breck forthe and saye Take holie Scripture spirituall The letter leadeth to dekaye The fleshe profytetes nothing at all In the sext of Iohne Christ doeth saye The verray bread of lyf am I I came frome heauen I am the waye Mankind to saue throw faith onelie Ye can not come to me trwelie Except my father do you call I am in him and he in me The fleshe profytetes nothing at all Your fathers in the wildernes They eat Manna and yet are deid After an other kinde expres Forâuthe I am the leuing breid Come down from heauen in to shissteid A am the bread celestiall My word throw faith it doeth you feid The fleshe prosfeites nothing at all Except ye eat beleue and trow August in sermone ad inâuttes In my bodie and drink my blude I say ye haue no lyfe in yow For my bodie is verray fude Right so is drink I you conclude My bloode and take it spirituall For carnallie no man can dude The fleshe prosfeites nothing at all Except ye eat ye haue no lyfe My fleshe and drink my blood he said ⪠But then amonges them grew such stryfe That some went back and was affraid And carnallie his wordes wraid Vntill their mindes sensuall And frome the faith they still dekaid The fleshe prosfeites nothing at all The Disciples murmurred amang Now can this man his fleshe vs giue But Christ knowing their thoghtes wrang Saying wherefore should this you greiue All thogh the Sonne of man should meiue To his glorie celestiall The spirit quickneth throw trwe beleue The fleshe prosfeitz nothing at all Sainât Augustine writing full plane Against Adamant trwelie How the Lord douted not to saue This is my blood and my bodie August contra Adaman âim When that he gaue to his meinzie The signe of his bodie corporall To kepe his death in memorie The fleshe prosfeites nothing at all Al 's in an preface doeth he saye Where Christ did him self admit To his mandie on thuresdaye Saying take you now all and eat The holie sigure of me compleit And of my death memoriall My token trwe and promesse sweit The fleshe prosfeites nothing at all This fleshe ye se ye shall not eat ⪠Nor drinck the blood shed forth of me My Sacrament is drinck and meat That siedes the inwarde man trwelie Not for thy teith nor thy bellie I am no meat materiall Beleue and thou hes eatten me The fleshe prosfeites nothing at all Most gratious God illumiuâ Our wittes waik and impââent Incresse our saith so satigat Make worde and deid equiualent Our sinnes vyle for to repent And lead our liues more spirituall According to thy testament Which is the fleshe that profeites all ⧠Anâ Ballade vpon the prayer or orisque of âânasses King of Iuda when he was led presouerâ and captiue in Babilone ⪠2. Cron. 33. VIth teares great I sigh and Sob Bewaling my natiuitie O God of Abram and Iacob I make my wofull plainte to the Bound foote and hand with an cheinze As an slaue mocked and dispist In presoue and captiuitie Soulzeit with the vncircumcist Thou Lord that made the heauen on hight The earth with all her instrumentes Thou made also the daye and night The Sunne the Monne resplendisentes The fyre the aire the elementes Thy worde o Lord and thy command Hath gart the heauenlie ornamentes In till their curse and ordour stand The ãâã sea depe and prosound By thy vertue which dââth excell âhose welicring walles suââbound Dare not attoure their brymmes swell ⪠Their bodumis furius and fell Of whirling waters stif and stark The Lord hath closed vp himsell And seald them with his seall and mark O fearfull God who may withstand Thy feruent Ire in any case No sinner on the earth leuand Thy furie may abide allace for none are iust before thy face But all are sinners yong and old All are denude and bare of grace And to the deuill and hell are sold I grant thou art the Lord abone Of Iacob Abram and Isac that sinned not as I haue done Nor thy commandementes brak But I sinner sleuthfull and slack For breking thy law and command âes heaped mo sinnes on my back Nor is in nombre all the sand I haue prouoked thy Ire allace My pride and my Iniquite ⪠âes wroght great ill before thy face I know their is no health in me I grant I ãâ¦ã And worâhââ of thâ ãâã and rod Because in my ãâã I wold not know the Lord my God My great abhominatione That day and night hath done incres Hes bene the iust occasione Of all my wo and heauines I haue sinned I do confes Right greuouslie aganes the Lord Let not my sinne and wickednes Stop the to be misericord Yet thou hast in remembrance Thy promesse and thy holie aith The man that is of repentance To punishe him thou art right laith Though thou be angrie in thy wraith Thou art sone pacified we ken When that we call to the in faith For all the wickednes of meâ Thogh we sinners deserue iustlie Dampnatione death and