wyll fall into the pit whiche he hath made 16 For his labour shall come vpon his owne head and his wickednesse shall fall vpon his owne pate 17 I wyll prayse God accordyng to his ryghteousnesse I wyll sing psalmes vnto the name of the most high God The argument of the .viij. psalme ¶ Dauid setteth foorth the magnificencie of God acknowledged of babes and abiectes of this world he maruayleth at Gods workes and at the great exceeding loue of God to man who is exalted to that excellencie that he is Lorde ouer all thinges in this worlde ¶ To the chiefe musition vpon Gittith a psalme of Dauid 1 O God our Lorde howe excellent is thy name in all the earth for that thou hast set thy glory aboue the heauens 2 Out of the mouth of very babes and sucklinges thou hast layde the foundation of thy strength for thyne aduersaries sake that thou mightest styll the enemie and the auenger 3 For I will consider thy heauens euen the workes of thy fingers the moone and the starres whiche thou hast ordayned 4 What is man that thou art myndfull of him and the sonne of man that thou visitest hym 5 Thou hast made hym somthyng inferiour to angels thou hast crowned him with glory and worship 6 Thou makest hym to haue dominion of the workes of thy handes and thou hast put all thinges in subiection vnder his feete 7 All sheepe and oxen also the beastes of the fielde the foules of the ayre and the fishe of the sea and whatsoeuer swymmeth in the seas 8 O God our Lorde howe excellent great is thy name in all the earth ¶ The argument of the .ix. psalme ¶ Dauid prayseth God for the victorie that he had obtayned ouer his enemies attributyng it wholly to God He besecheth God to continue his mercy towarde hym that he may continually set foorth his prayses ¶ To the chiefe musition at the death of Labben a psalme of Dauid 1 I Wyl prayse God with all myne heart I wyl recite all thy marueylous workes 2 I wyll be glad reioyce in thee I wyll sing psalmes vnto thy name O thou most hyest 3 For that myne enemies are returned backwarde are fallen and perished at thy presence 4 For that thou hast geuen iudgement in my ryght and cause thou that iudgest right hast sit in the throne of iudgement 5 Thou hast rebuked the Heathen and destroyed the vngodly thou hast abolished their name for euer and euer 6 O thou enemie thou thoughtest to bryng vs to a perpetuall desolation * and to destroy our cities so that there shoulde remayne no memory of them 7 But God wyll sit for euer he hath prepared his throne for iudgement 8 For he wyll iudge the world in iustice and minister iudgement vnto the people in righteousnesse 9 God also wyll be a refuge for the oppressed euen a refuge in tyme of trouble 10 And they that knowe thy name wyll put their trust in thee for thou O God hast neuer fayled them that seeke thee 11 Sing psalmes vnto God abiding at Sion declare his notable actes among the people 12 For he maketh inquisition of blood he remembreth it and forgetteth not the complaynt of the poore 13 Haue mercy on me O God consider the trouble whiche I suffer of them that hate me lift me vp from the gates of death 14 That I may shewe all thy prayses within the gates of the daughter of Sion and reioyce in thy saluation 15 The Heathen are sunke downe into the pit that they made their owne foote is snared in the same net whiche they had layde priuily for other 16 God is knowen by the iudgement that he hath executed the vngodly is trapped in y e worke of his owne handes this ought to be considered alwayes Selah 17 The wicked shal be turned vnto hell and all people that forget God 18 But the poore shall not alway be forgotten neither shall the hope of the humble afflicted perishe for euer 19 Aryse vp O God let not man preuaile let the Heathen in thy sight be iudged 20 Put them in feare O God that the Heathen may knowe them selues to be but men Selah The argument of the .x. psalme ¶ The prophete as left in the handes of wicked aduersaries complayneth to God of their pryde malice crueltie euill maners craft and prosperitie he prayeth God to succour the fatherlesse and oppressed and to represse the malice of the wicked 1 WHy standest thou so farre of O God why hidest thee in the tyme of trouble 2 The vngodly of a wylfulnesse persecuteth the poore but euery one of them shal be taken in the craftie wylines that they haue imagined 3 For the vngodly prayseth according to his owne heartes desire and blessing the couetous he blasphemeth God 4 The vngodly looketh so proudly as though he cared for none at all neither is the Lorde in all his thoughtes 5 His wayes are alwayes greeuous but thy iudgementes are farre aboue out of his sight and therfore he snuffeth at all his enemies 6 He hath sayde in his heart tushe I can not be remoued for I can not be touched at any tyme with harme 7 His mouth is full of cursing and of deceate and of fraude vnder his tongue is labour and mischiefe 8 He sitteth lurkyng in theeuishe corners of the streates and priuily in lurking dennes he doth murther the innocent he eyeth diligently hym that is weake 9 He lieth in wayte lurking as a Lion in his denne he lyeth in wayte lurkyng * that he may violently carry away the afflicted he doth carry away violentlye the afflicted in halyng hym into his net 10 He croucheth and humbleth him selfe so that a number of thē that be weake fall by his myght 11 He sayeth in his heart tushe the Lord hath forgotten he hydeth away his face and he wyll neuer see it 12 Aryse vp O Lorde God lift vp thine hande forget not the afflicted 13 Wherefore shoulde the wicked blaspheme the Lorde whyle he sayeth in his heart that thou wylt not call to accompt 14 Surely thou hast seene this for thou beholdest labour and spite that thou mayest take the matter into thy hands he that is weake leaueth it for thee for thou art the helper of the fatherlesse 15 Breake thou the power of the vngodly and malitious searche thou out his vngodlynes and thou shalt finde none afterwarde in him 16 God is king for euer and euer but the Heathen shall perishe out of the lande 17 O God thou hast hearde the desire of the afflicted and thou wylt settle their heart 18 Thou wylt be attentiue with thyne eare to geue iudgement for the fatherlesse and oppressed so no man in the earth shall once go about hereafter to do them violence ¶ The argument of the .xi. psalme ¶ Dauid trusting in God complayneth of them who would not suffer him to hide him selfe in the
God shut hym in rounde about 17 And the fludde came fourtie dayes vpon the earth and the waters were increased and bare vp the arke whiche was lyft vp aboue the earth 18 The waters also waxed strong and were encreased exceedyngly vpon the earth and so the arke went vpon the vpper face of the waters 19 And the waters preuayled exceedingly vpon the earth and al the high hilles that are vnder the whole heauen were couered 20 Fyfteene cubites vpward did the waters preuayle so that the mountaynes were couered 21 And all fleshe perished that moued vpon the earth in foule in cattell in beast and in euery worme that creepeth vpon the earth yea and euery man also 22 So that all that had the breath of lyfe in his nostrilles throughout all that was on the drye lande dyed 23 And euery substaunce was destroyed that remayned and that was in the vpper part of the grounde both man and cattell and worme and the foule of the heauen they were euen destroyed from of the earth and Noah onlye remayned aliue and they that were with him in the arke 24 But the water preuayled vpon the earth a hundreth and fiftie dayes ¶ The .viii. Chapter 1 The waters of the generall ouerflowyng do decrease 4 The arke resteth vpon a mount 7 The Rauen is sent foorth 8 Noah sendeth foorth a Doue 10 He sendeth it out againe 13 The waters are dryed 16 Noah is bydden to go out of the arke 18. He goeth out 20 He offereth an acceptable sacrifice vnto God 21 The deluge shall be no more The heart of man is euyll 1 AND God remēbred Noah and euery beast and all the cattell that was with hym in the arke and God made a wynde to passe vpon the earth and the waters ceassed 2 The fountaynes also of the deepe and the windowes of heauen were stopped and the rayne from heauen was restrayned 3 And the waters from the earth returned goyng and comming agayne and after the ende of the hundreth and fiftith day the waters were abated 4 And in the seuen moneth in the seuenteenth day of y e moneth the arke rested vpon the mountaynes of Armenia 5 And the waters were goyng and decreasing vntyll the tenth moneth In the tenth moneth and in the first day of the same moneth were the toppes of the mountaynes seene 6 And after the ende of the fourtith day it came to passe that Noah opened the wyndowe of the arke which he had made 7 And he sent foorth a Rauen whiche went out goyng foorth and returnyng vntyll the waters were dryed vp vpon the earth 8 And agayne he sent foort a Doue from him that he myght see yf the waters were abated from the vpper face of the grounde 9 And the Doue founde no rest for the sole of her foote and she returned vnto him into the arke for the waters were in the vpper face of the whole earth Then he put foorth his hande tooke her and pulled her to him into the arke 10 And he abode yet other seuen dayes and agayne he sent foorth the Doue out of the arke 11 And the Doue came to hym in the euentide and loe in her mouth was an Oliue leafe that she had pluct wherby Noah dyd knowe that the waters were abated vpon the earth 12 And he abode yet other seuen dayes and sent foorth the Doue whiche returned not vnto him any more 13 And it came to passe in the sixe hundreth and one yere in y e first moneth the first day of the moneth the waters were dryed vp from the earth and Noah remoued the coueryng of the arke and looked and beholde the vpper face of the grounde was dryed vp 14 And in the seconde moneth in the seuen and twentie day of the moneth was the earth dryed 15 And God spake vnto Noah saying 16 Go foorth of the arke thou and thy wife thy sonnes and thy sonnes wiues with thee 17 And bryng foorth with thee euery beast that is with thee of all fleshe both foule and cattell and euery worme that crepeth vpon the earth that they may breede in the earth and bring foorth fruite and multiplie vpon earth 18 And so Noah came foorth and his sonnes his wyfe and his sonnes wiues with hym 19 Euery beast also and euery worme euery foule and whatsoeuer crepeth vpon the earth after their kyndes went out of the arke 20 And Noah builded an aulter vnto y e Lorde and tooke of euery cleane beast and of euery cleane foule offred burnt offering on the aulter 21 And the Lorde smelled a sweete or quiet sauour and the Lord sayde in his heart I wyll not hencefoorth curse the grounde any more for mans sake for the imagination of mans heart is euyll euen from his youth neyther wyll I smyte any more euery thyng lyuyng as I haue done 22 Yet therefore shall not sowyng tyme and haruest colde and heate sommer and wynter day and nyght ceasse all the dayes of the earth ¶ The .ix. Capter 6 The title of the sworde The couenaunt of God with Noah that the deluge shal be no more 10 The signe confirming the couenaunt the raynebowe in the cloudes 18 The sonnes of Noah Chanaan 20 Noah an husbandman planteth a vine 22 He is mocked of his sonne beyng ouercome with wyne 25 Chanaan is cursed 26. 27 Sem and Iapheth be blessed 29 The yeres of Noah 1 ANd god blessed Noah and his sonnes saide vnto them be fruitfull and multiplie and replenishe the earth 2 The feare of you the dread of you shal be vpon euery beast of the earth and vpon euery foule of the ayre vpon al that moueth vpon the earth and vpon all the fishes of the sea into your hande are they deliuered 3 Euery thyng that moueth it selfe and that liueth shall be meate for you euen as the greene hearbe haue I geuē you all thinges 4 But flesh in the life therof which is the blood therof shall ye not eate 5 And surely your blood of your lyues wyl I require at the hande of euery beast wyll I require it and at the hand of man at the hande of mans brother wyll I require the life of man 6 Who so sheddeth mans blood by man shall his blood be shed for in the image of God made he man 7 But be fruitefull and multiplie you breede in the earth and increase therein 8 God spake also vnto Noah to his sonnes with hym saying 9 Beholde I euen I establishe my couenaunt with you and with your seede after you 10 And with euery liuing creature that is with you in foule in cattell in euery beast of the earth whiche is with you of all that go out of the arke whatsoeuer liuing thyng of the earth it be 11 And my
manquellyng 30 For one mans wytnesse shall no man be condempned 1 AND the Lorde spake vnto Moyses in the fieldes of Moab by Iordane ouer against Iericho saying 2 Commaunde y e chyldren of Israel that they geue vnto the Leuites of the inheritaunce of their possession cities to dwell in And ye shal geue also vnto the cities of the Leuites suburbes harde by their cities rounde about them 3 The cities shall they haue to dwell in and the suburbes for their cattell and for their possession al maner of beastes of theirs 4 And the suburbes of the cities whiche ye shall geue vnto the Leuites shall reache from the wall of the citie outwarde a thousande cubites rounde about 5 And ye shall measure without the citie of the east syde two thousande cubites and of the south syde two thousande cubites and of the west side two thousand cubites and of the north side two thousande cubites also and the citie shal be in the middes and these shal be the suburbes of their cities 6 And from among the cities whiche ye shall geue vnto the Leuites there shal be sixe cities for refuge whiche ye shall appoynt to that intent that he whiche kylleth may flee thyther And to them ye shall adde fourtie and two cities mo 7 So that all the cities whiche ye shall geue the Leuites may be fourtie and eyght them shall ye geue with their suburbes 8 And these cities whiche ye shall geue shal be out of the possession of the chyldren of Israel They that haue many shall geue many but of them that haue fewe ye shall take fewe Euery one shal geue of his cities vnto the Leuites accordyng to the inheritaunce whiche he inheriteth 9 And the Lorde spake vnto Moyses saying 10 Speake vnto the chyldren of Israel and say vnto them When ye be come ouer Iordane into the lande of Chanaan 11 Ye shall appoint you cities to be cities of refuge for you that he whiche sleeth a person vnwares may flee thyther 12 And these cities shal be vnto you a refuge from the auenger of blood that he which killeth dye not vntill he stand before the congregation in iudgement 13 And of these cities which ye shal geue sixe cities shall ye haue for refuge 14 Ye shal geue three on this side Iordane and three in the land of Chanaan whiche shal be cities of refuge 15 And these sixe cities shal be a refuge both for the chyldren of Israel and for the straunger for hym that dwelleth among you that all they whiche kyll any person vnwares may flee thyther 16 And if any man smyte another with an instrument of iron that he dye then is he a murtherer and the murtherer shall dye for it 17 If he smyte hym with throwyng a stone that a man may dye with and if he dye he that smote hym is a murtherer let the same murtherer be slayne therefore 18 Or if he smyte hym with a handweapon of wood that a man may dye with then if he dye he is a murtherer let the same murtherer be slaine therfore 19 The reuenger of blood himselfe shal slay the murtherer when he meeteth hym he shall slay hym 20 But if he thrust hym of hate or hurle at hym by laying of wayte that he dye 21 Or smyte hym with his hande of enmitie that he dye he that smote hym shall dye the death for he is a murtherer the reuenger of the blood shall slay the murtherer when he meeteth hym 22 But if he pusshed hym vnaduisedly and not of hate or cast vpon hym any thing and not in laying of wayte 23 Or any maner of stone that a man may dye with and saw him not and he caused it to fall vpon hym and he dye and was not his enemie neither sought hym any harme 24 Then the congregation shal iudge betweene the slayer and the reuenger of blood according to these lawes 25 And the congregation shall deliuer the slayer out of the hande of the reuenger of blood and the congregation shall restore hym to the citie of his refuge whyther he was fled and he shal abide there vnto the death of the hye priest whiche was annoynted with the holy oyle 26 But if the slayer come without the borders of his citie of refuge whyther he was fled 27 And the reuenger of blood finde hym without the borders of the citie of his refuge and the reuenger of blood kyll the slayer he shal be gyltlesse 28 Because he shoulde haue bydden in the towne of his refuge vntill the death of the hye priest and after the death of the hye priest the slayer should returne vnto the lande of his possession 29 So these thynges shal be a lawe of iudgement vnto you throughout your generations in al your dwellinges 30 Whoso kylleth any person the Iudge shall put the murtherer to death thorowe wytnesses but one wytnesse shall not testifie agaynst any person to cause hym to dye 31 Moreouer ye shal take no recompence for the lyfe of the murtherer whiche is worthy to dye but he shal be put to death 32 And ye shall take no recompence for him that is fled to the citie of his refuge that he shoulde come againe and dwell in the lande before the death of the hye priest 33 So ye shall not pollute the lande whiche ye shall dwell in for blood defileth the lande and the lande can not be clensed of the blood that is shed therin but by the blood of hym that shed blood 34 Defile not therefore the lande whiche ye shal inhabite for I am in the middes therof euen I the Lord dwell among the chyldren of Israel ¶ The .xxxvj. Chapter 1 An order for the mariage of the daughters of Zelaphead 7 The inheritaunce could not be geuen from one tribe to another 1 ANd the chiefe fathers of the families of the chyldren of Geliad the sonne of Machir the sonne of Manasse of the kinred of the sonnes of Ioseph came foorth and spake before Moyses and before the princes the chiefe fathers of the chyldren of Israel 2 And sayd The Lorde commaunded my Lorde to geue the land to inherite by lot to the chyldren of Israel and my Lorde was commaunded by the Lord to geue the inheritaunce of Zelaphead our brother vnto his daughters 3 If they be maryed to any of y e sonnes of the other tribes of the chyldren of Israel then shall their inheritaunce be taken from the inheritaunce of our fathers and shal be put to the inheritaunce of the tribe which they are receaued into and so shal it be taken from the lot of our inhertaunce 4 And when the Iubilee of the children of Israel commeth then shall their inheritaunce be put vnto the inheritaunce of the tribe wherinto they are receaued and so shall their inheritaunce be taken away from the inheritaunce of the tribe of our fathers 5 And Moyses commaunded
thee thou shalt not learne to do after the abhominations of those nations 10 Let there not be founde among you any one that maketh his sonne or his daughter to go through the fire or that vseth witchcraft or a regarder of tymes or that regardeth the fleeyng of fowles 11 Or a sorcerer or a charmer or that coūcelleth with spirites or a soothsayer or that asketh counsayle of the dead 12 For all that do such thynges are abhomination vnto the Lorde and because of these abhominations the Lorde thy God doth cast them out before thee 13 Thou shalt be perfect therfore in the sight of the Lorde thy God 14 For these nations which thou shalt possesse hearken vnto regarders of tymes and vnto sorcerers but the Lord thy God hath not suffered thee so to do 15 The Lorde thy God wyll stirre vp vnto thee a prophete among you euen of thy brethren like vnto me vnto hym ye shall hearken 16 Accordyng to all that thou desiredst of the Lorde thy God in Horeb in the day of the assemblie when thou saydest Let me heare the voyce of my Lorde God no more nor see this great fire any more that I dye not 17 And the Lorde sayde vnto me They haue well spoken 18 I wyll raise them vp a prophete from among their brethren lyke vnto thee and wyll put my wordes in his mouth and he shall speake vnto them all that I shall commaunde hym 19 And whosoeuer wyll not hearken vnto my wordes which he shall speake in my name I wyll require it of hym 20 But the prophete which shall presume to speake a worde in my name which I haue not cōmaunded hym to speake or that speaketh in the name of straūge gods the same prophete shall dye 21 And if thou say in thine heart howe shall we knowe the worde which the Lorde hath not spoken 22 Euen when a prophete speaketh in the name of the Lord if the thing folowe not nor come to passe that is the thyng which the Lorde hath not spoken but the prophete hath spoken it presumptuously Thou shalt not therfore be afrayde of hym The .xix. Chapter 2 The franchized townes 14 Not to remoue thy neighbours bondes 16 The punishment of hym that beareth false witnesse 1 WHen the Lord thy God hath rooted out the nations whose lande the Lorde thy God geueth thee and thou succeedest in their inheritaunce and dwellest in their cities and in their houses 2 Thou shalt seperate three cities for thee in the middes of the lande which the Lorde thy God geueth thee to possesse it 3 Thou shalt prepare the way and deuide the coastes of thy lande which the Lorde thy God geueth thee to inherite into three partes that whosoeuer committeth murther may flee thyther 4 For this cause must the slayer flee thyther that he may lyue Who so kylleth his neighbour ignorauntly and hated hym not in tyme passed 5 And whē a man goeth vnto the wood with his neighbour to hewe wood and as his hande fetcheth a stroke with the axe to cut downe the tree the head slippeth from the helue and smyteth his neighbour that he dyeth the same shall flee vnto one of the same cities and lyue 6 Lest the auenger of the blood folowe after the slayer whyle his heart is hot ouertake hym because the wayes is long and slay hym and yet there is no cause worthy of death in hym in as much as he hated hym not in tyme passed 7 Wherfore I commaunde thee saying Thou shalt appoynt out three cities for thee 8 And if the Lorde thy God enlarge thy coastes as he hath sworne vnto thy fathers and geue thee all the lande which he sayde he woulde geue vnto thy fathers 9 Thou shalt kepe all these commaundementes to do them which I commaunde thee this day that thou loue the Lorde thy God and walke in his wayes euer and adde three cities mo for thee beside these three 10 That innocent blood be not shed in thy lande which the Lord thy God geueth thee to inherite and so blood come vpon thee 11 But and if any man hate his neyghbour and lay awayte for hym and ryse agaynst hym and smyte hym that he die then fleeth vnto any of these cities 12 The elders of his citie shall sende and fetch hym thence and deliuer hym into the handes of the auenger of blood that he may dye 13 Thine eye shall not spare hym but thou shalt put away the crye of innocent blood from Israel that it may go well with thee 14 Thou shalt not remoue thy neyghbours marke which they of olde time haue set in thine inheritaunce that thou shalt inherite in the lande which the Lorde thy God geueth thee to enioy it 15 One witnesse shall not rise agaynst a man for any maner trespasse or for any maner sinne or for any maner fault that he offendeth in but at the mouth of two witnesses or of three witnesses shall the matter be stablished 16 If a false witnesse rise vp agaynst a man to accuse hym of trespasse 17 Then both the men which stryue together shall stande before the Lorde before the priestes and the iudges which shal be in those dayes 18 And the iudges shall make diligent inquisition and if the witnesse be founde false and that he hath geuen false witnesse agaynst his brother 19 Then shall ye do vnto hym as he had thought to do vnto his brother thou shalt put euyll away from the middes of thee 20 And other shall heare and feare and shall hencefoorth commit no more any such wickednesse among you 21 And thine eye shall haue no cōpassion but lyfe for lyfe eye for eye toothe for toothe hande for hande foote for foote ¶ The .xx. Chapter ◠The exhortation of the priest when the Israelites go to battayle 5 The exhortation of the office shewyng who should go to battayle 10 Peace must first be proclaymed 19 The trees that beare fruite must not be destroyed 1 WHen thou goest out to battayle agaynst thine enemies seest horses and charettes and people mo then thou be not afrayde of them for the Lorde thy God is with thee which brought thee out of the lande of Egypt 2 And when ye are come nye vnto battayle y e priest shall come foorth to speake vnto the people 3 And shall say vnto them Heare O Israel you are come this day vnto battayle agaynst your enemies let not your heartes faynt neither feare nor be amazed nor a dread of them 4 For the Lord your God goeth with you to fyght for you agaynst your enemies and to saue you 5 And let the officers speake vnto the people saying If any man haue built a newe house and haue not dedicate it let hym go and returne to his house lest he dye in the battayle and another man dedicate
