet y t hath a swete tune ād is pleasaūt to synge so shalt thou be vnto

III. Chapter WO to that bloudthursty cite which is all full of lyes and robbery wil not leaue of from rauyszshinge There a man maye heare scourginge ruszshinge the noyse of the wheles the crienge of the horses the rollinge of the charettes There the horse men get vp with naked swerdes and glisterynge speares There lyeth a multitude slayne and a greate heape of deed bodies There is no ende of deed coarses yee men fall vpon their bodies And that for the greate and many folde whord●me of the fayre and beutifull harlot which is a mastresse of wychcraft yee and selleth the people thorow hir whordome and the nacions thorow hir wichcraft Beholde I wil vpon the saieth the LORDE of hoostes and wil pull thy clothes ouer thy heade that I maye shewe thy nakednes amonge the Heithen and thy shame amonge the kingdomes I wil cast dyrte vpon y t to make the be abhorred and a gasynge stocke Yee all they that loke vpon the shal starte backe saye Niniue is destroyed Who wil haue pyte vpō the where shal I seke one to conforte the Art thou better then the greate cite of Alexādria that laye in the waters and had the waters rounde aboute it which was strongly fenced walled with the see Ethiopia and Egipte were hir strēgth that exceadinge greate aboue measure Aphrica and Lybia were hir helpers yet was she dryuen awaye brought in to captiuyte hir yonge children were smytten downe at the heade of euery strete the lottes were cast for the most awncient men in her and all hir mightie men were bounde in chaynes Euen so shalt thou also be droncken and hyde thy self and seke some helpe agaynst thine enemy All thy stronge cities shal be like fyge trees w t rype fyges which whē a mā shaketh they fall in to the mouth of the eater Beholde thy people with in the are but w●men the portes of thy londe shal be opened vnto thine enemies and the fyre shal deuoure y e barres Drawe water now agaynst thou be beseged make vp thy strōge holdes go in to the claye tempre the morter make stronge bricke yet the fyre shal consume the the swerde shal destroye the yee as y e locuste doth so shal it eate the vp It shal fall heuely vpon the as the locustes yee right heuely shal it fall vpon the euen as the greshoppers Thy marchauntes haue bene mo then the starres of heauē but now shal they sprede abrode as the locustes and fle their waye Thy lordes are as the greshoppers thy captaynes as the multitude of greshoppers which whē they be colde remayne in y e hedges but when the Sonne is vp they fle awaye and no mā can tell where they are become Thy shepherdes are aslepe o kinge of Assur thy worthies are layed downe y e people is scatred abrode vpon the mountaynes and no man gathereth them together agayne Thy wounde can not be hyd thy plage is so sore All they that heare this of the shall clappe their handes ouer the. For what is he to whō thou hast not allwaye bene doynge hurte The ende of the prophet Naum. The Prophet Abacuc What Abacuc conteyneth Chap. I. He complayneth vnto God of the wickednes of the people and threateneth them with the plage of God Chap. II. He reproueth the cuvetous and vnrightuous men Chap. III. A prayer of the prophet The first Chapter THis is the heuy burthē which the prophet Abacuc dyd se. O LORDE how longe shal I crie thou wilt not heare How longe shall I complayne vnto the suffrynge wronge and thou wilt not helpe Why lettest thou me se weerynesse and laboure Tyrāny and violence are before me power ouergoeth right for the lawe is torne in peces and there can no right iudgment go forth And why the vngodly is more set by then the rightuous this is the cause y t wronge iudgment procedeth Beholde amonge the Heithen and loke wel wondre at it and be abaszshed for I wil do a thinge in youre tyme which though it be tolde you ye shal not beleue Forlo I wil rase vp y e Caldees that bytter and swifte people which shal go as wyde as the londe is to take possession of dwellinge places that be not their owne A grymme boysteous people is it these shal syt in iudgment punyshe Their horses are swifter then the cattes of the mountayne byte sorer then y e wolues in y e euenynge Their horsmen come by greate heapes from farre they fle hastely to deuo r as the Aegle They come all to spoyle out of them commeth an east wynde which bloweth and gathereth their captyues like as the sonde They shall mocke the kinges and laugh the prynces to scorne They shal not set by eny stronge holde for they shal laye ordinaunce agaynst it and take it Then shal they take a fresh corage vnto them to go forth to do more euell so ascrybe that power vnto their God But thou o LORDE my God my holy one thou art from the begynnynge therfore shal we not dye O LORDE thou hast ordened them for a punyshmēt and set them to reproue the mightie Thine eyes are clene thou mayest not se euell thou canst not beholde y e thinge that is wicked Wherfore then dost thou loke vpon the vngodly and holdest thy tunge when the wicked deuoureth the man that is better thē himself Thou makest men as the fish in the see and like as the crepinge beestes that haue no gyde They take vp all with their angle they catch it in their net gather it in their yarne wherof they reioyce and are glad Therfore offre they vnto their net and do sacrifice vnto their yarne because that thorow it their porcion is become so fat and their meate so pleteous Wherfore they cast out their net agayne neuer ceasse to slaye the people The II. Chapter I Stode vpon my watch and set me vpon my bulworke to loke se what he wolde saye vnto me and what answere I shulde geue him y t reproueth me But the LORDE answered me and sayde Wryte the vision planely vpon thy tables that who so commeth by maye rede it for y e visiō is yet farre of for a tyme but at y e last it shal come to passe not fayle And though he tary yet wait thou for him for in very dede he wil come and not be slacke Beholde who so wil not beleue his soule shal not prospere but the iust shal lyue by his faith Like as the wyne disceaueth the dronckarde euen so the proude shal fayle not endure He openeth his desyre wyde vp as the hell is as vnsaciable as death All Heithen gathereth he to him heapeth vnto him all people But shall not all these take vp a prouerbe agaynst him and mocke him with a byworde and saye Wo vnto him that heapeth vp other mens goodes How

you euerlastinge rest for he is nye at hande that shal come in the ende of the worlde Be ready to the rewarde of the kyngdome for the euerlastinge light shall shyne vpon you for euermore Fle the shadowe of this worlde receaue the ioyfulnes of youre glory I testifie my sauioure openly O receaue the gift y t is geuen you and be glad geuynge thankes vnto him that hath called you to the heauenly kyngdome Aryse vp and stonde fast beholde the nombre of those that be sealed in the feast of the LORDE which are departed from the shadowe of the worlde and haue receaued glorious garmētes of the LORDE Take thy nombre O Sion and shutt vp thy purified which haue fulfilled the lawe of the LORDE The nombre of thy children whom thou longedest for is fulfilled beseke the power of the LORDE that thy people which haue bene called from the begynnynge maye be halowed I Eszdras sawe vpon the mount Sion a greate people whom I coude not nombre they all praysed the LORDE with songes of thankesgeuynge And in the myddest of thē there was a yonge mā of an hye stature m●re excellent then all they and vpon euery one of their heades he sett a crowne and was euer hygher and hygher which I marueled at greatly So I axed y e angell sayde Syr what are these He answered and sayde vnto me These be they that haue put of the mortall clothinge and put on the immortall and haue testified knowleged the name of God Now are they crowned and receaue the rewarde Then sayde I vnto the angell what yonge personne is it that crowneth them geueth them the palmes in their handes So he answered and sayde vnto me It is y e sonne of God whom they haue knowleged in the worlde Then beganne I greatly to commende them that stode so stifly for the name of the LORDE And so the angell sayde vnto me Go thy waye and tell my people what maner of thinges and how greate wonders of the LORDE thy God thou hast sen● The III. Chapter IN the thirtie yeare of the fall of the cite I was at Babilon laye troubled vpō my bed my thoughtes came vp ouer my hert for I sawe y e desolacion of Sion the plenteous wealth of them y t dwelt at Babilon my sprete was sore moued so that I begāne to speake fearfull wordes to the most hyest and sayde O LORDE LORDE thou spakest at the begynnynge whan thou plantedst y e earth and that thy self alone and gauest commaundement vnto y e people and a body vnto Adam which was a creature of thy handes and hast brethed in him the breth of life and so he lyued before the and thou leddest him in to paradyse which gardē of pleasure thy right hande had planted or euer the earth was made And vnto him thou gauest commaundemēt to loue y e waye which he transgressed immediatly thou appoyntedest death in him and in his generacions Of him came nacions trybes people kynreddes out of nombre And euery people walked after their owne wil and dyd nyce thinges before the and as for thy commaundementes they despysed them But in processe of tyme thou broughtest the water floude vpon those that dwelt in the worlde and destroydest them And like as the death was in Adam so was the water floude also in these Neuertheles one of them thou leftest namely Noe with his housholde of whom come all righteous mē And it happened that whan they y t dwelt vpon the earth beganne to multiplie and had gotten many children and were a greate people they beganne to be more vngodly then the first Now whan they all lyued so wickedly before the thou didest chose the a man from amonge them whose name was Abram Him thou louedest and vnto him only thou shewdest thy wyll and maydest an euerlastinge couenaunt with him promisinge him that thou woldest neuer forsake his sede And vnto him thou gauest Isaac vnto Isaac also thou gauest Iacob and Esau. As for Iacob thou didest chose him and put backe Esau. And so Iacob became a greate multitude And it happened that whā thou leddest his sede out of Egipte thou broughtest thē vp to the mount Sion bowinge downe the heauens settinge fast the earth mouynge the grounde makynge the depthes to shake and troublynge the worlde And thy glory wente thorow foure portes of fyre and earth quakes and wyndes and colde that thou mightest geue the lawe vnto the sede of Iacob and diligence vnto the generaciō of Israel And yet tokest thou not awaye from thē that wicked hert that thy lawe might brynge forth frute in them For the first Adam bare a wicked hert transgressed and was ouercome and so be all they y t are borne of him Thus remayned weaknes with the lawe in the hert of the people with the wickednesse of the rote so that the good departed awaye and the euell abode still So the tymes passed awaye and the yeares were brought to an ende Then didest thou rayse the vp a seruaunt called Dauid whom thou commaundedst to buylde a cite vnto thy name and to offre vp incense and sacrifice vnto the therin This was done now many yeares Then the inhabiters of the cite forsoke the and in all thinges dyd euē as Adam and all his generacions had done for they also had a wicked hert And so thou gauest thy cite ouer in to the handes of thine enemies Are they of Babilon then better and more righteous then thy people y t they shal therfore haue the domynion of Sion For whan I came there and sawe their vngodlynes and so greate wickednesse that it coude not be nōbred yee whan my soule sawe so many euell doers in y e xxx yeare my hert fayled me for I sawe how thou suffrest them in soch vngodlynes and sparest y e wicked doers but thine owne people hast thou roted out and preserued thine enemies this hast thou not shewed me I can not perceaue how this happeneth Do they of Babilon then better then they of Sion Or is there eny other people y t knoweth the sauynge the people of Israel Or what generacion hath so beleued y e couenaūtes as Iacob And yet their rewarde appeareth not and their labo hath no frute For I haue gone here and there thorow the Heithē I se y t they be rych wealthy thynke not vpon y e commaundementes Weye thou therfore oure wickednesse now in y e balaunce and theirs also that dwell in the worlde and so shal thy name be nowhere founde but in Israel Or where is there a people vpon earth y t hath not synned before the Or what people hath so kepte thy commaundementes Thou shalt fynde that Israel by name hath kepte thy preceptes but not the other people and Heithen The IIII. Chapter ANd the angell that was sent vnto me whose name was Vriel gaue me answere and sayde Thy

in the worlde sene the begynnynge which was wrytten in thy lawe that men maye fynde the path and that they which wyl lyue in the latter dayes maye lyue And he answered me sayēge Go y t waye gather thy people together saye vnto thē that they seke the not for xl dayes but loke thou gather the many boxe trees and take with the Sarea Dabria Selemia Echanus and Asial these fyue which are ready to wryte swiftly and come hither and I shal light a cādle of vnderstōdinge in thine hert which shal not be put out tyll the thinges be perfourmed which thou shalt begynne to wryte And then shalt thou declare some thinges openly vnto the perfecte and some thinges shalt thou shew secretly vnto y e wyse Tomorow this houre shalt thou begynne to wryte Then wēte I forth as he commaūded me and gathered all y e people together and sayde Heare these wordes o Israel Oure fathers from the begynnynge were straunges in Egipte from whēce they were delyuered and receaued the lawe of life which they kepte not which ye also haue trāsgressed after thē Then was this londe and the londe of Sion parted amōge you by the lot to possesse But yo r fathers and ye yo r selues also haue done vnrighteousnes haue not kepte the wayes which the Hyest cōmaunded you And for so moch as he is a righteous iudge he toke from you in tyme the thinge that had geuen you And now are ye here and yo r brethren amōge you Therfore yf so be that ye wil subdue yo r owne vnderstandinge and refourme youre hert ye shal be kepte aliue after death shal ye opteyne mercy For after death shall the iudgment come whan we shal lyue agayne and then shal the names of the righteous be manifest and y e names of the vngodly with their workes shal be declared Let no mā therfore come now vnto me ner axe eny question at me these xl dayes So I toke the fyue men as he commaunded me and we wente in to the felde and remayned there The next daye a voyce called me sayēge Eszdras Open thy mouth drynke that I geue the. Thē opened I my mouth beholde he reached me a full cuppe which was full of water but the colo r of it was like fyre And I toke it and dranke And whā I had dronken it my hert had vnderstondinge and wyszdome grew in my brest for my sprete was kepte in remembraunce and my mouth was opened and shut nomore The Hyest gaue vnderstondinge vnto the fyue men y t they wrote y e hye thīges of the night which they vnderstode not But in the night they ate bred as for me I spake in the daye and helde not my tonge by night In xl dayes they wrote two hundreth foure bokes And it happened whā the xl dayes were fulfilled that the Hyest spake sayenge The first that thou hast wryttē speake openly y t the worthy and vnworthy maye rede it But kepe y e lxx last y t thou mayest shew it onely to soch as be wyse amonge thy people For in them is the sprynge of vnderstōdinge the fountayne of wyszdome and the streame of knowlege And I dyd so The XV. Chapter BEhelde speake thou in the eares of my people the wordes of prophecie which I wyll put in y e mouth saieth the LORDE and cause them to be wrytten in a letter for it is the trueth Feare not the ymaginaciōs against y t let not y e vnfaithfulnes of them trouble the that speake agaynst the. For all the vnfaithfull shal dye in their vnfaithfulnes Beholde saieth the LORDE I wil brynge plages vpon the worlde y e swerde honger death and destruccion for wickednes hath the vpper hande in all y e earth and their shamefull workes are fulfilled Therfore saieth the LORDE I wil holde my tonge nomore vnto their wickednesse which they do so vngodly nether wil I suffre them in the thinges that they deale with all so wickedly Beholde the innocent bloude of the troubled crieth vnto me and the soules of the righteous complayne cōtynually and therfore saieth the LORDE I wil surely auēge and receaue vnto me all the innocēt bloude from amonge them Beholde my people is led as a flock of shepe to be slayne I wil not suffre them now to dwel in Egipte but wyl brynge them ou● with a mightie hande and a stretched out arme and smyte it with plages as afore and wyl destroye all the londe off it Egipte shal mourne and the foundacions of it shal be smytten with the plage and punyshment y t God shal brynge vpon it They that tyll y e groūde shal mourne for their sedes shal be destroyed thorow the blastinge and hale and an horrible starre Wo worth y e worlde and them that dwell therin for y e swerde their destrucciō draweth nye one people shal stōde vp to fight against another swerdes in their hādes For mē shal be vnstedfast and some shal do violence vnto other they shal not regarde their kynge and prynces the wayes of their doinges and hādelinges in their power A man shal desyre to go in to the cite shal not be able For because of their pryde y e cities shal be brought in feare y e houses shal shake and men shal be afrayed A man shal haue no pitie vpon his neghboure but one shal prouoke another vnto battayll to spoyle their goodes because of the honger of bred and because of the greate trouble Beholde I gather call together all the kynges of y e earth which are from the vprysinge from the south from the east and Libanus to turne vnto them and restore the thinges that they haue geuē them Like as they do yet this daye vnto my chosen so wil I do also and recōpense thē in their bosome Thus sayeth y e LORDE God My right hande shal not spare y e synners and my swerde shal not ceasse ouer them that shed the innocēt bloude vpon earth The feare is gone out frō his wrath and hath cōsumed the foundacions of the earth and the synners like the strawe that is kindled Wo worth them that synne and kepe not my commaundementes saieth the LORDE I wil not spare them Go youre waye ye children from violence defyle not my Sanctuary for the LORDE knoweth all thē that synne agaynst him and therfore delyuereth he them vnto death and destrucciō For now are the plages come vpon the worlde ye shal remayne in thē For God shal not delyuer you because ye haue synned agaynst him Beholde an horrible vision commeth frō the east where generacions of Dragons shal come out and the people of the Arabes with many charettes and the multitude of them shal be as the wynde vpō earth that all they which heare them ragynge in their wrath maye feare and be afrayed and as the wylde bores out of y e wod so shal they go out and with

