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
thou LORDE of thy goodnesse haddest made my hill so stronge But as soone as thou turnedest thy face fro me I was brought in feare TheÌ„ cried I vnto y e O LORDE yee vnto y e LORDE made I my prayer What profit is there in my bloude yf I go downe to corrupcion Maye the dust geue thankes vnto ye Or shal it declare thy faithfulnesse Heare O LORDE and haue mercy vpon me LORDE be thou my helper And so thou hast turned my heuynesse in to ioye thou hast put of my sack cloth gyrded me w t gladnesse That my hono r might synge prayses vnto the w t out ceassynge O LORDE my God I wil geue thankes vnto the for euer The XXX A psalme of Dauid IN the O LORDE is my trust let me neuer be put to coÌ„fucion but delyuer me in thy rightuousnesse Bowe downe thine eare to me make haist to delyuer me be thou my stronge rocke and a house of defence that thou mayest saue me For thou art my stronge holde my castell O be thou my gyde lede me for thy names sake Drawe me out of the nett y t they haue layed priuely for me for thou art my streÌ„gth Into thy hondes I commende my sprete thou hast â—â—lyuered me O LORDE thou God of treuth I hate them that holde of vanities and my trust is in the LORDE I will be glad and reioyse in thy mercy for thou hast considred my trouble thou hast knowne my soule in aduersite Thou hast not delyuered me ouer in to the hoÌ„des of the enemie but hast set my fete in a large rowme Haue mercy vpon me O LORDE for I am in trouble myne eye is consumed for very heuynesse yee my soule and my body My life is waxen olde with heuynesse and my yeares w t mournynge My streÌ„gth fayleth me because of my aduersite and my bones are corrupte I am become a very reprofe amonge all myne enemies my neghbours they of myne owne acquauntaunce are afrayed of me they y t seme in the strete coÌ„veye them selues fro me I am clene forgotten and out of mynde as a deed man I am become like a broken vessell For I haue herde the blasphemy of the multitude euery man abhorreth me they haue gathered a councel together agaynst me and are purposed to take awaye my life But my hope is in y e O LORDE I saye thou art my God My tyme is in thy honde delyuer me from the honde of myne enemies from them y t persecute me Shewe thy seruaunt the light of thy countenaunce helpe me for thy mercies sake Let me not be confounded o LORDE for I call vpon the let the vngodly rather be put to confucion and brought vnto the hell Let the lyenge lippes be put to sylence which cruelly diszdanedly despitefully speake agaynst the rightuous O how greate and manifolde is thy good which thou haist hyd for them that feare y e O what thinges bringest thou to passe for them that put their trust in the euen before the sonnes of men Thou hydest them priuely by thine owne presence from the proude men thou kepest them secretly in thy tabernacle from the strife of tonges Thankes be to the LORDE for he hath shewed me maruelous greate kyndnesse in a stronge cite For when the sodane feare came vpon me I sayde I am cast out of thy sight Neuertheles thou herdest myne humble prayer when I cried vnto the. O loue the LORDE all ye his sayntes for the LORDE preserueth the faith full and plenteously rewardeth he the proude doer Be stroÌ„ge therfore take a good herte vnto you all ye that put youre trust in the LORDE The XXXI A psalme of Dauid BLessed are they whose vnrightuousnesse is forgeuen and whose synnes are couered Blessed is the man vnto whom the LORDE imputeth no synne in whose sprete there is no gyle For whyle I helde my tonge my bones consumed awaye thorow my daylie complaynynges And because thy hande was so heuy vpon me both daye and night my moysture was like the drouth in Sommer Sela. Therfore I confessed my synne vnto the and hyd not myne vnrightuousnesse I saide I will knowlege myne offence and accuse my self vnto the LORDE and so thou forgauest me the wickednesse of my synne Sela. For this shal euery saynte make his prayer vnto the in due season therfore shall not the greate water floudes come nye him Thou art my defence in the trouble that is come aboute me O coÌ„passe thou me aboute also with the ioye of delyueraunce Sela. I wil enforme the and shewe the the waye wherin thou shalt go I wil fasten myne eyes vpon the. Be not ye now like horses mooles which haue no vnderstondinge Whose mouthes thou must holde with bytt brydle yf they wil not obeie the. Greate plages shall y e vngodly haue but who so putteth his trust in the LORDE mercy shall compasse him on euery syde Be glad o ye rightuous and reioyse in the LORDE be ioyfull all ye that are true of herte The XXXII A psalme of Dauid EEioyse in y e LORDE o ye rightuous for it becommeth well the iust to be thankfull Prayse the LORDE with harpe synge psalmes vnto him with the lute and instrument of ten strynges Singe him a new songe yee synge lustely vnto him with a good corage For the worde of y e LORDE is true and all his workes are faithfull He loueth mercy iudgment y e earth is full of the goodnesse of the LORDE By the worde of the LORDE were the heauens made all the hoostes of them by y e breth of his mouth He gathereth y e waters together as it were in a bottell laieth vp the depe in secrete Let all the earth feare the LORDE and let all them that dwell in the worlde stoÌ„de in awe of him For loke what he sayeth it is done and loke what he coÌ„mauÌ„deth it stondeth fast The LORDE bryngeth the councell of the Heithen to naught and turneth the deuyces of the people But the couÌ„cell of the LORDE endureth and the thoughtes of his hert from generacion to generacion Blessed are the people that holde the LORDE for their God blessed are the folke whom he hath chosen to be his heretage The LORDE loketh downe from heauen beholdeth all the children of men from his stronge seate he considreth all them y t dwell in the worlde He only hath fashioned all the hertes of them knoweth all their workes A kynge is not helped by his owne greate hoost nether is a giaunte saued thorow the might of his owne streÌ„gth A horse is but a vayne thynge to saue a man it is not the power of his streÌ„gth that can delyuer him Beholde the eye of the LORDE loketh vnto them that feare him 〈◊〉 put their trust in his mercy That he maye delyuer their soules from death and to fede them
thy fylthy nakednes do not apere anoynt thine eyes with eye salue y t thou mayste se. As many as I loue I rebuke chasten Be feruent therfore and repent Beholde I stonde at the doore knocke Yf eny man heare my voyce and vpen the dore I wil come in vnto him and will suppe with him he with me To him that ouercoÌ„mth will I grauÌ„te to sytt with me on my seate eueÌ„ as I ouercam and haue sytteÌ„ with my father on his seate Let him that hath eares heare what the sprete saith vnto the coÌ„gregacioÌ„s The IIII. Chapter AFter this I loked and beholde a dore was open in heaueÌ„ and the fyrste voyce which I harde was as it were of a trompet talkinge with me which sayde come vp hydder and I wil shewe the thinges which must be fulfylled her after And immediatly I was in the sprete beholde a seate was set in heauen and one sat on the seate And he that sat was to loke vpon like vnto a iaspar stone and a sardyne stone And there was a rayne bowe aboute the seate in syght like to a Smaragde And aboute the seate were xxiiij seates And vpon the seates xxiiij elders syttinge clothed in whyte rayment and had on their heades crownes of golde And out of y e seate proceded lightnynges and thundrynges voyces and there wer seuen laÌ„pes of fyre burninge before the seate which are the seuen spretes of God And before the seate there wasâ—â— see of glasse like vnto crystall and in the mydes off the seate and rounde aboute the seate were foure beastes full of eyes before and behynde And the first beest was like a lion the seconde beest like a calfe and the thyrde beest had a face as a man and the fourth beest was like a flyenge egle And the foure beestes had eche one off them vj. wynges aboute him and they were full of eyes with in And they had no rest daye nether night sayenge * holy holy holy is the LORDE God almyghty which was and is and is to come And when those beestes gaue glory and honour and thankes to him that sat on the seate which lyueth for euer and euer y e xxiiij elders fell downe before him that sat on the trone and worshipped him y t lyueth for euer and cast their crounes before y e trone sayenge thou art worthy LORDE to receaue glory and hono r and power for thou hast created all thinges and for thy willes sake they are and were created The V. Chapter ANd I sawe in the right hoÌ„de of him that sat in the trone a boke wrytten with in on the backside sealed with seueÌ„ seales And I sawe a stroÌ„ge angell preachinge with a loude voyce Who is worthy to open the boke and to loose the seales therof And no maÌ„ in heaueÌ„ ner in earth nether vnder y e earth was able to opeÌ„ y e boke nether to loke thereon And I wepte moch because no man was founde worthy to open and to rede the boke nether to loke thereon And one of the elders sayde vnto me wepe not Beholde the lyon which is off the trybe of Iuda y e rote of Dauid hath obtayned to opeÌ„ the boke and to lowse the seueÌ„ seales therof And I behelde lo in the myddes of the seate and of y e foure beastes and in the myddes of y e elders stode a lambe as though he had bene kylled which had seuen hornes and seueÌ„ eyes which are the seueÌ„ spretes of God sent in to all the worlde And he came and toke the boke out of the right hoÌ„de of him that sat vpon the seate And when he had taken the boke the foure beestes and the xxiiij elders fell downe before the lambe hauinge harpes and golden vialles full of odoures which are y e prayers of the sayntes and they songe a newe songe saynge thou art worthy to take the boke to opeÌ„ the seales therof for thou wast kylled and hast redemed vs by thy bloud out of all kynreddes and toÌ„ges and people and nacions hast made vs vnto o r God kynges and prestes and we shal raygne on y e earth And I behelde and I herd the voyce of many angilles aboute the trone and aboute the beestes and y e elders and I herde thousand thousandes sayenge with a loude voyce Worthy is the lambe that was killed to receaue power and riches wiszdome and strength and honoure and glory and blessynge And all creatures which are in heaueÌ„ on the earth vnder the earth in the see all y t are in theÌ„ herd I sayenge blessinge honoure glory power be vnto him y t sytteth vpoÌ„ the seate and vnto the laÌ„be for euermore And the foure beestes saide AmeÌ„ And y e xxiiij elders fell vpon their faces and worshipped him that lyueth for euermore The VI. Chapter ANd I sawe when the laÌ„be opened one of the seales I herde one of the foure beestes saye as it wer the noyse off thonder come and se. And I sawe and beholde there was a whyte horsse and he y t sat on him had a bowe and a crowne was geuen vnto him and he went forth conquerynge and for to ouercome And wheÌ„ he opened the seconde seale I herde the seconde beeste saye come and se. And there went out another horsse that was reed power was geuen to him that sat there on to take peace from the earth and that they shulde kyll one another And there was geueÌ„ vnto him a gret swearde And when he opened the thyrde seale I herde the thyrde beeste saye come se. And I behelde and lo a blacke horsse and he that sate on him had a payre of balances in his honde And I herde a voyce in the myddes of the foure beastes saye a measure of whete for a peny and thre measures of barly for a peny and oyle and wyne se thou hurte not And when he opened the fourth seale I herde the voyce of the fourthe beaste saye come and se. And I loked and beholde a pale horsse and his name that sat on him was deeth and hell folowed after him power was geueÌ„ vnto them ouer the fourthe parte of the earth to kyll with swearde and w t honger and with deeth of the vermen of the earth And when he opened the fyfte seale I sawe vnder the aultre the soules of them y t were kylled for the worde of God and for y e testimony which they had and they cryed with a lowde voyce sayeÌ„ge How loÌ„ge tariest thou LORDE holy and true to iudge to auenge oure bloude on them that dwell on the earth And longe whyte garmentes were geuen vnto euery one of them And it was sayde vnto them that they shulde reste for a lyttle season vntyll the nomber of their felowes and brethreÌ„ and of them that shulde be killed as they were were fulfilled And I behelde when he
my hande I wolde kyll the. The Asse sayde vnto Balaam Am not I thine Asse which thou hast rydden vpon in y e tyme vnto this daye Was I euer wonte to do so vnto the He sayde No. Then opened the LORDE the eyes of Balaam y t he sawe y e angell of the LORDE stondinge in y e waye a draweÌ„ swerde in his haÌ„de And he enclyned him selfe bowed downe w t his face And the angell of the LORDE sayde vnto him Wherfore hast thou smytteÌ„ thine Asse now thre tymes Beholde I am come out to resiste y e for y t waye is frowarde coÌ„trary vnto me And y e Asse sawe me auoyded fro me thre tymes or els yf she had not turned asyde fro me I had slayne the saued the Asse alyue Then sayde Balaam vnto y e angell of y e LORDE I haue synned for I wyst not that thou stodest in the waye agaynst me And now yf it displease y e I wil turne agayne The angell of y e LORDE saide vnto him Go with the meÌ„ but thou shalt speake nothinge els then y t I shal saye vnto ye. So Balaam wente forth w t the princes of Balac Whan Balac herde y t Balaam came he wente out to mete him in the cite of the Moabitâ—s y t lieth on the coaste of Arnon which is on y e vttemost border sayde vnto him Dyd not I sende for y t to call the Wherfore camest thou not then vnto me Thinkest thou y t I am not able to promote y e vnto hono r Balaam answered him Lo I am come vnto y e But how can I saye eny thinge els theÌ„ y t God putteth in my mouth y t I must speake So Balaam wente with Balac and they came vnto the cite on the vttemost border of his lande And Balac slewe oxen and shepe and sent for Balaam and for the pâ—â—â—ces that were with him The XXIII Chapter ANd in the mornynge Balac toke Balaam and they weÌ„te vp to the hye place of Baal that from theÌ„ce he might se vnto the vttemost parte of y e people And Balaam sayde vnto Balac Buylde me here seuen altares and prouyde me here seuen bullockes and seueÌ„ rammes Balac dyd as Balaam sayde And both Balac and Balaam offred on euery altare a bullocke a ramme And Balaam sayde vnto Balac Stonde thou by y t burnt offerynge I wil go yf happly the LORDE wil mete me call me y t I maye tell the what so euer he sheweth me And he wente his waye as he sayde And y e LORDE mett Balaam And Balaam saide vnto him Seuen altares haue I prepared and offred on euery altare a bullocke and a ramme The LORDE put y e worde in Balaams mouth and sayde Go agayne vnto Balac and saye on this wise And whan he came agayne vnto him beholde he stode by his burnt offerynge with all y e prynces of the Moabites Then toke he vp his parable sayde Balac the kynge of the Moabites hath caused to â—et me out of Syria from the mouÌ„taynes towarde the East sayde Come curse me Iacob come defye me Israel How shall I curse whom God curseth not How shal I defye whom y e LORDE defyeth not For froÌ„ y e toppe of y e stonye rockes I se him from the hilles I beholde him Beholde y e people shal dwell by theÌ„selues shal not be rekened amoÌ„ge the HeitheÌ„ Who can tell the dust of Iacob the nombre of the fourth parte of Israel My soule die y e death of y e righteous and my ende be as the ende of these TheÌ„ saide Balac vnto Balaam