And he offered a burnt sacrifice 19 And assoone as he had made an ende of offering the burnt sacrifice beholde Samuel came and Saul went against him to salute him 11 And Samuel sayde What hast thou done Saul sayde Because I sawe that the people skattered from me and that thou camest not within the dayes appointed and that the Philistines gathered them selues together to Michmas 12 Therfore sayde I The Philistines shal come downe nowe vpon me to Gilgal and I haue not made supplication vnto the Lord I was bolde therfore offred a burnt offring 13 And Samuel sayd to Saul Thou art become a foole thou hast not kept the commaundemēt of the Lord thy God which he commaūded thee For at this time woulde the Lorde haue stablished thy kingdome vpon Israel for euer 14 But nowe thy kingdome shal not continue The Lorde hath sought him a man after his owne heart and the Lord hath commaunded him to be captayne ouer his people because thou hast not kept that whiche the Lorde commaunded thee 15 And Samuel arose gate him vp from Gilgal in Gibea of Beniamin and Saul numbred the people that were found with him and they were about a sixe hundred men 16 And Saul and Ionathan his sonne the people that were found with them had their abiding in Gibea of Beniamin but y e Philistines pitched in Michmas 17 And there came out of the hoast of the Philistines three cōpanies to destroye one companie turned vnto the way that leadeth to Ophra vnto y e lande of Sual 18 And another companie turned the way to Bethoron And the thirde companie turned to the way of the coast that is seene aboue y e valley of Zeboim toward the wildernesse 19 There was no smith founde throughout all the lande of Israel For the Philistines sayde Lest the Hebrues make them swordes or speares 20 But all the Israelites went downe to the Philistines to mende euery man his share his mattocke his axe weeding hooke 21 Yet they had a file for the shares for the mattockes for the pickforkes and for the axes and for to sharpen to goades 22 And so in time of battel there was neither sword nor speare found in the handes of any of the people that were with Saul and Ionathan But with Saul Ionathan his sonne was there found 23 And the garison of the Philistines came out to go ouer vnto Michmas The .xiiii. Chapter 14 Ionathan and his harnesse bearer put the Philistines to flight 24 Saul bindeth the people by an othe not to eate till euening 32 The people eate with the blood 38 Saul would put Ionathan to death 45 The people deliuer him 1 THen on a time Ionathan the sonne of Saul sayde vnto his young man that bare his harnesse Come let vs go ouer to the Philistines garison that are yonder on the other syde and he tolde not his father 2 And Saul taried in the vttermost part of Gibea vnder a pomegranate tree which is in Migron and the people that were with him were vpō a sixe hundred men 3 And Ahia the sonne of Ahitob Ichabods brother the sonne of Phinehes the sonne of Eli was the Lordes priest in Silo and ware an Ephod And the people wist not that Ionathan was gone 4 And in the middes of the passage by which Ionathan sought to go ouer vnto the Philistines garison there was a sharpe rocke on the one syde a sharpe rocke on the other syde the one called Bozez and the other Sene. 5 The forefront of the one leaned northwarde towarde Michmas the other was southward toward Gibea 6 And Ionathan sayd to the young man that bare his harnesse Come and let vs go ouer vnto the garison of these vncircumcised it may be that the Lorde will worke with vs for it is no hardnesse with the Lord to saue either in manie or in fewe 7 And his harnesse bearer said vnto him Do all that is in thyne heart Go where it pleaseth thee behold I am with thee as thyne heart lusteth 8 Then sayd Ionathan Beholde we go ouer vnto these men and shall shewe our selues vnto them 9 Yf they say on this wyse to vs Tarie vntil we come to you then we wil stand still in our place not go vp vnto them 10 But and if they say Come vp vnto vs then we wil go vp for the Lorde hath deliuered them into our handes And this shal be a signe vnto vs. 11 And they both shewed them selues vnto the garison of the Philistines And the Philistines sayde See the Hebrues come out of the holes where they had hyd them selues in 12 And the men of the garison aunswered Ionathan his harnesse bearer sayd Come vp to vs and we will shewe you a thing And Ionathan sayde vnto his harnesse bearer Come vp after me for the Lorde hath deliuered them into the hande of Israel 13 And Ionathan clymed vp vpon handes and feete and his harnesse bearer after him And they fell before Ionathan his harnesse bearer slue the after him 14 And that first slaughter whiche Ionathan his harnesse bearer made was vpon a twentie men within the compasse as it were about an halfe aker of land which two oxen plowe 15 And there was a feare in the hoast in the field among al y e people insomuch that they that were gone out of the garrison to robbe were afrayde also the earth trembled for the feare that was sent of God 16 And the watchmen of Saul in Gibea Beniamin sawe And behold the multitude were discomfited were smitten as they went 17 Then sayd Saul vnto the people that was with him Searche and see who is gone away from vs. And when they had numbred beholde Ionathan and his harnesse bearer were not there 18 And Saul sayd vnto Ahia Bring hyther the arke of God For the arke of God was at time with the children of Israel 19 And while Saul talked vnto y e priest the noyse that was in the hoaste of the Philistines spred farther abrode and encreased And Saul sayd vnto the priest Withdrawe thyne hande 20 And Saul ioyned him selfe vnto al the people that were with him they came to the battell and behold euery mans sword was against his felow and there was a very great discomfiture 21 Moreouer the Hebrues that were with the Philistines before that tyme were come with them into all partes of the hoaste turned to be with the Israelites that were with Saul and Ionathan 22 And all the men of Israel also whiche had hyd thē selues in mount Ephraim assoone as they hearde howe that the Philistines were fled they folowed after them in the battel 23 And so the Lorde saued Israel that day and the battel continued vnto Bethauen 24 And when the men of Israel were kepte downe with hunger that day Saul charged the people with an oth saying
and slue him and because I was sure that he coulde not liue after that he had fallen I toke the crowne that was vpon his head and the braselet that was on his arme and haue brought them hyther vnto my lorde 11 Then Dauid toke holde on his clothes and rent them and so did all the men that were with him 12 And they mourned and wept and fasted vntil euen for Saul and Ionathan his sonne for the people of the Lorde and for the house of Israel because they were ouerthrowen with the sworde 13 And Dauid sayd vnto the young man that brought him these tidings Whence art thou He aunswered I am the sonne of an aliaunt an Amakelite 14 And Dauid sayde vnto him Howe is it that thou wast not afrayde to lay thyne hande on the lordes annoynted to destroy him 15 And Dauid called one of his young mē and sayd Go to and fall vpon him And he smote him that he died 16 Then said Dauid vnto him Thy blood be vpon thyne owne head For thyne owne mouth hath testified against thee saying I haue slayne the lordes annoynted 17 And Dauid mourned with this lamentation ouer Saul and ouer Ionathan his sonne 18 Also he bad them teache the children of Iuda the vse of the bowe And beholde it is written in the booke of the righteous 19 O noble Israel he is slaine vpon thy hie places howe are the mightie ouerthrowen 20 Tell it not in Gath nor publishe it in the streates of Askalon lest the daughters of the Philistines reioyce and lest the daughters of the vncircumcised triumph 21 Ye mountaynes of Gilboa vpon you be neither deawe nor raine nor fieldes of offeringes For there the shield of the mightie is cast downe the shielde of Saul as though he had not ben annoynted with oyle 22 The bowe of Ionathan neuer turned backe neither did the sword of Saul returne emptie frō the blood of the slayne and from the fat of the mightie 23 Saul and Ionathan were louely and pleasaunt in their lyues and in their deathes they were not deuided They were swyfter then Egles and stronger then Lions 24 Ye daughters of Israel weepe ouer Saul which clothed you in scarlet with pleasures and hanged ornamentes of golde vpon your apparell 25 Howe were the mightie slayne in the middest of the battel O Ionathan thou wast slayne in thyne hye places 26 Wo is me for thee my brother Ionathan very kinde hast thou ben vnto me Thy loue to me was wonderful passing the loue of women 27 O how are the mightie ouerthrowen and the weapons of warre destroyed The .ii. Chapter 4 Dauid is annoynted king in Hebron 9 Abner maketh Isboseth king ouer Israel 15 The battell of the seruauntes of Dauid and Isboseth 32 The burial of Asahel 1 AFter this Dauid asked counsel at the lord saying Shall I go vp into any of the cities of Iuda And the Lorde sayd vnto him Go vp And Dauid said Whyther shall I go He aunswered Vnto Hebron 2 And so Dauid went thyther with his two wyues Ahinoam the Iezraelite Abigail Nabals wyfe the Carmelite 3 And the men that were with him did Dauid cary vp also euery man with his housholde And they dwelt in the townes of Hebron 4 And the men of Iuda came and there they annoynted Dauid kyng ouer the house of Iuda And they tolde Dauid saying It is the men of Iabes Gilead that buried Saul 5 And Dauid sent messengers vnto the men of Iabes Gilead and sayde vnto them Blessed are ye vnto the lord that ye haue shewed suche kindnesse vnto your lord Saul and haue buried him 6 And nowe the Lorde shewe mercy and trueth vnto you And I will do you also suche kindnes as ye haue done in this thing 7 Therfore nowe let your handes be strong and play ye the men For your maister Saul is dead and they that are of the house of Iuda haue annoynted me king ouer them 8 But Abner the sonne of Ner that was captayne of Sauls hoaste toke Isboseth the sonne of Saul and brought him to Mahanaim 9 And made him king ouer Gilead and ouer the Assurites and ouer Iezrael Ephraim Beniamin ouer all Israel 10 And Isboseth Sauls sonne was fourtie yeres olde when he began to raigne ouer Israel and raigned two yeres But the house of Iuda folowed Dauid 11 And the time whiche Dauid raigned in Hebron ouer the house of Iuda was seuen yeres and sixe monethes 12 And Abner the sonne of Ner and the seruauntes of Isboseth the sonne of Saul wēt out of Mahanaim to Gibeon 13 And Ioab the sonne of Zaruia and the seruauntes of Dauid went out and met one another by the poole of Gibeon And they sate downe the one on the one side of the poole and the other on the other side 14 And Abner sayde to Ioab Let the young men nowe aryse and play before vs. And Ioab sayde Let them aryse 15 Then there arose went ouer twelue of Beniamin by numbre which pertayned to Isboseth the sonne of Saul and twelue of the seruauntes of Dauid 16 And euery one caught his felowe by y e head thrust his sword in his felowes side and so they fell downe together Wherefore the place was called Helkath hazzurim which is in Gibeon 17 And there was an exceeding cruell battel that same day For Abner and the men of Israel fell before the seruauntes of Dauid 18 And there were three sonnes of Zaruia there Ioab Abisai and Asahel And Asahel was as light of foote as a wilde Roe 19 And Asahel folowed after Abner and in goyng he turned neither to the right hande nor to the left from Abner 20 Then Abner loked behynd him and sayde Art thou Asahel He aunswered Yea. 21 Abner sayd Turne thee either to the right hande or the left and catche one of the young men and take thee his weapons But Asahel woulde not depart from him 22 And Abner sayd agayne to Asahel Depart frō me Wherfore should I smite thee to the grounde and not be able to holde vp my face to Ioab thy brother 23 Howebeit when he woulde in no wyse depart Abner with the hynder ende of the speare smote him vnder the fyft ribbe that the speare came out behinde him that he fell downe in the same place and died there And as many as came to the place where Asahel fell downe and died stoode still 24 Ioab also and Abisai pursued after Abner And the sunne went downe when they were come to the hil Amma that lyeth before Giah by the way of the wildernesse of Gibeon 25 And the children of Beniamin gathered them selues together after Abner were on a heape and stoode on the top of an hill 26 Then Abner called to Ioab and said Shall the sword deuour for euer Knowest thou not that it wil be bitternesse in the
latter ende Howe long then shall it be yer thou bid the people returne from folowing their brethren 27 And Ioab sayde As God lyueth if thou haddest not spoken suerly euen in the morning the people had departed euery one from persecuting his brother 28 And so Ioab blewe a trumpet and all the people stoode still and pursued after Israel no more neither fought they any more 29 And Abner and his men walked all that night through the playne went ouer Iordane past through all Beth-horon till they came to Mahanaim 30 And Ioab returned from persecuting Abner and when he had gathered all the people together there lacked of Dauids seruaūtes nineteene men Asahel 31 But the seruauntes of Dauid had smitten of Beniamin and of Abners men so that three hundred and threescore men died 32 And they toke vp Asahel and buried him in the sepulchre of his father which was in Bethlehem And Ioab and his men went all night and the day arose to them at Hebron The .iii. Chapter 1 Long warre betweene the houses of Saul and Dauid 2 The children of Dauid in Hebron 12 Abner turneth to Dauid 27 Ioab killeth him 1 THere was then long warre betweene the house of Saul and the house of Dauid But Dauid waxed strōger and stronger and the house of Saul waxed weaker and weaker 2 And vnto Dauid were children borne in Hebron his eldest sonne also was Amnon of Ahinoam the Iesraelite 3 The seconde Cheleab of Abigail the wyfe of Nabal the Carmelite the third Absalom the sonne of Maacha the daughter of Thalmai the king of Gessur 4 The fourth Adonia the sonne of Haggith the fyft Sephatia the sonne of Abital 5 And the sixt Iethream by Egla Dauids wyfe These were borne to Dauid in Hebron 6 And whyle there was warre betweene the house of Saul and the house of Dauid Abner held vp the house of Saul 7 And Saul had a concubine named Rispha the daughter of Ahia And Isboseth sayd to Abner Wherfore hast thou gone in vnto my fathers concubine 8 Then was Abner very wroth for the wordes of Isboseth and sayde Am I a dogges head whiche against Iuda do shew mercie this day vnto the house of Saul thy father and to his brethren and frendes haue not deliuered thee into the hande of Dauid and thou fyndest a fault in me this day for this woman 9 So do God to Abner and more also except as the Lorde hath sworne to Dauid euen so will I do to him 10 To bring the kingdome frō the house of Saul that the throne of Dauid may be stablisshed ouer Israel and ouer Iuda euen from Dan to Beerseba 11 And he coulde geue Abner neuer a worde to aunswere because he feared him 12 And Abner sent messengers to Dauid secretly saying Whose is the land Who should also say Make a bond with me and beholde my hande is with thee to bring all Israel vnto thee 13 He sayde Well I will make a bonde with the But one thing I require of thee that is that thou see not my face except thou first bring Michol Sauls daughter when thou cōmest to see me 14 And Dauid sent messengers to Isboseth Sauls sonne saying Deliuer me my wife Michol whiche I maried for an hundred foreskinnes of y e Philistines 15 And Isboseth sent and toke her from her husband Phalti the sonne of Lais. 16 And her husband went with her and came weeping behinde her til they came to Bahurim Then sayde Abner vnto him Go and returne And he returned 17 And Abner had communication with the elders of Israel saying Ye sought for Dauid in times past that he might be your king 18 Nowe then do it for the Lorde hath spoken of Dauid saying By the hande of my seruaunt Dauid I will saue my people Israel out of the handes of the Philistines and out of the hande of all their enemies 19 And Abner spake in the eares of Beniamin and afterward Abner went to speake in the eares of Dauid in Hebron all that Israel was content with and the whole house of Beniamin 20 And so Abner came to Dauid to Hebron hauing twentie men with him Dauid made him the men that were with him a feast 21 And Abner sayde vnto Dauid I will vp go gather all Israel vnto my lorde the king that they may make an appoyntment with thee and that thou mayest raigne ouer all that thyne heart desireth And when Dauid had let Abner depart he went in peace 22 And behold the seruauntes of Dauid and Ioab came from the campe and brought a great pray with them But Abner was not with Dauid in Hebron for he had sent him away to depart in peace 23 When Ioab and al the hoast that was with him were come men tolde Ioab saying Abner the sonne of Ner came to the king and he hath sent him away that he is gone in peace 24 Then Ioab came to the king and said What hast thou done Behold Abner came vnto thee and why hast thou sent him away and he is quyte gone 25 Thou knowest Abner the sonne of Ner for he came to deceaue thee and to knowe thy outgoyng and ingoyng and to knowe all that thou doest 26 And when Ioab was come out from Dauid he sent messengers after Abner which brought him againe from the well of Sira vnknowing to Dauid 27 And when Abner was come againe to Hebron Ioab toke him asyde in the gate to speake with him peaceably and smote him vnder the fyft ribbe that he died for the blood of Asahel his brother 28 And when afterwarde it came to Dauids eare he sayde I and my kingdome are giltlesse before the Lord for euer concerning the blood of Abner the sonne of Ner. 29 Let the blood fall on the head of Ioab and on all his fathers house that the house of Ioab be neuer without one or other that hath running issues or leper or that leaneth on a staffe or that doth fall on the sword or that lacketh bread 30 So Ioab Abisai his brother slue Abner because he had slayne their brother Asahel at Gibeon in battell 31 And Dauid sayde to Ioab and to all the people that were with him Rent your clothes and put on sackcloth and mourne before Abner And king Dauid him selfe folowed the beere 32 And when they buried Abner in Hebron the king lift vp his voyce wept besyde the sepulchre of Abner and al the people wept 33 And the king lamented ouer Abner and sayde Died Abner as a foole dieth 34 Thy handes were not bounde nor thy feete brought into fetters of brasse but as a man falleth before wicked children so fellest thou And all they that were of the people wept yet more ouer him 35 And when all the people came to cause Dauid eate meate whyle it was yet day Dauid sware saying So do God to me