continued in a good life and holy conuersacion so that they were loued accepted both of God and men and of all the people of the londe The ende of the boke of Tobias The boke of Iudith What this boke conteyneth Chap. I. Of the noble cite Egbathanis Of Nabuchodonosor the kynge of the Assirians of his victory and power Chap. II. The vnsaciable desyre that Nabuchodonosor had to raigne of his hoost tyrānye Chap. III. Dyuerse kynges and prynces yelde themselues for feare The tyranny of Holofernes and pryde of the kynge Chap. IIII. The Iewes are afrayed and carefull for Ierusalem and the temple make their londe strōge prepare them selues to the battayll call vpon God and Eliachim the prest comforteth them Chap. V. Holofernes taketh indignacion at the children of Israel because they go aboute to defende them selues Achior beareth wytnesse to the trueth Chap. VI. Achior for tellynge the trueth is takē ▪ and delyuered vnto the people of the Iewes vnto whom he telleth all the matter which moueth the people to crye vpon God Chap. VII Holofernes layeth sege to Bethulia The children of Israel crye vpon God Holofernes taketh the water from them so that they in the cite haue greate thyrst and are vnpacient Osias comforteth them and appoynteth fyue dayes to the grace of God Chap. VIII Iudith reproueth the elders that set● a tyme to the mercy of God she exorteth the people to amēdemēt to praier rehearseth the benefites of God and telleth them hir deuyce Chap. IX Iudith goeth in to hir oratory and prayeth feruently vnto God for the deliueraūce of hir people Chap. X. Iudith decketh herself of the best fashiō taketh hir maydē with her goeth forth by night in to Holofernes tent Chap. XI Iudith telleth Holofernes the cause of hir cōmynge which pleaseth him well Chap. XII Holofernes commaundeth to intreate hir well and geueth hir liberty to go in and out to hir prayer maketh a greate supper byddeth hir to it and is dronken Chap. XIII Iudith seketh oportunite prayeth vnto God for strēgth smyteth of the heade of drōken Holofernes and bryngeth it in to the cite where the people reioyse and prayse God Chap. XIIII Holofernes heade is stickte vp vpon the walles the children of Israel fall vpon their enemies which take their flight Achior cōmeth in to the nombre of the people of God Chap. XV. Holofernes hoost are out of their wyttes after his death the Israelites folowe vpō thē the other cities of Israel helpe them they wynne greate spoyles cōmēde Iudith Chap. XVI Iudith syngeth prayse vnto the LORDE The people come together vnto Ierusalē to geue thankes and prayse vnto the LORDE How Iudith made hir ende The first Chapter ARphaxat the kynge of the Medes subdued many people vnto his dominion buylded a noble strōge cite which he called Egbathanis The walles of it made he of fre stone foure squared seuētie cubites hye and thirtie cubites brode He made towres therevpon of an hundreth cubites hye But vpon the foure corners euery syde was twentie fote brode He made the portes in the heith like as the towres This kynge trusted in his mightie hoost in his glorious charettes So in y e twolft yeare of his raigne it happened that Nabuchodonosor y e kynge of the Assirians which raigned in the greate cite of Niniue fought agaynst Arphaxat and ouercame hī in y e greate felde called Ragau besyde Euphrates and Tigris and Iadason in the felde of Erioth the kinge of the Elikes Then was the kyngdome of Nabuchodonosor exalted and his hert was lift vp and he sent vnto all them that dwelt in Celicia in Damascus in Libanus and vnto the Heithen that dwelt in Carmel and Cedar and to soch as dwelt in Galile in the greate felde of Eszdrelō to all them that were in Samaria and beyonde the water of Iordane vnto Ierusalem and the whole londe of Iesse vnto the mountaynes of Ethiopia Vnto all these dyd Nabuchodonosor the kynge of y e Assirians sende messaungers But they all w t one consent wolde not agree vnto him and sent the messaungers agayne emptie and put thē awaye without honoure Then Nabuchodonosor the kynge toke indignaciō at all those londes and sware by his trone by his kyngdome that he wolde be auenged of all these countrees The II. Chapter IN the xiij yeare of kynge Nabuchodonosor vpon the xxij daye of y e first moneth it was deuysed in the courte of Nabuchodonosor y e kynge of the Assiriās that he wolde defende himself So he called vnto him all y e elders all his captaynes and men of warre and shewed them his secrete councell and tolde them that his purpose was to brynge the whole earth vnder his domynion Now whan they were all content with this sayenge Nabuchodonosor the kinge called Holofernes the chefe captayne of his warres and saide vnto him Go thy waye forth agaynst all the kyngdomes of the west and specially agaynst those that haue despysed my commaundement Thou shalt spare no realme all stronge cities shalt thou brynge in subieccion vnto me Then Holofernes called together all the captaynes rulers of all the power in Assiria and mustred the soudyers vnto the hoost like as the kynge commaunded him namely an hundreth and twētye thousande fightinge men vpon fote and twolue thousande archers vpon horsebacke All his ordinaunce sent he before with an innumerable multitude of camels so that the hoost was well prouyded for with oxen and small catell and y t without nombre He caused corne to be prepared out of all Syria for his hoost Moch golde and syluer also toke he out of the kynges house So he toke his iourney he and all his hoost with charettes horsmen and archers of whom there were so many that they couered the grounde of the lande like the greshoppers And whan he was gone past the borders of the Assirians he came towarde the greate mountaynes of Ange which lye vpon the left syde of Celicia and so he wente vp in to all their castels and wanne euery strōge holde As for y e welthy cite of Melothus he brake it downe spoyled all the childrē of Tharsis and the Ismaelites which laye towarde the wyldernes and vpon the south syde of y e londe of Chelon He wente ouer Euphrates also and came in to Mesopotamia and brake downe all the hye cities that were there from the broke of Mambre tyll a man come to the see and he toke the borders in from Celicia vnto the coastes of Iaphet towarde the south He caried awaye all the Madianites and spoyled all their goodes who so euer withstode him he slew them with the swerde After this he wente downe in to the felde of Damascus in the tyme of haruest and brent vp all the corne and all the trees and caused the vynes to be cutt downe And the feare of him fell vpon all them that dwelt in y e earth The III. Chapter

waters made swete for thē that they might drynke xl yeares had they meate from heauē Where so euer they wente without bowe arowe without bukler or swerde their God fought for thē caused thē to haue the victory Yee no man was able to hurte this people excepte it were so y t they departed vnfaithfully from y e worshippinge of the LORDE their God But as oft as they worshipped eny other besyde their God he gaue them ouer to be spoyled to be slayne to be put to confucion Neuertheles as oft as they were sory for departynge from the worshipe of their God the same God of heauen gaue them power strēgth to withstōde their enemies Morouer they slew the kynge of the Cananites Iebusites Pherezites Ethites Eu●tes Amorites all y e mightie in Hesebon toke their lōdes cities in possession and so longe as they synned not in y e sight of their God it wēte well with them for their God hateth vnrighteousnesse For in tymes past whan they wente out of y e waye which God had geuen them y t they shulde walke in it they were destroyed in dyuerse battayles of many nacions many of them were caried awaye presoners into a straūge coūtre But now lately they haue turned thēselues agayne vnto the LORDE their God are come together agayne out of the countrees where they were scatred abrode and thus haue they cōquered these mountaynes dwell therin as for Ierusalem where their Sanctuary is they haue it againe in possession And therfore my lorde make diligēt inquisicion yf this people haue done wickednesse in the sight of their God then let vs go vp agaynst them for doutles their God shal delyuer them in to thy handes subdue them vnto y t power But yf this people haue not displeased their God we shal not be able to withstande them for their God shal defende thē so shall we be a shame to all y e worlde Now whan Achior had spoken out these wordes all the prynces of Holofernes were wroth thought to slaye him sayde one to another what is he this which darre saie y t y e childrē of Israel are able to withstōde Nabuchodonosor the kynge his hoost where as they are an vnwapened people without strēgth or vnderstōdinge of y e fettes of warre That Achior therfore maye knowe y t he hath disceaued vs we wil go vp in to y e moūtaynes whan the mightie men of thē are taken he also shal be stickte with the swerde y t all people maye knowe that Nabuchodonosor is the God of the earth and that there is none other without him The VI. Chapter SO whan they had left of speakinge Holofernes toke sore indignacion sayde vnto Achior For so moch as thou hast prophecied vnto vs sayenge that the people of Israel shal be defended of their God I will shew the that there is no God but Nabuchodonosor Yee whan we slaye them all as one man thou also shalt perish with them thorow the swerde of the Assirians all Israel shal be destroyed with the thē shalt thou fele that Nabuchodonosor is the LORDE of the whole earth Thē shal the swerde of my knyghthode go thorow y e sydes thou shalt fall downe stickte amonge the wounded of Israel shalt not come to thy self agayne but be vtterly destroyed with thē But yf thou thynkest thy prophecy to be true why dost thou then chaunge thy coloure why art thou afrayed Thynkest thou that my wordes are not able to be perfourmed But that thou mayest knowe that thou shalt fele these thinges with thē beholde from this houre forth wyll I sende the vnto yonder people that whan the punyshment of my swerde which they haue worthely deserued falleth vpon them thou mayest be punyshed with them So Holofernes cōmaunded his seruauntes to take Achior to cary him vnto Bethulia and to delyuer him in to the handes of the children of Israel Then Holofernes seruaūtes toke him wēte thorow the playne felde But whan they drew nye vnto the mountaynes the slynge casters came out agaynst them Neuertheles they gat them awaye by the syde of the mountayne bounde Achior hand fote to a tre so left him bounde with wythies turned agayne vnto their lorde Notwithstōdinge the children of Israel wente downe frō Bethulia came vnto him lowsed him brought him to Bethulia set him in the myddest of the people and axed him what the matter was that the Assiriās had left him bounde Osias the sonne of Micha of the trybe of Symeon Charmim which is also called Gothoniel were the pryncipall rulers at the same tyme. Now whan Achior stode in the myddest of the Senatours before thē all he tolde them what answere he gaue Holofernes to the thinge that he axed him and how Holofernes people wolde haue slayne him for so sayenge how Holofernes himself was wroth cōmaunded him for the same cause to be delyuered vnto y e Israelites that whan he ouer came the childrē of Israel he might commaunde Achior also to be put to death with dyuerse tormentes because he sayde the God of heauen is their defender And whā Achior had playnely tolde out all these thinges all the people fell downe vpon their faces praysinge the LORDE and poured out their prayers together vnto the LORDE with a generall complaynte wepynge sayde O LORDE God of heauen earth beholde their pryde loke vpon oure lowlynes cōsidre how it standeth with thy sayntes make it to be knowne y t thou forsakest not those which holde them fast by the how y t thou bringest thē lowe y t presume of thē selues make their boast in their owne strength So whan the wepinge and prayer of the people which they had made the whole daye longe was ended they cōforted Achior sayēge the God of oure fathers whose power strength thou hast praysed shall so rewarde the y t thou shalt rather se their destruccion Whan y e LORDE o r God then shall geue his seruauntes this liberte God be with the also amonge vs so y t yf it please y t thou w t thyne mayest dwell w t vs. Now whan Osias had ended the councell he toke him in to his house and made a greate supper called all the elders to it so they refreszshed them selues after the fastinge And afterwarde was all the people called together which made their prayers all the night longe in the congregacion and be sought the God of Israel for helpe The VII Chapter THe next daye Holofernes commaunded his hoost to go vp agaynst Bethulia There were an C. xx thousande fightinge men on fote two twentie thousande horsmē besyde the preparynge of them y t were wonne came to them on euery syde out of the countrees cities which he had takē All these prepared them selues

wildernesse Moses intreateth for the people Chap. XIX Like as the wicked are euer synnynge more and more so doth the wrath of God neuer ceasse tyll they be destroyed Of them that were punyshed in the tyme of Loth. The first Chapter O Set youre affeccion vpō wyszdome ye that be iudges of the earth Haue a good opinion of the LORDE seke him in the synglenesse of hert For he will be foūde of them that tempte him not and appeareth vnto soch as put their trust in him As for frowarde thoughtes they separate from God but vertue yf it be alowed refourmeth y e vnwyse And why wyszdome shall not entre in to a frowarde soule ner dwell in the body that is subdued vnto synne For the holy goost abhorreth fayned nurtoure withdraweth himself frō y e thoughtes that are without vnderstondinge where wickednes hath the vpper hāde he flieth from thence For the sprete of wyszdome is louynge gentle and gracious and wil haue no pleasure in him that speaketh euell with his lippes For God is a witnesse of his reynes a true searcher out of his hert and an hearer of his tonge For the sprete of y e LORDE fylleth the rounde compasse of the worlde and y e same that vpholdeth all thinges hath knowlege also of the voyce Therfore he that speaketh vnrighteous thinges can not be hydd nether maye he escape the iudgmēt of reprofe And why inquysicion shal be made for the thoughtes of the vngodly and the reporte of his wordes shal come vnto God so that his wickednes shal be punished For the eare of gelousy heareth all thinges and the noyse of the grudginges shal not be hydd Therfore bewarre of murmuringe which is nothinge worth and refrayne youre tonge from slaūder For there is no worde so darck and secrete that it shall go for naught and the mouth that speaketh lyes slayeth the soule O seke not youre owne death in y e erroure of youre life destroye not youre selues thorow the workes of youre awne handes For God hath not made death nether hath he pleasure in the destruccion of the lyuynge For he created all thinges that they might haue their beynge yee all the people of the earth hath he made that they shulde haue health that there shulde be no destruccion in them and that the kyngdome of hell shulde not be vpon earth for righteousnesse is euerlastinge and immortall but vnrighteousnes bringeth death Neuerthelesse the vngodly call her vnto them both w t wordes workes whyle they thinke to haue a frende of her they come to naught for the vngodly that are confederate with her and take hir parte are worthy of death The II. Chapter FOr y e vngodly talke ymagin thus amonge them selues but not right The tyme of oure life is but short tedious when a man is once gone he hath nomore ioye ner pleasure nether knowe we eny man y t turneth agayne from death for we are borne of naught we shal be herafter as though we had neuer bene For oure breth is as a smoke in oure nostrels y e wordes as a sparck to moue oure herte As for o r body it shal be very aszshes y t are quēched o r soule shal vanish as y e soft ayre Oure life shall passe awaye as y e trace of a cloude come to naught as y e myst y t is dryuē awaye w t the beames of y e Sonne put downe w t the heate therof Oure name also shal be forgotten by litle litle no man shal haue oure workes in remembraunce For o r tyme is a very shadow y t passeth awaye after o r ende there is no returnynge for it is fast sealed so y t no mā cōmeth agayne Come on therfore let vs enioye y e pleasures y t there are let vs soone vse y e creature like as in youth We wil fyll oure selues w t good wyne oyntment there shal no floure of the tyme go by vs. We wil crowne o r selues w t roses afore they be wythered There shal be no fayre medowe but o r lust shall go thorow it Let euery one of you be partaker of oure volupteousnes Let vs leaue some token of o r pleasure in euery place for y t is oure porcion els gett we nothinge Let vs oppresse the poore righteous let vs not spare the wyddowe ner olde man let vs not regarde y e heades y t are gray for age Let y e lawe of vnrighteousnesse be oure auctorite for y e thinge y t is feble is nothinge worth Therfore let vs defraude the righteous why●he is not for o r profit yee he is cleane cōtrary to o r doinges He checketh vs for offendinge agaynst y e lawe slaundreth vs as transgressours of all nurtor. He maketh his boost to haue y e knowlege of God yee he calleth him self Gods sonne He is the bewrayer of oure thoughtes It greueth vs also to loke vpon him for his lyfe is not lyke other mens his wayes are of another fashion He counteth vs but vayne personnes he w t draweth him self from o r wayes as from fylthynes he cōmendeth greatly y e latter ende of the iust maketh his boast y t God is his father Let vs se then yf his wordes be true let vs proue what shal come vpon him so shal we knowe what ende he shal haue For yf he be y e true sonne of God he will receaue him delyuer him from the handes of his enemies Let vs examen him with despitefull rebuke and tormentinge that we maye knowe his dignite proue his pacience Let vs condemne him with the most shamefull death for like as he hath spoken so shal he be rewarded Soch thinges do the vngodly ymagin go astraye for their owne wickednes hath blynded them As for the misteries of God they vnderstonde them not they nether hope for the rewarde of righteousnesse ner regarde the worshipe that holy soules shall haue For God created man to be vndestroied yee after the ymage of his awne licknesse made he him Neuerthelesse thorow envye of the deuell came death in to the worlde and they that holde of his syde do as he doth The III. Chapter BVt the soules of y e righteous are in y e hande of God y e payne of death shal not touch thē In y e sight of the vnwyse they appeare to dye their ende is takē for very destruccion The waye of the righteous is iudged to be vtter destruccion but they are in rest And though they suffre payne before men yet is their hope full of immortalite They are punished but in few thinges neuerthelesse in many thinges shal they be well rewarded For God proueth them fyndeth thē mete for himself yee as the golde in the fornace doth he trye them receaueth them as a brent

his porcion and enheritaunce The thirde noble and excellent mā is Phineas the sonne of Eleazer which pleased the God of Israel because he had y e zele feare of the LORDE For whan the people were turned back he put him self forth right soone that with a good wyll to pacifie the wrath of the LORDE towarde Israel Therfore was there a couenaūt of peace made with him y t he shulde be the principall amonge the righteous and the people that he and his posterite shulde haue the office of the presthode for euer Like as there was made a couenaūt with Dauid of the trybe of Iuda that frō amonge his sonnes onely there shulde be a kynge And that Aaron also his sede shulde be the heretage to geue vs wyszdome in o hert to iudge his people in righteousnes that his goodes shulde not come in to forgetfulnes and that their honoure might endure for euer The XLVI Chapter MAnly stronge in battaill was Iesus y e sonne of Naue which in steade of Moses y e prophet was geuen to be captayne of the people which acordinge vnto his name was a greate sauioure vnto the electe of God to punysh the enemies that rose vp agaynst Israel y t Israel might optayne their inheritaunce O how greate noble and excellent was he whan he lift vp his hande and drew out his swerde agaynst the cities Who stode so manly before him For the LORDE himself brought in the enemies Stode not the Sonne styll at his commaundemēt and one daye was as longe as two He called vpon the Hyest most mightie whā y e enemies preassed vpon him on euery syde and the LORDE herde him with the hayle stones They smote y e Heithenish people mightely in fallinge downe they slew all y e aduersaries so that the Heithē knewe his hoost and all his defence that the LOR himself fought against them for he folowed vpon the mightie men of them In the tyme of Moses also he and Caleb the sonne of Iephune dyd a good worke which stode agaynst the enemies withelde the people from synne and stylled y e wicked murmurynge And of sixe hundreth thousande people of fote they two were preserued whan they were brought in to the heretage namely a londe that floweth with mylke hony The LORDE gaue strength also vnto Caleb which remayned with him vnto his age so that he wente vp in to the hye places of the londe and his sede conquered the same for an heretage that all the childrē of Israel might se how good a thinge it is to be obedient vnto the LORDE And the iudges or rulers euery one after his name whose hert wente not a whoringe ner departed from y e LORDE and that forsake not the LORDE vnfaithfully whose remembraūce hath a good reporte Yee their bones florish out of their place and their name shal neuer be chaūged Samuel the prophet beloued of the LORDE ordeyned a kinge and anoynted the prynces ouer the people In the lawe of the LORDE ruled he and iudged the congregacion the LORDE had respecte vnto Iacob The prophet was founde diligent in his faithfulnes yee in his faithfulnes was the faithfulnes of the vision knowne He called vpon y e LORDE the mightie whā the enemies preassed vpon him on euery syde what tyme as he offred the suckynge lambes And the LORDE thondred from heauen and mayde his voyce to be herde w t a greate noyse He discomfited the prynces of Tyre all the rulers of the Philistynes Before his last ende he made protestacion in the sight of the LORDE his anoynted that he toke nether substaunce ner good of eny man no not so moch as a shue no man might accuse him After this he tolde that his ende was at honde and shewed the kynge also his ende and death from y e earth lift he vp his voyce in the prophecie y t the vngodly people shulde perishe The XLVII Chapter AFterwarde in the tyme of kynge Dauid there rose vp a prophet called Nathan For like as the fat is taken awaye from the offrynge so was Dauid chosen out of the childrē of Israel He toke his pastyme w t the lyons as w t kyddes and with beares like as with lambes Slew he not a giaunte whan he was yet but yonge toke awaye the rebuke from his people what tyme as he toke the stone in his hande smote downe proude Goliath w t the slynge For he called vpon the hyest LORDE which gaue him strength in his right hande so that he ouerthrew the mightie giaunte in the battayll that he might set vp the horne of his people agayne Thus brought he him to worshipe aboue all prynces and made him to haue a good reporte in the prayse of the LORDE y t he shulde weere a crowne of glory For he destroied the enemies on euery syde roted out the Philistynes his aduersaries brake their horne in sunder like as it is brokē yet this daye In all his workes he praysed y e Hyest Holiest ascrybed the honoure vnto him With his whole hert dyd he prayse and loue him that made him He set syngers also before the aulter and in their tune he made swete songes He ordeyned to kepe the holy daies worship fully and that the solempne feastes thorow the whole yeare shulde be honorably holdē with praysinge the name of the LORDE with synginge by tymes in the mornynge in the Sanctuary The LORDE toke awaye his synnes and exalted his horne for euer He gaue him y e couenaunt of the kyngdome and the trone of worshipe in Israel After him there rose vp the wyse sonne called Salomon and for his sake he droue y e enemies awaie farre of This Salomon reigned with peace in his tyme for God gaue him rest from his enemies on euery syde that he might buylde him an house in his name prepare the Sanctuary for euer like as he was well īstructe in his youth fylled with wyszdome and vnderstōdinge as it were with a water floude He couered and fylled the whole londe with similitudes and wyse prudent sentences His name wente abrode in the Iles because of his peace he was beloued All londes marueled at his songes prouerbes symilitudes and at his peace and at the name of y e LORDE God which is called the God of Israel He gathered golde as tynne he had as moch syluer as leade He was moued in vnordinate loue towarde wemen and was ouercome in affeccion He stayned his hono and worshipe yee his posterite defyled he also in bringinge the wrath of the LORDE vpon his children and sorowe after his ioye so y t his kyngdome was deuyded Ephraim became an vnfaithfull an vnconstant kingdome Neuertheles God forsoke not his mercy nether was he vtterly destroyed because of his workes y t he shulde leaue him no

