it is a vaine euasion to say God shewed his mercie for his promise sake only for he promised the same for their merites as appeareth in the places alleaged Though al merites procede from Gods grace first geuen without merite◠1. Cor. 4. v. 7. S. Aug. degrat lib. arb c. 6. CHAP. XXXIII Gods wrath being mitigated by Moyses the people mourne for their sinne 7. Moyses pitcheth the tabernacle vvithout the campe and therin conuerseth familiarly vvith God 18. desiring to see his glorie AND our Lord spake to Moyses saying Goe get thee vp from this place thou and thy people which thou hast brought out of the Land of Aegypt into the land wherof I sware to Abraham Isaac and Iacob saying To thy seede I wil giue it †and I wil send an Angel thy precusor that I may cast out the Chananeite and Amorrheite and Hetheite and Pherezeite and Heueite and Iebuseite †and thou maiest enter into the land that floweth with milke and honey for I wil not goe vp with thee because thou art a stiffenecked people lest perhappes I destroie thee in the way †And the people hearing this verie il saying mourned and no man put on his ornamentes after the custome †And our Lord sayd to Moyses Speake to the children of Israel Thou art a stiffenecked people once I shal goe vp in the middes of thee and shal destroy thee Now presently lay away thy ornamentes that I may know what to doe vnto thee †Therfore the children of Israel layd away their ornamentes from mount Horeb. †Moyses also taking the tabernacle pitched it without the campe a farre of and called the name thereof The Tabernacle of couenant And al the people that had anie question went forth to the Tabernacle of couenant without the campe †And when Moyses went forth to the tabernacle al the people rose vp and euerie one stoode in the dore of his pauilion and they beheld the backe of Moyses til he entred into the tabernacle †And when he was entred into the Tabernacle of couenant the piller of the cloude came downe and stoode at the doore and he spake with Moyses †al they beholding that the piller of the cloud stoode at the doore of the Tabernacle And they stoode and adored at the doores of their tabernacles †And our Lord spake vnto Moyses face to face as a man is wont to speake to his frend And when he returned into the campe his minister Iosue the sōne of Nun a yong man departed not from the Tabernacle †And Moyses said to our Lord Thou commandest me to leade forth this people and doest not shew me whom thou wilt send with me especially wheras thou hast said I know thee by name and thou hast found grace in my sight †If therfore I haue found grace in thy sight shew me thy face that I may know thee and may find grace before thine eyes looke vpon thy people this nation †And our Lord said My face shal goe before thee and I wil giue thee rest †And Moyses sayd If thy selfe doest not goe before bring vs not out of this place †For whereby shal we be able to know I and thy people that we haue found grace in thy sight vnles thou walke with vs that we may be glorified of al peoples that dwel vpon the earth †And our Lord said to Moyses This word also which thou hast spoken wil I doe for thou hast found grace before me and thy selfe I haue knowen by name †Who said Shew me thy glorie †He answered I wil shew thee al good and wil cal in the name of the Lord before thee and I wil haue mercie on whom I wil and I wil be merciful to whom it shal please me †And againe he sayd Thou canst not see my face for man shal not see me and liue †And againe Behold quoth he there is a place with me and thou shalt stand vpon the rocke †And when my glorie shal passe I wil sette thee in a hole of the rocke and protect thee with my right hand vntil I passe †and I wil take away my hand and thou shalt see my backe-partes but my face thou canst not see CHAP. XXXIIII Moyses goeth againe into Mount Sinai vvith new tables praying for the people 10. to whom God promiseth to giue possession of the Land 12. Prohibiteth al association vvith the Gentiles for feare of Idolatrie 18. geueth precepts concerning the first borne the Sabbath and other feastes 28. After fourtie dayes fast Moyses returneth to the people with the commandements and his face appearing horned he couereth it whensoeuer he speaketh to the people AND after this he said Cut thee two tables of stone like vnto the former and I wil write vpon them the wordes which the tables had which thou hast broken †Be readie in the morning that thou maiest forwith go vp into the mount Sinai and thou shalt stand with me vpon the toppe of the mount †Let no man go vp with thee neither let anie man be sene throughout the whole mount the oxen also and the sheepe let them not feede ouer against †He cut out therfore two tables of stone such as had bene before and rising very early he went vp into mount Sinai as our Lord had commanded him carying with him the tables †And when our Lord was descended in a cloude Moyses stoode with him calling vpon the name of our Lord. †Who passing before him he said Dominatour Lord God merciful and clement patient and of much compassion and true †Which keepest mercie vnto thousandes which takest away iniquitie and wicked factes and sinnes and no man of him selfe is innocent before thee Which doest render the iniquitie of the fathers to the children and to the nephewes vnto the third and fourth generation †And Moyses making hast bowed flatte vnto the earth and adoring †he said If I haue found grace in thy sight o Lord I beseech thee that thou wilt goe with vs for it is a stiffe necked people and take away our iniquities and sinnes and possesse vs. †Our Lord answered I wil make a couenant in the sight of al I wil do signes that were neuer sene vpon the earth nor in anie nations that this people may see in the middes of whom thou art the terrible worke of the Lord which I wil doe †Obserue al thinges which this day I command thee I my self wil cast out before thy face the Amorrheite and Chananeite and Hetheite the Pherezeite also and Heueite and Iebuseite †Beware thou neuer ioyne amitie with the inhabitants of that land which may be thy ruine †but destroy their altars breake their statues and cut downe their groues †adore not a strange God The Lord his name is Ielouse God is an emulatour †Enter no traffick with the men of those regions lest when they haue fornicated with
these two things haue I heard †That powre is Gods and mercie ô Lord is to thee because thou wilt render to euery one according to his workes PSALME LXII Dauid in banishment with great affection desireth to vnite himselfe with God in meditation 4. purposing and promising euer to praise him 10. prophicieth the vaine endeuoures and condemnation of his enimies and his owne aduancement A Psalme of Dauid when he was in the desert of Iuda 1. Reg. 22. O GOD my God to thee I watch from the morning light My soule hath thirsted to thee my flesh to thee very manie wayes †In a desert land and inaccessible and without water so in the holie haue I appeared to thee that I might see thy strength and thy glorie †Because thy mercie is better then liues my lippes shal prayse thee †So wil I blesse thee in my life and in thy name I wil lifte vp my hands †As with marrow and fatnes let my soule be filled and my mouth shal praise with lippes of exultation †If I haue bene mindful of thee vpon my bedde in the morning I Wil meditate on thee †because thou hast bene my helper †And in the couert of thy winges I wil reioice my soule hath cleaued after thee thy right hand hath receiued me †But they in vaine haue sought my soule they shal enter into the inferiour partes of the earth †They shal be deliuered into the handes of the sworde they shal be the portions of foxes †But the king shal reioice in God al shal be praised that sweare by him because the mouth is stopped of those that speake wicked thinges PSALME LXIII A prayer of the iust reposing their whole trust in God 7. and reioycing that the enimies machinations are frustrate Vnto the end a Psalme of Dauid HEARE ô God my prayer when I make petition from the feare of my enimie deliuer my soule †Thou hast protected me from the assemblie of the malignant from the multitude of them that worke iniquitie †Because they haue sharpned their tongues as a sworde they haue bent the bow a bitter thing †that they may shoote in secretes at the immaculate †Sodanely they wil shoote at him and wil not feare they haue confirmed to themselues a wicked worde They haue talked to hide snares they haue saide who shal see them †They haue search 〈…〉 they haue failed searching with scrutani◠†Man shal come to a 〈…〉 and God shal be exalted Childrens arrowes are made their woundes †and their tongues are weakned against them Al that saw them were trubled †and euerie man feared And they shewed forth the workes of God and they vnderstood his doinges †The iust shal reioice in our Lord and shal hope in him and al the right of hart shal be praised PSALME LXIIII. God is rightly praised in Sion and I erusalem in his Church only for his benefites bestowed and promised 8. Vnto which also in the time of grace al nations shal be called To the end a Psalme of Dauid the Canticle of Ieremie and Ezechiel to the people of the transmigration when they begane to goe forth AN hymne ô God becometh thee in Sion a vow shal be rendered to thee in Ierusalem †Heare my prayer al flesh shal come to thee The wordes of the wicked haue preuailed vpon vs and thou wilt be propitious to our impieties Blessed is he whom thou hast chosen and taken he shal dwel in thy courtes †We shal be replenished in the goods of thy house holie is thy temple meruelous in equitie †Heare vs ô God our sauiour the hope of al the ends of the earth and in the sea farre †Preparing mountanes in thy strength girded with might which trublest the depths of the sea the sound of the waues therof †The Gentiles shal be trubled and they that inhabite the borders shal be affraide of thy signes the outegoinges of the morning and euening thou shalt delight †Thou hast visited the earth and hast inebriated it thou hast multiplied to inrich it The riuer of God is replenished with waters thou hast prepared their meat because so is the preparation therof †Inebriate her riuers multiplie her fruites in her dropps she shal reioyce springing †Thou “ wilt blesse the crowne of the yeare of thy goodnes and thy fildes shal be replenished with plentie †The u beautiful places of the desert shal be fat and the litle hilles shal be girded aboute with exultation The rammes of the shepe are clothed and the valleis shal abounde with corne they wil crie yea they wil say an hyme ANNOTATIONS PSALME LXIIII. 12. God vvil blesse the crovvne Vnder the Allegorie of the land of Iurie vvherunto the people of God vvere to be restored after their captiuitie in Babylon the Psalmist here prophecieth greater thinges then can be verified of the temporal state of the Iewes that the militant Church shal stil be blessed from the beginning to the end yelding expected fruict and al the iust that perseuere to the end of their liues shal receiue most happie and glorious revvardes of their laboures As S. Paul after his meritorious trauels confidently expected his glorious revvard vvhen he saide 2. Tim. 4. I haue fought a good fight I haue consummate my course I haue kept my faith Concerning the rest there is layde vp for me a Crovvne of iustice vvhich our Lord vvil render to me in that day a iust Iudge And not only to me but to them also that loue his coming And this is called the crovvne of the yeare of Gods benignitie because God of his ovvne benignitie vvithout mans former desert geueth grace and in the end for merite folovving geueth a crovvne of glorie So our Blessed Sauiour according to his fulnes of grace vvhich vvas in his soule and infinite merite receiued a crovvne of glorie in the consummation of his temporal life after the space of thirtie three yeares And our Blessed Ladie the mother of God receiued an ansvverable crovvne to her excellent grace and merites in the consummation of her life at the end of sixtie three yeares In memorie of vvhich numbers of yeares deuout men haue piously instituted certaine formes of prayers called the Crovvnes or Corones of our Sauiour and of our Ladie PSALME LXV The prophet inuiteth al men to praise God for his meruelous workes and benefites donne to the Iewes 7. Who being vngratful 8. Gentiles are called 16. and bring forth better fruict Vnto the end a Canticle of resurrection MAke ye iubilation to God al the earth †say a psalme to his name geue glorie to his praise â€
Idumea †Wil t not thou ô God which hast repelled vs and wilt not thou goeforth ô God in our hoastes †Geue vs helpe out of tribulation because mans saluation is vayne †In God we shal doe strength and he wil bring our enemies to nothing PSALME CVIII Christ by the mouth of Dauid requesteth of God to be iustly declared innocent and his enimies punished 6. particularly describing Iudas the traitors malice 21. and his owne temporal afflictions 26. prayeth 30. and praiseth God for his deliuerie †Vnto the end a Psalme of Dauid O God conceale not my prayse because the mouth of the sinner and the mouth of the deceitful man is open vpon me †They haue spoken against me with deceitful tongue and with wordes of hatred they haue compassed me and they haue impugned me without cause †For that they should loue me they backbited me but I prayed †And they set against me euil thinges for good and hatred for my loue Appoint a sinner ouer him and let the diuel stand on his righthand †When he is iudged let him comeforth condemned and let his prayer be turned into sinne †Let his dayes be made fewe and let an other take his bishopricke †Let his children be made orphans and his wife a widow †Let his children be transported wandering and let them begge and let them be cast out of their habitations †Let the vsurer search al his substance and let strangers spoile his labours †Let there be none to helpe him neither let there be anie to haue pittie on his pupilles †Let his children come to destruction in one generation let his name be cleane put out †Let the iniquitie of his fathers returne to memorie in the sight of our Lord and let not the sinne of his mother be blotted out †Let them be before our Lord alwayes and let the memorie of them perish out of the earth †For that he remembred not to doe mercie †And he persecuted the poore and needie man and the compunct in hart to kil him †And he loued cursing and it shal come to him and he would not blessing and it shal be far from him And he put on cursing as a garment and it entred as water into his inner partes and as oile in his bones †Be it to him as a garment wherwith he is couered and as a girdle wherwith he is alwayes girded †This is the worke of them that detract from me before our Lord and that speake euils against my soule †And thou Lord Lord doe with me for thy names sake because thy mercie is swete Deliuer me †because I am needie and poore and my hart is trubled within me †As a shadow when it declineth am I taken away and I am shaken as locustes †My knees are weakened with fasting and my flesh is changed by reason of oile †And I am made a reproch to them they saw me and wagged their heades †Helpe me ô Lord my God saue me according to thy mercie †And let them know that this is thy hand and thou ô Lord hast done it †They wil curse and thou shalt blesse let them that rise vp against me be confounded but thy seruant shal reioyce †Let them that detract from me be clothed with shame and let them be couered with their confusion as with a duble patched cloke †I wil confesse to our Lord excedingly with my mouth and in the middes of manie I wil prayse him †Because he hath stood on the righthand of the poore that he might saue my soule from the persecutors PSALME CIX Christ rising and ascending into heauen sitteth on the right hand of God 2. beginning in Ierusalem reigneth in the Church of the whole earth 4. vseth the Priesthood of Melchisedechs order to the end of the world 6. and shal iudge the world †A psalme of Dauid OVR Lord sayd to my Lord Sitte on my right hand til I make thine enemies thy footestoole of thy feete †Our Lord wil sendforth the rod of thy strength from Sion rule thou in the middes of thine enemies †With thee the beginning in the day of thy strength in the brightnes of holie thinges from the wombe before the day starre I begat thee †Our Lord sware and it shal not repent him Thou art “ a Priest for euer “ according to the order of Melchisedech †Our Lord on thy righthand hath broken kinges in the day of his wrath †He shal iudge in nations he shal fil ruines he shal crush the heads in the land of manie †Of the torrent in the way he shal drinke therfore shal he exalt the head ANNOTATIONS CIX 4. A Priest for euer In two respectes Christ is a Priest for euer in that from the first instant of his incarnation he was and remaneth a Priest now also in heauen and al other Priestes are his ministerial vicares not successors So that al priestlie functions which they doe he by them doth the same as the principal Priest VVherupon saith S. Paul 1. Cor 4. So let a man thincke of vs as of the ministers of Christ and dispensers of the mysteries of God Secondly Christ dayly offering Sacrifice by the handes of his Priestes doth continually pacifie Gods wrath in behalf of those sinners for whom it is duly applied euen to the end of the world VVheras the Priesthood of Aaron and of al others in the old Testament ceassed by their deathes both in the office and in the effect 4 According to the order of Melchisedech As Melchisedech king of peace and iustice without father mother or genealogie expressed in holie Scriptures or otherwise knowen to the world was Priest or the Hieghest offered bread and wine an vnbloudie sacrifice communicating with both Chananeites and Hebrewes blessed Abraham and tooke tithes of him and his subiectes so Christ the true King of peace iustice without father of his humanity without mother of his Diuinitie the Sonne of God of ineffable genealogie borne of a virgin in his humanitie the Priest of God offereth Sacrifice not only bloudie on the Crosse but also vnbloudie in the formes of bread and wine continueth the same by the ministerie of other Priestes maketh al nations partakers therof blesseth them and receiueth of them al dutiful and rellgious seruice as of his subiectes PSALME CX Praise of God for benefites 4. especially for the B. Sacrament of the Eucharist 6 with other graces imperted to the Catholique Church Alleluia I Wil confesse to thee ô Lord with al my hart in the counsel of the iust and b the congregation †The workes of our Lord are great exquisite according to al his willes †Confession and magnificence his worke
rather by them that may be supplied vvhich the Hebrevv vvanteth PSALME CXLV The Psalmist exciteth himself and al others to praise God for his singular regard and prouidence of al that trust in him 3. shewing that neither princes nor other men are able to helpe 5. but God can and doth continually releue al sortes of necessities Alleluia of Aggaeus and Zacharie MY soule prayse thou our Lord I wil praise our Lord in my â—te I wil sing to my God as long as I shal be Put not confidence in princes †in the sonnes of men in whom there is no saluation †His spirit shal goeforth and he shal returne into his earth in that day al their cogitations shal perish †Blessed is he whose helper is the God of Iacob his hope in our Lord his God †who made heauen and earth the sea and al thinges that are in them †Which keepeth truth for euer doth iudgement for them that suffer wrong geueth foode to the hungrie Our Lord looseth the fettered †our Lord illuminateth the blind Our Lord lifteth vp the bruised our Lord loueth the iust †Our Lord keepeth strangers the pupil and widow he wil receiue and the wayes of sinners he wil destroy †Our Lord wil reigne for euer thy God ô Sion in generation and generation PSALME CXLVI God is also to be praised by his peculiar people for particular benefites 4. for his omnipotent powre wisdom goodnes in creating and gouerning this whole world 11. and most special benignitie towards those that trust in him Alleluia PRAYSE ye our Lord because Psalme is good to our God let there be pleasant and comelie praise †Our Lord building vp Ierusalem wil gather together the dispersions of Israel †Who healeth the contrite of hart and bindeth vp their sores †Who numbereth the multitude of starres and geueth names to them al. †Great is our Lord and great is his strength and of his wisdom there is no number †Our Lord receiuing the meeke humbling sinners euen to the ground †Sing ye to our Lord in confession sing ye to our God on harpe †Who couereth the heauen with cloudes and prepareth rayne for the earth Who bringeth forth grasse in the mountaines and herbe for the seruice of men †Who geueth to beastes their foode and to the young rauens that cal vpon him †He shal not haue pleasure in the strength of an horse nor in the legges of a man shal he be wel pleased †Our Lord is wel pleased toward them that feare him and in them that hope vpon his mercie PSALME CXLVII Againe God is to be praised for his goodnes towards his peculiar people 4. yea towards al the world 7. but most abundantly towards his Church Alleluia O Ierusalem praise our Lord praise thy God ô Sion †Because he hath strengthened the lockes of thy gates he hath blessed thy children in thee †Who hath set thy borders peace and filleth thee with the fatte of corne †Who sendeth forth his speach to the earth his word runneth swiftly †Who geueth snow as wool scatereth mist as ashes †He casteth his crystal as morseles before the face of his cold l who shal endure †He shal sendforth his word and shal melt them his spirit shal blowe and waters shal flowe †Who declareth his word to Iacob his iustices and iudgements to Israel †He hath not done in like maner to anie nation and his iudgements he hath not made manifest to them Allelu-ia PSALME CXLVIIII Al creatures spiritual and corporal are inuited to praise God their Creator and Conseruer 13. as incomparably excellent Alleluia PRAYSE ye our Lord from the heauens praise ye him in the high places †Prayse ye him al his Angels prayse ye him al his hostes †Prayse ye him sunne and moone prayse him al ye starres and light †Prayse him ye heauens of heauens and the waters that are aboue the heauens †let them praise the name of our Lord. Because he sayd and they were made he commanded and they were created †He established them for euer and for euer and euer he put a precept and it shal not passe †Prayse our Lord from the earth ye dragons and al depthes †Fyre haile snow yse spirit of stormes which doe his worde †Mountaines and al litle hilles trees that beare fruite and al ceders †Beastes and al cattel serpentes and fethered fowles †Kinges of the earth and al peoples princes and al iudges of the earth †Yongmen and virgins old with yong let them prayse the name of our Lord †because the name of him alone is exalted †The confession of him aboue heauen and earth and he hath exalted the horne of his people An hymne to al his sainctes to the children of Israel a people approching vnto him Alleluia PSALME CXLIX The Church is most singularly bond to praise God 4. for the grace sanctitie victorie glorie 7. and iudicial powre which he geueth to his Sainctes Alleluia SING ye to our Lord a new song let his prayse be in the Church of sainctes †Let Israel be ioyful in him that made him and let the children of Sion reioyce in their king †Let them praise his name in quite on tymbrel and psalter let them sing to him †Because our Lord is wel pleased in his people and he wil exalt the meeke vnto saluation †The sainctes shal reioyce in glorie they shal be ioyful in their beddes †The exaltations of God in their throte and two edged swordes in their handes †To doe reuenge in the nations chastisements among the peoples †To binde their kinges in fetters and their nobles in yron manicles †That they may doe in them the iudgement that is written this glorie is to al his sainctes Alleluia PSALME CL. God absolutly most excellent is to be praised 3. with al sortes of instruments and by al other meanes Alleluia PRAYSE ye our Lord in his holies prayse ye him in the firmament of his strength †Prayse ye him in his powers prayse ye him according to the multitude of his greatnes †Prayse ye him in the sound of trumpet prayse ye him on psalter and harpe †Prayse ye him on timbrel and quire prayse ye him on stringes and organ †Prayse ye him on wel sounding cymbals prayse ye him on cymbales of iubilation †let euerie spirit prayse our Lord. Alleluia ANNOTATIONS PSALME CL. S. Augustin in the conclusion of his Enarrations or Sermons vpon the Psalmes explicateth a mysterie in the number of an hundred and fieftie signifying the concord of the two Testaments For in the old testament they kept
time crowned whose merchants were princes her chapmen the nobles of the earth †The Lord of hostes hath thought it that he might plucke downe the pride of al glorie and bring al the glorious of the earth to ignominie †Passe thy land as a riuer ô daughter of the sea thou hast a girdle no more †He hath stretched forth his hand vpon the sea he hath trubled kingdomes Our Lord hath geuen commandment against Chanaan to destroy the strong therof †and he said Thou shalt adde no more to glorie ô Virgin daughter of Sidon susteyning calumnie rising vp saile ouer to Cethim there also thou shalt haue no rest †Behold the land of the Chaldees was not such a people Assur founded it they led away the strong therof into captiuitie they vndermined the houses therof they brought it to ruine †Howle ye shippes of the sea because your strength is destroyed †And it shal be in that day thou shalt be in obliuion ô Tyre seuentie yeares as the daies of one king but after seuentie yeares there shal be to Tyre as it were the song of an harlot †Take an harpe goe about the citie thou harlot forgotten sing wel multiplie song that there may be remembrance of thee †And it shal be after seuentie yeares our Lord wil visite Tyre and wil bring her backe againe to her merchandise and she shal fornicate againe with al the kingdoms of the earth vpon the face of the earth †And the martes and rewards shal be sanctified to our Lord they shal not be kept in store nor layd vp because her merchandise shal be for them that shal dwel before our Lord that they may eate vnto fatietie and be clothed vnto continuance CHAP. XXIIII Al this world shal be destroyed 7. wherof manie signes shal come before 18. and general iudgement shal folow BEHOLD our Lord shal dissipate the earth and make it naked and afflict the face therof and disperse the inhabitants therof †And as the people so shal the priest be as the seruant so his master as the handmayde so her mistresse as the byer so he that selleth as the lender so he that boroweth as he that asketh his dewe so he that oweth †With dissipation shal the earth be dissipated and with spoile it shal be spoiled for our Lord hath spoken this worde †The earth hath mourned and fallen away and is weakened the world is fallen away the height of the people of the earth is weakened †And the earth is infected by the inhabitants therof because they haue transgressed the lawes changed right dissipated the euerlasting couenant †For this cause shal malediction deuoure the earth the inhabitants therof shal sinne and therfore the dwellers therein shal be madde few men shal be leaft †The vintage hath mourned the vine is weakened al haue sighed that reioyced in hart †The ioy of tymbrels hath ceased the sound of them that reioyce is least of the sweetnes of the harpe is silent †They shal not drinke wine with song the drinke shal be bitter to them that drinke it †The citie of vanitie is broken downe euerie house is shut no man goeth in †There shal be crying for the wine in the streetes al mirth is left the ioy of the earth is caried away †Desolation is left in the citie and calamitie shal oppresse the gates †Because these thinges shal be in the middes of the earth in the middes of peoples in like maner as if a few oliues which are remayning should be shaken out of the oliue tree and grapes when the vintage is ended †These shal lift vp their voice and prayse when our Lord shal be glorified they shal make a ioyful noise from the sea †For this cause in doctrines glorifie our Lord in the iles of the sea the name of our Lord the God of Israel †From the endes of the earth we haue heard praises the glorie of the iust one And I sayd My secrete to me my secrete to me woe is me the preuaricatours haue preuaricated and by the preuarication of trangressors they haue preuaricated †Feare and pitte and snare vpon thee that art inhabiter of the earth †And it shal be He that shal flee from the voice of feare shal fal into the pitte and he that shal rid him selfe out of the pitte shal be held in the snare because the fludgates from on high are opened and the fundations of the earth shal be shaken †With breaking shal the earth the broken with bruising shal the earth be bruised with mouing shal the earth be moued †With shaking shal the earth be shaken as a drunken man and shal be taken away as the tabernacle of one night and the iniquitie therof shal be heauie vpon it and it shal fal and not adde to rise againe †And it thal be In that day our Lord wil visite vpon the hoste of heauen on high and vpon the kinges of the earth that are vpon the earth †And they shal be gathered together as the gathering of a bundel into the lake and shal be shut there in prison and after manie daies they shal be visited †And the moone shal be confounded when the Lord of hostes shal reigne in mount Sion and in Ierusalem shal be glorified in the sight of his ancients CHAP. XXV The Prophet geueth thankes to God for his meruelous workes 7. and great benefites in lightning manie with faith washing away sinnes and geuing grace and eternal glorie OLORD thou art my God I wil exalt thee and confesse to thy name because thou hast done meruelous thinges the old cogitations faithful Amen †Because thou hast brought the citie into a heape the strong citie into ruine the house of strangers that it be no citie that it be not built for euer †For this shal strong people prayse thee the citie of strong nations shal feare thee †Because thou art become a strength to the poore a strength to the needie in his tribulation an hope against the whirlwinde a shadow against the heate For the spirit of the strong is as a whirlwinde beating against a wal †As heate in thirst shalt thou humble the tumult of strangers and as with heate vnder a burning cloude thou shalt make the branch of the strong to wither †And the Lord of hostes shal make to al peoples in this mount a feast of fat thinges a feast of vintage of fat thinges ful of marrow of vintage purified from the dregges †And he shal in this mount throw downe headlong the face of the bond tied together vpon al peoples and the webbe that he hath begune vpon al nations †He shal cast death downe headlong for euer and our Lord God shal take away teare from al face and the reproch of his people he shal take away out of the whole earth because our Lord hath
our Lord is filled with bloud it is fatted of the bloud of lambes and buckgoates of the bloud of rammes ful of marow for the victime of our Lord is in Bosra agrear slaughter in the land of Edom. †And the vnicornes shal come downe with them and the bulles with the mightie their land shal be drunke with bloud their ground with the farnes of fatte ones †Because it is the day of the reuenge of our Lord the yeare of retributions of the iudgement of Sion †And the torrents therof shal be turned into pitch and the ground therof into brimstone the land therof shal be into burning pitch †Night and day it shal not be quenched the smoke therof shal goe vp for euer from generation vnto generation it shal be desolate there shal none passe by it world without end †The onocrotalus and hedgehog shal possesse it the ibis and the rauen shal dwel in it and a measure shal be stretched out vpon it to bring it to nothing and a plumme line vnto desolation †The nobles therof shal not be there they shal cal rather vpon the king and al the princes therof shal be as nothing †And thornes and nettles shal grow vp in the houses therof and the thisle in the munitions therof and it shal be the couche of dragons and the pasture of ostriches †And spirites shal meete the onocentaurus and the satyr shal crie one to the other there hath the lamia lien and found her self rest †There hath the hedgehog had an hole and brought vp whelpes and digged round about and cherished them in the shadow therof thither are the kites gathered together one to an other †Searche ye diligently in the booke of our Lord and read one of them hath not wanted one hath not sought for the other because that which procedeth out of my mouth he hath commanded and his spirit the same hath gathered them †And he hath cast them a lot and his hand hath diuided it vnto them by measure they shal possesse it for euer in generation generation they shal dwel therein CHAP. XXXV Gentiles conuerted to Christ shal much reioyce 5. being comforted and confirmed by his miracles much more by his internal grace which bringeth to life euerlasting THE desert and the land without passage shal be glad the wildernes shal reioyce and shal florish as the lilie †Springing it shal spring shal reioyce ioyful and praising the glorie of Libanus is geuen to it the beautie of Carmel and Saron they shal see the glorie of our Lord and the beautie of our God †Encourege ye the loose handes strengthen the weake knees †Say to the faynt harted Take courege and feare not behold your God shal bring reuenge of retribution God him self wil come and wil saue you †Then shal the eies of the blind be opened and the eares of the deafe shal be open †Then shal the lame leape as an hart and the tongue of the dumme shal be opened because waters are cut out in the desert and torrents in the wildernes †And that which was drieland shal be as a poole and the thirstie ground as fountaines of waters In the dennes wherein dragons dwelt before shal spring vp the greennes of reede and bulrush †And a pathe and a way shal be there and it shal be called the holie way the polluted shal not passe by it and this shal be vnto you a direct way so that fooles can not erre by it †The lion shal not be there and the naughtie beast shal not goe vp by it nor be found there and they shal walke that shal be deliuered †And the redemed of our Lord shal be conuerted and shal come into Sion with prayse and euerlasting ioy shal be vpon their head they shal obteyne ioy and gladnes and sorow and mourning shal flee away CHAP. XXXVI Sennacherib king of Assirians hauing taken other cities in Iurie besiegeth and threatneth Ierusalem 4. reprocheth king Ezechias 7. blasphemeth God 13. and terrifieth the people AND it came to passe in the fourtenth yeare of king Ezechias Sennacherib king of the Assyrians came vp agaynst al the fensed cities of Iuda and tooke them †And the king of the Assyrians sent Rabsaces from Lachis to Ierusalem to king Ezechias with a great armie and he stood by the water conduite of the vpper poole in the way of the fullers filde †And there came out to him Eliacim the sonne of Helcias who was ouer the house and Sobna the scribe and Ioahe the sonne of Asaph the commenter †And Rabsaces sayd to them Tel Ezechias Thus sayth the great king the king of the Assyrians What is this confidence wherevpon thou dost trust †or by what counsel or force art thou disposed to rebel vpon whom hast thou confidence that thou art reuolted from me †Loe thou dost trust vpon this broken staffe of reede vpon Aegypt vpon which if a man leane it wil enter into his hand and pearce it so is Pharao the king of Aegypt to al that trust in him †But if thou wilt answer me We trust in our Lord God is it not he whose excelses and altars Ezechias hath taken away and he sayd to Iuda and Ierusalem Before this altar shal you adore †And now deliuer thyself to my lord the king of the Assyrians I wil geue thee two thousand horses neither shalt thou be able of thyself to geue riders for them †And how wilt thou abide the face of the iudge of one place of the lesser seruants of my Lord But if thou trust in Aegypt in chariotes and in horsemen †and now am I come vp without the Lord vnto this land to destroy it The Lord sayd to me Goe vp agaynst this land destroy it †And Eliacïm and Sobna and Ioahe sayd to Rabsaces Speake to thy seruants in the Syrian tongue for we vnderstand it speake not to vs in the Iewes language in the eares of the people that is vpon the wal †And Rabsaces sayd to them Why did my lord send me to thy lord and to thee to speake al these wordes and not rather to the men that sitte on the wal that they may eate their owne dung and drinke the vrine of their feete with you †And Rabsaces stood cried with a loude voice in the Iewes language and sayd Heare ye the wordes of the great king the king of Assyrians †Thus sayth the king Let not Ezechias seduce you for he shal not be able to deliuer you †And let not Ezechias geue you confidence vpon the Lord saying Our Lord deliuering wil deliuer vs this citie shal not be geuen into the hand of the king of Assyrians †Heare not Ezechias for thus sayth the king of Assyrians doe a blessing with me and come forth to me and eate ye euerie man
his Church 31. with a new couenant 36. that it shal be large and perpetual AT THAT time saith our Lord I wil be the God of al the kindredes of Israel and they shal be my people †Thus saith our Lord The people that remayned from the sword found grace in the desert Israel shal goe to his rest †Our Lord hath appeared to me of long time And in euerlasting charitie haue I loued thee therefore haue I drawen thee taking compassion †And I wil build thee againe and thou shalt be builded ô virgin Israel thou shalt yet be adorned with thy timbrels shal goe forth in the quyre of them that play †Thou shalt yet plant vinyards in the mountaines of Samaria the planters shal plant and til the time come they shal not make vintage †because there shal be a day wherein the watchmen on mount Ephraim shal crie Arise and let vs goe vp vnto Sion to the Lord our God †Because thus saith our Lord Reioyce in gladnes ô Iacob and neye against the head of the Gentiles sound ye and sing and say Saue ô Lord thy people the remnant of Israel †Behold I wil bring them out of the land of the North and wil gather them from the endes of the earth among whom shal be the blinde and the lame the woman with childe and she that beareth childe together a great companie of them that returne hither †They shal come in weepeing and in mercie I wil reduce them and I wil bring them through the torrents of waters in a right way and they shal not stumble in it because I am become a father to Israel and Ephraim is my firstbegotten †Heare the word of our Lord ye Nations shew forth in the ilands that are farre of and say He that dispersed Israel wil gather him and he wil keepe him as the pastour his flocke †For our Lord hath redeemed Iacob and he wil deliuer him out of the hand of the mightier †And they shal come and shal praise in mount Sion and they shal runne together to the good thinges of our Lord for the corne and wine and oile and the increase of cattel and heardes and their soule shal be as a watered garden they shal be hungrie no more †Then shal the virgin reioyce in the quyre the youngmen and old men together and I wil turne their mourning into ioy and wil comfort them and make them ioyful from their sorow †And I wil replenish the soule of the priestes with fatnes and my people shal be filled with my good thinges saith our Lord. †Thus saith our Lord A voice of lamentation is heard on high of the mourning and weeping of Rachel weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted for them because they are not †Thus saith our Lord Let thy voice cease from weeping and thine eies from teares because there is a reward for thy worke saith our Lord and they shal returne out of the land of the enemie †And there is hope to thy last endes saith our Lord and the children shal returne to their borders †Hearing I heard Ephraim going into trāsmigration Thou hast chastised me and I am taught as a young bullocke not tamed Conuert me and I shal be conuerted because thou art the Lord my God †For after thou didst conuert me I did penance and after thou didst shew vnto me I stroke my thigh I am confounded and ashamed because I haue sustayned the reproch of my youth †Certes Ephraim is an honorable sonne to me certes a delicate childe because since I spake of him as yet wil I remember him Therefore are my bowels trubled vpon him pitying I wil pitie him saith our Lord. †Sette thee a watch tower make vnto thee bitternes direct thy hart into the right way wherein thou hast walked returne ô virgin Israel returne to these thy cities †How long wilt thou be dissolute in deliciousnes ô wandring daughter because our Lord hath created a new thing vpon the earth A WOMAN SHAL COMPASSE A MAN †Thus saith the Lord of hostes the God of Israel As yet shal they say this word in the land of Iuda and in the cities thereof when I shal conuert their captiuitie Our Lord blesse thee the beauty of iustice the holie mountaine †and Iudas and al his cities shal dwel in it together the husbandmen and they that driue the flockes †Because I haue inebriated the wearie soule and euerie hungrie soule I haue filled †Therefore I was raised vp as out of a sleepe and I saw and my sleepe was sweete to me †Behold the daies come saith our Lord and I wil sow the house of Israel and the house of Iuda with the seede of men and with the seede of beastes †And as I haue watched vpon them to plucke vp and deface and dissipate destroy and afflict so wil I watch ouer them to build and to plant them saith our Lord. †In those daies they shal say no more The fathers did eate the bitter grape and the teeth of the children are set on edge †But euerie one shal dye in his owne iniquitie euerie man that shal eate the sowre grape his teeth shal be on edge †Behold the daies shal come saith our Lord and I wil make a new couenant with the house of Israel and the house of Iuda †not according to the couenant which I made with their fathers in the day that I tooke their hand to bring them out of the Land of Aegypt the couenāt which they made voide and I had the dominion of them saith our Lord. †But this shal be the couenant that I wil make with the house of Israel after those daies saith our Lord I wil geue my law in their bowels and in their hart I wil write it and I wil be their God and they shal be my people †And a man shal no more teach his neighbour and a man his brother saying Know our Lord for al shal know me from the least of them euen to the greatest saith our Lord because I wil be propicious to their iniquitie and their sinne I wil remember no more †Thus saith our Lord that geueth the sunne for the light of the day the order of the moone and of the starres for the light of the night that trubleth the sea and the waues thereof doe sound the Lord of hostes is his name †If these lawes shal faile before me saith our Lord thee also the seede of Israel shal faile that it be not a nation before me for euer †Thus saith our Lord If the heauens aboue shal be able to be measured and the foundations of the earth beneth to be searched out I also wil cast away al the seede of Israel for al thinges that they haue done saith our Lord. †Behold the daies come saith our Lord
the Cananite was at that time in the countrie †And our Lord appeared to Abram and said to him To thy seed wil I giue this land Who builded there an altar to our Lord that had appeared to him †And marching on from thence to a mountaine that was on the east side of Bethel there he pitched his tent hauing Bethel on the west and Hay on the east he builded there also an altar to our Lord and called vpon his name †And Abram went forward going and proceding on to the south †And there came a famine in the countrie and Abram descended into Aegypt to be as a pilgrime there for the famine was very sore in the land †And when he was nere to enter into Aegypt he said to Sarai his wife I know that thou art a fayre woman †and that when the Aegyptians shal see thee they wil say She is his wife and they wil til me and reserue thee †Say therfore I pray thee that thou art my sister that I may be wel vsed for thee and that my soule may liue for thy sake †When Abram therfore was entred into Aegypt the Aegiptians sawe the woman that she was passing beautiful †And the princes told Pharao and praised her to him and the woman was taken into the house of Pharao †And they vsed Abram wel for her sake And he had sheepe and oxen and he asses and men seruants and maid seruants and shee asses and Cammels †But our Lord scourged Pharao with very sore plagues and his house for Sarai Abrams wife †And Pharao called Abram and said to him What is this that thou hast done to me Why didst thou not tel me that she was thy wife †For what cause didst thou say she was thy sister that I might take her to my wife Now therfore there is thy wife take her and goe thy ways †And Pharao gaue certaine men commandment in the behalfe of Abram and they conducted him and his wife and al that he had ANNOTATIONS CHAP. XII 13. Say therfore Abraham concealed that Sarai was his wife and lyed not in saying she was his sister as he also called Lot his brother being his brothers sonne and she his brothers daughter VVherby he preuented danger of his owne life vsing such lawful meanes as lay in him committing his wiues chastitie to Gods protection which him self could not prouide for In which case if he had not donne his owne endeuour he had rather tempted God saith S Augustin then trusted in God And so God preserued her though she was in Pharao his house v. 17. CHAP. XIII Abram Lot returne from Aegypt into Chanaan 6. and being rich separate themselues 10 Lot choosing the countrie about Iordain Abram dwelleth in Chanaan 14. where againe God promiseth him that land and multiplication of his seede 18. And he erected an other Altar to God ABRAM therfore ascended out of Aegypt he and his wife and al that he had and Lot with him to the south coast †And he was very rich in possession of gold and siluer †And he returned by the way that he came from the south vnto Bethel euen to the place where before he had pitched a tabernacle betwen Bethel and Hay †in the place of the altar which he had made before and there he called vpon the name of our Lord. †But Lot also that was with Abram had flocks of sâ—eepe and heards of beasts and tents †Neyther was the land able to receiue them for to dwel togeather for their substance was much and they could not dwel togeather †Wherupon also there arose strife amongst the heardsmen of Abram and of Lot And that time the Chananite and the Pherisite dwelled in that countrie †Abram therfore said to Lot Let there be no brawle I beseech thee betwen me and thee and betwen my heardsmen and thy heardsmen for we be brethren †Behold the whole land is before thee goe aparte from me I pray thee if thou wilt goe to the left hand I wil take the right if thou choose the right hand I wil passe to the left †Lot therfore lifting vp his eyes sawe al the countrie about Iordaine which was watered through out before that our Lord subuerted Sodome and Gomorre as the paradise of our Lord and like as Aegypt as men come vnto Segor †And Lot chose vnto him the countrie about Iordaine and he departed from the East and they were seperated either brother from the other †Abram dwelt in the land of Chanaan and Lot abode in the townes that were about Iordaine and dwelt in Sodome †And the men of Sodome were verie wicked and sinners before the face of our Lord out of measure †And our Lord said to Abram after that Lot was seperated from him Lyft vp thyn eyes and looke from the place wherin thou now art to the north and south to the east and west †Al the land which thou seest wil I geue to thee to thy seed for euer †And I wil make thy seede as the dust of the earth if any man be able to number the dust of the earth thy seede also shal he be able to number †Arise and walke through the land in the length and in the breath therof for I wil geue it to thee †Abram therfore remouing his tent came and dwelt beside the vale of Mambre which is in Hebron and he builded there an altar to our Lord. CHAP. XIIII The king of Sodom with other foure kings are ouercome in battle by foure others 12. where Lot is taken 14. but Abram with 318. persons prosecuting and ouercoming the victorers 16. rescued Lot with al the captiues and pray 18. Melchisedech King and Priest blessed Abram 20. Abram payed tithes to him 21. and rendered the spoile to the king of Sodom AND it came to passe in that time that Amraphel the king of Sennaar and Arioch the king of Pontus and Chodorlahomor king of the Elamyts and Thadal the king of nacions †made warre against Barra the king of Sodome and against Bersa the king of Gomorra and against Sennaab the king of Adama and against Semebar the king of Seboim and against the king of Bala the same is Segor †Al these came together into the Woodland vale which now is the salt sea †For they had serued Chodorlamor twelue yeares and the thirtenth yeare they reuolted from him †Therfore in the fourtenth yeare came Chodorlahomor and the king that were with him and they stroke Raphaim in Astaroth-carnaim and Susim with them and Emim in Sauee of Cariathaim †and the Corrheans in the mountains of Seir euen to the Champion countrie of Pharan which is in the wildernes †And they returned and came as farre as the fountaine of Misphat the same is Cades and they stroke al the countrie of the Ameleichites and of the Amorheans that dwel in Assasonthamar â€
sede as the sand of the sea and with meeknes in sending giftes and good vvordes to Esau Thus finally he pacified him and so his owne feare was turned into ioy 24. A man vvrastled This wrestling with an Angel assumpting a bodie in forme of a man was corporal as the effect shewed in Iacobs sinow shrunck vp which made him to halt v. 25 31. It was also spiritual as appeareth by his earnest prayer vrging and at last obtayning the Angels blessing S. Dionys c. 4. cel Hierer S. Greg. prefat in Iob. Theodoret q. 91. in Gen. CHAP. XXXIII Iacob seing Eau come with a great troupe of men feareth harme but is most curteously entertained by him 10. He hardly perswadeth Esau to take giftes 13. and to returne home 17. So Iacob coming by Socoth to Salem there byeth a field pitcheth his tents and erecteth an Altar AND Iacob lifting vp his eyes saw Esau coming and with him foure hundred men and he diuided the children of Lia and of Rachel and of the two handmaides †and he put both the handmaids their children foremost and Lia and her children in the second place and Rachel and Ioseph last †And himselfe going foreward adored prostrate to the grownd seuen times vntil his brother came nere †Esau therfore running to mete his brother embraced him and clasping him fast about the necke and kissing him wept †And casting vp his eyes he saw the wemen and their litle ones and said What meane these And do they perteyne to thee He answered They are the litle ones which God hath geuen to me thy seruant †And the handmaides and their children coming nere bowed themselues †Lia also with her children came nere and when they had adored in like maner last Ioseph and Rachel adored †And Esau said What are the troupes that I did mete He answered That I might find grace before my lord †But he said I haue plentie my brother be thy things to thy selfe †And Iacob said Do not so I besech thee but if I haue found grace in thin eyes take a litle present at my hands for so haue I seene thy face as if I should haue seene the countenance of God be gracious to me †and take the blessing which I haue brought thee and which God hath geuen me who geueth al thinges Scarse at his brothers great instance taking it †he said Let vs march on together and I wil accompanie thee in thy iourney †And Iacob said My lord thou knowest that I haue with me litle ones and sheepe and kine with young which if I cause to ouerlaboure themselues in going in one day al the flockes wil die †It may please my lord to goe before his seruant and I wil folow softly after him as I shal see my litle ones to be able vntil I come to my lord in Seir. †Esau answered I besech thee that of my people at the leastwise which is with me there may remaine some to accompanie thee in the way It is not needful said he this only I haue nede of that I may finde grace my lord in thy sight †Esau therfore returned that day the same way that he came into Seir. †And Iacob cometh into Socoth where hauing built a house and pitched his tents he called the name of that place Socoth that is Tabernacles †And he passed into Salem a citie of the Sichimites which is in the land of Chanaan after he returned from Mesopotamia of Siria and he dwelt beside the towne †And he bought that part of the field wherin he had pitched his tents of the children of Hemor the father fo Sichem for an hundred lambes †And erecting an altar there on it he called vpon the most mightie God of Israel CHAP. XXXIIII For rauishing Dina the Sichimetes being first circumcised are slaine by Simeon and Leui her brothers 27. The rest of Iacobs sonnes spoile the citie 30. Iacob blameth them fearing harme may come by this fact AND Dina the daughter of Lia went forth to see the wemen of that countrie †Whom when Sichem had seene the sonne of Hemor the Heuite the prince of that land he was in loue with her and he tooke her away and lay with her by force rauishing the virgin †And his soule was fast kint vnto her and wheras she was sad he comforted her with sweete wordes †And going to Hemor his father he said Take me this wench to be my wife †Which when Iacob had heard his sonnes being absent and occupied in feeding of the cattle he held his peace til they returned †And when Hemor Sichems father was come forth to speake vnto Iacob †behold his sonnes came out of the field and hearing what had passed they were passing wrath because he had done a foule thing in Israel and committed an vnlawful fact in rauishing Iacobs daughter †Hemor therfore spake to them The soule of my sonne Sichem is sastned to your daughter Geue her vnto him to wife †and let vs contract mariages one with an other geue vs your daughters and take you our daughters †And dwel with vs the land is at your commandement tille occupie and possesse it †Yea and Sichem also said to her father and to her brethren Let me finde grace in your sight and what soeuer you shal appointe I wil geue †raise the dowrie and require giftes and I shal gladly geue what you shal demande only geue me this wench to wife †Iacobs sonnes answered Sichem his father in guile being wrath for the deflouring of their sister †We can not doe that which you demande nor geue our sister to an vncircumcised person which with vs is an vnlawful abhominable thing †But in this order we may be confederate if you wil be like to vs and al the man sex among you be circumcised †then wil we geue and take mutually your daughters and ours and we wil dwel with you and wil be one people †but if you wil not be circumcised we wil take our daughter and depart †The offer pleased Hemor and Sichem his sonne †neither did the young man make delay but forthwith fulfilled that which was demanded for he loued the wench exceedingly and he was the greatest man in al his fathers house †And going into the gate of the citie they spake to the people †These men are men of peace and are willing to dwel with vs let them occupie in the land and til it which being large and wide doth lacke men to tille it their daughters we shal take to wife and ours we wil geue to them †One thing there is for the which so great a good is differred If we circumcise our men sexe folowing the rite of the nation †And their substance and cartle and al things that they possesse shal be ours only in this let vs condescend and dwelling togeather we shal make
diuining †To whom Iudas said What shal we answere my lord or what shal we speake or be able iustly to pretend God hath found the iniquitie of thy seruantes loe we are al bondmen to my lord both we he with whom the cup was found †Ioseph answered God forbid that I should so doe he that stole the cup the same be my bondman and goe you free vnto your father †And Iudas approching nearer said boldly I beseech thee my lord let thy seruant speake a word in thine eares and be not angrie with thy seruant for after Pharao thou art †my lord Thou didest aske thy seruantes the first time Haue you a father or a brother †and we answered thee my lord We haue a father an old man and a little boy that was borne in his old age whose brother by the mother is dead and his mother hath him only and his father loueth him tenderly †And thou saidst to thy seruants Bring him hither to me and I wil set myn eyes on him †We suggested to my lord The boy can not leaue his father for if he leaue him he wil die †And thou saidest to thy seruants Vnlesse your youngest brother come with you you shal no more see my face †Therfore when we were gone vp to thy seruant our father we told him al things that my lord did speake †And our father said Goe againe and bye vs a litle wheate †To whom we said we can not goe if our youngest brother shal goe downe with vs we wil set forward together otherwise he being absent we dare not see the mans face †Wherunto he answered You know that my wife bare me two †One went forth and you said A beast did deuour him and hitherto he appeareth not †If you take this also and ought befal him in the way you shal bring downe my hoare hayres with sorow vnto hel †Therfore if I shal enter to thy seruant our father and the boy be wanting wheras his life dependeth vpon the life of him †and he shal see that he is not with vs he wil dye thy seruants shal bring downe his hoare hayres with sorow vnto hel †Let me be thy proper seruant that did take him into my protection and promised saying Vnlesse I bring him againe I wil be guilty of sinne against my father for euer †I therfore thy seruant wil tary in steed of the childe in the seruice of my lord and let the childe goe vp with his brethren †For I can not returne to my father the childe being absent lest I stand by a witnes of the calamitie that shal oppresse my father CHAP. XLV Ioseph manifesteth himself to his bretheren Who being much terified he comforteth them and weeping embraceth euerie one 16. The bruite wherof coming to Pharao he congratulating commandeth Ioseph to cal his father with al his familie into Aegypt 21. So the eleuen brothers aresent away with gifies and prouision for Iacobs iourney 26. Al which the father vnderstanding is reuiued in spirite IOSEPH could no longer refrayne manie standing by in presence wherupon he commanded that al should goe forth and no stranger should be present at their acknowledging one of another †And he lifted vp his voice with weeping which the Aegyptians heard and al the house of Pharao †And he said to his Brethren I am Ioseph is my father yet liuing His brethren could not answer him being teribly astonyed out of measure †To whom gently he said Come hither to me And when they were come nere him I am quoth he Ioseph your brother whom you solde into Aegypt †Be not affraid neither let it seeme to you a hard case that you did sel me into these countries for God sent me before you into Aegypt for your preseruation †For it is two yeares since the famin begain to be vpon the earth and yet fiue yeares remaine wherin there can be neither earing nor reaping †And God sent me before that you may be preserued vp on the earth and may haue victuals to liue †Not by your counsail but by the wil of God was I sent hither who hath made me as it were a father to Pharao and lord of his whole house and prince in al the land of Aegypt †Make hast and get ye vp to my father and you shal say to him Thy sonne Ioseph willeth thus God hath made me lord of the whole land of Aegypt come downe to me tary not †And thou shalt dwel in the land of Gessen and thou shalt be nere me thou and thy sonnes and thy sonnes children thy shepe and thy heardes and al things that thou dost possesse †And there I wil fede thee for yet there are fiue yeares of famine remayning lest both thou perish and thy house al things that thou dost possesse †Behold your eyes and the eyes of my brother Beniamin doe see that it is my mouth that speaketh vnto you †Report to my father my whole glorie and al things that you haue seene in Aegypt make hast and bring him to me †And falling vpon the neck of his brother Beniamin embracing him he wept he also in like maner weeping vpon his neck †And Ioseph kissed al his brethren and wept vpon euerie one after which things they were bold to speake vnto him †And it was heard of and very famously reported abrode in the kings courte The brethren of Ioseph are come and Pharao was glad and al his familie †And he spake to Ioseph that he should command his brethren saying Loading your beasts goe into the Land of Chanaan †and take thence your father and kinne and come to me and I wil geue you al the good things of Aegypt that you may eate the marow of the land †Geue commandment also that they take waynes out of the land of Aegypt for the carage of their litle ones and wyues and say Take vp your father and make hast to come with al spede †Neither doe you leaue any thing of your houshould stuffe for al the riches of Aegypt shal be yours †And the sonnes of Israel did as it was commanded them To whom Ioseph gaue waynes according to Pharaos commandment and victuals for the way †He bad also to be brought vp for euery one two robes but to Beniamin he gaue three hundred peeces of siluer with fiue robes of the best †sending to his father as much money and rayment adding besides them he asses that should carie of al the riches of Aegypt and as many shee asses carying wheat for the iourney and bread †Therfore he dismissed his brethren and when they were departing he said to them “ Be not angrie in the way †Who going vp out of Aegypt came into the land of Chanaan to their father Iacob †And they told him saying Ioseph thy sonne is liuing and he ruleth in al the Land of Aegypt
goddes Israel that haue brought thee out of the land of Aegypt †Which when Aaron had senne he builded an altar before it and by a cryers voice proclaimed saying Tomorow is the solemnitie of the Lord. †And rysing in the morning they offered holocaustes and pacifique hostes and the people sate downe to eate and to drinke and they role vp to play †And our Lord spake to Moyses saying Goe get thee downe thy people which thou hast brought out of the Land of Aegypt hath sinned †They haue quickly reuolted from the way that thou didst shew them and they haue made to them selues a molten calfe and haue adored and immolating hostes vnto it haue sayd These are thy goddes Israel that haue brought thee out of the Land of Aegypt †And againe our Lord said to Moyses I see that this people is stiffenecked †suffer me that my furie may be angrie against them and that I may destroy them and I wil make thee into a great nation †But “ Moyses besought the Lord his God saying Why Lord is thy furie angrie against thy people whom thou hast brought forth of the Land of Aegypt in great power and in a strong hand †Let not the Aegyptians say I beseech thee He hath craftely brought them forth that he might kil them in the mountaynes and destroy them from the earth let thyne anger cease and be pacified vpon the wickednes of thy people †“ Remenber Abraham Isaac and Israel thy seruantes to whom thou swarest by thine owne self saying I wil multiplie your seed as the starres of heauen and this whole land wherof I haue spoken I wil giue to your seed and you shal possesse it alwayes †And our Lord was pacified from doing the euil which he had spoken against his people †And Moyses returned from the mount carying the two tables of testimonie in his hand written on both sides †and made by the worke of God the writing also of God was grauen in the tables †And Iosue hearing the tumult of the people crying out said to Moyses The noyse of battaile is heard in the campe †Who answered It is not the crie of men encouraging of fight nor the shoute of men compelling to flee but I doe heare the voice of singers †And when he approched to the campe he saw the calfe and the daunces and being very wrath he threw the tables out of his hand and brake them at the foote of the mount †and catching the calfe which they had made he burnt it and bette it into powder which he strawed into water and gaue thereof drinke to the children of Israel †And he said to Aaron What hath this people done to thee that thou shouldest bring vpon them an heinous sinne †To whom he answered Let not my lord be offended for thou knowest this people that it is prone to euil †they said to me Make vs goddes that may goe before vs for vnto this same Moyses that brought vs forth out of the Land of Aegypt we know not what is chanced †To whom I said Which of you hath gold They tooke and brought to me and I cast it into the fire and this calfe came forth †Moyses therfore seeing the people that they were made naked for Aaron had spoiled them for the ignominie of filth and had set them naked among their enemies †and standing in the gate of the campe he said If any man be our Lords let him ioyne to me And there gathered vnto him al the sonnes of Leui †to whom he said This saith the Lord God of Israel Put euerie man his sword vpon his thigh goe returne from gate to gate through the middes of the campe and euerie man kil his brother and frend and neighbour †And the sonnes of Leui did according to the saying of Moyses and there were slaine in that day about three thousand men †And Moyses said You haue consecrated your handes this day to our Lord euerie man in his sonne in his brother that blessing may be giuen to you †And when the next day was come Moyses spake to the people You have sinned a verie great sinne I wil goe vp to our Lord if by anie meanes I may be able to intreate him for your sinful fact †And returning to our Lord he said I beseech thee this people hath sinned a heinous sinne and they haue made to them selues goddes of gold either forgiue them this trespasse †or if thou doe not strike me out of the booke that thou hast written †To whom our Lord answered He that hath sinned to me him wil I strike out of my booke †but goe thou and leade this people whither I haue told thee myne Angel shal goe before thee And I in the day of reuenge wil visite this sinne also of theirs †Our Lord therfore smote the people for the fault concerning the calfe which Aaron had made ANNOTATIONS CHAP. XXXII 4. A molten calfe No other reason can be imagined why the people falling to Idolatrie required the image of a calfe rather then of anie other thing but for that they thought the blacke calfe with white spottes called Apis or Serapis whom they sawe the Aegyptians estemed most of al their goddes to be the chiefe or onlie God And therfore to this famous Idol they ascribed the benefite of their deliuerie from bondage saying These are thy goddes o Israel that haue brought thee out of the Land of Aegypt So they ment not to worship our Lord the true God in that image as Caluin would haue it but the very calfe whose image it was for adoring immediatly the calues image and immolating hostes to it v. 8. they protested that to be their God which the image represented This appeareth also Deut. 32. v. 18. God that begat thee thou hast forsaken and hast forgotten our Lord thy creatour And Psal 105. v. 21. They forgat God vvhich saued them 11. Moyses besought Albeit Moyses with most humble submission prayed for the people which God so accepted that he was therby pacified v. 14. yet Caluin here condemneth him of arrogancie and pride as though he imperiously prescribed law to God spoyling him of his iustice Much otherwise S. Hierom Epist 12. ad Gaudent commending his feruent charitie doubteth not to say Dei potentiam serui preces impediebant The seruantes prayers hindered Gods povver because God himself saying suffer me that my furie may be angrie against them and that I may destroy them shewed his diuine prouidence to be such as he might be staied from doing that vvhich be threatned 13. Remember Abraham It much trubled Caluin that for obtaining pardon for the people the Patriarches are mentioned for whose sake and merites mercie and protection was promised by God Gen. 18. 22. 26. prophecied by Iacob Gen. 48. performed here and in manie other places And
therof and when he hath immolated it in the place where holocaust is wont to be slaine before our Lord because it is for sinne †the priest shal dippe his finger in the bloud of the hoste for sinne touching the hornes of the altar of holocauste and the rest powring at the foote therof †But the fatt he shal burne vpon it as is wont to be done in the victimes of pacifiques and the priest shal pray for him and for his sinne and it shal be forgiuen him †And if a soule of the people of the land shal sinne through ignorance doing anie of those thinges that by the law of our Lord are forbidden and offending †and knoweth his sinne he shal offer a she goate without spotte †And he shal put his hand vpon the head of the host that is for sinne and shal immolate it in the place of holocaust †And the priest shal take vp of the bloud with his finger and touching the hornes of the altar of holocaust the rest he shal powre out at the foote therof †But taking away al the fatt as is wont to be taken away of the victimes of pacifiques he shal burne it vpon the altar for a swete sauour to our Lord and he shal pray for him and it shal be forgeuen him †But if he offer of the flocke a victime for his sinne to wit an ewe without spotte †he shal put his hand vpon the head therof and shal immolate it in the place where the hostes of holocausts are wont to be slayne †And the priest shal take of the bloud therof with his finger and touching the hornes of the altar of holocaust the rest he shal powre at the foote therof †Al the fatte also he shal take away as the fatte of the ramme that is offered for pacifiques is wont to be taken away and shal burne it vpon the altar a burnt sacrifice of our Lord and he shal pray for him and for his sinne and it shal be forgiuen him CHAP. V. Of hostes for the sinne of concealing an others periurâ—e 2. for vncleanes 4. for vaine svvearinge 14. for rrour in exercising holie rites 17. for anie sinne committed by ignorance IF a soule sinne and heare the voice of one swearing and be witnes because either he him selfe sawe or is priuie to it vnlesse he vtter it he shal beare his iniquitie †The soule that toucheth anie vncleane thing either that which was killed of a beast or died of it selfe or anie other thing that creepeth and forgeteth his vncleannes is guiltie and hath offended †and if he touch anie thing of the vncleannesse of man according to anie imputitie wherwith he is wount to be polluted hauing forgotten doe knowe it afterward he shal be guiltie of an offence †The soule that sweareth and vttereth with his lippes that he would doe either il or wel and bindeth the same with an oathe and his word hauing forgotten afterward vnderstandeth his offence †let him do penance for his sinne †and offer of the flockes an ewe lambe or a shee goate and the priest shal pray for him and for his sinne †but if he be not able to offer a beast let him offer two turtles or two young pigions to our Lord one for sinne and the other for an holocaust †and he shal geue them to the priest who offering the sirst for sinne shal wryth backe the heade therof to the litle pinions so that it sticke to the necke and be not altogeather broken of †And of the bloud therof he shal sprinckle the wall of the altar and whatsoeuer is left he shal make it distil to the bottome therof because it is for sinne †And the other he shal burne for an holocauste as is wount to be done and the priest shal pray for him and for his sinne and it shal be forgeuen him †And if his hand be not able to offer two turtles or two young pigions he shal offer for his sinne of floure the tenth part of an ephi He shal not put oyle vpon it nor cast anie frankincense theron because it is for sinne †and he shal deliuer it to the priest who taking therof a ful handful shal burne it vpon the altar for a moniment of him that did offer it †praying for him and making expiation but the part that is left him selfe shal haue for a gifte †And our Lord spake to Moyses saying †If a soule transgressing the ceremonies by errour shal sinne in those thinges that are sanctified to our Lord he shal offer for his offence a ramme without spotte out of the flockes that may be bought for two sicles according to the weight of the Sanctuarie †and the damage it selfe which he did he shal restore and the fift part he shal adde besides deliuering it to the priest who shal pray for him offering the ramme and it shal be forgeuen him †If a soule sinne by ignorance and do one of those thinges which by the lawe of the Lord are forbidden and being guiltie of sinne vnderstand his iniquitie †he shal offer a ramme without spotte of the flockes to the priest according to the measure and estimation of the sinne who shal pray for him because he did it vnwitting and it shal be forgiuen him †because by errour he offended against the Lord. CHAP. VI. Oblation for sinne vvittingly committed 8. The maner of offering holocaust 12. Continual fire to be kept in the Altar 14. The sacrifices vvhich Priests shal offer at their Consecration 24. In general of hostes for sinne and vvho shal eate of the same and vvhere OVR Lord spake to Moyses saying †The soule that shal sinne and contemning the Lord shal denie vnto his neighbour the thing deliuered to his custodie which was committed to his credite or shal by force extort anie thing or do oppression †or shal finde a thing lost and denying it be also foresworne and shal doe anie other thing of manie wherin men are wount to sinne †being conuicted of the offence †he shal render al thinges which by fraude he would haue obteyned whole and the fift part besides to the owner vnto whom he did the damage †But for his sinne he shal offer a ramme without spott out of the flocke and shal geue it to the priest according to the estimation and measure of the offence †who shal pray for him before the Lord and he shal haue forgeuenes for euerie thing that in doing he sinned †And Our Lord spake to Moyses saying †Command Aaron and his sonnes This is the Law of an holocaust It shal be burnt vpon the altar al night vntil morning the fire shal be vpon the same altar †The priest shal be reuested with the tunike and the linnen femoralles and he shal take vp the ashes which the deuouring fire burned and putting them besides the altar †shal be vnuested of
meditation of Gods law and the beastes which lack those two properties of diuiding the hoofe and chewing the cudde or either of them were reputed vncleane signifying such men as care not whether they do wel or euel or do not ruminate and meditate good things which they heare or read forgetting or neglecting what is taught them Likewise the fishes that haue finnes and scales which signifie eleuating of the mind and austeritie of life were counted cleane but these that want either of the same were vncleane and prohibited Also certaine birdes were estemed cleane and allowed to be eaten others vncleane and forbid As the Eagle signifying pride the griffon tyrannie the osprey oppression the kire fraud the vultare sedition al kindes of rauens carnal voluptousnes the ostrich worldlie cares the owle slouth or dulnes in spiritual things the sterne duble dealing al kindes of haukes crueltie the schritch owle luxnrie the diuer gluttonie the storke enuie the swanne hypocrisie the onocratal auarice the porphirion selfe wil the herodian a bloudie mind the caladrion much babling the lapwing desolation of mind or desperation the batte earthlie policie and the like in other birdes beastes and fishes Al agreable to that time in which saieth S. Augustin li. 6 c 7. cont Faust those things were to be foreshewed not only in wordes but also in factes which should be reueled in latter time and being now reueled by Christ and in Christ the burdenous obseruances are not imposed to the faithful gentiles to whom yet the authoritie of the prophecie is commended To the same effect li. cont Adimant c. 15. li 50. homil ho. 45. S Hicrom in Matt. 15 Origenes ho. 7. S. Cyril li. 7. in Leuit. S. Gregorie in Cant. 7. Procopius in Leuit. 11. Out of whom and others S. Thomas explicateth at large that which we haue here briefly noted 1. 2. q. 102. 2. 6. CHAP. XII The law of wemens purification that beare children AND our Lord spake to Moyses saying †Speake to the children of Israel and thou shalt say to them A woman if receauing seede she beare a man child shal be vncleane seuen daies according to the daies of the separation of her floures †And the eight day the litle infant shal be circumcised †but her self shal remaine three thirtie daies in the bloud of her purification No holie thing shal she touch neither shal she enter into the Sanctuarie vntil the daies of her purification be expired †But if she beare a woman child she shal be vncleane two weekes according to the custome of the fluxe of her flowers and sixtie six daies she shal remaine in the bloud of her purification †And when the daies of her purification are expired for a sonne or for a daughter she shal bring a lambe of a yeare old for an holocaust and a young pigeon or a turtle for sinne to the dore of the tabernacle of testimonie and shal deliuer them to the priest †who shal offer them before our Lord and shal pray for her and so she shal be cleansed from the fluxe of her bloud this is the lawe for her that beareth a man child or woman child †And if her hand finde not neither is able to offer a lambe she shal take two turtles or two young pigeons one for an holocaust and an other for sinne and the priest shal pray for her and so she shal be cleansed CHAP. XIII The law concerning leprosie in men 47. and in garments AND our Lord spake to Moyses and Aaron saying †The man in whose skinne and flesh shal arise a diuers colour or a blister or any thing as it were shyning that is to say the plague of the leprosie shal be brought to Aaron the priest or any one of his sonnes †Who seing the leprosie in his skinne the heare turned into a white colour and the forme it self of the leprosie lower then the skinne and the other flesh it is the plague of the leprosie and at his arbitrement he shal be seperated †But if there be a shining whitenesse in the skinne and not lower then the other flesh and the heare of the old colour the priest shal shut him vp seuen daies †and the seuenth day he shal vew him and if the leprosie be growne no farder nor hath passed the former limites in the skinne againe he shal shut him vp other seuen daies †And the seuenth day he shal behold if the leprosie be somewhat obscure and not growne in the skinne he shal cleanse him because it is a scabbe and the man shal wash his clothes and shal be cleane †And if the leprosie grow againe after that he was sene of the priest and restored to cleannesse he shal he brought vnto him †and shal be condemned of vncleannesse †If the plague of the leprosie be in a man he shal be brought to the priest †and he shal view him And when there is a white colour in the skinne and hath changed the looke of the heare and the flesh also it selfe appeare quicke †it shal be iudged a verie old leprosie and growne into the skinne The priest therfore shal contaminate him and shal not shut him vp because he is vncleane euidently †But if the leprosie spring forth running about in the skinne and couer al the flesh from the head to the feete whatsoeuer falleth vnder the sight of the eies †the priest shal vew him and shal iudge that he is taken with a most cleane leprosie for that it is al turned into whitnesse and therfore the man shal be cleane †But when there shal appeare in him quicke flesh †then by the iudgement of the priest he shal be polluted and shal be reputed among the vncleane for quick flesh if it be spotted with leprosie is vncleane †And if againe it be turned into whitenesse and couer al the man †the priest shal vew him and shal iudge him to be cleane †And the flesh and the skinne wherin a boile is risen and healed †and in the place of the boile there appeare a white scarre or somewhat redde the man shal be brought to the priest †and when he shal see the place of the leprosie lower then the other flesh and the heare turned into whitenes he shal contaminate him for the plague of leprosie is risen in the boile †But if the heare be of the old colour and the scarre somewhat obscure be not lower then the next flesh he shal shut him vp seuē dayes †And if it be growne farder he shal iudge him to haue the leprosie †but if it stay in his place it is the scarre of a boile and the man shal be cleane †And the flesh and skinne that fire hath burnt and being healed hath a white or a reade scarre †the priest shal consider it and loe it is turned into whitenesse and the place therof is lower then the
before the Lord seuen times †and the residue of the oile in his left hand he shal poure vpon the tippe of the right eare of him that is cleansed and vpon the thumbes of his right hand and foote and vpon the bloud that was shed for offence †and vpon his head †And he shal pray for him before the Lord and shal make the sacrifice for sinne then shal he immolate the holocaust †and put it on the altar with the libaments therof and the man shal orderly be cleansed †But if he be poore and his hand can not finde the thinges aforesaid for offence he shal take a lambe for an oblation that the priest may pray for him and a tenth part of floure tempered with oile for a sacrifice and of oile a sextarie †and two turtles or two young pigeons of the which let one be for sinne and the other for an holocaust †and he shal offer them the eight day of his purification to the priest at the dore of the tabernacle of testimonie before the Lord †who receiuing the lambe for offence and the sextarie of oile shal eleuate them together †and the lambe being immolated of the bloud therof he shal put vpon the tippe of the right eare of him that is cleansed and vpon the thumbes of his right hand and foote †but part of the oile he shal poure into his owne left hand †wherin dipping the finger of his right hand he shal sprinckle it seuen times before the Lord †and he shal touch the tippe of the right eare of him that is cleansed and the thumbes of his right hand foote in the place of the bloud that was shed for offence †and the other part of the oyle that is in his left hand he shal poure vpon the head of the purified person that he may propitiate the Lord for him †and a turtle or yong pigeon he shal offer †one for offence and the other for an holocaust with their libaments †This is the sacrifice of a lepre that is not able to haue al thinges for the cleansing of him self †And our Lord spake to Moyses and Aaron saying †When you shal be entred into the Land of Chanaan which I wil geue you in possession if there be the plague of leprosie in a house †he whose house it is shal goe tel the priest saying It semeth to me that there is as it were the plague of leprosie in my house †But he shal command that they carie forth al thinges out of the house before he goe into it and see whether it haue the leprosie lest al thinges become vncleane that are in the house And afterward he shal goe in to consider the leprosie of the house †if he see in the walles therof as it were litle dintes disfigured with palenesse or rednesse and lower then al the rest †he shal goe out of the dore of the house and forthwith shut it seuen daies †And returning the seuenth day he shal consider it If he finde that the leprosie is growne †he shal command the stones wherein the leprosie is to be plucked out and to be throwen without the citie into an vncleane place †the house it self to be scraped on the inside round about and the dust of the scraping to be dispersed without the citie into an vncleane place †and other stones to be laid in their places that were taken away and the house to be playstered with other morter †But if after the stones be plucked out the dust scraped of and it playstered with other earth †the priest going in perceiue that the leprosie is returned and the walles ful of spottes it is a lasting leprosie and the house vncleane †the which forthwith they shal destroy and the stones and timber therof and al the dust they shal cast without the towne into an vncleane place †He that entreth into the house when it is shut shal be vncleane vntil euen †and he that sleepeth in it and eateth anything shal wash his clothes †But if the priest going in perceiue that the leprosie is not growne farder in the house after it was playstred againe he shal purifie it being made whole againe †and for the purification therof he shal take two sparowes and cedrewood and scarlet and hyssope †and when one sparow is immolated in an earthen vessel ouer liuing waters †he shal take the ceder wood and the hyssope and the scarlet and the liue sparowe and shal dippe al in the bloud of the sparowe that is immolated and in the liuing water and he shal sprinckle the house seuen times †and shal purifie it as wel with the bloud of the sparow as with the liuing water and with the liue sparow and with the cedrewoode and the hyssope and the scarlet †And when he hath let goe the sparow to flie freely away into the field he shal pray for the house and it shal be rightly cleansed †This is the law of al leprosie and percussion †of the leprosie of garments and houses †of a scarre and of blisters breaking forth of a shining spotte and when the colours are changed into diuers kindes †that it may be knowen at what time anie thing is cleane or vncleane CHAP. XV. The law of vncleane issues in men 19. and in wemen AND our Lord spake to Moyses and Aaron saying †Speake to the children of Israel and say to them The man that hath a fluxe of sede shal be vncleane †And then he shal be iudged subiect to this fault when the filthie humour at euerie moment cleaueth to his flesh and is congealed †Euerie bedde wheron he sleepeth shal be vncleane and where soeuer he sitteth †If anie man touch his bedde he shal wash his clothes and him self being washed with water shal be vncleane vntil euen †If he sitte where that man had sitten he also shal wash his clothes and being washed with water shal be vncleane vntil euen †he that toucheth his flesh shal wash his clothes and him self being washed with water shal be vncleane vntil euen †If such a man cast his spittle vpon him that is cleane he shal wash his clothes and being washed with water he shal be vncleane vntil euen †The padde wherupon he sitteth shal be vncleane †and whatsoeuer hath bene vnder him that hath the fluxe of seede shal be polluted vntil euen He that carieth any of these thinges shal wash his clothes and him self being washed with water shal be vncleane vntil euen †Euerie one whom he toucheth that is such an one hauing not washed his handes before shal wash his clothes and being washed with water shal be vncleane vntil euen †The earthen vessel that he toucheth shal be broken but the wodden vessel shal be washed with water †If he be healed that hath such a disease he shal number seuen daies after his