What doest thou vnto me I caused to fet y e for to curse myne enemies beholde thou blessest theÌ„ He answered saide Must I not kepe speake y t which the LORDE putteth in to me mouth Balac saide vnto him Come w t me yet vnto another place froÌ„ whence thou mayest se y e vttemost parte of them not se them all and curse me them there And he toke him vp to a fre place eueÌ„ vnto the toppe of Pisga buylded seuen altares and offered on euery altare a bullocke a ramme And he sayde vnto Balac Stonde so by thy burnt offrynge whyle I go yonder And thâ— LORDE mett Balaam put the worde in his mouth sayde Go agayne vnto Balaâ— saye on this wyse And whan he came to him agayne beholde he stode by his burnt offâ—rynge with the prynces of the Moabites And Balac sayde vnto him What hath the LORDE sayde And he toke vp his parable sayde Ryse vp Balac heare marke my testimony w t thine eares thou sonne of Ziphor God is not a man y t he shulde lye ner a mans childe y t eny thinge shulde repente him Shulde he saye and not do Shulde he speake not make it good Beholde I am brought hither to blesse I blesse can not go backe there fro There is no weerynesse sene in Iacob nether eny laboure in Israel The LORDE his God is w t him the kynges trompet is amoÌ„ge theÌ„ God hath brought theÌ„ out of Egipte his streÌ„gth is as of an Vnicorne For there is no Sorcerye in Iacob no Soyth sayer in Israel Whan the tyme coÌ„meth it shal be saide vnto Iacob to Israel what God doth Beholde the people shall ryse vp as a Lyonesse heue vp him self as a Lyon He shal not lye downe tyll he eate of the pray and drynke the bloude of the slayne Then sayde Balac vnto Balaam Thou shalt nether curse him ner blesse him Balaam answered sayde vnto Balac Haue I not tolde the All y t the LORDE speaketh y t must I do Balac saide vnto him Oh come I wil brynge y t to another place yf it maye happly please God y t thou mayest curse theÌ„ there And he brought him vp to the toppe of mount Peor y t boweth towarde the wyldernesse And Balaam sayde vnto Balac Buylde me here seuen altares and prouyde me seuen bullockes and seuen rammes Balac dyd as Balaam sayde and offered on euery altare a bullocke vnd a ramme The XXIIII Chapter NOw whan Balaam sawe y t it pleased the LORDE that he shulde blesse Israel he wente not as he dyd before to seke witches but set his face straight towarde the wyldernesse lifte vp his eyes and sawe Israel how they laye acordinge to their trybes and the sprete of God came vpon him and he toke vp his parable and sayde Thus sayeth Balaam the sonne of Beor Thus sayeth the man whose eyes are opened Thus sayeth he which heareth the wordes of God which sawe the vision of y e Allmightie which fell downe and his eyes were opened How goodly are thy teÌ„tes O Iacob and thy habitacions O Israel Euen as the brode valleys as the gardens by the waters syde as y e tentes which the LORDE hath plaÌ„ted as the Ceder trees vpon y e water
God maketh with the this daye that he mighte set the vp this daye to be a people vnto himself and that he mighte be thy God as he hath sayde vnto the and as he sware vnto y e fathers Abraham Isaac and Iacob For I make not this couenaunt and this ooth with you onely but both with you y t are here this daye and stonde with vs before the LORDE oure God and also with them that are not here with vs this daye For ye knowe how we haue dwelt in the londe of Egipte and how we came thorow the myddes of the Heythen whom ye passed by and sawe their abhominacions and their Idols wodd and stone syluer and golde which were with them Lest there be amōge you man or woman or an housholde or a trybe which turneth awaye his hert this daye from the LORDE oure God to go and to serue y e goddes of these nacions and lest there be amonge you some rote that beareth gall worm wodd so that though he heare the wordes of this curse he blesse him selfe yet in his hert and saye Tush it shal not be so euell I wil walke after the meanynge of myne awne hert that the dronken maye perishe with the thyrstie Then shall not the LORDE be mercifull vnto him but his wrath and gelousy shall smoke ouer soch a man and all the curses that are wrytten in this boke shall lighte vpon him and the LORDE shal put out his name from vnder heauen and shall separate him vnto euell out of all the trybes of Israel acordinge vnto all the curses of the couenaunt that is wrytten in the boke of this lawe So the posterities of youre childrē which shal ryse vp after you and the straungers that come out of farre countrees shall saye whan they se the plages of this londe and the diseases wherwith the LORDE hath smytten it that he hath brent vp all their londe with brymstone and salt so y t it cannot be sowne ner is frutefull nether groweth there eny grasse therin Like as Sodom Gomor Adama and Zeboim are ouer throwne which the LORDE ouerthrewe in his wrath and anger Then shall all nacions saye Wherfore hath the LORDE done thus vnto this londe What greate wrothfull displeasure is this Then shalt it be sayde Euen because they haue forsaken the couenaunt of y e LORDE God of their fathers which he made with them whan he broughte them out of the londe of Egipte and they wēte and serued other goddes and worshipped thē euen soch goddes as they knewe not and whom he had not deuyded vnto them Therfore the wrath of the LORDE waxed whote ouer this londe to brynge vpon it all the curses that are wrytten in this boke And the LORDE thrust them out of their londe w t greate wrath indignacion displeasoure hath cast them into another londe as it is come to passe this daye These are the secretes of the LORDE oure God which are opened vnto vs and oure children for euer y t we shulde do all the wordes of this lawe The XXX Chapter NOw whan all this commeth vpon the whether it be the blessinge or y e curse which I haue layed before the and thou goest in to thine hert beynge amōge the Heithen whither the LORDE thy God hath thrust the and thou turnest vnto the LORDE y e God so that thou herkenest vnto his voyce thou and thy children with all y e hert and with all thy soule in all that I commaunde the this daye then shal the LORDE thy God turne thy captiuyte and haue compassion vpon the and shal gather thy congregacion agayne from amonge all the nacions whither the LORDE thy God hath scatered the. And though thou werest thrust out vnto the vttemost partes of the heauen yet shall the LORDE thy God gather the from thence and from thēce shal he fetch the and shal brynge the in to the londe which thy fathers haue possessed and thou shalt enioye it and he shal do the good and multiplye the aboue thy fathers And the LORDE thy God shall circumcyse thine hert and the hert of thy sede that thou mayest loue the LORDE y t God with all thy hert and with all y e soule that thou mayest lyue But all these curses shall the LORDE thy God laye vpon thine enemyes and vpon them that hate the and persecute the. But thou shalt turne and herken vnto the voyce of the LORDE to do all his commaundementes which I commaunde the this daye And the LORDE thy God shal make the plenteous in all the workes of thine hādes in the frute of thy body in the frute of thy catell in the frute of thy londe to good For the LORDE shall turne to reioyse ouer the to good as he reioysed ouer thy fathers so that thou herken vnto the voyce of the LORDE thy God to kepe his commaundementes and ordinaunces which are wrytten in the boke of this lawe and turne vnto the LORDE thy God with all thy hert and with all thy soule For the commaundement which I commaunde y e this daye is not to wonderfull for the ner to farre ner yet in heauen that thou neadest to saye Who wil go vp for vs in to heauen and brynge it vnto vs that we maie heare it and do it Nether is it beyonde the see that thou neadest to saye Who wyll go ouer the see for vs and fetch it vs that we maye heare it and do it For the worde is very nye vnto the euē in thy mouth and in thine hert that thou do it Beholde I haue layed before you this daye life and good death and euell For I cōmaunde the this daye to loue the LORDE thy God and to walke in his wayes and to kepe his commaundementes ordinaunces and lawes that thou mayest lyue and multiplye and that the LORDE thy God maye blesse the in the londe whither thou goest to possesse it But yf thou turnest awaye thine hert so that thou wilt not heare but fall a waye to worshipe other goddes and to serue them I certifye you this daye that ye shal perishe not lyue longe in the londe whither thou goest ouer Iordane to possesse it I take heauen and earth this daye to recorde ouer you I haue layed before you life and death blessinge and cursinge that thou mayest chose life and that thou and thy sede maye lyue y t ye maye loue the LORDE youre God and herken vnto his voyce and cleue vnto him For he is thy life and thy lōge age that thou mayest dwell in the londe which the LORDE sware vnto thy fathers Abraham Isaac and Iacob to geue them The XXXI Chapter ANd Moses wente spake these wordes to all Israel and saide vnto them I am this daye an hundreth and twētye yeare olde I can nomore go out and in the LORDE also hath sayde vnto me Thou shalt not go ouer this Iordane The LORDE thy
God himselfe shall go before the ouer Iordane and HE himselfe shal destroye these nacions before the that thou mayest conquere them and Iosua he shall go ouer before the. as the LORDE hath sayde And the LORDE shal do vnto them as he dyd vnto Sihon and Og the kynges of the Amorites and vnto their lōde which he destroyed Now whan the LORDE shal deliuer thē before you ye shal do vnto them acordynge vnto all the commaundementes which I haue commaunded you Be manly and strōge feare not and be not afrayed of them For the LORDE thy God himselfe shal go with the and shal not fayle the ner forsake the. And Moses called Iosua and sayde vnto him before all Israel Be stronge and bolde for thou shalt brynge this people in to the londe which the LORDE hath sworne vnto their fathers to geue them and thou shalt parte it amonge them by lott But the LORDE himselfe that goeth before you euen HE shal be with the and shal not fayle the ner forsake the Feare not and be not afrayed And Moses wrote this lawe and delyuered it vnto the prestes the children of Leui which bare the Arke of the couenaunt of the LORDE and vnto all the Elders of Israel And he commaunded them and sayde At the ende of seuen yeares in the tyme of the Fre yeare in the feast of Tabernacles whan all Israel come to appeare before the LORDE thy God in the place that he shall chose thou shalt cause this lawe to be proclamed before all Israel in their eares namely before the congregacion of the people both of men wemen children and thy straungers which are within thy gates that they maye heare and lerne to feare the LORDE their God and be diligent to do all the wordes of this lawe and that their children also which knowe nothinge maye heare and lerne to feare the LORDE yo r God all youre lyue dayes which ye lyue in the londe whither ye go ouer Iordane to possesse it And the LORDE sayde vnto Moses Beholde thy tyme is come that thou must die call Iosua and stonde in the Tabernacle of witnesse that I maye geue him a charge Moses wente with Iosua and stode in the Tabernacle of witnesse And the LORDE appeared in the Tabernacle in a cloudy pyler and the same cloudy pyler stode in the dore of the Tabernacle And the LORDE sayde vnto Moses Beholde thou shalt slepe with y e fathers and this people wyll ryse vp and go a whoringe after straunge goddes of the londe in to the which they come and wyll forsake me and breake the couenaunt which I haue made w t them And then shall my wrath waxe whote agaynst them at the same tyme I shal forsake thē and hyde my face frō them that they maye be consumed And so whan moch aduersite trouble commeth vpō thē they shal saye Is not all this euell come vpō me because God is not with me But I shal hyde my face at the same tyme because of all the euell that they haue done in that they haue turned vnto other goddes Wryte now therfore this songe teach it the children of Israel and put it in their mouth that this songe maye be a witnesse vnto me amonge the children of Israel For I wil brynge them in to the londe which I sware vnto their fathers that floweth with mylke and hony And whan they eate and are full and fatt they shal turne vnto other goddes and serue them and blaspheme me and breake my couenaunt And so whan moch myschefe and tribulacion is come vpon them this songe shall answere before them for a witnesse It shall not be forgotten out of the mouth of their sede for I knowe their ymaginacion that they go aboute euen now before I brynge them in to the londe which I sware vnto them So Moses wrote this songe at the same tyme and taughte it the children of Israel And the LORDE gaue Iosua the sonne of Nun a charge and sayde Be stronge and bolde for thou shalt brynge the children of Israel in to the londe which I sware vnto them and I wil be with the. Now whan Moses had wrytten out all the wordes of this lawe in a boke he commaunded the Leuites which bare the Arke of the LORDES couenaunt and sayde Take the boke of this lawe and laye it by the syde of the Arke of the couenaunt of the LORDE youre God that it maye be there a wytnesse agaynst the for I knowe thy stubburnesse and thy harde neck Beholde whyle I am yet alyue w t you this daye ye haue bene disobedient vnto the LORDE how moch more after my death Gather now vnto me all the Elders of youre trybes and youre officers y t I maye speake these wordes in their eares and take heauen and earth to recorde agaynst them For I am sure that after my death ye shall marre youre selues and turne asyde out of the waye which I haue commaunded you and so shall mysfortune happen vnto you her after because ye haue done euell in the sighte of the LORDE in prouokynge him thorow the workes of youre handes So Moses spake out the wordes of this songe euen to the ende in the eares of all the congregacion of Israel The XXXII Chapter HErken O ye heauens I wyll speake and let the earth heare the wordes of my mouth My doctryne droppe as doth the raine and my speach flowe as doth the dew Euen as the rayne vpon the grasse and as the droppes vpon the herbe For I wyl call vpon the name of the LORDE geue ye the glory vnto oure God Perfecte are the workes of the Stone for all his wayes are righteous God is true and no wickednes is there in him righteous and iust is he The frowarde and ouerthwarte generacion hath marred them selues to himwarde and are not his children because of their deformyte Thankest thou the LORDE y i God so thou foolish and vnwyse people Is not he thy father and thy LORDE Hath he not made the and prepared the Remembre the dayes that are past considre the yeares of the generacions afore tyme Axe thy father he shall shewethe thine elders they shal tell the. Whan the most Hyghest deuyded y e nacions and scatred the children of men Then set he the borders of the nacions acordinge to the nombre of the children of Israel For the LORDES parte is his folke Iacob is the meetlyne of his enheritaunce He founde him in the wyldernesse euen in the drye deserte where he roared He led him aboute and gaue him vnderstondinge He kepte him as the aple of his eye As an Aegle stereth vp hir nest and flotereth ouer hir yonge Euen so stretched he out his fethers and toke him and bare him on his wynges The LORDE onely was his gyde there was no straunge God with him He caried him ouer y e heigth of the