the archers founde him and he was wounded of shooters 4 Then saide Saul to his harnesse bearer Drawe thy sword and thrust me through therwith that these vncircumcised come not and do me shame But his harnesse bearer would not for he feared exceedingly So Saul caught a sword and fell vpon it 5 And when his harnesse bearer saw that Saul was dead he fell on a sword also and dyed 6 And thus Saul and his three sonnes and al they of his house dyed together 7 And when all the men of Israel that were in the valley sawe how they fled and that Saul his sonnes were dead they forsoke their cities and ran away and the Philistines came and dwelt in them 8 And it fortuned that on the morowe when the Philistines came to strip the dead bodies they founde Saul and his sonnes ouerthrowen in mount Gilboa 9 And when they had stript him they toke his head and his harnesse and sent them into the lande of the Philistines rounde about to shewe them vnto their idols and to the people 10 And they put his harnesse in the house of their god and set vp his head in the temple of Dagon 11 And when all they of Iabes in Gilead hearde all that the Philistines had done to Saul 12 They arose all the strongest of them and fet away the body of Saul and the bodies of his sonnes and brought them to Iabes and buried the bones of them vnder an oke in Iabes and fasted seuen dayes 13 So Saul dyed for his trespasse that he trespassed against the Lorde in that he kept not the word of the Lorde and in that he sought and asked counsaile of a woman that wrought with a spirite 14 And asked not of the Lorde and therefore he slue him and turned the kingdome vnto Dauid the sonne of Isai ¶ The .xj. Chapter 3 After the death of Saul Dauid is annoynted in Hebron 5 The Iebusites rebell against Dauid from whom he taketh the towre of Sion 6 Ioab is made captayne 10 His valiaunt men 1 THen all Israel gathered them selues to Dauid vnto Hebron saying 2 Beholde we be thy bones and thy fleshe And moreouer in tyme past euen when Saul was king thou leddest Israel out in And the Lorde thy God sayde vnto thee Thou shalt feede my people Israel and thou shalt be captayne ouer my people Israel 3 Therefore came all the elders of Israel to the king to Hebron and Dauid made a couenaunt with them in Hebrō before the Lorde And they annoynted Dauid king ouer Israel according to the worde of the Lorde by the hande of Samuel 4 And Dauid and all Israel went to Hierusalem which is Iebus where as were the Iebusites the inhabiters of the lande 5 And the inhabiters of Iebus sayde to Dauid Thou commest not in here Neuerthelesse Dauid wan the castel of Sion which is called the citie of Dauid 6 And Dauid sayde Whosoeuer smyteth the Iebusites first shal be the principall captayne and a lorde So Ioab the sonne of Zaruia went first vp and was made the chiefe captayne 7 And Dauid dwelt in the castell Sion and therefore they called it the citie of Dauid 8 And he built the citie on euery syde euen from Millo round about and Ioab repaired the rest of the citie 9 And Dauid prospered waxed great the Lorde of hoastes was with him 10 These are the principall men of power whom Dauid had and that claue to him in his kingdome with all Israel to make him king according to the word of the Lorde ouer Israel 11 And this is the number of the mightie men whom Dauid had Iosobeam the sonne of Hachmoni the chiefe among thirtie he lift vp his speare against three hundred and wounded them at one tyme. 12 After him was Eleazar his vncles sonne an Ahothite which was one of the three mightiest 13 He was with Dauid at Pasdammim and there the Philistines were gathered together to battaile And there was there a parcell of grounde full of barly and the people fled before the Philistines 14 And they stept foorth into the middest of the fielde and saued it and slue the Philistines and the Lorde gaue a great victorie 15 And the three of the thirtie chiefe captaynes went to a rocke to Dauid into the caue Adullam And the hoast of the Philistines abode in the valley of Rephaim 16 And when Dauid was in the holde the Philistines watch was at Bethlehem that same tyme. 17 And Dauid longed and sayde Oh that one woulde geue me drinke of the water of the well that is at the gate at Bethlehem 18 And the three brake through the hoast of the Philistines and drewe water out of the wel that was by y e gate at Bethlehem and toke it and brought it to Dauid Neuerthelesse Dauid woulde not drinke of it but rather offered it to the Lorde 19 And sayd my God forbyd it me that I shoulde do this thing Shall I drinke the blood of these men that haue put their liues in ieoperdie for with the ieoperdie of their liues they brought it therefore he would not drinke it And this did these three mightiest 20 And Abisai the brother of Ioab he also was captayne among three For he lyft vp his speare against three hundred and wounded them and had a name among the three 21 Yea among three he was more honorable then the two for he was their captayne Howbeit he attayned not to the first three 22 Banaia y e sonne of Iehoiada the sonne of a very strong man which had done many actes of Cabzeel he slue two strong lions of Moab went downe and slue a lion in a pit in time of snowe 23 And he slue an Egyptian whose stature was euen fiue cubites long and in the Egyptians hand was a speare lyke a weauers beame And the other went downe to him with a waster plucked the speare out of the Egyptians hand and slue him with his owne speare 24 Such thinges did Banaia the sonne of Iehoiada and had the name among the three mightiest 25 And was honorable among thirtie but attayned not vnto the first three And Dauid made him of his counsaile 26 The other men of armes were these Asahel the brother of Ioab Elhanan his vncles sonne of Bethlehem 27 Samoth the Harodite Helez the Pelonite 28 Ira the sonne of Ickes the Thekoite Abieser the Anatothite 29 Sibbecai the Husathite Ilai the Ahohite 30 Maharai the Nepthophathite Heled the sonne of Baana the Nethophathite 31 Ithai the sonne of Ribai of Gibea that pertayned to the children of Beniamin Benaia the Phirathonite 32 Hurai of the riuers of Gaas Abiel the Arbathite 33 Azmaueth the Baharumite Elihaba the Salabonite 34 The sonnes of Hassem the Gezonite Ionathan the sonne of Sage an Hararite 35 Ahiam the sonne of Sacar the Hararite Eliphal the sonne of Vr. 36 Hepher the Mecherathite Ahia the Pelonite 37 Hezro the Carmelite
after and the people which shal be borne shall prayse the Lorde 17 For he hath loked downe from his high sanctuarie out of heauen did God beholde the earth 18 That he might heare the mourninges of such as be in captiuitie and delyuer the children of death 19 That they may declare y e name of God in Sion and his prayse at Hierusalem 20 When people were gathered together kyngdomes to serue God he afflicted my strength in the way he shortened my dayes 21 But I say O my God take me not away in the middest of myne age as for thy yeres they endure throughout all generations 22 Thou hast before tyme layde the foundation of the earth and the heauens are the worke of thy handes 23 They shall perishe but thou wylt remayne styll they all shall waxe olde as doth a garment and as a vesture thou wylt chaunge them and they shal be chaunged 24 But thou art and thy yeres can not fayle the children of thy seruauntes shal dwell and their seede shal be maynteyned in thy syght ¶ The argument of the .ciii. psalme ¶ The prophete stirreth vp hym selfe and all that is within hym to blesse God for such benefites as both he hym selfe and all the Israelites haue at his handes receaued in that he pardoneth their sinne redeemeth them from death and maketh his holy wyll knowen vnto them beyng men miserable and of a short lyfe Finally he calleth vpon angels and all sortes of men with all their power to blesse God who is kyng of heauen and earth 1 BLesse God O my soule and all that is within me prayse his holy name 2 Blesse God O my soule and forget not all his benefites 3 Who forgeueth all thy wickednesse and healeth all thine infirmities 4 Who redeemeth thy lyfe from destruction and crowneth thee with mercie and louyng kyndnesse 5 Who satisfieth thy mouth with good thynges causyng thy youth lyke an Egles to be renued 6 God executeth iustice and iudgement for all them that are oppressed with wrong 7 He made his wayes knowen vnto Moyses his workes vnto the children of Israel 8 God is full of compassion and pitie loth to be angry and exceedyng great in mercie 9 He vseth not to continue in chydyng neither reserueth he his anger for euer 10 He dealeth not with vs accordyng to our sinnes nor rewardeth vs according to our wickednesse 11 For accordyng to the hyghnesse of heauen aboue the earth his mercie preuayleth to them that feare hym 12 Loke howe farre distaunt the east is from the west so farre a sunder setteth he our sinnes from vs. 13 Yea lyke as a father pitieth his owne children euen so is God mercifull vnto them that feare hym 14 For he knoweth wherof we be made he remembreth that we are but dust 15 The dayes of man are as the dayes of an hearbe he florisheth as a flowre in the fielde 16 For the winde passeth ouer it and it is no more seene and the place therof knoweth it no more 17 But the mercifull goodnesse of God endureth for euer and euer vpon them that feare hym and his righteousnesse vpon childers children 18 Euen vpon such as kepe his couenaunt and thinke vpon his commaundementes to do them 19 God hath prepared his seate in heauen and his kyngdome ruleth ouer all 20 Blesse God O ye his angels mightie in operation who fulfyll his worde in hearkening vnto the voyce of his word 21 Blesse God all ye his hoastes you his ministers that do his pleasure 22 Blesse God all you his workes in all places of his dominion O my soule blesse thou God The argument of the .ciiij. psalme ¶ The prophete blesseth God the creatour and gouernour of all thinges by whose prouidence man beast hath the vse of the ayre cloudes angels earth hilles valleys bread drinke trees sunne moone day nyght and sea 1 MY soule blesse thou God O God my Lord thou art become exceeding great thou hast put on glory and maiestie 2 Who is decked with light as it were with a garment spreadyng out the heauens like a curtayne 3 Who seeleth his vpper chaumbers with waters and maketh the cloudes his charriot and walketh vpon the wynges of the wynde 4 He maketh his angels spirites and his ministers a flaming fire 5 He hath layde the earth sure vpon her foundations that it can neuer moue at any tyme. 6 Thou coueredst it with the deepe lyke as with a garment the waters stande vpon the hilles 7 At thy rebuke they flee at the noyse of thy thunder they bluster downe apace 8 The hilles mount aloft and the valleys settle downe beneath vnto the place where thou hast layde a foundation for them 9 Thou hast set them their boundes which they shall not passe neither shall they returne agayne to couer the earth 10 Who also causeth the springes which runne betweene the hilles to flowe into the riuers 11 All beastes of the fielde drinke therof and the wylde asses quench their thirst 12 The foules of the ayre haue their habitation nigh vnto them singing out of the midst of the bowes of trees 13 He watereth the hilles from aboue the earth is replenished with the fruite of thy workes 14 He causeth grasse to growe for cattell * and hearbes for the vse of man 15 That he may bryng foorth foode out * of the earth both wine that maketh glad the heart of man and oyle to make hym haue a chearefull countenaunce also bread to strengthen mans heart 16 The trees of God be satisfied euen the Cedars of Libanus which he hath planted 17 Wherin the birdes make their nestes in the fyrre trees the storke buyldeth 18 The high hilles are a refuge for goates and so are the stonie rockes for comes 19 He hath made the moone for certayne seasons and the sunne knoweth his goyng downe 20 Thou makest darknes and it is night wherein all the beastes of the forrest do go abrode 21 The Lions do roare after a pray and in seeking their meate of God 22 When the sunne ariseth they recoyle backe and lay them downe to rest in their dennes 23 Man goeth foorth to his worke and to do his seruice vntyll the euening 24 O God howe manyfolde are thy workes thou hast made them al in wisdome the earth is ful of thy ryches 25 So is the sea it selfe large and wyde in compasse wherein are thinges creeping innumerable both small and great beastes 26 There go the shippes and there is that Leuiathan whom thou hast made to take his pastime therin 27 These wayte all vpon thee that thou mayest geue them meate in due season 28 When thou geuest it them they gather it and when thou openest thyne hand they are filled with that which is good 29 When thou hydest thy face they are troubled when thou takest away their spirite they dye and are turned agayne to their dust 30 When thou sendest
it be with me 6 The dayes are comming that Iacob shall take roote Israel shal be greene and florishe and the world shal be filled with fruite 7 Hath he smitten hym as sore as he did the other that smote hym Or is he slayne with so sore a slaughter as they that slue hym 8 Thou wylt punishe it in the braunches yet not beyonde measure for in the day that the east winde bloweth sore it taketh away the fruites 9 By this meanes therfore shall the iniquitie of Iacob be purged and this is all the fruite namely the taking away of his sinne if he make all the stones of the aulter of idols as chalke stones that are beaten in sunder that their groues and images ryse not vp agayne 10 Els shall the strong citie be desolate and the habitation forsaken and left like a wildernesse there shall the Calfe feede and there shall he lye and eate vp the graffes therof 11 When the braunches of it are drye they are broken of the women come and set them on fire for it is a people of no vnderstanding and therfore he that made them shall not fauour them and he that created them shall geue them no grace 12 And in that day shall the Lorde make a threshing from the middest of the riuer Euphrates vnto the riuer of Egypt and ye chyldren of Israel shal be gathered together one to another 13 In that day shall the great trumpe be blowne so that they which were lost in the lande of Assyria and they that were banished in the lande of Egypt shall come and worship the Lorde in the holye mount of Hierusalem The .xxviij. Chapter 1 Against the pride of Ephraim 9 and against false priestes and preachers 1 WO be vnto the crowne of pryde euen to the drunken people of Ephraim whose great pompe is as a floure that fadeth away vpon the head of the valley of suche as be in wealth and are ouerladen with wine 2 Behold there commeth a vehement and sore day from the Lord like an vnmeasurable hayle and perillous tempest euen like the force of mightie and horrible waters that violently beareth downe all thinges 3 The crowne of the pryde of the drunken Ephraemites shal be troden vnder foote 4 So that the floure of his fayrenesse and beautie whiche is in the head of the valley of fatnesse shall fade away as doth an vntimely ripe figge before haruest whiche when a man espieth he loketh vpon it and whyle it is yet in his hande he eateth it vp 5 In that day shal the Lord of hoastes be the crowne of glory and diamonde of beautie vnto the residue of his people 6 He wylbe also a spirite of perfect knowledge to him that sitteth in iudgement and strength vnto them that turne away the battayle to the gate of the enemies 7 But they are out of the way by reason of wine yea farre out of the way are they thorowe strong drinke The priest also and the prophete are gone astray by the meanes of strong drinke they are drunken with wine they go amisse thorowe strong drinke they fayle in propheciyng and stumble in iudgement 8 For all tables are full of vomit and filthynesse that no place is cleane 9 Whom then shall suche one teache knowledge and whom shall he make to vnderstande the thing that he heareth for they are as ignoraunt as young chyldren that are taken from the milke and are weaned 10 For they that be suche must take after one lesson another lesson after one commaundement another commaundement for one rule another rule after one instruction another instruction there a litle and there a litle 11 For he that speaketh vnto this people is euen as one that vseth rudenesse of speache and a straunge language 12 If any man say vnto them lo this is the rest wherewith ye may ease hym that is weerie this is the refreshing they wyll not hearken 13 Therfore shall the word of the Lord be vnto them lesson vpon lesson commaundement vpon commaundement rule vpon rule instruction vpon instruction there a litle and there a litle that they may go on and fall backwarde be brused tangled and snared 14 Wherfore heare the word of the Lord ye mockers ye that haue rule of this people whiche is at Hierusalem 15 Because ye haue sayd We haue made a couenaunt with death and with hell are we at agreement and though there go foorth a sore plague it shall not come vnto vs for we haue made falsehood our refuge and vnder vanitie are we hid 16 Therfore thus saith the Lorde God Beholde I lay in Sion for a foundation a stone euen a tryed stone a precious corner stone a sure foundation who so beleueth let hym not be to hastie 17 Iudgement also wyll I laye to the rule and righteousnesse to the balaunce so that the hayle shall sweepe away as a broome your vayne confidence and the priuie place of your refuge shall the waters runne ouer 18 And thus the couenaunt that ye made with death shal be disanulled and your agreement that ye made with hell shall not stand yea when the sore plague goeth foorth ye shal be troden downe vnder it 19 From the tyme that it goeth foorth it shall take you away for early in the morning euery day yea both day and night shall it go thorowe and when the noyse thereof is perceaued it shall gender vexation 20 For the bed is narrowe and not large and the couering so small that a man can not winde him selfe vnder it 21 For the Lord shall stand as in mount Perazim and shal be wroth like as in the valley Gibeon that he may do his worke his straunge worke and bryng to passe his acte his straunge acte 22 Nowe therefore see that ye be no mockers lest your punishment increase For I hearde of the Lorde of hoastes that there shall come a short ende vpon the whole earth 23 Heare ye then and hearken vnto my voyce consider and ponder my speache 24 Doth not the husbandman plowe all the day and openeth and breaketh the clottes of his grounde that he may sowe 25 When he hath made it playne wyll he not spreade abrode the fitches and sowe comin and cast in wheate by measure and the appointed barlye and rye in their place 26 God wyll instruct hym to haue discretion euen his God wyll teache hym 27 For fitches shall not be threshed with an harrowe neither shall a cart wheele be brought thorowe the comin but the fitches are beaten out with a staffe and comin with a rodde 28 But the seede that bread is made of is threshed though it be not alway a threshing and the cart wheele must be brought ouer it lest he grinde it with his teeth 29 This also commeth of the Lorde of hoastes which worketh with wonderfull wysdome and bringeth excellent workes to passe The .xxix. Chapter 1 A prophecie against Hierusalem 13 and
spoken out all the wordes that the Lorde commaunded hym to preache vnto the people then the priestes the prophetes and all the people toke holde vpon hym and sayde Thou shalt dye 9 Howe darest thou be so bolde as to say in the name of the Lord it shall happen to this house as it did vnto Silo and this citie shal be so waste that no man may dwell therin 10 And when all the people were gathered about Ieremie in the house of the Lorde the princes of Iuda hearde of this rumour and they came soone out of the kynges palace into the house of the Lorde and sate them downe before the newe doore of the Lorde 11 Then spake the priestes and the prophetes vnto the rulers and to all the people these wordes This man is worthy to dye for he hath preached agaynst this citie as ye your selues haue hearde with your eares 12 Then sayde Ieremie vnto the rulers and to all the people The Lorde hath sent me to preache agaynst this house and agaynst this citie all the wordes that ye haue hearde 13 Therfore amende your wayes and your aduisementes and be obedient vnto the voyce of the Lorde your God so shall the Lorde repent of the plague that he hath deuised agaynst you 14 Nowe as for me I am in your handes do with me as you thinke expedient and good 15 But this shall ye knowe yf ye put me to death ye shall make your selues this citie and all the inhabitours therof giltie of innocent blood For this is of a trueth that the Lorde hath sent me vnto you to speake all these wordes in your eares 16 Then sayde the rulers and the people vnto the priestes and prophetes This man may not be condempned to death for he hath preached vnto vs in the name of the Lorde our God 17 The elders also of the lande stoode vp and sayde thus vnto all the people 18 Micheas the Morasthite which was a prophete vnder Ezekias kyng of Iuda spake to all the people of Iuda thus saith the Lorde of hoastes Sion shal be plowed like a fielde Hierusalem shal be an heape of stones and the hyll of the Lordes house shal be turned to an hye wood 19 Did Ezekias the kyng of Iuda and all the people of Iuda put hym to death for this No veryly but rather feared the Lord and made their prayer vnto hym for the which cause also the Lorde repented of the plague that he had deuised agaynst them Shoulde we then do such a shamefull deede agaynst our soules 20 There was a prophete also that preached stifly in the name of the Lorde called Vrias the sonne of Semaiah of Kiriathiarim this man also preached agaynst this citie and agaynst this lande according to all as Ieremie saith 21 Nowe when Iehoakim the king with all the estates and princes had hearde his wordes the kyng went about to slay him When Vrias perceaued that he was afrayde and fled and departed into Egypt 22 Then Iehoakim the kyng sent seruauntes into the lande of Egypt namelye Elnathan the sonne of Achbor and certayne men with hym into Egypt 23 Which fetched Vrias out of Egypt and brought him vnto king Iehoakim that slue hym with the sworde and cast his dead body into the common peoples graue 24 But Ahikam the sonne of Saphan helped Hieremie that he came not into the handes of the people to be slayne The .xxvij. Chapter 1 Ieremie at the commaundement of the Lorde sendeth bondes to the kyng of Iuda and to the other kynges that were nye wherby they are monished to become subiectes vnto Nabuchodonozor 9 He warneth the people and the kinges and rulers that they beleue not false prophetes 1 IN the begynnyng of the raigne of Iehoakim the sonne of Iosias kyng of Iuda came this worde vnto Ieremie from the Lorde which spake thus vnto me 2 Make thee bondes and chaynes and put them about thy necke 3 And sende them to the kyng of Edom to the kyng of Moab to the kyng of Ammon to the kyng of Tyrus and to the kyng of Sidon and that by the messengers which shall come to Hierusalem vnto Zedekiah the kyng of Iuda 4 And bid them say vnto their maisters Thus saith the Lorde of hoastes the God of Israel speake thus vnto your maisters 5 I am he that made the earth the men and the cattell that are vpon the grounde with my great power stretched out arme and haue geuen it vnto whom it pleased me 6 And nowe wyll I deliuer all these landes into the power of Nabuchodonozor the kyng of Babylon my seruaunt the beastes also of the fielde shall I geue hym to do hym seruice 7 And all the people shal serue him and his sonne and his childers children vntyll the tyme of the same lande be come and his tyme also yea many people and great kynges shall serue hym 8 Moreouer that people and kyngdome which wyl not serue Nabuchodonozor that wyll not put their neckes vnder the yoke of the kyng of Babylon the same people wyll I visite with the sworde with hunger and pestilence vntyll I haue consumed them in his handes saith the Lorde 9 And therfore folowe not your prophetes soothsayers expounders of dreames charmers witches which say vnto you Ye shal not serue the kyng of Babylon 10 For they preache you lyes to bring you farre from your lande that I myght cast you out and destroy you 11 But the people that put their neckes vnder the yoke of the kyng of Babylon and serue hym those wyll I let remayne styll in their owne lande saith the Lorde and they shall occupie it and dwell therin 12 All these thynges tolde I Zedekiah the kyng of Iuda and sayde Put your neckes vnder the yoke of the kyng of Babylon and serue him and his people that ye may liue 13 Why wylt thou and thy people perishe with the sworde with hunger with pestilence like as the Lord hath deuised for all people that wyll not serue the kyng of Babylon 14 Therfore geue no eare vnto those prophetes that tell you Ye shall not serue the kyng of Babylon for they preache you lyes 15 Neither haue I sent them saith the Lorde howbeit they are bolde falsly to prophecie in my name that I myght the sooner driue you out and that ye myght perishe with your preachers 16 I speake to the priestes also and to all this people Thus saith the Lorde Heare not the wordes of your prophetes that preache vnto you and say Beholde the vessels of the Lordes house shall shortly be brought hyther agayne from Babylon for they prophecie lyes vnto you 17 Heare them not but serue the kyng of Babylon that ye may lyue Wherfore wyll ye make this citie to be destroyed 18 But yf they be true prophetes in very deede and yf the worde of the Lorde be committed vnto them then let them pray the