which may consume you and your cattaile and may bring al thinges to a smal number and that your waies may be made desert †And if you wil neither so receiue discipline but walke rather contrarie to me †I also wil goe opposite against you and wil strike you seuen times for your sinnes †and I wil bring in vpon you the sword a reuenger of my couenant And when you shal flee into the cities I wil send the pestilence in the middest of you and you shal be deliuered in the handes of the enemies †after I shal haue broken the staffe of your bread so that tenne wemen shal bake your breades in one ouen and shal render them by weight and you shal eate and shal not be filled †But if you wil neither by these meanes heare me but walke against me †I also wil goe against you in contrarie furie and wil chastice you with seuen plagues for your sinnes †so that you shal eate the flesh of your sonnes and of your daughters †I wil destroy your excelses and breake your idols You shal fal among the ruines of your idols and my soule shal abhorre you †in so much that I wil bring your cities into a wildernesse and I wil make your Sanctuaries desert neither wil I receiue any more the most sweete odour †And I wil distroy your land and your enemies shal be astonied vpon it when they shal be inhabitants therof †And you I wil disperse into the Gentiles and wil draw out the sword after you and your land shal be desert and your cities destroied †Then shal the land take pleasure in her sabbathes al the daies of her desolation when you shal be †in the enemies land she shal sabbatize and rest in the sabbathes of her desolation because she did not rest in your sabbathes when you dwelt in it †And they that shal remaine of you I wil put feare in their hartes in the countries of their enemies the sound of a flying leafe shal terrifie them and they shal flie it as it were a sword they shal fal when no man pursueth †and they shal euerie one fal vpon their brethren as flying from warres none of you shal be so hardie as to resist your enemies †You shal perish among the Gentiles and the enemies land shal consume you †And if of them also some remaine they shal pine away in their iniquities in the land of their enemies and for the sinnes of their fathers and their owne they shal be afflicted †vntil they confesse their owne and their auncetours iniquities wherby they haue preuaricated against me and walked contrarie vnto me †I also therfore wil walke against them and bring them into their enemies land vntil their vncircumcised mind be ashamed then shal they pray for their impieties †And I wil remember my couenant that I made with Iacob and Isaac and Abraham Of the land also I wil be mindful †which when it shal be left of them shal take pleasure in her sabbathes being desolate for them But they shal pray for their sinnes for that they reiected my iudgementes and dispised my lawes †Howbeit euen when they were in the land of their enemies I did not cast them of altogether neither did I so dispise them that they should be consumed and I should make my couenant with them frustrate For I am the Lord their God †and I wil remember mine old couenant when I brought them out of the Land of Aegypt in the sight of the Gentiles for to be their God I the Lord. These are the iudgementes and precepts and lawes which our Lord gaue betwen him self and the children of Israel in Monnt Sinai by the hand of Moyses CHAP. XXVII How some vowes of diuers persones may be redemed but some may not be changed 28. Al one way or other must be discharged 30. Tithes also must be payed either the same that are due or more AND our Lord spake to Moyses saying †Speake to the children of Israel and thou shalt say to them The man that shal haue made a vow and bound his soule to God by estimation he shal geue the price †If it be a man from the twenteth yeare vntil three score he shal geue fiftie sicles of siluer after the measure of the Sanctuarie †if a woman thirtie †But from the fift yeare vntil the twenteth a man shal geue twentie sicles a woman tenne †From one moneth vntil the fift yeare for a man shal be geuen fiue sicles for a woman three †One that is three score and aboue a man shal geue fiftene sicles a woman tenne †if he be poore and not able to pay the estimation he shal stand before the priest and as much as he shal esteme and see him able to pay so much shal he geue †But the beast that may be immolated to the Lord if a man doe vow it shal be holie †and can not be changed that is to say neither a better for a bad nor a worse for a good and if he change it both it self that was changed and that for the which it was changed shal be consecrated to the Lord. †The vncleane beast which can not be immolated to the Lord if anie man vow it shal be brought before the priest †Who iudgeing whether it be good or euel shal set the price †which if he that offereth wil geue he shal adde aboue the estimation the fift part †If a man vow his house and sanctifie it to the Lord the priest shal consider it whether it be good or bad and according to the price which he shal appoint it shal be sold †But if he that had vowed wil redeme it he shal geue the fift part of the estimation besides and shal haue the house †And if he vow the field of his possession and consecrate it to the Lord the price shal be estemed according to the measure of the seede If the ground be sowed with thirtie bushels of barly let it be solde for fiftie sicles of siluer †If he vow his field immediatly from the yeare of Iubilee that is beginning how much it can be worth at so much it shal be estemed †but if sometime after the priest shal account the money according to the number of yeares that remaine vntil the Iubilee and there shal be diminished of the price †And if he that had vowed wil redeme his field he shal adde the fift part of the estemed money and shal possesse it †And if he wil not redeme it but it be sould to any other man he that had vowed it can redeme it no more †for when the day of Iubilee commeth it shal be sanctified to the Lord and the possession consecrated pertaineth to the right of the priestes †If the field be bought and being not of his auncetors possession be sanctified to the
speake ought els but that which the Lord commandeth †Balac therfore said Come with me into an other place whence thou mayest see part of Israel and canst not see the whole from thence curse them †And when he had brought him into a high place vpon the toppe of the mountaine Phasga Balaam builded seuen altares laying thereon calues and rammes †he said to Balac Stand here beside thy holocaust whiles I goe to meete him †Whom when our Lord had mette and had put the word in his mouth he said Returne to Balac and thus thou shalt speake to him †Returning he found him standing beside his holocauste and the princes of the Moabites with him To whom Balac said What hath the Lord spoken †But he taking vp his parable said Stand Balac and harken heare thou sonne of Sephor †God is not as man that he may lie nor as the sonne of man that he may be changed Hath he said then and wil he not doe hath he spoken and wil he not fulfil †I was brought to blesse the blessing I am not able to stay †There is no Idol in Iacob neither is there simulachre to be seene in Israel The Lord his God is with him and the sound of the victorie of the king in him †God hath brought him out of Aegypt whose strength is like to the vnicorne †There is no South saying in Iacob nor diuination in Israel In their times it shal be said to Iacob and Israel what God hath wrought †Behold the people shal rise vp as a lionesse and as a lion shal raise it self It shal not lie downe til it deuoure the pray and drinke the bloud of the slaine †And Balac said to Balaam neither curse nor blesse him †And he said Did I not tel thee that whatsoeuer God should command me that would I doe †And Balac said to him Come and I wil bring thee to an other place if happely it please God that thence thou mayest curse them †And when he had brought him vpon the toppe of the mountaine Phogor which looketh to the wildernesse †Balaam said to him Build me here seuen altares and prepare as manie calues and rammes of the same number †Balac did as Balaam had said and he laide the calues and the rammes on euerie altar CHAP. XXIIII Balaam forced by the euidence of truth though not conuerted in wil to serue God whom he confesseth to be omnipotent prophecieth stil more good of Israel 10. wherefore Balac interrupteth him and he answereth plainly that God almightie wil haue it so 15. And so proceeding he prophecieth of CHRIST 20. Also of Amalacheites Cineites and Italians AND when Balaam had seene that it pleased our Lord that he should blesse Israel he went not as before he had gone to seeke Southsaying but directing his countenance against the desert †and lifting vp his eies he saw Israel abiding in their tentes by their tribes and the spirit of God coming vehemently vpon him †taking vp his parable he said Balaam the sonne of Beor hath said The man hath said whose eye is stopped †The hearer of the wordes of God hath said he that hath beholden the vision of the Omnipotent he that falleth and so his eies are opened †How beautiful are thy tabernacles ô Iacob and thy tentes ô Israel †As wooddie valleis as watered gardens beside the riuers as tabernacles which the Lord hath pitched as cedres by the waters side †Water shal flow out of his bucket and his seede shal be into manie waters For Agag shal his king be taken away and his kingdom shal be taken away †God hath brought him out of Aegypt whose strēgth is like to the rhinocerote They shal deuoure nations his enimies and breake their bones and pearce them with arrowes †Lying he hath slept as a lion and as a lionesse whom none shal be bold to rayse vp He that blesseth thee him self also shal be blessed he that curseth thee shal be reputed accurst †And Balac being angrie against Balaam clapping his handes together said To curse mine enemies I called thee whom thou contrariewise hast blessed the third time †returne to thy place I was determined verily to honour thee magnifically but the Lord hath depriued thee of the honour appointed †Balaam made answer to Balac did I not say to thy messengers whom thou didst send to me †If Balac would geue me his house ful of siluer and gold I can not passe the word of the Lord my God to vtter of my owne minde either any good or euil but whatsoeuer the Lord shal say that wil I speake †But yet going to my people I wll geue thee counsel what thy people shal doe to this people in the last time †Therfore taking vp his parable againe he said Balaam the sonne of Beor hath said The man whose eye is stopped hath said †the hearer of the wordes of God hath said who knoweth the doctrine of the Highest and seeth the visions of the Omnipotent who falling hath his eies opened †I shal see him but not now I shal behold him but not neere A STARRE SHAL RISE out of Iacob and a rodde shal arise from Israel and shal strike the dukes of Moab and shal waist al the children of Seth. †And Idumea shal be his possession the inheritance of Seir shal come to their enemies but Israel shal doe manfully †Of Iacob shal he be that shal rule and shal destroy the remaines of the citie †And when he had seene Amalec taking vp his parable he said Amalec the beginning of Gentiles whose latter endes shal be destroyed †He saw also the Cineite and taking vp his parable he said Thy habitation in deede is strong but if thou build thy nest in a rocke †and thou be chosen of the stocke of Cin how long shalt thou be able to continew For Assur shal take thee †And taking vp his parable againe he spake Alas who shal liue when God shal doe these thinges †They shal come in galleies from Italie they shal ouercome the Assyrians and shal waist the Hebrewes and at the last them selues also shal perish †And Balaam rose and returned into his place Balac also returned the way that he came CHAP. XXV By carnal fornication manie are drawen to spiritual For which twentie foure thousand are slaine 10. Phinees his Zele in stabbing to death two fornicators is commended by God and rewarded AND Israel at that time abode in Settim and the people fornicated with the daughters of Moab †who called them to their sacrifices And they did eate and adore their goddes †And Israel was professed to Beelphegor and our Lord being angtie †said to Moyses Take al the princes of the people and hang them vp against the sunne on gibbettes that my furie may be auerted from Israel †And Moyses said to the Iudges of Israel
Hesebon the Amorrheite and beginne to possesse his land and make warre against him †This day wil I beginne to send thy terrour and feare vpon the peoples that dwel vnder the whole heauen that hearing thy name they may quake and tremble after the manner of wemen in trauel and be pinched with sorow †I sent therfore messengers from the wildernes of Cademoth to Sehon the king of Hesebon with peaceable wordes saying †We wil passe through thy land we wil goe the common high way we wil not decline neither to the right hand not to the left †Sel vs meates for money that we may eate Geue vs water for money and so we wil drinke Onlie this that thou wilt graunt vs passage †as the children of Esau haue done that dwel in Seir and the Moabites that abide in Ar vntil we come to Iordan and passe to the Land which the Lord our God wil geue vs. †And Sehon the king of Hesebon would not geue vs passage because the Lord thy God had indurated his spirit and hardened his hart that he might be deliuered into thy handes as now thou seest †And our Lord said to me Behold I haue begunne to deliuer Sehon vnto thee and his land beginne to possesse it †And Sehon came forth to meete vs with al his people to battel in Iasa †And the Lord our God deliuered him to vs and we smote him with his sonnes and al his people †And al his cities we tooke at that time killing the inhabiters therof men and wemen and litle ones we left nothing among them †Except the cattel which came to their portion that tooke prayes and the spoyles of the cities which we tooke †from Aroer which is vpon the banke of the torrent Arnon a towne that is situated in a valley as farre as Galaad There was not a village or citie that escaped our handes the Lord our God deliuered al vnto vs. †Except the land of the children of Ammon to the which we approched not and al that adioyne to the torrent Ieboc and the cities on the mountaine and al the places from which the Lord our God prohibited vs. CHAP. III. The victorie against Og king of Basan of the giants stock is repeted 12. Ruben Gad and halfe tribe of Manasses haue possession on the other side Iordan from their brethren 23. Moyses praying that he may goe ouer Iordan for the sinnes of the people is denied THERFORE turning we went vp by the way of Basan and Og the king of Basan came forth to meete vs with his people to fight in Edrai †And our Lord said to me Feare him not because he is deliuered into thy hand with al his people and his land and thou shalt doe to him as thou hast done to Sehon king of the Amorrheites that dwelt in Hesebon †Therfore the Lord our God deliuered into our handes Og also the king of Basan and al his people and we stroke them to vtter destruction †waisting al his cities at one time there was not a towne that escaped vs sixtie cities al the countrie of Argob the kingdome of Og in Basan †Al the cities were fensed with verie high walles and with gates and barres beside innumerable townes that had no walles †And we destroyed them as we had done to Sehon the king of Hesebon destroying euerie citie and men and wemen and children †but the cattel and the spoyles of the cities we tooke for our praye †And we tooke at that time the land out of the hand of two kinges of the Amorrheites that were beyond Iordan from the torrent Arnon vnto the mountaine Hermon †which the Sidonians cal Sarion and the Amorrheites Sanir †al the cities that are situated in the plaine and al the Land of Galaad and Basan as farre as Selcha and Edrai cities of the kingdome of Og in Basan †For onlie Og the king of Basan remayned of the stocke of giantes his bed of yron is shewed which is in Rabbath of the children of Ammon hauing nine cubites in length and foure in breadth after the measure of the cubite of a mans hand †And we possessed the Land at that time from Aroer which is vpon the banke of the torrent Arnon vnto the halfe part of mount Galaad and the cities therof I gaue to Ruben and Gad. †And the other part of Galaad and al Basan of the kingdome of Og I deliuered to the halfe tribe of Manasses al the countrie of Argob and al Basan is called the Land of giantes †Iair the sonne of Manasses possessed al the countrie of Argob vnto the borders of Gessuri and Machati And he called Basan by his owne name Hauoth Iair that is to say the townes of Iair vntil this present day †To Machir also I gaue Galaad †And to the tribes of Ruben and Gad I gaue of the Land of Galaad as farre as the Torrent Arnon halfe of the torrent and the confines vnto the torrent Ieboc which is the border of the childrē of Ammon †and the plaine of the wildernesse and Iordan and the borders of Cenereth vnto the sea of the desert which is most salt at the foote of mount Phasga against the east †And I commāded you at that time saying The Lord your God geueth you this land for an inheritance goe wel appointed before your brethren the children of Israel al you strong men †except your wiues and litle ones and your cattel For I know you haue much cattel they must remaine in the cities which I haue deliuered you †vntil our Lord geue rest to your brethren as he hath geuen to you and they also possesse the Land which he wil geue them beyond Iordan then shal euerie man returne to his possession which I haue geuen you †Iosue also at that time I commanded saying Thyne eyes haue seene what the Lord your God hath done to these two kinges so wil he doe to al the kingdomes to the which thou shalt passe †Feare them not for the Lord your God wil fight for you †And I prayed our Lord at that time saying †Lord God thou hast begonne to shew vnto thy seruant thy greatnes and most mightie hand for neither is there other God either in heauen or in earth that is able to doe thy workes and to be compared to thy strength †I wil passe ouer therfore and wil see this excellent Land beyond Iordan and this goodlie mountaine and Libanus †And our Lord was angrie with me for you and heard me not but said to me It sufficeth thee speake no more to me of this matter †Goe vp to the toppe of Phasga and cast thine cies round about to the west and to the north and the south and the east and behold it for thou shalt not passe this Iordan †Command Iosue and encourage and strenghen him for he shal goe before
burne their sculptiles †Because thou art a holie people to the Lord thy God The Lord thy God hath chosen thee to be his peculiar people of al peoples that are vpon the earth †Not because you passed al nations in number is our Lord ioyned vnto you and hath chosen you wheras you are fewer then al peoples †but because our Lord hath loued you and hath kept the oath which he sware to your fathers and hath brought you forth in a strong hand and redemed you from the house of seruitude out of the hand of Pharao the king of Aegypt †And thou shalt know that the Lord thy God he is a strong and faith ful God keping his couenant and mercie to them that loue him and to them that keepe his preceptes vnto a thousand generations †and rendring forthwith to them that hate him so that he destroyeth them and differreth no longer immediatly rendering to them that they deserue †Keepe therfore the preceptes and ceremonies and iudgementes which I command thee this day to doe them †If after thou hast heard these iudgementes thou keepe and doe them the Lord also thy God wil keepe the couenant vnto thee and the mercie which he sware to thy fathers †and he wil loue and multiplie thee and wil blesse the fruite of thy wombe and the fruite of thy land thy corne and vintage oile and heardes the flockes of thy sheepe vpon the Land for the which he sware to thy fathers that he would geue it thee †Blessed shalt thou be among al peoples There shal be none barren with thee of neither sexe as wel in men as in thy flockes †Our Lord wil take away from thee al disease and the sore infirmities of Aegypt which thou knowest he wil not bring vpon thee but vpon al thyne enemies †Thou shalt deuoure al the peoples which the Lord thy God wil gene thee Thyn eye shal not spare them neither shalt thou serue their goddes lest they be the ruine of thee †If thou say in thy hart These nations are moe then I how shal I be able to destroy them †Feare not but remember what the Lord thy God did to Pharao and to al the Aegyptians †the exceding great plagues which thyne eies saw and the signes and wonders and the strong hand and the stretched out arme that the Lord thy God might bring thee forth so wil he doe to al peoples whom thou fearest †Moreouer hornettes also wil the Lord thy God send vpon them vntil he destroy and consume al that escaped thee and can hide them selues †Thou shalt not feare them because the Lord thy God is in the middes of thee a mightie God and terrible †he wil consume these nations in thy sight by litle and litle and by partes Thou mayest not destroy them al together lest perhappes the beastes of the earth multiplie against thee †And the Lord thy God wil geue them in thy sight and wil kil them vntil they be vtterly destroyed †And he wil deliuer their kinges into thy handes and thou shalt destroy their names vnder heauen no man shal be able to resist thee vntil thou destroy them †Their sculptiles thou shalt burne with fyre thou shalt not couet the siluer and gold wherof they were made neither shalt thou take to thee any thing therof lest thou offend because it is the abomination of the Lord thy God †Neither shalt thou bring in ought of the Idol into thy house lest thou become anathema as also that is As filthines thou shalt detest it and as vncleannes and filth thou shalt account it abominable because it is anathema CHAP. VIII The people is put in mind of afflictions which happened in the deserte and of benefites as wel past as promised 11. to the end they loue and serue God more effectually EVERIE commandement that I command thee this day take diligent heede that thou doe it that you may liue and be multiplied and entring in may possesse the Land for the which our Lord sware to your fathers †And thou shalt remember al the iourney through the which the Lord thy God hath brought thee fourtie yeares by the desert that he might afflict and proue thee and that the thinges that were in thy hart might be made knowen whether thou wouldest keepe his commandementes or not †He afflicted thee with penurie and gaue thee for meate Manna which thou knewest not nor thy fathers for to shew vnto thee that not in bread onlie a man liue but in euerie word that procedeth from the mouth of God †Thy rayment wherwith thou wast couered hath not decayed for age and thy foote is not worne loe this is the fourtith yeare †That thou mayest recount in thy hart that as a man disciplineth his sonne so the Lord thy God hath disciplined thee †that thou shouldest keepe the cōmandementes of the Lord thy God walke in his wayes and feare him †For the Lord thy God wil bring thee in vnto a good land a land of riuers waters and of fountaynes in the plains wherof and mountaynes deepe floudes gush out †a land of wheate of barley vineyardes wherein figge trees and pomegranates and oliueyardes doe grow a land of oyle and honie †Where without any penutie thou shalt eate thy bread and enioy abundance of al thinges whose stones are yron and out of the mountaynes therof are digged metalles of brasse †that when thou hast eaten and art ful thou mayest blesse the Lord thy God for the excellent land which he hath geuen thee †Obserue and beware lest at any time thou forget the Lord thy God and neglect his commandementes and iudgementes and ceremonies which I command thee this day †lest after thou hast eaten and art filled hast built goodlie houses and dwelled in them †and shalt haue heardes of oxen and flockes of sheepe of gold and siluer and of al thinges plentie †thy hart be lifted vp and thou remember not the Lord thy God that brought thee out of the Land of Aegypt out of the house of seruitude †and was thy conductor in the huge and terrible wildernesse wherein was the serpent burning with his breath and the scorpion and the dipsas and no waters at al who brought forth riuers out of the hardest rocke †and fed thee with Manna in the wildernesse which thy fathers knew not And after he had afflicted and proued thee at the last he had mercie vpon thee †lest thou shouldest say in thy hart Myne owne force and the strength of myne owne hand haue archieued al these thinges for me †But remember the Lord thy God that he hath geuen thee strength that he might fulfil his couenant concerning which he sware to thy fathers as this present day sheweth †But if forgetting the Lord thy God thou shalt folow strange goddes and shalt serue and adore them behold now I foretel thee
that thou shalt perish vtterly †As the Nations which our Lord destroyed at thyne entrie so shal you also perish if you be disobedient to the voice of the Lord your God CHAP. IX Lest they should impute the victories which they shal haue to them selues 6. they are put in mind of their often prouoking Gods wrath 12. by idolatrie 22. by murmuring by concupiscence by contempt and other sinnes 25 for which they should haue bene destroyed but God spared them for his prouâ—â—se made to Abraham Isaeac and Iacob HEARE Israel Thou shalt goe ouer Iordan this day to possesse verie greate nations and stronger then thy selfe huge cities and walled euen vnto heauen †a great people and tal the sonnes of the Enacims whom thou hast seene and heard against whom no man is able to resist †Thou shalt know therfore this day that the Lord thy God him selfe wil passe ouer before thee a deuouring and consuming fyre who shal destroy and abolish and bring them to nothing before thy face quickly as he hath spoken to thee †Say not in thy hart when the Lord thy God shal haue destroyed them in thy sight For my iustice hath our Lord brought me in to possesse this land wheras these nations were destroyed for their impieties †For not because of thy iustices and equitie of thy hart doest thou enter in to possesse their landes but because they haue done impiously at thy entring in they are destroyed and that our Lord might accomplish his word which by oath he promised to thy fathers Abraham Isaac and Iacob †Know therfore that not for thy iustices hath the Lord thy God geuen thee this excellent land in possession wheras thou art a verie stiffe necked people †Remember and forget not how thou didst prouoke the Lord thy God to wrath in the wildernesse From the same day that thou camest out of Aegypt vnto this place thou hast alwayes contended against our Lord. †For in Horeb also thou didst prouoke him and being wrath he would haue destroyed thee †when I went vp into the mounte to receiue the tables of stone of the couenant which our Lord made with you and I continewed in the mounte fourtie daies and nightes not eating bread nor drinking water †And our Lord gaue me two tables of stone written with the singer of God and conteyning al the wordes that he spake to you in the mounte from the middes of the fyre when the assemblie of the people was gathered †And when fourtie dayes were passed and as manie nightes our Lord gaue me the two tables of stone the tables of couenant †and he said to me Arise and goe downe from hence quickly for thy people which thou didst bring out of Aegypt haue quickly forsaken the way that thou hast shewed them and haue made them a molten idol †And againe our Lord said to me I see that this people is stiffe necked †suffer me that I may destroy them and abolish their name from vnder heauen and may set thee ouer a Nation that is greater and stronger then this †And when I came downe from the burning mounte and held the two tables of couenant with both handes †and saw that you had sinned to the Lord your God and had made you a molten calfe and had quickly forsaken his way which he had shewed you †I cast the tables out of my handes and brake them in your sight †And I fel downe before our Lord as before fourtie dayes and nightes not eating bread not drinking water for al your sinnes which you committed against our Lord and prouoked him to wrath †for I feared his indignation and anger wherwith being moued agaynst you he would haue destroyed you And our Lord heard me this time also †Against Aaron also being exceeding angrie he would haue destroyed him and for him in like maner did I pray †And your sinne that you had committed that is the calfe I tooke and burnt it with fyre and breaking it into peeces and bringing it wholy into dust I threw it into the torrent that deâ—cendeth from the mount †In the burning also and in the tentation and in the Sepulchres of concupiscence you prouoked our Lord †and when he sent you from Cadesbarne saying Goe vp and possesse the Land that I haue geuen you and you contemned the commandement of your Lord God and did not beleue him neither would you heare his voice †but were alwaies rebellious from the day that I beganne to know you †And I lay before our Lord fourtie dayes and nightes in the which I humbly besought him that he would not destroy you as he had threatened †and praying I said Lord God destroy not thy people and thyne inheritance which thou hast redemed in thy greatnes whom thou didst bring out of Aegypt in a strong hand †Remember thy seruantes Abraham Isaac and Iacob regard not the stubbournes of this people and his impietie and sinne †lest perhappes the inhabitantes of the land out of which thou hast brought vs say The Lord could not bring them in vnto the Land that he promised them and he hated them therfore did he bring them forth that he might kil them in the wildernes †Which are thy people and thyne inheritance whom thou didst bring forth in thy great strength and in thy stretched out arme CHAP. X. Moyses receiuing the second tables of the tenne commandments and making an arke put them therin 6. with mention of certaine places where the children of Israel had camped of Aarons death and to the Leuites offices and possesstons 12. be inculcateth the feare and loue of God and the keping of his precepts 16. namely to circumcise the hart 19. to loue strangers 20. and not to serue nor sweare by false goddes AT that time our Lord said to me Hewe thee two tables of stone as the former were and come vp to me into the mounte and thou shalt make an arke of wood †and I wil write in the tables the wordes that were in them which before thou didst breake and thou shalt put them in the arke †I made therfore an arke of the wood Settim And when I had hewed two tables of stone like to the former I went vp into the mount hauing them in my handes †And he wrote in the tables according as he had written before the ten wordes which our Lord spake to you in the mount from the middes of the fyre when the people was gathered and he gaue them to me †And returning from the mount I came downe and put the tables into the arke that I had made which are there til this present as our Lord commanded me †And the children of Israel remoued their campe from Beroth of the children of Iacan into Mosera where Aaron died and was buried for whom Eleazar his soone did the function of priesthood †Thence they came into Gadgad from the which place departing
First the passage of the Israelites ouer Iordan In the five first chapters Secondly their conquest of the promised Land In the seuen chapters folowing Thirdly the partition of the same Land amongst nine Tribes and a half from the. 13. chap. to the 22. Fourthly In the three last chapters the returne of the other two Tribes and a half to their possessions on the east side of Iordan with Iosues last admonition to them al to serue God sincerly and his and Eleazars death THE BOOKE OF IOSVE IN HEBREW IEHOSVA CHAP. I. Iosue encoreged by our Lord 10. admonisheth the people to prepare themselues to passe ouer Iordan 12. and al the able men of the tribes of Ruben Gad and half Manasses to march armed before the rest 16. Al promise to doe whatsoeuer he commandeth AND it came to passe after the death of Moyses the seruant of our Lord that our Lord spake to Iosue the sonne of Nun the minister of Moyses and said to him †Moyses my seruant is deade arise and passe ouer this Iordan thou and al the people with thee into the Land which I wil geue to the children of Israel †Euerie place the steppe of your foote shal treade wil I deliuer to you as I haue spoken to Moyses †From the desert and Libanus vnto the great riuer Euphrates al the land of the Hetheites vnto the great sea against the going downe of the sunne shal be your border †No man shal be able to resist you al the daies of thy life as I haue beene with Moyses so wil I be with thee I wil not leaue nor forsake thee †Take courage and be strong for thou shalt by lotte diuide to this people the Land for the which I sware to their fathers that I would deliuer it to them †Take courage therfore and be very strong that thou keepe and doe al the Law which Moyses my seruant hath commanded thee decline not from it to the right hand or to the left that thou mayest vnderstand al thinges which thou doest †Let not the volume of this law depart from thy mouth but thou shalt meditate in it daies and nightes that thou maiest keepe and doe al thinges that be written in it then shalt thou direct thy way and vnderstand it †Behold I command thee take courage and be strong Feare not and dreade not because the Lord thy God is with thee in al the thinges to whatsoeuer thou shalt goe †And Iosue commanded the princes of the people saying Passe through the middes of the campe and command the people and say †Prepare for your selues victuals for after the third day you shal passe ouer Iordan and shal enter to possesse the Land which our Lord your God wil geue you †To the Rubenites also and Gaddites and halfe tribe of Manasses he said †Remember the word which Moyses the seruant of our Lord commanded you saying Our Lord your God hath geuen you rest and al this Land †Your wiues and children and cattel shal tarie in the Land which Moyses deliuered to you beyond Iordan but passe you ouer armed before your brethren al that are strong of hand fight for them †vntil our Lord geue rest to your brethren as to you also he hath geuen and they also possesse the Land which our Lord your God wil geue them and so returne into the Land of your possession and you shal dwel in it which Moyses the seruant of our Lord gaue you beyond Iordan against the rysing of the sunne †And they made answer to Iosue and said Al thinges that thou hast commanded vs we wil doe and whither soeuer thou shalt send vs we wil goe †As we obeyed Moyses in al thinges so wil we obey thee also only be our Lord thy God with thee as he was with Moyses †He that shal gainesay thy mouth and not obey al thy wordes that thou shalt command him let him die thou only take courage and doe manfully CHAP. II. Two discoueres sent into Hiericho are hid and concealed by Rahab 8. and vpon promise of like safetie to her whole samilie 21. she helpeth them secretly away THERFORE Iosue the sonne of Nun sent from Setim two men to spie in secrete and said to them Goe and view the Land and the citie of Iericho Who going entred into the house of a woman a harlot named Rahab and rested with her †And it was told the king of Iericho and said Behold there are men come in hither by night of the children of Israel to spie the Land †And the king of Iericho sent to Rahab saying Bring forth the men that came to thee and are entred into thy house for they be spies and are come to view al the Land †And the woman taking the men hid them and said I confesse they came to me but I knew not whence they were †and when the gate was a shutting in the darke and they withal went out I know not whither they be gone pursew quickly and you shal ouertake them †But she made the men to goe vp into the roofe of her house and couered them with the stalke of flaxe which was there †And they that were sent folowed them the way that leadeth to the ford of Iordan and they being gone out the gate for with was shutte †Neither were they yet a sleepe that lay hidde and behold the woman went vp to them and said †I know that the Lord hath geuen this Land to you for your terrour is fallen vpon vs and al the inhabitantes of the Land are become fainte †We haue heard that the Lord dried vp the water of the Redsea at your entring when you came out of Aegypt and what thinges you did to the two kinges of the Amorrheites that were beyond Iordan Sehon and Og whom you slew †And hearing these thinges we greatly feared and our hart fainted neither did there remaine spirite in vs at your entring in for the Lord your God he is God in heauen aboue in the earth beneth †Now therfore sweare to me by the Lord that as I haue done mercie with you so you also doe with my fathers house and you geue me a true signe †that you saue my father and mother my brethren and sisters and al thinges that he theirs and deliuer our soules from death †Who answered her Be our liues for you vnto death only if thou betray vs not And when our Lord shal haue deliuered vs the land we wil doe in thee mercie and truth †She therfore did let them downe by a corde out of a window for her house ioyned fast to the wall †And she said to them Goe vp to the mountaines lest perhaps they meete you returning and there lie hid three daies til they returne and so you shal goe on your way †Who said to her We shal be quitte from this oath wherwith thou hast sworne vs †if
were heard and broken into peeces †and they went on to Iosue who then abode in the campe at Galgal and said to him and withal to al Israel We are come from a farre countrie desirous to make peace with you And the children of Israel answered them and said †Lest perhaps you dwel in the Land which is dew to vs by lotte and we can not enter a league with you †But they said to Iosue We are thy seruantes To whom Iosue said Who are you and whence came you †they answered From a very farre countrie are thy seruantes come in the name of the Lord thy God For we haue heard the fame of his might al thinges that he did in Aegypt †and to the two kinges of the Amorrheites that were beyond Iordan Sehon the king of Hesebon and Og the king of Basan that were in Astaroth †and our ancientes and al the inhabitantes of our Land said to vs Take in your handes victuals for a very long way and goe meete them and say We are your seruantes enter a league with vs. †Behold these loaues we tooke hotte when we departed from our houses to come to you now they are become drie and broken for ouer much oldenesse †the bottels of wine we filled being new now they are burst dissolued The garmentes and shoes that we haue vpon vs and which we haue on our feete for the length of the long way are worne and almost consumed †They tooke therfore of their victuals and asked not the mouth of our Lord. †And Iosue made peace with them and entring a league promised that they should not be slaine the princes also of the multitude sware to them †But three daies after that the league was made they heard that they dwelt nigh and they should be among them †And the children of Israel remoued the campe and came into their cities the third day whose names are these Gabaon and Chaphira and Beroth and Chariathiarim †And they stroke them not because the princes of the multitude had sworne in the name of our Lord the God of Israel Therfore al the common people murmured against the princes †Who answered them We haue sworne to them in the name of our Lord the God of Israel and therfore we may not touch them †But this we wil doe to them Let them be reserued in dede aliue lest the wrath of God be stirred against vs if we shal be forsworne †but so let them liue that for the vses of the whole multitude they hew wood and carie in water Who speaking these thinges †Iosue called the Gabaonites and said to them Why would you deceiue vs by fraude to say We dwel very farre of from you wheras you are in the middes of vs †Therfore you shal be vnder a curse and there shal not faile of your stocke a hewer of wood and a carier of water into the house of my God †Who answered It was told vs thy seruantes that the Lord thy God had promised Moyses his seruant that he would deliuer you al the Land and would destroy al the inhabitantes therof Therfore we feared excedingly and prouided for our liues coÌ„pelled by your terrour and we tooke this counsel †And now we are in thy hand that which seemeth vnto thee good and right doe to vs. †Iosue therfore did as he had said and deliuered them from the hand of the children of Israel that they should not be slaine †And he decreed in that day that they should be in the ministerie of al the people and of the altar of our Lord hewing wood and carying water vntil this present time in the place which our Lord hath chosen CHAP. X. â—iue kinges of the Amorrheites besieging Gabaon because it is confederate with Israel 6. Iosue with his armie defeateth theirs killing and pursewing them 11. manie also are slaine with haile stones 12 At the prayer of Iosue the sunne and moone stand stil the space of one day 22. The fiue kinges are hanged on gibbetes 28. He taketh also and subdueth diuers cities 40. and countries VVHICH thinges when Adonisedec king of Ierusalem had heard to witte that Iosue had taken Hai and had subuerted it for as he had done to Iericho the king therof so did he to Hai their king and that the Gabaonites were fled to Israel and were their confederates †he was sore afrayd For Gabaon was a great cititie and one of the kinglie cities and greater then the towne of Hai and al their men of warre most valiant †Therfore Adonisedec king of Ierusalem sent to Oham king of Hebron and to Pharam king of Ierimoth to Iaphia also king of Lachis and to Dabir king of Eglon saying †Come vp to me and bring ayde that we may ouercome Gabaon because it reuolted to Iosue to the children of Israel †Therfore the fiue kinges of the Amorrheites being assembled went vp the king of Ierusulem the king of Hebron the king of Ierimoth the king of Lachis the king of Eglon together with their hostes camped about Gabaon assaulting it †But the inhabitantes of the citie Gabaon which was besieged sent to Iosue who then abode in the campe at Galgal said to him withdraw not thy handes from the helpe of thy seruantes come vp quickly and deliuer vs and bring ayde for there are assembled against vs al the kinges of the Ammorrheites which dwel in the mountaines †And Iosue went vp from Galgal and al the hoste of the men of warre with him most valiant men †And our Lord said to Iosue Feare them not for I haue deliuered them into thy handes none of them shal be able to resist thee †Iosue therfore came in vpon them sodenly going vp al the night from Galgal †And our Lord trubled them at the sight of Israel and destroyed them with a greate slaugher in Gabaon and pursewed them by the way of the ascent to Bethoron and stroke them vnto Azeca and Maceda †And when they fled the children of Israel and were in the descent of Bethhoron our Lord sent vpon them greate stones from heauen as farre as Azeca and there died farre more with the stones of haile then they whom the children of Israel had strooken with the sword †Then spake Iosue to our Lord in the day that he deliuered the Amorreite in the sight of Israel and said before them Thou Sunne against Gabaon moue not and thou Moone against the valley of Aialon †And the Sunne and Moone stoode stil til the people reuenged themselues of their enemies Is not this writren in the booke of the iust The Sunne therfore stood stil in the middes of heauen and hastened not to goe downe the space of one day †There was not before nor after so long a day our Lord obeying the voice of a man and fighting for Israel †And Iosue returned with al Israel
Og in Basan which reigned in Astaroth and Edrai he was of the reliques of the Raphaims and Moyses stroke and destroyed them †And the children of Israel would not destroy Gessuri and Machati and they haue dwelt in the middes of Israel vntil this present day †But to the tribe of Leui he gaue no possession but the sacrifices and victimes of our Lord the God of Israel that is his inheritance as he spake to him †Moyses therfore gaue possession to the children of Ruben according to their kinredes †And their border was from Aroer which is situate on the banke of the torrent Arnon and in the middes of the valley of the same torrent al the plaine that leadeth to Medaba †and Hesebon and al their villages which are in the champayne Dibon also and Bamothbaal and the towne Baâ—â—maon †and Iassa and Cedimoth and Mephaath †and Cariathaim and Sabama and Sarathasar in the mountaine of the Valley †Bethfogor and Asedoth Phasga and Bethiesimoth †and al the champayne cities and al the Kingdomes of Sehon the King of the Amorrheite that reigned in Hesebon whom Moyses stroke with the princes of Ma ian the Heueite Recem and Sur and Hur and Rebe Dukes of Sehon inhabitantes of the Land †And Balaam the sonne of Beor the soothsayer did the children of Israel kil by the sword with the rest that were slayne †And the riuer of Iordan was made the border of the children of Ruben This is the possession of the Rubenites by their kinredes of cities and villages †And Moyses gaue to the tribe of Gad and to his children possession by their kinredes the diuision wherof is this †The border of Iaser and al the cities of Galaad and the half part of the Land of the children of Ammon as farre as Aroer which is against Rabba †and from Hesebon vnto Ramoth Masphe and Betonim and from Manaim vnto the borders of Dabir †In the valley alo Bethhara and Bethnemra and Socoth and Saphon the other part of the Kingdom of Sehon the King of Hesebon the end of this also is Iordan vnto the vttermost part of the sea Cenereth beyond Iordan on the east side †This is the possession of the children of Gad by their families their cities and villages †He gaue also to the half tribe of Manasses and their children possession according to their kinredes †the beginning wherof is this from Manaim al Basan and al the kingdoms of Og the King of Basan and al the villages of Iair which are in Basan threescore townes †And the half part of Galaad and Astaroth and Edrai cities of the kingdom of Og in Basan to the children of Machir the sonne of Manasses to the half part of the children of Machir according to their kinredes †This possessioÌ„ diuided Moyses in the champayne countries of Moab beyond Iordan against Iericho on the East side †But to the tribe of Leui he gaue no possession because our Lord the God of Israel him self is their possession as he spake to them CHAP. XIIII Caleb of the tribe of Iuda sâ—ing some knew their lottes already and that the whole land was now to be diuided 6. demandeth according to Gods promise made by Moyses for his true and good report of the same land when he with others viewed it that Hebron be geuen him and his seede to inherite 13. which Iosue confirmeth vnto him THIS is it which the children of Israel possessed in the Land of Chanaan which Eleazar the priest and Iosue the sonne of Nun the princes of the families by the tribes of Israel gaue to them †diuiding al thinges by lotte as our Lord had commanded in the hand of Moyses to the nine tribes and the half tribe †For to two tribes and a half Moyses had geuen possession beyond Iordan besides the Leuites which receiued no land among their brethren †but into their place succeded the children of Ioseph diuided into two tribes of Manasses and Ephraim neither did the Leuites receiue other portion in the Land but cities to inhabite and their suburbes to feede their beastes and cattel †As our Lord had commanded Moyses so did the children of Israel and they diuided the Land †Therfore the children of Iuda came to Iosue in Galgal and Caleb the sonne of Iephone the Cenezeite spake to him Thou knowest what our Lord spake to Moyses the man of God concerning me thee in Cadesbarne †Fourtie yeares old was I when Moyses the seruant of our Lord sent me from Cadesbarne to view the Land and I reported to him that which to me semed true †But my brethren that had gone vp with me discouraged the hart of the people and I neuertheles folowed our Lord my God †And Moyses sware in that day saying The Land which thy foote hath troden shal be thy possession and thy childrens for euer because thou hast folowed our Lord my God †Our Lord therfore hath granted me life â—s he promised vntil this present day It is fourtie and fiue yeares since our Lord spake this worde to Moyses when Israel walked through the wildernes this day am I eightie and fiue yeares old †so â—ustie as I was at that time when I was sent to view the strength of that time contineweth in me vntil this day as wel to fight as to goe †Geue me therfore this mountaine which our Lord promised thy selfe also hearing it wherein are the Enacims and great cities and fensed if perhaps our Lord be with me and I shal be able to destroy them as he promised me †And Iosue blessed him and deliuered to him Hebron in possession †And from thence forth Hebron belonged to Caleb the sonne of Iephone the Cenezeite vntil this present day because he folowed our Lord the God of Israel †The name of Hebron before was called Cariath Arbe Adam the greatest among the Enacims was layd there and the Land ceased from battels CHAP. XV. The borders of the lotte of Iuda 13. including Calebs particular inheritance 16. out of which he geueth Cariath Sepher and his daughter to Othoniel for winning it 21. with the names of the cities therof 63. the Iebuseite yet dwelling with Iuda in Hierusalem THERFORE the lotte of the children of Iudas by their kinredes was this From the border of Edom vnto the desert of Sin against the South and vnto the vttermost part of the south coaste †the beginning therof was from the toppe of the most salt sea and from the brinke therof that looketh to the South †And it goeth forth against the Ascent of the Scorpion and passeth through into Sina and ryseth vp into Cadesbarne reacheth into Esron ascending to Addar and coÌ„passing Carcaa †and thence passing through into Asemona and reaching to the Torrent of Aegypt and the borders therof shal be the great sea this shal be the end of the south coast â€
which is erected before his tabernacle †Which thinges being heard Phinees the priest and the princes of the legacie which were with him were pacified and they admitted most willingly the wordes of the children of Ruben Gad and of the halfe tribe of Manasses †And Phinees the priest the sonne of Eleazar said to them Now we know that our Lord is with vs because you are not culpable of this preuarication and haue deliuered the children of Israel from the hand of our Lord. †And he returned with the princes from the children of Ruben and Gad out of the Land of Galaad into the Land of Chanaan to the children of Israel and reported to them †And the saying pleased al that heard it And the children of Israel praysed God and they did no more say that they would goe vp against them and fight and destroy the Land of their possession †And the children of Ruben the children of Gad called the altar which they had built Our testimonie that our Lord he is God CHAP. XXIII Iosue being old admonisheth the people to keepe Gods commandementes 12. and to auoide mariages and al societie with gentiles lest falling to idolatrie God as certainly punish them as he hath benne benificial and bountiful to them AND when much time was passed after that our Lord had geuen peace to Israel al the nations being subdewed round about and Iosue now verie ancient and of a great age †Iosue called al Israel and the elders and the princes and the iudges and the maisters and said to them I am old and farre gone in age †and you see al thinges that our Lord your God hath done to al the nations round about how him selfe hath fought for you †and now because he hath by lotte diuided to you al the Land from the East part of Iordan vnto the great sea and manie nations yet remaine †Our Lord your God wil destroy them and take them away from your face and you shal possesse the Land as he hath promised you †Onlie take courage and be careful that you keepe al thinges which be written in the volume of the law of Moyses and decline not from them neither to the right hand nor to the left †lest after that you are entred in to the Gentiles which shal be among you you sweare in the name of their goddes and serue them and adore them †but cleaue to our Lord your God which you haue done vntil this day †And then our Lord God wil take away in your sight the great nations and very strong and no man shal be able to resist you †One of you shal pursew a thousand men of the enemies because our Lord your God him self wil fight for you as he hath promised †This onlie beware very diligently before hand that you loue our Lord your God †But if you wil cleaue to the errour of these nations that dwel among you and make mariages with them and ioyne amitie †euen now know ye that our Lord your God wil not destroy them before your face but they shal be a pitte and a snare for you and a stumbling blocke at your side and stakes in your eies til he take you away and destroy you from this excellent Land which he hath deliuered to you †Behold I this day enter into the way of al flesh and you shal know with al your minde that al the wordes which our Lord promised that he would performe to you one is not escaped without effect †Therfore as he hath fulfilled in deede that which he promised and al thinges prosperous haue come so wil he bring vpon you what euils soeuer he hath threatened til he take you away and destroy you from this excellent Land which he hath deliuered to you †because you haue transgressed the couenant of our Lord your God which he hath made with you and haue serued strange goddes and adored them quickly and in hast shal the furie of our Lord ryse against you and you shal be taken away from this excellent Land which he hath deliuered to you CHAP. XXIIII In consideration of diuers principal benefites here recited 14. Iosue exorteth the people to serue God sincerly seing it is in their choise to do wel or euil 16. they promise al true seruice and obedience to God 25. VVherupon he reneweth the pact betwen God and them writing it in the volume of the law and erecting a great stone in testimonie 29. He dieth and is buried in mount Ephraim 32. Iosephs bones are buried in Sichem 33. Eleazar the high priest also dieth and is buried in Ephraim AND Iosue gathered together al the tribes of Israel into Sichem and called the ancientes and princes and iudges and maisters and they stoode in the sight of our Lord †and to the people he spake in this maner Thus saith our Lord the God of Israel Beyond the riuer did your fathers dwel from the beginning Thare the father of Abraham and of Nachor and “ they serued strange goddes †I tooke therfore your father Abraham from the coastes of Mesopotamia and brought him into the Land of Chanaan and multiplied his seede †and gaue him Isaac and againe to him I gaue Iacob and Esau Of whom to Esau I gaue mount Seir to possesse but Iacob and his children went downe into Aegypt †And I sent Moyses and Aaron and stroke Aegypt with many signes and wonders †And I brought you and your fathers out of Aegypt and you came to the sea and the Aegyptians pursewed your fathers with chariotes and horsemen as farre as the Read sea †And the children of Israel cried to the Lord who did put darkenes betwen you and the Aegyptians and brought the sea vpon them ouerwhelmed them Your eies saw al thinges that I did in Aegypt and you dwelt in the wildernes a great time †and I brought you into the Land of the Amorrheite which dwelt beyond Iordan And when they fought against you I deliuered them into your handes and you possessed their Land and slew them †And there rose Balac the sonne of Sephor king of Moab and fought against Israel And he sent and called Balaam the sonne of Beor that he might curse you †and I would not heare him but contrariwise by him I blessed you and deliuered you out of his hand †And you passed Iordan and came to Iericho And the men of that citie fought against you the Amorrheite and Pherezeite and Chananeite and the Hetheite and Gergeseite and the Heueite and Iebuseite and I deliuered them into your handes †And I sent before you hornettes and I cast them forth out of their places the two Kinges of the Amorrheites not in thy sword and bow †And I gaue you the Land wherein you laboured not and the cities which you built not to dwel in them vineyardes and oliue trees which you planted not †Now therfore feare our Lord
men dying They fel and were ouerthrowen on the east side of the citie of Gabaa †And there were that were slaine in the same place eightene thousand men al most valiant warryers †Which when they had seene that were remayning of BeniamÃn they fled into the wildernes and went on to the rocke the name wherof is Remmon In that flight also stragling and going diuers waies they slew fiue thousand men And whereas they went farder they pursewed them and slew also other two thousand †And so it came to passe that al which were slaine of Beniamin in diuerse places were fiue and twentie thousand one hundred fighting men most prompt to warres †There remayned therfore of al the number of Beniamin that could escape and flee into the wildernes six hundred men and they abode in the Rocke Remmon foure monethes †But the children of Israel retyring stroke al the remaines of the citie with the sword from men euen to beastes and al the cities and villages of Beniamin the deuouring flame did consume CHAP. XXI The tribe of Beniamin is repayred 8. by foure hundred virgins reserued in the slaughter of Iabes Galaad 19. and by other virgins taken that come forth of Silo to daunce THE children of Israel sware also in Maspha and said None of vs shal geue of his daughters to the children of Beniamin to wife †And they came al to the house of God in Silo and sitting in his sight vntil euening lifted vp their voice and with great wayling beganne to weepe saying Wherfore ô Lord God of Israel is this euil done in thy people that this day one tribe should be taken away out of vs †And on the morrow rising early they built an altar and offered there holocaustes and pacifique victimes and said †Who hath not ascended in the hoste of our Lord of al the tribes of Israel For they had bound them selues with a great othe when they were in Maspha that they should be slayne which had beene wanting †And the children of Israel being moued with repentance vpon their brother Beniamin beganne to say One tribe is taken away out of Israel †whence shal they take wiues For we haue al sworne in common that we wil not geue our daughters to them †Therfore they said Who is there of al the tribes of Israel that went not vp to our Lord into Maspha And behold the inhabitantes of Iabes Galaad were found not to haue bene in that armie †At that time also when they were in Silo none of them was found there †They sent therfore ten thousand the strongest men and commanded them Goe and strike the inhabitantes of Iabes Galaad in the edge of the sword as wel their wiues as their litle ones †And this shal be it which you shal obserue Al of the male kinde and wemen that haue knowen men kil ye but the virgins reserue †And there were found of Iabes Galaad foure hundred virgins that knew not mans bedde and they brought them to the campe in Silo into the Land of Chanaan †And they sent messengers to the children of Beniamin that were in Rocke Remmon and commanded them that they should receiue them in peace †And the children of Beniamin came at that time and there were geuen vnto them wiues of the daughters of Iabes Galaad but others they found not which they might geue them in like maner †And al Israel was very sorie and repented for the killing of one tribe out of Israel †And the ancientes said What shal we doe to the rest that haue not taken wiues For al the wemen in Beniamin are dead †And we must very carefully and with great studie prouide that one tribe be not destroyed out of Israel †For our owne daughters we can not geue them being bound with an oath and a curse wherby we said Cursed be he that shal geue to Beniamin anie of his daughters to wife And they tooke counsail and said Behold there is an anniuersaire solemnitie of our Lord in Silo which is situate on the North of the citie of Bethel on the East side of the way that goeth from Bethel to Sichem and on the South of the towne of Lebona †And they commanded the children of Beniamin and said Goe and lie hidde in the vineyardes †And when you shal see the daughters of Silo come forth after the maner to lead daunses issue forth sodenly out of the vineyardes and catch of them euerie one his wife and goe into the Land of Beniamin †And when their fathers shal come and their brethren and shal beginne to complaine against you and to chide we wil say to them Haue pittie on them for they tooke them not away by the right of warryers and conquerours but when they desired to receiue them you gaue them not and on your part the fault was committed †And the children of Beniamin did as it had beene commanded them and according to their number they tooke away to them selues of those that ledde the daunses euerie one his wife and they went into their possession building cities and dwelling in them †The children of Israel also returned by their tribes and families into their tabernacles In those daies there was not a King in Israel but euerie one did that which semed right to him selfe THE ARGVMENT OF THE BOOKE OF RVTH AMONGST other thinges that happened to the people of Israel in the time of the Iudges this historie of Ruth to witt her coming from Moab her conuersion to true Religion godlie conuersation and mariage with Booz of the tribe of Iuda is recorded as a more principal matter For that not onlie king Dauid but consequently also our SAVIOVR the Redemer of mankind descended from her VVherby was fore signified that as saluation thus proceded from the Gentiles together with the Iewes so the Gentiles are made partakers of the same grace More clerly prophecied as S. Hierom noteth by Isai cap. 16. saying Send forth ô Lord the lambe the Ruler of the earth from the Rocke of the desert to the mount of the daughter of Sion That is from Ruth the gentile to Hierusalem or rather to the Church This mariage of Ruth came to passe about the time of Abesan Iudge The booke was written as is most probable by Samuel and is diuided into foure chapters whose contentes folow in their places THE BOOKE OF RVTH CHAP. I. By occasion of famine Elimelech of Bethleem going with his wife Noemi and two sonnes into the Land of Moab there dieth 4. His sonnes marrie wiues of that countrie and die without issue 6. Noemi returning homewardes hardly perswadeth one of her daughters in law to part from her 15. The other called Ruth wil needes goe with her professing the same God and Religion 19. So these two arriue in Betheleem IN the dayes of one Iudge when the Iudges ruled there came a famine in the Land And there went a
emeroides and the similitudes of the mise that haue destroied the land and you shal geue glorie to the God of Israel if perhaps he wil lighten his hand from you and from your goddes and from your land †Why doe you harden your hartes as Aegypt and Pharao did harden their hart did not he after he was striken then dimisse them and they departed †Now therfore take and make one new wayne and two kine hauing calued on which there hath no yoke beene put couple in the wayne and shut vp their calues at home †And you shal take the arke of the Lord and put it in the wayne and the vessels of gold which you haue payed him for sinne you shal put into a litle casket at the side thereof and dimisse it that it may goe †And you shal looke and if so be that it shal goe vp by the way of his coastes against Bethsames he hath donne vs this great euil but if not we shal know that his hand hath not touched vs but it hath happened by chance †They therefore did in this maner and taking two kine that had sucking calues yoked them to the wayne and shut vp their calues at home †And they layd the arke of God vpon the wayne and the litle casket that had the golden mise and the similitudes of emeroides †And the kine went directly by the way that leadeth to Bethsames and they went one way going forward and lowing and they declined not neither to the right hand nor to the left but the princes also of the Philistijms folowed vnto the borders of Bethsames †Moreouer the Bethsamites reaped wheat in the valley and lifting vp their eies they saw the arke and were gladde when they had seene it †And the wayne came into the field of Iosue the Bethsamite and stoode there And there was a great stone and they did cut the wood of the wayne and layed the kine vpon it an holocaust to our Lord. †And the Leuites tooke downe the arke of God and the litle casket that was at the side of it wherin were the vessels of gold and they put it vpon the great stone The men also of Bethsames offered holocaustes and immolated victimes that day to our Lord. †And the fiue princes of the Philistijms saw and returned into Accaron that day †And these are the golden emeroides which the Philistijms rendred for sinne to our Lord Azotus one Gaza one Ascalon one Geth one Accaron one †and the golden mise according to the number of the cities of the Philistijms of the fiue prouinces from walled citie vnto towne that was without wal and vnto Abel the great wherupon they put the arke of our Lord which was vntil that day in the field of Iosue the Bethsamite †But he stroke of the men of Bethsames for that they had seene the arke of our Lord and he stroke of the people seuentie men and fiftie thousand of the common people And the people mourned because our Lord had striken the common people with a great plague †And the men of Bethsames sayd Who shal be able to stand in the sight of our Lord God this holie one and to whom shal he goe vp from vs †And they sent messengers to the inhabitantes of Caria Thiarim saying The Philistijms haue brought backe the arke of our Lord come downe fetch it backe vnto you CHAP. VII The Arke is brought to the house of Abinadab in Gabaa 3. By Samuels exhortation the people cast away the idols and serue only God 10. Samuel offering sacrifice and praying Israel preuaileth against the Philisthijms THEREFORE the men of Caria Thiarim came and brought backe the arke of our Lord and caried it into the house of Abinadab in Gaaba And Eleazar his sonne they sanctified that he might keepe the arke of our Lord. †And it came to passe from the day that the arke of our Lord abode in Caria Thiarim the dayes were multiplied for it was now the twentith yeare and al the house of Israel rested after our Lord. †And Samuel spake to al the house of Israel saying If you turne to our Lord in al your hart take away the strange goddes out of the middes of you Baalim and Astaroth and prepare your hartes to our Lord and serue him only and he wil deliuer you from the hand of the Philisthijms †Therefore the children of Israel tooke away Baalim and Astaroth and serued our Lord only †And Samuel sayd Gather together al Israel into Masphath that I may pray our Lord for you †And they assembled into Masphath and they drew water and powred it out in the sight of our Lord and they fasted that day and sayd there We haue sinned to our Lord. And Samuel iudged the children of Israel in Masphath †And the Philisthijms heard that the children of Israel were gathered together into Masphath and the princes of the Philisthijms went vp to Israel Which when the children of Israel had heard they were afrayde at the face of the Philisthijms †And they said to Samuel cease not to crie to our Lord God for vs that he saue vs from the hand of the Philisthims †And Samuel tooke one sucking lambe and offered iâ— a whole holocauste to our Lord and Samuel cried to our Lord for Israel and our Lord heard him †And it came to passe when Samuel offered the holocauste the Philisthijms beganne battel against Israel but our Lord thundered with a great noise in that day vpon the Philisthijms and terrified them and they were slaine before the face of Israel †And the men of Israel issuing out of Masphath pursued the Philisthijms and stroke them vnto the place that was vnder Bethcar †And Samuel tooke one stone and layd it betwen Masphath and Sen and he called the name of that place The stone of helpe And he sayd Thus farre hath our Lord holpen vs. †And the Philistijms were humbled neither added they any more to come into the borders of Israel Therefore the hand of our Lord was made vpon the Philistijms al the dayes of Samuel †And the cities which the Philistijms had taken from Israel were rendred to Israel from Accaron vnto Geth and their borders and â—e deliuered Israel from the hand of the Philistijms and there was peace betwen Israel and thâ— Amorrheite †Samuel also â—udged Israel al the daies of his life †and he went euerie â—eare circu 〈…〉 Bethel and Galgala and Masphath and â—udged Israel in the foresaid places †And he returned into Ramatha for there was his house and there he iudged Israel he built also there an altar to our Lord. CHAP. VIII Samuel growing old and his sonnes for bribes peruerting iudgement the people require to haue a king 7. â—o Whom by Gods commandment Samuel forâ—heneth the law of a king to make them cease from their demand 19. but they persist therein AND it came to
wiues before thine eies and geue them to thy neighbour and he shal slepe with thy wiues in the sight of this Sunne †For thou hast done it secretly but I wil doe this word in the sight of al Israel and in the sight of the Sunne †And Dauid sayd to Nathan I haue sinned to our Lord. And Nathan sayd to Dauid Our Lord also hath taken away thy sinne thou shalt not die †Neuertheles because thou hast made the enemies of our Lord to blaspheme for this thing the sonne that is borne to thee dying shal dye †And Nathan returned into his house Our Lord also stroke the child which the wife of Vrias had borne to Dauid and he was past hope †And Dauid besought our Lord for the child and Dauid fasted a fast and going in aside lay vpon the ground †And the ancientes of his house came being earnest with him that he would rise from the ground who would not neither did he eate meate with them †And it chanced the seuenth day that the infant died and the seruantes of Dauid feared to tel him that the child was dead For they sayd Behold when the child yet liued we spake to him and he heard not our voice how much more if we shal say The child is dead wil he afflict him self †When Dauid therfore sawe his seruantes muttering he vnderstood that the infant was dead and he sayd to his seruantes Is the child dead Who answered him He is dead †Dauid therfore rose from the ground and was washed and annoynted and when he had changed his garment he entered into the house of our Lord and adored and came into his owne house and he called for bread and he did eate †And his seruantes sayd vnto him What thing is this that thou hast done for the infant when he yet liued thou didst fast and weepe but the child being dead thou didst rise vp and hast eaten bread †Who sayd For the infant whiles he yet liued I fasted and wept for I sayd Who knoweth if perhaps our Lord wil geue him to me and the infant may liue †But now because he is dead why do I fast Shal I be able to cal him againe any more I shal go to him rather but he shal not returne to me †And Dauid comforted Bethsabee his wife and going in vnto her slept with her Who bare a sonne and he called his name Salomon and our Lord loued him †And he sent by the hand of Nathan the prophete and called his name Amiable to our Lord because our Lord loued loued him †Ioab therfore fought against Rabbath of the children of Ammon and wonne the kinges citie †And Ioab sent messengers to Dauid saying I haue fought against Rabbath and the Citie of waters is to be taken †Now therfore gather the rest of the people and besiege the citie take it lest when the citie shal be wasted of me the victorie be ascribed to my name †Dauid therfore gathered al the people and went forth against Rabbath and when he had fought he tooke it †And he tooke the crowne of their king from his head in weight a talent of gold hauing most pretious stones and it was put vpon Dauids head Yea the praye of the citie he caryed away exceding much †bringing forth also the people therof sawed them and drewe round about ouer them chariotes shod with yron and he diuided them with kniues and drew them through in forme of brikes so did he to al the cities of the children of Ammon and Dauid returned and al the armie into Ierusalem CHAP. XIII Amnon rauisheth Thamar 20. For which Absalom killeth him 37. and flyeth into Gessur AND it came to passe after these thinges that Amnon the sonne of Dauid loued the sister of Absalom the sonne of Dauid being very beautiful called Thamar †and was fond on her excedingly so that for the loue of her he was sicke because wheras she was a virgin it semed vnto him had hard to doe any thing vnhonestly with her †But Amnon a freind named Ionadab the sonne of Semmaa Dauids brother a very wise man †Who sayd to him Why art thou so worne away with leanenes the kinges sonne day by day Why doest thou not tel me And Amnon sayd to him I loue Thamar the sister of my brother Absalom †To whom Ionadab answered Lye vpon thy bed and fayne sickenes and when thy father shal come to visite thee say to him Let my sister Thamar I pray come to me to geue me meate and to make me broth that I may eate of her hand †Amnon therefore lay downe and began as it were to be sicke and when the king came to visite him Amnon sayd to the king Let Thamar my sister come I besech you that she may make in my sight two litle suppinges and I may take meate of her hand †Dauid therfore sent home to Thamar saying Come into the house of Amnon thy brother make him broth †And Thamar came into the house of Amnon her brother and he lay who taking meale tempered it and resoluing it in his sight she made suppinges †And taking that which she had boyled she powred it out and set it before him and he would nor eate and Amnon sayd Put forth al from me And when they had put forth al †Amnon sayd to Thamar Bring in the meate into the parler that I may eate of thy hand Thamar therfore tooke the suppinges which she had made and caryed it in to Amnon her brother in the parler †And when she had offered him the meate he caught her and sayd Come lie with me my sister †Who answered him Doe not so my brother doe not rauish me for this is not lawful in Israel Doe not this folie †For I shal not be able to beare my reproch and thou shalt be as one of the foolish in Israel but rather speake to the king and he wil not denie me to thee †But he would not rest at her petitions but preuayling by force raui hed her and lay with her †And Amnon hated her with exceding great hatred so that the hatred was greater wherewith he hated her then the loue with the which before he loued her And Amnon said to her Arise and goe †Who answered him This euil which now thou doest against me expelling me is greater then that which thou didst before And he would not heare her †but calling the seruant that ministred to him he said Thrust this woman our from me and shut the doore after her †Who was clothed with a garment downe to the foote for the kinges daughters that were virgins vsed such kinde of garmentes His seruant therfore thrust her out and shut the doore after her †Who sprinkling ashes on her head renting her long garment and her handes vpon her head went going on and crying †And Absolon her brother sayd to
And thou didst answere me The saying is good which I haue heard †Why then hast thou not kept the oath of our Lord and the precept that I commanded thee †And the king said to Semei Thou knowest al the euil wherof thy hart is priuy to thy selfe which thou dist to Dauid my father our Lord hath rendred thy malice vpon thy head †And king Salomon be blessed and the throne of Dauid shal be stable before our Lord for euer †The king therfore commanded Banaias the sonne of Ioiada who going out stroke him and he died CHAP. III. King Salomon marieth Ikaraos sister 3. offereth Victims in high places 5. admonished by God in his sleepe to demand what he wil he asketh wisdom to gouerne his people 10. which God granteth him with much richesse also and glorie 16. He decideth a controuersie betwen two wemen contending about a liuing child and a dead THE kingdom therfore was established in the hand of Salomon and he was ioyned in affinitie to Pharao the king of Aegypt for he tooke his daughter and brought her into the citie of Dauid vntil he accomplished building his owne house and the house of our Lord and the wal of Ierusalem round about †But yet the people immolated in the excelses for there was no temple built to the name of our Lord vntil that day †And Salomon loued our Lord walking in the preceptes of Dauid his father sauing that he immolated in the excelses and burnt incense †He went therfore into Gabaon to immolate there for that was a verie great excelse a thousand hostes for holocaust did Salomon offer vpon that altar in Gabaon †And our Lord appeared to Salomon in a dreame by night saying Aske what thou wilt that I may geue it thee †And Salomon said Thou hast done great mercie with thy seruant Dauid my father euen as he walked in thy fight in truth and iustice and a right hart with thee for thou hast kept thy great mercie and hast geuen him a sonne sitting vpon his throne as it is this day †And now Lord God thou hast made thy seruant to reigne for Dauid my father but I am a litle childe and ignorant of my going out and coming in †And thy seruant is in the middes of the people which thou hast chosen a people infinite which can not be numbred and counted for the multitude †Thou shalt therfore geue to thy seruant a docible hart that he may iudge the people discerne betwen good and euil For who shal be able to iudge this people this thy people great in number †The word therfore was liked before our Lord that Salomon had asked such a thing †And our Lord sayd to Salomon Because thou hast asked this thing and hast not desired for thy self manie dayes nor riches nor the liues of thine enemies but hast desired wisedom for thy self to discerne iudgement †behold I haue done vnto thee according to thy wordes haue geuen thee a wise hart and intelligent in so much that 〈◊〉 before thee hath beene like thee nor shal aâ—ise after thee †Yeâ— and these thinges which thou diâ—â—â— not aske I haue geuen thee to witte riches and glorie so that none hath beene like thee â—â—â—â—g the kinges al dayes hertofore †And if thou wilt wall 〈◊〉 my wayes and keepe my preceptes and my â—â—n mandâ—â—â—ntes as thy father waâ—kâ—â— I wil make thy dayeslong †Therfore Salomon awaked and perceiued that it was a dreame and when he was come to Ierusalem he stood before the arke of couenant of our Lord and offered holocaustes and made pacifique victimes and a great feast to al his seruantes †Then came there two wemen har lottes to the king and stood before him †of the which one said I besech thee my lord I and this woman dwelt in one house and I was deliuered of a childe beside her in the chamber †And the third day after that I was deliuered she also was deliuered and we were together and no other person with vs in the house except we two †And this womans childe died in the night For sleping she oppressed him †And rysing in the dead tyme of the night she tooke my childe from the side of me thy handmayd being aslepe and layed it in her bosome and her childe that was dead she put in my bosome †And when I was rysen in the morning to geue my childe milke he appeared dead whom more diligently beholding when it was cleere day I found that it was not mine which I bare †And the other woman answered It is not so as thou sayst but thy childe is dead and mine liueth On the contrarie part she sayd Thou liest for my childe liueth and thy childe is dead And in this maner they stroue before the king †Then sayd the king This woman saith My childe liueth and thy childe is dead And this hath answered No but thy childe is dead and mine liueth †The king therfore said Bring me a sword And when they had brought a sword before the King †Diuide quoth he the liuing child into two partes and geue the halfe part to one and halfe to the other †But the woman whose childe was aliue said to the king for her bowels were moued vpon her childe I besech thee my lord geue her the childe aliue and kil it not On the contrarie part she sayd be it neither mine nor thine but let it be diuided †The king answered and said Geue vnto this woman the infant aliue and let it not be killed for this is the mother therof †Al Israel therfore heard the iudgement that the king had iudged and they feared the king seing the wisedom of God to be in him to doe iudgement CHAP. IIII. Chiefe men of Salomons kingdom are recited by their names and offices 22. likewise the prouision of victuals for his house 26. the number of his horses 19. his wisedom excelleth al others 3â— he writte manie parables and verses and lernedly discoursed of al thinges AND king Salomon was reigning ouer al Israel †and these were the princes which he had Azarias the sonne of Sadoc the priest †Elihoreph and Ahia the sonnes of Sisa Scribes Iosaph at the sonne of Ahilud register †Banaias the sonne of Ioiada ouer the armie and Sadoc and Abiathar priestes †Azarias the sonne of Nathan ouer them that assisted the king Zabud the sonne of Nathan priest the kinges frend †and Ahizar gouernour of the house and Adoniâ—am the sonne of Abda ouer the tributes †And Salomon had twelue gouernours ouer al Israel which serued out victuals for the king and for his house for euerie one ministred necessaries eche man his moneth in the yeare †And these are their names Benhur in mount Ephraim †Bendecar in Macces and in Salebim and in Bethsames and in Elon and in Bethhanan †Benhesed in Aruboth his was Socho and al the land
compassed it ten cubites going about the lauatorie there were two rewes of chamfered forowed grauinges cast †And it stood vpon twelue oxen of which three looked to the North and three to the West and three to the South and three to the East and the sea was ouer them whose hinder parâ—â—â— were al â—id inward †And the thickenes of the lauatorie wâ—â— of â—lrâ—â— câ—â—â—â—s and the brimme therof as it were the brimme of a chalice and the leafe of crisped lilie it contayned two thousand bates †And he made ten brasen seete of foure cubites in length euerie foote and foure cubites in bredth and three cubites in height †And the verie worke it selfe of the feete was entergrauen and enterg 〈…〉 betwen the ioyntures †And betwen the litle crownes and the playtes lions and oxen and cherubs and in the ioyntures likewise aboue and vnder the lions and oxen as it were â—â—â—des of brasse hanging downe †And foure wheeles at euerie foote and axeltrees of brasse and at foure â—ides as it were litle shoulders vnder the lauatorie cast looking one against an other †The mouth also of the lauatorie was inward in the toppe of the head and that which appeared outward was of one cubite al round and together it had one cubite a halfe and in the corners of the pillers were diuers engrauinges and the middle enterpillers square not round †The foure wheeles also which were at the foure corners of a foote ioyned one to an other vnder the foote one wheele had in height a cubite and a halfe †And they were such wheeles as are accustomed to be made in a chariote and their axeltrees and spokes and strakes and naues al cast †For those foure litle shoulders also at euerie corner of one foote were cast out of the foote and ioyned together †And in the toppe of the foote was a certayne roundnes of halfe a cubite so wrought that the lauatorie might be put thereon haâ—â— the engrauinges therof and diuerse caruinges of it self 〈…〉 graued also in those fielinges which were of brasse and in the corners cherubs and lions and palmetrees as it wâ—â—◠〈◊〉 the similitude of a man standing that they semed not to be engrauen but put to round about †After this maner made he ten feete of one casting and measure like grauing 〈…〉 made also ten lauatories of brasse one lauatorie conteyned fourtie bates and it was of foure cubites also at euerie foote that is ten he put so manie lauatories †And he sette the ten feete fiue on the right side of the temple and fiue on the leaft and the sea â—e put on the right side of the temple against the East toward the South †Hiram therfore made cauldrons and thoueles and litle pottes and perfected al the worke of king Salomon in the temple of our Lord. †Two pyllers and two cordes of the litle heades vpon the litle heades of the pyllers and two litle nettes to couer the two cordes that were ouer the heades of the pyllers †And foure hundred pomegranates in the two nettes two rewes of pomegramates in euerie nette to couer the cordes of the litle heades which were vpon the heades of the pyllers †And tenne feete and tenne lauatories vpon the feete †And one sea and twelue oxen vnder the sea †And cauldrons and shouels and litle pottes Al the vessels that Hiram made to king Salomon in the house of our Lord were of bright latten †In the champayne countrie of Iordan did the king cast those thinges in a clay ground betwen Sacoth and Sarthan †And Salomon placed al the vessel but for the exceding great multitude the brasse could not be weyed †And Salomon made al the vessels in the house of our Lord an altar of gold and a table wherupon the loaues of proposition should be put of gold †and candlestickes of gold fiue on the right hand and fiue on the leaft against the oracle of pure gold and as it were lilie floures and lampes aboue of gold and golden snuffers †and water pottes and fleshehookes and phiales and morters and censars of most pure gold and the â—ndges of doores of the inner Sanctum sanctorum and of the doores of the house of the temple were of gold †And Salomon perfected al the worke that he did in the house of our Lord and brought in the thinges that Dauid his father had sanctified siluer and gold and the vessel and layed them in the treasures of the house of our Lord. CHAP. VIII The arke is brought in and the temple dedicated 10. a glorious cloyvde replenisheth it 14. Salomon prayeth long to God 55. blesseth the people 62. and manie victimes are offered in this solemne festiuitie THEN were gathered together al the ancientes of Israel with the princes of the tribes and the heades of the families of the children of Israel to king Salomon into Ierusalem that they might carrie the Arke of the couenant of our Lord out of the citie of Dauid that is out of Sion †And al Israel assembled to king Salomon in the moneth of Ethanim on a solemne day that is the seuenth moneth †And al the ancientes of Israel came and the priestes tooke the arke †and caried the arke of our Lord and the tabernacle of couenant and al the vessels of the Sanctuarie that were in the tabernacle and the Priestes and the Leuites caried them †And king Salomon and al the multitude of Israel which was assembled vnto him went with him before the arke and they immolated sheepe and oxen without estimation number †And the priestes brought in the arke of the couenant of our Lord into his place into the oracle of the temple into Sanctum sanctorum vnder the winges of the cherubs †For the cherubs spred their winges ouer the place of the arke and couered the arke and the barres therof aboue †And whereas the barres stood out and the endes of them appeared without in the Sanctuarie before the oracle they appeared no farder outward which also were there vntil this present day †And in the arke there was nothing els but two tables of stone which Moyses put in it in Horeb when our Lord made the couenant with the children of Israel when they came out of the Land of Aegypt †And it came to passe when the priestes were gone out of the Sanctuarie a clowde filled the house of our Lord †and the priestes could not stand and minister for the clowde for the glorie of our Lord had filled the house of our Lord. †Then sayd Salomon Our Lord sayd that he would dwel in a clowde †Building I haue built a house for thy habitation thy most firme throne for euer †And the king turned his face and blessed al the church of Israel for al the church if Israel stood †And Salomon sayd Blessed be our Lord the God of Israel who spake
of the Assyrians into Samaria and assaulted it †and tooke it For after three yeares in the sixt yeare of Ezechias that is the ninth yeare of Osee the king of Israel Samaria was taken †and the king of the Assyrians transported Israel vnto the Assyrians and placed them in Hala and in Habor riuers of Gozan in the cities of the Medes †because they heard not the voice of our Lord their God but transgressed his couenant al things that Moyses the seruant of our Lord commanded they heard not neither did they it †In the fourtenth yeare of king Ezechias came vp Sennacherib the king of Assyrians to al the fensed cities of Iuda and tooke them †Then sent Ezechias the king of Iuda messengers to the king of the Assyrians into Lachis saying I haue sinned retyre from me and al that thou shalt put vpon me I will beare Therfore the king of the Assyrians put a taxe vpon Ezechias the king of Iuda three hundred talents of siluer and thirtie talents of gold †And Ezechias gaue al the siluer that was found in the house of our Lord and in the kinges treasures †At that time Ezechias brake the doores of the temple of our Lord and the plates of gold which he had fastened on them and gaue them to the king of the Assyrians †But the king of the Assyrias sent Tharthan and Rabsaris and Rabsaces from Lachis to king Ezechias with a strong powre to Ierusalem who when they were come vp they came to Ierusalem and stoode beside the conduite of the vpper poole which is in the way of the fullers field †And they called the king and there went out to them Eliacim the sonne of Helcias gouernour of the house and Sobna the Scribe and Ioahe the sonne of Asaph the register †And Rabsaces sayd to them Speake to Ezechias Thus sayth the great king the king of Assyrians What is this confidence that thou doest stay vpon †Perhaps thou hast taken counsel to prepare thy selfe to battle Wherin hast thou confidence that thou darest to rebel †Dost thou hope in Aegypt a staffe of reede and broken vpon which if a man leane broken into splinters it wil enter into his hand and pearce it so is Pharao the king of Aegypt to al that haue confidence in him †But if you wil say to me We haue confidence in our Lord God is not this he whose excelses and altars Ezechias hath taken away and he commanded Iuda and Ierusalem Before this altar shal you adore in Ierusalem †Now therfore passe to my lord the king of the Assyrians and I wil geue you two thousand horses and see whether you be able to haue ryders for them †And how can you resiste before one prince of the least seruantes of my lord Hast thou confidence in Aegypt for the chariotes and horsemen †Why am I come vp without the wil of the Lord to destroy it The Lord sayd to me Goe vp to this land and destroy it †And Eliacim the sonne of Helcias and Sobna and Ioahe sayd to Rabsaces We pray thee that thou speake to vs thy seruantes in Syryake for we vnderstand this tongue and speake not to vs in the Iewes language the people hearing it which is vpon the wal †And Rabsaces answered them saying What did my lord send me to thee that I should speake these wordes and not rather to the men that sit vpon the wal that they may eate their owne dung and drinke their vâ—ine with you †Rabsaces therfore stood and cryed out with a lowd voyce in the Iewes language and sayd Heaâ—e ye the wordes of the great king the king of the Assyrians †Thus sayth the king Let not Ezechias seduce you for he shal not be able to deliuer you out my hand †Neither let him geue you confidence vpon the Lord saying Our Lord deliuering wil deliuer vs and this citie shal not be geuen into the hand of the king of the Assyrians †Doe not heare Ezechias For thus sayth the king of the Assyrians Doe with me that which is profitable for you and come forth to me and euery man shal eate of his vineyard and of his figge tree and you shal drinke waters of your owne cesternes †til I come and transporte you into a land that is like to your land into a fruiteful land and plentiful of wyne a land of bread and of vineyardes a land of oliuetes and of oyle and honie and you shal liue and shal not die Heare not Ezechias who deceiueth you saying Our Lord wil deliuer vs. †Did the goddes of Nations deliuer their land from the hand of the king of Assyrians †Where is the God of Emath Arphad Where is the God of Sepharuaim of Ana and Aua did they deliuer Samaria out of my hand †What are they among al the goddes of nations which haue deliuered their countrey out of my hand that the Lord can deliuer Ierusalem out of my hand †The people therfore held their peace and did not answer him any thing for they had receiued the kings commandement that they should not answer him †And Eliacim the sonne of Helcias gouernour of the house and Sobna the scribe and Ioahe the sonne of Asaph register came to Ezeehias their garments rent and told him the wordes of Rabsaces CHAP. XIX Ezechias in affliction requesteth the prayers of Isaias the prophet 6. who assureth him of Gods helpe 8. The king of the Assyrians stil threatneth and blasphemeth 15. Ezechias praieth 20. and God hearing the prayers of the one and blasphemies of the other 28. promiseth to protect Ierusalem 35. An Angel in one night killeth an hundred fourscore and fiue thousand of the Assyrians campe their king returneth to Niniue is there slaine by two of his owne sonnes and an other sonne reigneth in his place VVHICH thinges when Ezechias the king had heard he rent his garmentes and was couered with sackcloth and entered into the house of our Lord. †And he sent Eliacim the gouernour of the house and Sobna the scribe and the ancientes of the priestes couered with sackclothes to Isaias the prophete the sonne of Amos. †Who sayd to him Thus saith Ezechias This day is a day of tribulation and rebuke and of blasphemie the children are come to the birth and the woman in trauel hath not strength †If perhaps our Lord thy God wil heare al the wordes of Rabsaces whom the king of the Assyrians his maister hath sent to vpbrayd the liuing God and reproue with wordes which our Lord thy God hath heard and make thou prayer for the remnantes that are found †The seruantes therfore of king Ezechias came to Isaie †And Isaie sayd to them Thus shal you say to your maister Thus sayth our Lord Feare not for the wordes which thou hast heard with which the seruantes of the king of the Assyrians haue blasphemed me †Behold I wil send
