wryteth to the seuen congregacioÌ„s in Asia seyth seueÌ„ candilstickes and in the myddest of them one like vnto the sonne of man Chap. II. He exhorteth foure congregacions to amende and sheweth the rewarde of him that ouer commeth Chap. III. He instructeth and enfourmeth the angels of thre coÌ„gregacions declaringe also the rewarde of him that ouercommeth Chap. IIII. He seyth the heauen open and the seate and one syttinge vpon it and xxiiij seates aboute it with xxiiij elders syttinge vpon theÌ„ and foure beastes praysinge God daye and night Chap. V. He seyth the laÌ„be openynge the boke and therfore the foure beastes the xxiiij elders and the angels prayse the lambe and do him worshipe Chap. VI. The lambe openeth the vi seales many thinges folowe the openynge therof Chap. VII He seyth the seruauntes of God sealed in their foreheades out of all nacions and people which though they suffre trouble yeâ— the lambe fedeth theÌ„ ledeth them to the fountaynes of lyuynge water and God shal wype awaye all teares from their eyes Chap. VIII The seuenth seale is opened there is sylence in heauen the foure angels blowe their trompettes and greate plages folowe vpon the earth Chap. IX The fifth and sixte angell blowe their tompettes the starre falleth from heauen the locustes come out of the smoke The first wo is past the foure angels that were bounde are lowsed and the thirde parte of meÌ„ is kylled Chap. X. The angell hath the boke open he sweareth there shal be nomore tyme he geueth the boke vnto Ihon which eateth it vp Chap. XI The temple is measured The seconde wo is past Chap. XII The seuenth angel bloweth his troÌ„pet There apeareth in heauen a woman clothed with the Sonne Michael fighteth with the dragon which persecuteth the woman Chap. XIII A beest ryseth out of the see with seuen heades and ten hornes Another beest commeth out of the earth with two hornes Chap. XIIII The laÌ„be stondeth vpon the mount Sion and the vndefyled congregacion with him The angell exhorteth to the feare of God and telleth of the fall of Babilon Chap. XV. He seyth seuen angels hauynge seuen vyalles full of wrath Chap. XVI The angels poure out their vyalles Chap. XVII He descrybeth the woman syttinge vpon the beast with ten hornes Chap. XVIII The louers of the worlde are sory for the fall off Babilon but they that be off God haue cause to reioyse for hir destruccion Chap. XIX Prayse and thankes are geueÌ„ vnto God for iudginge the whore and for auenginge the bloude of his seruauÌ„tes The angel wyl not be worshipped The foules and byrdes are called to the slaughter Chap. XX. The dragon is bâ—uÌ„de for a thousande yeares The deed arise and receaue iudgment Chap. XXI In this chapter is descrybed the new and spirituall Ierusalem Chap. XXII The ryuer of the water of life the frutefulnesse and light of the cite of God The LORDE geueth euer his seruauntes warnynge of thinges for to come The angel wyl not be worshipped To the worde of God maye nothinge be added ner mynished there from The first Chapter THE reuelacion of Iesus Christ which God gaue vnto him for to shewe vnto his seruauÌ„tes thiÌ„ges which muste shortly come to passe And he sent and shewed by his angel vnto his seruaunt Ihon which bare recorde of the worde of God and of the testimony of Iesus Christe and of all thinges that he sawe Happy is he y t readeth and they that heare the wordes of the prophesy and kepe thoo thinges which are wrytten therin For the tyme is at honde Ihon to the seuen coÌ„gregacions in Asia Grace be with you peace froÌ„ him which is and which was and which is to come froÌ„ the seuen spretes which are present before his trone and from Iesus Christ which is a faithfull witnes and first begotten of the deed LORDE ouer y e kinges of the earth Vnto him that loued vs and weszhed vs froÌ„ synnes in his awne bloud and made vs kinges Prestes vnto God his father be glory and dominion for euer more Amen Beholde he commeth with cloudes and all eyes shall se him they also which peersed him And all kinredes of the earth shal wayle Euen so Amen I am Alpha and Omega the begynninge and the endinge sayeth y e LORDE almighty which is and which was and which is to come I Ihon youre brother and coÌ„panyon in tribulacion and in the kyngdome and pacieÌ„ce which is in Iesu Christe was in the yle of Pathmos for the worde of God and for y e witnessynge of Iesu Christe I was in the sprete on a sondaye and herde behynde me a gret voyce as it had bene of a trompe sayenge I am Alpha and Omega the fyrst and y e laste That thou seist write in a boke and sende it vnto the coÌ„gregacions which are in Asia vnto Ephesus and vnto Smyrna and vnto Pargamos and vnto Thiatira and vnto Sardis and vnto Philadelphia and vnto Laodicia And I turned backe to se the voyce that spake to me And wheÌ„ I was turned I sawe seueÌ„ goldeÌ„ candestyckes and in the myddes of the candelstyckes one like vnto the sonne of man clothed with a lynnin garmeÌ„t downe to the ground and gyrd aboute the brest with a golden gyrdle His heed and his heares were whyte as whyte woll as snowe and his eyes were as a flamme of fyre and his fete like vnto brasse as though they breÌ„t in a fornace and his voyce as the sounde of many waters And he had in his right honde seueÌ„ starres And out of his mouth went a sharpe two edged swearde And his face shone euen as the sonne in his strength And when I sawe him I fell at his fete euen as deed And he layde his right honde vpon me sayenge vnto me feare not I am the fyrst and the laste and am alyue and was deed And beholde I am alyue foreuer more and haue the kayes of hell of deth Wryte therfore the thinges which thou hast sene and the thinges which are and y e thinges which shal be fulfylled here after the mistery of the seuen starres which thou sawest in my right honde and the seuen golden candelstickes The seuen starres are the angels of the seueÌ„ congregacions And the seuen candelstyckes which thou sawest are the seuen congregacions The II. Chapter VNto the angell of the congregacion of Ephesus wryte These thinges sayth he that holdeth the seuen starres in his righthonde and walketh in the myddes of the seuen goldeÌ„ candelstickes I knowe thy workes and thy labour and thy pacience howe thou cannest not for beare them which are euell and examinest them which saye they are Apostles and are not hast founde theÌ„ lyars and hast suffred And hast pacieÌ„ce and for my names sake hast laboured and hast not faynted Neuerthelesse I haue somwhat agaynst the for thou hast lefte thy fyrst loue Remember therfore froÌ„ whence
opened the sixte seale and loo there was a grett earthquake and y e sonne was as blacke as sacke cloth made of heare And the mone wexed eueÌ„ as bloude and the starres of heauen fell vnto the earth euen as a fyggetree castith from her her fygges when she is shaken off a mighty wynde And heauen vanyszhed awaye as a scroll when it is rolled togedder And all mountayns and yles were moued out of their places And the kynges of y e earth and the grete men and the riche men and the chefe captaynes and the myghte men and euery free man hyd them selues in dennes and in rockes of y e hylles and sayde to the hylles and rockes fall on vs and hyde vs from the presence of him that sytteth on the seate and from the wrath of the lambe for the grete daye of his wrath is come And who can endure it The VII Chapter ANd after that sawe I foure angels stoÌ„de on y e foure corners of the earth holdinge y e foure wyndes of y e earth y t y e wyndes shulde not blowe on y e earth nether on y e see nether on eny tree And I sawe another angel ascende froÌ„ the rysinge of the sonne which had the seale of y e lyuinge God and he cryed with a loude voyce to the foure angelles to whom power was geuen to hurt the earth and the see sayenge Hurt not the earth nether the see nether the trees till we haue sealed the seruauÌ„tes of oure God in their forheddes And I herde the nombre of them which were sealed and there were sealed an c. and xliiij M. of all the trybes of the children of Israell Of y e trybe of Iuda were sealed xij M. Of the trybe of Ruben were sealed xij M. Of the trybe of Gad were sealed xij M. Of the trybe of Asser were sealed xij M. Of the trybe of Neptalym were sealed xij M. Of y e trybe of Manasses were sealed xij M. Of the trybe of Symeon were sealed xij M. Of the trybe of Leui were sealed xij M. Of the trybe of Isacar were sealed xij M. Of the trybe of Zabulon were sealed xij M. Of the trybe of Ioseph were sealed xij M. Of the trybe of Beniamin were sealed xij thousande After this I behelde and lo a gret multitude which no man coulde nombre of all nacions and people and tonges stode before the seate and before the lambe clothed w t longe whyte garmeÌ„tes and palmes in their hondes and cryed with a londe voyce sayenge saluacion be asscribed to him y t sytteth vpon the seate of oure God and vnto the lambe And all the angels stode in the compase of the seate and of the elders and of the foure beastes and fell before y e seat on the faces and worshipped God sayenge amâ—â— Blessynge and glory wiszdome and thaÌ„kes and honour and power and might be vnto oure God for euermore Amen And one of the elders answered sayenge vnto me what are these which are arayed in longe whyte garmeÌ„tes and whence cam they And I sayde vnto him LORDE thou wotest And he sayde vnto me these are they which cam out of gret tribulacion and made their garmentes large and made theÌ„ whyte in the bloude of the lambe therfore are they in the presence of the seate of God and serue him daye and night in his temple and he that sytteth in the seate wyll dwell amonge them They shal honger no more nether thyrst nether shal the sonne lyght on them nether eny heate For the laÌ„be which is in the myddes of the seate shal fede them and shal leade them vnto fountaynes of lyuynge water and God shal wype awaye all teares from their eyes The VIII Chapter ANd when he had opened the seuenth seale there was sileÌ„ce in heauen aboute the space of halfe an houre And I shal reigne for eurmore And the foure and twentye Elders which sat before God on their seatts fell vpon their faces and worshipped God sayenge we geue the thankes LORDE God allmyghte which art and wast and art to come for thou hast receaued thy greate might and hast raygned And the Heythen were angry thy wrath is come and the tyme of the deed that they shulde be iudged and that thou shuldest geue rewarde vnto thy seruauÌ„tes the prophettes and saynctes and to theÌ„ that feare thy name small greate and shuldest destroye them which destroye the earth And the temple of God was opened in heauen and there was sene in his temple the arcke of his testament and there folowed lightnynges and voyces and thondrynges and earth quake and a greate hayle And there appeared a greate token in heauen A woman clothed with the Sonne and the mone vnder her fete and vpon her deed a crowne of twolue starres And she was with childe and cryed trauaillinge in byrth and payned redy to be delyuered And there appeared another token in heauen and beholde a greate reed dragon hauinge seuen heades and ten hornes and seueÌ„ crownes vpoÌ„ his heades and his tayle drue the thyrde parte of the starres and cast them to the earth And the dragon stode before the womaÌ„ which was ready to be delyuered for to devoure her childe as sone as it were borne And she brought forth a man childe which shulde rule all nacions with a rod of yron And her sonne was taken vp vnto God and to his seate And the woman fled in to wyldernes where she had a place prepared off God that they shulde fede her there a M.ij. C. and lx dayes And there was a greate batayll in heaueÌ„ Michael and his angels foughte with the dragon and the dragon fought and his angels and preuayled not nether was their place founde eny more in heauen And the greate dragon that olde serpent called the deuell and Sathanas was cast out Which disceaued all the worlde And he was cast in to the earth and his angelles were cast out with him also And I harde a lowde voyce which sayde in heauen Now is saluacion and strength and the kyngdome become oure Gods and y e power his Christes For he is cast downe which accused them before God daye and night And they ouercame him by the bloude of the lambe and by the worde of their testimony and they loued not their lyues vnto the deeth Therfore reioyce ye heauens and ye that dwell in them Wo to the inhabiters of the earth and of the see for the deuell is come downe vnto you which hath greate wrath because he knoweth that he hath but a short tyme. And when the dragon sawe that he was cast vnto the earth he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man childe And to the woman were geueÌ„ two wynges of a greate egle that she might flye in to the wyldernes in to her place where she is noryszhed for a tyme two tymes and halffe a tyme from the presence of the serpeÌ„t And the dragon cast out of
awaye Then departed she and wandred out of the waye in y e wyldernes beside Berseba Now whan the water in the botell was out she layed the childe vnder a bush and wente and sat hir downe ouer on y e other syde a bowe shote of For she sayde I can not se the childe dye And she sat hir downe ouer on y e other syde and lifte vp hir voyce and wepte Then God herde the voyce of the childe and the angell of God called vnto Agar out of heauen and sayde vnto her What ayleth the Agar Feare not for God hath herde y e voyce of the childe where he lyeth Aryse and take the childe and holde him by the hande for I wyll make a greate people of him And God opened hir eyes that she sawe a well of water Then wente she and fylled y e botell with water and gaue y e childe drynke And God was with the childe which grew vp and dwelt in y e wildernes and became a connynge archer and dwelt in y e wildernes of Pharan and his mother toke him a wyfe out of the londe of Egipte At the same tyme talked Abimelech and Phicol his chefe captayne with Abraham and sayde God is with the in all that thou doest Therfore sweare now vnto me by God that thou wilt not hurt me ner my children ner my childers children but that thou shalt shewe vnto me and to the londe wherin thou art a straunger the same kyndnesse that I haue done vnto the. Then sayde Abraham I wyll sweare And Abraham rebuked Abimelech for the well of water which Abimelechs seruauntes had taken awaye by violence Then answered Abimelech I knewe not who dyd it nether dyddest thou tell me and I haue not herde of it but this daye Thē toke Abraham shepe and oxen and gaue them vnto Abimelech and they both made a bonde together And Abraham set seuen lambes by them selues Then sayde Abimelech vnto Abrahā What meane those seuen lambes which thou hast set by them selues He answered seuē lambes shalt thou take of my hande that they maye be wytnes vnto me that I haue dygged this well Therfore is the place called Berseba because they sware there both together And so they made the bonde at Berseba Then rose Abimelech and Phicol his chefe captayne and departed agayne in to the londe of y e Philistynes And Abraham planted trees at Berseba and called vpon the name of the LORDE y e euerlastinge God and was a straunger in y e londe of the Philistynes a longe season The XXII Chapter AFter these actes God tempted Abraham and sayde vnto him Abraham And he answered I am here And he sayde Take y e sonne this onely sonne of thine euē Isaac whom thou louest and go thy waye in to the londe of Moria offre him there for a burnt offerynge vpon a mountayne that I shal shew the. Then Abraham stode vp by tymes in the mornynge and sad led his Asse and toke with him two yonge men and his sonne Isaac and cloue wodd for the brent offerynge gat him vp and wente on vnto the place wherof the LORDE had sayde vnto him Vpon the thirde daye Abraham lift vp his eyes and sawe the place a farre of and sayde vnto his yonge mē Tary ye here with the Asse as for me and the childe we wyl go yonder and whan we haue worshipped we wyll come to you againe And Abrahā toke the wodd to the brent offerynge and layed it vpon Isaac his sonne As for him self he toke the fyre and a knyfe in his hande and wente on both together Then sayde Isaac vnto his father Abraham My father Abraham answered here I am my sonne And he sayde lo here is fyre and wodd but where is the shepe for the brent offerynge Abraham answered My sonne God shall prouyde him a shepe for the brent offerynge And they wente both together And whan they came to the place which God shewed him Abraham buylded there an altare and layed the wodd vpon it and bande his sonne Isaac layed him on the altare aboue vpō the wood and stretched out his hande and toke the knyfe to haue slayne his sonne Then the angell of the LORDE called from heauen vnto him and sayde Abraham Abraham He answered here am I. He sayde Laye not thy handes vpon the childe do nothinge vnto him for now I knowe that thou fearest God and hast not spared thine onely sonne for my sake Then Abraham lift vp his eyes and sawe behynde him a ramme holdē fast by the hornes in the breres and wente and toke the ramme and offred him for a brent sacrifice in steade of his sonne And Abraham called the place The LORDE shall prouyde Therfore it is a comon sayenge yet this daye Vpon the mountayne shal the LORDE prouyde And the angell of the LORDE cryed vnto Abraham from heauen the seconde tymy and sayde I haue sworen by myne owne self sayeth the LORDE that for so moch as thou hast done this and hast not spared thine onely sonne I wyll prospere and multiplye thy sede as the starres of heauen and as the sonde vpon the see shore And thy sede shall possesse the gates of his enemies and in thy sede shal all the nacions of the earth be blessed because thou hast herkened vnto my voyce So Abraham turned ageyne to the yonge men and they gat vp and wente together vnto Berseba and dwelt there After these actes it fortuned that it was tolde Abraham Beholde Milca hath borne children also vnto thy brother Nahor namely Hus y e eldest and Bus his brother and Kemnel of whom came the Syrians and Cesed and Haso and Pildas and Iedlaph and Bethuel And Bethuel begat Rebecca These eight dyd Milca beare vnto Nahor Abrahams brother And his concubyne called Rehuma bare also namely Theba Sahan Thahas and Maacha The XXIII Chapter SAra was an hundreth and senē and twentye yeare olde so longe lyued she and dyed in the head cite which is called Hebron in the lande of Canaan Then wente Abraham to mourne and wepe for her Afterwarde he stode vp from his coarse and talked with the Hethites sayde I am a straūger and an indweller amonge you geue me a possession to bury in with you that I maye bury my coarse by me Then the Hethites answered Abraham and sayde vnto him O heare lorde thou art a prynce of God amonge vs bury thy dead in the best of oure sepulcres there shall none of vs forbyd y e that thou shuldest not bury thy deed in his sepulcre Then Abraham stode vp and thanked the people of y e londe namely the Hethites And he talked with them and sayde Yf it be youre wyll that I burye my coarse by me heare me thē speake for me to Ephron the sonne of Zoar that he maye geue me the dubble caue which he hath in y e ende of his felde For a reasonable money let