helles fyre Yet for rewarde thy great mercie Hes pacified thy wraith and ire And promest hes thy high impire Frelie to all that will conuart For thou doest not of vs require Except an trwe and faithfull hart For thy goodnes no more considder My silthie sinnes night nor daye But wipe them all awaye to gidder Sith that I do repent and praye I know thou castes not awaye No wight that will on the depend Nor willis nor their death no waye But wold that they should leaue and mend With knees of my heart contreit I kneill full law before thy grace With teares distilling that I greit I weshe my bailfull blaickned face O Good Lord hear me in this caice And grant me my petitione And for my sinnes not me chaice But gif me full remissione Now saue me Lord since that I praye Saue me o God omnipotent And I shall loif the night and daye Whâll that my lyfe away be spent For all the vertues parmanent Of heauen the Angelles all and some They prayse the as most excellent In world of worldles for to come ⧠An Ballade against the foull and dâtâstable vice of dronâkinnesse ALl for douered ãâã in after drinck In an ãâ¦ã I layeâ Appeared suddamlie as I did shlâk Ould father Noye cled in an nyce arraye Shaikand his beird with asteirne voyce did saye Of all sinnes âxcesse is principall And bringes the bodie sonest to dekaye Pro. 31. Throw droncknes the mother of vices all I was the first that wine did plant or presse Thinking to be his master and his gyde But he deceaued me I the confesse Gen. 9. And of my Sonne was scorned in that tyde Because I could not my own secreittes hyde I cursed Cham my sonne and made him thrall Tyll his two brethren seruand till abyde Throw droncknes the mother of vices all What thogh I was be gild it was
consumed in prodigalitie Luc. 19. Following my lust and sensualitie So now great hongare reignes in this lââb That all kinne people in parrell is to tyne For falt of Goddes worde and his command And I compeld till ear with mekill pyne Amos 8. That whiche is meiter for dogs and for swine Haue I not cause for to be sad and wo When I think on the house that I came sro Where their is an abouÌdaÌce of the heaueÌlie bread But I allas haue done my self misgyde That my sinnes theiron will not let me feid What shall I do or where shall I me hyde Rom. 7. Or shall I still into my sinne abyde With repentance is better that I murne And yet agane to my father returne Perchance he mercie will vpon me haue I trust he will me souccour in my nâid When with repentance I it aske and craue Then shall I pray him that he take no heid Ezec. 18. To my folie nor to my wicked deid And to my sinnes past haue no regaird Nor after my deseruinges me rewaird Ioh. 17. That his iustice to me haue no respect Where I haue walked long tyme vndiscreâe Rom. ââ But that his mercie make me his elect And as I thoght these wordes in my spreâe Their did appeir to me an father sweit That notwithstanding my sinne did me imbrace And from my faâltes he did remoue his fate Esa 44. Syne did command ãâ¦ã That in the booke of life I ãâã rolâ And cled me with an robe of innocence And on my finger put an ring of gold Whiche is the liuelie faith that I should hold Luc. 15. And with that hand where the ring did repose He gaue me bread to eat more sweit nor rose Syne for my loue the best fed calf was keild That worldlie wisdome on an croice gart bleid Act. 3. Which calf was Christ our onelie stay and beild Heb. 9. Who said to me my owne brother take heid Who trustes in me shall neuer see the deid And thoght they were inâiâme dead man wyse Ioh. 11. Yet shall they liue and haue eternall lyfe My liuelie dead I tholed for thy behoue Hathe AdaÌs ofspring froÌ Satans baÌdes driued Col. 2. Thou mon belâue with hope to reigne aboue O death in lyfe by Christes death arriued Heb. 2. We that were dead are by his death reuiued Gal. 2. We are all dead as concerning the Law Rom. 7. And yet we liue throw Christes death we knaw O Lord my God Christ my Mediatour 1. Ioh. 2. That tholed death for my saluatione Wâshe clenge and purge my poysoned natoure Ephe. 5. With liuelie water of regeneratione Tit. 3. That I se no more the separatione Of the and me my Lord my God and King Ioh. 14. But in the heauen with the that I may ring But giue me knowledge of the holie Worde And cause it shrow my inward pââââs rinne Heb. 4. Perce thou my heart with that two edged smorde And that it still remaine my harte withinne Whil thou this spirit take from this corps of sinne Then thy right waye shall I parsaue and finde Rom. 7. And walk no more stumbling as I were blinde To vnderstand that word shall giue me plane Deut. 4. If I with mekenes do it humblie reid What is the trwe meate of an Christiane Allanerlie since