into him a spirit and he shal here a message and shal returne into his country and I wil ouerthrow him with the sword in his country †Rabsaces therfore returned and found the king of Assyrians expugning Lobna for he heard that he was departed from Lachis †And when he had heard of Tharaca the king of Aethiopia saying Behold he is come forth to fight agaynst thee and went agaynst him he sent messengers to Ezechias saying †Say this to Ezechias the king of Iuda Let not thy God seduce thee in whom thou hast confidence neither say thou Ierusalem shal not be deliuered into the handes of the king of the Assyrians †For thou thy self hast heard what the kinges of the Assyrians haue done to al the countries how they haue spoyled them canst thou therfore onlie be deliuered †Why haue the goddes of the Nations deliuered al those whom my fathers haue destroyed to witte Gozan Haran and Reseph and the children of Eden which were in Thelassar †Where is the king of Emath and the king of Arphad and the king of the citie of Sepharuaim of Ana and Aua †Therfore when Ezechias had receiued the letters of the hand of messengers had read them he went vp into the house of our Lord layd them open before our Lord †prayd in his sight saying Lord God of Israel which sittest vpon the cherubins thou art the only God of al the kinges of the earth thou madest heauen and earth †Incline thine eare and heare open Lord thine eies and see and heare al the wordes of Sennacherib who hath sent to vpbrayd vnto vs the liuing God †In verie deede Lord the kinges of the Assyrians haue destroyed Nations and the countries of al. †And they haue cast their goddes into fire for they were not goddes but the workes of mens handes of wood and stone and they destroyed them †Now therfore O Lord our God saue vs from his hand that al the kingdomes of the earth may know that thou art the Lord the onlie God †And Isaie the sonne of Amos sent to Ezechias saying Thus saith our Lord the God of Israel That which thou hast besought me concerning Sennacherib the king of the Assyrians I haue heard †This is the word that our Lord hath spoken of him The virgine daughter of Sion hath dispised thee and scorned thee Behinde thy backe hath the daughter of Ierusalem wagged her head †Whom hast thou vpbrayded and whom hast thou blasphemed against whom hast thou exalted thy voice and lifted vp thine eies in high against the holie one of Israel †By the hand of thy seruantes thou hast vpbrayded our Lord and hast sayd In the multitude of my chariotes haue I climed the height of mouutaynes in the toppe of Libanus and haue cut downe high cedars therof and the chosen â—irretrees of it And I haue entered into the borders therof the forrest of the carmel therof †haue I cut downe And I haue drunke strange waters and haue dried vp with the steppes of my feete al the waters in closed †Why hast thou not heard what I haue done from the begining From ancient daies I haue made that thing and now I haue brought it to effect and fensed cities shal be into ruine of litle hilles bickering together †And they that sitte in them weake of hand they haue trembled and are confounded they became as the grasse of the field and the greene herbe of the roofes of houses which withered before it came to ripenesse †Thy habitation and thy going out and thy coming in and thy waye I haue knowen before thy surie against me †Thou hast bene madde against me thy pride hath ascended into myn eares I therfore wil put a ring in thy nostrels and a bitte in thy lippes and wil bring thee back into the way by the which thou camest †And to thee Ezechias this shal be a signe Eate this yeare what thou shalt finde in the second yeare the things that growe of themselues moreouer in the third yeare sawe ye and reape plant ye vineyardes and eate the fruite of them †And whatsoeuer shal be leaft of the house of Iuda shal take roote downeward and beare fruit vpward †For out of Ierusalem there shal remmantes goe forth and that which is to be saued from the mounte of Sion the zeale of the Lord of hostes shal doe this †Wherfore thus sayth our Lord of the king of the Assyrians He shal not enter into this citie nor shoote arrowe into it neither shal shield occupie it nor munition compasse it †By the way that he came he shal returne and into this citie he shal nos enter sayth our Lord †And I wil protect this citie and wil saue it for my self and for Dauid my seruant †It came to passe therfore in that night an Angel of our Lord came and stroke in the campe of the Assyrians an hundred eightie fiue thousand And when he was risen early he sawe al the bodies of the dead †and Sennacherib the king of the Assyrians departing went away and taried in Niniue †And when he adored in the temple of Nesroch his god Adramelech and Sarasar his sonnes stroke him with the sword and they fled into the land of the Armenians and Asarhaddon his sonne reigned for him CHAP. XX. Ezechias being sick is told by Isaias that he shal die but praying to God obtayneth fiftenne yeares longer life 8. and in confirmation therof receiueth a signe in Achaz dial returning back tenne lines 12. To the Aâ—yrians bringing him presents he sheweth al his treasures 16. which Isaias reprouing prophecieth the captiuitie of Iuda 20. Ezechias dieth and his sonne Manasses reigneth IN those dayes Ezechias was sick euen to death and Isaie the sonne of Amos the prophete came and sayd to him Thus sayth our Lord God Take order with thy house for thou shalt die and shalt not liue †Who turned his face to the wal and prayed our Lord saying †I besech thee Lord remember I pray thee how I haue walked before thee in truth and in a perfect hart and haue done that which is liked before thee Ezechias therfore wept with great weeping †And before Isaie was gone out of the middes of the court the word of our Lord came to him saying †Returne and tel Ezechias the prince of my people Thus sayth our Lord the God of Dauid thy father I haue heard thy prayer and seene thy teares and behold I haue healed thee the third day thou shalt goe vp to the temple of the Lord. †And I wil adde to thy daies fiftene yeares yea out of the hand of the king of Assyrians I wil deliuer thee and this citie I wil protect this citie for my sake and for Dauid my seruant †And Isaie said Fetch me a bunch of figges Which when they had brought and had layd it vpon
ouer the loaues of proposition to prepare alwaies new euerie Sabbath †These are the chief of the singing men by the families of the Leuites which abode in the chambers that they might day and night continually serue in their ministerie †The heades of the Leuites princes in their families taried in Ierusalem †And in Gabaon abode Iehiel the father of Gabaon and the name of his wise Maacha †His first begotten sonne Abdon and Sur and Cis and Baal and Ner and Nadab †Gedor also and Ahio and Zacharias and Macelloth †Moreouer Macelloth begat Samaan these dwelt ouer agaynst their brethren in Ierusalem with their brethren †And Ner bagat Cis and Cis begat Saul end Saul begat Ionathas and Melchisua and Abinadab and Esbaal. †And the sonne of Ionathas Meribbaal and Meribbaal begat Micha †Moreouer the sonnes of Micha Phithon and Molech and Tharaa and Ahaz †And Ahaz begat Iara and Iara begat Alamath and Azmoth and Zamri And Zamri begat Mosa †And Mosa begat Banaa whose sonne Raphaia bepat Elasa of whom was borne Asel †Moreouer Asel had six sonnes of these names Ezricam Bochru Ismael Saria â—bdiâ— Hanan these are the sonnes of Asel CHAP. X. King Saul with his three sonnes are slaine by the Philistians 8. who spoiâ—e the armie and carie 〈◊〉 ay Souls head 11. The men of Iabes Galaad â—â—rie his bodie and his sonnes fasting for them seuen daies And the kingdom is translated to Dauid AMD the Philistijms fought agaynst Israel and the men of Israel fled from the Palesthines and they fel wounded in mount Gelboe †And when the Philisthians were come nere pursewing Saul and his sonnes they stroke Ionathas and Abinadab and Melchisua the sonnes of Saul †And the battel grewc sore agaynst Saul and the archers found him and wounded him with arrowes †And Saul sayd to his esquyer Draw thy swoord and kil me lest perhaps these vncircumcised come and deride me But his harnes bearer would not being frighted with feare Saul therfore caught his sword and fel vpon it †Which when his harnes bearer had seene to witte that Saul was dead him self also fel vpon his sword and died †Saul therfore died and his three sonnes and al his house fel together †Which when the men of Israel had sene that dwelt in the châ—inpayne they fled and Saul and his sonnes being dead they forsooke their cities and were dispersed hither and thither and the Philisthijms came and dwelt in them †The next day therfore the Philisthijms taking away the spoiles of them that were stayne found Saul and his sonnes lying on mount Gelboe †And when they had spoyled him and cut of his head and stripped him of his armour they sent into their land that it should be caried about and should be shewed in the temples of the Idols and to the people †and his armour they dedicated in the temple of their god and the head they nailed vp in the temple of Dagon †When the men of Iabes Galaad had heard this to witte al thinges that the Philistijms had done vpon Saul †euerie one of the valiant men arose and tooke the bodies of Saul and of his sonnes and brought them into Iabes and buried their bones vnder an oke that was in Iabes and they fasted seuen daies †Saul therfore died for his iniquities for that he transgressed the commandement of our Lord which he had commanded and kept it not yea and besides also consulted the Pythonesse †and trusted not in our Lord for the which he slewe him and transferred his kingdome to Dauid the sonne of Isai CHAP. XI Dauid is elected and annointed king 5. He ouerthroweth the Iebusites taking the towre of Sion in Ierusalem and prospereth 10. His valiant men and their heroical actes are recited 17. He desiring water from the cisterne of Bethleem wil not drink it but offereth it in sacrifice because it is brought with danger of his valiant mens liues 20. Other valiant men of the second order are likewise recited AL Israel therfore was gathered together to Dauid in Hebron saying We are thy bone and thy flesh †Yesterday also and the day before when Saul as yet reigned thou wast he that didst leade out and leade in Israel for to thee our Lord thy God sayd Thou shalt feede my people Israel and thou shalt be prince ouer it †Al the ancientes therfore of Israel came to the king into Hebron and Dauid entred into a league with them before our Lord and they annoynted him king ouer Israel according to the word of our Lord which he spake in the hand of Samuel †Dauid also went and al Israel into Ierusalem this is Iebus where the Iebuseites were the inhabiters of the land †And they that dwelt in Iebus sayd to Dauid Thou shalt not come in here Moreouer Dauid tooke the towre of Sion which is the Citie of Dauid †and he sayd Euerie one that shal among the first strike the Iebuseite shal be the prince and chiefe captayne Ioab therfore the sonne of Saruia went vp first and was made the prince †And Dauid dwelt in the towre and therfore it was called the Citie of Dauid †And he built the citie round about from Mello vnto a round compasse and Ioab built the rest of the citie †And dauid ptospered going and increasing and the Lord of hostes was with him †These are the princes of the valiant men of Dauid which holpe him to be made king ouer al Israel according to the word of our Lord which he spake to Israel †And this is the number of dauids strong ones Iesbaam the sonne of Hachamoni prince among thirtie this man lifted vp his speare vpon three hundred wounded at one time †And after him Eleazar his vncles sonne an Ahohite who was among the three mighties †This was with Dauid in Phesdomim when the Philisthijms were gathered to that place into battel and the field of that countrie was ful of barley and the people was fled from the face of the Philisthimes †These stood in the middes of the fielde and defended him and when they had striken the Philistheans our Lord gaue great health to his people †And there went downe three of the thirtie princes to a rocke wherin Dauid was to the caue of Odollam when the Philisthijms had camped in the Vale raphaim †Moreouer dauid was in a hold and the ward of the Phelisthimes in Bethlehem †Dauid therfore desired and sayd O that some man would giue me water of the cesterne of Bethlehem which is in the gate †These three therfore went forward through the middes of the campe of the Philisthimes and drewe water of the cesterne of Bethlehem which was in the gate and brought it to Dauid to drinke who would not but tather offered it to our Lord †saying God forbid that in the sight of my God I should doe this and should
Our Lord increase his people an hundred fold more then they are are they not my lord king al thy seruantes why doth my lord seeke this which may be reputed for a sinne to Israel †But the kinges word preuailed more and Ioab went forth and went about al Israel and returned to Ierusalem †And he gaue Dauid the number of them whom he had surueyed and al the number of Israel was found a thousand thousand and an hundred thousand men that drew sword and of Iuda foure hundred seuentie thousand men of warre †For Leui and Beniamin he numbred not because Ioab vnwillingly executed the kings commandement †And that which was commanded displeased God and he stroke Israel †And Dauid sayd to God I haue sinned excedingly in that I would doe this I besech thee take away the iniquitie of thy seruant because I haue done foolishly †And our Lord spake to Gad the Seer of Dauid saying †Goe and speake to Dauid and tel him Thus sayth our Lord I geue thee the choyse of three thinges choose one which thou wilt and I wil doe it to thee †And when Gad was come to Dauid he sayd to him Thus sayth our Lord Choose which thou wilt †either three yeares famine or three monethes to flee from thine enemies and not to be able to escape their sword or three dayes the sword of our Lord and pestilence to be in the land and the Angel of our Lord to kil in al the costes of Israel now therfore see what I shal answer him that sent me †And Dauid sayd to Gad I am on euerie side in great distresse but it is better that I fal into the handes of our Lord because his mercies be manie then into the handes of men †Our Lord therfore sent the pestilence in Israel and there fel of Israel seuentie thousand men †He sent also an Angel into Ierusalem to strike it and when it was striken our Lord saw and had compassion vpon the greatenesse of the euil and commanded the Angel that smote It is sufficient now let thy hand cease Moreouer the Angel of our Lord stoode beside the floore of Ornan the Iebuseite †And Dauid lifting vp his eies saw the Angel of our Lord standing betwen heauen and earth and a sword drawen in his hand turned agaynst Ierusalem they fel as wel he as the ancientes clothed in heare clothes flatte on the earth †And Dauid sayd to God Am not I he that commanded the people to be mumbred It is I that haue sinned it is I that haue done the euil this flocke what hath it deserued Lord my God let thy hand be turned I besech thee vpon me and vpon my fathers house and let not thy people be striken †And the Angel of our Lord commanded Gad to tel Dauid that he should goe vp and build an altar to our Lord God in the floore of Ornan the Iebuseite †Dauid therfore went vp according to the word of Gad which he had spoken to him in the name of our Lord. †Moreouer Ornan when he had looked vp and sene the Angel and his foure sonnes with him they hid themselues for at that time he threshed wheat in the floore †Therfore when Dauid came to Ornan Ornan beheld him went forth to mete him out of the floore and adored him flatte on the ground †And Dauid sayd to him Geue me the place of thy floore that I may build therein an altar to our Lord so that thou take as much siluer as it is worth and the plague may cease from the people †And Ornan sayd to Dauid Take it and let my lord the king doe whatsoeuer pleaseth him yea the oxen also I geue for holocaust and the dreyes for wood and wheat for sacrifice I wil giue al thinges willingly †And king Dauid sayd to him It shal not be so but I wil geue thee siluer as much as it is worth for I may not take it from thee and so offer to our Lord holocaustes geuen gratis †Dauid therfore gaue Ornan for the place six hundred sicles of gold of most iust weight †And he built there an altar to our Lord and he offered holocaustes and pacifiques and he inuocated our Lord he heard him in fyre from heauen vpon the altar of holocauste †And our Lord commanded the Angel and he turned his sword into the scabbard †Dauid therfore forthwith seing that our Lord had heard him in the floore of Ornan the Iebuseite immolated victimes there †But the tabernacle of our Lord. which Moyses made in the desert and the altar of holocaustes was at that time in the excelse of Gabaon †And Dauid could not goe to the altar to pray God there for he had bene frighted with exceding feare seing the sword of the Angel of our Lord. CHAP. XXII VVorkemen and al necessaries being prepared 6. Dauid commandeth Salomon to build the Temple for so God hath appoynted 13. exhorteth him to serue God 17. and other principal men to assist him AND Dauid sayd This is the house of God and this is an altar for holocauste to Israel †And he commanded that the proselytes of the land of Israel should be gathered to gether and he appoynted of them masons to hewe stones and polish them that the house of God might be built †Dauid prepared also verie much yron for the nayles of the gates and for the ioyninges and ioynctures and of brasse an inmumerable weight †The cedar trees also could not be estemed which the Sidonians and Tyrians brought downe to Dauid †And Dauid sayd Salomon my sonne is yet a litle child and delicate and the house which I would haue to be builded to our Lord must be such as may be renowned in al countries I therfore wil prepare him necessaries And for this cause before his death he prepared al the expenses †And he called Salomon his sonne and commanded him that he should build a house to our Lord the God of Israel †And Dauid sayd to Salomon My sonne it was my wil to haue built a house to the name of our Lord my God †But the word of our Lord was made to me saying Thou hast shed much bloud and fought verie manie battels thou canst not build a house to my name so much bloud being shed before me †the sonne which shal be borne to thee shal be a most quiet man for I wil make him rest from al his enemies round about and for this cause he shal be called Peaceable and I wil geue peace and quietnesse in Israel al his dayes †He shal build a house to my name he shal be to me for a sonne and I wil be to him for a father and I wil establih the throne of his kingdom ouer Israel for euer †Now therfore my sonne Our Lord be with thee and doe thou prosper and build the house to our Lord thy
God as he hath spoken of thee †Our Lord also giue thee wisdome and vnderstanding that thou mayst be able to rule Israel and to kepe the law of our Lord thy God †For then thou shalt be able to prosper if thou shalt keepe the commandementes and iudgementes which our Lord commanded Moyses to teach Israel take courage and play the man feare not neither be dismayde †Behold I in my pouertie haue prepared the charges of the house of our Lord of gold an hundred thousand talentes and of siluer a thousand thousand talentes but of brasse and of yron there is noe weight for the number is surpassed with the greatnesse timber and stones I haue prepared to al the charges †Thou hast also verie manie artificers hewers of stones and masons carpenters and of al occapations most skilful to make worke †in gold and siluer and brasse and yron wherof there is no number Ryse therfore and do it and our Lord wil be with thee †Dauid also commanded al the princes of Israel that they should help Salomon his sonne †You see quoth he that our Lord your God is with you and hath geuen you rest round about and hath deliuered al your enemies into your handes and the land is subdewed before our Lord and before his people †Geue therfore your hart and your soules to seeke our Lord your God and arise and build a sanctuarie to our Lord God that the Arke of the couenant of our Lord and the vessels consecrated to our Lord may be brought into the house which is built to the name of our Lord. CHAP. XXIII King Dauid being old constituteth Salomon king 3. disposeth the offices of Leuites 7. to wit the families of Gerson 12. of Caath 21. and of Merari 26. ceassing to carrie the tabernacle 27. to serue in the temple DAVID therfore being old ful of daies made Salomon his sonne king ouer Israel †And he gathered al the princes of Israel and the Priestes and Leuites †And the Leuites were numbred from thirtie yeares vpward and there were found thirtie eight thousand men †Of these were chosen and distributed into the ministerie of the house of our Lord foure and twentie thousand and of the ouerseers and iudges six thousand †Moreouer foute thousand porters and as manie singing to our Lord on instrumentes which he had made to sing on †And Dauid distributed them by the courses of the children of Leui to witte of Gerson and Caath and Merari †The sonnes of Gerson Leedan and Semei †The sonnes of Leedan the prince Iahiel Zethan and Ioel three †The sonnes of Semei Salomith and Hosiel and Aram three these be the princes of the familes of Leedan †Moreouer the sonnes of Semei Leheth and Ziza and Iaus and Baria these be the sonnes of Semei foure †And Leheth was the first Ziza the second moreouer Iaus and Baria had not manie children and therfore they were counted in one familie and in one house †The children of Caath Amram and Isaar Hebron and Oziel foure †The sonnes of Amram Aaron and Moyses And Aaron was seperated to minister in Sanctasanctorum he and his sonnes for euer and to burne incense to our Lord according to his rite and to blesse his name for euer †The sonnes of Moyses also the man of God were numbred in the tribe of Leui. †The sonnes of Moyses Gersom and Eliezari the sonnes of Gersom Subuel the first †And the sonnes of Eliezer were Rohobia the first and Eleezer had noe moe sonnes Moreouer the children of Rohobia were multiplied excedingly †The sonnes of Isaar Salomith the first †The sonnes of Hebron Ieriau the first Amarias the second Iahaziel the third Iecmaan the fourth †The son̄nes of Oziel Micha the first Iesia the second †The sonnes of Merari Moholi Musi The sonnes of Moholi Eleazar and Cis. †And Eleazar died and had no sonnes but daughters and the sonnes of Cis their brethren tooke them †The sonnes of Musi Moholi and Eder and Ierimoth three †These be the children of Leui in their kinredes and families princes by courses and number of euerie head that did the workes of ministerie of the house of our Lord from twentie yeares and vpward †For Dauid sayd Our Lord the God of Israel hath geuen rest to his people and the habitation of Ierusalem for euer †Neither shal it be the office of the Leuites to carie any more the tabernacle and al the vessels therof to minister †According to the last preceptes also of Dauid the number of the children of Leui shal be numbred from twentie yeares and vpward †And they shal be vnder the hand of the sonnes of Aaron for the seruice of the house of our Lord in the entrances and in the chambers and in the place of purification and in the Sanctuarie and in al the workes of the ministerie of the temple of our Lord. †And the Priestes ouer the loaues of proposition and for the sacrifice of floure and for cakes and azimes and the frying panne and to rost and ouer al weight and measure †But the Leuites to stand in the morning to confesse and sing to our Lord and in like maner at euening †as wel in the oblation of the holocaustes of our Lord as in the Sabbathes and Calendes and the rest of the solemnities according to the number and ceremonies of euerie thing continually before our Lord. †And let them keepe the obseruations of the tabernacle of couenant and the rite of the Sanctuarie and the obseruance of the children of Aaron their brethren that they minister in the house of our Lord. CHAP. XXIIII King Dauid disposeth sixtene families of Eleazar and eight of Ithamar 7. by lottes 19. to serue in the Temple according to their priestlie function 20. likwise principal Leuites in their offices MOREOVER to the sonnes of Aaron these were the partions The sonnes of Aaron Nadab and Abiu and Eleazar and Ithamar †But Nadab and Abiu died before their father without children and Eleazar and Ithamar did the function of priesthood †And Dauid diuided them that is Sadoo of the sonnes of Eleazar and Ahimelech of the sonnes of Ithamar according to their courses and ministerie †And there were found manie more children of Eleazar among the principal men then children of Ithamar And he diuided to them that is to the children of Eleazar princes by their families sixtene and to the children of Ithamar by their families and houses eight †Moreouer he diuided both families betwen themselues by lottes for there were princes of the Sanctuarie and princes of God as wel of the children of Eleazar as of the children of Ithamar †And Semeias wrote them the sonne of Nathanael the Scribe a Leuite before the king and princes and Sadoc the Priest and Ahimelech the sonne of Abiathar the princes also of the Priestlie and Leuitical families
the house of our Lord. †Lottes therfore were cast equally both to litle and great by their families for euerie one of the gates †The lotte then of the East fel to Selemia Moreouer to Zacharias his sonne a most wise man and skilful the North quarter chanced by lot †But to Obededom and his sonnes toward the South in which part of the house was the councel of the ancientes †Sephim and Hosa toward the West by the gate which leadeth to the way of ascent watch against watch †And toward the East six Leuites and toward the North foure a day and toward the South likewise in a day foure and where the councel was two and two †In the celles also of the porters toward the West foure in the way and two at euerie celle †These be the diuisions of the porters of the sonnes of Core and of Merari †Moreouer Achias was ouer the treasures of the house of God and the vessels of the holie places †The sonnes also of Ledan the sonnes of Gersonni of Ledan princes of the families Ledan and Gersonni Iehieli †The sonnes of Iehieli Zathan and Ioel his brethren ouer the treasures of the house of our Lord †to the Amramites and Isaarites and Hebronites and Ozielites †And Subael the sonne of Gersom the sonne of Moyses chiefe ouer the treasures †His brethren also Eliezer whose sonne Rahabia and his sonne Isaias and his sonne Ioram his sonne also Zechri and his sonne Selemith †Selemith himself and his bretbren ouer the treasures of the sanctified holie thinges which Dauid the king sanctified and the princes of families and the centurions and the captaynes of the host †of the warres and of the spoyles of the battels which they had consecrated to the maynteynance and furniture of the temple of our Lord. †And al these thinges did Samuel the Seer sanctifie and Saul the sonne of Cis and Abner the sonne of Ner and Ioab the sonne of Saruia and al that had sanctified them by the hand of Selemith and of his brethren †But the chiefe ouer the Isaarites was Chonenias and his sonnes to the workes abrode ouer Israel to teach and iudge them †Moreouer the Hebronites Hasabias and his brethren most able men a thousand seuen hundred were chiefe ouer Israel beyond Iordan agaynst the West in al the workes our Lord and for the ministerie of the king †And the prince of the Hebronites was Ieria according to their families and kinredes In the fourteth yeare of king Dauid they were numbred and there were found most valiant men in Iazer Galaad †and his brethren of stronger age two thousand seuen hundred princes of families And Dauid the king made them ouerseers ouer the Rubenites and the Gaddites and the halfe tribe of Manasses for al the ministerie of God and the king CHAP. XXVII Twelue militarie tribunes with foure and twentie thousand vnder euerie one by course of monethes serue about the king 16. Other twelue tribunes of the people gouerne in seueral tribes 25. Prefectes also are made ouer the kinges treasures cattles and other commodities in the court campe and countrie AND the children of Israel according to their number the princes of families tribune and centurions and ouerseers that ministred to the king according to their companies coming in and going out euerie moneth in the yeare euerie one was chiefe ouer foure and twentie thousand †Ouer the first companie the first moneth Iesboam was chiefe the sonne of Zabdicl and vnder him foure and twentie thousand †Of the sonnes of Phares the prince of al the princes in the hoste the first moneth †The companie of the second moneth had Dudia an Ahohite and after him an other named Macelloth which gouerned part of foure and twentie thousand †Captayne also of the third companie in the third moneth was Banaias the sonne of Ioiada the Priest and in his diuision foure and twentie thousand †The same is Banaias the most valiant among thirtie and aboue the thirtie ouer his companie Amizabad his sonne was chiefe †The fourth in the fourth moneth Asahel the brother of Ioab and Zabadias his sonne after him and in his companie foure and twentie thousand †The fifth in the fifth moneth prince Samaoth a Iezerite and his companie foure and twentie thousand †The sixth in the sixth moneth Hira the sonne of Acces a Thecuite and in his companie foure and twentie thousand †The seuenth in the seuenth moneth Helles a Phallonite of the children of Ephraim and in his companie foure and twentie thousand †The eight in the eight moneth Sobochai an Husathite of the stocke of Sarahi and in his companie foure and twentie thousand †The ninth in the ninth moneth Abiezer an Anathothite of the children of Iemini and in his companie foure and twentie thousand †The tenth in the tenth moneth Marai and he a Netophathite of the stocke of Zarahi and in his companie foure and twentie thousand †The eleuenth in the eleuenth moneth Banaias a Pharathonite of the children of Ephraim and in his companie foure and twentie thousand †The twelfth in the twelfth moneth Holdai a Netophathite of the stocke of Gothoniel and in his companie foure and twentie thousand †Furthermore there were chiefe ouer the tribes of Israel ouer the Rubenites Duke Eliezer the sonne of Zechri ouer the Simeonites Duke Saphatias the sonne of Maacha †ouer the Leuites Hasabias the sonne of Camuel ouer the Aaronites Sadoc †ouer Iuda Eliu the brother of Dauid ouer Issachar Amri the sonne of Michael †ouer the Zabulonites Iesmaias the sonne of Abdias ouer the Nepthalites Ierimoth thesonne of Ozriel †ouer the children of Ephraim Osee the sonne of Ozaziu ouer the halfe tribe of manasses Ioel the sonne of Phadaia †and ouer the halfe tribe of Manasses in Galaad Iaddo the sonne of Zacharias and our Beniamin Iasiel the sonne of Abner †But ouer Dan Ezrihel the sonne of Ieroham these be the princes of the children of Israel †And Dauid would not number them from twentie yeares downeward because our Lord had sayd that he would multiplie Israel “ as the starres of heauen †Ioab the sonne of Saruia beganne to number and finished not because vpon this there fel wrath vpon Israel and therfore the number of them that were numbered was not regestred in the chronicles of king Dauid †And ouer the kinges treasures was Azmoth the sonne of Adiel and ouer those treasures which were in the cities and in the townes and in the towers Ionathan the sonne of Ozias was president †And ouer husbandrie and the husbandmen which tilled the ground Ezri the sonne of Chelub was ouerseer †and ouer the dressers of vineyardes Semeias a Romathite and ouer the wine cellars Zabdias an Aphonite †For ouer the Oliuetes and the figgegroues which were in the champayne was Balanam a Gederite and ouer the oile cellars Ioas. â€
euerie naile weighed fiftie sicles a peece the vpper chambers also he couered with gold †He made also in the house of Sanctum sanctorum two Cherubs of statuarie worke and he couered them with gold †The winges of the cherubs were extended twentie cubites so that one wing had fiue cubites and touched the wal of the house and the other hauing fiue cubites touched the wing of the other cherub †In like maner the wing of the other cherub had fiue cubites and touched the wal and his other wing of fiue cubites touched the wing of the other Cherub †Therfore the winges of both the cherubs were spred forth and were extended twentie cubites and they stoode vpright on their feete and their faces were turned to the vtter house †He made also a vele of hyacinth purple scarlet and silke woue in it cherubs †Before the doores also of the temple two pillers which had fiue and thirtie cubites in height moreouer their heades of fiue cubites †Moreouer also as it were litle chaynes in the oracle he put them to the heades of the pillers pomegranates also an hundred which he put betwen the litle chaynes †The pillers also them selues he put in the entrance of the temple one on the right hand and the other on the left that which was on the right hand he called Iachin and that on the left hand Boz CHAP. IIII. The formes of the brasen altar 2. of the lauatorie or Sea with figures of twelue oxen 6. of other tenne smal lauatories 7. tenne candlestickes 8. tenne tables and an hundred bassens a great hal for the Priestes 10. and other vessel and ornamentes of the Temple are described HE made also an altar of brasse of twentie cubites in length and of twentie cubites in bredth and of ten cubites in height †A Sea also cast ten cubites from brimme to brimme round in compasse it had fiue cubites in height and a corde of thirtie cubires did compasse it round about †There was also vnder it the similitude of oxen and certaine engrauinges of ten cubites on the outside compassed the bealie of the Sea as it were with two rewes †And the oxen were cast and the Sea it self was sette vpon the twelue oxen of the which three looked toward the North and other three to the West moreouer other three to the South and the three that remayned to the East hauing the Sea put vpon them and the hinder partes of the oxen were inward vnder the sea †Moreouer the thicknesse therof had the measure of a palme and the brimme therof was as it were the brimme of a chalice or of a crisped lilie and it held three thousand metretes †He made also ten lauatories and set fiue on the right hand and fiue on the left that they might wash in them al thinges that they would offer for holocaust moreouer in the Sea the priestes were washed †And he made also ten golden candlestickes according to the fashion which they were commanded to be made by and he set them in the temple fiue on the right hand fiue on the left †Moreouer also ten tables and he set them in the temple fiue on the right hand and fiue on the left Phials also of gold an hundred †He made also the court of the priestes and a great hal and doores in the hal which he couered with brasse †Moreouer he set the Sea on the right side agaynst the East toward the South †And Hiram made cauldrons and flesh hookes and phials and accomplished al the kinges worke in the house of God †that is to say two pillers and the chapiters and the heades and asit were certayne litle nettes which should couer the heades ouer the chapiters †Pomegranates also foure hundred and two litle nettes soe that two rewes of the pomegranates were ioyned to ech litle nette which couered the pommels and the heades of the pillers †He made feete also and lauatories which he put vpon the feete †one sea also twelue oxen vnder the sea †And the cauldrons and flesh hookes and phials Al the vessels did Hiram his father make for Salomon in the house of our Lord of most pure brasse †In the countrie of Iordan did the king cast them in a clay ground bewen Socot and Saredatha †And the multitude of vessels was innumerable so that the weight of the brasse was not knowen †And Salomon made al the vessels of the house of God and the golden altar and the tables vpon them the loaues of proposition †the candlestickes also with their lampes to giue light before the oracle according to the rite of most pure gold †and certayne florishing thinges and lampes and golden tonges al were made of most fine gold †The vessels also of persume and censars and phials and litle mortars of most pure gold And he graued the doores of the inner temple that is in Sancta sanctorum and the doores of the temple without of gold And so al the worke was finishd which Salomon made in the house of our Lord. CHAP. V. Manie giftes are offered 4. The Arke is brought with great solennitie into the Temple 6. Innumerable hostes are offered 11. with excellent musick the Temple is replenished with the glorie of God SALOMON therfore brought in al the thinges that Dauid his father had vowed the siluer and gold and al the vessels he put in the treasures of the house of God †After which thinges he gathered together al the ancientes of Israel and al the princes of the tribes and the heades of families of the children of Israel into Ierusalem to bring the Arke of the couenant of our Lord from the Citie of Dauid which is Sion †There came therfore vnto the king al the men of Israel in the solemne day of the seuenth moneth †And when al the ancientes of Israel were come the Leuites caried the Arke †and brought it in and al the furniture of the tabernacle Moreouer the Priestes with the Leuites did carrie the vessels of the Sanctuarie which were in the tabernacle †And king Salomon and al the assemblie of Israel and al that were gathered before the Arke immolated rammes and oxen without anie number for so great was the multitude of victimes †And the priestes brought in the Arke of the couenant of our Lord into his place that is to the oracle of the temple into Sancta sanctorum vnder the winges of the cherubs †so that the cherubs spred their winges ouer the place wherin the Arke was set and couered the Arke it selfe with his barres †And the heades of the barres wherwith the Arke was caried because they were a litle longer appeared before the oracle but if a man had beene a litle outward he could not see them The Arke therfore was there vntil this present day †And there was nothing in the
whosoeuer had geuen their hart to seeke our Lord the God of Israel came into Ierusalem to immolate their victims before our Lord the God of their fathers †And they strenghened the kingdom of Iuda and established Roboam the sonne of Salomon for three yeares for they walked in the waies of Dauid and Salomon onlie three yeares †And Roboam tooke to wife Mahalath the daughter of Ierimoth the sonne of Dauid Abiâ—ail also the daughter of Eliab the sonne of Isai †who bare him sonnes Iehus and Somorias and Zoom †After this woman also he tooke Maacha the daughter of Absalom who bare him Abia and Ethai and Ziza and Salomith †And Roboam loued Maacha the daughter of Absalom aboue al his wiues and concubines for he had maried eightene wiues and threescore concubines and he begat eight and twentie sonnes and threescore daughters †But he appoynted for head Abias the sonne of Maacha duke ouer al his brethren for he meant to make him king †because he was wiser and mightier aboue al his sonnes and in al the costes of Iuda and of Beniamin and in al the walled cities and he gaue them much meate and he disired manie wiues CHAP. XII For the sinnes of Roboam and the people manie strong cities also Ierusalem are taken and spoyled by the king of Aegypt 8. They repent and the Aegyptians depart 9. but carie away the treasures 13. Roboam dieth and his sonne Abias reigneth AND when the kingdom of Roboam was strengthened and fortified he forsooke the law of our Lord and al Israel with him †And in the fifth yeare of the kingdom of Roboam came vp Sesac the king of Aegypt into Ierusalem because they had sinned to our Lord †with a thousand two hundred chariotes and threescore thousand horsemen neither was anie number of the common people that came with him out of Aegypt to witte Lybians and Troglodytes and Aethiopians †And he tooke the most fensed cities in Iuda and came ouer vnto Ierusalem †And Semeias the prophete went to Roboam and to the princes of Iuda that were gathered togetherin Ierusalem fleing from Sasac and he sayd to them Thus sayth our Lord You haue leaft me and I haue leaft you in the hand of Sesac †And the princes of Israel and the king being astonied sayd Our Lord is iust †And when our Lord had seene that they were humbled the word of our Lord came to Semeias saying Because they are humbled I wil not destroy them and I wil geue them a litle ayde and my furie shal not droppe vpon Ierusalem by the hand of Sesac †But yet they shal serue him that they may know the distance of my seruice and of the seruice of the kingdom of the earth †Therfore Sesac the king of Aepypt retyred from Ierusalem taking away the treasures of the house of our Lord and of the kinges house and he tooke al thinges with him and the golden shieldes that Salomon had made †for the which the king made brasen ones and deliuered them to the princes of the shieldbearers which kept the entrance of the palace †And when the king entred into the house of our Lord the shieldbearers came and tooke them brought them backe agayne to their armorie †But yet because they were humbled the wrath of our Lord was turned away from them neither were they vtterly destroyed for in Iuda there were found good workes †King Roboam therfore was strengthened in Ierusalem reigned one and fourtie yeares old was he when he beganne to reigne and he reigned seuentene yeares in Ierusalem the citie which our Lord chose to confirme his name there out of al the tribes of Israel and the name of his mother was Naama an Ammonite †And he did euil and prepared not his hart to seke our Lord. †But the workes of Roboam the first and the last are writen in the Bookes of Semeias the Prophete and of Addo the Seer and diligently expounded and Roboam and Ietoboam fought one agaynst the other al their daies †And Roboam slept with his fathers and was buried in the citie of Dauid And Abias his sonne reigned for him CHAP. XIII Abias maketh warre agaynst Ieroboam 4. exhorteth the people of Israel for iustice and religions sake to returne to him 13. In the meane time Ieroboam inuironeth him with forces but by Gods assistance Abias preuaileth 21. and reigneth securely IN the eightenth yeare of king Ieroboam reigned Abias ouer Iuda †Three yeares reigned he in Ierusalem and his mothers name was Michaia the daughter of Vriel of Gabaa there was warre betwen Abias and Ieroboam †And when Abias had begun battel and had most warlike men of chosen ones four hundreth thousand Ieroboam put his armie in aray on the contrarie side eight hundreth thousand men who them selues also were chosen men and most valiant to battels †Abias therfore stood vpon mount Semeron which was in Ephraim and sayd Heare Ieroboam and al Israel †Are you ignorant that our Lord the God of Israel gaue the kingdom to Dauid ouer Israel for euer to him and his children as a couenant of salt †And there rose vp Ieroboam the sonne of Nabat the seruant of Salomon the sonne of Dauid and rebelled agaynst his lord †And there were gathered to him al the most vayne men and the children of Belial and they preuayled agaynst Roboam the sonne of Salomon moreouer Roboam was rude and of a fearful hart and could not resist them †Now therfore you say that you are able to resist the kingdom of our Lord which he possesseth by the children of Dauid and you haue a great multitude of people and golden calues which Ieroboam hath made you for goddes †And you haue cast out the Priestes of of our Lord the children of Aaron and the Leuites and you haue made you priestes as al the peoples of the earth who soeuer shal come consecrate his hand in a bullock of oxen and in seuen rammes is made the priest of them that are not goddes †But our Lord is God whom we forsake not and the Priestes do minister to our Lord of the children of Aaron and the Leuites are in their order †Holocaustes also they do offer to our Lord euerie day morning and euening and incense made according to the preceptes of the law and the loaues are set forth on a most cleane table and there is with vs the golden condlesticke and the lampes therof that they may be lighted alwaies at euening for we keepe the preceptes of the Lord our God whom you haue forsaken †Therfore in our host God is the prince and his Priestes which sound with trumpettes and resound agaynst you children of Israel sight not agaynst our Lord the God of your fathers because it is not expedient for you †He speaking these thinges Ieroboam endeuoured to entrappe him behind And when he stood ouer agaynst the enemies
he compassed Iuda vnwitting with his armie †And Iudas looking backe saw the battel at hand before and behind and cryed to our Lord and the Priestes begane to sound with trumpettes †And al the men of Iuda made a shout and behold they crying God terrified Ieroboam and al Israel that stood agaynst Abias and Iuda †And the children of Israel sled from Iuda and our Lord deliuered them into their hand †Abias therfore and his people stroke them with a great slaughter and there fel wounded of Israel fiue hundreth thousand valiant men †And the children of Israel were humbled at that time and the children of Iuda excedingly encouraged because they had trusted in our Lord the God of their fathers †And Abias pursewed Ieroboam â—ieing and he tooke his cities Bethel and her daughters and Iesana with her daughters Ephron also and her daughters †Neither was Ieroboam able to resist anie more in the daies of Abias whom our Lord stroke and he died †Therfore Abias his empite being strengthened tooke fourtene wiues and he begat two and twentie sonnes and sixtene daughters †But the rest of the wordes of Abias and of his waies and wordes are writen diligently in the Booke of Addo the Prophete CHAP. XIIII Abias dieth and his sonne Asa reigneth destroyeth idolataie 6. for â—iâ—â—eth his cities 9. and ouercometh by Gods special helpe the Aethtopians armie of a million of men AND Abias slept with his fathers and they buried him in the Citie of Dauid and Asa his sonne reigned for him in whose daies the land was quiet tenne yeares †And Asa did that which was good and pleasing in the sight of his God and he ouerthrew the altars of strange seruice and the excelses †and brake the statues and cut downe the groues †And he commanded Iuda that they should seeke our Lord the God of their fathers and should doe the law and al the commandementes †And he tooke away out of al the cities of Iuda the altars and temples reigned in peace †He built also fensed cities in Iuda because he was quiet and there had no battels risen in his time our Lord geuing peace †And he sayd to Iuda Let vs build these cities and compasse them with walles and strengthen them with towers and gates and lockes whiles thinges are quiet from battels because we haue sought out Lord the God of our fathers and he hath geuen vs peace round about They therfore did build and there was no impediment in building †And Asa had in his armie of them that caried shieldes and speares of Iuda three hundred thousand and of Beniamin shieldbearers and archers two hundred eightie thousand al these were most valiant men †And Zara the Ethiopian with his armie islued forth agaynst them tenne hundred thousand and with three hundred chariotes and he came as far as Maresa †Moreouer Asa went on to meete him and set his armie in aray to battel in the vale Sephata which is neere Maresa †And he inuocated our Lord God and sayd Lord there is no difference with thee whether thou helpe in few or in manie helpe vs ô Lord our God for hauing confidence in thee and in thy name we are come agaynst this multitude Lord thou art our God let not man preuaile agaynst thee †Our Lord therfore terrified the Aethiopians before Asa and Iuda and the Aethiopians fled †And Asa pursewed them and the people that was with him vnto Gerara and the Aethiopians fel to vtter destruction because our Lord killing them and his armie fighting they were destroyed They tooke therfore manie spoiles †and they stroke al the cities round about Gerara for great terrour had inuaded al men and they spoyled the cities and caried away much praye †Yea and destroying the sheepecotes of sheepe they tooke an infinite multitude of cattel and of camels and returned into Ierusalem CHAP. XV. Azarias prophecieth that Israel shal lack the true God Priestes and the law a long time 8. which king Asa hearing most serioufly destroyeth idolatrie 12. maketh couenant and oath to serue God 16. And deposeth his mother for offering sacrifice to Priapus AND Azarias the sonne of Oded the Spirit of God coming vpon him †went out to meete Asa and sayd to him Heare ye me Asa and al Iuda and Beniamin Our Lord is with you because you haue beene with him If you wil seeke him you shal finde but if you forsake him he wil forsake you †And manie daies shal passe in Israel without the true God and without Priest a teacher and without the Law †And when they shal returne in their distresse to our Lord the God of Ifrael and shal seeke him they shal finde him †At that time there shal not be peace to him that goeth out and cometh in but terrours on euerie side in the inhabiters of the earth †for nation shal fight agaynst nation and citie agaynst citie because our Lord wil truble them with al distresse †You therfore take courage and let not your handes be dissolued for there shal be reward to your worke †Which when Asa had heard to witte the wordes and the prophecie of Azarias the sonne of Oded the prophete he tooke courage and tooke away the Idols out of al the land of Iuda and out of Beniamin and out of the cities which he had taken of mount Ephraim and he dedicated the altar of our Lord which was before the porche of our Lord. †And he gathered together al Iuda and Beniamin and the strangers with them of Ephraim and of Manasses and of Simeon for manie were fled to him of Israel seing that our Lord his God was with him †And when they were come into Ierusalem the third moneth in the fiftenth yeare of the reigne of Asa †they immolated to our Lord in that day of the spoiles the praie that they had brought oxen seuen hundred and rammes seuen thousand †And he went in after the maner to establish the couenant that they should seeke our Lord the God of their fathers in al their hart and in al their soul †And if anie man quoth he shal not seeke our Lord the God of Israel let him die from the least to the greatest from man vnto woman †And they sware to our Lord with a lowd voyce in iubilation and in noyse of trumpet and sound of shaulmes †al that were in Iuda with execration for in al their hart did they sweare and with al their wil did they seeke him and found him our Lord gaue them rest round about †Yea and Maacha the mother of king Asa he deposed from the royal empyre because she had made in a groue the idol of Priapus which he wholy destroyed and breaking into peeces burnt it in the Torrent cedron †But the Excelses were leaft in Israel neuerthelesse the hart of Asa was perfect al his daies †And those
first fruites of corne of wine and of oyle of honie also and of al thinges which the ground bringeth forth they offered tithes †Yea and the children of Israel and Iuda that dwelt in the cities of Iuda offered tithes of oxen and sheepe and tithes of sanctified thinges which they had vowed to our Lord their God and carying them al made manie heapes †The third moneth they began to lay the fundations of the heapes and in the seuenth moneth they finished them †And when Ezechias and his princes came in they saw the heapes and blessed our Lord and the people of Israel †And Ezechias asked the Priestes and the Leuites why the heapes lay so †Azarias the high Priest of the stocke of Sadoc answered him saying Since first fruites began to be offered in the house of our Lord we haue eaten and haue bene ful and very much hath remayned because our Lord hath blessed his people and of the remaynes this is the abundance which thou seest †Fzechias therfore commanded that storehouses should be prepared in the house of our Lord. Which when they had done †they brought in as wel the first fruites as the tithes and watsoeuer they had vowed faythfully And the ouerseer of them was Chonenias a Leuite and Semeihis brother the second †after whom Iahiel and Azarias and Nahath and Asael and Ierimoth Iosabad also and Eliel and Iesmachias and Mahath and Banaias ouerseers vnder the hand of Chonenias and Semei his brother by the commandment of Ezechias the king and Azarias the high Priest of the house of God to whom al thinges apperteyned †But Core the sonne of Iemna a Leuite and porter of the east gate was ouerseer of those thinges which were voluntarily offered to our Lord and of the first fruites and the thinges consecrated for Sancta sanctorum †And vnder his charge Eden and Beniamin Iesue and Semeias Amarias also and Sechenias in the cities of the Priestes that they should faithfully distribute to their brethren portions to the lesser and greater †sauing the men children from three yeares and aboue to al that entered into the temple of our Lord and whatsoeuer day by day was profitable in the ministerie and the obseruances according to their diuisions †to the Priestes by families and to the Leuites from the twentith yeare and vpward by the orders and companies †and to al the multitude as wel their wiues as their children of both sex meaâ—es were geuen faithfully of these thinges that had bene sanctified †Yea and of the children of Aaron by the fildes and the suburbes of euerie citie there were men ordayned that should distribute portions to al the male sexe of the Priestes and the Leuites †Ezechias therfore did al thinges which we haue sayd in al Iuda and wrought good and right and truth before our Lord his God †in al the seruice of the ministerie of the house of our Lord according to the law and the ceremonies willing to seeke his God in al his hart and he did it and prospered CHAP. XXXII Sennacherib king of Assyria inuading Iuda king Ezechias encorageth the people and prouideth to defend the countrie 9. the Assyrians threaten the people and blaspheme God 20. Ezechias and Isaias pray 21. An Angel destroyeth the Assyrians armie so their king retiring home is slayne in his idols temple by his owne sonnes 22. Ezechias reigneth in peace 24. falleth into deadlie sicknes but miraculously recouereth offendeth in pryde and repenteth 27. is exceding rich which he imprudently sheweth to strangers 32. dieth and Manasses succedeth AFTER which thinges and this maner of truth came Sennacherib the king of the Assyrians and entering into Iuda besieged the fensed cities desirous to take them †Which when Ezechias had sene to witte that Sennacherib was come and the whole force of the battel to be turned agaynst Ierusalem †taking counsel with the princes and the most valiant men to stoppe vp the heades of the fountaynes that were without the citie and the sentence of them al decreing this †he gathered a very great multitude they stopped vp al the fountaynes and the riuer that ranne in the middes of the land saying Lest the kinges of the Assyrians come and finde abundance of waters †He built also doing industriously euerie wall that had bene destroyed and built towers vpon them and an other wall without and he repayred Mello in the citie of Dauid and made armour and shildes of al sortes †And he appointed princes of warryers in the armie and he called them al together in the streate of the gate of the citie and spake to their hart saying †Doe manfully and take courage feare not neither dread ye the king of the Assyrians and al the multitude that is with him for there are manie moe with vs then with him †For with him is an arme of flesh with vs the Lord our God which is our helper and fighteth for vs. And the people was encouraged with these maner of wordes of Ezechias the king of Iuda †Which thinges after they were done Sennacherib the king of the Assyrians sent his seruantes to Ierusalem for himself with al his armie beseiged Lachis to Ezechias the king of Iuda to al the people that was in the citie saying †Thus sayth Sennacherib the king of the Assyrians In whom hauing affiance doe you sitte besieged in Ierusalem †Hath Ezechias deceiued you to deliuer you to death in hunger and thirst affirming that the Lord your God can deliuer you from the hand of the king of the Assyrians †Why is not this Ezechias that hath destroyed his excelses and altars and hath commanded Iuda Ierusalem saying Before one altar you shal adore and on it you shal burne incense †Are you ignorant what thinges I haue done and my fathers to al the peoples of the landes haue the goddes of nations and of al landes bene able to deliuer their countrie out of my hand †Who is there of al the goddes of the nations which my fathers wasted that could deliuer his people out of my hand that your God also can deliuer you out of this hand †Let not therfore Ezechias deceiue you nor delude you with vayne persuasion neither beleue ye him For if no god oâ— al nations and kingdomes could deliuer his people out of my hand and out of the hand of my fathers consequently neither shal your God be able to deliuer you out of my hand †Yea and manie other thinges did his seruantes speake agaynst our Lord God and agaynst Ezechias his seruant †Letters also he wrote ful of blasphemie against our Lord the God of Israel and he spake agaynst him as the goddes of their nations could not deliuer their people out of my hand so the God also of Ezechias can not deliuer his people out of this hand †Moreouer also with a lowd crie in the Iewes tongue he sounded against the people
†For our Lord knoweth the way of the iust and the way of the impious shal perish ANNOTATIONS PSALME I. 1. Hath not gone not stood not sitte The Hebrew stile and maner of discourse differeth here from other nations in mentioning first the lesse euil and the greatest last VVhereas we would say in the contrary order He is happie that hath not sitte that is hath not setled himselfe in wickednes nor finally persisted obstinate more happie that hath not stood anie notable time continued in sinne and most happie that hath not gone not geuen anie consent at al to euil suggestions 2. His vvil in the vvay of our Lord. As one part of happines consisteth in declining from euil so the other is in doing good the wil desiring and diligently endeuoring to walke in the way of vertue and law of God VVhich is true iustice and right forme of good life proposed in this Psalme for attayning eternal beatitude PSALME II. Christs glorie the world repining therat 4. shal be propagated in al the world 7. His diuine powre as wel spiritual in conuerting mens hartes as external in seuere iustice is prophecied VVHY did the Gentiles rage and peoples meditate vaine things †The kings of the earth stood vp and the princes came together in one against our Lord and against his Christ †Let vs breake their bondes a sunder and let vs cast away their yoke from vs. †He that dwelleth in the heauens shal laugh at them and our Lord shal scorne them †Then shal he speake to them in his wrath in his furie he shal truble them †But I am appoynted king by him ouer Sion his holie hil preaching his precept †The Lord said to me Thou art my Sonne I this day haue be gotten thee †Aske of me and I wil geue thee the Gentiles for thyne inheritance and thy possession the endes of the earth †Thou shalt rule them “ in a rod of yron and “ as a potters vessel thou shalt breake them in peeces †And now “ ye kings vnderstand “ take instruction you that iudge the earth †Serue our Lord in feare and “ reioyce to him with trembling †Apprehend discipline lest sometime our Lord be wrath and you perish out of the iust way †When his wrath shal burne in short time blessed are al that trust in him ANNOTATIONS PSALME II. 2. Kinges and Princes against Christ VVhen Christ and his Apostles preached the Gospel both Iewes and Gentiles with their Princes Kinges and Emperors most furiously resisted but al in vaine For they could not hinder the wil and powre of God But the more they persecuted the more was increased the zele and number of Christians 8. The gentiles thyn inheritance By this promise of God to Christ S. Augustin conuinced the Donatistes in them the Protestantes that say the Church of Christ failed and became smal or inuisible as though Christ the Sonne of God could sometimes lose his inheritance which is the Catholique Church gethered of the Gentiles and his possession extended to the endes of the earth 9. As a potters vessel If a potters vessel saith S. Ierom in hunc Psal tom 8. be broken whiles it is soft it may easily be repared but after it is hard it can not be made whole againe So sinners are more easily restored to grace shortly repeating then long obdurate yet that which is vnpossible to man is possible to God Mat. 10. For as clay in the potters hand so are you in my hand saith our Lord. Iere. 18. 10. Ye kinges vnderstand Not onlie innumerable other people of al nations but also after a while Kinges and Emperors beleued in Christ And such as at first persecuted became most Christian Catholique Defenders of the faith 10. Take instruction you that iudge the earth Petilianus Gaudentius other Donatistes inueyghing against Christian Kinges for punishing heretikes most falsly auoched that Christianitie neuer found kinges but inuious enimies and persecuters To whom S. Augustin answereth in seueral bookes that Christian Kinges and Princes are not enemies to Christianitie but are enemies to heretikes the rebelles of Christ and his Church For according to this prophecie of king Dauid Christian kinges are instructed and know it is their dutie â—â— the seruice of God to defend the Church against Heretikes and other Infidelles And it is the propertie of Apostataes to fauour heretikes So good Constantin the great maintained Catholique vnitie and Iulian the Apostata to make greater diuision tooke Churches from Catholiques and gaue them to Donatistes to nourish dissention and so to oâ—eâ—â—â—row al Christians But God stil protecteth the true Church againâ—â— al such suttle and malicious dâ—uiâ—es because it is Christs inheritance 11. Râ—â—oyâ—e vvith trembling Gods seruice is tempeted with two affections with ioy in consideration of his goodnes mercie meeknes and with feare in respect of his â—ustice and â—euere iudgement The one is a remedie against desperation the other against presumption PSALME III. King Dauid recounteth his danger when his sonne Absalom conspired against him 4. and thanketh God for his deliuerie 9 acknowledging al helpe to be from God Mistically Christs persecution Death Burial and Resurrection †The “ Psalme of Dauid “ when he fled from the face of Absalom his sonne 2. Reg. 15. LORD why are they multiplied that truble me manie rise vp against me †Many say to my soule There is no saluation for him in his God †But thou Lord art my protectour my glorie exalting my head †With my voice I haue cried to our Lord and he hath heard me from his holie hil †“ I haue slept and haue bene at rest and haue risen vp because our Lord hath taken me †I wil not feare thousandes of people compassing me arise Lord saue me my God †Because thou hast stroken al that are my aduersaries without cause thou hast broken the teeth of sinners †Saluation is our Lordes and thy blessing vpon thy people ANNOTATIONS PSALME III. 1. Psalme of Dauid Al Interpreters agreably teach that king Dauid made not the titles which are before the Psalmes Neuertheles they are authentical as endited by the Holie Ghost And it is most probable Esdras added those titles which are in the Hebrew and the Seuentie interpreters writte the other in their Greke Edition Both which S. Ierom translated into Latin In these titles fiue thinges may be noted First the former two hauing no title at al the general name of Psalme common to al is particularly appropriated to some and other names to others VVhich in al are twelue to witte Psalme Inscription Prayer Canticle Psalme of Canticle Canticle of Psalme Hymne Testimonie
†Let the enemie persecute my soule and take it and treade downe my life in the earth and bring downe my glorie into the dust †Arise Lord in thy wrath and be exalted in the coastes of myne enemies And arise ô Lord my God in the precept which thou hast cōmanded †and a sinagogue of peoples shal compasse thee And for it returne on high †our Lord iudgeth peoples Iudge me ô Lord according to my iustice and according to my innocencie vpon me †The wickednesse of sinners shal be consumed and thou shalt direct the iust which searchest the hart and raynes ô God †My iust helpe is from our Lord who saueth those that be right of hart God is a iust iudge strong patient is he angrie euerie day †Vnlesse you wil be conuerted he shal shake his sword he hath bent his bow and prepared it †And in it he hath prepared the vessels of death he hath made his arrowes for them that burne †Behold he hath bredde with iniustice he hath conceiued sorow and brought forth iniquitie †He hath opened a pit and digged it vp and he is fallen into the diche which he made †His sorrow shal be turned vpon his head and his iniquitie shal descend vpon his crowne †I wil confesse to our Lord according to his iustice and wil sing to the name of our Lord most high PSALME VIII God is magnified praised for his meruelous worke of creatures 5. but especially of mankind singularly exalted by the Incarnation of Christ. †Vnto the end for “ presses the Psalme of Dauid O LORD our Lord how meruelous is thy name in the whole earth Because thy magnificence is eleuated aboue the heauens †Out of the mouth of infantes and sucklinges thou hast perfected praise because of thine enemies that thou mayest destroy the enemie and reuenger †Because I shal see thy heauens the workes of thy fingers the moone and the starres which thou hast founded †What is man that thou art mindful of him or the sonne of man that thou visitest him †Thou hast minished him a litle lesse then Angels with glorie and honour thou hast crowned him †and hast appointed him ouer the worke of thy handes †Thou hast subiected al thinges vnder his feete al sheepe and oxen moreouer also the beastes of the field †The birdes of the ayre and fishes of the sea that walke the pathes of the sea †O Lord our Lord how meruelous is thy name in the whole earth ANNOTATIONS PASLME VIII 1. Presses Most Hebrew Doctors say the word Gittith may either signifie the place where this Psalme was made or the musical instrument on which it was song But most Christian Doctors expound it literally of Christs Passion who was stretched on the Crosse and al his sacred bloud pressed and drawne out of his bodie VVhich Metaphor Isaias also vseth demanding of Christ VVhy is thy clothing redde and thy garments as theirs that tread in the vine presse and answereth in Christs person I haue troden the presse alone S. Augustin also applieth it morally to the Church where Christ is the vine the Apostles are the branches spreaders that is preachers of the Ghospel Christians are the grapes Christian vertues are the wine Namely patience and fortitude in afflictions VVherby the good are purified and seuered from amiddes the reprobate as wine is pressed out of the grapes barreled and laid vp in sellers and * the huskes and carnels cast to hogges or other beastes PSALME IX The Church prayseth God for her protection 4. in repelling the enemies force 8. in punishing the wicked and rewarding the iust †Vnto the end for the secrets of the sonne the Psalme of Dauid I WIL confesse to thee ō Lord with al my hart I wil tel al thy meruelous thinges I wil be glad and reioyce in thee I wil sing to thy name ō most High †In turning mine enemie backward they shal be weakened and perish before thy face Because thou hast done my iudgement and my cause thou hast sitte vpon the throne which iudgest iustice Thou hast rebuked the Gentiles and the impious hath perished their name thou hast destroyed for euer and for euer and euer †The swordes of the enemie haue fayled vnto the end and their cities thou hast destroyed †Their memorie hath perished with a sound and our Lord abideth for euer He hath prepared his throne in iudgement †he wil iudge the whole world in equitie he wil iudge the people in iustice †And our Lord is made a refuge for the poore an helper in opportunities in tribulation †And let them hope in thee that know thy name because thou hast not forsaken them that seeke thee ô Lord. †Sing to our Lord which dwelleth in Sion declare his studies among the Gentiles †Because he requiring bloud remembred them he hath not forgotten the crie of the poore †Haue mercie on me ô Lord See my humiliation by my enemies †Which exaltest me from the gates of death that I may declare al thy prayses in the gates of the daughter of Sion †I wil reioyce in thy saluation the Gentiles are fastened in the destruction which they made In this snare which they hid is their foote taken †Our Lord shal be knowen doing iudgements the sinner is taken in the workes of his owne handes †Let sinners be turned into hel al nations that forget God †Because to the end there shal not be obliuion of the poore man the patience of the poore shal not perish in the end †Arise Lord let not man be strengthned let the Gentiles be iudged in thy sight †Appoint Lord a lawgeuer ouer them that the Gentiles may know that they be men The 10. Psalme according to the Hebrevves †Why Lord hast thou departed far of despisest in opportunities in tribulation †Whiles the impious is proude the poore is set on fyre they are caught in the counsels which they deuise †Because the sinner is praysed in the desires of his soule and the vniust man is blessed †The sinner hath exasperated our Lord according to the multitude of his wrath he shal not seeke †There is no God in his sight his waies are defiled at al time Thy iudgementes are taken away from his face he shal rule ouer al his enemies †For he hath sayd in his hart I wil not be moued from genetion vnto generation without euil Whose mouth is ful of cursing and bitternesse and guile vnder his tongue labour and sorrow †He sitteth in waite with the rich in secrete places to kil the innocent †His
aspes vnder their lippes Whose mouth is ful of cursing and bitternesse their feete swift to shee l bloud Destruction and infelicitie in their waies and the way of peace they haue not knowen there is no feare of God before their eies Shal not al they know that worke iniquitie that deuoure my people as foode of bread They haue not inuocated our Lard there haue they trembled for feare where no feare was †Because our Lord is in the iust generation you haue confounded the counsel of the poore man because our Lord is his hope Who wil geue from Sion the saluation of Israel when our Lord shal haue turned away the captiuitie of his people Iacob shal reioyce and Israel shal be glad ANNOTATIONS PSALME XIII 1. No not one S. Paul by this place and the like Isaie 59. v. 7. confirmeth his doctrin Rom. 3. that both the Iewes and the Gentils meaning al mankind were in that state that none no not one without the grace of Christ were iust nor could be iustified nor saued by the law of Nature nor of Moyses VVhich proueth the necessitie of faith But neither that only faith iustifieth nor that the iustest are stil wicked as Caluin and Beza falsly expound these Scriptures For the Prophets and S. Paul speake in these places of men before they be iustified teaching that al mankind was once in sinne and none could be iustified but by Christ Neuerthelesse they teach also that men being iustified must and may serue iustice vnto sanctification And that their workes are not then vnprofitable For being made free from sinne saith the same Apostle to the Romanes c. 6. and become seruants to God you haue your fruâ—ct vnto sanctification and the end is life euerlasting VVhich point of doctrin how man is iustified S. Augustin excellently briefly explicateth li. 1. de Spirituet lit c 9. in these wordes The iust are iustified freely by Christ his grace they are not therfore purified by the lavv they are not iustified by their proper wil but iustified freely by Christ his grace Not that it is done without our wil but by the law our wil is shevved weake that grace might cure the wil and the wil being cured might fulfil the law not being vnder the law not needing the law VVherto we may here adde and so saue labour of repeting this in other places an other document of the same Doctor in the same booke de spirit lit c 27. that the iust do not liue without some sinnes and yet remaine in state of saluation the wicked do sometimes certaine good workes ful remaine in state of damnation For euen as saith he venial sinnes without which this life it not ledde do not exclude the iust from eternal life so certaine good workes without which the life of the very worst is hardly found profite nothing the vniust man to eternal saluation but in euerlasting damnation some shal haue more and somelesse torment PSALME XIIII For attayning eternal glorie in heauen it is necessarie to flee from sinnes and do good workes †“ The Psalme of Dauid LORD who shal dwel in thy tabernacle or who shal rest in thy holie hil †He that walketh without spot and worketh iustice †He that speaketh truth in his d hart that hath not done guile in his tongue Nor hath done euil to his neighbour and hath not taken reproch against his neighbour The malignant is brought to nothing in his sight but them that feare our Lord he glorifieth he that sweareth to his neighbour and deceiueth not †that hath not geuen his money to vsurie and hath not taken k giftes vpon the innocent k Likewise doing wrong for bribes He that doeth “ these thinges shal “ not be moued for euer ANNOTATIONS PSALME XIIII 1. The Psalme of Dauid As the appropriating of the general name of Psalme vnto some doth not preiudice but that the rest are also Psalmes though they be called Prayers Canticles Testimonies and the like so the application of Dauids name to certaine Psalmes proueth not other authores of the rest But the name of Psalme sheweth a spiritual songue apt for musical instrument and the name of Dauid by interpretation signifieth that it particularly perteyneth to the beloued 5. He that doth these thinges wheras this or anie other place of holie Scripture attributeth saluation to certaine good workes neither faith nor other workes are therby excluded but presupposed as no lesse necessarie then those which are mentioned Especially faith is alwayes requisite without which it is impossible to please God and other vertues either in practise or in purpose and preparation of mind when and where occasion requireth 5. Shal not be mouâ—d for euer Al states of this world are mutable and only eternal felicitie in heauen shal continew for euer Therfore this Psalme can not be vnderstood of the Tabernacle nor Temple of the old Testament which were but figures of eternal glorie But if so much puritie was then requisite much more al sinceritie and great sanctitie are necessarie for entrance into heauen PSALME XV. Christ by the mouth of Dauid declareth his future victory and triumph ouer the world 9. and death †The inscription of the title to Dauid him self PRESERVE me ô Lord because I haue hoped in thee †I haue said to our Lord Thou art my God because thou needest not my goods †To the sainctes that are in his land he hath made al my willes meruclous in them †Their infirmities were multiplied afterward they made hast I wil not assemble their conuenticles of bloud neither wil I be mindful of their names by my lippes †Our Lord “ the portion of myne inheritance and of my cuppe thou art he that wil restore myne inheritance vnto me †Cordes are fallen to me in goodly places for mine inheritance is goodlie vnto me †I wil blesse our Lord who hath geuen me vnderstanding moreouer also euen til night my veines haue rebuked me I forsaw our Lord in my sight alwaies because he is at my right hand that I be not moued †For this thing my hart hath beene glad and my tongue hath reioyced moreouer also my flesh shal rest in hope †Because thou wilt “ not leaue my soule in hel neither wilt geue thy holie one to see corruption Thou hast made the waies of life knowen to me thou shalt make me ful of ioy with thy countenance delectations on thy right hand euen to the end ANNOTATIONS PSALME XV. 5. Out lord the portion of myn inheritance Christ whom the Iewes expected as an earthlie conquerour that should aduance himself and them temporally in this world was in dede as the
desiderable aboue al vvorldlie riches or pleasures So by these and like spiritual motiues the soule freely desiteth accepteth vndertaketh endureth and by continual assistance of grace obserueth Gods lavv and so meriteth the great revvard vvhich is promised for keping it v. 12. 2. Tim. 4. v. 6. PSALME XIX Faithful people ioyne their prayer for their Prince or Prelate 4. with sacrifice offered for his preseruation and prosperous successe †Vnto the end the Psalme of Dauid OVR Lord heare thee in the day of tribulation the name of the God of Iacob protect thee †Send he ayde to thee from the holie place and from Sion defend he thee †Be he mindeful of al thy sacrifice and be thy holocaust made fatte †Geue he vnto thee according to thy hart and confirme he al thy counsel †We shal reioyce in thy saluation and in the name of our God we shal be magnified †Our Lord accomplish al thy petitions now haue I knowen that our Lord hath saued his CHRIST He shal heare him from his holie heauen the faluation of his righthand is in powers †These in chariotes and these in horses but we wil inuocate in the name of the Lord our God †They are bound and haue fallen but we haue risen and are set vpright †Lord saue the king and heare vs in the day that we shal inuocate thee PSALME XX. Praise to God for Christs exaltation after his passion 9. and depression of his enemies †Vnto the end the Psalme of Dauid LORD in thy power the king shal be glad and vpon thy saluation he shal reioyce excedingly The desire of his hart thou hast geuen him and of the wil of his lippes thou hast not defrauded him †Because thou hast preuented him in blessinges of sweetnesse thou hast put on his head a crowne of preâ—ious stone †He asked life of thee and thou gauest him length of daies for euer and for euer and euer †Great is his glorie in thy saluation glorie and great beautie thou shalt put vpon him †Because thou shalt geue him to be a blessing for euer and euer thou shalt make him ioyful in gladenesse with thy countenance Because the king hopeth in our Lord and in the mercie of the Highest he shal not be moued †Let thy hand be found of al thy enemies let thy righthand find al that hate thee †Thou shalt put them as an ouen of fyre in the time of thy countenance our Lord in his wrath shal truble them and fyre shal deuoure them Their fruite thou shalt destroy from the land and their seede from the children of men Because they haue turned the euils vpon thee they haue deuised counsels which they could not establish Because thou shalt put them backe in thy remnantes thou â—â— shalt prepare their countenance Be exalted Lord in thy powre we wil chaunte and sing thy powers PSALME XXI Christ prayeth in his Passion 7. describeth the acerbitie therof 20. foresheweth by way of prayer his Resurection 23. more clerly the fundation and propagation of his Church 27. 30. interposing the singular foode of the most blessed Sacrament euen to the endes of the earth in al nations †Vnto the end “ for the morning enterprise the Psalme of Dauid GOD my God haue respect to me why hast thou forsaken me far from my saluation are the wordes of my sinnes My God I shal crie by day and “ thou wilt not heare and by night and not for follie vnto me †But thou dwellest in the holie place the prayse of Israel †In thee our fathers haue hoped they hoped and thou didst deliuer them They cried to thee and were saued they hoped in thee and were not confounded †But I am a worme and no man a reproch of men and outcast of the people †Al that see me haue scorned me they haue spoken with the lippes and wagged the head †He hoped in the Lord let him deliuer him let him saue him because he wil him †Because thou art he that hast drawen me out of the wombe my hope from the brestes of my mother †Vpon thee I haue bene cast from the matrice from my mothers wombe thou art my God †depart not from me Because tribulation is verie nigh because there is not that wil helpe †Manie calues haue compassed me fatte bulles haue besieged me †They haue opened their mouth vpon me as a lion rauening and roaring †As water I am powred out and al my bones are dispersed My hart is made as waxe melting in the middes of my bellie †My strength is withered as a pot-shard and my tongue cleaued to my iawes and thou hast brought me downe into the dust of death †Because manie dogges haue compassed me the counsel of the malignant hath besieged me They “ haue digged my handes and my feete †they haue numbered al my bones But themselues haue considered and beheld me †they haue deuided my garmentes among them and vpon my vesture they haue cast lot †But thou Lord prolong not thy helpe from me looke toward my defense †Deliuer ô God my soule from the sword and myne onlie one from the hand of the dog †Saue me out of the lions mouth and my humilitie from the hornes of vnicornes †“ I wil declare thy name to my bretheren “ in the middes of the Church I wil prayse thee †Ye that feare our Lord praise him al the seede of Iacob glorifie ye him †Let al the seede of Israel feare him because he hath not contemned nor despised the petition of the poore Neither hath he turned away his face from me and when I cried to him he heard me †With thee is my praise in the great Church I wil render my vowes in the sight of them that feare him †“ The poore shal eate and shal be filled and they shal praise our Lord that seeke after him their hartes shal liue for euer and euer †Al the endes of the earth shal remember and be conuerted to our Lord †And al the families of the Gentiles shal adore in his sight †Because the kingdome is our Lords and he shal haue dominion ouer the Gentiles †Al the fatte ones of the earth haue eaten and adored in his sight shal al fal that descend into the earth †And my soule shal liue to him and my seede shal serue him †The generation to come shal be shewed to our Lord and the heauens shal shew forth his iustice to the
eares thou hast perfited to me Holocaust and for sinne thou didst not require †then said I Behold I come In the head of the booke it is written of me †that I should doe thy wil my God I would and thy law in the middes of my hart †I haue declared thy iustice in the great Church loe I wil not stay my lippes Lord thou hast knowen it †Thy iustice I haue not hid in my hart thy truth and thy saluation I haue spoken I haue not hid thy mercie and thy truth from the great councel †But thou ô Lord make not thy commiserations farre from me thy mercie and thy truth haue alwayes receiued me †Because euils haue compassed me which haue no number mine iniquities haue ouertaken me I was not able to see They are multiplied aboue the heares of my head and my hart hath forsaken me †It may please thee ô Lord to deliuer me Lord haue respect to helpe me Let them be confounded and ashamed together that seeke my soule to take it away Let them be turned backward and be ashamed that wil me euils Let them forth with receiue their confusion that say to me Wel wel †Let al that seeke thee reioyce and be glad vpon thee and let them that loue thy saluation say alwayes Our Lord be magnified †But I am a begger and poore Our Lord is careful of me Thou art my helper my protector my God be not slacke PSALME XL. The prophet pronounceth them happie that wil beleue in Christ coming in humilitie and pouertie 5. Christ describeth his owne poore afflicted state in this life by reason he is to satisfie for the sinnes of the world the malice of his aduersaries 10. especially of Iudas 11. and by way of prayer prophecieth his owne Resurrect on †Vnto the end a Psalme to Dauid him selfe BLESSED is the man that vnderstandeth concerning the needie and the poore in the euil day our Lord wil deliuer him †Our Lord preserue him and geue him life and make him blessed in the land and deliuer him not vnto the wil of his enemies †Our Lord helpe him vpon the bed of his sorow thou hast turned al his couche in his infirmitie †I said Lord haue haue mercie on me heale my soule because I haue sinned to thee †Mine enemies haue spoken euils to me When shal he die and his name perish †And if he came in to see he spake vayne thinges his hart hath gathered together iniquitie to him selfe He went forth and spake together †Al mine enemies whispered against me they did thinke euils to me They haue determined an vniust word against me Shal not he that sleepeth adde to ryse againe †For the man also of my peace in whom I hoped who did eate my breades hath greatly troden me vnder foote †But thou ô Lord haue mercie vpon me and raise me vp againe and I wil repay them †In this I haue knowen that thou wouldest me because mine enemie shal not reioyce ouer me †But me thou hast receiued because of innocencie and thou hast confirmed me in thy sight for euer †Blessed be our Lord the God of Israel from the beginning of the world and for euermore Be it be it PSALME XLI The feruent desire of the iust 6. much afflicted in this life 12. and assured hope of eternal ioy †Vnto the end vnderstanding to the sonnes of Core EVEN as the harte desireth after the fountaines of waters so doth my soule desire after thee ô God †My soule hath thirsted after God the strong liuing when shal I come and appeare before the face of God †My teares haue beene breades vnto me day and night whiles it is said to me dayly Where is thy God †These thinges haue I remembred and haue powred out my soule in me because I shal passe into the place of a meruelous tabernacle euen to the house of God In the yoyce of exultation and confession the sound of one feasting †Why art thou sorowful my soule and why dost thou truble me Hope in God because yet I wil confesse to him the saluation of my countenance †and my God My soule is trubled toward my selfe therfore wil I be mindful of thee from the land of Iordan and Hermoniim from the litle mountaine †Depth calleth on depth in the voice of thy flould-gates Al thy high thinges and thy waues haue passed ouer me †In the day our Lord hath commanded his mercie and in the night a song of him With me is prayer to the God of my life †I wil say to God Thou art my defender Why hast thou forgotten me and why goe I sorowful whiles mine enemie afflicteth me †Whiles my bones are broken mine enemies that truble me haue vpbrayded me Whiles they say to me day by day Where is thy God †Why art thou heauie ô my soule wh◠dost thou truble me Hope in God because yet I wil confesse to him the saluation of my countenance and my God PSALME XLII The iust inuocateth Gods sentence against the deceiptful that seeke his spiritual ouerthrow 4. acknowledgeth his helpe from almightie God the B. Trinitie in whose vision glorie consisteth †A Psalme of Dauid IVDGE me ô God discerne my cause from the nation not holie from the vniust and deceitful man deliuer me †Because thou art God my strength why hast thou repelled me and why goe I sorowful whiles the enemie afflicteth me Send forth thy light and thy truth they haue conducted me and haue brought me into thy holy hil and into thy tabernacles †And I wil goe in to the altar of God to God which maketh my youth ioyful †I'wil confesse to thee on the harpe ô God my God why art thou sorowful ô my soule and dost thou trubel me †Hope in God because yet wil I cōfesse to him the saluation of my countenance and my God PSALME XLIII The prophet describeth the first calling and difficulte state of the Iewish nation 6. their prosperitie at other times 10. Againe their afflictions in captiuitie and persecutions †Vnto the end for the sonnes of Core to vnderstanding O GOD we haue heard with our eares our fathers haue declared to vs. The worke that thou hast wrought in their dayes and in the dayes of old †Thy hand destroyed the nations and thou didst plant them thou didst afflict the peoples and expel them †For not by their owne sword did they possesse the land and their owne arme did not saue them But thy right hand