and her walles shall come downe for it shal be the vengeaunce of the Lorde yea vengeaunce shal be taken of her and as she hath done so deale ye with her 16 Roote out the sower from Babylon hym that handleth the sicle in haruest for feare of the sworde of the enemie euery man shall get hym to his owne people and euery man shall flee to his owne lande 17 Israel is a scattered flocke the lions haue dispearsed them First the kyng of the Assyrians deuoured them last of all this Nabuchodonozor king of Babylon hath brused all their bones 18 Therfore thus saith the Lorde of hoastes the God of Israel Beholde I wyll visite the kyng of Babylon and his kyngdome as I haue visited the kyng of the Assyrians 19 And wyll bryng Israel agayne to his pleasaunt pasture that he may feede vpon Charmel and Basan and be satisfied vpon the mount of Ephraim and Galaad 20 In those dayes and at the same tyme saith the Lorde yf the offence of Israel be sought for there shal none be founde yf men enquire for the sinne of Iuda there shal be none for I wyll be mercifull vnto them whom I suffer to remayne 21 Go downe O thou auenger into the enemies lande and visite them that dwell therin downe with them smite them vpon the backes saith the Lorde do accordyng to all that I haue commaunded thee 22 There is gone about the lande a crye of a slaughter and great murther namelye on this maner 23 Howe happeneth it that the hammer of the whole worlde is thus broken and brused in sunder Howe chaunceth it that Babylon is become a wildernesse among the heathen on this maner 24 I my selfe haue layde a snare for thee and thou art taken vnawares thou art trapped and snared for why thou hast contended agaynst the Lorde 25 The Lorde hath opened his house of ordinaunce and brought foorth the weapons of his wrath for the thyng that is done in the land of the Chaldees it is the Lorde of hoastes worke 26 Come agaynst her for this is her ende breake vp her chestes threshe her as ye threshe corne destroy her that nothyng shal be left 27 Slay all their mightie souldiers and put them to death Wo be vnto them for the day and tyme of their visitation is at hande 28 Me thynke I heare alredy a crye of them that be fled and escaped out of the lande of Babylon which shewe in Sion the vengeaunce of the Lorde our God the vengeaunce of his temple yea a voyce of them that crye agaynst Babylon 29 Call vp all the archers agaynst Babylon pitch your tentes rounde about her that none escape recompence her as she hath deserued and accordyng as she hath done so deale with her agayne for she hath set vp her selfe agaynst the Lorde agaynst the holy one of Israel 30 Therfore shall her young men fall downe in the streetes and all her men of warre shal be rooted out in that day saith the Lorde 31 Beholde I speake vnto thee O thou proude saith the Lorde God of hoastes for thy day shall come euen the tyme of thy visitation 32 And the proude shall stumble and fall and no man shall helpe hym vp I wyll burne vp his cities with fire and it shall consume all that is rounde about hym 33 Thus saith the Lorde of hoastes The children of Israel and Iuda suffer violence together all they that haue them in captiuitie kepe them fast and wyll not let them go 34 But their auenger and redeemer is mightie whose name is the Lorde of hoastes he shall maynteyne their cause he shal make the lande shake and iudge them that dwell therin one with another 35 The sworde shal come vpon the Chaldees saith the Lorde vpon them that dwell in Babylon vpon their princes and vpon their wise men 36 The sworde vpon their soothsayers as for those they shall become fooles the sworde vpon their worthies so that they shall stande in feare 37 The sworde vpon their horsemen and charrettes and vpon all the cōmon people that dwell among them so that they shall all become lyke women The sworde vpon their treasure so that it shal be stollen away 38 A drought vpon their waters so that they shal be dryed vp for the lande worshippeth images and delighteth wonderfully in idols 39 Therfore shall wylde beastes Lamia and Cat of mountaynes and Estreches dwell therin for there shall neuer man dwell there neither shall any man haue his habitation there for euermore 40 Like as God destroyed Sodome and Gomorre with the cities that lay there about saith the Lorde so shall no man dwell there also neither shall any man haue there his habitation 41 Beholde there shall come a people from the north with a great bonde of men and many kynges shall stande vp from the endes of the earth 42 They beare bowes and bucklers cruell are they and vnmercifull their voyce roreth like the ragyng sea they ryde vpon horses and come weaponed to fight agaynst thee O Babylon 43 Assoone as the king of Babylon heare tell of them his handes shall waxe feeble sorowe and heauinesse shall come vpon him as a woman trauayling with chylde 44 Beholde like as the lion commeth vp from the swellyng of Iordane vnto the dennes of Ethan so wyll I dryue them foorth and make them runne agaynst her But whom shall I choose out and ordayne to such a thyng for who is like me or who wil striue with me or what sheephearde may stande agaynst me 45 Therfore here the counsayle that the Lorde hath geuen vpon Babylon and the deuice that he hath taken vpon the lande of the Chaldees The least among the people shall drawe them out and loke what pleasaunt houses they haue they shall lay them waste 46 The noyse at the wynnyng of Babylon shall moue the earth and the crye shal be hearde among the gentiles The .lj. Chapter 1 Howe Babylon shoulde be ouerthrowen 59 Ieremie geueth his booke to Saraias 1 THus hath the Lorde sayde Behold I wyll rayse vp a perilous wynde agaynst Babylon her citizens that beare euyl wyll against me 2 I wyll sende also into Babylon fanners to fanne her out and to destroy her lande for in the day of her trouble they shal be about her on euery syde 3 Moreouer the Lorde wyll say vnto the bowmen and to them that aduaunce them selues in their armoure Ye shall not spare her young men kyll downe all her hoast 4 Thus the slayne shall fall downe in the lande of the Chaldees and the wounded in the streetes 5 As for Israel and Iuda they shall not be forsaken of their God of the Lord of hoastes yea for the holy one of Israels sake haue the Chaldees fylled their lande full of sinne 6 * Flee away from Babylon euery man saue his lyfe that ye be not rooted out with her wickednesse for the tyme of
teareth in peeces and there is no man that can deliuer 9 Thyne hand shal be lyft vp vpon thyne enemies and all thyne aduersaries shall perishe 10 And it shall come to passe in that day saith the Lorde that I wyll take thyne horses from thee and destroy thy charrettes 11 I wyll breake downe the cities of thy lande and ouerthrowe all thy strong holdes 12 All witchcraftes wyll I roote out of thyne hande there shall no mo soothsayinges be within thee 13 Thyne idols and thyne images wyll I destroy out of thee so that thou shalt no more bowe thy selfe vnto the workes of thyne owne handes 14 Thy groues wyll I plucke vp by the rootes and breake downe thy cities 15 And I wyll execute a vengeaunce in my wrath indignation vpon the heathen such as they haue not heard The .vi. Chapter 1 An exhortation to heare the iudgement against Israel being vnkinde 8 What maner of sacrifices do please God 1 HEarken ye nowe what the Lorde sayth Arise thou and contend with the mountaynes and let the hilles heare thy voyce 2 Heare O ye mountaines the Lordes quarel and ye mightie foundations of the earth for the Lorde hath a quarell against his people and wyll pleade with Israel 3 O my people what haue I done vnto thee or wherein haue I greeued thee geue me aunswere 4 For I brought thee out of the lande of Egypt deliuered thee out of the house of bondage and I made Moyses Aaron and Miriam to leade thee 5 Remember O my people what Balaâ—h the king of Moab had deuised against thee and what aunswere that Balaam the sonne of Beor gaue him from Sethin vnto Galgal that ye may knowe the righteousnesse of the Lorde 6 Wherewith shall I come before the Lorde and bowe my selfe to the hye God Shall I come before him with burnt offeringes and with calues of a yere olde 7 Hath the Lorde a pleasure in many thousandes of Rammes or innumerable streames of oyle shall I geue my first borne for myne offences and the fruite of my body for the sinne of my soule 8 He hath shewed thee O man what is good and what the Lorde requireth of thee namely to do iustly to loue mercie and to humble thy selfe to walke with thy God 9 The Lordes voyce cryeth vnto the citie and the man that shal be saued considereth thy name hearken what is your rodde heare him that warneth you 10 Are not yet the treasures of wickednesse in the house of the wicked and the scant measure which is abhominable 11 Should I iustifie the false balaunces and the bagge of deceitfull weightes 12 For the riche men thereof are full of crueltie and the inhabitantes thereof haue spoken lyes and haue deceitfull tongues in their mouthes 13 Therefore I wyll take in hande to punishe thee and to make thee desolate because of thy sinnes 14 Thou shalt eate and not haue inough yea thou shalt bring thy selfe downe in the middes of thee thou shalt flee but not escape and those that thou wouldest saue wyll I deliuer to the sworde 15 Thou shalt sowe but not reape thou shalt presse out Oliues but oyle shalt thou not haue to annoynt thy selfe withall thou shalt tread out sweete must but shalt drincke no wine 16 Ye kepe the ordinaunces of Amri and all the customes of the house of Ahab ye walke in their counsels therfore wyl I make thee waste and cause thy inhabiters to be hissed at and ye shall beare the reproche of my people The .vii. Chapter 1 A complaynt of the litle number of the righteous 5 Against the trueth ought wâ— not to holde with our greatest friendes 14 The prosperiâ—ie of the church 1 WO is me I am become as one that goeth a gleanyng in the haruest there are no mo grapes to eate yet would I faine with al my hearte haue of the best fruite 2 There is not a godly vpon earth there is not one righteous among men they al lye in wayte for blood and euery man hunteth his brother to death 3 Yet they say they do wel when they do euyll the prince asketh and the iudge iudgeth for a rewarde therfore the great man speaketh out of the corruption of his soule and so they wrappe it vp 4 The best of them is as bryer and the most righteous of them is sharper then a thorne hedge the day of thy watchmen and of thy visitation commeth then shal be their confusion 5 Let no man beleeue his friende nor put his confidence in his brother kepe the doore of thy mouth from her that lyeth in thy bosome 6 For the sonne dishonoreth his father the daughter riseth against her mother the daughter in law against her mother in lawe and a mans foes are euen they of his owne housholde 7 Neuerthelesse I wil looke vp vnto the Lorde I will patiently abyde God my sauiour my God shall heare me 8 O thou enemie of myne reioyce not at my fall for I shall rise againe though I sit in darkenesse yet the Lorde is my light 9 I will beare the wrath of the Lord for I haue offended hym till he sit in iudgement vpon my cause and see that I haue right then will he bring me foorth to the light and I shall see his righousnesse 10 She that is myne enemie shall loke vpon it and be confounded which nowe sayth Where is the Lorde thy God myne eyes shall beholde her when she shal be troden downe as the myre in the streetes 11 This is the day that thy walles shal be buylt this day shall dryue farre away the decree 12 And at that time shall they come vnto thee from Assur from the strong cities and from the strong holdes euen vnto the riuer from the one sea to the other and from mountayne to mountayne 13 Notwithstanding the land must be wasted because of them that dwell therin and for the fruites of their owne imaginations 14 Therfore feede thy people with thy rod the flocke of thyne heritage whiche dwel desolate in the wood that they may be fed vpon the mount of Carmel Basan and Gilead as aforetime 15 Maruelous thinges wil I shewe thee like as when thou camest out of the lande of Egypt 16 This shall the heathen see and be ashamed for all their power so that they shall lay their hande vpon their mouth and stoppe their eares 17 They shal licke the dust like a serpente and as the wormes of the earth that tremble in their holes they shal be afrayde of the Lorde our God and they shall feare thee 18 Who is such a God as thou that pardonest wickednesse and forgeuest the offences of the remnaunt of thyne heritage He kepeth not his wrath for euer for his delite is to haue compassion 19 He shall turne againe and be merciful to vs he shall put downe our wickednesses and cast all our sinnes into the bottome of the sea 20
at the last he declareth his vngraciousnesse 8 A nygarde hath a wicked eye he turneth away his face and despiseth men 9 A couetous mans eye hath neuer enough in the portion of wickednesse vntill the time that he wyther away and haue lost his owne soule 10 A wicked eye enuieth bread and there is scarcenesse vpon his table 11 My sonne do good to thy selfe of that thou hast and geue the Lorde his due offeringes 12 Remember that death tarieth not and how that the graue is not shewed vnto thee for the couenaunt of this world shall dye the death 13 Do good vnto thy friende before thou dye and according to thy abilitie reache out thyne hande geue vnto the poore 14 Be not disapoynted of the good day and let not the portion of the good desire ouerpasse thee 15 Shalt thou not leaue thy trauayles and labours vnto other men In the deuiding of the heritage geue and take and sanctifie thy soule 16 Worke thou righteousnes before thy death for in the hell there is no meate to finde 17 All fleshe shall fade away lyke a garment and lyke a florishing leafe in a greene tree 18 Some growe some are cast downe euen so is the generation of fleshe and blood one commeth to an ende another is borne and this is the condition of all times thou shalt dye the death 19 All transitorie thinges shal fayle at the last the worker therof shal go withal 20 Euery chosen worke shal be iustified and he that medled withall shall haue honour therin 21 Blessed is the man that kepeth hym in wysdome and exerciseth him selfe in vnderstanding and with discretion shall thinke vpon the foreknowledge of God 22 Whiche considereth the wayes of wysdome in his heart hath vnderstanding in her secretes 23 Goeth after her as one that seketh her out and continueth in her ways 24 He loketh in at her windowes hearkeneth at her doores 25 He taketh his rest beside her house and fasteneth his stake in her walles he shal pitche his tent nye vnto her hand and in his tent shall good thinges rest for euermore 26 He shal set his children vnder her couering shall dwell vnder her braunches 27 Vnder her couering shall he be defended from her heate and in the glorie shal he rest The .xv. Chapter 1 The goodnesse that foloweth hym which feareth God 8 God reiecteth and casteth of the sinner 11 God is not the auctour of euyll 1 HE that feareth God wil do good who so kepeth the lawe shall obtayne wysdome 2 As an honorable mother shall she meete hym and she as his wife maried of a virgin shal receaue him 3 With the bread of lyfe and vnderstanding shal she feede him geue him the water of wholsome wisdome to drinke 4 If he be constant in her he shall not be moued and if he holde him fast by her he shall not come to confusion 5 She shall bring him to honour among his neyghbours and in the middest of the congregation shall she open his mouth With the spirite of wysdome and vnderstanding shall she fyll him and cloth him with the garment of glorie 6 She shall heape the treasure of myrth and ioye vpon him and geue him an euerlasting name to heritage 7 Foolishe men will not take holde vpon her but such as haue vnderstanding will meete her Foolishe men shall not see her for she is farre from pryde and disceyte 8 Men that go about with lyes will not remember her but men of trueth shal be founde in her and shall prosper euen vnto the beholding of God 9 Prayse is not seemely in the mouth of the vngodly for he is not sent of the Lorde 10 But if prayse come of wysdome and be plenteous in a faythfull mouth then the Lorde will prosper it 11 Say not thou it is the Lordes fault that I am gone by for thou shalt not do the thing that God hateth 12 Say not thou he hath caused me to do wrong for he hath no neede of the vngodly 13 God hateth al abhomination of errour and they that feare God will loue none such 14 God made man from the beginning and left him in the hande of his counsell He gaue his commaundementes and preceptes 15 If thou wilt obserue the commaundementes and kepe acceptable faythfulnesse for euer they shall preserue thee 16 He hath set water and fyre before thee reache out thine hande vnto which thou wilt 17 Before man is lyfe and death good and euyll loke what him lyketh shal be geuen him 18 For the wysdome of God is great and mightie in power and beholdeth all thinges continually 19 The eyes of the Lorde are vpon them that feare him and he knoweth all the workes of man 20 He hath commaunded no man to do vngodly neither hath he geuen any man licence to sinne for he desireth not a multitude of infidels and vnprofitable children The .xvi. Chapter 1 Of vnhappie and wicked children 19 No man can hyde him selfe from God 24 An exhortation to the receauing of instruction 1 DElite not thou in the multitude of vngodly children and haue no pleasure in them if they feare not God 2 Trust not thou to their lyfe and regarde not their labours 3 For one sonne that feareth God is better then a thousand vngodly And better it is for a man to dye without children then to leaue beynde hym such children as are vngodly 4 For by one that hath vnderstanding may a whole citie be vpholden but though the vngodly be many yet shal it be wasted through them 5 Many such thinges hath mine eye seene and greater thinges then these haue I heard with myne eares 6 In the congregation of the vngodly shal a fire burne and among vnfaythful people shall the wrath be kindled 7 The olde giauntes optayned no grace for their sinnes whiche were destroyed trusting to their owne strength 8 Neither spared he them among whō Lot was a straunger but smote them and abhorred them because of the pride of their wordes 9 He had no pitie vpon them but destroyed all the people that were so stout in sinne 10 And forsomuch as he ouersawe the sixe hundred thousand that gathered them selues together in the hardnesse of their heart in afflicting them in pitiing them in smiting them and healing them with mercie and chastisement it were maruell if one being hardnecked should be free 11 For mercy wrath is with him he is both mightie to forgeue and to powre out displeasure 12 Lyke as his mercy is great euen so is his punishement also he iudgeth a man according to his workes 13 The vngodly shall not escape in his spoyle the long patience of him that sheweth mercie shall not byde behinde 14 He wyll make a place for euery mercifull deede and euery man shall finde according to his workes 15 The Lorde hardened Pharao that he should not know him and