LORDE stode besyde y e barne of Arnan y e Iebusite And Dauid lifte vp his eyes and sawe the angell of y e LORDE stondinge betwene heauē and earth and a naked swerde in his hande stretched out ouer Ierusalem Then Dauid and y e Elders beynge clothed with sack cloth fell vpō their faces And Dauid sayde vnto God Am not I he that caused the people to be nombred I am he that hath synned and done euell as for these shepe what haue they done ▪ LORDE my God let thine hande be agaynst me and agaynst my fathers house and not agaynst thy people to plage them And the angell sayde vnto Gad that he shulde speake vnto Dauid that Dauid shulde shulde go vp set vp an altare in the barne of Arnan the Iebusite So Dauid wente vp acordinge to y e worde of Gad which he spake in the name of the LORDE But whā Arnan turned him and sawe the angell and his foure sonnes with him they hyd thēselues for Arnan throszshed wheate Now whan Dauid came to Arnan Arnan loked and was aware of Dauid and wēte forth out of the barne and worshipped Dauid with his face to the grounde And Dauid sayde vnto Arnan Geue me rowme in the barne to buylde an altare vnto the LORDE therin for y e full money shalt thou geue it me that the plage maye ceasse from the people But Arnan sayde vnto Dauid Take it vnto the and let my lorde the kynge do as pleaseth him Beholde that oxe geue I for a burnt offerynge and those vessels to the oxe and wheate for the meat offerynge I geue it all Neuertheles the kynge sayde vnto Arnan Not so but for y e full money wyl I bye it for that which is thine wyl not I take for the LORDE and offre a burnt offerynge for naughte So Dauid gaue Arnan for y e rowme sixe hundreth Sycles of golde in weight And there buylded Dauid an altare vnto y e LORDE offred burnt offerynges slayn offerynges And whan he called vpō the LORDE he herde him thorow the fyre from heauē vpon y e altare of the burnt offerynge And y e LORDE sayde vnto the angell that he shulde put his swerde in to his sheeth At the same tyme whā Dauid sawe that the LORDE had herde him vpon the corne floore of Arnan y e Iebusite he dyd sacrifice there For y e habitacion of y e LORDE which Moses had made in the wyldernes and the altare of burnt offerynges was at that tyme in the hye place at Gibeon But Dauid coulde not go thitherto seke God before it for he feared the swerde of the LORDES angell And Dauid sayde Here shal be y e house of God y e LORDE and this the altare of burnt offerynges fo◠Israel The XXIII Chapter ANd Dauid cōmaunded to gather together the straungers that were in y e londe of Israel and appoynted masons to hewe stone for the buyldinge of the house of God And Dauid prepared moch yron for nales in the dores of the portes and for soch thinges as were to be naled together and so moch brasse that is was not to be weyed and Cedre trees innumerable for they of Zidon Tyre brought Dauid moch Cedre tymbre for Dauid thoughte Salomō my sonne is but a childe and tender But the house that shal be buylded vnto the LORDE shal be greate that his name prayse maye be exalted in all londes therfore wyl I prouyde for him So Dauid made greate prouysion before his death And he called Salomon his sonne commaunded him to buylde the house of LORDE God of Israel and sayde vnto him My sonne I was minded to buylde an house vnto the name of the LORDE my God but the worde of y e LORDE came vnto me and sayde Thou hast shed moch bloude and strycken many battayls therfore shalt thou not buylde an house vnto my name for as moch as thou hast shed so moch bloude vpon the earth before me Beholde the sonne which shal be borne vnto the shal be a quyete man and I wyl cause him to be in rest from al his enemies on euery syde for his name shal be Salomon for I wyll geue peace and rest vpon Israel as longe as he lyueth He shal buylde an house vnto my name He shal be my sonne and I wyll be his father And I wyl stablyshe y e seate of his kyngdome vpō Israel for euer Now my sonne the LORDE shal be wyth the and thou shalt prospere that thou mayest buylde an house vnto the LORDE thy God acordynge as he hath spoken of the. The LORDE also shal geue the wyszdome vnderstondynge and shal commytte Israel vnto the that thou mayest kepe the lawe of the LORDE thy God But then shal thou prospere yf thou take hede to do after the ordynaunces and lawes which the LORDE commaunded Moses vnto Israel Be stronge and take a good corage vnto the feare not and be not faynt harted Beholde I haue in my pouerte prouyded for the house of the LORDE an hundreth thousande talentes of golde and a thousande tymes a thousande talentes of syluer and brasse and yron without nombre for there is so moch of it And tymbre and stone haue I prepared thou mayest get more therof Thou hast many workmen also mesons and carpenters in stone and tymber and all maner of men that haue vnderstondinge in all worke off golde syluer brasse and yron without nombre Yet get the vp and be doynge and the LORDE shal be with the. And Dauid commaunded all the rulers of Israel to helpe Salomon his sonne and sayde Is not the LORDE youre God with you and hath geuen you rest on euery syde for he hath delyuered the inhabiters of the londe in to youre handes and the londe is subdued before the LORDE and before his people Geue ouer youre hert now therfore and youre soule to seke the LORDE youre God and get you vp and buylde a Sanctuary vnto the LORDE God that the Arke of the couenaunt of the LORDE and the holy vessels of God maye be brought in to the house which shal be buylded vnto the name of the LORDE So Dauid made Salomon his sonne kynge ouer Israel whan he himselfe was olde and had lyued ynough The XXIIII Chapter ANd Dauid gathered all the rulers in Israel together and the prestes Leuites to nombre y e Leuites from thirtie yeare olde aboue And y e nombre of thē which were strōge men frō heade to heade was eight and thirtie thousande of whom there were foure twentie thousande which dyd their diligence in the worke ouer y e house of the LORDE and sixe thousande officers and Iudges and foure thousande porters foure thousande that songe prayses vnto y e LORDE with instrumentes which he had made to synge prayse with all And Dauid made the ordinaunce amonge the children of Leui namely amōge Gerson Kahath Merari The Gersonites were Laedan and Simei The children of Laedan the
I was in heuynesse I thought vpoÌ„ God wheÌ„ my hert was vexed then dyd I speake Sela. Thou heldest myne eyes waâ—â—â—ge I was so feble that I coude not speake Then remembred I the tymes of olde the yeares that were past I called to remembraunce my songe in the night I commoned with myne owne herte and sought out my spâ—ete Wil the LORDE cast out for euer Wil he be nomore intreated Is his mercy cleane gone Is his promyse come vtterly to an ende for euermore Hath the LORDE forgotten to be gracious Or hath he shut vp his louynge kyndnesse in displeasure Sela. At the last I came to this poynte that I thought O why art thou so foolish the right honde of the most hyest can chaunge all Therfore wil I remembre the workes of the LORDE and call to mynde thy wonders of olde tyme. I wil speake of all thy workes and my talkynge shal be of thy doinges Thy waye o God is holy who is so greate mightie as God Thou art the God that doth wonders thou hast declared thy power amonge the people Thou with thine arme hast delyuered thy people euen the sonnes of Iacob and Ioseph Sela. The waters sawe y e o God y e waters sawe y e were afrayed y e depthes were moued The thicke cloudes poured out water y e cloudes thoÌ„dered and thy arowes wente abrode Thy thonder was herde rounde aboute the lighteninges shone vpon the grounde the earth was moued and shoke withall Thy waye was in the see and thy pathes in the greate waters yet coude no man knowe thy fotesteppes Thou leddest thy people like a flocke of shepe by the honde of Moses and Aaron The LXXVII A psalme of Asaph HEare my lawe o my people encline yo r eares vnto y e wordes of my mouth I wil open my mouth in parables and speake of thinges of olde Which we haue herde and knowne and soch as oure fathers haue tolde vs. That we shulde not hyde them from the children of the generacions to come but to shewe the honoure of the LORDE his might and wonderfull workes that he hath done He made a couenaunt with Iacob and gaue Israel a lawe which he coÌ„maunded oure forefathers to teach their children That their posterite might knowe it and the children which were yet vnborne To the intent y t when they came vp they might shewe their children the same That they also might put their trust in God not to forget what he had done but to kepe his coÌ„maundementes And not to be as their forefathers a frowarde and ouerthwarte generacion a generacion that set not their herte a right and whose sprete was not true towarde God Like as the children of Ephraim which beynge harnessed and carienge bowes turned them selues backe in the tyme of battayll They kepte not the couenauÌ„t of God wolde not walke in his lawe They forgat what he had done and the wonderfull workes that he had shewed for them Maruelous thinges dyd he in the sight of their fathers in the londe of Egipte euen in the felde of Zoan He deuyded the see and let them go thorow it and made the waters to stonde like a wall In the daye tyme he led them with a cloude and all the nâ—ght thorow with a light of fyre He cloaue the hard rockes in the wildernesse and gaue them drynke therof as it had bene out of the greate dâ—â—pth He brought waters out of the 〈◊〉 rocke so that they gushed out like 〈…〉 Yet for all this they synned agaynst him and prouoked the most hyest in the wildernesse They tempted God in their hertes and requyred meate for their lust For they spake agaynst God and sayde Yee yee God shal prepare a table in the wyldernesse shall he Lo he smote the stony rocke that the watery streames gushed out and the streames flowed withall but how can he geue bred and prouyde flesh for his people When the LORDE herde this he was wroth so the fyre was kyndled in Iacob and heuy displeasure agaynst Israel Because theâ— beleued not in God and put not their trust in his helpe So he commauÌ„ded the cloudes aboue and opened the dores of heauen He rayned downe Manna vpoÌ„ them for to eate and gaue them bred from heauen Then ate they angels fode for he sent them meate ynough He caused the east wynde to blowe vnder the heauen and thorow his power he brought in the south wynde He made flesh to rayne vpon them as thicke as dust and fethered foules like the sonde of y e see He let it fall amoÌ„ge their teÌ„tes rouÌ„de aboute their habitacioÌ„s So they ate were fylled for he gaue them their owne desyre They were not dispoynted of their lust But whyle y e meate was yet in theyr mouthes The heuy wrath of God came vpoÌ„ theÌ„ slewe y e welthiest of theÌ„ smote downe y e chosen men of Israel But for all this they synned yet more and beleued not his woÌ„derous workes Therfore their dayes were consumed in vanite and sodenly their yeares were gone When he slewe them they sought him and turned them â—arly vnto God They thought then that God was their socoure and that the hye God was their redemer Neuerthelesse they dyd but flater him in their mouthes and dissembled with him in their tonges For their herte was not whole with him nether continued they in his couenaunt But he was so mercifull that he forgaue their mysdedes and destroyed them not Yee many a tyme turned he his wrath awaye and wolde not suffre his whole displeasure to aryse For he considered y t they were but flesh euen a wynde that passeth awaye and commeth not agayne O how oft haue they greued him in the wildernesse How many a tyme haue they prouoked him in the deserte They turned backe tempted God and moued the holy one in Israel They thought not of his haÌ„de in y e daye when he delyuered them from the hande of y e enemie How he had wrought his miracles in Egipte and his woÌ„ders in the londe of Zoan How he turned their waters in to bloude so that they might not drynke of the ryuers How he sent lyse amonge them to eate them vp and frogges to destroye them How he gaue their frutes vnto the catirpiller and their laboure vnto the greshopper How he bett downe their vynyardes with hayle stones and their Molbery trees with the frost How he smote their catell with haylestones and their flockes with hote thoÌ„der boltes How he sent vpon them y e furiousnesse of his wrath anger displeasure with trouble and fallinge in of euel angels When he made a waye to his fearfull indignacioÌ„ and spared not their soules from death yee and gaue their catell ouer to the pestilence When he smote all the firstborne in Egipte the most principall and mightiest in y e dwellinges of Ham. But as for his owne people
rest in myne house ād florishinge in my palace sawe a dreame which made me afrayed ād the thoughtes that I had vpō my bed with the visions of myne heade troubled me Then sent I out a commission that all they which were of wiszdome at Babilō shulde be brought before me to tell me the interpretacion of the dreame So there came the soythsayers charmers Caldees and coniurers of deuels to whom I tolde the dreame but what it betokened they coude not shewe me till at the last there came one Daniel otherwyse called Balthasar acordinge to the name of my God which hath the sprete of the holy goddes in him to whom I tolde the dreame sayenge O Balthasar thou prynce of saythsayers For so moch as I knowe that thou hast the sprete of the holy goddes and no secrete is hyd from the tel me therfore what y e visiō of my dreame y t I haue sene maye signifie I sawe a vision in my heade vpon my bed and beholde there stode a tre vpon the grounde which was very hye greate and mightie y e heyth reached vnto the heauē and the bredth extended to all the endes of the earth his leaues were fayre he had very moch frute so y t euery mā had ynough to eate therin The beastes of the felde had shadowes vnder it and the foules off the ayre dwelt in the bowes therof Shortly all creatures fed of it I sawe in my heade a vision vpon my bed beholde a watcher euē an holy angel came downe from heauen and cryed mightely sayenge Hew downe the tre breake off his braunches shake of his leaues and scatre his frute abrode that all the beestes maye get them awaye from vnder him and the foules from his braunches Neuertheles leaue the grounde of his rote still in the earth and bynde him vpon the playne felde with cheynes of yron and stele With the dew of heauen shall he be wet and he shall haue his parte in the herbes of the grounde with other wylde beastes That mans herte off his shall be taken from him and a beastes herte shall be geuen him till seuen yeares be come and gone vpon him This erande of the watcher is a cōmaundemēt grounded and sought out in the councel off him that is most holy to lerne men for to vnderstonde that the hyest hath power ouer the kyngdomes off men ād geueth them to whom it liketh him and bryngeth the very outcastes off men ouer them This is the dreame y t I kynge Nabuchodonosor haue sene Therfore o Balthasar tell thou me what it signifieth for so moch as all the wyse men off my kyngdome are not able to shewe me what it meaneth But thou canst do it for y e sprete of the holy Goddes is in the. Then Daniel whose name was Balthasar helde his peace by the space of an houre ād his thoughtes troubled him So the kynge spake and sayde O Balthasar let nether the dreame ner the interpretacion theroff feare the. Balthasar answered sayenge O my LORDE this dreame happen to thyne enemies and the interpretacion to thyne aduersaries As for the tre that thou sawest which was so greate mightie whose heyth reached vnto the heauen and his bredth in to all the worlde whose leaues were fayre ād the frute moch vnder the which the beastes of the felde had their habitacion and vpon whose braunches the foules of the ayre dyd syt Euen thou o kynge art the tre greate strōge Thy greatnesse increaseth reacheth vnto the heauen so doth thy power to the endes ef the earth But where as the kynge sawe a watcher euen an holy angel that came downe from heauen and sayde hew downe the tre and destroye it yet leaue the groun-of the rote in the earth and bynde him vpon the playne felde with cheynes off yron and stele He shall be wet with the dew off heauen and his parte shal be with the beestes of the felde till seuen yeares be come and gone vpon him This o kynge is y e interpretaciō yee it is the very deuyce of him y t is hyest of all it toucheth my LORDE the kynge Thou shalt be cast out fro men and thy dwellinge shal be with the beestes of the felde with grasse shalt thou be fed like an oxe Thou must be wet with the dew of the heauen yee seuen yeares shall come and go vpon the till thou knowe that the hyest hath power vpon the kyngdomes of men geueth them to whom he lyst Morouer where as it was sayde that the rote of the tre shulde be be left still in the grounde it betokeneth y t thy kyngdome shall remayne whole vnto y e after thou hast lerned to knowe that the power commeth from heauen Wherfore o kinge be contēt with my councel that thou mayest lowse thy synnes with rightuousnesse ād thyne offences with mercy to poore people for soch thinges shall prolonge thy peace All these thynges touch the kynge Nabuchodonosor So after xij monethes the kynge walked vp and downe in the paalace off the kyngdome off Babilon and sayde This is the greate cite off Babilō which I myself with my power strength haue made a kynges courte for the honoure off my magesty Whyle these wordes were yet in the kynges mouth there fell a voyce from heauē sayengt O kinge Nabuchodonosor to the be it spokē Thy kyngdome shall departe from the thou shalt be cast out of mens company thy dwellinge shal be with the beestes off the felde so that thou shalt eate grasse like as an oxe till seuen yeares be come and gone ouer the euen vntill thou knowest that the hyest hath power vpon the kyngdomes off men and that he maye geue them vnto whom it pleaseth him The very same houre was this matter fulfylled vpō Nabuchodonosor so that he was cast out off mēs cōpany ate grasse like an oxe His body was wet with the dew of heauen till his hayres were as greate as Aegles fethers and his nales like byrdes clawes When this tyme was past I Nabuchodonosor lift vp myne eyes vnto heauen and myne vnderstondinge was restored vnto me agayne Then gaue I thankes vnto the hyest I magnified and praysed him that lyueth for euermore whose power endureth all waye and his kyngdome from one generacion to another in comparyson off whom all they that dwell vpon the earth are to be reputed as nothinge He handleth acordinge to his will amōge y e powers of heauen amonge the inhabitours of the earth and there is none that maye resiste his honde or saye what doest thou At the same tyme was myne vnderstondynge geuen me agayne and I was restored to the honoure of my kingdome to my dignite and to myne owne shappe agayne My greatestates and prynces sought vnto me and I was set in my kyngdome agayne so that I had yet greater worshipe Thē dyd I Nabuchodonosor loaue magnifie and prayse the kynge of heauen for all his workes
owne eye Beholde I will lift vp myne honde ouer them so that they shal be spoyled of those which afore serued them ye shal knowe that the LORDE of hoostes hath sent me Be glad reioyce o doughter of Sion for lo I am come to dwell in the myddest of the saieth the LORDE At the same tyme there shal many Heithen cleue to the LORDE shal be my people Thus wil I dwel in the myddest of the thou shalt knowe that the LORDE of hoostes hath sent me vnto the. The LORDE shall haue Iuda in possession for his parte in the holy grounde shal chose Ierusalem yet agayne Let all flesh be still before the LORDE for he is rysen out of his holy place The III. Chapter ANd he shewed me Iesua y e hye prest stondinge before the angel of the LORDE and Satan stode at his right honde to resiste him And the LORDE sayde vnto Satan The LORDE reproue the thou Satan yee the LORDE that hath chosen Ierusalem reproue the. Is not this a brande takē out of the fyre Now Iesua was clothed in vnclene rayment and stode before the angel which answered sayde vnto those y t stode before him take awaye y e foule clothes from him And vnto him he sayde Beholde I haue takē awaye thy synne from the wil decke the with chaunge of raymēt He sayde morouer set a fayre myter vpon his heade So they set a fayre myter vpon his heade put on clothes vpon him and the angel of y e LORDE stode there Then the angel of the LORDE testified vnto Iesua spake thus sayeth the LORDE of hoostes Yf thou wilt walke in my wayes kepe my watch thou shalt rule my house kepe my courtes I wil geue the place amōge these that stonde here Heare o Iesua thou hye prest thou thy frendes that dwell before the for they are wōderous people Beholde I will bringe forth the braunch of my seruaunt for lo the stone that I haue layed before Iesua vpon one stone shal be vij eyes Beholde I will hewe him out saieth the LORDE of hoostes and take awaye the synne of that londe in one daye Then shall euery man call for his neghboure vnder the vyne vnder y e fygetre saieth the LORDE of hoostes The IIII. Chap. ANd y e angel that talked with me came agayne waked me vp as a man that is raysed out of his slepe sayde vnto me What seist thou And I sayde I haue loked and beholde a candelsticke all of golde with a boll vpon it his vij lampes therin vpon euery lampe vij stalkes And ij olyue trees therby one vpon the right syde of the boll the other vpon the left syde So I answered spake to the angel y t talked with me sayenge O my lorde what are these The angel that talked with me answered sayde vnto me knowest thou not what these be And I sayde No my lorde He answered sayde vnto me This is the worde of the LORDE vnto Zorobabel sayenge Nether thorow an hoost of men ner thorow strēgth but thorow my sprete saieth y e LORDE of hoostes What art thou thou greate mountayne before Zorobabel thou must be made eauen And he shal bringe vp the first stone so that men shall crie vnto him good lucke good lucke Morouer the worde of the LORDE came vnto me sayenge The hondes of Zorobabel haue layed y e foundacion of this house his hondes also shal fynishe it that ye maye knowe how that the LORDE of hoostes hath sent me vnto you For he that hath bene despysed a litle season shal reioyce whē he seyth the tynne weight in Zorobabels honde The vij eyes are the LORDES which go thorow the hole worlde Then answered I sayde vnto him What are these two olyue trees vpon the right and left syde of the candilsticke I spake morouer sayde vnto him what be these ij olyue braunches which thorow y e two golden pipes emptie them selues in to the golde He answered me sayde knowest thou not what these be And I sayde No my lorde Then sayde he These are the two olyue braunches that stonde before the ruler of the whole earth The V. Chapter SO I turned me liftynge vp myne eyes loked beholde a flyenge boke And he sayde vnto me what seist thou I answered I se a flyenge boke of xx cubites longe x. cubites brode Then sayde he vnto me This is the curse y t goeth forth ouer the whole earth For all theues shal be iudged after this boke all swearers shal be iudged acordinge to the same I wil bringe it forth saieth the LORDE of hoostes so y t it shal come to the house of the thefe to the house of him that falsely sweareth by my name shal remayne in his house cōsume it with the tymbre stones therof Thē the angel that talked with me wente forth sayde vnto me lift vp thine eyes se what this is y t goeth forth And I sayde what is it He answered this is a measure goinge out He sayde morouer Euen thus are they y t dwell vpon the whole earth to loke vpon And beholde there was lift vp a talent of leade lo a woman sat in the myddest of the measure And he sayde This is vngodlynesse So he cast her in to the myddest of the measure threwe y e lompe of leade vp in to an hole Then lift I vp myne eyes loked beholde there came out ij women the wynde was in their wynges for they had wynges like the wynges of a Storke they lif◠vp the measure betwixte the earth the heauen Then spake I to the angel y t talked w t me whyther wil these beare the measure And he sayde vnto me in to the londe of Synear to buylde them an house which when it is prepared the measure shall be set there in his place The VI. Chapter MOrouer I turned me liftynge vp myne eyes loked beholde there came iiij charettes out frō betwixte two hilles which hilles were of brasse In the first charet were reade horse In the secōde charet were blacke horse In y e thirde charet were whyte horse In y e fourth charet were horses of dyuerse colours stronge Then spake I and sayde vnto the angel that talked with me O lorde what are these ▪ The angel answered sayde vnto me These are the iiij wyndes of the heauen which be come forth to stōde before the ruler of all y e earth That with the blacke horse wente in to the londe of the north the whyte folowed thē and the sprekled horses wente forth towarde the south These horses were very stronge wente out and sought to go and take their iourney ouer the whole earth And he sayde get you hence and go thorow the worlde So they wēte thorow out the