alwaies corporally with vs Could anie of them tarie here til this time could they tarie to the time yet to come But vvas therfore the Church leaft desolate by their departure God forbid For thy fathers sonnes are borne to thee VVhat is this for thy fathers sonnes are borne to thee The Apostles were sent fathers in place of the Apostles sonnes are borne to thee Byshops are appointed For whence were the Bishops borne that are at this day through the vvorld the Church herselfe calleth them fathers â—he begate them and appointed them in the seates of the fathers Do not therfore thinke thy self desolate o christian Church because thou seest not Peter seest not Paul for thou seest not them by vvhom thou wast borne but of thyne issue fatherhood is sprong to thee For thy fathers sonnes are borne to thee thou shalt make them princes ouer al the earth This is the Catholique Church Her children are made princes ouer al the earth her sonnes are constituted for fathers Let them acknowlege this that are cut of let them come to the vnitie be they brought into the temple of the king Thus S. Augustin PSALME XLV The Church in persecution acknowledgeth Gods perpetual defence 5. making her therby more glorious 10. sometimes granting rest 11. God himself ckecking the persecuters and euer protecting her †Vnto the end to the sonnes of Core for the secretes OVR God is a refuge and strength an helper in tribulations which haue found vs excedingly †Therfore wil we not feare when the earth shal be trubled and mountaines transported into the hart of the sea †Their waters haue sounded and were trubled the mountaines were trubled in his strength †The violence of the riuer maketh the citie of God ioyful the Highest hath sanctified his tabernacle †God is in the middes therof it shal not be moued God wil helpe it in the morning early †Nations are trubled and kingdomes are inclined he gaue his voice the earth was moued †The Lord of hostes is with vs the God of Iacob is our defender †Come ye and see the workes of our Lord what wonders he hath put vpon the earth †taking away warres euen vnto the end of the earth He shal destroy bow breake weapons and shields he shal burne with fire †Be quiet and see that I am God I shal be exalted among the gentiles and I shal be exalted in the earth †The Lord of hostes is with vs the God of Iacob is our defender PSALME XLVI Gentiles are called and inuited to praise God for his magnificence 6. for Christs Ascension and powre †Vnto the end for the sonnes of Core ALYE Nations clappe handes make iubilation to God in the voyce of exultation †Because our Lord is high terrible a great king ouer al the earth †He hath made peoples subiect to vs gentiles vnder our feete †He hath chosen his inheritance in vs the beautie of Iacob which he loued †God is ascended in iubilation and our Lord in the voice of trumpet †Sing ye to our God sing ye Sing ye to our king sing ye †Because God is king of al the earth sing ye wisely †God shal reigne ouer the gentiles God sitteth vpon his holie seate †Princes of peoples are gathered together with the God of Abraham because the strong goddes of the earth are excedingly aduanced PSALME XLVII God most and euerie where laudable is especially praised in the Church of Christ prefigured by Sion and there begunne 9. Al thinges being fulfilled in the Church euen as they were prophecied and promised 12. the faithful are exhorted to consider and congratulate the same A Psalme of Canticle to the sonnes of Core the second of the Sabbath GREAT is our Lord and to be praysed excedingly in the citie of our God in his holie mount †Mount Sion is founded with the exultation of the whole earth the sides of the North the citie of the great king †God shal be knowen in the houses therof when he shal receiue it †For behold the kings of the earth were gathered together they assembled in one †They seing it so were in admiration were trubled were moued †trembling tooke them Their sorowes as a woman traueling †In a vehement spirit thou shalt breake the shippes of Tharsis †As we haue heard so haue we seene in the citie of the Lord of hostes in the citie of our God God hath founded it for euer †We haue receiued thy mercie ô God in the middes of thy temple †According to thy name ô God so also is thy prayse vnto the endes of the earth thy right hand is ful of iustice †Let mount Sion be glad and the daughters of Iuda reioyce because of thy iudgementes ô Lord †Compasse Sion and embrace ye her tel ye in her towers †Set your hartes on her strength and distribute ye her houses that you may declare it in an other generation †Because this is God our God for euer and for euer and euer he shal rule vs euermore PSALME XLVIII The royal prophet inuiting al states and sortes of men to heare him attentiuely 6 sheweth that al ought to feare eternal damnation that liue wickedly 9. vainly and foolishly seeking 13. euen like brute beastes carnal pleasures which they can not long enioy nor long escape hel 16. confidently animating him selfe and al good men that trust not in this world †Vnto the end to the sonnes of Core a Psalme HEARE these thinges al ye Gentiles receiue with your eares al ye that inhabite the earth †Al ye earthly persons and children of men together in one the rich and the poore †My mouth shal speake wisedom and the meditation of my hart prudence †I wil incline mine eare vnto a parable I wil open my proposition on a Psalter †Why shal I feare in the euil day the iniquitie of my heele shal compasse me †They that trust in their strength and glorie in the multitude of their riches †A brother doth not redeme man shal redeme he shal not geue vnto God his reconciliation †And the price of the redemption of his owne soule and he shal labour for euer †and shal liue yet vnto the end †He shal not see death when he shal see the wise dying the vnwise and the foole shal perish together And they shal leaue their riches to strangers †and their sepulchers their houses for euer Their Tabernacles in generation and generation they haue renowmed their names in their landes †And man when he was
in honour did not vnderstand he was compared to beasts without vnderstanding and became like to them †This their way is a scandal to them and afterward in their mouth they shal take pleasure †As sheepe they are put in hel death shal feede vpon them And the iust shal rule ouer them in the morning and their aide shal waxe old in hel from their glorie †Neuerthelesse God wil redeme my soule out of the hand of hel when he shal take me †Feare not when a man shal be made rich and when the glory of his house shal be multiplied †Because when he shal dye he shal not take al thinges neyther shal his glorie goe downe with him †Because his soule in his life shal be blessed he wil confesse to thee when thou shalt do him good †He shal enter in euen to the progenies of his fathers and he shal not see light for euer †Man when he was in honour did not vnderstand he was compared to beasts without vnderstanding and became like to them PSALME XLIX Christ in his first coming calleth al Nations 3. in his second wil iudge the world 7. In the meane time God exhorteth al men to serue him in puritie of vertue which he much preferreth before external sacrifice of the old law 17. reprehending such as professe or teach the right way and liue wickedly †A Psalme to Asaph THE God of goddes our Lord hath spoken and he hath called the earth from the rysing of the sunne euen to the going downe †Out of Syon the beauty of his comelines †God wil come manifestly our God and he wil not kepe silence Fire shal burne forth in his sight and round about him a mighty tempest †He shal cal the heauen from aboue and the earth to discerne his people †Gather ye together his saincts vnto him which ordaine his testament aboue sacrifices †And the heauens shal shew forth his iustice because God is Iudge †Heare ô my people and I wil speake Israel and I wil testifie to thee God thy God am I. †I wil not rebuke thee in thy sacrifices and thy holocaustes are in my sight alwaies †I wil not take calues out of thy house nor buckegoats out of thy flockes †Because al the wilde beasts of the woods be myne the cattle in the mountaines and oxen †I haue knowne al the foules of the ayer and the beauty of the fielde is with me †If I shal be hungrie I wil not tel thee for the round earth is myne and the fulnes therof †Wil I eate the flesh of oxen or wil I drinke the blood of bucke goats †Immolate to God “ the sacrifice of praise and pay thy vowes to the Highest †And inuocate me in the day of tribulation I wil deliuer thee and thou shalt glorifie me †But to the sinner God hath sayde Why doest thou declare my iustices and takest my testament by thy mouth †But thou hast hated discipline cast my words behind thee †If thou didst see a theefe thou didst rune with him and with adulterers thou didst put thy portion †Thy mouth hath abounded with malice and thy tongue fourged guiles †Sitting thou spakest against thy brother and against thy mothers sonne thou didst put a scandal †these things hast thou done and I haue held my peace †Thou hast thought vniustly that I wil be like thee I wil reproue thee and set it against thy face †Vnderstand these things you that forget God lest sometime he take you violently and there be none to deliuer you †The “ sacrifice of prayse shal glorifie me and there is the way by which I wil shew him the saluation of God ANNOTATIONS PSALME XLIX 14. 23. The sacrifice of praise For better and more due performing of external sacrifice it is requisite that those which offer it or desire to participate do bring with them necessarie internal vertues or disposition as sorow and repentāce for their sinnes which is a kind of improper sacrifice mentioned in the next Psalme the sacrifice of iustice which rendereth ro euerie one that is due Psal 4. and sacrifise of praise or thankes geuing for al Gods benefites receiued or expected which kindes of internal and improper sacrifices do nothing preiudice but rightly prepare men to the fruict of external sacrifice euer vsed in the law of nature the law of Moyses and of Christ This place also hath an other higher and prophetical sense of the Sacrifice of Christs bodie in the Eucharist which is both propitiatorie and Sacrifise of praise and thankes geuing So S. Augustin orat aduersus Iudeos c. 6. teacheth that here certainly is a plaine change of the old sacrifices The same he affirmeth Ep. 120. c. 18. God foreshewing that the old sacrifices should be changed which were offered in shadow of a sacrifice to come I wil not take faith God to Israel calues nor goares at thy hand c. but appointeth that al Israel al nations from the rysing of the sunne to the setting shal immolate the sacrifice of praise the same Christ whom old Simeon knew an infant whom he receiued into his handes Likewise li. contra aduers legis prophet c. 20. The Church offereth to God in the bodie of Christ the sacrifice of praise PSALME L. King Dauid in great sorow for his sinnes of adultrie and murder most seriously prayeth God of his manifold mercies to remitte and purge al his offences and paines due for them 12. to restore vnto him the grace of the Holie Ghost lost by his sinnes 15. that he may teach others as in deede his singular example may teach the whole world true penance 19. contrition of hart worthely to offer sacrifice for the whole Church †Vnto the end a Psalme of Dauid †“ when Nathan the Prophet came to him after that he had sinned with Bethsabee 2. Reg. 12. HAVE mercie on me ô God according to thy great mercie And according to the multitude of thy commiserations take away myne iniquitie †“ Wash me more amply from mine iniquitie cleanse me from my sinne †Because I do know myne iniquitie and my sinne is before me alwaies †To thee onely haue I sinned and haue done euil before thee that thou mayst be iustified in thy words and mayst ouercome when thou art iudged †For behold “ I was conceiued in iniquities my mother conceiued me in sinnes †For behold thou hast loued truth the vncertaine and hidden thinges of thy wisdome thou hast made manifest to me †Thou shalt sprinkle me with hyssope and I shal be clensed thou shalt wash me and I shal be made whiter then snow †To my hearing thou shalt
geue ioy and gladnes and the bones humbled shal reioyce †Turne away thy face from my sinnes and wipe away al mine iniquities †Create a cleane hart in me ô God and renew a right spirit in my u bowels †Cast me not away from thy face and thy Holie spirit take not from me †Render vnto me the ioy of thy saluation and confirme me with the principal spirit †I Wil teach the vniust thy waies and the impious shal be conuerted to thee †Deliuer me from bloudes ô God the God of my saluation and my tongue shal exult for thy iustice †Lord thou 〈…〉 lt open my lippes my mouth shal shew forth thy prayse †Because if thou wouldest haue had sacrifice I had verily giuen it with holocaustes thou wilt not be delighted A “ sacrifice to God is an afflicted spirit a contrite and humbled hait ô God thou wilt not despise Deale fauorably ô Lord in thy good wil with Sion that the walles of Ierusalem may be built vp Then shalt thou accept sacrifice of iustice oblations k holocaustes l then shal they lay calues vpon thyne altar ANNOTATIONS PSALME L. 2. VVhen Nathan came to Dauid As Nathan denouncing to Dauid that our Lord had vpon his repentance and confession taken away his sinne added neuertheles that because he had made the enimies of God to blaspheme his sonne should dye so Dauid knowing that more was required then only confession for that the bond of satisfaction remained after his sinnes were remitted persisted in penance praying lamenting and beseching God according to his great and mainfold mercies to take away his iniquitie albeit the prophet Nathan had now told him that our Lord had taken away his sinne because there yet remained temporal paine due for the same He prayeth also v. 4. that God wil vvash him more amply from his iniquitie and cleanse him from his sinne For albeit the guilt of mortal sinne be washed and taken away yet besides temporal punishment that is due the soule that was so polluted nedeth to be washed and cleansed from the euil habite or pronnes to fal againe gotten by the former custome or delectation in sinne 7. I VVas conceiued in iniquities An other reason why sinners after remission of al mortal sinnes neede to be washed and cleansed is because being borne in original sinne after remission therof there remaneth concupiscence that â—â—riueth against vertue and inclineth to sinne from which we must pray and labour to be more and more washed and cleansed 19 Sacrifice Holie Scriptures make often comparison betwen two kindes of sacrifices preferring internal before external as more gratful to God And of spiritual sacrifices this of a contrite spirite is first in order and maketh the way to the sacrifice of iustice because iustice presupposeth repentance and finally succedeth sacrifice of praise and thankesgeuing PSALME LI. Holie Dauid inueigheth against wicked Doeg a traitor 7. prophecieth his ruine 10. and his owne exaltation Vnto the end vnderstanding to Dauid †when Doeg the Idumeite came and told Saul Dauid is come into the house of Achimelech 1. Reg. 22. VVHY doest thou glorie in malice which art mightie in iniquitie †Al the day hath thy tongue thought iniustice as a sharp rasor thou hast done guile †Thou hast loued malice more then benignitie iniquitie rather then to speake equitie †Thou hast loued al wordes of precipitation a deceitful tongue †Therfore Wil God destroy thee for euer he wil plucke thee out remoue thee out of thy tabernacle thy roote out of the land of the liuing †The iust shal see and feare and shal laugh at him and they shal say Behold the man that hath not put God for his helper But hath hoped in the multitude of his riches and hath preualed in his vanitie †But I as a fruitful oliue tree in the house of God haue hoped in the mercie of God for euer and for euer and euer †I wil confesse to thee for euer because thou hast done it and I wil expect thy name because it is good in the sight of thy saints PSALME LII As in the thirtenth Psalme Christs Incarnation is prophecied after that sinne abunded in the world so here is foreshewed that after general wickednes 5. Christ wil come to iudge the bad 7. and deliuer the good Vnto the end for Maâ—leth vnderstandings of Dauid THE foole hath said in his hart There is no God †They are corrupte and become abominable in iniquities there is not that doth good †God hath looked forth from heauen vpon the children of men to see if there be that vnderstaÌ„deth or seeketh after God †Al haue declined they are become vnprofitable together there is not that doth good no there is not one Shal they not al know that worke iniquitie that deuoure my people as food of bread God they haue not inuocated there haue they trembled for feare where no feare was Because God hath dissipated the bones of them that please men they are confounded because God hath despised them Who wil geue out of Sion the saluation of Israel when God shal conuert the captiuitie of his people Iacob shal reioyce and Israel shal be glad PSALME LIII Dauid in distresse crieth to God for helpe 6. considently trusting therin 8. and promising sacrifice of thankesgeuing †Vnto the end in songs vnderstanding for Dauid †when the Zipheites were come and said to Saul Is not Dauid hid with vs 1. Reg. 1. 23. 26. O GOD saue me in thy name and in thy strength iudge me †O God heare my prayer with thine eares receiue the words of my mouth †Because straÌ„gers haue risen vp against me the strong haue sought my soule and they haue not set God before their eies †For behold God helpeth me and our Lord is the receiuer of my soule †Turne away the euils to mine enimies and in thy truth destroy them †I wil voluntarily sacrifice to thee and wil confesse to thy name ô Lord because it is good †Because thou hast deliuered me out of al tribulation and mine eie hath looked downe vpon mine enimies PSALME LIIII The prophet as wel in his owne as other iust mens person describeth great calamities suffered 10. prayeth against the wicked 13. lamenting especially that those which professe frendshipe are aduersaries 17. and declareth Gods prouidence in protecting the good and destroying the bad Vnto the end in songes vnderstanding to Dauid HEARE my prayer ô God despise not my petition †Attend to me and heare me †I am made sorowful in my exercise and am trubled at the voice of the enimie
to God †Ye kingdomes of the earth sing to God sing to our Lord †Sing ye to God that mounteth vpon the heauen of heauen to the East Behold he wil giue to his voice the voice of strength †giue you glorie to God vpon Israel his magnificence and his powre in the cloudes †God is meruelous in his saintes the God of Israel he wil giue powre and strength to his people God be blessed ANNOTATIONS PSALME LXVII 16. The mountaine of God For better discerning the true Church from other congregations the Prophet here describeth certaine proprieties therof for he calleth it a mountane because it is most visible to al men Secondly a fatte mountane that is replenished vvith al vertues and giftes of the Holie Ghost vvherof it is called Holie Thirdly it is crudded or consolidated in vnitie of faith and Religion vvhich conioyne the vvhole bodie making it solide and firme as the ruen turneth liquide milke into curde and so into cheese Fourtly it is the Congregation vvherin God alvvayes remaneth euen to the end for euer vvhich shevveth tvvo other proprieties that the Church neuer faileth nor erreth in doctrin God stil dvvelling therin and consequently conserueth it from error in doctrin 17. VVhy suppose you crudded montaines As for other congregations it is certaine and euident that they are not the Church of God because they are not crudded that is not vnited in the same pointes of faith but only in negatiue pointes and in general opposition against the Catholique Church and among themselues notoriously disagreing and diuided As they also vvant the other markes of the true Church PSALME LXVIII Christ in middes of afflictions as one in dangerous waters 5. describing the malice of persecutors and his owne true zele 14. prayeth his heauenlie Father for helpe 23. By way of iust imprecation forsheweth the seuere punishment of his aduersaries 30. his owne glorious Resurrection and prosperous building of his Church For which he inuiteth al creatures to praise God Vnto the end for them that shal be changed to Dauid SAVE me ô God because waters are entered into my soule †I sticke fast in the myre of the depth and there is no sure standing I am come into the depth of the sea and a tempest hath ouerwhelmed me †I haue labored crying my iawes are made hoarse my eies haue failed whiles I hope in my God †They are multiplied aboue the heares of my head that hate me without cause Mine enimies are made strong that haue persecuted me vniustly then did I pay the thinges that I tooke not †O God thou knowest my foolishnes and mine offences are not hide from thee †Let them not be ashamed vpon me which expect thee ô Lord Lord of hostes Let them not be confounded vpon me that seeke thee ô God of Israel †Because for thee haue I sustained reproch confusion hath couered my face †I am become a forener to my brethren and a stranger to the sonnes of my mother †Because the zele of thy house hath eaten me and the reproches of them that reproched thee fel vpon me †And I couered my soule in fasting and it was made a reproch to me And I put heare cloth my garment I became a parable to them †They spake aganst me that sat in the gate and they soong aganst me that dranke wine †But I my prayer to thee ô Lord a time of thy good pleasure ô God In the multitude of thy mercie heare me in the truth of thy saluation †Deliuer me out of the myre that I stick not fast deliuer me from them that hate me and from the depthes of waters †Let not the tempest of water drowne me nor the depth swallowe me neyther let the pit shut his mouth vpon me †Heare me ô Lord because thy mercie is benigne according to the multitude of thy commiserations haue respect to me †And turne not away thy face from thy seruant because I am in tribulation heare me speedily †Attend to my soule and deliuer it because of mine enimies deliuer me †Thou knowest my reproch my confusion my shame †In thy sight are al they that afflict me my hart hath looked for reproch and miserie And I expected some bodie that would be sorie together with me and there was none and that would confort me and I founde not †And they gaue gal for my meate in my thirst they gaue me vinegre to drinke †Let their table be made a snare before them for retributions and for a scandal †Let Their eies be darkned that they see not and make their backe crooked alwaies Poure out thy wrath vpon them and let the furie of thy wrath ouertake them Let their habitation be made desert and in their tabernacles let there be none to dwel Because whom thou hast striken they haue persecuted and vpon the sorrow of my wounds they haue added †Adde thou iniquitie vpon their iniquitie and let them not enter into thy iustice †Let them be put out of the booke of the liuing and with the iust let them not be written I am poore and sorowful thy saluation ô God hath receiued me †I wil praise the name of God with canticle and wil magnifie him in prayse †And it shal please God more then a young calfe that bringeth forth hornes and hoofes †Let the poore see and reioyce seeke ye God and your soule shal liue †Because our Lord hath heard the poore and he hath not despised his prisoners †Let the heauens and earth praise him the sea and al the creeping beastes in them †Because God wil saue Sion and the cities of Iuda shal be built vp And they shal inhabite there by inheritance they shal get it †And the seede of his seruants shal possesse it and they that loue his name shal dwel in it PSALME LXIX An other prayer of Dauid when he was persecuted by Absolom made in a Psalme after his deliuerie Vnto the end a Psalme of Dauid in remembrance that our Lord saued him O God intend vnto my helpe Lord make hast to helpe me †Let them be confounded and be ashamed that seeke my soule †Let them be turned away backeward and be ashamed that wil me euils Let them be turned away forthwith ashamed that say to me Wel wel †Let al that seeke thee reioyce and be glad in thee and let them say alwayes Our Lord be magnified which loue thy saluation †But I am needie and poore ô God helpe me thou art my helper and deliuerer ô Lord be not slacke PSALME LXX King Dauid or anie other iust person prayeth God to
the world haue obtained riches †And I saide Then haue I iustified my hart without cause and haue washed my handes amongst innocentes †And haue bene scourged al the day and my chastising in the morninges †If I saide I wil speake this behold I reproued the nation of thy children †I thought to know this thing it is labour before me †Vntil I may enter into the sanctuarie of God and may vnderstand concerning their latter endes †But yet for guiles thou hast put it to them thou hast cast them downe whiles they were eleuated †How are they brought into desolation they haue failed sodanely they haue perished for their iniquitie †As the dreame of them that rise ô Lord in thy citie thou shalt bring their image to nothing †Because my hart is inflamed and my reynes are changed And I am brought to nothing and knew not †As a beast am I become with thee and I alwaies with thee †Thou hast helde my right hand and in thy wil thou hast conducted me and with glorie thou hast receiued me †For what is to me in heauen and besides thee what would I vpon the earth †My flesh hath fainted and my hart God of my hart and God my portion for euer For behold they that make them selues faire from thee shal perish thou hast destroyed al that fornicate from thee †But it is good for me to cleaue to God to put my hope in our Lord God That I may shew forth al thy prayses in the gates of the daughter of Sion PSALME LXXIII Faithful people pressed with persecution lamentably complayning besecheth God to respect his owne inheritance cruelly afflicted â—â— and leift long without helpe 12. wheras heretofore he releeued his people in like distresses 18. And therfore confidently hopeth he wil renenge the blasphemers of his name Vnderstanding to Asaph VVHY hast thou ô God repelled for euer is thy furie wrath vpon the sheepe of thy pasture Be mindful of thy congregation which thou hast possessed from the beginning Thou hast redemed the rod of thine inheritanâ—â—e mount Sion in which thou hast dwelt †Lift vp thy handes vpon their prides for euer how great thinges hath the enimie done malignantly in the holy place †And they that hate thee haue gloried in the middes of thy solemnitie They haue sette their signes for signes †and haue not knowne as in the issue on high As in a wood of trees they haue with axes †cut out the gates therof together in hatchet and chippeaxe they haue cast it downe †They haue burnt thy sanctuarie with fire they haue polluted the tabernacle of thy name in the earth †Their kinred together haue saide in their hart Let vs make al the festiual daies of God to cease from the earth †Our signes we haue not seene there is now no prophet and he wil know vs no more †How long ô God shal the enimie vpbraide the aduersarie prouoke thy name for euer †Why doest thou turne away thy hand and thy right hand out of the middes of thy bosome for euer †But God our king before the worldes he hath wrought saluation in the middes of the earth †Thou in thy strength hast confirmed the sea thou hast crushed the head of Dragons in the waters †Thou hast broken the heads of the dragon thou hast giuen him for meate to the peoples of the Aethiopians †Thou hast broken vp fountanes and torrentes thou hast dried the riuers of Ethan †The day is thine and the night is thine thou hast made the morning and the sunne †Thou hast made al the coasts of the earth the summer and the spring thou hast formed them †Be mindeful of this the enimie hath vpbraided our Lord and a foolish people hath prouoked thy name †Deliuer not to beasts the soules that confesse to thee and the soules of thy poore forget not for euer †Haue respect vnto thy testament because they that are obscure of the earth are filled with houses of iniquities †Let not the humble be turned away being confounded the poore and needy shal praise thy name †Arise God iudge thy cause be mindful of those thy reproches that are from the foolish man al the day †Forget not the voices of thine enimies the pride of them that hate thee hath ascended alwaies PSALME LXXIIII Christ with his Assessors wil iudge the whole world at the last day in the meane time exhorteth sinners to amend their life 7. for none shal escape iust iudgement 1â— The wicked shal be punished and the good rewarded Vnto the end Corrupt not a Psalme of Canticle to Asaph VVE wil confesse to thee ô God we wil confesse and wil inuocate thy name We wil tel thy meruelouse workes †when I shal take a time I wil iudge iustices †The earth is melted and al that dwel in it I haue confirmed the pillers thereof †I said to the wicked doe not wickedly and to them that offend Exalt not the horne †Exalt not your horne on high speake not iniquitie aganst God †For neither from the East nor from the West nor from the desert mountanes †because God is Iudge This man he humbleth and him he exalteth †because there is a cuppe in the hand of our Lord of mere wine ful of mixture And he hath powred it out of this into that but yet the dregges therof are not emptied al the sinners of the earth shal drinke †But I wil shewforth for euer I wil sing to the God of Iacob †And I wil breake al the hornes of sinners and the hornes of the iust shal be exalted PSALME LXXV The royal prophet singeth Gods praises for his particular prouidence towards the Iewes 10. further to be extended to al the meeke of the whole earth Vnto the end in prayses a Psalme to Asaph a Canticle to the Assirians God is knowne in Iewrie in Israel his name is great †And his place is made in peace and his habitation in Sion †There he brake the powres of bowes the shilde the sword and the battle †Thou doest illuminate meruelousely from the eternal mountaynes †al the foolish of hart were trubled †They slept their sleepe and al the men of riches found nothing in their handes †At thy reprehension ô God of Iacob they haue al slumbered that mounted on horses †Thou art terrible and who shal resist thee from that time thy wrath †From heauen thou hast made thy iudgement hearde the earth trembled and was quiet When God arose vnto iudgement
Ammon and Amalec the for eners with the inhabitantes of Tyre †Yea and Assur also is come with them they are made an aide to the children of Lot †Doe to them as to Madian and Sisara as to Iabin in the torrent Cisson †They perished in Endor they were made as the dung of the earth †Put their princes as Oreb and Zeb and Zebee and Salmana Al their princes †which haue saide Let vs possesse the Sanctuarie of God for an inheritance †My God put them as a wheele and as stubble before the face of the winde †Euen as fire that burneth a wood as a flame that burneth the mountaines †So shalt thou pursew them in thy tempest and in thy wrath thou shalt truble them †Fil their faces with ignominie and they wil seeke thy name ô Lord. †Let them be ashamed and trubled for euer and euer and let them be confounded and perish †And let them know that Lord is thy name thou onlie the Highest in al the earth PSALME LXXXIII Deuout persons feruently desire eternal glorie 6. accounting it in the meane time a happie state to be in the militant Church 12. where God first geuing grace wil geue glorie in the triumphant †Vnto the end for wine presses t the children of Core a Psalme HOW beloued are thy tabernacles ô Lord of hoastes †my soule coueteth and fainteth vnto the courtes of our Lord. My hart and my flesh haue reioyced toward the liuing God †For the sparow also hath found her an house and the turtledoue a nest for her selfe where she may lay her young ones Thine altars ô Lord of hoastes my King and my God †Blessed are they that dwel in thy house ô Lord for euer and euer they shal praise thee †Blessed is the man whose helpe is from thee he hath disposed ascension in his hart †in the vaile of teares in the place which he hath appointed †For the lawgeuer shal geue blessing they shal goe from vertue into vertue the God of goddes shal be seene in Sion †Lord God of hoastes heare my prayer receiue with thine eare ô God of Iacob †Behold ô God our protectour and looke vpon the face of thy Christ †Because better is one day in thy courtes aboue thousands I haue chosen to be an abiect in the house of my God rather then to dwel t in the tabernacles of sinners †Because God loueth mercie and truth our Lord wil geue grace and glorie †He wil not depriue them of good thinges that walke in innocencie ô Lord of hoastes blessed is the man that hopeth in thee PSALME LXXXIIII With commemoration of Gods former benefites 5. Christs Incarnation is prophecied 9. bringing peace and saluation 11. mercie and iustice concurring together Vnto the end to the children of Core a Psalme O Lord thou hast blessed thy land thou hast turned away the captiuitie of Iacob †Thou hast forgeuen the iniquitie of thy people thou hast couered al their sinnes †Thou hast mitigated al thy wrath thou hast turned away from the wrath of thine indignation †Conuert vs ô God our sauiour and auert thy wrath from vs. †Wil t thou be wrath with vs for euer or wilt thou extend thy wrath from generation vnto generation †O God thou being turned shalt quicken vs and thy people shal reioyce in thee †Shew vs ô Lord thy mercie and giue vs thy saluation †I wil heare what our Lord God wil speake in me because he wil speake peace vpon his people And vpon his saincts and vpon them that are conuerted to the hart †But yet his saluation is nigh to them that feare him that glorie may inhabite in our land †Mercie and truth haue met each other iustice and peace haue kissed †Truth is risen out of the earth and iustice hath looked downe from heauen †For our Lord certes wil geue benignitie and our land shal giue her fruite †Iustice shal walke before him and shal set his steppes in the way PSALME LXXXV In consideration of his owne imperfections the royal prophet or other faithful person prayeth God 5. according to his mercie and goodnes 9. shewed in conuerting Gentiles 13. and in deliuering the supplicant him self from the state of damnation 16. that he wil stil direct and defend him against al enimies †A praier to Dauid him selfe Incline thine eare ô Lord and heare me because I am needie and poore †Keepe my soule because I am holie saue thy seruant my God that hopeth in thee †Haue mercie on me ô Lord because I haue cried to thee al the day †make ioyful the soule of thy seruant because to thee ô Lord haue I lifted vp my soule †Because thou ô Lord art swete and milde and of much mercie to al that inuocate thee †Receiue ô Lord my praier with thine ears and attend to the voice of my petition †In the day of my tribulation I haue called to thee because thou hast heard me †There is not the like to thee amongst goddes ò Lord and there is not according to thy workes †Al nations what soeuer thou hast made shal come and shal adore before thee ô Lord and they shal glorifie thy name †Because thou art great and doing meruelous thinges thou onlie art God †Conduct me ô Lord in thy way and I wil walke in thy truth let my hart reioyce that it may feare thy name †I wil confesse to thee ô Lord my God with al my hart and wil glorifie thy name for euer †Because thy mercie is great vpon me and thou hast deliuered my soule out of the lower hel †O God the wicked are risen vp vpon me and the synagogue of the mightie haue sought my soule and they haue not set thee in their sight †And thou ô Lord the God of compassion and merciful patient and of much mercie and true †Haue respect to me and haue mercie on me giue thine empire to thy seruant and saue the sonne of thy handmaide †Make with me a signe vnto God that they may see which hate me and may be confounded because thou ô Lord hast holpen me PSALME LXXXVI The Church of Christ beginning in Ierusalem 3. is extended to al Nations 5. glorious 6. and permanent 7. in holie ioy To the children of Core a Psalme of Canticle THE fundations thereof in the holie mountaynes †our Lord loueth the gates of Sion aboue al the tabernacles of Iacob †Glorious thinges
planted the eare shal he not heare Or he that made the eie doth he not consider †He that chastiseth nations shal he not rebuke he that teacheth man knowledge †Our Lord knoweth the cogitations of men that they be vaine †Blessed is the man whom thou shalt instruct ô Lord and shalt â—each out of thy lawe †That thou maist geue him quietnes from the euil daies til a pitte be digged for the sinner †Because our Lord wil not reiect his people and his inheritance he wil not forsake †Vntil iustice be turned into iudgement and they who are neere it are al that are right of hart †Who shal rise for me against the malignant or who shal stand with me against them that worke iniquitie †But that our Lord hath holpen me within very litle my soule had dwelt in hel †If I said My foote is moued thy mercie ô Lord did help me †According to the multitude of my sorrowes in my hart thy consolations haue made my soule ioyful †Doth the seat of iniquitie cleaue to thee which makest labour in precept †They wil hunt after the soule of the iust and wil condemne innocent bloud And our Lord became my refuge and my God the helpe of my hope †And he wil repay them their iniquitie and in their malice he wil destroy them the Lord our God wil destroy them PSALMES XCIIII An inuitation to serue and adore Christ our Lord and Messias 3. aswel for the benefites of creating al thinges 7. as for his Incarnation and not to harden our hartes as the Iewes did Praise of Canticle to Dauid him selfe COME let vs reioyce to our Lord let vs make iubilation to God our sauiour †Let vs preuent his face in confession and in Psalmes let vs make iubilation to him †Because our Lord is a great God and a great King aboue al goddes †Because in his hand are the endes of the earth and the heightes of the mountaines be his †Because the sea is his and he made it and his handes formed the drie land †Come let vs adore and fal downe and wepe before our Lord that made vs. †Because he is the Lord our God and we the people of his pasture and the shepe of his hand †To day if ye shal heare his voice “ harden not your hartes †As in the prouocation according to the day of the tentation in the desert where your fathers tempted me proued me and saw my workes †Fourtie years was I offended with that generation and said These alwaies erre in hart †And these haue not knowne my waies as I sware in my wrath if they shal enter into my rest ANNOTATIONS PSALME XCIIII 8. Harden not your hartes VVhatsoeuer God proposeth by preaching or inspiration to a sinner it resteth stil in the powre of his freewil to harden his harte and to reiect al such good motions and so he doth not only frustrate Gods grace and hinder his owne iustification but also increaseth his former sinnes But by not resisting when deliberating therupon he could resist he disposeth himselfe and cooperateth to first iustification And therfore the royal Prophet here admonisheth and earnestly exhorteth al men to do this which God hath put in our powre not to harden our owne hartes when we heare his voice by resisting and reiecting his grace freely offered without al merite of our part PSALME XCV Al peoples nations are inuited to praise the blessed Trinitie 3. for Christs Incarnation and spiritual kingdom in al the world â—â— euen sensles creatures acknowledging his maiestie 13. and iudicial powre A Canticle to Dauid * himselfe when the house was built after the captiuitie SING ye to our Lord a new song sing to our Lord al the earth †Sing ye to our Lord and blesse his name shewforth his saluation from day to day †Shewforth his glorie among the Gentiles his meruelous workes in al peoples †Because our Lord is great and exceeding laudable he is terrible aboue al goddes †Because al the goddes of the Gentiles are diuels but our Lord made the heauens †Confession and beauty in his sight holinesse and magnificence in his sanctification †Bring to our Lord ye families of Gentiles bring ye to our Lord glorie and honour †bring to our Lord glorie vnto his name Take vp hoastes and enter into his courtes †adore ye our Lord in his holie court Let al the earth be moued before his face †say ye among the Gentiles that our Lord hath reigned For he hath corrected the round world which shal not be moued he wil iudge peoples in equitie †Let the heauens be glad and the earth reioyce the sea be moued and the fulnesse therof †the fieldes shal be glad and al things that are in them Then shal the trees of the woodes reioyce †before the face of our Lord because he cometh because he cometh to iudge the earth He wil iudge the round world in equitie and peoples in his truth PSALME XCVI Al the earth is inuited to reioyce in Christs kingdom 3. with description of the signes coming before the day of Iudgement 7. Idolaters shal be confounded 8. Holie Angels and iust men shal adore Christ and reioyce To this Dauid when his land was restored agane to him OVR Lord hath reigned let the earth reioyce let manie Ilands be glad †Cloude and mist round about him iustice and iudgement the correction of his seat †Fire shal goe before him and shal inflame his enimies round about †His lightninges shined to the round world the earth sawe and was moued †The mountaines melted as waxe before the face of our Lord before the face of our Lord al the earth †The heauens haue shewed forth his iustice and al peoples haue seene his glorie †Let them al be confounded that adore sculptils and that glorie in their idoles Adore him al ye his Angels †Sion heard and was glad And the daughters of Iuda reioyced because of thy iudgements ô Lord. †Because thou Lord most high ouer al the earth thou art exalted excedingly aboue al goddes †You that loue our Lord hate ye euil our Lord keepeth the soules of his saintes out of the hand of the sinner he wil deliuer them †Light is risen to the iust and ioy to the right of hart †Be glad ye iust in our Lord and confesse ye to the memorie of his sanctification PSALME XCVII Al men are againe inuited ioyfully to celebrate the meruelous conquest of Christ in al nations 4. with hart voice and instruments 8. al creatures acknowledging his coming to iudge the world A psalme to Dauid himselfe SING ye
to our Lord a new song because he hath done meruelous thinges His righthand hath wrought saluation to himselfe and his arme is holie †Our Lord hath made knowne his saluation in the sight of the Gentiles he hath reueled his iustice †He hath remembred his mercie and his truth to the house of Israel Al the ends of the earth haue seene the saluation of our God †Make ye iubilation to God al the earth chaunt and reioyce and sing †Sing to our Lord on harpe on harpe and voice of psalme †on long drawen trumpets and voice of cornet of horne Make iubilation in the sight of the king our Lord †let the sea be moued and the fulnes therof the round world and they that dwel therin †The riuers shal clappe with hand the mountaynes together shal reioyce †at the sight of our Lord because he cometh to iudge the earth He wil iudge the round earth in iustice and the peoples in equitie PSALME XCVIII Christ reigneth notwithstanding his enimies repine is adored 5. also his footestoole 6. whom ancient Prophetes did inuocate A Psalme to Dauid himselfe OVR Lord hath reigned let peoples be angrie he that sitteth vpon the Cherubs let the earth be moued †Our Lord great in Sion and high aboue al peoples †Let them confesse to thy great name because it is terrible and holie †And the honour of the king loueth iudgement Thou hast prepared directions thou hast done iudgement and iustice in Iacob †Exalt ye the Lord our God and “ adore his footstoole because it is holie †Moyses and Aaron in his priestes and Samuel among them that inuocate his name They inuocated our Lord and he heard them †in a piller of a cloud he spake to them They kept his testimonies the precept which he gaue them †O Lord our God thou heardest them God thou wast propitious to them and taking vengeance vpon al their inuentions Exalt ye the Lord our God and adore ye in his holie mount because the Lord our God is holie ANNOTATIONS PSALME XCIX 5. Adore his footestoole For so much as al Expositors also the Hebrevv Rabbins affirme that the Psalmist here prophecieth of Christ the promised Messias that should redeme mankind and seing the Arke of couenant perteyneth not to the seruice of Christ but vvas only a figure of him the footestoole of Messias here mentioned must nedes be something perteyning to him and therfore most ancient Fathers expound it of Christs humanitie And because the Prophet speaketh of perpetual adoration not only of the shorte time he conuersed vvith men in this life vvhen very fevv adored him the same fathers vnderstand here the adoration of Christ in the blessed Sacrament of the Eucharist Which S Ambrose teacheth lib. 3. de Spiritu Sancto c. 12. in these plaine vvordes By the footstoole must be vnderstood the earth by the earth the flesh of Christ VVhich vve also at this day adore in the Mysteries and vvhich the Apostles adored in our Lord Iesus S. Augustin more largely vpon this Psalme I am made doubtful saith he I feare to adore the earth lest he condeme me that made heauen and earth Againe I feare not to adore the footstoole of my Lord because the Psalme saith to me Adore his footstoole I seeke vvhat is his footstoole and the Scripture Isaiae 66. telleth me the earth is his footstoole Doubtful I turne myself vnto Christ because I seeke him here and I finde hovv vvithout impietie the earth may be adored vvithout impietie his footstoole may be adored For he tooke earth of earth because flesh is of earth and he tooke flesh of the flesh of the B. virgin Marie And because he vvalked here in the same flesh and gaue the very flesh to vs to eate vnto saluation and no man eateth that flesh onles he first adore it it is found hovv such a footstoole of our Lord may be adored and not only vve doe not sinne in adoring but vve should sinne in not adoring Thus farre S. Augustin Further instructing not to coÌ„ceâ—ue of Christs flesh as â—he Capharnaites did that he would cute it in peeces from his bodie and geue them portions therof His very flesh is geuen and eaten not in fleshlie maner but in sacramental See Annotations Ioan. 6. PSALME XCIX Al are inuited to reioyce in God Creator of al. A Psalme in confession MAKE ye iubilation to God al the earth serue ye our Lord in gladnesse Enter ye in before his sight in exultation †Know ye that our Lord he is God he made vs and not we ourselues His people and the sheepe of his pasture †enter ye into his gates in confession his courtes in hymnes confesse ye to him Praise ye his name †because our Lord is sweete his mercie for euer and his truth euen vnto generation and generation PSALME C. King Dauid gratfully celebrateth the two general diuine vertues Mercie and Iustice 2. by his owne example exhorteth al especially Superiors to direct their wayes in sinceritie 4. and to seperate the wicked from conuersation of the good A Psalme to Dauid himselfe MERCIE and iudgement I wil sing to thee â— Lord I wil sing †and I shal vnderstand in the immaculate way when thou shalt come to me I walked through in the inocencie of my hart in the middes of my house †I did not propose before mine eies any vniust thing I hated them that do preuarication †A peruerse hart hath not cleaued to me the malignant declining from me I knew not †One secretly detracting from his neighbour him did I persecute One of a proud eye and vnsatiable hart with him I did not eate †Mine eies are towards the faithful of the earth that they may sit with me A man that walketh in the immaculate way he did minister to me †He that doth proudly shal not dwel in the middes of my house he that speaketh vniust thinges hath not directed in the sight of mine eies †In the morning did I kil al the sinners of the earth that I might destroy out of the citie of our Lord al those that worke iniquitie PSALMES CI. A sinner in affliction of mind prayeth God to deliuer him 10. desolate of al other helpe 13. conceiueth comforth in Gods eternal goodnes and singular mercie in redeming mankind and propagating the Church 24. Prayeth to be made mature in vertue before he dye that he may liue with God 26. who only and wholly being immutable establisheth his seruantes for euer The prayer of the poore when he shal be anxious and shal make his petition before our Lord. LORD heare my prayer and let my crie come to thee †Turne not away thy face from me in what
day soeuer I am in tribulation incline thine eare to me In what day soeuer I shal inuocate thee heare me speedely †Because my dayes haue vanished as smoke and my bones are withered as a drie burnt firebrand †I am striken as grasse and my hart is withered because I haue forgotten to eate my bread †For the voyce of my groning my bone hath cleaued to my flesh †I am become like a pellicane of the wildernes I am become as a nightcrow in the house †I haue watched and am become as a sparow solitarie in the housetoppe †Al the day did mine enemies vpbrayde me and they that praysed me sware against me †Because I did eate ashes as bread mingled my drinke with weeping †At the face of thy wrath and indignation because lifting me vp thou hast throwne me downe †My daies haue declined as a shadow and I am withered as grasse †But thou ô Lord endurest for euer and thy memorial in generation and generation †Thou rysing vp shal haue mercie on Sion because it is time to haue mercie on it because the time cometh †Because the stones therof haue pleased thy seruantes and they shal haue pittie on the earth therof †And the Gentiles shal feare thy name ô Lord and al the kinges of the earth thy glorie †Because our Lord hath built Sion and he shal be seene in his glorie †He hath had respect to the prayer of the humble and he hath not despised their petition †Let these thinges be written vnto an other generation and the people that shal be created shal praise our Lord. †Because he hath looked forth from his high holie place our Lord from heauen hath looked vpon the earth †That he might heare the gronings of the fettered that he might loose the children of them that are slayne †That they may shewforth the name of our Lord in Sion and his praise in Ierusalem †In the assembling of the people together in one and kinges to serue our Lord. †He answered him in the way of his strength Shew me the fewnes of my daies †Cal me not backe in the halfe of my daies thy yeares are vnto generation and generation †In the beginning ô Lord thou didst found the earth and the heauens are the workes of thy hands †They shal perish but thou art permanent and they shal al waxe old as a garment And as a vesture thou shalt change them and they shal be changed †but thou art the selfe same and thy yeares shal not faile †The children of thy seruantes shal inhabite and their seede shal be directed for euer PSALME CII Thankes to God for priuate 6. and publike benefites 17. His mercie iustice and other proprieties are immutable 20. Angels and al other creatures are inuited to praise him †To Dauid himself MY soule blesse thou our Lord and al thinges that are within me his holie name †My soule blesse thou our Lord and forget not al his retributions †Who is propitious to al thine iniquities who healeth al thine infirmities †Who redemeth thy life from deadly falling who crowneth thee in mercie and commiserations †Who replenisheth thy desire in good thinges “ thy youth shal be rewed as the eagles †Our Lord doth mercies and iudgement to al that suffer wrong †He made his waies knowne to Moyses his willes to the children of Israel †Our Lord is pitieful and merciful long suffering and very merciful †He wil not be angrie alwayes neither wil he threaten for euer †He hath not done to vs according to our sinnes neither according to our iniquities hath he rewarded vs. †For according to the height of heauen from the earth hath he strengthned his mercie vpon them that feare him †As far as the East is distant from the West hath he made our iniquities far from vs. †As a father hath compassion of his children so hath our †Lord compassion on them that feare him †because he hath knowen our making He remembred that we are dust †man his daies are as grasse as the floure of the filde so shal he florish †Because the spirit shal passe in him and he shal not stand and he shal know his place no more †But the mercie of our Lord from euerlasting and vnto euerlasting vpon them that feare him And his iustice is vpon the childrens children to them that keepe his testament †And are mindful of his commandmentes to doe them †Our Lord hath prepared his seate in heauen and his kindom shal haue dominion ouer al. †Blesse our Lord al ye his Angels mightie in powre doing his word that feare the voice of his wordes †Blesse our Lord al ye his hoastes you his ministers that doe his wil. †Blesse ye our Lord al his workes in euerie place of his dominion my soule blesse thou our Lord. ANNOTATIONS PSALME CII 5 Thy youth shal be renevved as the Eagles Aristotel and Plinie write that an Eagle decayeth not nor euer dieth by old age but the vpper part of her beake st l growing at last hâ—ndereth her from eating and so she dieth of famâ—ne Saadias and other Hebrew Rabbins reporte that an Eagle euerie tenne yeares washeth herselfe â—n the sea as in a baâ—h then flying very hiegh burneth her fethers in the elemental fire new fethers growing she becometh fresh as in her first youth tâ—l at last about an huadred yeares old she is not able to rise from the water and so is drowned S. Augustin more probably affirmeth that in long time her â—eâ—ke growing long and stopping her mouth that she can not eate she breaketh the vpper hooked part therof against a stone and so receiueth meate and recouereth strength as in her youth But whatsoeuer is the natural propert e of this kinglie birde the Royal Prophet here instructeth vs by the sâ—nilitude of her long life or by the renouation of her streingth that iust men Gods seruantes are spiritually renouated in Christ the principal rocke on whoâ— the Church al the faithful are built either by receiuing new streingth by his grace in their soules after they are weakened by sinne as S. Ierom and Eu hymius expound this place or by restauration of their bodies glorified in the resurrection as S. Augustin teacheth or by both as most Catholique Doctors vnderstand it For one sense of holie Scripture excludeth not an other Especially when one is subordinate to the other As here these two senses do very wel concurre seing the state of the bodie after the resurrection dependeth vpon the state of the soule at
bene long a seiourner †With them that hated peace I was peaceable when I spake to them they impugned me without cause PSALME CXX The iust reioyce that their prayer is heard and that God continually protecteth them A gradual Canticle I HAVE lifted vp mine eies vnto the mountaines from whence helpe shal come to me †My helpe is from our Lord who made heauen and earth †Geue he not thy foote to be moued neither doe he slumber that keepeth thee †Loe he shal not slumber nor sleepe that kepeth Israel †Our lord kepeth thee our Lord is thy protection vpon thy right hand †By day the sunne shal not burne thee nor the moone by night †Our Lord doth kepe thee from al euil our Lord kepe thy soule †Our Lord kepe thy coming in and thy going out from hence forth now and for euer PSALME CXXI Vnder the figure of returne to Ierusalem vehemently desired by the Iewes in captiuitie the Psalmist describeth the desire and hope of the iust â—o possesse heauen A gradual Canticle I REIOYCED in these thinges which were sayd to me We shal goe into the house of our Lord. †Our feete were standing in thy courtes ô Ierusalem †Ierusalem which is built as a citie whose participation is together in it self †For thither did the tribes ascend the tribes of our Lord the testimonie of Israel to confesse vnto the name of our Lord. †Because seates sate there in iudgement seates vpon the house of Dauid †Aâ—ke ye the thinges that are for the peace of Ierusalem and abundance to them that loue thee †Peace be made in thy strength and abundance in thy towers †For my bretheren and my neigbours sakes I spake peace of thee †For the house of our Lord God I haue sought good thinges to thee PSALME CXXII A feruent and attentiue prayer to be deliuered from captiuitie or anie other affliction A gradual Canticle TO thee haue I lifted vp mine eies which dwellest in the heauens †Behold as the eies of seruantes are on the handes of their masters As the eies of the handmaide on the handes of her mistresse so are our eies to our Lord God vntil he haue mercie on vs. †Haue mercie on vs ô Lord haue mercie on vs because we are much replenished with contempt Because our soule is much replenished reproch to them that abund and contempt to the prowde PSALME CXXIII The whole Church and euerie iust person gratfully confesseth that by Gods protection they are secure without which none could escape ruine A gradual Canticle BVT that our Lord was in vs let Israel now say †but that our Lord was in vs When men rose vp against vs †perhaps they had swalowed vs aliue When their furie was angrie against vs †perhaps water had swalowed vs. †Our soule hath passed through a torrent perhaps our soule had passed through an intolerable water †Blessed be our Lord which hath not geuen vs for a pray to their teeth †Our soule as a sparow is deliuered from the snare of the fowlers The snare is broken and we are deliuered †Our helpe is in the name of our Lord who made heauen and earth PSALME CXXIIII The Church and holie members therof are alwayes protected by God 5. The wicked being suffered for a while are at last punished A gradual Canticle THEY that trust in our Lord as mount Sion he shal not be moued for euer that dwelleth †in Ierusalem Mountaines round about it and our Lord round about his people from hence forth now and for euer †Because our Lord wil not leaue the rod of sinners vpon the lote of the iust that the iust reach not their handes to iniquitie †Doe wel ô Lord to the good and right of hart †But those that decline into obligations our Lord wil bring with them that worke iniquitie peace vpon Israel PSALME CXXV Isralites released from captiuitie of Babylon much more the blessed both of the old and new testament deliuered by Christ from captiuitie of sinne de reioyce 5. Who neuertheles must passe through tribulation to eternal felicitie A gradual Canticle VVHEN our Lord turned the captiuitie of Sion we were made as men comforted †Then was our mouth replenished with ioy and our tongue with exultation Then shal they say among the Gentiles Our Lord hath done magnifically with them †Our Lord hath done magnifically with vs we are made ioyful †Turne our captiuitie ô Lord as a torrent in the South †They that sow in teares shal reape in ioyfulnesse †Going they went and wept casting their seedes †But coming they shal come with exultation carying their sheaues PSALME CXXVI Neither house nor citie can be built or kept without Gods special prouidence and helpe 3. those that trust in him shal prosper in their endeuours A gradual Canticle of Salomon VNLESSE our Lord build the house they haue laboured in vayne that build it Vnlesse our Lord kepe the citie he watcheth in vayne that kepeth it †It is vaine for you to rise before light rise ye after ye haue sitten which eate the bread of sorow †When he shal giue sleepe to his beloued behold the inheritance of our Lord are children the reward the fruite of the wombe †As arrowes in the hand of the mightie so are the children of them that are shaken †Blessed is the man that hath filled his desire of them he shal not be confounded when he shal speake to his enemies in the gate PSALME CXXVII Happines both of this life and of the next is obtayned by fearing and sincerely seruing God A gradual Canticle BLESSED are al that feare our Lord that walke in his wayes †Because thou shalt eate the labours of thy handes blessed art thou and it shal be wel with thee †Thy wife as a fruitful vine in the sides of thy house Thy children as young plantes of oliuetrees round about thy table †Behold so shal the man be blessed that feareth our Lord. †Our Lord out of Sion blesse thee and that thou mayst see the good thinges of Ierusalem al the dayes of thy life And that thou mayst see thy childrens children peace vpon Israel PSALME CXXVIII The Church often 3. and much impugned is not ouercome 4. Her persecuters are destroyed 6. contemned 8. and cursed A gradual Canticle OFTEN haue they impugned me from my youth let Israel now say †Often haue they impugned me from my youth but they haue not preuailed against me †Sinners haue builded vpon my
backe they haue prolonged their iniquitie †Our iust Lord wil cut the neckes of sinners †let them al be confounded and turned backward that hate Sion †Let them be made as grasse in the toppes of houses which is withered before it be plucked vp †Wherof the reaper hath not filled his hand and he that gathereth the sheaues his bosome †And they sayd not that passed by The blessing of our Lord be vpon you we haue blessed you in the name of our Lord. PSALME CXXIX The Iewes or other people in tribulation for sinne or temporal captiuitie crie to God to be deliuered 4. trusting and encoreging ech other in Gods accustomed mercie assuredly hoping that he wil redeme deliuer them A gradual Canticle FROM the depthes I haue cried to thee ô Lord †Lord heare my voice Let thine eares be intent to the voice of my petition †If thou shalt obserue iniquities ô Lord Lord who shal susteyne it †Because with thee there is propiciation and for thy law I haue expected thee ô Lord. My soule hath expected in his word †my soule hath hoped in our Lord. †From the morning watch euen vntil night let Israel hope in our Lord. †Because with our Lord there is mercie and with him plenteous redemption †And he shal redeme Israel from al his iniquities PSALME CXXX Anie iust soule in humble confidence offereth his innocencie as a spiritual and gratful sacrifice to God 3. exhorting al Gods seruants euer to hope in him A gradual Canticle of Dauid LORD my hart is not exalted neither are mine eies loftie Neither haue I walked in great matters nor in meruelous thinges aboue me †If I was not humbly mynded but exalted my soule As the weaned childe is toward his mother so retribution in my soule †Let Israel hope in our Lord from henceforth now and for euer PSALME CXXXI The Psalmist earnestly prayeth God to geue him leaue to shew him where to build a Temple But more especially prayeth for and prophecieth the coming of Christ the promised Sonne of Dauid 14. signifying Gods promise therof and of establishing his Church A gradual Canticle REMEMBER Dauid ô Lord and al his meekenes †As he sware to our Lord vowed a vowe to the God of Iacob †If I shal enter into the tabernacle of my house if I shal ascend into the bed of my couch †If I shal geue sleepe to mine eies and slumbering to mine eie liddes †And rest to my temples vntil I finde a place for our Lord a tabernacle for the God of Iacob †Behold we haue heard of it in Ephrata we haue found it in the fildes of the wood †We wil enter into his tabernacle we wil adore in the place where his feete stood †Arise Lord into thy rest thou and the arke of thy sanctification †Let thy Priestes be clothed with iustice let thy sainctes reioyce †For Dauid thy seruants sake turne not away the face of thy Christ †Our Lord hath sworne truth to Dauid and he wil not disapoint it Of the fruite of thy wombe I wil set vpon thy seate †If thy children shal keepe my testament and these my testimonies which I wil teach them Their children also euen for euer shal sit vpon thy seate †Because our Lord hath chosen Sion he hath chosen it for an habitation to himself †This is my rest for euer and euer here wil I dwel because I haue chosen it †Blessing I wil blesse her widow her poore I wil fil with breades †Her Priestes I wil clothe with saluation and her sainctes shal reioyce with ioyfulnes †Thither wil I bring forth a horne to Dauid I haue prepared a lampe to my Christ †His enemies I wil clothe with confusion but vpon him shal my sanctification florish PSALME CXXXII Fraternal concord is commended to al in the Church as necessarie and delectable in it self and blessed of God A gradual Canticle of Dauid BEHOLD how good and how pleasant a thing it is for brethren to dwel in one †As oyntement on the head which ranne downe vpon the beard the beard of Aaron which ranne downe vnto the hemme of his garment †As the dew of Hermon which runneth downe vpon mount Sion Because there hath our Lord commanded blessing and life euen for euer PSALME CXXXIII Al and especially clergie men that serue the Church are inuited to prayse God by day and by night so shal they be blessed of God A gradual Canticle LOE now blesse our Lord al ye the seruantes of our Lord Which stand in the house of our Lord in the courtes of the house of our God †In the nightes lift vp your handes vnto the holie places and blesse ye our Lord. Our Lord out of Sion blesse thee who made heauen and earth PSALME CXXXIIII God who only is omnipotent and fountaine of algoodnes is of al to be praised 8. He is the special protector of his elected people 15. Contrariwise false goddes are impotent vaine and can not helpe those that serue them 19. Only the Church doth rightly praise him Alleluia PRAYSE ye the name of our Lord ye seruantes prayse our Lord. †Ye that stand in the house of our Lord in the courtes of the house of our God †Prayse ye our Lord because our Lord is good sing ye to his name because it is sweete †Because our Lord hath chosen Iacob to himself Israel for his owne possession †Because I haue knowne that our Lord is great and our God aboue al goddes †Al thinges whatsoeuer our Lord would he hath done in heauen in earth in the sea and in al the depthes †Bringing forth clowdes from the vttermost of the earth lightenings he hath turned into rayne Who bringeth forth the windes out of his treasures †who stroke the first begotten of Aegypt from man euen to beast †He sent â—orth signes and wonders in the middes of thee ô Aegypt vpon Pharao and vpon al his seruantes †Who stroke manie nations and slew strong kinges †Sehon the king of the Amorrheites Og the king of Basan and al the kingdomes of Chanaan †And he gaue their land for inheritance for an inheritance to Israel his people †Lord thy name is for euer Lord thy memorial is vnto generation and generation †Because our Lord shal iudge his people and wil be intreated toward his seruantes †The idoles of the Gentiles are siluer and gold the workes of mens handes †They haue mouth and shal not speake they haue eies and shal not see †They haue eares and shal
not heare for neither is there breath in their mouth †Let them that make them become like to them and al that haue confidence in them †Ye house of Israel blesse our Lord ye house of Aaron blesse our Lord. †Ye house of Leui blesse our Lord you that feare our Lord blesse ve our Lord. †Blessed be our Lord out of Sion who dwelleth in Ierusalem PSALME CXXXV God being meruelous in himself 4. hath shewed his powre and goodnes in his workes as wel in general to al the world 10. as in particular towards his elected people Alleluia CONFESSE ye to our Lord because he is good because his mercie is for euer Confesse ye to the God of goddes because his mercie is for euer †Confesse ye to the Lord of lordes because his mercie is for euer †Who onlie doth great meruels because his mercie is for euer †Who made the heauen in vnderstanding because his mercie is for euer †Who established the earth ouer the waters because his mercie is for euer †Who made the great lightes because his mercie is sor euer †The sunne to rule the day because his mercie is for euer †The moone and starres to rule the night because his mercie is for euer †Who stroke Aegypt with their firstbegotten because his mercie is for euer †Who brought forth Israel out of the middes of them because his mercie is for euer †In a mightie hand and loftie arme because his mercie is for euer †Who diuided the Read sea into diuisions because his mercie is for euer †And brought forth Israel through the middes therof because his mercie is for euer †And he ouerthrew Pharao and his host in the Readsea because his mercie is for euer †Who led his people through the desert because his mercie is for euer †Who stroke great kinges because his mercie is for euer †And slewe strong kinges because his mercie is for euer †Sehon the king of the Amorrheites because his mercie is for euer †And Og the king of Basan because his mercie is for euer †And he gaue their land for an inheritance because his mercie is for euer †For an inheritance to Israel his seruant because his mercie is for euer †For in our humiliation he was mindful of vs because his mercie is for euer †And he redemed vs from our enemies because his mercie is for euer †Who geueth foode to al fleshe because his mercie is for euer †Confesse ye to the God of heauen because his mercie is for euer Confesse ye to the Lord of lordes because his mercie is for euer PSALME CXXXVI The Prophet describeth how lamentably the people in captiuitie of Babylon wil bewaile the want of meanes to serue God and of their natiue soyle 7. with iust desire of their enimies punishment A Psalme of Dauid for Ieremie VPON the riuers of Babylon there we sate and wept whiles we remembred Sion †On the willowes in the middes therof we hanged vp our instrumentes †Because there they that led vs captiue demanded of vs wordes of songes And they that led vs away Sing ye an hymne to vs of the songes of Sion †How shal we sing the song of our Lord in a strange land †If I shal forget thee ô Ierusalem let my right hand be forgotten †Let my tongue cleaue to my iawes if I doe not remember thee If I shal not set Ierusalem in the beginning of my ioy †Be mindful ô Lord of the childrem of Edom in l the day of Ierusalem That say Rase it rase it euen vnto the foundation therof †Daugther of Babylon miserable blessed is he that shal repay thee thy payment which thou hast payed vs. †Blessed is he that shal hold and shal dash thy litle ones against the rocke PSALME CXXXVII The whole Church or anie iust person rendreth thankes to God for his benefites 4. praying that al kinges and kingdomes may do the same 4. because God being high respecteth and aduanceth the humble To Dauid him self I wil confesse to thee ô Lord in my whole hart because thou hast heard the wordes of my mouth In the sight of Angels I wil sing to thee †I wil adore toward thy holie temple and wil confesse to thy name For thy mercie and thy truth because thou hast magnified aboue euerie thing thy holie name †In what day soeuer I shal inuocate thee heare me thou wilt multiplie strength in my soule †Let al the kinges of the earth ô Lord confesse to thee because they haue heard al the wordes of thy mouth †And let them sing in the wayes of our Lord because great is the glorie of our Lord. †Because our Lord is high and he beholdeth low thinges and high thinges he knoweth far of †If I shal walke in the middes of tribulation thou wilt quicken me and vpon the wrath of mine enimies thou hast extended thy hand and thy right hand hath saued me †Our Lord wil repay for me ô Lord thy mercie is for euer despise not the workes of thy handes PSALME CXXXVIII Gods knowlege 7. and presence 10. without the helpe or hinderance anie thing extendeth to al thinges times and places 17 he geueth exceding great honour to his sainctes 20 the wicked as enimies to God are iustly hated 23. the iust pray for Gods perpetual direction Vnto the end a Psalme of Dauid LORD thou hast proued me and hast knowen me †thou hast knowen my sitting downe and my rising vp †Thou hast vnderstood my cogitations far of my path and my corde thou hast searched out †And thou hast foresene al my wayes because there is not a word in my tongue †Behold ô Lord thou hast knowen al the last thinges them of old thou hast formed me and hast put thy hand vpon me †Thy knowledge is become meruelous of me it is made great and I can not reach to it †Whither shal I goe from thy spirit and whither shal I flee from thy face †If I shal ascend into heauen thou art there â—f I descend into hel thou art present †If I shal take my winges early and dwel in the extreme partes of the sea †Certes thither also shal thy hand conduct me and thy right hand shal hold me †And I sayd Perhaps darknes shal treade ouer me and the night is mine illumination in my delightes †For darkenes shal not be darkened from thee and the night shal be lightened as the day as the darkenes therof so also the light therof †Because thou hast possessed my reynes thou hast receiued me from my mothers wombe †I wil confesse to
The impious man diggeth euil and in his lippes fire burneth †A peruerse man raiseth contentions and one ful of wordes separateth princes An vniust man allureth his frende and leadeth him by a way not good †He that with astoinied eies thinketh wicked thinges byting his lippes bringeth euil to passe †A crowne of dignitie old age which shal be found in the wayes of iustice †Better is the patient then a strong man and he that ruleth his minde then the ouerthrower of cities †Lottes are cast into the bosome but they are ordered of our Lord. ANNOTATIONS CHAP. XVI 1. It perteineth to man to prepare the hart For the better vnderstanding of this and other hard places of holie Scripture this general rule euer approued by al Christians is most necessarie that al holie Scripture is true and certaine as being al indited by the Holie Ghost the Spirite of truth and so one place is neuer contrarie to an other though at first sight they may so seme to mans vnderstanding For by this place the Pelagians would proue that man can of himself without the helpe of Gods grace beginne a good thing though without this helpe he cannot performe it because it is here sayd that it petteyneth to man to prepare the hart that is â—o beginne a good thing But S. Augustin sheweth that it may not be so vnderstood the cause so it should be contrarie to that saying of our Sauiour VVithout me you can do nothing and that of S. Paul VVe are not sufficient to thinke anie thing of our selues as of our selues but our sufficiencie is of God VVhich tvvo euident places vvith otherlike do shevv that this place hath an other different sense from that vvhich the Pelagians gather Anâ— so S. Augustin and other Fathers teach that the vvisman here affirmeth not that man of himself can prepare his hart or beginne a good vvorke but that it perteineth to man to prepare his hart presupposing helpe of Gods grace and hauing so begunne God also gouerneth the tongue and by more grace directeth it â—o speake those thinges vvel vvhich the hart purposed and disposed to be vttered vvithout vvhich helpe none is able neither to beginne anie meritorious vvorke nor to prosecute nor perfect that is vvel begunne The like sentence foloweth in the 9. verse The hart of man disposeth his vvay but it perteyneth to our Lord to direct his progresse signifying in both places that after a thing is vvel begunne vvhich can not be vvithout the helpe of Gods grace yet it can not procede vvel vvithout more grace stil directing and streingthning mans freevvil CHAP. XVII BEtter is a drie morsel with ioy then a house ful of victimes with brawling †A wise seruant shal rule ouer foolish children and diuide inheritance among bretheren †As siluer is tried by fyre and gold in the fournace so our Lord proueth the the harts †The euil man obeyeth an vniust tongue and the deceitful obeyeth lying lippes †He that despiseth the poore vpbraydeth his maker and he that reioyceth at an other mans ruine shal not be vnpunished †The crowne of oldmen the childrens children and the glorie of children their fathers †Eloquent wordes become not a foole nor lying lippes a prince †A most gratful pearle the expectation of him that expecteth whither soeuer he turneth himself he vnderstandeth wisely †He that concealeth offence seeketh frendshipes he that in other word repeteth it seperateth the confederate †Reprehension doth more profit with a wiseman then an hundred stripes with a foole †An euil man alwayes seeketh brawles but a cruel angel shal be sent against him †It is better to meete a beare when her yong are taken away then a foole trusting to himselfe in his owne follie †He that rendereth euil thinges for good euil shal not depart from his house †He that letteth water goe is the head of brawles before he suffer contumelie he forsaketh iudgement †He that iustifieth the impious and he that condemneth the iust both are abominable before God †What doth it profit a foole to haue riches wheras he can not buy wisdom He that maketh his house high seeketh ruine and he that refuseth to learne shal fal into euils †He loueth at al time that is a frend and a brother is proued in distresses †A foolish man wil clappe the handes when he is suretie for his freind †He that meditateth discordes loueth brawles and he that exalteth the doore seeketh ruine †He that is of a peruerse hart shal not finde good and he that turneth his tongue shal fal into euil †A foole is borne to his owne ignominie but neither shal the father reioyce in a foole †A ioyful minde maketh a florishing age a sorowful spirit dryeth vp the bones †The impious receiueth giftes out of the bosome that he may peruert the pathes of iudgement †In the face of the prudent wisdom shineth the eies of fooles are in the endes of the earth †A foolish sonne is the anger of the father and the sorow of the mother that bare him †It is not good to doe hurt to the iust nor to strike the prince which iudgeth right †He that moderateth his wordes is lerned and prudent and the lerned man is of a precious spirit †The foole also if he hold his peace shal be reputed wise and if he close his lippes a man of vnderstanding CHAP. XVIII HE seeketh occasions that wil depart from a frend he shal euer be subiect to reproch †A foole receiueth not the wordes of prudence vnlesse thou say those thinges which are in his hart †The impious when he shal come into the depth of sinnes contemneth but ignominie and reproch folow him †Deepe water wordes from the mouth of a man and a streame ouer flowing the fountaine of wisdom †To accept the person of the impious in iudgement is not good that thou decline from the truth of iudgement †The lippes of a foole mingle him with strife and his mouth prouoketh brawles †The mouth of a foole is his destruction and his lippes are the ruine of his soule †The wordes of the duble tongued as it were simple and the same come euen to the inner part of the bellie Feare casteth downe the slothful and the soules of the effeminate shal be hungrie †He that is soft and dissolute in his worke is the brother of him that destroyeth his owne workes †A most strong towre the name of our Lord the iust runneth to it and shal be exalted †The substance of the rich man a citie of his strength and as a strong wal compassing him
bring her to me to liue together knowing that she wil communicate vnto me of good thinges and wil be a comfort of my cogitation tediousnes †I shal haue for her sake glorie with the multitudes and honour with the ancient being yong †and I shâ—â— be â—â—â—nd sharpe in iudgement and in the sight of the mightie I shal be meruelous and the faces of princes wil meruel at me †Holding my peace they shal expect me and whiles I speake manie wordes they shallay their hands on their mouth †Moreouer by her I shal haue immortalitie and I shal leaue an eternal memorie to them that shal be after me †I shal dispose peoples and nations shal be subiect to me †Horrible kings hearing shal feare me in the multitude I shal seme good and in battel strong †Entring into my house I shal rest with her for her conuersation hath no bitternes nor her companie tediousnes but ioy and gladnesse †Thinking these thinges with myselfe and recording in my hart that immortalitie is in the kindred of wisedom †and good delectation in her frendship and in the workes of her handes honestie without defect and wisdom in the disputation of her talke and glorie in the communication of her wordes I went about seeking that I might take her to me †And I was a wittie childe and had gotten a good soule †And wheras I was more good I came to a bodie vndefield †And as I knew that I could not otherwise be continent vnlesse God gaue it this verie thing also was wisdom to know whose this gift was I went to our Lord and besought him and said from my whole hart CHAP. IX A prayer made by Salomon for wisdom 9. wherby Superiors are able to gouerne 13. Which by only humane wisdom they can not rightly performe GOD of my fathers and Lord of mercie which madest al thinges with thy word †and by thy wisdom didst appoint man that he should haue dominion of the creature that was made by thee †that he should dispose the round-world in equitie and iustice and execute iudgement in direction of hart †geue me wisdom the assistant of thy seates and repel me not from thy children †because I am thy seruant and the sonne of thy handmaide a weake man and of smal time and lesse to the vnderstanding of iudgement and lawes †And if one be perfect among the children of men and thy wisdom be absent from him he shal be counted for nothing †Thou hast chosen me king to thy people and iudge of thy sonnes and daughters †and badst me build a temple in thy holie mount and an altar in the citie of thy habitation a similitude of thy holie tabernacle which thou didst prepare from the beginning †and thy wisdom with thee which knew thy workes which then also was present when thou madest the roundworld and knew what was pleasing to thyne eyes and what was direct in thy precepts †Send her from thy holy heauens and from the seate of thy greatnes that she may be with me and may labour with me that I may know what is acceptable with thee †for she knoweth al thinges vnderstandeth and shal conduct me in my workes soberly shal keepe me with her might †And my workes shal be acceptable and I shal gouerne thy people iustly and shal be worthie of the seates of my father †For who of men is able to know the counsel of God or who can thinke what God wil †For the cogitations of mortal men be fearful and our prouidences vncertaine †For the bodie that is corrupted burdeneth the soule and the earthlie habitation presseth downe the vnderstanding that thinketh manie thinges †And we doe hardly coniecture the thinges that are in the earth and the thinges that are in sight we finde with labour But the thinges that are in the heauens who shal search out †And thy sense who shal know vnles thou geue wisdom and send thy holie spirit from on high †and so the pathes of them that are on the earth may be corrected and men lerne the thinges that please thee †For by wisdom they were healed whoseouer haue pleased thee ô Lord from the begynning CHAP. X. The benefites of wisdom are declared by examples in Adam 4. Noe 5. Abraham 6. Lot 10. Iacob 13. Ioseph 15. And the people of Israel SHE kept him that was first made of God father of the world when he was created alone †and she brought him out of his sinne and gaue him powre to conteyne al thinges †After the vniust departed in his anger from her by the furie of brothers man slaughter perished †For whose cause when water destroyed the earth wisdom healed it againe gouerning the iust by contemptible wood †She euen in the consent of wickednes when the nations had confederated themselues knewe the iust and preserued him without blame to God and in his sonnes mercie kept the strong †She deliuered the iust fleing from the impious that perished when the fyre came downe vpon Pentapolis †to whom for a witnes of their wickednes the desert land standeth smoking and trees hauing fruites at vncertain season and the memorie of an incredulous soule a standing piller of salt †For pretermitting wisdom they did not only slippe in this that they were ignorant of good thinges but they left also vnto men a memorie of their foolishnes that in those thinges in which they sinned in they could not be hid neither †But wisdom hath deliuered them that obserue her from sorowes †And the iust fleing his brothers wrath she conducted by the right wayes and shewed him the kingdom of God and gaue him the knowlege of the holie did honest him in labours and accomplised his labours †In the fraude of the circumuenters of him she was present with him and made him honorable †She kept him from the enemies and from seducers she defended him and from seducers she defended him and gaue him a strong fight thas he might ouercome and know that wisdom is mightier then al. †She forsooke not the iust being sold but deliuered him from sinners and she went downe with him into the pitte †and in bands leaft him not til she brought him the scepter of a kingdome and might against them that oppressed him and shewed them to be lyers that spotted him and gaue him eternal glorie †The iust people and seede without blame she deliuered from the nations that oppressed them †She entered into the soule of the seruant of God and stood against dreadful kinges in wonders and signes †And she rendred to the iust the hope of their labours and conducted them in a meruelous way and she was vnto them for a couerr in the day and for the