and he shall not knowe from whence 28 The proude blaspheme and are scorneful but vengeaunce lurketh for them as a lion 29 They that reioyce at the fall of the righteous shall be taken in the snare anguishe of heart shall consume them before they dye 30 Anger and rigorousnesse are two abhominable thinges and the vngodly hath them both vpon hym The .xxviii. Chapter 1 We ought not to desire vengeaunce but to forgeue the offence 13 Of the vices of the tongue and of the daungers therof 1 HE that seketh vengeaunce shal find vengeaunce of the Lorde which shal surely kepe hym his sinnes 2 Forgeue thy neyghbour the hurt that he hath done thee and so shal thy sinnes be forgeuen thee also when thou prayest 3 A man that beareth hatred against another how dare he desire forgeuenesse of God 4 He that sheweth no mercie to a man which is like him selfe how dare he aske forgeuenesse of his sinnes 5 If he that is but fleshe beareth hatred and kepeth it who will intreate for his sinnes 6 Remember the ende and let enmitie passe whiche seketh death and destruction and abyde thou in the commaundementes 7 Remember the commaundementes so shalt thou not be rigorous ouer thy neyghbour Thinke vpon the couenaunt of the hyghest and forgeue thy neyghbours ignoraunce 8 Beware of stryfe and thou shalt make thy sinnes fewer 9 For an angry man kindleth variaunce and the vngodly disquieteth friendes and putteth discorde among them that be at peace 10 The more wood there is the more vehement is the fire and the mightier that men be the greater is the wrath according to his riches his anger increaseth and the longer the stryfe endureth the more it burneth 11 And hastie brawling kindleth a fyre and an hastie stryfe sheddeth blood A tongue also that beareth false witnesse bringeth death 12 If thou blow the sparke it shall burne yf thou spyt vpon it it shall go foorth and both these come out of the mouth 13 The sclaunderer and doubble tongued is cursed for many one that be friendes setteth he at variaunce 14 The thirde tongue hath disquieted many one and dryuen them from one lande to another Strong cities of the riche hath it broken downe and ouerthrowen the houses of great men The strength of the people hath it brought downe and ben the decay of mightie nations 15 The thirde tongue hath cast out many an honest woman and robbed them of their labours 16 Who so hearkeneth vnto such shal neuer finde rest and neuer dwell safely 17 The stroke of the rod maketh printes in the skinne but the stroke of the tongue smyteth the bones in sunder 18 There be many that haue perished with the sworde but many mo thorow the tongue 19 Well is him that is kept from an euyll tongue and commeth not in the anger thereof which draweth not the yoke of such and is not bounde in the bandes of it 20 For the yoke therof is of yron and the bande of it of steele 21 The death therof is a very euyl death hell were better for one then such a tongue 22 But the fire of it may not oppresse them that feare God and the flambe thereof may not burne them 23 Such as forsake the Lorde shall fall therin and it shall burne them and no man shall be able to quenche it It shall fall vpon them as a lion and deuour them as a leoparde 24 Thou hedgest thy goodes with thornes why doest thou not rather make doores and barres for thy mouth 25 Thou wayest thy gold and siluer why doest thou not waye thy wordes also vpon thy balaunce and make a doore and a barre and a sure brydell for thy mouth 26 Beware that thou slide not thy tongue and so fal before thyne enemies that lay wayte for thee and thy fal be incurable euen vnto death The .xxix. Chapter 1 Howe we ought to lende our money and do almes 15 Of a faythfull man aunswering for his friende 22 Of liberalitie and hospitalitie 1 WHo so will shewe mercie let hym lende vnto his neyghbour and he that is able let him kepe the commaundementes 2 Lend vnto thy neyghbour in time of his neede and paye thou thy neyghbour againe in due season 3 Kepe thy worde and deale faythfully with him and thou shalt alway finde the thing that is necessarie for thee 4 There haue ben many that when a thing was lent them reckened it to be founde and made them trauayle and labour that had helped them 5 Whyle they receaue any thing they kisse the handes of such as geue them and for their neyghbours good they humble their voyce but when they should paye againe they kepe it backe and geue euyl wordes and make many excuses by reason of the time 6 And though he be able yet geueth he scarse the halfe againe and reckeneth the other to be founde And if he withholde not his money yet hath he an enemie of him and that vndeserued He payeth him with cursing and rebuke and geueth him euyll wordes for his good deede 7 There be many one which are not glad for to lende not because of euyl but they feare to lose the thing that they lende 8 Yet haue thou patience with the simple and withholde not mercie from him 9 Helpe the poore for the commaundementes sake and let hym not go emptie from thee because of his necessitie 10 Lose thy money for thy brother and neyghbours sake and burie it not vnder a stone where it rusteth and corrupteth 11 Gather thy treasure after the commaundement of the hyghest and so shal it bring thee more profite then golde 12 Lay vp thyne almes in the hande of the poore and it shall kepe thee from all euyll 13 A mans almes is as a purse with him shal kepe a mans fauour as the apple of an eye and afterwarde shall it arise and paye euery man his rewarde vpon his head 14 It shall fight for thee against thyne enemies better then the shielde of a gyaunt or speare of the mightie 15 A good honest man is a suertie for his neyghbour but a wicked person letteth him come to shame 16 Forget not the friendship of thy suertie for he hath geuen his soule for thee 17 The vngodly despiseth the good deede of his suertie 18 The wicked will not become suertie and the vnthankeful and ignoraunt leaueth his suertie in daunger 19 Some man promiseth for his neyghbour when he hath lost his honestie he shall forsake him 20 Suertishippe hath destroyed many a riche man and remoued them as the waues in the sea Mightie people hath it dryuen away and caused them to wander in straunge countreys 21 An vngodly man transgressing the commaundement of the Lorde shall fal into an euyll suertiship and though he force him selfe to get out yet shall he fall into iudgement 22 Helpe thy neyghbour out after thy power and beware that thou thy selfe fall
Beholde how I haue not laboured onely for my selfe but for all such as loue nurture and wysdome 17 Heare me O ye great men of the people and hearken with your eares ye rulers of the congregation 18 Geue not thy sonne and wyfe thy brother and friend power ouer thee whyle thou liuest and geue not away thy substaunce good to another lest it repent thee and thou be faine to aske of them againe 19 As long as thou lyuest and hast breath let no man chaunge thee 20 For better it is thy children to pray thee then that thou shouldest be faine to loke in their handes 21 In all thy workes be excellent that thy honour be neuer stayned 22 At the time when thou shalt ende thy dayes and finishe thy lyfe distribute thyne inheritaunces 23 The fodder the whippe and the burthen belongeth vnto the asse meate correction and worke vnto the seruaunt 24 If thou set thy seruaunt to labour thou shalt finde rest but if thou let him go idle he shall seeke libertie 25 The yoke and the whippe bowe downe the hard necke but tame thou thy euill seruaunt with bondes and correction 26 Sende him to labour that he go not idle for idlenesse bringeth much euill 27 Set him to worke for that belongeth vnto him and becommeth him wel 28 If he be not obedient binde his feete but do not to much vnto him in any wyse and without discretion do nothing 29 If thou haue a faithfull seruaunt let him be vnto thee as thyne owne soule entreate him as a brother for in blood hast thou gotten him if thou haue a seruaunt holde him as thy selfe for thou hast neede of him as of thy selfe 30 If thou intreatest him euil and kepest him hard and makest him to be proude and to runne away from thee thou canst not tell what way thou shalt seeke him The .xxxiiij. Chapter 1 Of dreames dâ—â—inations and enchauntmentes 6 We ought to confute vaine hope and lying 13 The prayse of them that feare God 22 Of diuers workes of men 27 God doth not alowe the workes of an vnfaithfull man 1 VNwyse people beguile them selues with vaine and deceitfull hope and fooles trust in dreames 2 Who so regardeth dreames is lyke him that wyll take holde of a shadowe and folowe after the winde 3 Euen so is it with the appearinges of dreames before the face is the lykenesse of a face 4 Who can be cleansed of the vncleane or what trueth can be spoken of a lyer 5 Soothsaying witchcrafte sorcerie and dreaming is but vaine lyke as when a woman trauayleth with childe hath many fantasies in her heart 6 Where as such visions come not of God set not thyne heart vpon them 7 For dreames haue deceaued many a man and they failed that put their trust therein 8 The lawe shal be fulfilled without lyes wysdome is sufficient to a faithfull mouth what knowledge hath he that is not tryed 9 A wyse man that is well instruct vnderstandeth much and he that hath good experience can talke of wysdome 10 He that hath no experience knoweth litle and he that erreth causeth much wickednesse he that is not tryed what thinges knoweth he he that hath ben deceaued is full of subtiltie 11 When I was yet in errour I learned much also yea I was so learned that I could not expresse it all 12 And came oft in perill of death therefore tyll I was delyuered from it through the grace of God 13 Now I see that they which feare God haue the right spirit for their hope standeth in him that can helpe them and the eyes of the Lorde are on them that loue him 14 Who so feareth the Lorde standeth in awe of no man and is not afraide for the Lorde is his hope and comforte 15 Blessed is the soule of him that feareth the lord in whom putteth he his trust who is his strength 16 For the eyes of the Lord haue respect vnto them that loue him he is their mightie protection and strong grounde A defence for the heate a refuge for the hot noone day a succour for stumbling and an helpe for falling 17 He setteth vp the soule and lighteneth the eyes he geueth lyfe and blessing 18 He that geueth an offering of vnrighteous good his offering is refused and the scornefull dealinges of the vnrighteous please not God 19 The Lorde is theirs onely that patiently abide him in the way of the trueth and of righteousnesse 20 The highest doth not alowe the giftes of the wicked and God hath no delight in the offeringes of the vngodly neither may sinne be reconciled in the multitude of oblations 21 Who so bringeth an offering out of the goodes of the poore doth euen as one that killeth the sonne before the fathers eyes 22 The bread of the nedefull is the lyfe of the poore he that defraudeth him thereof is a man of blood 23 Who so robbeth his neighbour of his lyuing doth as great sinne as though he slue him to death he that defraudeth the labourer of his hyre is a blood shedder 24 When one buildeth and an other breaketh downe what profite haue they then but labour 25 When one prayeth and another curseth whose voyce wyl the Lorde heare 26 He that washeth him selfe because of a dead body and then toucheth the dead againe what doth his washing 27 So is it with a man that fasteth for his sinnes and doth them againe who wyll heare his prayer or what doth his fasting helpe him ¶ The .xxxv. Chapter 1 It is well done to pray and to do sacrifice 14 The prayer of the fatherlesse and of the widowe and of him that humbleth himselfe 1 WHo so kepeth the lawe bringeth offeringes inough he that holdeth fast the coÌ„maundement offereth the right health offering 2 He that is thankefull and recompenceth offereth fine floure who so is merciful and geueth almes that is the right thanke offering 3 God hath pleasure when one departeth from sinne and to forsake vnrighteousnesse reconcileth vs with him 4 Thou shalt not appeare emptie before the Lorde 5 For al such is done because of the commaundement of God 6 The offering of the righteous maketh the aulter fat and a sweete smell is it before the highest 7 The offering of the righteous is acceptable vnto God and shall neuer be forgotten 8 Geue God his honour with a chearefull heart and keepe not backe the firstlinges of thyne handes 9 In all thy giftes shewe a chearefull countenaunce and halowe thy tythes vnto God with gladnesse 10 Geue vnto God according as he hath enriched and prospered thee and loke what thyne hande is able geue with a chearefull eye 11 For the Lorde recompenceth and geueth thee seuen times as much againe 12 Geue no vnrighteous giftes for such wyll he not receaue Beware of wrong offeringes for the Lorde is a righteous iudge and regardeth no mans person 13 He accepteth not the person of the poore but he
my realme shal be free 44 For the buylding also and repayring of the worke of the sanctuarie expences shal be geuen out of the kinges reuenues 45 Yea and for the making of the walles rounde about Hierusalem for the breaking downe of the olde and for the setting vp of the strong holdes in Iurie shall the costes and charges be geuen out of the kinges reuenues 46 But when Ionathas and the people hearde these wordes they gaue no credence vnto them neither receaued them for they remembred the great wickednesse that he had done vnto Israel and howe sore he had vexed them 47 Wherfore they agreed vnto Alexanander for he was a prince that had dealt friendly with them and so they stoode by him alway 48 Then gathered king Alexander a great hoast and brought his armie against Demetrius 49 So the two kinges stroke battayle together but Demetrius hoast fled and Alexander folowed after and fell vpon them 50 A mightie sore fielde was it continuing till the sunne went downe and Demetrius was slayne the same day 51 And Alexander sent ambassadours vnto Ptolomi the king of Egypt with these wordes saying 52 Forsomuch as I am come againe to my realme and am set in the throne of my progenitours and haue gotten the dominion ouercommed Demetrius 53 Conquered the lande striken a fielde with hym so that we haue discomfited both hym and his hoast and sit in the throne of his kingdome 54 Let vs nowe make friendship together geue me thy daughter to wyfe so shal I be thy sonne in lawe and both geue thee rewardes and her accordyng to thy dignitie 55 Ptolomi the king gaue aunswere saying Happy be the day wherein thou art come againe to the lande of thy progenitours and set in the throne of their kingdome 56 And nowe will I fulfill thy wryting but meete me at Ptolomais that we may see one another and that I may marry my daughter vnto thee according to thy desire 57 So Ptolomi went out of Egypt with his daughter Cleopatra and came vnto Ptolomais in the hundred threescore and two yere 58 Where king Alexander mette hym and he gaue Alexander his daughter Cleopatra and maried them at Ptolomais with great worship like as the maner of kinges is to be 59 Then wrote king Alexander vnto Ionathas that he shoulde come and meete him 60 So he went honorably vnto Ptolomais there he mette the two kinges and gaue them and their friendes great presentes of golde and siluer and founde fauour in their sight 61 And there came together against Ionathas certayne wicked men and vngratious persons of Israel making complayntes of him but the king regarded them not 62 As for Ionathas the king commaunded to take of his garmentes to cloth him in purple and so they did Then the king appoynted him to sit by him 63 And sayde vnto his princes Go with him into the middest of the citie make a proclamation that no man complayne against him of any matter and that no man trouble hym for any maner of cause 64 So it happened that when his accusers sawe the worship whiche was proclaymed of hym that he was clothed in purple they fled euery one 65 And the king made much of him wrote hym among his chiefe friendes made hym a duke and partaker of his dominion 66 Thus Ionathas went againe to Hierusalem with peace and gladnesse 67 In the hundred threescore fyft yere came Demetrius the sonne of Demetrius from Creta into his fathers lande 68 Wherof when Alexander heard tell he was right sory and returned vnto Antioch 69 And Demetrius chose Apollonius whiche had the gouernaunce of Celosiria to be his captayne So he gathered a great hoast and came vnto Iamnia sent worde vnto Ionathas the hygh priest saying 70 Darest thou withstande vs thy selfe alone As for me I am but laughed to scorne and shamed because thou diddest vaunte thy strength against vs in the mountaynes 71 Now therfore if thou trustest in thyne owne strength come downe to vs into the playne fielde there let vs trye the matter together for thou shalt knowe that I haue the strength of many cities 72 And shalt knowe who I am and the other that stand by me which say That your foote is not able to stande before our face for thy fathers haue ben twyse chased in their owne lande 73 And nowe howe wilt thou be able to abyde so great an hoast of horsemen and footemen in the fielde where as is neither rocke stone nor place to flee vnto 74 When Ionathas hearde the wordes of Apollonius he was moued in his mynde wherfore he chose ten thousand men and went out of Hierusalem and Simon his brother mette hym for to helpe hym 75 And they pitched their tentes at Ioppa but the citie kept hym foorth for Apollonius garrison was in Ioppa 76 Then Ionathas layed siege to it and they that were in the citie for very feare let him in and so Ionathas wan Ioppa 77 Apollonius hearing of this toke three thousand horsemen with a great hoast on foote and went to Azotus as though he woulde go further and came immediatly into the playne fielde because he had so many horsemen and put his trust in them 78 So Ionathas folowed vpon hym to Azotus and the army skirmished with his rereward and there they stroke the battayle 79 Nowe had Apollonius left a thousande horsemen behynde them priuily in the tentes 80 And when Ionathas knewe that such wayte was layed behynde them they went rounde about the enemies hoast and shot dartes at the people from the morning to the euening 81 As for Ionathas people they kept their order as he had commaunded them and the enemies horses were weery 82 Then brought Simon foorth his hoast and set them against the footemen for the horsemen were weery alredy So he discomfited them and they fled 83 And they that were scattered in the fielde gat them to Azotus and came into the temple of Dagon their idoll that they might there saue their liues 84 But Ionathas set fire vpon Azotus and all the cities rounde about it and toke their goodes and brent vp the temple of Dagon with all them that were fled into it 85 Thus were slayne and brent welnye eyght thousande men 86 So Ionathas remoued the hoast from thence and brought them to Ascalon where the men of the citie came foorth and mette him with great worship 87 After this went Ionathas and his hoast againe to Hierusalem with great substaunce of good 88 And when king Alexander heard these thinges he thought to do Ionathas more worship 89 And sent him a coller of gold as the vse is to be geuen vnto such as are of the kinges next blood He gaue him also the citie of Accaron with the landes belonging therto in possession The .xi. Chapter 3 The discention betwixt Ptolomeus and Alexander his sonne in lawe 17 The death of Alexander 19 Demetrius
raigneth after the death of Ptolomeus 22 Sion is besieged of Ionathas 42 Demetrius seing that no man resisteth hym sendeth his armie againe 54 Tryphon moueth Antiochus against Demetrius 60 Demetrius is deliuered by the succour of Ionathas 63 After his deliueraunce he breaketh his couenaunt that he had made 1 ANd the king of Egypt gathered an hoast like the sande that lyeth vpon the sea shore and many shippes went about thorow disceyte to obtayne the kingdome of Alexander and to ioyne it vnto his owne realme 2 Vpon this he toke his iourney into Syria vsing gentle wordes so that he was letten into the cities men came foorth to meete hym for king Alexander had commaunded them so to do because he was his father in lawe 3 Nowe when Ptolomi entred into any citie he left men of warre to kepe it and this he did thorowout all the cities 4 And when he came to Azotus they shewed hym the temple of Dagon and Azotus that was brent vp with the other thinges which were destroyed the dead bodies cast abrode and the graues that they had made by the way side for such as were slayne in the fielde 5 And tolde the king that Ionathas had done all these thinges to the intent they might get him euyll will But the king sayde not one worde therto 6 And Ionathas mette the king with great honour at Ioppa where they saluted one an other and toke their rest 7 So when Ionathas had gone with the king vnto the water that was called Eleutherus he turned againe to Hierusalem 8 Nowe Ptolomi had gotten the dominion of the cities vnto Seleucia vpon the sea coast imagining wicked counsels against Alexander 9 And sent ambassadours vnto Demetrius saying Come let vs make a bonde betwixt vs so shall I geue thee my daughter that Alexander hath and thou shalt raigne in thy fathers kingdome 10 I repent that I gaue Alexander my daughter for he goeth about to slay me 11 And thus he slaundered Alexander because he woude haue had his realme 12 Thus he toke his daughter from him gaue her vnto Demetrius and forsoke Alexander so that his malice was openly knowen 13 And Ptolomi came to Antioch where he set two crownes vpon his owne head the crowne of Egypt and of Asia 14 In the meane season was king Alexander in Cilicia for they that dwelt in those places had rebelled against hym 15 But when Alexander hearde of this he came to warre against hym So king Ptolomi brought foorth his hoast and mette him with a mightie power and chased him away 16 Then fled Alexander into Arabia there to be defended and king Ptolomeus honour increased 17 And Zabdiel the Arabian smote of Alexanders head sent it vnto Ptolomi 18 But the thirde day after died king Ptolomi hym selfe and they whom he had set in the strong holdes were slayne one of another 19 And Demetrius raigned in the hundred threscore and seuenth yere 20 At the same time gathered Ionathas them that were in Iurie to lay siege vnto the castle which was at Hierusalem so they made many instrumentes of warre against it 21 Then went there certayne vngodly persons whiche hated their owne people vnto king Demetrius and told hym that Ionathas besieged the castle 22 So when he hearde it he was angry and immediatly came vnto Ptolomais wrote vnto Ionathas that he should not lay siege to the castle but come and speake with hym at Ptolomais in all haste 23 Neuerthelesse when Ionathas heard this he commaunded to besiege it He chose also certayne of the elders and priestes of Israel and put him selfe in peryll 24 And toke with him golde siluer clothing and diuers presentes and went to Ptolomais vnto the king and found◠him gracious 25 And though certayne vngodly men of his owne people made complayntes vpon him 26 Yet the king intreated him like as his predecessours had done before and promoted hym in the sight of all his friendes 27 Confirmed hym in the hye priesthood with all the worship that he had afore and made him his chiefe friend 28 Ionathas also desired the king that he woulde make Iurie free with the three head cities of Samaria and the landes perteyning therto vpon this did Ionathas promise hym three hundred talentes 29 Wherunto the king consented and gaue Ionathas wryting of the same conteyning these wordes 30 King Demetrius sendeth greeting vnto his brother Ionathas and to the people of the Iewes 31 We sende you here a copie of the letter which we did write vnto our cosen Lasthenus concerning you that ye shoulde knowe it 32 King Demetrius sendeth greeting vnto Lasthenus his father 33 For the faythfulnesse that our friendes the people of the Iewes kepe vnto vs and for the louing kindnesse which they beare towarde vs we are determined to do them good 34 Wherfore we assigne vnto the coastes of Iudea the three gouernemētes Afferema Lydda and Ramatha whiche are added vnto Iurie from Samaria and all the landes pertayning therevnto to be freely separated for such as do sacrifice in Hierusalem both concerning the paymentes whiche the king toke yerely aforetime the fruite also of the earth and trees 35 As for other tithes and tributes that belonged vnto vs we discharge them therof from this time foorth 36 In like maner we graunt vnto them all the customes of salt crowne taxes which were brought vnto vs and this freedome shal they haue firme and stedfast from this time foorth for euermore 37 Therefore see that ye make a copie of these our letters and deliuer it vnto Ionathas that it may be set vpon the holy mount in a conuenient place 38 After this when Demetrius the king sawe that his land was in rest and that no resistaunce was made against him he sent away all his hoast euery man to his owne place except certayne bandes of straungers whom he brought from the Iles of the heathen wherefore all his fathers hoast hated him 39 Now was ther one Tryphon that had ben of Alexanders part afore whiche when he saw that all the hoast murmured against Demetrius he went to Samalcue the Arabian that brought vp Antiochus the sonne of Alexander 40 And lay sore vpon him to deliuer hym this young Antiochus that he might raine in his fathers steade He tolde him also what great euyll Demetrius had done how his men of warre loued him not so remayned there a long season 41 And Ionathas sent vnto king Demetrius to driue them out which were in the castle at Hierusalem and those that were in the fortresses for they dyd Israel great harme 42 So Demetrius sent word vnto Ionathas saying I will not only do these thinges for thee and thy people but at time conuenient I wil do both thee and thy people great worship 43 But now thou shalt do me a pleasure if thou wilt sende me men to helpe me for all myne armie is gone fro me 44 So
