hundred waight with him he bare They both his bodie downe did take And it in linnen cloths did lap Ointments and odours they did make Which with the bodie they did wrap They buried him as maner then Was for to burie Noble-men Christ in a sepulcher they lay That Ioseph in a rocke did hew Wherein no man vntill that day Was euer layd this Ioseph knew That had thereof the propertie As Luke and Iohn do testifie So when they had in solemne wise Interred Christ ere they were gone They did betweene them both deuise To roll vnto the doore a stone And then they did with heauie heart From thence vnto their home depart And Marie Magdalene did see And so did Marie loses to Where Christ in graue was laid to be Then homeward both began to go Oyntments and odours to prepare They then of Christ though dead had care Yet rested they the Sabboth day Because of the commandement Though they kept them from thence away They caried still a full intent When that the Sabboth had an end To visit Christ their Lord and frend Now that the Lord might manifest Christ Iesus resurrection Vnto the Iewes and all the rest That were of the same faction He caused them to their great shame To be the witnesse of the same They spared not the sabboth day To manifest their malice more Their zeale was such they would not stay Or rather raging as before The high Priests Scribes and all the rest Assembled them vpon that feast And so they vnto Pilate went And humbly did desire his aide Expressing wholly their intent They in this maner to him sayd Christ that deceiuer oft would say I will from death rise the third day Command the graue we do pray thee To be made sure till that be past Lest his disciples which may be Do steale him while those dayes do last And to the people then do say That Christ from death rose vp that day So the last errour worse shall be A great deale then the first hath beene They raged yet as when that he Among them late aliue was seene Ye haue a watch said Pilate go And make it sure do euen so All thence they went then hastely The sepulcher for to make fast A watch prouided carefully They seald the stone this was the last And this the Lord did so effect To confound whom he had reiect And to their sauing health likewise Whom he had chosen long before To thee therefore God onely wise Be praise and thanks for euermore One mightie God in persons three All honor we do giue to thee Amen THE SIXTH AND LAST PART OF THE HISTORIE OF OVR LORD AND SAVIOVR IEsus Christ as it is written by the Euangelistes containing his resurrection from death and his ascension to heauen To the tune of the 81. Psalme Christ rose from death the day after the Sabboth called the Lords day Marie Magdalene and others came to the sepulcher and sawe a vision of Angels BElight and glad in God reioyce Which is our strength and stay Be ioyfull and lift vp your voyce To Iacobs God alway For he hath sent his sonne indeed Our flesh on him to take As he had long before decreed For his great mercies sake Which flesh in base and poore array Christ clad him selfe withall And in this flesh he tooke away The cause of all our fall First needs he must be perfect man Sith man did first offend And God also who onely can So great a fault amend Thus Christ as he appointed was Both God and man in deed Brought by his death that thing to passe Which nothing else could speed This Christ wrought our redemption From deuill death and hell We haue by him saluation As holy Scriptures tell And when all men had lost this light As farre as man could see For darknesse is our sharpest sight If faithlesse that we be Yea then when all our hope was past To see Christ Iesus slaine Out of the graue God brought at last Our sauing health againe And to be witnesse of the same And triumph ouer hell That flesh and bloud might to their shame Consider of it well The weakelings of the world he chose Whom worldly men despise For to confound the wits of those That thought them worldly wise I meane the rising vp againe Of Iesus from the dead Lest that our hope had bene in vaine And we with fancies fed For if the dead did not arise Our hope were vaine I say And we as beasts should in that wise Continue in the clay But Christ the first fruits of the dead Is risen vp in deed As we the members of that head Shall sure hereafter speed And to stirre vp the slouthfull feare That his Disciples had Weake women did first witnesse beare Of that which made vs glad They when the Sabboth day was past Or while it did endure Deuised how they might at last With oyntments sweet and pure Enbalme Christs body in the graue Therefore at Sabboths end Odours and oyntments sweet they haue To worke what they intend With them the Sabboth day was done Assoone as sunne was set And then the women all begon For nothing then did let Their oyntments sweet for to prepare And this they did by night That they might be this was their care There by the day was light Then Mary Magdalen by name And Mary Solom to Were they which thus together came With other women mo And as they went all by the way This doubt did then arise The stone to roll the women say We cannot all deuise Yet to the sepulcher they go The first day of the weeke Where they at sunne appearing so Found that which they did seeke I meane when they came to the place Behold the stone was gone Gods Angell shewed them this grace To roll away the stone Whose face did shine like lightening His garments white as snow Which vnto them in the dawning These ioyfull newes did show How from the dead Christ risen was But they amazed were To see such things come so to passe Did put them in great feare The earthquake first and then that sight Vnusd of them to see Did make the women all affright And wish at home to be And sure no maruell fith also The watch was fraught with feare Notable once to moue or go They so astonied were When Marie saw the stone away She went thence home with speed To Simon Peter where he lay To shew him of the deed And to the rest for this she thought From graue the bodie they Which we with teares and sorow sought By night did sure conuey Then Peter went with Iohn away To see what they had done They would no longer make delay But both together runne Yet this Disciple him out went And Peter left behind Though both did runne with full intent The truth thereof to find When Iohn vnto the graue did come He stouped downe
And worship him they say King Herod what is knowne to thee Declare without delay This troubled all Hierusalem as it had done the King Yet many knew in Bethlehem Should be this child-bearing But Herod fearing his estate So doubtfull to endure Did of this matter much debate His Crowne it was not sure Therefore he sent the men away To search where Christ should be That Christ saith he without delay May worship't be by me Now as the chiefe Priests Scribes and rest Had therein taught to them The wisemen so were ready prest To go to Bethlehem Yet warned by the king they were To make returne againe Thereby he thought to end his feare When he the child had slaine So they depart and loe the starre Which they had seene before By which they had now iourneyd farre And were to trauaile more Did still direct them in their way Each day by day and night Till they had seene it did not stray The onely Lord of might Whom when they found they fell downe flat To worship him and these Gaue to him treasures each one what Each one of them did please Or as their countrey yeelded then They vnto him did bring Gold incense mirrhe those sage wisemen Did offer to that king And so being warned in a night For God an Angell sent Another way with all their might They to their countrey went Then they perceiu'd that Herods drifts Was onely him to slay Whom they adored with their gifts Therfore they went their way Christ was presented in the temple at Ierusalem where Simeon and Anna witnessed of him Marie purified according to the law When Maries daies were finished Full thirtie daies and three She afterward was purified As women wont to be And then the child they did present Meekely before the Lord For to Ierusalem then went His friends with one accord This was a law they did obserue The first that opened The mothers wombe they did reserue To God as hallowed And offer'd an oblation Of turtle Doues a paire Or pigeons young this portion They would not sure appaire Then Simeon surnamed iust That long had liued there For Israels comfort he did trust He liu'd of God in feare The holy Ghost him this foretold No death shall dint on thee The Lord his Christ though thou art old Before thou surely see He then into the temple came When Iesus there was brought And speaking plainly of the same As in his minde he thought Said Lord now lettest thou in peace Thy seruaunt to depart According to thy promise ease Is hapned to my