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A08269	A theatre wherein be represented as wel the miseries & calamities that follow the voluptuous worldlings as also the greate ioyes and plesures which the faithfull do enioy. An argument both profitable and delectable, to all that sincerely loue the word of God. Deuised by S. Iohn van-der Noodt. Seene and allowed according to the order appointed.; Theatre oft Toon-neel. English	Noot, Jan van der, ca. 1538-ca. 1596.; Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599.; Roest, Theodore.; Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374. Rime. English. Selections.; Du Bellay, Joachim, 1525 (ca.)-1560. Visions. English. Selections.	1569 (1569)	STC 18602; ESTC S110162	92,217	282

title and supremacie ouer them ●or that onely belongeth vnto Sathan for the Diuell is sayeth Iob the onely chiefe head of the proude And power was giuen vnto them sayth our text for .xlij. mon●ths to rule which are the thrée yeres and a halfe of Helias and one halfe tyme of Daniel and the thousande two hundreth and thrée score dayes of S. Iohn He openeth his mouth to blasphemie against God and his name and to blaspheme his holy Tabernacle and inhabiters of heauen The tabernacle of God is Christ Iesu in whom the fulnesse of the godhead abideth wholy and perfectly By the inhabiters of heauen is ment his true church whereout the Aungels are not excluded These inhabiters then are those whiche leade an heauenly lyfe in a true and vnfained faith séeking the things which are aboue and not on earth worshipping god the father in spirite and truthe abidyng stedfast and immoueable to the ende Many haue entred into this heauen but are not founde faythful and constant vnto the ende whiche is lamentable And to this beast or beastly Antechrist was giuen power to fight against the Sainctes They trouble and vexe continually with force and violence by their wicked and vngodly Decrées lawes and ordinances by their worldly aucthoritie and power the true witnesses and godly preachers of Christ instructed and taught euen as the Apostles were of God him self in the truth of his holy word euē as the wicked Phariseis in the time of Christ and his Apostles did They persecute them by writs proclamations by banishments fire and sword as the cruell tirant Pharao and Antiochus did to shew manifestly that Christ is that stumbling stocke and the stone of offense whereat the world stumbled They search and seeke héere they hunt there neuer ceassing vntill they haue him fast in prison and forth-comming wherat they are not yet satisfied till such time as they haue procéeded openly before all men following theyr placcate thereby to fortifie men in theyr error against them And so vanquished as they boast to condemne thē although they are otherwyse before GOD. Then either they make him to recant or else if he abi●e constant in the faythe of Christ they put him to most cruel death either by fire or water And power was giuen vnto the Beaste ouer euery kinred tongue and nation For these wicked and abhominable Antechristes spare no man small nor great yong nor olde high nor low riche nor poore sicke nor whole learned nor vnlearned but that they must bow before them and become subiecte to their most wicked commaundements either by force or otherwise they must haue them at the least once a yeare at shrift before them to knowe their minde and intention whether they be Towne dwellers or Straungers Gouernours or common people No excuse will serue or take any place in this behalfe or else they must wyth Christ raigne at the Barre among Théeues And thys power they haue not onely in one place but in all places tongues and in euery Towne yea they must haue to doe amongst euery familie destroying the true and godly fayth of all men For all that dwell vpon earth shall worship the beast They must all consent to their great abhomination They muste blaspheme and offend God obserue and keepe their most filthy traditions and Romishe trashe They that dwell vpon earth are such as doe loue them selues more than God their owne affection more than Gods truthe putting theyr confidence comfort and hope in the only beggerly merites and vile deseruings of these beastly and abhominable Hipocrites and not vpon the swéete promises of God in his worde Whose names are not wrytten in the booke of the Lambe They which are not confessed of Christ nor accepted by his word and promisses They which wyth the righteous as members of one spirituall body and ●idden in him are not marked nor Registred whose part and portion is not in the land of the liuing that are not of the nūber of those which the father hath giuen vnto Christ to be participant of one spirit with him They which