that they must be iust and gentle and hast made thy children of good hope because iudging thou geuest in sinnes place of repentance †For if thou didst punish the enemies of thy seruants and that deserued to die with so great consideration geuing time and place whereby they might be changed from their wickednes †With what diligence hast thou iudged thy children to whose parents thou gauest othes and couenants of good promises †Therfore when thou geuest vs discipline thou scourgest our enemies very manie wayes that iudging we may thinke vpon thy goodnes and when we are iudged we may hope for thy mercie †Wherfore to them also which in their life haue liued foolishly vniustly thou hast geuen great torments by the same thinges which they did worshipe †For they wandered long in the way of errour esteming for goddes those thinges that in beasts are superfluous liuing after the maner of sensles infants †For this cause thou hast geuen iudgement on them as on sensles children to be in derision †But they that were not amended by scornes and reprehensions haue tried the worthie iudgement of God †For in what thinges they suffering tooke indignation by those whom they thought goddes when seing they were destroyed in them him whom in time past they denied that they knewe they acknowleged the true God for the which cause the end also of their condemnation shal come vpon them CHAP. XIII Men folowing their phantasies knew not God by his creatures but honored the creatures for goddes 10. Most sottishly also worshipped thinges fashioned by mens handes as goddes BVT al men be vame in Whom there is not the knowlege of God and of these good thinges which are sene they could not vnderstand him that is neither attending to the workes haue they agnised who was the workeman †but either the fyre or the wind o◠the swift ayre or a circle of starres or exceding much water or the sunne and the moone they thought to be goddes rulers of the world †With whose beautie if being delighted they thought them goddes let them know how much the Lord of them is more beautiful then they For the author of beautie made al those thinges †Or if they merueled at their vertue operations let them vnderstand by them that he which made these is stronger then they †for by the greatnes of the beautie and of the creature the creator of them may be sene to be knowen therby †But not withstanding there is yet in these lesse complainte For they also perhaps erre seeking God and desirous to finde him †For whereas they conuerse in his workes they enquire they are perswaded that the thinges be good which are seene †But againe neither ought these to be pardoned †For if they could know so much that they were able to estimate the world how did they not more easely find the Lord therof †But they are vnhappie their hope is among the dead who haue called the workes of mens handes godds gold siluer the inuention of art and the similitudes of beastes or an vnprofitable stone the worke of an old hand †Or if an artificer a carpenter cut streight timber out of the wood pare of al the barke therof cunningly and vsing his art diligently frameth a vessel profitable for the common vse of this life †and vseth the chippes of that worke to dresse his meate †and maketh that which is left therof which is for no vses but being a crooked peece of wood and ful of knobes carueth it diligently in the holownes therof and by the skil of his art fashioneth it and maketh it like to the image of a man †or compareth it to some beast straking it ouer with redde and with paynting making the colour therof ruddie and layeth a colour ouer euerie spot that is in it †and maketh a worthie habitation for it and setting it in a wal and fastening it with yron †lest perhaps it fal prouiding for it knowing that it can not helpe it selfe for it is an image and it nedeth helpe †And concerning his substance his children for mariage making a vow he seeketh to it He is not ashamed to speake with him that is without soule †and for health certes he besecheth the weake and for life asketh the dead and for helpe inuocateth him that is vnprofitable †and for a iourney asketh him that can not walke and for getting and for working and for the euent of al thinges he asketh him that in al is vnprofitable ANNOTATIONS CHAP. XIII 1. They could not vnderstand him that is Philosophers discussing the nature of manie creatures saw that euerie creature proceded of some other thing so there must nedes be one beginning of al absolute of itselfe neither proceding nor depending of an other nor a limited substance As the thing that is a man is not a beast an oxe is not a horse c. and telling what anie thing is we exclude therby that it is not other thinges but saying without addition HE WHICH IS we shew the beginning of al in no sorte limited and this is God VVhom some Philosophers by such discourse found knew in general sometimes confessed but did not honour him as God and therefore were inexcusable as S. Paule concludeth against them Rom. 1. CHAP. XIIII Foolish men intending to saile honour woodden idols in regard of the profite they receiue by shippes 6. by which some were saued in the general diluge 8. Idols and idolmakers are cursed 12. They were not from the beginning 15. but were deuised for memorie of the dead and worshipped with diuine honour 22. So men forgetting God proceeded in idolatrie with other abominable and cruel enormities AGAYNE an other thinking to sayle and begynning to make a iorney through the fierce waues inuocateth wood more fraile then the wood that carieth him †For couetousnes of getting inuented it and the craftesman by his wisdom framed it †But thy prouidence ô Father doth gouerne because thou hast geuen a way euen in the sea and among the waues a most sure path †shewing that thou art able to saue out of al thinges yea if a man goe to the sea without art †But that thy workes might not be voyde of wisdom for this cause also men commit their liues euen to a little wood and passing ouer the sea are deliuered by shippe †But from the begynning also when the prowde giants perished the hope of the world fleing to a shippe rendered to the world feede of natiuitie which was gouerned by thy hand †For blessed is the wood by the which iustice is made †But the idol that is made by handes cursed is both it and he that made it because he in deede wrought it and the same being fraile was called god †But to God the impious and his impietie are odious
thy soule a lie †Reuerence not thy neighbour in his offence †nor kepe in a word in time of saluation Hide not thy wisdom in the beautie thereof †For by the tongue wisdom is discerned and vnderstanding and knowlege and doctrine by the word of the wise and steedfastnes in the workes of iustice †Doe not gaynesay the word of truth by any meanes and be ashamed of the lie of thyne vnskilfulnes †Be not ashamed to confesse thy sinnes and submite not thy self to euerie man for sinne †Resist not against the face of the mightie neither labour against the streame of the riuer †For iustice contend for thy soule and vnto death striue for iustice and God wil ouerthrow thyne enemies for thee †Be not hastie in thy tongue and vnprofitable and remisse in thy workes †Be not as a lion in thy house ouerthrowing them of thy houshold and oppressing them that are subiect to thee †Let not thine hand be stretched out to receiue and closed to geue CHAP. V. Let not riches youth nor streingth hold thee in sinne 5. but do penance for sinnes remitted and adde not sinne vpon sinne 6. Neither presume to sinne because God is merciful 10. Be not couetous nor vnconstant 13. Be meeke in lerning and careful in teaching 16. not a batâ—maker nor duble tongued ATTEND not to vniust possessions and say not I haue sufficient liuelihood for it shal nothing profite in the time of vengeance affliction †Folow not in thy strength the concupiscence of thy hart †and say not How mightie am I and who shal bring me vnder for my factes for God reuenging wil reuenge †Say not I haue sinned and what sorowful thing hath chanced to me For the Highest is a patient rewarder †Of sinne forgeuen be not without feare neither adde thou sinne vpon sinne †And say not The mercie of our Lord is great he wil haue mercie on the multitude of my sinnes †For mercie and wrath quickly approch from God and his wrath looketh vpon sinners †Slacke not to be conuerted to our Lord and differre not from day to day †For his wrath shal come sodainly and in the time of vengeance he wil destroy thee †Be not careful in vniust riches for they shal not profite thee in the day of obduction and vengeance †Tosse not thy self into euerie winde and goe not into euerie way for so euerie sinner is proued by a duble tongue †Be stedfast in the way of our Lord in the truth of thy vndestanding and in knowlege and let the word of peace and iustice accompanie thee †Be milde to heare the word thou maist vnderstand and with wisdom vtter thou a true answer †If thou haue vnderstanding answer thy neighbour but if not let thine hand be vpon thy mouth lest thou be taken in an vnskilful word and be confounded †Honour and glorie in the word of the wise but the tongue of the vnwise is his subuersion †Be not called a whisperer and be not taken in thy tongue confounded †For vpon a theefe is confusion repentance and a verie euil condemnation vpon the duble tongued but to the whisperer hatred and emnitie and contumâ—lie †Iustifiâ— thou the litle one and the great alike CHAP. VI. Reproch enuie and ferocitie hinder from louing our neighbour 5. swetenes norisheth it 6. A trustie freind is much worth â—8 Seeke and kepe wisdom with al diligence 35. Frequent the companie of the wise and meditate in Gods law BE not for a frend made an enemie to thy neighbour for the euil man shal inherite reproch and contumelie and euerie sinner enuious and duble tongued †Extol not thyself in the cogitation of thy soule as it were a bul lest perhaps thy strength be quashed †and it eate thy leaues and destroy thy fruites and thou be leaft as a drie tree in the wildernes †For a wicked soule shal destroy him that hath it and it geueth him to be a ioy to his enemies and shal lead him into the lot of the impious †A sweete word multiplieth frends appeaseth enemies and a gratious tongue in a good man aboundeth †Let there be manie at peace with thee and let one of a thousand be thy counseler †If thou possesse a frend in tentation possesse him and not easely credite him †For he is a frend according to his owne time and wil not abide in the day of tribulation †And there is a frend that is turned to emnitie and there is a frend that wil disclose hatred and reproches †And there is a frend companion at the table and he wil not abide in the day of necessitie †A frend if he continew stedfast shal be to â—hee as an equal and in them of thy houshold shal deale confidently †if he humble himself against thee and hide himself from thy face thou shalt haue frendshippe of one accord for good †Be seperated from thine enemies take heede of thy frends †A faithful frend is a strong protection and he that hath found him hath found a treasure †To a faythful frend there is no comparison and there is no poyse of gold and siluer able to counteruaile the goodnes of his fidelitie †A faythful frend is the medecine of life immortalitie they that feare our Lord shal finde him †He that feareth God shal likewise haue good frendshipe because according to him shal his frend be †Sonne from thy youth receiue doctrine and euen to thy hoare heares thou shalt finde wisdom †As he that ploweth and that soweth goe to her and expect her good fruites †For in her worke thou shalt labour a litle and shalt quickly eate of her generation †How exceding sharpe is wisdom to the vnlerned men and the vnwise wil not continew in her †As the vertue of a stone she shal be a probation in them and they wil not stay to cast her forth †For the wisdom of doctrine is according to her name and she is not manifest to manie but to whom she is knowen she contineweth euen to the sight of God †Heare my sonne and take counsel of vnderstanding and cast not away my counsel †Thrust thy foote into her fetters and thy necke into her cheynes †put vnder thy shoulder and carie her and be not wearie of her bands †With al thy minde goe to her and with al thy strength keepe her wayes †Search her out and she shal be made manifest to thee and hauing obteyned her forsake her not †for in the later end thou shalt finde rest in her and she shal be turned vnto delectation †And her fetters shal be to thee for a protection of strength and foundation of powre her cheynes for a stole of glorie †For the beautie of life is in her and her bands are a healthful
out of garments cometh forth the moth and from a woman the iniquitie of a man †For better is the iniquitie of a man then a woman doing a good turne and a woman shaming vnto reproche †I therefore wil be mindeful of the workes of our Lord and I wil shew forth which I haue seene By the words of our Lord are his workes †The sunne illuminating hath looked through out al and ful of the glorie of our Lord is his worke †Hath not our Lord made the sainctes to declare al his meruelous thinges which our Lord the omnipotent confirmed to be established in his glorie †He hath searched out the depth and the hart of men and in their subtilitie he hath considered †For our Lord hath knowen al knowlege and hath beheld the signe of age declaring what thinges are past and what are to come reueling the tokens of secret thinges †No cogitation escapeth him and no word hideth it self from him †The glorious workes of his wisdom he hath beautified who is before the world and world without end neither is there added †nor diminised and he needeth not anie mans counsel †How are al his workes to be desired and which is as it were a sparke to consider †Al these liue and remaine for euer and in al necessitie al thinges obey him †Al thinges duble one against one and he hath made nothing to want †He hath confirmed the good thinges of euerie one And who shal be filled seeing his glorie CHAP. XLIII Gods incomparable excellencie appeareth in the heauens 2. in the sunne 6. moone 9. other starres 12. rainebow 14. snow 15. cloudes 16. hayle 17. winde 18. thunder 21. frost 22. christal 24. dew 26. the sea and innumerable thinges therin 29. No man is able to praise God sufficiently THE firmament of height is his beautie the beautie of heauen is in the vision of glorie †The sunne in sight declaring at his coming forth a meruelous instrument the worke of the Highest †At noone it burneth the earth and who can abide in the presence of the heate thereof kepeing a fornace in the workes of heate †the sunne three times so much burning the mountaines casting out fyrie beames and shining with his beames blindeth the eyes †Great is our Lord that made it and by his wordes it hath hastened his course †And the moone in al in her time is the shewing of season and the signe of age †By the moone is the signe of a festiual day a light that diminisheth in consummation †The moneth is according to her name increasing meruelously in consummation †An instrument of the campe on high shining gloriously in the firmament of heauen †The glorie of the starres is the beautie of heauen our Lord illuminating the world on high †In the words of the holie one they shal stand to iudgement and shal not faile in their watches †See the bow and blesse him that made it it is very beautiful in his brightnes †It hath compassed heauen in the circuite of his glorie the handes of the Highest haue opened it †But by his commandement he hath hastened snow he hasteth to send forth the lightninges of his iudgement †Therefore are the treasures opened and the cloudes flie forth as birdes †By his greatnes he hath set the cloudes and the hailestones are broken †In his sight the mountaines shal be moued and at his wil the south winde hath blowen †The noyse of his thunder shal beate the earth the tempest of the northwind and the gathering together of wind †and as the bird lighting downe to sitte he scatereth snow and the falling thereof is as the locust dyuing downeward †The eye shal admire the beautie of the whitenes thereof and the hart quaketh at the shower thereof †He shal power out frost vpon the earth as salt and when it freeseth it shal be made as the toppes of a thistle †The cold north winde blewe of water there frose chrystal vpon al gathering together of waters it shal rest as a brest plate it shal put it self vpon the waters †And it shal deuoure the mountaines burne the desert extinguish that which is grene as fire †The remedie of al is in the hastie coming of a cloude and a dew meeting it by the heate that cometh shal make it quaile †At his word the wind was stil and with his thought he appeased the depth and our Lord planted Ilandes therein †They that saile on the sea tel the perils ther of hearing with our eares we shal meruel †There are goodly workes meruelous diuers kindes of beastes of al cattel the creature of mightie beastes †Through him is the end of their iourney confirmed and by his word al thinges are set in order †We shal say manie thinges shal faile in wordes but the summe of our wordes is he is in al. †Glorifying him how far shal we be able for the omnipotent himself is aboue al his workes †Our Lord is terrible exceeding great his might is meruelous †Glorifying our Lord as much as euer you can he shal yet surpasse and his magnificence is meruelous †Blessing our Lord exalt him as much as you can for he is greater then al praise †Exalting him be ye replenished with strength Labour not for you shal not comprehend †Who shal see him and shal declare him and who shal magnifie him as he is from the beginning †Manie thinges hid are greater then these for we haue seene few of his workes †But our Lord made al thinges and to them that liue piously he hath geuen wisdom CHAP. XLIIII Praises of holie fathers in general 16. and in particular of Enoch 17. Noe 20. Ahraham 24. Isaac and Iacob LET vs praise glorious men and our fathers in their generation †Much glorie hath our Lord made by his magnificence from the beginning of the world †Ruling in their dominions men great for force and endued with their wisdom declaring in the prophetes the dignitie of prophetes †and ruling in the people that was present and by the vertue of wisdom most holie wordes to the peoples †In their kil seeking out musical melodies vttering songnes of scriptures †Rich men in force studying beautifulnes liuing at peace in their houses †Al these in the generations of their nation haue obteyned glorie and in their daies are praised †They that were borne of them haue leaft a name to tel their praises †and there are some of whom there is no memorie they are perished as they that neuer were are borne as not borne at al their children with them †But they are men of mercie whose godlie deedes haue not failed †good thinges continew with their seede †their nephewes are an holie inheritance and their seede hath stoode in the
of the earth †But if you wil not and wil prouoke me to wrath the sword shal deuoure you because the mouth of our Lord hath spoken †How is the faythful citie ful of iudgement become an harlot iustice hath dwelled in it but now mankillers †Thy siluer is turned into drosse thy wine is mingled with water †Thy princes are vnfaithful companions of theues al loue giftes folow rewardes They iudge not for the pupil and the widowes cause goeth not in to them †For this cause sayth our Lord the God of hostes the mightie one of Israel Alas I wil comfort myselfe vpon mine aduersaries and wil be reuenged of mine enemies †And I wil turne mine hand to thee and I wil boyle out thy drosse til it be pure wil take away al thy tinne †And I wil restore thy iudges as they haue beene before and thy counselers as of old After these thinges thou shalt be called the iust a faithful citie †Sion shal be redemed in iudgement and they shal bring her backe in iustice †And he shal destroy the wicked and the sinners together and they that haue forsaken our Lord shal be consumed †For they shal be confounded for the idols to which they haue sacrificed and you shal be ashamed of the gardens which you chose †When you shal be as an oke the leaues falling of and as a garden without water †And your strength shal be as the isles of to we and your worke as a sparke and both shal be set on fire together and there shal be none to quench it CHAP. II. Al nations shal come to the Church of Christ which shal beginne in Ierusalem 6. And the Iewes shal be reiected for their idolatrie auarice and other sinnes 11. Proud men shal be humbled Gods glorie shal increase 18. Idolatrie shal be destroyed THE word that Isaie the sonne of Amos saw vpon Iuda and Ierusalem †And in the later dayes the montaine of the house of our Lord shal be prepared in the toppe of montaines and it shal be eleuated aboue the little hilles and al nations shal flowe vnto it †And manie peoples shal goe shal say come and let vs goe vp to the mount of our Lord and to the house of the God of Iacob and he wil teach vs his wayes and we shal walke in his pathes because the law shal come forth from Sion and the word of our Lord from Ierusalem †And he shal iudge the Gentiles and rebuke manie peoples and they shal turne their swordes into culters and their speares into siethes nation shal not lift vp sword against nation neither shal they be exercised any more to battel †House of Iacob come ye and let vs walke in the light of our Lord. †For thou hast reiected thy people the house of Iacob because they are filled as in times past and haue had southsayers as the Philisthijms and haue stucke fast to strange children †The land is replenished with siluer and gold and there is no end of their treasures †And their land is replenished with horses and their chariotes are innumerable And their land is ful of idoles they haue adored the worke of their handes which their fingers made †And man bowed himself and man was humbled therfore forgeue them not †Enter thou into the rocke and be hid in a pitte in the ground from the face of the feare of our Lord from the glorie of his maiestie †The loftie eies of man are humbled and the height of men shal be made to stoupe our Lord onlie shal be exalted in that day †Because the day of the Lord of hostes shal be vpon al the proude and loftie and vpon euerie one that is arrogant and he shal be humbled †And vpon al the ceders of Libanus high eleuated vpon al the okes of Basan †And vpon al the high mountaines and vpon al little hilles eleuated †And vpon euerie high towre and euerie fensed wal †And vpon al the shippes of Tharsis and vpon al that is fayre to behold †And the loftines of men shal be bowed and the height of men shal be humbled and our Lord onlie shal be exaited in that day †And idols shal vtterly be destroyed †And they shal enter into the caues of rockes and into the pittes of the earth from the face of the feare of our Lord and from the glorie of his maiestie when he shal rise vp to strike the earth †In that day shal a man castaway the idols of his siluer and the idols of his gold which he had made him to adore mowles and battes †And he shal goe into the clefts of rockes and into the caues of stones from the face of the feare of our Lord and from the glorie of his maiestie when he shal rise vp to strike the earth †Cease therfore from the man whose spirit is in his nosthrels because he is reputed high CHAP. III. The Iewes shal be depriued of wise men 4. and be subiect to childish and effeminate gouerners 8. for their greuous sinnes 16. The proud curious and lasciuious attyre of their wemen 24. shal be turned into ignominie and sorow FOR behold the dominatour the Lord of hostes shal take away from Ierusalem and from Iuda the valiant and the strong al strength of bread and al strength of water †The strong and the man of warre the iudge and the prophete and southsayer and the ancient †The prince ouer fiftie and the honorable of countenance and the counseler and the wise of workemasters and the skilful of mystical speach †And I wil geue children to be their princes and the effeminate shal rule ouer them †And the people shal rush violently man against man and euerie one against his neighbour the childe shal make tumult against the ancient and the base against the noble †For a man shal take hold of his brother one of the house of his father Thou hast a garment be thou our prince and let this ruine be vnder thy hand †He shal answer in that day saying I am no physicion in my house there is no bread nor garment do not appoint me prince of the people †For Ierusalem is gone to ruine and Iuda is fallen because their tongue their inuentions were against our Lord to prouoke the eyes of his maiestie †The knowlege of their face hath answered them and they haue proclaimed their sinne as Sodom neither haue they hid it woe to their soule because euils are rendered to them †Say to the iust that it is wel because he shal eate the fruite of his inuentions †Woe to the impious vnto euil for the reward of his handes shal be made to him †My people their exactours haue spoyled wemen haue ruled ouer them My people they that cal thee blessed the same deceiue thee and dissipate
the way of thy steppes †Our Lord standeth to iudge and he standeth to iudge peoples †Our Lord shal come to iudgement with the ancients of his people and his princes for you haue deuoured the vineyard and the spoile of the poore is in your house †Why do you consume my people and grinde the faces of the poore sayth our Lord the God of hostes †And our Lord sayd for that the daughters of Sion are haughtie and haue walked with stretched out necke and went with twinglings of eies and clapped their handes walked on their feete and ietted in a set pace †Our Lord shal make balde the crowne of the daughters of Sion and our Lord shal discouer their haire †In that day shal our Lord take away the ornament of shoes and litle moones †And cheynes and ouches and bracelettes and bonnettes †And the sheading combes and sloppes and tablettes and sweete balles and earlets †And ringes and pearles hanging on the forehead †And changes of apparel and shorte clokes and the fine linen and nedles †and loking glasses and launes and headbands and bonegraces †And for swete sauour there shal be stinke and for a girdle a corde and for frisled haire baldnes and for stomacher hairecloth †Thy fayrest men also shal fal by the sworde and thy strong ones in battle †And her gates shal lament and moorne and she shal sit desolate on the ground CHAP. IIII. After the destruction of the Iewes manie wemen shal seeke to marie with one man 2. but the reliques repenting of their sinnes shal returne to God 5. and florish vnder his protection AND seuen wemen shal take hold of one man in that day saying We wil eate our owne bread and be couered with our garments only let thy name be called vpon vs take away our reproch †In that day the bud of our Lord shal be in magnificence and glorie and the fruite of the earth high and exultation to them that shal be saued of Israel †And it shal be Euerie one that shal be leaft in Sion and shal remaine in Ierusalem shal be called holie euerie one that is written in life in Ierusalem †If our Lord shal cleanse the filth of the daughters of Sion and shal wash the bloud of Ierusalem out of the middes thereof in the spirit of iudgement and spirit of heate †And our Lord shal create vpon euerie place of mount Sion and where he is inuocated a clowde by day and smoke and the brightnes of flaming fyre in the night for vpon al glorie protection †And there shal be a tabernacle for a place of shadow in the day from the heate and for securitie and couert from the whyrle wind and from rayne CHAP. V. Vnder the figure of a barren vineyard is prophecied the reiection of the Iewes 7. for their sinnes of auarice 11. intemperance other wickednes 18. one iniquitie drawing an other 20. iudging good to be euil and euil good 25. for which the Gentiles of diuers nations shal afflict them I wil sing to my beloued the canticle of my cosin concerning his vinyard A vineyard was made to my beloued in horne the sonne of oile †And he hedged it and chose stones out of it and planted it elect and built a towre in the middes thereof and set vp a presse therein and looked that it should yeld grapes and it yelded wilde grapes †Now therfore ye inhabitants of Ierusalem and men of Iuda iudge betwen me and my vineyard †What is there that I ought to doe more to my vineyard and haue not done to it Whether that I looked it should yeld grapes and it hath yelded wilde grapes †And now I wil shew you what I wil doe to my vineyard I wil take away the hedge therof and it shal be into spoile I wil throw downe the wal thereof and it shal be to be troden vpon †And I wil lay it waist it shal not be pruned and it shal not be digged and bryers and thornes shal ouergrowe it and I wil command the cloudes that they rayne no shower vpon it †For the vineyarde of the Lord of hostes is the house of Israel and the man of Iuda his delectable bud I looked that it should doe iudgement and behold iniquitie and iustice and behold clamour †Woe to you that ioyne house to house and lay filde to filde euen to the end of the place why shal you alone dwel in the middes of the earth †These thinges are in my eares sayth the Lord of hostes vnles manie great and fayre houses become desolate without an inhabiter †For ten acres of the vineyards shal yeld one litle flagon and thirtie busheles of seede shal yeld three busheles †Woe to you that rise vp earely to folow drunkennes and to drinke euen vntil euening that you may be inflamed with wine †Harpe and viole timbrel and shalme and wine in your feastes and the worke of our Lord you regard not nor consider the workes of his handes †Therfore is my people led away captiue because they had not knowlege and their nobles died with famine and the multitude thereof dried away with thirst †Therfore hath hel dilated his soule and opened his mouth without anie limite and their strong ones and their people and their high and glorious ones shal descend into it †And man shal be bowed and man shal be humbled and the eies of the loftie shal be brought law †And the Lord of hostes shal be exalted in iudgement and the holie God shal be sanctified in iustice †And the lambes shal feede according to their order and strangers shal eate the deserts turned into frutefulnes †Woe to you that draw iniquitie in cordes of vanitie sinne as the linke of a wayne †Which say let him make hast let his worke come quickly that we may see it let the counsel of the holie one of Israel come and we shal know it †Woe vnto you that cal euil good and good euil putting darknes light and light darknes putting bitter for swete swete for bitter †Woe to you that are wise in your owne eies and prudent before yourselues †Woe to you that are mightie to drinke wine stout men in drunkennes †Which iustifie the impious for giftes and take away the iustice of the iust from them †For this euen as the tongue of fire deuoureth stuble and the heate of the flame burneth it vp so shal their roote be as isles and their bud shal rise vp as dust for they haue cast away the law of the Lord of hostes and haue blasphemed the word of the holie one of Israel †Therfore is the furie of our Lord wrath against his people and he hath stretched out his hand vpon them and striken them and the mountaines were trubled and their carcasses were made as dung in the
day a man shal nourish a young cowe and two ewes †And for the abundance of milke he shal eate butter for butter and honie shal euerie one eate that shal be leaft in the middes of the land †And it shal be in that day euerie place where there shal be a thousand vines for a thousand peeces of siluer they shal be into thornes and bryers †With arrowes and bow they shal goe in thither for bryers and thornes shal be in al the land †And al mountaines that shal be weeded with a weeding hooke the terrour of thornes and bryers shal not come thither and it shal be for the oxe to feede on and cattle to treade vpon CHAP. VIII Vnder the figure of a new name Christs birth of a virgin is againe prophecied 4. but first the kingdomes of Syria and Israel shal be destroyed and Iuda sore afflicted 8. yet conserued with losse of manie 16. which is a mysterie hidden from the Iowes 21. Great euils hang ouer them that depart from the law AND our Lord sayd to me Take thee a great booke write in it with the pen of man Take away the spoiles spedely quickly take prayes †And I tooke to me faithful witnesses Vrias the priest Zacharias the sonne of Barachias †And I went to the prophetesse and she conceiued and bare a sonne And our Lord sayd to me Cal his name Hasten to take away the spoiles make hast to take prayes †For before the childe know to cal his father and his mother the strength of Damascus shal be taken away and the spoiles of Samaria before the king of the Assirians †And our Lord added yet to speake vnto me saying †For that this people hath cast away the waters of Siloé that runne with silence and rather taken Rasin and the sonne of Romelia †for this cause behold our Lord wil bring vpon them the waters of the riuer strong and manie the king of the Assirians and al his glorie and he wil ascend ouer al their riuers and wil flowe ouer al their bankes †And wil goe through Iuda ouerflowing and passing through shal come euen to the necke And the stretching out of his winges shal fil the bredth of thy land ô Emmanuel †Gather ye together ô peoples and be ouercome and heare al ye landes far of Take courege and be ouercome gird yourselues be ouercome †Take counsel and it shal be defeated speake a word and it shal not be done because God is with vs. †For thus sayth our Lord to me As in a strong arme he hath taught me that I should not walke in the way of this people saying †Say not Conspiracie for al thinges that this people speaketh is conspiracie and feare ye not their feare neither dread ye †The Lord of hostes him sanctifie ye be he your dread and he your terrour †And he shal be a sanctification to you But for a stone of offence and for a rocke of scandal to the two houses of Israel for a snare and a ruine to the inhabitants of Ierusalem †And verie manie of them shal stumble and fal and shal be broken in peeces and shal be snared and taken †Binde the testimonie seale the law in my disciples †And I wil expect our Lord who hath hid his face from the house of Iacob and I wil wayte for him †Behold I and my children whom our Lord hath geuen me for a signe and for a wonder in Israel from the Lord of hostes which dwelleth in mount Sion †And when they shal say to you Aske of Pythones and of diuiners which whisper in their inchantments shal not the people aske vision of their God for the liuing of the dead †To the law rather and to the testimonie And if they speake not according to this word they shal not haue the morning light †And he shal passe by it shal fal and be hungrie and when he shal be hungrie he wil be angrie and curse his king and his God and wil looke vpwards †And he wil looke to the earth and behold tribulation and darknes dissolution and distresse and mist persecuting and he can not flie away from his distresse CHAP. IX Theglath Phalasar carieth some Israelites captiue and Salman asar manie more in figure of a few disciples conuerted to Christ in Gallilee and al Iewrie but manie more in the whole world 7. Whose Impyre shal be great and durable 8. but the Iewes glorie especially of the tenne tribes shal be obscured for their pride hypochrisie and other sinnes AT the first time was the land of Zabulon alleuiated and the land of Nepthali and at the last was aggrauated the way of the sea beyond Iordan of Galilee of the Gentiles †The people that walked in darknes hath sene great light to them that dwelt in the countrie of the shadow of death light is risen †Thou hast multiplied the nation and not magnified the ioy They shal reioyce before thee as they that reioyce in haruest as conquerors reioyce after a pray is taken when they diuide the spoiles †For the yoke of their burden and the rod of their shoulder and the scepter of their exactour thou hast ouercome as in the day of Madian †Because al violent taking of pray with tumult and garment mingled with bloud shal be to be burnt and foode for the fyre †For A LITLE CHILD IS BORNE TO VS and a sonne is geuen to vs and principalitie is made vpon his shoulder and his name shal be called Meruelous Counseler God Strong Father of the world to come the Prince of peace †His empire shal be multiplied and there shal be no end of peace he shal sit vpon the throne of Dauid and vpon his kingdom that he may confirme it and strengthen it in iudgement and iustice from this time for euer the zeale of the Lord of hostes shal doe this †Our Lord hath sent a word into Iacob and it is fallen in Israel †And al the people of Ephraim shal know the inhabitans of Samaria saying in pride greatnes of hart †Brickes are fallen but we wil build with square stones they haue cut downe sycomores but we wil change them into ceders †And our Lord shal lifte vp the enemies of Rasin ouer him and shal turne his enemies into tumult †Syria from the East and the Philisthims from the West and they shal deuoure Israel with ful mouth In al these thinges his furie is not turned away but his hand is yet stretched forth †And the people is not returned to him who hath strooken them and haue not sought after the Lord of hostes †And our Lord shal destroy from Israel the head the tayle the peruerter and restrayner in one day †The aged and honorable he is the head the prophet that teacheth a lie he is the
tayle †And they that cal this people blessed seducing them and that are called blessed shal be throwen headlong †For this cause our Lord shal not reioyce vpon their yong men and on their pupilles and widowes he shal not haue mercie because euerie one is an hypocrite wicked and euerie mouth hath spoken follie In al these thinges his furie is not turned away but his hand is yet stretched forth †For impietie is kindled as a fyre it shal deuoure bryer and thorne and it shal be kindled in the thicket of the forest and it shal be wrapped vp together in the pride of smoke †In the wrath of the Lord of hostes the earth is trubled and the people shal be foode for the fyre man shal not spare his brother †And he shal decline to the right hand and shal be hungrie and shal eate on the left hand and shal not be filled euerie one shal eate the flesh of his arme Manasses Ephraim and Ephraim Manasses they together against Iuda †In al these thinges his furie is not turned away but his hand is yet stretched forth CHAP. X. Makers of wicked lawes are cursed 3. For which the Israelites shal be afflicted by the Assirians 5. The Assirians ouerthrowne by extraordinarie meanes sent from God 21. and the Iewes deliuered from imminent danger with diuers mysteries of Christ intermixed VVOE to them that make wicked lawes and writing haue written iniustice †That they might oppresse the poore in iudgement doe violence to the cause of the humble of my people that widowes might be their praye and they might spoile pupilles †What wil you doe in the day of visitation and of calamitie coming from farre to whose helpe wil ye flee and where wil ye leaue your glorie †That you be not bowed vnder the bond and fal with the slaine In al these thinges his furie is not turned away but his hand is yet stretched forth †Woe to Assur he is the rod of my furie and the staffe myne indignation is in their handes †I wil send him to a deceitful nation I wil geue him commandment against the people of my furie that he take away spoiles and catche the praye and put them to be troden vpon as the mire of the streates †But he shal not so thinke and his hart shal not esteme it so but his hart shal be set to destroy and to the destruction of no few nations †For he shal say †Are not my princes with al kinges Is not as Charcamis so Calano and as Arphad so Emath Is not as Damascus so Samaria †Euen as my hand hath found the kingdomes of the idol so also their idols of Ierusalem of Samaria †Shal I not as I haue done to Samaria and her idols so do to Ierusalem and her idols †And it shal be when the Lord shal haue accomplished al his workes in mount Sion and in Ierusalem I wil visite ouer the fruite of the magnifical hart of the king of Assur and ouer the glorie of the hautines of his eyes †For he hath said In the strength of mine owne hand haue I done it and in mine owne wisdome haue I vnderstood and I haue taken away the borders of peoples and haue spoiled their princes and haue pulled downe as a mightie man them that sate on high †And my hand hath found the strength of peoples as a nest and as egges be gathered that are leaft so haue I gathered together al the earth and there was none that moued wing and opened mouth and once muttered †Shal the axe glorie against him that cutteth with it or shal the saw exalt itselfe against him by whom it is drawen As if a rod should lift vp itself agaynst him that lifteth it vp and a staffe exalt itself which is certes but wood †For this cause the Dominatour the Lord of hostes shal send leannes in his fat ones and vnder his glorie shal burne as it were the burning of fyre kindled †And the light of Israel shal be in fyre and the Holie one therof in flame and his thorne shal be kindled and be deuoured and the briars in one day †And the glorie of his forest and of his carmelus shal be consumed from the soule euen to the flesh and he shal be a fugitiue for feare †And the remaynes of the woode of his forest for the fewnes shal be numbred and a child shal write them †And it shal be in that day the residue of Israel and they that shal escape of the house of Iacob shal not adde to leane vpon him that striketh them but they shal leane vpon our Lord the holie one of Israel in truth †The remnant shal be conuerted the remnant I say of Iacob to the strong God †For if thy people ô Israel shal be as the sand of the sea the remnant therof shal be conuerted consumnation abbridged shal make iustice ouerflow †For our Lord the God of hostes shal make consummation and abbridgement in the middes of al the earth †For this cause thus sayth our Lord the God of hostes O my people inhatiter of Sion be not afrayd of Assur he shal strike thee with his rod and shal lift vp his staffe ouer thee in the way of Aegypt †For yet a litle and a very litle and mine indignation and furie vpon their wickednes shal be consummate †And the Lord of hostes shal rayse vp a scourge vpon him according to the plague of Madian in the Rocke Oreb and his rod vpon the sea and he shal lift it vp in the way of Aegypt †And it shal be in that day his burden shal be taken away from of thy shoulder and his yoke from of thy necke and the yoke shal putrifie at the face of oile †He shal come into Aiath he shal passe into Magron at Machmas he shal commend his vessels †They haue passed in hast Gaba is our seate Rama was astonied Gabaath of Saul fled †Neay with thy voice ô daughter of Gallim attend Laisa seelie poore Anathoth †Medemena is remoued ye inhabitants of Gabin take courege †Yet there is day to stand in Nobe he shal shake his hand ouer the mountaine of the daughter of Sion the litle hil of Ierusalem †Behold the dominatour the Lord of hostes shal breake the litle flagon in terrour and the high of stature shal be cut downe and the loftie shal be humbled †And the thicke places of the forest shal be ouerthrowen with iron and Libanus with the high ones shal fal CHAP. XI Christ borne of the stock of Iesse replenished with seuen giftes of the Holie Ghost 4. shal haue a spiritual kindom most iust and potent 10. wherto al nations wil repayre AND a rod shal come forth of the roote of Iesse and a flowre shal rise vp out of his roote †And the Spirite
of our Lord shal rest vpon him the spirit of wisdom and vnderstanding the spirit of counsel and strength the spirit of knowlege and pietie †and the spirit of the feare of our Lord shal repleinsh him He shal not iudge according to the sight of the eies nor rebuke according to the hearing of the eares †But he shal iudge the poore in iustice and shal rebuke in equitie for the milde of the earth and he shal strike the earth with the rod of his mouth and with the spirit of his lippes he shal kil the impious †And iustice shal be the girdle of his loynes and fayth the girdle of his reines †The woolfe shal dwel with the lambe and the leopard shal lie with the kid the calfe and lion and sheepe shal abide together a litle child shal leade them †The calfe and the beare shal feede their yong ones shal rest together and the lion shal eate strawe as it were an oxe †And the infant from the brest shal be delighted vpon the hole of the aspe he that is weyned shal thrust his hand into the hole of the cockatrice †They shal not hurt and they shal not kil in al my holie mountayne because the earth is replenished with the knowlege of our Lord as the couering waters of the sea †In that day the roote of Iesse that standeth for a signe of peoples him the nations shal besech his sepulchre shal be glorious †And it shal be in that day our Lord shal put to his hand the second time to possesse the remnant of his people which shal be leaft of the Assirians and of Aegypt and of Phethros and of Aethiopia and of Aelam and of Sennaar and of Emath and of the ilands of the sea †And he shal lift vp a signe vnto the nations and shal assemble together the fugitiues of Israel and shal gather the dispersed of Iuda from the foure quarters of the earth †And the emulation of Ephraim shal be taken away and the enemies of Iuda shal perish Ephraim shal not enuie Iuda Iuda shal not fight against Ephraim †And they shal flie vpon the shoulders of the Philisthims by the sea they together shal spoile the children of the East Idumea and Moab the precept of their hand and the children of Ammon shal be obedient †And our Lord shal make desolate the tongue of the sea of Aegypt and shal lift vp his hand ouer the riuer in the strength of his spirit and he shal strike him in his seuen streames so that they may passe through it with showes †And there shal be a way to the remnant of my people which shal be leaft of the Assirians as there was to Israel in the day that he came vp out of the Land of Aegypt CHAP. XII A Canticle of thankes for the benefites of Christ AND thou shalt say in that day I WIL confesse to thee ô Lord because thou wast angrie with me thy furie is turned away and thou hast comforted me †Behold God is my sauiour I wil doe confidently and wil not feare because our Lord is my strength and my praise and he is become my saluation †You shal drawe waters in ioy out of the sauiours fountaines †And you shal say in that day Confesse ye to our Lord and inuocate his name make his inuentions knowen among the peoples remember that his name is high †Sing ye to our Lord because he hath done magnifically shew this forth in al the earth †Reioyce and prayse ô habitation of Sion because great in the middes of thee is the holie one of Israel CHAP. XIII The Prophet fortelleth the calamitie and ruine of Babylon THE burden of Babylon which Isaie the sonne of Amossaw †Vpon the darke mountaine lift vp a signe exalt the voice lift vp the hand and let the dukes enter the gates †I haue commanded my sanctified and haue called my strong ones in my wrath them that reioce in my glorie †The voice of a multitude in the mountaines as it were of manie peoples a voice of the sound of kinges nations gathered together The Lord of hostes hath commanded the host of battel †Coming from a countrie far of from the end of heauen our Lord and the instruments of his furie to destroy the whole land †Howleye because the day of our Lord is nere it shal come as destruction from our Lord. †For this cause shal al handes be dissolued and euerie hart of man shal melt †and be broken Gripings and paines shal hold them they shal be in paine as she that trauaileth Euerie one shal be astonied at his neighbour their countenances as faces burnt †Behold the day of our Lord shal come cruel and ful of indignation and of wrath and furie to bring the land to a wildernes and to destroy the sinners therof out of it †Because the starres of heauen and their brightnes shal not display their light the sunne is darkened in his rysing and the moone shal not shine in her light †And I wil visite ouer the euiles of the world and against the impious their iniquitie and I wil make the pride of infidels to cease and wil humble the arrogancie of the strong †A man shal be more precious then gold man then pure fine gold †For this I shal truble heauen the earth shal be moued out of her place for the indignation of the Lord of hostes for the day of the wrath of his furie †And it shal be as a yong doe fleing and as a sheepe and there shal be none to gather them together euerie man shal turne to his owne people and euerie one shal flee to his owne land †Euerie one that shal be found shal be slaine and cuerie one that shal come to ayde shal fal by the sword †Their infants shal be dashed in peeces before their eies their houses shal be spoiled and their wiues shal be rauished †Behold I wil rayse vpon them the Medes which shal not seeke siluer nor desire gold †But with arrowes they shal kil the litle ones and shal haue no pitie vpon the sucklings of the wombe and vpon the children their eie shal not spare †And that Babylon glorious in kingdoms noble in the pride of the Chaldees shal be euen as our Lord subuerted Sodom and Gomorrha †It shal not be inhabited for euer it shal not be founded vnto generation generation neither shal the Arabian pitch his tents there nor shepeheardes rest there †But beastes shal rest there and their houses shal be filled with dragons and ostreches shal dwel there and Satyrs shal daunce there †And the Syrach owles shal answer there in the houses therof and mermaides in the temples of pleasure CHAP. XIIII The Iewes shal be released from the captiuitie of Babylon 12. Nabuchodonosor
most proud and mightie shal be throwne into extreme miserie 24. In the meane time the Asirians beseging Ierusalem shal be defeated 28. Neither shal the Philistims preuaile against the lewes as they presume IT is neere that the time therof shal come and the daies therof shal not be porlonged For our Lord wil haue mercie on Iacob and wil yet choose out of Israel and wil make them rest vpon their owne ground the stranger shal be ioyned to them shal sticke to the house of Iacob †And peoples shal hold them and bring them into their place and the house of Israel shal possesse them vpon the land of our Lord for seruants and handmaides and they shallead captiue those that had taken them shal subdewe their exactours †And it shal be in that day when God shal geue thee rest from thy labour and from thy vexation and from the sore seruitude which thou didst serue before †Thou shalt take this parable against the king of Babylon and shalt say How hath the exactour ceased the tribute rested †Our Lord hath broken the staffe of the impious the rodde of the rulers †that did beate peoples in indignation with vncurable wound subdewing nations in furie persecuting cruelly †Al earth is quiet and stil is glad hath reioyced †The firre trees also haue reioyeed ouer thee and the ceders of Libanus since thou hast slept there hath none come vp to hewe vs. †Hel beneath is trubled to meete thy coming it hath raysed vp the giants for thee Al the princes of the earth are risen vp from their thrones al the princes of nations †Al shal answere and say to thee Thou also art wounded euen as we made like vnto vs. †Thy pride is drawen downe to hel thy carcasse is fallen vnder thee shal the mothe be strawed and wormes shal be thy couering †How art thou fallen from heauen Lucifer which didst rise in the morning art thou fallen to the earth that didst wound nations †Which didst say in thy hart I wil ascend into heauen aboue the starres of God wil I exalt my throne I wil sitte in the mount of the testament in the sides of the North. †I wil ascend aboue the height of the cloudes I wil be like to the Highest †But yet thou shalt be drawen downe to hel into the depth oh the lake †They that shal see thee shal turne toward thee behold thee Is this the man that trubled the earth that shaked kingdomes †that made the world a desert destroyed the cities therof opened not the prison to his prisoners †Al the kinges of the nations euerie one haue slept in glorie eche man in his owne house †But thou art cast forth out of thy sepulchre as an vnprofitable branche polluted and wrapped vp with them that were slaine by the sword and are gone downe to the fundations of the lake as a rotten carcasse †Thou shalt not keepe companie with them neither in burial for thou hast destroyed thy land thou hast slaine thy people the seede of the wicked shal not be named for euer †Prepare his children to slaughter in the iniquitie of their fathers they shal not rise vp nor inherite the land nor fil the world with cities †And I wil rise ouer them sayth the Lord of hostes I wil destroy the name of Babylon and the remaynes and bud and progenie sayth our Lord. †And I wil make it the possession of the hedgehog marriâ—es of waters I wil sweepe it with besome wearing it sayth the Lord of hostes †The Lord of hostes hath sworne saying If it shal not be as I haue thought and so fal out as I haue in mind consulted †That I destroy the Assirian in my land and in my mountaines tread vpon him and his yoke shal be taken away from them and his burden taken of from their shoulder †This is the counsel that I haue deuised vpon al the earth and this is the hand stretched forth vpon al nations †For the Lord of hostes hath decreed and who can weaken it and his hand is stretched out and who shal turne it away †In the yeare that king Achaz died was this burden made †Reioyce not thou whole Philistaea that the rod of thy striker is broken in peeces for from the roote of the serpent shal issue forth a cockatrice and his seede swalowing the bird †And the first borne of the poore shal be fed the poore shal rest considently and I wil make thy roote to perish in famine and wil kil thy remnant †Howle thou gate crie out ô citie al Philisthaea is throwen downe for a smoke shal come from the North and there is none that shal escape his troupe †And what shal be answered to the messengers of nations That our Lord hath founded Sion and the poore of his people shal hope in him CHAP. XV. Unexpected ruine shal fal vpon the Moabites 5. Wherof the Prophet hath compassion THE burden of Moab Because Ar-Moab was wasted in the night he hath held his peace because the wal of Moab is destroyed in the night he hath held his peace †The house is gone vp Dibon to the high places to moorne vpon Nabo and vpon Medaba shal Moab howle on al the heades therof baldnes and euerie beard shal be shauen †In the high wayes therof they are girded with sackcloth vpon the roofes therof and in the streates therof al howling goeth downe to weepe †Hesebon shal crie Elealé their voice is heard euen to â—asa For this shal the wel appoynted of Moab howle his soule shal howle to himself †My hart shal crie to Moab the barres therof vnto Segor an heifer astonishing for by the ascent of Luith he shal goe vp weeping in the way of Oronaim they shal lift vp a crie of contrition †For the waters of Nemrim shal be made desolate because the grasse is withered the spring is faded al grennes is perished †According to the greatnes of the worke is also their visitation they shal lead them to the torrent of willowes †Because the crie shal goe round about the border of Moab vnto Gallim the howling therof and vnto the Pit-Elim the crie therof †Because the waters of Dibon are replenished with bloud for I wil pur additions vpon Dibon the â—on for them that shal flee of Moab and for the remmant of the land CHAP. XVI The prophet prayeth for and prophecieth Christs coming 6. adding more of the affliction of the Moabites for their pride SEND forth ô Lord the lambe the dominatour of the earth from the Rocke of the desert to the mount of the daughter of Sion †And he shal be as a bird fleing and the yong flying out of the nest so shal the daughters of Moab be in the passage of Arnon
†Take counsel gather a councel set thy shadow in the midday as it were night hide them that flee and them that wander bewray not †My fugitiues shal dwel with thee Moab be thou their couert from the face of the destroyer for the dust is ended the wretch is come to naught he hath failed that trode downe the earth †And a throne shal be prepared in mercie and there shal sit vpon it in truth in the tabernacle of Dauid he that iudgeth and seketh iudgement and quickly rendereth that which is iust †We haue heard the pride of Moab he is proud excedingly his pride and his arrogancie and his indignation is more then his strength †Therfore shal Moab howle to Moab al shal howle to them that reioyce vpon the walles of baqued bricke tel ye their plagues †Because the suburbes of Hesebon are desolate and the vineyard of Sabama the lords of the Nations haue cut of the branches therof haue reached to Iazer they wandered in the desert the branches therof are leaft they passed ouer the sea †For this I wil lament in the weeping of Iazer the yineyard of Sabama I wil inebriate thee with my teare ô Hesebon and Elealé because the voice of the treaders is rushâ— in vpon thy vintage and vpon thy haruest †And gladnes and ioy shal be taken away from Carmelus and it shal not reioyce nor make iubilation in vineyards He shal not treade wine in the presse that was wonte to treade the voice of the treaders I haue taken away †For this my bellie shal sound as an harpe to Moab my bowels to the wal of baqued bricke †And it â—shal be when it shal appeare that Moab hath laboured for his excelses he shal goe in to his sanctuaries to pray shal not preuaile †This is the word that our Lord spake to Moab from that time †and now our Lord hath spoken saying In three yeares as the yeares of an hired seruant the glorie of Moab shal be taken away vpon al the multitude of people and it shal be leaft litle and smal not much CHAP. XVII Damascus with other Syrians shal be afflicted 4. likewise the tenne tribes of Israel 7. Of which some few persons wil returne to God 12. And finally their enimies the Assirians shal be ouerthrowne THE burden of Damascus Behold Damascus shal cease to be a citie and shal be as an heape of stones in ruine †The forsaken cities of Aroer shal be for flockes and they shal rest there and there shal be none to terrifie them †And ayde shal cease from Ephraim and the kingdom from Damascus and the remnant of Syria shal be as the glorie of the children of Israel sayth the Lord of hostes †And it shal be in that day the glorie of Iacob shal be diminished and the fatnes of his flesh shal become leane †And it shal be as one gathering in haruest that which remayneth and his arme shal gather the eares of corne and it shal be as he that seketh eares in the vale of Raphaim †And the fruite therof shal be leaft as it were a cluster of grapes in it and as the shaking of the oliue tree of two or three oliues in the toppe of a bough or foure or fiue in the toppes therof sayth our Lord the God of Israel †In that day man shal incline himselfe to his maker and his eies shal looke to the holie one of Israel †And he shal not incline to the altars which his handes made and the things that his fingers wrought he shal not regard as groues and temples †In that day the cities of his strength shal be leaft as the ploughes and the corne that were leaft before the face of the children of Israel and thou shalt be desolate †Because thou hast forgotten God thy fauiour and hast not remembred thy strong helper therfore shalt thou plant a faythful plant shalt sow a strange seede †In the day of thy planting shal be the wilde grape in the morning thy seede shal florish the haruest is taken away in the day of inheritance and he shal be vehemently sorie †Woe to the multitude of manie peoples being as the multitude of the sounding sea the tumult of multitudes as the sound of manie waters †Peoples shal sound as the sound of waters ouerflowing and he shal rebuke him and shal flee far of and he shal be violently taken away as the dust of the mountaines at the face of the wind and as a whirlewind before a tempest †In the euentide and behold truble in the morning and he shal not be this is the portion of them that haue wasted vs the lot of them that spoiled vs. CHAP. XVIII The Aegyptians for alluring the two tribes to their confederacie shal be afflicted 7. and the Iewes returne to more sincere seruice of God VVOE to the land the cymbal of winges which is beyond the riuers of Aethiopia †which sendeth legates into the sea and in the vessels of bulrushes vpon the waters Goe ye swift angels to a nation shaken a sunder and torne in peeces to a terrible people after which there is none other to a nation expecting and troden vnder foote whose land the floodes haue spoiled †Al ye inhabitants of the world which abide in the earth where the signe shal be lifted vp in the mountaines you shal see and shal heare the sound of the trumpet †because thus sayth ourd Lord to me I wil rest and consider in my place as the no one light is cleere and as a cloud of dew in the day of haruest †For before haruest it hath wholly florished and vnripe perfection shal spring forth and the boughes therof shal be cut of with hookes and the thinges that are leaft shal be cut of and shaken out †And they shal be left together to the birdes of the mountaynes and beastes of the earth and the foules shal be vpon it the whole summer and al the beastes of the earth shal winter vpon it †In that time shal a gift be brought to the Lord of hostes of a people plucked asunder and rent in peeces of a terrible people after which there hath bene none other of a nation expecting expecting and troden vnder foote whose land the floudes haue spoiled to the place of the name of the Lord of hostes mount Sion CHAP. XIX Further description of the Aegyptians punishment 17. With their conuersion to Christ in the new Testament THE burden of Aegypt Behold our Lord wil ascend vpon a swift cloude and wil enter into Aegypt and the idols of Aegypt shal be moued at his presence the hart of Aegypt shal melt in the middes therof †And I wil make the Aegyptians to runne together against the Aegyptians and a man shal fight against his brother and euerie man against his freind citie against citie
darkenes made me astonied Babylon my beloued is made a miracle vnto me †Lay the table looke about in the watch towre the eaters and drinkers arise ye princes take shield †For thus hath our Lord sayd to me Goe and set a watchman and what soeuer he shal see let him tel †And he saw a chariote of two horsemen a rider vpon an asse and a rider vpon a camel and he beheld them diligently with much looking †And a lion cried I am vpon the watch towre of our Lord standing continually by day and I am vpon my watch standing whole nights †Behold this man cometh the rider vpon the chariot of two horsemen and he answered and said Fallen fallen is Babylon and al the sculptils of the gods therof are broken to the ground †O my threshing and children of my flore the thinges that I haue heard of the Lord of hostes the God of Israel I haue shewed vnto you †The burden of Duma crieth to me out of Seir Watchman what of the night watchman what of the night †The watchman said morning is come night if you seeke seeke returne come †The burden in Arabia In the forest at euen you shal sleepe in the pathes of Dedanim †Meeting the thirstie bring water you that inhabite the land of the South with bread meete him that fleeth †For they are fled from the face of the swordes from the face of the sword hanging ouer from the face of the bow bent from the face of a greuous battel †Because thus sayth our Lord to me Yet in one yeare as in the yeare of an hyred man and al the glorie of Cedar shal be taken away †And the remnant of the number of the strong archers of the children of Cedar shal be diminished for our Lord the God of Israel hath spoken it CHAP. XXII For the sinnes especially of chiefe officers Sion and the temple shal be destroyed 15. Sobna a wicked ruler shal be remoued 20. and Eliacim put in his place THE burden of the vale of vision What aileth thee that thou art also wholly gone vp into the house toppes †ful of clamour a populous citie reioycing thy slaine are not slaine by the sword nor dead in battel †Al thy princes are fled together and are bound hard al that were found are bound together they are fled far of †Therfore haue I sayd Depart from me I wil weepe bitterly labour not to comforte me for the destruction of the daughter of my people †For it is a day of slaughter and conculcation and weepings to our Lord the God of hostes in the vale of visitation searching the wal and magnifical vpon the mountaine †And Aelam tooke quiuer chariote of the horsman and the shilde hath made the wal naked †And thy principal valleis shal be ful of chariots and the horsmen shal place them selues in the gate †And the couering of Iuda shal be discouered and thou shalt see in that day the armourie of the house of the forest †And you shal see the breaches of the citie of Dauid because they are multiplied and you haue gathered together the waters of the lower poole †and haue numbred the houses of Ierusalem and destroyed houses to fortifie the wal †And you haue made a lake betwen the two walles to the water of old poole and you looked not vp to him that made it and the worker therof long before you saw not †And our Lord the God of hostes shal cal in that day to weeping and to moorning to baldnes and to girdle of sackcloth †and behold ioy and gladnes to kil calues and to slea rammes to eate flesh and to drinke wine Let vs eate and drinke for tomorow we shal die †And the voice of the Lord of hostes was reuealed in mine eares If this iniquitie shal be forgeuen you vntil you die sayth our Lord the God of hosles †Thus sayth our Lord the God of hostes Goe get thee in to him that dwelleth in the tabernacle to Sobna the prouost of the temple and thou shalt say to him †What doest thou here or as if thou were some bodie here because thou hast cut thee out a sepulchre here thou hast cut out a memorial diligently in an high place a tabernacle for thee in a rocke †Behold our Lord wil cause thee to be caried away as a cocke is caried and he wil lift thee vp as a garment †Crowning he wil crowne thee with tribulation he wil cast thee as a bal into a brode and large countrie there shalt thou die and there shal the chariot of thy glorie be the ignominie of the house of thy Lord. †And I wil expel thee from thy standing and depose thee from thy ministerie †And it shal be in that day I wil cal my seruant Eliacim the sonne of Helcias †and wil cloth him with thy coate and wil strengthen him with thy girdle and wil geue thy powre into his hand and he shal be as a father to the inhabitants of Ierusalem and to the house of Iuda †And I wil geue the key of the house of Dauid vpon his shoulder he shal open and there shal be none to shut and he shal shut and there shal be none to open †And I wil fasten him as a pinne in a sure place he shal be for a throne of glorie to the house of his father †And they shal hang vpon him al the glorie of his fathers house diuerse kindes of vessels euerie litle vessel from vessels of cuppes euen to euerie instrument of musike †In that day saith the Lord of hostes shal the pinne be taken away that was fastened in the sure place and that which hong theron shal be broken and fal and perish because our Lord hath spoken CHAP. XXIII The destruction of Tyrus by the Chaldees 15. and reparation therof after seuentie yeares THE burden of Tyre Howle ye shippes of the sea because the house is destroyed from whence they were wont to come from the land of Cethim it is reueled to them †Hold your peace ye that dwel in the I le the trafickers of Sidon passing ouer the sea haue replenished thee †The seede of Nilus in manie waters the haruest of the riuer was her fruites she was made the trafike of the nations †Be ashamed Sidon for the sea sayth the strength of the sea saying I haue not trauailed and I haue not brought forth and I haue not nourished yongmen nor brought virgins to their growth †When it shal be heard in Aegypt they wil be sorie when they shal heare of Tyre †Passe ouer the seas howle ye that dwel in the I le †Is not this your citie which gloried from ancient dayes in her antiquitie her feete shal leade her afarre to seiourne †Who hath thought this against Tyre that was some
spoken it †And he shal say in that day Loe this is our God we haue expected him and he wil saue vs this is our Lord we haue patiently wayted for him we shal reioyce and be ioyful in his saluation †Because the hand of our Lord shal rest in this mount and Moab shal be treshed vnder him as straw is broken with the wayne †And he shal stretch forth his handes vnder him as he that swimmeth stretcheth forth to swimme and he shal humble his glorie with dashing of his handes †And the munitions of thy high walles shal fal and be humbled shal be plucked downe to the grownd euen to the dust CHAP. XXVI A Canticle of thankes for changing the old Synagogue into the Church of Christ Which hath more light of true faith 12. and more patience in tribulations 19. Which in the general resurrection shal be made manifest IN THAT day shal this song be sung in the land of Iuda Sion the citie of our strength a Sauiour therin shal be put a wal and bulworke †Open ye the gates and let the iust nation enter in that keepeth truth †The old errour is gone thou wilt keepe peace peace because we haue hoped in thee †You haue hoped in our Lord in worldes euerlasting in our Lord God strong for euer †Because he wil bowe downe them that dwel on high the high citie he wil abase He wil abase it euen to the ground he wil plucke it downe euen to the dust The foote shal treade it downe the feete of the poore the steppes of the needie †The path of the iust is right the path of the iust is right to walke in †And in the path of thy iudgements ô Lord we haue patiently expected thee thy name and thy memorial are in the desire of the soule †My soule hath desired thee in the night yea and with my spirit in my hart I wil watch to thee in the morning When thou shalt doe thy iudgments in the earth the inhabitants of the world shal learne iustice †Let vs haue mercie on the impious and he wil not learne iustice in the land of the holie he hath done wicked thinges and he shal not see the glorie of our Lord. †Lord thy hand be exalted and let them not see let the enuious people see and be confounded and let fyre deuoure thine enimies †Lord thou wilt geue peace to vs for al our workes thou hast wrought to vs. †O Lord our God there haue lordes besides thee possessed vs onlie in thee let vs remember thy name †Let not the dead liue let not the giants rise againe therfore hast thou visited and destroyed them hast destroyed al their memorie †Thou hast bene fauorable to the nation ô Lord thou hast bene fauourable to the nation wast thou glorified thou hast made al the endes of the earth far of †Lord in distresse they haue sought after thee in tribulation of murmur thy doctrine was to them †As she that conceiueth when she draweth neere to be deliuered being sorowful crieth in her paines so are we become at thy presence ô Lord. †We haue conceiued and as it were traueled and brought forth the spirit saluations we haue not done in the earth therfore the inhabitants of the earth haue not fallen †Thy dead shal liue my slaine shal rise againe awake and prayse ye that dwel in the dust because the dew of the light is thy dew the land of the giants thou shalt plucke downe into ruine †Goe my people enter into thy chambers shut thy doores vpon thee be hid a litle for a moment til the indignation passe †For behold our Lord wil come out of his place to visite the iniquitie of the inhabitant of the earth against him and the earth shal reuele her bloud and shal couer her slaine no more CHAP. XXVII God comforteth the faithful promising to destroy the wicked 3. Christs coming is againe prophecied with propagation of his Gospel and conuersion of al nations IN that day our Lord wil visite with his sore and great and strong sword vpon Leuiathan the serpent the barre and vpon Leuiathan the crooked serpent and shal kil the whale that is in the sea †In that day the vineyard of pure wine shal sing to it †I the Lord that keepe it I wil sodenly drinke to it lest perhaps there be visitation agaynst it night and day I kepe it †There is no indignation in me who wil geue me to be thorne and bryer in battel to goe vpon it to set it on fyre together †Or rather shal he hold my strength shal he make peace with me shal he make peace with me †They that goe in with violence to Iacob Israel shal florish and spring and they shal fil the face of the world with seede †Hath he striken him according to his stroke that stroke him or as he killed his slaine is he killed †In measure against measure when it shal be cast of thou shalt iudge it He hath meditated in his hard spirite during the day of heate †Therfore vpon this shal the iniquitie be forgeuen to the house of Iacob and this is al the fruite that the sinne therof be taken away when he shal haue layd al the stones of the altar as stones of ashes broken the groues temples shal not stand †For the defensed citie shal be desolate the beautiful citie shal be forsaken and shal be left as a desert there shal the calfe feede and there he shal lie and shal consume the toppes therof †The haruests therof shal be destroyed in drught wemen coming and teaching it for it is not a wise people therfore shal not he that made it haue mercie on it and he that formed it shal not spare it †And it shal be in that day our Lord wil strike from the chanel of the riuer euen to the torrent of Aegypt and you shal be gathered together one and one ô children of Israel †And it shal be in that day a sound shal be made with a great trompet and they that were lost shal come from the land of the Assirians and that were cast out from the land of Aegypt and shal adore our Lord in the holie mount in Ierusalem CHAP. XXVIII Tribulations are threatned to the tenne tribes of Israel for their pride and voluptuosnes 5. God stil protecting some who serue him sincerely 7 and for contempt of Religion 16. But God wil lay a sure fundation in Sion 20. Wil punish the wicked 24. and comforth the good VVOE to the crowne of pride to the drunkards of Ephraim and to the flowre falling downe from the glorie of his exultation which were in the toppe of the most fatte valley erring by wine †Behold our Lord is valiant and strong as the violence of hayle a whirle wind breaking the
violence of manie waters ouerflowing sent forth vpon a large ground †The crowne of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim shal be troden vnder feete †And the flowre of the glorie of his exultation which is vpon the toppe of the valley of fatte ones shal be falling as a timely fruite before the ripenesse of autumme which when he that seeth it shal behold as soone as he taketh it in his hand he wil deuoure it †In that day the Lord of hostes shal be a crowne of glorie and a garland of exultation to the residue of his people †and a spirit of iudgement to him that sitteth in iudgement and strength to them that returne out of battel to the gate †But these also haue bene ignorant because of wine and by drunkennes haue erred the priest and the prophete haue bene ignorant because of drunkennes they are swalowed vp with wine they haue erred in drunkennes they haue not knowne him that seeth they haue bene ignorant of iudgement †For al tables were filled with vomiting and filth so that there was no more place †Whom shal he teach knowledge and whom shal he make to vnderstand the thing heard them that are weyned from the milke that are plucked away from the breasts †For command recommand command recommand expect reexpect expect reexpect a litle there a litle there †For in the speach of lippe and in an other tougue he wil speake to his people †To whom he sayd This is my rest refresh the wearie and this is my refreshing they would not heare †And the word of our Lord shal be to them command recommand command recommand expect reexpect expect reexpect a litle there a litle there that they may goe and fal backward and be destroyed and snared and taken †For this cause heare the word of our Lord ye scorneful men which rule ouer my people that is in Ierusalem †For you haue sayd We haue stroken a league with death and with hel we haue made a couenant The scourge ouerflowing when it shal passe shal not come vpon vs because we haue made lying our hope and with lying we are protected †Therfore thus sayth our Lord God Behold I wil send in the foundations of Sion a stone an approued stone a corner stone pretious founded in the foundation He that beleueth let him not make hast †And I wil put iudgement in weight and iustice in measure and haile shal ouerthrow the hope of lying and waters shal ouerflow the protection †And your league with death shal be abolished and your couenant with hel shal not stand when the scourge ouerflowing shal passe you shal be troden downe of it †Whensoeuer it shal passe through it shal take you away because in the morning early it shal passe through in the day and in the night and vexation alone shal geue vnderstanding in the hearing †For the bed is streitened so that one must fal out and a short mantel can not couer both †For our Lord shal stand as in the mount of diuisions as in the valley which is in Gabaon shal he be angrie that he may doe his worke his strange worke that he may worke his worke is strange from him †And now mocke not lest perhaps your bonds be tied strayte For I haue heard of our Lord the God of hostes consummation and abridgement vpon al the earth †Harken with your eares and heare my voice attend and heare my speach †Wil the ploughman plowe al the day to sow wil he cut and harrow his ground †Wil he not when he hath made euen the face therof sprinkle cummine and place the wheate by order and the barley and millet and vetche in their bondes †And his God wil instruct him in iudgement he wil teach him †For gith shal not be threshed with instruments that haue teeth neither shal the wayne wheele turne about vpon cummine but gith shal be beaten out with a rodde and cummine with a staffe †But bread corne shal be broken smal but the thresher shal not thresh it for euer neither shal the wayne wheele vexe it nor breake it with the teeth therof †And this is come forth from our Lord the God of hostes that he might make his counsel meruelous and magnifie iustice CHAP. XXIX The Prophet bewaleth the Iewes destruction 9. for their blinde obstinacie 17. prophecying the Gentiles conuersion VVOE to Ariel Ariel the citie which Dauid ouercame yeare is added to yeare the solemnities are at an end †And I wil make a trench about Ariel and it shal be sorowful moorning and it shal be to me as Ariel †And I wil compasse as a sphere round about thee and wil cast a rampier against thee and place munitions to besiege thee †Thou shalt be humbled thou shalt speake out of the earth and out of the gronnd thy speach shal be heard and thy voice shal be out of the earth as the Pythons and out of the ground thy speach shal mutter †And the multitude of them that fanne thee shal be as smal dust and as issles passing away the multitude of them that haue preuailed agaynst thee †And it shal be sodenly forthwith It shal be visited of the Lord of hostes in thunder and earth quake and with great voice of whirlewind and tempest and with flame of deuouring fyre †And the multitude of al nations that haue fought agaynst Ariel shal be as the dreame of a vision in the night and al that haue waried and beseged preuailed agaynst it †And as he that is hungrie dreameth eateth but when he is awake his soule is emptie as he that is thirstie dreameth and drinketh and after he is awake faint as yet thirsteth and his soule is emptie so shal the multitude be of al the Gentiles that haue fought agaynst mount Sion †Be astonied and meruel wauer and stagger be ye drunke and not of wine be moued not of drunkenes †Because our Lord hath mingled vnto you the spirit of drowsines he wil shut your eyes he wil couer your prophetes and princes that see visions †And the vision of al shal be vnto you as the wordes of a booke sealed which when they shal geue to him that knoweth letters they shal say Read this and he shal answer I can not for it is sealed †And the booke shal be geuen to one that knoweth not letters and it shal be sayd to him Reade and he shal answer I know not letters †And our Lord sayd Because this people approcheth with their mouth and with their lippes glorifieth me but their hart is far from me and they haue feared me by the commandement and doctrines of men †therfore behold I wil adde to make admiration to this people by a great and wonderful miracle for wisdom
shal perish from their wise men and the vnderstanding of their prudent shal be hid †Woe vnto you that are deepe of hart to hide your counsel from our Lord whose workes are in darkenes and they say Who seeth vs and who knoweth vs †This your cogitation is peruerse as if the clay should thinke against the potter and the worke should say to the maker therof Thou madest me not or the thing formed should say to the fashioner therof Thou vnderstandest not †Shal not yet within a litle while and in a short time Libanus be turned into Charmel Charmel reputed for a forest †And in that day the deafe shal heare the wordes of the booke and out of the darkenes and mist the eies of the blinde shal see †And the meeke shal adde ioyfulnesse in our Lord and the poore men shal reioyce in the holie one of Israel †Because he hath fayled that did preuaile the scorner is consumed and they are al cut downe that watched vpon iniquitie †that made men sinne in word and supplanted him that reproued them in the gate and declined in vayne from the iust †For this cause thus sayth our Lord to the house of Iacob he that redemed Abraham Iacob shal not now be confounded neither shal now his countenance be ashamed †but when he shal see his children the workes of mine handes in the middes of him sanctifying my name and they shal sanctifie the holie one of Iacob and shal preach the God of Israel †and they that erre in spirit shal know vnderstanding and the mutteters shal learne the law CHAP. XXX The Iewes are blamed for seeking counsel and helpe of the Aegyptians 18. but if they repent they shal find releefe and spiritual riches of the soule 27. Gods iudgement wil be strict 33. and hel is most horrible VVOE vnto renegate children sayth our Lord that you would take counsel and not of me would beginne a webbe and not by my spirite that you might adde sinne vpon sinne †which walke to goe downe into Aegypt haue not asked my mouth hoping for helpe in the strength of Pharao and hauing confidence in the shadow of Aegypt †And the strength of Pharao shal be a confusion to you and the confidence of the shadow of Aegypt an ignominie †For thy princes were in Tanis and thy messengers came euen to Hanes †Al were confounded vpon the people that could not profite them they were no helpe nor to any profite but to confusion and to reproch †The burden of the beastes of the South In a land of tribulation and distresse the lionesse and the lion of them the viper the flying basiliscus carying their riches vpon the shoulders of beasts and their treasures vpon the bunch of camels to a people that can not be able to profite them †For Aegypt shal helpe in vaine and to no purpose therfore haue I cried vpon this It is pride onlie cease †Now therfore going in write to her vpon boxe and drawe it diligently in a booke and it shal be in the latter day for a testimonie for euer †For it is a people prouoking to wrath and lying children children that wil not heare the law of God †Which say to the seers See not and to them that behold Behold vs not those thinges that are right Speake vnto vs pleasant thinges see errours vnto vs. †Take from me the way turne away the path from me let the holie one of Israel cease from our face †Therfore thus sayth the holie one of Israel For that you haue reiected this word haue hoped in calumnie and tumult and haue leaned therevpon †therfore shal this iniquitie be vnto you as a breach that falleth and is found lacking in an high wal because sodenly whiles it is not hoped shal come the destruction therof †And it shal be broken smal as the potters vessel is broken with mightie breaking there shal not a shread be found of the fragments therof wherein a litle fyre may be caried from the burning or a litle water be drawen out of the pitte †Because thus sayth our Lord the God of Israel If you returne and be quiet you shal be saued in silence and in hope shal your strength be And you would not †and you haue sayd No but we wil flee to horses therfore shal you flee And we wil mount vpon swift ones therfore shal they be fwifter that shal persecute you †A thousand men at the face of the terrour of one and at the face of the terrour of fiue shal you flee til you be leaft as the mast of a shippe in the toppe of a mountaine and as a signe vpon a litle hil †Therfore our Lord expecteth that he may haue mercie on you and therfore shal he be exalted sparing you because our Lord is the God of iudgment blessed are al they that expect him †For the people of Sion shal dwel in Ierusalem weeping thou shalt not weepe pitying he wil pitie thee at the voice of thy crie as soone as he shal heare he wil answer thee †And our Lord wil geue you straite bread and short water and wil not make thy doctor to flee away from thee any more and thine eies shal see thy master †And thine eares shal heare the word of him that behinde thy backe admonisheth thee This is the way walke in it and decline ye not neither to the right hand nor to the left †And thou shalt contaminate the plates of the sculptils of thy siluer and the garment of the molten of thy gold and shalt scatter them as the vncleannes of a menstruous woman Thou shalt say to it Get thee hence †And rayne shal be geuen to thy seede wheresoeuer thou shalt sow in the land and the bread of the corne of the land shal be most plentiful and fatte The lambe in that day shal feede at large in thy possession †and thyne oxen as the asse coltes that til the ground shal eate mingled prouender as it was fanned in the floore †And there shal be vpon euerie high mountayne and vpon euerie litle hil eleuated riuers of running waters in the day of the killing of manie when the towres shal fal †And the light of the moone shal be as the light of the sunne and the light of the sunne shal be seuenfold as the light of seuen daies in the day when our Lord shal bind vp the wound of his people shal heale the stroke of their wound †Behold the name of our Lord commeth from farre his burning furie and heauie to beare his lippes are filled with indignation and his tongue as a deuouring fire †His spirite as a torrent ouerflowing euen to the middes of the necke to destroy the nations to nothing and the bridle of errour that was in the iawes of peoples †There shal be a song vnto
you as the night of a sanctified solemnitie and ioy of hart as he that goeth with a shaulme to enter into the mount of our Lord to the strong one of Israel †And our Lord shal make the glorie of his voice to be heard and shal shew the terrour of his arme in threatening of furie and flame of deuouring fyre he shal dashe to peeces in whirl winde and in haile stone †For at the voice of our Lord shal Assur feare being stroken with the rod. †And the passage of the rod shal neuer cease which our Lord shal make to rest vpon him in tymbrels and harpes and in principal battels he shal ouerthrow them †For Topheth is prepared since yesterday prepared of the king deepe and wide The nourishments therof fyre much wood the breath of our Lord as a torrent of brinstone kindling it CHAP. XXXI The prophet further bewayleth the Iewes calamitie into which they shal fal for their confederacie with the Aegyptians 5. Yet God wil protect â—erusalem 8. and ouerthrow Senacharib VVOE to them that goe downe into Aegypt for helpe hoping in horses and hauing confidence vpon chariots because they be manie and vpon horsemen because they be very strong and haue not trusted vpon the holie one of Israel haue not sought after our Lord. †But he that is the wise one hath brought euil and hath not taken away his wordes and he wil rise vp against the house of the wicked against the ayde of them that worke iniquitie †Aegypt a man and not God and their horses flesh and not spirite and our Lord shal bowe downe his hand and the helper shal fal and he that is holpen shal fal and they shal al be confounded together †Because thus sayth our Lord to me As if a lion should roare and the lions whelpe vpon his praye when a multitude of shepheards shal come against him he wil not feare at their voice and of their multitude he wil not be afrayd so shal the Lord of hostes descend to fight vpon mount Sion and vpon the litle hil therof †As birdes that flie so wil the Lord of hostes protect Ierusalem protecting and deliuering passing and sauing †Returne as you reuolted deeply ô children of Israel †For in that day man shal cast away the idols of his siluer and the idols of his gold which your handes haue made you into sinne †And Assur shal fal by the sword not of man and the sword not of man shal deuoure him he shal flee not at the face of the sword and his yong men shal be tributaries †and his strength shal passe away at the terrour his princes fleing shal be afrayd our Lord hath sayd it whose fyre is in Sion his fornace in Ierusalem CHAP. XXXII The prophet conforteth the Iewes foreshewing that their king Ezechias wil rule wel and prosper but most especially prophecieth of Christ 9. That they shal be reiected for persecuting him 15. and his Church shal prosper BEHOLD “ the king shal “ reigne in iustice the princes shal rule in iudgement †And a man shal be as he that is hid from the wind and hideth himselfe from a tempest as riuers of waters in drought and the shadow of a rocke that standeth out in a desert ground †The eies of them that see shal not be dimme and the eares of them that heare shal harken diligently †And the hart of fooles shal vnderstand knowlege and the tongue of mafflers shal speake readely and plaine †He that is vnwise shal no more be called prince neither shal the deceitful be called the greater man †for the foole shal speake foolish thinges and his hart shal doe iniquitie that he may worke simulation and speake to our Lord deceitfully and make emptie the soule of the hungrie and take away drinke from the thirstie †The vessels of the deceitful are most wicked for he hath framed deuises to vndoe the meeke with the word of lying when the poore man spake iudgement †But the prince wil thinke these thinges that are worthie of a prince he shal stand aboue the dukes †Ye riche wemen arise and heare my voice ye confident daughters geue eare to my speach †For after dayes a yeare you shal be trubled that haue confidence for the vintage is at an end the gathering wil no more come †Be astonied ye riche wemen be trubled ye confident strippe you and be confounded gird your loynes †Moorne vpon your breasts vpon the countrie worthie to be destroved vpon the fruitful vineyard †Vpon the ground of my people shal thornes and bryars come vp how much more vpon al the houses of ioy of the citie reioycing †For the house is forsaken the multitude of the citie is leaft darkenesse and palpablenesse are made vpon the dennes for euer †The ioy of wilde asses the pastures of flockes vntil the spirit be powred out vpon vs from on high and the desert shal be as charmel and charmel shal be reputed for a forest †And iudgement shal dwel in the wildernes and iustice shal sit in charmel †And the worke of iustice shal be peace and the seruice of iustice silence and securitie for euer †And my people shal sitte in the beautie of peace and in the tabernacles of confidence and in wealthie rest †But haile in falling vpon the forest and the citie shal be humbled with lownesse †Blessed are ye that sow vpon al waters sending in the foote of the oxe and the asse ANNOTATIONS CHAP. XXXII 1. The king shal reigne Some expound this whole passage of Ezechias or Iosias kinges of Iuda and of the chiefe princes vnder them but so great effectes as be here prophecied were not fully verified in them but as in figure only of a more excellent king and his principal seruantes that should folovv aftervvards For albeit these vvere very good kinges and had good and vvise counselers gouerners vnder them yet they had not that perfect iudgement nor performed that complete iustice vvherby the subiectes enioyed such peace rest safetie and consolation as be here described by the metaphores and similitudes of men hid from vvinde safe from tempest refreshed vvith waters in their heate and shadovved by a rock from the burning sunne in the desert vvith the like And therfore S Ierom and other Christian Doctors vnderstand it of Christ vvho hath most perfect iudgement and iustice and of his Apostles and other Pastors of his Church vvho by vnction of the Holie Ghost participate more abundantly of Christs grace then did the priestes other rulers in the old testament And so Christian people receiue these benefites of peace rest protection refreshing in soule conscience other spiritual comfortes in Christ by the mysteries of the nevv Testament vvhich the faithful of the old Testament could not receiue by their kinges
