wept for her hart had a sure trust in the Lord. After that Antiochus had caused a great murther of men in Ierusalem 1. Mach. 1. there arose a greate heauinesse in all the lande of Israel The maried men mourned and the Bride and Brydegrome lamented Israel made great lamentation for the death of Mathathias 1. Mach. 2. Al the people of Israel made greate lamentation for the deathe of Iudas Machabeus 1. Mach. 9. and mourned long saying Alas how was this worthy slain which deliuered the people of Israel After that Ionathas his ii sonnes and a 1000. other men 1. Mach. 12. the whyche he had of Triphon were slaine Israell bewailed Ionathas and theym that were with him right sore Antiochus was sory in his mind for thuniust death of Onias 2 Mach. 4. and moued with pity wept remembring his sobernes manerly behauiour modesty After that Herode had caused at the children that wer ii yere old to be slain Mat. 2. then was fulfilled that whiche was spoken by the prophet Iere. In Rama was ther a voyce hard lamentatyon weping and great mourning Iere. 31. The father of the childe that was lunatike cried wyth teares sayinge Lorde I beleue Mar. 9. healpe thou mine vnbelefe We read that Mary MagdaleÌ„ wept thre diuers times Luke 7. Fyrst at our Lordes fete for her sinnes Secondarilye for the death of her brother And thirdly for the Lordes passion Ihon. 20.11 We finde that our Sauioure wept thrise First vpon Lazarus whom he reuiued againe Ihon. 11. Secondarily vppon Ierusalem the which he knew should be destroied for sinne Luke 19. And thirdly vp on the crosse when he offred him self as a sacryfyce for the synnes of the worlde Heb. 5. As Paule sayeth Offerynge vp prayers wyth stronge crying and teares After that Peter had denied his master thrise Luke 22. he went out and wept bitterly But note that Lucas premytted saying Oure Lord loked vppon Peter A great company of people women folowed him vnto the crosse whiche bewailed and lamented him Luke 23. Paule the Apostle did serue the lord with teares Act. 20. for when he â—ad his brethren fare wel he said Ye knowe after what manner I haue bene wyth you at all seasons seruing the Lorde with all humilitye and wyth manye teares Also he monished his neyghboures with teares Act. 20. and prouoked theym to weepe sayinge By the space of three yeares I ceased not to warne euerye one of you night and day wyth many teares Then followeth They wept very sore Also Paul wrote his Epistles with teares 2. Cor. 2. Out of great affliction and anguish of heart I wrote vnto you with manye teares And manye walcke of whome I haue told you often Philip. 3. now tel you wepinge And to the Romaynes he saith the spriâ—e maketh intercession for vs with groninges whiche cannot be expressed Rom. 8. Such groninges are not wont to be without weping When Peter was come to Ioppa al the widowes stode rouÌ„d about him weping Act. 9. and shewing the coâ—tes and garments which Dorcas made while she was with them ¶ Of swearing ca. xviii ABimelech spake vnto Abraham sayinge Gen. 21. God is with thee in all that thou doste And therefore sweare vnto me And Abraham sayd I wil sweare Gen. 31. Iacob and Laban made a couenaÌ„t and Iacob sware by the feare of his father Isaac Moses was content and sware that he wold dwell with Ietro Exo. 2. take hys doughter Zephora to his wife 1. regu 20. Ionathas made a couenaunt wyth Dauid in the Lord they sware both Dauid hearinge of the hardnesse of Nabal â— regu 25. sayde So GOD do vnto the ennemyes of Dauid If I liue of all that pertaineth to him by the dawning of the dai any thing that pisseth against the wall 2. regu 19. Dauid mourning for the deathe of his sonne Salomon Ioab saide vnto him Arise and come out and speake kindelye vnto thy Seruauntes for I sweare by the Lord. Except thou com out ther wil not tarye one man with thee this night Dauid sware vnto Bethsabe Salomons mother 3 regu 1. that Salomon shoulde raigne after him After that king Salomon had hard his mothers peticyon for Adonia 3. regu 2. he sware by the lord saying God do so so to me if Adonia hathe not spoken this word against his owne life Helias the Thesbite saide vnto Achab the king of Israell 3. reg 17. As truely as the Lord God of Israel liueth before whome I stand there shal be neyther dew nor rain these yeares but according to my worde Benadab king of Siria disdaining at Achabs aunswer 3. reg 20. saide Thus and thus do the Gods to me if the duste of Samaria be inough for al the people that folow me Wicked Iesabel that slewe Helias the Prophet 3. reg 19. made the like oth Helias said vnto Helizeus tary here for our Lord hath sent me to Bethel He saide 4. regu 2. As surelye as the Lorde lyueth and as thy soule liueth I wyll not leaue thee Nabuchodonozor swore by hys throne Iudi. 1. that he wold be auenged King Antiochus the sonne of Antiochus sente vnto the Iewes to make peace 1. Mach. 6. And made an othe vnto them and afterwardes brake it againe immediately Herode the Tetrarch sware vnto Herodias doughter Mar. 6. whatso euer thou wilt aske I wil geue it thee euen vnto th one half of my kingdome Peter to those that said vnto hym Mat. 26. And surely thou art euen one of them for thy speache bewrayeth the began to cursse and to sweare that he knew not the man We read that Paule in hys Epystles dyd oftentimes sweare Philip. 1. Thus he saythe Rom 1. GOD the father of oure LORDE Iesu Christ doth know that I lye not 2. Cor. 1. And againe Beholde before God I lie not God is my witnes whom I serue I cal God for a record vnto my soule ¶ Of the obseruation and keping of the Sabboth day Capit. xix THe obseruation of the Saboth had his originall beginning of that Gen. 2. that is saide and wrytten in Genesis God blesseth the seuenth daye and sanctified it because that in it he reasted from al his worke And the children of Israel gathered in the wyldernesse on the .vi. daye a double quantitye of Manna Exo. 16. Because that on the Sabboth they should reast from all worke And amonge all the ten commaundementes Exo. 20. there is only a reason geuen of thobseruayâ—on of the Saboth because that amonge carnall men it semed to haue lytle reason And thys precept is very often times founde in the law to thintent that man should diligentlye obserue and keepe it and laboure to get and obtayne the true reast And on the Sabboth day ther wer offred two lambes
and fought saying We fynde no euell in thys man Though a spryte or an angel hath appeared and spoken to him let vs not striue against God When that Paule after the shypwracke that happened in the wynter was warminge him selfe at the fyre ther came a viper out of the heat and caughte him by the hande when the straungers saw that they sayd amōg them selues Act. 28. No doubte this man is a murtherer whome though he haue escaped the sea yet vengaunce suffreth not to lyue Paule shoke of the viper into the fyre and felt no harme But when they sawe no harme come to him they chaunged their mynds and said that he was a God ¶ Of good operations and workes ¶ Capitu. Cxv. OUr Lord put man in the garden of pleasure to dresse and keepe it Gen. 2.3 In the sweate of thy face shalt thou eat thy bread And after that our Lord put hym out of the garden of pleasure to labor the groūd of the whyche he was taken made And so note thou that oure LORD woulde manne to laboure bothe in the state of innocencye and also after hys fal Dauid when other kynges were wonte to goe forthe to battayle 1. regu 11. tarryed at home and in that idlenesse commytted bothe aduoutry and treason Salomon did build our lords house and his owne 3. regu 6.7 But yet note that hee builded our Lordes house fyrste And although the worke was much greater yet he accomplyshed all in a lesse time The workmen wrought industriously 2. Para. 24. and sette vppe the house of our Lorde in as good estate and condytyon as it was before and strengthened it Hezechias the Kynge of Iuda wrought it that was good 2. Para. 31. right and true before our Lord and sought hys God and that did he withal his hart and prospered In the second yere that the children of Iuda wer returned from Babilon 1. Esd. 3. they began to lay the foundation of the temple Iosue the sonne of Iosedech and his brethren ouer loked the work men that laboured 1. Esd. 6. Kinge Darius commaunded that our Lordes house shuld be buylded in Ierusalem that the expences shuld be geuen out of the kinges cofers for hindring of the worke 1. Esd. 4. Note that the workes the whyche the children of transmigration made as concerninge the foundation of the temple and the wals of the city had many hinderers Iona. 3. God beheld the workes of the Niniuites and had mercy on them Mat. 20. Idle workmen if they bee called to wages are reproued Our Lord commendeth the seruāt whiche receiued fiue talentes and vsing them Mat. 25. gaind other fiue And him likewise that receiued two and gayned other two But he reproued hym which receiued one talent and encreased it not but kept and reserued it vnprofitablye The two disciples which constrained our Lord to abide with thē Luc. 24. knew him not by hys woordes as longe as they wer wyth him But by his work of hospitality and breaking of breade they knew him Our Lord approued the woorke of Mary Magdalen when she anoynted him euen as he sat at meat Mar. 14. notwithding that his disciples grudged with in them selues there at Christ dothe declare that chyldren should ensue and follow the laudable workes of theyr fathers Iohn 8. saying If ye bee the children of Abraham do the dedes of Abraham Paule the Apostle doth cōpare good workes to sede 2. Cor. 9. of the whyche a man soweth litle inough and yet reapeth plenteously for he which soweth little shal reape little Paule reprehended the Thessalonians for theyr idlenesse verye sharplye 2. Thes 3. althoughe in a nother place hee commendeth them And saythe that if anye woulde not woorke the same should not eat Tabitha was Christes dysciple the same was full of good workes and almes dedes Act. 9. which she did And therfore when she was dead many were moued to praye Peter for her and he reuiued her againe In all people he that feareth oure Lord Act. 10. and worketh righteousnesse is accepted with him Paule beinge at Corinthe abode with Aquila and Priscilla Act. 18. because he was of the same craft wrought Their craft was to make tentes ¶ Of mans true intention in doing of his workes Cap. Cxvi CAin kild his brother Abel Dauid Goliath Ioab Abner and Amasia Herode Antipas Ihon the Baptist. Agrippa Iames. Peter wyth a word slew Ananias and Saphira but consider their diuers intentions and causes Abraham when our Lord promysed him a childe laughed and Sara laughed within her selfe Gen. 17.18 But Abrahams laughing was commēded and Saras reprehended Pharao sayd I haue sinned Ex. 9. Dauid said I haue trespassed .ii. Re. xii Manasses said the same .2 Par. 33. Iudas saide also that he had synned Math. 27. But the affections and intentions of theyr heartes were verye diuers Moses in a maner spake like words at Raphidi Exo. 17. when the people asked water to drink And at the waters of strife But at the fyrste tyme he was in no doubt as he was in the second As it appeareth by the payn that followed Nume 20. The chyldren of Ruben and Gad and halfe the trybe of Manasses Iosu. 22. builded an aultare but in an nother intent then the children of Israell beleued Our Lord cōmended the good will 2. regu 7. of Dauid intending to buylde hym a temple although he woulde haue no temple of his buildinge Dauid sent not for Urias whyche was in the host to exalte hym 2. regu 11. but to cloke his synne the which he had committed with Urias wife Iudith decketh her self very curyously but all that deckinge came not of voluptuousnesse Iudi. 10. but of vertue to deliuer the people of God oute of the handes of theyr most enemy That Mardocheus wold not worshyp Aman Esth. 3. nor bowe bys knee vnto hym he did it not vpon any disobedyence or contempt but that he woulde not as hee saythe geue the honoure due vnto God to anye mortall creature Herode said vnto the wisemen that when they had found the childe Math. 2. they should send hym word that he might worshyppe hym also But hee intended one thynge and pretended an other Our Lord charged the two blynde men to whome he restored their sight that no man shoulde know of it mat 9. Yet there followeth that they spreade abrode hys name in al the land wtthout the reproch of any transgression Our Lord dothe adde notablye the end and intention whych euery man ought to haue doyng wel or suffryng euill Blessed are ye Mat. 5.10.19 when mē reuile you c. For mee or for my names sake And who soeuer shal geue a cup of colde water c. Or who so leaueth hys house c. Our Lord commaunded that men should geue almes and faste Mat. 6. but not for the loue and fauour
of men least perchaunce such good workes should be corrupted depraued throughe an euel intention Some there were that ensued and folowed our Lord Iohn 6. to take him in hys words some other to eat of his bread And other that he or his frend might be healed of theyr diseases and some to be eternally saued Herode was desirous of a long season to se Iesus Luc. 23. not of any deuotyon but vpoÌ„ hope to se some myracle done by him And therfore it profited hym not to se Iesus ¶ Of Slouthfulnesse and negligence ¶ Capitu. Cxvii IAcob hearynge that there was vitayles and corne to be solde in Egypt Gen. 42. saide vnto hys sones Whye neglect you this mater Get you downe and by vs that that is nedefull The chyldren of Israell in the desert hadde Aungels breade Nume 11. and yet being blinded they desyred the metes of Egypte Slouthfulnesse and tediousnes is vnto manne the cause of impacience Nume 11. and carnall desyre and the occasion of many lyes as it is euidente in the boke of numbers We remember the fishe which we did eate in Egipte for naughte The chyldren of Israell departed from mount hor Nume 21. and began to fainte by the way and war weary of their loboure and iourney And they spake against God and Moses saying Our soule lotheth this light breade wherfore our Lorde sente fyerye serpentes amonge the people Abner kept Saule his Lorde verye neglygentlye 2. regu 26. for when Dauid came downe into hys hoste he founde noman that watched Isboseth Sauls sonne being a slepe was slayne 2. regu 4. When other kinges were wont to go a warfare 2. regu 11. Dauid taried at whom wher that he by thys occasion coÌ„mitted aduoutry and most hainusmurther It pleased Ioas the kinge of Iuda to repayre oure Lordes house 2. Para. 24. and he commaunded the Leuites to be diligente aboute the same But yet they did theyr parte but negligentely and therefore the kinge reprehended Ioiada the hye preaste Whylste the men were a slepe the enuious man came and sowde tares amonge the corne Mat. 13. The slothful and idle are reproued and they that do work rewarded Mat. 20. A greate tempest arose in the sea Ionas gaâ—e hym vnder the hatches fell a slepe Ionas 1. So the master of the shyp came and saide vnto him Why slombrest thou Up and call vpon thy god Our lord did reprehend veri sharply Mat. 25. the slouthful seruaunt which neglected to multiplye and encrease the talent commytted and delyuered vnto hym Mat. 25. The sleping virgins whose lampes were not prepared wer afterwardes excluded from the mariage Mar. 14. The disciples semed to be at the hour euen very heauy and slouthful when that they after our Lord had prayed them to watche dyd sleape continually ¶ Of the good towardnesse of children ¶ Capitu. Cxviii IT is not red that Isaac when hys father at Gods commaundemente woulde haue offered hym vp in a sacrifice Gene. 12. did either murmur ther at or run his waies Ioseph accused hys brethreÌ„ to hys father of an exceading greate cryme Gene. 27. the whych accusement in hym was a signe that he detested sinne And wheÌ„ his father said vnto him come for I wyl send thee to thy brethren he most obediently answered here am I. Samuel beinge yet a childe was a minister in the sighte of God 1. regu 2.3 where the arke of God was When Dauid should be anoynted king 1. regu 16. he was a little one in the fielde and kept sheape obeyinge hys father humbly and abiectly Ioas the sonne of Ioram kynge of Iuda 2. Para. 24. was but a childe of 7â— yere old when he began to raign he dyd that which was right and good before our Lorde all the dayes of Iehoiada the priest Iosias was viii yeare olde when he began to raign He did that which was righte 4. regu 22. good and pleasant in the syght of oure Lorde and yet he had a very euell father and graundfather Though Tobias wer yonger then all other in the tribe of Nephtaly yet did not he behaue him selfe childishly in hys woorkes Tob. 1.4 And afterwardes when hee hadde begotten a sonne he taught him from his childhode to fear God and to abstain from all synne Dani. 1. Daniell and his thre companions obseruing the lawe of God without Prophete priest or master lyued soberly iustly and deuoutlye amonge the gentyles chyldren The seuen brethren yonge men had a wonderfull wysdome in their aunswers 2. Mach. 7. and a maruelous pacience in their tribulations Iohn the Baptist grew and waxed stronge in spirite Luc. 1. and was in wyldernes tyll the daye came when he should shewe him selfe vnto the Israelytes Our sauiour a childe of .xii. yeares of age Luc. 2. was founde in the temple in the middes of the doctours hearinge them posing them And after that he went downe with Mary Ioseph and was subiect obedient vnto the. ¶ Of the societie and felowshyp of good men Ca. 119. Gen. 18. THis is greatlye to be considered that if ther had bene found ten iuste men in the v. synfull Cities that for their sakes our Lord would haue spared all the reast Iacob said vnto Laban it was but tittle that thou haddest before I came to thee Gen. 30. and nowe thou art increased made rich and our Lord hathe blessed thee for my sake Our lord blessed the house of Egipt for Iosephes sake Gen. 41 and increased it Iacob was well accompanyed that sayd Gene. 35. let vs make and reare vp an altare vnto our Lord for he hath heard me in the day of mitribulation was wyth me in the way which I went Israell serued our Lord al the daies of Iosua Iosu. 24. and the elders that ouer lyued Iosna the whyche knewe all the workes of our Lorde that he had done for Israel The children of Dan tooke Lachis and flue the men Iudi. 18. whiche dwelt carelesse without castinge of pearyls and hadde no society nor businesse with other men Saule sent sergeauntes and messengers to take Dauid that was wyth Samuel and other prophets 1. regu 19. that which began to prophesy and Saule came and prophecied with them For the reuerence and honor of Iosaphat king of Iuda which worshypped God 4. regu 3. Elizeus the prophet obtayned water for the host in the whych were two euil kinges Tobias would haue such gestes to dine with him Tob. 2.4.5 as feared God and he saught his sonne the same Eate not with the sinful And he most diligently wold know wyth whom his sonne should go wythall YoÌ„g Tobias wife said I haue not kept company wyth those that passe their time in sporte Tobi. 3. Neyther haue I made my self partaker with theÌ„ that walke in light behauour When they hearde the cruel commaundement of king
depraued and manye aduersaries to bee stirred vp agaynste hym Ieroboam by our Lordes commandemente spoken and declared by the Prophet Esay 3. regum 1â— was ordained made chefe ruler of ten tribes the whyche afterwardes yet induced the people malitiously to Idolatry ALyon slue the manne of God 3. regum 13. the whiche foretolde Hieroboam the destruction of the aultare nor he did not eate nor yet touch the carkase of the dead Notwithstandyng that Achab was a man mooste wycked iii. Reg. xxi and had harde say that he should be afflicted and punished for his trespasses yet he began outwardlye to repent and our Lorde deferd his paine and punishment 4. regum 1. This was verye terrible and fearful that Helias caused the ii captains and their l. men to be consumed deuoured vp with the Fire that came downe from heauen 4. regu 10. Iehu king of Israel with most feruent zele did so persecute the worshippers of Baall that oure Lorde dyd commend his doinges and yet he departed not froÌ„ Ieroboams Idolatry Kynge Manasses did many terrible and euil deedes in Ierusalem 2. Para. 33 afterwardes he was bound with chaines and caried to Babilon and doing penaunce he called vpon our Lord and was heard After that king Iosias had ledde a most holy life 1. Par. 35 he went forth to fighte against Necho the king of Egipt sayinge vnto him leaue of to meddle against god which is with me least he destroy thee but he harkned not vnto the words of Necho out of the mouth of god and his chance was but euyl for he being pearced and shot thorow with dartes and arrowes pearished and died Our Lord suffred the holy elect specially beloued city and his peculiare people the which he brought woÌ„derfully by the desert out of Egipte into the lande of promise Tob. 13. to be ouer â—â—nd and takeÌ„ by the Chaldeans and Assirians And it semed that he lyttle estemed theÌ„ for it is wrytten O geue thankes vnto our Lorde ye children of Israell For amonge the heathen which know him not hathe he scattered you to thintente that ye shoulde shew forthe his maruelous workes and cause them to know that there is none other God but he Tobias after such holy and mercyful woorkes in whiche he was verye carefull and diligente Tob. 2 waxed blinde and his kinsfolkes and frendes offended therwith and not perceiuing the cause therof derided and laughed him to scorne It might be reputed thought very meruailous Iudi i. ii why the oure Lord suffred that wicked Holofernes to subdue so many realmes and kingdomes Also of Aman the whiche of all other was mooste proudest and mooste crueltest Esth. 3. and yet nexte vnto the king he was exalted aboue all other prynces Iob. 1. â— Iobes frendes wondred and were euen ashamed that they sawe hym so greuously afflicted and punished The deuine iustice doth punishe euel meÌ„ at somtimes by those that are worse then they them selues Esay 10 as he punished the chidlren of Israell and Iuda by Nabuchodonozor and the Cauldes As the prophet Osay wryteth wo be vnto Assur whiche is a rod of my wrath Romayn 13. Our Lorde dothe not sette princes and prelates vppon those onlye that are faithfull and good but vppon all people For there is no power but of God Ionas â—â—â— Our Lorde commaunded Ionas to preache There are yet xl daies and then shall Ninâ—ue bee ouerthrowen And yet our Lord knew that the Niniuites would do penaunce and that they shuld not be so punished Our Lorde suffred that Antiochus shuld make that venerable and reuerent temple prophane 1. macha 1. burne the holy citye and make greate slaughter of Innocentes In the daies and time of Antiochus Epiphanius 1. Macha 6 the which destroyed the Temple and made it Prophane did cruelly handle many of the Iewes and slue them It mighte apeare and seme to manye that the whole world was in a confusion and euil ordained and ruled But for all that our Lorde out of those euils could bring the punishmente of the wicked and the corruption of certain other And againe the vertue and merites of manye of those that were slaine were diuersly increased I pray those that heare this to consider howe that Iudas Machabeus Ionathas 1. Macha 9. 1. Mach. 10 and Simon hys brethren were men towardes God and menne most valiaunt and most faythful and yet they died but miserably For Iudas was slaine in battayle agaynste Bacchides Triphon slue Ionathan his two soÌ„nes 1 Macha 16 Ptolomeus the sonne of one Sabolde slue proditoriously Simon and his two sonnes which were dronken It is to be wondred at 2. Mac. 6.7 that GOD when Eleazarus being so old a man and the vii brethren suffred such cruell tormentes for the law of God dyd shew no vengaunce ther against the tyrauntes Math. 2. Our Lorde beynge yet but a child would be conueyed from the presence and face of Herode and suffred the Innocentes to be slaine in hys place But in that he prouided well for the infantes for they shoulde neuer haue had so much profite if herode had indeuerd him self to haue honoured theÌ„ as they had by that that he commauÌ„ded them to be slaine Our Lord when he hard the faith of the Centurion he maruailed and saide to them that followed him math 8. Many shal come from the East and west and shall reast with Abraham and Isaac and Iacob in the kyngdome of heauen but the Chyldren of thys kingdome shall be caste oute into vtter darcknesse A certaine Scribe offred hym selfe to followe oure Lorde math 8. and was not admitted Luke 9. He inuited an nother to followe hym the whyche semed not to bee willynge For he sayde Suffer me fyrste to goe and burye my father Our Lord did miracles in Chorasin and Bethsaida Math. 11 where they profited but litle But he did none in Tire or Sidon where if he had done them they shuld haue ben profitable haue done much good God suffred Ihon Baptist thexample of all holinesse to be beheaded of Herode the moste vilest aduouterer mar 6. But it encreaseth the astonishmente of man for as much as it was done at the instance of an harlot nor we read not in the gospel that there insued any variaunce neither against the daÌ„sel nor against the aduoutrer nor yet against Herode the Tetrarche In our Lordes passion God as coÌ„cernynge the redemption of maÌ„kind fulfilled his most benigne will by the moste celerate and wicked iniquity of men Actes 3 For scripture saith God whych before had shewed by the mouthe of all hys Prophettes how that Christe shoulde suffer hathe thus wyse fulfilled Ihon. 18. Peter the Prince of the Apostles and heade of the Churche denied his master thryse Christe sufferinge the same Ihon. 11. Thomas the whiche saide so confedently Let vs go that we