are not ordeined predestinated nor written in his forknowledge neither of him before the foundations of the world elected chosen to be hys childrē immaculate in Christ. Al these I say must worship the Dragon The Lambe is Christ Iesu the which only taketh away the sinnes of the world in whom is only life for he is the life him selfe of them namely which beleue on him which was slaine from the beginning for all them which are created to saluation So that his only death resurrection and ascentiō through the promise of God is the saluation of thē all for they all haue tasted of one spirituall meat dronke of one spiritual stone Albeit he came a long season after them in the flesh he onely did tread downe the head of the Serpent Also he hath bene slaine from the beginning in his members as it is to be seene euidently in iust Abel Ieremy Iohn Baptist many more But those which are not written of the Lamb in the booke of life be sealed in the booke of death and kept as S. Peter saith with the Diuel and his angels to eternal death bicause of their vnbeliefe He that hath cares to heare let him heare sayeth the text He y t hath any wit let him giue place to y e admonition which followeth he that will be wise let him iudge according to the demonstration of these things After this sort doth the holy Ghost certifie hys faithfull warning them to consider that all which is written is wrytten to our learning and edification He that leadeth into captiuitie● shall goe into captiuitie Thys warning giueth the Lord let them take héede i● they lust for he wil that his iudgments be knowne They which doe afflict and vexe the faithfull in their bodies outwardly shal be vexed and punished in the spirit with inward darknesse and strickē with blindnesse of the minde to abide the rather in the net of Sathan and sinne God wil leaue them in a reprobate sense and inordinate lust and suffer them to enter into great errors and diuelishnesse to belieue all manner of lies that they might be damned If any kil with the sword the pore and innocent for their faith must also be killed iudged and condemned throughe the sword of the spirite which is the worde of God The word which I haue spoken saith Christ shall condemne them at y e last day as he testified also in his Reuelation in the eleuenth Chapter If any will molest or trouble them the fire shall procéede forth of their mouth to consume their aduersaries A●d I saw yet sayth S. Iohn an other Beast rising out of the earth hauing two hornes like the Lambe

him wa● called faith●ull and true This is the onely and true sonne of God which is called faithfull iust and true bicause h● is founde faithfull and vnfallible in hys promises and woorde for the Lord saith the Psalmist is very righteous in all his wayes true in his sayings p●rfect in all his doings He cannot but teach a right and speake a trouth for he is the truthe him selfe No more cannot those which are indued with his spirite who leadeth and conducteth them in all truthe He hath done according to iustice and equitie in condemning that wicked and abhominable whoore in destroying that filthie sinagoge of Sathan in d●liuering and exalting his poore afflicted Churche First of all he did fight in his owne persone as a worthy Champion against the deuill hel and damnation whom he hath ouercome conquered and vanquished by his owne death and glorious passion And now doth he ouerthrow the Deuill and all his adherēts by the meanes of his faithful seruaunts distributers of his holy woord and mysteries which he nowe graci●usly sendet● vnder the figure of the white horsse For his seruaunts as Abacuck testifieth are lustie and wel animated horsses whom the Lord condu●teth which ar as Ieremie calleth them whiter than snow by the meanes of their vnfained and vndefiled faith And his eyes were like as a flame of fire mightie and cleare Whereby is not only vnderstanded his godly wisdome and knowledge whereby he knoweth and iudgeth al things but also all the heauenly and spirituall giftes of the holy G●ost Behold sayth Zacharie vpon the only stone which S. Paule expoundeth to be Christ shal be .vij. eyes which are the .vij. spirites of god wherwith god doth lig●ten the hearts of his chosen and kindleth the fire of his loue in y e minde of his faithful His word is a lātern to their f●e●e hys law an● testimonies are pure and vndefiled giuing light to the eie And vpon his hea● were many crownes Euen as the same was séene being a figure of Christ vpon the head of Iesus the sonne of Iosedech the high Priest to signi●ie that Iesus Christ is the soueraigne and king aboue al kings which hath power in heauen and earth for euer He ruleth and gouerneth al nations with an ir●n rod. For he is the Lord of