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 wâ—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 theÌ„ 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 wapeÌ„ 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 wapeÌ„ bearer slewe behynde him so that the first slaughter that Ionathas and his wapen bearer dyd was vpoÌ„ 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 watchmeÌ„ at Gibea BeÌ„ 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 theÌ„ 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 haÌ„de 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 câ—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 maÌ„ 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 eateÌ„ 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 â—ayde Ye haue done euell roll vnto me now a greate stone And Saul sayde morouer Go abrode amoÌ„ge 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 haÌ„de 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 theÌ„ 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 TheÌ„ 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 takeÌ„ 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 TheÌ„ 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 coÌ„quâ—red the kyngdome ouer Israel he foughte against all his enemyes rounde aboute against the Moabites agaynst the childreÌ„ of Ammon agaynst the
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 noÌ„bred vnder the hande of Ieiel the scrybe of Maesa the offycer vnder the haÌ„de of Hanania of the kynges rulers And the nombre of the chefe fathers amonge the stronge meÌ„ 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 IerusaleÌ„ he made ordinaunce coÌ„ningly 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 lâ—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 childreÌ„ 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 IerusaleÌ„ And IothaÌ„ 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 breÌ„t his awne sonnes in y e fire after the abhominacions of the Heithen whoÌ„ the LORDE expelled before the childreÌ„ of Israel And he dyd sacrifice and brent incense vpon the hye places and vpon the hilles and amoÌ„ge 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 eueÌ„ because they had forsaken y e LORDE God of their fathers And Sichri a mightie maÌ„ of Ephraim slewe Maeseia y e kinges sonne Asriâ—am the prynce of the house Elâ—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 eueÌ„ there was there a prophet of y e LORDE whose name was Obed which weÌ„te 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 heaueÌ„ 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
thou hast made Oh what is man y t thou art so myndfull of him ether the sonne of maÌ„ that thou visitest him After thou haddest for a season made him lower theÌ„ the angels thou crownedest him with hono r glory Thou hast set him aboue the workes off thy hondes thou hast put all thinges in subieccion vnder his fete All shepe and oxen yee and the beastes of the felde The foules of the ayre the fysh of the see and what â—o walketh thorow the wayes of the see O LORDE oure gouernoure how wonderfull is thy name in all the worlde The IX A psalme of Dauid I Wil geue thaÌ„kes vnto the o LORDE with my whole herte I wil speake of all thy maruelous workes I wil be glad reioyse in the yee my songes wil I make of thy name o thou most hyest Because thou hast dryueÌ„ myne enemies abacke they were discoÌ„fited perished at thy presence For thou hast manteyned my right and my cause thou syttest in the Trone that art the true iudge Thou rebukest the Heithen and destroyest the vngodly thou puttest out their name for euer and euer The enemies swerdes are come to an ende thou hast ouerthrowen their cities their memoriall is perished with theÌ„ But y e LORDE endureth for euer he hath prepared his seate vnto iudgmeÌ„t He gouerneth y e worlde with rightuousnes ministreth true iudgmeÌ„t vnto the people The LORDE is a defence for the poore a defence in the tyme of trouble Therfore they y t knowe thy name put their trust in y e for thou LORDE neuer faylest theÌ„ that seke the. O prayse the LORDE which dwelleth in Sion shewe y e people of his doinges And why he maketh inquysicion for their bloude and remembreth them he forgetteth not the complaynte of the poore Haue mercy vpoÌ„ me o LORDE considre the trouble that I am in amoÌ„ge myne enemies thou that liftest me vp from y e gates of death That I maye she we all thy prayses within the portes off the doughter Sion and reioyse in thy sauynge healâ—h As for the Heithen the are sunckeÌ„ doâ—ne in the pytte that they made in the same nette which they spred out priuely is their owne fote takeÌ„ Thus y e LORDE is knowne to execute true iudgment wheÌ„ the vngodly is trapped in the workes of his owne handes Sela. The wicked must be turned vnto hell and all the Heithen y t forget God But the poore shal not allwaye be out of remembraunce the pacieÌ„t abydinge of soch as be in trouble shall not perish for euer Vp LORDE let not man haue the vpper haÌ„de let the HeitheÌ„ be coÌ„demned before the. O LORDE set a scolemaster ouer theÌ„ that the HeitheÌ„ maye knowe them selues to be but meÌ„ Sela Here the Hebrues begynne the x. psalme WHy art thou gone so farre of o LORDE wilt thou hyde thyselff in tyme of trouble Whyle y e vngodly hath the ouer hande the poore must suffre persecucion O that they were taken in the ymaginacions which they go aboute For the vn godly maketh boost of his owne hertes desyre the cuvetous blesseth him self and blasphemeth the LORDE The vngodly is so proude and full of indignacioÌ„ that he careth not nether is God before his eyes His wayes are allwaye filthie thy iudgmentes are farre out of his sight he defyeth all his enemies For he sayeth in his herte Tush I shal neuer be cast downe there shal no harme happeÌ„ vnto me His mouth is full of cursynge fraude and disceate vnder his toÌ„ge is trauayle sorow He sytteth lurkynge in the gardens that he maye pryuely murthur the innocent his eyes are set vpoÌ„ the poore He lyeth way â—inge secretly as it were a lyon in his denne He lurketh that he maye rauysh the poore yee to rauish the poore when he hath gotten him in to his nett Then smyteth he then oppresseth he casteth downe the poore with his auctorite For he sayeth in his herte Tush God hath forgotten he hath turned a waye his face so y t he will neuer se it Aryse o LORDE God lift vp thine honde and forget not the poore Wherfore shulde the wicked blaspheme God and saye in his herte Tush he careth not for it This thou seist for thou considrest the mysery and sorowe The poore geueth himselff ouer in to thy hande and committeth him vnto the for thou art the helper of the frendlesse Breake thou y e arme off the vngodly and malycious search out the wickednesse which he hath done that he maye perish The LORDE is kynge for euer ye Heithen shal perish out off his londe LORDE thou hearest the desyrous longinge off the poore their herte is sure that thine eare herkeneth therto Helpe the fatherlesse and poore vnto their right that the vngodly be nomore exalted vpon earth The X. A psalme of Dauid IN the LORDE put I my trust how will ye then saye to my soule that she shulde fle as a byrde vpon youre hill For â—o the vngodly haue beÌ„t their bowe and made redy their arowes in the quyuer that they maye priuely shute at them which are true of herte The very foundacion haue they cast downe what caÌ„ the rightuous theÌ„ do withall But the LORDE is in his holy temple the LORDES seate is in heauen He coÌ„sidereth it with his eyes his eye lyddes beholde the children of men The LORDE seith both the rightuous and vngodly but who so deliteth in wickednes him his soule abhorreth Vpon the vngodly he shal rayne snares fyre brymstone storme and tempest this rewarde shal they haue to drynke For the LORDE is rightuous aÌ„d he loueth rightuousnes his countenaunce beholdeth the thiÌ„ge y t is iust The XI A psalme of Dauid HElpe LORDE for there is not one saynte more very fewe faithfull are there amonge the children off men Euery man telleth lyes to his neghbo r they do but flater with their lippes and dissemble in their herte O that the LORDE wolde rote out all disceatfull lippes aÌ„d the tonge that speaketh proude thinges Which saye Oure toÌ„ge shulde preuayle we are they that ought to speake who is lorde ouer vs Now for the troubles sake off the oppressed because of the complaynte of the poore I wil vp sayeth the LORDE I wil helpe theÌ„ and set theÌ„ at rest The wordes of the LORDE are pure wordes eueÌ„ as y e syluer which from earth is tried and purified vij tymes in the fyre Kepe theÌ„ therfore o LORDE and preserue vs froÌ„ this generacion for euer And why when vanite and ydylnes getteth the ouer hande amonge the children of men all are full of y e vngodly The XII A psalme of Dauid HOw longe wilt thou forget me o LORDE for euer how longe wilt thou hyde thy face fro me Oh how loÌ„ge shall I seke councell in my soule how longe shall I be so vexed in my herte how longe shal myne enemie triumphe ouer me Considre aÌ„d heare me o LORDE
praysed be the Lord whych hath not geuen vs ouer for a praye vnto their teeth Oure soule is escaped eueÌ„ as a byrde out of the snare of the fouler the snare is broken and we are delyuered Oure helpe standeth in the name of the Lorde which hath made heauen and earth ¶ The .cxxv. Psalme ¶ The churche or congregacyon is in safetye when the Lorde defendeth it and shal be prosperous when he fauoreth it and purgeth the wycked theroute The songe of the steares THey that put their trust in the Lorde are euen as the mount Syon which may not be remoued but standeth fast for euer The hylles stande about Ierusalem eueÌ„ so standeth the Lorde rounde about his people from this tyme forth for euermore That the rodd of the vngodly come not into the lot of the ryghtuous lest y e ryghtuous put their hande vnto wyckednesse Do well O Lorde vnto those y t be good and true of herte As for soche as turne backe vnto their awne wyckednesse the Lorde shall leade theÌ„ forth with the euyll doers but peace be vpoÌ„ Israel ¶ The .cxxvj. Psalme ¶ He descrybeth the gladnes of the people returning agayne from Babylon vnder the fygure herof the reioysynge of the Christen whom the sonne of God hath made fre from the captiuyte of synne and deeth The songe of the steares VVhen the Lorde turneth agayne the captyuyte of Sion then shall we be lyke vnto them that dreame Then shall oure mouth be fylled wyth laughter and oure tonge with ioye Then shall it be sayd amonge the HeatheÌ„ the Lorde hath done greate thinges for theÌ„ Yee the Lorde hath done greate thynges for vs all ready wherof we reioyse Turne oure captyuyte O Lorde as the ryuers in the south They y t sowe in teares shall reape in ioye He that now goeth in his waye wepynge beareth forth good sede shal come agayne with ioye bringe his sheaues with hym ¶ The .cxxvij. Psalme ¶ By the only liberalyte gyft of God is the house and housholde geuen the cytye defended â— meate mynystred chyldren those toward and thryftye obtayned The songe of the steares EXcept the Lorde buylde the house their labour is but lost that buylde it Except the Lorde kepe the cytye the watchman waketh but in vayne It is but lost labour that ye rise vp early and take no rest but eate the bredde of carefulnesse for loke to whom it pleaseth him he geueth it in slepe Lo chyldren and the frute of the wombe are an herytage gift y t coÌ„meth of y e Lorde Lyke as the arowes in the hande of the gyaunt euen so are the yonge children Happy is the man that hath his quyuer full of them they shal not be ashamed when they speake with their enemyes in the gate ¶ The .cxxviij. Psalme ¶ He that feareth God shall do well and fortunately at all ceasons The songe of the steares BLessed are all they that feare y e Lorde and walke in hys wayes For thou shalt eate the laboures of thyne awne handes O well is the happy art thou Thy wyfe shal be as y e frutefull vyne vpoÌ„ the walles of thy house Thy chyldren lyke the Olyue braunches rounde aboute thy table Lo thus shall the man be blessed that feareth the Lorde The Lorde shall so blesse the out of SioÌ„ that thou shalt se Ierusalem in prosperyte all thy lyfe longe Yee that thou shalt se thy chylders chyldren and peace vpon Israel ¶ The .cxxix Psalme ¶ Althoughe the wycked do longe and greatly persecute the godly yet shall they not preuayle ouer them yee they shall at the length perish when the godly shal be in safetye The songe of the steares MAny a tyme haue they fought agaynst me fro my youth vp maye Israel now saye Yee many a tyme haue they fought agaynst me fro my youth vp but they haue not ouercome me The plowers plowed vpon my backe and made longe forowes But the rightuous Lorde hath hewen 〈◊〉 yocke of the vngodly in peces Let them be confounded turned bacâ—â—ward as many as haue euyl will at a * 〈◊〉 Let them be euen as the haye vpon 〈◊〉 house toppes whych wythereth afore it 〈◊〉 pluckte vp Wherof the mower fylleth not his hanâ—â— nether he that byndeth vp the sheaues 〈◊〉 bosome So y t they which go by saye not so 〈◊〉 as y e Lorde prospere you we wish you 〈◊〉 lucke in the name of the Lorde ¶ The .cxxx. Psalme ¶ An earnest prayer of him that is oppressed with â—â—â—uersitie for his sinnes that surely hopeth to 〈◊〉 of God bothe forgeuenes of his synnes delyuraâ—â—â— from hys aduersytyes The songe of the steares OVt of the a * depe call I vnto 〈◊〉 O Lorde Lorde heare my voyâ—â— â–ª Oh let thyne eares 〈…〉 well the voyce of my complayâ—â—â— If thou Lord wylt be extreme to 〈◊〉 what is done a mysse Oh Lorde who 〈◊〉 abyde it But there is mercy wyth the that 〈◊〉 mayest be feared I loke for the Lord my soule doth waâ— for hym and in his worde is my trust My soule doth paciently abyde y e Lorâ—â— from the one mornynge to the other Let Israel trust in the Lorde for with 〈◊〉 Lorde there is mercy pleÌ„teous redempâ—â—â—â— And he shal redeme Israel froÌ„ al his synn◠¶ The .cxxxj. Psalme ¶ He sheweth y t he was not proude but meake 〈◊〉 The songe of the steares LOrde I am not hye mynded I haue 〈◊〉 proude lokes I do not exercyse my selfe in greaâ—â— matters which are to hye for me But I refrayne my soule kepe it 〈◊〉 lyke as a childe that is weened from his 〈◊〉 yee my soule is eueÌ„ as a weenâ—ed 〈◊〉 Let Israel trust in the Lorde â–ª from 〈◊〉 tyme forth for euermore ¶ The .cxxxij. Psalme ¶ He sheweth that the prosperyty 〈◊〉 of Christes kynâ—â—dome dureth euer that God is 〈◊〉 allwaye present 〈◊〉 his churche and congregacyon Thys doth he 〈◊〉 the fygure of Dauid of the â—â—aâ—cke abydyng in 〈◊〉 The songe of the steares LOrde remeÌ„bre Dauid al his trouâ—â—â— How he swore vnto the Lorde 〈◊〉 vowed a vowe vnto the almyghtye 〈◊〉 of Iacob I wyll not come within y e taberâ—â—â—cle of my house nor clyme vp in my bedde â–ª I wyll not suffre myne eyes to slepe 〈◊〉 myne eye lyddes to â—â—omber Vntyll I fynde out a place for y e 〈◊〉 an habytacyoÌ„ for the mightye one of 〈◊〉 shalt eate the laboures of thine owne hondes o well is the happie art thou Thy wife shal be as a frutefull vyne vpon the walles of thy house Thy children like the olyue braunches rouÌ„de aboute y e table Lo thus shal y e maÌ„ be blessed y t feareth the LORDE The LORDE shal so blesse the out of Sion that thou shalt se IerusaleÌ„ in prosperite all thy life longe Yee that thou shalt se thy childers childreÌ„ peace vpoÌ„ Israel The CXXVIII psalme MAny a tyme haue they fought