princes nor by priestes and prophets of that time The same vve might deduce of innumerable other places of this other Prophetes but it is not our * purpose to explicate much in this Edition 1. Reigne in iustice and rule in iudgement Here also to auoide prolixitie vve may once note that these vvordes Iudgement and Iustice haue a saâ—â—e other higher and more excellent signification in holie Scriptures vvhere they most frequently occurre then in prophane vvritings and natural or moral philosophical discourses For Philosophers such as Plato and Aristotel could reach no further then to natural reason vvhich they called right iudgement and to moral equitie vvhich in general they named iustice But the Holie Ghost by these vvordes reueleth most high spiritual mysteries knovven by faith most comfortable to mens soules releeuing and refreshing the consciences of penitents in this life replenishing the iust vvith vnspeakable gladnes in eternal glorie Therfore in the sense vsual in holy Scripture Iudgement is the act of the mind or vnderstanding discerning what is right iust agreing to reason And Iustice is the rectitude of the vvil doing conformably to right direction of the mind or vnderstanding And so these wordes are applied to signifie both Gods and iust mens actions As that vvhich God mercifully decreed in eternitie and promised after the fal of man to do for mankind as conuenient for his Diuine Povvre VVisdom Iustice Mercie Goodnes vvith al the meanes vvhich he ordained for effecting the same is called his Iudgement and the performing and accomplishment therof so saâ—re as is of his part is called his Iustice Also that vvhich anie man discusseth discerneth and determineth in his vnderstanding as right or reasonable in supernatural thinges is called his spiritual iudgement and that vvhich he doth of his freevvil according to the same right iudgement is called his iustice So in this place the Prophet forshevveth that Christ our Kingvvil reigne in iustâ—â—â— that is performe and fulfil al that he as God vvith the Father the Holie Ghost decreed for Redemption Iustification and Salâ—ation of men And the princes his Apostles and other Pastors shal rule in iudgement that is discerne and iudge vvhat is right and good for themselues and the people in respect of their soules and eternal saluation CHAP. XXXIII Sennacherib beseeging and threatning Ierusalem shal be ouerthrowne by Angels 13. that both wicked arrogant infidels may feele the hand of God and faithful sinners repenting after great terror be comforted VVOE to thee that spoilest shalt not thy selfe also be spoiled and that despisest shalt not thy self also be despised when thou shalt haue ended spoyling thou shalt be spoyled when being wearied thou shalt cease to contemne thou shalt be contemned †O Lord haue mercie vpon vs for we haue expected thee be our arme in the morning and our saluation in the time of our tribulation †At the voice of the Angel the peoples fled and at thy exaltation the nations are dispersed †And you spoiles shal be gathered together as the locust is gathered as when the ditches shal be ful therof †Our Lord is magnified because he hath dwelt on high he hath filled Sion with iudgement and iustice †And there shal be fayth in thy times riches of saluation wisdom and knowlege the feare of our Lord that is his treasure †Behold they that see shal crie without the angels of peace shal weepe bitterly †The wayes are dissipated the passenger by the path hath ceased the couenant is made frustrate he hath reiected the cities he hath not estemed the men †The land hath moorned and languished Libanus is confounded and become foule and Saron is made as a desert and Basan is shaken Carmel †Now wil I rise vp sayth our Lord now wil I be exalted now wil I be lifted vp †You shal conceiue heate you shal bring forth stubble your spirit as fire shal deuoure you †And the peoples shal be as ashes of a great fyre thornes gathered together shal be burned with fyre †Heare ye that are far of what thinges I haue done and ye that are neere know my strength †The sinners are terrified in Sion trembling hath possessed the hypocrites Which of you can dwel with deuouring fyre which of you shal dwel with euerlasting heates †He that walketh in iustices and speaketh truth that casteth away auarice of oppression and shaketh his handes from al gift that stoppeth his eares lest he heare bloud and shutteth his eyes that he may see no euil †This man shal dwel on high the munitions of rockes shal be his highnes bread is geuen to him his waters are faithful †His eies shal see the king in his beautie they shal see the land farre of †Thy hart shal meditate feare where is the lerned where is he that pondereth the wordes of the law where the teacher of litle ones †The vnwise people thou shalt not see the people of profound speach so that thou canst not vnderstand the eloquence of his tongue in whom there is no wisdome †Looke vpon Sion the citie of our solemnitie thine eies shal see Ierusalem a rich habitation a tabernacle that can not be transferred neither shal the nailes therof be taken away for euer and al the cordes therof shal not be broken †because onlie there our Lord is magnifical a place of floudes riuers most brode and wide no shippe of rowers shal passe by it neither shal the great galley passe thereby †For the Lord is our iudge the Lord is our lawmaker the Lord is our king he wil saue vs †Thy cordes are loosed and they shal not preuaile thy mast shal be so that thou canst not spred the signe Then shal the spoiles of manie prayes be diuided the lame shal take the spoile †Neither shal the neighbour say I am feble The people that dwelleth therein iniquitie shal be taken away from them CHAP. XXXIIII A prophecie of the destruction of the whole world at the day of Iudgement 5. and in particular of I dumeâ— 9. Ierusalem as figures therof COME neere ye Gentiles and heare and ye peoples attend let the earth heare the fulnes therof the round world and euerie spring therof †Because the indignation of our Lord is vpon al Gentiles and furie vpon al their hostes he hath killed them geuen them into slaughter †Their slaine shal be cast forth and out of their carcasâ—es shal rise a stinche the mountaines shal melt with their bloud †And al the host of the heauens shal melt away and the heauens shal be folded together as a booke and al their host shal fal away as the leafe falleth from the vine and from the figge tree †Because my sword is inebriated in heauen behold it shal descend vpon Idumaea and vpon the peoples of my slaughter to iudgement †The sword of
of his owne wineyard and euerie man of his owne figtree and drinke ye euerie man the water of his owne cesterne †til I come and take you away to a land that is as your owne a land of corne and of wine a land of bread and vineyards †Neither let Ezechias truble you saying Our Lord wil deliuer vs. Why haue the goddes of the nations deliuered euerie one their land out of the hand of the king of Assyrians †Where is the god of Emath and Arphad where is the god of Sepharuaim haue they deliuered Samaria out of my hand †Who is there of al the goddes of these landes which hath deliuered their land out of my hand that the Lord can deliuer Ierusalem out of any hand †And they held their peace and answered him not a word For the king had commanded saying Answer him not †And Eliacim the sonne of Helcias that was ouer the house and Sobna the scribe and Ioahe the sonne of Asaph the commenter went in to Ezechias their garments rent and told him the wordes of Rabsaces CHAP. XXXVII King Ezechias requesteth the prayers of Isaie the prophet 6. who assureth the king of Gods helpe 8. In the meane time the enimies threatening and blaspheming 14. King Ezechias prayeth 21. God promiseth to protect Ierusalem 36 and by an Angel killeth in one night an hundred eigtiefiue thousand Assirians 37. Their king returneth to Niâ—â—ue and is slaine by his owne sonnes AND it came to passe when king Ezechias had heard it he rent his garments and was wrapped in sackcloth entred into the house of our Lord. †And he sent Eliacim which was ouer the house and Sobna the scribe and the ancients of the priestes couered with sackclothes to Isaie the sonne of Amos the prophete †and they sayd to him Thus sayth Ezechias This day is a day of tribulation and of rebuke and of blasphemie because the children are come euen to the birth and there is not strength to bring forth †If by any meanes our Lord thy God wil heare the wordes of Rabsaces whom the king of Assyrians his Lord hath sent to blaspheme the liuing God to vpbraide with words which our Lord thy God hath heard lift vp prayer therfore for the remnant that are left †And the seruaÌ„ts of Ezechias came to Isaie †And Isaie sayd to them Thus shal you say to your master Thus saith our Lord Feare not at the face of the wordes which thou hast heard where with the seruants of the king of the Assyrians haue blasphemed me †Behold I wil geue him a spirit and he shal heare a message and shal returne to his countrie and I wil make him fal by the sword in his owne countrie †And Rabsaces returned and found the king of Assyrians fighting agaynst Lobna For he heard that he was departed from Lachis †and he heard of Tharaca the king of Aethiopia them that sayd He is come forth to fight agaynst thee Which when he had heard he sent messengers to Ezechias saying †Thus shal you say to Ezechaias the king of Iuda speaking Let not thy God deceiue thee in whom thou hast confidence saying Ierusalen shal not be geuen into the hand of the king of the Assyrians †Loe thou hast heard al thinges the kinges of the Assyrians haue done to al countries which they haue subuerted and canst thou be deliuered †Why haue the goddes of the nations deliuered them whom my fathers haue subuerted Gozam and Haram and Reseph and the children of Eden that were in Thalassar †Where is the king of Emath and the king of Arphad and the king of the citie of Sepharuaim of Ana Aua †And Ezechias tooke the letters of the hand of the messengers and read them and went vp into the house of our Lord and Ezchias layd them open before our Lord †And Ezchias prayed to our Lord saying †O Lord of hostes God of Israel which sittest vpon the Cherubs thou art the onlie God of al the kingdomes of the earth thou hast made heauen and earth †Incline ô Lord thine eare and heare open ô Lord thine eies and see and heare al the wordes of Sennacherib which he hath sent to blaspheme the liuing God †For in verie deede ô Lord the kinges of the Assyrians haue made landes desolate and the countries of the same †And they haue geuen their goddes to fyre for they were not goddes but the workes of mens handes wood stone they brake them in peeces †And now ô Lord our God saue vs out of his hand and let al the kingdomes of the earth knowe that thou onlie art the Lord. †And Isaie the sonne of Amos sent to Ezechias saying Thus sayth our Lord the God of Israel For the thinges that thou praied me concerning Sennacherib the king of Assyrians †this is the word which our Lord hath spoken vpon him The virgin daughter of Sion hath despised thee and scorned thee the daughter of Ierusalem hath wagged the head after thee †Whom hast thou vpbrayded and whom hast thou blasphemed and vpon whom hast thou exalted voice and lifted vp the height of thine eies To the holie one of Israel †By the hand of thy seruants thou hast vpbrayded our Lord and hast sayd In the multitude of my chariotes haue I climed the height of mountaynes the toppes of Libanus and I wil cut downe the high cedres therof the chosen firre trees therof and wil enter to the toppe of the height therof to the forest of his Carmel †I haue digged and drunken the water and haue dried vp with the steppe of my foote al the riuers of the rampiers †Why hast thou not heard what I haue done to him of old from ancient daies haue I formed it and now I haue brought it to effect and it is made to the rooting out of litle hilles bickering together and of sensed cities †The inhabitants of them with shortened hand haue trembled and are confounded they are become as hay of the field and grasse of the pasture ground and herbe of the house toppes which hath withered before it was ripe †I haue knowen thy habitation and thy going out and thy coming in and thy madnes agaynst me †When thou didstrage agaynst me thy pride ascended into mine eares therfore I wil put a ring in thy nosthrels and a bitte in thy lippes wil bring thee backe into the way by which thou camest †But to thâ—e this shal be a signe eate this yeare the thinges that grow of themselues and in the second yeare eate fruites but in the third yeare sow and reape plant vineyards and eate the fruite of them †And that which shal be saued of the house of Iuda and which is leaft shal take roote downeward and shal beare fruite vpward †because out of Ierusalem there shal a remnant goe forth and saluation from mount
of health 2. He sheweth them al his riches 5. for which I saie reprehendeth him and prophecieth that the Babylonians wil spoile Ierusalem AT THAT time Merodach Baladan the sonne of Baladan king of Babylon sent letters giftes to Ezechias for he had heard that he had bene sicke and was recouered †And Ezechias reioyced vpon them and he shewed them the storehouse of aromatical spices and of siluer and of gold and of sweete odours and of the best oyntment and al the store houses of his furniture and al thinges that were found in his treasures There was not anie thing which Ezechias shewed them not in his house and in al his dominion †But Isaie the prophet went in to Ezechias the king and said to him What sayd these men and from whence came they to thee And Ezechias sayd From a far countrie they came to me from Babylon †And he sayd What saw they in thy house And Ezechias sayd al thinges that are in my house haue they sene there was not anie thing which I haue not shewed them in my treasures †And Isaie sayd to Ezechias Heare the word of the Lord of hostes †Behold the daies shal come and al thinges that are in thy house and that thy fathers haue layd vp for treasure vntil this day shal be taken away into Babylon there shal not any thing be leaft sayth our Lord. †And of thy children which shal come forth of thee whom thou shalt beget they shal take away and they shal be eunuches in the palace of the king of Babylon †And Ezechias sayd to Isaie The word of our Lord which he hath spoken is good And he said Onlie be there peace and truth in my daies CHAP. XL. The prophet comforteth the people with Christs coming to remitte sinnes 3. Before whom S. Iohn Baptist shal preach penance 6. sheweth mans imbecilitie 9. Gods Maiestie 18. the vanitie of idols 27. and fal of them that feare not God BE comforted be comforted my people saith your God †Speake to the hart of Ierusalem and cal to her because her malice is accomplished her iniquitie is forgeuen she hath receiued of the hand of our Lord duble for al her sinnes †The voice of one crying in the desert Prepare the way of our Lord make streight the pathes of our God in the wildernes †Euerie valley shal be exalted and euerie mountaine and litle hil shal be humbled crooked thinges shal become streight and rought wayes playne †And the glorie of our Lord shal be reueled and al flesh together shal see that the mouth of our Lord hath spoken †The voice of one saying Crie And I sayd What shal I crie Al flesh is grasse and al the glorie therof as the floure of the filde †The grasse is withered and the floure is fallen because the spirit of our Lord hath blowen on it In deede the people is grasse †the grasse is withered and the floure is fallen but the word of our Lord abideth for euer †Vpon an high mountayne get thee vp thou that euangelizest to Sion exalt the voice in strength which euangelizest to Ierusalem exalt it feare not Say to the cities of Iuda Behold your God †behold our Lord God shal come in strength and his arme shal haue dominion behold his reward is with him and his worke before him †As a shepheard shal he feede his flocke in his arme shal he gather together the lambes and in his bosome shal he lift them vp and them with yong himself shal carie †Who hath measured the waters with his fist and poundered the heauens with a spanne who hath poysed with three fingers the huge greatnes of the earth and wayed the mountaines in weight and the litle hilles in balance †Who hath holpen the spirit of our Lord or who hath bene his counseler and shewed to him †With whom hath he taken counsel and who hath instructed him and taught him the path of iustice and taught him knowlege and shewed him the way of prudence †Behold the Gentiles are as a droppe of a bucket and are reputed as the moment of a balance behold the ilandes are as a litle dust †And Libanus shal not suffice to kindle the fyre and the beastes therof shal not be sufficient for holocaust †Al nations as if they were not so are they before him and they are reputed of him as nothing and a vaine thing †To whom then haue you made God like or what image wil you set to him †Hath the artificer cast a sculptil or hath the goldsmith figured it with gold or the siluersmith with plates of siluer †Strong wood and that which wil not putrifie hath he chosen the wise artificer seeketh how he may set vp a sculptile which may not be moued †Why doe you not know why haue you not heard why hath it not bene told you from the beginning Haue you not vnderstood the fundations of the earth †He that sitteth vpon the compasse of the earth and the inhabitants therof are as locustes he that stretcheth out the heauens as nothing spreddeth them as a tent to dwel in †He that maketh the searchers of secretes as if they were not that hath made the iudges of the earth as a vayne thing †and in deede their stocke was neither planted nor sowen nor rooted in the earth sodenly he hath blowen vpon them and they haue withered and a whirle wind shal take them away as stubble †And to whom haue ye likened me and made me equal saith the holie one †Lift vp your eies on high and see who hath created these thinges he that bringeth out the host of them in number and calleth them al by name by the multitude of his force and strength and power not one of them was missing †Why sayest thou Iacob and speakest thou Israel My way is hid from our Lord and my iudgement is passed ouer of my God †Why knowest thou not or hast thou not heard our Lord is God euerlasting which hath created the endes of the earth he shal not faile nor labour neither is there searching out of his wisdome †Which geueth strength to the wearie and to them that are not multiplieth force and strength †Children shal faynte and labour and yongmen shal fal by infirmitie †But they that hope in our Lord shal change their strength they shal take winges as eagles they shal runne not labour they shal walke and not fainte CHAP. XLI God pleading against idolaters sheweth his powre and goodnes by his benefites bestowed vpon the Iewes 17. With promise of perpetual protection 21. Wheras their vaine idols can no way profite them LET the ilands hold their peace before me and the Gentiles change their strength let them come neere and then speake let vs
thinges of old I haue declared and they proceded out of my mouth and I haue made them to be heard sodenly I haue wrought and they came †For I knew that thou art stubburne and thy necke is an yron sinew and thy forehead of brasse †I foretold thee of old before they came I told thee lest perhaps thou shouldest say My idols haue done these thinges and my sculptils and moltens haue commanded these thinges †See al the thinges which thou hast heard but haue you declared them I haue made thee know new thinges of old and the thinges are kept which thou knowest not †now they are created and not of old and before the day and thou heardest them not lest perhaps thou mighrest say Behold I knewe them †Thou hast neither heard nor knowen neither was thyne eare opened of old For I know that transgressing thou wilt transgresse and I haue called thee a transgressour from the wombe †For my names sake I wil make my furie far of and for my prayse I wil bridle thee that thou perish not †Behold I haue fined thee but not as siluer I haue chosen thee in the fornace of pouertie †For myself for my self wil I do it that I be not blasphemed and I wil not geue my glorie to an other †Heare me ô Iacob and thou Israel whom I cal I the same I the first I the last †My hand also hath founded the earth and my right hand hath measured the heauens I shal cal them and they shal stand together †Assemble ye together al you and heare which of them hath shewed these thinges The Lord hath loued him he wil do his wil in Babylon and his arme in the Chaldees †I euen I haue spoken and called him I haue brought him and his way is directed †Come ye to me and heare this I haue not spoken in secrete from the begynning from the time before it was done I was there and now the Lord God hath sent me and his spirite †Thus sayth our Lord thy redemer the holie one of Israel I the Lord thy God that teach thee profitable thinges that gouerne thee in the way that thou walkest †I would thou hadst attended to my commandments thy peace had bene as a floud and thy iustice as the waues of the sea †And thy seede had bene as the sand and the stocke of thy wombe as the grauel stones therof his name had not perished neither had it bene destroyed from before my face †Come forth out of Babylon flee from the Chaldees shew it forth in the voice of exultation make this to be heard and speake it out euen to the endes of the earth Say Our Lord hath redemed his seruant Iacob †They thirsted not in the desert when he brought them forth water out of the rocke he brought forth to them and he cloue the rocke and there flowed waters †There is no peace to the impious sayth our Lord. CHAP. XLIX Christ shal lead the Gentiles to saluation euen of the ilandes and vttermost partes of the world 10. By him the faithful shal receiue much grace 14. and comforth 18. The Church stil increasing 21. admiring herowne felicitie 25. and the destruction of her enimies HEARE ye ilands and attend ye peoples from a farre The Lord hath called me from the wombe from my mothers bellie he hath bene mindful of my name †And he hath made my mouth as a sharpe sword in the shadow of his hand he hath protected me hath made me as a chosen arrow in his quiuer he hath hidden me †And he sayd to me Thou art my seruant Israel because in thee wil I glorie †And I sayd I haue laboured in vayne without cause and in vayne haue I spent my strength therfore my iudgement is with the Lord and my worke with my God †And now sayth the Lord that formed me from the wombe to be his seruant that I may reduce Iacob vnto him and Israel wil not be gathered together and I am glorified in the eies of the Lord and my God is made my strength †And he sayd It is a smal thing that thou shouldest be my seruant to rayse vp the tribes of Iacob and to conuert the dregges of Israel Behold I haue geuen thee to be the light of the Gentiles that thou mayst be saluation euen to the fardest part of the earth †Thus sayth our Lord the redemer of Israel the holie one therof to the contemptible soule to the nation that is abhorred to the seruant of lordes kinges shal see princes shal rise adore for our Lords sake because he is faythful for the holie one of Israel who hath chosen thee †Thus sayth our Lord In time acceptable I haue heard thee and in the day of saluation I haue holpen thee and I haue kept thee and geuen thee to be a couenant of the people that thou mightest rayse vp the land and possesse the inheritances dissipated †that thou mightest say to them that are bound Come forth to them that are in darknesse Be ye discouered Vpon the wayes shal they feede their pastures shal be in al plaines †They shal not hunger nor thirst heate and sunne shal not strike them because he that is merciful to them shal gouerne them and al the fountaines of waters shal geue them drinke †And I wil make al my mountaines to be a way my pathes shal be exalted †Behold these shal come from farre behold they from the North and the sea and these from the South countrie †Ye heauens prayse and earth reioyce ye mountaynes geue prayse with iubilation because our Lord hath comforted his people and wil haue mercie on his poore ones †And Sion sayd Our Lord hath forsaken me our Lord hath forgotten me †Why can a woman forget her infant that she wil not haue pitie on the sonne of her wombe And if she should forget yet wil not I forget thee †Behold I haue writen thee in my handes thy walles are before myne eies alwayes †Thy builders are come they that destroy thee and dissipate thee shal goe out of thee †Lift vp thine eies round about and see al these are gathered together they are come to thee I liue saith our Lord for thou shalt be clothed with al these as with an ornament and as a bride thou shalt put them about thee †Because thy deserts and thy solitarie places and the land of thy ruine shal now be straite by reason of the inhabitants and they shal be chased far away that swalowed thee vp †As yet shal the children of thy barrennesse say in thine eares The place is straite for me make me space to dwel †And thou shalt say in thy hart Who hath begot me these I am barren not bearing ledde into transmigration and captiue
and these who hath brought vp I destitute and alone these where were they †Thus sayth our Lord God Behold I wil lift vp my hand to the Gentiles to the peoples I wil exalt my signe And shal carie thy sonnes in their armes and thy daughters vpon their shoulders †And kinges shal be thy nourcing fathers queenes thy nources with countenance cast downe toward the ground they shal adore thee they shal licke vp the dust of thy feete And thou shalt know that I am the Lord vpon whom they shal not be confounded that expect him †Shal a praye be taken from the strong or can that which was caught of the mightie be saued †Because thus sayth our Lord Yea verely euen the captiuitie shal be taken away from the strong and that which was taken by the mightie shal be saued But those that haue iudged thee wil I iudge and thy children I wil saue †And I wil feede thine enemies with their owne flesh and as with new wine so shal they be embrewed with their owne bloud and al flesh shal know that I am the Lord that saue thee and thy redemer the mightie one of Iacob CHAP. L. The Sinagogue shal be diuorced for her iniquities 4. Christ wil omite no ordinarie meanes but for her sake wil indure ignominious afflictions 10. Al which she contemning shal perish THVS sayth our Lord What is this bill of the diuorce of our mother wherwith I haue dismissed her or who is my creditour to whom I sold you Loe you are solde for your wicked deedes I haue dismist your mother †Because I came and there was not a man I called and there was none that would heare Why is myne hand abridged and made a litle one that I can not redeme or is there no strength in me to deliuer Behold in my rebuke I wil make the sea desert I wil turne the floodes into drie land the fishes shal rot without water and shal dye for thirst †I wil clothe the heauens with darknes and wil make sackcloth their couering †The Lord hath geuen me a learned tongue that I may know to stay him vp that is wearie with a word he stirreth vp in the morning in the morning he stirreth vp mine eare that I may heare him as a master †The Lord God hath opened mine eare and I doe not gaynsay I am not gone backward †I haue geuen my bodie to the strikers my cheekes to the pluckers I haue not turned away my face from the rebukers spitters †The Lord God is mine helper therfore am I not confounded therfore haue I set my face as a most hard rocke and I know that I shal not be confounded †He is neere that iustifieth me who shal gaynesay me let vs stand together who is myne aduersarie let him come to me †Behold the Lord God my helper who is he that shal condemne me Loe they shal al be destroyed as a garment the mothe shal eate them †Which of you feareth our Lord heareth the voice of his seruant who hath walked in darkenes and hath no light let him hope in the name of our Lord and leane vpon his God †Loe al you doe kindle a fyre are compassed with flames walke in the light of your fyre and in the flames which you haue kindled of my hand is this done to you you shal sleepe in sorrowes CHAP. LI. God encoregeth Sion to trust in his promised comfort◠by example of Abraham 3. For the spiritual Sion the Church of Christ shal receiue much grace by his Euangelical law 12. and her children shal not feare persecution nor be ouercome 23. but her enemies shal faile HEARE me ye that folow that which is iust and that seeke our Lord attend to the rocke whence you are hewen out to the caue of the lake from the which you are cut out †Attend to Abraham your father and to Sara that bare you because I called him alone and blessed him multiplied him †Our Lord therfore wil comfort Sion and wil comfort al the ruines therof and he wil make her desert as delicacies and her wildernes as the garden of our Lord. Ioy and gladnes shal be found in it geuing of thankes and voice of prayse †Attend vnto me ô my people and my tribe heare ye me because a law shal proceede from me and my iudgement shal rest to be a light of the peoples †My iust one is nigh at hand my sauiour is gone forth and mine armes shal iudge peoples the ilands shal expect me and shal patiently wayte for mine arme †Lift vp your eies into heauen and looke downe to the earth beneath because the heauens shal melt as smoke and the earth shal be worne away as a garment and like to these thinges shal the inhabitants therof perish but my saluation shal be for euer and my iustice shal not faile †Heare me ye that know that which is iust my people which haue my law in their hart feare ye not the reproch of men and be not afrayd of their blasphemies †For as a garment so shal the worme eate them and as wool so shal the moth deuoure them but my saluation shal be for euer and my iustice vnto generations of generations †Arise arise put on strength ô arme of our Lord arise as in the old dayes in the generations of worldes Hast not thou striken the proude wounded the dragon †Hast not thou dried the sea the water of the vehement which madest the depth of the sea a way that the deliuered might passe †And now they that are redemed of our Lord shal returne and shal come into Sion praysing and ioy euerlasting vpon their heades they shal possesse ioy and gladnes sorrow and mourning shal flee away †I euen I my self wil comfort you who art thou that thou shouldest be afrayd of a mortal man and of the sonne of man which as grasse so shal wither †And thou hast forgotten our Lord thy maker which stretched out the heauens and founded the earth and thou hast bene afrayd continually al the day at the face of his furie which afflicted thee and had prepared to destroy where is now the furie of the affliction †He shal quickly come going to open and he shal not kil vnto vtter destruction neither shal his bread faile †But I am the Lord thy God which truble the sea and the waues therof doe swel the Lord of hostes is my name †I haue put my wordes in thy mouth and in the shadow of my hand I haue protected thee that thou mightest plant the heauens and found the earth mightest say to Sion Thou art my people †Be lifted vp be lifted vp arise Ierusalem which hast drunken of the hand of our Lord the cuppe of his wrath euen to the botome of the cuppe of drousines hast thou
drunke euen to the dregges †There is none that can vphold her of al the children that she hath borne and there is none that taketh her by the hand of al the children that she hath brought vp †There are two thinges which haue happened to thee who shal be sorie for thee Spoile and destruction and famine and the sword who shal comfort thee †Thy children are throwen forth they haue slept in the head of alwayes as the orix that is snared ful of the indignation of our Lord of the rebuke of thy God †Therefore heare this poore little one and drunken not of wine †Thus sayth thy dominatour our Lord and thy God who hath fought for his people Behold I haue taken out of thy hand the cuppe of drousines the botome of the cuppe of mine indignation thou shalt not adde to drinke it any more †And I wil put it in their hand that haue humbled thee and haue sayd to thy soule Bow downe that we may passe ouer and thou hast layd thy bodie as the ground and as a way to them that passe ouer CHAP. LII The prophet alluding to the deliuerie of Sion and Ierusalem from Babylonical captiuitie sturreth vp the Church of Christ to reioyce for the deliuerie from sinne 7. which Christs Apostles preached 10. with great fruite in al nations ARISE arise put on thy strength ô Sion put on the garments of thy glorie ô Ierusalem the citie of the holie one because the vncircumcised and vncleane shal adde no more to passe by thee †Be shaken out of the dust arise sit vp Ierusalem loose the bonds of thy necke ô captiue daughter of Sion †Because thus sayth our Lord You were sold for nought and without siluer you shal be redemed †Because thus sayth our Lord God My people went downe into Aegypt at the beginning to be a seiourner there and Assur without any cause did oppresse them †And now what haue I here sayth our Lord because my people is taken away for nought Their rulers doe vniustly sayth our Lord and continually al the day my name is blasphemed †For this cause shal my people know my name in that day because I myself that spake loe am present †How beautiful vpon the mountaines are the feete of him that euangelizeth preacheth peace of him that telleth good preaching health that sayeth to Sion Thy God shal reigne †The voice of thy watchemen they haue lifted vp their voice they shal prayse together because eie to eie they shal see when our Lord shal conuert Sion †Reioyce prayse together ye deserts of Ierusalem because our Lord hath comforted his people he hath redemed Ierusalem †Our Lord hath prepared his holie arme in the sight of al the Gentiles and al the endes of the earth shal see the saluation of our God †Depart depart goe ye out from thence touch not a polluted thing goe out of the middes of her be cleansed ye that carie the vesseles of our Lord. †Because you shal not goe out in tumult neither with flight shal you make hast for our Lord wil goe before you and the God of Israel wil gather you together †Behold my seruant shal vnderstand he shal be exalted and shal be lifted vp and shal be exceding high †As manie haue bene astoined vpon thee so shal his looke among men be inglorious and his forme among the sonnes of men †He shal sprinkle manie nations kinges shal shut their mouthe vpon him because they to whom it was not told of him haue sene and they that heard not haue beheld CHAP. LIII Al wil not beleue Christs Gospel to whom it shal be preached 2. as the mysterie of his ignominious death for al mens sinnes 7. which he wil suffer most mekely 10. for which his name shal be glorified in al places VVHO hath beleued our hearing and the arme of our Lord to whom is it reueled †And he shal come vp as a yong spring before him and as a roote from a thirstie ground there is no beautie in him nor comelinesse and we haue sene him and there was no sightlines and we were desirous of him †Despised and most abiect of men a man of sorowes and knowing infirmitie and his looke as it were hid and despised whereupon neither haue we estemed him †He surely hath borne our infirmities and our sorowes he hath caried and we haue thought him as it were a leper and striken of God and humbled †But he was wounded for our iniquities he was broken for our sinnes the discipline of our peace vpon him and with the waile of his stripe we are healed †Al we haue strayed as sheepe euerie one hath declined into his owne way and our Lord hath put vpon him the iniquitie of al vs. †He was offered because him self would and opened not his mouth as a sheepe to slaughter shal he be led and as a lambe before his shearer he shal be dumme and shal not open his mouth †from distresse and from iudgement he was taken vp who shal declare his generation because he is cut out of the land of the liuing for the wickednes of my people haue I striken him †And he shal geue the impious for his burial and the riche for his death because he hath not done iniquitie neither was there guile in his mouth †And our Lord would breake him in infirmitie if he shal put away his soule for sinne he shal see seede of long age and the wil of our Lord shal be directed in his hand †For that his soule hath laboured he shal see and be filled in his knowlege the same my iust seruant shal iustifie manie and he shal beare their iniquities †Therefore wil I distribute vnto him verie manie and he shal diuide the spoiles of the strong for that he hath deliuered his soule vnto death and was reputed with the wicked and he hath borne the sinnes of manie and hath prayed for the transgressours CHAP. LIIII Gentiles who were barren shal multiplie in the Church of Christ 10. from which Gods mercie shal neuer be separated PRAISE ô barren woman which bearest not sing prayse and make ioyful noyse which didst not beare because manie are the children of the desolate more then of her that hath a husband saith our Lord. †Enlarge the place of thy tent and stretch out the skinnes of thy tabernacles spare not make long thy coardes and fasten thy nailes †For thou shalt penetrate to the right hand and to the left and thy seede shal inherite the Gentiles and shal inhabite the desolate cities †Feare not because thou shalt not be confounded nor blush for thou shalt not be ashamed because thou shalt forget the confusion of thy youth and the reproch of thy widowhood thou shalt remenber no more †Because he shal rule ouer thee that made thee the
conceiued labour and brought forth iniquitie †They haue broken the egges of aspes and haue wouen the spiders webbes he that shal eate of their egges shal die and that which is nourished shal be hatched into a cockatrice †Their webbes shal not be for clothing neither shal they be couered with their workes their workes are vnprofitable workes and the worke of iniquitie is in their handes †Their feete runne to euil hasten to shede innocent bloud their cogitations are vnprofitable cogitations waste and destruction are in their wayes †They haue not knowen the way of peace and there is no iudgement in their steppes their pathes are become croked to them euerie one that treadeth in them knoweth not peace †For this cause is iudgement far from vs iustice shal not apprehend vs. We expected light and behold darkenesse brightnes we haue walked in darkenes †We haue groped as blind men for the wal and as without eies haue feeled we haue stumbled at noone day as in darkenes in darke places as the dead †We al shal roare as beares and as mourning doues we shal lament We haue expected iudgement and there is none saluation and it is far from vs. †For our iniquities are multiplied before thee and our sinnes haue answered to vs because our wicked doings are with vs our iniquities we haue knowen †to sinne and lie against our Lord and we were turned away so that we went not after our God that we spake calumnie and trangression we conceiued and spake from the hart words of lying †And iudgement was turned backward and iustice stood far of because truth hath fallen downe in the streete and equitie could not enter in †And truth grew into obliuion and he that departed from euil lay open to the praye and our Lord saw and it appeared euil in his eies because there is no iudgement †And he saw that there is not a man and he was astoined because there is none to oppose himself and his owne arme saued to himself and his iustice it self confirmed him †He is clothed with iustice as with a brestplate and is an helmet of saluation on his head he is clothed with garments of reuenge and is couered as with a mantel of zele †As vnto reuenge as it were vnto retribution of indignation to his aduersaries and recompence to his enemies he wil repay the like to the ilandes †And they of the West shal feare the name of our Lord and they of the rysing of the sunne his glorie when he shal come as a violent streame which the spirit of our Lord driueth †and there shal come a redemer to Sion and to them that returne from iniquitie in Iacob sayth our Lord. †This is my couenant with them sayth our Lord My spirit that is in thee and my wordes that I haue put in thy mouth shal not depart out of thy mouth and out of the mouth of thy seede and out of the mouth of thy seedes seede sayth our Lord from this present and for euer CHAP. LX. In the Church of Christ shal shine the light of true faith and sincere charitie 8. which shal be spredde in al nations and continue al times 15. replenished with manie ioyful graces 18. and eternal glorie ARISE be illuminated Ierusalem because thy light is come the glorie of our Lord is risen vpon thee †Because loe darkenes shal couer the earth a mist the peoples but vpon thee shal our Lord arise and his glorie shal be seene vpon thee †And the Gentiles shal walke in thy light and kinges in the brightnes of thy rising †Lift vp thine eies round about and see al these are gathered together they are come to thee thy sonnes shal come from a farre thy daughters shal rise from the side †Then shalt thou see abound and thy hart shal meruel and be enlarged when the multitude of the sea shal be conuerted to thee the strength of Gentiles shal come to thee †The inundation of camels shal couer thee the dromedaries of Madian and Epha al of Saba shal come bringing gold and frakincense and shewing forth prayse to our Lord. †Al the cattel of Cedar shal be gathered together vnto thee the rammes of Nabaioth shal minister to thee they shal be offered vpon my placable altar and I wil glorifie the house of my maiestie †Who are these that flie as cloudes and as doues to their windowes †For the ilandes expect me and the shippes of the sea in the begynning that I may bring thy sonnes from a farre their siluer their gold with them to the name of the Lord thy God and to the holie one of Israel because he hath glorified thee †And the children of strangers shal build thy walles and their kinges shal minister to thee for in mine indignation haue I stricken thee and in my reconciliation haue I had mercie vpon thee †And thy gates shal be open continually day and night they shal not be shut that the strength of the Gentiles may be brought to thee and their kinges may be brought †For the nation and the kingdome that shal not serue thee shal perish and the Gentiles shal be wasted with desolation †The glorie of Libanus shal come to thee the firretree and boxetree and pinetree together to adorne the place of my sanctification and the place of my feete I wil glorifie †And the children of them that humbled thee shal come crouching to thee and al that detracted from thee shal adore the steppes of thy feete and shal cal thee the citie of the Lord Sion of the holie one of Israel †For that thou wast forsaken and hated and there was none that passed by thee I wil make thee to be the pride of worldes a â—oy vnto generation and generation †and thou shalt sucke the milke of the Gentiles and thou shalt be nurced with the tette of kinges and thou shalt know that I am the Lord that saue thee and thy redemer the strong one of Iacob †For brasse I wil bring gold and for yron I wil bring siluer and for wood brasse and for stones yron and I wil make thy visitation peace and thine ouerseers iustice †Iniquitie shal no more be heard in thy land waste and destruction in thy borders and saluation shal occupie thy walles and prayse thy gates †Thou shalt haue the sunne no more to shine by day neither shal the brightnes of the moone lighten thee but the Lord shal be vnto thee for an euerlasting light and thy God for thy glorie †Thy sunne shal goe downe no more and thy moone shal not be diminished because the Lord shal be vnto thee for an euerlasting light and the daies of thy mourning shal be ended †And thy people al iust for euer shal inherite the land the bud
of my planting the worke of mine hand to glorifie †The least shal be into a thousand and the litle one into a most strong nation I the Lord in the time therof wil sodenly doe it CHAP. LXI Christ announceth himself to be sent from heauen to teach the truth to heale and pardon the penitent to comforte the desolate and streingthen the weake 4. whose Apostles shal constantly preach iustice in al the world 10. And his Church shal reioyce THE spirit of the Lord vpon me because the Lord hath annoynted me to preach to the milde he sent me that I should heale the contrite of hart and preach indulgence to the captiues and deliuerance to them that are shut vp †That I should preach the placable yeare to the Lord and the day of vengeance of our God that I might comfort al that mourne †that I might appoint to the mourners of Sion and geue them a crowne for ashes the oyle of ioy for mourning a mantel of prayse for the spirit of sorrowfulnes and they shal be called in it the strong of iustice planting of the Lord to glorifie †And they shal build the desertes from the begynning of the world and shal erect the old ruines and shal repayre the desolate cities that were dissipated in generation and generation †And aliens shal stand and feede your cattel and the children shal be your husbandmen and dressers of the vines †And you shal be called the priestes of the Lord to you it shal be sayd The ministers of our God you shal eate the strength of the Gentiles and in their glorie you shal be proude †For your double confusion and shame they shal prayse their part for this cause shal they receiue duble in their land euerlasting ioy shal be to them †Because I am the Lord that loue iudgement hate robberie in holocaust and I wil geue their worke in truth and make a perpetual couenant with them †And they shal know their seede in the Gentiles and their bud in the middes of peoples al that shal see them shal know them that these are the seede which the Lord hath blessed †Reioycing I wil reioyce in our Lord and my soule shal be ioyful in my God because he hath clothed me with the garments of saluation and with the garment of iustice he hath compassed me as a bridgrome decked with a crowne and as a bride adorned with her iewels †For as the earth bringeth forth her spring and as the garden shooteth forth his seede so shal our Lord God make iustice to spring forth and prayse before al the Gentiles CHAP. LXII The prophet auoucheth that he wil not cease from preaching Christ 4. to whom al nations shal be conuerted 8. whos 's Church shal continew for euer FOR Sion I wil not hold my peace and for Ierusalem I wil not rest til her iust one come forth as brightnes her sauiour be kindled as a lampe †And the Gentiles shal see thy iust one and al kinges thy noble one and thou shalt be called by a new name which the mouth of our Lord shal name †And thou shalt be a crowne of glorie in the hand of our Lord and the diademe of a kingdome in the hand of thy God †Thou shalt no more be called Forsaken and thy land shal no more be called Desolate But thou shalt be called My wil in her and thy land inhabited because it hath wel pleased our Lord in thee and thy land shal be inhabited †For the yong man shal dwel with the virgin and thy children shal dwel in thee And the bridgrome shal reioyce vpon the birde thy God shal reioyce vpon thee †Vpon thy walles Ierusalem I haue appointed watchemen al the day and al the night for euer they shal not hold their peace You that remember our Lord hold not your peace †and geue not silence to him vntil he establish and vntil he make Ierusalem the prayse in the earth †Our Lord hath sworne by his right hand and by the arme of his strength If I shal geue thy wheate any more to be meate for thine enemies and if the strange children shal drinke thy wine wherein thou hast laboured †Because they that shal gather it together shal eate it and shal prayse the Lord and they that carie it together shal drinke it in my holie courtes †Passe ye passe ye through the gates prepare a way for the people make the iourney plaine picke vp the stones and lift vp the signe to the peoples †Behold our Lord hath made heard in the ends of the earth tel the daughter of Sion Behold thy sauiour cometh behold his reward is with him and his worke before him †And they shal cal them The holie people the redemed of our Lord. But thou shalt be called a citie Sought for and not Forsaken CHAP. LXIII Christ is described as a vistorious conquerour ascending into heauen with triumph embrued with bloud 7. For al whose benefites the Prophet rendreth thankes 10. expostulating the peoples ingratitude that prouoked God to wrath VVHO is this that cometh from Edom with died garments from Bosra this beautiful one in his robe going in the multitude of his strength I that speake iustice and am a defender to saue †Why then is thy clothing red and thy garments as theirs that treade in the wine presse †I haue troden the presse alone and of the Gentiles there is not a man with me I haue troden them in my furie and haue troden them downe in my wrath and their bloud is sprinkled vpon my garments and I haue stayned al my rayment †For the day of reuenge is in my hart the yeare of my redemption is come †I looked about there was no helper I sought and there was none to ayde and myne arme hath saued and myne indignation itself hath holpen me †And I haue troden downe the peoples in my furie and haue inebriated them in mine indignation and haue drawen their strength downe to the ground †I wil remember the mercies of our Lord the prayse of our Lord for al thinges that our Lord hath rendred to vs and for the multitude of the good thinges to the house of Israel which he hath geuen them according to his iudulgence and according to the multitude of his mercies †And he sayd But yet is my people children that denie not and he is become their sauiour †In al their tribulation he was not trubled and the angel of his face saued them in his loue and in his indulgence he redemed them and bare them and lifted them vp al the daies of the world †But they prouoked to wrath and afflicted the spirit of his holie one and he was turned to be their enemie and he conquered them †And he remembred the dayes of the world of Moyses and of his people
where is he that brought them out of the sea with the pastours of his flocke Where is he that put in the middes of him the spirit of his holie one †He that brought out Moyses to the right hand by the arme of his maiestie that diuided the waters before them that he might make to himself an euerlasting name †He that brought them out through the depthes as an horse in the desert that stumbled not †As the beast that goeth downe in the plaine filde the spirit of our Lord was their conductor so didst thou bring thy people that thou mightest make thee a name of glorie †Attend from heauen and looke from thy holie habitation of thy glorie where is thy zele and thy strength the multitude of thy bowels and of thy mercies they haue held backe them selues toward me †For thou art our father and “ Abraham hath not knowen vs and Israel hath bene ignorant of vs thou ô Lord art our father our redemer from the begynning is thy name †Why hast thou made vs erre ô Lord from thy waies hast thou hardned our hart that we feared not thee Returne for thy seruants the tribes of thine inheritance †As nothing haue they possessed thy holie people our enemies haue troden downe thy sanctification †We are become as in the begynning when thou didst not rule ouer vs neither was thy name inuocated vpon vs. ANNOTATIONS CHAP. LXIII 16. Abraham hath not knovvne vs. The faithful people considering their ovvne great frequent inueterate sinnes vvith the extreme calamities wherinto they vvere fallen for the same supposed that their progenitor Abraham vvhom God had particularly called out of his countrie Iacob of vvhose tvvelue sonnes the vvhole nation vvas propagated did no longer acknowlege them for their children because they had so greuously offended God vvere not vvorthie of anie fauour Al vvhich notwithstanding yet they hoped in Gods incomparable mercie that his diuine goodnes being Creator of al who had elected them for his peculiar people brought them out of Aegypt and often deliuered them from sundrie afflictions vvould againe reduce them from captiâ—itie and as their merciful father remitte their sinnes and releue their miseries though Abraham Iacob and other Patriarches had iustly reiected them as lost children This being the proper literal sense of this place according to S. Ieroms and other ancient Doctors explication it maketh nothing at al for the old and new heresie of Vigilantius Luther denying that Sainctes in an other life do knovv vvhat is donne in this vvorld For albeit the Patriarches in zele of iustice did not acknovvlege their carnal posteritie because of their great sinnes for their children yet they knevv their state as S. Augustin li. de cura pro mortuis interpreting this and other places of holie Scripture teacheth partly by relation of such as passed from hence to them partly by holie Angels and especially by diuine inspirations As it is clere that Abraham knevv the state of poore Lazarus of the rich glutton describing vvhat ech of them had deserued and consequently receiued Much more both the old Patriarches and al other Sainctes in eternal glorie knovv â—â—h other though neuer sene nor knovvne before in this vvorld as S. Gregorie teacheth li 4 c. 33. Dialogi The glorified Sainctes see also in God that vvhich perteyneth to their clientes that pray vnto them in earth so farre as God doth ordaine more clerly by light of glorie then prophetes see by light of prophecie as S. Augustin teacheth But touching the maner he saith it exceeded the reach of his vnderstanding hovv Martyrs do helpe those vvho it is certaine are holpen by them So discoursing at large of the vncertaine maner shevveth that there is no doubt at al of the thing it selfe that Sainctes in heauen do knovv mortal mens necessities heaâ—e their prayers and helpe them by their intercession and merites vvhich he confirmeth also li. 20. c. 21. cont Faust Tract 8. in Ioan. Ser. 5. de Sanctis Likevvise S. Ierom against Vigilanâ—ius S. Gregorie li. 3. Epist ep â—0 li. 7. ep 126. li. 9. ep 38 and others in manie places CHAP. LXIIII. The Iewes in captiuitie pray to God for release 4. acknowleging his former great benefites and their owne sinnes fleing now to his mercie VVOVLD God thou wouldest breake the heauens in sunder and wouldst descend at thy presence the mountaines should melt away †As the burning of fyre would they melt the waters would burne with fyre that thy name might be made knowen to thine enemies at thy presence the nations should be trubled †When thou shalt doe meruelous thinges we shal not sustayne thou art descended and at thy presence the mountaines are melted †From the begynning of the world they haue not heard nor receiued with the eares the eie hath not seene ô God beside thee what thinges thou hast prepared for them that expect thee †Thou hast mette him that reioyceth and doth iustice in thy waies they shal remember thee behold thou art angrie and we haue sinned we haue bene alwayes in them and we shal be saued †And al we are become as one vncleane and al our iustices as the cloth of a menstrued woman and we haue al fallen as a leafe and our iniquities as the winde haue taken vs away †There is none that inuocateth thy name that ryseth vp and holdeth thee thou hast hid thy face from vs and hast dashed vs in the hand of our iniquitie †And now Lord thou art our father and we clay and thou art our maker and al we the workes of thy handes †Be not angrie ô Lord ynough and remember no more our iniquitie loe regard al we are thy people †The citie of thy holie one is made desert Sion is made desert Ierusalem is become desolate †The house of our sanctification and of our glorie where our fathers praysed thee is turned into the burning of fyre and al our thinges worthie to be desired are turned into ruines †Wilâ— thou vpon these thinges conteyne thyself ô Lord wilt thou hold thy peace and afflict vs vehemently CHAP. LXV The gentiles shal seeke and finde Christ 2. Whom the Iewes wil persecute and shal be reiected only a few reliques reserued 13. So the Church shal multiplie and abound in graces THEY haue sought me that before asked not they haue found that sought me not I said Behold me behold me to a Gentilitie that did not inuocate my name †I haue spred foâ—th mine handes al the day to an incredulous people which goeth in a way not good after their owne cogitations †A people that prouoke me to anger before my face alwayes that immolate in gardens and sacrifice vpon brickes †That dwel in sepulchers and sleepe in temples of idols that eate swines flesh and profane potage in their vessels †That say
hast made to thee let them arise and deliuer thee in the time of thine affliction for according to the number of thy cities were thy goddes ô Iuda †What wil you contend with me in iudgement you haue al forsaken me saith our Lord. †In vaine haue I striken your children they haue not receiued discipline your sworde hath deuoured your prophetes as a wasting lion is your generation †See yee the word of our Lord why am I become a wildernes to Israel or a lateward springing land why then hath my people said We haue reuolted we wil no more come to thee †Wil a virgin forget her ornament or a bride the stomacher of her brest but my people hath forgotten me innumerable daies †Why dost thou endeuour to shew thy way good to seeke loue which moreouer also hast taught thy malices to be thy wayes †And in thy winges is found the bloud of the soules of the poore and innocentes Not in diches haue I found them but in al places which before I haue mentioned †And thou hast said I am without sinne and innocent and therfore let thy furie be turned away from me Beholde I wil contend with thee in iudgement because thou hast said I haue not sinned †How vile art thou become exceedingly iterating thy wayes and thou shalt be confounded of Aegypt as thou art confounded of Assur †For from hence also thou shalt goe and thy handes shal be vpon thy head because the Lord hath destroyed thy confidence and thou shalt haue nothing prosperous therein CHAP. III. I dolaters and other sinners are inuited to repent with promise of remission 6. but neither the kingdome of Israel nor Iuda wil returne 14 God stil calling some Iewes and manie Gentiles come to Christ IT IS commonly said If a man put away his wife and she departing from him marie an other man wil he returne to her anie more shal not that woman be polluted and contaminated but thou hast committed fornication with manie louers neuertheles returne vnto me saith our Lord and I wil receiue thee †Lift vp thine eies direct and see where thou hast not bene polluted thou didest sitte in the waies expecting them as a robber in the wildernes and thou hast polluted the land in thy fornications and in thy malices †For which thing the droppes of rayne were kept back and there was no lateward shower thou haddest an harlots forehead thou wouldest not blush †Therefore at the least from henceforth cal me thou art my father the guide of my virginitie †Why wilt thou be angrie for euer or wilt thou perseuere vnto the end Loe thou hast spoken and hast done euils and hast preuailed †And our Lord said to me in the daies of Iosias the king Hast thou seene what thinges the reuolter Israel hath done she hath gone of herself vpon euerie high mountaine and vnder euerie thicke greene tree and hath fornicated there †And I said when she had done al these thinges Returne to me and she returned not And Iuda her transgressing sister saw †because the rebel Israel had plaied the harlot I had put her away and geuen her a bil of diuorce and Iuda her transgressing sister was not afrayd but went and plaid the harlot also herself †And with the facilitie of her fornication she contaminated the land and plaid the harlot with stone and wood †And in al these thinges Iuda her transgressing sister hath not returned to me in her whole hart but in falsehood saith our Lord. †And our Lord said to me The rebellious Israel hath iustified her soule in comparison of the transgressour Iuda †Goe and crie these wordes against the North and thou shalt say Returne ô rebellious Israel saith our Lord and I wil not returne away my face from you because I am holie saith our Lord and I wil not be angrie for euer †But yet know thou thine iniquitie that thou hast transgressed against the Lord thy God and thou hast dispersed thy waies to strangers vnder euerie thicke greene tree and hast not heard my voice saith our Lord. †Returne ô ye reuolting children saith our Lord because I am your husband and I wil take you one of a citie and two of a kinred and wil bring you into Sion †And I wil geue you pastours according to my hart and they shal feede you with knowlege and doctrine †And when you shal be multiplied and increase in the land in those daies saith our Lord they shal say no more The Arke of the testament of our Lord neither shal it ascend vpon their hart neither shal they be mindeful thereof neither shal it be visited neither shal that be done anie more †In that time Ierusalem shal be called the throne of our Lord and al Gentiles shal be gathered together to it in the name of our Lord into Ierusalem they shal not walke after the peruersitie of their most wicked hart †In those daies the house of Iuda shal goe to the house of Israel and they shal come together from the land of the North to the land which I gaue to your fathers †But I said How shal I make thee as children and geue thee a land worthie to be desired the goodlie inheritance of the hostes of the Gentiles And I said Thou shalt cal me father shalt not cease to walke after me †But as if a woman should contemne her louer so hath the house of Israel contemned me saith our Lord. †A voice was heard in the waies weeping howling of the children of Israel because they haue made their way vniust they haue forgotten our Lord their God †Returne ye reuolting children and I wil heale your reuoltinges Behold we come to thee for thou art the Lord our God †In verie deede the litle hilles were lyars and the multitude of the mountaines verily in the Lord our God is the saluation of Israel †Confusion hath eaten the labour of our fathers from our youth thei◠flockes and their heards their sonnes and their daughters †We shal sleepe in our confusion and our ignominie shal couer vs because we haue sinned to the Lord our God we and our fathers from our youth euen to this day and we haue not heard the voice of the Lord our God CHAP. IIII. An admonition to sincere repentance and circumcision of the hart 5. with threates of grieuous punishment to those that persist in sinne 19. Which the Prophet foreseing lamenteth the vastation of the land 27. yet mixt with consolation that it shal not be vtterly ruined IF thou wilt returne ô Israel saith our Lord returne to me if thou wilt take away thy stumbling blockes from my face thou shalt not be moued †And thou shalt sweare Our Lord liueth in truth in iudgement and in iustice and the Gentiles shal blesse him shal praise him †For thus saith
Iuda and the bones of the princes thereof and the bones of priests and the bones of the Prophets and the bones of them that inhabite Ierusalem out of their sepulchers †And they shal spread them abrode in the sunne and the moone and al the host of heauen which they haue loued and which they haue serued and after which they haue walked and which they haue sought and adored they shal not be gathered and they shal not be buried they shal be as a dunghil vpon the face of the earth †And they shal choose rather death then life al that shal be remaining of this wicked kinred in al places which are leaft to the which I haue cast them out saith the Lord of hostes †And thou shalt say to them Thus saith our Lord Shal not he that falleth rise againe and he that is turned away shal he not turne againe †Why then is this people in Ierusalem turned away with a contentious reuolting they haue apprehended lying and would not returne †I attended and harkned no man speaketh that which is good there is none that doth penance for his sinne saying What haue I done They are al turned to their owne course as an horse going with violence to battel †The kite in the heauen hath knowen her time the turtle and the swalow and the storke haue obserued the time of their coming but my people haue not knowen the iudgement of the Lord. †How say you We are wise and the law of our Lord is with vs In very deede the lying penne of the Scribes hath wrought lying †The wise are confounded they are terrified taken for they haue cast away the word of our Lord and there is no wisedom in them †Therefore wil I geue their wemen to strangers their fildes to inheritours because from the least euen to the greatest al folow auarice from the prophet euen to the priest al make lies †And they healed the destruction of the daughter of my people to ignominie saying Peace peace when there was not peace †They are confounded because they haue done abomination yea rather they are not confounded with confusion and they haue not knowen how to blush therefore shal they fal among them that fal in the time of their visitation they shal fal saith our Lord. †Gathering I wil gather them together saith our Lord there is no grape in the vines and there are no figges on the figtree the leafe is fallen downe and I haue geuen them the thinges that are passed †Why doe we sitte come together and let vs enter into the fenced citie and let vs be silent there because the Lord our God hath made vs to be silent and hath geuen vs water of gaule for drinke for we haue sinned to our Lord. †We expected peace and there was no good a time of medicine and behold feare †From Dan was the snoring noyse of his horses heard with the voice of the neyinges of his fighting horses al the land was moued and they came and deuoured the land and the fulnes thereof the citie and the inhabitants thereof †For behold I wil send you serpents basaliskes for which there is no inchantment and they shal bite you saith our Lord. †My sorow is aboue sorow my hart mourning within me †Behold the voice of the daughter of my people from a farre countrie Is not our Lord in Sion or is not her king in her Why then haue they prouoked me to wrath in their sculptils and in strange vanities †The haruest is past sommer is ended and we are not saued †For the affliction of the daughter of my people I am afflicted and made sorowful astonishment hath taken me †Is there noe rosen in Galaad or is there no phisition there Why then is not the wound of the daughter of my people closed CHAP. IX The prophet lamenteth the future calamitie of the people and their false dealing ech with others 12. willing al to consider that their wickednes is the cause of their miserie 17. and to mourne 23. and returne to God 25. Who otherwise wil punish both Gentiles and Iewes not circumcised in hart VVHO wil geue water to my head and to mine eies a fountaine of teares and I wil weepe day night for the slaine of the daughter of my people †Who wil geue me in the wildernes an inne of wayfaring men and I wil forsake my people and depart from them because they are al adulterers an assemblie of transgressors †And they haue bent their tongue as a bowe of lying and not of truth they haue taken courege in the land because they haue proceeded from euil to euil and me they haue not knowen saith our Lord. †Let euerie man take heede to himself of his neighbour and in euerie brother of his let him not haue affiance because euerie brother supplanting wil supplant and euerie freind wil walke deceitfully †And man shal scorne his brother and they wil not speake truth for they haue taught their tongue to speake lies they haue laboured to doe vniustly †Thine inhabitation is in the middes of deceipt in deceipte they haue refused to know me saith our Lord. †Therefore thus saith the Lord of hostes Behold I wil melt and wil trie them for what els shal I doe at the face of the daughter of my people †Their tongue is a wandring arrow it hath spoken guile in his mouth he hath spoken peace with his freind and secretly he layeth waite for him †Shal I not visite vpon these thinges saith our Lord or vpon such a nation shal not my soule be reuenged †Vpon the mountaines I wil take vp weeping and lamentation vpon the beautiful places of the desert mourning because they are burnt for that there is not a man that passeth through they haue not heard the voice of the owner from the foule of the ayre vnto the beastes they are gone away and departed †And I wil make Ierusalem to be heapes of sand and dennes of dragons and I wil geue the cities of Iuda into desolation because there is not an inhabiter †Who is a wise man that can vnderstand this and to whom the word of the mouth of our Lord may be made that he may declare this why the earth hath perished and is burnt as a desert because there is none that passeth through †And our Lord said Because they haue forsaken my law which I gaue them and haue not heard my voice and haue not walked in it †And they haue gone after the peruersitie of their owne hart and after Baalim which they learned of their fathers †Therfore thus saith the Lord of hostes the God of Israel Behold I wil feede this people with worme wood and geue them water of gaule to drinke †And I wil disperse them in the Nations which they and their fathers haue not knowen and I wil
send the sword after them til they be consumed †Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel Consider and cal ye lamenting wemen and let them come send to them that are wise and let them make haste †let them hasten take vp a lamentation vpon vs let our eies shede teares our eieliddes rune downe with waters †Because a voice of lamentation is heard from Sion How are we wasted and confounded exceedingly because we haue left the land because our tabernacles are cast downe †Heare therefore ye wemen the word of our Lord and let your eares take the word of his mouth and teach your daughters lamentation and euerie one her neighbour mourning †because death is come vp through our windowes it is entred into our houses to destroy the children from without the young men our of the streetes †Speake Thus saith our Lord and the carcasse of man shal fal as dung vpon the face of the countrie and as a grasse behind the backe of the mower and there is none to gather it †Thus saith our Lord Let not the wiseman glorie in his wisedom and let not the strong man glorie in his strength let not the rich man glorie in his riches †but he that glorieth let him glorie in this to vnderstand know me because I am the Lord that do mercie and iudgement and iustice in the earth for these thinges please me saith our Lord. †Behold the daies come saith our Lord and I wil visite vpon euerie one that hath the prepuce circumcised †vpon Aegypt and vpon Iuda and vpon Edom and vpon the children of Ammon and vpon Moab and vpon al that haue their heare powled dwelling in the desert because al nations haue the prepuce but al the house of Israel are vncircumcised in the hart CHAP. X. Influence of starres nor imagined powre of idols is not to be feared but God only 6. whose Maiestie is infinite and idols haue no powre at al. 19. Ierusalem lamenteth 24. and prayeth God to pardon and protect his owne people HEARE ye the word which our Lord hath spoken concerning you ô house of Israel †Thus saith our Lord According to the waies of the Gentils learne not and of the fignes of heauen which the heathen feare be not afraid †Because the lawes of the people are vaine because the worke of the hand of the artificer hath cut a tree out of the forest with an axe †with siluer and gold he hath decked it with nailes and hammers he hath compacted it that it fal not asunder †They are framed after the simulitude of a palme tree and shal not speake being caried they shal be remoued because they are not able to go Therefore feare them not because they can neither doe il nor wel †There is not the like vnto thee ô Lord thou art great and great is thy name in strength †Who shal not feare thee ô king of Nations For thine is the glorie among al the wise of the Gentiles in al their kingdoms there is none like vnto thee †They shal be proued altogether vnwise and foolish the doctrine of their vanitie is wood †Siluer wrapped vp is brought from Tharsis and gold from Ophaz the worke of the artificer and the handes of the coppersmith hyacinth and purple are their clothing al these thinges are the worke of artificers †But our Lord is the true God he is the liuing God and the King euerlasting at his indignation the earth shal be moued the Gentils shal not sustaine his threatning †Thus then you shal say to them The goddes that made not heauen and earth let them perish from of the earth and from these places that are vnder heauen †He that maketh the earth in his strength prepareth the world in his wisedom and with his prudence stretcheth out the heauens †At his voice he geueth a multitude of waters in the heauen lifteth vp the cloudes from the endes of the earth he maketh lightninges into rayne and bringeth forth the winde out of his treasures †Euerie man is become a foole for knowlege euery craftes man is confounded in the sculptil because it is false that he hath melted and there is no spirite in them †They are vaine thinges and a worke worthie to be laughed at in the time of their visitation they shal perish †The portion of Iacob is not like to these for it is he that formed al thinges and Israel is the rodde of his inheritance the Lord of hosts is his name †Gather thy confusion out of the land thou that dwellest in beseige †Because thus saith our Lord Behold I wil cast forth farre of the inhabitans of the land at this time I wil afflict them so that they may not be found †Woe is me for my destruction my plague is very sore But I said Truly this is myne infirmitie and I wil beare it †My tabernacle is wasted al my cordes are broken in sunder my children are gone out from me and are not there is none to stretch out my tent anie more to set vp my courtaines †Because the pastours haue done foolishly and haue not sought our Lord therefore haue they not vnderstood and al their flocke is dispersed †Loe the voice of a bruit cometh a great commotion from the land of the North to make the cities of Iuda a desert an habitation of dragons †I know Lord that mans way is not his owne neither is it in a man to walke and to direct his steppes †Correct me ô Lord but yet in iudgement and not in thy furie lest perhappes thou bring me to nothing †Power out thine indignation vpon the Gentiles that haue not knowen thee and vpon the prouinces that haue not inuocated thy name because they haue eaten Iacob and deuoured him and consumed him and haue dissipated his glorie CHAP. XI The Prophet being commanded to preach the obseruation of Gods couenant is not heard 9. The people folovv their fathers example adoring idols 11. and shal therefore be seuerely punished neither shal their idols nor prayers of the iust profite them 15. their malice against Christ is described 20. and the reuenge therof THE word that was made from our Lord to Ieremie saying †Heare ye the wordes of this couenant and speake to the men of Iuda and to the inhabitants of Ierusalem †and thou shalt say to them Thus saith our Lord the God of Israel Cursed is the man that shal not heare the wordes of this couenant †which I commanded your fathers in the day that I brought them out of the Land of Aegypt out of the yron fornace saying Heare ye my voice and doe al thinges that I command you and you shal be my people and I wil be your God †That I may raise vp the othe which I sware to your
he hath gathered riches and not in iudgement in the middes of his dayes he shal leaue them and in his latter end he shal be a foole †A throne of glorie of height from the beginning the place of our sanctification †O Lord the expectation of Israel al that forsake thee shal be confounded they that depart from thee shal be written in the earth because they haue forsaken the vaine of liuing waters our Lord. †Heale me ô Lord and I shal be healed saue me and I shal be saued because thou art my praise †Behold they say to me Where is the word of our Lord let it come †And I am not trubled folowing thee the pastour and the day of man I haue not desired thou knowest That which hath proceeded out of my lippes hath bene right in thy sight †Be not thou a terrour vnto me thou art mine hope in the day of affliction †Let them be confounded that persecute me and let not me be confounded let them be afrayd and let not me be afrayd bring vpon them the day of affliction and with duble destruction destroy them †Thus saith our Lord to me Goe and stand in the gate of the children of the people by which the kinges of Iuda come in and goe out and in al the gates of Ierusalem †and thou shalt say to them Heare the word of our Lord ye kinges of Iuda and al Iuda and al the inhabitants of Ierusalem that enter in by these gates †Thus saith our Lord Take heede to your soules and carie not burdens on the Sabbath day neither bring them in by the gates of Ierusalem †And cast not forth burdens out of your houses on the Sabbath day and al worke you shal not doe sanctifie the Sabbath day as I commanded your fathers †And they heard not nor inclined their eare but hardned their necke that they would not heare me and that they would not take discipline †And it shal be if you wil heare me saith our Lord that you bring not burdens in by the gates of this citie on the Sabbath day and if you wil sanctifie the Sabbath day that you doe not al workes therein †there shal enter in by the gates of this citie kinges and princes sitting vpon the throne of Dauid and mounting on chariotes and horses they and their princes the men of Iuda and the inhabiters of Ierusalem and this citie shal be inhabited for euer †And they shal come from the cities of Iuda and from round about Ierusalem and from the land of Beniamin and from the champaine countries from the mountaines and from the South carying holocaust and victime and sacrifice and frankincense and they shal bring in oblation into the house of our Lord. †But if you wil not heare me to sanctifie the Sabbath day not to carie burden and not to bring in by the gates of Ierusalem on the Sabbath day I wil kindle a fire in the gates thereof and it shal deuoure the houses of Ierusalem and it shal not be quenched CHAP. XVIII As clay in the hand of a potter so is Israel in Gods hand 8. He pardoneth penitents 10. and punisheth the obstinate 18. They conspire against Ieremie for which he denounceth miseries hanging ouer them THE word that was made to Ieremie from our Lord saying †Arise and goe downe into the potters house and there thou shalt heare my wordes †And I went downe into the potters house and behold he made a worke vpon the wheele †And the vessel was broken which he made of clay with his handes and turning he made it an other vessel as it pleased in his eies to make it †And the word of our Lord was made to me saying †Why shal I not be able to doe vnto you as this potter ô house of Israel Behold saith our Lord as clay in the hand of the potter so are you in my hand ô house of Israel †I wil sodenly speake against nation and against kingdom to roote out and destroy and wast it †If that nation shal repent them of their euil against whom I haue spoken I also wil repent me of the euil that I haue thought to doe to it †And I wil sodenly speake of nation and of kingdom to build and plant it †If it shal do euil in mine eies that it heare not my voice I wil repent me of the good that I haue spoken to do vnto it †Now therefore tel the man of Iuda and the inhabitantes of Ierusalem saying Thus saith our Lord Behold I forge euil against you and deuise a deuice against you let euerie man returne from his euil way and direct ye your waies and your studies †Who said We are desperate for we wil goe after our cogitations and we wil do euerie one the peruersitie of his euil hart †Therefore thus saith our Lord Aske the Nations Who hath heard such horrible thinges as the virgine of Israel hath done exceedingly †Why shal the snow of Libanus faile from the rocke of the field or can the cold waters gushing forth and runing downe be drawen out †Because my people hath forgotten me sacrificing in vaine and stumbling in their waies in the pathes of the world that they might walke by them in a way not trodden †that their land might be made into desolation and into an euerlasting hisse euerie one that shal passe by it shal be astonied and wagge his head †As the burning winde wil I disperse them before the enemie the backe and not the face wil I shew them in the day of their perdition †And they said Come and let vs finde deuises against Ieremie for the law shal not perish from the priest nor counsel from the wise nor the word from the prophet come and let vs strike him with the tongue and let vs not attend to al his wordes †Attend ô Lord vnto me and heare the voice of mine aduersaries †Why is euil rendred for good because they haue digged a pitte for my soule Remember that I haue stood in the sight to speake good for them and to returne away their indignation from them †Therefore geue their children into famine and lead them into the handes of the sword let their wiues be made without children widowes and let the husbands be killed by death let their youngmen be pearced through with the sword in battel †Let a crie be heard out of their houses for thou shalt bring the robber vpon them sodenly because they haue digged a pitte to take me and haue hid snares for my feete †But thou ô Lord knowest al their counsel against me vnto death be not propicious to their iniquitie let not their sinne be cleane put out from thy face let them be made falling in thy sight in the time of thy furie deale with them CHAP. XIX The prophet holding an earthen bottel in his
inhabitantes therof For in truth our Lord sent me to you that I should speake al these wordes in your eares †And the princes and al the people said to the priestes and to the prophetes There is no iudgement of death to this man because he hath spoken to vs in the name of the Lord our God †Men therefore of the ancients of the land rose vp and they spake to al the assemblie of the people saying †Michaeas the Morasthi was a prophet in the daies of Ezechias the king of Iuda and he spake to al the people Iuda saying Thus saith the Lord of hostes Sion shal be plowed as a field and Ierusalem shal be as an heape of stones and the mount of the house as the high places of woodes †Did Ezechias the king of Iuda and al Iuda condemne him to death Did they not feare our Lord and beseech the face of our Lord and it repented our Lord of the euil that he had spoken against them Therefore we doe great euil against our selues †There was also a man prophecying in the name of our Lord Vrias the sonne of Semei of Cariathiarim and he prophecied against this citie and against this land according to al the wordes of Ieremie †And king Ioakim and al his mighties and his princes heard these wordes the king sought to kil him And Vrias heard and was afraied and fled and went into Aegypt †And king Ioakim sent men into Aegypt Elnathan the sonne of Achobor and men with him into Aegypt †And they brought Vrias out of Aegypt and brought him to king Ioakim and he stroke him with the sword and he cast forth his carcasse in the sepulchers of the base vulgar people †Therefore the hand of Ahicam the sonne of Saphan was with Ieremie that he should not be deliuered into the handes of the people and they kil him CHAP. XXVII Ieremie putteth chaines about his owne necke and then sendeth them to sundrie kinges admonishing them that they must either be subiect to the king of Babylon 8. or perish by sword famine and pestilence 14. Inueigheth against false prophetes preaching the contrarie 16. and falsly affirming that the vessels already taken away shal quickly be restored 18. wheras in dede the rest shal also be caried away but al at last restored IN THE beginning of the kingdom of Ioakim the sonne of Iosias king of Iuda was this word made to Ieremie from our Lord saying †Thus saith our Lord to me Make thee bandes and chaynes and thou shalt put them on thy necke †And thou shalt send them to the king of Edom and to the king of Moab and to the king of the children of Ammon and to the king of Tyre and to the king of Sidon by the hand of the messengers that are come to Ierusalem to Sedecias the king of Iuda †And thou shalt command them that they speake to their lordes Thus saith the Lord of hostes the God of Israel Thus shal you say to your lordes †I made the earth and men and the beastes that are vpon the face of the earth in my great strength and in my stretched out arme and I haue geuen it to him that pleased in mine eies †And now therefore I haue geuen al these landes into the hand of Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon my seruant more ouer also the beastes of the field I haue geuen him to serue him †And al nations shal serue him and his sonne and his sonnes sonne til the time come of his land and of himself and manie nations and great kinges shal serue him †But the nation and kingdome that shal not serue Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon and who soeuer shal not bowe his necke vnder the yoke of the king of Babylon I wil visite vpon that nation with sword and with famine and with pestilence saith our Lord til I consume them in his hand †You therefore heare not your prophetes and deuiners and dreamers and southsayers and sorcerers that say to you You shal not serue the king of Babylon †Because they prophecie lies vnto you that they may make you far from your countrie and cast you out and you perish †But the nation that shal submit their necke vnder the yoke of the king of Babylon and shal serue him the same wil I let alone in their owne land saith our Lord and they shal husband it and dwel in it †And to Sedecias the king of Iuda I haue spoken according to al these wordes saying Submitte your neckes vnder the yoke of the king of Babylon serue him and his people you shal liue †Why wil you dye thou and thy people with the sword and famine the pestilence as the Lord hath spoken to the nation that wil not serue the king of Babylon †Heare not the wordes of the prophetes that say to you You shal not serue the king of Babylon because they speake a lie to you †Because I sent them not saith our Lord they prophecie in my name falsely that they may cast you out you perish as wel you as the prophetes that prophecie vnto you †And to the priestes and to this people I haue spoken saying Thus saith our Lord Heare not the wordes of your prophetes that prophecie to you saying Behold the vessels of our Lord shal returne out of Babylon euen now quickly for they prophecie a lie vnto you †Therefore heare them not but serue the king of Babylon that you may liue Why is this citie geuen into desolation †And if they be prophetes and the word of our Lord be in them let them interpose themselues before the Lord of hostes that the vessels which were leaft in the house of our Lord and in the house of the king of Iuda and in Ierusalem come not into Babylon †Because thus saith the Lord of hostes to the pillars and to the sea and to the feete and to the rest of the vessels that are remayning in this citie †Which Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon tooke not when he transported Ieconias the sonne of Ioakim the king of Iuda from Ierusalem into Babylon and al the great men of Iuda and Ierusalem †Because thus saith the Lord of hostes the God of Israel to the vessels that are left in the house of our Lord and in the house of the king of Iuda and Ierusalem †They shal be transported into Babylon and there they shal be vntil the day of their visitation saith our Lord and I wil cause them to be brought and to be restored in this place CHAP. XXVIII Hananias a false prophet auoucheth that within two yeares the holie vessel and king I echonias with other captiues shal be restored 5. I eremie prayeth that it may be so 7. but prophecieth that it wil not so be 10. The false prophet in confirmation of that he saith breaketh I eremies chaine 12.