hostes the euerlasting king of glory He is a mightie and puissāt gouernoure setting ouer the Mount Sion his holy hil He giueth prosperitie and gouernment to Kings and his elect and chosen are crouned in him with grace and mercie for euermore For he reserueth in heauen for vs an inheritance immortall and vndefiled Againe he hath layed vp for them that keepe the faith a crowne of righteousnesse and wil giue a crowne of life to them that be faithfull vnto the death c. All warrefares and victories of the saincts depend vpon him only And he had a name written to wit almighty maruellous and feareful Adonai Emanuel a name aboue all names euen the holy one of Israell the Lorde of Sabaoth the Lord of hostes our redemer sauiour and righteousnesse No man knewe this name but hym selfe and them whiche he hathe reueled it vnto neither fleshe nor bloude nor Heathen Turke Iew or false Christian is able to cōprehend thys name ●right Albeit they haue good signes and tokens yet no man can say that Iesus is the Lord without the inspiration of the spirite of God who openeth the very truth of God The number of Gods elect are also signified or comprehended vnder this name which the world can not acknowledge nor vnderstand And he was clothed with a garment dipt in bloud His mortall bodie which he tooke vpon him for our redemption was so sore beaten and greuously wounded that from the soule of the féete to the very crowne of the head euen from top to toe nothing was lefte whole or sound This mighty Champion is he which came from Edom and Bos●a whose garmentes were sprinkled with bloud his clothes were rayed euen as of those that tread the wine presse For his manhoode suffred most shameful pain●full death He him selfe alone trode the wine presse of his wrath and had none to helpe him He his owne self was woūded for our sinnes and our infirmities were layd vpon him and by his stripes we are healed And his name was called the word of God Christ Iesu the sonne of god is that eternall and euerlasting word of God which was from the beginning by God by whom also heauen and earth are made and all that in them is the verye ●mage of his substance in whom the father is represented wherby also we vnderstand and know the wil of the father for the word of God is a true guid of the conscience This word was made flesh that is became mā for our sakes sauing ius●ifying and glorifying all those that beleeue on him And the warriers which were in heauen followed him vpō white horses These are the true faithfull ministers which follow their maister and c●ief captain Christ Iesu vpon white horsses that is in innocency of life and godly cōuersatiō which they professe These horsses are nothing else than their mortal bodies redy to battaile For true christiās mortifie their flesh y t concupiscence therof bring their carnal lusts vnder subiectiō their bodies obedient to y e spirit They become seruauntes to righteousnesse and not to sinne they are worthy Souldiers of God for they follow the Lord of ●ostes suche an armie saw the seruaūt of the Prophet Elizeus in Doathim in a vis●on They w●re clothed with fine linnen white and pure signifying the simplicitie and innocēcie which they haue in Christ Iesus their captaine and good and perfect gifts which the Lord giueth them As S. Iohn him selfe expounded them a little before where he sayeth that the fine linnen are the true iustifications which they haue of none other but from theyr head Christ. These are y e spirituall weapons wherof S. Paule speaketh saying Though we walke in the flesh yet we do not war after y e flesh for the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty through god to cast down holds and out of his mouth wēt a sharp sword which is that wonderful iudgment of his word Through this sharpe sword are the faithful and beleuers saued to ●ife euerlasting and the wicked infidels iudged to euerlasting death and damnation For it is vnto some a sauior of life vnto life and to others a sauior of death vnto death With this sword shall be cut of the dead braunches which in him beare no fruicts and the rotted members from the body In like manner shal be the good from the bad and the Goates from the shéepe with this sword deuided and separated Oh how terrible fearefull and sharpe shal be the iudgement of the