brydegrome and off the bryde yee and that in youre dayes that ye maye se it Now when thou shewest this people all these wordes and they saye vnto the Wherfore hath the LORDE deuysed all this greate plage for vs Or what is the offence and synne that we haue done agaynst the LORDE oure God Then make thou them this answere Because youre fathers haue forsaken me saieth the LORDE and haue cleued vnto straunge goddes whom they haue honoured and worshipped but me haue they forsakē and haue not kepte my lawe And ye w t youre shamefull blasphemies haue exceaded the wickednes off youre fathers For euery one off you foloweth the frawerde euel ymaginacion off his owne hert and is not obedient vnto me Therfore wil I cast you out off this londe in to a londe that ye and youre fathers knowe not and there shall ye serue straunge goddes daye and night there will I shewe you no fauoure Beholde therfore saieth the LORDE the daies are come that it shall nomore be sayed The LORDE lyueth which brought the children of Israel out of the lōde of Egipte but it shall be sayde the LORDE lyueth that brought the children of Israel from the North from all londes where I had scatred them For I wil bringe thē agayne in to the lōde that I gaue vnto their fathers Beholde saieth the LORDE I will sende out many fiszhers to take them and after y t wil I sende out many hunters to hunte thē out from all mountaynes and hilles ād out of the caues of stones For myne eyes beholde all their wayes and they can not be hyd fro my face nether can their wicked dedes be kepte close out of my sight But first will I sufficiently rewarde their shamefull blasphemies and synnes wherwith they haue defyled my londe Namely with their stinckinge Idols and abhominacions wherw t they haue fylled myne heretage O LORDE my strength my power and refuge in tyme off trouble The Gentiles shall come vnto the from the endes off the worlde and saye Verely oure fathers haue cleued vnto lies their Idols are but vayne and vnprofitable How can a man make those his goddes which are not able to be goddes And therfore I will once teach them saieth y e LORDE I wil shewe them my honde and my power that they maye knowe y t my name is y e LORDE The XVII Chapter YOure synne o ye off the trybe of Iuda is writtē in the table of yo r hertes grauē so vpon the edges of yo r aulters w t a penne of yron with an Adamāt clawe y t youre children also maye thynke vpon youre aulters woddes thicke trees hie hilles mountaynes feldes Wherfore I will make all youre substaunce treasure be spoyled for the greate synne that ye haue done vpon youre hie places thorow out all y e coostes off youre lōde Ye shal be cast out also from the heretage that I gaue you And I wil subdue you vnder the heuy bōdage of youre enemies in a londe that ye knowe not For ye haue ministred fyre to my indignacion which shal burne euermore Thus saieth the LORDE Cursed be the man that putteth his trust in man ād that taketh flesh for his arme and he whose herte departeth from y e LORDE He shall be like the heeth that groweth in the wildernes As for the good thinge that is for to come he shall not se it but dwell in a drie place off the wildernes in a salt and vnoccupied londe O Blissed is the man that putteth his trust in the LORDE and whose hope the LORDE is himself For he shal be as a tre that is planted by the water syde which spredeth out the rote vnto moystnesse whom the heate can not harme when it commeth but his leaues are grene And though there growe but litle frute because off drouth yet is he not carefull but he neuer leaueth of to bringe forth frute Amonge all thinges lyuynge man hath the most disceatfull and vnsercheable hert Who shall then knowe it Euen I the LORDE ripe out the grounde off the hert ād search the reynes and rewarde euery mā acordinge to his wayes and acordinge to the frute off his councels The disceatfull maketh a nest but bringeth forth no yonge He commeth by riches but not rightuously In the myddest off his life must he leaue them behinde him and at the last be founde a very foole But thou o LORDE whose trone is most glorious excellent and off most antiquite which dwellest in the place of oure holy rest Thou art the comforte off Israel All they that forsake the shal be confounded all they that departe from the shal be written in earth for they haue forsaken the LORDE the very condite of the waters of life Heale me o LORDE and I shall be whole saue thou me and I shal be saued for thou art my prayse Beholde these men saye vnto me Where is the worde of the LORDE Let it come Where as I neuertheles ledinge the flock in thy wayes haue compelled none by violence For I neuer desyred eny mās deeth this knowest thou well My wordes also were right before the. Be not now terrible vnto me o LORDE for thou art he in whom I hope when I am in parell Let my persecuters be confounded but not me let them be afrayed and not me Thou shalt bringe vpon thē the tyme off their plage and shalt destroye them right sore Agayne thus hath the LORDE sayde vnto me Go and stonde vnder the gate where thorow the people and the kinges of Iuda go out and in yee vnder all the gates of Ierusalem and saye vnto them Heare the worde of the LORDE ye kinges of Iuda and all thou people of Iuda and all ye citesyns of Ierusalem that go thorow this gate Thus the LORDE commaundeth Take hede for youre lyues that ye carie no burthen vpon you in the Sabbath to bringe it thorow the gates of Ierusalem ye shall beare no burthen also out of youre houses in the Sabbath Ye shall do no laboure there in but halowe the Sabbath as I commaunded youre fathers How be it they obeyed me not nether herkened they vnto me but were obstinate stubburne ād nether obeyed me ner receaued my correccion Neuertheles yf ye will heare me saieth the LORDE and beare no burthen in to y e cite thorow this gate vpon the Sabbath Yf ye will halowe the Sabbath so that ye do no worke there in then shal there go thorow the gates of this cite kinges and prynces that shall syt vpon the stole of Dauid They shall be caried vpon charettes and ryde vpon horses both they and their princes Yee whole Iuda and all the citesyns of Ierusalem shall go here thorow and this cite shall euer be the more and more inhabited There shall come men also from the cities of Iuda from aboute Ierusalem ād from y e londe of Ben
vnto straunge goddes And so Ieremy came from Tophet where the LORDE had sent him to prophecie and stode in the courte off the house off the LORDE and spake to all the people Thus saieth the LORDE off hoostes the God of Israel Beholde I will bringe vpon this cite and vpon euery towne aboute it all the plages that I haue deuysed agaynst them for they haue bene obstinate ād wolde not obeye my warnynges The XX. Chapter WHen Pashur the preast the sonne off Emmer chefe in the house of y e LORDE herde Ieremy preach so stedfastly he smote Ieremy and put him in the stockes that are by the hie gate of Ben Iamin in the house of y e LORDE The nexte daye folowinge Pashur brought Ieremy out of the stockes agayne Then sayde Ieremy vnto him The LORDE shall call the nomore Pashur that is excellent and increasinge but Magor that is fearfull ād afrayed euery where For thus saieth the LORDE beholde I will make the afrayed the thy self and all that fauoure y e which shal perish with the swearde off their enemies euen before y t face And I wil geue whole Iuda vnder the power of the kinge of Babilon which shall carie some vnto Babilon presoners and slaye some with the swearde Morouer all y e substaunce of this londe all their precious and gorgeous workes all costlynesse and all the treasure of the kinges of Iuda wil I geue into the hōdes of their enemies which shal spoyle them and carie them vnto Babilon But as for the o Pashur thou shalt be caried vnto Babilon with all thine housholde to Babilō shalt thou come where thou shalt die and be buried thou and all thy fauourers to whom thou hast preached lies O LORDE thou makest me weake but thou refreszhest me makest me stronge agayne All the daye longe am I despysed and laughed to scorne of euery man because I haue now preached longe agaynst malicious Tyranny and shewed them off destruccion For y e which cause they cast the worde off the LORDE in my teth and take me euer to the worst Wherfore I thought from hence forth not to speake of him ner to preach eny more in his name But the worde off the LORDE was a very burnynge fyre in my hert and in my bones which when I wolde haue stopped I might not For why I herde so many derisiōs and blasphemies yee euen of myne owne companyons and off soch as were conuersaunte with me which wente aboute to make me afrayed sayenge vpon him let vs go vpon him to feare him and make him holde his tonge y t we maye ouercome him and be avenged off him But the LORDE stode by me like a mightie giaunte therfore my persecuters fell and coude do nothinge They shal be sore confoūded for they haue done vnwisely they shall haue an euerlastinge shame And now o LORDE of hoostes thou rightuous sercher which knowest the reynes and the very hertes let me se them punyshed for vnto the I committe my cause Synge vnto the LORDE and prayse him for he hath delyuered the soule off the oppressed from the honde off the violent Cursed be the daye wherein I was borne vnhappie be y e daye where in my mother brought me forth Cursed be the man that brought my father the tidinges to make him glad sayenge thou hast gotten a sonne Let it happen vnto that man as to the cities which y e LORDE turned vpside downe when he had longe herde the wicked rumoure of them because he slewe me not as soone as I came out off my mothers wombe and because my mother was not my graue hirselff that the byrth might not haue come out but remayned still in her Wherfore came I forth off my mothers wombe To haue experience of laboure and sorowe and to lede my life with shame The XXI Chapter THese are the wordes that the LORDE spake vnto Ieremy what tyme as kinge Sedechias sent vnto him Pashur the sonne off Melchia and Sophonias the sonne ▪ of Maasia prest sayenge Axe councell at the LORDE we praye the of oure behalfe for Nabuchodonosor the kinge off Babilon besegeth vs yff the LORDE peraduenture will deale with vs acordinge to his maruelous power and take him from vs. Then spake Ieremy Geue Sedechias this answere Thus saieth the LORDE God off Israel beholde I will turne backe the weapens that ye haue in youre hondes wherwith ye fight agaynst the kinge of Babilō the Caldees which besege you rounde aboute y e walles I wil brīge thē together in to the myddest of this cite and I my selff will fight agaynst you with an outstretched honde ād with a mightie arme in greate displeasure and terrible wrath and will smyte them that dwell in this cite yee both mē ād catell shal dye of the pestilence And after this saieth the LORDE I shall delyuer Sedechias the kinge of Iuda his seruauntes his people and soch as are escaped in the cite from the pestilence swearde and honger into the power of Nabuchodonosor kinge of Babilon yee in to the hōdes of their enemies in to the hōdes of those y t folowe vpon their lyues which shall smyte them with y e swerde they shal not pite thē they shal not spare them they shall haue no mercy vpon them And vnto this people thou shalt saye Thus saieth the LORDE beholde I laye before you the waye of life and deeth Who so abydeth in this cite shal perish ether w t the swearde with honger or with pestilēce But who so goeth out to holde on y e Caldees parte y t besege it he shal saue his life and shall wynne his soule for a pray For I haue set my face agaynst this cite saieth the LORDE to plage it and to do it no good It must be geuē in to the honde of the kinge of Babilon be brent with fyre And vnto the house of the kinge off Iuda saye thus Heare the worde of y e LORDE o thou house off Dauid for thus saieth the LORDE Ministre rightuousnes and that soone delyuer the oppressed frō violent power or euer my terrible wrath break out like a fyre ▪ and burne so that no man maye quēch it because of the wickednes of youre ymaginacions Beholde saieth the LORDE I wil come vpō you that dwel in the valleis rockes and feldes and saye Tush who will make vs afrayed or who will come in to oure houses For I will vyset you saieth the LORDE because off the wickednes off youre invencions and will kyndle soch a fyre in youre wod as shall cōsume all that is aboute you The XXII Chapter THus sayde the LORDE also Go downe in to the house of the kinge off Iuda and speake there these wordes saye Heare the worde off the LORDE thou kinge off Iuda that syttest in the kyngly seate off Dauid thou and thy seruauntes ād y e people
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 â–ª 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 eueÌ„ 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 brokeÌ„ 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 eueÌ„ in to this place saieth y e LORDE for I wil breake y e yock of the kinge of BabiloÌ„ 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 greaâ—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 BabiloÌ„ 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 loÌ„de within a yeare thou shalt die because thou hast falsely spokeÌ„ 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 BabiloÌ„ after y e tyme y t kinge Iechonias his Quene his chambrelaynes the prynces of Iuda IerusaleÌ„ the workmasters of IerusaleÌ„ were departed thither Which lettre Elasa y e sonne of SaphaÌ„ Gamaria y e sonne of Helchia dyd beare whoÌ„ Sedechias the kinge of Iuda sent vnto BabiloÌ„ to Nabuchodonosor y e kinge of BabiloÌ„ these were y e wordes of Ieremias lettre Thâ—s hath y e LORDE of hoostes y e God of Israel spokeÌ„ vnto all the presoners y t were â—ed froÌ„ IerusaleÌ„ vnto BabiloÌ„ 〈…〉 you houses to dwell therein plaÌ„te you â–ª 〈◊〉 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 vpoÌ„ 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 eateÌ„ for bytternes And I wil persecute them with the swearde with honger death I will delyuer them vp to be