ye the transmigration which I haue sent out from Ierusalem into Babylon †Thus saith the Lord of hostes the God of Israel to Achab the sonne of Colias and to Sedecias the sonne of Maasias which prophecie vnto you in my name falsely Behold I wil deliuer them into the handes of Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon and he shal strike them in your eies †And of them a malediction shal be taken vp by al the transmigration of Iuda that is in Babylon saying Our Lord make thee as Sedecias and as Achab whom the king of Babylon fryed in the fire †for that they haue done follie in Israel and committed adulterie with their freindes wiues and haue spoken the word in my name falsely which I commanded them not I am the iudge and the witnes saith our Lord. †And to Semeias the Nehelamite thou shalt say †Thus saith the Lord of hostes the God of Israel For that thou hast sent in thy name bookes to al the people that is in Ierusalem and to Sophonias the sonne of Maasias the priest to al the priestes saying †Our Lord hath made thee priest for Ioiada the priest that thou shouldest be ruler in the house of our Lord vpon euerie man rauing and prophecying to put him into the stockes and into prison †And now why hast thou nor rebuked Ieremie the Anathothite which prophecieth vnto you †Because vpon this he hath sent into Babylon to vs saying It is long build ye houses and inhabite them and plant gardens and eate the fruities of them †Sophonias therefore the priest reade this booke in the eares of Ieremie the propher †And the word of our Lord was made to Ieremie saying †Send to al the transmigration saying Thus saith the Lord to Semeias the Nehelamite Because Semeias hath prophecied to you and I sent him not and hath made you to trust in a lie †Therefore thus saith our Lord Behold I wil visite vpon Semeias the Nehelamite and vpon his seede there shal not be vnto him a man sitting in the middes of this people and he shal not see the good that I wil doe to my people saith our Lord because he hath spoken preuarication against our Lord. CHAP. XXX The prophet is commanded to write the same which he preacheth 4. first pensiue thinges 8. Then ioyful 9. Especially in the new Testament when God wil raise Dauid towitte Christ 16. Who shal destroy al enemies 19 And whose Church shal be great glorious and perpetual THIS is the word that was made to Ieremie from our Lord saying †Thus saith our Lord the God of Israel saying Write vnto thee al the wordes that I haue spoken to thee in a booke †For behold the daies come saith our Lord and I wil conuert the conuersion of my people Israel and Iuda saith our Lord and I wil make them returne to the land which I gaue their fathers and they shal possesse it †And these are the wordes that our Lord hath spoken to Israel and to Iuda †Because thus saith our Lord We haue heard a voice of terrour there is feare and no peace †Demand and see if a man beare childe wherefore then haue I seene euerie mans hand vpon his loyne as a woman that is in trauel and al faces are turned into the iaundice †Alas because that is a great day neither is there the like to it and it is the time of tribulation to Iacob and he shal be saued out of it †And it shal be in that day saith the Lord of hostes I wil breake his yoke from of thy necke and wil breake his bandes and strangers shal no more rule ouer him †but they shal serue our Lord their God and Dauid their king whom I wil raise vp to them †Thou therefore my seruant Iacob feare not saith our Lord neither be thou afrayd Israel because loe I wil saue thee out of a farre countrie and thy seede out of the land of their captiuitie and Iacob shal returne and be at rest flow with al good thinges and there shal be none whom he may feare †because I am with thee saith our Lord to saue thee for I wil make a consumation in al the Nations in which I haue dispersed thee but thee I wil not make into consummation but I wil chastice thee in iudgement that thou maist not seme to thy selfe innocent †Because thus saith our Lord Thy wound is vncurable thy stripe is very sore †There is none to iudge thy iudgement to binde it vp there is no prosite of medicines for thee †Al thy louers haue forgoten thee and wil not seeke thee for with the stroke of an enemie I haue striken thee with cruel chastisment for the multitude of thine iniquitie thy sinnes are hardened †What criest thou vpon thine affliction thy sorow is vncurable for the multitude of thine iniquitie and for thine hardned sinnes I haue done these thinges to thee †Therefore al that eate thee shal be deuoured and al thine enemies shal be led into captiuitie and they that waste thee shal be wasted and al thy spoilers wil I geue to the spoile †For I wil close vp thy wound and wil heale thee of thy woundes saith our Lord. Because they haue called thee ô Sion an out cast This is she that had none to seeke after her †Thus saith our Lord Behold I wil conuert the conuersion of the tabernacles of Iacob and wil haue pitie on his houses and the citie shal be built in her high place and the temple shal be founded according to the order thereof †And out of them shal come forth praise and the voice of them that play and I wil multiplie them and they shal not be diminished and I wil glorifie them they shal not be lessened †And his children shal be as from the beginning and his assemblie shal be permanent before me and I wil visite against al that afflict him †And his duke shal be of himself and the prince shal be brought forth from the middes of him and I wil bring him nere and he shal come to me For who is this that applieth his hart to approch vnto me saith our Lord †And you shal be my people and I wil be your God †Behold the whirle wind of our Lord the furie going forth the storme violently falling it shal light vpon the head of the impious †Our Lord wil not turne away the wrath of indignation til he haue done and accomplished the cogitation of his hart in the latter daies you shal vnderstand these thinges CHAP. XXXI God wil reduce Israel from captiuitie 4. and geue them abundance of al thinges 9. after their tribulation 15. Rachel The afflicted Church shal cease from mourning 18. confessing that she is iustly chastised 20. Christ a perfect man shal be conteyned in his mothers wombe 26. He rising from slepe death wil build
builded not houses to inhabite and vineyard and filde and seede we haue not had †but we haue dwelt in tabarnacles and haue bene obedient according to al thinges that Ionadab our father commanded vs. †But when Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon was come vp to our Land we said Come and let vs goe into Ierusalem from the face of the host of the Chaldees and from the face of the host of Syria and we haue taried in Ierusalem †And the word of our Lord was made to Ieremie saying †Thus saith the Lord of hostes the God of Israel Goe say to the men of Iuda and to the inhabitants of Ierusalem Why wil you not receiue discipline to obey my wordes saith our Lord †The wordes of Ionadab the sonne of Rechab haue preuailed which he commanded his sonnes not to drincke wine and they haue not drunke vntil this day because they haue obeyed the commandment of their father but I haue spoken to you early rysing and speakeing and you haue not obeyed me †And I haue sent to you al my seruants the prophetes rising early and sending and saying Returne ye euerie one from his most wicked way and make your studies good and folow not strange goddes nor worship them and you shal dwel in the land which I gaue you and your fathers and you haue not inclined your eare nor heard me †The children therefore of Ionadab the sonne of Rechab haue firmely kept the precept of their father which he commanded them but this people hath not obeyed me †Therefore thus saith the Lord of hostes the God of Israel Behold I wil bring vpon Iuda and vpon al the inhabitants of Ierusalem al the affliction which I haue spoken against them because I haue spoken to them and they haue not heard I haue called them and they haue not answered me †But to the house of the Rechabites Ieremie said Thus saith the Lord of hostes the God of Israel For that you haue obeyed the commandment of Ionadab your father and haue kept al his commandments and haue done al thinges that he commanded you †Therefore thus saith the Lord of hostes the God of Israel There shal not want a man of the stocke of Ionadab the sonne of Rechab standing in my sight al daies ANNOTATIONS CHAP. XXXV 1. The house of Rechabites VVe haue here according to the state of Gods Church in the old Testament a cleare example of religious life by professing and performing good workes of supererogation not commanded by God but piously instituted by a holie man called Ionadab VVhich not only himself and his proper children but also their posteritie manie ages after him voluntarily obserued by a prescript Rule Not to builde houses nor dwel in anie but in tentes not to sow seede nor to plant nor haue vinyardes nor to drinke wine A like rule but not the same in al pointes was prescribed by God himself Num 6 for such as would voluntarily embrace it And Elias and Elizens with then disciples obserued an other forme of religious life as appeareth 4. Reg. 1. 2. c. Al which vvere figures of more perfect Religious Orders in the Church of Christ consisting in three essential vowes of voluntarie Pouertie Chastitie and Obedience not commanded but commended and for the better attayning to perfection counseled by our Sauiour vvherof they are called Euangelical Counsels observed by the Apostles leauing al their worldlie substance and al desire of hauing anie proper possessions such also as had wiues leauing them the rest noâ— marying al renouncing their owne willes subiected the same to Christs wil folovving him VVhose example others imitating this holie maner of life hath stil continued in the Church as is euident by the Ecclesiastical histories euen from the Apostles time But al obserued not the same particular rules nor were called by the same titles For as in the time of Moyses law some were called Nazareites some the Children of the Prophetes and some Rechabites after the name of their founders father Rechab a renowmed godlie man so now some are called Eremites some Monkes some Freares and some Religious Clerkes And of ech of these kindes diuers sortes are distinguished by varietie of rules habites special functions and titles either of their first Institutors or of the Institutes themselues or of the places or other occasions As Carmelites Augustines as wel Monkes as Canons Regular Benedictins Bernardins Carthusians Dominicans Fraâ—c scans Iesuiâ—es Theatines Capuchines and the like As also manie distinct Orders of Nunnes But none of them al differ from the rest nor from other Catholique Christians in pointes of faith nor make anie Sectes of Religion as Heretikes ridiculously obiect For al beleue and confesse the self same Catholique Faith in al the Articles therof al vse and acknowlege the same and no other holie Sacraments and al are vnited in one vniuersal Church vnder one visible Head Euerie Order good and holie in their profession al together excellently aâ—oâ—ing the whole bodie with sacred semelie varieties make the same vniuersal Church more glorious CHAP. XXXVI Ieremie in prison sendeth Baruch by Gods commandment to read a booke of comminations before the people 7. exhorting them to repent 9. which being read in a porch of the Temple 11. Micheas reporteth it to the Nobles in the court 14. whither Baruch being called readeth the same before them 20. they informe the king 21. who hearing part therof causeth the booke to be burned 26. and commandeth to apprehend Baruch and Ieremie 27. The booke is write againe by them with addition of more AND it came to passe in the fourth yeare of Ioakim the sonne of Iosias king of Iuda this word was made to Ieremie from our Lord saying †Take a volume of a booke and thou shalt write in it al the wordes that I haue spoken to thee against Israel and Iuda against al Nations since the day that I spake to thee from the daies of Iosias euen to this day †If perhaps the house of Iuda hearing al the euils that I meane to doe vnto them let euerie man returne from his most wicked way and I wil be propicious to their iniquitie and to their sinne †Ieremie therefore called Baruch the sonne of Nerias and Baruch wrote from the mouth of Ieremie al the wordes of our Lord which he spake to him in the volume of the booke †And Ieremie commanded Baruch saying I am shut vp neither am I able to goe into the house of our Lord. †Goe thou in therefore and read out of the volume wherein thou hast written from my mouth the wordes of our Lord in the hearing of al the people in the house of our Lord on the fasting day moreouer also in the hearing of al Iuda which come out of their cities thou shalt read it to them †if perhaps their prayer may fal in the sight of our
heard lift vp a signe proclame and conceale it not say Babylon is taken Bel is confounded Merodach is ouercome their sculptiles are confounded their idoles are ouercome †Because a nation is come vp against them from the North which shal bring her Land into desolation and there shal be none to dwel therein from man euen to beast and they are remoued and gone away †In those daies and in that time saith our Lord the children of Israel shal come they and the children of Iuda together walking and weeping they shal hasten and shal seeke the Lord their God †Into Sion they shal aske the way their faces hitherward They shal come and shal be ioyned to our Lord by an euerlasting couenant which shal by no obliuion be abolished †My people is become a lost flock their pastours haue seduced them and haue made them wander in the mountaynes they haue passed from mountayne to hil they haue frogotten their couch †Al that found them haue eaten them and their enemies said We haue not sinned because they haue sinned to the Lord the beautie of Iustice and to the Lord the expectation of their fathers †Depart out of the middes of Babylon and goe forth out of the land of the Chaldees and be ye as kiddes before the flocke †Because â—oe I rayse vp and wil bring into Babylon an assemblie of great nations from the land of the North and they shal be prepared against her and thereby she shal be taken his arrow as a valiant mans that is a killer shal nor returne voide †And Chaldea shal be for a praye al that waste it shal be filled saith our Lord. †Because you reioyce and speake great thinges spoyling mine inheritance because you are powred out as calues vpon the grasse and you haue belowed as bulles †Your Mother is confounded exceedingly and made euen with the dust she that bare you behold she shal be the last among the Gentiles desolate without accesse and drie †Of the wrath of our Lord it shal not be inhabited but shal be brought wholly into desolation euerie one that shal passe by Babylon shal be astonied and shal hisse vpon al the plagues thereof †Be prepared against Babylon round about al ye that bend bow ouerthrow her spare not arrowes because she hath sinned to our Lord. †Crie against her she hath geuen the hand euerie where her foundations are fallen her walles are destroyed because it is the vengeance of our Lord. Take vengeance of her as she hath done so doe to her †Destroy the sower ouâ— of Babylon and him that holdeth the sickle in the haruest time at the face of the sword of the doue euerie man shal returne to his people and euerie one shal slee to his owne land †Israel is a flock dispersed lyons haue cast him out first the king of Assur did eate him last this Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon hath spoyled his bones †Therefore thus saith the Lord of hostes the God of Israel Behold I wil visite the king of Babylon and his land as I haue visited the king of Assur †and I wil bring Israel againe to his habitation and Carmel shal be fed and Basan and in mount Ephraim and Galaad his soule shal be filled In those daies and in that time saith our Lord the iniquitie of Israel shal be sought and it shal not be and the sinne of Iuda and it shal not be found because I wil be propicious to them whom I shal leaue †Ascend vpon the land of them that rule and visite vpon the inhabitants thereof destroy and kil the thinges that are behind them saith our Lord and doe according to al thinges that I haue commanded thee †A voice of battel in the land and great destruction How is the hammer of the whole earth broken and destroyed how is Babylon turned into a desert among the nations †I haue snared thee and thou art taken Babylon and thou knewest it not thou art found apprehended because thou hast prouoked our Lord. †Our Lord hath opened his treasure and brought forth the vessels of his wrath because the Lord the God of hostes hath a worke in the land of the Chaldees †Come ye vnto her from the vttermost borders open that they may goe forth that shal tread her downe take the stones out of the way and bring it into heapes and kil her neither let there be anie thing left Destroy al her valiants let them descend into slaughter woe vnto them because their day is come the time of their visitation †A voice of them that flee and of them that haue escaped out of the land of Babylon to tel in Sion the reuenge of the Lord our God the reuenge of his temple †Declare ye against Babylon to verie manie to al that bend bow stand together against her round about and let none escape repay her according to her worke according to al thinges that she hath done doe ye to her because she is erected against our Lord against the holie one of Israel †Therefore shal her yongmen fal in her streetes and al her men of warre shal hold their peace in that day saith our Lord. †Behold I to thee thou prowd one saith our Lord the God of hostes because thy day is come the time of thy visitation †And the prowd shal fal and tumble downe and there shal be none to raise him vp and I wil kindle a fire in his cities and it shal deuoure al thinges round about him †Thus saith the Lord of hostes The children of Israel and the children of Iuda fusteyne calumnie together al that haue taken them hold them they wil not let them goe †Their strong redeemer the Lord of hostes is his name in iudgement wil defend their cause to terrifie the land and to stirre vp the inhabitantes of Babylon †The sword to the Chaldees saith our Lord and to the inhabitants of Babylon and to her princes and to her wise men †The sword to her diuiners who shal be foolish the sword to her valiants who shal be afraid †The sword to his horses and to his chariots and to al the common people that is in the middes of her and they shal be as wemen the sword to her treasures which shal be spoyled †There shal be drought vpon her waters and they shal be dryed vp because it is a land of sculptiles and they glorie in monstrous thinges †Therefore shal the dragons dwel with the foolish murderers and the ostriches shal dwel in it and it shal no more be inhabited for euer neither shal it be built euen to generation and generation †As our Lord ouerthrew Sodom and Gomorrha and the neighbours thereof saith our Lord there shal no man dwel there and sonne of man shal not inhabite it †Behold a people cometh from the North and a great
nation and manie kinges shal rise from the endes of the earth †They shal take bow and shield they are cruel and vnmerciful their voice shal sound as the sea and they shal mount vpon horses as a man prepared to battel against thee ô daughter of Babylon †The king of Babylon hath heard the fame of them and his handes are dissolued anguish hath caught him sorow as a woman in trauel †Behold as a lion he shal come vp from the pride of Iordan to the strong beautifulnes because I wil make him runne sodenly to her and who shal be a chosen one whom I may appoint ouer her For who is like to me and who shal abide me and who is this pastour that can resist my countenance †Therefore heare ye the counsel of our Lord which he hath conceiued in his minde against Babylon and his cogitations which he hath thought vpon the land of the Chaldees Vnles the litle ones of the flockes shal plucke them downe vnles their habitation shal be destroyed with them †At the voice of the captiuitie of Babylon the earth is moued and the crie is heard amongst the Nations CHAP. LI. More misories shal fal vpon Babylon 11. by the Medes with destruction of her idoles THVS saith our Lord Behold I wil raise vpon Babylon and vpon the inhabitants thereof which haue lifted vp their hart against me as it were a pestilent winde †And I wil send vpon Babylon â—anners and they shal fanne it and shal destroy her land because they are come vpon her on euerie side in the day of her affliction †Let not him that bendeth bend his bow and let not him goe vp that is in a brigandin spare not her young men kil al her host †And the slaine shal fal in the land of the Chaldees and the wounded in the countries thereof †Because Israel and Iuda haue not bene left as a widow of their God the Lord of hostes but their land hath bene replenished with sinne from the holie one of Israel †Flee ye out of the middes of Babylon and let euerie one saue his owne life hold not your peace vpon her iniquitie because it is the time of reuenge from our Lord he wil requite her the like †Babylon is a golden cuppe in the hand of our Lord inebriating al the earth of her wine haue the Nations drunke and therefore they are in commotion †Babylon is fallen sodenly and is destroyed howle ye vpon her take resine for her sorow if perhaps she may be healed †We haue cured Babylon and she is not healed let vs forsake her let vs goe euerie man to his owne land because her iudgement hath reached euen to the heauens is lifted vp vnto the clowdes †Our Lord hath brought forth our iustices come and let vs tel in Sion the worke of the Lord our God †Make sharpe the arrowes fil the quiuers our Lord hath raysed vp the spirite of the kinges of the Medes and against Babylon his minde is to destroy it because it is the reuenge of our Lord the reuenge of his temple †Vpon the walles of Babylon lift vp the ensigne increase the watch set vp watchemen prepare embushments because our Lord hath meant and hath done what soeuer he spake against the inhabitants of Babylon †Thou that dwellest vpon manie waters rich in treasures thine end is come with in a foote of thy cutting of †The Lord of hostes hath sworne by his soule that I wil replenish thee with men as it were with the locust and vpon thee shal the merie shoute be song †He that made the earth in his strength hath prepared the world in his wisedom and with his prudence stretched out the heauens †He geuing a voice the waters are multiplied in heauen who lifteth vp the clowdes from the extreme part of the earth lightenings he hath turned into rayne and he hath brought forth the winde out of his treasures †Euerie man is become a foole by knowlege euerie mettal caster is confounded in his sculptil because his casting is counterfet neither is there spirite in them †They are vaine workes and worthie to be laughed at in the time of their visitation they shal perish †The portion of Iacob is not as these thinges because he that made al thinges he it is and Israel is the scepter of his inheritance the Lord of hostes is his name †Thou doest knocke together the vessels of warre for me and I wil knock together in thee the Gentiles and I wil destroy in thee kingdomes †And I wil breake in thee the horse and his rider and I wil knock together in thee the chariot and the rider thereof †And I wil knocke together in thee man and woman and I wil knocke together in thee the old man and the child and I wil knock together in thee the young man and the virgin †and I wil knocke together in thee the pastour and his flocke and I wil knocke together in thee the husbandman and his draweing cattle and I wil knocke together in thee dukes and magistrates †And I wil render to Babylon and to al the inhabitants of Chaldee al their euil that they haue done in Sion before your eyes saith our Lord. †Behold I to thee thou pestiferous mountaine saith our Lord which corruptest the whole earth and I wil streatch out my hand vpon thee and wil roll thee out of the rockes and wil geue thee to be a mountayne of burning †And they shal not take of thee a stone for the corner and a stone for foundations but thou shalt be destroyed for euer saith our Lord. †Lift ye vp an ensigne in the land sound with the trumpet among the Gentiles sanctifie the Gentiles vpon her declare against her to the kinges of Ararat Menni and Ascenez number Taphsar against her bring the horse as the stinging locust †Sanctifie the Gentiles against her the kings of Media the dukes thereof and al the Magistrates thereof al the land of his dominion †And the land shal be in a commotion and shal be trubled because the cogitation of our Lord shal awake against Babylon to lay the Land of Babylon desert and inhabitable †The valiants of Babylon haue ceased from battel they haue dwelt in holdes their strength is deuoured and they are become as wemen her tabernacles are burnt her barres are broken †A runner shal come to meete the runner and messenger to meete messenger to tel the king of Babylon that his citie is taken from one end to the other †and the fordes are taken before hand and the fennes be burnt with fire and the men of warre be trubled †Because thus saith the Lord of hostes the God of Israel The daughter of Babylon is as a barne floore the time of her threshing yet a litle and the time of her reaping shal come
hath wept in the night and her teares are on her cheekes there is none to comfort her of al her deare ones al her freindes haue despised her and are become her enimies Iudas is gone into transmigration because of affliction and the multitude of bondage she hath dwelt among the Gentiles neither hath she found rest al her persecuters haue apprehended her within the straites The waies of Sion mourne because there are none that come to the solemnitie al her gates are destroyed her priestes sighing her virgins lothsome and herself is oppressed with bitternes Her aduersaries are made in the head her enemies are enriched because our Lord hath spoken vpon her for the multitude of her iniquities her litle ones are led into captiuitie before the face of the afflicter And from the daughter of Sion al her beautie is departed her princes are become as rammes not fynding pastures and they are gone without strength before the face of the pursewer Ierusalem hath remembred the dayes of her affliction and preuarication of al her thinges worthie to be desyred which she had from the daies of old when her people fel in the enimies hand and there was no helper the enemies haue sene her and haue scorned her sabbathes Ierusalem hath sinned a sinne therfore is she made vnstable al that did glorifie her haue despised her because they haue sene her ignominie but she sighing is turned backward Her filthines is on her feete neither hath she remembred her end she is pulled downe excedingly not hauing a comforter see ô Lord mine affliction because the enemie is exalted The enimie hath thrust his hand to al her thinges worthie to be desyred because she hath sene the Gentiles enter into her sanctuarie of whom thou gauest commandment that they should not enter into thy church Al her people sighing and seeking bread they haue geuen al precious thinges for meate to refresh the soule see ô Lord and consider because I am become vyle O al ye that passe by the way attend and see if there be sorow like to my sorow because he hath made vintage of me as our Lord hath spoken in the day of the wrath of his furie From on high he hath cast a fyre in my bones and hath taught me he hath spred a net for my feete he hath turned me backward he hath made me desolate al the day consumed with sorow The yoke of mine iniquities hath watched they are folded together in his hand and put vpon my necke my strength is weakened our Lord hath geuen me into the hand from which I can not rise Our Lord hath taken away al my magnifical ones out of the middes of me he hath called a time against me to destroy mine elect our Lord hath troden the winepresse to the virgin the daughter of Iuda Therfore am I weeping and mine eye shedding teares because a comforter is made far from me conuerting my soule my children are become desolate because the enemie hath preuayled Sion hath spred forth her handes there is none to comfort her our Lord hath commanded against Iacob round about him are his enemies Ierusalem is become as a woman polluted with menstrous floores among them Our Lord is iust because I haue prouoked his mouth to wrath heare I beseech al ye peoples and see my sorow my virgins and my pong men are gone into captiuitie I haue called my freindes they haue deceiued me my priestes and my ancientes are consumed in the citie because they haue sought meat for themselues to refresh their soule See ô Lord that I am in tribulation my bellie is trubled my hart is ouerturned in myself because I am ful of bitternes the sword killeth abrode and at home it is lyke death They haue heard that I doe sigh and there is none to comfort me al mine enimies haue heard mine euil they haue reioyced because thou hast done it thou hast brought a day of consolation and they shal be made lyke to me Let al their euil enter in before thee and vintage them as thou hast vintaged me for al mine iniquities for my sighings are manie and my hart is sorowful CHAP. II. HOW hath our Lord in his furie couered the daughter of Sion with darknes cast forth the noble one of Israel from heauen to the earth and hath not remembred the footestoole of his feete in the day of his furie Our Lord hath cast downe headlong and hath not spared al the beautiful thinges of Iacob he hath destroyed in his furie the munitions of the virgin of Iuda and cast it downe to the ground he hath polluted the kingdom and the princes therof He hath broken euerie horne of Israel in the wrath of furie he hath turned away his right hand backward from the face of the enemie and he hath kinled in Iacob as it were the â—yre of a flame deuouring round about He hath bent his bow as an enemie he hath fastned his right hand as an aduersarie and he hath killed al that was fayre to behold in the tabernacle of the daughter of Sion he hath powred out his indignation as fyre Our Lord is become as an enemie he hath cast downe Israel headlong he hath cast downe headlong al her walles he hath destroyed the munitions therof and hath replenished in the daughter of Iuda the humbled man and humbled woman And he hath destroyed his tent as a garden he hath throwen downe his tabernacle our Lord hath brought festiuitie and sabbath in Sion to obliuion and king and priest into reproch and into the indignation of his furie Our Lord hath reiected he hath cursed his sanctification he hath deliuered the walles of the towers therof into the hand of the enemie they haue made a noyse in the house of our Lord as in a solemne day Our Lord hath meant to destroy the wal of the daughter of Sion he hath streched out his corde and hath not turned away his hand from destruction and the forewal hath mourned and the wal is destroyed together Her gates are fastned in the ground he hath destroyed and broken ber barres her king and her princes in the Gentiles there is no law and her prophets haue not found vision from our Lord. The ancients of the daughter of Sion haue sitten on the ground they haue held their peace they haue sprinkled their heades with dust they are girded with heare clothes the virgins of Ierusalem haue cast downe their heades to the ground Myne eies haue fayled for teares my bowels are trubled my liuer is powred out on the earth for the destruction of the daughter of my people when the litle one and the sucking faynted in the streetes of the towne They sayd to their mothers Where is wheate and wyne when they faynted
as the wounded in the streets of the citie when they yelded vp the ghostes in the bosome of their mothers Wherto shal I compare thee or wherto shal I liken thee ô daughter of Ierusalem wherto shal I make thee equal and comfort thee ô virgin daughter of Sion For great is thy destruction as the sea who shal heale thee Thy prophetes haue sene false and foolish thinges for thee neither haue they opened thyne iniquitie to prouoke thee to penance but they haue sene false burdens and banishements for thee Al that passed by the way haue clapped their handes vpon thee they haue hissed and moued their head vpon the daughter of Ierusalem saying Is this the citie of perfect beautie the ioy of al the earth Al thyne enemies haue opened their mouth vpon thee they haue hissed and gnashed with the teeth and haue sayd We wil deuour Loe this is the day which we expected we haue found it we haue sene it Our Lord hath done the thinges that he meant he hath accomplished his word which he commanded from the dayes of old he hath destroyed and hath not spared and he hath made the enemie ioyful ouer thee and hath exalted the horne of thine aduersaries Their hart hath cryed to our Lord vpon the walles of the daughter of Sion Shede teares as a torrent by day and night geue no rest to thyself neither let the aple of thyne eye cease Arise prayse in the night in the beginning of the watches powre out thy hart as waters before the sight of our Lord lift vp thy handes to him for the life of thy litle ones which haue fainted for famine in the head of al high wayes See ô Lord and consider whom thou hast vintaged thus shal wemen then eate their owne fruite litle ones of the measure of a spanne is the priest and the prophet slaine in the sanctuarie of our Lord The childe and the old man lay on the ground without my virgins and my yongmen are fallen by the sword thou hast killed in the day of thy furie thou hast strooken neither hast thou had mercie Thou hast called as it were to a solemne day those that should terrifie me round about and there was none in the day of the furie of our Lord that escaped and was left whom I brought vp nourished mine enemie hath consumed them CHAP. III. I THE man that see my pouertie in the rod of his indignation He hath led me and brought me into darknes and not into light Only against me he hath turned and hath conuerted his hand al the day He hath made my skinne old and my flesh he hath broken my bones He hath built round about me and he hath compased me with gaul and labour In darke places he hath placed me as the euerlasting dead He hath built round about against me that I goe not forth he hath aggrauated my fetters Yea and when I shal crie and aske he hath excluded my prayer He hath shut vp my wayes with square stones he hath subuerted my pathes He is become vnto me a beare lying in waite a lyon in secret places He hath subuerted my pathes and hath broken me he hath made me desolate He hath bent his bow and set me as a marke for the arrow He hath shot in my reines the daughters of his quiuer I am made a derision to al my people their songue al the day He hath replenished me with bitternes he hath inebriated me with wormwood And he hath broken my teeth by number he hath fed me with ashes And my soule is repelled from peace I haue forgotten good thinges And I sayd Mine end is perished and mine hope from our Lord. Remember my pouertie and transgression the wormwood and the gual Remembring I wil be mindful and my soule shal languish in me Recording this thing in my hart therfore wil I hope The mercies of our Lord that we are not consumed because his commiserations haue not fayled New in the morning great is thy fidelite Our Lord is my portion sayd my soule therfore wil I expect him Our Lord is good to them that hope in him to the soule that seeketh him It is good to waite with silence for the saluation of God It is good for a man when he beareth the yoke from his youth He shal sit solitarie and hold his peace because he hath lifted himselfe aboue himself He shal put his mouth in the dust if perhaps there be hope He shal geue the cheeke to him that striketh him he shal be filled with reproches Because our Lord wil not reiect for euer Because if he hath reiected he wil also haue mercie according to the multitude of his merciés For he hath not humbled from his hart and cast of the children of men To stamp vnder his fete al the prisoners of the earth To auert the iudgement of a man before the face of the Highest To peruert a man in his iudgement our Lord hath not knowne Who is this that hath commanded it to be done our Lord not commanding it Out of the mouth of the Highest there shal not procede neither euil thinges nor good What hath the liuing man murmured man for his sinnes Let vs search our wayes seeke and returne to our Lord. Let vs lift vp our hartes with our handes to our Lord into the heauens We haue done wickedly and prouoked to wrath therfore thou art inexorable Thou hast couered in furie and hast strooken vs thou hast killed and not spared Thou hast sette a cloude before thee that prayer may not passe Thou hast made me to be rooted out and abiect in the middes of the peoples Al the enemies haue opened their mouth vpon vs. Prophecie is made vnto vs feare and snare and destruction Myne eye hath shed streames of waters in the destruction of the daughter of my people Myne eye is afflicted neither hath it bene quiet because there was no rest Til our Lord regarded and looked from the heauens Mine eye hath spoyled my soule for al the daughters of my citie Myne enemies in hunting haue caught me as a birde without cause My life is fallen into the lake and they haue layd a stone vpon me The waters haue flowed ouer my head I sayd I am vndone I haue inuocated thy name ô Lord from the lowest lake Thou hast heard my voice turne not away thine eare from my sobbings and cries Thou didst approch in the day when I inuocated thee thou hast sayd Feare not Thou hast iudged ô Lord the cause of my soule redemer
of my life Thou hast seene ô Lord their iniquitie against me iudge my iudgement Thou hast seene al their furie al their cogitations against me Thou hast heard their reproch ô Lord al their cogitations against me The lippes of them that rise vp against me and their cogitations against me al the day See their sitting downe and their rysing vp I am their psalme Thou shalt render them a recompence ô Lord according to the workes of their handes Thou shalt geue them a shild of hart thy labour Thou shalt persecute in furie and shalt destroy them from vnder the heauens ô Lord. CHAP. IIII. HOW is the gold darkned the best colour changed the stones of the sanctuarie dispersed in the head of al streetes The noble children of Sion they that were clothed with the principal gold how are they reputed as earthen vessels the worke of the potters handes Yea euen the lamiaes haue opened their breast they haue geuen sucke to their yong the daughter of my people is cruel as the ostrich in the desert The tongue of the suckling hath clouen to the roofe of his mouth for thirst the litle ones haue asked bread and there was none that brake it vnto them They that fed volâ—ptuously haue dyed in the wayes they that were brought vp in scarlet haue imbraced the dung And the iniquitie of the daughter of my people is become greater then the sinne of Sodom which was ouerthrowen in a moment and handes tooke nothing in her Her Nazareites whiter then snow purer then milke â—uâ—dier then the old yuorie fayrer then the sapphire Their face is made blacker then coales and they are not knowne in the streetes their skinne hath clouen to their bones it is withered and is made as wood It was better with them that were slaine with the sword then with them that were killed by famine because these pyned away consumed by the barrennes of the countrie The handes of pitiful wemen haue sodden their owne children they were made their meate in the destruction of the daughter of my people Our Lord hath accomplished his furie he hath powred out the wrath of his indignation and he hath kindled a fyre in Sion and it hath deuoured the fundations therof The kinges of the earth and al the inhabitants of the world did not beleue that the aduersarie and the enemie should enter in by the gates of Ierusalem For the sinnes of her prophets and the iniquities of her priestes which haue shed the bloud of iust men in the middes of her The blind wandered in the streetes they were polluted with bloud and when they could not they held their skirtes Depart ye polluted they cryed to them depart get ye hence touch not for they brawled were moued they said among the Gentiles He wil adde no more to dwel among theÌ„ The face of our Lord hath diuided them he wil not adde to respect them they haue not reuerenced the faces of the priests neither had they pitie on the ancients Whiles we yet stood our eyes fayled towards our vaine helpe when we looked attentiue to a nation that was not able to saue Our steppes slipped in the way of our streetes our end draweth nere our dayes are accomplished because our end is come Our persecuters were swifter then the eagles of the heauen vpon the mountaines they pursued vs in the desert they lay in waite against vs. The spirit of our mouth Christ our Lord is taken in our sinnes to whom we haue said In thy shadow shal we liue among the Gentiles Reioyce and be glad ô daughter of Edom which dwellest in the Land of Hus to thee also shal the cuppe come thou shalt be made drunken and naked Thine iniquitie is accomplished ô daughter of Sion he wil adde no more to transport thee he hath visited thine iniquitie ô daughter of Edom he hath discouered thy sinnes CHAP. V. The prayer of Ieremie the Prophet REmember ô Lord what is fallen to vs behold and regard our reproch †Our inheritance is turned to aliens our houses to strangers †We are made pupils without father our mothers are as it were widowes †Our water we haue drunke for money our wood we haue bought for a price †We were led by our neckes no rest was geuen to the wearie †We haue geuen our hand to Aegypt and to the Assyrians that we might be filled with bread †Our fathers haue sinned and they are not we haue borne their iniquities †Seruantes haue ruled ouer vs there was none that would redeme vs out of their hand †In peril of our liues did we fetch vs bread at the face of the sword in the desert †Our skinne was burnt as an ouen by reason of the tempests of famine †They humbled the wemen in Sion and the virgins in the cities of Iuda †The princes were hanged vp by the hand they did not reuerence the faces of the ancients †Yongmen they abused vnchastly and the children fel in wood †The ancients decayed out of the gates the yongmen out of the quier of the singers †The ioy of our hart hath fayled our quyre is turned into mourning †The crowne of our head is fallen wo to vs because we haue sinned †Therfore is our hart made sorowful therfore are our eyes darkned †For mount Sion because it is perished foxes haue walked on it †But thou ô Lord shalt remaine for euer thy throne in generation and to generation †Why wilt thou for euer be forgetful of vs wilt thou forsake vs in length of daies †Conuert vs ô Lord to thee and we shal be conuerted renew our dayes as from the beginning †But reiecting thou hast reiected vs thou art angrie against vs excedingly THE ARGVMENT OF BARVCHS PROPHECIE MANIE ancient Fathers supposed this Prophecie to be Ieremies though none doubted but Baruch his scribe was the writer therof So S. Xistus Epist ad omnes fideles S. Ireneus li. 5. c. 35. S. Clement of Alexandria li. 1. c. 10. li. 2. c. 3. Pedag. S. Cyprian li. 2. c. 5. 6. contra Iudaeos Eusebius Coesariensis li. de Propheticorum libor appellationibus Cap. de Ieromia li. 6. c. 19. Demonst Euangel Lactantius li. 4. c. 13. Diuin Instit The first Councel of Nice li. 2. fol. 105. 109. S. Hilarie li. 5. de Trinit sub finem S. Cyril of Ierusalem Catechesi 4. 11. de Concursu Domini S. Basil li. 4. cont Eunomium S. Ambrose li. de fide c. 7. cont Arianos li. de Paenit c. 8. li. 3. Examer c. 14. S. Gregorie Nazianzen Orat. 49. deside Epist. 2. ad Cledâ—nium S. Epiphanius cont
Nazaraeos cont Ebionaeos S. Chrysostom Ser. de Trinit aduers Gentiles S. Augustin li. 18. c. 33. de Ciuit. Quest Vet. Noui Testat q. 102. S. Prosper par 2. c. 9. p. 3. c. 3. de promiss predict S. Theodoretus Dialogo 1. Eranistes who also writeth Comentaries vpon this booke as vpon diuine Scripture c. 2. v. 9. These and others alleage this Prophecie as Ieremies Some also vnder the name of Baruch As Origen li. 2. c. 3. Periarch S. Cyril of Alexandria li. 10. in Iulianum S. Gregorie Nyssen Orat. 1. de pauperibus amandis S. Athanasius Orat. 2. cont Arianos Though in his Synopsi he mentioneth not Baruch yet he as also S. Augustin l. 2. c. 8. Doct. Christ S. Gelacius dist 15. and others in their Catalogues of Canonical Scriptures comprehend this booke vnder the name of Ieremie But whether Baruch was the immediate Auctor vnder God or the writer therof as of an other mans Prophecie as the Euangelistes writte the wordes of Christ and others in the Gospels and in the Actes of the Apostles alwayes it is certaine the Holie Ghost directed him that he could not erre in writing it And the ancient Fathers and Councels euer accepted this booke as Diuine Scripture The Councel also of Laodicea in the last Canon expresly nameth Baruch Lamentations and Ieremies Epistle And lastly The Councels of Florence de Vnione Armenorum and of Trent Sess 4. expresly define that Baruch is Canonical Scripture In the Greke this booke is placed before the Lamentations which S. Ierom not finding in Hebrew nor in the Canon of the Iewes vrgeth it not against them Yet testifieth that he found it in the vulgate Latin Edition and that it conteineth manie thinges of Christ and the later times According to the historical sense the auctor in fiue chapters exhorteth the Iewes to repentance and patience prophecying that they should be brought into more distresse and captiuitie then as yet they were but should afterwards be released The sixt chapter is Ieremies Epistle THE PROPHECIE OF BARVCH CHAP. I. The Iewes in Babylon hauing heard Baruchs booke redde 6. send the same with money to Ierusalem 10. requesting their bretheren there to offer sacrifice and to pray for the king and prince of Babylon and for them 15. acknowleging their manifold sinnes AND these be the wordes of the booke that Baruch the sonne of Nerias the sonne of Maasias the sonne of Sedecias the sonne of Sedei the sonne of Helcias wrote in Babylon †in the fifth yeare in the seuenth day of the moneth at the time that the Chaldees tooke Ierusalem and burnt it with fyre †And Baruch redde the wordes of this booke vnto the eares of Iechonias the sonne of Ioakim king of Iuda and to the eares of al the people comming to the booke †and to the eares of the mightie the sonnes of the kinges and to the eares of the ancients and to the eares of the people from the least euen to the greatest of them that dwelt in Babylon by the riuer Sodi †Who hearing it wept and fasted and prayed in the sight of our Lord. †And they gathered money according as euerie mans hand was able †and they sent into Ierusalem to Ioakim the sonne of Helcias the sonne of Salom priest and to the priests and to al the people that were found with him in Ierusalem †When he tooke the vessels of the temple of our Lord which had bene taken away out of the temple to returne them into the Land of Iuda the tenth day of the moneth Siuan the siluer vessels which Sedecias the sonne of Iosias the king of Iuda made †after that Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon had taken Iechonias and the princes and al the mightie and the people of the land from Ierusalem and brought them bound into Babylon †And they said Behold we haue sent you money with the which bye ye holocausts and frankincense and make manna and offer for sinne at the altar of the Lord our God †and pray ye for the life of Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon and for the life of Balthasar his sonne that their dayes may be as the dayes of heauen vpon the earth †and that our Lord geue vs strength and illuminate our eyes that we may liue vnder the shadow of Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon and vnder the shadow of Balthasar his sonne and may serue them manie dayes and may find grace in their sight †And for our selues pray ye to the Lord our God because we haue sinned to the Lord our God and his furie is not turned away from vs euen to this day †And read ye this booke which we haue sent to you to be recited in the temple of our Lord in a solemne day and in a day couenient †And you shal say To the Lord our God iustice but to vs confusion of our face as is this day to al Iuda and them that dwel in Ierusalem †to our kinges and to our princes and to our priests and to our prophetes and to our fathers †We haue sinned before the Lord our God and beleued him not hauing diffidence in him †and we would not be made subiect to him and we haue not heard the voice of the Lord our God to walke in his commandments which he hath geuen vs. †From the day that he brought our fathers out of the Land of Aegypt euen to this day we would not be brought to beleue the Lord our God and * dissipated we reuolted that we might not heare his voice †And manie euils and maledictions haue clouen to vs which our Lord appoynted to Moyses his seruant who brought our fathers out of the Land of Aegypt to geue vs a land flowing with milke and honie as at this present day †And we haue not heard the voice of the Lord our God according to al the wordes of the prophets which he hath sent to vs †and we haue gone away euerie man into the sense of our malignant hart to serue strange goddes doing euils before the eyes of the Lord our God CHAP. II. The same captiues further confesse that their calamities are iustly comen vpon them for their iniquities 11. and therfore lamentably pray for Gods mercie as he promised by Moyses to penitents FOR the which thing the Lord our God hath established his word that he spake to vs and to our iudges that haue iudged Israel and to our kinges and to our princes and to al Israel and Iuda †that our Lord might bring vpon vs great euils which were not done vnder the heauen as haue bene done in Ierusalem according to the thinges that are written in the law of Moyses †that a man should eate the flesh of his sonne and the flesh of his daughter †And he hath geuen them vnder the hand of al the kinges that are round about vs into reproch and into
hadst walked in the way of God thou hadst verely dwelt in peace euerlasting †Learne where wisedom is where strength is where vnderstanding is that thou mayst know withal where is the long continuance of life and liuing where the light of the eyes and peace is †Who hath found the place therof and who hath entered into the treasures therof †Where are the princes of the Gentiles and they that rule ouer the beasts that are vpon the earth †that play with the birdes of the heauen †that treasure vp siluer and gold wherin men haue confidence and is there no end of their getting which fashion siluer are careful neither is there invention of their workes †They are destroyed and are gone downe to hel and others are risen vp in their place †Yong men saw the light and dwelt vpon the earth but the way of discipline they knew not †neither vnderstood they the pathes therof neither haue their children receiued it it is made farre from their face †It hath not bene heard in the Land of Chanaan neither hath it bene seene in Theman †The children of Agar also that seke out the prudence that is of the earth marchants of Merrhe and of Theman and fablers and searchers of prudence and vnderstanding but the way of wisedom they haue not knowne neither haue they remembrēd the pathes therof †O Israel how great is the house of God and how great is the place of his possession †It is great and hath no end high and vnmesurable †There were the Giants those renowned that were from the beginning of big stature expert in warre †These did not our Lord choose neither found they the way of discipline therfore did they perish †And because they had not wisedom they perished through their follie †Who hath ascended into heauen and taken her and brought her downe from the clowdes †Who hath passed ouer the sea and found her and brought her aboue chosen gold †There is none that can know her waies nor that can search out her pathes †but he that knoweth al thinges knoweth her hath found her out by his prudence he that prepared the earth in time euerlasting and replenished it with cattel and fourefooted beastes †he that sendeth forth light and it goeth and hath called it and it obeyeth him with trembling †And the starres haue geuen light in their watches and reioyced †they were called and they said here we are and they haue shined to him with cheerfulnes that made them †This is out God and there shal none other be estemed against him †He found out al the way of discipline and deliuered it to Iacob his seruant and to Israel his beloued †After these thinges he was sene vpon the earth and was conuersant with men CHAP. IIII. Gods people neglecting his grace offered to them more then to other nations 6. are seuerely punished 15. by captiuitie 18. but are reserued 22. and repenting shal be released 31. and their enimies destroyed THIS is the booke of the commandments of God and the law that is for euer al that hold it shal come to life but they that haue forsaken it into death †Returne Iacob and take hold of it walke by the way to the brightnes of it against the light therof †Deliuer not thy glorie to an other dignitie to a strange nation †We are blessed ô Israel because the thinges that please God are manifest to vs. †Be of good comfort ô people of God memorable Israel †you are sold to the Gentiles not into perdition but for that in anger you prouoked God to wrath you are deliuered to the aduersaries †For you haue exasperated him that made you the eternal God immolating to diuels and not to God †For you haue forgotten God who hath nourished you and your nource Ierusalem you haue made sorowful †For she saw the wrath comming from God to you and she sayd Heare ye confines of Sion for God hath brought me great mourning †For I haue sene the captiuitie of my people and of my sonnes and daughters which the euerlasting hath brought vpon them †For I nourished them with ioyfulnes but I haue left them with weeping and mourning †Let no man reiovce ouer me a widow and desolate I am forsaken of manie for the sinnes of my children because they haue declined from the law of God †And his iustices they haue not knowne nor walked by the wayes of Gods commandments neither haue they entered by the pathes of his truth and iustice †Let the borderers of Sion come and remember the captiuitie of my sonnes daughters which the euerlasting hath brought vpon them †For he hath brought vpon them a nation from a farre a wicked nation and of an other tongue †which haue not reuerenced the ancient nor pitied the children haue led away the beloued of the widow and made the sole woman desolate of children †But as for me what can I helpe you †For he that hath brought the euils vpon you he wil deliuer you out of the handes of your enemies †walke children walke for I am left alone †I haue put of the stole of peace and I haue put vpon me the sackcloth of prayer and I wil crie to the Highest in my dayes †Be of good comfort my children crie to our Lord and he wil deliuer you out of the hand of the princes your enemies †For I haue hoped in the euerlasting for your saluation ioy is come to me from the holie one vpon the mercie which shal come to you from our euerlasting sauiour †For I sent you forth with mourning and weeping but our Lord wil bring you backe to me with ioy and gladnes for euer †For as the neighbours of Sion haue seene your captiuitie from God so shal they see also with celeritie your saluation from God which shal come vpon you with great honour and euerlasting brightnes †Children patiently sustaine the wrath which is come vpon you for thyne enemie hath persecuted thee but thou shalt quickly see his destruction and thou shalt get vp vpon his necke †My delicate ones haue walked rough waies for they are led as a flocke taken violently of the enemies †Be of good comfort children and crie out to our Lord for there shal be remembrance of you with him that hath led you away †For as your minde hath bene to stray from God ten tymes so much shal you returning againe seeke him †For he that hath brought the euils vpon you he againe wil bring vnto you euerlasting ioy with your saluation †Be of good comfort Ierusalem for he exhorteth thee that named thee †The wicked afflicters shal perish that haue vexed thee they that haue reioyced in thy ruine shal be punished †The cities which thy children haue serued shal be punished
your slaine shal be amongst the middes of your idols in the circuit of your altars in euerie high hil in al the toppes of mountaines and vnder euerie wooddie tree and vnder euerie oake with thicke branches the place where they burnt frankincense smelling sweetly to al their idols †And I wil strech forth my hand vpon them and wil make the land desolate and destitute from the desert of Deblatha in al their habitations and they shal know that I am the Lord. CHAP. VII Miseries shal be so great 8. and shal come so presently 16. that few shal escape and those also shal be in great terrour and affliction AND the word of our Lord was made to me saying †And thou sonne of man thus saith our Lord God to the land of Israel The end is come come is the end vpon the foure quarters of the land †Now an end vpon thee and I wil send my furie vpon thee and I wil iudge thee according to thy wayes and I wil lay against thee al thine abominations †And vpon thee mine eye shal not spare and I wil not haue mercie but I wil lay thy waies vpon thee and thyne abominations shal be in the middes of thee and you shal know that I am the Lord. †Thus saith our Lord God One affliction loe affliction cometh †An end cometh there cometh an end it hath awaked against thee behold it commeth †Destruction commeth vpon thee which dwellest in the land the time commeth the day of slaughter is nere and not of the glorie of mountaines †Now streightway I powre out my wrath vpon thee and I wil accomplish my furie in thee and I wil iudge thee according to thy wayes and I wil lay vpon thee al thy wicked deedes †And mine eye shal not spare neither wil I haue mercie but I wil lay thy wayes vpon thee and thine abominations shal be in the middes of thee and you shal know that I am the Lord that strike †Behold the day behold it commeth destruction is gone forth the rod hath floorished pride hath budded †Iniquitie is risen in the rodde of impietie not of them and not of the people nor of the sound of them and there shal be no rest in them †The time commeth the day is at hand he that bieth let him not reioyce and he that selleth let him not mourne because wrath vpon al the people therof †Because he that selleth shal not returne to that which he hath â—old and as yet in the liuing the life of them For the vision shal not goe backe to al the multitude therof and man in the iniquitie of his life shal not be strengthened †Sound you with the trumpet let al be prepared and there is none to go to the battel for my wrath shal be vpon al the people therof †The sword without and the pestilence and famine within he that is in the filde shal dye by the sword and they that are in the citie shal be deuoured with the pestilence and famine †And those of them that flee shal be saued and they shal be in the mountaines as doues of the valleis al trembling euerie one in his iniquitie †Al handes shal be dissolued and al knees shal runne with waters †And they shal gird themselues with hearecloathes and feare shal couer them and in euerie face confusion and vpon al their heades baldnes †Their siluer shal be throwne forth and their gold shal be into a dunghil Their siluer and their gold shal not be able to deliuer them in the day of the furie of our Lord. Their soule they shal not satisfie and their bellies shal not be filled because it is made a scandal of their iniquitie †And the ornament of their Iewels they haue turned into pride and the images of their abominations and idols they haue made of it for this cause haue I geuen it them into vncleanes †and I wil geue it into the handes of aliens to spoyle and to the impious of the earth for a praye and they shal contaminate it †And I wil turne away my face from them they shal violate my secrete and spoylers shal enter into it and shal contaminate it †Make a conclusion because the land is ful of the iudgement of bloud and the citie sul of iniquitie †And I wil bring the worst of the nations and they shal possesse their houses and I wil make the pride of the mightie to cease and they shal possesse their sanctuarie †Distresse comming vpon them they wil seeke peace and there shal be none †Truble shal come vpon truble and report vpon report and they shal seeke vision of the prophete and the law shal perish from the priest and counsel from the ancientes †The king shal mourne and the prince shal be clothed with sorowfulnes and the handes of the people of the land shal be trubled According to their way wil I doe to them and according to their iudgements I wil iudge them and they shal know that I am the Lord. CHAP. VIII In an other vision the prophet seeth innumerable most abominable idolatries 11. committed by al sortes of men and wemen 17. for which God wil no longer spare them AND it came to passe in the sixt yeare in the sixt moneth in the fifth of the moneth I sate in my house and the ancients of Iuda sate before me and the hand of our Lord God fel there vpon me †And I saw and behold a similitude as it were the resemblance of fire from the resemblance of his loynes and downeward fire and from his loynes and vpward as it were the resemblance of brightnes as the appearance of amber †And the similitude of a hand put forth tooke me by the lockes of my head and the spirite lifted me vp betwen the earth and the heauen and brought me into Ierusalem in the vision of God beside the inner doore that looked to the North where was set an idol of zele to prouoke emulation †And loe there the glorie of the God of Israel according to the vision which I had seene in the filde †And he said to me Sonne of man lift vp thine eyes to the way of the North. And I lifted vp mine eyes to the way of the North and behold on the North of the porte of the altar the idol of zele in the verie entrie †And he said to me Sonne of man doest thou see thinkest thou what these doe the great abominations that the house of Israel doth here that I may depart far from my sanctuarie and yet turning thou shalt see greater abominations †And he brought me into the doore of the court and I saw and behold one hole in the wal †And he said to me Sonne of man digge the wal And when I had digged the wal there appered one doore †And he said to me Goe in and see
to haue in length on the north quarter foure thousand fiue hundred reedes vvith the same length on the vvest quarter and consequently on the east and south that is nine thousand passes or nine myles on euerie side in al the circuite thirtie six myles Of vvhich greatnes it is certaine the temple and citie neuer were No not after the temple vvas augmented by Herod Ascoloâ—ites vvherof Iosephus writeth li. 15. c. 14. Antiq. Iudâ—icarum Neither vvere there anie such waters issuing from the material temple nor such trees on the bankes therof bringing forth fruites euerie moneth as are described ch 47. v. 1. 12. Al vvhich vvith other like dissonances considered the later Iewes confessing that this prophecie is not hitherto fulfilled say that their Messias whom they expect shal builde such a terrestrial citie and temple with al the appertinances as are shewed in this vision Reiecting therfore these Iewish errors and ridiculous imaginations Richardus de Sancto Victore Hugo Cardinalis Nicolaus Lyranus and some other Christian Doctors suppose that God in dede conditionally according to his antecedent wil promised al these thinges euen as the letter soundeth to the Iewes if after their deliuerie from captiuitie they should sincerely serue him vvalke rightly in his wayes and perfectly kepe his commandmentes And that besides this supposed literal sense al the same should more excellently be performed in the mystical temple and citie of God our Sauiour Christ and his Church But for so much say these Doctors as the Iewes performed not that which vvas required of their part in perfect life and due seruice of God this vision was not fulfilled but only in some part according to the vertues and merites of the better sorte of that people by the restauration of the citie temple and other thinges as in the bookes of Esdras that lastly for their general reuolt from Christ persecuting him to death their temple and citie were againe destroyed the people slaine dispersed reiected except only the few reliques conuerted to Christ In vvhom with the multitude of Gentiles the vvhole vision hath ful effect This opinion albeit grounded in probabilitie yet semeth not so certaine nor in dede so probable as the iudgement of S. Ierom S. Theodoret in their commentaries as also of S. Gregorie in his homiles vpon Ezechiel and of manie others both ancient and late writers VVho not finding hovv to applie this vision in al partes to the state of the old testament neither that promise of such a huge great temple and citie with the rest vvere agreable to Gods vvisdome do only expound this vision to perteine in some partes to the Iewes reduced from temporal captiuitie as in figure of al mankind redemed by Christ and of his Church gathered of al nations enriched and adorned vvith al spiritual graces vertues and powre Neither yet expounding al of the militant Church but some part of the triumphant only as surpassing the perfectest state of this transitorie life Vve therfore out of their large discourses shal abridge a fevv and brief marginal notes for some light of vnderstanding the text and entrance into the spiritual sense principally intended by the Holie Ghost CHAP. XL. In a vision the prophet seeth the reedisication of Ierusalem 5. with the measures of diuers partes therof 47. and of the court and entrie of the temple IN the fiue and twentith yeare of our transmigration in the beginning of the yeare the tenth of the moneth the fourtenth yeare after the citie was strooken in this self same day the hand of our Lord was made vpon me and he brought me thither †In the visions of God he brought me into the Land of Israel and left me vpon a mountaine exceding high vpon which there was as it were the building of a citie bending toward the south †And he brought me in thither and behold a man whose forme was as the forme of brasse and a linen corde in his hand and a reede of measure in his hand he stood in the gate †And the same man spake to me Sonne of man see with thine eyes and heare with thine eares and set thy hart on al thinges which I wil shew thee for thou art brought hither that they may be shewed to thee declare al thinges that thou seest to the house of Israel †And behold a wal on the out side round about the house and in the mans hand a reede of measure of six cubits a palme he measured the breadth of the building with one reede the height also with one reede †And he came to the gate that looked to the way of the east he ascended by the steppes therof he measured the threshold of the gate with one reede the bredth that is one threshold with one reede in bredth †and a chamber with one reede in length and one reede in bredth and betwen the chambers fiue cubites †and the threshold of the gate by entrie of the gate within with one reede †And he measured the entrie of the gate of eight cubites and the front therof of two cubites and the entrie of the gate was within †Moreouer the chambers of the gate to the way of the East three on this side and three on that side one measure of the three and one measure of the fronts on both partes †And he measured the bredth of the threshold of the gate of tenne cubits and the length of the gate of thirtene cubits †and the border before the chambers of one cubite and one cubite the end on both sides and the chambers were of six cubites on this side and that side †And he measured the gate from the roofe of the chamber euen to the roofe therof the bredth of fiue and twentie cubits doore against doore †And he made fronts by sixtie cubits to the front the court of the gate on euerie side round about †And before the face of the gate which raught euen to the face of the entrie of the inner gate fiftie cubits †And oblique windowes in the chambers and in their fronts which were within the gate on euerie side round about and in like maner there were also in the entries windowes round about within and before the fronts the picture of palme trees grauen †And he brought me out to the vtter court and behold celles and the pauement paued with stone in the court round about thirtie celles in the compas of the pauement †And the pauement in the front of the gates according to the length of the gates was beneath †And he measured the bredth from the face of the lower gate euen to the front of the inner court without an hundred cubits to the East and to the North. †The gate also that looked to the way of the North of the vtter court he measured as wel in length as in bredth â€
youth †Sacrifice and libation is perished out of the house of our Lord the priests our Lords ministers mourned †The region is destroyed the ground hath mourned because the wheate is wasted the wine is confounded the oyle hath languished †The husbandmen are confounded the dressers of vines haue howled vpon the wheate and the barley because the haruest of the filde is perished †The vineyard is confounded and the figtree hath languished the pomegranet the palmetree and the appletree and al the trees of the filde are withered because ioy is confounded from the children of men †Gird yourselues and mourne ye priests howle ye ministers of the altar goe in lie in sacke clothe ye ministers of my God because sacrifice libation is perished out of the house of your God †Sanctifie ye a fast cal an assemblie gather together the ancients al the inhabitants of the land into the house of your God and crie ye to our Lord †A a a for the day because the day of our Lord is at hand and as destruction from the mightie it shal come †Why are not the victuals perished before your eyes ioy and exultation out of the house of our God †The beastes are rotted in their dung the barnes are destroyed the storehouses are dissipated because the wheate is confounded †Why groned the beast why lowed the flockes of the heard because there is no pasture for them yea and the flockes of the cattel are perished †To thee ô Lord wil I crie because fire hath eaten the beautiful thinges of the desert and the flame hath burnt al the trees of the region †Yea and the beastes of the filde as a garden bed thirsting for a shower haue looked vp to thee because the fountaines of waters are dried vp fire hath deuoured the beautiful thinges of the desert ANNOTATIONS CHAP. I. 4. The residue of the eruke loeust bruke blast Eruca a vvorme that destroyeth herbes and fruictes Locusta a fleing beast vvith long hinder legges destroying corne and fruite Bruchus an other fleeing litle beast that deuoureth not only fruite but also the leaues of trees and Rubigo the blast or burning myst that consumeth the eares of corne euen to dust do metaphorically signifie the Chaldees and other souldiars of sundrie nations in the armie of Nabuchodonosor inuading wasting the kingdom of Iuda And that at foure seueral times euer worse worse First when Nabuchodonosor beseeging Ierusalē subdued king Ioakim and his kingdom taking hostages for assurance of subiection amongst vvhich vvere Daniel and the other three children and caried avvay part of the holie vessel of the Temple 4. Reg 24 v. 1. The second vvhen eight yeares after Nabuchodonosor returned and killed king Ioakim for rebelling and caried his sonne king Ioachin othervvise called Iechonias into Babylon with his mother and Ieremie the Prophet also manie other principal persons and much riches ibidem v. 10. The third vvhen eleuen yeares after he tooke and spoyled Ierusalem destroyed the Temple killed al king Sedecias sonnes in his sight then put out his eyes and caried him blinde into Babylon vvith much more people and spoyle 4. Reg 25. Fourthly when shortly after he sent Nabuzardan general of his armie and caried avvay more men and vvealth leauing only the basest people to til the land ibidem v. 8. Al vvhich shevveth clerly the fulfilling of this Prophecie according to the historical letter In like sorte vve might explicate the rest of this and other prophetes but it is not our purpose to be so large Much lesse to prosecute the Mystical sense vvhich is manifold as appeareth in the vvorkes of the ancient Fathers VVherof see F. Francis Ribera CHAP. II. The Chaldees wil assault afflict the Iewes with great violence 12. After humble repentance in captiuitie 18. Gods benignitie wil comforte them 23. with abundance of spiritual grace by Christ 28. sending also the Holie Ghost 30. And terrible signes before the day of Iudgement SOVND ye with the trumpet in Sion howle in my holie mount let al the inhabitants of the land be trubled Because the day of our Lord cometh †because the day of darkenes and of mist is neere the day of clowde and whirlewind as the morning spred vpon the montaines much people strong the like to it hath not bene from the beginning and after it shal not be euen vnto the yeares of generation generation †Before the face therof a deuouring fyre and after it a burning flame the land before it as it were a garden of pleasure and after it the wildernes of a desert neither is there that can escape it †As the appearance of horses their appearance as horsemen so shal they runne †As the sound of chariots vpon the toppes of mountaines shal they leape as the sound of a flame of fire deuouring stubble as a strong people prepared to battel †At his presence the people shal be vexed al visages shal be made like a potte †They shal runne as valients as men of warre they shal scale the wal the men shal march in their wayes shal not decline from their pathes †None shal presse his brother they shal walke euerie one in his owne pathe yea through the windowes they shal fal shal not demolish †They shal enter the city they shal runne on the wal they shal climbe the houses by the windowes they shal enter as a theefe †At his presence the earth hath trembled the heauens are moued the sunne and moone are darkened and the starres haue withdrawne their shining †And our Lord hath geuen his voice before the face of his host because his campes are exceding manie because strong doing his word for great is the day of our Lord terrible excedingly and who shal susteyne it †Now therfore sayth our Lord Conuert to me in al your hart in fasting and in weeping and in mourning †And rent your hartes and not your garments and turne to the Lord your God because he is benigne and merciful patient and of much mercie readie to be gracious vpon the malice †Who knoweth if he wil conuert and forgeue and leaue after him benediction sacrifice and libament to the Lord your God †Sound ye with the trumpet in Sion sanctifie a fast cal an assemblie †gather together the people sanctifie the Church assemble the ancients gather together the litle ones and them that sucke the breastes let the bridegrome goe forth of his chamber and the bride out of her bride chamber †Betwen the porch and the altar the priests our Lords ministers shal weepe and shal say Spare ô Lord spare thy people and geue not thine inheritance into reproch that the nations haue dominion ouer them Why say they in the peoples Where is their God †Our Lord hath bene zelous to his land
and hath spared his people †And our Lord answered and sayd to his people Behold I wil send you corne and wine and oyle and you shal be replenished with them and I wil geue you no more to be a reproch in the Gentils †And him that is from the North I wil make far from you and I wil expel him into a land vnpassable desert his face against the east sea and his extreme part to the last sea his stinke shal ascend his rotennes shal ascend because he hath done proudly †Feare not ô land reioyce be glad because our Lord hath magnified to doe †Feare not ye beastes of the region because the beautiful thinges of the desert are sprung because the tree hath brought his fruite the figtree and the vine haue geuen their vigour †And ye children of Sion reioyce and be ioyful in the Lord your God because he hath geuen you a doctor of iustice and he wil make the early and the late showre to descend to you as in the beginning †And the floores shal be filled with wheare and the presses shal ouerflow with wine and oyle †And I wil render you the yeares which the locust the bruke and the blast and the eruke hath eaten my great strength which I haue sent vpon you †And you shal eate eating and shal be filled and you shal praise the name of the Lord your God that hath done meruels with you and my people shal not be confounded for euer †And you shal know that I am in the middes of Israel I the Lord your God and there is none besides and my people shal not be confounded for euer †And it shal be after this I wil powre out my spirit vpon al flesh and your sonnes your daughters shal prophecie your ancients shal dreame dreames and your yong men shal see visions †Yea and vpon my seruants and handmayds in those dayes I wil powre out my spirit †And I wil geue wonders in heauen and in earth bloud and fire and vapour of smoke †The sunne shal be turned into darkenes and the moone into bloud before the great and horrible day of the Lord doth come †And it shal be euerie one that shal inuocate the name of the Lord shal be saued because in mount Sion and in Ierusalem shal be saluation as our Lord hath sayd and in the residew whom our Lord shal cal CHAP. III. After the conuersion of the Iewes to Christ 2. shortly foloweth the general Iudgement 3. where euerie one according to their desertes shal receiue expressed here in parabolical speach 7. 19. the wicked euerlasting paine 18. 20. and the blessed eternal ioy BECAVSE loe in those dayes and in that time when I shal conuert the captiuitie of Iuda and Ierusalem †I wil gather together al Nations wil lead them into the valley of Iosaphat and I wil plead with them there vpon my people and myne inheritance Israel whom they haue dispersed in the nations and haue diuided my land †And vpon my people they haue cast lot and boy they haue geuen to be a strumpet and wench they haue sould for wine that they might drinke †But what is to me and to you ô Tyre and Sidon and al the border of the Palesthines what wil you render me reuenge and if you doe reuenge against me I wil soone render you quickly recompence vpon your head †For my siluer and my gold you haue taken and my desiderable thinges and most beautiful you haue caried into your temples †And the children of Ierusalem you haue sold to the children of the Greekes that you might make them far of from their coasts †Behold I wil rayse them vp out of the place wherin you haue sold them and I wil turne your retribution vpon your owne head †And I wil sel your sonnes your daughters into the handes of the children of Iuda and they shal sel them to the Sabaeans a nation far of because our Lord hath spoken †Proclaime ye this in the Gentils sanctifie battel rayse vp the strong let them come let al the men of warre come vp †Cut your ploughes into swordes and your spades into speares Let the weake say That I am strong †Breake out and come al ye nations from round about and be gathered together there wil our Lord make al thy strong ones to be slaine †Let them arise and let the Gentils ascend into the valley of Iosaphat because there I wil sit to iudge al nations round about †Put in the sithes because the haruest is ripe come and descend because the presse is ful the presses runne ouer because their malice is multiplied †Peoples people 's in the valley of d concision because the day of our Lord is nigh in the valley of concision †The sunne and the moone are darkened and the starres haue withdrawen their shining †And our Lord wil roare out of Sion and out of Ierusalem he wil geue his voice and the heauens the earth shal be moued and our Lord the hope of his people and the strength of the children of Israel †And you shal know that I am the Lord your God dwelling in Sion my holy mount and Ierusalem shal be holie strangers shal passe through it no more †And it shal be in that day the mountaines shal distil sweetnes and the hilles shal flow with milke and through al the riuers of Iuda shal runne waters a fountaine shal issue out of the house of the Lord and shal water the torrent of thornes †Aegypt shal be into desolation Idumea into a desert of perdition for that they haue done vniustly against the children of Iuda and haue shed innocent bloud in their land †And Iewrie shal be inhabited for euer and Ierusalem vnto generation and generation †And I wil clense their bloud which I had not clensed and the Lord wil dwel in Sion THE PROPHECIE OF AMOS AMOS a heardesman of Thecua in the tribe of Zabulon was indued with the spirite of prophecie about the same time with Osee and Ioel in the reigne of Ozias king of Iuda and of Ieroboam sonne of Ioas king of Israel in Metaphores and other obscure speaches agreable to his pastoral education but profound in sense prophecieth especially against the kingdom of Israel and diuers Gentiles partly also against Iuda foreshewing their afflictions for their sinnes but at last the vocation of al Nations to Christ with abundance of spiritual graces in his Church CHAP. I. In the reigne of Iozias in Iuda and of Ieroboam in Israel this prophet Amos 3. threatneth Damascus 6. Gaza 8. Azotus and other Philistians 9. Tyre 11. Idumea 13. and Ammon for their obstinacie in sinne abusing his long patience THE wordes of Amos who was among the pastours of Thecua Which he saw vpon
Israel in the dayes of Ozias the king of Iuda and in the dayes af Iereboam the sonne of Ioas the king of Israel two yeares before the earthquake †And he sayd Our Lord wil roare out of Sion and out of Ierusalem he wil geue his voice the beautiful places of the pastours haue mourned and the toppe of Carmel is withered †Thus sayth our Lord Vpon three wickednesses of Damascus and vpon foure I wil not conuert it because they haue threshed Galaad with yron waynes †And I wil send fyre into the house of Azael and it shal deuoure the houses of Benadad †And I wil breake the barre of Damascus and I wil destroy the inhabitant out of the idol and him that holdeth the scepter out of the house of pleasure and the people of Syria shal be transported to Cyrene saith our Lord. †Thus saith our Lord Vpon three wickednesses of Gaza vpon foure I wil not conuert it because they haue transported a perfect captiuitie to shut it vp in Idumea †And I wil send â—yre on the wal of Gaza and it shal deuoure the houses therof †And I wil destroy the inhabitant out of Azotus and him that holdeth the scepter out of Ascalon and I wil turne my hand vpon Accaron and the rest of the Philisthims shal perish sayth our Lord God †Thus saith our Lord Vpon the three wickednesses of Tyre and vpon foure I wil not conuert it because they haue shut vp a perfect captiuite in Idumea and haue not remembred the league of brethren †And I wil send fyre vpon the wal of Tyre it shal deuoure the houses therof †Thus sayth our Lord Vpon three wickednesses of Edom and vpon foure I wil not conuert him because he hath persecuted his brother with the sword and hath violated his mercie and hath held his furie longer and hath kept his indignation euen to the end †I wil send fyre into The man and it shal deuoure the houses of Bosra †Thus sayth our Lord Vpon three wickednesses of the children of Ammon and vpon foure I wil not conuert him because he hath cut in sunder the wemen with childe of Galaad to dilate his limite †And I wil kindle a fyre in the wal of Rabba it shal deuoure the houses therof with howling in the day of battel and with a whirlewind in the day of commotion †And Melchom shal goe into captiuitie himself and his princes together sayth our Lord. CHAP. II. God also threatneth Moab 4. Iuda 6. and Israel 9. that for ingratitude 12. and other sinnes they shal be brought into captiuitie THVS sayth our Lord Vpon three wickednesses of Moab and vpon foure I wil not conuert him because he hath burnt the bones of Idumea euen to ashes †And I wil send fyre into Moab and it shal deuoure the houses of Carioth and Moab shal dye in the sound in the noyse of the trumpet †and I wil destroy the iudge out of the middes of him and al his princes I wil kil with him saith our Lord. †Thus saith our Lord Vpon three wickednesses of Iuda vpon foure I wil not conuert him because he hath cast away the law of our Lord and not kept his commandments for their idols haue deceiued them after which their fathers went †And I wil send fire into Iuda and it shal deuoure the houses of Ierusalem †Thus saith our Lord Vpon three wickednesses of Israel and vpon foure I wil not conuert him because he hath sold the iust for siluer and the poore for shoes †Which bruise the heades of the poore vpon the dust of the earth and decline the way of the humble and the sonne and his father haue gone to a young woman that they might violate my holie name †And vpon garments layd to pledge they did lye beside euerie altar the wine of the condemned they dranke in the house of their God †But I did cast out the Ammorrheit before their face whose height the height of Cedars he strong as an oke and I destroyed his fruite from aboue his rootes beneath †It is I that made you come vp out of the Land of Aegypt I ledde you in the desert fourtie yeares that you might possesse the Land of the Amorrheite †And I raysed vp of your sonnes to be prophets of your yongmen Nazareites is it not so ô children of Israel saith our Lord †And you dranke wine to the Nazareites and the prophets you commanded saying Prophecie not †Behold I wil screake vnder you as a wayne screaketh loden with hay †And flight shal perish from the swift and the valient shal not obteyne his strength and the strong shal not saue his life †And he that holdeth the bow shal not stand and the swift of his feete shal not be saued and the rider of the horse shal not saue his life †and the stoute of hart among the valients shal flee naked in that day sayth our Lord. CHAP. III. For their manifold sinnes al the twelue tribes shal be sore plaged 11. and made captiues HEARE the word that our Lord hath spoken vpon you ye children of Israel vpon al the kindred that I brought forth out of the Land of Aegypt saying †Onlie you haue I knowen of al the kindreds of the earth therfore wil I visite vpon you al your iniquities †Why shal two walke together vnles they be agreed †Wil the lion roare in the forrest vnles he haue a praye wil the lions whelpe geue voice out of his denne vnles he hath caught somewhat †wil the bird fal into the snare of the earth without the sowler Shal the snare be taken away from the earth before it hath taken somewhat †Shal the trumpet sound in the citie and wil not the people be afrayd Shal there be euil in the citie which our Lord hath not done †Because our Lord God wil not doe a word vnles he haue reueled his secret to his seruants the prophers †The lion shal roare who wil not feare Our Lord God hath spoken who shal not prophecie †Make it heard in the houses of Azotus and in the houses of the Land of Aegypt and say Gather ye together vpon the mountaines of Samaria and see the manie madnesses in the midddes therof and them that suffer calumnie in the inner parts therof †And they haue not knowne to doe right sayth our Lord treasuring vp iniquitie and robberies in their houses †Therfore thus sayth our Lord God The land shal be in tribulation compassed about and thy strength shal be plucked away from thee and thy houses shal be spoyled †Thus sayth our Lord As if a pastour should get out of the lions mouth two legges or the tippe of the eare so shal the children of Israel that dwel in Samaria be deliuered in the plague of
and the image of your idols the starre of your God which you made to your selues †And I wil make you remoue beyond Damascus saith our Lord the God of hostes is his name CHAP. VI. For the auarice and luxurie of both kingdomes 7. they shal be caried into captiuitie VVO TO you that are rich in Sion and haue confidence in the mountaine of Samaria ye great men heads of the peoples going stately into the house of Israel †Passe ye into Chalane and see goe ye thence into Emath the great and descend into Geth of the Palestines and to al the best kingdoms of these if their border be larger then your border †You that are seperated vnto the euil day and approch to the throne of iniquitie †You that sleepe in beds of iuorie and play the wantons in your couches that eate the lambe out of the flocke and calues out of the middes of the heard †You that sing to the voice of the psalter as Dauid they haue thought themselues to haue the instruments of song †That drinke wine in phials and are annoynted with the best oyntment and they suffered nothing vpon the contrition of Ioseph †Wherfore now they shal goe in the head of them that goe in transmigration and the faction of the wantons shal be taken away †The Lord God hath sworne by his soule saith our Lord the God of hostes I detest the pride of Iacob and I hate his houses and I wil deliuer vp the citie with the inhabitants therof †And if there shal be left tenne men in one house they also shal dye †And his kinsman shal take him vp and shal burne him that he may carie the bones out of the house and he shal say to him that is in the inner parts of the house Is there yet with thee †And he shal answer There is an end And he shal say to him Hold thy peace remember not the name of our Lord. †Because loe our Lord hath commanded and he wil strike the greater house with ruins and the lesser house with clefts †Why can horses runne vpon rockes or can there be ploughing with buffles because you haue turned iudgement into bitternes and the fruite of iustice into worme wood †Which reioyce in thinges of naught which say Why haue not we taken vnto vs hornes in our owne strength †For behold I wil rayse vp from you ô house of Israel saith our Lord the God of hostes a nation and they shal destroy you from the entrance of Emath euen to the torrent of the desert CHAP. VII In three visions manie miseries are reueled which shal come vpon both the kingdomes 10. A false priest of Bethel accusing the prophet of sedition and endeuouring to chase him away 14. is by him forewarned of miseries to his familie and death to himself THESE thinges hath our Lord God shewed to me and loe the former of the locust in the beginning of thinges that spring of the later rayne and behold the later rayne after the kings mowing †And it came to passe after it had finished to eate the grasse of the land I sayd O Lord God be propicious I beseech thee who shal rayse vp Iacob because he is a litle one †Our Lord hath had pitie vpon this It shal not be sayth our Lord. †These thinges hath our Lord God called iudgement vnto c fyre and it deuoured the great depth and it did eate a part together †And I sayd Lord God be quiet I besech thee who shal rayse vp Iacob because he is a litle one †Our Lord had pitie vpon this Yea this also shal not be sayth our Lord God †These thinges hath our Lord shewed to me and loe our Lord standing vpon a wal plastered and in his hand a masons truel †And our Lord sayd to me What seest thou Amos And I sayd A masons truel And our Lord sayd Behold I wil lay downe the truel in the middes of my people Israel I wil adde no more to plaster it ouer †And the excelses of the idol shal be throwen dowen and the sancrifications of Israel shal be made desolate and I wil rise vpon the house of Ieroboam with the sword †And Amasias the priest of Bethel sent to Ieroboam the king of Israel saying Amos hath rebelled against thee in the middes of the house of Israel the land wil not be able to susteyne al his wordes †For thus saith Amos Ieroboam shal dye by the sword and Israel shal depart captiue out of their land †And Amasias sayd to Amos Thou that seest goe flee into the land of Iuda eate bread there and thou shalt prophecie there †And in Bethel thou shalt adde no more to prophecie because it is the sanctification of the king and it is the house of the kingdom †And Amos answered and sayd to Amasias I am not a prophete and I am not the sonne of a prophet but an heardsman am I plucking sycomores †And our Lord tooke me when I folowed the flocke and our Lord sayd to me Goe prophecie to my people Israel †And now heare the word of our Lord Thou sayest Thou shalt not prophecie vpon Israel and thou shalt not distil vpon the house of the idol †Therfore thus saith our Lord Thy wife shal fornicate in the citie and thy sonnes and thy daughters shal fal by the sword thy ground shal be measured with a corde and thou shalt dye in a polluted land and Israel shal depart captiue out of their land CHAP. VIII In a vision of an apple hooke the captiuitie of the tenne tribes is againe foreshewed 4. with reprehension of their auarice and oppression of the poore 7. for which they shal fal into great miseries THESE thinges hath our Lord shewed to me and behold an apple hooke †And he sayd What seest thou Amos And I sayd An apple hooke And our Lord sayd to me The end cometh vpon my people Israel I wil adde no more to passe them †And the henges of the temple shal creake in that day saith our Lord God manie shal dye in euerie place shal silence be cast †Heare this you that tread downe the poore make the needie of the land to fayle †saying When wil the moneth passe and we shal sel wares and the Sabbath and we open the corne that we may diminish the measure and increase the sicle and conuey in deceitful balances †that we may for siluer possesse the needie and the poore for shoes and may sel the refuse of the corne †Our Lord hath sworne agaynst the pride of Iacob If I shal forget euen to the end al their workes †Why shal not the land be moued vpon this and euerie inhabitant therof mourne and rise vp as a riuer altogether and be cast out and runne downe to the riuer of Aegypt †And