wept together 1. reg 20. Saul hering Dauids voyce that had spard him 1. reg 24. lifted vp his voyce wept When Dauid sawe that Sicelag was burnt 1. reg 30. and that the men wer takeÌ„ prisonners and caried away He and the people that were with him wept vntil they coulde wepe no more Dauid mourned and wept for Saul and Ionathas 2. reg 1. and for the other that were slaine Dauid and all the people did mourn and wepe for Abner 2. reg 3 whom Ioab murdred Dauid would not wepe for his little sonne that was deade 2. reg 12. and yet he wept for him when he was sicke NotwithstaÌ„ding AbsoloÌ„ shewed him self very naughtes wicked towards his father 2. regu 18. yet his father king Dauid bewayled his death most pyttefully Elizeus seing Azael before him begaÌ„ to wepe 4. regu 8. for the euyl that he being king of Siria shuld do to the childreÌ„ of Israel Hezechias wepte very sore praying our lorde for the death the whiche he verely estemed to be at hande 4. reg 20. When Iosias the king of Iuda herd the thretnyngs for sinne writteÌ„ in the boke of the law of god 4. regu 22. he rent his clothes wept greatli pleased our lord When the temple was reedified be those that came froÌ„ Babilone 1. Esd. 3. a man could not know or discerne the ioyful voyce or sound of those that were mery glad froÌ„ the noyse of weping amonge the people When that Esdras prayed wept for the coÌ„mixtion of the Iewes the gentiles 1. Esd. 9. a greate numbre of men and women beinge gathered together resorted vnto him wept very sore When Nehemia heard of the miserable estate and condition of the cytie 2. Esd. 1. of Ierusalem he wept mourned certaine daies fasted and prayed before the face of god of heauen Toby did eat his meat with mourning feare Tobi. 2. for he had the dead coarâ— of hys neyghboure in hys house the whiche he would bury in the night And when Toby had heard the inturius wordes of his wyfe Tobi. 3. he sighed and with teares began to make his prayer After that Sara Raguels doughter had heard her maydes contemelius greuous words Tobi. 3. she prayd besought god with teares that he would delyuer her from that rebuke When yonge Tobi was departed gone froÌ„ his parentes Tob. 5. his mother began to wepe sayd The staffe of our age haste thou taken and sent awaye from vs. When Gabelus came into Raguels house Tobi. 9. and saw yonge Toby sitting at the table He wept and blessed him Blinde Toby arose ran to mete his sonne returning homewards Tobi. 11. He receaued him he and his wife kissed him they began to wepe for ioye And wheÌ„ Achior had plainly declared all the Holofernes had sayd Iudi. 6. all the people with a coÌ„men lameÌ„tacioÌ„ pourd out their praiers together vnto oure Lorde And afterward the whole congregacion with great murning weping made their prayers together all the night longe saying we haue sinde with our fathers Iudith stode before Holofernes bed making her prayers with teares Iudi. 13. that god wolde vouchesafe to make perfect the thinge that in her thought she had deuised When Mardocheus had herd of the wicked and vniust sentence that was geuen agaynst the Iewes Esth. 4. he rent his clothes besprincled hys head with ashes and put on sakâ—loth with loud and lamentable cryinge declared the bitternes sorowfulnes of his mynd And in al landes countries as farre as the kynges cruell worde and commauÌ„dement extended ther was great lamentation amonge the Iewes fastynge weping and mourning After that Haman saw that Mardocheus Esth. 6. was so magnified and honored he gat him home in all the haste mournynge and bareheaded Holy Iob wept lameÌ„ted his owne miseries Iob. 30. saying my harp is turnd to sorow my pipe to wepinge whose vehement weping sorow dothe appere by his words before spoken Iob. 16. My face is swoln wich weping my eies ar the shadow of death he also lameÌ„ted wept for other meÌ„s sorowes trouble I wept sayth Iob with him that was in trouble Iob. 30. my soule had compassion vpon the poore psal 6. Kinge Dauid the prophete had a bathe euen of his owne teares I wyl wash my bed euery night water my couche with my teares His teares wer vnto Dauid as meat drinke psal 41. psal 69. psal 101. My teares haue beÌ„ my meat day night Thou shalt geue vs plenteousnes of teares to drincke And in a nother place He sayth I myngled my drincke with weping And Dauid remembring his owne lyfe did wepe psal 55. O God I haue opened my lyfe vnto the and thou hast set my teares in thy sight And hauing heauen in remembraÌ„ce he saide psal 136. By the waters of Babylon we sate downe and wept And in his prayer to our Lorde psal 38. he saith Heare my prayer Oâ— Lord and with thine eares receiue my teares psal 94. And in a nother place let vs wepe be fore the Lord our maker Esaias perâ—eiuing the dâ—structyon of his people Esa. 22. said Get ye hence from me for I wil weepe and make bytter lamentation Nor go not about to coÌ„forte me vppon the destructyon of the daughter of my people Ieremy said Be obedient geue ear take not disdaine at it Iere. 13. For it is the Lorde him selfe that speaketh Then there followeth But if ye wyll not heare me that geue you secreat warnyng I wil mourne from my whole hart for your pride and stubbernes Piteously wil I wepe and the teares shal gushe oute of mine eies for the lords flock shal be caried away captiue The copyous complainâ—e and bewailing that is in Ieremy Iere. 9. are signes and arguments of many teares who wil geue my hed water inoughe and a wel of teares for mine eyes Iere. 6. that I may wepe night and day for the slaughter of my people And the manifold lamentatioÌ„s therfore I do wepe Thre 1. and mine eyes gushe out of water Then foloweth for my sorow is very great and my harte is heauy And the clamerous and loude sobbinges Mine eies runne and can not cease Thre 3. Mine eies breake myne heart tourne not thy face from my syghing and cryinge And for the failing and losse of eies Mine eies Thre 2. saith Ieremy begin to fail me thorowe wepinge and my bodye and bowels are disquieted I Daniel mourned for the space of iii. wekes Dani. 9. so that I had no lust to eat bread as for â—lesh and wine ther cam none within my mouth When that Susannes frendes saw that the prestes should bear witnesse against her Dani. 13. thei weptâ— and she loking vp toward heauen
Nume 28. and vppon other daies but one except in solempne feastes kalendes And that to declare that in festiual daies men shuld honor god more reuerently and aboundauntlye then other daies The man that was takē gathering of stickes vpon the Saboth day Nume 15. was by Goddes commaundemente stoned with stones of all the people Nehemias saw some treading wine presses 2. Esd. 13. and bringing of burthens to be solde vpon the Saboth day and he rebuked them as breakers of the Sabothe The gentiles which held with Antiochus appoynted to fighte vpon the Sabboth daies against certen Iewes that were fled out of Iewry 1. mach 2. but they casted not one stone at thē nor made faste theyr preuy places but said we will die all in oure innocencye But yet it is to be obserued and noted that notwythstandynge that in thys thing they shewed a Deuotyon towardes Goddes commaundemente yet inas much as they perceiued afterwardes that therby Gods people myghte be scattered and loste they toke better counsel sayinge What soeuer he be that cometh to make battell wyth vs vpon the saboth day we wil fight against him for why to fighte for the defēce of mans life or for the lawe of God is no seruile worke or labour Iudas Machaheus his companye fought against Nicanor his hoste 1. mach 7. slue 5000. men put the rest to flit◠But yet they followed not the chase because it was the day before the saboth Nicanor thought withal his power to strike a field vpon a Sabboth day Neuerthelesse the Iewes that were compelled to go with him 2. mach 15. said O do not so cruelly and vnkindlye but halow the Saboth daye The Pharisies saide vnto the Disciples that did plucke and eat the eares mat 12. of corne 1. regu 21. ye do that which is not law full to do vpon the Sabboth day But the Lorde saide vnto them haue ye not read what Dauid did c. Then followeth The sonne of manne is also LORDE euen of the Sabbothe daye We do read that oure sauioure dyd many miracles vppon the Sabbothe day Mat. 12. as it is manifest thorow oute all the Gospell and for that ther may be assigned thre causes Fyrste to shewe hym self to be the Lord. Mat. 12. The seconde to open the true vnderstanding of the precept and commaundement for mē oughte not to cease from all woorkes vpon the Saboth Luke 6. Whether is it lawful on the Sabboth dayes to do good or to do euel Luke 12. to saue ones lyfe or to destroy it The thyrde that he myghte edifye and profet all that sawe hym and hard him When Christe had healed the woman which was bowed together the ruler of the Sinagoge disdayned Luc. 13. because that he had healed on the Sabbothe daye and saide There are syxe daies in which men ought to worke in them come that ye maye be healed and not on the Sabboth day But the Lord answered hym and said Thou hipocrite doth not eche one of you on the Sabboth day lose his Oxe or hys Alfe from the stal and lead him to the water And ought not this doughter of Abraham whome Sathan hathe bound lo 18. yeares be loosed frō this bonde on the Sabboth day And when he thus sayd all his aduersaries were ashamed all the people reioysed on all the excellent deedes that wer done by him The holy women which had prepared swete odours Luke 23. to anoynt our lords body kept the sabboth day so strictly that on that they would not anoynte so precious and holy a bodye So they rested the Sabboth daye according to the commaundement Oure Lorde laye in the Sepulchre on the Sabboth daye Ihon. 1◠The Sabboth day was moste apte and conuenient to heare the worde lawe of God Act. 13. and the prophetes The whiche are read euery Sabooth day ¶ Of the reuerence that ought to be done exhibited to Gods Temple ca. xx OUR Lorde spake vnto Moyses saying Exo. 30. Thou shalt make a lauer of brasse to washe withall and putte water therin Aaron and hys sonnes shall washe their handes and theyr feete therin euen when they goe into the tabernacle of wytnesse Nume 4. It was lawfull but for a fewe to entre into the tabernacle or to touch the vessell 3. regu 6.7 Salomon was muche more dylygente and feruente in the edification and buyldynge of Goddes Temple then in buildynge of hys owne house For he accomplyshed Goddes house in seauen yeares and hys owne in thyrtene Yea he began soner to build the Temple than his owne house 3. regu 8. Salomon made greate solemnite in the buyldyng of the Temple 4. regu 11. Ioiada the byshoppe commaunded that Athalia shoulde be brought oute and not to be slayne in oure Lordes Temple Oure Lorde semed to haue greate cure and care for the Temple when that he commaunded Sirus the kyng of Percia Esd. 1. ca. 1. Esd. 45. to buylde hym an house at Ierusalem And it is vnderstanded of a materyall Temple As the texte dothe declare And Esaye declared the same two hundreth yeares before After that the Iewes were returned from the captyuite of Babilone they beganne to buylde the Temple 1. Esd. 3. or euer they edified or made the walles of the Citie notwythstandynge that they hadde manye ennemyes whome they feared bothe daye and nyghte Tobias is muche coōmended which wente to Ierusalem vnto the Temple of our Lord Tobi. 1. and ther worshypped and prayd vnto the Lorde After that they had optayned the vyctorye of theyr enemyes the which had defyled the Temple 1. Mach. 4. Iudas and hys brethren or euer they made any mention of theyr owne houses sayd beholde oure ennemyes are dyscomfyted Let vs nowe go vp to clense and to repayre the Sanctuary Kynge Demetrius ordayned that who soeuer fledde vnto the Temple at Ierusalem or within the liberties or coste thereof 1. Mach. 10 shoulde as thoughe they wer fallen into the kinges daunger for anye maner of busynesse be pardoned The Iewes goynge to make battayle agaynste Nicanors hoste 2. Mach. 15. hadde pryncipally more solycitude care and feare for the holye Temple then for theyr wyues chyldren brethren and kynsfolkes At the fortie dayes ende Our lorde woulde be broughte and offerd in the Temple Luke 2. And when he was twelue yeares olde Luke 2. he was founde disputing in the Temple Afterwardes he droue oftentymes the byers and sellers out of the Temple Ihon. 2. Luke 19. And manye times he taughte and did miracles in the Temple Oure Lord doth reproue the Pharises whiche sayde that the golde of the Temple was more holy Mat. 23. than the Temple After that the Apostles had receyued the holye ghoste Peter and Iohn went vp into the Temple Act. 3. at the nine houre of prayer And euen then was the fyrste myracle of healthe shewed
al the ioy that we ioy for your sakes before God 1. Thes. 5. And he exhorteth them to geue thaÌ„kes for all things Reioyce euer pray continuallye In all thinges geue thankes ¶ Of gratitude for the benefites of man accepted ca. lxiiii AFter that Abraham had smitten and ouercome the foure kinges Gen. 14. and had brought againe and recouered all such substaunce goodes as they had stolne and gotten The king of Sodome came forthe to mete him and offred him al those goodes substaunce the only beastes excepted Where is to be noted that notwythding Abraham refused that was proferd him yet it was his mind that his company should haue part of the praye that was taken not beynge ingrate or vnmyndefull of theyr aid paines taken Laban seyng the Iewels that is the earinges and the bracelets that Abrahams seruaunte had geuen hys syster Rebecca Gen. 24. went oute vnto hym and said come in thou blessed of oure Lord and so he receued hym into hys house wyth great humanity and gentlenesse After that Iacob had serued his vncle Laban many yeares Gen. 29. Laban sayd vnto him Thoughe thou be my brother shuldst thou serue me for nought Pharao the king of Egipt was very kind and thankful vnto Ioseph for the exposition of his dreame Gen. 41. and magnificently he did exalt him Iethro the Priest of Madian was thankfull and kinde vnto Moses Exo. 2. because that he when his Doughters came to water their sheepe defended them he caused hym to be called into dinner and gaue hym hys doughter in marriage Iosue was verye carefull that Rahab the harlot Iosu. 6. whyche hid and saued his messengers should not pearish in Ierico that was destroyed When Gedeon had deliuered Israel from theyr ennemies Iudi. 8. they sayd vnto him Reigne thou ouer vs both thou thy sonne and thy sonnes sonne for thou hast deliuered vs oute of the hand of Madian Ruth 2. And Naomy said coÌ„mending Boom that loked most beningly vppon Ruth blessed be he of our Lord for that fauor grace that he shewed to the lyuing he hath reserued for the dead Because Cineus was good and fauourable vnto the children of Israel 1. regu 15. Saule when he destroyed Amalech dyd spare him Dauid saide to Abiather whose father loued Dauid Abide thou wyth me 1. regu 22. and fear not for if any man seke thy soul he shal seke mine also Dauid sent to the men of Iabes in Galaad 2 regu â— that buried Saule his children and gaue them thankes For the loue that Dauid had to Ionathas Sauls son 1. â—egu 9. he made an inquisition whether there wer any maÌ„ left of the house or kindred of Saule And ordained that Mephiboseth the sonne of Ionathas shuld be a continual gest at his owne table The Quene of Saba brought king Salomon many gyftes 3. regu 10. And he gaue her according to all her desire what soeuer she asked besides that he gaue her of a free wyll wyth hys owne hande Helias had compassyon vppon the widowe that sustained hym 3. regu 17. and so effectuously prayed for her sonne that was departed that hee reuyued hym again Abdias alledged the pleasures and benefites that he hadde done for oure Lordes prophets 3. regu 18. the which he hydde when they were sought for to be put to death And al was for thys intent that he should not send hym wyth no ieoperdous message When Helias shuld ascend into heauen 4. regu 2. he wel and munificently rewarded his disciple Elizeus Elizeus offred most gently the Sunamite his hostesse 4. regu 4. to speake to the kynge for her if she hadde anye businesse wyth hym Agayn he obtaind gat her a chylde and afterwardes being dead reuiued the same Naaman the Syrian being clensed of his leprosy at Elizeus woorde and peticion 4. regu 5. did offer hym giftes saying I pray the take a blessyng of thy seruaunt The Iewes accusers sent an Epystle to kinge Arthaxersâ—s amonge all other thinges containing this 1. Esd. 4. We remeÌ„ber the salt that we did eate in the palace And in as muche as we thought it against all right to see thy losse and hurtes we haue sent c. Yong Tobias rehearsed vnto hys father wyth great gratitude thaÌ„kes the benefites good tournes that he had receiued of Raphael the aungel Tobi. 12. Quene Esther was not vnkynde to Mardocheus her nourisher Esth. 4. Nabuchodonozor the kinge of Babilon hearinge the interpretatyon of hys dreame Dani. 4.5 extold Daniel and gaue hym great giftes Likewise Balthasar honoured hym for the declaration of the scrypture that was wrytten in the wall When Iudas Machabeus hearde that the Scithopolites wer fauorable vnto the Iewes in the time of theyr tribulation 2. mach 12. he thanked them The elders of the Iewes saied vnto our lord Iesus Lu. 7 of the Centurion that prayed him for hys seruaunte He is worthye that thou shuldest do this for hym for hee loueth oure nation and hath built vs a sinagoge Paule did fully recognise the benefites that were done vnto hym Gala. 4 For he sayeth to the Galathians ye receiued me as an Aungel of god would haue plucked oute youre owne eyes and haue geuen them to me I was euen fylled after that I receued of Epaphroditus the thynges which wer sent froÌ„ you with an odure of a swete smel Phil. 4 a sacrifice accepted and pleasant to god Our lord geue mercy vnto the housholde of Onesiforus 2. Timo. 8 for he ofte reâ—reshed me and was not ashamed of my chayne And also for Onesimus philemons seruaunt the which did minister vnto him in prison he writeth to PhilemoÌ„ affectuous letters ¶ Of ingratitude Capitu. lxv Gene. 40 THe chefe butler in the tyme of his prosperite had clene forgotten Ioseph his interpreter Gene. 31 Iacob dyd serue his vncle Laban profytablye and faythfully and he woulde ofte haue deceiued him When the people sawe that it was longe or Moses came downe oute of the mountayne Gene. 32 they sayed vnto Aaron vp make vs goddes to go before vs. Beholde now howe soone they hadde forgotten the benefites receyued of the true and liuinge god The children of Israel lothed in the desert that good meate geuen them Nume 11 from heauen wythoute theyr payne or laboure they wept sayinge who shall geue vs fleshe to eate The Aungel of god did impropriate and cast in the chyldren of Israels teethe the benefites of god exhibited vnto theÌ„ Iudi. 2. because they had broken the couenante and appoyntment and had transgressed the coÌ„maundementes of god Saul receyued many benefites and good turnes of Dauid 1. re 17. and yet he did his best to kyll him Dauid saued the inhabitours of the lande 1. re 23 and yet they woulde haue betraied and deliuered hym into Sauls handes that persecuted him The chyldren of