hart For with mine eyes I sure haue seene Saluation sent by thee And in mine armes thy sonne hath beene That workes the same for me Him thou prepared hadst before To be the Gentiles light And eke to Israell euer more Their glory and their might Then Ioseph and his mother milde Did maruaile much to heare The wordes he spake there of the child And pondred them with feare Yet Simeon blessing them could say Oh Marie be content This fall to many is the stay To Israell was meant Old Anna was a Prophetesse Which prayed day and night This likewise did the child confesse To be the Gentiles light She came by chance the same to see That she so much desirde The rites performed orderly They home-wardes all retir'de Ioseph warned of an Angell flieth into Egipt After all this was Ioseph warnde That he should take the child And mother then all three vnharmde Least they should be beguilde For Herod as the Angell said Would seeke to take his life Wherefore to Egipt all affrayd Went Ioseph and his wife The infants slayne Herod as mockt did take a scorne And in his angrie moode Slue infants all in Bethlehem borne And spilt their guiltlesse blood The children there of two yeares old Or vnder as they were He slue them all his act was bold It wanted grace and feare This act was foretold long before In Ieremie we reade That Rachell she should so deplore Her children being dead Which was accomplished in deed By Herod in his ire Who made so many infants bleed Yet mist of his desire For Christ was gone from thence away To Egipt to remaine Whence he till Herods dying day Did not returne againe That it which earst the Prophet said Might certainly be donne I out of Egipt vnaffrayd Haue called backe my sonne Ioseph warned againe by an Angell returneth out of Egipt after the death of Herod When Christ was now full fiue yeares old And had in Egipt beene Two yeares or more as authors hold The Angell there was seene To warne Iosephus thence to come Againe to Israell And bring his wife and sonne as some Supposed there to dwell For now they were both dead and gone That sought the child his life Then he and his supposed sonne Returned and his wife But Archelaus Herods sonne That held his fathers place Made Ioseph thinke they were vndonne He doubted of his grace He went and turned then aside Another part vnto Of Galilie there to abide As he was wild to do In Nazareth he did remaine That it might come to passe What earst the Prophets verie plaine Foretold and so it was Iesus being twelue yeares old disputeth with the elders in the Temple at Ierusalem His parents yeare by yeare they went Their passeouer to hold And did the same with like intent When Christ was twelue yeares old They to Ierusalem did go And there abode the dayes Appointed for that feast no mo For then they went their wayes Yet Christ the Lord abode behind Whom they with sorow sought Three dayes not knowing well his mind What then our Sauiour thought For he began to set abroch The businesse he had Who did perceiue the time approch To make his chosen glad Among the Doctors as he taught And posed them withall His parents found him that were fraught With griefe vnto the gall Yet were they easd and pleasd to heare Each one to geue him prayse Though hey had sought their sonne with feare And sorow sundry wayes Then he againe obediently To Nazareth did come And seru'd his parents reu'rently Most like a louing sonne And he increasd in stature so In wisedome and in grace With God and men where he did go That happie was the place Sixe things specially to be noted in this first part of the Historie Sixe things we may especially In this part marke and see Pertaining to Christes infancy As authors do agree 1 First of what line Christ Iesus came He was of Dauids seede 2 The holy Ghost conceiu'd the same That Marie bore in deede 3 The wisemen thirdly came to see And seeke to finde a king Then found confest him so to be For whom they treasure bring 4 Fourthly by flight Christ scapeth sure King Herods heauie hand 5 For him the infants death indure When Christ had left the land 6 Sixtly being warnd to come
Find in his heart to sell away All that he hath without delay Old Abraham was such a one He left his countrey friends and all His wealth he neuer thought vpon But did obey when God did call And Dauid that Gods word dist tast As sweet as hony to his last And the Apostles they were such And so the godly Martyr all These did esteeme nothing so much As to obey when God did call These marchants all they had they sold To buy this pearle surpassing gold The seuenth parable of the draw-net declaring the state and condition of Gods word Gods kingdome is like a draw net Which one into the sea doth cast Things of all sorts when it doth get He drawes it full from thence at last The good he doth in vessels lay But casteth all the bad away So shall it be at the worlds end The Angels shall seuer the bad And such as by no meanes amend From iust men which shall then be glad Though wicked men in fire then do Both waile and gnash their teeth for wo. Then Iesus asking them could say All these things vnderstand ye yet Yea Lord for so say they we may Thy words we neuer shall forget By this Christ did teach them againe The state of Gods word verie plaine The godly may not seuer now Themselues away from wicked men But as the tares in wheate must grow Till haruest time the reapers then Shall saue the wheate and for their hire Shall burne the tares in flaming fire And eu'ry Scribe said Christ that is Taught to Gods kingdome I compare Vnto a housholder iwis Whose treasure houses stored are And doth to whom himselfe so wold Bring forth to giue both new and old As these so more of Christ were donne Then we in writing left vs haue Approuing him to be Gods sonne Come to the world mans soule to saue Yet here the meeke and godly mind Of heau'nly foode his fill shall find All glorie be to thee on hye Oh Father Sonne and holy Ghost One mightie God in Trinitie Which saued vs that else were lost To thee be laud oh God therefore And prayse and honour euermore Amen THE FOVRTH PART OF THE HISTORIE OF OVR LORD AND SAVIOVR IESVS CHRIST contayning those things which he did the third yeare after his Baptisme which was the two and thirtieth yeare of his age according to the foure Euangelistes the yeare after the creation of the world 4173. beginning at the death of Iohn Baptist To the tune of the Lords Prayer Iohn Baptist was beheaded his head giuen to Herodias daughter and his body buried by his Disciples the 13. of Aprill Anno Domini 32. THe yeare of Christs Natiuitie The thirtie two as then it was And thirteenth day assuredlie Of Aprill thus it came to passe That Iohn the Baptist lost his life To please Herodias Philips wife For Iohn had said to Herods face Herodias may not be thy wife Which wrought in her that wanted grace Such feruent hate she sought his life She neuer rested night nor day Till she had got his head away His doctrine she misliked so Because he said she could not be King Herods wife and Phillips to Two brethren may not mary thee And though she did him much despise Yet could not she his death deuise For Herod heard Iohn willingly And feared much him to offend For he confessed Iohn to be Both iust and holy to his end This was a let to worke her will Her malice she could not fulfill Till it befell when Herod had Enclosed Iohn in prison fast And on his byrth day to be glad As he had vsed in times past A Royall feast he causd to be Made for the states of Galilie Whereat what hap'ned you shall heare Though Herod knew it in his hart That Iohn was iust and stood in feare To play with him that bloudie part For oft he heard him ioyfully And did obay him willingly Yet at that feast a daintie Dame Herodias daughter daunc'd so well That all that to the banquet came Commended her and then befell The thing that was desired so By the maydes mother long ago For Herod so was pleasd withall That straight he gaue without aduise Hap what might happen to befall He did not recken of the price What gift soeuer she would craue The same he promisd she should haue She quickly went and Counsell had Or else was taught to aske before This made her mother verie glad For this she thirsted had so sore Aske thou Iohn Baptists head she said Which done was graunted to the mayd Though Herod grieued at the same Yet would not he the gift deny For feare of foolish worldly shame And for their sakes that then stood by Therefore he to the hang-man said Go fetch his head giue it the mayd The minion with Iohn Baptists head Vnto her mother straightway went When his Disciples law him dead His death they greatly did lament And they his body buried And thereof Iesus certified Then Iesus fame so farre was spread That many wondred at his name King Herod knew that Iohn was dead