posterite As for y e sede y t came vpon him which he loued he brought it not vtterly to naught but gaue yet a remnaunt vnto Iacob and a rote vnto Dauid out of him Thus rested Salomon with his fathers and out of his sede he left behynde him a very foolishnes of the people and soch one as had no vnderstōdinge namely Roboā which turned awaye the people thorow his councell and Ieroboam y e sonne of Nabat which caused Israel to synne and shewed Ephraim the waye of vngodlynes In so moch that their synnes myszdedes had the vpper hande so sore that at the last they were dryuen out of the londe for the same Yee he sought out brought vp all wickednes tyll the vengeaunce came vpon them The XLVIII Chapter THen stode vp Elias the prophet as a fyre and his worde br●●t like a creshett He brought an hōger vpon thē and in his zele he made them few in nombre For they might not awaye w t the commaūdementes of the LORDE Thorow the worde of the LORDE he shut the heauen and thre tymes brought he the fyre downe Thus became Elias honorable in his wonderous dedes Who maye make his boost to be like him One that was deed raysed he vp from death in the worde of y e Hyest he brought him out of the graue agayne He cast downe kynges and destroyed them and the honorable from their seate Vpon the mount Syna he herde the punyshment vpon Horeb the iudgmēt of the vengeaunce He prophecied recompensynge vnto kynges and ordeyned prophetes after him He was taken vp in the storme of fyre in a charett of horses of the LORDE He was ordeyned in the reprouynges in tyme to pacifie the wrath to turne y e hertes of the fathers vnto the children to set vp the trybes of Iacob agayne Blessed were they that saw the and were garnished in loue for we lyue in life Elias was couered in the storme but Heliseus was fylled with his mouth Whyle he lyued he was afrayed of no prynce and no man might ouercome him There coude no worde disceaue him after his death his body prophecied He dyd wonders in his life in death were his workes maruelous For all this the people amended not nether departed they from their synnes tyll they were caried awaye presoners out of the londe and were scatred abrode in all countrees so that of them there remayned but a very litle people and a prynce vnto y e house of Dauid Howbeit some of them dyd right some heaped vp vngodlynes Ezechias made his cite stronge conveyed water in to it dygged thorow the stony rock with yron made vp a well by the water syde In his tyme came Sennacherib vp and sent Rabsaches lift vp his hande agaynst Sion defyed them with greate pryde Thē trymbled their hertes and handes so y t they sorowed like a woman trauaylinge with childe So they called vpō the LORDE which is mercyfull lift vp their hādes before him Immediatly the LORDE herde thē out of heauen and delyuered them by the hande of Esay He smote the hoost of the Assirians his angell destroyed thē For Ezechias had done the thinge that pleased the LORDE remayned stedfastly in the waye of Dauid his father Which Esay was greate faithfull in his visions In his tyme y e Sonne wēte backwarde he lengthened the kynges life With a right sprete prophecied he what shulde come to passe at the last to soch as were soroufull in Sion he gaue consolacion wherwhith they might cōforte them selues for euermore He shewed thinges y t were for to come secrete or euer they came to passe The XLIX Chapter THe remembraūce of Iosias is like as whan the Apotecary maketh many precious swete smellynge thinges together His remembraunce shal be swete as hony in all mouthes and as the playenge of Musick by the wyne He was appoynted to turne the people agayne to take awaye all abhominacions of y e vngodly He directed his hert vnto the LORDE in the tyme of the vngodly he set vp the worshipe of God agayne All kynges excepte Dauid Ezechias Iosias cōmitted wickednes for euen y e kynges of Iuda also forsoke y e lawe of God For they gaue their horne vnto other their hono worshipe also to a straunge people Therfore was the electe cite of the Sāctuary brent with fyre and the stretes therof laye desolate waist for they intreated Ieremy euell which neuertheles was a prophet ordeyned from his mothers wombe that he might rote out breake of destroye that he might buylde vp plante agayne Ezechiel sawe the glory of the LORDE in a vision which was shewed him vpon the charet of the Cherubins For he thought vpon the enemies in y e rayne to do good vnto soch as had ordred their wayes a right And the bones of the twolue prophetes florish from out of their place for they gaue comforte consolacion vnto Iacob and delyuered thē faithfully How shall we prayse Zorobabel which was as a ringe in the right hande So was Iesus also the sonne of Iosedec these men in their tymes buylded the house set vp the Sanctuary of y e LORDE agayne which was prepared for an euerlastinge worshipe And Nehemias is allwaye to be cōmended which set vp for vs the walles y t were broken downe made the portes barres agayne and buylded oure houses of the new But vpon earth is there no man created like Enoch for he was taken vp from y e earth And Ioseph which was lorde of his brethren the vpholder of his people His bones were couered kepte Seth Sem were in greate honoure amonge y e people and so was Adam aboue all the beastes whā he was created The L. Chapter SYmon the sonne of Onias the hye prest which in his life set vp the house agayne in his dayes made fast the tēple The heyth of y e temple also was founded of him the dubble buyldinge the hye walles of the temple In his dayes the welles of water flowed out and were exceadinge full as the see He toke care for his people delyuered them from destruccion He kepte his cite made it stronge that it shulde not be beseged He dwelt in honoure and worshipe amonge his people and enlarged the intraunce of the house and the courte He geueth light as the mornynge starre in the myddest of the cloudes and as y e Moone whan it is full He shyneth as the Sonne in the temple of God He is as bright as y e rayne bowe in y e fayre cloudes florisheth as the floures and roses in the sprynge of y e yeare as the lilies by the ryuers of water Like as the braunches vpon the mount Libanus in tyme of Sommer as a fyre incēse that is

y e LORDE prayse him set him vp for euer O ye children of men speake good of the LORDE prayse him set him vp for euer O let Israel speake good of the LORDE prayse him and set him vp for euer O ye prestes of y e LORDE speake good of the LORDE prayse him and set him vp for euer O ye seruauntes of the LORDE speake good of the LORDE prayse him set him vp for euer O ye spretes and soules of the righteous speake good of y e LORDE prayse him and set him vp for euer O ye holy and humble men of herte speake ye good of the LORDE prayse ye him set him vp for euer O Ananias Asarias and Misael speake ye good of the LORDE prayse ye him and set hī vp for euer Which hath delyuered vs from y e hell kepte vs from y e honde of death rydde vs from the myddest of the burnynge flamme and saued vs euē in the myddest of y e fyre O geue thākes therfore vnto y e LORDE for he is kynde harted and his mercy endureth for euer O all ye deuoute men speake good of the LORDE euen the God of all goddes O prayse him and geue him thankes for his mercy endureth worlde without ende The story of Susanna which is the XIII chapter of Daniel after the Latyn THere dwelt a man in Babilō called Ioachim y t toke a wife whose name was Susanna y e doughter of Helchias a very fayre woman soch one as feared God Hir father hir mother also were godly people taught their doughter acordinge to y e lawe of Moses Now Ioachim hir huszbonde was a greate rich man had a fa●re orcharde ioyninge vnto his house And to him resorted the Iewes comonly because he was a man of reputacion amonge them The same yeare were there made two iudges soch as the LORDE speaketh of All the wickednesse of Babilon cōmeth from y e elders y t is from y e iudges which seme to rule the people These came offt to Ioachims house all soch as had eny thinge to do in the lawe came thither vnto them Now when the people came agayne at after noone Susanna wente in to hir huszbōdes orcharde to walke The elders seynge this that she went in daylie walked they burned for lust to her yee they were allmost out of their wittes cast downe their eyes that they shulde not se heauē ner remembre y t God is a righteous iudge For they were both woūded w t the loue of her nether durst one shewe another his grefe And for shame they durst not tell her their inordynate lust y t they wolde fayne haue had to do w t her Yet they layed wayte for her earnestly from daye to daye that they might at the leest haue a sight of her And the one sayde to y e other Vp let vs go home for it is dyner tyme So they wente their waye from her When they returned agayne they came together enqueringe out y e matter betwixte them selues yee the one tolde y e other of his wicked lust Thē apoynted they a tyme whē they might take Susanna alone It happened also y t they spyed out a conueniēt tyme when she wente forth to walke as hir maner was no body with her but two maydēs thought to wash her self in the garden for it was an hote season And there was not one person there excepte the two elders y t had hyd them selues to beholde her So she sayde to hir maydens go set me oyle sope shut the orcharde dore y t I maye wash me And they dyd as she bad them shut the orcharde dore wente out them selues at a backe dore to fet the thinge y t she had cōmaunded but Susanna knewe not y t y e elders laie there hyd within Now when the maydens were gone forth y e two elders gat them vp ranne vpon her sayenge now the orcharde dores are shut that no man can se vs we haue a lust vnto the therfore consent vnto vs and lye with vs. Yf thou wilt not we shall bringe a testimoniall agaynst the that there was a yonge felowe with the and that thou hast sent awaye thy maydens from the for the same cause Susanna sighed and sayde Alas I am in trouble on euery syde Though I folowe youre mynde it wyll be my death and yf I consent not vnto you I can not escape youre hondes Wel it is better for me to fall in to youre hondes without the dede doinge then to synne in the sight of the LORDE and with that she cried out with a loude voyce the elders also cried out agaynst her Then ranne there one to the orcharde dore smote it open Now when the seruauntes of the house herde y e crie in y e orcharde they ruszshed in at the backe dore to se what the matter was So when the elders tolde them the seruauntes were greatly ashamed for why there was neuer soch a reporte made of Susanna On the morow after came the people to Ioachim hir houszbonde and y e two elders came also full of myscheuous ymaginacions agaynst Susanna to bringe her vnto death spake thus before the people Sende for Susanna y e daughter of Helchias Ioachims wife And immediatly they sent for her So she came w t her father mother hir children all her kynrede Now Susanna was a tender person maruelous fayre of face Therfore the wicked men cōmaunded to take of the clothes from her face for she was couered y t at the leest they might so be satisfied in hir beutie Then hir frēdes yee all they y t knewe her begāne to wepe These two elders stode vp in the myddest of the people layed their hondes vpon y e heade of Susanna which wepte and loked vp towarde heauen for hir herte had a sure trust in the LORDE And the elders sayde As we were walkinge in the orcharde alone this woman came in w t hir two maydēs whom she sent awaye from her sparred y e orcharde dores With that a yonge felowe which there was hyd came vnto her laye w t her As for vs we stode in a corner of the orcharde And whē we sawe this wickednes we rāne to her perceaued y t they had medled together But we coude not holde him for he was stronger then we thus he opened y e dore gat him awaye Now whē we had takē this womā we axed her what yōge felow this was but she wolde not tell vs. This is y e matter we be witnesses of y e same The comon sorte beleued them as those y t were the elders iudges of the people so they condemned her to death Susanna cried out w t a loude voyce sayde O euerlastinge God thou sercher of secretes thou y t knowest all thinges a fore they come to passe thou wotest

I shal destroye this dragon without swearde or staff The kynge sayde I geue y e leaue Then Daniel toke pitch fatte and hairie woll and did seyth them together and made lompes therof this he put in y e Dragōs mouth and so y e dragon barst in sonder and Daniel sayde lo there is he whom ye worshipped When they of Babylon herde that they toke greate indignacion and gathered them together agaynst the kynge sayenge The kynge is become a Iewe also he hath destroyed Bel he hath slayne y e Dragon and put the prestes to death So they came to y e kynge sayde let us haue Daniel or els we w●l destroye the and thine house Now whan y e kynge sawe that they russhed in so sore vpon him that necessite constrained him he deliuered Daniel vnto them which cast him in to the lyons denne where he was sixe dayes In the denne there were seuen lyons and they had geuen them euery daye two bodies and two shepe which then were not geuē them that they might deuoure Daniel There was in Iewry a prophet called Abacuc which had made potage and broker bred in a depe platter and was goinge in to the felde for to brynge it to y e mowers But the angell of the LORDE sayde vnto Abacuc go cary the meate that thou hast in to Babilon vnto Daniel which is in y e lyōs denne And Abacuc sayde LORDE I neuer sawe Babilon and as for the denne I knowe it not Then the angel of the LORDE toke him by the toppe and bare him by the hayre of the heade and thorow a mightie wynde set him in Babilon vpon the denne And Abacuc cried sayenge O Daniel thou seruaunt of God haue take the breakfast y t God hath sent ye. And Daniel saide O God hast thou thought vpon me wel thou neuer faylest them that loue the. So Daniel arose ate and the angel of the LORDE set Abacuc in his owne place agayne immediatly Vpon the seuenth daye the kynge wente to bewepe Daniel and whan he came to the denne he loked in and beholde Daniel sat in the myddest of the lyons Then cried y e kynge with a loude voyce sayenge Greate art thou o LORDE God of Daniel he drewe him out of the denne As for those that were y e cause of his destrucciō he dyd cast thē in to the denne and they were deuoured in a moment before his face After this wrote the kynge vnto all people kynreddes and tunges that dwelt in all countrees sayenge peace be multiplied with you My commaundement is in all the dominyon of my realme that men feare and stonde in awe of Daniels God for he is the lyuynge God which endureth euer his kyngdome abydeth vncorrupte and his power is euerlastinge It is he that can delyuer and saue he doth wonders and maruelous workes in heauen and in earth for he hath saued Daniel from the power of the Lyons The ende of the Storye of Bel. The first boke of the Machabees What this boke conteyneth Chap. I. Of the power of Alexander kynge of Macedonia Of certayne vnfaithfull Israelites Of the greate tyranny of Antiochus how miserably he destroyeth Ierusalē which God suffreth to be plaged because they haue forsaken him Chap. II. How feruently Matathias and his sonnes stryue for the honoure of God and welfare of the people How swetely he exorteth his sonnes euē in the houre of his death to be sted fast in the lawe of God Chap. III. Of Iudas Machabeus that worthy captayne and of his noble actes agaynst Antiochus Chap. IIII. V Of the glorious victory that God gaue Iudas against Gorgias and Lisias how they wynne the cite and clense the temple agayne how they fyght afterwarde against the Heithen Chap. VI. Antiochus besegeth Elymas in Persia Iudas layeth sege to the castelar Ierusalem the kynge goeth aboute to helpe thē that are therin Chap. VII The tyranny of Demetrius They take truce with the people of God kepe it not Chap. VIII Iudas hearinge how reasonable the Romaynes are seketh for to make peace with them Chap. IX How Iudas was slaine in the bataill and how there came vp derth after his death Ionathas was captayne after him and gatt the victory of Bachides Chap. X. Of Alexāder the sonne of Antiochus Demetrius maketh peace with Ionathas so doth Alexander afterwarde Ptolomy geueth his doughter Cleopatra vnto Alexāder Demetrius defyeth Ionathas Chap. XI Ptolomy ryseth agaynst Alexander and Ionathas and promyseth to geue Demetrius his daughter whom he had geuen allredy vnto Alexander The death of Alexander and Ptolomy ▪ the raigne of Demetrius Demetrius and Ionathas are frendes Alexanders sonne taketh the kyngdome vpon him Chap. XII The Iewes wryte vnto the Romaynes and Sparcians to renue the olde frendshipe Triphon receaueth Ionathas with fayre wordes and then causeth him and his to be slayne Chap. XIII After the death of Ionathas is Symon his brother made Captaine of the people which goeth forth agaynst Triphon and burieth his brother Triphon slayeth Antiochus haynously Symon maketh peace with Demetrius and layeth sege to Gaza Chap. XIIII Demetrius seketh helpe against Triphō Demetrius is takē Peace in Iewry Simō ruleth well The Romaines and they of Sparta renue the peace with Symon Chap. XV. Antiochus wryteth louyngly vnto the Iewes and persecuteth Triphon He breaketh the bonde with the Iewes Chap. XVI The faithfulnes of Symō his sonnes Ptolomy szlayeth them disceatfully and betrayeth the londe The first Chapter AFter that Alexander the sonne of Philippe kynge of Macedonia wente forth of the londe of Cethim and slewe Darius kynge of the Persiās and Meedes It happened that he toke greate warres in honde wanne very many stronge cities and slew many kinges of y e earth goinge thorow to y e endes of the worlde and gettinge many spoyles of the people In so moch y t the worlde stode in greate awe of him therfore was he proude in his herte Now whē he had gathered a mightie strōge hoost subdued y e lōdes and people with their prynces so that they became tributaries vnto hī he fell sick And whē he perceaued that he must nedes die he called for his noble estates which had bene brought vp with him of children parted his kyngdome amonge them whyle he was yet alyue So Alexāder raygned xij yeare and then dyed After his death fell the kyngdome vnto his prynces and they optayned it euery one in his rowme and caused them selues to be crowned as kynges and so dyd their childrē after them many yeares moch wickednesse increaced in the worlde Out of these came y t vngracious rote noble Antiochus y e sonne of Antiochus the kynge which had bene a pledge at Rome he raigned in y e Cxxxvij yeare of the raigne of the Grekes In those dayes wēte there out of Israel wicked men which moued moch people w t their coūcel sayēge Let

vs go make a couenaunt with the Heithen y t are rounde aboute vs for sence we departed from them we haue had moch sorow So this deuyce pleased them well and certayne of y e people toke vpon thē for to go vnto y e kynge which gaue them licence to do after the ordinaūce of the Heithen Then set they vp an open scole at Ierusalem of the lawes of the Heithē and were nomore circumcised but forsoke y e holy Testamente and ioyned them selues to y e Heithē were cleane solde to do myschefe So when Antiochus beganne to be mightie in his kyngdome he wente aboute to optayne y e londe of Egipte also that he might haue the dominion of two realmes Vpon this entred he in to Egipte with a stronge hoost with charettes elephantes horsmen a greate nombre of shippes and beganne to warre agaynst Ptolomy the kynge of Egipte But Ptolomy was afrayed of him and fled and many of his people were wounded to death Thus Antiochus wāne many strōge cities and toke awaye great good out of the londe of Egipte And after that Antiochus had smytten Egipte he turned agayne in the Cxliij yeare wente towarde Israel and came vp to Ierusalem with a mightie people and entred proudly into y e Sanctuary and toke awaye the golden altare the candilsticke and all y e ornamētes therof the table of the shewbred the pouringe vessel the chargers the golden spones the vale the crownes and golden apparel of the temple and brake downe all He toke also the syluer and golde the precious Iewels and the secrete treasures that he foūde And when he had taken awaye alltogether caused a greate murthur of men and so fulfilled his malicious pryde he departed in to his owne londe Thus there arose greate heuinesse and misery in all the londe of Israel The prynces and the elders of the people mourned the yōge men and the maydens were defyled and the fayre beutye of women was chaunged the brydegrome and the bryde toke them to mournynge the londe and those that dwelt therin was moued for all the house of Iacob was brought to confucion After two yeares the kynge sent his chefe treasurer vnto the cities of Iuda which came to Ierusalem with a greate multitude of people speakīge peaceable wordes vnto thē but all was disceate for when they had geuen him credence he fell sodēly vpon the cite and smote it sore and destroyed moch people of Israel And when he had spoyled the cite he set fyre on it castinge downe houses and walles on euery syde The women their children toke they captiue and led awaye their catell Then buylded they the castel of Dauid with a greate and thicke wall and with mightie towres made it a stronge holde for them Besyde all this they sett wicked people and vngodly men to kepe it stoared it with weapens and vytales gathered the goodes of Ierusalem and layed thē vp there thus became it a theuysh castell And this was done to laye waite for the people that wente in to the Sanctuary and for the cruell destruccion of Israel Thus they shed innocent bloude on euery syde of y e Sanctuary and defyled it In so moch that the citesyns were fayne to departe and the cite became an habitacion of straungers beynge desolate of hir owne sede for hir owne natyues were fayne to leaue her Hir Sāctuary was clene waisted hir holy dayes were turned in to mournynge hir Sabbathes were had in derision and hir hono r brought to naught Loke how greate hir glory was afore so greate was hir confucion and hir ioye turned in to sorow Antiochus also the kynge sent out a commission vnto all his kyngdome that all the people shulde be one Then they left euery man his lawe and all the Heithen agreed to the cōmaundement of kynge Antiochus Yee many of the Israelites consented there vnto offerynge vnto Idols and defylinge the Sabbath So the kynge Antiochus sent his messaungers with his commission vnto Ierusalem and to all y e cities of Iuda that they shulde folowe y e lawes of the Heithē and for bad ether burnt offerynge meat offerynge or peace offerynge to be made in the temple of God that there shulde no Sabbath ner hye feast daye be kepte but commaunded that the Sanctuary and the holy people of Israel shulde be defyled He commaunded also that there shulde be set vp other altares temples and Idols to offre vp swynes flesh and other vnclene beastes that men shulde leaue their children vncircumcised to defyle their soules with all maner of vnclennesse abhominacions that they might so forget the lawe and chaūge all the holy ordinaunces of God and that who so euer wolde not do acordynge to the commaundement of kynge Antiochus shulde suffre death In like maner commaunded he thorow out all his realme and sett rulers ouer the people for to compell them to do these thynges commaundinge the cities of Iuda to do sacrifice vnto Idols Then wente the people vnto the Heithen by heapes forsoke the lawe of the LORDE and committed moch euell in the londe yee and chaced out the secrete Israelites which had hyd them selues in corners and preuy places The xv daye of the moneth Casleu in the Cxlv. yeare set kynge Antiochus an abhominable Idol of desolacion vpon the altare of God and they buylded altares thorow out all the cities of Iuda on euery syde before the dores of the houses and in the stretes where they brent incense and dyd sacrifyce And as for the bokes of the lawe of God they brent them in the fyre and rente them in peces What so euer he was that had a boke of the Testament of the LORDE founde by hym yee who so euer endeuored himself to kepe the lawe of the LORDE the kynges commaundement was y t they shulde put him to death And thorow his anctorite they executed these thinges euery moneth vpon the people of Israel that were founde in the cities The fyue and twentye daye of the moneth what tyme as they dyd sacrifice vpon the altare which stode in the steade of the altare of the LORDE acordinge to the commaundement of kynge Antiochus they put certayne women to death which had caused their children to be circumcised Not only that but they hanged vp the children by the neckes thorow out all their houses and slewe the circumcisers of them Yet were there many of the people of Israel which determed in them selues that they wolde not eate vncleane thinges but chose rather to suffre death then to be defyled with vncleane meates So because they wolde not breake the blessed lawe of God they were cruelly slayne And this greate tyranny increased very sore vpon the people of Israel The II. Chapter IN those dayes there dyd stōde vp one Matathias the sonne of Symeon the prest out of the kynred of Ioaris frō Ie Ierusalem and dwelt vpon the mount of