theÌ„ Afterwardes he smote the Philistines again and tooke the bridle of bondage out of theyr hands Hesmote Moab the whiche was tributary vnto him Also he smote kyng Soba and xii M. of the Sirians And our Lord kept Dauid what so euer he toke in hande When Ioab saw that the fronte of the battaâ—l was againste him before and after hee saide vnto hys brother Abisai If the Sirians preuayle agaynste mee thou shalt healpe mee if the children of Amnon preuaile against thee 2. reg 10 I will come and succoure thee Therfore quite the like a man and let vs fighte for oure people and for the city of our God and our lorde shall do that whiche is good in hys owne eies And when the battayle was begun all his aduersaryes fled from him Absolon made vnhonest warre against his father Dauid 2. regu 18. and therfore he and his people that held with him sped there after to the entent thou maist knowe and learne that they whyche vniustly consent to an euill Prynce can neuer prosper Benadab the kinge of Syria wyth xxxii kinges besieged Samaria and at our Lordes commaundemente hee was ouerthrowen and put to flight the onlye seruauntes of the gouernours of the shyres 3. regum 20 whyche were in nomber euen CC.xxx. and two fighting againste them The nexte yeare after Bennadab came againe with a greate hoste and there were slaine of the Sirians an hundred thousande fotemeÌ„ in one day because they said The Lorde is but God of the hylles and not God of the valleis When the king of Iuda the kynge of Israel 4. regum 3. and the king of Edom were gathered to fight against Moab and had great scarsity of water the Prophet Elizeus said This broke shal be filled with water And furthermore our Lord shal deliuer Moab into your handes Samaria was so long besieged by the king of Syria 4. reg 6.7 that an Asses head was solde for lxxx siluer pence And the fourthe parte of a Cab of Doues donge for v. sicles And at the worde of Elizeus the Syrians were put to flight and by that they had greate aboundaunce of all thinges After the Amasias king of Iuda had obtaynd the victory against EdoÌ„ he seÌ„t vnto the king of Israell prouokynge him to battaile 4. regu 14. but yet he put hym to the worse And through Amasias elation and pride a great part of the wall of Ierusalem was destroyed Althoughe Ieroboam the sonne of Ioas kynge of Israel and hys people were euell 4. regu 14. yet he healped them and dyd them muche good by the hand of Ieroboam Our Lord fought wel and meruelously for Hezechias the kinge of Iuda 4. regu 19. against Sennacherib the kinge of Assyria When that the angell of our Lord slue in one night of Sennacheribs hoaste .185000 And he him selfe was slaine afterwardes of hys owne children When Abia the king of Iuda and his host saw that the battail was before and behind He cryed vnto our Lord and the priestes blew the trompets 2. Para. 13. our lord made Ieroboam and al Israel afraidâ— and ther fel down wounded of Israel 50000. stronge men so the childreÌ„ of Israel wer brought vnder and the children of Iuda comforted because they trusted vnto our Lorde Zara the Moryan came out against Asa the kynge of Iuda with an hoste often hundred thousande Asa cryed vnto our Lord saying Lorde it is no 2. Para. 14. difference wyth thee whether thou healpe in many or in fewe Then foloweth Ourâ— Lorde made the blacke Mores afrayde and they fell downe dead For they were consumed of our Lord. The children of Moab and AmmoÌ„ were gathered together to fyghte against Iosaphat 2. Para. 20. but he wholye gaue him self to pray vnto our Lord. And what time as the singing men began to laud and praise our lord he turnd the deceites of theyr aduersaryes among them selues for euery one with mutuall woundes destroyed an other Phacee Romelius son kinge of Israel slue in one day in Iuda 2. Para. 17. an hundred and twenty thousand fyghtinge men and that because they had forsaken our Lord. The victory which our Lord gaue vnto the chyldren of Israell Iudi. 16. by the handes of Iudith is famous and notorius wherfore she said after the death of Holofernes our lord almighty hindred him and deliuered him into the handes of a woman Iudas Machabeus perceiuing the Serons 1. Mach. 3. host was great his felowes beyng fearful 1. Macha 3 sayd It is a smal matter for many to be ouercome with a few yea there is no difference in the sight of God of heaueÌ„ to delyuer by a great multitude or by a smal company and Seron and his hoste was destroyed And the selfe Machabâ—us wyth three thousand men 1. macha 4. whych hadde neyther harnesse nor sweardes to theyr mindes ouerthrewe Gorgias and hys great â—ost Bachides came with a great power to fight against Ionathas and Ionathas saide vnto his menne 1. macha 9 Let vs fight and cry now vnto heauen that we may be deliuered from the hands and power of oure ennemies and so they were It is worthye to be noted of Iudas Machabeus that he which fought so often times and did so manye honest and worthy actes did so oft wynne as oft as he whan he shuld fyght did pray and call to God for healpe 1. mach 6.9 But yet we read not that he prayd in two of his most notable battailes Thone was againste Antiochus Eupator The second againste Bacchides and Alchimus and then he was slain in the battel ¶ Of Impacience and murmuring Cap. lxxxii AGar Saras maide that coulde not suffer the correction of her mistresse the which fared â—oule wyth her Gen. 16 because of her pryde fledde her wayes but at the aungels commaundemente she retourned agayne vnto her The officers of the children of Israell said vnto Aaron Exo. 5. and Moses oure Lord loke vpon you and iudge you which hathe made the sauoure of vs stincke before Pharao The children of Israell beholding the Egiptians said vnto Moses perauenture because ther be no graues in Egypte Exo. 14 haste thou therfore brought vs awaye for to dye in the wyldernesse The fyrst murmurynge of the children of Israell in the desarte was for lacke of dryncke Exo. 15. And the people murmured against Moses sayinge what shall we drincke After that the hole multitude of the congregation of Israell dyd murmur for meate sayinge Whye haue ye broughte vs into his wildernesse to kil this hole multitude with honger Exo. 16. Againe they murmured for lacke of drink after that our lord had sent theÌ„ quailes and Manna And when they suffred hoÌ„ger in the desart with murmur and impacience thei remembred the flesh which they did eat in Egipt but of the hard bondage and seruitute wherwith they were oppressed they made no mention And when the
regu 12. that I shoulde cease to pray for you and I wil teach you a ryght waye and a good When Dauid sawe the Aungell that smote the people 2. regu 24. he offerd him selfe to be beate for them let thyne haÌ„d I praye the tourne agaynst me Al they of Israel hard of the iudgement whyche the kynge had iudged betwene the two wemen 3. regu 3. and they feared the kynge for they saw that the wysedome of God was in him to do iustice It is a signe and a token that oure Lorde dothe loue the people when he geueth them a good prelate 3. regu 9. For the Quene of Saba saied our Lord loued Israell and therefore he made the king ouer it to do equity righteousnes 3. regu 20. Oure Lorde beynge purposed and wyllinge to deliuer the king of Siria into the kinge of Israels handes sent him worde by his prophet that the kinge shoulde beginne to fighte and geue battaile As longe as Ioiada the byshoppe lyued 4. regu 12. Ioas the kynge of Iuda was good and did that whyche was good in the sighte of oure Lorde But the byshoppe beynge dead he did muche harme Iosaphat the kinge of Iuda set iudges in the lande ouer the people and dyd faithfullye 2. Para. 19. and wysely instruct them Take hede sayeth he what ye do for ye execute not the iudgemeÌ„t of man but of God whiche is wyth you in the iudgemente Wherefore nowe let the feare of God bee vpon you and take hede and be doynge the thinge that pleaseth hym for there is no vnrighteousnesse with the Lord oure GOD that he shoulde haue any respecte of persons or take rewardes Hezechias kinge of Iuda caused thâ— brasen serpent to be broken in peces 4. regu 18. because it was vnto the people an occasion of committinge ydolatry The postes wente with letters thorowoute all Israell and Iuda at the kynges commaundemente and hys Lordes 2. Para. 30. sayinge Turne againe vnto oure Lorde c. As Esdras was prayinge and wepyng for the transgression of the people 1. Esd. 9. there resorted vnto him a greate company of men and women and the people folowinge his ensample wept and lamented very sore Eliachim the hye preast hearinge of the power of Holofernes Iudith 4. wente rounde aboute all Israell and spake vnto them sayinge Be ye sure that oure Lorde wyll heare youre petitions if ye contynue stedfaste in fasstinges and prayers in the syghte of oure LORDE And thus he comforted the people wyth good exhortations A good prelate must be as a good father vnto the people coÌ„mitted vnto him For it is writteÌ„ by Esai of Eliachim whome oure lorde set and dyd constitute in Sobnas the rulers place Esa. 22. he shall be as a father of such as dwel in Ierusalem After that Iudas Machabeus was dead 1. mach 9. ther spronge vp wicked persons throughout all costes of Israell and exhorted all such as did euyll to wickednes And in those daies there was greate hunger c. When men thought that Ionathas was slayne by Tryphon 1. Mach. 12. Then all the heathen that were rounde aboute them soughte to destroye them For they saied now haue they no captain nor any man to helpe them Therfore now let vs ouercome them and rote out their name from amonge men It is well sayed that the prudencye and pitye of Onias the hye preaste 1. Mach. 3. and the goodnesse of other godly subiectes was the cause of peace and good estate of the holy citye Onias did wel resyste Heliodorus goynge aboute to spoyle the temple 2. mac 3. and to take awaye suche thynges as was layed vp for wyddowes and fatherlesse chyldren Our sauiour and lord Iesus where he calleth him selfe a good shepherde Iohn 10. by and by he submitteth the cause sayinge a good shepharde geueth his lyfe for the shepe And agayne I geue my lyfe for the shepe Whereby he dothe vs to vnderstande what thinge is required that a maÌ„ may be called a good shephearde When our Sauiour after his resurrection was mynded to committe the coÌ„gregation of the church to Peter first he proued him Iohn 22. saying SimoÌ„ louest thou me more then these And note that he examined him of dilection not of knowledge not of practice or contemplation but of the dede not of the lawe Nor he asked hym not once but thryee If thou loue me fede my shepe clyppe them not nor slaye them For whye a good prelate muste feede hys shepe wyth worde example and bodely foode Peter perceyuinge that the Iewes marueled and iudged euyll of the discyples lifted vp his voyce and sayde vnto them Act. 1. Ye menne of Iewrye c. where he defendeth his flocke mooste constantly and most holsomlye ouercommeth his aduersaries We maye consider here by Paule the prelate of all excellent goodnesse that dilection dothe mooste specyallye pertaine to a good prelate Iohn 10. For the prince and chefest of all pastoures did so loue his sheape that hee gaue hys life for hys sheape The whych loued theym euen to the latter ende And Paule was meruelous feruente in that kynde of dilectyon and loue And therefore he saide I wyll verye gladlye bestowe and wyll be bestowed for your soules 2. Cor. 12. thoughe the more I loue you the lesse I am loued agayne Item there oughte to bee in a prelate the science knowledge of scripture Chuse and loue the lyghte of wisedome Sapi. 6. the which doth profyt the people Or elsse howe can he dyscerne Leprosy 1. Cor. â— 3 from no Leprosye or iudge the people coÌ„mitted vnto him Paule had an excellent knowledge bothe in deuine humain matters he gaue vnto babes in Christ milke to dryncke spake wisdome among those that are perfect And he was takeÌ„ vp into the third heauen 2 Cor. 12. harde secreat wordes which no man can vtter The loue of subiectes and knowledge of scriptures causeth a presydent or a prelate to be dilygent Roma 12. Lette him saithe Paule that ruleth doe it with diligence The which solicitude and diligence Paule vsed mooste feruently towardes his neighbors And therfore he saithe beside the thynges whych outwardlye happen vnto me I am combred dailye and do care for all Congregatyons 2. Cor. 11. And in a nother place I woulde ye knewe how great solicitude care that I haue for you Collo 2. Of and by these three foresayd thynges thinstruction of the learned doth follow and therfore our Lorde dothe promyse by Ieremy sayinge I wyll geue you herdmen after mine owne minde whiche shall â—eade you wyth learning and wisdome As Artaxerzes said to Esdras and to the iudges of the people 1. Esd. 7. Teache the vnlearned frelye the whiche thynge Paule the doctor of the heathen hath done euidently teaching the vniuersall world other by word or wryting a teacher of the gentiles wyth faythe
Samuels Although that Dauid ruled and gouerned the people wel 2. regu 15. and had wonne many victories yet they sone conspired against him And the people departing froÌ„ him encreased with Absolon It is to be noted that when Dauid shoulde returne vnto Ierusalem the people would haue brought him thyther with greate honoure 2. re 19.20 But inasmuch as the men of Iuda had coÌ„moned and spoken with them of the ten tribes all Israel went from Dauid folowed Siba the sonne of Bochry In kinge Salomons time the children of Israell had aboundance of all temporall thinges 3. reg 10.12 and floryshed in great honour and yet by the occasion of a rughe worde all they for the most parte dyd sone leaue and departe from his sonne Roboam When the children of Israel hearde of the terrible power of Holofernes they occupyed all the toppes of the mouÌ„taines Iudith 4.7 and made fast the townes with walles and prepared corne for them against the battail Afterwards when they felte them selues streyted of the host they came al to Osias and sayed God be iudge betwixte vs and thee for thou haste dealt euyll wyth vs because thou speakest not peaceablye wyth the kinge of Assirians When Ieremy hadde ended all the words that our Lord had coÌ„maunded hym to speake vnto the people then the preastes and all the people tooke holde vppon him Iâ—re 26. and sayed Thou shalt dye And afterwardes the Rulers and people saied vnto the preastes This man maye not be condempned vnto death All the people from the least vnto the most came to Ieremy the prophet and sayed we wyll do all that oure Lorde commaundeth vs Iere. 4â— 43 whether it be good or euil But they tenne daies after that Ieremy hadde declared the wyll and pleasure of our Lorde vnto them saied vnto him Thou liest our Lord hath not sent thee But Baruch the sonne of Neria prouoketh against vs. Nor thei wold not heare the voice of oure Lorde The multitude dyd sone beleue the two preastes Dani. 13. and condempned Susanna to death And a non after there foloweth The people returned with hast and came vpon the two preastes and dealte with them euen as they woulde haue done wyth their neyghboure Simon knew that Triphon dissembled in his woordes when he asked Ionathas two sonnes and a C. talentes of siluer yet he commaunded that it shoulde be deliuered 1. Mach. 13. least hee shoulde be the greater enemy against the people of Israel and say because he sente not the money and the chyldren therfore is Ionathas dead On a certaine daye when that our Lorde was in the citye of Nazareth the Iewes gently desyred him to do such miracles there Luc. 4. as he had done at Capernaum But after he had a litle rebuked and checked them they were fylled with wrath and thrust him out of the citye and would haue cast him downe hedlyng froÌ„ the edge of the hyll When our lord had satisfied .5000 men with .v. loues and two fishes thei would haue caught him to make him king Iohn 6. But sone after the vnfaythful begaâ—ne to dispute and aske questions sayinge What sygne shewest thou that we maye beleue thee When the Iewes sawe that Lazarus was reuiued and that our Lorde had done many other miracles they came and met hym wyth greate honoure Iohn 12. And yet at euen tyde when he had well behelde them he founde not one that inuited or that calde hym whome to his house The people .v. dayes before Ester receiued Iesus with great myrth and and honoure Iohn 18.19 all that weke the people were muche desirous to heare hys woordes and in the mournynge they came to him into the temple to heare him But on the .vi. dayâ— folowynge all they dyd crye crucifye him After that the spirite sate vpon ech of the disciples Act. 2. the mutitude came together and were astonyed Other mocked saying these men are full of new wyne But Peter stode slyffe in thys mater and excusynge the dyscyples spake many thinges vnto them alleging the words of Iohel the prophet When they hearde thys they were pricked in theyr hartes askinge what they shoulde do And the same daye there were Baptyzed aboute .3000 soules Upon a certen Sabothe daye the whole city came almoste together to heare the worde of God Act. 13. the whyche Paul and Barnabas preached The Iewes spake against it blaspheming At length Paule and Barnabas turned them selues to preache vnto the gentiles Whan the gentiles hearde this they wer glad A while after the Iewes moued the deuoute wemen the chefe men of the citye and raysed persecution against Paule and Barnabas and expelled them out of theyr coastes But they shoke of the dust of theyr fete against them and came to Iconium When Paule and Barnabas were at Listris a citye of Lycaonia that Paule had cured there a certen creapell Act. 14. the people sayde that they were Gods and would haue done sacrifice vnto them But they declaring that thei wer but mortal meÌ„ pacified the people that they did them no sacrifice Thither came certain Iewes which wheÌ„ they had perswaded the people stoned Paul and drue him out of the citye supposing he had bene dead Certaine men which had a mayde the prophesied the which Paul deliuered of the deuil did so moue stir the magestrates rulers of the city that the people ran so against Paule and Silas his felow Act. 16. that they reÌ„t theyr clothes bet them with rods cast them into pryson and made their fete fast in the stockes And the next after they praid them to departe Paule being at Ephesus and doinge there many miracles a certayne manne name Demetrius a Syluer smith which made siluer shrynes for Diana called together workmen of lyke occupaâ—ion and moued so great trouble in the city Act. 19. that it was all in a rore and confusyon and they rushed into the commen hal with one assent and the most part knewe not wherefore they were come together Then were Paule and his felowes in great daunger of body but the town clarke speaking faire and discreatlye to the people ceased them and let the congregation depart euerye man to hys owne house On a certen day ther was in IerusaleÌ„ such a coÌ„course of people agaynst Paule that they bet hym and drewe him so out of the temple that scarcely the hie captayne the whyche came thither with his Souldioures coulde come by him Afterwardes when hee had declared what thinges had chanced vnto hym al they of Damasco lift vp their voyces and said Away with him Act. 21.22.23 for it is no reason that he should liue The next day following Paule cryed out in the counsel men and brethren I am a Pharisey the sonne of a Pharisey then there arose a debate betwene the Phariseis and the Saduces and the multitude was deuided And certaine Phariseis rose vp
and proue man xiiii That maÌ„ should not teÌ„pt god xv Of vowes xvi Of prayer xvii Of wepyng and wayling xviii Of swearing xix Of the obseruation kepynge of the saboth day xx Of the reuerence that oughte to bee done and exhibyted to Gods temple xxi Of the adoration and worshippyng of God xxii Of Idolatry xxiii Of blasphemy againste God xxiiii Of Gods preceptes and commaundementes and of the obseruation keping of theÌ„ xxv Of obedience disobedyence xxvi Of holy scripture xxvii Of good exhortation and predication of the word of God xxviii Of euel counsels perswasioÌ„s xxix Of hearing the word of God xxx Of apparicions and vysyons shewed in the old time xxxi Of good angels xxxii Of euil sprites xxxiii Of the immortality of the reasonable soule xxxiiii Of the faith that man shoulde haue vnto God xxxv Of the fidelity that oughte to be kept to man xxxvi Of quietnesse and illustration of the mynde xxxvii Of longanimity xxxviii Of the feare of God xxxix Of feare where wyth the euel fear those that be good xl Of the loue of God xli Of the loue that man ought to haue to hys neighbor xlii Of enuy xliii Of brotherly reprehention xliiii Of the compassyon that man should haue to his neighbor xlv Of hospitality xlvi Of amity and loue xlvii Of enmity and hatred xlviii Of peace and concord xlix Of vnity and common conseÌ„t l. Of discord strife and debate li. Of good zeale against sinners lii Of vndyscreate zeale liii Of prudency and dyscretion liiii Of deceyt and subtelty lv Of the erudytyon of chyldren lvi That it is a pearillous thyng not to agre to good counsel lvii Of suspition and falscredulity lviii That holy and good men suffer certaine thinges to be done but not gladly lix Of iustice and equity lx Of the good and euell iudgementes of men lxi Of penaunâ—e lxii Of the honor of parents lxiii Of thankes geuing for the benefites of God lxiiii Of gratitude for the benefites of man accepted lxv Of ingratitude lxvi That truth engendreth hatred lxvii Of lies and leasyuges lxviii Of treason lxix Of adulatyon and flatery lxx Of derysyon and contumelyous reprofe lxxi Of detractors euil speakers lxxii Of liberaliti merci 〈…〉 lxxiii Of couetusnes lxxiiii Of pouertye lxxv Of hipocrisie dissimulatioâ— lxxvi Of the receate of gyftes aâ—â— rewardes lxxvii Of fortitude and. lxxviii Of coÌ„fidence magnanimity lxxix Of pacience and mekenes in Iniuris and tormentes lxxx Of constancy continuaunce in purposes lxxxi Of bodely warre victorye most commenly obtayned lxxxii Of impacience murmuring lxxxiii Of pusillanimitye lxxxiiii Of fortitude and strengthe to do euyll lxxxv Of murther lxxxvi Of diuers slaughters o men lxxxvii Of abstinens and sobrietye lxxxviii Of gluttonye dronkennesse lxxxix Of matrimony lxxxx Of chastity xci Of luxuriusnes incoÌ„tinency xcii Of vnwyse lookes xciii Of silence and clatterynge xciiii Of carnall affection cxv Of the ire and anger of man thrugh zele and loue xcvi Of the anger of man through vice xcvii Of humilitye xcviii Of pride xcix Of vayne hosting crakinge C Of elections Ci. Of good prynces prelates Cii Of euyll prynces prelates Ciii Of ambitious persons Ciiii. Of the deuels temptation Cv. Of sinne in generall of dyuers paines whiche folow sin Cvi Of confessyon of synnes Cvii Of the hardnesse and obstinacye of the wycked Cviii. Of the peruersity of certen meÌ„ Cix Of the wyckednes of tirantes Cx. Of the oppression of the good by the euyll Cxi Of tribulation and vtility c Cxii Of the multitude of euyl men Cxiii Of good men whych lurked wer as vnknown amoÌ„g the euil Cxiiii Of the nobility inconstancy of the people Cxv. Of good operations workes Cxvi Of mans intention in doyng of hys workes Cxvii Of slothfulnes and negligeÌ„ce Cxviii Of the good towardnesse of chyldren Cxix Of the societye and felowshyp of good men Cxx. Of the societye and felowshyp of euell men Cxxi Of good prosperity Cxxii Of worldly curyosyty Cxxiii Of the great faith of wemen Cxxiiii Of the wisedome of wemen Cxxv. Of the pietye compassion of of wemen Cxxvi. Of the fortitude and strength of wemen Cxxvii Of the auidity gredynesse of wemen cxxviii Of the deceytfulnes of wemen Cxxix Of the folyshe and vndiscreate communication of wemen Cxxx. Of the superfluous ornaments and rayment of wemen Cxxxi Of death in generall Cxxxii. Of sepultures and buryals cxxxiii Of the horrible death and c cxxxiiii Of the pretious death of c. Imprinted at London by Ihon Tisoale dwelling in Knyght Riders streat Cum priuilegio ad imprimendum solum Of Miracles shewed by the deuine power of God ¶ The first Chapter THe creatyon of thynges was so meruelous that the knowledge thereof coulde not come to man but by reuelation For after the minde of S. Gregory Greg. super zac homeli 1. Moses prophecied of those thinges that wer past saying In the beginninge God created heauen and earth Genesis 1. Nor that because he forspoke the thinges that were to come but because he disclosed those thinges that were seacreat At the time of Noyes floude Gene. 6.7 oure Lord saued Noah his wife his three sonnes with their wiues and in the Arke he saued the male the female of all other beastes Our Lord repressed the presumpteousnesse of men Gene. 11. that would builde a tower vnto heauen confoundinge their language Genesis 22 Isaac was wonderfully born and wonderfully deliuered when that he the ram being caught by the hornes in a thicket shoulde haue bene offred vp for a sacrifice Exod. 7.8.9 and .10 It is euidente and playne inoughe how many miracles our Lord shewed by Moyses when he broughte the Children of Israel out of Egipt Exodus 13. It was a greate miracle that the Pyllare of the cloude departed not from the Children of Israell goynge oute of Egipte towardes the land of promesse neither by daye nor yet by nighte Exodus 14 It was a terrible and a Myracle worthye to be spoken of that the red sea was deuided and so dried vp that the children of Israel went ouer drye footed and the Egyptyans ouerwhelmed in the myddest of the sluds Exodus 15 By the woode or tree shewed vnto Moyses the waters were made sweete Numer 11. Oure Lorde sente quailes to the murmuring people Nume 20. and afterwards it rained Manna for them to eat and oute of the rocke he sent them water plenteously to drincke Our Lorde sent fleshe to the chyldren of Israel Numer 20 the whiche in the wildernes murmured and desired to eat flesh euen aboundauntly Through thoccasion of Chore and his fellowes sedition Nu. 16.17 many miracles chaunced and was shewed The people wer smitten or stinged with fiery serpentes Numer 21. and loking vpon the serpente of brasse they were cured and healed Our Lorde led the children of Israell in the wildernesse fortye