Yet scarsly could beleeue the same Iohn risen is againe said he By whom are wrought the works you see Some other said Elyas was Or else some Prophet come againe By whom such workes were brought to passe To name him Christ they thought it vaine Yet Herod him desir'd to see That he might learne what he should be Christ preaching in his owne countrey was despised of his countreymen When as Christ Iesus for to preach To Nazareth his countrey came Esayas booke they did him reach That he might reade vpon the same Whereout he taught them what he was What he should teach and bring to passe His doctrine so astonied some That they did wonder at his words Whence doth say they this wisedome come Or who to him these works affoords Is not that Iosephs sonne I pray The Carpenter we heard this day His mother Marie we do call His brethren be they not with vs As men amazed they were all To heare him so that text discusse Saue in his countrey then said he A Prophet shall sure honor'd be Wherefore he said to them againe When famine plagued Israell And they for three yeares wanted raine And moneths fixe as stories tell The Prophet then was sent to none Saue in Sarepta vnto one Oh Israell thy leprosie So great in Elyseus time Though few could finde a remedie Naaman yet was cured by him When they hard this it grieu'd them sore And they deuis'd his death therefore No greater workes there then did he Then on few sicke his hands to lay When he their vnbeliefe did see He maruaild much and went away Teaching in eu'ry towne and place Where he came and had gotten space Christ sent forth his Apostles by two and two to preach And he the twelue did call againe And sent them forth by two and two Power of him they did obtaine And
amisse Go ye that are thereto addrest I will not yet go the feast These things he said abiding still In Galilie behind the rest Till he his time might there fulfill Yet after he came to the feast Though secretly which made the Iewes To muse they heard of him no newes Some cald ' him good some other bad And said he doth but men deceiue When halfe the feast was done yet glad Were some our Sauiour to receiue Christ taught the Iewes did maruaile how He should vntaught the Scriptures know My doctrine is his that sent me If any man will do his will Gods word he shall know it to be And that I must the same fulfill Vnrighteousnesse in him was none He sought Gods glorie not his owne Did Moses geue to you a law And none of you doth keepe the same And yet as men that stood in awe For breach therefore ye do me blame Yea more then that ye would me kill That onely do my fathers will Thou hast the deu'll said they againe Who goeth about to kill thee here One worke I did I tell you plaine You maruell at on may with feare You Circumcise them Sabboth day I made one whole ye would me slay Iudge not as outwardly you see But righteous iudgement iudge withall Is not this man said some eu'n he Whose death they haue decreed all Do not the rulers see plainly That he now speaketh openly This man from whence he is know we Whence Christ shall come we cannot tell Whence I am come ye know said he Him that sent me ye know not well But I know him and he sent me I am of him so are not ye They sought to take him but did lay No hands on him his houre as then Was not come to make him away Some said beleeuing of those men When Christ comes shall his works be mo Or greater then we see him do The Pharisies and high Priests sent Their officers Christ for to take A litle while now be content Said Christ my iourney hence I make To him that sent me will I go You leeking shall find me no mo Now whither will he said the Iewes That we shall not find him againe If to the Grecians that were newes This thing they would haue learned faine Ye shall seeke me but shall not find Nor come to me in deed or mind Now in the last day of the feast Christ stood and cryde to them and said If any thirst lo I am prest To giue him drinke be not affrayd In him that doth beleeue in me A well of life shall springing be This of the spirit they should receiue That would beleeue in him he spake Although the Iewes did not perceiue Nor great account of Iesus make When Christ was glorified then The holy Ghost was giuen men So many when they heard this said This is the Prophet certainly Some other not so much affrayd Said he was Christ apparantly Of other minds againe were some From Galilie Christ should not come Saith not the Scripture of the seed Of Dauid Christ shall come to thee And out of Bethlehem in deed Where Dauid was thou shalt him see Each lik't his owne opinion â—f Christ which bred dissention Some would he should then taken be Yet no man layd on him a hand The rulers all did so agree And so their officers command Of whom they askt the reason why Christ was not taken by and by The seruants said assuredly Man neuer yet like this man spake The rulers answerd bitterly Ye are deceiu'd and much mistake What trust do wisemen to him giue Though the vnlearned him beleeue Then Nicodemus said our law Doth iudge no man before it heare What he hath done of him in awe Art thou said they what doest thou feare Search well and looke from Galilie Comes not one Prophet verely Then eu'ry man went to his home And to the mount of Oliues he That night did go it seemes to some He went to pray yet other be Of mind he went to take his rest In Bethanie where he thought best A woman taken in adulterie brought to Christ we deliuered by him from her accusers And early in the morning came Into the temple Christ againe Yea all the people saw the same Christ sate him downe and taught them plaine But marke the craft and subtiltie Of Scribe and froward Pharisie Though they had by temptation Assaild him oft and had the fall A new deuise they hammer on To tempt our Sauiour Christ withall A woman in adulterie Was found the act did verifie They brought her vnto him and said Moses commandeth in the law No time therein should be delayd To stone such as liue not in awe But master what doest thou suppose That God would haue vs do with those Then Iesus stouped to the ground And with his finger wrote thereon The Scribes still asking him were found Some answer to their question He that sinnes not let him not stay Cast the first stone at her he may They hearing this no longer muse They go out eu'ry one away Their conscience did them so accuse To punish her they would not stay And Iesus was there left alone With her and she condemn'd by none Sith no man hath condemned thee Go hence said Christ and sinne no more Misliking her adulterie Which sure he would haue punisht sore But that repentance by her face He saw in her had got his grace Christ is the true light of the world Of this world sure I am the light For him to walke that followeth me Yea cleare shall be the darkest night The light of life that man shall see Thou of thy selfe doest record beare It is not true we therefore feare Then Iesus said though I do so My record yet is true in deed For whence I came and where I go I know to learne I haue no need This thing from you so hidden is Because ye iudge each thing amisse I iudge no man yet if I do My iudgement ye the truth shall find For I alone do nothing so I still am of my fathers mind The father is alwayes with me Two witnesses allowed be Where is thy father then say they Ye know him not nor will know me You all the sonne do disobey And yet the father faine would see He that doth seeke the sonne to know To him I do the father show Iesus spake in the treasurie As he within the Temple taught These sayings all most constantlie And yet no man Christ Iesus caught His houre vncome no man there could For all their spight on him take hold Then Iesus said I go my way Ye shall seeke me yet dye in sinne You cannot come to me I say Your wickedednesse so wraps you in Will he said they himselfe go kill That he saith so what is his will Ye from beneath I from aboue Ye of this world I am not thence Your sinnes said Christ I cannot