Modin and had v. sonnes Ihō called Gaddis Symon called Thasi Iudas other wyse called Machabeus Eleazer other wyse called Abaron and Ionathas whose surname was Apphus These sawe the euell y t was done amonge the people of Iuda and Ierusalem And Matathias sayde Wo is me alas that euer I was borne to se this misery of my people and y e piteous destrucciō of the holy cite thus to syt so styll it beynge delyuered in to the hondes the enemies Hir Sanctuary is come in to the power of straungers hir temple is as it were a man y t hath lost his good name Hir precious ornamentes are caried awaye captyue hir olde men are slayne in the stretes and hir yonge men are fallen thorow the swearde of the enemies What people is it that hath not some possession in hir kyngdome Or who hath not gotten some of hir spoyles All hir glory is taken awaye She was a Quene and now she is become an handmayde Beholde oure Sanctuary oure bewtye and honoure is waisted awaye and defyled by the Gentiles What helpeth it vs then to lyue And Matathias rente his clothes he and his sonnes and put sack cloth vpon them mourned very sore Then came the men thither which were sent of kynge Antiochus to compell soch as were fled in to the cite of Modin for to do sacrifice and to burne incense vnto Idols and to forsake the lawe of God So many of the people of Israel consented and enclyned vnto them but Matathias and his sonnes remayned stedfast Then spake the commissioners of kynge Antiochus sayde vnto Matathias Thou art a noble man of hye reputacion and greate in this cite hauinge fayre children and brethren Come thou therfore first and fulfill the kynges commaundemēt like as all the Heithen haue done yee and y e men of Iuda and soch as remayne at Ierusalem so shalt thou and thy children be in y e kynges fauoure and enriched with golde syluer and greate rewardes Matathias answered and spake with a loude voyce Though all nacions obeye the kynge Antiochus and fall awaie euery man frō kepynge y e lawe of their fathers though they consente to his commaundementes yet wil I my sonnes and my brethren not fall from the lawe oure fathers God forbyd we shulde that were not good for vs that we shulde forsake the lawe and ordinaunces of God and to agre vnto the commaundement of kynge Antiochus Therfore we will do no soch sacrifice nether breake the statutes of o r lawe to go another waye And whē he had spoken these wordes there came one of the Iewes which openly in the sight of all dyd sacrifice vnto the Idols vpon the aulter in the cite of Modin acordinge to the kynges commaundement When Matathias sawe this it greued him at the herte so that his raynes sho●e withall and his wrath kindled for very zele of the lawe With that he gaue a szkippe forth and kylled the Iew besyde the aulter Yee and slewe y e kynges commissioner that cōpelled him to do sacrifice destroyed the aulter at the same time soch a zele had he vnto the lawe of God like as Phinees dyd vnto Zambri the sonne of Salomi And Matathias cried with a loude voyce thorow y e cite sayenge Who so is feruent in the lawe wil kepe y e couenaunt let him folowe me So he and his sonnes fled in to the mountaynes and left all that euer they had in y e cite Many other godly men also departed in to the wyldernesse with their children their wyues and their catell and remayned there for the tyranny increaced so sore vpon them Now when the kynges seruauntes and the hoost which was at Ierusalem in the cite of Dauid herde that certayne mē had broken the kynges commaundement and were gone their waye to the wyldernesse in to secrete places and that there were many departed after them they folowed vpon them to fight agaynst them in the Sabbath daye and sayde Wyll ye yet rebell Get you hence do the commaundement of kynge Antiochus and ye shall lyue They answered We wil not go forth nether wil we do the kinges cōmaundement to defyle y e Sabbath daye Then beganne they to fight agaynst them neuerthelesse they gaue them none other answere nether cast they one stone at them ner made fast their preuy places but sayde We wil dye all in oure innocency heauen earth shal testifie with vs that ye put vs to death wrongeously Thus they fought agaynst them vpon the Sabbath slewe both men and catell their wyues and their children to the nombre of a thousande people When Matathias and his frendes herde this they mourned for them right sore and sayde one to another Yf so be that we all do as oure brethrē haue done and fight not for oure lyues for oure lawes agaynst the Heithen then shall they the sooner rote vs out of the earth So they cōcluded amonge thē selues at the same tyme sayenge What so euer he be that cōmeth to make battayll w t vs vpon the Sabbath daye we wyll fight agaynst him not dye all as o r brethren y t were murthured so haynously Vpō this came the Synagoge of the Iewes vnto thē stronge men of Israel all soch as were feruent in the lawe And all they that were fled for persecucion came to helpe them and to stonde by them In so moch that they gathered an hoost of men and slewe the wicked doers in their gelousy and the vngodly men in their wrath Some of the wicked fled vnto the Heithen and escaped Thus Matathias and his frendes wente aboute and destroyed the aulters and circumcided the children that had not yet receaued circumcision as many as they founde within y e coostes of Israel and folowed mightely vpon the children of pryde and this acte prospered in their hondes In so moch that they kepte the lawe agaynst the power of the Gentiles and the kynges and gaue not ouer their dominion vnto wicked doers After this when the tyme drew on fast that Matathias shulde dye he sayde vnto his sonnes Now is pryde and persecucion increased now is the tyme of destruccion and wrathfull displeasure Wherfore o my sonnes be ye feruent in the lawe and ioperde youre lyues for the Testament of the fathers call to remembraunce what actes oure fathers dyd in their tyme so shall ye receaue greate honoure and an euerlastinge name Remembre Abraham was not he founde faithfull in tentacion and it was reckened vnto him for righteousnesse Ioseph in tyme of his trouble kepte the commaundement and was made a lorde of Egipte Phinees oure father was so feruent for the honoure of God that he optayned the couenaūt of an euerlastinge presthode Iosue for fulfillinge the worde of God was made the captayne of Israel Caleb bare recorde before the cōgregacion and receaued an heretage Dauid also in his mercifull kyndnesse optayned the trone of an

besyde mount Sion Morouer the kynge toke truce with them that were in Bethsura But when they came out of the cite because they had no vytales within and the londe laye vntylled the kynge toke Bethsura and set men to kepe it turned his hoost to the place of the Sanctuary and layed sege to it a greate whyle Where he made all maner ordinaunce handbowes fyrie dartes rackettes to cast stones scorpions to shute arowes and slynges The Iewes also made ordinaunce agaynst theirs and fought a longe season But in the cite there were no vytayles for it was the seuenth yeare of the warres and those Heithen that remayned in Iewry had eaten vp all their stoare And in the Sanctuary were few men lefte for the hunger came so vpon them that they were scatered abrode euery man to his owne place So when Lysias herde that Philippe whom Antiochus the kynge whyle he was yet lyuinge had ordened to bringe vp Antiochus his sonne that he might be kynge was come agayne out of Persia and Media with the kynges hoost and thought to optayne the kyngdome He gat him to the kynge in all the haist and to the captaynes of the hoost and sayde we decrease daylie and oure vytales are but small Agayne the place that we laye sege vnto is very stronge and it were oure parte to se for the realme Let vs agre with these men and take truce with them and with all their people and graunte them to lyue after their lawe as they dyd a fore For they be greued and do all these thinges agaynst vs because we haue despysed their lawe So the kynge and the prynces were content and sent vnto them to make peace and they receaued it Now whē the kynge and the prynces had made an ooth vnto them they came out of the castel and the kynge wēte vp to mount Sion But when he sawe that y e place was wel fenced he brake the ooth that he had made and commaunded to destroye the wall rounde aboute Then departed he in all the haist and returned vnto Antioche where he founde Philippe hauynge dominion of the cite So he fought agaynst him and toke the cite agayne in to his hondes The VII Chapter IN the Clj. yeare came Demetrius y e sonne of Seleucus from y e cite of Rome w t a small company of men vnto a cite of the see coast and there he bare rule And it chaunced that when he came to Antioch the cite of his Progenitours his hoost toke Antiochus and Lysias to b●ynge them vnto him But when it was tolde him he saide let me not se their faces So the hoost put them to death Now when Demetrius was set vpon the trone of his kyngdome there came vnto him wicked and vngodly men of Israel whose captayne was Alcimus that wolde haue bene made hye prest These men accused the people of Israel vnto the kynge sayenge Iudas and his brethren haue slayne thy frendes and dryuen vs out of oure owne londe Wherfore sende now some man to whom thou geuest credence that he maye go and se all the destruccion which he hath done vnto vs and to the kynges londe and let him be punished with all his frēdes and fauourers Then the kynge chose Bachides a frende of his which was a man of greate power in the realme beyonde the greate water and faithfull vnto the kynge and sent him to se the destruccion that Iudas had done And as for that wicked Alcimus he made him hye Prest and commaunded him to be auenged of the children of Israel So they stode vp and came with a greate hoost in to y e londe of Iuda sendinge messaūgers to Iudas his brethrē speakinge vnto them w t peaceable wordes but vnder disceate Therfore Iudas his people beleued not their saiēge for they sawe y t they were come w t a greate hoost After this came y e scribes together vnto Alcimus Bachides trustinge the best vnto them And first y e Assideans requyred peace of them sayenge Alcimus y e prest is come of the sede of Aarō how can he disceaue vs So they gaue them louīge wordes swore vnto them and sayde we wil do you no harme nether youre frendes and they beleued them But the very same daye toke they lx men of them slewe thē acordinge to y e wordes y t are writtē They haue cast y e flesh of y e sanctes shed their bloude roūde aboute Ierusalē there was nomā y t wolde bury thē So there came a greate feare and drede amonge the people sayenge there is nether treuth nor righteousnesse in them for they haue brokē the appoyntment and ooth that they made And Bachides remoued his hoost from Ierusalem and pitched his tente at Bethzecha where he sent forth and toke many of them that had forsaken him He slewe many of the people also and cast them in to a greate pytt Then committed he the londe vnto Alcimus and left men of warre with him to helpe him and Bachides himself wente vnto the kynge And thus Alcimus defended his hie presthode and all soch as vexed Israel resorted vnto him In so moch that they optayned the lōde of Iuda and dyd moch euell vnto the Israelites Now when Iudas sawe all the myschefe that Alcimus and his company had done yee more then the Heithē them selues vnto the Israelites He wente forth rounde aboute all the borders of Iewry and punyshed those vnfaithfull rennagates so that they came no more out in to the countre So whē Alcimus sawe that Iudas and his people had gotten the vpperhande and that he was not able to abyde them he wente agayne to the kynge and sayde all the worst of them that he coude Then the kynge sent Nicanor one of his chefe prynces which bare euell wyl vnto Israel and commaunded him that he shulde vtterly destroye the people So Nicanor came to Ierusalem with a greate hoost and sent vnto Iudas and his brethren with frendly wordes but vnder disceate sayenge there shal be no warre betwixte me and you I wil come with a few men to se how ye do with frenshipe Vpon this he came vnto Iudas and they saluted one another peaceably but the enemies were appoynted to take Iudas by violence Neuertheles it was tolde Iudas y t he came vnto him but vnder disceate wherfore he gat him awaie from him and wolde se his face nomore When Nicanor perceaued y t his councell was bewrayed he wente out to fight agaynst Iudas besyde Capharsalama Where there were slayne of Nicanors hoost v. M. men the residue fled vnto the castell of Dauid After this came Nicanor vp vnto moūt Sion and the prestes with the elders of the people wente forth to salute him peaceably to shewe him y e burnt sacrifices y t were offered for the kynge But he laughed thē to scorne mocked thē defyled their offeringes and spake diszdanedly yee and swore

them I and my brethren my fathers house haue euer from oure youth vp vnto this daye foughten agaynst the enemies of Israel God gaue vs good fortune to delyuer Israel oft tymes And now for so moch as I am olde be ye in steade of me my brother to go forth fight for oure people the helpe of God be w t you So he chose xx M. fightingemen of the countre with horsmen also which wente forth agaynst Cendebeus and rested at Modin In the mornynge they arose wēte in to y e playne felde and beholde a mightie greate hoost came agaynst thē both of fotemen horsmen Now was there a water broke betwixte them Ihon remoued the hoost towarde them And when he sawe that the people was afrayed to go ouer y e water broke he wente ouer first him self and the men seynge this folowed him Then Ihon set his horsmen fote men in ordre the one by the other for their enemies horsmen were very many But when they blewe vp the prestes trompettes Cendebeus fled w t his hoost wherof many were slayne and the remnaunt gat them to their stronge holde Iudas also Ihōs brother whas woūded at y e same tyme. And Ihon folowed still vpon y e enemies till he came to Cedrō which he buylded The enemies fled also vnto the towres y t were in y e feldes of Azotus those dyd Ihon burne vp Thus there were slayne ij M. men of them Ihon turned agayne peaceably in to Iewry And in the felde of Iericho was Ptolomy the sonne of Abobus made captayne which because he had abundaunce of syluer golde for he had maried the doughter of Symon the hye prest waxed proude in his mynde thought to conquere the lōde ymageninge falsed agaynst Symō his sonnes to destroye thē Now as Symon was goynge aboute thorow the cities y t were in y t coūtre of Iewry and carynge for them he came downe to Iericho with Matathias Iudas his sonnes in the Clxxvij yeare in y e xj moneth called Sabat Then Ptolomy y e sonne of Abobus receaued them but w t disceate into a stronge house of his called Doch which he had buylded where he made them a bancket So when Symon his sonnes were mery had dronken well Ptolomy stode vp w t his men whō he had hyd there toke their weapens entred in to the banckethouse slewe Symon w t his two sonnes certayne of his seruaūtes Soch greate vnfaithfulnesse dyd Ptolomy in Israel and recōpensed euell for good Then wrote this Ptolomy y e same vnto kynge Antiochus requyringe him that he shulde sende him an hoost to helpe him so shulde he delyuer him the londe w t the cities tributes of the same He sent other men also vnto Gaza for to take Ihon wrote vnto the captaynes to come to him he shulde geue them syluer golde and rewardes And to Ierusalem he sent other to take it and the Sanctuary Thē ranne there one before tolde Ihon in Gaza that his father his brethren were slayne and how that Ptolomy had sent to slaie him also Whē Ihon herde this he was sore abaszshed and layed hōdes of them that were come to destroye him and slewe them for he knowe that they wente aboute to kyll him As for other thinges concernynge Ihon of his warres of his noble actes wherin he behaued him self manfully of the buyldinge of walles which he made and other of his dedes They are written in the cronicles of his presthode from the tyme forth y t he was made hye prest after his father The ende of the first boke of the Machabees The seconde boke Of the Machabees What this boke conteyneth Chap. I. The Iewes wryte vnto Aristobolus of the clensynge of the temple and of the feast of tabernacles Of the fyre that was hyd in the pyt Chap. II. What Ieremy requyred of the Iewes that were in preson and of their stories Chap. III. The Heithē kynges helde the temple at Ierusalem in honoure The variaunce betwixte Simon and Onias What Appollonius Heliodorus dyd at Ierusalem The punyshment of Heliodorus Chap. IIII. The wickednes of Symon The faithfulnesse of Onias Iason laboureth to be hye prest Of his wickednesse and how he was dryuen awaye The alteracion of the presthode Andronicus destroyeth Onias and God striketh him therfore Chap. V. Wonderous thinges done at Ierusalem Iason falleth vpon the cite handleth abhominably and yet is fayne to fleat the last The kynge of Egipte taketh the cite agayne with greate bloudsheddynge Chap. VI. The kynge procedeth forth in his tyranny as well in other cities where the lawe of God is kepte as at Ierusalem All this sendeth God for the wickednes of the people The stedfastnesse of Eleazar Chap. VII The death of the vij brethrē their mother How constante they are to suffre rather then to obeye the wicked kynge Chap. VIII The manlynesse of Iudas Machabeus and how Philippe medleth against him Iudas conforteth his people and ouercommeth Nicanor Chap. IX Of Antiochus and his pryde how God punyshed him Chap. X. Machabeus wynneth the holy cite agayne and clenseth it Eupator foloweth his father Antiochus Iudas Machabeus ordreth him self well Chap. XI What Lysias purposeth Iudas with stondeth him God taketh his parte Lysias Iudas are at one Chap. XII Timotheus Appolonius and other ymagin treason Iudas Machabeus punysheth them wynneth Caspin other cities Chap. XIII Antiochus Lysias make thē forth agaynst the Iewes Iudas gathereth the people byddeth them call vpon God goeth on and besyde Modin striketh a greate batell Chap. XIIII Of Demetrius the sonne of Seleucus The trayterous dealinge of Alcimus Nicanor breaketh falsely the bonde made with Iudas Machabeus Of the mālynes of Razis Chap. XV. Nicanors wicked purpose Iudas geueth his people godly consolacion Of his dreames and visions and how Nicanor perished The first Chapter THe brethrē of y e Iewes which be at Ierusalem in the londe of Iewry wish vnto those brethrē of y e Iewes that are thorow out Egipte good fortune health and peace God the LORDE be gracious vnto you thynke vpon his couenaunt y t he made w t Abraham Isaac Iacob his faithfull seruauntes and geue you all soch an herte that ye maye loue and serue him yee and perfourme his wyll with an whole herte and of a wyllinge mynde He opē youre hertes in his lawe and in his commaundementes sende you peace heare youre prayers be at one with you and neuer forsake you in tyme of trouble This is heare oure prayer for you What tyme as Demetrius raigned in the Clxix yeare we Iewes wrote vnto you in y e trouble and violence that came vpon vs. In those yeares after that Iason departed out of the holy londe and kyngdome they brent vp the portes and shed innocent bloude Then made we oure prayer vnto y e LORDE and were herde we offred