ye the man in whom the euil sprite was ran on them and preuailed against them so that they fledde awaye naked and wounded And vpon one of the sabboth daies Paule preached and continued the preachinge vnto midnight Actes 20. And ther satte in a windowe a certaine yonge manne beinge fallen into a deade sleepe And ouercome wyth sleape he fell downe from the thyrde lofte and was taken vp dead But when Paul went downe he fell on hym and embrased him And they broughte the yonge man a liue and were not a lytle comforted And in the Winter when Paule and his fellowes were scaped oute of the broken ship Actes 28. and were warminge them at the fire There came a viper oute of the heate and caught hym by the hande he shoke the viper into the â—ire and felt no harme How be it the menne of that countrye loked and beleued that he shoulde haue fallen down dead sodenly Paule by prayer and by laying his handes on the father of Publius Actes 28. deliuered him of a feuer and of a bloudye â—lixe So when this was done other also which had diseases in the I le came and were healed ¶ Of Goddes prouidence and secreat iudgementes ¶ The second Chapter OUr Lord knewe that man wold sinne Genes 1. yet he made him inclining there vnto when that he might haue made him wythoute anye suche inclinatyon or promptnesse to sinne at all But he knew how great profite and goodnesse should ensue begotten by the occasion of his fall Iacobs soÌ„nes did decre and purpose to extinguishe Ioseph theyr brother Genesis 27 but yet God disposinge the thinge otherwise they exaulted him farre aboue them selues Iacob wheÌ„ he blessed Iosephs children Ioseph wandering and beynge ignoraunt of the cause laid his right hand on Ephraims hed Genesis 48 and hys left hand vpon Manasses Exod. â— 3 After that Moises had smitten and slaine the Egiptian and by the way of rebultinge of a Iewe had offended him he fled from the face of Pharaâ—e and as a banished man dwelt manye yeares in the countrye of Madian so that it was thought that he durst appeare no more in the land of Egipte and yet by keping there his father in lawes shepe he had a more greater occasion to serue God and sawe that greate vision and was sente by God to the children of Israell and to Pharao Exod. 5.6 Our Lord knew ful wel that Pharao would not obey his commaundementes and yet he caused him to bee required and spoken to by Moyses Exod. â— Our Lord or euer he would bringe the children of Israel out of Egipte permitted and suffred them a longe time ofteÌ„ to be afflicted punished Pharaos wise menne and his enchaunters did throughe Gods sufferaunce Exod. 7 as great signes as touching certaine of them in Egypte as Moyses did Our Lord dothe permit and suffer the reproued to be indurate Exod. 9 and hys elected to be afflicted thereby to do that is wonderfull and to bee the better knowen and praised Our Lorde did oftentimes promise the children of Israel Nume xiiâ—â— a country that floweth with milke and honye and yet but two of them Saleph and Iosue of twenty yeres of age came thyther the reast came not thyther but their children only Moses the which did so often times reconcyle the synnefull people vnto oure Lorde did once sinne at the water of strife Nume 20 nor he obtained not for him selfe to enter the lande of promission In that that the children of Israell for their iniquity remained more theÌ„ xl yeres in the desert Oure Lorde was thereby greatlye magnified Deute 29. the which did feede them there so longe and kept their raimeÌ„t from wearing and at the last did woÌ„derfully bring them into the lande of promesse Of the people that did inhabite the lande of promesse Iosu. xi thys was our Lordes commaundemente and sentence that theyr hartes should be hardened and that they shoulde come agaynste Israell in battaile and vtterlye to be destroyed and that no mercy shoulde bee shewed them but that they shuld pearish and be brought to nought After that Gedeon hadde obtayned and wonne so maruelous a vyctorye of hys ennemyes Iudi. 8. and hadde refused to raigne ouer the people he made an Ephod the which dede was the decaye and ruine of him selfe and his housholde Oure Lorde was greued with the children of Israell for their iniquitye and wickednesse Iudi. 10. and said vnto them I wyll healpe you no more goe and crye vnto the Goddes which ye haue chosen And they saide vnto oure Lorde We haue sinned Then there foloweth that our Lorde had piâ—ye on theyr misery Sampson Iudi. 16 the aungell bryngynge the message was conceiued of his mother the whyche was barren And afterwardes he was often times deceyued by women and at the laste hee was destroyed by the ruine and fal of a house The children of Israel by the counsaile and will of oure Lorde Iudi. 20 foughte twise with the children of Beniamin and were ouercome but afterwardes they vtterly in a maner destroid them Our Lord suffred the Arke to be taken of the vncircumcised 1. regum 6. where hee shewed many miracles And when it was reduced brought home agayne the meÌ„ of Bethsames receiued it ioyfully and yet our Lord siue 70. of the Princes 5000. of the coÌ„men people Among al the people ther was none better then Saule 1. regum 15 when oure Lorde chose him yet afterwardes he synned and our Lord refused him Dauid was the least among al his brethren 1. regum 16 and as it wer of no reputatyon amonge theÌ„ So that when I sais children were called for this Dauid was neglected and contempned and yet our Lord gouerned all the people by him and for his cause extolled all his progeny and kindred 1. regum 28 This is much to be maruailed at that Samuel the prophet was called vp by a sorcerer Sainte Augustyne saithe in his boke de doctrina christiana that it was the similitude Image of Samuel but not the Prophet hym self nor yet his spirite for he appeared by the sacrilegious art and crafte of the deuil It is to be noted how expresly oure Lord spake vnto Nathan of the goodnes of Dauid and Salomon his sone â— regum 7. the which should build the temple yet bothe they fell into iniquitye and sinne most shamefully When Dauid should die he made a maruelous ordinaunce 3. regum 2. but for as muche as the scripture dothe so commend him it is to be supposed notwithstanding he was partlye cruell that yet he did it not without a iust a reasonable cause Our Lord gaue Salomon so great prosperity and peace 3. regum 11. that sathaÌ„ was not against him and he gaue him wisdome aboue all other kinges and yet at length our Lord suffered him to be in satuated
he cured the olde Toby of his blindenesse and replenished his house wyth all goodnesse Oure Lorde semed as it were to be afraide to offend Ieremye when that he did vtterly purpose to destroye the people for theyr sinnes Iere. 7. for he sayde I shall thrust you oute of my syghte Therfore thou shalt not pray for this people thou shalt nether geue thaÌ„kes nor prayer for them nor thou shalt not let me nor make no intercessyon to me for them For in no wise wyl I heare thee This thing is plain and manifest that GOD is with his seruauntes in their tribulation Daniell 3. For Nabuchodonosor sawe one in the burnynge fornace with Azaria and his fellowes like the sonne of God When Daniell was in the Lyons den at Babilon Daniel 5. Daniel 14. Our Lord sente him his dinner from a far of that is from Iewry by the prophet Abacucke Daniell 13. Our Lord hard the voyce of Susanna because she was vniustly condemned by thold and vnchast elders likewise by the iust iudgement of a continent and a chast childe she was delyuered Our Lord prepared a great fishe to swallow vp Ionas Ionas 2. the which semed yet for his disobedience iustly to haue deserued pain and punishment Machabeus and they that wer with him fightinge against Timothe 2. Mach. 10 had manifestlye healpe from heauen for there appeared fiue men vpon horsebackes with bridels of golde c. And afterwardes in a nother place 2. macha 11 they goynge to battaile against Lystas there appeared before them vpon horsebacke a man in white clothynge wyth harnesse of gold shakynge hys speare There was a greate benignitye in oure Sauioure Math. 4. For he wente aboute healynge all manner of Sickenesse and all manner of dyseases For if he had not so don many sick persons could not haue come vnto him Oure Lord answered the Leaper that sayde vnto him LORDE if thou wilte Math. 8. thou mayste and canste make me cleane verye meekelye and gently for Iesus puttinge forthe hys handes touched him saying I wyll be thou cleane But the Priestes abhord all suche men Oure Lord incontinent after Mathewes vocation dynde in hys house with him Math. 9. After that oure LORDE was departed and gone into the desarte math 14. he sawe muche people and was moued wyth mercye towarde them and he healed of them those that wer sick And when the euen drew on his disciples saide vnto him let the people departe Iesus as one moste liberall sayde vnto them Geue ye theym to eate When Peter begaÌ„ to sincke he cried saying Math. 14. Lord saue me And immediatlye Iesus stretchynge forthe hys hand caughte him Oure LORDE did gentlye defende Marye Magdalen agaynste the pharisy that thought euil by her Luke 7. and agaynste her owne Sister complaininge of her Mar. 14. yea and agaynste hys Disciples that for the effusyon of the oyntment Luke 10. fumed against her The vnspeakeable goodnes of god is muche declared in the example of the prodigal sonne where it is written But when he was yet a great way of Luke 15. hys father sawe hym and moued wyth compassion ranne and fell on his necke and kissed him He desyred to be one of hys hired seruauntes but yet his father interruptinge his communication receyued hym as hys sonne This was a meruelous benignity and gentelnesse of Christe Luke 19. when that he inuited and badde hym selfe to the Publicans house the whych was desirous to see him and also he blessed the same When our LORDE hadde indistinctlye spoken these wordes Ihon. 13. One of you shall betray me It followeth when Ihon leaned on Iesus breaste he sayde LORDE who is it Lo what a benignitye and familiarity was this Actes 2 Our sauioure promised his Disciples being heauye that he shoulde depart from them that his father shuld sende them a nother comfortoure the whyche thynge was well fulfilled at Whitsontide when that the holy spirite did so mightely strengthen comfort illuminate and teach them Ihon. 18. The bishops ministers commynge to take our Lord he said vnto them if ye seke me let these go theyr waye For he knew ful wel that they were not ready to suffer martirdome And therfore mekely condesceÌ„ding to their infirmity he would that they shoulde spare them Ihon. 23. The thefe desired our Lorde to remember him when hee came to hys kingdome But our LORDE dyd graunt him more then he demanded saying To day shalt thou be with me in paradise Luke 22 This was the great mekenesse and gentlenesse of Christe the which refused nor Peter that denied him thrise but beningly beheld him nor he lefte not Thomas in his doutfulnesse Ihon. 20 but did exhibite him selfe manifestly to be touched And he made Paule blinde Actes 9 folowing the act of his persecution He cast him to the earth called him and conuerted him Steuen when they stoned him Actes 7 saw oure Lorde standinge in heauen as though he had bene ready strongly to haue defended him Our Lord shewed great gentlenes to blessed S. Ihon Apoca. 1. being banyshed in to the yle of Pathmos when he appeared and sent his angel vnto hym the which with diuers reuelatioÌ„s did comfort hym ¶ Of deuine consolation ¶ The fourth chapter AFter that Abraham at the commaundement of God Gen. 12.15 went oute of his country Oure Lorde dyd comfort him wyth apparitions and reuelations Genesis 18 Iacob flyinge from the face of hys brother and sleaping vppon a stone our Lord appeared and repleanished him with great consolation Exod. 3. Oure Lorde appeared to Moses beinge exiled and kepinge sheepe the whiche thinge for the time that he was in Pharos house chaunced not vnto him Exodus 16 It rained Manna from heauen in desert to the children of Israell yea often he gaue theÌ„ miraculously fleshe and water Exodus 34 Moses beynge in the mounte For the space of fortye dayes and fortye nyghtes dyd nether eat nor dryncke but was refreshed wyth the deuyne word of God Iosu. 1. Our Lorde saide vnto Iosua be of good chear and strong for I wyll not faile thee nor forsake thee 3. regum 17 Oure Lorde commaunded the raâ—ens twise a day to bear Elias bread and flesh Afterwardes oure Lorde appeared to Elias flying from Iezabell iii. Reg. xix whose Prophettes he hadde caused to bee slaine Our Lorde did comforte kinge Hezechias effectuously 4. regum 19 both by his prophet and by his aungell the whyche smote and slue in the host of the Assiri ans an 185000. Euen at the selfe same time Saras and Tobias prayers were hard To. 3.8.11 and the angell of our Lord was sente to cure and deliuer them both that is Sara from the Deuyl that had slaine her husbandes and the elder Tobias from pouerty and blindnesse Oure Lorde vouchsafed wonderfullye to comforte his people of Israell by the
were fainte and weary of their iourny and laboure And they said wherfore hast thou brought vs out of Egipt Acham the sonne of Charmi pearished with all that euer he had Iosu. 7. because he tooke of the excommunycate thinges of Iericho For the crime committed agaynste the Leuites wife Iudi. 20. the whole trybe of Beniamin excepte sixe hundreth men pearished by Goddes Commaundemente Hely corrected hys Children that hadde trespassed but meanelye 1. regum 2. and therefore he was punyshed for them and wyth theym What shal we then saye of those that do not correct their children but intice them to euil both by word and dede 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 For as muche as Saule dyd offer burnt at sacrifice contrary vnto Samuels commaundemente he was reproued And likewise because he reserued kynge Agag 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Amalech and hys shepe and oxen For Saules offences they of hys owne house and familye were punyshed euen after his deathe 2. regu 21. and because of them there fell a great hunger in the land As Dauid was bringing our Lordes Arke vppon a carte 2. regum 6. Oza put hys hand to the Arke and helde it 1. para 13. for the Oxen beinge a litle wilde stombled and our Lord smote him for his fault and ther he died For the elation and pride of Dauid causynge hys people to be nombred 2. regu 24. there dyed two and seuenty thousand men The manne of GOD that came out of Iewrye 3. reg 13. and declared vnto Ieroboas the successe of the office of hys priestes was slaine with a Lion because that he contrary to Gods commaundemente did eate breade in the house of a certen prophet There were two and forty children deuoured of two beares 4. reg 2. because they mocked Elizeus saying Go vp thou bald head If Echezis sinne be so greuouslye punished 4. reg 45. because he tooke giftes and rewardes of Naaman geuen him with good will what shall be said of those that eract many thynges fradulently or extort them violentlye Ozia king of Iewry tooke the censar and woulde haue burnt insence like as the priestes were wont to do â— para 20. and by and by the leprosy sprange in his forehead For as muche as Ezechias shewed the messengers of the kinge of Babilon al his treasures 4. reg 20. he lost them and yet they came out of farre countries and as it semed they should haue ben muche made of ioyfullye receiued Our Lorde deliuered his peculiare and well beloued people into Nabuâ—hodonosors handes 4. reg â—0 the whiche dyd captiâ—ate the people most cruelli burnt the holy city destroied the Temple Because the daughters of Sion are become proude c. In steade of good smell there shal be stinke among theÌ„ and thy goodly and mighty men 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 shal hearith with the swâ—â—â—de in battaile The kinges of Babilon cruelly entreated the children of Israel afterwardes they them selues also with their noble city wer destroied Esa. 14. euen as our Lorde threatned Io. 30.51 Heliodorus was greuouslye scourged because he was willinge to conuey away the stuffe and goodes of widowes and peoples committed to the priestes custody 2. Mach. 3. King Antiochus was smitteÌ„ wyth so greuous a plage that the wormes scrauld oute of his wicked bodye and his hoaâ—t was greued with the smell 2. Mach. 9. and stinke of him Our Lord being wroth deliuered the vngracious seruant Mat. 18. the which wold not forgeue his fellow the C. pence to the saylers vntill he had paid all the was due vnto him Our Lord commaunded the vnprofitable Mat. 25. seruaunt that would not study to multiplye the Talent deliuered vnto him to be depriued of that he had to be caste into vtter darknes That fraud and guile that Ananias coÌ„mitted act 5. his wife Saphira knowing of the same was sore punished Herode arayed with royall apparel set him in his seate and made an oratioÌ„ vnto the people Actes 12. the which lifting vp their voices saide It is the voyce of a God and not of a man And immediately the aungell of oure Lorde smote him because he gaue not God the honoure and he was eaten wyth wormes and gaue vp the ghost ¶ Of the anger and fury of God NOte and take hede that the anger of God De ciuitate dei Lib. 15 Capitu. 25. after the mind of S. Augustine is not the perturbation or motyon of his minde but his iudgement by the whiche paine is appoynted to synne his cogytatyon and recogytation of thynges mutable is hys immutable reason and iudgemente Nor GOD dothe not so repente hym of hys dede as the yrefull manne dothe whose sentence of all thinges is as fixed and stedfast as his prescience foreknowledge is certaine But if Scrypture vse no such wordes yet it doth not insinuate it selfe familiarly to all kynde of menne vnto whome he woulde it shoulde be knowen and that to feare the proud sturre vp the negligente exercise those that inquire and seeke and nourishe those that vnderstande the whiche thinge he woulde not do if hys wyll were not fyrste to bowe and incline him self and as it were to descend and come down to those whiche are weake and feble Our Lord was angry with Moses Exo. 4. that so oftentimes he refused to take vpon him the gouernaunce and leading of the people God commanding the same Our Lord was angry with the Egiptians that kepte Exo. 15. and afflicted hys people and woulde haue persecuted them goynge theyr wayes Then it followeth Thou haste sente thy anger Moses prayed vnto oure Lord saying Exo. 32. why doth thy wrath O lord waxe hote against thy people For the calfe made of molten metal to the whyche they offered burnt offeringes By the occasion of Corah sedition and his companions Nume 16. Moses and Aaron said vnto our Lord. O most mighty God of the sprites if one man hath sinned wilt thou be wroth and angri with all the multitude The people both sittinge and wepinge were muche desirous of fleshe Nume 11. Then it followeth The fury of oure Lorde was prouoked vnto wrath exceadinglye Al the multitude of the children of Israell murmured against our Lord Nume 16. Moses and Aaron sayinge ye haue killed the people of our Lorde Then there foloweth There is wrath gone oute from oure Lorde and the plage waxeth fearce and cruell The people beganne to commytte whoredome with the Doughters of Moab Nume 25. It followeth And oure Lorde beynge angry said vnto Moses Take al the heads of the people and hange them Because of Moses vnbelefe doutfulnesse at the water of stryfe Nume 20. Oure Lorde was wrothe with him as it is wrytten Our Lord was angry with me Moses for your sakes and said vnto me Deu. 1. Thou shalt not go in thither that is into the land of promise Beware