LORDE Beholde the daies come saieth the LORDE y t the cite of y e LORDE shal be enlarged from the towre of Hananeel vnto y e gate of the corner wall From thence shal the right measure be taken before her vnto the hill toppe of Gareb and shal come aboute Gaatha and the whole valley of the deed carcases and of the ashes all Seremoth vnto the broke of Cedron and from thence vnto the corner of the horsgate towarde y e east where as the Sanctuary of the LORDE also shal be set And when it is now buylded set vp of this fashion it shall neuer be broken ner cast downe eny more The XXXII Chapter THese wordes spake the LORDE vnto Ieremy in the tenth yeare of Sedechias kinge of Iuda which was y e xviij yeare of Nabuchodonosor what tyme as the kinge of Babilons hooste layed sege vnto Ierusalem But Ieremy the prophet laye bounde in y e courte of the preson which was in the kinge of Iudaes house where Sedechias the kinge of Iuda caused him to be layed because he had prophecied of this maner Thus saieth the LORDE Beholde I will delyuer this cite in to the hondes of the kinge of Babilon which shal take it As for Sedechias the kinge of Iuda he shal not be able to escape the Caldees but surely he shall come in to the hondes of the kinge of Babilon which shall speake with him mouth to mouth and one of them shall loke another in the face And Sedechias shal be caried vnto Babilon and there shall he be vntill the tyme that I vyset him saieth the LORDE But yf thou takest in hōde to fight agaynst the Caldees thou shalt not prospere And Ieremy sayde Thus hath the LORDE spoken vnto me Beholde Hananeel the sonne of Sellum thine Vncles sonne shall come vnto the and requyre the to redeme y e londe that lieth in Anathot vnto thy self for by reason of kynred it is thy parte to rede me it and to bye it out And so Hananeel myne Vncles sonne came to me in the courte of the preson acordinge to the worde of the LORDE and sayde vnto me Bye my londe I praye the that lieth in Anothot in the countre of Ben Iamyn for by heretage thou hast right to lowse it out for thy self therfore redeme it Then I preceaued that this was the commaundement of the LORDE and so I lowsed the londe from Hananeel of Anathot myne Vncles sonne and weyed him there the moneye euen seuen sycles and ten syluer pens I caused him also to make me a writinge and to seale it and called recorde there by and weyed him there the money vpon the waightes So I toke the euydence with the copie when it was orderly sealed and red ouer and I gaue the euydence vnto Baruch the sonne of Nerias the sonne of Maasia in the sight of Hananeel my cosen and in the presence of the witnesses that be named in the euydence and before all the Iewes that were therby in the courte of the preson I charged Baruch also before them saienge The LORDE of hoostes the God of Israel commaundeth the to take this sealed euydence with the copie and to laye it in an erthen vessell that it maye longe continue For the LORDE of hoostes the God of Israel hath determed that houses feldes and vynyardes shal be possessed agayne in this londe Now when I had delyuered the euydence vnto Baruch y e sonne of Nerias I besought the LORDE sayenge O LORDE God It is thou that hast made heauen and earth with thy greate power and hie arme and there is nothinge to harde for ye. Thou shewest mercy vpon thousandes thou recompēcest the wickednes of the fathers in to the besome of the children that come after them Thou art the greate and mightie God whose name is the LORDE of hoostes greate in councell and infinite in thought Thine eyes loke vpon all the wayes of mens children to rewarde euery one after his waye and acordinge to the frutes of his inuencions Thou hast done greate tokens and wonders in the londe of Egipte as we se this daye vpon the people of Israel and vpon those men to make thy name greate as it is come to passe this daye Thou hast brought thy people of Israel out of the londe of Egipte with tokens with wondres with a mightie honde with a stretched out arme and with greate terriblenes and hast geuen them this londe like as thou haddest promysed vnto their fathers Namely that thou woldest geue them a lōde that floweth with mylke and honye Now when they came therin and possessed it they folowed not thy voyce and walked not in thy lawe but all that thou commaundedest them to do that haue they not done and therfore come all these plages vpon them Beholde there are bulworckes made now agaynst the cite to take it and it shal be wonne of the Caldees that besege it with swearde with honger and death and loke what thou hast spoken that same shal come vpon them For lo all thinges are present vnto the Yet sayest thou vnto me o LORDE God and commaundest me that I shall loose a pece of londe vnto my self and take witnesses therto and yet in the meane season the cite is delyuered in to the power of the Caldees Then came the worde of the LORDE vnto me sayenge Beholde I am the LORDE God of all flesh Is there eny thinge then to harde for me Therfore thus sayde the LORDE beholde I shal delyuer this cite in to the power of the Caldees and in to the power of Nabuchodonosor the kinge of Babilon they shall take it in For the Caldees shall come and wynne this cite and set fyre vpon it and burne it with the gorgeous houses in whose parlers they haue made sacrifice vnto Baal and poured drynke offeringes vnto straunge goddes to prouoke me vnto wrath For seinge the children of Israel and the children of Iuda haue wrought wickednes before me euer from their youth vp what haue they els done but prouoked me with the workes of their owne hondes saieth the LORDE Or what hath this cite bene els but a prouokinge of my wrath euer sence the daye that I buylded it vnto this houre Wherin I cast it out of my sight be cause of the greate blasphemies of the childrē of Israel and Iuda which they haue done to prouoke me yee they their kinges their prynces their prestes their prophetes whole Iuda and all the citesyns of Ierusalem When I stode vp early and taught them and instructe them they turned their backes to me and not their faces They wolde not heare to be refourmed and correcte They haue set their goddes in y e house that is halowed vnto my name to defyle it They haue buylded hie places for Baal in the valley of the children of Ennon to vowe their sonnes and doughters vnto Moloch which I neuer commaūded them nether came it
departe out of y e londe of the Caldees and ye shall be as the rammes that go before the flocke For lo I will wake vp an hoost of people from y e northren londe bringe them vpon Babilon these shal laye sege to it wynne it Their arowes shal not mysse like as a connynge archer shuteth not wronge And the Caldees shal be spoyled all they that spoyle them shal be satisfied saieth the LORDE because ye were so chearfull glad to treade downe myne heretage fulfilled youre pleasures as the calues in the grasse and triumphed ouer them like the bulles when ye had gotten the victory Youre mothers shal be sore confounded and they that bare you shal come to shame She shall be the leest set by amonge the nacions vyode waist dried vp No man shal be able to dwell there for the feare of y e LORDE but she shal be whole desolate All they that go by Babilon shall stonde still be abashed shal wondre at all hir plages Go forth in yo r araye agaynst Babilon rounde aboute all ye that can hādle bowes shute as her spare no arowes for she hath synned agaynst the LORDE Crie out vpon her vpon her agaynst her roūde aboute she shal yelde herselfe her foundaciōs shal fall hir walles shall come downe for it shal be the vengeaunce of the LORDE Yee vēgeaunce shal be taken of her as she hath done so shal she be dealt withall They shal rote out the sower from Babilon him y t handleth the sickle in haruest For feare of the swearde of the enemie euery man shall get him to his owne people euery man shal fle to his owne londe Israel is a scatred flocke the Lyons haue dispersed them First the kinge of the Assirians deuoured them last of all this Nabuchodonosor kynge of Babilon hath brussed all their bones Therfore thus saieth the LORDE of hoostes the God of Israel Beholde I will viset the kinge of Babilon his kingdome as I haue visited the kinge of the Assirians and will bringe Israel agayne to his pleasaunt pasture that he maye fede vpon Charmel Basan and be satisfied vpon the mount of Ephraim Galaad In those dayes and at the same tyme saieth the LORDE yf the offence of Israel be sought for there shal none be founde Yf men enquere for the synne of Iuda there shal be none for I wil be mercifull vnto them whom I suffre to remayne ouer Go downe o thou avenger in to the enemies londe viset them that dwell therin downe with them and smyte them vpon the backes saieth the LORDE do acordinge to all that I haue commaunded the. There is gone aboute the londe a crie of a slaughter greate murthur namely on this maner How happeneth it that the hammer of the whole worlde is thus broken brussed in sonder How chaunceth it that Babilon is become a wildernes amonge the Heithen on this maner I my self haue layed wayte for the thou art taken vnawarres art thou trapped snared for why thou hast prouoked y e LORDE vnto anger The LORDE hath opened his house of ordinaunce brought forth the weapens of his wrath For the thinge that is done in the londe of the Caldees it is the LORDE of hoostes worke These thinges shal come vpon her at the last they shal breake in to hir preuy chābres they shall leaue her as bare as stones that be layed together vpon heapes They shall so destroye her y t nothinge shal be left They shal slaye all hir mightie souldyers and put them to death Wo be vnto thē for the daye tyme of their visitacion is at honde Me thinke I heare already a crie of them that be fled escaped out of the londe of Babilon which shewe in Sion the vengeaunce of the LORDE oure God the vengeaunce of his temple Yee a voyce of them that crie agaynst Babilon Call vp all the archers agaynst Babilon pytch youre tentes rounde aboute her that none escape Recompence her as she hath deserued and acordinge as she hath done so deale with her agayne for she hath set vp her self agaynst the LORDE agaynst y e holy one of Israel Therfore shal hir yonge men fall downe in the stretes all hir men of warre shal be roted out in y t daye saieth the LORDE Beholde I speake vnto the o thou proude saieth the LORDE God of hoostes for thy daye shal come euē the tyme of y e visitaciō And the proude shal stomble fall no man shal helpe him vp I wil burne vp his cities with fyre it shal consume all that is rounde aboute him Thus saieth the LORDE of hoostes The children of Israel Iuda suffre violence together All they that haue them in captiuyte kepe them fast wil not let them go but their avēger redemer is mightie whose name is the LORDE of hoostes he shal manteyne their cause he shal make the londe shake iudge them that dwell therin one with another The swearde shall come vpon the Caldees saieth the LORDE vpon them that dwell in Babilon vpon their prynces vpō their wyse mē The swearde vpon their soythsayers as for those they shall become fooles The swearde vpō their worthies so that they shal stonde in feare The swearde vpon their horsmen and charettes vpon all the comon people that dwell vnder thē so that they all shal become like women The swearde vpon their treasure so that it shal be stollen awaye The swearde vpon their waters so that they shal be dried vp For the londe worshippeth ymages delyteth in straunge wondrefull thinges Therfore shal wilde beestes Apes Estriches dwell therin for there shal neuer man dwell there nether shal eny man haue his habitacion there for euermore Like as God destroyed Sodom Gomorre with the cities that laye there aboute saieth the LORDE So shal noman dwell there also nether shal eny mā haue there his habitacion Beholde there shal come a people from the north with a greate bonde of men many kinges shal stonde vp from the endes of the earth They beare bowes buclers cruell are they vnmercifull Their voyce roareth like the raginge see they ryde vpon horses come weapened to fight agaynst the O Babilon As soone as the kinge of Babilon heareth tell of them his hondes shal waxe feable Sorowe and heuynes shall come vpon him as a woman trauelinge with childe Beholde like as the Lyon commeth vp from the pleasaunt medowes of Iordane vnto the grene pastures of Ethan so wil I dryue thē forth and make them runne agaynst her But whom shal I chose out ordene to soch thinge For who is like me or who wil stryue with me or what shepherde maye stonde agaynst me Therfore heare the councel that the LORDE hath geuen vpon Babilon and the deuyce that he hath taken vpon
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 whordâ—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 vpoÌ„ the where shal I seke one to conforte the Art thou better then the greate cite of AlexaÌ„dria 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 streÌ„gth 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 wheÌ„ a maÌ„ shaketh they fall in to the mouth of the eater Beholde thy people with in the are but wâ—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 stroÌ„ge 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 heaueÌ„ 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 wheÌ„ they be colde remayne in y e hedges but when the Sonne is vp they fle awaye and no maÌ„ 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 whoÌ„ 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 burtheÌ„ 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 TyraÌ„ny 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 punyshmeÌ„t 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 theÌ„ 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 visioÌ„ 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
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
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
Then came vnto him the Pharises tēpted him sayde vnto him Is it laufull for a man to put awaye his wife for eny maner of cause He answered sayde vnto thē Haue ye not red how y t he which made man at the begynnynge made thē mā womā sayde For this cause shal a mā leaue father mother cleue vnto his wife they two shal be one fleshe Now are they not twayne then but one flesh Let not man therfore put a sunder y t which God hath coupled together Then sayde they Why dyd Moses then cōmaunde to geue a testimonyall of deuorsement to put her awaye He sayde vnto thē Moses because of y e hardnes of yo hertes suffred you to put awaye youre wyues Neuertheles frō the begynnynge it hath not bene so But I saye vnto you Whosoeuer putteth awaye his wife excepte it be for fornicacion and marieth another breaketh wedlocke And who so marieth her y t is deuorced commytteth aduoutrye Then sayde his disciples vnto him Yf y e matter be so betwene mā and wife thē is it not good to mary But he sayde vnto them All mē can not cōprehende y t sayenge saue they to whō it is geuē For there be some gelded which are so borne from their mothers wombe and there be some gelded which are gelded of men there be some gelded which haue gelded thē selues for the kyngdome of heauens sake He that can cōprehende it let him comprehende it Then were brought vnto him yōge children y t he shulde put his hondes vpon thē praye And y e disciples rebuked them But Iesus sayde Suffre y e childrē forbyd thē not to come vnto me for vnto soch belōgeth the kyngdome of heauen And whā he had layed his hōdes vpō thē he departed thēce And beholde one came vnto him and sayde Good master what good shal I do y t I maye haue the euer lastinge life He sayde vnto him Why callest thou me good there is none good but God onely Neuertheles yf thou wilt entre into life kepe y e cōmaūdemētes Thē sayde he vnto him Which Iesus saide Thou shalt not kyll thou shalt not breake wedlocke thou shalt not steale thou shalt beare no false wytnes Honoure father and mother and thou shalt loue thy neghboure as thy self Then sayde the yonge mā vnto him All these haue I kepte fro my youth vp what lack I yet Iesus sayde vnto him Yf thou wilt be perfecte go thy waye and sell that thou hast geue it vnto the poore and thou shalt haue a treasure in heauen and come and folowe me Whan y e yonge man herde y t worde he wente awaye sory for he had greate possessions Iesus sayde vnto his disciples Verely I saie vnto you it shal be harde for a rich man to entre in to the kyngdome of heauē And morouer I saye vnto you It is easier for a Camell to go thorow the eye of a nedle thē for a rich man to entre in to the kyngdome of heauen Whan his disciples herde that they were exceadingly amased and sayde Who can thē be saued Neuertheles Iesus behelde them and sayde vnto them With men it is vnpossyble but with God all thinges are possyble Then answered Peter sayde vnto him Beholde we haue forsakē all and folowed the What shal we haue therfore Iesus sayde vnto thē Verely I saye vnto you that when the sonne of man shal sytt in the seate of his maiestye ye which haue folowed me in the new byrth shal syt also vpon twolue seates and iudge y e twolue trybes of Israel And who so euer forsaketh houses or brethrē or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or londes for my names sake the same shal receaue an hundreth folde and inheret euerlastinge life But many that be the first shal be the last and the last shal be the first The XX. Chapter THe kyngdome of heauen is like vnto an