no man leues on breid But by the worde which doeth of God proceid Mat. 4. Lord thou art high brade lenth and latitude Stloth serene the pure and plesand slude I come to the to weshe me in that place Thou knowes well I am the blinde man borne Refuse me not but grant me of thy grace Since for my sake thou beatten was and torne Ioh. 9. Suffre me not o Lord to be forlorne Nor led with blinde thogh I blindnes desire To go and trampe in euerie dub and myre Oppen my inward eyne and giue me sight O Lord and make me one of thy appointed â Ioh ⪠2 4. Ephe. 2. Heb. 2 9 10. That I may iudge the darknes by the light And say that it is Iesus Godes oynted That with his precious ⪠blood hath me anointed And me redemed hathe from captiuitie And hathe me geuen the Spirit of libertie The ãâ¦ã for the of ãâã ãâã chace With ãâ¦ã â and ãâã That I ãâ¦ã and it ãâã Esa 15. Luc. 1. Louse thou ãâã ãâã that I may ãâã expreâ That holie worde and dailie it confes Sen thââ hast said let not my yocke the greue ãâã â ⪠For if thou will ââmy promesse beleue Thou shall dwell in me and I in the remane If thou byde constant withoutten balt or hink To comfort the in thy trauell and pane In thy drouthe thou shall haue my blood to drink Ioh. 6. And in thy heart if that trwe faith can sink My bodie thou shall haue and fleshe to âit To fede the inward man the lyfe and spreit Remembring thereby my death and passione Vntill I come kepe the same in memorie 1. Cor. 11 For they receaue their ownr damnatione That eattes this Sacrament vnworthelie Making no difference of the Lordes bodie Therefore let one man iudge him selfe and sâne Let him come âat the bread and drink the wyne 2. Cor. ââ Right many are with maladiâs confused And do perishâ at length without remeid Bâcause they haue ⪠ãâã Saââaââât abused 1. ãâã 11. And many slepes to the ãâã ãâã Because they haue not thereof taken heâd Lord âlocken me with drink celestiall That no dregges nor poysone papisticall Haue puissance to entre my heart withinne Whose dregges hath done the whole world delude Which is but draffe and satlinges full of sinne Ioh. 6. The Lordes word and promesse is my fude He hath me fed in faith with fleshe and blude He is the bread of life the which shall geue Pardon of sinne to all that will beleue He is the Sacrament and lambe Paschall That oues for all hath made ane offring Leuit. 18 Deuâ 21. Psal 4â Heb. 1. Gal. 3. His precious bloode hath ransoued vs all He was for vs curst and on an ecoce did hing That curse till vs he chainged in blessing And to saue his elect for verye loue He gaue him selfe to death for their behoue And from the dead ⪠to life he roise againe In to his naturall bodie sensible Ioh. 21. Syne to his Apostles appeared plaine Mar. 16. That they might all see his bodie visible Syne to his Father that is inuisible He ascended from them thogh they did murne Act. 1. And promest at the last daye for to returne In that same bodie that he rose from deid Which bodie doeth remane in heauen alwaye And sitteth on Godds right hand as saith the creid Heb. 1â ⪠And shall not steir nor moue as Paull doeth saye Whill the last trompet sound at domesdaye If it
so be fleshe nor eye corruptable May not himse which is vncorruptable Nor yet their is no mouth nor hand mortall Nor that marchantes thereof thoght they be wraith May âat or touchâ his bodie naturall But all the faithfull as the Scripture saith Do âat his âlâshe and drink his blood in faith And till he come hath left that ordinance In sâgne of his death and our deliuerance As for the oblaâionâ and sacrifice ⪠Malac. 1. Offred by ChaÌnons MoÌckes Priestes Freris For quick and dead founded on auarice âsee 5. Their Sacrifice in Goddâs sight apperis As clothe polluted cum menstruo mulâeris Wâo will not coufâssâ ⪠all readie that Christ Is come in fleshe he is ane Aâtechrist â Ioh. 4 They dèny Christ those fals Prophetes prophane Sâice he is come bothe dâad and buried Heb. 9. That will hân newlinges slay and kill agane âal 2. The Sacrifice of the olde Law pacified Thâ father whill his Sonne was sacrified âom â Which is come and offââd ons for all ââb 10. But âââce that he is comâ as saith samet Paull And for our sinnes hath suââred passione Sâing that he is rissin and gloufied Idem The fathâr will no nâwe oblatione He will be noâ adored and maânifieâ Christ will no more for âinnes bâ sacrified He will now be louâd feard sârued and dred And will no more with Sacrifice be fed It is onelie thou o Iesu Christ my Lord It is thou o sweit Lambe immaculat 1. Ioh. 2. I pray the Lord to be misericord 1. Tim. 2 And thogh that I shuld be vituperat Of all my freindes and excommunicat âoh 16. Rom. 7. Scorged scorned imprisoned and blamed Yet of thy worde shall