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A03472	The holie historie of our Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christs natiuitie, life, actes, miracles, doctrine, death, passion, resurrection and ascension gathered into English meeter, and published to withdraw vaine wits from all vnsauerie and wicked rimes and fables, to some loue and liking of spirituall songs and holy scriptures. By Robert Holland maister of Arts, and minister of the Church of Prendergast.	Holland, Robert, 1557-ca. 1622.	1594 (1594)	STC 13595; ESTC S118820	155,202	360

that paine Striue not so for that meate said he Striue for the meate I shall giue thee Then said they all what shall we do That worke the works of God we might Christ Iesus answered thereto And taught them how to do it right The worke of God with good intent Is to beleeue in whom he sent Shew vs some signe that we may see And so beleeue in thee they say Our fathers Manna had to be Their meate in the desert alway God gaue them bread from heau'n to eat And it was long our fathers meat And Iesus then said verely Not Moses but my father he Doth giue to you assuredly True bread from heau'n beleeue yee me The bread of God came downe I say And to the world giues life alway Then they againe to Iesus said Giue vs this bread Lord euermore The bread of life be not affraid I am he shall not hunger sore Nor thirst that doth beleeue in me So do not you for all you see They come to me whom God doth giue And them I do not cast away I loose not one that doth beleeue But raise him vp at the last day My fathers will not mine to do I came from heau'n this earth vnto The Iewes did murmure he said so I am the bread that downe did come What is this Iosephs sonne or no Is not he knowne to vs said some No man can come be sure said he But whom the father drawes to me Whom God hath taught come vnto me Not that the father sure hath bene Of any one saue onely he Which is of God said Iesus seene To him that doth in me beleeue Life euerlasting I do giue I am the bread of life in deed Your fathers Manna long did eate Yet are they dead so shall not speed Such as feed on this heau'nly meate My flesh it is the bread I giue Which is life to all that beleeue How can this man giue vs to eate His flesh say they can it so be My flesh except it be your meate Add that ye drinke my bloud said he Eternall life I say againe Doth not at all in you remaine Who so doth eate my flesh I say And drinkes my bloud hath life in deed Him I will raise at the last day But so shall not the wicked speed My flesh and bloud is faithfully Both meate and drinke assuredly He that doth eate my flesh is he And he that drinkes my bloud withall In whom I dwell and he in me As God the Father eternall Hath sent me so by him I liue And life to others I do giue From heau'n aboue came downe this bread Not as your fathers that did eate The Manna sent them yet are dead For he that eateth of this meate Shall liue and he shall neuer dye As sinners do eternally At Capernaum spake he this Where some of his Disciples were That said a hard thing sure it is Who can abide the same to heare Doth this offend you then said he What if I should ascend will ye It is the spirit that in deed Doth quicken not the flesh be sure In spirit this both life doth breed And nourish euer to endure For what I speake to end all strife To you is spirit and is life Yet some of you beleeue not this He knew them and the traitour to Therefore I told you how it is That come vnto me any do The father onely giues this grace To him that doth enioy the place So some went cleane from him away Then Iesus said vnto the rest Will ye depart from me this day And walke as they where you thinke best Shall we said Peter then at last Words of eternall life thou hast And we beleeue and know thou art The Christ the Sonne of God in deed And if we did from thee depart We should be sure full ill to speed Christ did againe the traitour note Least his Apostles should forgote Christ rebuked the Scribes and Pharisies for trangressing Gods commandements and answered their accusation against his Disciples for eating meate with vnwashen hands The Scribe and faithlesse Pharisie Came then our Sauiour Christ vnto Supposing by their subtiltie For to deface what he would do They from Hierusalem then came That so faine would his works defame Why thy Disciples do transgresse Of elders the tradition Do thou now vnto vs expresse This was at first their question For they say they wash not a hand When they eate meate we vnderstand O hypocrites said Christ againe You do Gods word still disobay Supposing you shall scape the paine That you do merite day by day He that his parents sure saith God Dishonoreth shall feele my rod. In words you worship but in vaine Lip labour liketh not the Lord A double heart he doth disdaine When words and deeds do well accord Then prayse and prayer he will heare Which neuer doth in you appeare It is not meate that hurteth man Which with the mouth he doth consume But euill thoughts which now and than Do moue the heart to fret and fume Or else deuise some euill deed Of this ye should take greatest heed Each plant my father