31 As for thou that imaginest al mischiefe against the Iewes thou shalt not escape the hande of God 32 For we suffer these thinges because of our sinnes 33 And though the liuing Lord be angry with vs a litle while for our chastening and reformation yet shall he be at one againe with his seruauntes 34 But thou O godlesse man and of all other the most wicked pride not thy selfe through vaine hope in being so malitious vpon the seruauntes of God 35 For thou hast not yet escaped the iudgementes of God which is almightie seeth all thinges 36 My brethren that haue suffered a litle paine are nowe vnder the couenaunt of euerlasting lyfe but through the iudgement of God thou shalt be punished righteously for thy pride 37 As for me lyke as my brethren haue done I offer my soule and my bodye for the lawes of our fathers calling vpon God that he wyll soone be mercifull vnto our people yea and with paine and punishment to make thee graunt that he onely is God 38 In me nowe and in my brethren the wrath of almightie God is at an ende which righteously is fallen vpon all our people 39 Then the king being kindled in anger was more cruell vpon him then vpon al the other and toke indignation that he was so lightly regarded 40 So this young man dyed vndefiled and put his trust still in the Lorde 41 Last of all after the sonnes was the mother put to death also 42 Let this now be inough spoken concerning the offeringes and extreme cruelnesse The .viij. Chapter 1 Iudas gathereth together his hoast 9 Nicanor is sent against Iudas 16 Iudas exhorteth his souldiers to constantnes 20 Nicanor is ouercome 27 The Iewes geueth thankes after they haue put their enemies to flight deuiding the spoyles vnto the fatherlesse and vnto the wydowes 35 Nicanor fleeth vnto Antiochus 1 THen Iudas Machabeus and they that were with him went priuilie into the townes called their kinsefolkes friendes together toke vnto them al such as continued yet in the faith and lawe of the Iewes and brought forth sixe thousand men 2 So they called vpon the Lorde that he woulde haue an eye vnto his people which was troden downe of euery man to be gratious vnto the temple that was defiled of the vngodly 3 To haue compassion vpon the destruction of the citie which was shortly lyke to be layde waste to heare the voyce of the blood that cryed vnto him 4 To remember the most vnrighteous deathes of young innocent children the blasphemies also done vnto his name and to punishe them 5 Now when Machabeus had gathered this multitude together he was to mightie for the heathen for the wrath of the Lorde was turned into mercie 6 He fell vpon the townes and cities vnwares brent them toke the most commodious places and slue many of the enemies 7 But specially he made such chases by night insomuch that his manlines was spoken of euery where 8 So when Philip sawe that the man encreased by litle and litle and that the matter prospered with him for the most parte he wrote vnto Ptolomi which was a captaine in Celosyria and Phenices to helpe him in the kinges busines 9 Then sent he Nicanor the sonne of Patroclus a speciall friend of his in all the haste and gaue him of the common sorte of the heathen no lesse then twentie thousand harnessed men to roote out the whole generation of the Iewes hauing to helpe him one Gorgias a man of warre which in matters concerning battailes had great experience 10 Nicanor ordayned also the tribute which the Romanes shoulde haue had to be euen vnto the king out of the captiue of the Iewes namely two thousand talentes 11 And immediatly he sent to the cities of the sea coaste requiring them for to bye Iewes to be their seruauntes and bondmen promysing to sell them fourscore and ten for one talent but he considered not the wrath of almightie God that was to come vpon him 12 When Iudas knewe of this he tolde the Iewes that were with him of Nicanors comming 13 Now were there some of them fearefull not trusting vnto the righteousnes of God and fled their way and abode not in that place 14 But the other that remained came together and besought the Lorde to deliuer them from that wicked Nicanor which had solde them or euer he came nye them 15 And though he woulde not do it for their sakes yet for the couenaunt that he made with their fathers and because they called vpon his holy and glorious name 16 And so Machabeus called his men together namely about sixe thousand exhorting them not to agree vnto their enemies neither to be afraide for the multitude of their aduersaries comming against them vnrighteously but to fight manly 17 Considering the reproofe that they had done to the holy place without cause how they had despised and oppressed the citie yea and destroyed the lawes of the fathers 18 For they saide he trust in their weapons and boldnesse but our confidence is in the almightie Lorde which in the twinkling of an eye may both destroye them and come against vs and all the worlde 19 He exhorted them also to call to remembraunce the helpe that God shewed vnto their fathers as when there perished an hundred fourscore and fiue thousand of Sennacheribs people 20 And of the battaile that they had in Babylon against the Galathians how all the Macedonians that came to helpe them being foure thousand stoode in feare and howe they being onely but sixe thousand slue an hundred twentie thousand through the helpe that was geuen them from heauen wherby they also had receaued many benefites 21 Through these wordes the men toke good heartes vnto them redie to dye for the lawe and the countrey 22 So he set vpon euery company a captaine one of his owne brethren Simon Ioseph and Ionathas geuing ech one fifteene hundred men 23 He caused Esdras also to reade the holy booke vnto them and to geue them a token of the helpe of God then he him selfe being captaine in the forefront of the battaile buckled with Nicanor 24 And God was their helpe insomuch that they slue aboue nine thousand men and compelled the more part of Nicanors hoast to flee they were so wounded and feeble 25 Thus they toke the money from those that came to bye them and folowed vpon them on euery side 29 But when the time came vpon them they returned for it was the day before the Sabbath and therefore they folowed no more vpon them 27 So they toke their weapons spoyles and kept the Sabbath geuing thankes vnto the Lorde which had deliuered them that day and shewed them the beginning of his mercie 28 After the Sabbath they distributed the spoyles to the sicke to the fatherlesse and to wydowes the residue had they them selues with theirs 29 When this was done and
thee 20 And when the blood of thy wytnesse Steuen was shedde I also stoode by and consented vnto his death and kept the rayment of them that slue hym 21 And he sayde vnto me depart for I wyll sende thee farre hence vnto the gentiles 22 And they gaue him audience vnto this worde and then lift vp their voyces and sayde away with suche a felowe from the earth for it is no reason y t he shoulde lyue 23 And as they cryed and caste of their clothes and threwe dust into the ayre 24 The chiefe captaine cōmaunded hym to be brought into the castle bade that he shoulde be scourged and examined that he myght knowe wherefore they cryed so on hym 25 And as they boūde him with thonges Paul saide vnto y e Centurion that stoode by Is it lawfull for you to scourge a man that is a Romane and vncondempned 26 When the Centurion hearde that he went and tolde the vpper captaine saying Take heede what thou doest for this man is a Romane 27 Then the vpper captaine came saide vnto him Tel me art thou a Romane He sayde yea 28 And the chiefe captaine aunswered With a great summe obteyned I this freedome And Paul saide I was free borne 29 Then strayghtway departed frō him they which should haue examined him And the hie captaine also was afrayde after he knew that he was a Romane and because he had bounde hym 30 On the morowe because he woulde haue knowen the certaintie wherefore he was accused of the Iewes he loosed hym from his bandes and commaunded the hye priestes all the counsell to come together brought Paul foorth and set hym before them ¶ The .xxiij. Chapter 1 Paul commeth before the counsell 2 Ananias causeth hym to be striken 12 the captayne deliuereth hym 11 God comforteth hym 23 he is sent to Cesarea 1 AND Paul earnestlie beholdyng the counsell saide Men brethren I haue lyued in al good conscience before God vntyll this day 2 And y e hye priest Ananias commaunded thē that stoode by to smyte hym on the mouth 3 Then sayde Paul vnto him God shall smite thee thou paynted wall For sittest thou iudgest me after the lawe cōmaundest me to be smitten contrary to the lawe 4 And they that stoode by sayde Reuilest thou Gods hye priest 5 Then sayde Paul I wyst not brethren that he was the hye priest For it is written * Thou shalt not curse the ruler of thy people 6 But when Paul perceaued that the one part were saducees and the other pharisees he cryed out in the counsell Men and brethren I am a pharisee the sonne of a pharisee Of the hope resurrection of the dead I am iudged 7 And when he had so sayde there arose a debate betwene the pharisees and the saducees the multitude was deuided 8 For the saducees say that there is no resurrection neither Angel nor spirite But the pharisees confesse both 9 And there arose a great crye and whē the scribes which were of the pharisees part arose they stroue saying We fynde none euyll in this man But yf a spirite or an Angel hath spoken to hym let vs not striue agaynst God 10 And when there arose a great debate the chiefe captayne fearyng lest Paul shoulde haue ben pluckt asunder of thē cōmaunded the souldiers to go downe and to take him from among them and to bryng hym into the castle 11 And the nyght folowyng the Lorde stoode by hym and sayde Be of good cheare Paul for as thou hast testified of me in Hierusalem so must thou beare witnesse also at Rome 12 And when it was day certayne of the Iewes gathered them selues together and made a vowe saying that they woulde neither eate nor drynke tyl they had kylled Paul 13 And they were mo then fourtie men which had made this conspiracie 14 And they came to the chiefe priestes and elders and sayde We haue bounde our selues with a vowe that we wyll eate nothyng vntyll we haue slayne Paul 15 Nowe therfore geue ye knowledge to the vpper captayne and to the counsell that he bryng hym foorth vnto you to morrowe as though ye woulde knowe somethyng more perfectly of hym And we or euer he come neare are redy to kyll hym 16 And when Paules sisters sonne heard of their laying awaite he went entred into the castle and tolde Paul 17 And Paul called one of the vnder captaynes vnto hym and sayde Bryng this young man vnto the hye captayne for he hath a certayne thyng to shewe hym 18 And he toke hym and brought hym to the hye captayne and sayde Paul the prisoner called me vnto him and prayed me to bryng this young man vnto thee which hath a certayne matter to shewe thee 19 Then the hye captayne toke hym by the hande and went with hym out of the way and asked hym What is it that thou hast to tell me 20 And he sayde The Iewes are determined to desire thee that thou wouldest bryng foorth Paul to morowe into the counsell as though they would enquire somewhat of hym more perfectly 21 But folowe not thou their myndes For there lye in wayte for him of them mo thē fourtie men which haue bounde them selues with a vowe that they will neither eate nor drynke tyll they haue kylled hym And nowe are they redy and loke that thou shouldest promise 22 The vpper captayne then let y e young man depart and charged hym see thou tell it out to no man that thou hast shewed these thynges to me 23 And he called vnto hym two vnder captaynes saying Make redy two hundred souldyers to go to Cesarea and horsmen threescore and ten and spearemen two hundred at the thirde houre of the nyght 24 And delyuer them beastes that they may set Paul on and bryng hym safe vnto Felix the hye deputie 25 And he wrote a letter after this maner 26 Claudius Lysias vnto the most mightie ruler Felix sendeth greetinges 27 This man was taken of the Iewes and shoulde haue ben kylled of them Then came I with souldeirs rescued hym and perceaued that he was a Romane 28 And whē I would haue knowen the cause wherfore they accused hym I brought hym foorth into their counsell 29 Whom I perceaued to be accused of questions of their lawe but was not gyltie of any thyng worthy of death or of bondes 30 And when it was shewed me howe that the Iewes layde wayte for the man I sent hym strayghtway to thee and gaue commaundement to his accusers that the thynges which they haue agaynst hym they shoulde tell before thee Fare well 31 Then the souldyers as it was commaunded them toke Paul and brought hym by nyght to Antipatris 32 On the morowe they left the horsmen to go with hym and returned vnto the castle 33 Which when they came to Cesarea and delyuered the epistle to the deputie
be a propitiatiō through fayth in his blood to declare his ryghteousnes in that he forgeueth the sinnes that are past 26 Which God dyd suffer to shew at this tyme his righteousnes that he might be iuste the iustifier of hym which beleueth on Iesus ☜ 27 Where is then thy boastyng It is excluded By what lawe Of workes Nay but by the lawe of fayth 28 Therfore we holde that a man is iustified by fayth without the deedes of the lawe 29 Is he the God of the Iewes only Is he not also of the Gentiles Yes euen of the Gentiles also 30 For it is one God whiche shall iustifie the circumcision by fayth and vncircumcision through fayth 31 Do we then destroy the lawe through fayth God forbyd But we rather mayntayne the lawe ¶ The .iiij. Chapter 7 Iustification is the free gyft of God as it appeareth by Dauid and Abraham 13 and also by the office of lawe and fayth 1 WHat shall we saye then that Abraham our father as parteynyng to the flesshe dyd fynde 2 For if Abraham were iustified by workes thē hath he wherein to boaste but not before God 3 For what sayth the scripture Abraham beleued God and it was counted vnto hym for ryghteousnes 4 To hym that worketh is the reward not reckened of grace but of duetie 5 To hym that worketh not but beleueth on hym that iustifieth the vngodly his fayth is counted for ryghteousnes 6 Euen as Dauid describeth the blessednesse of the man vnto whom God imputeth righteousnesse without workes 7 Blessed are they whose vnrighteousnesse are forgeuen whose sinnes are couered 8 Blessed is that man to whō the Lorde wyll not impute sinne 9 Came this blessednes then vpon the circumcision or vpon the vncircumcision also For we say that fayth was reckened to Abraham for ryghteousnes 10 Howe was it then reckened when he was in the circumcision or whē he was in the vncircumcision Not in the circumcision but in vncircumcision 11 And he receaued the signe of circumcision as the seale of the ryghteousnesse of fayth whiche he had yet beyng vncircumcised that he shoulde be the father of al them that beleue though they be not circumcised that ryghteousnes myght be imputed vnto them also 12 And that he myght be father of circumcision not vnto them only whiche came of the circumcised but vnto them also that walke in the steppes of the fayth that was in our father Abraham before the time of circumcision 13 For the promise that he shoulde be the heyre of the worlde was not to Abraham or to his seede through the lawe but through the ryghteousnes of fayth 14 For yf they which are of the lawe be heyres then is fayth but vayne and the promise of none effect 15 Because the lawe causeth wrath For where no lawe is there is no transgression 16 Therefore by fayth is the inheritaunce geuen that it might come by grace that the promise myght be sure to all y e seede not to that only which is of the lawe but to that also which is of the fayth of Abraham which is the father of vs al. 17 As it is written that I haue made thee a father of many nations before God whom he beleued which restoreth the dead vnto life and calleth those thynges whiche be not as though they were 18 Who contrary to hope beleued in hope that he shoulde be the father of many nations accordyng to that which was spoken so shall thy seede be 19 And he faynted not in the fayth nor considered his owne body nowe dead when he was almost an hundred yeres old neither yet the deadnesse o Saraes wombe 20 He stackered not at the promise of God through vnbeliefe but was strong in fayth geuyng glorie to God 21 And beyng full certified that what he had promised he was able also to perfourme 22 And therfore was it reckened to hym for righteousnes 23 Neuerthelesse it is not written for hym only that it was reckened to him 24 But also for vs to whom it shal be reckened so that we beleue on hym that raysed vp Iesus our Lorde from the dead 25 Which was deliuered for our sinnes and was raysed agayne for our iustification ¶ The .v. Chapter 1 The fruite of fayth 7 The loue of God and obedience of Christe 12 From whence commeth death and from whence lyfe 1 THerefore being iustified by fayth we are at peace with GOD thorowe our Lorde Iesus Christe 2 By whom also we haue had an entraūce by fayth vnto this grace wherin we stande and reioyce in hope of the glorie of God 3 Not that only but also we reioyce in tribulations knowyng that tribulation worketh pacience 4 Pacience profe profe hope 5 And hope maketh not ashamed because the loue of God is shedde abrode in our heartes by the holy ghost which is geuen vnto vs. 6 * For when we were yet weake accordyng to the tyme Christe dyed for the vngodly 7 Nowe scace wyll any man dye for the righteous Yet peraduenture for the good some men durst dye 8 ☞ But God setteth out his loue towarde vs seyng that whyle we were yet sinners Christe dyed for vs. 9 Muche more then nowe we that are iustified by his blood shal be saued from wrath through hym 10 For yf when we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his sonne much more seyng we are reconciled we shal be saued by his lyfe 11 Not only so but we also ioye in God through our Lorde Iesus Christe by whō we haue nowe receaued the atonement 12 Wherfore as by one man sinne entred into the worlde death by sinne euen so death entred into all men insomuch as all haue sinned 13 For vnto the lawe was sinne in the worlde but sinne is not imputed when there is no lawe 14 Neuerthelesse death raigned from Adam to Moyses ouer them also that had not sinned with lyke transgression as dyd Adam whiche is the figure of hym that was to come 15 But not as the sinne so is the gyft For yf through the sinne of one many be dead much more the grace of God and the gyft by grace which is by one man Iesus Christe hath abounded vnto many 16 And not as by one that sinned euen so the gyft For the iudgement was of one into condemnation but the gyfte of many sinnes into iustification 17 For yf by the sinne of one death raigned by the meanes of one much more they whiche receaue aboundaunce of grace and of the gyfte of ryghteousnes shall raigne in life by the meanes of one Iesus Christe 18 Lykewyse then as by the sinne of one sinne came on all men to condempnation euen so by the ryghteousnes of one good came vpon all men to the ryghteousnes of lyfe 19 For as by one mans disobedience many became sinners so by the obedience