from y e kynge he came hauinge nothinge y t becōmeth a prest but bearinge y e stomack of a cruell tyraunte the wrath of a wylde brute beest Then Iason which had disceaued his owne brother seynge y t he him self was begyled also was fayne to fle in to y e lōde of y e Ammonites Menelaus gat y e dominiō But as for y e moneye y t he had promised vnto the kynge he dyd nothinge therin when Sostratus the ruler of y e castell requyred it of him For Sostratus was the man y t gathered y e customes wherfore they were both called before the kynge Thus was Menelaus put out of y e presthode Lysimachus his brother came in his steade Sostratus also was made lorde of the Cyprians It happened in y e meane season y t y e Tharsians Mallocians made insurreciō because they were geuen for a present vnto kynge Antiochus concubyne Then came y e kinge in all y e haist to still them agayne and to pacifie the matter leauynge Andronicus there to be his debyte as one mete therfore Now Menelaus supposinge that he had gotten a right convenient tyme stole certayne vessels of golde out of the temple and gaue thē to Andronicus for a present and some he solde at Tyrus and in the cities therby Which when Onias knewe of a suertye he reproued him but he kepte him in a santuary besyde Daphnis that lyeth by Antioche Wherfore Menelaus gat him to Andronicus and prayed him that he wolde slaye Onias So when he came to Onias he counceled him craftely to come out of the santuary geuynge him his honde with an ooth how be it he suspecte him and thē he slewe Onias without eny regarde of rightuousnesse For the which cause not only the Iewes but other nacions also toke indignacion and were displeased for the vnrightuous death of so godly a man And when the kynge was come agayne from Cilicia the Iewes and certaine of the Grekes wente vnto him complayninge for the vnrightuous death of Onias Yee Antiochus himself also was sory in his mynde for Onias so y t it pitied him and he wepte remembringe his sobernesse and manerly be hauoure Wherfore he was so kyndled in his mynde y t he cōmaunded Andronicus to be striped out of his purple clothinge so to be led thorow out all the cite yee and y e vngracious man to be slayne in y e same place where he committed his wickednes vpon Onias Thus y e LORDE rewarded him his punyshment as he had deserued Now when Lysimachus had done many wycked dedes in y e temple thorow the councell of Menelaus and the voyce came abrode the multitude gathered thē together agaynst Lisimachus for he had caried out now moch golde So when the people arose and were full of displeasure Lisimachus armed iij. M. vnthriftes to defende him a certayne tyraunte beynge their captayne which was growen both in age woodnesse But when the people vnderstode the purpose of Lysimachus some gat stones some good stronge clubbes some cast aszshes vpon Lisimachus Thus there were many of thē wounded some beynge slayne all the other chaced awaye But as for y t wicked churchrobber himself they kylled him besyde the treasury Of these matters therfore there was kepte a courte agaynst Menelaus Now when y e kinge came to Tyrus they made a cōplaynte vnto him of Menelaus concerninge this busynesse y e embassitours were thre But Menelaus wente promised Ptolomy to geue him moch money yf he wolde persuade the kynge So Ptolomy wēte to the kinge in to a courte where as he was set to coole him brughte him out of y t mynde In so moch y t he discharged Menelaus frō y e accusacions y t not withstondinge was cause of all myschefe and those poore men which yf they had tolde their cause yee before the Scythians they shulde haue be iudged innocēt thē he cōdēned to death Thus were they so one punyshed which folowed vpō y e matter for y e cite for y e people for y e holy vessell Wherfore they of Tyrus toke indignacion buried thē honorably And so thorow y e covetousnesse of them that were in power Menelaus remayned still in authorite increasinge in malyce to the hurte of the citesyns The V. Chapter AT y e same tyme Antiochus made him ready to go againe in to Egipte Thē were there sene at Ierusalem xl dayes lōge horsmē runninge to and fro in the ayre which had rayment of golde speares There were sene also whole hoostes of mē weapened horses runnynge in an ordre how they came together how they helde forth their shildes how y e harnessed men drew out their sweardes shot their dartes The shyne of y e goldē weapēs was sene of all maner of armure Wherfore euerymā prayed y t those tokens might turne to good Now whē there was gone forth a false rumo as though Antiochus had bene deed Iason toke a M. mē came sodēly vpō y e cite The citesyns rāne vnto y e walles at y e last was y e cite taken and Menelaus fled in to the castell As for Iason he spared not his owne citesyns in the slaughter nether considered he what greate euell it were to destroye y e prosperite of his owne kynsmen but dyd as one that had gotten the victory of his enemies and not of his frendes For all this gatt he not the superiorite but at the last receaued confucion for his malice and fled agayne like a vagabunde in to the londe of the Ammonites Fynally for a rewarde of his wickednesse he was accused before Aretha the kynge of the Arabians In so moch that he was fayne to fle from cite to cite beynge despysed of euery man as a forsaker of the lawes and an abhominable personne And at y e last as an open enemy of his owne naturall countre and of the citesyns he was dryuen in to Egipte Thus he y t afore put many out of their owne natyue londe peryshed from home him self He wente to Lacedemon thinkinge there to haue gotten sucoure by reason of kynrede And he that afore had casten many one out vnburied was throwen out him self no man mournynge for him ner puttinge him in his graue so that he nether enioyed y e buriall of a straunger nether was he partaker of his fathers sepulcre Now when this was done the kinge suspecte y t the Iewes wolde haue fallen from him wherfore he came in a greate displeasure out of Egipte toke the cite by violence He cōmaunded his men of warre also that they shulde kyll not spare but slaye downe soch as w t stode them or clymmed vp vpō y e houses Thus was there a greate slaughter of yonge men olde men women children and virgins In iij. dayes were there slayne lxxx M fourty thousande put in preson no lesse solde Yet was he not cōtent w t this

might be disceaued by this meanes also shulde I defyle myne age make it abhominable For though I were now delyuered from the tormentes of men yet shulde I not escape the honde of allmightie God nether alyue ner deed Wherfore I will dye manfully do as it becommeth myne age Wherby I maie peraduenture leaue an exāple of stedfastnesse for soch as be yonge yf I w t a ready mynde manfully dye an honest death for the most worthy and holy lawes When he had sayde these wordes immediatly he was drawen to the tormēte Now they that led him and were mylde a litle afore beganne to take displeasure because of the wordes y t he sayde for they thought he had spokē them of an hye mynde But whē he was in his martirdome he mourned and sayde Thou O LORDE which hast the holy knowlege knowest openly that where as I might be delyuered frō death I suffre these sore paynes of my body but in my mynde I am wel contente to suffre them because I feare the. Thus this man dyed leauynge y e memoriall of his death for an example not only vnto yonge men but vnto all y e people to be stedfast and manly The VII Chapter IT happened also that there were vij brethren with their mother taken compelled by the kynge agaynst the lawe to eate swynes flesh namely w t scourges and lethren whippes And one of them which was y e chefe sayde What sekest thou and what requyrest thou of vs As for vs we are ready rather to suffre death then to offende the lawes of God and the fathers Then was the kynge angrie and bad heare cauldrons and brasen pottes Which when they were made hote immediatly he commaunded y e tonge of him that spake first to be cut out to pull the skynne ouer his heade to payre of the edges of his handes and fete yee and that in the sight of his mother and the other of his brethren Now when he was cleane marred he commaunded a fyre to be made so whyle there was eny breath in him to be fryed in the caudron In the which when he had bene longe payned the other brethren with their mother exorted him to dye manfully sayēge The LORDE God shal regarde the treuth and comforte vs like as Moses testifieth and declareth in his songe sayenge and he wyl haue compassion on his seruauntes So whē the first was deed after this maner they brought the seconde to haue him in derision pulled the skynne with the hayre ouer his heade and axed him yf he wolde eate swynes flesh or he were payned in y e other membres also thorow out his body But he answered boldly and sayde I will not do it And so was he tormented like as y e first And whē he was euē at y e geuinge vp of y e goost he sayde Thou most vngracious personne puttest vs now to death but the kynge of y e worlde shall rayse vs vp which dye for his lawes in y e resurreccion of euerlastinge life After him was the thirde had in derision and when he was requyred he putt out his tonge and that right soone holdinge forth his hondes manfully and spake with a stedfast faith These haue I of heauē but now for the lawe of God I despyse them for my trust is that I shall receaue them of him agayne In so moch that the kynge and they which were with him marueled at the yonge mans boldnesse that he nothinge regarded the paynes Now when he was deed also they vexed the fourth with tormentes in like maner So when he was now at his death he sayde It is better that we beynge put to death of mē haue oure hope and trust in God for he shal rayse vs vp agayne As for the thou shalt haue no resurreccion to life And when they had spoken to the fifth they tormēted him Then loked he vnto y e kinge sayde Thou hast power amōge mē for thou art a mortall man also y i self to do what thou wilt but thinke not y t God hath forsaken o r generacion Abyde the tary styll a whyle thou shalt se the greate power of God how he wil punysh the thy sede After him they brought the sixte which beynge at the poynte of death sayde Be not disceaued o kynge for this we suffre for oure owne sakes because we haue offended oure God therfore marvelous thinges are shewed vpon vs. But thinke not thou which takest in honde to stryue agaynst God that thou shalt escape vnpunyshed This excellent mother worthy to be well reported of and had in remembraunce sawe hir seuen sonnes dye in one daye and suffred it paciētly because of the hope that she had in God Yee she exorted euery one of them in especiall and that boldly and stedfastly w t parfite wyszdome wakynge vp hir wyuysh thought with a manly stomacke and sayde vnto them I can not tell how ye came in my wombe for I nether gaue you breth ner soule no ner life It is not I y t ioyned y t mēbres of yo bodies together but y e maker of y e worlde which fashioned y e byrth of mā begāne all thinges Euen he also of his owne mercy shall geue you breath and life agayne like as ye now regarde not youre owne selues for his lawes sake Now thought Antiochus that she had despysed him therfore he let her go with hir reproues and beganne to exorte the yongest sonne which yet was left not only w t wordes but swore vnto him w t an ooth y t he shulde make him a rich welthy man yf he wolde forsake y e lawes of his fathers yee and y t he shulde geue him what so euer were necessary for him But whē the yonge man wolde not be moued for all these thinges he called his mother counceled her to saue hir sonnes life And when he had exorted her with many wordes she promised him that she shulde speake vnto hir sonne So she turned her vnto him laughinge y e cruell tyraunte to scorne spake w t a boylde voyce O my sonne haue pite vpon me y t bare y e ix monethes in my wombe that gaue the sucke norished the and brought the vp vnto this age I beseke the my sonne loke vpon heauen and earth and all that is therin and considre that God made them and mans generacion of naught so shalt thou not feare this hangman but suffre death stedfastly like as thy brethren haue done that I maye receaue the agayne in the same mercy with thy brethren Whyle she was yet speakynge these wordes the yonge man sayde Whom loke ye for ▪ Wherfore do ye tary I wil not obeye the kynges commaundement but the lawe that God gaue vs by Moses As for the that ymaginest all myschefe agaynst the Iewes thou shalt not escape the honde of God for we suffre these thinges because of oure synnes And though

vnderstonde it not And in them is fulfilled y e prophecie of Esay which sayeth Ye shal heare in dede and shal not vnderstonde and with seinge eyes shal ye se and not perceaue For y e hert of this people is waxed grosse their eares are thick of hearīge their eyes haue they closed lest they shulde once se w t y e eyes heare w t the eares vnderstōde w t the hert turne that I might heale them But blessed are youre eyes for they se youre eares for they heare Verely I saye vnto you Many prophetes righteous men haue desyred to se y e thinges that ye se and haue not sene thē and to heare the thinges that ye heare and haue not herde thē Heare ye therfore the parable of the sower Whan one heareth y e worde of the kyngdome and vnderstondeth it not the euell man cōmeth and plucketh it awaye that is sowne in his hert this is he y t is sowne by the waye syde But he y t is sowne in the stonye grounde is this whā one heareth the worde anone with ioye receaueth it neuertheles he hath no rote ī him but endureth for a season whā trouble persecucion aryseth because of the worde immediatly he his offended As for him that is sowne amonge y e thornes this is he Whā one heareth the worde the carefulnes of this worlde the disceatfulnes of riches choke the worde so he becōmeth vnfrutefull But he y t is sowne in the good grounde is this whan one heareth the worde and vnderstondeth it and bringeth forth frute and some geueth an hūdreth folde some sixtie folde and some thirtie folde Another parable put he forth vnto thē sayde The kyngdome of heauē is like vnto a man y t sowed good sede in his felde But whyle mē slepte there came an enemye and sowed tares amonge y e wheate wente his waye Now whā the blade was sprōge vp brought forth frute thē y e tares appeared also Then came the seruaūtes to y e housholder sayde vnto him Syr sowdest not thou good sede in y e felde Frō whēce thē hath it tares He sayde vnto thē that hath the enemye done Thē sayde y e seruaūtes wilt thou then y t we go wede thē out He sayde No lest whyle ye wede out y e tares ye plucke vp the wheate also w t thē Let thē both growe together tyll the haruest and in tyme of haruest I wil saye vnto the reapers Gather y e tares first bynde thē in sheeues to be brēt but gather the wheate in to my barne Another parable put he forth vnto thē and sayde The kyngdome of heauen is like vnto a grane of mustarde sede which a man toke and sowed it in his felde Which is the leest amonge all sedes But whan it is growne it is the greatest amonge herbes and is a tre so that the byrdes vnder the heauen come and dwell in the braunches of it Another parable spake he vnto thē The kyngdome of heauē is like vnto leuē which a woman toke and myxte it amonge thre peckes of meele tyll all was leuended All soch thinges spake Iesus vnto y e people by parables without parables spake he nothinge vnto thē y t the thinge might be fulfilled which was spokē by y e prophet sayenge I wil open my mouth in parables and wil speake out the secretes from the begynnynge of the worlde Then sent Iesus the people awaye and came home And his disciples came vnto hī and sayde Declare vnto us y e parable of y e tares of y e felde Iesus answered and sayde vnto them He that soweth the good sede is the sonne of man the felde is the worlde y e good sede are the childrē of the kyngdome The tares are the children of wickednes y e enemye that soweth thē is the deuell y e haruest is the ende of the worlde y e reapers are y e angels For like as y e tares are weded out and brent in the fyre euē so shal it go in y e ende of this worlde The sonne of man shal sende forth his angels they shal gather out of his kingdome all thinges y t offende thē y t do iniquyte shal cast thē in to a fornace of fyre there shal be waylinge and gnaszhinge of teth Thē shal the righteous shyne as the Sonne in the kyngdome of their father Who so hath eares to heare let him heare Agayne the kingdome of heauen is like vnto a treasure hyd in the felde which a mā founde and hid it and for ioye therof he wēte solde all y t he had and bought y t felde Agayne the kyngdome of heauen is like vnto a marchaūt y t sought good pearles whā he had founde a precious pearle he wēte and solde all that he had bought it Agayne y e kyngdome of heauē is like vnto a nett cast in to y e see wherwith are takē all maner of fyshes whā it is ful mē drawe it out vnto y e shore sytt gather y e good ī to the vessels but cast the bad awaye So shal it be also in y e ende of y e worlde The angels shal go out seuer the bad frō the righteous shal cast thē in to a fornace of fyre there shal be waylinge gnaszhinge of teth And Iesus sayde vnto them Haue ye vnderstōde all these thinges They sayde Yee LORDE Then sayde he vnto thē Therfore euery scribe taught vnto y e kingdome of heauen is like an houszholder which bryngeth out of his treasure thinges new and olde And it came to passe whā Iesus had ended these parables he departed thence and came into his owne coūtre and taught thē in their synagoges in so moch that they were astonnyed and sayde Whēce cōmeth soch wyszdome power vnto him Is not this the carpēters sonne Is not his mother called Mary and his brethrē Iames Ioses and Symon and Iude And are not all his sisters here with us Whence hath he thē all these thinges And they were offended at him But Iesus sayde vnto thē A prophet is nowhere lesse sett by thē at home amonge his owne And he dyd not many miracles there because of their vnbeleue The XIIII Chapter AT that tyme Herode y e Tetrarcha herde of y e fame of Iesu sayde vnto his seruaūtes This is Ihō y e baptist He is rysen agayne frō the deed therfore are his dedes so mightie For Herode had takē Ihō bounde hī put him in preson for Herodias sake his brothers Philips wife For Ihon sayde vnto him It is not laufull for y t to haue her And fayne wolde he haue put him to death but he feared the people because they helde him for a Prophet But whan Herode helde his byrth

those dayes there shal be soch trouble as was not from the begynnynge of y e creatures which God created vnto this tyme nether shal be And yf y e LORDE had not shortened those dayes there shulde no man be saued But for the electes sake whom he hath chosen he hath shortened those dayes Now yf eny man shal saye vnto you at y t tyme Lo here is Christ lo he is there beleue it not For there shal aryse false Christes and false prophetes which shal do tokens wonders to disceaue euen the very chosen yf it were possyble But take ye hede Beholde I haue tolde you all before But at the same tyme after this trouble the Sonne and Mone shal lose their light and the starres shall fall from heauen and the powers of the heauens shal moue and then shal they se the sonne of man commynge in the cloudes with greate power and glory And thē shal he sende his angels and shal gather together his chosen frō the foure wyndes from one ende of the earth to the other Lerne a symilitude of the fyge tre Whā his braunch is yet tēder and hath brought forth leaues ye knowe that the Sommer is nye So lykewyse whā ye se all these thinges come to passe be ye sure that it is nye euen at the dores Verely I saye vnto you this generaciō shal not passe tyll all these be fulfilled Heauen and earth shal perishe but my wordes shal not perishe But of that daye and houre knoweth no man nether the angels in heauen no not the sonne him self but the father onely Take hede watch praye for ye knowe not whan the tyme is Like as a man that wente in to a straunge countre and left his house and gaue his seruauntes auctorite vnto euery one his worke and commaunded y e porter that he shulde watch Watch ye therfore for ye knowe not whā the master of y e house cōmeth whether he cōmeth in the euenynge or at mydnight or aboute the cock crowynge or in the mornynge that he come not sodenly and fynde you slepynge Loke what I saye vnto you that saye I vnto all Watch. The XIIII Chapter ANd after two dayes was Easter and the daies of swete bred And y e hye prestes scrybes sought how they might take him with disceate put him to death But they sayde Not in the feast daye lest there be an vproure in the people And when he was at Bethanye in the house of Symon the leper and sat at the table there came a woman which had a boxe of pure and costly Nardus oyntment And she brake y e boxe poured it vpō his heade Then were there some y t disdayned and sayde Where to serueth this waist This oyntment might haue bene solde for more then thre hundreth pens bene geuē to y e poore And they grudged agaynst her But Iesus sayde let her be in rest Why trouble ye her She hath done a good worke vpō me Ye haue allwaye the poore with you and whā so euer ye wil ye maye do thē good but me haue ye not allwaie She hath done what she coulde she is come before to anoynte my body for my buriall Verely I saye vnto you Where so euer this gospell shal be preached in all the worlde there shal this also that she hath now done be tolde for a remembraunce of her And Iudas Iscarioth one of the twolue wente vnto the hye prestes to betraye him vnto them Whan they herde y t they were glad promysed that they wolde geue him money And he sought how he might cōueniently betraye him And vpon y e first daye of swete bred whā the Easter Iambe was offered his disciples sayde vnto him Where wilt thou y t we go and prepare y t thou mayest eate y e Easter lābe And he sent two of his disciples and sayde vnto them Go youre waye into the cite and there shal mete you a mā bearinge a pitcher with water folowe him where so euer he goeth in there saye ye to the good man of the house The Master sendeth the worde Where is the gest house wherin I maye eate the Easter lābe w t my disciples And he shal shewe you a greate parlour which is paued prepared there make readye for vs. And y e disciples wēte forth came in to y e cite foūde it as he had sayde vnto thē And they prepared y e Easter lambe At euen he came w t the twolue And as they sat at the table ate Iesus sayde Verely I saye vnto you One of you y t eateth w t me shal betraye me And they were sory sayde vnto hī one after another Is it I another sayde is it I He answered saide vnto thē One of the twolue euen y e same y t dyppeth with me in y e platter The sonne of man truly goeth forth as it is wryttē of hī But wo vnto that mā by whom the sonne of man is betrayed It were better for the same man that he had neuer bene borne And as they ate Iesus toke the bred gaue thankes brake it and gaue it thē sayde Take eate this is my body And he toke the cuppe thāked and gaue it thē and they all dranke therof And he sayde vnto them This is my bloude of the new Testament which shal be shed for many Verely I saye vnto you that from hence forth I wil not drynke of the frute of the vyne tyll y e daye y t I drynke it new in y e kyngdome of God And whā they had sayde grace they wēte forth vnto mount Oliuete And Iesus sayde vnto them This night shal ye all be offended in me for it is wrytten I wil smyte the sheperde the shepe shal be scatred abrode Neuertheles after y t I am rysen agayne I wil go before you in to Galile But Peter sayde vnto him And though all men shulde be offended yet wolde not I be offended And Iesus sayde vnto him Verely I saye vnto y e Todaye in this same night before y e cock crowe two tymes shalt thou denye me thryse But he saide yet more Yee though I shulde dye w t y e yet wil I not denie ye. So saide they all ī like maner And they came in to y e felde called Gethsemane and he saide vnto his disciples Syt ye here tyll I go yonder and praye And he toke with him Peter Iames Ihon and begāne to waxe fearefull to be in an agonye sayde vnto thē My soule is heuy euē vnto y e death tary ye here and watch And he wente forth a litle fell vpon the grounde and prayed that yf it were possyble y e houre might passe frō him and sayde Abba my father all thinges are possyble vnto the take this cuppe awaye fro me Neuertheles not what I wyl but what thou wilt And he came