planteth not Shall by the roote be pluckt againe Our God will not all his forgot When hypocrites do suffer paine These blindly still the blind do lead You haue no cause their craft to dread Christ cast a deuill out of the daughter of a woman of Canaan and healed many other From thence likewise did Iesus passe Of Tyre and Sydon through the cost Of such great care our Sauiour was To saue that else might there be lost He ceassed not but day by day Did good to all that would him pray Behold a woman came to him That did within those borders dwell Whose daughter was in eu'ry lymme Sore vexed with a deu'll of hell Christ she most earnestly did pray From her to driue the deu'll away Whose suite though seeming to deny Christ graunted vnto her at last When that he saw how faithfully She hop't his fauour for to t●st He gaue to her to do her good Some portion of the childrens food Christ returned thence againe into the costes of Galilie healed a deaffe man that stammered in his speach and many others and fed 4000. men besides women and children with seuen loaues Christ did returne yet then againe Into the costes of Galilie Their late contempt and deepe disdaine Withdrew not so his pietie Among the middest of wolues he still Protecteth safe his flocke from ill A deaffe man vnto Christ they brought That stamb●ed in his speach also He graunted them what then they sought And healed him and let him go So that amazed in great feare They gaue God prayse all that were there He then vp to a mountaine went And sate him downe vpon the same And the people with full intent By multitudes vnto him come To heare his doctrine and to craue That they some helpe of him might haue They thither

be If Sergeant thee in prison set Thence till thou pay thou shalt not get Of Adultery It was of old time also said Commit not thou adultery But I say looke you be affrayd To gaze on women lustfully Who so doth so doth for his part Commit adult'rie in his hart If thy right eye or hand offend Plucke out or cut and cast away For it is to a better end One member perish and decay Then all thy body thou know'st well Should wholly so be cast to hell Of Diuorcement It hath bene said who so had sent His wife away he giuing her A letter of their diuorcement Had not bene then an offender Except the wife a whore be found To liue with her the man is bound Who so commits adultery The man or woman doth amisse And for that fault may verely Diuorced be as reason is No such offender may therefore While th'other liues match any more Of Othes Againe of old they did forbid Forswearing for the same is ill Of othes each man his house should rid So to obay Iehouahs will Othes rightly made do not delay For to performe the same alway But otherwise sweare not at all No not by heau'n the throne of God Nor by the earth for so ye fall In danger to deserue his rod. Nor by Ierusalem for this The Citie of the king it is Nor by thine head thou canst not make One haire thereof as blacke or white Most vaine are they that othes do take And vaine those that in othes delight Let ye and nay declare your will What so is more doth come of ill Of Reuenge Reuenge not though the law be so That eye or tooth must be repayde When one doth smite thee as a foe Vse patience be not dismay'd And he that for thy coate will sue Giue him thy cloake and more then due If one compell thee for a myle Do thou at least go with him twaine The asker do thou not reuile Giue thou and lend without disdaine To do men good be ready still And slow to do thy neighbour ill Loue thine enemie Loue thou say they thy neighbour well Thine enemy thy selfe may hate Of vertues loue doth all excell What so the Pharisies do prate Your enemies loue not the worse And blesse you them that do you curse Do good to them that do you hate Pray for them that you persecute They sure shall haue a blessed state My fathers will that execute He makes his sunne and rayne to fall On good and bad alike to all If man do loue or frendly be To him that doth to him the same What thankes for that deserueth he Each sinner must do this for shame Haue you therefore regard of this Be perfit as your father is Almes By sound of trumpe and in mens sight As hypocrites are wont to do To giue thine almes is not aright They gape for prayse and get no mo In secret giue what God hath sent God will reward thy good intent Prayer Pray not as hypocrites do pray All open to be seene of men But when thy prayers thou will say Shut close in chamber be thou then Pray to thy father secretly He will reward thee openly Much babling see thou do not vse Nor repetitions they are vaine The heathen hope for like abuse Some great reward thereby to gaine Be not like them for God in deed Before ye aske doth know your need The Lordes Prayer Pray thus when ye do pray therefore Our father which in heauen art Thy name be hallow'd euermore Thy kingdome we desire in hart Thy will in earth make vs to do As it in heau'n is euen so Giue vs this day our dayly bread Our debtes forgiue vs we thee pray As we our debters do and lead Vs not Oh Lord by any way Into temptation but see From euill we deliu'red be For thine good Lord the kingdome sure The power