loue In them you dye departing hence Except your faith vnfained be And ye beleeue that I am he Who art thou then said they againe The same said he I told before And many things of you remaine To say and iudge that grieue me sore Yet true is he that sent me here Whose words to speake I do not feare They vnderstood not he spoke this To them as of the father then When ye lift vp the sonne iwis Then shall I be well knowne to men That of my selfe I do nor say But as my father makes the way For he that sent me is with me The father left me not alone My doings all directeth he Him please I and we both are one As he spake these things many were That then beleeued on him there Christ said to those that did beleeue In my word if ye do abide Ye my Disciples are I giue You knowledge of the truth beside And the same truth shall make you free That are so ioynd in league with me They said we be of Abrahms seed And neuer yet to any bound Why sayst thou then ye shall be freed As we had bene in slau'rie found I say said he who so doth sinne Sinnes seruant is it wraps him in Of freedome or the difference betweene the sonne and the seruant The seruant doth but soiourne here The sonne doth in the house abide They that the sonne shall free are cleare And shall be free at eu'ry tide I know ye are of Abrahms seede Ye seeke to kill me yet in deede And why in you can take no place My words I speake that I haue seene With my father you voyde of grace With your father to long haue beene Ye follow him the deuill I say And therefore seeke ye me to slay Abrah'm said they our father is Christ said if ye his children were Ye would his works then do not this Ye would to kill me stand in feare This did not Abraham sure I haue Told you the truth which God me gaue Your fathers works you do in deed They said of fornication We were not borne we are Gods seed And other father haue we none If God were he ye would loue me For I came forth from God said he I came not of my selfe but sent My talke why do you not perceiue Because my word with good intent Ye do not heare nor yet receiue The deu'll your father is whose lust You do and in him onely trust A murtherer he euer was And did the truth most deadly hate For lyes all other he doth passe This is your fathers dreadfull state Because I tell the truth said he Ye wickedly beleeue not me Who can of sinne rebuke me here The truth why do ye not beleeue He heareth Gods word with much feare That is of God and so doth liue Ye heare it not therefore said he Because of God none of you be The Iewes then answering said againe Samaritan deuill thou hast I haue no deuill I tell you plaine My father whom away ye cast I honour ye dishonour me Which your decay no doubt will be And I seeke not so much my prayse But there is one that seeks the same And iudgeth you and all your wayes Whose iudgement you may neuer blame The man that keeps my word I say Shall see no death nor dying day A deu'll we know thou hast in deed For Abraham is dead and gone So did the Prophets likewise speed And yet thou sayst there shall not one That keeps thy word death tast or see But from his dart thou keepst him free Then Abraham which now is dead And all the Prophets dead also Whose fame so farre abroad was spread Art thou greater then they or no Whom makest thou thy selfe to be Tell vs that we may honour thee Iesus said if I honour me My honour is nought worth at all My father doth the same said he Which you your God in vaine do call Ye know him not but him know I If I said no then should I lye I know him and his word I keepe Your father Abrahm did reioyce To see before he fell on sleepe My day and so to heare my voyce He saw it and thereof was glad Ye want the grace your father had Thou art not old yet fiftie yeare Hast thou our father Abrahm seene Though this so strange to you appeare Before he was I sure haue beene They tooke vp stones to stone him then But Iesus hid him from those men Christ gaue sight to one that was borne blind And as Christ Iesus passed by When he out of the Temple went Where then the Iewes most cruelly To stone our Sauiour Christ had ment He saw a blind man by the way That had bene blind from his birth day And his Disciples asked thus Oh master who did sinne we pray He or his parents tell it vs That he is blind what doest thou say Then Iesus said nor they nor he But that all men Gods works might see His works I must worke that sent me While it is day the night comes on I am the light while here I be When I go hence the light is gone And so he spat and made the clay Which curde his blindnesse cleane that day Then Christ said go in Siloam wash Lo I haue sent thee so to do Which when he did his eyes as glasse Were made as cleare and seeing to The neighbours that knew him before To see him see did wonder sore Some said and thought that it was he Some other thought him like the same But he confest himselfe to be Borne blind and spread Christ Iesus fame For whom said he you Iesus call Hath made me see as you see all They said how op'ned he thine eyes Mine eyes he did annoint with clay And then he said to me arise Go wash the same from thee away I washt and then receiued sight Which neuer saw before the light Where Christ was then he could not tell They brought him to the Pharisies Though Christ had done but all things well In opening the blind mans eyes They chaft that Christ should worke the clay To heale him on the Sabboth day The Pharisees askt him the same He answer'd as he did before From God said they he neuer came That makes not of the Sabboth more Some said how can he sinfull be That workes such workes as we do see Then asked they the blinde againe Tell vs of him what doest thou say He said he is a Prophet plaine That wrought this worke on me this day They scarse beleeu'd he had beene blind Till they had knowne his parents mind Of them his parents were afraid Because they had decreed so Who so confessed Christ they said Out of their Sinagogue should go Our sonne he is borne blinde he was Let him tell how this came to passe Then called they the blind againe And said to God the glory giue He is a sinner this is plaine Though he thy griefe did
within are not the lesse Of bribrie full and all excesse Ye fooles made not the very same The inside and the out also Giue almes therefore and leaue for shame To be so tied your toyes vnto Relieue the poore when they do craue And cleane shall be all that ye haue Woe be to you ye Scribes I say And Pharisies so full of guile Ye hypocrites is this the way To cloake your cursed craft so vile Ye keepe the least the law doth will And leaue the great things vnkept still Mint Annise and Cummin tith'd be And waightier matters left alone The law commaundeth these to thee But last of all to thinke vpon For iudgement mercy and faith are The chiefest things should be your care Woe be to you ye Scribes also The highest seats ye all do loue In Synagogues and where ye go And that men in the markets moue With reuerence to greete you there Or giue you place and praise elsewhere Woe be to you for sure ye be Like painted tombes in outward sight Appearing faire to them that see No part within how they are dight For dead mens bones lie there doubtlesse Within them full and filthinesse A Lawyer answer'd him againe Oh maister thou in saying so Rebukest vs likewise as vaine And subiect with them to like woe Christ said to him it cannot be That you of all men should go free For heauie burdens ye do binde And on mens shoulders them do lay Most greeuous to be borne in minde Intollerable eu'ry way But you your selues will not once proue With any finger them to moue Woe be to you that build so braue The Prophets tombes that were before And garnish outwardly each graue Of righteous men now more and more And more then that you verely Thus vtter your iniquitie If we had bene aliue ye say In our forefathers time had we Consented so to be the day That so much bloud then spilt should be No no the Prophets should not so Haue di'de or suffred any wo. So then ye are as witnesses Vnto your selues how that ye be Their children as ye do confesse That murdred them therefore do ye VVhat lacked of their cruelty Performe with all dexterity God said behold I will you send Both Prophets and Apostles sure To see if that you will amend Yet you will not their words endure You will them kill and crucifie And persecute most busily That on you all the bloud may come Which was shed vpon earth I say From righteous Abell Adams sonne To Zacharias bloud which lay Betweene the temple verely And the Altar slaine cruelly Martha and Marie sent Iesus word that their brother Lazarus was sicke Lazarus sure as then did lie Sore sicke and neare his death indeed This man he dwelt in Bethany His sisters both of him tooke heede Martha the first then Marie shee They were belou'd of Christ all three Christs feete annointed Mary sure And wiped with her haire the same The oyle was costlie sweete and pure Her fact Christ did defend from blame These women did for Iesus send And said come helpe thy sickly friend This sicknesse Iesus then did say Is for Gods glory not to death The sonne of God must by this way Who takes and giues men life and breath Assure your selues be glorifi'd Which thing Christ shortly verifi'd Now Iesus loued Martha well Her sister and her brother to Yet he there after this did dwell Two daies ere he to them would go And did as he had done before There heale and teach men more and more The Pharisies question of diuorcement and mariage answered of Christ As Christ departed Galily And to Iudea came againe And as he passed Iordan by While in