sayde Thus hath y e LORDE done vnto me in y e dayes wherin he hath loked vpō me to take awaye frome my rebuke amōge men And in the sixte moneth was the angell Gabriel sent from God in to a cite of Galile called Nazareth vnto a virgin that was spoused vnto a man whose name was Ioseph of the house of Dauid and the virgins name was Mary And the angell came in vnto her and sayde Hayle thou full of grace the LORDE is with the blessed art thou amonge wemen Whā she sawe him she was abaszhed at his sayenge and thought What maner of salutacion is this And the angell sayde vnto her Feare not Mary for thou hast foūde grace with God Beholde thou shalt cōceaue in thy wōbe beare a sonne shalt call his name Iesus he shal be greate shal be called y e sonne of the Hyest And the LORDE God shal geue him y e seate of Dauid his father he shal be kinge ouer y e house of Iacob for euer there shal be no ende of his kyngdome Then sayde Mary vnto the angell How shal this be seinge I knowe not a mā The angell answered sayde vnto her The holy goost shal come vpon the the power of the Hyest shal ouer shadowe the. Therfore that Holy also which shal be borne of the shal be called the sonne of God And beholde thy cosen Elizabeth she also hath cōceaued a sonne in hir olde age this is the sixte moneth of her which is reported to be barem for w t God is nothinge vnpossyble And Mary sayde Beholde here am I the hand 〈◊〉 of the LORDE be it vnto me as thou hast sayde And the angell departed frō her And Mary arose in those dayes and wente in to the moūtaynes with haist into y e cite of Iewry and came in to y e house of Zachary and saluted Elizabeth And it fortuned as Elizabeth herde the salutacion of Mary the babe sprange in hir wombe And Elizabeth was fylled with the holy goost cried loude and sayde Blessed art thou amōge wemen and blessed is the frute of y e wombe And how happeneth this to me that y e mother of my LORDE commeth vnto me Beholde whan I herde the voyce of thy salutacion the babe sprange in my wombe w t ioye And blessed art thou that hast beleued for y e thinges shal be perfourmed which were tolde y e frō y e LORDE And Mary sayde My soule magnifieth the LORDE And my sprete reioyseth ī God my Sauioure For he hath loked vpō the lowe degre of his hande mayde Beholde frō hence forth shal all generacions call me blessed For he that is Mightie hath done greate thinges vnto me and holy is his name And his mercy endureth thorow out all generacions vpon them that feare him He sheweth strength with his arme and scatreth them that are proude in the ymaginacion of their hert He putteth downe the mightie from the seate and exalteth them of lowe degre He fylleth the hongrie with good thinges and letteth the riche go emptye He remēbreth mercy and helpeth vp his seruaunt Israel Euen as he promysed vnto oure fathers Abraham and to his sede foreuer And Mary abode with her aboute thre monethes and then returned home agayne And Elizabethes tyme was come that she shulde be delyuered she brought forth a sonne And hir neghbours and kynsfolkes herde y t the LORDE had shewed greate mercy vpō her they reioysed with her And it fortuned vpon the eight daye they came to circumcyse y e childe and called him Zachary after his father And his mother answered and sayde No but he shal be called Ihon. And they sayde vnto her There is none in y e kynne y t is so called And they made signes vnto his father how he wolde haue him called And he axed for wrytinge tables wrote sayde His name is Ihon. And they marueyled all And immediatly was his mouth and his tōge opened and he spake praysed God And there came a feare vpon all their neghbours And all this acte was noysed abrode thorow out all the hill countre of Iewry And all they y t herde therof toke it to hert and sayde What maner of man wil this childe be For the hande of the LORDE was with him And Zachary his father was fylled with the holy goost and prophecied and sayde Blessed be y e LORDE God of Israel for he hath vysited and redemed his people And hath set vp an horne of saluacion in the house of his seruaunt Dauid Euen as he promysed afore tyme by the mouth of his holy prophetes That he wolde delyuer vs frō oure enemies from y e hande of all soch as hate vs. And y t he wolde shewe mercy vnto oure fathers thynke vpō his holy couenaūt Euen the ooth y t he sware vnto oure father Abraham for to geue vs. That we delyuered out of y e hāde of o enemies might serue him without feare all the dayes of oure life in soch holynes and righteousnes as is accepte before him And thou childe shalt be called a prophet of the Hyest for thou shalt go before y e LORDE to prepare his wayes And to geue knowlege of saluacion vnto his people for the remyssion of their synnes Thorow the tender mercy of oure God wherby the daye sprynge from an hye hath vysited vs. That he might geue light vnto them y t syt in darcknesse and shadowe of death and to gyde oure fete into the waye of peace And the childe grew and waxed stronge in sprete and was in the wyldernes tyll the tyme that he shulde shewe him self vnto the people of Israel The II. Chapter IT fortuned at the same tyme that there wēte out a cōmaundement frō Augustus the Emperoure that the whole worlde shulde be taxed And this taxynge was the first that was executed whan Syrenius was leftenaunt in Siria And they wente all euery one to his owne cite to be taxed Then Ioseph gat him vp also frō Galile out of the cite of Nazareth into Iewry to y e cite of Dauid which is called Bethleem because he was of y e house and lynage of Dauid that he might be ●axed w t Mary his spoused wife which was w t childe And it fortuned whyle they were there y e tyme was come that she shulde be delyuered And she brought forth hir first begottē sonne wrapped him inswadlinge clothes and layed him in a maunger for they had els no rowme in the ynne And there were in y e same region shepherdes in the felde by the foldes and watchinge their flocke by night And beholde y e angell of the LORDE stode by thē and y e brightnes of the LORDE shone rounde aboute them and they were sore afrayed And the angell sayde vnto them Be not afrayed Beholde I brynge you tydīges of greate ioye which shall happen vnto all people

is he then his sonne Now whyle all the people gaue audience he sayde vnto his disciples Bewarre of the scrybes which wyl go in longe garmentes and loue to be saluted vpon the market and desyre to syt hyest in the synagoges and at the table They deuoure wedowes houses and that vnder a culoure of longe prayenge These shal receaue the greater dānacion The XXI Chapter ANd he loked vp and behelde y e riche how they put in their offerynges in to the Gods chest He sawe also a poore wedowe which put in two mytes and he sayde Verely I saye vnto you This poore wedowe hath put in more thē they all For these all haue of their excesse put in vnto the offerynge of God but she of hir pouerte hath put in all hir lyuynge that she had And whā some spake of the temple that it was garnished with goodly stones and Iewels he saide The time shal come wher in of all this that ye se there shal not be left one stone vpon another which shal not be broken downe They axed him and sayde Master whā shal these be and what shal be the token whan these shal come to passe He sayde Take hede that ye be not disceaued For many shal come in my name and saye I am he the tyme is come hard by Folowe them not But whan ye heare of warres and insurreccions be not ye afrayed for soch must come to passe but the ende is not yet there so soone Then sayde he vnto them One people shal ryse agaynst another and one realme ageynst another shal be greate earthquakes here and there pestilence and derth and fearfull thinges And greate tokēs shal there be frō heauē But before all these they shal laye handes vpon you and persecute you and delyuer you vp in to their synagoges and presons and brynge you before kynges prynces for my names sake But this shal happen vnto you for a wytnesse Be at a poynt therfore in youre hertes that ye take no thought how ye shal answere for I wil geue you mouth wyszdome ●gaynst the which all youre aduersaries shal not be able to speake ner to resist But ye shal be delyuered vp euen of youre elders brethren kynszfolkes and frendes and some of you shal they put vnto death and ye shal be hated of euery man for my names sake and yet shal not one hayre of youre heade perishe Holde fast youre soules with pacience But whan ye shal se Ierusalem beseged with an hoost then vnderstonde that the desolacion of it is nye Then let them which be in Iewry flye vnto the mountaynes ▪ ●nd let soch as be in the myddest therof departe out and let soch as be in the countrees not come therin For these are the dayes of vengeaunce that euery thinge which is wrytten maye be fulfilled But wo vnto them that are with childe and to them that geue sucke in those dayes for there shal be greate trouble vpon earth and wrath ouer this people and they shal fall thorow the edge of the swerde and be led captyue amōge all nacions And Ierusalē shal be troden downe of the Heithen ▪ vntyll the tyme of the Heithen be fulfilled And there shal be tokens in the Sonne and Mone and starres and vpon earth the people shal be in soch perplexite that they shal not tell which waye to turne them selues And the see and the waters shal roare and men shal pyne awaye for feare and for lokynge after the thinges which shal come vpō earth For euen the very powers of heauen shal moue And then shal they se the sonne of man commynge in the cloude with power and greate glory But whan these thinges begynne to come to passe thē loke vp and lift vpp youre heades for youre redempcion draweth nye And he tolde them a symilitude Beholde the fygge tre and all tre trees whā they now shute forth their buddes ye se by them and perceaue that Sommer is now at hande So likewyse ye whan ye se all these thinges come to passe be sure that the kyngdome of God is nye Verely I saye vnto you This generaciō shal not passe tyll all be fulfilled Heauen and earth shal passe but my wordes shal not passe But take hede vnto youre selues that yo hertes be not ouerladē with excesse of eatinge and with dronkennes and with takinge of thought for lyuynge and so this daye come vpō you vnawares For as a snare shal it come on all them that dwell vpon earth Watch therfore cōtynually and praye that ye maye be worthy to escape all this that shal come to stōde before y e sonne of man And on the daye tyme he taught in the temple but in the night season he wente out and abode all night vpon mount Oliuete And all the people gat them vp early vnto him in the temple for to heare him The XXII Chapter THe feast of swete bred which is called Easter drue nye And y e hye presstes and Scrybes sought how they might put him to death and were afrayed of the people But Satan was entred in to Iudas named Iscarioth which was of y e nombre of y e twolue and he wēte his waye and talked with the hye prestes and with y e officers how he wolde betraye him vnto them And they were glad and promysed to geue him money And he cōsented sought oportunite y t he might betraye hī without eny rumoure Then came y e daye of swete bred wherin the Easter lambe must be offered And he sent Peter and Ihon and sayde Go youre waye prepare vs the Easter lambe that we maye eate But they sayde vnto him Where wilt thou that we prepare it He saide vnto them Beholde whā ye come in to y e cite there shal mete you a man bearinge a pitcher of water folowe him in to the house y t he entreth in and saye vnto the good man of the house The master sendeth y e worde Where is y e gesthouse wherin I maye eate the Easter lābe with my disciples And he shal shewe you a greate parlour paued They wente their waye and founde as he had sayde vnto them and made ready the Easter lambe And whan the houre came he sat him downe and the twolue Apostles with him and he sayde vnto them I haue hertely desyred to ●ate this Easter lābe with you before I suffre For I saye vnto you that hence forth I wil eate nomore therof tyll it be fulfilled in the kyngdome of God And he toke the cuppe gaue thankes and sayde Take this and deuyde it amonge you For I laye vnto you I wil not drynke of the frute of y e vyne vntyll the kyngdome of God come And he toke the bred gaue thankes and brake it and gaue it them and sayde This is my body which shal be geuen for you This do

The XII Chapter SIxe dayes before Easter came Iesus vnto Bethanye where Lazarus was which was deed whom Iesus 〈◊〉 from the deed There they made him a supper and Martha serued But Lazarus was one of them that sat at the table with him Then toke Mary a pounde of oyntment of pure and costly Nardus and anoynted Iesus fete dryed his fete with hir heer The house was full of the sanoure of the oynment Then sayde one of his disciples Iudas Iscarioth Symons sonne which afterwarde betrayed him Why was not this oyntment solde for thre hundreth pens and geuen to the poore This sayde he not that he cared for the poore but because he was a thefe and had the bagge and bare that which was geuē Then sayde Iesus Let her alone this hath she kepte agaynst the daye of my buryenge For the poore haue ye allwaye with you but me haue ye not allwaye Then moch people of the Iewes had knowlege that he was there and they came not for Iesus sake onely but also y t they might se Lazarus whom he had raysed from the deed But y e hye prestes were aduysed to put Lazarus to death also because y t for his sake many of the Iewes wēte awaye and beleued on Iesus Vpon the nexte daye moch people which were come vnto the feast whan they herde that Iesus came towarde Ierusalem they toke braunches of palme trees and wēte out to mete him and cryed Hosianna Blessed be he that in the name of the LORDE commeth kynge of Israel Iesus gat a yonge Asse and rode theron As it is wryttē Feare not thou doughter of Sion beholde thy kynge cōmeth rydinge vpō an Asses foale Neuertheles his disciples vnderstode not these thinges at the first but whan Iesus was glorified then remēbred they that soch thinges were wryttē of him and that they had done soch thinges vnto him The people that was with him whan he called Lazarus out of y e graue and raysed him from the deed commended the acte Therfore the people met him because they herde that he had done soch a miracle But the pharises sayde amonge them selues Ye se that we preuayle nothinge beholde all y e worlde runneth after him There were certayne Grekes amonge thē that were come vp to Ierusalē to worshipe at the feast the same came vnto Philippe which was of Bethsaida out of Galile prayed him and sayde Syr we wolde fayne se Iesus Philippe came tolde Andrew And agayne Philippe and Andrew tolde Iesus Iesus answered thē and sayde The houre is come that the sonne of man must be glorified Verely verely I saye vnto you Excepte the wheatcorne fall in to the grounde and dye it bydeth alone But yf it dye it beyngeth forth moch frute He that loueth his life shal lose it and he that hateth his life in this worlde shal kepe it vnto life euerlastinge He that wyl serue me let him folowe me And where I am there shal my seruaunt be also and he that serueth me him shal my father honoure Now is my soule heuy and what shal I saye Father helpe me out of this houre But therfore am I come in to this houre Father glorifye thy name Then came there a voyce from heauen I haue glorified it and wyl glorifye it agayne Then sayde the people that stode by and herde It thondereth Other sayde An angell spake vnto him Iesus answered and sayde This voyce came not because of me but for youre sakes Now goeth the iudgment ouer the worlde Now shal the prynce of this worlde be thrust out And I whan I am life vp from the earth wyl drawe all vnto me But this he sayde to signifye what death he shulde dye Then answered him the people We haue herde in the lawe that Christ endureth for euer and how sayest thou then that the sonne of man must be lift vp Who is this sonne of man Then sayde Iesus vnto them The light is yet a litle whyle with you walke whyle ye haue the light that the darknesse fall not vpō you He that walketh in the darknesse woteth not whither he goeth Beleue ye on the light whyle ye haue it that ye maye be the children of light These thinges spake Iesus and departed awaye and hyd himself from them And though he had done soch tokens before thē yet beleued they not on him that the sayenge of Esay the prophet might be fulfylled which he spake LORDE who beleueth oure preachinge Or to whom is the arme of the LORDE opened Therfore coulde they not beleue for Esay saide agayne He hath blynded their eyes and hardened their hert that they shulde not se with the eyes ner vnderstonde with the hert shulde be conuerted and he shulde heale them This sayde Esay whan he sawe his glory and spake of him Neuertheles many of the chefe rulers beleued on him but because of the Pharises they wolde not be aknowne of it lest they shulde be excommunicate For they loued more the prayse with men then with God Iesus cryed and sayde He that beleueth on me beleueth not on me but on him that sent me And he that seyth me seyth him y t sent me I am come a light in to the worlde that whosoeuer beleueth on me shulde not byde in darknesse And he that heareth my wordes and beleueth not I iudge him not for I am not come to iudge the worlde but to saue the worlde He that refuseth me and receaueth not my wordes hath one allready that iudgeth him The worde that I haue spoken that shall iudge him at the last daye For I haue not spoken of myself but the father that sent me hath geuen me a commaundement what I shulde do and saye And I knowe that his commaundement is life euerlastinge Therfore loke what I speake that speake I euē so as the father hath sayde vnto me The XIII Chapter BEfore the feast of Easter whan Iesus knewe that his tyme was come that he shulde departe out of this worlde vnto y e father as he loued his which were in the worlde euen so loued he them vnto the ende And after supper whan the deuell had allready put into y e hert of Iudas Iscarioth Symons sonne to betraye him Iesus knowinge that the father had geuen all thinges in to his handes that he was come from God and wente vnto God he rose from supper and layed asyde his vpper garmentes and toke a towell and gyrde it aboute him Afterwarde poured he water in to a basen and beganne to wash the disciples fete and dryed them with the towell y t he was gyrded withall Then came he vnto Symon Peter and y e same sayde vnto him LORDE shalt thou washe my fete Iesus answered and sayde vnto him What I do thou knowest not now but thou shalt knowe it herafter Thē sayde Peter vnto him Thou shalt neuer