by the Prophet Ezechiel saying I wil make a bond of peace with them which shall be vnto them an euerlasting couenaunt I will set my sanctuarie among them for euermore My dwelling shal be with them yea I wil be their God they shal be my people The same also he confirmeth heere in this place saying He will dwell with them and they shal be his people and God him s●lfe shal be their God In suche sorte that they shall neuer acknowledge any other than him only He shal alwayes comfort and strengthen thē heere by his holy spirit and heereafter by his presēce so mightely defend and surely kéepe them that they shall neuer faile him heere nether afterward be seperated from him And God shall wipe away all teares from their eyes so cleane that no kinde of trouble or feare shall make them afraid neither any aduersitie shrinke or make them heauie The same also saith the lor● by his Prophet I shall make a pleasant Ierusalem and I my selfe wil be glad with hir From that time forward shall there be heard within hir no more sorrow nor paine neither shall there be any death for death shall be destroyed for euermore The conscience of man shall not then be subiecte to any mistrustfulnesse or other infirmitie but shall haue ioy in the holy Ghost They shall through sinne not die any more but shall liue through faith in God That cruel whoore shal drink drōke no more in the bloud of the Martirs for she with al hir adherents and wicked tirantes shall be kept in that filthie lake which burneth with fire and brimstone for euermore So that no kinde of trouble persecution slaunder hatred malice anguish or pain or any kind of aduersity crueltie or wretchednesse which coulde be deuised can hurt or hinder them for sorowes wailing and wéeping shall be put farre from them The building of the frame and the situation of this citie was four square which signified not only vnto vs the sure grounde and stedfastnesse of the true Christian faith which God kéepeth tenderly nourisheth and augmēteth in his elect but also sheweth y t euerlasting certaintie of that mightie and inexpugnable kingdom of Christ and that hope which is neuer ashamed for who so euer beleueth and dependeth vpō Christ shall neuer be confounded Whatsoeuer is foure square abideth firme vnmoueable and is not subiect to rolling or vnstablenesse like a boule or speare or any thing that is roūd In like maner haue we to consider of the four squarenesse of 〈◊〉 new Ierusalē wherof material Ierus●●●● b●ing also square was a figure that none of what so euer kindred language or nation he be shall haue either preferment héere in this citie or be lesse regarded for whether he be frō the East or the West from the South or the North rich or poore Grecian or Barbarian if he be but a true beléeuer he shall be receiued and accepted of God Wherof we haue a manifest ensample in the Gospell where Christ teacheth by the Parable of a certaine housholder which hired labourers into his vineyard who calling them vnto him in y ● euening gaue as much to them that wrought but an hour as he did vnto them that wrought the whole day The walles of this Citie are strong and well furnished wherout we may cōclude and gather that the blessednesse of saluation or Gods promises are sure and strong in so much that hell gates can not preuaile against or withstand them These walls are of such a height that no enimie be he neuer so craftie subtile or wise by anye meanes of faire speach dissimulation or hipocri●ie is able to get ouer them onely must they enter through the gate which is Christ Iesu. This holy Ierusalem is glorious blessed heauenly and spiritual not made by mans hande but it is made and builded of God the heauēly father the father of light of whom all good●●nd perfect gifts onely do descend are sent down Therfore hath she a maruellous and incomprehensible light and wisdome of almightie God The Lambe Iesus Christ is hir light and his word the lanterne to his f●ete And hir shining light and spiritual wisdom was like an oriental stone most precious for his word is more costlier than golde yea than the moste finest golde This Citie hath twelue gates for to open and to shut with sundrie names bicause of the diuers natiōs and languages For from euery side of the worlde come the people to the churche of Christ yet passe they al through one gate which is Christ Iesu. None saith he cōmeth to the father but by me I am the doore to enter into the shéepe folde Who so euer entreth through me shall be saued Thys Ierusalem hath twelue gates And on euery gate was a very costlye and precious Pearle for the doctrine of the Gospell is precious and costly without comparison whereby so many as are ordained from all coastes of the earth enter into the kingdom of Christ. And at these gates were set twelue Angels In that respecte Dauid also did sing saying The Angels of the Lord are about the tents of them that feare him to kéepe them He did set a garde vpon the walles of Ierusalem sayth Esayas to annoūce his worthy name So that it is wel garded fenced round about The Diuel with all his bost haue no force against it No man is able to draw any one out of his hands And aboue these gates