housholder which wēte out early in the mornynge to hyre labourers in to his vyniarde And whā he had agreed with the labourers for a peny a daye he sent thē in to his vynyarde And aboute y e thirde houre he wente out and sawe other stondinge ydle in the market place and sayde vnto them Go ye also in to my vynyarde what so euer is right I wil geue it you And they wēte their waye Agayne he wēte out aboute the sixte and nyenth houre and dyd likewyse And aboute the eleuenth houre he wēte out and founde other stōdynge ydle and sayde vnto them Why stonde ye here all the daye ydle They sayde vnto him because no man hath hyred us He saide vnto thē Go ye also in to my vinyarde and loke what is right ye shal haue it Now whan euen was come the lorde of the vynyarde sayde vnto his stewarde Call the labourers and geue them their hyre begynnynge from the last vnto y e first Then they that were hyred aboute the eleuenth houre came and receaued euery man a peny But whan the first came they supposed that they shulde receaue more and they also receaued euery man a peny And whan they had receaued it they murmured agaynst the housholder and sayde These last haue wrought but one houre and thou hast made thē equall vnto us which haue borne the burthen and heate of the daye He answered and sayde vnto one of them frende I do y e no wronge diddest not thou agree with me for a peny Take that thine is and go thy waye I wil geue vnto this last also like as vnto the. Or haue I not power to do as me listeth with myne owne Is thine eye euell because I am good So the last shal be the first the first the last For many are called but few are chosen And Iesus wente vp to Ierusalem and toke the twolue disciples asyde in the waye and sayde vnto them Beholde we go vp to Ierusalem and the sonne of man shal be delyuered vnto the hye prestes and scribes they shal condemne him to death and shal delyuer him vnto y e Heithen to be mocked to be scourged and to be crucified And the thirde daye he shal ryse agayne Then came vnto him the mother of Zebedes childrē with hir sonnes fell downe before him and desyred a certayne thinge of hī And he saide vnto her What wilt thou She sayde vnto him Let these two sonnes of myne syt in thy kyngdome the one vpon thy right honde the other vpon thy left honde But Iesus answered and sayde Ye wote not what ye axe Maye ye drynke the cuppe that I shal drynke to be baptised with the baptyme that I shal be baptysed withall They sayde vnto him Yee that we maye And he sayde vnto them My cuppe truly shal ye drynke with the baptyme y t I shal be baptysed withall shal
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
And whosoeuer euer geueth you a cuppe of water to drynke in my name because ye belonge vnto Christ verely I saye vnto you he shal not lose his rewarde And who so offendeth one of these litle ones that beleue in me it were better for him that a mylstone were hāged aboute his neck and he cast in to the see Yf thy hāde offende the cut him of Better it is for the to entre in to life lame thē hauynge two hondes to go in to hell in to the euerlastinge fyre where their worme dyeth not and their fyre goeth not out Yf thy fote offende the cut him of Better it is for the to entre into life crepell thē hauynge two fete to be cast into hell in the fyre euerlastynge where their worme dyeth not and their fyre goeth not out Yf thine eye offende the cast him from the. Better it is for the to entre in to y e kyngdome of God with one eye then hauynge two eyes to be cast in to the fyre of hell where their worme dyeth not and their fyre goeth not out For euery mā must be salted w t fyre euery offerynge shal be seasoned w t salt The salt is good but yf y e salt be vnsauery wherwith all shal it be salted Haue salt in you peace amonge yo selues one with another The X. Chapter ANd he rose vp and came from thence in to the places of Iewry beyonde Iordan And the people wēte agayne vnto him by heapes and as his maner was he taught them agayne And the Pharises came vnto him and axed him yf it were laufull for a man to put awaye his wife and tempted him withall But he answered and sayde What hath Moses cōmaunded you They sayde Moses suffred to wryte a testimoniall of deuorcemēt and to put her awaye Iesus answered and sayde vnto them Because of y e hardnesse of yo hert dyd Moses wryte you this commaundement But from the first creacion God made thē man and woman For this cause shal a man leaue his father mother and cleue vnto his wife and they two shal be one flesh Now are they not twayne thē but one flesh Let not man therfore put asunder that which God hath coupled together And at home his disciples axed him agayne of y e same And he sayde vnto thē Whoso euer putteth awaye his wife marieth another breaketh wedlocke to her warde And yf a womā forsake hir huszbande be maried to another she cōmitteth aduoutrie And they brought childrē vnto him that he might touch them But the disciples reproued those that brought thē Neuertheles whan Iesus sawe it he was displeased and sayde vnto them Suffre the children to come vnto me and forbyd them not for of soch is the kyngdome of God Verely I saye vnto you Who so euer receaueth not the kyngdome of God as a childe he shal not entre therin And he toke them vp in his armes and layed his handes vpon them and blessed them And whan he was gone forth vpon the waye there came one runninge and kneled vnto him axed him Good Master what shal I do that I maye inheret euerlastinge life But Iesus saide vnto him Why callest thou me good There is no man good but God onely Thou knowest the commaundementes Thou shalt not breake wedlocke thou shalt not kyll thou shalt not steale thou shalt beare no false wytnesse thou shalt begyle no man Honoure thy father and mother But he answered and sayde vnto him Master all these haue I kepte fro my youth vp And Iesus behelde him and loued him sayde vnto him Thou wantest one thinge Go thy waye and sell all that thou hast and geue it vnto y e poore so shalt thou haue a treasure in heauen and come folowe me and take the crosse vpon ye. And he was disconforted at the sayenge wente awaye sory for he had greate possessions And Iesus loked aboute him and sayde vnto his disciples O how hardly shal the ryche come into y e kyngdome of God And the disciples were astonnyed at his wordes But Iesus answered agayne and sayde vnto them Deare children how harde is it for them that trust in riches to come in to the kyngdome of God It is easier for a Camell to go thorow the eye of a nedle then for a rich man to entre in to y e kyngdome of God Yet were they astonnyed y e more and sayde amonge thē selues Who can thē be saued But Iesus behelde them and sayde With men it is vnpossyble but not with God for with God all thinges are possyble Then sayde Peter vnto him Beholde we haue forsaken all and folowed the. Iesus answered sayde Verely I saye vnto you There is no man that forsaketh house or brethren or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or londes for my sake and the gospels that shal not receaue an hundreth folde now in this tyme houses and brethrē and sisters and mothers and children and londes with persecucions and in the worlde to come euerlastinge life But many that are the first shal be the last and the last the first They were in the waye goinge vp to Ierusalem and Iesus wente before them And they were astonnyed and folowed him and were afrayed And Iesus toke the twolue agayne and tolde them what shulde happē vnto him Beholde we go vp to Ierusalem and the sonne of man shal be delyuered vnto the hye prestes and scrybes and they shal condemne him to death and delyuer him vnto the Heythē And they shal mocke hī and scourge him and spyt vpon him and put him to death and on the thirde daye shal he ryse agayne Then wēte vnto him Iames and Ihon y e sonnes of Zebede and sayde Master We desyre that whatsoeuer we axe of the thou wilt do it for vs. He sayde vnto thē What desyre ye that I shal do to you They sayde vnto him Graunte vs that we maye syt one at thy right hande and one at thy left hande in thy glory But Iesus sayde vnto thē Ye wote not what ye axe Maye ye drynke the cuppe y t I shal drynke and be baptysed with the baptyme that I shal be baptysed withall They sayde vnto him Yee y t we maye Iesus sayde vnto them The cuppe that I drynke shal ye drynke in dede and be baptysed with the baptyme that I shall be baptysed withall Neuertheles to syt at my right hande and at my left is not myne to geue you but vnto them for whom it is prepared And whā the ten herde that they disdayned at Iames and Ihon. But Iesus called them and sayde vnto them Ye knowe that the prynces of y e worlde haue domynacion of the people and y e mightie exercise auctorite amonge them So shal it not be amonge you but who so euer wil be greate amōge you shal be youre mynister and who
for vnto you this daye is borne y e Sauioure euē Christ y e LORDE in the cite of Dauid And take this for a token Ye shal fynde the babe swadled and layed in a maunger And straight waye there was by the angell a multitude of heauenly hoostes which praysed God and sayde Glory be vnto God an hye peace vpon earth and vnto men a good wyll And it fortuned whā the angels were gone from thē in to heauē the shepherdes sayde one to another let vs go now euen vnto Bethleem and se this thinge that is happened which y e LORDE hath shewed vnto vs. And they came w t haist founde both Mary and Ioseph the babe layed in y e maunger And whan they had sene it they published abrode the sayenge y t was tolde thē of this childe And all they that herde it wondred at the wordes which the shepherdes had tolde them But Mary kepte all these sayenges and pondred them in hir hert And the shepherdes returned praysinge and laudinge God for all that they had herde and sene euen as it was tolde them And whan eight dayes were ended that the childe shulde be circumcysed his name was called Iesus which was named of y e angell before he was conceaued in his mothers wombe And whā the dayes of their purificacion after the lawe of Moses were come they brought him to Ierusalē that they might present him vnto the LORDE As it is wrytten in the lawe of the LORDE Euery māchilde that first openeth the Matrix shal be called holy vnto y e LORDE and that they might geue the offerynge as it is wryttē in the lawe of the LORDE namely a payre of turtle doues or two yonge pigeons And beholde there was a man at Ierusalē whose name was Symeon and the same mā was iust and feared God and lōged for the consolacion of Israel and the holy goost was in him And an answere was geuē him of the holy goost that he shulde not se death before he had sene y e LORDES Christ. And he came by inspiracion into the tēple And whan the elders brought the childe Iesus into the temple to do for him after y e custome of the lawe then toke he him vp in his armes and praysed God and sayde LORDE now lettest thou thy seruaūt departe in peace acordinge to thy promesse For myne eyes haue sene thy Sauioure whō thou hast prepared before all people A light for the lightenynge of the Heythē for the prayse of y e people of Israel And his father and mother marueyled at the thinges that were spokē of him And Symeon blessed them and sayde vnto Mary his mother Beholde this childe shal be set to a fall and to an vprysinge agayne of many in Israel and for a token which shal be spokē agaynst And the swerde shal pearse thy soule that the thoughtes of many hertes maye be opened And there was a prophetisse one Anna the doughter of Phanuel of the trybe of Aser which was of a greate age and had lyued seuen yeares with hir huszbāde from hir virginite had now bene a wedowe aboute foure score foure yeares which came neuer frō the tēple seruynge God w t fastynge and prayenge daye and night the same came forth also the same houre and praysed the LORDE and spake of him vnto all that loked for the redempcion at Ierusalem And whan they had perfourmed all acordinge to the lawe of the LORDE thy returned īto Galile to their owne cite Nazareth And the childe grewe and wexed stronge in sprete full of wyszdome the grace of God was with him And his elders wente to Ierusalem euery yeare at the feast of Easter And whan he was twolue yeare olde they wente vp to Ierusalem after the custome of the feast And whan they had fulfilled the dayes and were gone home agayne the childe Iesus abode styll at Ierusalem And his elders knewe it not but thought he had bene in the company and they came a dayes iourney and sought hī amōge their kynszfolkes acquātaunce And whā they founde him not they wēte agayne to Ierusalē and sought him And it fortuned after thre dayes y t they founde him in the temple syttinge amonge the teachers hearynge thē and opposynge them And all they that herde him wōdred at his vnderstondynge and answeres And whan they sawe him they were astonnyed And his mother sayde vnto him My sonne why hast thou done this vnto vs Beholde thy father and I haue sought the sorowynge And he sayde vnto them What is it that ye haue sought me Wyst ye not y t I must go aboute my fathers busynes And they vnderstode not the sayenge y t he spake vnto them And he wente downe with thē and came to Nazareth and was obediēt vnto them And his mother kepte all these wordes in hir hert And Iesus increased in wyszdome age and fauoure with God and men The III. Chapter IN the fiftenth yeare of the raigne of Tiberius the Emperoure whā Pontius Pilate was leftenaūt in Iewry and Herode one of the foure princes in Galile and his brother Philippe one of the foure prynces in Iturea in the coastes of Traconites and Lysanias one of the foure princes of Abilene when Hannas and Caiphas were hye prestes thē came y e worde of God vnto Ihon the sonne of Zachary in the wyldernes And he came into all y e coastes aboute Iordan and preached the baptyme of repētaunce for the remyssion of synnes As it is wryttē in y e boke of y e sayenges of Esaye the prophet which sayeth The voyce of a cryer in the wyldernes prepare the waye of the LORDE and make his pathes straight Euery valley shal be fylled and euery mountayne hyll shal be brought lowe And what so is croked shal be made straight and what rough is shal be made smooth and all flesh shal se the Sauioure of God Then sayde he vnto the people y t wente out to be baptysed of him Ye generacion of vipers who hath certified you that ye shal escape y e wrath to come Take hede brynge forth due frutes of repētaūce begynne not to saye We haue Abrahā to o r father For I saye vnto you God is able of these stones to rayse vp children vnto Abraham The axe is put vnto the tre allready so that euery tre which bryngeth not forth good frute shal be hewen downe and cast into the fyre And the people axed him and sayde What shal we do then He answered sayde vnto thē He that hath two coates let him parte w t him y t hath none and he that hath meate let him do likewyse The publicans came also to be baptysed and sayde vnto him Master what shal we do He sayde vnto them Requyre nomore then is appoynted you Then y e soudyours axed him likewyse and sayde What shal we do then And he
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