that coast he did remaine As graciouslie he vs'd to deale Their sicke and lame he there did heale Then came to him the Pharisie Full fraughted both in heart and minde With craft and cloakt hypocrisie Hoping in Christ some fault to finde But still for all their taken toile The Pharisies receiu'd the foile May man his wife Sir put away For euerie cause he can deuise Haue ye not read then Christ did say Or Gods decree do ye despise That they were male and female fram'd When Adam the first man was nam'd Therefore a man shall loue his wife Though he his father should forsake With her he needs must lead his life They both by promise that they make Become one flesh and so remaine Though they in persons still are twaine Let no man put a sunder then All such as God hath coupled so Though Moses haue allow'd some men Their maried wiues for to forgo From the beginning sure I say It was not as it is this day Truly for whoredome she may be Diuorced and so may the man If he commit adultery Nor afterward well mary can For which of both this part doth play Should single liue till death say nay If it be so of man and wife It were not good to mary then Yet some so borne chast lead their life Some are made chast also by men Some chast themselues who can perceiue Let him this doctrine so receiue Iesus among other other things that he taught his Disciples declared vnto them the parable of the rich man that so much delighted and trusted in his riches While Iesus his Disciples taught The Leauen of the Pharisie To shunne with care for it was naught He called it Hypocrisie And will'd them to teach openly What he had taught them priuatly Feare ye not man but God sayd he Before men likewise me confesse And you shall well assured be I will to you like loue expresse Before Gods Angels verily I will confesse you constantly Blasphemous words auoide withall And for your selues take ye no care God will heare you when ye shall call Of him your haires all numbred are When Princes vexe you for my sake In worth do you your troubles take Then sayd one of the company Maister command I do pray thee The liuing now immediatly My brother may deuide with me A Iudge or a deuider who Made me sayd Christ I should do so Wherefore said Christ to them againe Take heed beware of greedinesse Abundance here is all but vaine It worketh man but heauinesse A man for all his riches may Prolong his life no not a day The grounds of a rich man said he Brought him forth fruites most plenteously Therefore he thought what then might be Done in such great prosperity I haue said he no roome to lay My fruits such store I haue to day This thing sayd he sure will I do I will now all my barnes downe pull And greater build and thereunto Gather my fruits till they be full I haue deuised this therefore Because my grounds do yeeld such store I to my soule will also say Soule thou hast much goods layd in store For many yeares liue now I may At more ease then I did before From henceforth soule eate drinke
seruant sure it is well donne The time I see was not delayd Thou couldst not else so much haue wonne Thy faithfulnesse in this was such I will thee ruler make of much Then he which had receiued one Came to his master and did say When thou away from hence wast gone I hid thy money without nay Because I fear'd thy crueltie Receiue thine owne contentedly His master answered and sayd Thou ill and slouthfull seruant why If thou of me were so affrayd And knew'st so well my crueltie Didst not thou finde some meane or way To get me gaynes against this day The Talent take from him therefore And giue it him that now hath ten For who so hath he shall haue more And he shall haue abundance then From him that hath not shall a way Be taken what he hath I say That seruant voyde of profit ye To vtter darknesse therefore cast There weepe and gnash his teeth shall he Thus shall his slouth be payd at last See then your talent fructifie Least you loose it eternally Of the labourers hired into the vineyard The kingdome sure of heau'n is so Like vnto a housholder here That to hire labourers would go Assoone as day-light did appeare With them for pence he did agree All day to worke this was their fee. About the third houre of the day When he came to the market place The idle thence he sent away Into his farme to worke apace Likewise the sixt and ninth houre he With other mo did then agree Againe th'eleu'nth houre there he found Some other idle standing by Go ye said he to my farme ground Why stand ye thus so idlely No man hath hired vs you see Go to my vineyard then said he When euen came the master sayd Vnto his Steward call them soone That I may see the worke-men payd Which all this day my worke haue donne Begin and pay the last of all As he is seru'd the other shall A penie each of them then had From last to first as he did go Which made the first men very sad They thought their pay should not be so Go to said he this is your hire You may no more of me require Christ as he went to Ierusalem did admonish his Disciples of his passion As to Ierusalem he went Christ Iesus told them certainly The Priests and Scribes with full intent Do purpose me to crucifie Yet when the Gentiles haue me slaine The third day I will rise againe Iohn and Iames the sonnes of Zebede contended for primacie and were taught humilitie and patience and to auoyde ambition The wife of Zebedeus came To Christ and both her sonnes also And her request she thus did frame Graunt ere thou to thy kingdome go That these my sonnes there sitting be Each one vpon each hand of thee Ye wot not what ye aske said he Can ye drinke of my cup in deed Or be Baptiz'd as I shall be Yea that we can if we may speed Yet I can not graunt your request That in my father sure doth rest But when the other ten heard this They at the brethren did disdaine Then Iesus sayd ye thinke amisse Among the Gentiles Lords do raigne They that are great of them are prest Authorized to rule the rest It shall not so among you be He that would greatest seeme of all Or chiefest in authoritie Shall serue the rest as at a call As to be serued came not I But serue and saue men certainly Christ gaue blind Bartimeus and two other blind men their sight as he passed from Iordan through Iericho toward Ierusalem The 14. of March The fourteenth day as Iesus went From Iordan towards Bethanie In Iericho there did present A worke none else could remedie Blind Bartimeus and two men As blind as he were crying then O sonne of Dauid make vs see We are poore men both bare and blind Let our estate oh Lord moue thee That we may of thy mercy find Their blindnesse he did helpe straight-wayes And they him follow'd giuing prayse The calling of Zacheus a rich man and by office the chiefe receiuer of tribute As Iesus went through Iericho Zacheus sought him for to see His stature did not serue him so Among the throng it would not be He ran and clymed vp therefore A figge tree in the way before This was the shift that rich man had To see Christ as he came that way When Christ came by to make him glad He looking vp to him did say Zache come downe without delay At thy house Ile abide this day Then he came downe full hastily Assoone as Iesus did command And him receiued ioyfully But some of them that there did stand Did murmure that he then would go To lodge there with a sinner so To Christ Zacheus as he stood Said Lord I giue halfe that I haue Vnto the poore to do them good And no man shall haue need to craue What I by fraude or force did take Fourefold Ile giue him for thy sake Then Iesus sayd saluation Is come into this house ye see Sith of the generation Of Abraham by faith is he The sonne of man doth seeke and saue That which was lost as here I haue Iesus though he stayd a while after he had heard that Lazarus was sicke working in the regions round about sundry miracles and preaching the Gospell at last he returned to Bethanie where he raised Lazarus from death to life againe Now to returne to Lazarus Which was already dead in deed To his Disciples Christ said thus Come let vs go from hence with speed To Iurie we without all stay Must passe apace the ready way O master then said they againe The Iewes sought lately thee to stone And wilt thou not then here remaine And so prouide to saue for one He stumbleth not that walkes by day But in the night said Christ he may These things Christ Iesus to them spake And then said Lazarus doth sleepe But I go him for to awake What Christ then ment they tooke no keepe But said Lord if he sleepe then he Both safe and sound will shortly be Then Iesus said to them againe Our friend is dead and I reioyce I was not there Christ then was plaine To strengthen such as he made choice Then Thomas said come let vs go That we with him may dye also The fifteenth day Christ Iesus spent In iourneying along the way He then bewrayed what he meant In Bethanie the sixteenth day For Iesus then in hand did take His sleeping friend againe to wake Christ found he had lyen in the graue Foure dayes already ere he came The women they this comfort haue The Iewes that heard his death by fame Because Ierusalem was nye Came vnto them to Bethanie When Martha heard that Christ was there She went to meete him by the way And said Lord if thou hadst bene here Thy friend had not bene dead this day Yet what thou doest desire or