dispise in his euils in the day of his destruction and thou shalt not be sent out against his armie in the day of his destruction †Neither shalt thou stand in the outgoings to kil them that flee and thou shalt not shut vp his remnant in the day of tribulation †Because the day of our Lord is at hand vpon al nations as thou hast done so shal it be done to thee thy retribution he wil returne vpon thine owne head †For as you haue drunke vpon my holie mount shal al Gentils drinke continually they shal drinke and swallow vp and they shal be as though they were not †And in mount Sion shal be saluation and it shal be holie and the house of Iacob shal possesse those that had possessed them †And the house of Iacob shal be a fyre and the house of Ioseph a flame and the house of Esau stubble and they shal be kindled in them and shal deuoure them and there shal be no remaynes of the house of Esau because our Lord hath spoken †And they that are toward the South shal inherite the mount of Esau and they in the champaine countries Philisthiims and they shal possesse the region of Ephraim and the region of Samaria and Beniamin shal possesse Galaad †And the transmigration of this host of the children of Israel al places of the Chananeits euen to Sarepta and the transmigration of Ierusalem that is in Bosphorus shal possesse the cities of the South †And sauiours shal ascend into mount Sion to iudge the mount of Esau and the kingdom shal be to our Lord. THE PROPHECIE OF IONAS IONAS the sonne of Amathi in Geth of the tribe of Zabulon in the reigne of Ieroboam sonne of Ioas king of Israel not only in wordes but also in his person prophecied and prefigured Christ as our Sauiour himself testisieth And vnder the name of Niniue announceth saluation to al Gentiles that repent and returne to God as Niniue did CHAP. 1. Ionas being sent to preach in Niniue fleeth by sea 4. atempest riseth 8. wherof he being found by lotte to be the cause 12. is cast into the sea 15. and it is caulme AND the word of our Lord was made to Ionas the sonne of Amathi saying †Arise and goe into Niniue the great citie and preach in it because the malice therof is ascended before me †And Ionas arose to flee into Tharsis from the face of our Lord and he went downe into Ioppe and found a shippe going into Tharsis and he gaue the fare therof went downe into it that he might goe with them into Tharsis from the face of our Lord. †But our Lord sent a great winde into the sea and a great tempest was made in the sea the shippe was in danger to be broken †And the mariners were afrayd and the men cried to their god they threw the vessels that were in the shippe into the sea that it might be lightned of them and Ionas went downe into the inner part of the shippe and slept a deepe sleepe †And the gouerner came to him sayd to him Why art thou oppressed with sleepe Rise inuocate thy God if perhaps God wil thinke of vs and we perish not †And euerie one sayd to his felow Come and let vs cast lottes and know why this euil is to vs. And they cast lottes and the lot fel vpon Ionas †And they sayd to him Tel vs for whose cause this euil is to vs what is thy worke what is thy countrie and whither goest thou or of what people art thou †And he sayd to them I am an Hebrew the Lord God of heauen I feare which made the sea and the drie land †And the men feared with great feare and they sayd to him Why hast thou done this For the men knew that he fled from the face of our Lord because he had told them †And they sayd to him What shal we do to thee and the sea shal cease from vs because the sea went and swelled †And he sayd to them Take me vp and cast me into the sea and the sea shal cease from you for I know that for me this great tempest is vpon you †And the men rowed to returne to the land and they were not able because the sea went and swelled vpon them †And they cried to our Lord and sayd We besech thee ô Lord let vs not perish in the life of this man and geue not vpon vs innocent bloud because thou ô Lord hast done as thou wouldest †And they tooke Ionas and cast him into the sea and the sea ceased from his rage †And the men feared our Lord with great feare immolated hostes to our Lord and vowed vowes CHAP. II. Ionas is swallowed by a great fish 3. prayeth with confidence in God 11. and the fish casteth him on the drie land AND our Lord prepared a great fish to swallow done Ionas and Ionas was in the bellie of the fish three dayes and three nightes †And Ionas prayed to our Lord his God out of the bellie of the fish †And he sayd I cryed out of my tribulation to our Lord he hath heard me out of the bellie of hel cried I and thou hast heard my voice †And thou hast cast me forth into the depth in the hart of the sea and a floud hath compassed me al thy surges thy waues haue passed ouer me †And I sayd I am cast away from the sight of thine eyes but yet I shal see thy holie temple againe †The waters haue compassed me euen to the soule the depth hath inclosed me the sea hath couered my head †I am descended to the extreme parts of the mountaines the barres of the earth haue shut me vp for euer and thou wilt lift vp my life from corruption ô Lord my God †When my soule was in distresse within me I remembred our Lord that my prayer may come to thee vnto thy holie temple †They that kepe vanities in vaine forsake their mercie †But I in the voice of prayse wil immolate to thee what thinges soeuer I haue vowed I wil render for saluation to our Lord. †And our Lord spake to the fish and it vomited vp Ionas vpon the drie land CHAP. III. Againe Ionas is commanded to preach in Niniue that within fourtie dayes it shal be destroyed 5. They al fast and repent 10. and God recalleth his sentence AND the word of our Lord was made to Ionas the second time saying †Arise goe into Niniue the great citie and preach in it the preaching which I speake to thee †And Ionas arose went into Niniue according to the word of our Lord Niniue was a great citie of three dayes iorney †And Ionas began to enter into the citie on dayes iorney he cried
and sayd As yet fourtie dayes and Niniue shal be subuerted †And the men of Niniue beleued in God and they proclamed a fast and were clothed with sackcloths from the greater to the lesser †And the word came to the king of Niniue and he rose vp out of his throne and cast away his garment from him and was clothed with sackcloth and sate in ashes †And he cried and sayd in Niniue from the mouth of the king of his princes saying Men and beasts and oxen and cattel let them not taste any thing nor feede and let them not drinke water †And let men and beasts be couered with sackcloths and crie to our Lord in strength and let euerie man conuert from his euil way from the iniquitie that is in their handes †Who knoweth if God wil conuert and forgeue and wil returne from the furie of his wrath and we shal not perish †And God saw their workes that they were conuerred from their euil way and God had mercie on the euil which he had spoken that he would do to them and he did it not CHAP. IIII. The prophet lamenteth for that he was commanded to preach otherwise then it came to passe 5. Going forth he stayeth nere the citie to see the end 6. an yuie growing couereth his head from the sunne 7. but withereth the next day 8. he lamenting desireth to dye 10. and God sheweth that it is more meete to saue Niniue then the yuie AND Ionas was afflicted with great affliction and was * angrie †and he prayed to our Lord and sayd I besech thee ô Lord Why is not this my word when I was yet in my countrie for this did I preuent to flee into Tharsis For I know that thou art a clement and merciful God patient and of much compassion and forgeuing vpon the euil †And now Lord take I besech thee my soule from me because better is death to me then life †And our Lord sayd Art thou angrie wel thinkest thou †And Ionas went out of the citie and sate against the East part of the citie and he made himself a bowre there and he sate vnder it in the shadow til he might see what would befal to the citie †And our Lord God prepared an iuie tree it came vp ouer the head of Ionas to be a shadow ouer his head and to couer him for he had laboured and Ionas reioyced vpon the iuie with great ioy †And God prepared a worme in the rysing of the morning against the morrow and it stroke the iuie and it withered †And when the sunne was risen our Lord commanded an hotte and burning winde and the sunne beate vpon the head of Ionas and he broyled for heate and he desired for his soule to dye and sayd It is better for me to dye then to liue †And our Lord sayd to Ionas Art thou angrie wel thinkest thou for the iuie And he sayd I am angrie wel euen vnto death †And our Lord sayd Thou art sorie for the iuie wherin thou hast not laboured nor made it to grow which in one night came forth and in one night is perished †And shal not I spare Niniue the great citie wherin are more then a hundred twentie thousand men that know not what is betwen their right hand and their left and manie beastes THE PROPHECIE OF MICHEAS MICHEAS a Morasthite of the tribe of Ephraim prophecied part of the time with Isai the former fiue lesse Prophets against both the kingdomes of Israel and Iuda foreshewing their captiuities and relaxation of Iuda from Babylon their conuersion to Christ nere the end of the world and that in the meane time al other nations shal beleue in Christ CHAP. I. Samaria and al the tenne tribes shal be brought into captiuitie by the Assirians 9. The two tribes shal also be inuaded and spoyled euen nere to Ierusalem THE word of our Lord that was made to Michaeas the Morasthite in the dayes of Ioathan Achaz and Ezechias kinges of Iuda which he saw vpon Samaria and Ierusalem †Heare al ye peoples and let the earth attend and the fulnes therof and let our Lord God be vnto you for a witnes our Lord out of his holie temple †Because loe our Lord wil goe forth out of his place and he wil descend wil tread vpon the highest of the earth †And the mountaines shal be consumed vnder him and the valleis shal be clouen as waxe at the presence of fyre as waters that runne downe headlong †For the wickednes of Iacob al this and for the sinnes of the house of Israel what is the wickednes of Iacob is it not Sammaria and what the excelses of Iuda is it not Ierusalem †And I wil lay Samaria as a heape of stones in the filde when a vineyard is planted and I wil plucke downe her stones into the valley wil discouer her fundations †And al her sculptils shal be cut in sunder and al her wages shal be burnt with fyre and I wil lay al her idols into perdition because they are gathered together of the wages of an harlot vnto the hyre of an harlot they shal returne †Vpon this wil I lament and howle I wil goe spoiled and naked I wil make lamentation as of dragons and mourning as it were of striches †Because her plague is desperate because it is come euen to Iuda it hath touched the gate of my people euen to Ierusalem †In Geth declare it not weepe not with teares in the house of dust sprinkle your self with dust †And passe ye to your selues ô faire habitation confounded with ignominie she went not out that dwelleth in the going out the house adioyning shal receiue lamentation of you which stood to her self †Because she is weakened to good which dwelleth in bitternesses because euil is descended from our Lord into the gate of Ierusalem †Tumult of the chariot of astonishment to the inhabitant of Lachis it is the beginning of sinne to the daughter of Sion because in thee are found the wickednesses of Israel †Therfore shal he geue spoilers vpon the inheritance of Geth the houses of lying into deception to the kinges of Israel †As yet wil I bring an heyre to thee which dwellest in Maresa euen to Odolla shal the glorie of Israel come †Be bald and be pouled for the children of thy delicacies enlarge thy baldnes as an eagle because they are led captiues out of thee CHAP. II. By their great iniustice 7. notwithstanding their vaine presumption of Gods mercie wherto he is in dede most prone 8. the Israelites through their excessiue rapine prouoke God to punish them 12. yet when Christ shal come some Iewes wil serue him and manie more in the end of the world VVO TO you which thinke that is vnpofitable and worke euil in
your beds in the morning light they doe it because their hand is against God †And they haue couered fildes and violently taken and houses forcibly taken away and oppressed the man and his house the man and his inheritance †Therfore thus saith our Lord Behold I purpose euil vpon this familie whence you shal not take away your neckes and you shal not walke prowd because it is a very euil time †In that day a parable shal be taken vp vpon you and a songue shal be sung with sweetnes of them that say With depopulation we are wasted part of my people is changed how shal he depart from me wheras he returneth that wil diuide our regions †For this cause thou shalt haue none casting the cord of lot in the assemblie of our Lord. †Speake ye not speaking It shal not droppe vpon these confusion shal not apprehend them †The house of Iacob saith Way is the spirit of our Lord abridged or are his cogitations such Are not my wordes good with him that walketh rightly †And on the contrarie my people is risen vp as an aduersarie from aboue the cote you haue taken away the cloke them that passed simply you turned into battel †The wemen of my people you haue cast out of the house of their delicacies from their litle ones you haue taken my praise for euer †Arise and goe because you haue no rest here For the vncleannes therof it shal be corrupted with a sore putrefaction †Would God I were not a man hauing the spirit and that I did rather speake a lie I wil distil to thee into wine and into drunkennes and it shal be this people vpon whom it is distilled †Gathering I wil gather thee wholly together ô Iacob I wil bring together the remnant of Israel into one I wil put them together as a flocke in the fold as cattel in the middes of sheepcotes they shal make a tumult by reason of the multitude of men †For he shal ascend opening the way before them they shal diuide and passe through the gate and shal enter by it and their king shal passe before them and our Lord in the head of them CHAP. III. For the sinnes of the rich opressing the poore 5. of falfe prophets flatering for lucre 9. and of Iudges peruerting iustice 12. Ierusalem and the temple shal be destroyed AND I sayd Heare ye princes of Iacob ye dukes of the house of Israel Why is it not your part to know iudgement †which hate good and loue euil which violently take away their skinnes from them and their flesh from their bones †Which haue eaten the flesh of my people and haue stead their skinne from them and haue broken and cut their bones as in a kettle as it were flesh in the middes of a potte shal they crie to our Lord and he wil not heare them and he wil hide his face from them at that time as they haue done wickedly in their inuentions †Thus sayth our Lord vpon the prophets that seduce my people that bite with their teeth nnd preach peace and if a man geue not something in their mouth they sanctifie battel vpon him †Therfore there shal be nigt to you for vision and darkenes to you for diuination and the sunne shal goe downe vpon the prophets the day shal be darkened ouer them †And they shal be confounded that see visions and the diuiners shal be confounded and al shal couer their faces because there is no answer of God †But yet I am replenished with the strenght of the spirit of our Lord with iudgement and power to declare vnto Iacob his wickednes and to Israel his sinne †Heare this ye princes of the house of Iacob and ye iudges of the house of Israel which abhorre iudgement peruert al right thinges †Which build Sion in bloud and Ierusalem in iniquitie †Her princes iudged for gifts and her priests taught for wages and her prophets diuined for money they rested vpon our Lord saying Why is not our Lord in the middes of vs euils shal not come vpon vs. †For this because of you Sion shal be ploughed as a filde and Ierusalem shal be as an heape of stones and the mount of the temple as the high places of forests CHAP. IIII. Manie Gentiles shal beleue in Christ 6. and lastly the multitude of Iewes 8. In the meane time the two tribes shal be caried into captiuitie and be deliuered againe AND it shal be In the later end of dayes there shal be the mount of the house of our Lord prepared in the toppe of mountaines and high about the hilles and peoples shal flow to it †And manie nations shal hasten shal say Come let vs goe vp to the mountaine of our Lord to the house of the God of Iacob he wil teach vs of his wayes and we shal goe in this pathes because out of Sion shal the law goe forth and the word of our Lord out of Ierusalem †And he shal iudge betwen manie peoples and he shal rebuke strong nations vnto a far of and they shal cut their swordes into culters and their speares into spades nation shal not take sword against nation and they shal no more learne to make battel †And euerie man shal sitte vnder his vine vnder his figtree and there shal be none to make them afrayd because the mouth of the Lord of hosts hath spoken it †Because al peoples wil walke euerie one in the name of his God but we shal walke in the name of the Lord our God for euer and euer †In that day saith our Lord I wil gather her that halteth and her that I had cast out I wil gather vp her whom I had afflicted †And I wil make her that halted into a remnant and her that had laboured into a mightie nation and our Lord wil reigne ouer them in mount Sion from this time now and for euer †And thou the towre of flocke clowdie of the daughter of Sion shal come to thee and the first powre shal come the kingdom to the daughter of Ierusalem †Now why art thou drawne together with pensifnes why is there not a king to thee or is thy counselor perished because sorow hath apprehended thee as a woman in trauel †Sorow thou labour ô daughter of Sion as a woman in trauel because now shalt thou goe out of the citie and shalt dwel in the countrie and shalt come euen to Babylon there thou shalt be deliuered there our Lord wil redeme thee out of the hand of thine enemies †And now manie nations are gathered together vpon thee which say Let her be stoned and let our eye looke vpon Sion †But they haue not knowne the cogitations of our Lord and haue not vnderstood his counsel
the wine †And thou hast kept the precepts of Amri and al the worke of the house of Achab and thou hast walked in their willes that I might geue thee into perdition and the inhabitants therin into hissing and the reproch of my people you shal beare CHAP. VII The prophet lamenteth that for al his preaching few are good and manie corrupt in maners 5. therfore their miseries approch 7. from which they shal be againe deliuered 14. and prosper 20. and al mankind shal be redemed by Christ VVO is me because I am become as he that gathereth in autumne the clusters of vintage there is no cluster to eate timely ripe figges my soule hath desired †The holie is perished out of the earth there is none righteous among men al lie in wayte for bloud euerie one hunteth his brother to death †The euil of their handes they cal good the prince requireth and the iudge is in rendring and the great man hath spoken the desire of his soule and they haue trubled it †He that is left among them is as a brier and he that is righteous as the thorne of the hedge The day of thy speculation thy visitation cometh now shal be the destruction of them †Beleue not a frend and trust not in prince from her that fleepeth in thy bosome keepe the closures of thy mouth †Because the sonne doth contumelie to the father the daughter ryseth agaynst her mother the daughter in law against her mother in law a mans enemies they of his owne houshold †But I wil looke towards our Lord I wil expect God my sauiour my God wil heare me †Reioyce not thou mine enemie ouer me because I am fallen I shal arise when I haue sitte in darkenes our Lord is my light †I wil beare the wrath of our Lord because I haue sinned to him vntil he iudge my iudgement he wil bring me forth into the light I shal see his iustice †And mine enemie shal behold and she shal be couered with confusion which sayth to me where is the Lord thy God Mine eyes shal looke on her now shal she be into conculcation as the myre of the streetes †The day that thy walles may be builded vp in that day shal the law be made far of †In that day and Assur shal come euen to thee euen to the fensed cities and from the fensed cities euen to the riuer and to sea from sea and to mountaine from mountaine †And the land shal be into desolation for the inhabitants therof and for the fruite of their cogitations †Feede thy people with thy e rod the flocke of thine inheritance them that dwel alone in in the forest in the middes of Carmel they shal feede vpon Basan and Galaad according to the dayes of old †According to the dayes of thy coming forth out of the Land of Aegypt I wil shew him meruels †The nations shal see and shal be confounded vpon al their strength they shal put the hand vpon the mouth their eares shal be deafe †They shal lieke dust as serpents as the creeping beasts of the earth they shal be trubled in their houses the Lord our God they shal dreade and shal feare thee †What God is like to thee which takest away iniquitie and passest ouer the sinne of the remnant of thine inheritance he wil send his furie in no more because he is willing mercie †He wil returne and wil haue mercie on vs he wil lay away our iniquities and he wil cast al our sinnes into the botome of the sea †Thou wilt geue truth to Iacob mercie to Abraham which thou hast sworne to our fathers from the dayes of old THE PROPHECIE OF NAHVM NAHVM borne in Elcese a towne in Galiley prophecied shortly after the captiuitie of the tenne tribes against Niniue about fiftie yeares after Ionas preaching and their repentance when they became more wicked then before foreshewing their vtter ruine and ignominie In figure of the destruction of idolatrie in al nations by Christ euangelizing and announcing peace to al that wil beleue in him CHAP. 1. Niniue shal be destroyed not able to escape Gods powreful wrath 9. The Asstrians shal not preuaile against Ierusalem 13. but themselves shal be slaine THE burden of Niniuie The booke of the vision of Nahum the Elceâ—eâ—te †God is ielous our Lord reuenging our Lord reuenging and hauing furie our Lord reuenging on his aduerseries and he is angrie with his enemies †Our Lord is patient and great of strength and clensing he wil not make innocent Our Lords wayes in tempest and whirle wind and clowdes the dust of his feete †Rebuking the sea and driyng it vp and bringing al riuers to a desert Basan is weakened and Carmel the floure of Libanus is faided †The mountaines were moued at him and the hilles were desolate and the earth hath trembled at his presence and the world and al that dwel therin †Befote the face of his indignation who shal stand and who shal resist in the wrath of his furie his indignation is powred out as fire and the rockes are dissolued by him †Our Lord is good and strenghning in the day of tribulation and knowing them that hope in him †And in a floud passing by he wil make a consummation of the place therof darkenes shal pursew his enemies †VVhat thinke ye against our Lord consumation he wil make there shal not rise duble tribulation †Because as thornes claspe one an other so the feast of them that drinke together they shal be consumed as stuble ful of drienes †Out of thee shal come forth one that thinketh malice against our Lord in the minde deuising preuarication †Thus saith our Lord If they shal be perfect and so a grear manie so also shal they be shorne and he shal passe by I haue afflicted thee and I wil afflict thee no more And now I wil breake his rod from of thy backe and I wil burst thy bondes in sunder †And Our Lord wil command vpon thee there shal not be sowen of thy name any more out of the house of thy God I wil destroy sculptil molten I wil put thy graue because thou art dishonored †Behold vpon the mountaines the feete of him that Euangalizeth and preacheth peace celebrate ô Iuda thy festiuities render thy vowes because Belial shal no more adde to passe through thee he is wholly perished CHAP. II. The Chaldees shal mightely inuade the Assirians 5. take and ransacke Niniue HE is come vp that shal scatter before thee that shal keepe the seige behold the way fortifie the loynes strengthen force excedingly †Because our Lord hath rendered the pride of Iacob as the pride of Israel because the waters haue dissipated them and haue marred their branches †The
in the vines The worke of the oliuetree shal deceiue and the fields shal not yeld meate the cattel shal be cut of from the fold and there shal be no heard in the stalles †But I wil ioy in our Lord and wil reioyce in God my IESVS God our Lord is my strength and he wil make my feete as of the harts and vpon my high places he the conquerer wil lead me singing in psalmes THE PROPHECIE OF SOPHONIAS SOPHONIAS the sonne of Chusi borne in Sarabatha of the tribe of Simeon in the reigne of Iosias king of Iuda somewhat before Ieremie who beganne in the 13. yeare of the same Iosias After whom folowed Ezechiel in the fift yeare of the transmigration of king Ioachin and Baruch in the fift yeare after the destruction of Ierusalem then Daniel three yeares after him prophecied the captiuitie of the two tribes and their relaxation likewise the ruine of diuers Gentiles the coming of Christ conuersion of Gentiles excecation of the Iewes with their general conuersion towards the end of the world CHAP. I. For certaine enormious sinnes the captiuitie of the two tribes is threatned with admonition to repent otherwise it shal be most terrible THE word of our Lord that was made to Sophonie the sonne of Chusi the sonne of Godolias the sonne of Amarias the sonne of Ezechias in the dayes of Iosias the sonne of Amon king of Iuda †Gathering I wil gather together al thinges from the face of the earth sayth our Lord †gathering man and beast gathering the foules of the heauen and fishes of the sea and there shal be ruines of the impious and I wil destroy men from the face of the earth sayth our Lord. †And I wil stretch forth my hand vpon Iuda and vpon al the inhabitantes of Ierusalem and I wil destroy out of this place the remnant of Baal and the names of the templewardens with the priests †and them that adore vpon the toppes of houses the host of heauen and adore and sweare c by our Lord and sweare by Melchom †And them that turne away from after the backe of our Lord and that haue not sought our Lord nor searched after him †Be silent before the face of our Lord God because the day of our Lord is nere because our Lord hath prepared an host he hath sanctified his called †And it shal be in the day of the host of our Lord I wil visite vpon the princes and vpon the kinges sonnes and vpon al that are clothed with strange clothing †and I wil visite vpon euerie one that arrogantly entereth vpon the threshold in that day them that fil the house of our Lord their God with iniquitie guile †And it shal be in that day sayth our Lord the voice of clamor from the gate of fishes and howling from the second and great destruction from the hilles †Howle ye inhabitants of the Morter Al the people of Chanaan is hush al are perished that were wrapped in siluer †it shal be in that time I wil search Ierusalem with lampes and wil visite vpon the men that are fixed in their dregges that say in their hartes The Lord wil not doe good and he wil not doe euil †And their strength shal be into spoile and their houses as a desert and they shal build houses and shal not inhabite them and shal plant vineyards shal not drinke the wine of them †The great day of our Lord is neere it is neere and exceding swift the voice of the day of our Lord is bitter the strong shal there haue tribulation †That day g a day of wrath a day of tribulation and distresse a day of calamitie and miserie a day of darknes and mist a day of clowde whirlewind †a day of the trumpet and sound vpon the fensed cities vpon the high corners †And I wil afflict men and they shal walke as blindmen because they haue sinned to our Lord and their bloud shal be powred out as dust and their bodies as dung †Yea and their siluer and their gold shal not be able to deliuer them in the day of the wrath of our Lord in the fire of his ielousie shal al the earth be deuoured because he wil make consummation with speede to al that inhabit the earth CHAP. II. â—â— exhortation to repent 4 with prophecie of the destruction of the Philistims 8. Moabites and Ammonites 12. Aethiopians 12. Assirians 15. with their chief citie Niniue COME together be ye gathered together ô nation not to be beloued †before that the commandment bring forth the day as dust passing away before the wrath of the furie of our Lord come vpon you before the day of the indignation of our Lord come vpon you †Seeke our Lord al ye meeke of the earth which haue wrought his iudgement seeke the iust seeke the meeke if by any meanes you may be hid in the day of the furie of our Lord. †Because Gaza is destroyed and Ascalon as a desert Azotus at noone they shal cast out and Accaron shal be rooted out †Wo to you that inhabite the cord of the sea ô nation of castawayes the word of our Lord vpon you ô Chanaan land of the Philisthims and I wil destroy thee so that there shal not be an inhabiter †And the cord of the sea shal be the rest of pastours and soldes of cattel †and it shal be the cord of him that shal remayne of the house of Iuda there they shal feede in the houses of Ascalon at euen they shal rest because our Lord their God wil visite them and turne away their captiuitie †I hane heard the reproch of Moab and the blasphemies of the children of Ammon with which they haue vpbrayded my people and were magnified vpon their borders †Therfore liue I sayth the Lord of hosts the God of Israel that Moab shal be as Sodom and the children of Ammon as Gomorrha drynes of thornes and heapes of salt and a desert euen for euer the remnant of my people shal spoile them and the residue of my nation shal possesse them †This shal be fal them for their pride because they haue blasphemed and haue beene magnified vpon the people of the Lord of hosts †Our Lord shal be dreadful vpon them and shal attenuate al the goddes of the earth and they shal adore him euerie man out of his owne place al the ilands of the Gentils †Yea and you Aethiopians shal be slaine with my sword †And he wil stretch forth his hand vpon the North and wil destroy Assur and he wil lay the Beautiful as a wildernes and as a place not passable and as a desert †And flockes shal lie in the middes therof al the beastes of the Gentils and on ocratulus and the Irchin shal abide in the thresholdes therof the voice of one
singing in the window the rauen on the vpper post because I wil attenuate her strength †This is the glorious citie dwelling in confidence that sayd in her hart I am and beside me there is none other els how is she become as a desert the couche for beastes euerie one that passeth by her shal hisse and wag his hand CHAP. III. Ierusalem for reiecting Gods admonitions shal be destroyed 7. Christ being risen from death the Iewes persecuting the faithful shal be reiected miserably destroyed 9. and the Gentils called 11. So his Church shal floorish 13. and at last the Iewes shal be conuerted VVO TO thee thou prouoking and redemed citie the doue †She hath not heard the voice and she hath not receiued discipline she hath not trusted in our Lord to her God she hath not approched †Her princes in the middes of her as lions roarnig her iudges wolues in the euening left nothing for the morning †Her prophets madde men vnfaythful her priests haue polluted the holie they haue done vniustly agaynst the law †Our iust Lord in the middes therof wil not doe iniquitie in the morning in the morning he wil geue his iudgement into light and it shal not be hid but the wicked man hath not knowen the confusion †I haue destroyed the Gentils their corners are dissipated I haue made their wayes desert whiles there is none that passeth by their cities are desolate not a man remayning nor any inhabiter †I sayd Neuertheles thou shalt feare me thou shalt receiue discipline and her habitation shal not perish for al thinges wherin I haue visited her but yet rysing early they corrupted al their cagitations ◠Wherfore expect me sayth our Lord in the day of my resurrection til hereafter because my iudgement to assemble the Gentils and to gather kingdomes to powre vpon them mine indignation al the wrath of my furie for in the fyre of my ielousie shal al the earth be deuoured †Because c then wil I restore to the peoples a chosen lippe that al may inuocate in the name of the Lord may serue him with one shoulder †Beyond the riuers of Aethiopia thence shal my suppliants the children of my dispersed bring me a gift †In that day thou shalt not be confounded vpon al thine inuentions wherin thou hast preuaricated against me because then wil I take away out of the middes of thee the loftie speakers of thy pride thou shalt adde no more to be exalted in my holie mount †And I wil leaue in the middes of thee a people poore and needie they shal hope in the name of our Lord. †The remnāt of Israel shal not doe iniquitie neyther shal they speake leasing and deceitful tongue shal not be found in their mouth because they shal feede and shal lie downe and there shal be none to make them afrayd †Prayse ô daughter of Sion make iubilation Israel be glad reioyce in al thy hart ô daughter of Ierusalem †Our Lord hath taken away thy iudgement he hath turned away thine enemies the king of Israel our Lord in the middes of thee thou shalt feare euil no more †In that day it shal be sayd to Ierusalem Feare not to Sion let not thy handes be dissolued †Our Lord thy God in the middes of thee strong he wil saue he wil reioyce vpon thee in gladnes he wil be silent in his loue he wil be ioyful vpon thee in prayse †The triflers that were departed from thee I wil gather together because they were of thee that thou mayst no more haue reproch for them †Behold I wil kil al that haue afflicted thee at that time and I wil saue the halt her that was cast out I wil gather and I wil make them into prayse and into name in al the land of their confusion †In that time when I wil bring you and in the time that I wil gather you for I wil geue you into a name and into prayse to al the people of the earth when I shal conuert your captiuitie before your eyes saith our Lord. THE PROPHECIE OF AGGEVS AGGEVS prophecying in the second yeare of Darius Histaspis king of Persians that is in the 18. yeare after the relaxation from captiuitie of Babylon exhorteth to reedifie the Temple which had bene begune and intermitted promising much prosperitie after the building therof and finally the coming of Christ desired of al nations who by his presence wil glorifie this new temple more then the former built by Salomon and especially prophecieth the glorie of his Catholique Church which shal much excel the Church of the old Testament CHAP. I. The Iewes building to themselues excellent houses are iustly reprehended for not building the Temple of God 10. VVhich is the cause of the barrennes sicknes and other euils 12. VVherupon they vndertake the holie worke IN THE second yeare of Darius the king the sixth moneth in the first day of the moneth the word of our Lord was made in the hand of Aggeus the prophet to Zorobabel the sōne of Salathiel duke of Iuda to b Iesus the sonne of Iosedec the grandpriest saing †Thus sayth the Lord of hostes saying This people sayth The time is not yet come of building the house of our Lord. †And the word of our Lord was made in the hand of Aggeus the prophete saying †Why is it time for you to dwel in embowed houses and this house desert †And now thus sayth the Lord of hostes Set your hartes vpon your wayes †You haue sowed much and brought in litle you haue eaten and haue not bene filled you haue drunke and haue not bene inebriated you haue couered your selues haue not bene warmed and he that hath gathered the wages put them into a broken bag †Thus sayth the Lord of hosts Set your harts vpon your wayes †go vp into the mountayne carie timber and build the house and it shal be acceptable to me and I shal be glorified sayth our Lord. †You haue looked for more and behold it became lesse and you brought it into the house and I puft at it for what cause sayth the Lord of hosts because my house is desert and you hasten euerie man into his owne house †For this cause were the heauens stayed ouer you that they gaue no dew and the earth was prohibited that it yelded not her spring †and I called a drought vpon the earth vpon the mountaines and vpon the wheate and vpon the wine and vpon the oile and what thinges soeuer the ground brought forth vpon men vpon beastes vpon al the labour of the handes †And Zorobabel the sonne of Salathiel and Iesus the sonne of Iosedec the high priest al the remnant of the people heard the voice of their God the wordes of Aggeus the prophet as our Lord their
colored horses he prophecieth bitter times 18. confirming the same by an other vision of foure hornes IN THE eight moneth in the second yeare of king Darius the word of our Lord was made to Zacharie the sonne of Barachias the sonne of Addo the prophet saying Our Lord hath bene wrath vpon your fathers with wrath †And thou shalt say to them Thus saith the Lord of hosts Conuert to me sayth the Lord of hosts and I wil conuert to you sayth the Lord of hosts †Be not as your fathers to whom the former prophets cried saying Thus saith the Lord of hosts Conuert from your euil wayes from your most wicked thoughts and they heard not neither attended to me sayth our Lord. †Your fathers where are they and the prophets shal they liue for euer †But yet my wordes mine ordinances which I gaue in commandment to my seruants the prophets did they not take hold of your fathers and they conuerted sayd As the Lord of hosts thought to do to vs according to our wayes according to our inuentions he hath done to vs. †In the foure twentith day of the eleuenth moneth Sabath in the second yeare of Darius the word of our Lord was made to Zacharie the sonne of Barachias the sonne of Addo the prophet saying †I saw by night and behold a man mounting vpon a red horse he stood among the myrtletrees that were in the botome and after him horses red speckled and white †And I sayd What are these my Lord and the Angel that spake in me sayd to me I wil shew thee what these thinges are †And the man that stood among the myrtle trees answered sayd These are they whom our Lord sent to walke through the earth †And they answered to the Angel of our Lord which stood among the mirtle trees sayd We haue walked through the earth and loe al the earth is inhabited and at rest †And the Angel of our Lord answered and sayd ô Lord of hosts how long wilt thou not haue mercie on Ierusalem and on the cities of Iuda with which thou hast bene angrie this now is c the seuentith yeare †And our Lord answered the Angel that spake in me good wordes comfortable wordes †And the Angel that spake in me sayd to me Crie saying Thus sayth the Lord of hosts I haue bene zelous for Ierusalem and Sion with great zele †And with great anger am I angrie vpon the welthie nations because I was angrie a litle but they helped toward the euil †Therfore thus saith our Lord I wil returne to Ierusalem in mercies my house shal be built in it saith the Lord of hosts the plumme line shal be stretched forth vpon Ierusalem †As yet crie thou saying Thus saith the Lord of hosts As yet shal my cities flow with good thinges and the Lord wil yet comfort Sion and he wil yet choose Ierusalem †And I lifted vp mine eyes and saw and behold foure hornes †And I sayd to the Angel that spake in me What are these And he sayd to me These are the hornes that haue scattered Iuda and Israel and Ierusalem †And our Lord shewed me foure artificers †And I sayd What come these to doe Who spake saying These are the hornes that scattered Iuda euerie man a part none of them lifted his head and these are come to fray them to cast downe the hornes of the nations that haue lifted the horne vpon the land of Iuda to scatter it CHAP. II. Vnder the name of Ierusalem he prophecieth the progresse of the Church of Christ 6. by the conuersion of some Iewes 8. and manie Gentiles AND I lifted vp mine eyes and saw and loe a man and in his hand a corde of measurers †And I sayd Whither goest thou And he sayd to me To measure Ierusalem and to see how great the breadth therof is and how great the length therof †And behold the Angel that spake in me came forth and an other Angel went out to meete him †And he sayd to him Runne speake to this yongman saying Without wal shal Ierusalem be inhabited for the multitude of men and of beasts in the middes therof †And I wil be to it sayth our Lord a wal of fire round about and I wil be in glorie in the middes therof †O b flee ye out of the land of the North saith our Lord because into the foure windes of heauen haue I dispersed you sayth our Lord. †O c Sion flee thou that dwellest with the daughter of Babylon †because thus sayth the Lord of hosts After glorie he sent me to the nations that haue spoiled you for he that shal touch you toucheth the apple of myne eye †because loe I lift vp my hand vpon them and they shal be a praye to those that serued them and you shal know that the Lord of hosts sent me †Prayse and reioyce ô daughter of Sion because loe I come and wil dwel in the middes of thee sayth our Lord. †And manie nations shal be ioyned to our Lord in that day and they shal be my people and I wil dwel in the middes of thee and thou shal know that the Lord of hosts hath sent me to thee †And our Lord wil possesse Iuda his portion in the sanctified land and he wil yet choose Ierusalem †Let al flesh be silent at the presence of our Lord because he is risen vp out of his holie habitation CHAP. III. In a vision the diuel appeareth accusing the hiegh Priest 4. He is clensed from his sinnes 8. Christ is promised and great fruite of his passion AND our Lord shewed me Iesus the grand priest standing before the Angel of our Lord and Satan stood on his right hand to be his aduersarie †And our Lord sayd to Satan The Lord geue rebuke on thee Satan and the Lord that chose Ierusalem geue rebuke on thee Why is not this a firebrand taken out of the fire †And Iesus was clothed with filthie garments and he stood before the face of the Angel †Who answered and sayd to them that stood before him saying Take away the filthie garments from him And he sayd to him Behold I haue taken away thine iniquitie and haue clothed thee with change of garments †And he said Put a cleane mitre vpon his head they put a cleane mitre vpon his head and clothed him with garments and the Angel of our Lord stood †And the Angel of our Lord contested Iesus saying †Thus saith the Lord of hosts If you wil walke in my wayes and keepe my watch thou also shalt iudge my house and shalt keepe my courts and I wil geue thee walkers of them that now assist here †Heare ô Iesus thou grand priest thou and thy frendes that dwel before thee because they are portending men for behold
temple of our Lord. †And they that are far shal come and shal build in the temple of our Lord and you shal know that the Lord of hosts sent me to you But this shal be if hearing you wil heare the voice of our Lord your God CHAP. VII The fast of the fift and seuenth moneth obserued in the captiuitie being good 5. was vnperfect 8. fasting from sinne is alwayes more necessarie AND it came to passe in the fourth yeare of Darius the king the word of our Lord was made to Zacharie in the fourth of the ninth moneth which is Casleu †And Sarasar and Rogommelech and the men that were with him sent to the house of God to besech the face of our Lord that they should say to the priests of the house of the Lord of hosts and to the prophets saying Must I weepe in the fifth moneth or must I san ctifie myself as now I haue done manie yeares †And the word of the Lord of hosts was made to me saying Speake to al the people of the land and to the priests saying when you fasted and mourned in the fifth and the seuenth for these seuentie yeares did you fast a fast vnto me †and when you did eate and drinke did you not eate for your selues and drinke for your selues †Why are they not the wordes which our Lord spake in the hand of the former prophets when Ierusalem as yet was inhabited and was welthie it self and the cities round about it and toward the South and in the champine there was dwelling †And the word of our Lord was made to Zacharie saying †Thus sayth the Lord of hosts saying Iudge ye true Iudgement and doe ye mercie miserations euerie man with his brother †And the widow and the pupil and the stranger and the poore doe not calumniate and let not a man thinke in his hart euil to his brother †And they would not attend and they turned away the shoulder departing and they aggrauated their eares not to heare †And they made their hart as the adamant lest they should heare the law the wordes which the Lord sent in his spirit by the hand of the former prophetes and there was great indignation made from the Lord of hosts †And it came to passe as he spake and they heard not so shal they crie I wil not heare sayth the Lord of hosts †And I dispersed them through out al kingdoms which they know not and the land was left desolate of them for that there was none passing returning and the land to be desired they layd into a desert CHAP. VIII God wil geue abundance of spiritual benefites to al nations by Christ 7. to whom shal be conuerted 13. manie Iewes 20. but manie more Gentiles AND the word of the Lord of hosts was made saying †Thus sayth the Lord of hostes I haue bene ielous for Sion with great zeale and with great indignation haue I bene ielous for it †Thus sayth the Lord of hosts I am returned to Sion and I wil dwel in the middes of Ierusalem and Ierusalem shal be called the Citie of truth the Mount of the Lord of hosts the sanctified mount †Thus sayth the Lord of hosts As yet shal old men dwel and old wemen in the streets of Ierusalem and euerie mans stafe in his hand for multitude of yeares †And the streets of the citie shal be filled with infantes and girles playing in the streets therof †Thus sayth the Lord of hosts If it shal seme hard in the eyes of the remnant of this people in those dayes Why shal it be hard in mine eyes sayth the Lord of hosts †Thus sayth the Lord of hosts Behold I wil saue my people from the land of the East and from the land of the Going downe of the sunne †And I wil bring them and they shal dwel in the middes of Ierusalem and they shal be my people and I wil be their God in truth and in iustice †Thus sayth the Lord of hosts Let your handes be strengthned you that heare in these dayes these words by the mouth of the prophets in the day that the house of the Lord of hosts was founded that the temple might be built †For before those dayes there was no hyre for men neither was there hyre for beasts neither was there peace to the comer in nor goer out for tribulation and I did let goe al men euerie one against his neighbour †But now not according to the former dayes wil I doe to the remnant of this people sayth the Lord of hosts †but the seede of peace shal be the vine shal geue his fruite and the earth shal geue her spring and the heauens shal geue their dew and I wil make the remnant of this people to possesse al these thinges †And it shal be as you were a malediction among the Gentils ô house of Iuda house of Israel so wil I saue you and you shal be a benediction feare not let your handes be strengthned †Because thus sayth the Lord of hosts As I purposed to afflict you when your fathers had prouoked me to wrath sayth our Lord †and I had no mercie so conuerting I haue meant in these dayes to doe good to the house of Iuda and Ierusalem feare not †These then are the wordes which you shal doe Speake ye truth euerie one with his neighbour truth and iudgement of peace iudge ye in your gates †And thinke ye not euerie man in your hart euil against his frend lying othe loue ye not for al these things are such as I hate sayth our Lord. †And the word of our Lord of hosts was made to me saying †Thus sayth the Lord of hosts The fast of the fourth and the fast of the fifth and the fast of the seuenth and the fast of the tenth shal be to the house of Iuda into ioy and gladnes into goodlie solemnities truth onlie and peace loue ye †Thus sayth the Lord of hosts vntil peoples come dwel in manie cities †and the inhabitants goe one to an other saying Let vs goe and besech the face of our Lord and let vs seeke the Lord of hosts I also wil goe †And manie peoples shal come and strong nations to seeke the Lord of hosts in Ierusalem to besech the face of our Lord. †Thus sayth the Lord of hosts In those dayes wherein ten men of al the tongue of the Gentils shal take hold and they shal take hold of the skirt of a man that is a Iewe saying We wil goe with you for we haue heard that God is with you CHAP. IX The bordering enimies of the Iewes shal beleue in Christ 9. who wil first come to the Iewes in mekenes yet in solemnitie riding on an asse 11. deliuer the godlie from the lake 12. geue great thinges to the
This Iechonias or Ioachin remained in prison til the death of Nabuchodonosor the space of thirtie seuen yeares and was then deliuered by Euilmerodach and by him entertayned courteously as a prince 4. Reg. 25. v. 27. He maried there and had issue Salathiel and Salathiel hâ—d Zorobabel Who together with Iosue sonne of Iosedech highpriest Esdras Nehemias others recited 1. Esd 2. conducted the children of Israel from Babylon into their countrie There were also in a former transmigration Daniel and the other three children Ananias Misael Azarias of the royal or principal bloud in the third yeare of Ioakim otherwise called Eliacim sonne of Iosias 4. Reg. 23. v. 34 king of Iuda Dan. 1. v. 1. 6. These with others were caried â—s hostages into Babylon and brought vp more liberally Where seruing God sincerely abstayning from vnlawful meates were protected by God much also estemed and promoted in that place For Daniel about the age of twelue yeares conuinced the two wicked Iudges and deliuered Susanna from their cruel handes Dan. 13. And afterwardes for declaring and interpreting the kings dreame Dan. 2. and excellent wisdom and gift of prophecie was admired by al aduanced by the king but maligned by certaine enuious sorcerers and great men Wherby he was sometimes in great danger but stil deliuered by Gods powre protecting him Dan. 6. 14. The other three children were likewise aduanced Dan. 2. v. 49. and therfore by diuers enuied and for refusing to adore an idol set vp by Nabuchodonosor were cast into a hote burning furnace and there preserued Dan. 3. Ieremie who before this time begane to prophecie whiles he was a childe Iere. 1. continued in the time of captiuitie in Ierusalem and Iurie with much affliction and stil prophecying finally dyed in Aegypt Baruch his scribe and also a Prophete went sometimes into Babylon and returned into Iurie Baruch 1. instructing and exhorting the people Ezechiel was caried with king Iechonias and Iosedech into Babylon and there prophecied ch 1. v. 2. part of the same time with Daniel in great part the same thinges with Ieremie And during the captiuitie king Iechonias Iosedech the highpriest Ieremie Baruch Ezechiel prophetes innumerable others some Martyres and manie Confessors parted from this world But Daniel yet liued And in place of Iosedech Highpriest Iosue succeded and the progenie of king Iechonias continuing in Salathiel and Zorobabel the nation â—ad them and other eminent men with temporal dependence vpon forreine princes in the next Monarchie of the Medes and Persians For when Darius king of Medes had slaine Baâ—â—azar king of the Chaldees and so possessed Babylon with the whole countrie he brought the Monarchie to the Medes Persians Dan. 5. v. 31. and within the space of one yeare he dyed and Cyrus succeding granted leaue to al the Iewes to returne into Iurie and there to build vp their temple and citie of Ierusalem which Nabuchodonosor had destroyed At which time Daniel had his vision that Christ our Sauiour should come into the world within seuentie weekes of seuen yeares to the weke that is in foure hundred ninetie yeares after the perfect finishing of the temple and citie Dan. 9. v. 24. 25. But when they were so built againe that the wekes beganne to be counted is very obscure as it was the wil of God that the prophecie being certayne in itself should not be ouer clere to euerie mans vnderstanding but as likewise manie other prophecies shut and sealed Dan. 12. v. 6. 9. 13. In this time of the Medes and Persians Monarchie Mardocheus remayning in Chaldea after the relaxation had that vision in a dreame Esther 11. after which folowed the historie of him Quene Esther and wicked Aman with the danger and deliuerie of al the Iewes in those partes Some thinke it likewise probable that the historie of Iudith happened after the captiuitie though others suppose that it was in the time of Manasses king of Iuda which not being our purpose to discusse and decide we wil passe to thinges more certayne The prophetes Aggeus Zachatias nere twentie yeares after the relaxation earnestly exhorted the princes people to build vp the temple which had bene begunne and now was neglected vpon vaine feare thincking the time was not yet come of building the house of our Lord. Aggeus 1. v. 2. Wherupon the prophet reproueth them expostulating thus Why is it time for you to dwel in embowed houses and this house of our Lord desert And assureth them v. 10. that their ground should remaine barren and ch 2. v. 15. their sacrifices vngratful til they should build the temple promising moreouer that this new temple should be more glorious by Christs personal presence therin then the former temple built by Salomon But especially the Church of Christ presigured by the temple should farre excel the Synagoge of the old testament ch 2. v. 10. Great shal be the glorie of this last house more then of the first Which Zacharie confirmeth inuiting the Gentiles to come and the Iewes to returne into Christs Church ch 2. v. 6. O flee out of the land of the North sayth our Lord because into the foure windes of heauen haue I dispersed you v. 7. O Sion flee thou that dwellest with the daughter of Babylon And by diuers other visions and prophecies they forshew the conuersion of the Gentiles and reiection of the Iewes for their obduration but in the end they also shal be conuerted Malachie prophecied after the finishing of the temple exhorting al to offer their sacrifices with puritie of hart reprehending both priestes and people for not so doing ch 1. He also foresheweth the reiection of the Iewes calling of the Gentiles with the change of the old sacrifices and institution of a new farre more excellent and more effectual to be offered euerie where v. 10. 11. He concludeth his prophecie ch 4. foretelling the terrible day of Iudgement and life or death euerlasting These later prophetes yet liuing as Iosephus Eusehius Theodoretus and others testifie in their histories the Grecians obtained so great a Monarchie by king Alexander the Great of Macedo that being parted after his death amongst manie yet al were great kingdomes some longer some shorter time In the beginning wherof when king Alexander came to Ierusalem as Iosephus writeth li. 11. c. 8. Antiquit. Iaddus the highpriest going forth in his pontifical attyre to mete him the same king straightwayes fel downe at his feete with al reuerence And being demanded by his freindes the princes of his armie why he so much honored the highpriest he answered that he honored noâ— the man for himself but for his office and God in him who had appeared to him in slepe in that very habite and ornaments when he in Macedonia discoursed in his minde of making battel against the Persians promising him assured victorie Shortly
Maloban and Enaathan and Samea and Ioribum Nathan Enuagam Zacharias and Mosolam the leaders them selues and that were skilful †And I sayd to them that they should come to Loddeus who was at the place of the treasurie †And I commanded them to say to Loddeus and his brethren and to them that were in the treasurie that they should send vs them that might doe the function of priesthood in the house of the Lord our God †And they brought vnto vs according to the mightie hand of the Lord our God cunning men of the children of Moholi the sonne of Leui the sonne of Israel Sâ—bebia his sonnes and brethren which were eightene †Asbia and Amin of the sonnes of the children of Chananeus and their children twentie men †And of them that serued the temple whom Dauid gaue and the princes themselues to the ministerie of the Leuites of them that serued the temple two hundred twentie Al their names were signified in writings †And I vowed there a fast to the yong men in the sight of God that I might aske of him a good iourney for vs and them that were with vs and for the children and the cattel because of ambushementes †For I was ashamed to aske of the king footemen and horsemen in my companie to guard vs against our aduersaries †For we sayd to the king that the power of our Lord wil be with them that seeke him with al affection †And agayne we besought the Lord our God according to these thinges whom also we had propicious and we obteyned of our God †And I separated of the rulers of the people and of the Priestes of the temple twelue men and Sedebia and Asanna and with them of their brethren ten men †And I weyed to them the gold and siluer and the vessels of the house of our God perteyning to the Priestes which the king had geuen and his counselers and the princes and al Israel †And when I had weyed it I deliuered of siluer an hundred fiftie talentes and siluer vessels of an hundred talentes and of gold an hundred talentes †And of vessels of gold seuen score and twelue brasen vessels good of shyning brasse resembling the forme of gold †And I sayd to them You are also sanctified to our Lord and the vessels be holie and the gold and siluer is vowed to our Lord the God of our fathers †Watch and keepe til you deliuer them to some of the rulers of the people and to the Priestes and Leuites and to the princes of the cities of Israel in Ierusalem in the treasurie of the house of our God †And those Priestes and Leuites that receiued the gold and siluer and vessels brought it to Ierusalem into the temple of our Lord. †And we went forward from the riuer Thia the twelfth day of the first moneth til we entred into Ierusalem †And when the third day was come in the fourth day the gold being weyed and the siluer was deliuered in the house of the Lord our God to Marimoth Priest the sonne of Iori †And with him was Eleazar the sonne of Phinees and with them were Iosadus the sonne of Iesus and Medias and Banni the sonne of a Leuite by number and weight al thinges †And the weight of them was writen the same houre †And they that came out of the captiuitie offered sacrifice to our Lord the God of Israel oxen twelue for al Israel rammes eightie six †lambes seuentie two bucke goates for sinne twelue and for health twelue kyne al for the sacrifice of our Lord. †And they read againe the preceptes of the king to the kinges officers and to the deputies of Coelesyria and Phoenice and they honored the nation and the temple of our Lord. †And these thinges being finished the rulers came to me saying The stocke of Israel and the princes and the Priestes and the Leuites †and the strange people and nations of the land haue not separated their vncleannes from the Chananeites and Hetheites and Pherezeites and Iebuseites and Moobites Aegyptians and Idumeians †For they are ioyned to their daughters both themselues and their sonnes and the holie sede is mingled with the strange nations of the earth and the rulers and magistrates were partakers of that iniquitie from the beginning of the reigne it self †And forth with as I heard these thinges I rent my garmentes and the sacred tunike and tearing the heares of my head and my beard I sate sorowful and heauie †And there assembled to me mourning vpon this iniquitie as manie as were then moued by the word of our Lord the God of Israel and I sate sad vntil the euening sacrifice †And I rising vp from fasting hauing my garmentes rent and the sacred tunike kneeling and stretching forth my handes to our Lord †I sayd Lord I am confounded and ashamed before thy face †for our sinnes are multiplied ouer our heades and our iniquities are exalted euen to heauen †Because from the times of our fathers we are in great sinne vnto this day †And for the sinnes of vs and of our fathers we haue bene deliuered with our brethren and with our Priestes to the kinges of the earth into sword and captiuitie and spoile with confusion vnto this present day †And now what a great thing is this that mercie hath happened to vs from thee ô Lord God leaue thou vnto vs a roote and a name in the place of thy sanctification †to discouer our light in the house of the Lord our God to geue vs meate in al the time of our bondage †And when we serued we were not forsaken of the Lord our God but he sette vs in fauour appointing the kinges of the Persians to geue vs meate †and to glorifie the temple of the Lord our God and to build the desolations of Sion to geue vs stabilitie in Iurie and Ierusalem †And now what say we Lord hauing these thinges For we haue transgressed thy preceptes which thou gauest into the handes of thy seruants the prophetes †saying That the land into which ye entred to possesse the inheritance therof is a land polluted with the coinquinations of the strangers of the land and their vncleanes hath filled it wholy with their filthines †And now your daughters you shal not match with their sonnes and their daughters you shal not take for your sonnes †And you shal not seeke to haue peace with them for euer that growing strong you may eate the best things of the land and may distribute the inheritance to your children for euer †And the thinges that happen to vs al are done for our nauhtie workes and our great sinnes †And thou gauest vs such a roote and we are returned againe to transgresse thy ordinances that we would be mingled with the vncleannes of the nations of this land †Wil t not thou be wrath with vs to
Isaac and Iacob and of Osee and Amos and of Ioel and Abdias and Ionas and Michaeas †and Naum and Habacuc of Sophonias Aggaeus Zacharias and Malachias who also is called the Angel of our Lord. CHAP. II. The Synagogue expostulateth with her children for their ingratitude 10. shewing that they shal be forsaken and the gentiles called THVS saith our Lord I brought this people out of bondage to whom I gaue commandment by my seruantes the Prophetes whom they would not heare but made my counsel frustrate †Their mother that bare them sayth to them Goe children because I am a wydow and forsaken †I brought you vp with ioy haue lost you with mourning sorow because you haue sinned before our Lord your God haue done that which is euil before him †But now what shal I doe to you I am a wydow and desolate goe my children aske mercie of our Lord. †And I cal thee ô father a witnes vpon the mother of the children that would not keepe my testament †that thou geue them confusion their mother into spoile that there be no generation of them †Let their names be dispersed into the Gentiles let them be destroyed out of the land because they haue despised my sacrament †Woe be to thee Assur which hidest the wicked with thee Thou naughtie nation remember what I did to Sodom Gomorrha †whose land lieth in cloddes of pitch heapes of ashes so wil I make them that haue not heard me saith our Lord omnipotent †Thus saith our Lord to Esdras Tel my people that I wil geue them the kingdom of Ierusalem which I ment to geue to Israel †And I wil take to me the glorie of them and wil geue them eternal tabernacles which I had prepared for them †The wood of life shal be to them for an odour of oyntment and they shal not labour nor be wearied †Goe you shal receiue Aske for your selues a few dayes that they may abide Now the kingdom is prepared for you watch ye †Cal thou heauen and earth to witnes for I haue destroyed euil and haue created good because I liue sayth our Lord. †Mother embrace thy children bring them vp with ioy As a doue confirme their feete because I haue chosen thee sayth our Lord. †And I wil raise agalâ—e the dead out of their places and out of the monumentes I wil bring them forth because I haue knowen my name in Israel †Feare not ô mother of the children because I haue chosen tâ—ee faith our Lord. †I wil send thee ayde my seruantes I saie and Ieremie at whose counsel I haue sanctified and prepared for thee twelue trees loden with diuerse fruites †and as manie fountaines flowing milke and honie and seuen huge mountaines hauing the rose and the lilie in the which I wil fil thy children with ioy †Iustifie thou the widow iudge for the pupil geue to the needie defend the orphane cloth the naked †cure the broken feeble mocke not the lame defend the maimed and admitte the blind to the vision of my glorie †The old man the yong keepe with in thy walles where thou shalt finde the dead committe them to the graue signing it I wil geue thee the first seate in my resurrection †Pause and rest my people because thy rest shal come †As a good nurce nourish thy children confirme their feete †The seruantes that I haue geuen thee none of them shal perish For I wil require them of thy number †Be not wearied For when the day of affliction and distresse shal come others shal weepe and be sad but thou shalt be merie and plenteous †The gentiles shal enuie and shal be able to doe nothing against thee sayth our Lord. †My handes shal couer thee that thy children see not hel †Be pleasant thou mother with thy children because I wil deliuer thee sayth our Lord. †Remember thy children that sleepe for I wil bring them out of the sides of the earth wil doe mercie with them because I am merciful sayth our Lord omnipotent †Embrace thy children til I come shew them mercie because my fountaines runne ouer and my grace shal not faile †I Esdras receiued commandment of our Lord in mount Oreb that I should goe to Israel to whom when I came they refused me and reiected commandement of our Lord. †And therfore I say vnto you gentiles which heare and vnderstand Looke for your pastor he wil geue you the rest of eternitie because he is at hand that shal come in the end of the world †Be ye readie for the rewardes of the kingdom because perpetual light shal shine to you for time euerlasting †Flee from the shadow of this world receiue ye the pleasantnes of your glorie I openly cal to witnes my sauiour †Receiue the commended gift and be pleasant geuing thankes to him that called you to the heauenlie kingdomes †Arise stand see the number of them that are signed in the feast of our Lord. †They that haue transferred them selues from the shadow of the world haue receiued glorious garmentes of our Lord. †Receiue ô Sion thy number and shut vp thyne made white which haue accomplished the law of our Lord. †The number of thy children which thou didst wish is ful Desire the powre of our Lord that thy people may be sanctified which was called from the beginning †I Esdras saw in mount Sion a great multitude which I could not number and they did al prayse our Lord with songes †And in the middes of them was a young man high of stature appearing aboue ouer them al he put crownes vpon euerie one of their heades and he was more exalted And I was astonied at the miracle †Then asked I an Angel and sayd Who are these Lord †Who answering sayd to me These are they that haue laid of the mortal garment and taken an immortal and haue confessed the name of God Now they are crowned and receiue palmes †And I sayd to the Angel That yongman what is he which putteth the crownes vpon them and geueth palmes into their handes †And answering he sayd to me The same is the Sonne of God whom they did confesse in the world I begane to magnifie them that stood strongly for the name of our Lord †Then sayd the Angel to me Goe tel my people what maner of meruelous thinges and how great thou hast sene of the Lord God CHAP. III. The workes of God are wonderful from the beginning 7. and men vngratful 13. In Abraham God chose to himself a peculiar people who neuertheles were froward and obstinate 23. He also chose Dauid but stil the people were sinful 28. the Babylonians also by whom they are afflicted are no lesse but rather greater sinners IN the thirteth yeare of the ruine of the citie I was in
spirite the perfections which he wisheth in Christ in maner of congratulating describeth his fortitude fighting against the diuel for the Church n purposing o prosecuting p and perfecting the conquest and so establishing thy spiritual kingdome q Not vvith warlike armour of this world but by assaulting the aduersarie with truth r defending thyseâ—fe and thy souldiers with the shield of mildnes Å¿ and striking the enemie with the sword of iustice VVhich right force of spiritual fight hath meruelous good successe t Preaching of Christs Gospel his grace mouing the hartes of the hearers is liuelie and forcible more pearcing then anie two edged sword v The example of people conuerted shal moue the hartes of the aduersaries to come also vnto the truth w Christs kingdom shal haue no end Luc 1. v. 33. x Thou defendest and rewardest the good finally forsakest and punishest the wicked y more peculiarly the God of Christ by hypostatical vnion z Diuers kinges as Dauid him selfe Iosaphat Ezechias and Iosias were as godlie as Salomon and perseuered good to the end which is doubted Salomon did not but Christ incomparably was annointed indued with al graces aboue al kinges a Mortification which conserueth from putrifying b humilitie aswaging pride c being smal in the first spring grovveth great d humanitie assumpted and sanctified persons in vvhom Christ dwelleth as in cleane shining odoriferous houses e sincere faithful soules more deare to their spouse Christ then daughters of temporal kinges f The Catholique Church in faith purified as gold g vvith varietie of states as Clergie Laity and diuers sortes of religious Orders and other professions al vnited in the same faith hope and charitie h carifully al that Christ thy spouse speaketh to thee by his Spirite i diligently put the same in practise k vvith al obedience and readines and returne not to former infidelitie noâ— to corrupt life l Christ loueth the Church adoined with his giftes m and mutually his true children loue and serue him n Manie of al nations submitle themselues and al that they haue to Christ o Internal vertues are most especial ornaments p exterior are required to edifie others in diuers sortes of vertues q By this meanes manie more are conuerted to christianitie r and one countrie inuiteth and draweth another Å¿ As Apostles came in place of Patriarches and Prophetes so stil Bishops and Priestes succede in the Church pastors and gouernours therof t These pastores shal stil teach the true Christian doctrin v and stil there shal be Christian people that wil folow and professe the same Caluin expoundeth this Psalme contratie to S. â—aul No saluation out of the Church Perpetual succession of Byshops in place of the Apostles The Church prospereth also in persecution The 6. key a Belonging to the Church of Christ b As wel the cause vvhy God suffereth his Church to be persecuted at his assured protection in difficulties are hidden secretes to the world c Al refuge is not secure for one man is not able alwayes to defend an other but God is a sure and strong refuge d euer able and in conuenient time vvilling to helpe e This whole vvorld is ful of tribulations but the Church suffered the greatest in the first persecutions shal suffer as great in the time of Antichrist English Catholiques suffer most of al nations in this age and can not be suppressed but stil increase in number and fortitude f Therfore al Catholiques may assuredly know that the whole Church can not faile g though very manie as now in England h and very eminent persons as some noblemen and some Priestes haue reuolted yet al vvil not i Such bad examples make the good to recollect themselues more diligently and to reiâ—ycâ— in Gods grace by which they stand fast k before the heate of persecution shal inuade al for the elect the dayes of tribulation are shortned l Sometimes one nation or kingdome rebelleth against the Church but can not destroy it m by the spirite of Christ Antichrist and al his members shal be destroyed n The Church sometimes hath great peace and tranquilitie o God himselfe restrayneth the wicked suddainly abating their furie or cutting of their forces Vocation of Gentiles The 6. key a For Christians that leaue the sinnes of their fathers and reioyce in Christ crucified See Annotation Psal 41. b True ioy of the hart sheweth it selâ—e both in voice of exultation and also in gesture of body by clapping of handes dancing as king Dauid did before the Arke 2 Reg â— likevvise vvith instruments c To al the wicked d not only of one or few kingdoms but of al the earth e VVhen kinges and countries become Christians they are made subiectes to the Church that vvas before not heades and rulers therfore f Christ God man after his Passion rose from death and ascended g not leauing his Church desolate but making her ioyful by an other comforter the Holie Ghost h The same Christ is our God by his Diuinitie i and our king by his Humanitie k Doe your endeuour to vnderstand vvhat you sing read or heare in Gods word At least to know the principal Mysteries and pointes of Christian doctrin euerie one according to their capacitie and state or profession l The faithful of the old and nevv Testament are vnited in the seruice of one and the same eternal God m In respect of the Blessed Trinitie holie Scripture here and in manie places vseth names of the plural number as Eloim Goddes not diuiding Gods substance vvhich is one but insinuating distinction of Diuine Persons The Father the Sonne and the Holie Ghost VVhich Mysterie is more expresly mentioned in Baptisme and professed by Christian gentils then it was by the people of the Ievves The Church founded and protected by God The 6. key a Voices beginning the musike instruments prosecuted b especially for the second day of the weke the day after the sabbath which is our Sunday called Dominica our Lords day c Ierusalem and mount Sion were most obliged to praise God for greatest benefites receiued so the Catholique Church therby prefigured and hauing receiued farre greatter is most of al bonden to be gratful d This can not be affirmed of Sion or Ierusalem but is only verified of the Catholique Christian Church e whose coastes do extend to the North and to al quarters of the round earth f The same one God one Christ one Faith and one Religion in al particular Churches of the vvhole militant Church g And this Vniuersalitie and Vnitie shal be after that Christ taking mans nature shal be ascended and shal send the Holie Ghost to found beginne this Church h For the assured certaintie of that is foreshewed the Prophet speaketh in the preteâ—â—ence as if it vvere already done in his time which he then savv in spirite i Nothing more moueth he hart affecteth al the bodie and soule
certaine that Salomon was sometime innocent and holie but was peruerted by wemen 3. Reg. 11. 3 Reg. 3. v 9. 12. :: Here againe it is euident that the Auctor reporteth Salomons speaches 1. Paral. 28. v. 5. 2. Par. 1. v. 9. :: VVisdom increated is with God yea is God him selfe Prou. 8. v. 22. :: VVisdom vvhich is geuen to men procedeth from God as a gift created :: Mans wisdom vvithout special wisdom from God is not sufficient to gouerne ourselues much lesse others The 3. part The excellent effectes of wisdom iustice :: Adam Gen. 1. v. 27. :: By this it is certaine that our first pareÌ„t Adam truly repented and had remission of his sinne Gen. 4. v. 8. Gen. 6. :: Noe. :: Abraham Gen. 19. :: Lot :: In al trees about Sodom there is only shew of fruite which when it is touched falleth into dust :: Lots wife an example of inconstancie :: Iacob Gen. 28. Gen. 37. :: Ioseph Gen. 41. :: Gods peculiar people Exo. 1. Exo. 3. Exo. 14. Exo. 12. Exo. 15. :: Moyses Exo. 16. Exo. 27. :: The Amalachites Exo. 17. Num 20. :: VVhen the Israelites wanted water God gaue them abundance out of rockes :: But turned the Aegyptians waters into blood :: After affliction the benefite of peace is more gratful :: Moyses was reiected when he iudged betwen his bretheren Exo. 2. :: 14. but was afterwards the deliuer of the whole people Act. 7. v. 45. Leuit. 26. v. 22. Iere. 8. v. 17. â— Aegyptians seruing beasts for goddes were plaged by frogges stuiphes flees and locustes :: God made no creature euil as the Manichees foolishly imagined neither is there any God but one who alone created al thinges :: From the land of Iurie called sacred because God was there tightly serued in the old testament and mans redemption vvas wrought there by Christ Exo. 23. Deut. 7. :: By custom malice became as it were natural after that nature was corrupted :: Gods powre being almightie is only limited by his vvil Rom. 1. v. 23. :: Serpents battes moles like beastes which seme not only super fluous in the world but also hurtful yet were estemed as goddes :: Knowing him to be the only true God by vvhom they saw their false goddes destroyed yet they did not serue him as God :: Gods most proper name is HE WHICH 1â— Exo. 3. v. 14. Rom. 1. Deut. 4. :: Seing no creature how excellent soeuer is or may be estemed a god it is more foolish to thinke an Image or statua or anie thing framed by mans handes can be God Isa 4. Iere. 10. God is the beginning of al thinges absolute and independing :: Great madnes to inuocate a wodden idol more base commonly more corruptible then the wood of a shippe :: As the Israelites went through the redsea :: The auctor prophetically alludeth to the wood of the Crosse on which our Sauiour redemed mankind :: From whole death procedeth mans iustification :: Inuention of Idols brought men to spiritual fornications corruption of maners :: This first idolatrie was only prâ—uâ—tly exercised by the father and his seruants at their masters coÌ„mandment by which occasion publique idolatrie came into the world wicked custom in time preuailing :: The name GOD in the proper signification can not be geuen to anie creature Manie enormious crimes procede from dolatrie :: Two sort es of periurie swearing by false goddes and swearing vntruthes Caluin falsly chargeth this booke vvith â—râ—or Gen. 31. Images of false goddes are rightly called idols Idolatrie begane by vvorshipping images of dead men vvith diuine honour Priuate idolatrie was before publique :: Of the diueâ—s sortes of idols and â—dolaters see our brife Annotion vpon the 113. Psal :: Idolaters hauing forsaken and forgot the onlie true God become as Atheists making their temporal gaine of false goddes :: And so waxing insolent contemte and persecute the seruants of God :: Some idolaters worshipped brute beastes for goddes as being better then sensles images but al are abominable :: The Aegyptians were plagued for their idolatrie :: And that by beastes because they worshipped beastes for goddes and by death of their first begotten for their crueltie against Gods people :: God punished his owne people as a father for their amendment :: The brasen serpent not by anie vertue inherent but as a signe of Gods fauoure vvas the meanes of curing the people Num. 21. :: VVith the plague of haile there vvas also fire mixed Exo. 9. v. 24. VVhich destroyed the profitable cattle :: But burnt not other beastes that plagued the Aegyptians :: Haile did not extinguish the fire by Gods povvre aboue nature :: See the miracles of Manna Annoe Exod 16. :: He speaketh againe of Manna :: The vaine imagination of the vvicked that himself shal be saued vvil faile him Exo. â— 10. :: Literally the 〈…〉 s â—â—â—â—a knes thâ—er dayes together Exo 10. v. 22. Morally they other gâ—nâ— les vvere in darknes vvithout faith in God til Christs Resurrection the third day :: A trubled conscience is a great torment :: This signified the conuersion of al nations to Christ :: The Church is called holie because it professeth holines and hath alwayes some holie men without the Church there is no sanctitie :: VVhen the Aegyptians drowned the Hebrews children Moyses was saued and reserued to guide the Israelites when the Aegyptians were drowned :: A prophecie of Christ comming into this world when there was temporal peace but extreme darkenes of â—gnorance :: An other example of difference in Gods punishing his people for their â—mendment and of the obstinate vnto their â—uine Exo 14. â— â—8 Num. 16. â— 46. Num 10 :: God foreseing the Aegyptians malice permitted them to persecute his people but was no way the cause nor auctor of their sinne Exo. 14. Exo. 16. :: The Amorrheites refused to grant them passage Num 21. v. 21. The Aegyptians brought them into seruitude Exo. 1. God changing the natural properties of elementes by them wrought iustice on sinners S. Greg. â—â— 35. in Euang. Exo. 9. v. 24. Exo. 16. v. 2â— Particular testimonies that this booke is holie Scripture It was written in Hebrew translated into Greke Difference betwen Ecclesiasticus and Ecclesiastes Panaretos The contents diuided into two partes By reason of a more perfect law the people of Israel were more renowmed then anie other nation in the world Deut. 4. :: Translations into other languages hardly expresse the seâ—se of the original tongue The 1. part Praises and preceptes of vvisdom :: Mans vvisdom is not able to comprehend the vvorkes of God :: Eternal glorie is the fruicte of the feare of our Lord not that this one vertue sufficeth but it is the beginning grounded in true faith and bringeth forth other vertues diuine giftes vvith the fruites of the Holie Ghost a ioyful crowne in the end Prou. 1. 9. :: Men drowned in
because he hath gathered them together as the haye of the floore †Arise and thresh ô daughter of Sion because I wil make thy horne of yron and thy hoofes I wil make of brasse thou shalt breake in peeces manie peoples and shalt kil the spoiles of them to our Lord and their strength to the Lord of the whole earth CHAP. V. Ierusalem shal be besieged and taken 2. Christ shal be borne in Bethlehem 3. the Iewes shal not be wholly reiected vntil the Gentiles beginne to embrace the true faith 4. Which shal be spred in the whole world 8. pure from idolatrie 14. and the incredulous punished NOW shalt thou be spoiled daughter of the spoiler they haue layd siâ—ge vpon vs with a rod shal they strike the cheeke of the iudge of Israel †AND THOV BETHLEHEM Ephrata art a litle one in the thousands of Iuda out of thee shal come forth vnto me he that shal be the dominatour in Israel and his coming forth “ from the begynning from the dayes of eternitie †Therfore shal he geue them euen til the time wherin she that traueleth shal bring forth and the remnant of his bretheren shal be conuerted to the children of Israel †And he shal stand and feede in the strength of our Lord in the height of the name of our Lord his God and they shal be conuerted because now shal he be magnified euen to the endes of the earth †And this man shal be peace when the Assyrian shal come into our land and when he shal tread in our houses and we wil rayse vpon him “ seuen pastours and “ eight principal men †And they shal feede the land of Assur in the sword and the land of Nemrod in the speares therof and he shal deliuer from Assur when he shal come into our Land and when he shal tread in our coasts †And the remnant of Iacob shal be in the middes of manie peoples as dew from our Lord and as droppes vpon the grasse which expecteth not man and tarieth not for the children of men †And the remnant of Iacob shal be in the Gentiles in the middes of manie peoples as a lion among the beasts of the forests and as a lions whelpe among the flockes of cattel who when he hath passed and troden downe and taken there is none to deliue◠†Thy hand shal be exalted ouer thine enemies and al thine enemies shal perish †And it shal be in that day sayth our Lord I wil take away thy horses out of the middes of thee and wil destroy thy chariots †And I wil destroy the cities of thy land and wil destroy al thy munitions and I wil take away sorceries out of thy hand there shal be no diuinations in thee †And I wil make thy sculptils to perish and thy statuees out of the middes of thee and thou shalt no more adore the workes of thy handes †And I wil plucke vp thy groues out of the middes of thee and wil destroy thy cities †And I wil doe vengeance in furie and in indignation among al the nations that haue not heard ANNOTATIONS CHAP. V. 2. From the beginning from the dayes of eternitie To signifie that Christ taking mans nature vvas neuertheles eternal God vvith the Father and Holie Ghost the prophet addeth that he vvas from the beginning and from the dayes of eternitie vvhich maner of speach by â—teâ—aâ—â—ng the same termes as also seculum seculi secuâ—a saeculoâ—um the like signifie absolute eternitie Though the same wordes put single in some places do only importe long time or duâ—ing such a state as Exo. 21. v. 6. Psal 23. v. 7. 9. 5. Seuen pastors eight principal men Christ raiseth vp and alvvayes conserueth manie or a great number signified by the tvvo mystical numbers seuen and eight to defend the faithful people of the Church against Assur Nemrod that is against al persecutors and aduersaries These defenders are the Fathers and Doctors of the Church especially Bishops vvho are here called Pastors to admonish them that their office is to seedâ— the people vvith spiritual foode doctrine and Sacraments and are called also princes or principal men to admonish the people to obey and folovv their ordinance As S. Paul also admonisheth Obey your Prelates and be subiect to them For they vvatch as being to render account for your soules Heb. 13. CHAP. VI. God expostulateth with the chiefe of the Iewes 3. and with the whole people their ingratitude for his singular benefites 6. who is not pacified with sacrifices 8. but by doing iustice 9. which they not doing 13. shal be afflicted by their enimies HEARE ye what our Lord speaketh Arise contend in iudgement against the mountaines let the hilles heare thy voice †Let the mountaynes heare the iudgement of our Lord the strong fundations of the earth because the iudgement of our Lord is with his people and with Israel he wil be iudged †My people what haue I done to thee or what haue I molested thee answer me †Because I brought thee out of the Land of Aegypt deliuered thee out of the house of them that serued and sent before thy face Moyses and Aaron and Marie †My people remember I pray thee what Balach the king of Moab purposed and what Balaam the sonne of Beor answered him from Setim euen to Galgal that thou mightst know the iustices of our Lord. †What worthie thing shal I offer to our Lord shal I bow the knee to the high God What shal I offer vnto him holocausts calues of a yeare old †Why can our Lord be pacified with thousandes of rammes or with manie thousandes of fatte buckgoates Why shal I geue my first borne for my wickednes the fruite of my womb for the sinne of my soule †I wil shew thee ô man what is good and what our Lord requireth of thee Verely to do iudgement and to loue mercie and to walke solicitous with thy God †The voice of our Lord crieth to the citie and saluation shal be to them that feare thy name heare ye ô tribes and who shal approue it †As yet there is fire in the house of the impious treasures of iniquitie and a lesser measure ful of wrath †Why shal I iustifie an impious balance and the deceitful weights of the bag †By which her richmen were replenished with iniquitie and the inhabitants therin spake lies and their tongue was fraudulent in their mouth †And I therfore begane to strike thee with perdition for thy sinnes †Thou shalt eate shalt not be filled and thy humiliation in the middes of thee and thou shalt apprehend and shalt not saue and whom thou shalt saue I wil geue vnto the sword †Thou shalt sow and shalt not reape thou shalt tread the oliue and shalt not be anoynted with the oyle and presse muste shalt not drinke