well The V. Chapter THen answered Tobias his father sayde father all that thou hast commaunded me wil I do and that diligently But how I shal requyre this money I can not tell Nether doth he knowe me ner I him What token shal I geue him ▪ And as for the waye thither I neuer knew it Then his father answered him and sayde I haue his handwritinge by me which whan thou shewest him immediatly he shall paye the. But go thy waye now get the some faithfull man to go with y e for an hyre that thou mayest receaue y e money whyle I am yet lyuynge Then wente Tobias out vpon the strete he founde a fayre yonge man stondinge gyrded vp and as it were one ready to take his iourney And he knew not that it was an angell of God but saluted him and sayde From whence art thou thou good yonge man He answered Of the children of Israel And Tobias sayde vnto him knowest thou the waye that ledeth vnto the countre of y e Medes He answered I knowe it well and all those stretes haue I gone oft tymes and haue lodged with oure brother Gabelus that dwelleth in Rages a cite of y e Medes which lyeth vpon the mount Egabthanis Tobias sayde vnto him I praye the tary for me tyll I haue tolde my father these thinges Then wēte Tobias in and tolde his father all At y e which his father marueled prayed that he wolde come in vnto him Now whan the angell came in he saluted him and sayde ioye be with the for euermore And olde Tobias saide what ioye can I haue that syt here in darcknes se not the light of heauen The yonge man sayde vnto him Be of good cheare God shal helpe the shortly And Tobias sayde vnto him Canst thou brynge my sonne to Gabelus vnto the cite of Rages in Media And whan thou commest agayne I shal paye the thy hyre And the angell sayde vnto him I shal lede thy sonne and brynge him to the agayne Then Tobias answered him Tell me I praye the of what house or of what trybe art thou The angell Raphael sayde vnto him Axest thou after the kynred of an hyrelinge or sekest thou a gyde for thy sonne to go with him But that I make the not carefull I am Azarias the sonne of greate Hananias And Tobias answered Thou art come of a greate kynred but I praye y e be not displeased that I desyred to knowe thy kynred The angell sayde vnto him Thy sonne shal I lede forth safely and brynge him whole to the agayne Then answered Tobias and sayde well go on youre waie and God be in youre iourney and his angell beare you company So whan they had prepared all thinges y t they wolde take with them in their iourney Tobias bad his father his mother fare well and they wente on their waye both together Now whan they were gone his mother beganne to wepe and sayde The staff of oure age hast thou taken awaye and sent him from vs. Wolde God that money had neuer bene for the which thou hast sent him awaye Yf we had bene content w t o r pouerte this had bene greate riches vnto vs that we sawe oure sonne here Then sayde Tobias vnto her wepe not oure sonne shall come to vs agayne safe and sounde thine eyes shall se him For I trust that y e good angell of God shal beare him cōpany and ordre well all the thinges that he doth so that he shal come to vs agayne with ioye At these wordes his mother left of frō wepynge helde hir tonge The VI. Chapter SO Tobias wente on his waye and a dogg folowed him and y e first night they abode by the water of Tigris Then wente he out to wash his fete and beholde there came forth an horrible fish to deuoure him Of whom Tobias was afrayed and cried with a loude voyce sayenge LORDE he commeth vpon me And the angell sayde vnto him Take him by the cheke blade and drawe him to the. And he dyd so and drew him vpō the londe and the fish beganne to leape at his fete Thē sayde the angell vnto him Take out the bowels of this fish and as for the hert the gall and the leuer kepe them by the. For these thinges are necessary and good for medicyne Tobias dyd so and rosted the fish and they toke him with them in their iourney the residue they salted as moch as was sufficient for them till they came to Rages Then Tobias axed the angell and sayde vnto him I praye y e brother Azarias tell me wher to are these thinges good of the fish that thou hast bydden me kepe The angell answered him and sayde Yf thou layest a pece of the hert vpon the coales the smoke therof dryueth awaye all maner of euell spretes whether it be from man or from woman so that from thence forth y e same shal come nomore vnto them The gall is good to anoynte or to strake y e eyes withall where as there is eny blemish in them so shal they be whole And Tobias sayde vnto him where wilt thou that we remayne The angell answered and saide Here is a nye kinsman of thine one Raguel by name which hath a daughter called Sara hath nether sonne ner daughter but her All his good belōgeth vnto the and thou must mary his daughter and therfore desyre her at her father and he shal geue her the to wife Then answered Tobias sayde As I vnderstonde she hath bene maried vnto seuen huszbandes and they all are deed and I haue herde saye that the deuell slew them I am afrayed therfore lest soch thinges happen vnto me also which yf it came to passe seinge I am the onely sonne of my father and my mother I shulde brynge thē in their age w t sorow to their graues Then sayde y e angell Raphael vnto him Heare me and I will tell the what they be of whom the deuell hath power Namely they that receaue mariage of soch a fashiō that they shut God out from thē and from their hert and geue them selues to their owne lust euen as it were an horse and Moole which haue no vnderstondinge vpon soch hath y e deuell power But whan thou takest her and art come in to the chamber witholde thy self from her thre dayes and geue thy diligence vnto nothinge but vnto prayer with her And in the first night rost the leuer of the fish and the deuell shal be dryuē awaye The secōde night shalt thou be receaued in to the company of the holy patriarkes The thirde night shalt thou opteyne the blessinge of God so that whole children shal be borne of you After the thirde night take the mayden in the feare of God and more for the desyre of children then for eny fleshly lust that in the sede of Abraham thou mayest optayne the blessinge in children The VII Chapter THen wente they
maketh a god of the same claye this doth euen he which a litle afore was made of earth himself and within a litle whyle after whan he dyeth turneth to earth agayne Notwithstandinge he careth not y e more because he shal labo r ner because his life is shorte but stryueth to excell goldsmythes y e syluer smythes copper smithes and taketh it for an hono r to make vayne thinges For his hert is ashes his hope is but vaine earth his life is more vyle then claye for so moch as he knoweth not his awne maker that gaue him his soule to worke and brethed in him the breth of life They counte oure life but a pastyme and oure conuersacion to be butt a market and that men shulde euer be gettinge yee and that by euell meanes Now he y t of earth maketh frayle vessell and ymages knoweth himself to offende aboue all other All the enemies of thy people and y t holde them in subieccion are vnwyse vnhappie and exceadinge proude vnto their owne soules for they iudge all the Idols of the HeitheÌ„ to be goddes which nether haue eyesight to se ner noses to smell ner eares to heare ner fingers of handes for to grope as for their fete they are to slowe to go For man made them and he that hath but a borowed sprete fashioned them But no man can make a God like vnto him for seinge he is but mortall himself it is but mortall that he maketh with vnrighteous handes He himself is better then they whom he worshippeth for he lyued though he was mortall but so dyd neuer they Yee they worshippe beestes also â–ª which are most miserable for compare thinges that can not fele vnto them they are worse then those Yet is there not one of these beestes that with his sight caÌ„ beholde eny good thinge nether haue they geuen prayse ner thankes vnto God The XVI Chapter FOr these and soch other thinges haue they suffred worthy punyshment thorow y e multitude of beestes are they roted out Insteade of y e which punishmentes thou hast graciously ordred thine awne people geuen them their desyre that they loÌ„ged for a new straunge taist preparinge them quales to be their meate to the intent y t by the thinges which were shewed and sent vnto them they y t were so gredy of meate might be withdrawen euen from the desyre that was necessary But these within shorte tyme were brought vnto pouerte and taisted a new meate For it was requisite y t without eny excuse destruccion shulde come vpoÌ„ those which vsed tyraÌ„ny to shewe onely vnto the other how their enemies were destroyed For whan the cruell woodnesse of the beestes came vpon them they peryshed thorow the stinges of the cruell serpentes â–ª NotwithstoÌ„dinge y i wrath endured not perpetually but they were put in feare for a litle season y t they might be refourmed hauynge a token of saluacion to remembre the coÌ„maundement of thy lawe For he y t coÌ„uerted was not healed by the thinge y t he sawe but by THE O sauio of all So in this thou shewdest thine enemies y t it is thou which deliuerest froÌ„ all euell As for theÌ„ whan they were bytten w t greshoppers and flyes they died for they were worthy to perish by soch But nether the teth of dragons ner of venymous wormes ouer came y e children for thy mercy was euer by them helped theÌ„ Therfore were they punyshed to remeÌ„bre thy wordes but hastely were they healed agayne lest they shulde fall in to so depe forgetfulnesse that they might not vse thy helpe It was nether herbe ner plaster y t restored theÌ„ to health but thy worde o LORDE which healeth all thinges It is thou o LORDE y t hast the power of life death thou ledest vnto deathes dore bringest vp agayne But man thorow wickednes slayeth his owne soule when his sprete goeth forth it turneth not agayne nether maye he call agayne y e soule y t is takeÌ„ awaye It is not possible to escape y i hande For y e vngodly y t wolde not knowe y e were punyshed by y e streÌ„gth of thine arme w t strauÌ„ge waters hales and raynes were they persecuted thorow fyre were they coÌ„sumed For it was a wonderous thinge that fyre might do more then water which queÌ„cheth all thinges but y e worlde is y e aueÌ„ger of the righteous Some tyme was y e fyre so tame y t the beestes which were sent to punysh y e vngodly brent not y t because they shulde se knowe y t they were persecuted w t the punyshmeÌ„t of God And somtyme brent the fyre in the water on euery syde y t it might destroye y e vnrighteous nacioÌ„ of the earth Againe thou hast fed thine awne people w t angels fode sent theÌ„ bred ready from heaueÌ„ without their labo beynge very pleasauÌ„t well gusted And to shewe thy riches swetnesse vnto thy childreÌ„ thou gauest euery one their desyre so y t euery man might take what liked him best But the snowe yse abode the violeÌ„ce of the fyre melted not y t they might knowe y t the fyre burninge in the hale rayne destroied y e frute of y e enemies y e fyre also forgatt his streÌ„gth agayne y t y e righteous might be norished For y e creature y t serueth y e which art y e maker is fearse in punyshinge y e vnrighteous but it is easy geÌ„tle to do good vnto soch as put their trust in the. Therfore dyd all thinges alter at the same tyme were all obedieÌ„t vnto thy grace which is y e norse of all thinges acordinge to y e desyre of theÌ„ y t had nede therof y t y e childreÌ„ O LORDE whoÌ„ thou louest might knowe y t it is not nature the growinge of frutes y t fedeth meÌ„ but y t it is y e worde which preserueth theÌ„ y t put their trust in the. For loke what might not be destroyed w t the fyre as soone as it was warmed w t a litle Sonne beame it melted y t all men might knowe y t thankes ought to be geuen vnto y e before y e Sonne ryse y t thou oughtest to be worshipped before y e daye sprynge For y e hope of y e vnthankfull shal melt awaie as the wynter yse perishe as water y t is not necessary The XVII Chapter GReate are thy iudgmeÌ„tes o LORDE thy councels can not be expressed therfore men do erre y t wil not be refourmed w t thy wyszdome For whan the vnrighteous thought to haue thy holy people in subiecioÌ„ they were bounde w t the bandes of darcknes longe night shutt vnder y e rofe thinkinge to escape y e euerlaâ—tinge wiszdome And whyle they thought to be hyd in y e darcknesse of their synnes they were scatered abrode
ANd they walked in the myddest of the flamme praysynge God and magnifienge y e LORDE Asarias stode vp and prayde on this maner Euen in the myddest of the fyre opened he his mouth saide Blessed be thou o LORDE God of o r fathers right worthy to be praysed and honoured is y t name of thine for euermore for thou art righteous in all y e thinges y t thou hast done to vs Yee faithfull are all y e workes y e wayes are right y e iudgmeÌ„tes true In all y e thinges y t thou hast brought vpon vs vpon the holy cite of o r fathers euen Ierusalem thou hast executed true iudgment Yee acordinge to right and equyte hast thou brought these thinges vpoÌ„ vs because of oure synnes For why we haue offended done wickedly departynge from the In all thinges haue we trespaced not obeyed thy coÌ„maundementes ner kepte theÌ„ nether done as thou hast bydden vs y t we might prospere Wherfore all y t thou hast brought vpon vs euery thinge y t thou hast done to vs thou hast done them in true iudgment As in delyueringe vs in to the hondes of oure enemies amoÌ„ge vngodly wicked abhominacions to an vnrighteous kinge yee y e most frowarde vpoÌ„ earth And now we maye not opeÌ„ o r mouthes we are become a shame reprofe vnto y e seruauntes to theÌ„ y t worshipe the. Yet for thy names sake we beseke the geue vs not vp for euer breake not thy couenaunt take not awaye thy mercy from vs for thy beloued Abrahams sake for thy seruaunt Isaacs sake for thy holy Israels sake to whom thou hast spoken promysed y t thou woldest multiply their sede as y e starres of heauen as the londe y t lieth vpon y e seâ— shore For we o LORDE are become lesse theÌ„ eny people be kepte vnder this daye in all the worlde because of oure synnes So ther now we haue nether prynce duke prophet burnt offerynge sacrifice oblacioÌ„ inceÌ„seâ—â—â— Sanctuary before the. Neuerthelesse in a contrite herte and an humble sprete let vs be receaued y t we maie opteyne thy mercy Like as in the burnt offerynge of rammes bullockes and like as in thousandes of fat lambes so let o r offrynge be in thy sight this daye y t it maye please y e for there is no coÌ„fucion vnto them y t put there trust in the. And now we folowe the with all o r herte we feare the seke thy face Put vs not to shame but deale w t vs after thy louynge kyndnesse acordinge to the multitude of thy mercies Delyuer vs by thy miracles o LORDE get thy name an honoure that all they which do thy seruauntes euell maye be confouÌ„ded Let them be ashamed thorow thy Allmightie power and let their strength be broken that they maye knowe how that thou only art the LORDE God hono r worthy thorow out all the worlde And the kynges seruaÌ„tes y t put them in ceassed not to make the ouen hote with wylde fyre drye strawe pitch fagottes so that the flamme wente out of the ouen vpon a xlix cubites yee it toke awaye brent vp those Caldees y t it gat holde vpon besyde the ouen But the angel of the LORDE came downe in to the ouen to Asarias and his felowes smote y e flamme of the fyre out of the ouen made the myddest of the ouen as it had bene a coole wynde blowinge so that the fyre nether touched them greued them ner dyd them hurte Then these thre as out of one mouth praysed honoured and blessed God in the fornace sayenge Blessed be thou o LORDE God of oure fathers for thou art prayse honoure worthy yee to be magnified for euermore Blessed be y e holy name of thy glory for it is worthy to be praysed and magnified in all worldes Blessed be thou in the holy temple of y e glory for aboue all thinges thou art to be praysed yee more then worthy to be magnified for euer Blessed be thou in the trone of y e kyngdome for aboue all thou art worthy to be wel spoken of to be more then magnified for euer Blessed be thou that lokest thorow the depe syttest vpon the Cherubyns for thou art worthy to be praysed aboue all to be magnified for euer Blessed be thou in y e firmament of heauen for thou art prayse and honoure worthy for euer O all ye workes of the LORDE speake good of y e LORDE prayse him and set him vp for euer O ye angels of the LORDE speake good of the LORDE prayse him and set him vp for euer O ye heaueÌ„s speake good of the LORDE prayse him and set him vp for euer O all ye waters that be aboue the firmameÌ„t speake good of the LORDE prayse him and set him vp for euer O all ye powers of the LORDE speake good of the LORDE prayse him set him vp for euer O ye SoÌ„ne Moone speake good of the LORDE prayse him set him vp for euer O ye starres of heaueÌ„ speake good of the LORDE prayse him set him vp for euer O ye schowers dew speake good of the LORDE prayse him set him vp for euer O all ye wyndes of God speake good of y e LORDE prayse him set him vp for euer O ye fyre heate speake good of y e LORDE prayse him and set him vp for euer O ye wynter and sommer speake good of the LORDE prayse him and set him vp for euer O ye dewes frostes speake good of the LORDE prayse him set him vp for euer O ye frost and colde speake good of the LORDE prayse him and set him vp for euer O ye yse and snowe speake good of the LORDE prayse him and set him vp for euer O ye nightes and dayes speake good of the LORDE prayse him and set him vp for euer O ye light and darcknesse speake good of the LORDE prayse him and set vp him for euer O ye lightenynges and cloudes speake good of the LORDE prayse him set him vp for euer O let the earth speake good of the LORDE yee lett it prayse him and set him vp for euer O ye mouÌ„taynes and hilles speake good of the LORDE prayse him and set him vp for euer O all ye grene thinges vpon the earth speake good of the LORDE prayse him set him vp for euer O ye welles speake good of the LORDE prayse him and set him vp for euer O ye sees and floudes speake good of the LORDE prayse him set him vp for euer O ye whalles and all that lyue in the waters speake good of the LORDE prayse him and set him vp for euer O all ye foules of the ayre speake good of the LORDE prayse him and set him vp for euer O all ye beastes catell speake good of