said Moses that your hart be not deceiued Deu. 11. and that ye turne not aside from God and serue straunge Gods and worship them And then oure Lorde beyng wroth shut vp the heauen The children of Israel haue transgressed the couenaunte Iosuâ— 7. and haue vsurped the excommunicate thynges There followeth And the wrathe of our Lord waxed hot against the children of Israel for the sinne of Achan Our Lord was greued and angrye with Osa and smote hym 1. para 13. because he touched the arke Our Lord was wroth with Salomon because his minde was tourned from our Lord. 3. reg 11. The fury of our Lord was against Israel 4. reg 13. and he deliuered them into the handes of Hazael kinge of Syria because of their Idolatry for they worshipped the calues that Ieroboas made Our Lord was wroth againste Israell and he moued Dauid agaynste them 2. reg 24 in that he saide to Ioab go and nombre Israel and Iuda After Idolatry witchcraft enchaÌ„tmentes and other diuers synnes and wickednesse 4. reg 17 the Children of Israell prouoked oure Lorde And our Lorde was exceading wroth and angri with Israell and putte them oute of hys syghte The Prophet Iehu sayde vnto Iosaphat the kynge of Iuda 2. Para. 19 that came to battaile with Achab the king of Israell Thou helpest the vngodly and dost loue those that hate oure Lorde Therfore yre and wrath come vppon thee from oure Lorde Neuerthelesse there are some good actes founde in thee Ioas the kinge of Iuda his rulers serued groues and Idols 2. para 24. then came the wrath of God vpon Iuda for this their trespasses sake Amasias kinge of Iuda ouercame in battayle throughe the healpe of GOD 2. para 25 the Edomites and broughte theyr goodes awaye and bowed hym selfe before them wherefore oure LORDE was angrye and wrothe with him Hezechias did not again vnto God according to the benefites that he had shewed him 2. para 32 for hys harte arose and there came wrath vpon him and vpon Ierusalem Iosias king of Iuda when he had hard that was wrytten in the boke of the lawe 2. para 34. sayde great is the fury and anger of our LORDE that is fallen vppon vs because your fathers haue not kepte the woordes of oure Lorde They did eat Esd. 2.9 and wer filled and became fat and liued in wealth thorow thy great goodnesse and they prouoked the to anger And Artaxerzes the gentle commaÌ„ded that all thinges shoulde be done to the mooste highest 1. Esdras 7 after the lawe of God Least his anger arise against the realme and against the king and his children Our Lord said to Eliphas the Themanite I am angrye and displeased with thee Iob. 42. and thy two frendes for ye haue not spoken before me the thing that is right Thus it is wrytten of Babilone be Iere. 50. hold she shal be the least set by among the nations voyde wasted and dried vp no man shal be able to dwel there for the fear and anger of oure Lorde but she shal be whole desolate When Machabeus had gathered a multitude together 2. Mach. 8. he was to mighty for the heathen for the wrathe of our Lord was turned into mercy And it is written in the parable of the vngratious seruaunt that would not haue compassioÌ„ on his fellow Mat. 18. his Lord was wroth and deliuered hym to the â—aylers Also it is wrytteÌ„ against those that excused them selues that they coulde not come to supper Luc. 14. Then was the good man of the house displeased and said vnto his seruaunt c. He that beleueth on the soÌ„ne hath euerlastinge life Iohn 3. he that beleueth not the soÌ„ne shall not se life but the wrathe and anger of God abideth on him The ire anger that shal be shewed at the day of iudgement is greatly to be feared Apoca. 6. Of the which it is wrytten in the reuelation of Sainte Ihon. Kinges of th earth the great men c shall say to the hils and rockes fal on vs hide vs from the presence of him that sitteth on the seate and from the wrathe of the lambe ¶ That God dothe more regard the intent of the doer then the worke it self ¶ The .xii. Chapter CAine brought of the frute of the ground an oblatyon vnto our Lorde Gen. 4. Abel also broughte of the firstlinges of his shepe Then folowâ—th Our Lord had respect vnto Abel and to hys oblation but vnto Caine and to his offering he had no respect After that promys was made to Abraham that he should haue a child by Sara Gen. 8. he laughed and so did Sara Whose laughing our Lord reproued but not Abrahams We rede that when Moses Aaron shewed wonders before Pharao Exo. 6. that Pharaos wise men and enchaunters dyd in like maner with their sorrerye Chore and his companye had euen suche censers as Aaron had Nume 16. and perchaunce of as good metall or rather better and yet god did not equally accept their censing The Bethsames lifted vp their eyes and spyed the Arke and reioysed 1. regu 6. and offered a burnt offering vnto our Lord. And although they semed to do a good worke yet oure Lorde plaged them with a greate plague because they had seene the Arke the whiche they should not haue seene 1. regu 19. Whan Saul was amonge the prophetes he strypte of hys clothes and began to prophecye but it auayled him but lyttle Oza putte foorthe hys hande to houlde the Arke that it shoulde not faull 1. para 13. and oure Lorde smote him incontynently and there he dyed Notwythstandynge it is a verye good thinge to offre incence vnto our Lorde 2. para 16. yet it pertayneth notte to euery man to doe the same For Ozias the kynge of Iuda was smytten with the leper because he would burne insence vppon the aulter of insence Oure LORDE dothe reproue by hys Prophete Esay the oblations Esa. 1. that he hym selfe dyd institute to be offerde and that because of the wickednesse of those that offerde Why offer ye so manye sacryfyces vnto me sayeth our Lord Then there foloweth Your handes are full of bloude Oure Lorde preferd the offering of the widdowe which cast two mites in to the treasury Luke 21. aboue the offeringes of the riche menne Herode desired very greatlye to see Iesus And when he saw him he was exceading glad but yet he gate no profit therby LuKe. 23. thoccasion and cause where of was nother pitye nor charitye but curiosity and vanity ¶ That God at times doth tempt and proue man The .xiii. chapter GOD did proue Abraham and said vnto him Gen. 22. Take thi sonne c. Our Lord saide vnto Moses behold Exo. 16. I will raine breade from heauen to you and the people shal go out and gather There foloweth that
Ghost then laide they their handes on them they receiued the holy Ghost Saul being prostrate vpon the th earth and profitably execated made blind Act. 9. stode vp again and comming into Damasco and began to praye and was thre daies without meat or drinke Cornelius the Centurio was a deuout man and one that feared GOD wtal his houshold which gaue muche almose Act. 10. and praied God alway wherby he disposed him self to aproche and come to the faithe And therfore it followeth Thi praiers thy almoses are come vp into remēbrance before God Peter was kept in Herodes prison but praier was made without ceasing of the congregation vnto god for him Act. 12. When the holy ghost had said seperate me Barnabas and Saule Act. 13.14 for the worke wherunto I haue called them It followeth And when they had fasted and prayed and laid their handes on them they let them goe Agayne ther foloweth That they did maruelous much good Peter went vp vnto the hiest part of the house to pray Act. 10. about the vi hour that he being far from those that wer beneathe mighte praye the more deuoutly When Paule went to praye he met a damsell possessed wyth a spryte that Prophesied whome Paule deliuered◠commaundinge the spirit in the name of Iesu Christ to come oute of her Act. 16. Paule departing from Achaia and his brethren Act. 20. after a litle communication and a few godly wordes he kneled down and praid with them al and they al wept very sore When Paule had praid in the temple he was in a traunce Act. 22. and sawe oure Lorde Iesus sayinge vnto him Make haste and get the quickly out of Ierusalem After that Paule had prayed and had laide his handes on Publius father beinge sicke of a feuer Act. 28. and of a bloudy flixe he healed him Paule the Apostle monished These 5. that we should pray continually the which thing he him self did most diligently Rom. 1. For to the Romaines he saithe wyth out ceasing I make mention of you in my prayers To praye is to diffycyle and so hearde a thynge Rom. 8. that Paule saythe that he is not fufficiente nor hable to do it We know not that we praye as we should pray 2. thes 3. and therfore Paule dothe often and mooste humbly desyre other men to pray for him Brethren saithe he pray ye for vs. Paule caused prayers to be made to auoid that was euil and also to obtain those thinges that are good of the firste he saith thus rom 15. I beseeche you brethren that ye helpe me with your prayers that I may be deliuered from the vnfaithful And that he beleued that he was holpen by other mēs praiers he saith Our Lord hath deliuered vs from so great dangers and pearels Of the second that he desired to obtaine goodnesse by other mens prayers 2. cor 1. he saith Praying for vs that God maye open vnto vs the dore of vtteraunce that we may speake the mistery of Christ. And in a nother place he sayeth Coloss. 4. Brethren pray ye for vs that the worde of God maye haue passage 2. thess 3. and be glorifyed Paule praied for other men that he might be fruteful vnto them rom 1. With out ceasinge I make mention of you praying alwaies in my prayers that by some meane a prosperous iourney by the wil of God mighte fortune me to come vnto you And to Timothe withoute any ceasing or intermission 2. timo 1. I make mencion of thee in my praiers night and daye desiring to se thee And also he prayeth for the Thessalonians that God would call them to the way of health 2. thes 1. sayinge we pray alwaies for you that our God wil make you worthy of this calling And for the Philippians that they may profit and encrese from that that is good to better Philip. 1. sayinge And thys I pray that your loue and charity may encrease more and more And also that the Collossians might haue the fulnesse of deuine knowledge col 1. sayinge we cease not to pray for you and to desire that ye mighte be fulfylled with the knowledge of his wyll The Apostle S. Iames saithe that the praier which is made for corporall and bodely health Iaco. 5. auaileth The praier of faith shall saue the sycke And also for eternal saluation the whyche is the very true health Pray one for an other that ye maye be saued for the prayer of a ryghteous man auayleth muche ¶ Of weping wayling ca. 17. AGar going a great way of frō Ismaell wepte Gen. 21. nor she would not se the death of the chylde Gen. 27. Esau cried oute greatly bitterly That Iacob had his fathers blessing Gen. 23. And Abraham cam to mourn Sara his wife and to wepe for her Gen. 29. After that Iacob knew Rachel his kynswoman he lyfted vp his voyce and wepte Gen. 33. Esau toke his brother Iacob about the necke kyssed him and wepte Gen. 37. Iacob rent his clothes and putting on a shyrte of heare sorowed for hys sonne a longe season Gen. 43. Iosephes herte did melte vpon his brother Beniamin the reares brust out of his eyes and he entred into his chambre and wept Gen. 45.49.50 Ioseph lifted vp his voice wept saying vnto hys brethren I am Ioseph And he wept vpō his deed father And agayne he wepte when his brethren praied him to forgeue forget the trespace that they haue don against him The rascall people that was come out of Egipt Nume 11. fel a lusting of flesh sitting down wept and said Who shall geue vs fleshe to eate The whole multitude cryed oute murmured and sayd Nume 14. Would god that we had died in the land of Egipt When all the multitude sawe that Aaron was dead Nume 20. they mourned and wept for him .xxx. daies The children of Israell wepte for Moses xxx daies Deu. 34. The aungel of our Lord came vnto the place of those that wept Iudi. 1. and caste all such benefites as our lord had don vnto the children of Israel in their teth likewise the trespasses that they had cōmited thē the people cried out wept When the children of Israel should fight againste the Beniamytes Iudi. xx they wept before our Lord. And after that they had obtaind the victory Iudi. 21. they wepte and bewayled the destruction of theyr brethren Whē Nohemi his doughter in law Ruth i. should depart they began to wepe Anna prayed vnto oure Lorde and wept very sore 1. regum 1. After that the people harde that Iabes should be beseged 1. regu 11. they wept euen verye sore Samuel mourned Saul and wept because our Lorde repented him 1. regu 15. that he had made Saule king Ionathas and Dauid kissed ether other and
that was done after the assention of oure Lorde The aungell of oure Lorde whiche by nyghte opened the pryson doores Act. 5. and brought the Apostles forth sayd goe stande and preache in the Temple to the people all the woordes of this lyfe The Enuke Quene Candace of the Ethiopians chamberlayn Act. 8. is commended that he came oute of Ethiopia to Ierusalem to worshyppe And note that he sittynge in hys Charetâ— Reade Esaye the Prophette The whyche thynge maketh verye sore agaynste manye goynge to sanctyfyed and holye places the whyche nether read nor yet declare any holy documents or lessons but multiply vain and trifling wordes only Thoughte the Iowes persecuted Paule wyth muche hatred Act. 21. yet they woulde not murther hym in the temple but drue him out of the temple the they myght kill him withoute the region of the temple beinge vntouched and vndefiled ¶ Of the adoration and worshipping of God Ca. xxi IT came to passe Gen. 4. the Caine broughte and offered of the frute of the grounde an Oblation vnto the Lord. Abel also offered of the first â—inges of his shepe and of the fat ther of and our Lord had respect vnto hys oblation Enoch the sonne of Seth began to call vpon the name of God Gen. 4. Noe builded an aultare vnto oure Lord Gen. 8. and toke of euery cleane beast and of euery cleane foule and offered sacrifices and oure Lorde smelled a swete sauour Oure Lorde appeared vnto Abraham in the land of Canaan Gen. 12. and saide vnto hym Unto thy seede wil I geue this lande And there buylded hee an aultare vnto our Lord that appeared vnto him When Abraham had lyfted vp hys eies ther appeared iii. men standyng by him Gen. 18. And wheÌ„ he saw them he fel to the grounde and worshipped them saying Lorde if I haue founde grace and fauour in thy sighte go not from thy seruaunte Abraham being prepared and ready to offer vp in sacrifice vnto GOD his onlye sonne Isaac Gen. 22. oure Lorde otherwise prouiding therfore he offered a Ram. Our lorde appeared vnto Isaac in Bersabe Gen. 26. and said feare not for I am with thee And he builded an aultare there vnto our Lord. And God saide vnto Iacob aryse and get the vp to Bethell Gen. 35. and dwell there And make there an altare vnto God that appeared vnto the when thou fleddest from the face of Esau thy brother When the children of Israell harde that our Lorde had visited them Exo. 4. and had loked vppon theyr trybulatyon they bowed theyr heade and worshypped And after that our Lord had spoken vnto Moses of the religion of Phase and of the destruction of the first born in the land of Egipt Exo. 12 Then there followeth The people bowed them selues and worshypped Ietro sayde to Moses bee thou vnto the people to godwarde Exo. 18 that thou mayste bringe theyr causes to God And thou shalte teache them the ceremonies and ordinaunces the waye to worshyp god And oure Lorde sayd vnto Moses come vp vnto the Lord Exo. 24 thou and Aaron Nadab and Abihu and the 70. elders of Israel and ye shal worship far of And after a few words ther dothe folow They offred peace offrynges that is xii calues vnto the Lorde And our Lord coÌ„maunded to make him a tabernacle Exo. 25 with diuers vtensiles and ministers to be ordayned to minister to his honor and worship as it is manifest in diuers Chapiters of Exodus The firste of the ten Commaundements is Exo. 20 Thou shalt haue no straÌ„ge gods Thou shalt make the no graueÌ„ Idoll Thou shalt not worship them neyther serue theim Deut. 6. And in a nother place Mat. 4. Thou shalt worshyp the Lord thy God and hym onlye shalte thou serue The angell of God sayd vnto Manne Samsons father Iudi. 13. if thou wilt offer a burnt offering thou muste offer it vnto the Lord. Elcana Samuels father wente vp out of his city at certain appointed or feastful daies 1. regu 1. to pray and to offer vnto the lord of hostes in Silo. The sin of Helis children was very great before our lorde 1. regu 2. for they wythdrue meÌ„ from the sacrifice of the lord And as Samuel offred the burnt offring the Philistines came to fyghte against Israel 1. regu 7. But our lord thuÌ„dred a great thundre the same daye amonge the Philistines and put them in such a feare that they fel and were slayne before Israell Salomon wente to offre vnto oure lord at Gabaon 3. regu 3. he offred a thousaÌ„d burnt offringes and the lord apeared vnto him in a dreme by night Salomon after the temple was edified stode before thaltare of our Lord 3. regu 8. in the sight of al the congregation of Israel stretching out his hands toward heauen kneled vpon bothe his knees and praid King Dauid gaue muche diligeÌ„ce to amplify increse the worship honor of our lord 1. Para. 15. vnto 25 in the number of singing men and prestes After that the children of Israell were returned from the captiuity of Babilon 2. Esd. 9. they red in the booke of the law of our lord iiii times on the day and iiii times on the night and worshipped the lord their God When all the Children of Israell wente to the golden Calues Tobi. 1. Thoby fled al theyr companies and got him to Ierusalem vnto the temple of god and there worshipped oure Lord god of Israel When Iob had hard the wordes of the messengers declarynge vnto hym the losse of his substance Iob. 1. he stode vp and fallinge downe vppon the grounde worshypped and sayde Naked came I oute of my mothers wombe and naked shall I tourne thither agayne Notwithstanding it was prohibyted that no manne should desyre any peticyon Dani. 6. eyther of anye God or man wythin thirtye dayes but onlye of kynge Darius yet Danyell kneeled downe vppon hys knees three tymes a daye in hys house and made hys peticion and prayer and praysed hys Lord God The wyse men went into the house and founde the Chylde wyth Marye hys mother Mat. 2. and fell downe flat and worshypped hym Beholde the deuotyon of a meruelous humility what shuld we christianes then do to the lord our god that now doth raygne if the gentyles did such reuerence to a child that wept When Iesus was come down from the mouÌ„tain Mat 8. ther came a leper worshipped him saying Lord if thou wylte thou canst make me cleane The manne that was borne blynd fallynge on hys knees worshypped hym Iohn 9. The disciples after the Lordes resurrection worshipped him Mat. 28. The priest and the people of Listra lokynge vppon Paule and Barnabas Act. 14. beleuing them to be Goddes wold haue done sacrifice vnto them But they forbode them Ihon fel before the angels feete to worship him
whych hard hys preachyng The gentils heard that the Iewes put from them the worde of God Act. 13. and that Paul and Barnabas wold turne to them they wer glad and glorifyed the word of our lorde and beleued euen as many as were ordeined vnto eternal lyfe And it fortuned in Iconium that Paule and Barnabas wente into the sinagoge Act. 14. and so spake that a greate multitude of the Iewes and also of the Grekes beleued A certaine woman named Lidia a seller of Purple Act. 16. gaue audyence vnto Paules woordes whose hearte oure Lord opened and was baptysed wyth all her housholde When the Atheniens hard Paule speake of the resurrection of the dead some mocked Act. 17. and other said we wyll heare thee agayne of thys matter So Paule departed from them Howbeit certain men claue vnto him and beleued among the which was Dionisius an Ariopagite and a woman named Damaris and other with them Paule remained at Ephesus by the space df ii yeares Act. 19. and disputed dailye in the schole of one called Tirannus so that al they that dwelt in Asia hard the word of our Lord. After that king Agrippa had heard Paule Act. 26. he said vnto hym Somewhat thou perswadest me to become Chrysten When Paule was come to Berrea he entred into the Synagoge of the Iewes Act. 17. some of them receiued the word wythal diligence gredines of minde and searched the scriptures daily whether those thynges were euen so and many of them beleued ¶ Of the apparitions and visions shewed in the olde tyme. Capitu. xxx BEfore iniquity and synne oure Lord spake vnto Adam Gen. 1.2.3 but after that synne was commytted and done he spake to Adam Eue and to the serpent Ye he monished Caine or euer he slue his brother and afterwardes reproued hym Oure Lorde commaunded Noe to make an arke Gen. 6.7.8.9 and to goe into it and after the exercitation or destruction of the earthe he had hym come forthe of the arke then he blessed Noe and hys children and said vnto them bring ye forth frute and multiply and repleanysh the earth Our lord saide vnto Abraham Get thee oute of thy countrye Gen. 12. and oute of thy nation And again our lord apeared to Abraham and saide vnto hym vnto thy sede wil I geue thys land After that Abraham and Lot wer departed one from the other Gen. 13.15.17 Then followeth The worde of oure Lorde came vnto Abraham in a vision And after that oure Lorde appeared vnto hym and gaue hym the commaundement of the circumcision And there appeared vnto Abraham three men Gen. 18. c. And euen then he hard what time his sonne should be borne And ther came ii angels Lot sitting at the gate of Sodome Gen. 19. And Lot seyng them rose vp to mete them and worshypped them God came to Abimelech in a dreme and sayde vnto hym Gen. 20. See thou shalte die for the womans sake whiche thou haste taken awaye for she is a mans wyfe Gen. 21. When that Abraham had taken Saras wordes greuouslye complainyng of her maide Agar and her Sonne our Lord said vnto hym let it not bee sharpe and greuous in thy syghte because◠of the ladde and of thy bondmaide An angell appeared in the wildernes to Agar the maid Gen. 26. to her sonne God proued Abraham Gen. 22. and sayd vnto him take thy sonne c. And when he held forth the sweard Beholde the angel of our Lord. c. Our Lord appeared vnto Isaac in Bersabe Gen. 26. saying I am the God of Abraham thy father c. God appeared verye often to Iacob going to Laban Gen. 28.31 and comming again from thence And our Lord saide vnto Laban in a dreame Take heede that thou speake not to Iacob oughte saue good And after thys our Lorde spake many tymes to Iacob It were to longe to rehearse howe oftentymes our Lord spake vnto Moses Looke in the booke of Exodus the thyrde Chapter wyth other moe that follow We rede also that oure Lord spake vnto Balaam by night and when he rode vpon hys Asse the whyche sawe the Aungell Nume 22. whome Balaam sawe not Iosu. 1.4.5 7.13 Our Lord in like maner spake very often to Iosua After the death of Iosua the childrē of Israell counsailed with the Lorde and asked saying Iudi. 1. who shall go vp before vs And our Lord said Iuda shal go vp The angel of our Lord ascended vnto the place of those that did weepe Iudi. 2. and sayde I broughte you oute of Egipt The angel of oure Lorde appeared vnto Gedeon Iudi. 6. and said The Lorde is wyth thee The angell of oure Lorde appeared vnto Mannes wyfe Iudi. 13. And at a nother seasō he appeared both to Manne and his wife The children of Israel being gathered to fight against the Beniamites Iudi. 20. counsailed wyth oure Lorde Unto whome he said that Iudas shoulde be captaine of the hoste and begyn And notwithstanding that they wer twise ouerthrowne yet our Lord commaunded them to fight Our Lorde called vppon Samuell foure times 1. regu 3. and at the laste he sayde speake on Lord for thy seruaunt he areth and that by Helis counsaile And than there foloweth that oure Lorde appeared again in Silo. When Dauid should geue battaile 2. regu 2. he did oftentimes consulte wyth oure Lorde And we reade that he alwayes answeared hym as it appeareth in many places but speciallye in the second booke of the kynges the seconde Chapiter Our Lord appeared to Salomon 3. regu 3. and said Aske what thou wilt When Salomon had finyshed the building of the house of our Lord 3. regu 9. and the kinges palace Our Lorde appeared vnto him and said I haue hearde thy prayer And he spake again vnto Salomon 3. regu 11. rebuking and checking of hym verye sharply for his fautes committed The angell of oure Lord appeared 3. regu 19. vnto Helias flyinge from the face of Iesabel the which shewed hym bread and water And also in a small styll voyce or ayre When Elizeus was compassed about with the Assirians hoste 4. regu 6. manys aungels that defended hym appeared the whyche hys seruaunt sawe in the similitude and likenesse of firy horses and charets The appearinge of the angell Raphael continued leng Tobi. 9. whom our lord sent to cure and heale Sara Diuers of the Prophets sawe many meruelous visions Esa. 6. as of the wakyng rod Iere. 1.24 and a sethinge potte and of two maundes of figges But specially Ezechiel Daniel Amos and zacharias arful of imaginarious visions the whiche to expresse woulde require a long time Ther apeared vnto Heliodorus the which wold haue spoyld the temple 2. Mach. 3. and haue conueid away such thynges as wer deposed laid ther to be kept an horse with a terrible and a fearful