that one man shulde dye for the people As for Symon Peter he and another disciple folowed Iesus The same disciple was knowne vnto the hye prest and wēte in with Iesus in to the hye prestes palace But Peter stode without at the dore Then y t other disciple which was knowne vnto the hye prest wente out and spake to the damsell y t kepte the dore and brought in Peter Then the damsell that kepte the dore sayde vnto Peter Art not thou also one of this mans disciples He sayde I am not The seruauntes officers stode and had made a fyre of coles for it was colde warmed thē selues Peter also stode with them and warmed him self The hye prest axed Iesus of his disciples and of his doctryne Iesus answered him I haue spoken openly before the worlde I haue euer taught in the synagoge and in the tēple whither all the Iewes resorted in secrete haue I spokē nothinge Why axest thou me Axe thē y t haue herde what I haue spoken vnto thē beholde they can tell what I haue sayde But whan he had thus spokē one of the officers that stode by smote Iesus on the face and sayde Answerest thou the hye prest so Iesus answered him Yf I haue euell spokē thē beare wytnesse of euell but yf I haue well spoken why smytest thou me And Annas sent him bounde vnto Caiphas y e hye prest Symō Peter stode and warmed him self Thē sayde they vnto him Art not thou one of his disciples He denyed and sayde I am not A seruaūt of the hye prestes a kynszmā of his whose eare Peter had smytten of sayde vnto him Dyd not I se the in the gardē with him Then Peter denyed agayne And immediatly the cock crew Then led they Iesus from Caiphas in to the comon hall And it was early in the mornynge And they them selues wēte not in to the comō hall lest they shulde be defyled but y t they might eate y e Pascall lambe Then wente Pilate out vnto thē and sayde What accusacion brynge ye agaynst this man They answered and sayde vnto him Yf he were not an euell doer we had not delyuered him vnto the. Then sayde Pilate vnto thē Take ye him and iudge him after yo lawe Then sayde y e Iewes vnto him It is not laufull for vs to put eny mā to death That y e worde of Iesus might be fulfilled which he spake whan he signified what death he shulde dye Then entred Pilate in to the comon hall agayne and called Iesus sayde vnto him Art thou the kynge of the Iewes Iesus answered Sayest thou that of thy self or haue other tolde it the of me Pilate answered Am I a Iewe Thy people and the hye prestes haue delyuered the vnto me What hast thou done Iesus answered My kyngdome is not of this worlde Yf my kyngdome were of this worlde my mynisters wolde fight therfore y t I shulde not be delyuered vnto the Iewes But now is my kyngdome not from hence Thē sayde Pilate vnto hī Art thou a kynge thē Iesus answered Thou sayest it for I am a kynge For this cause was I borne and came in to the worlde that I shulde testifye the trueth Who so euer is of the trueth heareth my voyce Pilate sayde vnto hī What is the trueth And whan he had sayde that he wēte out agayne to the Iewes and sayde vnto them I fynde no gyltinesse in him But ye haue a custome that I shulde geue one vnto you lowse at Easter Wyl ye now y t I lowse vnto you the kynge of y e Iewes Thē cryed they agayne alltogether and sayde Not him but Barrabas Yet was Barrabas a murthurer The XIX Chapter THen Pilate toke Iesus and scourged him And the soudyers platted a crowne of thornes and set it vpon his heade and put a purple garment vpon him and sayde Hayle kynge of the Iewes And they smote him on the face Then wente Pilate forth agayne and sayde vnto thē Beholde I brynge him forth vnto you y t ye maye knowe y t I fynde no faute in hī So Iesus wente out ware a crowne of thorne and a purple robe And he sayde vnto them Beholde the man Whan the hye prestes the mynisters sawe him they cryed sayde Crucifye crucifye Pilate saide vnto thē Take ye him and crucifye him for I fynde no giltynesse in him The Iewes answered him We haue a lawe after oure lawe he ought to dye because he made him self the sonne of God Whan Pilate herde that worde he was the more afrayed and wente agayne in to the comon hall and sayde vnto Iesus Whence art thou But Iesus gaue him no answere Thē sayde Pilate vnto him Speakest thou not vnto me Knowest thou not y t I haue power to crucifye y e haue power to lowse y e Iesus answered Thou shuldest haue no power vpō me yf it were not geuē the from aboue Therfore he that delyuered me vnto y e hath the more synne From that tyme forth Pilate sought meanes to lowse him But the Iewes cryed sayde Yf thou let him go thou art not the Emperours frēde For whosoeuer maketh himself kynge is agaynst the Emperoure Whan Pilate herde y t worde he brought Iesus forth sat hī downe vpō y e iugdmēt seate in the place which is called the Pauement but in the Hebrue Gabbatha It was the daye of preparinge of the Easter aboute the sixte houre And he sayde vnto the Iewes Beholde yo kynge But they cryed Awaye w t him awaye w t him crucifie him Pilate saide vnto thē Shal I crucifye yo kynge The hye prestes answered We haue no kynge but y e Empero Thē delyuered he him vnto them to be crucifyed They toke Iesus and led him awaye And he bare his crosse and wente out to the place called y e place of deed men skulles which in Hebrue is named Golgatha where they crucified him and two other with him on either syde one but Iesus in the myddes Pilate wrote a superscripcion and set vpon the crosse And there was wrytten Iesus of Nazareth kynge of the Iewes This superscripcion red many of the Iewes For y e place where Iesus was crucifyed was nye vnto the cite And it was wrytten in Hebrue Greke Latyn Then sayde the hye prestes of the Iewes vnto Pilate Wryte not kynge of the Iewes but y t he sayde I am kynge of the Iewes Pilate answered What I haue wrytten that haue I wrytten The sondyers whan they had crucifyed Iesus toke his garmentes and made foure partes to euery soudyer one patte and the cote also As for the cote it was vnsowed frō aboue wrought thorow and thorow Then sayde they one to another Let vs not deuyde it but cast lottes for it who shal haue it that the scripture might be fulfilled which sayeth They haue parted my garmentes amonge them and on

lest they shulde haue fallen in to the Syrtes and let downe the vessell and so were caried And whan we had bydden a greate tēpest on the nexte daye they made an outcastinge And on the thirde daye with oure awne handes we cast out the tacklynge of the shippe But whā nether Sonne ner starres appeared in many dayes and no small tempest laye vpon vs all the hope of oure life was taken awaye And after longe abstinence Paul stode forth in the myddes of thē and sayde Syrs ye shulde haue herkened vnto me and not to haue lowsed from Candy and not to haue broughte vs this harme and losse And now I exhorte you to be of good cheare for there shal none of oure lyues perishe but the shippe onely For this night stode by me the angell off God whose I am whō I serue saide Feare not Paul thou must be broughte before the Emperoure And lo God hath geuen vnto the all thē that sayle with the. Wherfore syrs be of good cheare for I beleue God y t it shal come so to passe as it was tolde me Howbeit we must be cast in to a certayne ylonde But whan the fourtenth night came as we were caried in Adria aboute mydnight y e shipmen demed that there appeared some countre vnto them and they cast out the leade and founde it twētye feddoms and whā they were gone a litle farther they cast out the leade agayne and founde fyftene feddoms Then fearinge lest they shulde fall on some rocke they cast foure anckers out of the sterne and wyszhed for the daye Whan the shipmen were aboute to flye out of the shippe and let downe the bote in to the see vnder a coloure as though they wolde cast ankers out of the fore shippe Paul sayde to y e vnder captayne and to the soudyers Excepte these byde in the shippe ye can not be saued Then the soudyers cut of the rope from the bote and let it fall And whan it beganne to be daye Paul exhorted them all to take meate and sayde To daye is the fourtene daye that ye haue taried and contynued fastinge and haue receaued nothinge Wherfore I praye you to take meate for youre health for there shal not one heer fall from the heade of eny of you And whan he had thus spoken he toke bred and gaue thankes to God before them all and brake it and begāne to eate Then were they all of good cheare and toke meate also We were all together in the shippe two hundreth thre score and sixtene soules And whan they had eaten ynough they lightened the shippe and cast out the wheate in to the see Whan it was daye they knewe not the londe But they spyed an hauen with a banke in to which they were mynded yf it were possible to thrust in the shippe And whan they had takē vp the anckers they commytted them selues to the see and lowsed the rudder bandes and hoyssed vp the mayne sayle to the wynde and drue towarde londe And whan we chaunced on a place which had the see on both the sydes the shippe daszhed vpon it And the fore parte abode fast vnmoued but the hynder parte brake thorow the violence of the wawes The soudyers councell was to kyll y e presoners lest eny of them whan he had swymmed out shulde flye awaye But the vndercaptayne wyllinge to saue Paul keped them from their purpose and commaunded that they which coulde swymme shulde cast them selues first in to the see and escape vnto londe and the other some on bordes some on broken pe●es of the shippe And so it came to passe that all the soules came safe vnto londe The XXVIII Chapter ANd whā we were escaped we knewe that the I le was called Melite As for the people they shewed vs no litle kyndnesse for they kyndled a fyre and receaued vs all because of the rayne that was come vpō vs and because of the colde Whan Paul had gathered a bondell of stickes and layed them on the fyre there came a vyper out of the heate and leape on Pauls hande Whan the people sawe the beest hange on his hande they sayde amonge them selues This man must nedes be a murthurer whō vengeaunce suffreth not to lyue though he haue escaped the see But he shoke of y e beest in to the fyre and and felt no harme Howbeit they wayted whā he shulde haue swollen or fallen downe deed sodenly But whan they had loked a greate whyle and sawe y t there happened no harme vnto him they chaunged their myndes and sayde that he was a God In the same quarters the chefe man of the Ile whose name was Publius had a lordshipe the same receaued vs and lodged vs thre dayes curteously It fortuned whā Publius father laye sicke of the feuers and of a bloudy fluxe Paul wente in vnto him and prayed and layed the handes on him and healed him Whan this was done other also which had diseases in the I le came and were healed And they dyd vs greate honoure And whan we departed they laded vs with thinges necessary After the monethes we sayled in a shippe of Alexandria which had wyntred in the I le and had a badge of Castor and Pollux And whan we came to Syracusa we taried there thre dayes And whan we had sayled aboute we came to Rhegium and after one daye whan the south wynde blewe we came to Putiolus where we founde brethrē and were desyred of them to tarye there seuē dayes and so came we to Rome And from thence whan the brethren herde of vs they came forth to mete vs to Apiforum and to the Thre tauerns Whan Paul sawe them he thāked God and waxed bolde But whā we came to Rome the vndercaptayne delyuered the presoners to y e chefe captayne As for Paul he had leue to byde alone with one soudyer that kepte him After thre dayes it fortuned y t Paul called y e chefe of y e Iewes together And whā they were come he sayde vnto thē Ye mē brethrē I haue cōmytted nothinge agaynst o people ner agaynst y e lawes of y e fathers yet was I boūde delyuered out of Ierusalē in to y e Romaynes hādes which whā they had examyned me wolde haue let me go for so moch as there was no cause of death ī me But whā y e Iewes spake y e cōtrary I was cōstrayned to appeale vnto y e Empero not as though I had ought to accuse my people of For this cause haue I called you euē to se you to speake w t you because y t for y e hope of Israel I am bounde w t this cheyne They sayde vnto hī We haue nether receaued letter out of Iewry cōcernynge the nether came there eny of the brethrē y t shewed or spake eny harme of ye. But we wyl heare of y e what thou thinkest for we haue herde of this secte that euery where it is spoken

and wrath of allmightye God And hath on his vesture and on his thyghe a name wrytten Kynge of all kinges and LORDE of all lordes 〈◊〉 I sawe an angell stonde in the Sonne and he cryed with a lowde voyce sayenge to all the fowles that flye by them yddes vnder the heauen Come and gaddre youre selues togedder vnto the supper of the gret God that ye maye eate the fleszhe of kynges and of hye captaynes and the fleszhe of mighty men and the fleszhe of horsses and of thē that syt on them and the fleszhe of all free men and bondmen both of small and greate And I sawe the beeste and the kynges of y e earth and their warriers gaddred togedder to make battayle agaynste him that sat vpon the horsse and agaynst his sowdiers And the beeste was taken and with him that false prophet that wrought myracles before him with which he disceaued then that receaued the beestes marke and them that worszhipped his ymage The 〈◊〉 were cast in to a ponde of fyre burnynge w t brymstone and the remnaunte were slayne with the swearde of him that sat vpon the horsse which swearde proceded out of his mouth and all the foules were filled with their fleszhe The XX. Chapter ANd I sawe an angell come downe from heauen hauinge the keye of the bottomlesse pyt and a gret chayne in his honde And he toke the dragon that olde serpent which is the deuell and Satanas and he bounde him a thousand yeares and cast him in to the bottomlesse pyt and he bounde him and set a seale on him that he shuld disceaue the people nomoare tyll the thousand yeares were fulfilled And af●●r that must he be lowsed for a littell 〈…〉 〈…〉 seates and they sat vpon 〈…〉 was geuen vnto 〈…〉 the soules of them that were beheaded for the witnes of Iesus 〈◊〉 for the worde of God which had not wo●●shipped the beest nether his ymage nether had raken his marke vpon their forhea●des or on their hondes and they lyued and raygned with Christ a thousand yeare brethe other of the deed men lyued not agayne vntill the thousand yeare were fyniszhed This is that fyrst resurreccion Blessed and holy is he that hath parte in the fyrst resurreccion On soch hath the seconde deeth no power but they shal be the prestes of God and of Christ and shall raygne with him a thousand yeare And when the thousand yeares are expyred Sathan shal be lowsed out of his preson and shal go out to deceaue the people which are in the foure quarters of the earth Gog and Magog to gadder them togedder to batayle whose nombre is as the sonde off the see and they went vp on the playne of the earth and compased the tentes of the sayntes aboute and the beloued cite And fyre cam doune from God out of heauen and deuoured them and the deuell that disceaued them was cast into a lake of fyre and brymstone where the beest and the false prophet were and shal be tormented daye and night for euermore And I sawe a gret whyte seate and him that sat on it from whole face fled awaye both the earth and heauen and their place was nomore founde And I sawe the deed both gret and small stonde before God And the bokes were opened and another boke was opened which is the boke of life and the deed were iudged of tho thinges which were wrytten in the bokes accordinge to their dedes and the see gaue vp her deed which were in her and deeth and hell delyuered vp the deed which were in them and they were iudged euery man accordynge to his dedes And deth and hell were cast in to the lake of fyre This is that second deeth And whosoeuer was not founde wrytten in the boke off life was cast in to the lake of fyre The XXI Chapter ANd I sawe a newe heauen and a newe earth For the fyrst heauen and the fyrst earth were vaniszhed awaye and there was nomore See And I Ihon sawe that holy cite newe Ierusalem come downe from God out of heauen prepared 〈…〉 garniszhed for hyr huszband And 〈…〉 a greate voyce from the seate sayen 〈…〉 the tabernacle of God is with 〈…〉 and he wil dwell with them And they 〈◊〉 his people and God himselfe shal be with thē and shal be their God And God shal wipe awaye all teares from their eyes And there shal be nomore deeth nether sorowe nether shal there be eny more payne for y e olde thinges are gone And he that sat vpon the seate sayde Beholde I make all thinges newe And he sayde vnto me wryte for these wordes are faithfull and true 〈◊〉 sayde vnt● 〈◊〉 it is done I am 〈…〉 begynnynge and 〈…〉 that is a thyrst 〈…〉 He that 〈…〉 I wil 〈…〉 But 〈…〉 and murthurers and whormongers and sorcerers and ydolaters all lyars shal haue their parte in the lake that burneth with fyre and brymstone which is the seconde death And there came vnto me one of the seuen angels which had the seuen vials full of the seuen last plages and talked with me sayenge come hydder I wil shewethe the bryde y e lābes wyfe And he caryed me awaye in y e sprete to a greate and an hye moūtayne and he shewed me the greate cite holy Ierusalē descendinge out of heauen from God hauynge the brightnes of God And her shynynge was lyke vnto a stone most precious euen a Iaspar cleare as cristall had greate and hye walles and had twolue gates and at y e gates twolue angels and names wrytten which are the twolue trybes of Israel on the est parte thre gates and on the north syde thre gates and towarde the south thre gates and from the west thre gates ▪ and the wall of the cite had twolue foundaciōs and in them the names of the lambes twolue Apostles And he that talked with me had a golden rede to measure the cite with all and the gates therof and the wall therof And the cite was bylt foure square and the length was as large as the bredth of it and he ●●asured the cite with the rede twolue M. furlonges and the length and the bredth and y e heyth of it were equall And he measured the wall therof an cxliiij cubittee after y e measure of a man which the angel had And the buyldinge of the wall of it was of Iaspar And the cite was of pure golde like vnto cleare glasse and y e foundaciōs of the walles and of y e cite were garnyszhed with all maner of precious stones The fyrst foundacion was a Iasper the seconde a Saphyre y e thyrde a Calcedony the fourth a Smaragde the fyft a Sardonix the sixt a Sard●os the seuenth a Crysolite the eyght berall the nynth a Topas the tenth a Crysoprasos the eleuēth a Iacyncte the twelfte an Amatist And the twolue gates were twolue pearles and euery gate was of

them wyll I brynge in so y t they shal knowe the lande which ye haue refused But ye with youre carcases shall lye in this wildernesse and yo r children shal wander in this wildernesse fourtye yeares beare yo r whordome tyll yo r carcases be waisted in the wildernesse acordinge to the nombre of y e fourtye dayes wherin ye spyed out the londe A daye for a yeare so y t fourtye yeares ye shall beare youre myszdede that ye maye knowe what it is whan I with drawe my hande Euen I the LORDE haue sayde it wil do it in dede vnto all this euell congregacion that haue lift vp themselues agaynst me In this wildernesse shal they be consumed and there shal they dye So there dyed and were plaged before the LORDE all the mē whom Moses sent to spye out the lāde came agayne and made the whole cōgregacion to murmur agaynst it because they brought vp a myszreporte of the lande that it was euell But Iosua the sonne of Nun and Caleb y e sonne of Iephune were left alyue of the men that wente to spye out the lande And Moses spake these wordes vnto all the children of Israel Thē toke the people greate sorowe And they arose early in y e mornynge and wente vp to the toppe of y e mountayne and sayde Lo here are we and will go vp to the place wherof the LORDE hath sayde for we haue synned But Moses sayde wherfore go ye on this maner beyonde y e worde of the LORDE It shall not prospere with you go not vp for y e LORDE is not amōge you y t ye be not slayne before yo r enemies For the Amalechites and Cananites are there before you ye shal fall thorow y e swerde because ye haue turned yo r selues from the LORDE and the LORDE shal not be with you But they were blynded to go vp to the toppe of the mountaine neuertheles the Arke of the LORDES couenaunt Moses came not out of the hooste Then came downe y e Amalechites Cananites which dwelt vpon that mountayne and smote them and hewed them euen vnto Horma The XV. Chapter ANd the LORDE talked with Moses and sayde Speake to the childrē of Israel saye vnto them Whan ye come in to the lande of youre dwellinge which I shal geue you and wil do sacrifice vnto the LORDE whether it be a burnt offerynge or an offrynge for a speciall vowe or a frewyll offerynge or youre feast offerynges that ye maye make a swete sauoure vnto the LORDE of oxen or of shepe He y t wil offre now his gifte vnto y e LORDE shal brynge for the meat offeringe a tēth deale of fyne floure myngled with oyle of the fourth parte of an Hin and wyne for y e drynk offerynge the fourth parte of an Hin also to the burnt offeringe or eny other offeringe whan a lambe is offred But whā there is a ramme offred thou shalt make the meat offerynge two tēth deales of fyne floure myngled with oyle of the thirde parte of an Hin and y e thirde parte of an Hin of wyne also for a drynk offeringe this shalt thou offre for a swete sauo r vnto the LORDE But yf thou wilt offre an oxe for a burnt offerynge or for a speciall vowe offerynge or for an health offeringe vnto the LORDE thou shalt brynge to the oxe the meat offrynge euen thre tenth deales of fyne floure mingled with half an Hin of oyle half an Hin of wyne for a drynk offrynge This is an offerynge of a swete sauoure vnto the LORDE Thus shalt thou do with an oxe with a ramme with a lambe and with a goate Acordinge as the nombre of the offerynges is therafter shall the nombre of the meat offerynges and drynk offerynges be also He that is one of youre selues shall do this that he maye offre a sacrifice of a swete sauoure vnto the LORDE And yf there dwell a straunger with you or is amōge youre kynszfolkes and wil do an offerynge vnto the LORDE for a swete sauoure the same shal do as ye do Let there be one statute for the whole cōgregacion both vnto you and to the straungers A perpetuall statute shal it be vnto youre posterities that the straunger be euē as ye before y e LORDE One lawe and one ordinaunce shal be vnto you and to the straunger that dwelleth with you And the LORDE talked with Moses sayde Speake to the children of Israel and saye vnto them Whan ye come in to the lande in to y t which I shal brynge you so that ye eate the bred of the londe ye shal heue vp an Heue offerynge vnto the LORDE namely a cake of the firstlinges of youre dowe shall ye geue for an Heue offerynge as the Heue offerynge of the barne euen so shal ye geue the firstlinges of youre dowe also vnto the LORDE for an Heue offerynge amonge youre posterities And whan ye thorow ignoraunce ouer se eny of these commaundementes which the LORDE hath spoken by Moses and all y t the LORDE hath commaunded you by Moses from the daye that the LORDE beganne to commaunde for youre posterities and the cōgregacion do ought ignorauntly thē shal the whole congregacion offre a yonge bullocke from amonge the greate catell to a burnt offerynge for a swete sauoure vnto the LORDE with his meat offerynge and drynk offerynge as the maner is and an he goate for a syn offerynge And so shal the prest make an attonement for the whole congregacion of the children of Israel and it shal be forgeuen them for it is an ignoraunce And they shal brynge these their giftes for an offerynge vnto the LORDE and their syn offerynge before the LORDE for their ignoraunce and it shal be forgeuen the whole congregacion of the childrē of Israel the straunger also y t dwelleth amonge you for so moch as all the people is in soch ignoraunce Yf one soule synne thorow ignoraunce the same shal brynge a she goate of a yeare olde for a syn offerynge And the prest shall make an attonement for soch an ignoraunt soule with the syn offeringe for the ignoraunce before the LORDE that he maye reconcyle him and it shal be forgeuen him And it shal be one lawe that ye shal do for y e ignoraunce both vnto him that is borne amonge the children of Israel and to the straunger that dwelleth amonge you But yf a soule do ought presumptuously whether he be one of youre selues or a straunger he hath despysed the LORDE y e same soule shal be roted out from amōge his people because he hath despysed the worde of the LORDE and hath left his commaundement vndone that soule shall vtterly perishe his synne shal be vpon him Now whyle the children of Israel were in the wyldernesse they founde a man gatherynge stickes vpon the Sabbath daye And they that founde him gatherynge stickes brought him vnto Moses and Aaron and before