for to arme them selues and to perfourme the kynges busynesse Notwithstondinge he might not haue his purpose Nicanor had deuysed with greate pryde to ouercome Iudas and to brynge awaye y e victory But Machabeus had euer a fast confideÌ„ce and a parfecte hope in God that he wolde helpe him and exorted his people not to be afrayed at the commynge of the Heithen but allwaye to remembre the helpe that had bene shewed vnto them from heauen yee and to be sure now also y t Allmightie God wolde geue them the victory He spake vnto them out of the lawe and prophetes puttinge them in remembraunce of the battayls that they had striken afore made them to be of a good corage So when their hartes were plucte vp he shewed them also the disceatfulnesse of the Heithen and how they wolde kepe no couenaunt ner ooth Thus he weapened theÌ„ not with the armoure of shylde and speare but with wholsome wordes and exortacions He shewed them a dreame also wherthorow he made them all glad which was this He thought that he sawe Onias which had bene hye prest a vertuous louynge man sad and of honest conuersacion well spoken and nee that had bene exercised in godlynes froÌ„ a childe holdinge vp his hoÌ„des towarde heauen and prayenge for his people After this there apeared vnto him another maÌ„ which was aged honorable and glorious And Onias sayde This is a louer of the brethren and of the people of Israel This is he that prayeth moch for the people and for all the holy cite Ieremy the prophet of God He thought also y t Ieremy helde out his right hoÌ„de and gaue him namely vnto Iudas a swearde of golde sayenge Take this holy swearde a gifte from God wherwith thou shalt smyte downe the enemies of the people of Israel And so they were wel conforted thorow the wordes of Iudas and toke corage vnto theÌ„ so that the yonge men were determed in their myndes to fight to byde styfly at it In so moch that in the thinges which they toke in honde their boldnesse shewed the same because the holy cite and the temple were in parell for the which they toke more care then for their wyues children brethreÌ„ and kynsfolkes Agayne they that were in the cite were most carefull for those which were to fight Now when they were all in a hope that the iudgment of the matter was at hoÌ„de and the enemies drew nye the hoost beynge set in araye the Elephantes and horsmeÌ„ euery one stondinge in his place Machabeus considered the commynge of the multitude the ordinaunce of dyuerse weapens the cruelnesse of the beestes and helde vp his hondes towarde heauen callinge vpon the LORDE that doth wonders which geueth not the victory after the multitude of weapens and power of the hoost but â—o them that please him acordinge to his owne will Therfore in his prayer he sayde these wordes O LORDE thou that diddest sende thine angell in the tyme of Ezechias kynge of Iuda and in the hoost of Sennacherib slewest an hundreth and fyue and foure score thousande sende now also thy good angell before vs o LORDE of heauens in the fearfulnesse and drede of thy mightie arme that they which come agaynst thy holy people to blaspheme them maye be afrayed And so he made an ende of his wordes Then Nicanor and they that were with him drew nye with shawmes and songes but Iudas and his company with prayer and callinge vpon God With their hondes they smote but with their hertes they prayed vnto the LORDE and slewe no lesse then xxxv M. meÌ„ For thorow the present helpe of God they were gloriously conforted Now when they left of and were turninge agayne with ioye they vnderstode that Nicanor himself was slayne with the other Then they gaue a greate shoute and a crie praysinge the allmighty LORDE with a loude voyce And Iudas which was euer ready to spende his body and life for his citesyns commaunded to smyte of Nicanors heade with his arme and honde and to be brought to Ierusalem When he came there he called all the people and the prestes at the aulter with those that were in y e castell and shewed them Nicanors heade and his wicked honde which he had presumptuously holden vp agaynst the temple of God He caused y e tonge also of that vngodly Nicanor to be cut in litle peces and to be cast to the foules and the cruell mans honde to be hanged vp before the temple So euery man gaue thankes vnto y e LORDE saienge blessed be he that hath kepte his place vndefyled As fo Nicanors heade he hanged it vp vpoÌ„ the hye castell for an euydent and playne token of the helpe of God And so they agreed all together to kepe that daye holy namely y e xiij daye of y e moneth Adar which in y e SyriaÌ„s laÌ„guage is called y e nexte daye before Mardocheus daye Thus was Nicanor slayne and from that tyme forth the Iewes had the cite in possession And here wil I now make an ende The endâ— of the seconde boke of the Machabees The new testament The gospell of S Mathew The gospell of S. Marke The gospell of S. Luke The gospell of S. Ihon. The Actes of the Apostles The epistles of S. Paul The epistle vnto the Romaynes The first and seconde epistle to the Corinthians The epistle to the Galathians The epistle to the Ephesians The epistle to the Philippians The epistle to the Colossians The first and secoÌ„de epistle to the Tessalonians The first and seconde epistle vnto Tymothy The epistle vnto Titus The epistle vnto Philemon The first and seconde epistle of S. Peter The thre epistles of S. Ihon. The epistle vnto the Hebrues The epistle of S. Iames. The epistle of S. Iude. The Reuelacion of S. Ihon. The gospell of S. Mathew What S. Mathew conteyneth Chap. I. The genealogy of Christ and mariage of his mother Mary The angell satisfieth Iosephs mynde Chap. II. The tyme place of Christes byrth The wyse men ofre their presentes Christ flyeth in to Egipte the yonge childern are slayne Christ turneth in to Galilee Chap. III. The baptyme preachinge and office of Ihon and how Christ was baptysed of him in Iordan Chap. IIII. Christ fasteth and is tempted he calleth Peter Andrew Iames and Ihon healeth all the sicke Chap. V. In this Chapter and in the two next folowinge is conteyned the most excelleÌ„t and louynge Sermon of Christ in the mount Which sermon is the very keye that openeth the vnderstondinge in to the lawe In this fifth chapter specially he preacheth of the VIII beatitudes or blessinges of manslaughter wrath and anger of aduoutrie of swearinge of suffringe wronge and of loue euen towarde a mans enemies Chap. VI. Of Almes prayer and fastinge He forbyddeth the carefull sekynge of wordly thinges Chap. VII He forbyddeth fooliszh and temerarious iudgment reproueth ypocrisie exorteth vnto prayer warneth to bewarre of false prophetes
spake vnto them of Ihon the baptist And whan they were come to the people there came vnto him a certayne man and kneled vnto him and sayde LORDE haue mercy vpon my sonne for he is lunatike sore vexed He falleth oft tymes in to y e fyre and oft in to y e water and I brought him vnto thy disciples and they coude not heale him Iesus answered and sayde O thou faithles and frowarde generacion how longe shal I be with you How longe shal I suffre you Bringe him hitherto me And Iesus rebuked him and y e deuyll weÌ„te out of him and y e childe was healed euen that same houre Then came the disciples vnto Iesus secretly sayde Why coude not we cast him out Iesus sayde vnto them Because of youre vnbeleue For I saye verely vnto you Yf ye haue faith as a grane of mustarde sede ye maye saye vnto this mountayne Remoue hence to yonder place and he shal remoue nether shal eny thinge be vnpossible vnto you How beit this kinde goeth not out but by prayer and fastynge Whyle they occupied in Galile Iesus sayde vnto them it wil come to passe that the sonne of man shal be delyuered in to the hondes of men and they shal kyll him and the thirde daye shal he aryse agayne And they were very sory Now whaÌ„ they were come to Capernaum they that receaued y e tribute money came to Peter and sayde Doth youre master paye tribute He sayed yee â–ª And when he was come home Iesus preuented him and sayde What thinkest thou Symon Of whom do the kynges of the earth take toll or tribute Of their children or of straungers Then sayde Peter to him Of straungers Iesus sayde vnto him Then are y e children fre Neuertheles lest we offende them go thy waye to the see and cast thine angle and take the fysh that first coÌ„meth vp and whan thou hast opened his mouth thou shalt fynde a pece of twenty pens take that and geue it them forme and the. The XVIII Chapter AT the same tyme came the disciples vnto Iesus and sayde Who is the greatest in the kyngdome of heauen And Iesus called a childe vnto him and set him in the myddest amonge them and sayde Verely I saye vnto you Excepte ye turne and become as children ye shal not entre in to the kyngdome of heauen Whosoeuer therfore humbleth him self as this childe y e same is the greatest in y e kyngdome of heauen And who so receaueth soch a childe in my name receaueth me But who so offendeth one of these litle ones which beleue in me it were better for him that a mylstone were hanged aboute his neck and he drowned in the depth of the see Wo vnto the worlde because of slauÌ„ders Yee there must slaunders come but wo vnto that man by whom slaunder commeth But yf thy hande or thy fote offende the cut him of and cast him from the. It is better for y t to entre in vnto life lame or crepell theÌ„ y t thou shuldest haue two hoÌ„des or two fete and be cast in to euerlastinge fyre And yf thyne eye offende the plucke it out cast it from the. Better it is for the to entre in vnto life with one eye theÌ„ to haue two eyes and to be cast in to hell fyre Take hede y t ye despyse not one of these litle ones For I saye vnto you their angels do alwaye beholde the face of my father which is in heauen for the sonne of man is come to saue that which is lost How thinke ye Yf a man haue an hundreth shepe and one of theÌ„ be gone astraye doth not he leaue the nyentie and nyene in the mountaynes and goeth and seketh that one which is gone astraye And yf it happen that he fynde it verely I saye vnto you he reioyseth more ouer it then ouer the nyentie nyene which weÌ„te not astraye Euen so is it not the will before youre father in heauen that one of these litle ones shulde perishe Yf thy brother trespace agaynst the go and tell him his faute betwene the and him alone Yf he heare the thou hast woÌ„ne thy brother But yf he heare the not then take yet with the one or two that in the mouth of two or thre wytnesses euery matter maye be stablyshed Yf he heare not them tell it vnto the congregacion Yf he heaâ—e not the coÌ„gregacion holde him as an Heithen and Publican Verely I saye vnto you what soeuer ye shal bynde vpon earth shal be bouÌ„de also in heauen what soeuer ye lowse vpon earth shal be lowsed also in heaueÌ„ Agayne I saye vnto you Yf two of you shal agree vpon earth for what thinge soeuer it be y t they wolde desyre they shal haue it of my father which is in heaueÌ„ For where two or thre are gathered together iÌ„ my name there am I in the myddest amonge them Then came Peter vnto him sayde LORDE how oft shal I forgeue my brother y t trespaceth agaynst me SeueÌ„ tymes Iesus saide vnto hiÌ„ I saye not vnto y e seueÌ„ tymes but seueÌ„tie tymes seuen tymes Therfore is y e kingdome of heaueÌ„ lickened vnto a kynge which wolde reken w t his seruauntes And whan he beganne to rekeÌ„ one was brought vnto him which ought him ten thousande pouÌ„de Now whaÌ„ he had nothinge to paye his lorde coÌ„maunded him to be solde his wife his childreÌ„ all y t he had payment to be made Then the seruaunt fell downe besought him sayenge Syr haue pacieÌ„ce w t me and I wil paye the all Then had the lorde pytie on that seruaunt discharged him and forgaue him the detâ— And the same seruaunt weÌ„te out fouÌ„de one of his felowes which ought him an huÌ„dreth pens and layed hande vpon him and toke him by the throte and sayde paye me that thou owest TheÌ„ his felowe fell downe and besought him sayenge haue pacieÌ„ce w t me and I wil paye the all Neuertheles he wolde not but wente and cast him into preson tyll he shulde paye the dett Whan his felowes sawe what was done they were very sory and came and tolde their lorde all that had happened Then his lorde called for him and sayde vnto him O thou wicked seruauÌ„t I forgaue the all this dett because thou praydest me shuldest not thou then haue had compassion also vpon thy felowe euen as I had pytie vpon the And his lorde was wroth and delyuered him vnto the iaylers tyll he payed all that he ought So shal my heauenly father do also vnto you yf ye euery one of you froÌ„ youre hertes forgeue not his brother his trespaces The XIX Chapter ANd it came to passe whaÌ„ Iesus had ended these sayenges he gat him froÌ„ Galile came iÌ„ to y e coastes of Iewry beyonde Iordane moch people folowed him and he healed them there
the lorde of the vynyarde commeth what wyl he do w t those huszbandmen They sayde vnto him He wyl cruelly destroye those euell personnes let out his vyniarde vnto other huszbaÌ„dmen which shal delyuer him the frute at tymes conuenyent Iesus sayde vnto theÌ„ Dyd ye neuer rede in the scriptures The same stone which the buylders refused is become the heade stone in the corner This was the LORDES doynge it is maruelous iÌ„ oure eyes Therfore I saie vnto you The kingdome of God shal be takeÌ„ froÌ„ you shal be geueÌ„ vnto the HeitheÌ„ which shal brynge forth y e frutes of it And who so falleth vpoÌ„ this stone shal be brokeÌ„ in peces loke vpoÌ„ whom it falleth it shal grynde him to poulder And when the hye prestes Pharises herde his parables they perceaued that he spake of them And they wente aboute to take him but they feared y e people because they helde hiÌ„ for a prophet The XXII Chapter ANd Iesus answered and spake vnto theÌ„ agayne by parables sayde The kingdome of heauen is like vnto a kynge which maried his sonne And sent forth his seruauntes to call the gestes vnto the mariage they wolde not come Agayne he sent forth other seruauntes and sayde Tell the gestes Beholde I haue prepared my dynner myne oxen and my fed catell are kylled and all thinges are readye come to the mariage But they made light of it and wente their wayes one to his huszbandrye another to his marchaundise As fâ—â— the remnauÌ„t they toke his seruauntes and intreated theÌ„ shamefully and slew theÌ„ When the kynge herde that he was wroth and sent forth his warryers and destroyed those murtherers and set fyre vpon their cite Then sayde he vnto his seruauntes The mariage in dede is prepared but the gestes were not worthy Go youre waye out therfore into y e hye wayes and as many as ye fynde byd them to the mariage And the seruauntes weÌ„te out in to the hye wayes and gathered together as many as they coulde fynde both good and bad the tables were all full Then the kynge weÌ„te in to se the gestes and spyed there a man that had not on a weddynge garment and sayde vnto him Frende how camest thou in hither hast not on a weddyinge garment And he was euen spechlesse Then sayde the kynge vnto his seruauntes Take and bynde him hande and fote cast him into y e vtter darcknes there shal be waylinge and gnaszhinge of teth For many be called but few are choseÌ„ Then wente the Pharises and toke councell how they might tangle him in his wordes and sent vnto him their disciples with Herodes officers and sayde Master we knowe that thou art true and teachest the waye of God truly and carest for no maÌ„ for thou regardest not the outwarde appearaunce of meÌ„ Tell us therfore how thinkest thou Is it laufull to geue tribute vnto the Emperoure or not Now whaÌ„ Iesus perceaued their wickednes he sayde O ye ypocrites why teÌ„pte ye me Shewe me y e tribute money And they toke hiÌ„ a peny And he saide vnto theÌ„ Whose is this ymage and superscription They sayde vnto him The Emperours Then sayde he vnto them Geue therfore vnto the Emperour that which is the Emperours and geue vnto God that which is Gods When they herde that they marueyled and left him weÌ„te their waye The same daye there came vnto him the Saduces which holde that there is no resurreccion and axed him and sayde Master Moses sayde Yf a man dye hauynge no children his brother shal mary his wife rayse vp sede vnto his brother Now were there with us seueÌ„ brethren The first maried a wife and dyed for somoch as he had no sede he left his wife vnto his brother Like wyse the secoÌ„de and thirde vnto the seueÌ„th Last of all the woman dyed also Now in the resurreccion whose wife shal she be of the seuen For they all had her Iesus answered and sayde vnto them Ye erre and vnderstoÌ„de not the scriptures ner the power of God In the resurreccion they shal nether mary ner be maried but are as the angels of God in heauen As touchinge the resurreccioÌ„ of the deed haue ye notred what is spoken vnto you of God which sayeth I am the God of Abraham and y e God of Isaac and the God of Iacob Yet is not God a God of the deed but of the lyuynge And whan the people herde that they were astonnyed at his doctryne When the Pharises herde that he had stopped the mouth of the Saduces they gathered them selues together And one of them a Scrybe teÌ„pted him and sayde Master which is the chefest commaundemeÌ„t in the lawe Iesus saide vnto him Thou shalt loue the LORDE thy God with all thy hert with all thy soule and with all thy mynde this is the pryncipall and greatest coÌ„maundement As for the seconde it is like vnto it Thou shalt loue thy neghboure as thyself In these two commaundementes hange all the lawe and the prophetes Now whyle the Pharises were gathered together Iesus axed them and sayde What thinke ye of Christ Whose sonne is he They sayde vnto him Dauids He sayde vnto them How then doth Dauid in sprete call him LORDE sayenge The LORDE sayde vnto my LORDE Syt thou on my right honde tyll I make thine enemies thy fote stole Yf Dauid now call him LORDE how is he then his sonne And no man coude answere him one worde nether durst eny man axe him eny mo questioÌ„s froÌ„ that daye forth The XXIII Chapter THen spake Iesus vnto y e people and to his disciples and sayde The scrybes Pharises are set downe vpon Moses seate Therfore what soeuer they bid you obserue that obserue and do but after their workes shal ye not do for they saye do not For they bynde heuy and intollerable burthens and laye them vpon mens shulders But they them selues wil not heaue at them with one of their fyngers All their workes do they to be sene of men They set abrode their Philateries and make large borders vpon their garmentes and loue to syt vppermost at the table and to haue the chefe seates in the synagoges and loue to be saluted in the market and to be called of meÌ„ Rabbi But ye shal not suffre youre selues to be called Rabbi for one is youre master euen Christ and all ye are brethren And call no man father vpon earth for one is youre father which is in heaueÌ„ And ye shal not suffre youre selues to be called masters for one is youre master namely Christ. He that is greatest amoÌ„ge you shal be youre seruaunt For who so exalteth him self shal be brought lowe and he that humbleth himself shal be exalted Wo vnto you Scrybes and Pharises ye ypocrytes that shut vp the kyngdome of heauen before men Ye come not in youre
shall fall from heauen and the powers of heauen shal moue and then shal appeare the token of the sonne of man in heauē and then shal all the kynreds of the earth mourne and they shal se the sonne of man come in the cloudes of heauen with greate power and glory And he shal sende his angels with y e greate voyce of a trompe they shal gather together his chosen from the foure wyndes from one ende of the heauen to the other Lerne a symilitude of y e fygge tre When his braunche is yet tender and his leaues spronge ye knowe that Sommer is nye So likewyse ye whan ye se all thynges be ye sure that it is nye euen at the dores Verely I saye vnto you This generacion shal not passe tyll all these be fulfylled Heauen and earth shal perishe but my wordes shal not perishe Neuertheles of that daye houre knoweth no man no not the angels of heauen but my father onely Euen as it was in the tyme of Noe so shal the commynge of the sonne of man be also For as they were in the dayes before y e floude they ate they dronke they maried and were maried euen vnto the daye y t Noe entred in to the shippe and they regarded it not tyll the floude came and toke them all awaye So shal also the commynge of the sonne of man be Thē shal two be in the felde the one shal be receaued and the other shal be refused Two shal be gryndinge at the Myll the one shal be receaued and the other shal be refused Two in the bed the one shal be receaued and the other refused Watch therfore for ye knowe not what houre youre LORDE wil come But be sure of this that yf the good man of the house knewe what houre the thefe wolde come he wolde surely watch and not suffre his house to be broken vp Therfore be ye ready also for in the houre that ye thynke not shal the sonne of man come Who is now a faithfull and wyse seruaūt whom his lorde hath made ruler ouer his houszholde that he maye geue them meate in due season Blessed is y t seruaūt whom his lorde whan he cōmeth shal fynde so doynge Verely I saye vnto you he shal set him ouer all his goodes But and yf the euell seruaūt shal saye in his hert Tush it wil be longe or my lorde come and begynne to smyte his felowes yee and to eate and drynke with the dronken The same seruaūtes lorde shal come in a daye whā he loketh not for him and in an houre that he is not ware of and shal hew him in peces and geue him his rewarde with ypocrytes there shal be waylinge and gnaszhinge of teth The XXV Chapter THen shal the kyngdome of heauen be like vnto ten virgins which toke their lāpes and wente forth to mete the brydegome But fyue of them were foolish and fyue were wyse The foolish toke their lāpes neuertheles they toke none oyle with them But the wyse toke oyle in their vessels with their lampes Now whyle the brydegrome taried they slombred all and slepte But at mydnight there was a crye made Beholde the brydegrome commeth go youre waye out for to mete him Then all those virgins arose and prepared their lampes But the foolish sayde vnto the wyse geue vs of youre oyle for oure lāpes are gone out Then answered the wyse and sayde Not so lest there be not ynough for vs and you but go rather vnto them that sell and bye for youre selues And whyle they wente to bye the brydegrome came and they that were readye wente in with him vnto the mariage and the gate was shut vp At y e last came y e other virgins also and sayde LORDE LORDE opō vnto vs. But he answered and sayde Verely I saye vnto you I knowe you not Watch ye therfore for ye knowe nether the daye ner yet the houre whan y e sonne of man shal come Like wyse as a certayne mā ready to take his iourney in to a straunge countre called his seruaūtes and delyuered his goodes vnto thē And vnto one he gaue fyue talentes to another two and to another one vnto euery man after his abilyte and straight waye departed Then he that had receaued the fyue talentes wente and occupied with the same and wanne other fyue talentes Likewyse he y t receaued two talentes wāne other two also But he that receaued y e one wente and dygged a pyt in the earth and hyd his lordes money After a longe season the lorde of those seruauntes came and rekened with them Then came he that had receaued fyue talentes and brought other fyue talentes and sayde Syr thou delyuerdst vnto me fyue talentes Beholde with them haue I wonne fyue talētes mo Then sayde his lorde vnto hī wel thou good faithfull seruaunt thou hast bene faithfull ouer litle I wil set the ouer moch entre thou in to the ioye of thy lorde Thē came he also that had receaued two talentes and sayde Syr thou delyuerdst vnto me two talentes Beholde I haue wonne two other talētes with thē His lorde sayde vnto him Wel thou good and faithfull seruaūt thou hast bene faithfull ouer litle I wil set the ouer moch entre thou in to the ioye of thy lorde Then he that had receaued the one talēt came and sayde Syr I knew that thou artan hard man thou reapest where thou hast not sowen and gatherest where thou hast not strowed and so I was afrayed and wēte and hyd thy talent in the earth lo there thou hast thine owne But his lorde answered and sayde vnto him Thou euell and slouthfull seruaunt knewest thou that I reape where I sowed not and gather where I strawed not Thou shuldest therfore haue had my money to the chaungers and then at my commynge shulde I haue receaued myne owne with vauntage Therfore take the talent frō him and geue it vnto him that hath ten talentes For who so hath to him shal be geuen and he shal haue abundaunce But who so hath not frō him shal be takē awaye euen that he hath And cast the vnprofitable seruaunt in to vtter darcknes there shal be waylinge and gnaszhinge of teth But whan the sonne of man shal come in his glory and all holy angels with him then shal he syt vpon the seate of his glory And all people shal be gathered before him and he shal separate them one from another as a shepherde deuydeth the shepe from y e goates And he shal set y e shepe on his right honde and the goates on the lefte Then shal the kynge saye vnto them that shal be on his right honde Come hither ye blessed of my father inheret ye y e kingdome which is prepared for you from the begynnynge of the worlde For I was hongrie and ye gaue me meate I was thirstie and ye