and the glorie is For euermore for to endure Which liuest in eternall blisse Let this be done oh Lord we pray In heart whereto Amen we say To forgiue one another If ye mens trespasses forgiue Your heau'nly father will againe Forgiue you yours you while you liue In loue and concord must remaine If you forgiue not other men Your faultes God will not forgiue then Fast Moreouer when that ye do fast Looke not sowre as the hypocrite That time as vayne they vainly wast For God therein hath no delite Their faces they disfigure to That men may see what then they do When thou doest fast annoint thy head And let thy face then washed be Seeme not to men as one halfe dead Let God thy deedes in secret see Thy heau'nly father both regards Thy fast and theirs haue their rewards The carefull seeking of worldly things forbidden On earth hoord vp no treasure so Where moath and canker eate apace Lest with them you do heape on woe There theeues men voyde of better grace Breake vp thus they for riches deale When digging through mēs wealth they steale But lay your treasures vp aboue In heau'n where none of these are found You on your treasures set your loue Lay not your loue so on this ground But lay it where is no decay Earth will corrupt and fade away The eye doth giue the body light And reason rules the inner man If cleare and sound remaine the sight No darknesse hurt that body can If thine eye wicked be then marke Sure all thy body shall be darke Two masters well no man can serue For truly he the one will hate And for the other loue reserue This of mans life is right the state God and your riches disagree They may not both then serued be Set not your care on meate and drinke Nor yet on your apparell so You with your selues must alwayes thinke That howsoeuer here ye go He that gaue life and body will Prouide you meate and clothing still The fowles of heau'n ye may behold To sow or reape they haue no care They neither want nor suffer cold Much better farre then them ye are Your heau'nly father feedeth these And so will you if you him please Which of you can by taking care One cubite ad vnto his length Clothing you know what things they are Who giueth them and giueth strength Learne of the lyllies how they grow To spinne or carde they do not know Yet Salomon to you I say Was not aray'd like one of theafe The grasse if God do so aray Can he not cloth you if he please The faithfull neuer fayle to speed God more regards you then a weed For meate for drinke for cloth alway Take ye no thought at all therefore The Gentiles seeke these day by day Your heau'nly father euermore Will all your wants relieue in deed He knoweth well what things ye need Gods kingdome if ye do seeke first You can not wish but you

lifted vp his eyes On his Disciples saying this Ye poore are blessed euen thrise For yours Gods kingdome surely is Ye that now hunger blessed are You shall be sure of better fare And ye that weepe yet blessed are For ye shall likewise laugh againe When men hate you take ye no care And when they do procure your paine Nor yet when they you separate Reuiling at your base estate If for the sonne of mans sake they Your names put out as euill men Reioyce ye greatly God obay And be in heart glad of it then Behold in heau'n reward haue ye The Prophets were as now ye be But woe to them that rich are here And do repose thereon their trust The day will come it shall appeare They dearly bought vile earth and dust In heau'n true treasure may be found Each thing corrupts that growes in ground Woe be to you that now are full For yee shall hunger after this If you were not exceeding dull For meate ye would not morgage blisse Woe be to you that now laugh so For you shall waile and weepe for wo. Woe be to you whom men do praise And speake well of deseruing ill When yee haue spent out all your dayes You shall bewray what was your will False Prophets were by like deuise Among your elders had in price But vnto you which heare I say Your enemies see that yee loue To them that hate you if ye may Shew how my doctrine doth you moue To do them good and blesse withall And pray for them that wish your fall To him that smiteth thee also Vpon one cheeke the other giue Who so thy cloake would take thee fro Giue him thy coate and do not grieue To purchase so a quiet life And stirre thou no debate or strife Giue eu'ry man that asketh thee And he that takes thy goods away By force or fraude how so it be Aske thou them not againe I say But vnto other men so do As thou wouldst be of them done to If that ye loue do good or lend To them that do requite the same Each sinner so doth for his friend You should do more then such for shame Be mercifull to such as need For so your father is indeed Christ healed the Centurions seruant being absent the Centurions faith After that Christ had finished His Sermon as you heard before From thence he likewise hastened For he desired more and more The worke he had in hand to end Which for our good did wholly tend As Capernaum he came to A Captaine there a Gentile borne Made for his seruant much adoe That seemed then a man forlorne He su'd by meanes his health to haue Christ with a word his