likewise Two Talents and he thus did say O master thou mayst not despise These games since thou went'st hence away Here is thy money that I had And as much more that I haue made His master vnto him did say Good seruant sure it is well donne The time thou spendest well alway Else couldst not thou so much haue wonne Thy faithfulnesse in this was such I will thee ruler make of much Then he which had receiued one Came to his master and did say When thou a way from hence wast gone I hid thy money without nay Because I fear'd thy cruelty Here take thine owne contentedly His master answered and sayd Thou ill and slouthfull seruant why If thou of me art so affrayd And knowst so well my crueltie Didst not thou find some meane or way To get me gaines against this day The Talent from him take therefore And giue it him that now hath ten For who so hath he shall haue more And he shall haue abundance then From him that hath not shall away Be taken all he hath I say That seruant voyde of profit ye To vtter darknesse therefore cast There weepe and gnash his teeth shall he Thus shall his slouth be payd at last See then your Talent fructifie Least you loose it eternally The manner of the last Iudgement When that the sonne of man comes to The Iudgement with great maiesty His holy Angels all also Shall be with him most gloriously And he shall sit vpon the throne Of glorie iudging eu'ry one All nations shall be gathered Before the sonne of man as then And there they shall be seuered The godly from the wicked men As shepheards seperate their sheepe From flockes of goats that they do keepe The sheepe whereby are ment the best He shall set then on his right hand The goates by which are ment the rest On the left side of him shall stand So shall the King to the good men Pronounce this louing sentence then Ye blessed of my father come Inherite you the kingdome here Prepared ere the world begon For you of him as doth appeare For when I wanted food to eate Ye gaue me lodging drinke and meate Ye clothed me that naked was Me being sicke ye came to see Imprisoned ye did not passe Vntill ye had relieued me My wants supplying willingly And comforting my miserie Then shall the righteous say againe Lord when saw we thee in such case And then the King without disdaine Shall answer them in eu'ry place In as much as ye haue done this To these my brethen mine it is Then shall he to the other say The wicked goates on the left hand Depart ye cursed hence away All as ye do together stand Go into fire vnquencheable Prepared for the damnable For when I hungred verie sore Ye gaue me then nothing to eate And oft I thirsted more and more Yet wanted drinke aswell as meate Ye lodged not nor clothed â—e Nor sicke in prison would me see They aske when they had seene him so He answereth now as before Therefore he saith that these shall go To suffer paine for euermore But sure the righteous shall then all Go and possesse life eternall Christ in the Temple taught by day And there hence out at night he went To Oliuet the readie way Where that time he then alwayes spent To heare him dayly many came So much was spread abroad his fame Another Sermon of the Crosse which Christ made to his Disciples in Bethanie at Simon the leapers house When Iesus had thus finished These sayings he began to say To such as him then followed From place to place so eu'ry day Ye know within two dayes will be The feast of passeouer sayd he And then shall be deliuered The sonne of man as heretofore I told you to be crucified Although it grieue you verie sore The time is come that death the iust For sinfull men needs suffer must The chiefe Priests were then assembled The Scribes and eke the Elders all Where they this thing delibered Within the high Priest Cayphas hall How Iesus might by subtiltie Be had and killed cruellie But they sayd not on the feast day Least any vproare there should be Among the people any way If they the same should hap to see The people him do magnifie Whom we desire to crucifie Then Iudas tooke occasion Set forward by the deuill in deed To be of such opinion Which caused him so ill to speed When Christ did sup in Bethany At Simons house assuredly Where Mary did annoynt the Lord With pretious oyntment that she had As Christ was there set at the boord Which made the traytour Iudas mad He thought it wast that so was spent Reuenge it therefore thus he ment He went to the chiefe Priests and sayd What will ye now giue vnto me If I deliuer vndelayd Christ to your hands what then say ye All thirtie pence they said againe We will giue thee if thou take paine And from that time as most suppose He sought all oportunitie For to betray him vnto those That hired him so liberallie For all his mind was fully set By hooke or crooke some gaines to get The Disciples demand of Christ where he would they should prepare the passeouer The first day of vnleauened bread Peter came vnto Christ and Iohn Whom they acknowledged their head And askd of him this question Where wilt thou that we do prepare To eate the passeouer declare Then he thus vnto them did say Go ye into the Citie both And you shall meete one in your way Marke whither that the same man goeth You shall see him a pitcher beare Of water full when you come there Go ye and follow him into The house he goeth in and say To the good man we pray you do Shew the chamber our master may Eate passeouer and he forth right Will shew a chamber ready dight So the Disciples found in deed As Christ before to them did say And they prepar'd for him with speed To eate the passeouer that day So when the euen was now late Christ came and with the twelue he sate As they did eate Christ sayd againe Assuredly to you I say You shall see this though to his paine That one of you shall me betray Then the Disciples sorie were And of this saying stood in feare Now there was one whom Christ did loue That leaned then vpon his breast Him Peter did with signes so moue That he demanded for the rest Tell vs ô Lord we do thee pray Who is it that shall thee betray And Iesus sayd the hand is here At this boord that betrayeth me As to you all it will appeare And in the dish now dippeth he He lift his heele against his head That eateth with me of this bread The sonne of man shall surely go As of him it hath written beene But to that man be euer woe By whose deuise the same is
witnesses arise And testifie as may appeare A truth against thee to vs here But Iesus yet did hold his peace The high Priest sayd to him againe I charge thee that thou do no lesse By God the Lord but tell it plaine If Christ the sonne of God thou be Then Iesus sayd I sure am he And ye shall see the sonne of man Sitting at the right hand of God Whose power to resist none can Nor of himselfe escape his rod And in the clouds of heau'n shall ye The sonne of man then comming see The high Priest then his clothes did rent And sayd what need we any more Of witnesses for this intent He openly blasphemeth sore What thinke ye then they cried all Death he deserues and dye he shall They mocked Christ that him did hold And spat withall into his face To strike him also they were bold So much they were deuoyd of grace With rods and fists most cruelly They beat and vsd him shamefully Then sayd they to him Prophesie Which of vs all now hath done this And other things as wickedly They did against him then deuise But he most meekely suffred all To bring vs sinners our of thrall Now all this while there at the fire Did Simon sit among them then Another mayd did thus inquire Art not thou one of this mans men Though she affirm'd it to be so Yet he deni'd it saying no. Then they that stood by sayd againe One of them thou most surely art Thy speach bewrayeth thee so plaine Thou canst not hide it for thy heart Then he to curse and sweare began That he did neuer know the man The cocke did crow then once againe For Marke doth say he crowed twise Man of himselfe is verie vaine Peter deny'd his master thrise The cocks crow could not let his fall Till Christ did looke on him withall Then he remembred what was sayd Of Iesus vnto him before And then he went out all affrayd And wept and wayled verie sore Whom late no death could terrifie Perceiu'd then his infirmitie Christ was brought vnto Pylate then President of