I not be eschamed But I shall boldlie say in euerie steid And confesse before men bothe morne and euen Act. 4. That their is none other can giue remeid Nor yet none other name in earth nor heauen Luc. 20. That for saluatione is to mankinde geuen 1. Pet. 2. Nor grace nor life that can till vs inswe But onelie in the name of Christ Ieswe Act. 4. And yet til al them that his word doeth mock And dailie do their owne traditiones houlde Mat. 21. He his an stumbling stone and snapring block Psal 118 To all that wold entre in his shepe foulde By an other way nor him selfe hathe toulde Ioh. 10. To them that sâkes by inuentions subtiles Esa â8 To saue them by their workes inutiles Ye that your owne good intentes estemes Idem To seke the word of God that is so sweir Arise and walk forthe of your sliprie dremes In slepe ye are charged and may not steir Ephes 5 With heauie burdinges impossible to beir Mat. 23. So that an greate fâbure moued with heit Hath surâmontâd your senses and yur spreit Esa 16. Which makes you raif saye ye wait not what Osâc â â That Goddes worde holie Scripture blames An thousand thinges againes the trueth God wat A walk âorthe of your âilthie drâames uifames And vse the counsell of the Apostle Iames âho that hathe faute of sapiânce saith he âacob 1. Let aske of God which geueth aboundantke To euerie man and doeth none deceaâe Nor yet no kinde of natione will he lack âoh 10. What thing ye ask in faith ye shall it haue Come all that will repent and be not slak Mat. 9. That he may take the burdinges of your back He is our Lord our Sauiour and Maister He makes the wound syne setteth on the plaister ⪠At his owne pleasure and not at our will None of vs are found iuste afore his face Rom. â Our owne nature can wirke no good but ill If we haue goodnes it is not of our race Ephe. â Nor yet of our selues but by Goddes grace By his grace I which was an oliue wilde Is grafted in faith and become his childe Rom. 11. Participant of the free oliue faire Where I was before bastard and none other Idem He haâhe me made his lauchfull sonne and aire And âik partaker with my eldâst brother Luc. 15. Where I had but an concubine to mother And come last to laubour in the wyne Yet with the first I gat my iuste propyne Mat. 2â That blindes the worlde with hiâ ãâã ãâã â Be mercifull to him and let him se And persaue his owne preuaricationââ Where with he blindeth all bind of nationes I lose my tyme for so he will not with For that vngodlie beast is no renieid Is he not cheif of his vnknowne kirk 1. Ioh. ââ Sainct Iohn in his epistle biddeth me take heid Their is saith he an certaine sinne to deid For the which sinne I wishe no man to praye The beast coÌmitteth the sinne bothe night daye I meine the sinne against the holie âprâit Heb. 6 10. With that sinne no man ought to play nor bouâd To pray for Goddes âoo it is not meit He is his âoo that âoo is till his word Rom. 11. That ouer al where with paines fyre and sword Prouer. 2â Doeth seke to slay and persecute expresse All them that will trwelie that word confesse Lord frie vs from his constitutiones And do not sufâre thine elect to fall Ioh. 17. Esa 3. Osââ 12. In the pit of his deuilishe traditiones Which holdeÌ hathe so long thy Churche in thrall By his inuentiones Diabolicall Eiect him forthe and all his euen and od 2. Tes 2. The forlorue sonne that in the temple of God ãâ¦ã him self hââh rong east west South And ãâã world after his solie ãâã Thou ãâã ãâã with the spirit of thy mouth For till ãâã and kill that Antechrist 2. Tes â For his presuming equalitie with Christ The refulgent splendour of thy comming Shall sone to darknes driue that beast maling Then shall the heauie burdinges importables Of mennes doctrines and their vaine command Alleged in their lawes deceiueables Mat. 2â That none but them selues could vnderstand Luc. 11. Where with the conscieÌce of simple meÌ they band Then shall their superstitiones in an stound With mekil shame be broght vnto the ground Apoc. 20 Then shal the word of God be shawn compleit Apoc. 7. Which shall darken the doctrine of the hure Ioh. 4. And God him self adored in saith and Spirit But not in images nor painted portrature Which are against the Law and the Scripture To make any kind of similitude Deut. 4. In heauen nor earth in water sea nor slude Nor till worship the werk of mennes handes But to set all idolatrie asyde As thow may planelie read in the commandes Exod. 20 Who maketh them or in them doeth confide Shall with them all in Goddes wrath abide Who worsheppes images it is no bourd Let them allone and follow Goddes word Psal 11â ãâã