hall and gathered the whole multitude ouer him and stryped him out of his clothes and put a purple robe vpō him and plated a crowne of thorne set it vpon his heade and a rede in his hāde and kneled before him and mocked him and sayde hayle kynge of the Iewes And spytted vpon him and toke y e rede smote him vpon the heade And whā they had mocked hī they toke the robe of him ageyne put his owne clothes vpon him and led him forth y t they might crucifie hī And as they were goinge out they founde a man of Cyren called Symon him they compelled to beare his crosse And when they came vnto the place called Golgatha that is to saye by interpretaciō a place of deed mens sculles they gaue him to drynke veneger myxte w t gall And whan he had tasted therof he wolde not drynke So whan they had crucified him they parted his garmētes and cast lottes therfore that the thinge might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet They haue parted my garmētes amonge thē cast lottes vpon my vesture And there they sat and watched hī And aboue ouer his heade they put vp the cause of his death in wrytinge namely This is the kynge of the Iewes Then were there two murthurers crucified with him the one of the right hande and the other on the left They that wente by reuyled him and wagged their heades and sayde Thou that breakest downe the tēple of God and buyldest it in thre dayes helpe thy self Yf thou be the sonne of God come downe from the crosse The hye prestes also in like maner with the scrybes elders laughed him to scorne and sayde he hath helped other and can not helpe him self Yf he be the kynge of Israel let him come downe now from the crosse and we wil beleue him He trusted in God let him delyuer him now yf he wil haue him For he hath sayde I am the sonne of God The murtherers also that were crucified with him cast the same in his tethe And from y e sixte houre there was darcknes ouer the whole earth vnto the nyenth houre And aboute the nyenth houre Iesus cried with a loude voyce and sayde Eli Eli Lamma asabthani that is My God my God why hast thou forsaken me But some of thē that stode there when they herde y t sayde He calleth Elias And immediatly one of them ranne and toke a spōge and fylled it with veneger and put it vpon a rede and gaue him to dryncke But y e other sayde holde let se whether Elias wyl come and delyuer him Iesus cried agayne with a loude voyce and gaue vp the goost And beholde the vale of the temple was rente in two peces from aboue tyll beneth and the earth quaked and the stones rent and the graues opened and many bodies of the sayntes that slepte arose and wēte out of the graues after his resurreccion and came in to the holy cite and appeared vnto many But the captayne and they that were with him and kepte Iesus when they sawe the earthquake and the thinges that were done they were sore afrayed and sayde Verely this was Gods sonne And there were many wemen there lokynge to afarre of which had folowed Iesus from Galile and had mynistred vnto him amonge whom was Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Iames and Ioses and the mother of the children of Zebede At euen there came a rich man of Arimathia called Ioseph which was also a disciple of Iesus He wēte vnto Pylate and axed the body of Iesus Then commaunded Pylate that the body shulde be geuē him And Ioseph toke the body and wrapped it in a cleane lynnen cloth and layed it in his owne new sepulcre which he had hewen out in a rocke and rolled a greate stone to the dore of the sepulcre and wente his waye And there was Mary Magdalene and y e other Mary syttinge ouer agaynst the sepulcre The next daye that foloweth the daye of preparynge the hye prestes and Pharises came together vnto Pylate and saide Syr we haue called to remembraunce that this disceauer sayde whyle he was yet alyue After thre dayes I wyl ryse agayne Cōmaunde therfore that the sepulcre be kepte vnto the thirde daye lest peraduenture his disciples come and steale him awaye and saye vnto the people He is rysen from the deed and so shal the last errour be worse thē the first Pylate sayde vnto them There haue ye watchmē go youre waye and kepe it as ye can They wēte and kepte the sepulcre w t watchmen and sealed the stone The XXVIII Chapter VPon the euenynge of the Sabbath holy daye which dawneth y e morow of the first daye of y e Sabbathes came Mary Magdalene and y e other Mary to se y e sepulcre And beholde there was made a greate earthquake for the angell of the LORDE descended from heauen and came and rolled backe y e stone from the dore and sat vpon it And his countenaunce was as y e lightenynge and his clothinge whyte as snowe But y e watch mē were troubled for feare of him and became as though they were deed The angell answered and sayde vnto y e women Be not ye afrayed I knowe that ye seke Iesus that was crucified He is not here He is rysen as he sayde Come and se y e place where the LORDE was layed and go youre waye soone and tell his disciples that he is rysen from the deed And beholde he wyl go before you in to Galile there shal ye se him Lo I haue tolde you And they departed from the graue in all the haist with feare and greate ioye ranne to brīge his disciples worde And as they were goinge to tell his disciples beholde Iesus met them and sayde God spede you And they wente vnto him and helde his fete and fell downe before him Thē sayde Iesus vnto them Be not afrayed go youre waye and tell my brethren that they go in to Galile there shal they se me And whan they were gone beholde certayne of the watchmen came in to the cite tolde the hye prestes euery thinge that had happened And they came together with the elders and helde a councell and gaue y e sonders money ynough and sayde Saye ye his disciples came by night and stole him awaye whyle we were a slepe And yf this come to the debytes eares we wyl styll him and brynge it so to passe that ye shal be safe And they toke the money and dyd as they were taught And this sayenge is noysed amonge the Iewes vnto this daye The eleuen disciples wente vnto Galile in to a mountayne where Iesus had appoynted them And whan they sawe him they fell downe before him but some of them douted And Iesus came vnto them talked with them and sayde Vnto me is geuē all power in
to take him in his wordes And they came and sayde vnto hī Master we knowe that thou art true and carest for no man For thou regardest not the outwarde appearaunce of men but teachest y e waye of God truly Is it laufull to geue tribute vnto the Emperoure or not Ought we to geue it or ought we not to geue it But he perceaued their ypocrisye and sayde vnto them Why tempte ye me Brynge me a peny that I maye se it And they brought it him Then sayde he Whose ymage and superscripcion is this They sayde vnto him The Emperours Then answered Iesus and sayde vnto thē Geue therfore vnto the Emperoure that which is the Emperours and vnto God that which is Gods And they marueled at him Then came vnto him the Saduces which holde that there is no resurreccion these axed him and sayde Master Moses wrote vnto vs. Yf eny mans brother dye and leaue a wife and leaue no children his brother shal take his wife and rayse vp sede vnto his brother Now were there seuen brethren the first toke a wife and dyed and left no sede and the seconde toke her and dyed and left no sede also the thirde in like maner And they all seuen toke her and left no sede At the last after them all the wyfe dyed also Now in the resurreccion whan they shal ryse agayne whose wife shal she be of them For seuen had her to wife Then answered Iesus and sayde vnto them Do not ye erre because ye knowe not the scryptures ner y e power of God Whan they shal ryse agayne from the deed they shal nether mary ner be maried but they are as the angels in heauen As touchinge the deed that they shal ryse agayne haue ye not red in the boke of Moses how God spake vnto him in the bush and sayde I am the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac the God of Iacob Yet is not God a God of the deed but of the lyuynge Therfore ye erre greatly And there came vnto him one of the scrybes that had herkened vnto thē how they disputed together and sawe that he had answered them well and axed him Which is the chefest cōmaundement of all Iesus answered him The chefest commaundemēt of all commaundementes is this Heare O Israel the LORDE oure God is one God and thou shalt loue the LORDE thy God with all thy hert with all thy soule with all thy mynde and with all thy strength This is the chefest commaundement and the seconde is like vnto it Thou shalt loue thy neghboure as thy self There is none other greater commaundement then these And the scrybe sayde vnto him Master Verely thou hast sayde right for there is but one God there is none other without him and to loue him with all the hert with all the mynde with all the soule and with all the strength and to loue a mans neghboure as himself is more then brent sacrifices and all offerynges But whā Iesus sawe that he answered discretly he sayde vnto him Thou art not farre from the kyngdome of God And after this durst no man axe him eny mo questions And Iesus answered and sayde whan he taught in the temple How saye the scrybes y t Christ is the sonne of Dauid But Dauid himself saieth thorow the holy goost The LORDE sayde vnto my LORDE Syt thou on my right honde tyll I make thine enemies y e fotestole There Dauid calleth him his LORDE How is he thē his sonne And many people herde him gladly And he taught thē and sayde vnto thē Bewarre of the scrybes that loue to go in longe garmentes and loue to be saluted in the market and syt gladly aboue in the synagoges and at the table they deuoure wyddowes houses and vnder a coloure they make longe prayers These shal receaue the more damnacion And Iesus sat ouer agaynst the Gods chest and behelde how the people put money into the Gods chest And many that were riche put in moch And there came a poore wyddowe and put in two mytes which make a farthinge And he called vnto him his disciples and sayde vnto them Verely I saye vnto you this poore wyddowe hath put more in y e Godschest then all they that haue put in For they all haue put ī of their superfluyte but she of hir pouerte hath put in all that she had euen hir whole lyuynge The XIII Chapter ANd whan he wēte out of the temple one of his disciples sayde vnto him Master se what stones and what a buyldinge is this And Iesus answered and sayde vnto him Seist thou all this greate buyldinge There shal not one stone be left vpō another y t shal not be broken downe And whan he sat vpon mount Oliuete ouer ageynst the temple Peter and Iames and Ihon and Andrew axed him pryuatly Tell vs Whan shal all these come to passe And what shal be the tokē whā all these shal be fulfilled Iesus answered them and beganne to saye Take hede that no man disceaue you for there shal many come vnder my name and saye I am Christ shal disceaue many But whan ye shal heare of the noyse of warres be not ye afrayed for so must it be but y e ende is not yet One people shal ryse ageynst another and one realme ageynst another and there shal be earth quakes here and there and derth shal there be and troubles These are the begynnynge of sorowes But take ye hede to youre selues For they shal delyuer you vp to the councels and synagoges and ye shal be beaten and shal be brought before prynces and kynges for my namessake for a wytnesse vnto thē And y e gospel must first be preached amōge all people Nowwhan they shal lede you and delyuer you vp take ye no thought afore what ye shal saye and ymagyn ye nothinge afore hande but what so euer shal be geuē you at the same houre that speake for it is not ye that speake but the holy goost One brother shal delyuer another vnto death and the father the sonne the children shal ryse ageynst their fathers and mothers and shal helpe them to death and ye shal be hated of all men for my names sake But who so endureth to the ende shal be saued Whan ye shal se the abhominaciō of desolacion wherof it is spokē by Daniel the prophet stonde where it ought not who so readeth it let him marck it well then let thē which be in Iewry flye vnto the mountaynes and let him that is on the house toppe not descēde into the house ner come therin to fetch eny thinge out of the house And let him that is in the felde not turne backe to fetch his clothes But wo vnto them that are with childe and to them that geue suck in those dayes Neuertheles praye ye that youre flight be not in the wynter For in
those dayes there shal be soch trouble as was not from the begynnynge of y e creatures which God created vnto this tyme nether shal be And yf y e LORDE had not shortened those dayes there shulde no man be saued But for the electes sake whom he hath chosen he hath shortened those dayes Now yf eny man shal saye vnto you at y t tyme Lo here is Christ lo he is there beleue it not For there shal aryse false Christes and false prophetes which shal do tokens wonders to disceaue euen the very chosen yf it were possyble But take ye hede Beholde I haue tolde you all before But at the same tyme after this trouble the Sonne and Mone shal lose their light and the starres shall fall from heauen and the powers of the heauens shal moue and then shal they se the sonne of man commynge in the cloudes with greate power and glory And thē shal he sende his angels and shal gather together his chosen frō the foure wyndes from one ende of the earth to the other Lerne a symilitude of the fyge tre Whā his braunch is yet tēder and hath brought forth leaues ye knowe that the Sommer is nye So lykewyse whā ye se all these thinges come to passe be ye sure that it is nye euen at the dores Verely I saye vnto you this generaciō shal not passe tyll all these be fulfilled Heauen and earth shal perishe but my wordes shal not perishe But of that daye and houre knoweth no man nether the angels in heauen no not the sonne him self but the father onely Take hede watch praye for ye knowe not whan the tyme is Like as a man that wente in to a straunge countre and left his house and gaue his seruauntes auctorite vnto euery one his worke and commaunded y e porter that he shulde watch Watch ye therfore for ye knowe not whā the master of y e house cōmeth whether he cōmeth in the euenynge or at mydnight or aboute the cock crowynge or in the mornynge that he come not sodenly and fynde you slepynge Loke what I saye vnto you that saye I vnto all Watch. The XIIII Chapter ANd after two dayes was Easter and the daies of swete bred And y e hye prestes scrybes sought how they might take him with disceate put him to death But they sayde Not in the feast daye lest there be an vproure in the people And when he was at Bethanye in the house of Symon the leper and sat at the table there came a woman which had a boxe of pure and costly Nardus oyntment And she brake y e boxe poured it vpō his heade Then were there some y t disdayned and sayde Where to serueth this waist This oyntment might haue bene solde for more then thre hundreth pens bene geuē to y e poore And they grudged agaynst her But Iesus sayde let her be in rest Why trouble ye her She hath done a good worke vpō me Ye haue allwaye the poore with you and whā so euer ye wil ye maye do thē good but me haue ye not allwaie She hath done what she coulde she is come before to anoynte my body for my buriall Verely I saye vnto you Where so euer this gospell shal be preached in all the worlde there shal this also that she hath now done be tolde for a remembraunce of her And Iudas Iscarioth one of the twolue wente vnto the hye prestes to betraye him vnto them Whan they herde y t they were glad promysed that they wolde geue him money And he sought how he might cōueniently betraye him And vpon y e first daye of swete bred whā the Easter Iambe was offered his disciples sayde vnto him Where wilt thou y t we go and prepare y t thou mayest eate y e Easter lābe And he sent two of his disciples and sayde vnto them Go youre waye into the cite and there shal mete you a mā bearinge a pitcher with water folowe him where so euer he goeth in there saye ye to the good man of the house The Master sendeth the worde Where is the gest house wherin I maye eate the Easter lābe w t my disciples And he shal shewe you a greate parlour which is paued prepared there make readye for vs. And y e disciples wēte forth came in to y e cite foūde it as he had sayde vnto thē And they prepared y e Easter lambe At euen he came w t the twolue And as they sat at the table ate Iesus sayde Verely I saye vnto you One of you y t eateth w t me shal betraye me And they were sory sayde vnto hī one after another Is it I another sayde is it I He answered saide vnto thē One of the twolue euen y e same y t dyppeth with me in y e platter The sonne of man truly goeth forth as it is wryttē of hī But wo vnto that mā by whom the sonne of man is betrayed It were better for the same man that he had neuer bene borne And as they ate Iesus toke the bred gaue thankes brake it and gaue it thē sayde Take eate this is my body And he toke the cuppe thāked and gaue it thē and they all dranke therof And he sayde vnto them This is my bloude of the new Testament which shal be shed for many Verely I saye vnto you that from hence forth I wil not drynke of the frute of the vyne tyll y e daye y t I drynke it new in y e kyngdome of God And whā they had sayde grace they wēte forth vnto mount Oliuete And Iesus sayde vnto them This night shal ye all be offended in me for it is wrytten I wil smyte the sheperde the shepe shal be scatred abrode Neuertheles after y t I am rysen agayne I wil go before you in to Galile But Peter sayde vnto him And though all men shulde be offended yet wolde not I be offended And Iesus sayde vnto him Verely I saye vnto y e Todaye in this same night before y e cock crowe two tymes shalt thou denye me thryse But he saide yet more Yee though I shulde dye w t y e yet wil I not denie ye. So saide they all ī like maner And they came in to y e felde called Gethsemane and he saide vnto his disciples Syt ye here tyll I go yonder and praye And he toke with him Peter Iames Ihon and begāne to waxe fearefull to be in an agonye sayde vnto thē My soule is heuy euē vnto y e death tary ye here and watch And he wente forth a litle fell vpon the grounde and prayed that yf it were possyble y e houre might passe frō him and sayde Abba my father all thinges are possyble vnto the take this cuppe awaye fro me Neuertheles not what I wyl but what thou wilt And he came
for vnto you this daye is borne y e Sauioure euē Christ y e LORDE in the cite of Dauid And take this for a token Ye shal fynde the babe swadled and layed in a maunger And straight waye there was by the angell a multitude of heauenly hoostes which praysed God and sayde Glory be vnto God an hye peace vpon earth and vnto men a good wyll And it fortuned whā the angels were gone from thē in to heauē the shepherdes sayde one to another let vs go now euen vnto Bethleem and se this thinge that is happened which y e LORDE hath shewed vnto vs. And they came w t haist founde both Mary and Ioseph the babe layed in y e maunger And whan they had sene it they published abrode the sayenge y t was tolde thē of this childe And all they that herde it wondred at the wordes which the shepherdes had tolde them But Mary kepte all these sayenges and pondred them in hir hert And the shepherdes returned praysinge and laudinge God for all that they had herde and sene euen as it was tolde them And whan eight dayes were ended that the childe shulde be circumcysed his name was called Iesus which was named of y e angell before he was conceaued in his mothers wombe And whā the dayes of their purificacion after the lawe of Moses were come they brought him to Ierusalē that they might present him vnto the LORDE As it is wrytten in the lawe of the LORDE Euery māchilde that first openeth the Matrix shal be called holy vnto y e LORDE and that they might geue the offerynge as it is wryttē in the lawe of the LORDE namely a payre of turtle doues or two yonge pigeons And beholde there was a man at Ierusalē whose name was Symeon and the same mā was iust and feared God and lōged for the consolacion of Israel and the holy goost was in him And an answere was geuē him of the holy goost that he shulde not se death before he had sene y e LORDES Christ. And he came by inspiracion into the tēple And whan the elders brought the childe Iesus into the temple to do for him after y e custome of the lawe then toke he him vp in his armes and praysed God and sayde LORDE now lettest thou thy seruaūt departe in peace acordinge to thy promesse For myne eyes haue sene thy Sauioure whō thou hast prepared before all people A light for the lightenynge of the Heythē for the prayse of y e people of Israel And his father and mother marueyled at the thinges that were spokē of him And Symeon blessed them and sayde vnto Mary his mother Beholde this childe shal be set to a fall and to an vprysinge agayne of many in Israel and for a token which shal be spokē agaynst And the swerde shal pearse thy soule that the thoughtes of many hertes maye be opened And there was a prophetisse one Anna the doughter of Phanuel of the trybe of Aser which was of a greate age and had lyued seuen yeares with hir huszbāde from hir virginite had now bene a wedowe aboute foure score foure yeares which came neuer frō the tēple seruynge God w t fastynge and prayenge daye and night the same came forth also the same houre and praysed the LORDE and spake of him vnto all that loked for the redempcion at Ierusalem And whan they had perfourmed all acordinge to the lawe of the LORDE thy returned īto Galile to their owne cite Nazareth And the childe grewe and wexed stronge in sprete full of wyszdome the grace of God was with him And his elders wente to Ierusalem euery yeare at the feast of Easter And whan he was twolue yeare olde they wente vp to Ierusalem after the custome of the feast And whan they had fulfilled the dayes and were gone home agayne the childe Iesus abode styll at Ierusalem And his elders knewe it not but thought he had bene in the company and they came a dayes iourney and sought hī amōge their kynszfolkes acquātaunce And whā they founde him not they wēte agayne to Ierusalē and sought him And it fortuned after thre dayes y t they founde him in the temple syttinge amonge the teachers hearynge thē and opposynge them And all they that herde him wōdred at his vnderstondynge and answeres And whan they sawe him they were astonnyed And his mother sayde vnto him My sonne why hast thou done this vnto vs Beholde thy father and I haue sought the sorowynge And he sayde vnto them What is it that ye haue sought me Wyst ye not y t I must go aboute my fathers busynes And they vnderstode not the sayenge y t he spake vnto them And he wente downe with thē and came to Nazareth and was obediēt vnto them And his mother kepte all these wordes in hir hert And Iesus increased in wyszdome age and fauoure with God and men The III. Chapter IN the fiftenth yeare of the raigne of Tiberius the Emperoure whā Pontius Pilate was leftenaūt in Iewry and Herode one of the foure princes in Galile and his brother Philippe one of the foure prynces in Iturea in the coastes of Traconites and Lysanias one of the foure princes of Abilene when Hannas and Caiphas were hye prestes thē came y e worde of God vnto Ihon the sonne of Zachary in the wyldernes And he came into all y e coastes aboute Iordan and preached the baptyme of repētaunce for the remyssion of synnes As it is wryttē in y e boke of y e sayenges of Esaye the prophet which sayeth The voyce of a cryer in the wyldernes prepare the waye of the LORDE and make his pathes straight Euery valley shal be fylled and euery mountayne hyll shal be brought lowe And what so is croked shal be made straight and what rough is shal be made smooth and all flesh shal se the Sauioure of God Then sayde he vnto the people y t wente out to be baptysed of him Ye generacion of vipers who hath certified you that ye shal escape y e wrath to come Take hede brynge forth due frutes of repētaūce begynne not to saye We haue Abrahā to o r father For I saye vnto you God is able of these stones to rayse vp children vnto Abraham The axe is put vnto the tre allready so that euery tre which bryngeth not forth good frute shal be hewen downe and cast into the fyre And the people axed him and sayde What shal we do then He answered sayde vnto thē He that hath two coates let him parte w t him y t hath none and he that hath meate let him do likewyse The publicans came also to be baptysed and sayde vnto him Master what shal we do He sayde vnto them Requyre nomore then is appoynted you Then y e soudyours axed him likewyse and sayde What shal we do then And he