the Romanes Iudas repentance and death Then in the dawning of the day The high Priests and the Elders did A counsell hold to find some way By death Christ Iesus life to rid Whom thence they led then hastily bound hand and foot most shamefully From Cayphas vnto Pylats hall Iesus condemned so of late They brought bound by their counsell all Reâ—oycing at his wofull state For they had no authoritie Our Sauiour Christ to crucifie Yet they into the common hall Where Pylate did his iudgement giue Went not themselues least thereby all For so the Iewes did then beleeue Should be defiled and be let Thereby the passeouer to eate While this was doing marke the end That to the traitour Iudas fell He was past grace for to amend He loued Mammon to to well Yet his offence displeasd him so That he was wrapped all in wo. When by his meanes he did perceiue His master was condemn'd to dye An inward griefe he did conceiue And did repent him mightely But his repentance tooke no place For it was voyde of faith and grace The thiâ—tie siluer peeces he Vnto the high Priest brought againe I sinn'd sayd he and wo is me Which haue procur'd my masters paine It was because you thought it good That I betrayd his guiltlesse bloud What is that vnto vs sayd they Looke thou to that which thou hast done Therein thou didst our hests obey And we will end what is begon In temple he the siluer cast And went and hangd himselfe at last The chiefe Priests tooke the siluer plate And sayd it is not lawfull we Do them put vp such is our state Among our treasure for to be And why the law doth so deuise Because it is of bloud the price Then they tooke counsell and did buy A potters field as did befall For to fulfill the Prophesie To be the strangers buriall Wherefore that field is calld I say The field of bloud vntill this day And to leaue of his tragedie Let vs returne to Christ againe Whom then the Iewes maliciously For to accuse did take such paine On Pylate they did cry and call Though then they went not to the hall Pylate went out to them and sayd What cause bring you against this man The wicked Iewes nothing affrayd For to accuse him thus began An euill doer were not he We would not haue brought him to thee Then Pylate sayd to them againe Take him and iudge him by your law We may not iudge him it is plaine Of Caesar we do stand in awe Christs word this was to verifie When he foretold how he should dye They charged Christ that found he was Peruerting of the people there Forbidding men from place to place To pay their tribute any where Vnto Augustus perswading That he was Christ their onely king As Iesus in the iudgement hall Before the gouernour did stand He sayd to Christ before them all Answer thou this now out of hand Art thou king of the Iewes or no And Iesus sayd thou sayest so The high Priests and thy nation Deliuered thee vnto me Now tell me then what hast thou done That they should so cry out on thee They say thou art a naughtie man Defend thy cause now if thou can Then Iesus sayd my kingdome is Not of this world for if it were My seruants sure would neuer misse To fight for me without all feare Ere I should thus deliuered be Vnto the Iewes as thou doest see Then Pylate sayd art thou a king And Iesus sayd thou sayst I am I was borne for this verie thing For this cause to the world I came And witnesse of the truth to beare My voyce he that loues truth will heare Pylate sent Christ to Herod and they were made friends that day Herod sent Christ backe to Pylate Pylate warned by his wife sought by all meanes to deliuer Christ Then to the high Priests Pylate sayd I find no fault sure in this man Their furie then could not be stayd But fiercely thus they all began He teacheth mouing mightily All and begon at Galilie When Pylate heard of Galilie Is he a Galilean then Sayd he and forthwith hastily Sent Christ to Herod with his men He at Hierusalem then was When all these things came so to passe When Herod saw him he was glad For he desired him to see And so his wish at last he had Which neuer till that time would be Such signes and wonders Herod thought He should haue seene as Christ had wrought He then with Christ there questioned And did him many things demand But Iesus nothing answered For all king Herod could command Though high Priests Scribes and people all Accused Christ in Herods hall Then Herod with his men of warre Mocking Christ him in white array Pylate and Herod were at iarre And were made
Lord his heart was mou'd His mind did giue him so When Peter heard that it was he He girt his coate in hast And cast him selfe to swimme to see He would not be the last But all the rest by ship did come They were not farre from land For as it is supposd of some The shore was hard at hand Two hundreth cubits off they were Or thereabouts they say The net they drawing with them there Made to the shore away Assoone as they were come to land A fire of coles they see And Iesus by the same did stand There bread and fish had he The fish vpon the coales were layd That Iesus had before Bring of your fish also he sayd Thereof they had great store Then Peter stept to draw straightway The net and fish to land His maisters mind he did obay He readie was at hand And hundreth fiftie then and three Of fishes great they had Their net vnbroken safe they see For all they were so lade Come now and dine then Iesus sayd Of the Disciples none Durst aske who art thou so affrayd They were at what was done And eke withall they knew it well Him Christ the Lord to be No man had neede the same to tell They knew all it was he Iesus tooke bread and fish likewise And to them did it giue And they did eate what did suffise Thus Christ did his releeue This was the eight time since he rose Christ did to them appeare To some Disciples as to those That met together there Christ restored Peter to his former place thrise calling him to answer his three fold deniall of him Christ sayd when they had dined well And each of them at ease Simon thou sonne of Ionah tell Lou'st thou me more then these I loue thee Lord thou knowst I do My lambs said Christ then feed Iesus the second time said so He sayd I do indeed Then feed my sheepe Christ Iesus sayd Yet once againe did he Aske Peter which made him dismayd So instant him to see Yea Peter grieu'd in heart to heare Christ aske him thrise the same It doth to thee ô Lord appeare That I do loue thy name Then feed my sheepe sayd Christ againe So to his former place Christ called him by this tis plaine And he receiued grace He did his maister thrise denie So grieuous was his fall And thrise to ease his miserie Christ Iesus did him call Amen amen I say to thee When thou wast young thy way Was where thou wouldest then as free To walke at will each day When thou art old another shall Gird and leade thee also Where thou wouldst not haue gone at all Yet mayst not chuse but go And this Christ vnto Peter spake To signifie thereby What death or end Simon should make His God to glorifie And when to him he had said this Christ said then follow me That now his calling certaine is Assured well is he He turning backe did soone espie Him whom the Lord did loue Then following after verely He Christ for him did moue For this had leaned on Christs breast As he at supper sate And asked Christ then for the rest Who should betray his state When Peter therefore saw him so To Iesus he did say Lord what is it that he shall do Now tell me I thee pray Then Iesus said to him againe Man what is it to thee If till I come he do remaine See thou thou follow me Then went this word among them all That that man should not die Christ said not vnto him he shall Not die assuredly But if vntill I come I will That tarie still shall he Do thou what I command fulfill What is the same to thee Christ appearing to his Disciples reproued their infidelitie The ninth time that Christ did appeare Of incredulitie He did reproue all that were there Through imbecillitie They did misdoubt though they did see And speake to him withall Thus blind as they our eyes now be Till Christ them open shall Christ appeared to his Disciples and fiue hundred brethren at once in a mountaine in Galilie The next time was in Galilie Vpon a mountaine there Where he as Paule doth testifie To many did appeare There vnto his a charge he gaue The which to vndertake He promisd them a helpe to haue Which should them able make For Iesus spake and thus did say All power now I haue In heau'n and earth and euerie way Which God the Father gaue Go ye therefore now teaching all Baptizing them also Throughout the world where I shall call And you oppoint to go Baptize all in the Fathers name The Sonne and holy Ghost What I command do ye the same Your labour is not lost Teach them all things for to obserue That I command indeed I am with you