were written honorable names namely the names of the twelue tribes of Israell which are Iuda Ruben Gad Assur Nephthalim Manasle Simeon Leui Isachar Zabulon Ioseph and Beniamin These names were wrytten héere bicause the right inheritance was promised to the séede of Abraham and Christ Iesus was the true séede of Abraham and by him are we made children of the promise The walles of the Citie hath twelue foundations groūded vpon y ● strong and mightie stone Christ Iesu which is vnmoueable for so much that from the beginning the Church of God vpon hym hath bene builded and grounded Uppon him did Adam Noe Abraham Moyses Dauid Helias with the rest of the godly fathers that euer were build remaine stedfast although they were neuer so lōg before him or shall be after him for they beleued certainly on the promises which God had wrought to thē by Christ. They all being vnder the cloud did eate of one kinde of meat and dronke of one spirituall stone which is Christ Iesu which afterward is come into the flesh No man may lay any other foundation sayeth S. Paule than that which is layd alreadye which is Christ Iesu. Upon this one strong and euerlasting foundation were laid and builded these twelue foundatiōs agréeable vnto him Namely the twelue Apostles of the Lambe Peter Iohn Iames Andrewe Philip

Bartholomew Thomas Mathew Iames the minor Simon Thade● and Mathie These were prefigured by y e twelue stones whiche Iosue erected in Galgala for a memoriall remembrance of the passing of the children of Israell on dry land through the Iordan They were also signified by other twelue stones whereon Elias the Prophet builded an aultare vpon the mount Carmelus in the name of the Lord. The sure grounde of these foundations was the Confession that Christ was the very sonne of the liuing God Upon this foundation they all builded by the announcing preaching and writing of that which the Prophets and true preachers did beleeue Namely that he that is Christ was the Lambe of God which taketh away the sinnes of the world for they soughte the way of saluation and laboured for the kingdom of God and his righteousnesse shewing them selues thereby to be the liuely workemen of this spirituall building Heere we learne then that the faythe and doctrine of the Prophets and Patriarkes is all one with the Apostels are all grounded vpon Christ Iesu. Wherevnto S. Paule accordeth very wel saying Now are ye no more straungers but ●itizens with the Saincts and are build●● vpon the ●oundation of the Apostles and Prophets And by these twelue foundations ar● not onely vnderstanded they afore named for then shold Paule which him selfe did more laboure than they all of this number be excluded In like maner should be Barn●be Sylas Agabus Iudas the righteous Iohn which was otherwise surnamed Marke with many other more of the like vocation and calling and also all other faithfull and true ministers which are of the like faith and teach that doctrine For ye must consider that the number of twelue in this place is a perfecte and a common number as the number of seuen and ten in other places cōtaining the whole vnder the chiefest and principallest The buildings of the wall of it was of Iasper This signifieth that in Christ Iesu are the most costliest the moste pleasantest louingest and surest things that can be deuised For they which beléeue in him aright shall alwayes abide freshe greene lustie well fauoured and liuely and they shall be verye mightie yea great and strong pillers of his holy and vndefiled Temple He that beléeueth on me and kéepeth my worde sayth our Sauioure Christ shall neuer taste of death And the Citie was pure golde like vnto cleare glasse The Church of God is without any spot or wrinkle It is pure and vndefiled like the golde that is tried in y e fire .vij. times The light of the Citie is Iesus Christe which neuer did any sinne neither in word or déede His death and sheading of his bloud hath made this citie more costly than pure golde And the foundations of the wall of the Citie were garnished with all maner of pretious stones which preciousnes notifieth vnto vs the costlinesse of oure saluation 1 The first foundation was Iasper which being of a gréen colour noteth vnto vs that the faith of the forfathers is not yet dead nor withered The faith of Enoch appeareth vntil this day the first which called vpon the name of the Lord and of more which all are yet true freshe and gréene 2 The second foundation was of Saphire whose colour is blew and somwhat whitishe a stone in deede which at the firste looke seemeth to be of no great value signifying vnto vs the simple and séely soules the which although they be wyth holy Iob and Thoby of no value in the sight of the world yet are