in the Lorde 12 For as the woman is of the man euen so is the man by the woman but all of God 13 Iudge in your selues whether it be comely that a woman pray vnto God bare headed 14 Doth not nature it selfe teache you that it is a shame for a man yf he haue long heere 15 But yf a woman haue long heere it is a prayse for her For her heere is geuen her to couer her withall 16 If any man lust to striue we haue no such custome neither the Churches of God 17 This I warne you of and commende not that ye come together not after a better maner but after a worse 18 For first of all when ye come together in the Churche I heare that there is dissention among you and I partly beleue it 19 For there must be sectes among you that they which are approued among you myght be knowen ☜ 20 When ye come together therfore into one place you can not eate the Lordes supper 21 For euery one preuenteth other in eatyng his owne supper And one is hungry and another is drunken 22 Haue ye not houses to eate to drynke in Despise ye the Churche of God and shame them that haue not What shall I say vnto you shall I prayse you in this I prayse you not ☜ 23 ☞ That which I deliuered vnto you I receaued of the Lorde For the Lord Iesus the same nyght in the which he was betrayed toke bread 24 And when he had geuen thankes he brake it and sayde Take ye and eate this is my body which is brokē for you This do ye in the remembraunce of me 25 After the same maner also he toke the cup when he had supped saying This cup is the newe testament in my blood This do as oft as ye drynke it in remembraunce of me 26 For as often as ye shal eate this bread and drynke this cup ye shall shewe the Lordes death tyll he come 27 Wherfore whosoeuer shall eate this bread and drynke this cup of the Lorde vnworthyly shal be gyltie of the body and blood of the Lorde 28 But let a man examine hym selfe and so let hym eate of this bread and drinke of this cuppe 29 For he that eateth and drynketh vnworthyly eateth and drynketh his owne dampnation because he maketh no difference of the Lordes body 30 For this cause many are weake and sicke among you and many slepe 31 For yf we woulde iudge our selues we shoulde not be iudged 32 But when we are iudged we are chastened of the Lorde that we shoulde not be dampned with the worlde 33 Wherfore my brethren when ye come together to eate tary one for another 34 If any man hunger let hym eate at home that ye come not together vnto condempnation ☜ Other thynges wyll I set in order when I come ¶ The .xij. Chapter 1 The diuersitie of the giftes of the holy ghost ought to be vsed to the edifiyng of Christes Church 12 as the members of mans body serue to the vse one of another 1 COncernyng spirituall gyftes brethren I woulde not haue you ignoraunt ☜ 2 Ye knowe y t ye were gentiles and caryed away vnto dumbe idols as ye were led 3 Wherfore I declare vnto you that no man speakyng by the spirite of God defieth Iesus Also no man can say that Iesus is y e Lord but by the holy ghost 4 There are diuersities of gyftes but the spirite is one 5 And there are differences of administrations but the Lorde is one 6 And there are diuers maners of operations but God is one which worketh all in all 7 The manifestation of the spirite is geuen to euery man to profite withall 8 For to one is geuen by the spirite the worde of wisdome to another the word of knowledge by the same spirite 9 To another is geuen fayth by the same spirite to another the giftes of healyng by the same spirite 10 To another power to do miracles to another prophesie to another iudgement to discerne spirites to another diuers kyndes of tongues to another the interpretation of tongues 11 But these all worketh euen one and the selfe same spirite deuidyng to euery man a seuerall gyft as he wyll ☜ 12 For as the body is one hath many members and all the members of one body though they be many yet are but one body euen so is Christe 13 For by one spirite are we all baptized into one body whether we be Iewes or gentiles whether we be bonde or free and haue all drunke of one spirite 14 For the body is not one member but many 15 If the foote woulde say because I am not the hande I am not of the body is it therfore not of the body 16 And yf the eare woulde say because I am not the eye I am not of the body is it therfore not of the body 17 If all the body were an eye where were then the hearyng If all were hearyng where were the smellyng 18 But nowe hath God set y e members euery one seuerally in the body as it hath pleased hym 19 For yf they were all one member where were the body 20 Nowe are there many members yet but one body 21 And the eye can not say vnto y e hande I haue no neede of thee Nor the head agayne to the feete I haue no neede of you 22 Yea rather a great deale those members of the body which seeme to be more feeble are necessary 23 And vpon those members of the body which we thynke least honest put we more honestie on And our vncomely partes haue more comelynesse on 24 For our comely members neede it not But God hath tempered the body together and hath geuen the more honour to that part which lacked 25 Lest there shoulde be any stryfe in the body but that the members shoulde haue the same care one for another 26 And yf one member suffer all suffer with it If one member be had in honour all the members reioyce with it 27 Ye are the body of Christe and members one of another 28 And God hath ordayned some in the Churche first Apostles secondarely prophetes thirdely teachers then them that do miracles after that the giftes of healyng helpers gouernours diuersitie of tongues 29 Are all Apostles are all prophetes are all teachers 30 Are all doers of miracles Haue all the giftes of healyng Do all speake with tongues Do all interprete 31 Couet after the best giftes And yet shew I vnto you a more excellent way ⧠The .xiij. Chapter 1 Because loue is the fountayne and rule of edifiyng the Churche he setteth foorth the nature office and prayse therof 1 THough I speake with the tongues of men and of Angels and haue not loue I am as soundyng brasse or as a tincklyng Cimball 2 And though I coulde prophesie and vnderstoode all secretes and all knowledge
praying 4 Sence we hearde of your fayth in Christe Iesus and of the loue which is to all saintes 5 For the hopes sake which is layde vp for you in heauen of which hope ye hearde before in the worde of trueth of the Gospell 6 Which is come vnto you euen as it is into all the worlde is fruitfull as it is also in you from the day ye hearde of it and knewe the grace of God in trueth 7 As ye also learned of Epaphras our deare felowe seruaunt which is for you a faythfull minister of Christe 8 Who also declared vnto vs your loue in the spirite 9 ☞ For this cause we also sence y e day we hearde haue not ceassed to pray for you and to desire that ye myght be fulfylled with knowledge of his wyll in all wisdome spiritual vnderstandyng 10 That ye myght walke worthie of the Lorde in all pleasyng beyng fruitefull in all good workes and encreasyng in the knowledge of God 11 Strenthened with all might through his glorious power vnto all patience and long sufferyng with ioyfulnesse ☜ 12 Geuyng thankes vnto y e father which hath made vs meete to be partakers of the inheritaunce of the saintes in lyght 13 Who hath delyuered vs from the power of darcknesse and hath translated vs into the kingdome of his deare sonne 14 In whō we haue redemptiō through his blood the forgeuenesse of sinnes 15 Who is the image of the inuisible God the first borne of all creatures 16 For by him were all thinges created that are in heauē and that are in earth visible and inuisible whether they be maiestie or lordeshippe either rule or power All thynges were created by hym and for hym 17 And he is before all thynges and in hym all thynges consist 18 And he is the head of the body of the Churche he is the begynnyng the first borne of the dead that in all thynges he myght haue the preeminence 19 For it pleased the father that in hym shoulde all fulnesse dwell 20 And by hym to * reconcile all thynges vnto hym selfe to set at peace through the blood of his crosse by hym both the thynges in earth and thynges in heauen 21 And you which were sometyme straungers and enemies by cogitation in euyll workes hath he nowe yet reconciled 22 In the body of his fleshe through death to present you holye and vnblameable without fault in his syght 23 If ye continue grounded stablisshed in the fayth and be not moued away from the hope of the Gospell which ye haue hearde howe it is preached to euery creature which is vnder heauen wherof I Paul am made a minister 24 Nowe iowe I in my sufferynges for you and fulfyll that which is behynde of the passions of Christe in my fleshe for his bodyes sake which is y e Church 25 Wherof I am made a minister accordyng to the dispensation of God which is geuen to me to you warde to fulfyll the worde of God 26 The misterie hyd sence the worlde began and sence the begynnyng of generations but nowe is opened to his saintes 27 To whom God woulde make knowē what is the riches of the glorie of this misterie among the gentiles which is Christe in you the hope of glorie 28 Whom we preache warnyng euery man and teachyng euery man in all wisdome to present all men perfect in Christe Iesus 29 Wherunto I also labour striuyng according to his workyng which worketh in me mightylie ¶ The .ij. Chapter 1 Hauyng protected his good wyll towarde them 4 he admonisheth them not to turne backe from Christe 8 to the seruice of Angels or any other inuention or els ceremonies of the lawe 17 which haue finished their office and are ended in Christe 1 FOr I woulde that ye knew what great fight I haue for you and for them that are at Laodicea and for as many as haue not seene my face in the fleshe 2 That their heartes myght be comforted beyng knyt together in loue and in al riches of certaintie of vnderstanding to knowe the misterie of God and of the father and of Christe 3 In whom are hyd all the treasures of wisdome and knowledge 4 This I say lest any man shoulde begyle you with perswasion of wordes 5 For though I be absent in the fleshe yet am I with you in the spirite ioying and beholdyng your order and your stedfast fayth in Christe 6 As ye haue therfore receaued Christe Iesus the Lorde so walke ye in hym 7 Rooted and built in hym stablished in the fayth as ye haue ben taught aboundyng therin with thankes geuing 8 ☞ * Beware lest any man spoyle you through philosophie vayne deceipt after the tradition of men and after the rudimentes of the worlde and not after Christe 9 For in hym dwelleth all the fulnesse of the Godhead bodyly 10 And ye are complete in him which is the head of all principalitie and power 11 In whom also ye are circumcised with circumcisiō made without handes by puttyng of the body of sinnes of the fleshe in the circumcision of Christe 12 Buried with him in baptisme in whō ye are also risen agayne through y e fayth of the operation of God who hath raysed hym from the dead 13 * And ye beyng dead to sinne and to the vncircumcision of your fleshe hath he quickened with him forgeuyng all your trepasses ☜ 14 And puttyng out the hande writing of ordinaunces that was agaynst vs and that hath he taken out of the way fastenyng it to his crosse 15 Spoylyng all principalities powers hath made a shewe of them openly triumphyng ouer them in it 16 Let no man therfore iudge you in meate or in drinke or in part of an holy-day or of the newe moone or of the Sabboth dayes 17 Which are shadowes of thynges to come but the body is of Christe 18 Let no man begile you of victorie in the humblenesse and worshippyng of Angels intrudyng hym selfe into those thinges which he hath not seene causelesse puft vp with his fleshly mynde 19 And holdeth not the head wherof all the body by ioyntes bandes supported and knit together encreaseth with the encrease of God 20 Wherefore yf ye be dead with Christe from y e rudimentes of the world why as though lyuyng in the worlde are ye led with traditions 21 Touche not taste not handle not 22 Which all be in corruption in abusyng after the commaundementes and doctrines of men 23 Which thynges haue a shewe of wisdome in superstition humblenesse of mynde and in hurtyng of the body not in any honour to the satisfiyng of y e flesh ¶ The .iij. Chapter 1 He sheweth where we shoulde seke Christe 5 he exhorteth to mortification 10 to put of the olde man and to put on Christe 12 to the which he addeth exhortation both generall and
gyftes of the holy ghost accordyng to his owne wyll 5 For vnto the Anges hath he not put in subiection the worlde to come wherof we speake 6 But one in a certayne place witnessed saying What is man that thou arte myndeful of hym Or the sonne of man that thou wouldest loke vpon hym 7 Thou madest hym for a litle whyle lower then the Angels thou hast crowned him with glorie and honour and hast set hym aboue the workes of thy handes 8 Thou hast put all thynges in subiectiō vnder his feete In y t he put all thinges vnder hym he left nothyng that is not put vnder hym But nowe we see not yet all thynges put vnder hym 9 But hym that for a whyle was made lesse then the Angels we see that it was Iesus who through the sufferyng of death was crowned with glorie and honour that he by the grace of God shoulde taste of death for all 10 For it became hym for whom are all thynges and by whom are all thynges after he had brought many sonnes vnto glorie that he shoulde make the capitayne of their saluation perfect through afflictions 11 For both he that sanctifieth and they which are sanctified are all of one For which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren 12 Saying I wyll declare thy name vnto my brethren in the myddes of the Churche wyll I prayse thee 13 And agayne I wyll put my trust in hym And agayne Beholde here am I and the chyldren whiche God hath geuen me 14 Forasmuch then as the chyldren are partakers of flesshe and blood he also hym selfe lykewyse toke part with thē that through death he myght expell hym that had lordship ouer death that is the deuyll 15 And that he myght delyuer them which through feare of death were all their lyfe tyme in daunger of bondage 16 For he in no place taketh on hym the Angels but the seede of Abraham taketh he on hym 17 Wherfore in all thinges it became him to be made lyke vnto his brethren that he myght be mercyfull and a faythfull hye priest in thynges concernyng God for to purge the peoples sinnes 18 For in that he hym selfe suffered and was tempted he is able to succour them that are tempted ¶ The .iij. Chapter 1 He requireth them to be obedient vnto the worde of Christe 3 who is more worthy then Moyses 12 The punishment of such as wyll harden their heartes and not beleue that they myght haue eternall rest 1 THerfore holy brethren partakers of the celestiall callyng consider the apostle and hye priest of our profession Christe Iesus 2 Beyng faythfull to hym that appoynted hym as also was Moyses in all his house 3 For this man is counted worthy of more glorie then Moyses inasmuch as he which hath buylded the house hath more honour then the house 4 For euery house is buylded of some man But he that buylded all thynges is God 5 And Moyses veryly was faythfull in al his house as a minister for a witnesse of those thynges whiche were to be spoken after 6 But Christe as a sonne hath rule ouer his owne house whose house are we yf we holde fast the confidence and the reioycyng of that hope vnto the ende 7 Wherfore as the holy ghost saith To day yf ye wyll heare his voyce 8 Harden not your heartes as in the prouokyng in the day of the temptation in the wyldernesse 9 Where your fathers tempted me proued me and sawe my workes .xl. yeres 10 Wherfore I was greeued with that generation and sayde they do alway erre in heart they veryly haue not knowen my wayes 11 So that I sware in my wrath yf they shall enter into my rest 12 Take heede brethren lest at any tyme there be in you an euyll heart of vnbeliefe to depart from the lyuyng God 13 But exhort ye one another dayly whyle it is called to day lest any of you be hardened through the deceytfulnesse of sinne 14 For we are made partakers of Christe yf we kepe sure vnto the ende the begynnyng of the substaunce 15 So long as it is said to day yf ye wyll heare his voyce harden not your heartes as in the prouokyng 16 For some when they had hearde dyd prouoke howe be it not all that came out of Egypt by Moyses 17 But with whom was he displeased fourtie yeres Not with them that had sinned whose carkases fell in the desert 18 And to whō sware he that they should not enter into his rest but vnto them that were not obedient 19 And we see that they coulde not enter in because of vnbeliefe The .iiij. Chapter 2 The worde without fayth is vnprofitable 3 The Sabboth or rest of the Christians 6 Punishment of vnbeleuers 12 The nature of the worde of God 1 LEt vs feare therfore lest at any tyme by forsakyng the promise of entryng into his reste any of you shoulde be defrauded 2 For vnto vs was the Gospell preached aswell as vnto them But the worde whiche they hearde dyd not profite them not beyng coupled with fayth to them that hearde 3 For we which haue beleued do enter into his rest as he sayde Euen as I haue sworne in my wrath if they shal enter into my rest Although the workes were made perfecte from the foundation of the worlde 4 For he spake in a certayne place of the seuenth daye on this wyse And God dyd rest the seuenth daye from all his workes 5 And in this place againe yf they shall enter into my rest 6 Seing therfore it foloweth that some must enter there into and they to whō the Gospell was first preached entred not therin for vnbeliefe 7 Againe he appoynteth a certaine day by to day saying in Dauid after so long a tyme as it is sayde To day yf ye wyl heare his voyce hardē not your hearts 8 For yf Iesus had geuen them reste then woulde he not afterwarde haue spoken of another day 9 There remayneth therfore yet a rest to the people of God 10 For he that is entred into his rest hath ceassed also from his owne workes as God dyd from his 11 Let vs studie therefore to enter into that rest lest any man fall after the same ensample of disobedience 12 For the worde of God is quicke and myghtie in operation and sharper then any two edged sword and entreth thorowe euen vnto the deuydyng a sunder of the soule the spirite and of the ioyntes the marie and is a discerner of the thoughtes and of the intentes of the heart 13 Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in the syght of hym But all thinges are naked and open vnto the eyes of hym of whom we speake 14 Seyng then that we haue a great hye priest which is entred into heauens Iesus the sonne of God let vs holde faste the confession 15 For we haue not an hye priest whiche
spoken parteyneth vnto another tribe of which no man stoode at the aulter 14 For it is euident that our Lord sprong out of Iuda of which tribe spake Moyses nothyng concernyng priesthood 15 And it is yet a farre more euidēt thing yf after the similitude of Melchisedech there aryse another priest 16 Which is not made after the lawe of the carnall commaundement but after the power of the endlesse lyfe 17 For he testifieth that thou art a priest for euer after the order of Melchisedech 18 For there is truely a disanulling of the commaundement goyng before for the weakenesse and vnprofitablenesse therof 19 For the lawe made nothyng perfect but was the bryngyng in of a better hope by the whiche we drawe nygh vnto God 20 And in as much as that was not without an oth For those priestes were made without an oth 21 But this priest with an oth by hym that saide vnto him The Lord sware and wyll not repent thou art a priest for euer after the order of Melchisedech 22 By so much was Iesus made a suertie of a better testament 23 And among them many were made priestes because they were forbidden by death to endure 24 But this man because he endureth euer hath an vnchaungeable priesthood 25 Wherefore he is able also euer to saue them to the vttermost that come vnto God by hym seyng he euer lyueth to make intercession for them 26 For such an hye priest became vs whiche is holy harmelesse vndefyled seperate from sinners and made hygher then heauens 27 Whiche nedeth not dayly as those hie priestes to offer vp sacrifice first for his owne sinnes and then for the peoples for that dyd he once when he offered vp hym selfe 28 For the lawe maketh men hye priestes which haue infirmitie but the word of the oth which was after the lawe maketh the sonne whiche is perfecte for euermore ⧠The .viij. Chapter 6 He proueth the abolisshyng aswell of the Leuiticall priesthood as of the olde couenaunt by the spirituall and euerlastyng priesthood of Christe 8 and by the newe couenaunt 1 BVt of the thinges whiche we haue spoken this is y e summe We haue such an hye priest that sitteth on y e ryght hand of y e throne of the maiestie in the heauēs 2 A minister of holy thynges and of the true tabernacle which the Lord pight and not man 3 For euery hye priest is ordeyned to offer gyftes and sacrifices Wherefore it is of necessitie that this man haue somewhat also to offer 4 For he were not a priest yf he were on the earth seyng there are priestes that accordyng to the lawe offer gyftes 5 Who serue vnto the example and shadowe of heauenly thinges as Moyses was admonished of God when he was about to finishe the tabernacle For see saith he that thou make all thynges accordyng to the patterne shewed to thee in the mount 6 But nowe hath he obteyned a more excellent office by howe much also he is the mediatour of a better couenaunt whiche was confirmed in better promises 7 For yf that first couenaunt had ben founde fautlesse then shoulde no place haue ben sought for the seconde 8 For in rebukyng them he saith Beholde the dayes come saith the Lord and I wyll finishe vppon the house of Israel and vppon the house of Iuda a newe couenaunt 9 Not lyke that that I made with their fathers in the day when I toke them by the hande to leade them out of the lande of Egypt because they continued not in my couenaunt and I regarded them not saith the Lorde 10 For this is the couenaunt that I wyll make with the house of Israel after those dayes saith the Lord geuyng my lawes into their mynde and in their heart I wyl write them and I wyll be to them a God and they shal be to me a people 11 And they shall not teach euery man his neyghbour and euery man his brother saying knowe the Lorde for all shall knowe me from the litle of them to the great of them 12 For I wyll be mercyfull to their vnrighteousnes and their sinnes and their iniquities wyll I thynke vpon no more 13 In that he sayth a newe couenaunt he hath worne out the first For that which is worne out and waxed olde is redie to vanishe away The .ix. Chapter 1 Howe that the ceremonies and sacrifices of the lawe are abolisshed 11 by the eternitie and perfection of Christes sacrifice 1 THe first couenaunt then had verylye iustifiyng ordinaunces seruinges of God and worldlye holynesse 2 ☞ For there was a fore tabernacle made wherein was the lyght and the table and the shewe bread whiche is called holy 3 But after the seconde vayle was a tabernacle which is called holyest of al 4 Which had the golden senser and the arke of the couenaunt ouerlaide rounde about with golde wherin was the golden pot hauyng Manna and Aarons rodde that had budded and the tables of the couenaunt 5 And ouer it the Cherubins of glorie shadowyng the mercie seate Of which thynges we can not nowe speake particulerlie 6 When these thynges were thus ordeyned the priestes went alwayes into the first tabernacle accomplishyng the seruice of God 7 But into y e seconde went the hye priest alone once euery yere not without blood which he offered for hym selfe for the ignorauncies of the people 8 The holy ghost this signifiyng that the waye of holy thinges was not yet opened whyle as yet the first tabernacle was standyng 9 Whiche was a similitude for the tyme then presēt in which were offred giftes and sacrifices that coulde not make the worshipper perfect as parteining to the conscience 10 With only meates and drynkes and diuers wasshynges and iustifiynges of the flesshe which were layde vp vntyll the tyme of reformation 11 ☞ But Christe beyng come an hye priest of good thynges that shoulde be by a greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with handes that is to say not of this buyldyng 12 Neither by the blood of Goates and Calues but by his owne blood he entred in once into the holy place founde eternall redemption ☜ 13 For if the blood of Oxen of Goates and the asshes of a young Cowe sprinklyng the vncleane sanctifieth to the purifiyng of the flesshe 14 Howe much more the blood of Christe which through the eternall spirite offered hym selfe without spot to God shall purge your conscience frō dead workes to serue the lyuyng God 15 And for this cause is he the mediatour of the newe couenaunt that through death which was for the redemption of the transgressions that were vnder the first couenaunt they whiche are called myght receaue the promise of eternall inheritaunce ☜ 16 For where as is a testament there must also of necessitie be the death of him that maketh it 17 For a