the Lord and his seruaunte Moses Moses vntyll he came to the waters of strife Nume 20. faithfully beleued al the sayinges and words of our Lord but somewhat he stackard there Ionathaâ— saide vnto his harnesse bearer It is no hardnesse wyth oure Lorde 1. regu 14. to saue either in manye or in fewe This was a woorde of a great and a mightye fayth 1. regu 17. That Dauid sayed when he should fight against Goliath the geyaunt Thou comest to me with a swerde a speare and a shylde But I come too thee in the name of oure Lorde Iosaphat saied vnto hys hoost gethered together to fight 2. Para. 20. Put youre trust in the Lorde youre God and ye shal be sure and in sauegarde Geue credence to his Prophetes and so shal ye prospere Aza spake a woord of a great faith saying 2. Para. 14. Lorde it is no distance or matter to the whether thou helpe in few or in many Esdras commynge to Ierusalem 1. Esdra 8. requyred not of the kynges gydes to conducte hym on his waye because it was a perylouse a ieoperdous way but turnde hym selfe to prayer and to faste When Nehemias perceiued sawe so many dangers labours hang ouer theim 2. Esdra 4 he said God shal fight for vs we wyl be laboring in the worke Daniels felowes spake a worde of a great and a feruent faythe to kyng Nabuchodonosor Dani. 3. Oure God whome we serue is able to keepe vs from the hoote burning Ouen and can ryghte well delyuer vs oute of thy handes Iudas Machabrus sayde vnto hys felowes that wer afraide 1. Mach. 3. It is a smal matter for many to be ouercome with a fewe Yee there is no difference to the God of heauen to delyuer by a greate multytude or by a small company For the victory of the battayle standeth not in the multytude of the hoost But the strength cometh frome heauen Eleazar sayde vnto those whiche would that be 2. Mach. 6. fayninge hym selfe to haue eaten of the flesh of the sacrifice shoulde haue scaped death I cannot escape the handes of God almightye nether alyue nor dead The woordes of those seuen bretherne and theyr mother proceaded and came of the aboundant faythe of the mynde 2. Mach. 7. Luc. 1. Thangel saide vnto zachary Ihon the Baptiste father Beholde it shall come to passe that thou shalt be dom and not be able to speake vntyll the daye that theese thinges be perfourmed because thou beleuedst not my wordes And Elizabeth filled with the holy ghost Luc. 1. dyd speciallye laude Marye the virgin sayinge blessed arte thou that hast beleued c. It is proued that ther was a meruelous faith in those three wisemen Mat. 2. the which comming oute of the East to Bethelem and fineding the childe with hys pore mother most humblye did worship hym and offred mistical giftes vnto him Our Lord euen meritoriously commended the faythe of the Centuryon Mat. 8. the whiche sayde Syr I am not worthye c. Then ther followeth I haue not founde so greate faythe in Israell Euery mannes proper faith maye be verye profytable vnto hym Mat. 9. yf the faith of other menne was so commodious and profitable vnto the sicke of the palsy And whan Iesus sawe the faith of them Luc. 5. he said Son be of good cheare thy synnes bee forgeuen the and oute of hande he wholye healed him A womaÌ„ whych was diseased with an issue of bloud Mat. 9. said within her self if I may touche but euen hys vesture only I shal be safe Then ther foloweth doughter be of good comfort thy faith hath made the safe Our Lord did not many miracles in his owne country Mat. 13. because of their vnbelefe When Peter walkinge on the water began to sinke mat 14. oure Lorde reproued him for lacke of faith sayinge O thou or little faith wherefore diddest thou doubte The woman of Canane is greatly praised of our Lord mat 15. to whom he said O woman greate is thy â—aiâ—he be it vnto the euen as thou wilt Peter spake a faithfull worde vnto our LORDE that asked hym mat 17. what men saide that he was Thou art said Peter the sonne of the liuing God The faith of Magdalen was maruelous and therfore she iustly deserued to heare of our LORDE Luc. 7. Thy faithe hathe made thee safe or saued thee Now when the father of the child that was lunatike beleued He moste huÌ„bly required that his faith mighte be encreased mar 9â— and wepinge hee sayde Lorde I beleue healpe thou mine vnbelefe Oure Lorde sayde vnto Thomas Bringe thy finger hither Iohn 20. c. and bee not faithlesse but beleuing Because thou hast seâ—e me thou hast beleued blessed are they that haue not sene yet haue beleued Upon Whitson sondaye after Peters first predication the receiuing of the holy ghost Act. 2. ther beleued about thre thousand men When the halting man was made whole Act. 3.4 he spake vnto the people that wondred and were sore astonyed And many of them whiche hearde the wordes beleued And the numbre of them was aboute v. thousande The Apostles chose Steuen a man full of faythe Act. 6. and full of the holye ghoste The Enuche sayde vnto Philippe See here is water what doothe lette me to be baptised Act. 8. Philip sayde vnto hym yf thou beleue with all thyne hearte thou mayest And the Enuche answered and sayd I beleue that Iesus Christ is the sonne of God And then Philip baptysed hym Saule and Cornelius were diuersty broughte vnto the faythe of Christe Act. 10.9 but yet they were broughte edificatyuely and fruitfully Some of Sipers and Ciren whiche when they were come to Antioche Act. 11. spake vnto the Grekes and preached oure Lorde Iesus And a great nombre beleaued and tourned vnto oure Lorde Paulus the Proconsull and ruler Act 13. seyng howe that Elimas the sorcerer that resisted Paule the Apostle was made blinde by the word of God beleued and wondred at the doctrine of our Lord. Paule and Barnabas saide vnto the Iewes Act. 13. It was meete that the woorde of God should fyrst haue bene preached to you But seinge ye put iâ— from you lo we turne to the Gentyles When they hearde this they were glad and gloryfied the name of God and beleued euen as many as were ordained vnto eternall lyfe A certaine man at Listra a crepell whiche neuer hadde walkedâ— Hearde Paule preache Act. 14. whiche beholdinge him and perceiuing that he had faith to be whole sayde vnto hym stande vpright on thy feete and he wente forthe and walked It fortuned in Iconium that Paul and Barnabas wente into the sinagoge of the Iewes Act. 14. and so spake that a greate multytude bothe of Iewes and also of the Grekes beleued As Paule and Barnabas wente through diuerse townes and cyties
1. regu 3. When kynge Dauid satte in his house after that our Lorde had giuen him rest rounde abouâ—e from all hys enemyes 2. regu 7. he sayde vnto Nathan the Prophete Thou seyste that I dwell nowe in an howse of Cedarre trees but the Arke of God dwelleth within the curtaine It was shewed vnto Helias that fled from the face of Iezabel 3. regu 19. that our lorde was not in a greate spirite nor in no coÌ„motion nor winde nor earthquake but in a small styll voyce The mynde of man muste take his iudgement by the sumilitude and likenes of corporall thinges or els it must be lifted vp to god in whoÌ„ what soeuer is sene or thought delectable in anye creature is inseperable sounde muche better 4. regu 3. So that when the mynstrell played before Eliseus the hande of Oure lorde came vpon him When Eliseus woulde praye deligentely for the Sunamites child that was departed 4. regu 4. he dyd it not openly before al men but shutte the dore to the lad and him and prayed vnto Oure lorde Sara Raguels doughter beynge rebuked and slaundred of on of her maydens Tob. 3. went into the innermost chamber of her house and thre dayes and thre nightes she nether eat nor drank but continued in prayer and besought god with teares that he woulde deliuer her frome that rebuke Iudith perceyuing her people to be streyted and in daunger went into her closet Iudi. 9. put on an heary smocke strawed ashes vpon her head and fallynge downe before oure Lorde cryed vnto hym Quene Esther fearing the daunger that was at hande Esth. 14. fledde vnto oure lorde And when she had laide a waye her glorius apparel she put on garmentes that serued for syghinge and mourninge and prayd thus vnto our Lorde helpe me desolate woman After the tribulations and perturbations which Dauid sustained suffred Psal 54. he sayd Who shal geue me winges lyke a doue For then would I flie away and be at reste Then he sheweth the maner howe to come to these wynges rest saying Lo then would I get me away farre of and remayne in the wyldernesse When Ezechiell was amonge or in the myddes of the prisoners Eze. 1. the hande of our Lorde came vpon hym and he sawe a stormy wynde come out of the north When Daniell hearde of the cruell sentence that was pronounced against the wise men of Babilon Dani. 2. he wente home and the mysterye was shewed vnto hym by a vision by night Dani. 9. The Angell Gabriell sayde vnto Daniell that prayde feruently I am nowe come to teache thee and to make thee vnderstand that thou art a man greatly beloued I wyll stande vppon my watche sayth habacuc Haba 2. and shall fasten my ioy vpon my bulworke to looke and se what shal be sayd vnto me and what answere I should make hym that reproued me And when the people were sent awaye he wente vp into a mountaine to praye alone Math. 14. And when night was come he was there hym selfe alone By the whiche thynge he geueth the people an ensample to flee and to seke for solitariousnes And zacharias wente into the temple of our Lorde LuKe. 1. and the whole multitude of the people were wyth oute in prayer while the incense was a burnynge And then there appeared vnto hym an Angell of oure Lorde Martha was troubled and combred about muche seruinge Luke 10. but Mary syttyng at Gods feete hearde the woorde of God And it is greatly to be noted that quyetnes and the hearing of gods word should be preferde aboue al religyons and deuoute ministery seruice Iohn 11. When Iesus sawe mary wepe and the Iewes also wepinge whiche came wyth her he groned in the spirite and wepte the whyche thinge he dyd not when Martha spake vnto him Our lordes disciples wer wonderfullye illuminated and taughte at the coÌ„minge of the holy ghost Act. 2. After the light from heauen shyned rounde a boute Saule Act. 9. he fell to the earthe and was made blind the fasted and prayed by the space of thre dayes and hadde many exellente reuelations from Christ. When Peter was lodged in SimoÌ„s the Tanners house Act. 10. at a certain time he wente into the hyest place of the house to praye to the entent that he beynge farre from the troublous people that were beneathe myghte geue hym selfe the more quyetlye to hys prayers Oure Lorde Peter beynge in a traunce shewed vnto hym that the heathen oughte not to be repelled from the predication of the gospel Paule was taken vppe into the thyrd heauen 2. Cor. 12. and hard secreate wordes which no man can vtter rom 1.9.10.11 His exceading great wisdome appeareth in hys Epistles Ephe. 1.2 and principallye to the Romaynes Col. 1.2 To the Ephesyans To the Collossyans And also to the Hebrues Heb. 1. Oure Lorde disclosed vnto blessed Sainte Ihon beyng sequestred from the tumulte and consolatyon of the worlde and banyshed into the I le of Pathmos the celestial and heauenly workes and dedes as it appeareth in his reuelations ¶ Of longanimity ¶ Capit. xxxvii ABraham taried many yeares or euer he hadde any chylde by Sara Gen. 21. for hee was an hundred yere old when his sonne Isaac was borne vnto him From the fyrst promise made vnto Abraham vntyl he hadde sede were yeres 440. Oure Lorde suffered Israell to bee scourged and afflicted in Egipt a loÌ„g time and season And afterwardes to be tempted and proued in wildernes the space of 40. yeares or euer they came to the land of promise as it appeareth thorowe oute all the boke of Exodus and Numery Iudi. 20 The children of Israel fightyng against the tribe of Beniamin many against a few wer twise ouerthrown and yet at the last they preuailed Iob. 13. Iob beyng punyshed in bodye depriued of al hys chyldren laughed to scorne of hys frendes and spoyled of all hys goodes dyd say Lo though he slaye mee yet wyl I put my truste in hym Tobyas elders kinsfolkes laughed hym to scorne whyche sayde vnto hym Tob. 2. where is thy hope for the whyche thou haste done almesse and buryed the deade But Tobias rebuked them spake Say not so for we are the chyldren of holy men and looke for the lyfe which God shall geue vnto them that neuer turne their belefe from him When Susanna was condempned by the false testimony and wytnesse of two iudges Dani. 13. it is thus wrytten of her That her heart hadde a sure truste in the Lorde When one of those seuen brethren was requyred of the tyrande 2 Mach. 7. quyckely he put oute his tounge and constantly helde forth his handes and spake with a steadfaste fayeth These haue I of heauen Iudas Machabeus sente vnto Ierusalem two thousande dragmas of syluer to bee offred there for the offences and synnes of the dead 2. Mach.
Ierusalem was finyshed 2. Esd. 6. that all the hethen which were there about were afrayde All the heathen on euery side were afrayde of Iudas and his brethren 1. Mach. 3. so that the rumoure of hys name came vnto the kinge Theire aduersaries heard that Ionathas was ready with his menne to the battayle 1. Mach. 10. they feared and were afrayde in they re hartes After that Lisias was ouerthrone be Iudas Machabeus 2. Mach. 11. he was wyllinge to make peace with him and promised that he woulde consent to all thinges whiche were reasonable euen as Iudas woulde Herode feared Iohn knowing that he was a iust manne Mar. 6. and an holy and he kept hym After the terrible death of Ananias and Saphira the disciples wer all together in Salamons porche And no man durst ioyn him selfe to them Act. 5. but yet the people magnified them When Paule and Silas were both in prisone together Act. 16. and their feete made fast in the stockes sodenly there was a greate earthquake The keper of the prison beinge afraide fel doune at the fete of Paule and Silas saide Sirs what muste I do to be saued ¶ Of the loue of god Capi. xl WHen God shoulde geue the law vnto Moses he said vnto hym Exo. 20. I am thy lorde god shewynge mercy vnto those that loue me and keepe my commaundementes The chefest of al the coÌ„maundemeÌ„tes is the loue of god Deu. 6. For Moses said after he had repeated the commauÌ„dementes vnto the people Thou shalt loue the lorde thy god with all thine harte c. Moses willinge specially to printe in the peoples mynde the feare and loue of god Deu. 10. saide and nowe Israell what dothe the lorde thy god require of thee but to feare the Lorde thy god and to walke in all his wayes to loue him and to serue the lorde thy god with all thine harte c. Iosua beinge olde and stryken in yeres calde all the people of Ierusalem vnto him Iosua 13.13 and wareninge them of many thinges amonge all other he sayde Take hede most deligentlye of this that ye loue your lorde god It is wrytten of Dauid that with his whole hert he did prayse our lord and loued god that made him Eccle. 47. ye and be hym selfe sayde a lorde that arte my fortitude and strengthe I wyll loue the. The Apostle Paule hathe geuen this sentence Psal. 17. If any manne loue not our lorde Iesus Christ the same bee cursed For oure lorde that shall reuenge thinges shall come In asmuch as loue is a vertue that moueth a man to christ wards 1. Cor. 16 Paule â—adde greate Loue the whiche was crucified vnto Christ. And it may be noted that Christ was his wisdome Nether shewed I my self that I knew any thinge amonge you 1. Cor. 2. saue Iesus Christe euen the same that was crucified And his substaunce I haue counted sayth Paule all thinges losse Philip. 3. and do iudge them but vyle that I maye winne Christ. And hys iustice He is made vnto vs our wisdome 1. Cor. 1. our Iustice our sanctification and our redemption It may be sayd that Christ spake in Paule 2. Cor. 13. Seke ye experience of Christ whiche speaketh in me Also Christ did worke by Paule I dare not speak of any of those things Rom. 15. which christ hath not wrought by me Againe Christ did lyue in Paule I liue yet now not I but Christ lyueth in me Gala. 2. And agayne he saythe Christ is to me lyfe Philip. 1. Item Christ doth triumphe in him Thankes be to god whiche alwaies geueth vs the victory in Christ 2. Cor. 2. He may also be called Christes seruant Paule the seruaÌ„t of Iesê° Christ. And the Apostle of Christ. româ— 1. Paule the Apostle of Iesu Christ. And the legate or messenger of god Now then are we messengers in the roume of Christ 2. Cor. 1. 2. Cor. 5. euen as though God did exhorte you throughe vs so praye we you in Christes stede that ye be reconciled vnto God And he was Gods helper We are goddes helpers or labourers And Gods champioÌ„ 1. Cor. 3. I haue fought a good fight And againe So fight I not as one that beateth the ayre 2 tim 4. And againe 1. Cor. 9. If I haue foughten with beastes after the maner of men 1. Cor. 15. Item a runner I so runne not as at an vncertaine thinge 1. Cor. 9. And a speciall folower Be ye folowers of me 1 Cor. 1â— as I am the folower of Christ. Saint Iohn sayth Let vs therfore loue god for he loued vs first 1. Iohn 4. ¶ Of the loue that man ought to haue to his neighboure Cap. xli CAyne was greuously reprehended of oure Lord Gen. 4. and punished because he did wickedly against his brother and sayde that he was not hys brothers keper Note how diligently and carefully Abraham prayde oure lorde Gen. 18. that he would spare the Sodomites the whiche thinge was a great signe and token of loue Moses had so greate dilection and loue to his neighbours exodi 32. whyche were hys subiectes that in hys prayer to God he sayde eyther forgeue them their sinne or wype me oute of thy booke Moyses did wyshe in hys prayer that oure Lordes people coulde prophecy Nume 11. notwithstaÌ„ding that his honor should seme to be deminished therby Moses would haue no greater dominion then he had Nume 14. and yet our lorde promysed him it Suche was his loue towardes his neyghbours whome he ruled Iudi. 21. The chyldren of Israell after the occision and death of the chyldren of Beniamin wept very sore and sayd O lorde wherfore is this euyl chaunsed in Israell The soule of Ionathas was knyt with the soule of Dauid 1. regu 18. and Ionathas loued him as his owne soule Dauid shewed that he loued his enemye 2. reg 1.3 when he mourned for Saul and his frende when he wept for Ionathas and Abner Dauid likewise bewailed the death of Absolon his sonne 2. regu 18 althoughe he was euyl and his aduersary Nehemias dothe shewe his greate loue towardes the children of transmigratioÌ„ esdra 2. per totum as it appeareth by the thinges that he did for them Because Tobias hadde shewed the works of charity to many Tobi. 1. many did loue him and therfore when he was commaunded by the king to be slain he was hiden and not found Oure LORDE wolde that we should haue suche loue to our neighbors Mat. 18. that he said vnto Peter that he shoulde not forgeue his brother that sinneth against him till seuen times but seuenty times seuen times The Samaritane is much extolde and lauded for the great loue and charitye that he had to his neighboure Lu. 10. For comming vnto him being halfe deade he was moued with pytye and