you â—le preserue And still releeue your need I will saue them that shall beleeue And be bapâ—ized to My Father did me power giue That I the same may do The vnbâ—leeuers all shall be Condemned for the same And these things also do shall he Which shall beleeue my name The deuil cast out in my name shall With new toungs speake shall they No deadly drinks shall hurt at all And serpents take away On sicke men if their hands they lay They shall recouer well All these things they shall day by day Performe as I do tell Christ appeared againe to theÌ„ in Bethanie and led them into mount Oliuet where after he had blessed them he ascended most gloriously into heauen in their sight Then the Disciples all they were By Iesus led away To Bethanie together there On his ascension day And to mount Oliuet they went Where he did blesse them all Willing them then as they were sent All his elect to call When he had blessed them foorthright While they beheld the same A cloud tooke him vp out of sight Which sodainly so came And while they looked stedfastly To heau'nward as he went Behold two men did stand them by Perceiuing their intent Which sayd to them why gaze ye so Ye men of Galilie This Iesus whom ye see thus go Shall so come verily Those men in white apparell were Whom they knew not as then Angels to be that did appeare As though they had bene men Which when they heard they eu'rie where Went preaching day by day The Lord increasing here and there His Church by them I say And eke confirming what they taught With signes and wonders so That still some fish their net then caught Where euer they did go Thus Iesus was seene bodily In fortie dayes we reade Eleuen times assurely When he rose from the dead And after his ascension Christ also was seene twice By Steuen when they did him stone And by Saint Paule likewise First Steuen vpon Gods right hand Did see him sit on hie The which to them that there did stand He then did testifie Paule persecuting sore of such
As did in Christ beleeue Saw him reioycing verie much That God did grace him geue And many other things there are That Iesus did also Which man with tong cannot declare Nor pen paint out for lo If written were his works and words The world could not containe The bookes so much the same affoords Vnwritten that remaine Yet herein is so much containd As we haue need to know Gods spirit sure in them remaind That this to vs could shew Therefore be glad in God reioyce That left vs such a stay Be ioyfull and lift vp your voyce To Iacobs God alway To Father Sonne and holy Ghost All glorie be therefore That was and is of might the most And shall be euermore Amen FINIS The Table of the first part THe promised Messiah 1 The Angels salutation to Marie 2 Marie visited Elizabeth ibid. Ioseph warned by the Angell ibid. The taxe vnder Augustus Caesar 3 The birth of Christ ibid. The Angell to the shepheards 4 The circumcision of Christ 6 The wisemen ibid. Simeon and Anna prophecie 8 Iosephs going into Egipt 9 The infants slaine 10 Iosephs returne out of Egipt 11 Iesus disputed with the Elders ibid. A repetition of sixe things 12 The Table of the second part The baptisme of Christ 15 Christ fasted fortie dayes 17 Christ was tempted 18 Iohns testimonie of Christ 20.30 Iohn sent Disciples to Christ 23 Andrew and Iohn called ibid. Simon Peter called ibid. Philip called ibid. Nathanaell called 24 Christs first miracle in Cana. 25 Christ went from Cana to Capernaum ibid. Christ droue the buyers and sellers out of the Temple 26 Christs conference with Nicodemus 28 Christs returne to Iudaea Of purifying 30 Iesus auoyded danger in Iudaea 31 Christs conference with the woman of Samaria ibid. Christ preached at Nazareth 35 A Prophet not esteemed in his countrey ibid. Christ healed the rulers sonne 36 Iohns imprisonment Apostles called 37 The Table of the third part Christs sermon in the mount 39 Christ pronounceth wo. 41 Ministers salt and light 42 Christ came to fulfill the Law ibid. Thou shalt not kill 43 Reconciliation 44 Adulterie Diuorcement Othes 45 Reuenge 46 Loue thine enemie ibid. Almes Prayer 47 The Lords prayer 48 To forgiue one another ibid. Fasting ibid. Worldly care forbidden 49 Rash iudgement forbidden 51 Holy things may not be giuen to dogges ibid. Aske seeke knocke ibid. The straite and wide gate 52 False prophets ibid. The good and euill tree ibid. The houses on the rocke and sand ibid. A Leaper cleansed 53 The Centurions seruant healed 54 Christ cast out deuils ibid. Peters wiues mother healed 55 Christ againe cast out deuils 56 Christ went from CapernauÌ„ to preach to the other cities ib. Christs sermon in the ship 57 Christs answer to the Scribe that would follow him 58 Christs answer to the Disciple that would first go bury his father ibid. Christ stilled the tempest of the sea 59 Christ healed the possessed with deuils ibid. Christ healed one of the palsey 61 Christ healed another leaper ibid. Matthew called 62 Of fasting 63 Iayrus daughter ibid. A blind man healed ibid. The dumbe speake 64 Christ healed one that had bin diseased xxxviij years ib. The Disciples plucked â—ares of corne on the saboth day 65 The man with the withered band 68 Iesus tooke compassion on the dispersed multitude 70 The haruest great 71 The twelue Apostles sent to preach ibid. Another sermon of Christ. 74 Tht Centurions seruant 54.76 Christ raised the widowes sonne at Naijm from death 77 Iohn Baptists message to Christ ibid. Christs answer to Iohn 78 Christs testimonie of Iohn ibid. Christ reproued his auditorie 80 Christ vpbraideth the vnthankefull cities ibid. Christ reioyced for the successe of the Gospell 81 Christs exhortation to beare the crosse 82 Christ dined with Simon the leaper ibid. Certaine women followed Christ 85 A kingdome deuided 86 Blasphemie 87 The signe of Ionas 88 Impenitencie 89 To reuolt from the truth 89 Christs mother sisters and brethren 90 The parable of the seede 91 Christ interpreted the same 93 The parable of the good seed and tares 94 The parable of the mustard seed 95 The parable of the leauen 96 The parable of the tares interpreted 97 The parable of the treasure hidden 98 The parable of the pearle ibid. The parable of the draw-net 99 The Table of the fourth part Iohn Baptist beheaded 101 Christ preaching in his owne countrey was despised againe 104 Christ sent his Apostles to preach 105 The Apostles returne 106 Christ fed fiue thousand with fiue loaues ibid. Christ walked on the sea 109 Christ healed the sicke at Genezaret 110 Christs sermon of the true Manna 111 Of eating meate vnwashen 114 The woman of Canaans daughter healed 116 Christ fed foure thousand with seuen loaues ibid. The Pharisies and Sadduces seeke a signe 117 The leauen of the Pharisies 118 Christ gaue a blind man sight 119 The keyes of the kingdome of heauen ibid. To beare the crosse Peter rebuked 121 The faithfull must beare it 122 Christ transfigured on Thabor 123 Christ healed the lunaticke 124 Christ foretold his passion and payed tribute 125 Contention for primacie 126 Of forgiuenesse ibid. A king receiuing accounts 127 Christs sermons at the feast of tabernacles 128 A woman taken in adulterie 132 Christ the light of the world 133 Of freedome 136 Christ gaue sight to one borne blind 138 The true shepheard and hireling 142 The feast of Dedication 144 The Table of the fift part Christ setled to go to Ierusalem 147 Christs answer to the Scribe 148 Christs answer to the Disciple ibid. Christs answer to another that would bid his frends farewell 149 Christ sent the seuentie Disciples to preach ibid. The seuentie returned 151 The Lawyers question answered 152 Marie and Martha receiue Christ 154 Christ taught his Disciples to pray 155 Christ cast a deuill out of a dumbe man and the dumbe spake 157 The Iewes required a signe 158 Christ rebuked the hypocrisie of the Pharisies ibid. Lazarus sicke 161 Diuorcement 162 The parable of the secure rich man 163 The parable of the watchfull seruant 165 Christ receiued infants 166 A rich young man that would be iustified by the Lawe 167 Euerlasting life promised to them that follow Christ 168 The labourers sent to the vineyard 169 The crueltie of Pilate 170 The parable of the figge tree ibid. Christ healed a woman that had bene sicke 18. years 171 The parable of the mustard seed 172 The straite and brode way ibid. Christ called Herod a Foxe 173 Christ healed the dropsie on the saboth 174 Christ taught lowlinesse 175 Of the great supper 176 The parable of the lost sheepe and the groate 177 The parable of the pâ—odigall sonne 178 The parable of the vniust steward 181 The historie of Diues and Lazarus 183 Offences are to be auoyded 185 Christ healed ten Leapers 186 The Pharisies would knowe when the kingdome of Gâ—d should come 187 The parable of the vnrighteous Iudge 189 The