in the remembraunce of me Likewyse also the cuppe after they had supped and sayde This cuppe is the new TestameÌ„t in my bloude which shal be shed for you But lo the hande of him that betrayeth me is with me on the table And the sonne of man trulye goeth forth as it is appoynted But wo vnto that man by whom he is betrayed And they beganne to axe amonge them selues which of them it shulde be that shulde do that There rose a strife also amoÌ„ge theÌ„ which of them shulde be takeÌ„ for the greatest But he sayde vnto them The kynges of y e worlde haue domynion ouer y e people and they that beare rule ouer theÌ„ are called gracious lordes But ye shal not be so But the greatest amonge you shal be as the yongest and the chefest as a seruaunt For which is the greatest he that sytteth at the table or he that serueth Is not he that sytteth at the table But I am amoÌ„ge you as a mynister As for you ye are they that haue byddeÌ„ w t me in my temptacions And I wil appoynte the kyngdome vnto you euen as my father hath appoynted me that ye maye eate and drynke at my table in my kyngdome and syt vpon seates and iudge the twolue trybes of Israel But the LORDE sayde Simon Simon beholde Satan hath desyred after you that he might siffte you euen as wheate but I haue prayed for y e that thy faith fayle not And whan thou art coÌ„uerted strength thy brethren But he sayde vnto him LORDE I am ready to go with the in to preson and in to death Neuertheles he sayde Peter I saye vnto the The cock shal not crowe this daye tyll thou haue thryse denyed y t thou knewest me And he sayde vnto them Whan I sent you without wallet without scryppe and without shues lacked ye eny thinge They sayde No. Then sayde he vnto them But now he that hath a wallet let him take it vp likewyse also the scryppe But he that hath not let him sell his coate bye a swerde For I saye vnto you It must yet be fulfilled on me that is wrytteÌ„ He was counted amonge the euell doers For loke what is wrytten of me it hath an ende But they sayde LORDE Beholde here are two swerdes He sayde vnto theÌ„ It is ynough And he wente out as he was wonte vnto mouÌ„t Oliuete But his disciples folowed him vnto the same place And whan he came thither he sayde vnto theÌ„ Praye that ye fall not in to teÌ„ptacion And he gat him from them aboute a stones cast and kneled downe prayed sayde Father yf thou wilt take awaye this cuppe fro me Neuerthelesse not my wyll but thyne be fulfylled And there appeared vnto him an angell froÌ„ heauen and conforted him And it came so that he wrestled with death and prayed the longer And his sweate was like droppes of â—loude runnynge downe to the grounde And he rose vp froÌ„ prayer and came to his disciples and founde them slepinge for heuynesse and sayde vnto them What slepe ye ryse vp and praye that ye fall not in to tentacion But whyle he yet spake beholde the multitude and one of the twolue called Iudas wente before them and he came nye vnto Iesus to kysse him But Iesus sayde vnto him Iudas betrayest thou the sonne of maÌ„ with a kysse Whan they that were aboute him sawe what wolde folowe they sayde vnto him LORDE shal we smyte with the swerde And one of theÌ„ stroke a seruauÌ„t of y e hye prestes smote of his eare But Iesus answered and sayde Suffre theÌ„ thus farre forth And he touched his eare healed him But Iesus sayde vnto the prestes and rulers of the temple and to the Elders that were come vnto him Ye are come forth as it were to a murthurer with swerdes with staues I was daylie with you in the temple and ye layed no handes vpon me But this is youre houre and the power of darknesse Neuerthelesse they toke him and led him and brought him in to the hye prestes house As for Peter he folowed hiÌ„ a farre of Then kyndled they a fyre in the myddest of the palace and sat them downe together And Peter sat him downe amonge them Then a damsell sawe him syttinge by the light and behelde him well and sayde vnto him This same was also with him But he denyed him and sayde WomaÌ„ I knowe him not And after a litle whyle another sawe him and sayde Thou art one of them also But Peter sayde Man I am not And aboute the space of an houre after another affirmed sayde Verely this was with him also for he is a Galilean But Peter saide MaÌ„ I wote not what thou sayest And immediatly whyle he yet spake y e cock crewe And the LORDE turned him aboute and loked vpoÌ„ Peter And Peter remembred the wordes of y e LORDE how he sayde vnto him Before the cock crowe thou shalt denye me thryse And Peter wente out and wepte bytterly The men that helde Iesus mocked him and stroke him blyndfolded him and smote him on the face and axed him and sayde Prophecie who is it that smote the And many other blasphemies sayde they vnto hiÌ„ And whan it was daye there gathered together the Elders of the people the hye prestes and scrybes and led him vp before their councell and sayde Art thou Christ Tell vs. But he sayde vnto them Yf I tell you ye wyl not beleue But yf I axe you ye wyl not answers me nether wyl ye let me go From this tyme forth shal the sonne of man sytt at the right haÌ„de of the power of God Then sayde they all Art thou then y e sonne of God He sayde vnto them Ye saye it for I am They sayde What nede we anye farther wytnesse We oure selues haue herde it of his awne mouth The XXIII Chapter ANd the whole multitude of theÌ„ arose and led him vnto Pilate and begaÌ„ne to accuse him and sayde We haue founde this felowe peruertinge the people and forbyddinge to geue trybute vnto the Emperoure and sayeth that he is Christ a kynge But Pilate axed him and sayde Art thou the kynge of the Iewes He answered him and sayde Thou sayest it Pilate sayde vnto y e hye prestes and to the people I fynde no cause in this man But they were the more fearce and sayde He hath moued the people in that he hath taught here there in all the londe of Iewry and hath begonne at Galile vnto this place Whan Pilate herde mencion of Galile he axed whether he were of Galile And whan he perceaued that he was vnder He rodes iurisdiccion he sent him to Herode which was also at IerusaleÌ„ in those dayes When Herode sawe Iesus he was exceadinge glad for he had longe bene desyrous to se him because he had herde moch of him
make bonde men of them and intreate thē euell foure hundreth yeares and y e people whom they shal serue wil Iiudge sayde God And after that shal they go forth and serue me in this place And he gaue him the couenaūt of circūcision And he begat Isaac and circūcised him the eight daye And Isaac begat Iacob and Iacob begat the twolue Patriarkes And the Patriarkes had indignacion at Ioseph and solde hī in to Egipte And God was with him and delyuered him out of all his troubles and gaue him fauoure ād wyszdome ī the sight of Pharao kynge of Egipte which made him prynce ouer Egipte and ouer all his house But there came a derth ouer all the londe of Egipte and Canaan and a greate trouble and oure fathers founde no sustenaunce But Iacob herde that there was corne in Egipte and sent oure fathers out the first tyme. And at the seconde tyme was Ioseph knowne of his brethren and Iosephs kynred was made knowne vnto Pharao But Ioseph sent out and caused his father and all his kynred to be broughte euē thre score and fyftene soules And Iacob wente downe in to Egipte and dyed both he and oure fathers and were brought ouer vnto Sichē and layed in the sepulcre that Abraham boughte for money of the children of Hemor at Sichem Now whā the tyme of the promes druenye which God had sworne vnto Abrahā the people grewe and multiplied in Egipte tyll there rose another kynge which knewe not of Ioseph The same dealte suttely w t oure kynred and intreated oure fathers euell and made them to cast out the yonge children that they shulde not remayne alyue At the same tyme was Moses borne and was a proper childe before God and was norished thre monethes in his fathers house But whan he was cast out Pharaos doughter toke him vp and norished him vp for hir awne sonne And Moses was learned in all maner wyszdome of the Egipcians and was mightie in dedes wordes But whan he was fourtye yeare olde it came in to his mynde to vyset his brethren the children of Israel And whan he sawe one of them suffre wrōge he helped him and delyuered him that had the harme done vnto him and slewe the Egipcian But he thoughte that his brethren shulde haue vnderstonde how that God by his hande shulde saue thē howbeit they vnderstode it not And on the nexte daye he shewed himself vnto them as they stroue together and wolde haue set them at one agayne and sayde Syrs ye are brethren why hurte ye one another But he that dyd his neghboure wronge thrust him awaye and sayde Who made the a ruler and iudge ouer vs Wilt thou slaye me also as thou slewest the Egipcian yesterdaye But Moses fled at that sayenge and was a straunger in the lande of Madian where he begat two sonnes And after fourtye yeares the angell of y e LORDE appeared vnto him vpon mount Sina in a flamme of fyre in a buszhe Whā Moses sawe it he wondred at the sighte But as he drue nye to beholde y e voyce of y e LORDE came vnto him I am the God of thy fathers the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Iacob How beit Moses trēbled and durst not beholde But y e LORDE sayde vnto hī Put of thy shues from thy fete for y e place where thou stondest is an holy grounde I haue well sene the trouble of my people in Egipte and haue herde their gronynge and am come downe to delyuer them And now come I wil sende the in to Egipte This Moses whom they refused and sayde Who made y e a ruler and iudge ouer vs him had God sent to be a ruler delyuerer by the hande of the angell that appeared vnto him in the buszhe The same broughte them out and dyd wonders and tokens in Egipte and in the reed see and in y e wyldernesse fourtye yeares This is that Moses which sayde vnto the children of Israel A prophet shal the LORDE youre God rayse vp vnto you euen from amonge youre brethren like vnto me Him shal ye heare This is he that was in the congregacion in the wyldernesse with the angell which talked with him vpō mount Sina and with oure fathers This man receaued the worde of life to geue vnto vs vnto whom oure fathers wolde not be obediēt but thrust him frō thē and in their hertes turned backe agayne in to Egipte and sayde vnto Aaron Make vs goddes to go before vs for we can not tell what is become of this Moses y t broughte vs out of the lande of Egipte And they made a calfe at the same tyme and offred sacrifice vnto the ymage and reioysed in the workes of their awne handes But God turned himselfe gaue them vp so that they worshipped the hooste of heauē as it is wrytten in the boke of the prophetes O ye house of Israel gaue ye me sacrifices and catel those fortye yeares in the wyldernesse And ye toke vnto you y e tabernacle of Moloch and the starre of youre god Remphan ymages which ye youre selues made to worshippe thē And I wil cast you out beyonde Babilon Oure fathers had the tabernacle of witnesse in y e wyldernesse like as he appoynted them whan he spake vnto Moses that he shulde make it acordinge to the patrone y t he had sene which oure fathers also receaued and brought it with Iosue into the londe that the Heythē had in possession whom God droue out before the face of oure fathers vntyll the tyme of Dauid which founde fauoure with God and desyred that he might fynde a tabernacle for the God of Iacob But Salomon buylte hī an house Howbeit y e Hyest of all dwelleth not in temples that are made with handes As he sayeth by the prophete Heauē is my seate and the earth is my fote stole What house then wilye buylde vnto me sayeth the LORDE Or which is the place of my rest Hath not my hande made all these thinges Ye styffnecked of vncircumcysed hertes and eares ye allwaye resiste the holy goost Euē as yo fathers dyd so do ye also Which of the prophetes haue not yo fathers persecuted And they slewe thē which tolde before of the cōmynge of y t righteous whose traytours and murthurers ye are now become Ye receaued the lawe by the mynistracion of angels and haue not kepte it Whan they herde this it wente thorow y e hertes of thē and they gnaszhed vpō him with their tethe But he beynge full of the holy goost loked vp towarde heauen and sawe the glorye of God and Iesus stōdinge on the righte hande of God and sayde Beholde I se the heauens open and the sonne of mā stondinge on y e righte honde of God But they cried out with a loude voyce stopped their eares
there be amonge you debates envyenges wrathes stryuynges bacbytinges whysperinges swellinges vproures lest whan I come agayne God bringe me lowe amoÌ„ge you lest I be constrayned to bewayle many of theÌ„ y t haue synned before haue not repented ouer y e vnclennesse and whordome and wantonnes which they haue coÌ„mytted The XIII Chapter NOw come I the thirde tyme vnto you In the mouth of two or thre witnesses shal euery matter be stabliszhed I haue tolde you before tell you before as present y e seconde tyme wryte it now beynge absent vnto theÌ„ which in tyme passed haue synned to all other yf I come agayne I wil not spare seynge that ye seke experieÌ„ce of him which speaketh in me euen Christ which amonge you is not weake but is mightie amoÌ„ge you And though he was crucified in weaknes yet lyueth he in the power of God And though we are weake in him yet lyue we with him in the power of God amonge you Proue youre selues whether ye are in the faith exameÌ„ youre selues Or knowe ye not yo r selues y t Iesus Christ is in you Excepte ye be cast awayes But I trust ye knowe y t we are not cast awayes I desyre before God y t ye do no euell not y t we shulde seme comendable but y t ye shulde do y t which is good let vs be as cast awayes For we maye do nothinge agaynst y e trueth but for y e trueth We are glad whan we are weake ye stronge the same also we wyszhe for namely yo r perfectnesse Therfore wryte I these thinges beynge absent lest whaÌ„ I am present I shulde vse sharpnesse acordinge to the power which the LORDE hath geueÌ„ me to edifye and not to destroye Fynally brethren reioyse be parfecte coÌ„forte yo r selues be of one mynde be peaceable and the God of loue and peace shal be w t you Salute one another with an holykysse All the sayntes salute you The grace of oure LORDE Iesus Christ the loue of God and the fellishippe of y e holy goost be with you all Amen The seconde Epistle to the Corinthians Sent from Phillippos in Macedonia by Titus and Lucas The Epistle of the Apostle S. Paul to the Galathians The summe of this Epistle Chap. I. Paul rebuketh them because they were fallen awaye from the gospell sheweth his awne coÌ„uersion magnifieth his office and apostelshippe and declareth himself to be equall with the hye apostles Chap. II. He withstondeth Peter in the face and proueth that the lawe and circumcision are not necessary to saluacion Chap. III. He rebuketh the vnsted fastnesse of the Galathians shewinge the vnparfectnesse of the lawe and declareth neuerthelesse that it was not geuen for naught Chap. IIII. Paul sheweth that thorow Christ we be delyuered from the lawe and rebuketh the vnthankfulnesse of the Galathians Chap. V. He laboureth to drawe them awaye from circuÌ„cision sheweth them the barrayll betwixte the sprete and the flesh and the fâ—â—tes of them both Chap. VI. He erorteth them to brotherly loue and one to beare with another â–ª In the end â—he warneth them to bewarre of circuÌ„cision The Epistle of the Apostle S. Paul to the Galathians The first Chapter PAul an Apostle not of men nor by maÌ„ but by Iesus Christ by God the father which raysed him vp froÌ„ y e deed all the brethreÌ„ which are w t me Vnto the coÌ„gregacioÌ„s in Galacia Grace be with you and peace froÌ„ God the father and oure LORDE Iesus Christ which gaue him selfe for oure synnes that he mighte delyuer vs from this present euel worlde acordinge to the wyll of God oure father to whom be prayse for euer and euer Amen I maruell y t ye are so soone turned from him that called you in the grace of Christ vnto another Gospell which is nothinge els but that there besome which trouble you and intende to peruerte the Gospell of Christ. Neuertheles though we oure selues or an angell from heaueÌ„ preach vnto you eny other Gospel theÌ„ y t which we haue preached vnto you the same be acursed As we haue sayde afore so saye we now agayne Yf eny maÌ„ preach vnto you eny other thinge theÌ„ y t ye haue receaued y e same be acursed Preach I men now or God Or go I aboute to please men Yf I shulde yet please men I were not the seruaunt of Christ. But I certifye you brethren y t the Gospell which is preached of me is not of men For I nether receaued it ner lerned it of maÌ„ but by the reuelacion of Iesus Christ. For ye haue herde of my conuersacion afore tyme in the Ieweshippe how that beyoÌ„de measure I persecuted the coÌ„gregacion of God and spoyled it and preuayled in the Ieweshippe aboue many of my companyons in my nacion was a moch more feruent manteyner of the tradicions of the fathers But whan it pleased God which separated me fro my mothers wombe and called me by his grace for to declare his sonne in me that I shulde preach him thorow the Gospell amonge the Heythen immediatly I commened not of the matter with flesh and bloude nether came I to Ierusalem vnto them which were Apostles before me but wente my wayes in to Arabia and came agayne to Damascon Then after thre yeare I came to IerusaleÌ„ to se Peter and abode with him fyftene dayes As for the other Apostles I sawe none of them saue Iames the LORDES brother The thinges that I wryte vnto you beholde God knoweth I lye not After that wente I into the coastes of Syria and Celicia but of face I was vnknowne to y e Christen congregacions in Iewrye Neuertheles they had herde onely that He that persecuted vs in tyme passed preacheth now y e faith which some tyme he destroyed and they praysed God in me The II. Chapter· Then after fourtene yeares I wente vp agayne to IerusaleÌ„ with Barnabas and toke Titus with me also But I wente vp by reuelacion and commened with theÌ„ of y e Gospell which I preach amonge the HeytheÌ„ but specially with theÌ„ which were in reputacion lest I shulde runne or had runne in vayne But Titus which was also with me was not compelled to be circuÌ„cysed though he was a Greke and that because of certayne incommers beynge false brethreÌ„ which came in amoÌ„ge other to spye out oure libertye which we haue in Christ Iesus that they mighte brynge vs in to bondage To whom we gaue no rowme no not for the space of an houre as concernynge to be broughte in to subieccion y t the trueth of the Gospell mighte comtynue with you As for theÌ„ that semed to be greate what they were in tyme passed it maketh no matter to me For God loketh not on the outwarde appearaunce of men Neuertheles they which semed greate taught me nothinge but contrary wyse whan they sawe that the Gospell ouer the vncircumcision