ãâã that could not satisfie To their desires whill âyme prefiât said ho Then for to rule and reigne bigen also ãâ¦ã The great âictie superbe and glorious That some tyme founded was by Romulus Whiche wan and conquest all the Orient And in short space subdewed all the Occident On suche an wise all landes and langage Become their subiectes and made them homage Carthaiâe ancient strong and mightie town They brack the walles and kest the cietie down Their gloir did so increase and multiplie Pryde promest it shuld still remane on hie Pryââ But wheÌ approched their propre houre and tyme Presixt and set by prouidence deuyne From their impire they were ouerthrawn cast They might no longar reigne for tyme was past So toke an end the high Impire Romane That was so long fordged on blood humane The whole world could not by their great puissance Them veÌques whill God by his puruiaÌce Sewe in their sinnat ciuile seditione Which sprang and grew to their confusione Consââe in earth no thing is permanent Eccles â But shall haue end for God omnipotent With dayes houres hathe euery thing prefixt That shall not be ouer past nor yet proliât Here in this earth nothing is firme nor stable But Christes kingdome remanes ãâã ââââ â ãâã So biyâg seased âur ãâã Our â buocat and ãâ¦ã Vpon his Fathers right ãâã ãâã for man 1. Tim. 2 Heb. 9. With ãâã his orisone ãâã Praying his Father God omnipotent To grante him these requestes consequent Ioh. 17. O supreme Father most worthie in aspect Since in my bodie that thou hast elect Hathe bene accomplished whole obedience Apoc. â Hebr. 2 9 10 12. 2. Cor. 6 Rom. 7. Therefore I pray the with deâfull reuerence The inobedience of the worlde remitte That they against the daylie do committe Thogh poysone entred in by Adames race Thou may remead it with thy might and grace For my goodnes and loue mende that misdead Rom. 5. Since that by Adam entred sinne and dead Grant throw my death which was superlatyne May entre peace and euerlasting lyue I make the most humble supplicatione Since thou hast pleised the oblatione That pietie hathe caused me to present Ioh. 15. Of my owne naturall bodie innocent That sinne nor death pretend no actione Heb. 10. But take my fleshe and blood for satisfactione Ephes 1. Of them that will with heart intrincicall Pray in my Name to the continuall Holding the as the Father eterne tutorne Ioh. 14. And me as brother iudge and gouernoure Matt. 6. That hopes in me and in none other wight For them o Father I pray the day and night The ardent loue and pietie paternall Ioh. 17. That thou hast borne to me contenuall Must cause the lykewise them to loue so weill That in their heartes they may persâne and feill Ioh. 1â How for my sake thou hast them all resaued As thy owne children Gotten and consaued When they by waiknes in temptatione fall 1. Cor. 10 O Father then haue mercy on them all Considder of themselues they haue no goode But imperfite and borne of fleshe and bloode Ioh. 14 16. Without our helpe they fall and may not stand To thy goodnes them all I recommand I know full well what may to them betyde So Sataâ me assailled with his pryde Thus may I not alway in their vexatione Mat. 4. Contemple them without I haue compassione Heb. 2. Their cauâe and maters touches me so neir They are my blood elect and brethren deir Thy are my membres and my holie Kirke I must be their defence for them to wirke Ephes 1 2. I may not suffre that one of them be shent To ansuer for them all I me present By thy bontie eternall they are thyne 1. Cor. 3. Mat. 21. Ioh. 16 17. Yet by reasone I boght them they are myne Thou hast them put vnder my gouernance And promesed me to be their assurance Their aide their helpar and protectour propice Father I pray the for my Sacrifice Idem That thou wilt in their mindes and hartes pour Our odoriferrant balme and sweit licour With the feruent flambe and zeale of Charitie The liuelie Spirit condigne of our deitie And the sweit vnctioÌ that doeth from bothe proceid Musâ be ãâã their solace and remeid Again ãâ¦ã As well ãâã ãâã âiabolicall Ioh. 14. For their most ãâã and stroââ ãâã Their most persite and principall instructour The holie Gost for witnes and for gaige Ephes 1. 2. For ãâã and arles of our heritage Lat them with vs reignes o Father ãâã When they offend impute to me their crime Ioh. 17. And ended so this supplicatione He said to me for thy oblatione Heb. 9. Rom. 4 5. My dear beloued Sonne celestiall For the offence of men terrestriall Then payed for all au ransome most condigne Heb. 10. And I at thy request to them benigne My Sonne delice and substance of my sell Esa 9. Heb. 5. Proâor 8. 