prayed in his prayer that it myght not rayne and it rayned not on the earth by the space of three yeres and sixe monethes 18 And he prayed againe and the heauen gaue rayne the earth brought foorth her fruite 19 Brethren yf any of you do erre from the trueth and another conuert hym 20 Let the same knowe that he which conuerteth the sinner from going astray out of his way shall saue a soule from death and shall hyde the multitude of sinnes ¶ The ende of the epistle of Saint Iames. ⧠The first epistle of Saint Peter the Apostle ¶ The first Chapter 2 He sheweth that through the aboundaunt mercie of God we are elect and regenerate to a lyuely hope 7 and howe fayth must be tried 10 that the saluation in Christe is no newes but a thyng prophecied of olde 13 he exhorteth them to a godly conuersation forasmuch as they are nowe borne a newe by the worde of God 1 PEter an Apostle of Iesus Christ to them that dwell here and there as straungers throughout Pontus Galatia Cappadocia Asia and Bithynia 2 Elect accordyng to the foreknoweledge of God the father vnto the sanctifiyng of the spirite through obedience sprinklyng of y e blood of Iesus Christ Grace peace be multiplied vnto you 3 Blessed be God the father of our Lorde Iesus Christe which accordyng to his aboundaunt mercie begat vs agayne vnto a lyuely hope by that that Iesus Christe rose agayne from death 4 To and inheritaunce immortall and vndefiled and that fadeth not away reserued in heauen for you 5 Which are kept by the power of God through fayth vnto saluation which is prepared alredie to be shewed in the last tyme. 6 In the which ye reioyce though nowe for a season â—yf nede require ye are in heauinesse through manifolde temptations 7 That the triall of your fayth beyng much more precious then golde that perisheth though it be tried with fyre myght be founde vnto laude glorie and honour at the appearyng of Iesus Christe 8 Whom ye haue not seene and yet loue hym in whom euen nowe though ye see hym not yet do you beleue reioyce with ioy vnspeakeable and glorious 9 Receauyng the ende of your fayth euen the saluation of your soules 10 Of which saluation haue y e prophetes enquired searched which prophesied of the grace that should come vnto you 11 Searchyng when or at what tyme the spirite of Christ which was in them shoulde signifie which spirite testified before the passions that should happen vnto Christe and the glorie that shoulde folowe after 12 Vnto which prophetes it was also declared that not vnto them selues but vnto vs they shoulde minister y e thinges which are nowe shewed vnto you of them which by the holy ghost sent downe from heauen haue in the Gospell preached vnto you the thynges which the Angels desire to beholde 13 Wherfore girde vp the loynes of your mynde be sober and trust perfectly on the grace that is brought vnto you by the reuelation of Iesus Christe 14 As obedient chyldren not fashionyng your selues vnto the former lustes of your ignoraunce 15 But as he which called you is holy euen so be ye holy also in all maner of conuersation 16 Because it is written be ye holy for I am holy 17 And yf so be that ye call on the father which without respect of person iudgeeth accordyng to euery mans worke see that ye passe the tyme of your dwellyng here in feare 18 ☞ Forasmuch as ye knowe howe that ye were not redeemed with corruptible thynges as siluer and golde from your vayne conuersation which ye receaued by the tradition of the fathers 19 But with the precious blood of Christ as of a lambe vndefiled without spot 20 Which was ordeyned beforehande euen before the worlde was made but was declared in the last tymes * for your sakes 21 Which by his meanes do beleue on God that raysed hym vp from death and glorified hym that ye might haue fayth and hope towarde God 22 Euen ye which haue purified your soules through the spirite in obeying the trueth with brotherly loue vnfayned see that ye loue one another with a pure heart feruentlye 23 For ye are borne a newe not of mortal seede but of immortal by the worde of God which lyueth and lasteth for euer 24 For all fleshe is as grasse and all the glorie of man is as the flowre of grasse The grasse withereth and the flowre falleth away 25 But the worde of the Lorde endureth euer ☜ And this is the worde which by the Gospell was preached vnto you The .ij. Chapter 1 He exhorteth them to lay aside all vice 4 shewyng that Christe is the foundation whervpon they builde 9 The excellent estate of the Christians 11 he prayeth them to abstayne from fleshlie lustes 13 to obey the rulers 18 howe seruauntes shoulde behaue them selues towarde their maisters 20 he exhorteth to suffer after the ensample of Christe 1 WHerefore lay asyde all maliciousnesse and all guile and faynednesse and enuie and all backbityng 2 And as newe borne babes desire ye y e milke of the worde which is without deceipt that ye may growe therby vnto saluatioÌ„ 3 If so be that ye haue tasted howe gratious the Lorde is 4 To whom ye come as vnto a lyuyng stone disalowed of men but chosen of God and precious 5 And ye as lyuely stones be you made a spirituall house an holy priesthood for to offer vp spirituall sacrifices acceptable to God by Iesus Christe â— Wherefore it is conteyned also in the scripture beholde I put in Sion a stone to be laide in the chiefe corner elect and precious and he that beleueth on hym shall not be confounded 7 Vnto you therfore which beleue he is precious but vnto them whiche beleue not the stone which the buylders refused the same is made the head of the corner 8 And a stone that men stumble at and a rocke wherat they be offended whiche stumble at the worde and beyng disobedient vnto the whiche thing they were euen ordeyned 9 But ye are a chosen generation a royall priesthood an holy nation a peculier people that ye should shewe foorth the vertues of hym that called you out of darknesse into his marueylous lyght 10 Which in time past were not a people but are nowe the people of God which sometime had not obteyned mercy but nowe haue obteyned mercy ☜ 11 ☞ Dearely beloued I beseche you as strauÌ„gers and pilgrimes abstaine from fleshly lustes whiche fight agaynst the soule 12 And see that ye haue honest conuersation among the gentiles that where as they backbite you as euyll doers they may by your good workes whiche they shall see prayse God in the day of visitation 13 Submit your selues therfore vnto al maner ordinaunce of maÌ„ for the Lordes sake whether it be vnto
for it is geuen vnto the gentiles and the holy citie shall they treade vnder foote fourtie and two monethes 3 And I wyl geue power vnto my two witnesses and they shall prophesie a thousande two hundred and threescore dayes clothed in sackcloth 4 These are two oliue trees and two candle stickes standyng before the God of the earth 5 And yf any man wyll hurt them fyre shal proceade out of their mouthes cōsume their enemies And if any man wil hurt them this wyse must he be kylled 6 These haue power to shut heauen that it rayne not in the dayes of their prophesiyng and haue power ouer waters to turne them to blood and to smite the earth with all maner plagues as often as they wyll 7 And whē they haue finished their testimonie the beast that commeth out of the bottomlesse pit shall make warre against them and shal ouercome them and kyll them 8 And their bodyes shall lye in y e streates of the great citie which spiritually is called Sodome and Egypt where our Lorde was crucified 9 And they of the people and kinredes and tongues and they of the nations shall see their bodyes three dayes and an halfe shall not suffer their bodyes to be put in graues 10 And they that dwell vpon the earth shal reioyce ouer them and be glad and shall sende gyftes one to another for these two prophetes vexed them that dwelt on the earth 11 And after three dayes and an halfe the spirite of lyfe commyng from God shall enter into them And they shall stande vp vpon their feete great feare shall come vpon thē which sawe them 12 And they shall heare a great voyce from heauen saying vnto them come vp hyther And they shall ascende vp to heauen in a cloude and their enemies shall see them 13 And the same houre shall there be a great earthquake and the tenth part of the citie shall fall and in the earthquake shal be slaine names of men seuen thousande and the remnaunt shal be afraide and geue glorie to the God of heauen 14 The seconde wo is past and beholde the thirde wo wyll come anone ◠And the seuenth angell blewe there were made greate voyces in heauen saying the kyngdomes of this worlde are our Lordes and his Christes and he shall raigne for euermore 16 And the .xxiiii. elders which sit before God on their seates fel vpon their faces and worshipped God 17 Saying we geue thee thankes O Lorde God almyghtie which art and wast and art to come for thou hast receaued thy great myght hast raigned 18 And the nations were angrie and thy wrath is come and the tyme of the dead that they shoulde be iudged and that thou shouldest geue rewarde vnto thy seruauntes the prophetes and saintes and to them that feare thy name small and great and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth 19 And the temple of God was opened in heauen and there were seene in his temple the arke of his testament and there folowed lyghtninges and voyces and thundringes and earthquake and much hayle ¶ The .xij. Chapter 1 There appeareth in heauen a woman clothed with the sunne 7 Michael fyghteth with the Dragon which persecuteth the woman 11 The victorie is gotten to the comfort of the faythfull 1 AND there appeared a great wonder in heauen A woman clothed with the sunne the moone vnder her feete and vpō her head a crowne of twelue starres 2 And she was with chylde and cryed trauaylyng in birth and payned redy to be delyuered 3 And there appeared another wonder in heauen for beholde a great redde dragon hauing seuen heades and tenne hornes and seuen crownes vpon his heades 4 And his tayle drue the thirde part of the starres of heauen and cast them to the earth And the dragon stoode before the woman which was redie to be deliuered for to deuoure her chylde assoone as it were borne 5 And she brought foorth a man chylde which shoulde rule all nations with a rodde of yron And her sonne was taken vp vnto God and to his throne 6 And the woman fled into wildernesse where she had a place prepared of God that they should feede her there a thousande two hundreth and threscore days 7 And there was a battayle in heauen Michael and his angels fought with the dragon and the dragon fought and his angels 8 And preuayled not neither was their place founde any more in heauen 9 And the great dragon that olde serpent called the deuyll Satanas was cast out which deceaueth all the world And he was cast into the earth and his angels were cast out with hym 10 And I hearde a loude voyce saying in heauen Nowe is made saluation strength the kingdome of our God the power of his Christ For the accuser of our brethren is cast downe which accused them before our God day nyght 11 And they ouercame hym by the blood of the Lambe and by the worde of their testimonie and they loued not their lyues vnto the death 12 Therfore reioyce heauens and ye that dwell in them Wo to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea for the deuyll is come downe vnto you which hath great wrath because he knoweth that he hath but a short tyme. 13 And when the dragon sawe that he was cast vnto the earth he persecuted the woman which brought foorth the man chylde 14 And to the woman were geuen two winges of a great Egle that she myght flee into the wildernesse into her place where she is norished for a tyme tymes and halfe a tyme from the presence of the serpent 15 And the serpent cast out of his mouth water after the woman as it had ben a fludde that he myght cause her to be caryed away of the fludde 16 And the earth holpe the woman and the earth opened her mouth and swalowed vp the ryuer which the dragon cast out of his mouth 17 And the dragon was wroth with the woman and went and made warre with the remnaunt of her seede which kepe the commaundementes of God haue the testimonie of Iesus Christe 18 And I stoode on the sea sande The .xiij. Chapter 1.8 The beast deceaueth the reprobate 2.4.12 and is confirmed by another 17 The priuiledge of the beastes marke 1 AND I sawe a beast ryse out of the sea hauing seuen heades and ten hornes vpon his hornes ten crownes and vpon his head the name of blasphemie 2 And the beast which I sawe was like a Leoparde and his feete were as the feete of a Beare and his mouth as the mouth of a Lion And the dragon gaue hym his power and his seate and great aucthoritie 3 And I sawe one of his heades as it were wounded to death and his deadly wounde was healed And all the world wondred after the beast 4 And they worshipped the dragon which gaue power vnto the beast and they worshipped the beast saying Who is lyke
not by 〈◊〉 â—nly and godâ— counsel 〈◊〉 wicked 〈…〉 poliâ— (d) Meaning some delicate and dayntie meate (e) That is she serued theÌ„ on a dyshe Or how shall I put away my shame 〈◊〉 34. â— Leuâ— xviii a “ Or for this cause “ Or seruant (f) For that which was of diuers colours or peeces in those dayes was had in great estimation Gen. 37. a “ Or Baaâ— Hazor “ or thanked (g) Pretending to y e king that Amnon was most deare vnto him (h) Then beyng voyde of care castyng no peryll i. Reg i. b. (i) In token of sorowe and greefe “ Or take it to heart Or â–ª 〈◊〉 “ Or one â—â—ter an other (k) For Maâ—câ—ah his mother was the daughter of this â—halmaâ— Chap. ◠“ Or ceâ—sses (a) That the king fauored him (b) In token of mourning for they vsed annoynting to seeme cherefull “ Ebre put wordes in her mouth “ Ebre saue “ Ebre a wydow woman (c) Vnder this parable she describeth the death of Amnon by Absalom Deu. xix c. (d) According to the lawe which commaundeth the slayer to be slaine Gene iâ— b. Exo. â— b. (e) As touchâ—ng the breache of the lawe which punisheth blood let me beare the blame “ Or innocent “ Ebre touch i Reg 24. f Why dost 〈…〉 geue conâ—tie sentence 〈◊〉 thy sonne Absalom (g) God hath prouided wayes â–ª as sanctuaries to saue them oft times whom man iudgeth worthy death (h) For I thought they would kill this my heyre “ Heb. Rest (i) As of great wisdome â—o discerne right from wrong (k) Hast not thou done this to the counsell of Ioab (l) By speakâ—ng rather in 〈◊〉 then plainly I haue 〈◊〉 thy 〈◊〉 “ Hebr. Blessed (n) Whiche wayed sixe pounde foure ounces after halfe an ounce to the sicle “ Or Possession (o) Here is an vnmerciful cruell heart couered in this beautiful body (p) If I haue offended by reuenging my sisters dishonour Thus the wicked iustifie theÌ„ selues in their euyll “ Heb. made him “ Or controuersie (a) That is notyng of what citie or place he was (b) Thus the enuious can depraue and condemne for negligence vniustice him whom God for diligence and iustice â—oth commeÌ„d and allowe (c) By intising them froÌ„ his father to him selfe (d) Counting from the time that the Israelites had asked a king of Samuel (e) By colour of religion he hunteth after the kingdome (f) And byd to his feast in Hebron (g) That Absalom went about (h) For neither is there hope of mercy at his cruel handes neither are we at this sodden able to make our partie good against him “ Hebr. Choose (i) That is after him (k) To wit from Hierusalem “ Heb. At his feete (l) That is the souldiours that be with thee Whiche wâ—s the â—arge of the 〈◊〉 Num. 4. a. 〈…〉 (o) Gods will is a comforte and a cause of contentation to the faithfull 〈◊〉 aduersaries With ashes and dust after 〈◊〉 maner of 〈◊〉 that be in sorowe (q) Terrible is the counsell of the wicked wordly wyse against the innocent except God who oft turneth it to folly do frustrate and disapoynt the same “ Heb. To me that is to my commoditie a Which was the hill of 〈◊〉 Or Figge â—akes “ Hebr. I worship (b) Which was a citie in the tribe of Beniamin (c) That is round about him “ Heb. Man of blood “ Or wicked man (d) This he sayde because of the death of Isboseth and Abner suspecting Dauid to be gilty to the same e Dauid felt that this was the iudgement of God for his sinne and therfore humbleth him selfe to his rod. “ Heb. On myne eye (f) Meaning that the lorde wil sende comforte to his when they are oppressed g Coâ— at Bâ— â–ª “ Heb. Let the king lyue (h) Meaning Dauid “ Heb. The seconde time (i) Sâ—ting the possibilitie of reconciliation betwixt the father and the sonne consequently his owne destruction he geueth such counsell that is lyke to barre frendshippe for euer (k) It was so estemed for the successe therof (a) As though he would say geue me authoritie to choose (b) Meaning Dauid “ Heb. was right in the eyes of Absalom “ Heb. what is in his mouth “ Or â–ª Spoken thus 〈◊〉 Tary 〈…〉 “ He Haue a breach or â—ayne “ Heb. melt “ Heb. The children of fortitude Or The Lord hath commaunded (c) Good to haue brought to passe that wicked purpose he went about d For by the counsel of Husai â–ª he went to the battell where he was destroyed (e) That is ouer Iordane The message froÌ„ their â—s (g) To wit to pursue the with all hast (h) So y t they trauayled all night and by mourning â—aâ— all their company passed ouer (i) Thus God somtimes in this lyfe executeth iudgement vpon the cruel persecutor of the innocent to admonishe vs what iudgement at suche shal haue in the world to come (k) Who was also called Iâ—ai Dauids father l God 〈◊〉 them â—ring the necessitie of his faithfull seruaunt in his trouble and affliction (a) Signifiâ—ng that a good gouernour ought to be â—odâ—ere vnto his peâ—ple that they will rather lose their liues then that ought shoulde come vnto him (b So called because the Ephramites as some say fed their cattel beyond Iordane in this wood (c) By good prouidence that this might be an example for euer what if is afore God â–ª the sonne to rebel against the father “ He weigh vpon myâ—ehand “ Heb. In the heart of Absalom (d) Temperating the victorie with mercie and pine vpon the people that were seduced by Absalom (e) It should appeare by this that God had punished him by taking away his three sonnes his daughter f That is hath deliuered him out of the handes of his enemies g Fauoring him that he should not inâ—utte displeasure by telling of the death of Absalom (h) He sate in the gate of the citie of Mahanaim (i) That is he bringeth tydinges “ Heb. I see the running (k) He had had experience of his fidelitie Chap. 17. e. “ Or Deliuered vp (l) To wit Chusi who was an Ethiopian “ Hebr. Tydinges is brought “ Heb. Iudged (m) The rebellion of his sonne coulde not quenche his fatherly effection “ Hebr. Saluation or deliueranÌ„ce (a) As they do that mourne (b) At Mahanaim “ Or Captaines “ Hebr. Ben right in thyne eyes “ Heb. To the heart of thy seruaunt (c) Where the most resorte of the people was (d) Who should first bring home the king c As to them whose officers to tell the people their dutie f Beside his pollicie that is by winning of the captaine to winne the people it serueth that he hath yet a grudge against Ioab for the death of Absalom (g) Who had before reâ—ted him Cha. â— c. (h) For in his aduersitie he was his most cruell enemie although nowe in his prosperitie he seketh by flattery to