the whole congregacion And they put him in preson for it was not declared what shulde be done vnto him The LORDE sayde vnto Moses The man shall dye the death the whole congregacion shal stone him without the hoost Then the whole cōgregacion brought him out of y e hoost and stoned him that he dyed as y e LORDE commaunded Moses And y e LORDE sayde vnto Moses Speake to the childrē of Israel saye vnto thē y t they make them gardes vpon y e quarters of their garmentes amonge all yo r posterities and put yalowe rybandes vpon the gardes in y e quarters And y e gardes shal serue you y t ye maye loke vpon thē and remembre all the cōmaundementes of the LORDE do them that ye order not youre selues after y e meanynge of youre awne hert ner go awhorynge after youre awne eyes Therfore shal ye remembre and do all my commaundementes and be holy vnto youre God I am the LORDE youre God which brought you out of the lande of Egipte to be yo r God Euen I the LORDE youre God The XVI Chapter ANd Corah the sonne of Iezehar the sonne of Kahath the sonne of Leui with Dathan and Abiram the sonne of Eliab and On the sonne of Peleth y e sonnes of Rubē stode vp agaynst Moses with certayne men amonge the childrē of Israel two hundreth fyftie captaynes of the congregacion councelers famous men And they gathered them selues agaynst Moses Aarō sayde vnto them Ye make to moch a doo for all the congregacion is holy euery one and the LORDE is amonge them Why lifte ye youre selues vp then aboue the congregacion of the LORDE Whan Moses herde y t he fell vpō his face saide vnto Corah to all his company Tomorow shal y e LORDE shewe who is his who is holy to come vnto him Whō so euer he choseth y e same shal come vnto him This do Take y e censors thou Corah all y e cōpanye do fyre therin put incense theron tomorow before the LORDE then whom so euer the LORDE choseth the same shal be holy Ye make to moch a doo ye children of Leui. And Moses sayde vnto Corah Heare ye childrē of Leui Is it not ynough vnto you y t y e God of Israel hath separated you frō y e multitude of Israel y t ye shulde come nye him to do the seruyce of the dwellynge place of the LORDE and stonde before the people to mynister vnto them He hath caused the and all thy brethren the childrē of Leui with the to come nye vnto him and now ye seke the presthode also Thou and all thy cōpany conspyre agaynst the LORDE What is Aaron that ye shulde murmur against him And Moses sent to call Dathā Abirā y e sonnes of Eliab But they saide We wil not come vp Is it to litle y t thou hast brought vs out of y e lande of Egipte y t floweth w t mylke hony to kyll vs in y e wildernesse but thou must raigne ouer vs also How goodly well hast thou brought vs in to a londe that floweth w t milke and hony geuē vs feldes and vyniardes in possession Wilt thou put out these mens eyes We will not come vp Then was Moses very wroth saide vnto y e LORDE Turne y e not vnto their meatofferinges I haue not takē so moch as an Asse frō thē nether haue I hurte eny of thē And Moses sayde vnto Corah Tomorow be thou all y e companye before y e LORDE thou and they Aaron And take euery one his censer and put incense therin and come before the LORDE euery one with his censer that is two hundreth and fiftye censers and both thou and Aaron take either his censer And euery one toke his censer and put fyre therin and layed incense theron and came before the dore of the Tabernacle of witnes and Moses and Aaron also And Corah gathered y e whole congregaciō agaynst thē before the dore of the Tabernacle of witnes But y e glory of the LORDE appeared before y e whole congregacion And y e LORDE spake vnto Moses Aaron sayde Separate youre selues frō this congregaciō y t I maye shortly consume them And they fell vpon their faces sayde O God thou God of the spretes of all flesh yf one man haue synned wilt thou therfore be wroth ouer the whole congregacion And the LORDE spake vnto Moses saide Speake to the congregaciō and saye Come vp from y e dwellynge of Corah and Dathan and Abiram And Moses stode vp wente vnto Dathan Abiram the Elders of Israel folowed him he spake to y e cōgregaciō saide Departe frō y e tentes of these vngodly mē touche nothinge y t is theirs y t ye perishe not in eny of their sinnes And they gat them vp from the dwellynge of Corah Dathan Abiram But Dathan and Abirā came out and stode in the dore of their tentes with their wyues and sonnes and children And Moses sayde Hereby shal ye knowe that the LORDE hath sent me to do all these workes and that I haue not done them of myne awne hert Yf these men dye the comon death of all men or be vysited as all men are vysited then hath not the LORDE sent me But yf the LORDE make a new thinge and the earth open hir mouth and swalowe them with all that they haue so y t they go downe quycke in to hell thē shal ye knowe that the se men haue blasphemed the LORDE And whā he had spokē out all these wordes y e groūde cloue asunder vnder thē the earth opened hir wouth swalowed thē w t their houses all the mē y t were w t Corah all their substaūce and they wente downe quycke in to the hell with all that they had And the earth closed vpō them so they perished from amonge y e congregaciō And all Israel y t were aboute thē fled at y e crye of thē for they sayde That y e earth swalowe not vs also Morouer the fyre came out frō the LORDE and consumed the two hundreth and fyftye men that offred the incense And the LORDE spake vnto Moses sayde Speake to Eleasar y e sonne of Aaron y e prest y t he take vp y e censers out of y e burninge scater y e fyre here there For the censers of these synners are halowed thorow their soules y t they maye be beatē in to thinne plates fastened vpon y e altare For they are offred before y e LORDE halowed and they shal be a token vnto y e childrē of Israel And Eleasar the prest toke y e brasen censers which they y t were burnt had offred bet thē to plates to fasten thē vpon y e altare for a remēbraunce vnto y e children of Israel y t no straunger and he

the LORDE be commytted vnto them then let them praye the LORDE of hoostes that the remnaunt of the ornamentes which are in the house of the LORDE and remayne yet in the house of the kinge of Iuda and at Ierusalem be not caried to Babilon also For thus hath the LORDE of hoostes spoken concernynge the pylers the lauer the seate and the residue of the ornamentes that yet remayne in this citie which Nabuchodonosor the kinge of Babilon toke not when he caried awaye Iechonias the sonne of Ioachim kinge of Iuda with all the power of Iuda and Ierusalem from Ierusalem vnto Babilon captyue Yee thus hath the LORDE of hoostes the God of Israel spoken as touchinge the residue of the ornamentes of the LORDES house ▪ of the kinge of Iudaes house and of Ierusalem They shal be caried vnto Babilon and there they shall remayne vntil I vyset them saieth the LORDE Then wil I bringe them hither agayne And this was done in the same yeare euē in the begynnynge of the reigne of Sedechias kinge of Iuda The XXVIII Chapter BVt in the fourth yeare of the reigne of Sedechias kinge of Iuda in the fifth Moneth It happened that Hananias y e sonne of Assur the prophet of Gabaon spake to me in the house of the LORDE in the presence of the prestes of all the people sayde Thus saieth the LORDE of hoostes the God of Israel I haue brokē the yock of the kinge of Babilon and after two yeare will I bringe agayne in to this place all the ornamentes of the LORDES house y t Nabuchodonosor kinge of Babilon caried awaye from this place vnto Babilon Yee I will bringe agayne Iechonias the sonne of Ioachim the kinge of Iuda himself with all the presoners of Iuda y t are caried vnto Babilon euē in to this place saieth y e LORDE for I wil breake y e yock of the kinge of Babilō Then the prophet Ieremy gaue answere vnto that prophet Hananias before the prestes before all the people that were present in the house of the LORDE And the prophet Ieremy sayde Amen the LORDE do that graunte the thinge which thou hast prophecied that he maye bringe agayne all the ornamentes of the LORDES house restore all the presoners from Babilon in to 〈◊〉 place Neuertheles herken thou also what I will saye that thou all the people maye heare The prophetes that were before vs in tymes past which prophecied of warre or trouble or pestilence ether of peace vpon many nacions grea●e kingdomes were proued by this yf God had sende them in very dede when the thinge came to passe which that prophet tolde before And Hananias the prophet toke the chayne from the prophet Ieremias neck brake it with that sayde Hananias that all the people might heare Thus hath the LORDE spoken Euen so will I breake the yock of Nabuchodonosor kinge of Babilō from the neck of all nacions yee that within this two yeare And so the prophet Ieremy wente his waye After now that Hananias the prophet had taken the chayne from the prophet Ieremies neck and broken it The worde of the LORDE came vnto the prophet Ieremy sayenge Go and tell Hananias these wordes Thus saieth the LORDE Thou hast broken the chayne of wodd but in steade of wodd thou shalt make chaynes of yron For thus saieth the LORDE of hoostes the God of Israel I wil put a yock of yron vpon the neck of all this people that they maye serue Nabuchodonosor the kinge of Babilon yee so shal they do And I wil geue him y e beestes in the felde Then sayde the prophet Ieremy vnto y e prophet Hananias Heare me I praye the Hananias The LORDE hath not sent the but thou bringest this people in to a false beleue And therfore thus saieth y e LORDE beholde I wil sende the out of the lōde within a yeare thou shalt die because thou hast falsely spokē agaynst the LORDE So Hananias the prophet died the same yeare in the seuenth Moneth The XXIX Chapter THis is the Copie of the lettre y t Ieremy the prophet sent from Ierusalem vnto the presoners the Senatours presies prophetes all the people whom Nabuchodonosor had led vnto Babilō after y e tyme y t kinge Iechonias his Quene his chambrelaynes the prynces of Iuda Ierusalē the workmasters of Ierusalē were departed thither Which lettre Elasa y e sonne of Saphā Gamaria y e sonne of Helchia dyd beare whō Sedechias the kinge of Iuda sent vnto Babilō to Nabuchodonosor y e kinge of Babilō these were y e wordes of Ieremias lettre Th●s hath y e LORDE of hoostes y e God of Israel spokē vnto all the presoners y t were ●ed frō Ierusalē vnto Babilō 〈…〉 you houses to dwell therein plāte you ▪ 〈◊〉 y t ye maye enioye the frutes thereof take you wyues to beare you sonnes and doughters prouyde wyues for youre sonnes huszbondes for youre doughters that they maye get sonnes doughters and that ye maye multiplie there Laboure not to be fewe but seke after peace prosperite of the cite where in ye be presoners praye vnto God for it For in the peace there of shal yo r peace be For thus saieth the LORDE of hoostes the God of Israel Let not those prophetes and soythsaiers y t be amonge you disceaue you beleue not youre owne dreames For why they preach you lies in my name I haue not sent them saieth the LORDE But thus saieth the LORDE When ye haue fulfilled lxx yeares at Babilon I wil bringe you home and of myne owne goodnes I will carie you hither agayne vnto this place For I knowe what I haue deuysed for you saieth the LORDE My thoughtes are to geue you peace not trouble which I geue you all redie that ye might haue hope agayne Ye shall crie vnto me ye shal go call vpō me I shal heare you Ye shal seke me fynde me Yee yf so be that ye seke me with youre whole herte I will be founde of you saieth the LORDE and will delyuer you out of preson gather you together agayne out of all places where in I haue scatred you saieth the LORDE and wil bringe you agayne to the same place from whence I caused you be caried awaye captyue But where as ye saye that God hath raysed you vp prophetes at Babilon Thus hath the LORDE spoken concernynge the kinge that sytteth in the stole of Dauid and all y e people that dwell in this cite youre brethren that are not gone with you in to captiuyte Thus I saye speaketh the LORDE of hoostes Beholde I wil sende a swearde honger pestilence vpon them wil make them like vntymely fyges that maye not be eatē for bytternes And I wil persecute them with the swearde with honger death I will delyuer them vp to be

vexed of all kingdomes to be cursed abhorred laughed to scorne put to confucion of all the people amonge whom I haue scatred them that because they haue not bene obedient vnto my commaundementes saieth the LORDE which I sent vnto them by my seruauntes the prophetes I stode vp early and sent vnto them but they wolde not heare saieth the LORDE Heare therfore the worde of the LORDE all ye presoners whom I sent from Ierusalē vnto Babilon Thus hath the LORDE of hoostes the God of Israel spoken of Achab y e sonne of Colaias of Sedechias the sonne of Maasia which prophecie lies vnto you in my name Beholde I wil delyuer them in to the honde of Nabuchodonosor the kinge of Babilon that he maye slaye them before youre eyes And all y e presoners of Iuda that are in Babilon shal take vpō them this terme of cursinge and saye Now God do vnto the as he dyd vnto Sedechias Achab whom the kinge of Babilon rosted in the fyre because they synned shamefully in Israel For they haue not onely defiled their neghbours wyues but also preached lyenge wordes in my name which I haue not commaunded them This I testifie assure saieth the LORDE But as for Semeia the Nehela●●te thou shalt speake vnto him Thus saieth the LORDE of hoostes the God of Israel Because thou hast sealed lettres vnder thy name vnto all the people that is at Ierusalem to Sophonias the sonne of Maasia the prest yee and sent them to all the prestes where in thou wrytest thus vnto him The LORDE hath ordened the to be prest in steade of Ioiada the prest that thou shuldest be the chefe in the house of the LORDE aboue all prophetes preachers that thou mightest put them in preson or in y e stockes How happeneth it then that thou hast not reproued Ieremy of Anathot which neuer leaueth of his prophecienge And beside all this he hath sent vs worde vnto Babilon and tolde vs planely that oure captiuyte shal longe endure that we shulde buylde vs houses to dwell therin to plante vs gardens that we might enioye the frutes therof Which lettre Sophonias the prest dyd rede and let Ieremy the prophet heare it Then came the worde of the LORDE vnto Ieremy sayenge Sende worde to all them that be in captiuyte on this maner Thus hath the LORDE spoken concernynge Semeia y e Nehelamite Because that Semeia hath prophecied vnto you without my commyssion brought you in to a false hope therfore thus the LORDE doth certifie you Beholde I wil vyset Semeia the Nehelamite his sede so that none of his shall remayne amonge this people none of them shall se the good y t I will do for this people saieth the LORDE For he hath preached falsely of the LORDE The XXX Capter THese are the wordes that the LORDE shewed vnto Ieremy saienge Thus saieth the LORDE God of Israel Wryte vp diligently all the wordes that I haue spoken vnto the in a boke For lo the tyme commeth saieth the LORDE that I will bringe agayne the presoners of my people of Israel and Iuda saieth the LORDE For I will restore them vnto the londe that I gaue to their fathers and they shall haue it in possession Agayne these wordes spake the LORDE cōcernynge Israel and Iuda Thus saieth the LORDE We heare a terrible crie feare and disquietnesse For what els doth this signifie that I se Namely that all stronge men smyte euery man his honde vpon his loynes as a woman in the payne of hir trauayle Who euer sawe a man trauayle with childe Enquere therafter se. Yee all their faces are maruelous pale Alas for this daye which is so dredefull that none maye be lickened vnto it and alas for the tyme of Iacobs trouble from the which he shall yet be delyuered For in that daye saieth the LORDE I will take his yock from of thy neck breake thy bondes They shall nomore serue straunge goddes vnder him but they shall do seruyce vnto God their LORDE and to Dauid their kinge whom I will rayse vp vnto them And as for the o my seruaunt Iacob feare not saieth y e LORDE and be not afrayed o Israel For lo I will helpe the also from farre thy sede from the londe of their captiuyte And Iacob shall turne agayne he shal be in rest and haue a prosperous life and no man shall make him afrayed For I am with the to helpe the saieth the LORDE And though I shal destroye all the people amonge whom I haue scatred the yet will I not destroye the but correcke the and that with discrecion For I knowe that thou art in no wise without faute Therfore thus saieth y e LORDE I am sory for thy hurte and woundes There is no man to medle with thy cause or to bynde vp thy woundes there maye no man helpe the. All thy louers haue forgotten the and care nothinge for the. For I haue geuen the a cruell stroke and chastened the roughly and that for the multitude of thy myszdedes for thy synnes haue had the ouer hande Why makest thou mone for thy harme I my self haue pite of thy sorowe but for the multitude of thy myszdedes and synnes I haue done this vnto the. And therfore all they that deuoure the shal be deuoured and all thine enemies shal be led in to captiuyte All they that make the waist shal be waisted them selues and all those that robbe the will I make also to be robbed For I will geue the thy health agayne and make thy woundes whole saieth the LORDE because they reuyled the as one cast awaye vnd despised o Sion For thus saieth the LORDE Beholde I will set vp Iacobs tentes agayne and defende his dwellinge place The cite shal be buylded in hir olde estate and the houses shal haue their right foundacion And out of them shall go thankesgeuynge and the voyce of ioye I will multiplie them and they shall not mynishe I shall endue them with honoure and no man shall subdue them Their children shal be as a fore tyme and their congregacion shal cōtinue in my sight And all those that vexe them will I viset A captayne also shall come of them and a prynce shall springe out from the myddest of them him will I chalenge to my self and he shall come vnto me For what is he that geueth ouer his herte to come vnto me saieth the LORDE Ye shal be my people also and I wil be youre God Beholde on the other syde shall the wrath of the LORDE breake out as a stormy water as a mightie whyrle wynde and shal fall vpō the heades of the vngodly The terrible displeasure of the LORDE shall not leaue of vntill he haue done perfourmed the intent of his herte which in the latter dayes ye shal vnderstonde At the same tyme saieth the LORDE shal I be the God of all