they highly regarded of God throughe their faith and good life 3 The third of a Chalcedonie which is yet lesse set by to our séeming then the Saphire but of nature very costly strōg and vertuous Of this nature were Helias Iohn Baptist and such like which liued in the desert painfully and very straightly yet proued they most pretious at their appointed time rebuking and reprouing boldly the wickednesse and sinne of the people drawing them frō the same euen as the Chalcedonie pulleth and taketh away the duste from any thing reprehending and iudging very sharply the Idolaters and hipocrites 4 The fourth of an Emeraud which of himselfe is not onely gréene but maketh the aire round about him shew of y e same coloure Of this condition was Ieremie and S. Paul which without ceassing preached and spred abrode the doctrine of life after they had once receiued and known the same 5 The fifthe is of a Sardonix which word is deducted of Sarda and Onix and is of nature vnderneath blackishe and red on the outside white within so all those that are meeke of heart which with Dauid and Marie Magdalene acknowledge confesse their sinnes before God through faith are pure and holy Althoughe I am blacke sayth the true Church yet am I neuerthelesse fair and cleane Albeit our outward mā saith S. Paule perishe therefore doe we not goe forward or are any thing weary for the inward man renueth and augmenteth euery day 6 The sixth of a Sardius which is of the similitude of red earth Euen so are those which esteeme them selues as vnworthy children of Adam notwithstanding that they haue receiued many goodly giftes great benifites of God which as Philo expoundeth it are the red earth Of thys nature and companie was the virgine Marie the mother of Christ which called and estéemed hir selfe to be but an handmaide And for all the honoure fauoure and other great benefites which were shewed vnto hir she saide that hir spirite reioysed in God hir sauioure Of this sort was Abraham also calling him selfe but duste and ashes before the Lord. 7 The seuenth of a Chrisolite a stone of al kind of colours shining like golde and as a burning fire casting sparkes and a great shine from it Héere vnder are comprehended those which hauing the wisedom of the holy Ghost kindle and lighten other men therewithall and make them altogither hot and burning bring them to the feruent loue of God their neighboures So did Moyses and Esay Barnabas and Paule in whom aboundantly appeareth the graces and glory of God 8 The eight is of Berll which is of a sad deadish gr●ene Signifying such true and faithful Christians which through cōpassion pitie sorowfully haue bewailed lamented the fall of their brethren Of this good and diuine nature was Steuen praying for them which did stone hym to death Thus did Samuel in his time which with great sorowes complaints mourned ouer Saul y e king what time he sawe him cast out of the fauor of God 9 The ninth of a Topace cōtaining in it the colour of al other stones And this representeth all them which are adorned with al maner of vertues as Daniel was a man full of godly desires and Iohn the Euangelist whom Christ

shall wax colde But so many as beare more loue to God and séeke more to please hym than the diuell they must take good heede to do that which pleaseth him according to his reuealed wil For whom it is not sufficient to know Antechri●t to blame him to speake and reporte of him as his doings deserue but it is requisit● for them most chiefly to confesse the name of the Lorde euen from their very hearts to honour feare him to beleue and put all confidēce in hym to loue hym and as neere as we can to expresse him in oure conuersation thorough loue vnfayned therby to shew oure selues to be hys Disciples For not euerye on● sayeth oure Sauioure Christe that sayeth Lorde Lorde shall enter into the Kyngdome of heauen but suche as doe the will of my father Again saythe Christe Whosoeuer louethe hys lyfe héere in thys worlde shall loose it and who so hateth his lyfe here for my names sake shal kéepe it to life euerlasting Againe he that will be my Disciple let hym folowe me and where I am he shal be also Who so serueth me my Father shall honoure hym The seruaunte is no better than hys maister and a messenger is no more than he that sente hym If we kéepe the commaundements of Christe we shall remaine in his loue euen as hée did the will of hys father and remayned in his loue Hys commaundement is that we loue one an other as he loued vs let vs therfore henceforth leade a good lyfe cōuersation according to the wyll of the Lorde and frame our lyfe to the doctrine and exaumple of our maister and Lorde Iesu Christ in kéeping the commaundementes of the Lorde Christe Lette vs not