hoped to se a miracle of hī And he axed him many thinges Neuertheles he answered him nothinge The hye prestes and scrybes stode and accused him sore But Herode w t his men of warre despysed him and mocked him put a whyte garmēt vpō him and sent him agayne vnto Pilate Vpō y e same daye were Pilate and Herode made frendes together for afore they had bene at variaunce Pilate called the hye prestes and the rulers and the people together and sayde vnto thē Ye haue brought this man vnto me as one that peruerteth the people and beholde I haue examyned him before you fynde in the mā none of the causes wherof ye accuse him Nor yet Herode for I sent you to him and beholde there is brought vpon hī nothinge that is worthy of death Therfore wil I chasten him and let him lowse For he must haue let one lowse vnto them after the custome of the feast Then cried the whole multitude and sayde Awaye with him and delyuer vnto vs Barrabas which for insurreccion made in the cite and because of a murthur was cast in to preson Then called Pilate vnto them agayne wolde haue let Iesus lowse But they cried and sayde Crucifye him Crucifye him Yet sayde he vnto them the thirde tyme What euell thē hath he done I fynde no cause of death in hī therfore wil I chasten him and let him go But they laye styll vpon him with greate crye and requyred y t he might be crucified And the voyce of thē and of the hye preastes preuayled And Pilate gaue sentence that it shulde be as they requyred and let lowse vnto thē him that for insurrecciō and murthur was cast in to preson whom they desyred but gaue Iesus ouer vnto their wyll And as they led him awaye they toke one Simon of Cyren which came from the felde and layed y e crosse vpon him to beare it after Iesus And there folowed him a greate multitude of people and of wemen which bewayled and lamented him But Iesus turned him aboute vnto thē and sayde Ye doughters of Ierusalē wepe not ouer me but wepe ouer youre selues and ouer youre childrē For beholde the tyme wil come wherin it shal be sayde Blessed are the baren and the wombes that haue not borne and the pappes that haue not geuen sucke Then shal they begynne to saye vnto the mountaynes Fall vpon vs. And to the hylles Couer vs. For yf this be done to a grene tre what shal be done then to the drye And two other which were myszdoers were led out also to be put to death with him And whā they came to y e place which is called Caluery they crucifyed him euen there and the two myszdoers with him the one on the righte hande the other on y e left But Iesus sayde Father forgeue them for they wote not what they do And they parted his garmentes and cast lottes therfore And the people stode and behelde And the rulers mocked him with them and sayde He hath helped other let him helpe him self now yf he be Christ y e chosen of God The soudyers also mocked him wēte vnto him brought him vyneger and sayde Yf thou be the kynge of the Iewes then helpe thyself And aboue ouer him was this superscripcion wrytten with letters of Greke Latyn and Hebrue This is the kynge of the Iewes And one of the myszdoers that hanged there blasphemed him and sayde Yf thou be Christ then helpe thy self and vs. Then answered the other rebuked him and sayde And thou fearest not God also which art yet in like dānacion And truly we are therin be right for we receaue acordinge to oure dedes As for this man he hath done nothinge amysse And he sayde vnto Iesus LORDE remembre me whan thou commest in to thy kyngdome And Iesus sayde vnto him Verely I saye vnto the To daye shalt thou be with me in Paradyse And it was aboute the sixte houre and there was darknesse ouer y e whole londe vntyll the nyenth houre And the Sonne was darkened and the vayle of the temple rente in two euen thorow the myddes And Iesus cryed loude sayde Father in to thy handes I commende my sprete And whan he had so sayde he gaue vp the goost But whan the Captayne sawe what had happened he praysed God and sayde Verely this was a iust mā And all the people that stode by behelde whan they sawe what was done smote vpon their brestes turned backe agayne But all his acquantaunce and the wemen that had folowed him out of Galile stode afarre of and behelde all these thinges And beholde a mā named Ioseph a Senatour which was a good iust man the same had not consented vnto their councell and dede which was of Arimathia a cite of the Iewes which same also wayted for the kyngdome of God he wēte vnto Pilate and axed the body of Iesus And the toke him downe wrapped him in a lynnen cloth and layed him in a hewen sepulcre wherin neuer man was layed And it was the daye of preparinge and the Sabbath drue on The wemen that were come with him out of Galile folowed him and behelde the Sepulcre how his body was layed But they returned and made ready the spyces anontmētes And vpon the Sabbath they rested acordinge to the lawe The XXIIII Chapter BVt vpon one of the Sabbathes very early in the mornynge they came vnto the Sepulcre and brought y e spyces which they had prepared and certayne wemen with thē Neuertheles they founde the stone rolled awaye from the sepulcre and wente in and founde not the body of y e LORDE Iesu. And it happened as they were amased therat beholde there stode by them two men in shyninge garmentes And they were afrayed and cast downe their faces to the earth Then sayde they vnto thē What seke ye the lyuynge amōge the deed He is not here He is rysen vp Remembre how y t he tolde you whā he was yet in Galile and sayde The sonne of man must be delyuered in to the hādes of synners and be crucified and the thirde daye ryse agayne And they remēbred his wordes and wente from the sepulcre and tolde all this vnto the eleuen and to all the other It was Mary Magdalene and Iohanna and Mary Iames and the other with them that tolde this vnto the Apostles And theyr wordes semed vnto them as though they had bene but fables and they beleued them not But Peter arose and ranne to the sepulcre and stouped in and sawe the lynnen clothes layed by them selues and departed And he wondred within himself at that which had happened And beholde two of them wente that same daye to a towne which was thre score furlōges from Ierusalem whose name was called Emaus And they talked together of all these thinges y t had happened And it chaunced as they were
I do not y e workes of my father beleue me not but yf I do theÌ„ theÌ„ yf ye beleue not me yet beleue y e workes y t ye maye knowe beleue y t the father is in me I in y e father They wente aboute agayne to take him but he escaped out of their haÌ„des and weÌ„te awaye agayne beyoÌ„de Iordane in to y e place where IhoÌ„ had baptysed before there he abode And many came to hiÌ„ and sayde IhoÌ„ dyd no tokeÌ„s but all y t Ihon spake of this man is true And many beleued on him there The XI Chapter THere laye one sicke named Lazarus of Bethania in y e towne of Mary hir sister Martha It was y t Mary which anoynted y e LORDE w t oyntment dryed his fete w t hir heer whose brother Lazarus laye sicke TheÌ„ sent his sisters vnto hiÌ„ sayde LORDE beholde he whoÌ„ thou louest lyeth sicke WhaÌ„ Iesus herde that he sayde This sicknesse is not vnto death but for the prayse of God y t the sonne of God maye be praysed there thorow Iesus loued Martha hir sister Lazarus Now whaÌ„ he herde that he was sicke he abode two dayes in y e place where he was After warde sayde he vnto his disciples Let vs go agayne iÌ„ to Iewry His disciples sayde vnto him Master lately wolde the Iewes haue stoned the wilt thou go thither agayne â–ª Iesus answered Are there not twolue houres in y e daye He y t walketh in the daye stombleth not for he seyeth y e light of this worlde But he that walketh in the night stoÌ„bleth for there is no light in him This he spake after warde sayde he vnto theÌ„ Lazarus o frende slepeth but I go to wake him out of slepe TheÌ„ sayde his disciples LORDE yf he slepe he shal do well ynough Howbeyt Iesus spake of his death but they thought y t he had spokeÌ„ of y e bodely slepe TheÌ„ sayde Iesus vnto theÌ„ planely Lazarus is deed I am glad for yo sakes y t I was not there that ye maye beleue Neuertheles let vs go vnto hiÌ„ TheÌ„ sayde Thomas which is called Didimus vnto y e disciples Let vs go also y t we maye dye w t hiÌ„ TheÌ„ came Iesus founde y t he had lyen in y e graue foure dayes allready Bethanye was nye vnto IerusaleÌ„ aboute fiftene furloÌ„ges And many of the Iewes were come to Martha Mary to coÌ„forte theÌ„ ouer their brother Now whaÌ„ Martha herde y t Iesus came she weÌ„te to mete him But Mary satt styl at home TheÌ„ sayde Martha vnto Iesus LORDE yf thou haddest bene here my brother had not bene deed But neuertheles I knowe also what soeuer thou axest of God that God wyl geue it the. Iesus sayde vnto her Thy brother shal ryse agayne Martha sayde vnto hiÌ„ I knowe y t he shal ryse agayne in the resurreccion at y e last daye Iesus saide vnto her I am the resurreccion the life He y t beleueth on me shal lyue though he were deed allready whosoeuer lyueth and beleueth on me shal neuer dye Beleuest thou this She saide vnto him Yee LORDE I beleue that thou art Christ the sonne of God which shulde come in to the worlde And whaÌ„ she had sayde this she weÌ„te hir waye called Mary hir sister secretly saide The maister is come calleth for the. She whan she herde that rose vp quyckly and came vnto him For Iesus was not yet come in to y e towne but was yet in the place where Martha met him The Iewes that were w t her in the house and comforted her whan they sawe Mary that she rose vp haistely wente out they folowed her saide She goeth to the graue to wepe there Now whaÌ„ Mary came where Iesus was sawe him she fell downe at his fete sayde vnto hiÌ„ LORDE yf thou haddest bene here my brother had not bene deed WhaÌ„ Iesus sawe her wepe the Iewes wepinge also y t came w t her he groned in the sprete was sory w t in himself sayde Where haue ye layed him They sayde LORDE come se it And * Iesus wepte Then sayde y e Iewes Beholde how he loued him But some of theÌ„ saide â–ª Coulde not he * which opened the eyes of y e blynde haue made also that this maÌ„ shulde not haue dyed But Iesus groned agayne iâ— himself and came to the graue It was a caue and a stone layed on it Iesus saide Take awaye y e stone Martha the sister of him â— was deed saide 〈…〉 allready for 〈…〉 Iesus sayde vnto her Sayde I not vnto the that yf thou dyddest beleue thou shuldest se the glory of God Then toke they awaye the stone where the deed laye Iesus lift vp his eyes and sayde Father I thaÌ„ke y e that thou hast herde me Howbeit I knowe that thou hearest me allwaye but because of y e people that stonde by I sayde it that they maye beleue that thou hast sent me Whan he had sayde this he cryed loude Lazarus come forth And y e deed came forth bounde hande fote w t graue clothes his face bounde w t a napkyn Iesus sayde vnto theÌ„ Lowse him let him go Many now of y e Iewes which mere come vnto Mary and sawe what Iesus dyd beleued on him But some of theÌ„ wente their waye vnto the pharises and tolde theÌ„ what Iesus had done Then the hye prestes and the pharises gathered a counceâ—l and sayde What do we This man doth many tokens Yf we let him go thus all meÌ„ wyl beleue in him theÌ„ shal the Romaynes come and take awaye oure londe and people But one of them named Caiphas which was hye prest that same yeare sayde vnto them Ye knowe nothinge nether considre ye eny thinge at all It is better for us that one maÌ„ dye for the people then that all the people shulde perishe This spake he not of himself but for so moch as he was hye prest of the same yeare he prophecied For Iesus was for to dye for the people and not for the people onely but that he shulde gather together the children of God which were scatered abrode From that daye forth they toke couÌ„cell how they might put him to death Iesus walked nomore openly amonge the Iewes but wente from thence in to a countre by the wyldernesse to a cite called Ephraim there had he his beynge with his disciples The Iewes Easter was nye at hande And there wente vp many to IerusaleÌ„ out of that countre before y e Easter to purifye them selues Then stode they vp and axed after Iesus and spake amonge them selues in the temple * What thynke ye that he coÌ„meth not to y e feast The hye prestes phaâ—ises had geuen a commaundement that yf â—ny man knewe where he were he shulde hâ—we it that they might take him
by name The Epistle of the Apostle S. Paul to the Hebrues The summe of this epistle Chap. I. How God dealt louyngly with theÌ„ of the olde tyme in sendynge them his prophetes but moch more mercy hath he shewed vs in that he sent vs his owne sonne Of the most excellent glory of Iesus Christ which in all thinges is like to his father Chap. II. He exhorteth vs to be obedient vnto the new lawe which Christ hath geuen vs and not to be offended at the infirmite and lowe degre of Christ why it was necessary that for oure sakes he shulde take soch an humble state vpon him that he might be like vnto his brethren Chap. III. He requyreth vs to be obedient vnto the worde of Christ which is more worthy then Moses The punyshment of soch as wyll nedes harden their hertes Chap. IIII. The Sabbath or rest of the Christen Punyshment of vnbeleuers The nature of the worde of God Chap. V. Christ is oure hye prest the seate of grace and more excellent then the hye prestes of the olde lawe Chap. VI. He goeth forth with the thiÌ„ge that he beganne in the latter ende of the fyfft chapter and exhorteth them not to faynt but to be stedfast and pacient for so moch as God is sure in his promesse Chap. VII He coÌ„pareth the presthode of Christ vnto Melchisedech but to be farre more excellent Chap. VIII The office of Christ is more worthy then the prestes office of the olde lawe which was vnperfecte and therfore abrogate Chap. IX The profit and worthynesse of the olde Testament and how farre the new excelleth it Chap. X. The olde lawe had no power to cleÌ„se awaye synne but Christ dyd it with offerynge vp his body once for all An exhortacion to receaue this goodnesse of God thaÌ„k fully with pacience and stedfast faith Chap. XI What faith is and a commeÌ„dacion of the same The stedfast beleue of the fathers in olde tyme. Chap. XII An exhortacion to be pacient and stedfast in trouble and aduersite vpon hope of euerlastinge rewarde A commeÌ„dacion of the new Testament aboue the olde Chap. XIII He exhorteth vs vnto loue to hospitalite to thinke vpon soch as be in aduersite to manteyne wedlocke to avoyde cuvetousnesse to make moch of theÌ„ that preach Gods worde to bewarre of straunge lernynge to be content to suffre rebuke with Christ to be thankfull vnto God and obedient vnto to oure heades The first Chapter GOD in tyme past dyuersly many wayes spake vnto y e fathers by prophetes but in these last dayes he hath spoken vnto vs by his sonne whom he hath made heyre of all thinges by whom also he made the worlde Which sonne beynge the brightnes of his glory the very ymage of his substaunce bearinge vp all thinges with the worde of his power hath in his owne personne pourged oure synnes and is set on the righte hande of the maiestie on hye beynge eueÌ„ as moch more excelleÌ„t theÌ„ y e angels as he hath optayned a more excelleÌ„t name then they For vnto which of the angels sayde he at eny tyme Thou art my sonne this daye haue I begotten the And agayne I will be his father he shal be my sonne And agayne whaÌ„ he bryngeth in the fyrst begotteÌ„ sonne in to the worlde he sayeth And all the angels of God shal worshippe him And of the angels he sayeth He maketh his angels spretes his mynisters flaÌ„mes of fyre But vnto y e sonne he sayeth God y e seate endureth for euer euer the cepter of y e kyngdome is a right cepter Thou hast loued righteousnes hated iniquyte wherfore God which is thy God hath anoynted the with the oyle of gladnesse aboue y e felowes And thou LORDE in y e begynnynge hast layed the foundacion of the earth and y e heaueÌ„s are the workes of thy handes they shal perishe but thou shalt endure they all shal waxe olde as