2. Cor. 4 Maâ 28. Resaue all powere in heauen earth and hell Till damne till bind till Lousse and till releue Till saue them all that shall on the beleue Take all the treasures of the heauen celest Dispone and parte them where thou pleses best Sith I haue all this power to the geuen Psal ââ Act. 2. Heb. 1 The earth the hell the Angelles of the heauen A geue the likewise in thy holy hand An rod of yron to strike who doeth ganestand If thou shall plese that rod without regaird Shall brecke breisse them as an pottars shaird Apo. 19. Our holie lambe ressaning all this charge To shewe him selfe bothe liberall and large The heauens oppened in haist with reuerence Mat. 18. Where he departed with magnificence ãâã âââasure and the holie gifte ãâã ãâã âhe worlde plane and ãâã ãâã And ãâã of all his promesse to fullfill Act. 2. The great conforteur come his ãâã With diuerse tongues and leides solatious And with zeraphricall windes gratious Ilke on of them in science newe did sleit With diuerse giftes of the sammyn Spreit 1. Cor. 2â Where their was men of Mede and Parthians Of Pontus Pamphill and Cereneâus Of Capadoâe and Mesopotamia Of Asia Egypt Libia and Phrigia Act. 21. Their was Arab Iewe Greik and Proseleit Strangers of Rome of Candy and of Creit These nations all maruelled and was on sloght To here se what was by the Apostles wroght By verie vertue of their high doctrine Idem When all these nationes were before theme syne In their maternall tongues and propre leid Ilk one of them heard Christ preached in deid Fontaines of grace from them did slowe spring Throw Chrisis promâsse where his Spirit benig To Idiot men vnlearned hece on ground âân 10. Their simplenes did prudent men consound Christ promised to leawe when he did ascend
Nor no sie vaue consautes ãâã reaâ But by his Sonne that âath fulfilled the Lawe And satisfâed the Father ones for all Heb. 9. 1â By offâing of his bodie naâurall Vpon the ââoce for vs sinnerâ to die Whose death and passione made vs captiues fre Ephe. 5 Where we were dead in sinne and did remane Rom. â And was condempned after Moyses Law Gal. â âet hathe his death vs broght on liue agane And shewes to vs the yock that we should drawe Heb. 2 9 The word of God the which doeth planelie shawe 1. Cor. 15 1. Tim. 2 Now we are onelie by Christ all iustified And by his rising are also glorified Wherefore great cause we haue to be content Thogh for thy sake we suffre wo and pâne Sith we are perteners of thy Testament Of thy promesse and of thy word deyune Esa 4â As Isai saith in the fourtie and nyne May any mother suffre hir eyes beforne Hir sonne to pereshe of hir bodie borne And thogh she do forget hir childe so deir Yet all the slock that will on me depend Idem I shall not them forget I to you sweir And when my people haue done me offend By the contrair I ãâã them to amend Come saith Christ who will their sinnes coÌsidder Ezec. ââ That I may giue them life and health to gidder Come with innocence thogh ye shuld be slaine Come to me for I am ane rightious iudge Gen. 4 7 1â 22. I am iust Abell I am not wicked Came Come to my arke and seke at me refuge For I am Noye and the second deluge Come to me in faith as did Abraham And Isaac that signified the lam Come all sinners for your owne beâoue ãâ¦ã Come not as the Scribes with hypocrisie Come vnto me for kindnes and for loue Come as Naaman for I am ãâã Come on and I shall ãâã your leprosie I am Moses and I osâe that wan To you the frutefull ãâã of Canaaâ Come till me I am faithfull I osias âââg 23. 1 Sam. ââ ãâã â5 ãâã â I present Dauid Scripture makes mentione I âlewe your olde enemie Golias For your defence I am migthie Samsone Sicke my ãâã for I am Salomon Come with faith as the Fathers and Propheites Come with repentance as the ãâã Ionas â Come all that are liper Lazere and deif Mat. 12. Come all that are with maladie molest Come brigand ãâã and come theif âar â Come sâke at me ãâã and âââe in rest âe that are mad and with the deuill ãâã Come to me ye that loâg tyme blinde haue beââe Luâ â That I maye oppen your mindes inward ãâã Come ye that walk in darknes night and daye So that ye will ⪠so my ââx take regand ãâã â Come vnto me for I cast none awaye That will repent with heart and minde inward Knock on your ãâã and ââ shall be ãâã ãâã 2 ⪠Be not âeduced by ãâã doctrine nor ãâã Come ãâã at me ãâã and ye shall ãâã Eternall lyfe that euer shall remane ãâã ãâã not on the paines corporall Ioh. â ãâã ye were dead yet shall âe liue agaââ Come all sinners that will for mercie call Come vnto me and I shall saue you all That bound and settred is in sinnes barge Come vnto me I shall you cleue discharge Maââ ââ Come to me vsâtairs aâaritious Come all that wrangâslie haue boght and solde Come gredie worines on earth so couettous Luc. 19. Climme vp the treis of your conscience colde Climme as did Zacheus me to beholde That restoird foure folde for