drye londe which whā the Egipcians assayed to do they were drowned By faith the walles of Iericho fell whā they were compased aboute seuen dayes By faith the harlot Raab perished not with the vnbeleuers whā she had receaued the spyes to lodginge peaceably And what shal I more saye y t tyme wolde be to shorte for me to tell of Gedeon of Barac and of Samson of Iepthae and of Dauid and Samuel and of the prophetes which thorow faith subdued kyngdomes wroughte righteousnes optayned y e promyses stopped y e mouthes of lyōs quenched the violēce of fyre escaped y e edge of the swerde of weake were made stronge became valeaunt in batayll turned to flighte the armyes of the aleauntes the wemen receaued their deed agayne from resurreccion But other were racked and accepted no delyueraunce that they mighte optayne the resurreccion that better is Other taisted of mockinges and scourginges of bondes also and presonment were stoned were hewen a sunder were tempted were slayne with the swerde wente aboute in shepe skynnes and goates skynnes in nede in tribulacion in vexacion which men the worlde was not worthy of they wandred aboute in wyldernesses vpon mountaynes in dennes and caues of the earth And these all thorow faith optayned good reporte and receaued not y e promes because God had prouyded a better thinge for vs that they without vs shulde not be made perfecte The XII Chapter WHerfore seynge we haue so greate a multitude of witnesses aboute vs let vs also laye awaye all y t presseth downe and the synne that hangeth on and let vs runne with pacience vnto the batayl that is set before vs lokynge vnto Iesus y e aucto r and fyniszher of faith which whan the ioye was layed before him abode the crosse and despysed the shame and is set downe on y e righte hāde of y e trone of God Cōsidre him therfore that endured soch speakinge agaynst hī of synners lest ye be weery and faynte in youre myndes for ye haue not yet resisted vnto bloude stryuynge agaynst synne and haue forgotten the consolacion which speaketh vnto you as vnto children My sonne despyse not the chastenynge off the LORDE nether faynte whan thou art rebuked of him for whō the LORDE loueth him he chasteneth yee and he scourgeth euery sonne that he receaueth Yf ye endure chastenynge God offereth himselfe vnto you as vnto sonnes What sonne is that whom the father chasteneth not Yf ye be not vnder correccion wherof all are partakers then are ye bastardes and not sonnes Morouer seyenge we haue had fathers off oure flesh which corrected vs we gaue them reuerence shulde we not then moch rather be in subieccion vnto y e father of spirituall giftes y t we mighte lyue And they verely for a few dayes nurtred vs after their awne pleasure but he lerneth vs vnto y t which is profitable that we mighte receaue of his holynes No maner chastisynge for the present tyme semeth to be ioyous but greuous neuertheles afterwarde it bringeth the quyete frute of righteousnes vnto them which are exercysed therby Life vp therfore the handes which were let downe and the weake knees and se that ye haue straight steppes vnto youre fete lest eny haltinge turne you out of the waye yee let it rather be healed Folowe after peace with all men and holynes without the which no man shal se the LORDE ād loke well that no mā be destitute of the grace of God lest there sprynge vp eny bytter rote and cause disquyetnes and therby many be defyled that there be no whoremonger or vncleane person as Esau which for one meate sake solde his byrth righte For ye knowe how that afterwarde whan he wolde haue inhereted the blessynge he was put by for he foūde no place of repētaunce though he desyred y e blessynge with teares For ye are not come to y e moūt that can be touched and burneth with fyre nether yet to myst and darcknes and tempest of wedder nether to the sounde of the trompe and y e voyce of wordes which they that herde wyszhed awaye that the worde shulde not be spoken to them for they were not able to abyde that which was spoken And yf a beest had touched the mountayne it must haue bene stōed or thrust thorow with a darte And so terrible was the sighte which appeared that Moses sayde I feare and quake But ye are come to the mount Sion and to the cite of the lyuynge God to the celestiall Ierusalem and to the multitude of many thousande angels and vnto the congregacion of the first borne which are wrytten in heauen and to God the iudge of all and to the spretes of iust and perfecte men and to Iesus the mediatoure of the new Testament and to the sprenklynge off bloude that speaketh better then the bloude of Abel Se that ye despyse not him that speaketh vnto you for yf they escaped not which refused him that spake on earth moch more shal we not escape yf we turne awaye from him that speaketh from heauē whose voyce shoke the earth at that tyme. But now promyseth he sayeth Yet once more wyl I shake not the earth onely but also heauen No doute that same that he sayeth yet once more signifieth the remouynge awaye of those thinges which are shaken as off thinges which are made that y e thinges which are not shakē maye remayne Wherfore seynge we receaue the vnmoueable kyngdome we haue grace wherby we maye serue God please him with reuerence and godly feare For oure God is a consumynge fyre The XIII Chapter LEt brotherly loue cōtynue Be not forgetfull to lodge straungers for therby haue dyuerse receaued angels in to their houses vnawares Remembre them that are in bondes euē as though ye were bounde with them and be myndefull off them which are in aduersite as ye which are also in the bodye Let wedlocke be had in pryce in all poyntes let y e chamber be vndefyled For whorekepers and aduouterers God wil iudge Let youre conuersacion be without couetousnes and be content with that ye haue allready for he hath sayde I wyl not fayle the nether forsake the so that we maye boldely saye The LORDE is my helper and I wyl not feare what man maye do vnto me Remembre thē which haue the ouersighte of you which haue declared vnto you the worde of God The ende of whose cōuersacion se that ye loke vpon and folowe their faith Iesus Christ yesterdaye and Todaye the same cōtinueth foreuer Be not caried aboute w t dyuerse and straunge lernynges for it is a good thinge that the herte be stablyszhed with grace and not with meates which haue not profited them that haue had their pastyme in them We haue an altare wherof they haue no power to eate which serue in the Tabernacle For the bodies of
thy fylthy nakednes do not apere anoynt thine eyes with eye salue y t thou mayste se. As many as I loue I rebuke chasten Be feruent therfore and repent Beholde I stonde at the doore knocke Yf eny man heare my voyce and vpen the dore I wil come in vnto him and will suppe with him he with me To him that ouercoÌ„mth will I grauÌ„te to sytt with me on my seate eueÌ„ as I ouercam and haue sytteÌ„ with my father on his seate Let him that hath eares heare what the sprete saith vnto the coÌ„gregacioÌ„s The IIII. Chapter AFter this I loked and beholde a dore was open in heaueÌ„ and the fyrste voyce which I harde was as it were of a trompet talkinge with me which sayde come vp hydder and I wil shewe the thinges which must be fulfylled her after And immediatly I was in the sprete beholde a seate was set in heauen and one sat on the seate And he that sat was to loke vpon like vnto a iaspar stone and a sardyne stone And there was a rayne bowe aboute the seate in syght like to a Smaragde And aboute the seate were xxiiij seates And vpon the seates xxiiij elders syttinge clothed in whyte rayment and had on their heades crownes of golde And out of y e seate proceded lightnynges and thundrynges voyces and there wer seuen laÌ„pes of fyre burninge before the seate which are the seuen spretes of God And before the seate there wasâ—â— see of glasse like vnto crystall and in the mydes off the seate and rounde aboute the seate were foure beastes full of eyes before and behynde And the first beest was like a lion the seconde beest like a calfe and the thyrde beest had a face as a man and the fourth beest was like a flyenge egle And the foure beestes had eche one off them vj. wynges aboute him and they were full of eyes with in And they had no rest daye nether night sayenge * holy holy holy is the LORDE God almyghty which was and is and is to come And when those beestes gaue glory and honour and thankes to him that sat on the seate which lyueth for euer and euer y e xxiiij elders fell downe before him that sat on the trone and worshipped him y t lyueth for euer and cast their crounes before y e trone sayenge thou art worthy LORDE to receaue glory and hono r and power for thou hast created all thinges and for thy willes sake they are and were created The V. Chapter ANd I sawe in the right hoÌ„de of him that sat in the trone a boke wrytten with in on the backside sealed with seueÌ„ seales And I sawe a stroÌ„ge angell preachinge with a loude voyce Who is worthy to open the boke and to loose the seales therof And no maÌ„ in heaueÌ„ ner in earth nether vnder y e earth was able to opeÌ„ y e boke nether to loke thereon And I wepte moch because no man was founde worthy to open and to rede the boke nether to loke thereon And one of the elders sayde vnto me wepe not Beholde the lyon which is off the trybe of Iuda y e rote of Dauid hath obtayned to opeÌ„ the boke and to lowse the seueÌ„ seales therof And I behelde lo in the myddes of the seate and of y e foure beastes and in the myddes of y e elders stode a lambe as though he had bene kylled which had seuen hornes and seueÌ„ eyes which are the seueÌ„ spretes of God sent in to all the worlde And he came and toke the boke out of the right hoÌ„de of him that sat vpon the seate And when he had taken the boke the foure beestes and the xxiiij elders fell downe before the lambe hauinge harpes and golden vialles full of odoures which are y e prayers of the sayntes and they songe a newe songe saynge thou art worthy to take the boke to opeÌ„ the seales therof for thou wast kylled and hast redemed vs by thy bloud out of all kynreddes and toÌ„ges and people and nacions hast made vs vnto o r God kynges and prestes and we shal raygne on y e earth And I behelde and I herd the voyce of many angilles aboute the trone and aboute the beestes and y e elders and I herde thousand thousandes sayenge with a loude voyce Worthy is the lambe that was killed to receaue power and riches wiszdome and strength and honoure and glory and blessynge And all creatures which are in heaueÌ„ on the earth vnder the earth in the see all y t are in theÌ„ herd I sayenge blessinge honoure glory power be vnto him y t sytteth vpoÌ„ the seate and vnto the laÌ„be for euermore And the foure beestes saide AmeÌ„ And y e xxiiij elders fell vpon their faces and worshipped him that lyueth for euermore The VI. Chapter ANd I sawe when the laÌ„be opened one of the seales I herde one of the foure beestes saye as it wer the noyse off thonder come and se. And I sawe and beholde there was a whyte horsse and he y t sat on him had a bowe and a crowne was geuen vnto him and he went forth conquerynge and for to ouercome And wheÌ„ he opened the seconde seale I herde the seconde beeste saye come and se. And there went out another horsse that was reed power was geuen to him that sat there on to take peace from the earth and that they shulde kyll one another And there was geueÌ„ vnto him a gret swearde And when he opened the thyrde seale I herde the thyrde beeste saye come se. And I behelde and lo a blacke horsse and he that sate on him had a payre of balances in his honde And I herde a voyce in the myddes of the foure beastes saye a measure of whete for a peny and thre measures of barly for a peny and oyle and wyne se thou hurte not And when he opened the fourth seale I herde the voyce of the fourthe beaste saye come and se. And I loked and beholde a pale horsse and his name that sat on him was deeth and hell folowed after him power was geueÌ„ vnto them ouer the fourthe parte of the earth to kyll with swearde and w t honger and with deeth of the vermen of the earth And when he opened the fyfte seale I sawe vnder the aultre the soules of them y t were kylled for the worde of God and for y e testimony which they had and they cryed with a lowde voyce sayeÌ„ge How loÌ„ge tariest thou LORDE holy and true to iudge to auenge oure bloude on them that dwell on the earth And longe whyte garmentes were geuen vnto euery one of them And it was sayde vnto them that they shulde reste for a lyttle season vntyll the nomber of their felowes and brethreÌ„ and of them that shulde be killed as they were were fulfilled And I behelde when he
his mouth water after the womā as it had bene a ryuer that he might cause her to be caught of y e floud And the earth holpe the woman and the earth opened her mouth and swalowed vp the ryuer which the dragon cast out of his mouth And the dragon was wroth with the womā and went and made warre with the remnaunt of hyr sede which kepe the cōmaundementes of God and haue the testimony of Iesus Christ. And I stode on the see sonde The XIII Chapter ANd I sawe a beest rise out of the see hauinge seuen heades and x. hornes and vpon his hornes x. crownes and vpō his heed the names of blasphemy And the beest which I sawe was lyke a catt of the mountayne and his fete were as the fete of a bear and his mouth as the mouthe of a lyon And y e dragō gaue him his power and his seate and greate auctorite and I sawe one of his heades as it were wounded to death and his dedly wounde was healed And all the worlde wōdred at the beest and they worshipped the dragon which gaue power vnto the beest and they worshipped the beest sayenge who is like vnto the beest who is able to warre with him And there was geuen vnto him a mouth to speake greate thinges blasphemies and power was geuen vnto him to do xlij monethes And he opened his mouth vnto blasphemy agaynst God to blaspheme his name and his tabernacle and them that dwell in heauen And it was geuen vnto him to make warre with the sayntes and to ouercome them And power was geuen him ouer all kynred tonge and nacion and all that dwell vpon the earth worshipt him whose names are not wrytten in the boke of life of the lambe which was kylled from the beginnynge of the worlde Yf eny man haue an eare let him heare He that leadeth in to captiuite shal go in to captiuite he that killeth with a swearde must be killed with y e swearde Heare is the pacience and the faith of the saynctes And I behelde another beest commynge vp out of the earth and he had two hornes like a lambe and he spake as dyd the dragō And he dyd all that the first beest coulde do in his presence and he caused the earth and them which dwell therin to worshippe the fyrst beest whose deedly woūde was healed And he dyd greate wonders so that he made fyre come downe from heauē in the sight of men And deceaued them that dwelt on the earth by y e meanes of those signes which he had power to do in the sight of the beest sayenge to them that dwelt on the earth that they shulde make an ymage vnto the beest which had the wounde of a swearde and dyd liue And he had power to geue a sprete vnto the ymage of the beest and that the ymage of the beest shulde speake and shulde cause that as many as wolde not worshippe the ymage of the beest shulde be kylled And he made all bothe smale and greate ryche and poore fre and bond to receaue a marke in their right hondes or in their forheades And that noman might by or sell saue he y t had y e marke or the name of the beest ether the nombre of his name Here is wiszdome Let him that hath wyt count the nombre of the beest For it is the nombre of a man and his nombre is sixe hondred thre score and sixe The XIIII Chapter ANd I loked and lo a lambe stode on the moūt Syon and with him C. and xliiij thousande hauynge his fathers name wrytten in their forheades And I herde a voyce from heauen as the sounde of many waters and as the voyce of a greate thondre And the voyce that I herde was as the harpers that playe vpon their harpers And they songe as it were a newe songe before the seate before y e foure beestes and the elders and no man coulde learne y t songe but the hondred and xliiij M. which were redemed from the earth These are they which were not defyled with wemen for they are virgyns These folowe the lambe whither soeuer he goeth These were redemed from men beynge the fyrst frutes vnto God and to the lambe and in their mouthes was founde no gyle For they are withoutē spot before the trone of God And I sawe an angell flye in the myddes of heauen hauinge an euerlastinge Gospell to preache vnto them that syt and dwell on the earth and to all nacions kinreddes and tōges and people sayēge with a lowde voyce Feare God and geue honour to him for the houre of his iudgement is come and worshippe him that made heauen and earth and the see and the fountaynes off water And there folowed another angell sayenge She is fallen she is fallen euē Babilon that greate cite for she made all nacions drynke off the wyne off hyr whordome And the thyrde angel folowed thē sayenge with a loude voyce Yf eny man worshippe the beest and his ymage and receaue his marke in his forhed or on his honde the same shall drynke of the wyne of the wrath of God which is powred in the cuppe of his wrath And he shal be punyszhed in fyre and brymstone before the holy Angels and before the lambe And the smoke of their torment ascendeth vp euermore And they haue no res◠daye ner nyght which worshippe the beast and his ymage and whosoeuer receaueth the prynt of his name Here is the pacience of sayntes Heare are they that kepe the commaundementes and the faith off Iesu. And I herde a voyce from heauen sayenge vnto me wryte Blessed are y e deed which here after dye in the LORDE Yee the sprete sayeth that they rest from their laboures for their workes folowe them And I loked and beholde a whyte cloude and vpō y e cloude one syttynge like vnto the sonne of man hauinge on his heed a golden crowne and in his hōde a sharpe sykle And another angell came out of the temple cryenge with a loude voyce to him that sat on the cloude Thruste in thy sycle and reepe for the tyme is come to reepe for the corne of the earth is rype And he that sat on y e cloude thrust in his sykle on the earth and the earth was reeped And another angell came out of the temple which is in heauen hauinge also a sharpe sykle And another angel came out from the aultre which had power ouer fyre and cryed with a loude crye vnto hym that had the sharpe syckle and sayde Thruste in thy sharpe syckle and gather the clusters of y e earth for hir grapes are rype And the angell thrust in his syckle on the erthe and cut downe the grapes of the vynyarde of the earth and cast them in to the greate wynefat of y e wrath of God the wynefat was trodden without the cite and bloude came out of the fat euen vnto the
horsse brydles by the space of a thousande and sixe hundreth furlonges The XV. Chapter ANd I sawe another signe in heuen grett mervellous .vii. angells havinge the seven laste plages for in thē is fulfylled the wrath of god And I sawe as it were a glassye see mingled with fyre and them that had gotten victory of the beest and of his ymage and of his marke and of the nombre of his name stonde on the glassye see hauinge y e harpes of God and they songe the songe of Moses the seruaunt of God and the songe of the lambe saynge Greate and maruellous are thy workes LORDE God almyghty iust and true are thy wayes thou kynge of sayntes Who shal not feare the O LORDE and gloryfie thy name For thou only are holy for all gētiles shall come and worshippe before the for thy iudgmentes are made manyfest And after that I loked and beholde the temple of the Tabernacle of testimony was open in heauen and the seuen angelles came out of the temple which had the seuen plages clothed in pure and bryght lynnē and hauynge their brestes gyrded with golden gerdelles And one of the foure beestes gaue vnto the seuen angelles seuen golden vialles full of the wrath of God which liueth for euermore And the temple was full of smoke for the glory off God and for his power and no man was able to entre in to the temple tyll the seuen plages of the seuē angels were fulfilled The XVI Chapter ANd I herde a greate voyce out of the temple sayenge to the seuen angels go youre wayes poure out youre vialles of wrath vpon the earth And the fyrst went and poured out his viall vpon the earth and there fell a noysom◠a sore botch vpon the men which had the marke of the beest and vpon them that worshipped his ymage And the seconde angel shed out his viall vpō the see and it turned as it were in to the bloud of a deed man and euery lyuinge thinge dyed in the see And the thyrde angel shed out his vyall vpon the ryuers and fountaynes of waters and they turned to bloude And I herde an angel saye LORDE which art and wast thou art righteous and holy because thou hast geuē soche iudgmentes for they shed the bloude of sayntes and prophetes and therfore hast thou geuen them bloude to drynke for they are worthy And I herde another angell out of the aulter saye euen so LORDE God almighty true and righteous are thy iudgmentes And the fourth angell poured out his viall on the Sonne and power was geuen vnto him to vexe men with heate of fyre And the men raged in gret heate and spake euell of the name of God which had power ouer those plages and they repented not to geue him glory And the fifte angell poured out his vyall vpon the seate of the beest and his kyngdome wexed derke and they gnewe their tonges for sorowe and blasphemed the God of heauē for sorowe and payne of their sores and repented not of their dedes And the sixte angell poured out his vyall vpon the gret ryuer Euphrates and the water dryed vp that the waye of the kynges of the Easte shulde be prepared And I sawe thre vncleane spretes kike frogges come out of the mouth of the dragon and out off the mouth off the beest and out off the mouth of the false prophet For they are the spretes of deuels workynge myracles to go out vnto the kynges of the earth and of the whole worlde to gaddre them to the battayle of that gret daye of God allmighty Beholde I come as a thefe Happy is he that watcheth and kepeth his garmentes lest he be founde naked and men se his filthynes And he gaddered them togedder in to a place called in the hebrue tonge Armagedon And the seuenth angell poured out his viall in to the ayre And there came a greate voyce out of heauen from the seate sayenge ▪ It is done And there folowed voyces 〈◊〉 dringes and lightnynges and there 〈…〉 gret earthquake soch as was not 〈…〉 were vpon the earth so myghty 〈…〉 quake and so greate And 〈…〉 was deuyded in to thre parties And the cities of nacions fell And greate Babilon came in remembraunce before God to geue vnto hyr the cuppe of wyne of the fearcenes of his wrath And euery yle fled awaye and the mountaynes were not founde And there fell a greate hayle as it had bene talentes out of heauē vpon the men and the men blasphemed God because of the plage of the hayle for it was greate and the plage of it sore The XVII Chapter ANd there cam one of the seuē angels which had the seuen vialles and talked with me sayenge vnto me Come I wil shewe the the iugdment of the greate whore that sytteth vpon many waters with whom the kynges of the earth haue commytted whordome and the inhabiters of the earth are dronken with the wyne of her fornicacion And he caryed me awaye into the wildernes in y e sprete And I sawe a woman syt vpon a rose colored beest full of names of blasphemie which had seuē heades ten hornes And y e woman was arayed in purple and rose color and decked with golde precious stone and pearles and had a cupp of golde in her honde full of abhominacions and fylthines of her wordome And in her forhed was a name wryttē a mistery greate Babilon the mother of whordome and abominaciōs of the earth And I sawe the wyfe dronkē with the bloude of sayntes and with the bloud of the witnesses of Iesu And when I sawe her I wondred with greate mervayle And the angell sayde vnto me wherfore meruayllest thou I wyl shewethe the mistery of the woman and of the beest that beerith her which hath seuen heades and ten hornes The beest that thou seest was and is not and shall ascende out of the bottomlesse pytt and shal go in to perdicion and they that dwell on the earth shal wondre whose names are not wrytten in the boke of life from the begynnynge of the worlde when they beholde the beest that was and is not And here is a mynde that hath wiszdome The seuen heades are seuen mountanes 〈◊〉 the woman sytteth they are also 〈…〉 Fyue are fallen and one is 〈…〉 is not yet come When he 〈…〉 continue a space And the 〈…〉 and is not is euē the eyght and is of the seuen and shal go in to destruccion And y e ten hornes which thou sawest are ten kynges which haue not yet receaued the kyngdome but shal receaue power as kynges at one houre with y e beest These haue one mynde and shal geue their power and strēgth vnto y e beeste These shal fyght with the lambe and the lābe shal ouercome them For he is LORDE of all lordes and kinge of all kinges and they that are on his syde are called and chosen and faithfull And he saide vnto me The waters which