Hebrues 2. Cor. 11. Heb. 1. ¶ Of vndiscrete zele Capit. lii WHen Iosue Moses seruant saw two menne in the hooste that Prophesyed Nume 11. he sayde mayster Moses forbyd them And Moses saide vnto hym what enuyest thou for my sake Abisai the sonne of Seruia was willing to haue cut of Semeis head 2. regu 19. because he cursed Dauid that suffred Absolons persecutiō but Dauid wold not suffer that he shoulde haue anye harme or dammage The children of the Prophets constrayned Elizeus to sende menne to seeke hys mayster 4. regu 2 leaste happely the spirit of our Lord had taken him vp and cast him vpon some mountain or into some valey Ionas fled from the face and sight of God when hee commaunded him to preach to the Niniuites And afterwardes he was sorye and discontent Ionas 1.4 that the city pearyshed not as he had preached When oure LORD had shewed hys Disciples howe that he shoulde suffer manye thinges of the hye priestes and elders of the Iewes Mat. 16. and bee killed Peter began to rebuke hym sayinge Mayster fauor thy selfe this shal not happen vnto the. The Pharises did greatly contend for the obseruation of the Sabbothe Mar. 2. when they saw oure Lorde heale the sycke LuKe. 6. and hys disciples pluck the cares of the corne and rubbe them in theyr handes on that day The Pharises contended more for the traditions of man Mat. 15. than for the cōmaundementes of God And the people contēded more for the gould of the Temple Mat. 23. then for the temple and for the giftes of the aultare then for the aultare They brought children to our Lord that he should laye his handes vppon them Mar. 10. and pray And his disciples rebuked those that brought them But Iesus said suffer the children to come vnto me for bid them not for of suche is the kingdome of God When Mary had poured the pretious oyntment vpon the Lordes hed some of the disciples disdained Mar. 14. wer not content with her for the wast and losse of the oyntment Ihon forbade a certain mā that casted out deuils in our Lorde Iesus name Luke 9. because he folowed not them with other Disciples And Iesus saide vnto him forbid him not for he that is not against vs is with vs. LuKe. 9. When Iames and Ihon hard that the Samaritans wold not receiue the messengers of our Lorde they sayde Lord wilt thou that we commaunde fire to come downe from heauen and consume them Iesus turned about rebuked them sayinge ye wotte not what manner sprite ye are of Luke 22. Our Lord reproued Peter because he had stroken of the eare of the high prestes seruaunt For it was not christes time then to shew his power but his patience It appeareth that Ihon the Baptist Disciples bare no great good zeale towardes oure Lorde Iohn 3. when they sayde vnto Ihon their master Rabby he that was wyth thee beyonde Iordan the same baptiseth and all men come to him Ihon answered them rightwel and said a man can receiue nothyng except it be geuen him from heauen When that many sick folkes were brought out of the city Act. 5. and wer healed of Peter the chefe priest rose vp and all they that were with him wer ful of indignation Paule was a great folower of hys fathers traditions againste manye of his owne felowes when he made hauocke of the congregation Act. 8.9 entrynge into euery house and drawynge oute both men and women and thrustyng them into prison Likewise he obtayned letters of the hie Priest to the sinagog◠that was at Damasco that he if he found any ther that cald vpō the name of Christ might bringe thē bound vnto Ierusalem Act. 13. The Iewes perceiuing that almost the whole city came together to hear the worde of GOD that Paule and Barnabas dyd preache they wer ful of zeale and indignation and spake rayling wordes against those things which were spoken of Paule When Paule was come to Ierusalem the brethren saide vnto hym Act. 21. how manye thousandes of Iewes be there that beleue and are earnest folowers of the law And of such speaketh Paule Roma 10. sayinge I bare them record that they haue a zeale and a feruent minde to Godwarde but not according to knowledge ¶ Of prudency and discretion Capitulo .liii. ABraham comming into Egipt dyd wysely and warely Gen. 12.20 as touchynge hys wyfe for he cloked the truthe and yet affirmed no falshode saying She is my sister He did the like when he came to Abimelech And Abraham did prudently seperate hym self from Lot Gen. 13. because theyr herd menne shoulde not stryue together Abraham discretelye while he yet liued Gen. 25. did deuide and geue euery child hys portion least that they after hys deathe shoulde stryue and hee at debate Rebecca did wiselye enstructe her sonne Iacob Gen. 27. how he should obtayne and come by his fathers blessing and prudently she caused hym to departe from those partyes vntyll hys brothers fearsnesse wer swaged Iacob by crafte dyd euen very wel begyle Labans craftinesse Gen. 30. when Laban denyed to geue hym competente wages for hys seruyce Iacob dyd prudently that he whē he shoulde meete wyth hys brother Gen. 32. sente hym Presentes and when hee deuyded hys Substaunce leaste that hee euen at one brounte shoulde lose al and put such thinges as he loued best in daunger Gen. 41. Ioseph spake prudētly before Pharao expounding the dreame vnto him and geuing him counsell againste the famine that was to come Gen. 44. Ioseph did warely and wiselye deprehend and accuse his brethren and put them in feare Iethro gaue Moses good counsaile saying Exo. 18. prouide thy selfe men of power and such as feare God true men such as hate couetousnesse Or euer Moses inuaded the land of promise Nume 13. he sent spies thither to consider the state and condition therof The spies that Iosue sente lurked and wisely kept them selues close Iosu. 1. vntil they that sought for them were returned to theyr owne agayn Iosue vsed greate policye and wisdome when he laide awaite vnto the towne of Hai Iosu. 8. and afterwards made as though he had fled his way The Gabaonites thinking by craft and subtlety to beguile Iosue by hys discretion were broughte into seruytude and bondage Iosu. 9. Phinees and other messengers that were sent to the children of Ruben Iosu. 22. spake discreately vnto theym and wyth wyse communication appeased them Ahud bringinge a present vnto Eglon kyng of Moab Iudi. 3. craftely deceyued hym Gedeon did smite and destroye the hoost of his enemies Iudi. 8. the whiche beinge wythoute care dyd cast no peryls Iephthe like a wyse man dyd signifye Iudi. 11. by messengers vnto the kynge of the chyldren of Ammon that he dyd wrong to warre agaynst him but
Ammon recompensed honour 2. re 10 and good dedes with iniury when they vituperated and put Dauids messeÌ„gers to rebuke and shame whiche he sent to comfort the kinge ouer the death of his father Dauid and Ioab were ingrate and vnkynde to faythfull vrias 2. regu 18 of the whyche two the fyrste sente letters And the other dyd Cruellye execute them After that Dauid had reuoked Absolon his sonne 2. reg 15 and hadde forgeuen him the murther coÌ„mitted against his brother Ammon he made insurrectioÌ„ against his father 2. re 16 Dauyd in disheretinge so sone Miphiboseth Ionathas sonne remembred not the amite and loue that was betwene his father and him 3. reg 12 Oure lorde exalted and set Ieroboas ouer ten tribes And by and by elated wyth pride and a wyll to rule hee peruerted the people from the true honouringe and worshipping of god Eliseus hadde done much good for the kinge of Israel 4. re 6. And all his people And yet for the dearth that was in the countrey he commaunded his head to be smitten of But god disposed it other wise 2. Para. 24. Ioas the kinge of Iuda remembred not the mercy and kyndnesse that Ioiada the hye preast had done vnto him but slue zacharia his sonne reprouing and rebukinge him that he had leâ—â—e oure lorde and transgressed his commaundementes Amasias trustynge to the succoure and healpe of god ouercame the Edomites and the chyldren of Seir. 2. Para. 25 And yet brynginge theyr gooddes a waye he bowed hym selfe and worshipped before them And the prophet that was sent vnto him sayed why haste thou sought and honoured the goddes of the people which were not able to deliuer their owne people out of thy hande Ezechias dyd not vnto god accordinge to it that he hadde shewed him 2. para 32 for his hart arose Many haue abused and tourned the goodnes and honoure of princes shewed vnto them Esth. 1 into pride Nor they are not contente to geue thankes for benefites and to violate the lawe of humanite in theÌ„ selues but also they hope and thâ—nk to escape the sentence and iudgemeÌ„te of god that seeth all Our lorde complayning of the people of Iewry sayeth I haue norished and brought vp chyldren but they despysed me Esa. 1 And hee proueth that they are least thankeful then beastes There foloweth The oxe hath knowen his owner aud the asse hys masters crib But Israell hath receyued no knowledge my people hathe no vnderstandynge Oure LORDE woulde haue done and shewed manye and greate benefytes to Achab the kynge of Iuda Esa. 7 as hee sente hym woorde by Esaye but hee despysed too receyue theym Ionathas sente stronge armed menne 2. mach 10 the whyche delyuered Demetrius from the handes of the Antiochians And yet afterwardes Dâ—metrius dyd alienate hym selfe clean from Ionathas nor rewarded him not according to the benefytes that hee had shewed hym but troubled hym verye sore Of the tenne Leapers that our Sauioure cleansed Lu. 17 there came but one agayne to magnify God and to geue hym thanckes The damsels maisters or Parentes oute of whome Paule dyd caste the spirite of Prophesye Act. 16 were very ingrate and vnkind vnto Paul For whye they sorowed more the losse of theyr gayn and vauntage then they reioysed in the expulsyon of the deuil That truthe engendreth hatred Ca. lxvi BAlaac the kinge of Moab was very dolourous and sory when that Balaam spake anye good of the children of Israell Notwythstandynge it was true that he spake Nor he dyd not honor hym as hee woulde haue honoured Nume 24. if hee hadde spoken pleasauntlye and after hys mynde I thoughte saythe Balaac to promote thee vnto honour but our Lorde hath kepte the backe from worshyp Ionathas Gedeons sonne that told the truthe of Abimelech and his Iudi. 9 whiche had vnryghtfully made him king was fain to flye from the face and presence of Abimelech Saule was angry with hys sonne Ionathas 1. reg 20 because he excused Dauid the which was an innocent blamelesse towardes Saule Achab dyd hate Micheas the Prophet for tellyng him the truth 3. reg 22 I hate hym saith he for he doth not prophecy good vnto me but euel When Ananias the Prophet had reproued Aza the kynge of Iuda 2. para 16 because he put his truste in Bennadab the Kynge of Syria Aza was wrothe and sent the seer into prison zacharias the sonne of Ioiade at the commaundement of king Ioas was stoned 2. Para. 24 because he rebuked the kynge and hys Lordes that they had lefte forsaken our Lord. When Achior hadde rehearsed the greate and noble thynges that oure Lorde hadde done for the children of Israell Iudith 5.6 and that hys power was greate Holofernes princes Lordes were angry and thought to slay him and Holofernes him selfe disdained the thing vehemently Sedechias the kinge of Iuda layde Ieremy the Prophet in pryson Iere. 31 saying why doste thou prophecye thus Thus saith the Lord c. When Baruch had red the words Iere. 36 that he had wrytten out of the mouthe of Ieremy before Ioachim the kyng of Iuda he caused the boke to be caste into the fyre because it declared the truth of the captiuity of Ierusalem the king coÌ„maunded Baruch Ieremy to be takeÌ„ but they wer not fouÌ„d then as god would When that Ieremy prophecied the captiuity of the city he was cast into a lake Iere. 38 wher there was no water but mire and so he descended and stacke fast in the myre Because Daniel proued Bel and the dragon to be no Goddes Dani. 14 they of Babilon gathered them selues together to come vnto the king and procured that Daniel should be cast into the Lions den Because of Eliazarus good true woordes they that drue hym to torment that a litle before wer mild gentle 2. mach 6 waxed wroth and angry Because Ihon the Baptist said vnto Herode math 14 It is not lawful for the to haue thy brothers wife mar 6 he imprisond him and afterwards behedded him When our lorde had reproued the hipocrites pharises of many thinges they beganne greuously to waxe busy aboute hym Lu. xi to stoppe hys mouthe laiyng wayte for hym and seking to catche some thing out of his mouthe whereby they might accuse him The pharises cursed him that was borne blynde Iohn 9 and healed of oure lorde and caste him out of the Sinagoge because he confessed the truthe most constantlye The hye preastes hearing the wordes of the Apostles as concernynge Christes doctryne Act. 5 claue a sonder and sought meanes to slee them and beynge beaten warned them that they should not speake in the name of Iesu And they departed from the counsell reioysing that they were counted worthy to suffre rebuke for his name When the Iewes hearde Saynte Steuens wordes Act. 7 theyr hartes claue a
be offred shoulde bee sold in the temple And for this cause the goulde of the Temple was calde more holye then the temple and the gifte that was vppon the aultare to be of more reuerence then the altare it selfe The couetousnesse and cupiditye of gaine semeth to be the Pryncipall motion mat 26. whye that Iudas betrayed oure Lorde For hee sayth what wyl ye geue me and I wyll delyuer hym vnto you By mony the kepers of our lordes sepulchre were corrupted mat 28. and sayde falsly that our Lorde by nighte was stoln away by his disciples Our Lord Iesus the true lawyer Luc. 12. would not meddle with the diuisyon of the worldly heritage notwythstaÌ„ding that he was required but saide who made me a iudge or a deuider ouer you Our Lord against those that heape vp temporall goodes Luc. 12. and thyncke that they shall manye yeares delyte and haue pleasure in theym dothe propounde the Symylytude of the riche man whose grounde broughte forth plentiful frutes Luke 16. Our Lord againste these rich glottons that vse these precious and delicate garments which are straighte and neady to releaue and healpe the pouertye of theyr neighboure dothe put forth the parable of the rich glotton And note that it semeth not to be a parable but an history Again note that if hee bee so punished that gaue not hys owne proper goodes what shal become of them that steale other mennes Luke 14. The biers of Oxen and Farmes that is the biers of things moueable and vnmoueable excused theÌ„ selues that they coulde not come to the greate supper vnto the which they were inuited and cald For by suche thynges men are oftentimes withdrawne froÌ„ the celestial glory The couetous Pharises hearynge our Lordes monitions Luke 16. and that they should make them frendes of the vnrighteous Mammon laughed hym to scorne The auarice of Ananias and Saphira the which kept away parse of the price of the land Act. 5. was most terribly punished Certaine craftes men which had a damsell possessed wyth a spirite that prophesyed Act. 16. whome Paule deliuered of the Deuell perceiuinge that they had lost theyr gain and lucre caught Paule and Silas hys fellowe and brought them to the rulers and officers saying and accusyng them that they troubled the city and preached vnlawfull obseruaunces customes The magestrates rentinge their clothes commaunded them to be beaten and to be cast into prison to be kept wyth all diligence Paule beyng at Ephesus and doing there many miracles Act. 19. a certayne manne named Demetrius a Syluer smith whiche made siluer shrines for Dyana was not a litle beneficial vnto the craftes menne whome hee called together and sayde that Paule hadde perswaded and tourned away much people sayinge that they be no Goddes which are made wyth hands but deuels and hathe so trouled the City that it is al in a rore and ful of confusion And they rushed into the common hall wyth one assente and caught Gaius and Aristarcus Pauls companions When Paule was wyth Felix the presideÌ„t Act. 24. being bound of the Iewes accused as a seditious and a pestiferous person Felix hoped mony shuld haue bene geuen him of Paul Wherfore he called him the oftner and commoned with him But in as much as it came not so to pas he did not quite him but left him bound to Fest us his successor ¶ Of Pouerty Ca. lxxiiii Gen. 32. WE reade not that Iacob had eyther beast or man when he departed from his parentes and went to his brother Laban but that he went ouer Iordan with his staffe And at a certaine time beinge disposed after the Sunne was downe to reast him self 28 he toke a stone put it vnder his head and laide him downe in the same place to slepe Moses kâ—pt the shepe of Iethro hys father in law Exo. 3. priest of Madian wher by it appeareth that he had no shepe of hys owne that kept other mens Ruth the Moabite hadde no great store of richesse Ruth 2. when she went a glening the eares that the reapers lefte behinde them the whiche pertayned vnto the pore Saule beynge contente wyth one ladde 1. regu 9. wente for to seâ—ke his fathers asses And Saule not long after said vnto Samuell that his kinred was the least of al the kynreds of the tribe of Beniamin Dauid was the least of all hys brethren so that when Samuel came to annoynt one of Isais children Dauid was in the pastors 1. regu 16.17 nor he was not cald at the beginning as though he had bene of no reputation afterwardes his brethren beinge in the hoste hys father sent him loden wyth vitayles vnto them Helias suffred great penury when he prayed the widowe of Sarept to geue him a morsel of bread 3. regu 17. and a lytle water The children of the Prophets dyd liue vnder Elizeus in great pouerty 4. regu 4. the which had but a litle breade and vnsauery pottage Anna Tobias wiâ—e went dailye to the weauing work Tobi. 2.4 wherby it appeareth that they were but pore whyche could not haue their loum iÌ„ their own house And Tobias said vnto his son my sonne be not afraide truthe it is we leade heare a pore lyfe but great good shall we haue if we feare God and depart from all syn and do well The children of the Rechabytes build no houses Iere. 35. sow no seede plante no vine haue no vineyardes dryncke no wine but did dwel in tents Nabuharadan left the rascall people and those that hadde nothynge to dwel sâ—il in the land of Iuda Iere. 39. He spared the pore but he slue the mighty rich or els he led them as prisonners and captiues vnto Babilon We haue an ensample of pouerty in the Lord our sauioure Luke â— the whych was born of a pore mother and nourished of a poore carpenter semelye fed wrapped in cloutes and not in furres laid in a maunger and afterwardes when his glorious mother was churched his parents offered in the temple the offringe of the poore And anon after Ioseph fled wyth the child and his mother into Egipt Mat. 2. And when the child was xii yeare old he abode stil in Ierusalem vnknowyng to his father and mother Luc. 2. And so it appeareth that they had no great family to associate and serue the child Iesus going aboute from towne to towne Mat. 8. had not wher vpon to lay his hedâ— and therfore he saith The foxes haue holes and the byrdes of the air haue neastes but the sonne of manne hath not wher to reast his head Iohn 19. And for this it makethâ— that he hunge bare vpon the crosse The disciples for the moste parte wer chosen out of the porest sort Mat. 4. IhoÌ„ and Iames did mend theyr nets Mar. 1. and did wash them Luc. 5. In our lordes sermon that he made in
do And all this he suffred not for hym self but for vs. For he prayd that the sinnes might be taken away whych he neuer committed And so hee dyed for our necessity and vtilitye and not for hys owne but for all hys frendes For why to deliuer vs he would be taken to redeme vs he wold be sold that we might be honored he would be confounded and crucified He was bound that we might be losed scourged that we shoulde not be scourged he died that we shoulde not die eternally And Paule saith I lyue by the faithe of the sonne of God whiche loued me and gaue hym selfe for me And in a nother place Christ died for our sinnes Gala. 2. And Peter saithe Christe suffred for vs 1. Cor. 15. leaninge vs an ensample that we should folow his steppes 1. Pet. 2. And Esay Esai 33. he was wounded for oure offences and was smitten for oure wickednesse and with his stripes we are healed And it is wrytten I geue my life for my shepe And it is wrytten of the Apostles whiche were beaten Act. 5. They departed from the counsel reioysing that they wer counted worthy to suffer rebuke for his name Steuen was so pacient and benign to those that stoned him that he made more diligent intercession for them Act. 7. then for him self for he kneled down and cried with a loud voyce Lord lay not this sinne to theyr charge when he prayed for him self we reade not that he kneled or cried Paule and Silas being in a harde prison Act. 16. prayed at mydnight and lauded God ¶ Of constancy and continuaunce in purposes Cap. lxxx AFter that we bee once departed from the society and felowshyp of those that be euill Gen. 19. we shoulde not loke behinde vs as Lots wife did the which was turned into a piler of salt Iosephes mistresse was daily molesâ—ius and greuous vnto him Gen. 39. but yet continually he resisted that nepharius and wicked dede Moses could by no meanes be chased or ouercomd other to remain and to sacrifice to our Lorde in Egipt Exo. 8.9.10 or to leaue vnto Pharao the peoples children or cattell Dauid was sore reproued of hys eldest brother and also disswaded by Saule 1. regu 17. and yet he left not of his purpose but fought manfully and ouercame Golyath Ioaâ— continued in the siege of Rabbath vntil the city was taken and in the battaile againste Absolon 2. regu 11.18.20 and in the siege of the citye Abela agaynste Seba the sonne of Bochius Although Nehemias in buyldinge of the wall of Ierusalem 2. Esd. 4.6 suffered manye lettes and impedyments yet he neuer lefte of nor ceased not from hys woorke vntyl the wal was wholy ended In so much as Tobias â—uer feared God from hys youthe vp Tobi. 2. he grudged not againste God that the plague of blindnesse chaunced vnto hym but remained stedfast in the feare of God thanked God all the daies of his life Eliachim the hie priest spake vnto al Israel sayinge be ye sure that our Lord wil hear your prayers and peticions Iudi. 4. if ye continue stedfaste in Fastinges and prayers in the syghte of our Lord. King Ahaswerus seruauntes desyred to knowe whether Mardocheus coÌ„tinued in his purpose that he wold not honoure and worship Aman Esth. 3. the whiche Mardocheus did so contynue in his purpose that he would not only worship him nor yet arise or when he came by bow his kne vnto hym Daniels fellowes said constantlye vnto the king of Babilon know thou O kinge Dani. 3. that we will not serue thy Gods nor do reuerence or pray vnto thy Image Daniell lefte not of for all Darius wicked and cruel deâ—re Dani. 6. to pray in the day time vnto our Lord as his manner was to do Susanna did constantly resist those two old priestes Dani. 13. that tempted her so vehemently There were many of the people of Israell which determined with them selues 1. math 1. that they woulde not eate vncleane thynges but chose rather to suffer deathe then to be defyled wyth vncleane meates Eleazarus had a wonderfull constancy and perseuerance in his pains and tormentes 2. mach 6. for he chose rather to die with a moste greuous death then against the law to eat swines flesh or to dissemble to haue eaten it Those same seuen brethren wyth theyr good and deuoute mother 2. Mach. 7. dyd wel contynue vnto the latter end nor they coulde not be induced to the preuarication and breche of the law nother by fair meanes nor yet by foul The blessed virgin Marye hadde a mooste ferme and stedfast purpose to kepe her virginity Luc. 1. the whych would not consente to the conception of her chylde vntyll she vnderstode that it shuld not be done by man but by the vertue of the holy ghost Our Lord doth put an ensample of him that beginneth to build a tour Luc. 14. was not able to make an end The man that was borne blynde and restored to his sight by our Lord Iohn 9. did constantly continue againste the Pharises confessing and defendynge the truthe Act. 1. And al our Lordes disciples continued wyth one accorde in prayer and supplication with the wemen Mary the mother of Iesu. When the Princes of the Iewes saw the constancye of Peter Ihon Act. 4. and vnderstode that they wer vnlearned and idiots or laye menne they meruailed Barnabas perceiuing that manye of the Antiochens were turned vnto the faith Act. 11. exhorted them al that with purpose of hart they wold continually cleaue vnto our Lord. Paul Barnabas exhorted the brethren to coÌ„tinue in the grace of god Act. 13. The holy ghost witnesseth in euery city vnto Paule Act. 20. that bandes and trouble abide him in Ierusalem but I feare saith he none of these thynges neither do I make my life dearer vnto me then my selfe ¶ Of bodelye warre and victory most commenly obtained Capi. lxxxi ABraham with a fewe of his felowes ouerthrew four kings Gen. 14. the which wer so mighty that they wasted and destroyed great couÌ„tries and at length they ouercame the kinges of the v. cities and spoiled the men of Sodome and Gomor But Abraham recouered the spoyle and deliuered Lot his nephew And it is to be noted that in iuste warre a man is not bounde to Proclaim warre vnto his enemyes Ca. 8.10 or to foretell them yea it is lawfull to deceiue them as it appeareth by Abraham Iosue and Gedeon Moses sent Iosue to fight agaynste Amalech that went aboute to let and hynder the chyldren of Israel Exodi 17. Moses went not in hys own parson but coÌ„tinued in Prayer and dyd more by prayer then he with hys hands fyghtynge The children of Israell beinge moued went couragiously to fight Nume 14. Moses forbiddinge them againste the Amalechites and the Cananites whiche smote them