be wrathfull but loue one an other Praye sayeth the Lorde for them that persecute you and speake euyll of you and be ye perfect as I am perfecte That thys our sinful body might be destroyed and that henceforth wée serue sy●ne no more for he that is dead is frée from sinne Let vs then thinke that we are dead to sinne and liue not to our selues but to our Lorde and Sau●our Iesus Christ. Let not sinne saith the apostle S. Paule raigne in your mortall body that ye shoulde obey the lustes thereof but be ye true seruantes of righteousnesse vnto life not seruaunts of sinne of the fleshe or the world ●o death neyther gyue ye henceforth your mēbres as weapons of vnrighteousnesse vnto sinne but as weapons of righteousnesse vnto GOD. For when we were the seruauntes of synne we were not vnder righteousnesse what frute had we then in those things wherof we are nowe ashamed for the ende of those things is death but contrarywise the fruite of rightousnesse is euerlasting life Brethren it is now tyme to awake from sléepe forasmuche as the nyghte is passed and the day approcheth and is euen at hande God hath fréely sent his true and faithful ministers and giueth his woord plētifully to be preached let vs cast away then the workes of darkenesse and take vnto thée the armour of light walke honestly as in the daye time not in gluttonie dronkennesse nor in chambering wantonnesse nor in strife nor enuying but put ye on the Lord Iesus Christ take no thought for the fleshe to fulfill the lustes thereof but according to the good pleasure of God in al spiritual exercises The workes of the flesh are notorious manifest as adulterie fornication vncleanesse wantonnesse Idolatrie witchcraft hatred debate emulation wrathe contentions heresies enuie murthers dronkennesse gluttonie and suche like The workers whereof are y e most wretches and miserable slaues that euer wer yea they are threatned that who so euer cōmitteth such things shall not enherite the kingdom of heauē On the other side the fruit●s of y e spirit are loue ioy peace long suffering gētlenesse goodnesse faith méekenesse temperancie and suche like After this sort ought euery christian mā to walke being carefull to mortifie his own flesh exercising himself in these good works which God hath prepared for him to walke in casting of the old mā which is corrupt through deceiuable lusts be ye therfore renued in y e spirit of your mind and put ye on the new man which after god is created in righteousnesse and true holinesse Wherfore cast of lying speak euery man true vnto his neighbour For we are members y e one of the other Be angrie but sinne not let not the Sunne goe down vpon your wrath neither giue place to the Diuell Let him that stole steale no more but let him rather labour and work with his hands the thing that is good that he may haue to giue him that néedeth Let not corrupt communication procéed out of your mouth but that which is good to edifie withal that it may minister grace vnto the hearers And gréeue not the holy spirite of God by whom ye are sealed vnto the day of redēption Let all bitternesse anger and wrath crying and euil speaking be put away from you with all maliciousnesse Be ye courteous one to an other and tēder hearted forgiuing one an other euē as god for Christs sake forgaue you Be ye then followers of god as dear children walk in loue euē as Christ hath loued vs hath giuen him self for vs to be an offring and a sacrifice of a sweet smelling sauor to god So then fornication and all vncleannesse or couetousnesse let it not be once named amōg you as it becometh sainctes Neither vse ye filthinesse nor foolish talking neyther iesting which are things not comely but rather giuing of thāks For this ye must know that no whoremonger neither vncleane persō nor couetous person which is an Idolatour hath any inheritaunce in the kingdom of Christ of God Let no man deceiue you with vaine wordes for by such things cometh the wrath of God vpon the children of disobedience Be not therefore companions wyth them for so much as ye were once in darknesse but are now light in the lord walk therfore as it becometh children of light for the fruite of the spirit is in all goodnesse righteousnesse and truthe Approue and assay that which is pleasing to the Lord and haue no fellowship with the vnfruitful works of darknesse but euen reproue them rather take ye heede that ye walke circumspectly and wisely not like the foolish but as the wise and redeeme y e time for euen these dayes are euill and dangerous days Therfore be ye not ignorant but replenished with knowledge and spirite Let the woord of God dwell in you plentuously in all wisdom teaching and admonishing your own selues in psalms spirituall songs synging