life did saue The Captaines great humility And faith our Sauiour did commend In Israëll then certainly Like praise to none he did extend Of these said Christ shall many come To heau'n and haue the childrens roome Christ raised from death the widowes sonne at Naijm The next day after Christ did raise The widows sonne to life againe And all the people gaue God praise That present then did there remaine All they did spread abroad his fame That either saw or heard the same Iohn Baptists message to Christ by two of his disciples Iohn Baptist was in prison cast Herodias had obtaind the same And his disciples came in hast And told him there of Iesus fame Yet he in prison as before Would winne to Christ disciples more For when his workes to him were told That his disciples might beleeue In Iesus Christ Iohn said behold A message vnto you I giue Iohn knew him well assuredly As he oft times did testifie But that his might also perceiue That Christ the true Messiah was Of whom they should all grace receiue In whom they might all truth embrace Go ye and say Iohn sent to thee To aske if thou be euen he They went and both to Iesus came And said to him our maister sent To know if thou be sure the same Or else another that is meant Men knew as then that Christ should come How when or where that knew but some Christs answer sent backe to Iohn by his disciples Go back said Christ to Iohn againe Shew him what yee do heare and see The blinde and halt are rid of paine The leapers and the deafe go free The dead are raised vp this day The poore the gospell beare away And therewithall to them he gaue A gentle admonition His humblenesse that they might haue In reu'rent estimation Blessed said Christ shall that man be That taketh no offence by me Christs testimonie of Iohn Baptist When they were gone then Christ began To speake vnto the company What went yee out to see a man Infected with inconstancie Iohn you in wildernesse did finde Not as a reede shakt with the winde What went ye then out for to see A man cloathed in soft raiment Such men in kings courts vse to be Iohn is with meaner weed content Iohns raiment showes him to be plaine He flattred not he could not faine But what went yee out then to see A prophet I say to you more Of whom is written this is he My messenger shall go before This is Elias whom they say Should come for to prepare the way No greater among men did rise Then Iohn the Baptist verely Not any that you can deuice Yet this I say assuredly The least in heau'n goes him before And doth enioy Gods graces more Gods kingdome suffreth violence Since Iohns time to this very day The Gentiles with all diligence Without the law new cald obay The lawe and Prophets haue their end For he is come whom yee attend He that hath eares to heare may heare Marke what I say therefore amend Sith that Elyas did appeare The law and Prophets made an end Yet you remaine both deafe and blind That may your true Messiah find Christ reprooueth his auditorie This generation it is Like children that their fellowes call And say we piped haue iwis And yet yee daunced not at all So you deferre from day to day For to repent for all we say Hard was the life that Iohn did lead For meate and drinke he tooke no care He had a deuill men supposed The sonne of man they do compare With gluttons and with drunkards when He eateth meat as other men Christ vpbraideth the vnthankefull citties wherein he had taught and done so many miracles and yet they repented not Then Christ began for to vpbraid The citties that so oft had seene His workes and yet for all delaid For to repent as they had beene Cleane void of sinne or had no will To learne the good and leaue the ill Chorazin wo be vnto thee And to Bethsayda woe likewise The great works that were done by me In you yee greatly did despise If they in Tyrus had bene done It had repented long agone If Tyre and Sidon had I say

charge withall what they should do For clothing or how they should fare He willed them to take no care What house ye enter to said he There tarrie till ye thence depart If that you there despised be They worke themselues the greater smart Shake ftom your feet the dust away As witnesse against such I say That cittie house or man be sure That will not you receiue or heare A harder iudgement shall endure When all in one place shall appeare Then Sodome and Gomorhe shall haue Where worldly wealth can no man saue So they went forth and preaching told That all men should their liues amend They cast out deuils with courage bold And as their maister did them send Of griefes each grieued did relieue And to the sick they health did giue The Apostles returning shewed Christ what great things they had done When the Apostles came againe They told to Christ all they had done Aswell where most they did remaine As how to preach they had begonne Relieuing all mens miseries And helping their infirmities Christ went aside into the wildernesse with his disciples where he fed 5000. men with fiue l●aues and two fishes And Iesus said come hence depart By ship into another place He thought he might in the desart Haue had some ease a little space For he and his Apostles were