ilk ãâã Syne of his goodes the half gaue to the pure Come with an liuelie faith firme and stable As did the Cananian in the Gospell That required as dog vnder the table Mat. â3 To gadder croÌmes from Goddes word that fell To heall hir doghter and to saue hir sell Come also ye women of lyfe prophane Come with repentance as did the Magdalane The death of an sinner I do not desire All thogh he haue bene long tyme deafe and dum Ezec. 19. But rather that he shuld life at me require O Lord these are sweit sayinges all and sum Yet without the I can not to the cum Conuert thou me then shall I be conuerted ãâã â ãâã thou me then shall I be dâuerted From sinne o ãâã that doeth me soir molesâ Since thou to me ãâã ãâã so fair an triâie without the Lord my coâââence hes no rest Strengthen my spirit and to thy selse it tiste Ioh. 1â I pray the in the Name of Iesus Christ Which hathe vs said what thing ye aske âraââ My father in my Name ye shall it half In Christes Name we should onelie demand Sith he hathe âled him self with our natoure And at none other him selfe did so command For that ãâã Christ is our Mediatoure For our offence to God the plasmatoure â Ioh. â Our aduocar our freynd and ãâã our iudge Our asperance our comfort and refuge Now will I no more stand ãâã ãâã To entre in thy holie house and temple Psal ââ My Lord my God to come and drawe the neiâ For consolation in heart I shall contemple Thy holie parable and godlie sweit exemple As in sainct Lukes Gospell is written plane Their was an certane man had sonnes twane Luc. 15. The yongest sonne before his father stude And him beâoght of his ãâã That he might haue his ãâã parte of gude Idem Whiche his father deuided equallie ãâã he went forthe in till an strainge cuntrie Where his parte ââsum din one while In prodigalitie and ââ pleasures vile Syââe after hav suche honger and suche neââ Eriled from his father and his kinne That with the swyne he was compeld to sâââ Idem But when that he betâoght him of his sinne How many are my Fathers house withine Of âryed seruandes that hes bread at will And I his Sonne for falt is like to spill I will vnto my my father and confesse How I am worthie for to be reproued I will him grant my sinne and wickednesse But the father before with pietie moued Idem â ⪠âââ Ranne till his sonne and said my dear beloued Thou art welcome and cled him from the colde Syne on his finger put aââring of golde And siewe the âat calf that was holden deir Thogh the eldest sonne their on wold not feid To welcome his yongest sonne make good cheir Idem Then said the father let all blithnes proâeiti My ãâã is toââââ oâ luse that before was deid Lord here I seâ thy great beatitude And do constdder my owne ângratitude It is I wretche from the father exild It is I my conscience hathe me accused Rom. 2. Iâ is I Lord that is the wandring child The giftes thou me gaue I haue abused And contrare thy command haue them parused And them
is heauânlie the bodie inutill And is but an obscure or law preson Where as in laugour lyeth the soule gentill Of that prison I haue key subtill Which is my dart that for the soule is geuen To louse it out of that soull preson vile Where I it send with mekle ioy to heauen Holde fâirme thy faith on an God vndefild And for thy father take him and him call Ys he be so then art thou sure his child Mat. 6. And aire of his kingdome Celestiall Yf he hath fred the frome death perpetuall Befoir or euer thou had tyll him regaird Rom. 5. Dout not but and thou loue him cordiall With mekell better he shall thy selfe rewaird And as concerning the fleshes actione It can not liue without sinne and delite Nor yet it can not make satisfactione Rom. 6. For sinne to God wherof it had the wyte But right as Iesus vpon an croce perfite Died for our sinnes so most our fleshe expire And die with Christ yf that we wold be quyte Of endles death sinne and of Hellis fire Who striketh this stroke but death thou knowest weill So I am to all christians man and wyfe The end of sinne beginning of their seill The end of cair and thoght most pungetyfe And the beginning of euerlasting lyfe Why wold thou Aigâ returne to youth againe To pas the vaill of woo and mortall stryfe Which thou hast scaped with so mekell paine Yf thou will say when I come the arreist That I the do great wrong and violence Saying thou hast no paine but ioy and fâist With all delite withoutten indigence I say that pleasure turnes to impatience When it at length leadeth to dampnatione My death is pleasure to all hath sapience When ye from death turne to saluation What displeasure haue I here to the named To fear my dart nay nay I say not so But for Christis sake to suffer and be blamed To take in patience