thou sawest where y e whore sytteth are people and folke and nacions and tonges And the ten hornes which thou sawest vpon the beest are they that shal hate the whore and shal make her desolate and naked and shall eate hir fleszhe and burne her with fyre For God hath put in their hertes to fulfill his wyll and to do with one consent for to geue hir kyngdome vnto the beest vntill the wordes of God be fulfylled And the womā which thou sawest is that greate cite which raigneth ouer the kynges of the earth The XVIII Chapter ANd after that I sawe another angel come downe frō heauē hauinge greate power and y e earth was lyghtned with his bryghtnes And he cryed mightely with a stronge voyce sayenge She is fallen she is fallen euen greate Babilon and is become the habitacion of deuels and y e holde of all fowle spretes and a cage of all vncleane and hatefull byrdes for all naciōs haue dronken of the wyne of the wrath of her whordome And the kynges of the earth haue committed fornicacion with her and her marchauntes are wexed ryche of the abundaunce of her pleasures And I herde another voyce from heauen saye come awaye from her my people that ye be not partakers of her synnes lest ye receaue of her plages For her synnes are gone vp to heauen and the LORDE hath remembred her wyckednes Rewarde her euen as she rewarded you and geue her dubble acordinge to her workes And poure in dubble to her in the same cuppe which she fylled vnto you And as moche as she gloryfied her selfe and lyued wantanly so moch poure ye in for her of punyszhmēt and sorowe for she sayeth in her herte I syt beinge a quene and am no wyddowe and shall se no sorowe Therfore shal her plages come at one daye death and sorowe and honger and she shal be brēt with fyre for stronge is the LORDE God which shal iudge her And the kynges of the earth shal bewepe her and wayle ouer her which haue committed fornicacion and lyued wantanly with her when they shal se the smoke of her burnynge and shal stonde a farre of for feare of her punyszhment sayenge Alas Alas that greate cite Babylon that mighty cite For at one houre is thy iudgment come And the marchauntes off the earth shall wepe and wayle in them selues because no man will bye their ware eny more the ware of golde and syluer and of precious stones off pearle sylke and purple and skarlet all Thynen wod and all manner vessels of yuery and all manner vessels of most precious wod and of brasse and of yron synomom and odours and oyntmentes and frank ynsence and wyne and oyle and fyne floure and wheate and catell and shepe and horses and charrettes and bodies and soules of men And the apples that thy soule lusted after are departed from the. And all thinges which were deyntie and had in pryce are departed from the and thou shalt fynde them no more The marchauntes of these thinges which were wexed ryche by her shall stonde afarre of for feare of the punyszhment of her wepynge and waylinge and sayenge alas alas that greate cite that was clothed in sylke and purple and scarlet and decked with golde and precious stone and pearles for at one houre so greate ryches is come to naught And euery shippe gouerner and all they that occupie shippes and shippmen which worke in the see stode a farre of and cryed when they sawe the smoke of her burnynge and sayde what cite is like vnto this greate cite And they cast dust on their heades and cryed wepynge and waylinge and sayde Alas Alas the greate cite wher in were made ryche all that had shippes in the see by the reason of her wares for at one houre is she made desolate Reioyce ouer her thou heauē and ye holy Apostles and prophetes for God hath geuen youre iudgmēt on her And a mighty angell toke vp a greate stone lyke a mylstone and cast it in to the see sayenge with suche violēce shal that greate cite Babylon be cast and shal be founde nomore And the voyce of harpers and musicions and of pypers and trompetters shal be herde no more in the and no craftes man of what soeuer craft he be shal be founde eny more in the and the sounde of a myll shal be herde no more in the and the voyce of the brydegrome and of the bryde shal be herde nomore in the for thy marchauntes were prynces of the earth And with thyne inchaūtment were deceaued all nacions and in her was founde the bloude of the prophetes and of the sayntes and of all that were slayne vpō the earth The XIX Chapter ANd after that I herde the voyce of moch people in heauen sayenge Alleluia Saluacion and glory and honour and power be ascribed to the LORDE o r God for true and righteous are his iudgmentes because he hath iudged the greate whore which did corrupt y e earth with her fornicacion and hath auenged the bloud of his seruaūtes of her hond And agayne they sayde Alleluia And smoke rose vp for euermore And y e xxiiij elders the foure beestes fell downe and worshipped God that sat on the seate sayenge Amen Alleluia And a voice came out of the seate sayenge prayse o r LORDE God all ye that are his seruaūtes 〈◊〉 that feare him both small and greate And I herde the voyce of moch people 〈◊〉 y e voyce of many waters as y e voyce of stronge thondrynges sayenge Alleluia for God omnipotent raigneth Let vs be glad and reioyce and geue honour to him for the mariage of the lābe is come and his wife made her selfe ready And to her was graunted that she shulde be arayed with pure and goodly sylke As for the sylke it is the rightewesnes of sayntes And he sayde vnto me Blessed are they which are called vnto the Lambes supper And he sayde vnto me these are the true sayenges of God And I fell at his fete to worshippe him And he sayde vnto me Se thou do it not For I am thy felowe seruaunt and one of thy brethren and of them that haue the testimony of Iesus Worshippe God For the testimony of Iesus is y e sprete of prophesy And I sawe heauē open beholde a whyte horss◠and he y t sat vpon him was called 〈◊〉 and true in rightewesnes dyd 〈…〉 make battayle His eyes were 〈…〉 fyre and on his heade were 〈…〉 he had a name wrytten 〈…〉 but him selfe And he was 〈…〉 vesture dipt in bloude and his name is called y e worde of God And y e warriers which were in heauen folowed him vpon whyte horsses clothed with whyte and pure sylke and out of his mouthe wante a sharppe swerde that with it he shulde smyte the Heithen And he shall rule them with a rodde of yron and he trode the wynefatte of the fearcenesse
and wrath of allmightye God And hath on his vesture and on his thyghe a name wrytten Kynge of all kinges and LORDE of all lordes 〈◊〉 I sawe an angell stonde in the Sonne and he cryed with a lowde voyce sayenge to all the fowles that flye by them yddes vnder the heauen Come and gaddre youre selues togedder vnto the supper of the gret God that ye maye eate the fleszhe of kynges and of hye captaynes and the fleszhe of mighty men and the fleszhe of horsses and of theÌ„ that syt on them and the fleszhe of all free men and bondmen both of small and greate And I sawe the beeste and the kynges of y e earth and their warriers gaddred togedder to make battayle agaynste him that sat vpon the horsse and agaynst his sowdiers And the beeste was taken and with him that false prophet that wrought myracles before him with which he disceaued then that receaued the beestes marke and them that worszhipped his ymage The 〈◊〉 were cast in to a ponde of fyre burnynge w t brymstone and the remnaunte were slayne with the swearde of him that sat vpon the horsse which swearde proceded out of his mouth and all the foules were filled with their fleszhe The XX. Chapter ANd I sawe an angell come downe from heauen hauinge the keye of the bottomlesse pyt and a gret chayne in his honde And he toke the dragon that olde serpent which is the deuell and Satanas and he bounde him a thousand yeares and cast him in to the bottomlesse pyt and he bounde him and set a seale on him that he shuld disceaue the people nomoare tyll the thousand yeares were fulfilled And afâ—â—r that must he be lowsed for a littell 〈…〉 〈…〉 seates and they sat vpon 〈…〉 was geuen vnto 〈…〉 the soules of them that were beheaded for the witnes of Iesus 〈◊〉 for the worde of God which had not woâ—â—shipped the beest nether his ymage nether had raken his marke vpon their forheaâ—des or on their hondes and they lyued and raygned with Christ a thousand yeare brethe other of the deed men lyued not agayne vntill the thousand yeare were fyniszhed This is that fyrst resurreccion Blessed and holy is he that hath parte in the fyrst resurreccion On soch hath the seconde deeth no power but they shal be the prestes of God and of Christ and shall raygne with him a thousand yeare And when the thousand yeares are expyred Sathan shal be lowsed out of his preson and shal go out to deceaue the people which are in the foure quarters of the earth Gog and Magog to gadder them togedder to batayle whose nombre is as the sonde off the see and they went vp on the playne of the earth and compased the tentes of the sayntes aboute and the beloued cite And fyre cam doune from God out of heauen and deuoured them and the deuell that disceaued them was cast into a lake of fyre and brymstone where the beest and the false prophet were and shal be tormented daye and night for euermore And I sawe a gret whyte seate and him that sat on it from whole face fled awaye both the earth and heauen and their place was nomore founde And I sawe the deed both gret and small stonde before God And the bokes were opened and another boke was opened which is the boke of life and the deed were iudged of tho thinges which were wrytten in the bokes accordinge to their dedes and the see gaue vp her deed which were in her and deeth and hell delyuered vp the deed which were in them and they were iudged euery man accordynge to his dedes And deth and hell were cast in to the lake of fyre This is that second deeth And whosoeuer was not founde wrytten in the boke off life was cast in to the lake of fyre The XXI Chapter ANd I sawe a newe heauen and a newe earth For the fyrst heauen and the fyrst earth were vaniszhed awaye and there was nomore See And I Ihon sawe that holy cite newe Ierusalem come downe from God out of heauen prepared 〈…〉 garniszhed for hyr huszband And 〈…〉 a greate voyce from the seate sayen 〈…〉 the tabernacle of God is with 〈…〉 and he wil dwell with them And they 〈◊〉 his people and God himselfe shal be with theÌ„ and shal be their God And God shal wipe awaye all teares from their eyes And there shal be nomore deeth nether sorowe nether shal there be eny more payne for y e olde thinges are gone And he that sat vpon the seate sayde Beholde I make all thinges newe And he sayde vnto me wryte for these wordes are faithfull and true 〈◊〉 sayde vnt◠〈◊〉 it is done I am 〈…〉 begynnynge and 〈…〉 that is a thyrst 〈…〉 He that 〈…〉 I wil 〈…〉 But 〈…〉 and murthurers and whormongers and sorcerers and ydolaters all lyars shal haue their parte in the lake that burneth with fyre and brymstone which is the seconde death And there came vnto me one of the seuen angels which had the seuen vials full of the seuen last plages and talked with me sayenge come hydder I wil shewethe the bryde y e laÌ„bes wyfe And he caryed me awaye in y e sprete to a greate and an hye mouÌ„tayne and he shewed me the greate cite holy IerusaleÌ„ descendinge out of heauen from God hauynge the brightnes of God And her shynynge was lyke vnto a stone most precious euen a Iaspar cleare as cristall had greate and hye walles and had twolue gates and at y e gates twolue angels and names wrytten which are the twolue trybes of Israel on the est parte thre gates and on the north syde thre gates and towarde the south thre gates and from the west thre gates â–ª and the wall of the cite had twolue foundacioÌ„s and in them the names of the lambes twolue Apostles And he that talked with me had a golden rede to measure the cite with all and the gates therof and the wall therof And the cite was bylt foure square and the length was as large as the bredth of it and he â—â—asured the cite with the rede twolue M. furlonges and the length and the bredth and y e heyth of it were equall And he measured the wall therof an cxliiij cubittee after y e measure of a man which the angel had And the buyldinge of the wall of it was of Iaspar And the cite was of pure golde like vnto cleare glasse and y e foundacioÌ„s of the walles and of y e cite were garnyszhed with all maner of precious stones The fyrst foundacion was a Iasper the seconde a Saphyre y e thyrde a Calcedony the fourth a Smaragde the fyft a Sardonix the sixt a Sardâ—os the seuenth a Crysolite the eyght berall the nynth a Topas the tenth a Crysoprasos the eleueÌ„th a Iacyncte the twelfte an Amatist And the twolue gates were twolue pearles and euery gate was of
ouerthrowe and to spye out the londe Then toke Hanun the seruauntes of Dauid and shoue them cut the halfe of their garmentes of eueÌ„ by the loynes so let theÌ„ go And they wente their waye sent men to tell Dauid Neuertheles he sent to mete them for y e men were put to greate shame and the kynge sayde Abyde at Iericho tyll youre beerdes be growne and then come agayne Whan the childreÌ„ of Ammon sawe that they stynked in y e sighte of Dauid both Hanun and the children of Ammon sent a thousande taleÌ„tes of syluer to hyre charettes and horsmen out of Mesopotamia out of Maecha and out of Zoba and hyred two and thirtie thousande charettes y e kynge of Maecha with his people which came pitched their tentes before Medba And the children of Ammon gathered them selues together out of their cities and came to the battayll Whan Dauid herde that he sent Ioab thither with all the hoost of the men of armes And the childreÌ„ of Ammon were gone forth and prepared them selues to the battayll before the gate of the cite But the kynges y t were come kepte them asyde in the felde Now whaÌ„ Ioab sawe that the battayll was agaynst him both before and behynde he chose of all the best yonge men in Israel and prepared him selfe agaynst y e Syrians As for y e residue of the people he put them vnder the hande of Abisai his brother that they shulde prepare them selues agaynst the children of Ammon and he sayde Yf y e SyriaÌ„s be to mightie for me helpe thou me but yf the childreÌ„ of Ammon be to stroÌ„ge for y e I shall helpe the take a good corage vnto the and let vs quyte oure selues manly for oure people and for the cities of oure God neuertheles the LORDE do what pleaseth him And Ioab made him forth with y e people that was with him to fighte agaynst y e Syrians they fled before him And whan the children of Ammon sawe y t the Syrians fled they fled also before Abisai his brother and wente in to the cite And Ioab came to Ierusalem But whan the Syrians sawe that they were smytteÌ„ before Israel they sent messaungers and broughte forth y e Syrians which were beyonde the water And Sophach the chefe captayne of Hadad Eser wente before them WhaÌ„ this was tolde Dauid he gathered all Israel together and wente ouer Iordane And whan he came at them he set y e battayll in araye agaynst them And Dauid prepared him selfe to y e battayll agaynst y e Syrians they foughte with him but y e SyriaÌ„s fled before Israel And Dauid slewe of the Syrians seuen thousande charettes fortye thousande fote men And Sophach the chefe captayne slewe he also And whan Hadad Esers seruauntes sawe that they were smytteÌ„ before Israel they made peace w t Dauid his seruauntes And the Syrians wolde helpe the childreÌ„ of Ammon nomore The XXI Chapter ANd whan y e yeare came aboute what tyme as y e kynges vse to go forth Ioab broughte the power of the hoost destroyed the londe of the children of Ammon and came and layed sege vnto Rabba But Dauid abode at Ierusalem And Ioab smote Rabba and brake it downe And Dauid toke their kynges crowne from his heade and founde the weighte of a talent of golde theron precious stones And it was set vpoÌ„ Dauids heade And very moch spoyle caried he out of the cite As for the people that were therin he broughte theÌ„ forth parted them in sunder w t sawes hokes betels of yron Thus dyd Dauid vnto all y e cities of the childreÌ„ of Ammon And Dauid departed againe with the people vnto Ierusalem Afterwarde arose there warre at Gasar with the Philistynes Then Sibechai y e Husathire smote Sibai which was one of the children of Rephaim and he subdued him And there arose warre agayne w t the Philistynes TheÌ„ Elhamah y e sonne of Iair smote Lahemi y e brother of Goliath y e Gathite whose speares staff was life a weeuers lâ—me Afterwarde was there a battayll at Gath where there was a man of a greate stature y t had sixe fyngers and sixe toes which make foure and twentye And he was borne also of Rapha and spake despytefully vnto Israel But Ionathas the sonne of Simea Dauids brother smote him These were the childreÌ„ of Rapha at Gath fell thorow y e hande of Dauid and of his seruauntes The XXII Chapter ANd Sathan stode agaynst Israel entysed Dauid to nombre Israel And Dauid sayde vnto Ioab to y e rulers of the people Go yo r waye nombre Israel from Berseba vnto Dan and brynge me the nombre of theÌ„ that I maye knowe it Ioab sayde The LORDE make his people an hundreth tymes mo then they are now But my lorde O kynge are they not all my lordes seruauntes Why doth my lorde then axe therafter Wherfore shal there a trespace come vpon Israel Neuertheles the kynges worde preuayled agaynst Ioab And Ioab wente forth and walked thorow all Israel and came to Ierusalem and delyuered vnto Dauid y e nombre of the people that was tolde And of all Israel there were a thousande tymes a thousande and an hundreth thousande men that drue out the swerde and of Iuda foure hundreth thousande and seueÌ„tye thousande men which drue out the swerde As for Leui and Ben Iamin he nombred them not amonge these for the kynges worde was abhominable vnto Ioab But this displeased God righte sore for he smote Israel And Dauid sayde vnto God I haue synned greuously that I haue done this But now take awaye the trespace of thy seruaunt for I haue done very vnwysely And the LORDE spake vnto Gad Dauids Seer sayde Go speake to Dauid saye Thus saieth the LORDE Thre thinges laye I before the chose y e one of them y t I maye do it vnto the. And whaÌ„ Gad came to Dauid he spake vnto him Thus sayeth the LORDE Chose y e ether thre yeare derth or thre monethes to flye before thine aduersaries before the swerde of thine enemies y t it maye ouertake the or thre dayes y e swerde of the LORDE pestileÌ„ce in the londe y t the angell of the LORDE maye destroye in all y e coastes of Israel Loke now what answere I shal geue vnto him y t sent me Dauid sayde vnto Gad I am in greate trouble yet wyl I rather fall in to y e hande of the LORDE for his mercy is exceadynge greate I wil not fall in to the handes of men Then dyd the LORDE cause pestilence to come in to Israel so that there fell of Israel thre score ten thousande meÌ„ And God sent the angell to IerusaleÌ„ for to destroye it And euen in the destruccion the LORDE considered and he repeÌ„ted of the euell and sayde vn to the angell y e destroyer It is ynough holde now thy hande The angell of the