Much cloide with prease then eu'ry where This was not done so secretly The people soone espide the same In multitudes they after hie So great was growne Christ Iesus fame That from the citties all about They follow'd till they found him out Bethsayda was neare to the place Where Christ did meane to take some ease The people thither ran apace Each to be cur'd of his disease Like scattred sheepe the people were All ready for the Wolfe to teare To pittie them it did him moue And that he might expresse the same And giue them tokens of his loue He heald their blind their sick and lame And of his kingdome verely He taught to them the certainty And now because the time was spent And that they had farre way to go Christ thought it was expedient With meate to feed those men also Least that they going by the way Should faint and of his helpe dismay When his disciples came him to Willing the people might be gone For else said they how shall they do The night apace now draweth on And this is desert where we are For vittailes therefore let them care They haue no need to go away Said Iesus vnto them againe See therefore that yee do them stay Let them a while with vs remaine And giue you them now of your meate For I would haue them heare to eate Then the disciples said we haue Fiue loaues two fishes and no more Giue thanks to God that the same gaue He daily will encrease your store Bring the same hither vnto me That your prouision I may see Then Christ commanded on the grasse The multitude to sit downe round Where he brought that thing then to passe Which did their reasons all confound When he had prai'd and blest the bred Fiue thousand men therewith he fed And of that broken meate had they Twelue baskets full among them all This was to warne men to obey And to depend on him withall They that his kingdome seeke to haue Shall want nothing that they do craue For Christs demaund to Phylip was Where bread for all them might be bought He knew not what would come to passe And therefore spake as then he thought Two hundreth peniworth will not be To each of them a bit said he And Andrew said here is a boy That hath fiue loaues and fishes two And thought it but a very toye To offer that all those vnto Yet with the same Christ fed as then As I haue said fiue thousand men The multitude when they did see The miracle that Christ had done Did straight confesse him then to be As sure he was Gods onely sonne This Prophet say they certainly We looked for so earnestly When Iesus therefore did perceiue That they would seeke to make him king Worldly conceits could not deceiue Or worke in him ●o base a thing Therefore he did himselfe conuay Into a mount out of the way Christ stilled the raging of the sea walked on the sea and saued Peter when through infidelitie he was ready to sincke Then Iesus sent by ship before All his disciples thence away And eke the people from the shore And went alone aside to pray But they were tossed too and fro The winde and waues then raged so All this he saw that seeth all And therefore went ro ease their paine Who so doth come when he doth call Or sent doth go shall sure remaine Amidst all troubles safe and free For Christ with such will euer be About the fourth watch of the night Christ walked on the sea as then And passing by them at the sight They cried out like fearfull men Supposing he had bene a ghost And that they surely had bene lost Comfort your selues then Iesus said It is my selfe you need not feare Though want of faith made you affraid Yet none of you shall loose a haire Reioyce therefore regard no paine You shall haue ease for this againe Then Peter minding him to trie Said maister bid me come to thee Then Iesus said Come by and by And walke on foote along to me Out of the ship he stept straight way As one that would his Lord obay But when he saw a mightie winde He sore afraide began to sinke If helpe he cride I do not finde I shall be drowned as I thinke So want of faith did let him fall And faith againe gaue grace to call Him Iesus then reproued sore When they into the ship were come The sea and wind did ceasse to roare Which seem'd a maruell vnto some Yet all confessed verely By this Christ Iesus deity When Christ had landed in the countrey of Genezareth they brought vnto him all that were sicke and as many as touched the hemme of his vesture were healed Christ to Genezareth then went Where when he came first to the shore The countrey all with one consent Yea such as saw him not before Deuised how to bring him there All such as then diseased were All which desired but to tuch His garments as he passed by His shadow did relieue all such As shadowed were where they did lye Thus did their faith bring forth much fruit For they obtained all their suite Lo he that lately with disdaine Among his owne had no regard He whom his kinsmen would haue slaine Him truly strangers gladly heard His doctrine these men did embrace And he on them shed forth his grace Christs Sermon of Manna from heauen and of the bread of life at Capernaum The people that Christ Iesus fed Sought him till they found him againe They sought not for the heau'nly bread For earthly meate they tooke