truble paine and wo The losse of goodes and dignities also Wanting pleasurs that somtime thou had ryfe So dyeng vnder my dart to pas them fio In place of them shall haue Eternall lyfe For fear of me be not contrist nor wo But haue firme hope and faith for till conforme The will of God and syne let gladlie go Ryches and friendes with all thesaures enorme For an cleir sky betoknes that the storme Will sone throw the Aire make seperatione Suche faith in persones departing doeth performe Sure signes and tokens of their trew saluatioÌe To this effect thou shuld not fear at length Iesus for vs would first the death assay His death hath venquest ãâã ãâã might strength Theirfore thinke not to dye thogh I the slay He me ouercame to sâue the frome dââay So I am but port and passage manifest That thou shuld gladlie âine throw night day Frome this fals world to heauenlie gloir celest Somtyme in figure as Scripture declair can An brasin serpent Moyses did raise on hight Which serpent to behold did heall an man That had bene stonged by âyrie serpents slight Lykewyse all they that by trwe faith hes sight Of Christ is death is heiled of my band As of the secound death I haue no might Christ hath that pouer rest forthe of my hand Great folie is in the custome humane To mourne for men when I them lay on sleip Yf thou beleues he shall with God remane Wây doest thou then lament with sighing depe Orwould thou here alway on lyfe him kepe Will thou him frome his great profit defend Since it is Goddes will thou shuld not wepe In doing so I know thou doest offend Let pagains rore let turkes take terrours That hope to haue none other habitatione The lake of faith is cause of all theare Errours Like Eathââquâs ignorant of their saluatione As to the black dooâes frequentation Ipocricie did shaipe that feyned sorow Some for their father maketh dooll ád deploratione That for their mother wold it weire the morrow Messess of Requâââ ãâã ãâã excellis To the great profite of ãâã ãâã and ãâã With rouâing roring and ãâã of bellis Their gredines forth sheweth their wicked waââ ⪠For yf ye had no vailzeand to your ââkes Be ye assured that after youre deceirs None of the rabill that wearres the markes Wyll for you ringe or singe or say an veirs For the prepair no suche solemniteis Nor for thy buriall bâ thou no wayes trist In Goddes sight they are but vaniteis Sauitie doeth not in earth nor tombe coÌsist An Faithfull man shall in the heauen be blist Where euer his fleshe or bodie buried be The wickits soull shall in the hell âe thrist Thogh he were buried whith all solemnitie At short to end now with my first purpose Fear not me death nor ban me I the pray For who wold in the heauenlie Hous repose Must first beleue goddes promese I saye Vho wold be with his angelles nyght daye Vho wold the face of God behold and se And who wold dwell in paradice for aye Yet before all I death must gar him die Confesse me to be good and gratious For whill I come thou art with sinne repleit Confesse thy lyfe bitter and Eigerous Confesse my dart plesand holsome sweit Also confesse and grant althogh thy spreit Ware mortall as thy filthie ãâã immound Yet shuld thou hold me as thy freiud discrte That ãâã the from thir worââliâ ãâã pro âound FINIS Where followeth The Iudgment of Minos Vpon the preserment of Alexander the great Conquerout Hanniball of Carthage and Scipion the Romain surnamed Affrican ãâã forth of Frayâce in scoâtes by the saide Noruell My vailÈeant heart full of honor gloire May not suffre HaÌniball to pas before Me intill armes and dedes martiall For suthe I thinke no man that is equall Ought in dedes of armes for to compair There worthynes or actis vnto myne Hanniball I will defende and manteyne the contrair Reporting me vntill God Mynos syne Iudge infernall and Lord of wo and pyite The aufull sworde of iustice to mantyne Where ryght and reason alway shal be seyne For euerie man alike bothe freind and sone Mynos That I may heare fyrst tell to me anone What are ye that disputis heare alone Of high honours to haue the aduantage Alexandre This is the Duke Hanniball of Carthagâ And I Alexandre the great Empriour Of all the world Kyng and Conquerour That wan and sâbdwed euery Natione Mynos Your names are of great existunatione Worthie of honour glorie and land supreyme With lawreir crowned is your diadeyme I meruell ye shuld haue debaite togidder ⪠Alexandre Bot Mynos I thinke ye shuld consider My birth forâuââ silicitie and werde And how I wold suffer no man in erde To be my compagnion nor perregall But as the Eigle that suremountis all Other foules most highest in the aire So may no man himselfe to me compaire In high curage and furour bellicall Wherefore I will not that