doth a garmeÌ„t and as a vesture shalt thou chaunge them and they shal be chaunged But thou art y e same and thâ— yeares shal not fayle Vnto which of the angels sayde he at eny tyme * Syt thou on my righte haÌ„de tyll I make thyne enemies thy fote stole Are they not all mynistry 〈◊〉 spretes sent to mynister for 〈…〉 which shal be heyres of saluacion 〈…〉 The II. Chapter WHerfore we ought to geue the more hede vnto the thinges which we haue herde lest we periszhe For yf the worde which was spokeÌ„ by angels was stedfast and euery traÌ„sgression and dishobedience receaued a iust recompence of rewarde how shal we escape yf we despyse so greate a saluacion which after that it beganne to be preached by the LORDE himselfe was confirmed vpon vs by them that herde it God bearynge witnesse therto with tokens wonders and dyuerse powers and giftes of the holy goost acordinge to his awne wyll For vnto the angels hath he not subdued the worlde to come wherof we speake But one in a certayne place witnesseth sayeth What is man that thou art myndefull of him or the sonne of man that thou vysitest him After thou haddest for a litle season made him lower theÌ„ y e angels thou crownedst him with honoure and glory and hast set him aboue the workes of thy handes Thou hast put all thinges in subieccion vnder his fete In that he subdued all thinges vnto him he lefte nothinge that is not put vnder him Neuertheles now se we not all thinges yet subdued vnto him But him which for a litle season was made lesse then the angels we se that it is Iesus which is crowned with honoure and glory for the sufferynge of death that he by the grace of God shulde taist of death for all men For it became him for whom are all thinges and by whoÌ„ are all thinges after y t he had broughte many children vnto glory that he shulde make the LORDE of their saluacion perfecte thorow sufferynge for so moch as they all come of one both he that sanctifieth they which are sanctified For the which causes sake he is not ashamed to call them brethren sayenge I will declare thy name vnto my brethren and in the myddes of the coÌ„gregacion wil I prayse the. And agayne I wyl put my trust in him And agayne beholde here am I and my children which God hath geuen me For as moch then as the children haue flesh and bloude he also himselfe likewyse toke parte with them y t he thorow death mighte take awaye y e power of him which had lordshippe ouer death that is to saye y e deuell that he mighte delyuer theÌ„ which thorow feare of death were all their life tyme in 〈…〉 boÌ„dage For he in no place taketh on him 〈◊〉 â—ngels but y e sede of Abraham tabeth he on him Wherfore in all thinges it became him to be made like vnto
wryteth to the seuen congregacioÌ„s in Asia seyth seueÌ„ candilstickes and in the myddest of them one like vnto the sonne of man Chap. II. He exhorteth foure congregacions to amende and sheweth the rewarde of him that ouer commeth Chap. III. He instructeth and enfourmeth the angels of thre coÌ„gregacions declaringe also the rewarde of him that ouercommeth Chap. IIII. He seyth the heauen open and the seate and one syttinge vpon it and xxiiij seates aboute it with xxiiij elders syttinge vpon theÌ„ and foure beastes praysinge God daye and night Chap. V. He seyth the laÌ„be openynge the boke and therfore the foure beastes the xxiiij elders and the angels prayse the lambe and do him worshipe Chap. VI. The lambe openeth the vi seales many thinges folowe the openynge therof Chap. VII He seyth the seruauntes of God sealed in their foreheades out of all nacions and people which though they suffre trouble yeâ— the lambe fedeth theÌ„ ledeth them to the fountaynes of lyuynge water and God shal wype awaye all teares from their eyes Chap. VIII The seuenth seale is opened there is sylence in heauen the foure angels blowe their trompettes and greate plages folowe vpon the earth Chap. IX The fifth and sixte angell blowe their tompettes the starre falleth from heauen the locustes come out of the smoke The first wo is past the foure angels that were bounde are lowsed and the thirde parte of meÌ„ is kylled Chap. X. The angell hath the boke open he sweareth there shal be nomore tyme he geueth the boke vnto Ihon which eateth it vp Chap. XI The temple is measured The seconde wo is past Chap. XII The seuenth angel bloweth his troÌ„pet There apeareth in heauen a woman clothed with the Sonne Michael fighteth with the dragon which persecuteth the woman Chap. XIII A beest ryseth out of the see with seuen heades and ten hornes Another beest commeth out of the earth with two hornes Chap. XIIII The laÌ„be stondeth vpon the mount Sion and the vndefyled congregacion with him The angell exhorteth to the feare of God and telleth of the fall of Babilon Chap. XV. He seyth seuen angels hauynge seuen vyalles full of wrath Chap. XVI The angels poure out their vyalles Chap. XVII He descrybeth the woman syttinge vpon the beast with ten hornes Chap. XVIII The louers of the worlde are sory for the fall off Babilon but they that be off God haue cause to reioyse for hir destruccion Chap. XIX Prayse and thankes are geueÌ„ vnto God for iudginge the whore and for auenginge the bloude of his seruauÌ„tes The angel wyl not be worshipped The foules and byrdes are called to the slaughter Chap. XX. The dragon is bâ—uÌ„de for a thousande yeares The deed arise and receaue iudgment Chap. XXI In this chapter is descrybed the new and spirituall Ierusalem Chap. XXII The ryuer of the water of life the frutefulnesse and light of the cite of God The LORDE geueth euer his seruauntes warnynge of thinges for to come The angel wyl not be worshipped To the worde of God maye nothinge be added ner mynished there from The first Chapter THE reuelacion of Iesus Christ which God gaue vnto him for to shewe vnto his seruauÌ„tes thiÌ„ges which muste shortly come to passe And he sent and shewed by his angel vnto his seruaunt Ihon which bare recorde of the worde of God and of the testimony of Iesus Christe and of all thinges that he sawe Happy is he y t readeth and they that heare the wordes of the prophesy and kepe thoo thinges which are wrytten therin For the tyme is at honde Ihon to the seuen coÌ„gregacions in Asia Grace be with you peace froÌ„ him which is and which was and which is to come froÌ„ the seuen spretes which are present before his trone and from Iesus Christ which is a faithfull witnes and first begotten of the deed LORDE ouer y e kinges of the earth Vnto him that loued vs and weszhed vs froÌ„ synnes in his awne bloud and made vs kinges Prestes vnto God his father be glory and dominion for euer more Amen Beholde he commeth with cloudes and all eyes shall se him they also which peersed him And all kinredes of the earth shal wayle Euen so Amen I am Alpha and Omega the begynninge and the endinge sayeth y e LORDE almighty which is and which was and which is to come I Ihon youre brother and coÌ„panyon in tribulacion and in the kyngdome and pacieÌ„ce which is in Iesu Christe was in the yle of Pathmos for the worde of God and for y e witnessynge of Iesu Christe I was in the sprete on a sondaye and herde behynde me a gret voyce as it had bene of a trompe sayenge I am Alpha and Omega the fyrst and y e laste That thou seist write in a boke and sende it vnto the coÌ„gregacions which are in Asia vnto Ephesus and vnto Smyrna and vnto Pargamos and vnto Thiatira and vnto Sardis and vnto Philadelphia and vnto Laodicia And I turned backe to se the voyce that spake to me And wheÌ„ I was turned I sawe seueÌ„ goldeÌ„ candestyckes and in the myddes of the candelstyckes one like vnto the sonne of man clothed with a lynnin garmeÌ„t downe to the ground and gyrd aboute the brest with a golden gyrdle His heed and his heares were whyte as whyte woll as snowe and his eyes were as a flamme of fyre and his fete like vnto brasse as though they breÌ„t in a fornace and his voyce as the sounde of many waters And he had in his right honde seueÌ„ starres And out of his mouth went a sharpe two edged swearde And his face shone euen as the sonne in his strength And when I sawe him I fell at his fete euen as deed And he layde his right honde vpon me sayenge vnto me feare not I am the fyrst and the laste and am alyue and was deed And beholde I am alyue foreuer more and haue the kayes of hell of deth Wryte therfore the thinges which thou hast sene and the thinges which are and y e thinges which shal be fulfylled here after the mistery of the seuen starres which thou sawest in my right honde and the seuen golden candelstickes The seuen starres are the angels of the seueÌ„ congregacions And the seuen candelstyckes which thou sawest are the seuen congregacions The II. Chapter VNto the angell of the congregacion of Ephesus wryte These thinges sayth he that holdeth the seuen starres in his righthonde and walketh in the myddes of the seuen goldeÌ„ candelstickes I knowe thy workes and thy labour and thy pacience howe thou cannest not for beare them which are euell and examinest them which saye they are Apostles and are not hast founde theÌ„ lyars and hast suffred And hast pacieÌ„ce and for my names sake hast laboured and hast not faynted Neuerthelesse I haue somwhat agaynst the for thou hast lefte thy fyrst loue Remember therfore froÌ„ whence
thou art fallen and repent and do the fyrst workes Or elles I wyl come vnto the shortly and wil remoue thy caÌ„delstycke out of his place excepte thou repent But this thou hast because thou hatest y e dedes of the Nicolaitans which dedes I also hate Let him y t hath eares heare what y e sprete saith vnto the congregacions To him that ouercommeth will I geue to eate of the tree of life which is in the myddes of y e paradise of God And vnto the angell of the congregacion of Smyrna wryte These thinges saith he that is fyrst and the last which was deed and is aliue I knowe thy workes and tribulacion and pouerte but thou art ryche And I knowe the blaspheny of them which call them selues Iewes and are not but are the coÌ„gregacion of Sathan Feare none of tho thinges which thou shalt soffre Beholde y e deuell shal cast of you in to preson to tempte you and ye shal haue tribulacion x. dayes Be faithfull vnto the deeth and I wil geue y e a crowne of life Let him that hath ears heare what the sprete saith to the congregacions He that ouer coÌ„meth shal not be hurte of the seconde deeth And to the angell of the congregacion in Pergamos wryte This sayth he which hath the sharpe swearde with two edges I knowe thy workes and where thou dwellest euen where Sathans seat is and thou kepest my name hast not denyed my faith And in my dayes Antipas was a faithfull witnes of myne which was slayne amonge you where Sathan dwelleth But I haue a fewe thinges agaynst the that thou hast there theÌ„ that manyntayne the doctryne of Balaam which taught in Balak to put occasion of syn before the children of Israell that they shulde eate of meate dedicat vnto ydoles and to commyt fornicacion Euen so hast thou theâ—â— that mayntayne y e doctryne of the Nicolaytans which thinge I hate But be coÌ„uerted or elles I wil come vnto the shortly and wil fight agaynste theÌ„ with the swearde of my mouth Let him y t hath eares heare what the sprete saith vnto the coÌ„gregacions To him that ouer commeth wil I geue to eate maÌ„na that is hyd and wil geue him a whyte stone in the stone a newâ— name wrytteÌ„ which no man knoweth sauinge he that receaueth it And vnto the angell of the coÌ„gregacion of Theatira write This saith the sonne of God which hath his eyes lyke vnto a flame of fyre whose fete are like brasse I knowe thy workes and thy loue seruice and faith and thy pacience and thy dedes which are mo at the last then at the firste Notwithstondinge I haue a feawe thinges agaynst the that thou sufferest that woman Iesabell which called her selfe a prophetisse to teache and to deceaue my seruauntes to make them committ fornicacion and to eate meates offered vp vnto ydoles And I gaue her space to repeÌ„t of her fornicacion and she repented not Beholde I wil cast her into a bed and them that commit fornicacion with her in to gret aduersite excepte they turne from their dedes And I wil kyll her childreÌ„ with deeth And all the coÌ„gregacioÌ„s shal knowe y t I am he which searcheth the reynes and hertes And I wil geue vnto euery one of you acordynge vnto youre workes Vnto you I saye and vnto other of theÌ„ of Thiatyra as many as haue not this lernynge and which haue not knowen the depnes of Sathan as they saye I wil put vpoÌ„ you none other burthen but y t which ye haue already Holde fast tyll I come and whosoeuer ouercoÌ„meth and kepeth my workes vnto y e ende to him wil I geue power ouer nacions and he shal rule them with a rodde of yron and as the vessels of a potter shal he breake them to sheuers EueÌ„ as I receaued of my father so wil I geue him y t mornynge starre Let him y t hath eares heare what the sprete sayth to the coÌ„gregacions The III. Chapter ANd wryte vnto the angell of the congregacion off Sardis this sayth he that hath the seuen spretes of God the seuen starres I knowe thy workes thou hast a name that thou lyuest and thou art deed Be awake and strength the thinges which remayne that are redy to dye For I haue not founde thy workes perfecte before God Remember therfore how thou hast receaued and hearde and holde fast and repent Yf thou shalt not watche I wil come on the as a these and thou shalt not knowe what houre I wil come vpon y e Thou hast a fewe names in Sardis which haue not defyled their garmentes and they shal walke with me in whyte for they are worthy He that ouercommeth shal be clothed in whyte araye and I wil not put out his name out of the boke of life and I wil coÌ„fesse his name before my father and before his angels Let him y t hath eares heare what the sprete sayth vnto the congregacions And wryte vnto y e angell of the coÌ„gregacioÌ„ of Philadelphia this sayth he y t is holy and true which hath the keye of Dauid which openyth and no man shutteth and shutteth and no man openeth I knowe thy workes Beholde I haue set before the an open doore and no man can shut it for thou hast a lyttell strength and hast not denyed my name Beholde I shal geue some of the congregacion of Sathan which call them selues Iewes and are not but dolye Beholde I wil make them that they shal come worshippe before thy fete and shal knowe that I haue loued the. Because thou hast kept the wordes of my pacience therfore wil I kepe the from the houre of temptacion which will come vpon all the worlde to tempte them that dwell vpoÌ„ the earth Beholde I come shortly Holde that which thou hast that no maÌ„ take awaye thy crowne Him that ouer commeth will I make a pyllar in the temple of my God and he shal goo no more out And I will wryte vpon him the name of my God and the name of y e cite of my God newe Ierusalem which coÌ„meth downe out of heauen from my God and I will wryte vpoÌ„ him my newe name Let him that hath eares heare what the sprete saith vnto the congregacions And vnto the angell of the coÌ„gregacion which is in Laodicia wryte This sayth Amen the faithfull and true witnes the begynnynge of y e creatures of God I knowe thy workes y t thou art nether colde nor hot I wolde thou were colde or hote So then because thou art bitwene bothe and nether colde ner hote I wyll spew the out off my mouth because thou saist thou art riche and incresyd with goodes and hast nede of nothinge and knowest not how thou art wretched miserable poore blynde and nakyd I counsell the to bye of me golde tryed in the fyre that thou mayste be riche and whyte rayment that thou mayste be clothed that