people â—awe that it was long or Moses came down out of the mountaine Exo. 32. they gathered them selues together against Aaron said vnto him Up and make vs Gods to go before vs. The people as though they hadde ben heauy and wearied with much labor Nume 11. began to murmur agaynste oure Lord and the fire of our Lord burnt among them and deuourd the vttermoste part of the hoste And note the peruersity of them that said We remember the fish we did eat in Egipt for noughte And yet they boughte it ful dearly After the terrible death of Chore his fellowes Nume 16. the multitude murmured agaynste Moses and Aaron saying ye haue kylled the people of our Lorde Againe they murmured and chode wyth Moses at the waters of stryfe Nume 20. for faut of drinke and frute Achitophell perceiuinge that they did not after his Counsaile 2. regu 27. was so moued and so impacyent that he departed from Absolon and wente home and hanged hym self Because that the Chyldren spake roughlye wyth those of the tenne tribes 2. regu 20. Israell wente from Dauyd and followed Seba the sonne of Bichri When Tobias spake of the kydde whyche he heard cry Tobi. 2. sayinge Looke that it be not stolne his wife dyd answer him impaciently When Sara Raguels daughter rebuked one of her maydens for her faut Tobi. 3. she answered her again to iniuriously saying God let vs neuer see sonne or daughter of thee more vppon earthe thou kyller of thy husbandes When worde came to Holofernes that the children of Israell prepared them selues to make resistaunce Iudith 5 hee was exceading wroth Iudith 6 When Achtor had left of speaking Holofernes toke sore indignation Because Mardocheus woulde not worship Aman Esther 3. he toke suche indignation and was so impaciente that he seemed to procure not his deathe onlye but the death of al the Iewes Elihu the sonne oâ— Barachel perceiuing that Iobs frendes Iob. 32. the which disputed with him coulde not ouercome him shewed by his wordes many tokens of impaciency Daniell 3. Nabuchodonozor hearynge that Daniels felowes would not worship the golden Image whyche he madeâ— In anger and furiousnes caused theÌ„ to be brought before him When Herode hearde that there was borne a kinge of Iewes Mat. 2. he was troubled and all the citye of Ierusalem with him Our lorde syttinge at meat in Mathews house Luc. 5.15 the scribes and pharises murmured sayinge vnto his disciples Why do ye eate with publicanes and synners And at zacheus thei murmurd sayinge He is gone in to tary with a maÌ„ that is a synner Luc. 19. And the elder brother of the prodigall sonne Luc. 15. hearinge of the feast that his father made for hys yongest brothers cominge home disdained at it and woulde not go in When the chefe preastes and Scribes sawe the wonderfull myracles that he did Mat. 21. and the children cryinge in the temple Hosanna to the sonne of Dauid they disdayned When the pharises saw that thei wer with effectuous wordes confuted by Iohn 9. him that was borne blinde and restored by oure lorde to his sight againe they cursed him and sayed Be thou hys discyple Thou art all together borne in synne dost thou teache vs Ther arose a murmur and a grudge among the Grekes and the Hebrues Act. 6. because their wydowes were dispised in the dayly ministration ¶ Of Pusillanimity Capitu. lxxxiii WHen the Angels had saied vnto Lot Gen. 19. Saue thy selfe in the mountaine he answered I caÌ„not be saued in the mouÌ„tain lest some misfortune fal vpon me yet a worse chaunce chauÌ„ced euen then vnto him When the children of Israell saw the Egiptians behynde theÌ„ Exo. 14. they wer sore afrayde although thei had sene so many miracles done for them by the diuine power of god As Moses was speakynge wyth oure lorde in the mounte Exo. 20. the people hearde the thunder and the noyse of the trumpe and saw the lyghtninge and the mountayne smokinge And beynge very feareful they stode a far of and saied vnto Moses Talke thou with vs and we wil heare but let not god talke with vs least we dye After that the conditions and estate of the lande of promise was reueled opened Nu. 13.14 the which hadde mighty and stronge inhabitours whose cities wer walled exceading great Deu. 1. The whole congregation saied woulde God that we hadde dyed in the lande of Egipt And they sayed agayn The messengers haue feared and discouraged vs. Balaac seynge al that the children of Israel had done vnto the Amorites Nume 22. and that his people were sore a frayde he trustinge more in wordes then in armes sent vnto Balaam to come and cursse the children of Israell Rachab sayed vnto the spies that came from Iosue Iosu. 2. I know that our lorde hath geuen you the land for the feare of you is fallen vpon vs and the inhabitoures of the lande faynt at the presence of you After that Achior had taken of the excoÌ„municate thynges of Ierico the menne of Hay put the chyldren of Israell to flyght Iosu. 7. and slew .36 menne The hartes of the people wer a fraid and melted a waye lyke water And Iosue rent his clothes When the Gabaonites heard what Iosue hadde done vnto Ierico Iosu. 9. and Hai they feared and comminge to Iosue they euen as he woulde made a grement with him Gedeon hauing .3200 menne in his hoost Iudi. 7. made a proclamation that if any dyd dreade or were afrayde he shoulde returne And there departed and retourned of the people .2200 menne When Saul and all Israell hearde the wordes of Goliath the philistine askinge a man to fight with him 1. regu 17. thei were euen a stoned and discouraged Saule gathered all Israell together and came to Gelboe 1. regu 28. And when Saul sawe the host of the philistines he was a frayed and hys hart was sore astonyed 2. Para. 3. Roboam beynge rude and fearfull of hart coulde not resyste the hooste that Ieroboas had gathered against him When all the hoost of the Assirians hearde that Holofernes was headed Iudi. 15 theyr mynde and counsell fell from them and beynge moued and styrde with feare defended theÌ„ selues with their feet It was declared vnto the house of Dauid that the kinge of Israel the king of Siria wer coÌ„federated to fight agaynst Ierusalem Esa. 7. Dauid and hys people hartes were moued as the trees of the wode before the face of the winde And Esay descriuinge the burden of Tyre sayed fearfulnesse the pit and the snare vpon the. Esa. 24. O thou that dwellest on the earth When that Ieremy by goddes commaundemente dyd prophesie that Ierusalem shoulde be taken Iere. 38. The princes and rulers of the people sayed vnto the kinge Sir we beseache you let this maÌ„ be put
disciples that wer a fyshinge and coulde take nothynge Iohn 21. sayinge Luc. 6. Cast out the nette on the ryghte syde of the shyp and ye shall fynde Then foloweth that they drewe out the net full of greate fyshes And oure Lorde gaue hys dysciples of those fyshes But vnto the Iewes as carnall men and carynge for carnall thynges He gaue fleshe to eate to theyr euill mischaunce and hinderaunce Abstinence doth easely cause a man to watche and praye Mar. 26. For oure Lorde after his last supper rebuked his disciples sayinge What coulde ye not watche with me one houre We reade not that oure Sauiour whose actions are oure instruction Iohn 21. dyd at any tyme eate fleshe but when he eate the pascall lambe But of the fyshe whyche was brought vnto him he dyd eate When our Lord sent his disciples to preach Luke 10. he said Into what so euer city or house ye enter eat such things as they haue or suche as is set before you That is that they shuld be content with such as they had not curyously seking for other Peter being a hongred in Symon tanners house fel into a traunce and saw heauen opened Actes 10. c. In the which vision wer offred and presented vnto him such beastes as were prohibited by the law But he refused to eate of them although as it is said he hongred There were in the congregation that was at Antioche prophets and Doctors c. Actes 13. As they ministred to our lord and fasted the holy ghoste said separate me Barnabas and Paule The children of Israell came together with fastinge 2. Esdras 9 sackclothes and earthe vpon them c. And they stode and knowledged their sinnes and red in the boke of the law When there was a good dinner or feast in Tobias house Toby 2. he hearde that one of the children of Israell lay slain vpon the streat Immediatly he lepte from the table and leauing the feast and fasting went to the dead coarse and buried it Daniell speaking of him self dothe saye Daniell 9. I turned me vnto my God oure Lord praying and making intercession with fastinge sackclothe and ashes and then he perceiued a speciall reuelation of the incarnation passioÌ„ and death of Christ. Baruch did read the wordes of the boke Baruch 1. in the audieÌ„ce of Iechonia Ioachim the king of Iuda sonne and in the presence and audyence of all the people whyche when they hearde it wepte fasted and prayed before oure Lorde ¶ Of glotony and dronkennesse Cap. lxxxviii THe fyrst faut and sinne of man was finished and ended by the vice of gluttony Genesis 3. Noe by drinking of wine Genesis 9. was droÌ„ken and vncouered within his tent Lot beinge dronken coÌ„mitted incest with his owne doughters Gen. 19.25 And Esau sold his birthright for a messe of pottage Exo. 32. And the people sat them downe to eat and drinke and began to play Our Lord said vnto Aaron Thou shalt not drinke wine nor stroÌ„g drink that maye cause thee to be dronken Leui. 10. thou nor thy sonnes that are wyth thee when ye go into the tabernacle of wytnesse least ye dye Whosoeuer maketh a vowe in the law Nume 6. and wil consecrate and appoynt hym self vnto God must abstain from wine and froÌ„ all that thing that may make him dronken Nume 11. The people lusted after flesh sate downe and wept saying Who shall geue vs flesh to eat The first teÌ„ptation and grudginge of the childreÌ„ of Israel was for drink Nu. 15.16 the second for bread and after that vpon like occasion they sinned oftentimes With these iii. C. men that lapped water wyth theyr handes and dyd drinke moderately Iudi. 7. our Lord delyuered Israel from the hand of Madian Men beinge at meate waxe more bolder and fuller of words beinge at meat drink Iudi. 9. they cursed Abimelech The Philistines being at meat and meary Iudi. 16. the house fel vpon them The children of Israel woulde receiue no sodden fleshe of those that offred but raw 1. regu 2. to th entent they myght prepare it the more delicately Ionathas did eate againste hys fathers commaundement a little hony 1. regu 14. his father therfore would haue put hym to death but that the people helpt hym and intreated for him Amnon Dauids sonne being mery with wine and dronken 2. regu 13. was slain in Absolons house at a banket Benadab the kinge of Syria was dronken and hadde in his pauilion a great multitude of fighting men 3. regu 20. and yet he was ouerthrowen and put to flight by the seruants of the gouernors of the prouinces and shires They did eat and were filled and became fat 2. Esd. 9. lyued in welth thorow thy greate goodnesse And yet they prouoked thee to anger Wine ouercommeth all those that dryncke it 3. Esdras 3 it seduceth and deceaueth the mynde and bryngeth bothe the poore man and the kynge to dotage and vanity Holofernes dranke more wine theÌ„ euer he did in one day afore in al hys life Iudit 12.13 And Iudith was alone in the chambre as for Holofernes lay vpon the bed al dronken and of very dronkennes fel a slepe and so Iudith had good oportunity to kil him Aman came ioyfully and merilye from the Quenes feast and bancket Esther 5.7 But the nexte day after bothe he and hys ten sonnes were confounded and heauy for he was hangde vppon the Galowes Iob knew that many things went amisse in feastes and bankets Iob. 1. therfore after that his children had banketted and feasted one an other hee gat vp early and offred for euery one a burnt offring At the time that Ierusalem should be destroyed it is wrytten that oure Lord cald men vnto weping mourning And beholde they haue ioy and gladnesse Esa. 22. slaying oxen and killynge shepe eating flesh drinking wyne Let â—â—eat and drinke for to morowe we shall die The priest and the prophet knâ—we nothing through dronkennesse Esa. 28. they are dronken with wine they goe amisse thorow strong drinke for theyr tables are so ful of vomite and filthinesse that no place is cleane Ptolomy Abobus soÌ„ne made a banket for Simon the hie priest and hys two sonnes 1. Mach. 16. And when they wer mery and had dronken well he slue theÌ„ In our lordes temptation after the mind of Mathew Luke we read Mat. 4. If thou be the sonne of God Luc. 4. commaund that these stones be made bread Herode made hys byrth daye supper and the Doughter of Herodias daunsed there Mat. 14. Mar. 6. and pleased Herode and those that sate with him and by this occasion at the peticyon of the damsell that daunsed Ihon the Baptist was beheaded Uncleane spyrites loue vncleane places Luc. 8. So that the Demoniake that had a legion of Deuels in
God 4. reg 17. and made theÌ„ Gods of metal serued Baal There foloweth Israel was translated caried away out of theyr owne land The word of God was against Iuda to put him out of hys sight 4. reg 24. for the sinnes of Manassesâ— the which he had commytted and for the innocent blud that he shed Ierusalem and all the cityes of Iuda are desolate Iere. 44. and no man dwelling in theÌ„ because of theyr greate malice and sinne which they commytted to prouoke me to anger No that they had any cause to do so but vpon a custom The burden and grefe of sinne is so great that Ieremy dothe saye That our Lord might no longer suffer Iere. 44. because of the malitiousnesse and inueÌ„tions of your studyes MaÌ„ through sin is febleshed IerusaleÌ„ sinned and therfore it was made vnstable 3. regu 11. yea and Salomous seruaunte was so bolde as to rise agaynste hys Lord after he had trespassed After that our Lord had healed the manne that lay sicke in his bedde Ihon. 5. he founde hym in the temple and sayde vnto hym Beholde thou arte made whole Sinne no more least a worse thing happen vnto thee Our lord said vnto the womaÌ„ that was apprehended in aduoutrye Iohn 8. and accused of the Iewes before him Go and synne no more ¶ Of confession of sinnes Capi. Cvi OUr lord monished Adam after he had sinned to knowledge to confesse his faut but he in a manner reiected and laide his faut to God and to the woman Gene. 3. the woman to the serpent And said The woman whom thou gauest to be my felow c. And the woman said yonder serpent begiled me and I did eat Cain did knowledge his faute Gen. 4 sayinge My iniquitye is more then that it maye be forgeuen Pharao saied I haue synned against God and you Exodi 9. And again I haue now synned oure Lorde is righteous and I and my people are vngodly Saule sayed 1. regu 26. I haue synned I haue playde the foole and haue erred excedynglye And Iudas sayed Mat. 27. I haue synned betrayinge the innocent bloud And yet none of all these obtayned forgeuenesse because thei spake it not with a true harte Dauid spake the lyke wordes with an humble lowlye harte 2. regu 12. and deserued to heare our Lord hath put away thy synne The people beyng afflycted and stonge wyth fyerye serpentes Nume 21. came to Moses and sayed we haue synned for we haue spoken agaynst our lord and agaynst the. The children of Israell were vehemently and sore oppressed by the Philistines and the children of Amnon And they sayed vnto oure Lorde we haue sinned Iudi. 10. do thou vnto vs what soeuer please thee deliuer vs only this day Dauid beynge reprehended of Nathan the prophet for hys excesse and synne committed agaynst Urias and his wyfe 2. regu 12. did humblye recognise and confesse his faute Dauid when he had nombred hys people 2. reg 24. did so humblye and mekely recognise his faute that he offerd him selfe to be punished in stede and place of the innocent people 2. Esd. 1. Nehemias saied I knowledge and confesse for the synnes of the children of Israel which we haue sinned against the And I my fathers house haue synned haue bene vaynly seduced Tobi. 3. Although Tobias feared God euen from his infancye and obserued his preceptes and coÌ„maundementes yet he most humbly confessinge saied we haue not done accordinge to thy commaundements neyther haue we walked innocently before thee Daniels three felowes which lyued so holyly among the Chaldes Dani. 3. and foâ— whose sake our Lord shewed so great a miracle in the fornace neuer murmurd against our Lorde asthoughe they had sufferd suche thinges iustly But Azarias sayed we haue synned we haue offended and done wickedlye And Daniel in his prayer to God confessed his synnes Dani. 9. and the peoples sayinge We haue synned we haue offended we haue done wyckedly The syxte of those seuen brethren whyche beganne to dye 2. Mach. 7. sayed We suffer these thynges for oure owne sakes for we haue synned against our Lorde God There came to Iohn Baptyst all Iewrye Mat. 5. and all the regyon rounde aboute Iordane confessynge theyr synnes As Paule was preachinge in Asia Act. 19. many that beleued came and confessed and shewed theyr woorkes ¶ Of the hardnesse and obstinacye of the wicked Capitu. Cvii CAin after that our Lorde hadde reproued him was worsse Gen. 4. and slew his brother The harte of Pharao neyther by fayre wordes Exo. 5.6.7 8.9 which Moses spake froÌ„ our lorde nor yet by dure and sharpe punishemente coulde be mollified Oure Lorde dothe call the chyldren of Israel Exo. 32. a styfnecked people as it appeareth in diuers places in Leuitici 1. regu 2. Hely corrected his chyldren wyth woordes but it profyted theym but a little Samuell foretoulde the people the sore and greuous conditions of their kynge i. regu 8. and that it dyspleased oure Lorde And yet they would not leaue of theyr purpose Saule neyther by Ionathas wordes nor yet by the benefytes whyche he receyued of Dauid 1. regu 18. coulde be prouoked or induced to loue Dauid 1. regu 25. It is sayed of Nabal that he was harde very euyll and malitious â—saell persecuted Abner but to obstinatlye 2. reg 2. Oure Lorde sente prophets to the men of Iuda 2. Para. 24. that thei should returne vnto him But they would not heare of it Ye they kilde zacharia the sonne of Ioiada most cruelly because he rebuked them Hezechias the kinge of Iuda sente messengers through oute all Israel 2. Para. 30. sayinge But ye not styfnecked like as wer your fathers theÌ„ foloweth that they laughed theÌ„ to scorne mocked them Their hartes were very hard that came to take our lorde Luc. 22. that which when that he with a worde had smitten them prostrate to the earth Iohn 18. had healed the seruauÌ„tes eare that was smitteÌ„ cut of wer not moued to mercy neither by the manifestatioÌ„ of the miracle nor yet bi the mekenesse or gentlenes of the benefite Saint Steuen rebuking the Iewes vehementlye and sharpely Act. 7. sayed O ye styfnecked of vncircuÌ„cised hartes eares ye haue alwaies resisted the holy ghost as your fathers did so do ye ¶ Of the peruersity of certayne menne Capitu. Cviii. THe fyrst woman peruerted the ordre of nature Gen. 3. when she gaue her husbande of the frute that was forbiden and he eate it when that the man ought rather to haue taught the woman what she shuld haue eaten or what she shoulde haue a voyded The lord enrychd the Hebrues with the spoyles of the Egyptians althoughe there bee many nowe as vsurers and such lyke Exo. 12. the whyche enryche the Egiptians wyth the spoyle of the
siluer smyth which made syluer shrynes for Diana called together the workmen of like occupation and styrde vp a great number of people agaynst Paule whome he sayed dyd tourne muche people from the worshippinge of the goddes When they hearde these sayinges they wer full of wrathe and cryed oute sayinge Greate is Dyana of the Ephesians As Paule was saylynge oute of Grece into Siria the Iewes layed wayte for him Act. 20. and he was counseled to retourne thorowe Macedonia And there accompanyed hym many brethren of dyuers and sondrye places When certayne Iewes of Assyria hadde seene Paule in the Temple they moued all the people and layed handes on hym cryinge Menne of Israel help And they toke Paul and drewe him out of the temple Act. 21. And as they went about to kil hym tydinges came vnto the hye capitayne that all Ierusalem was moued the whyche toke soudiers and ranne vnto them When they sawe hym and the soudyers they lefte smytynge of Paule Then the captayne toke Paule and commaunded him to be bounde with two chaynes As the Iewes cryed against Paul and caste of theyr clothes and threw duste into the ayer Act. 22. the capitayne commaunded hym to be broughte into the castell and bad that he shoulde be scourged and examyned that they myght knowe wherefore they cryed so on hym When the hye captaine had Paule in holde mo then fortye Iewes sayd vnto the hye priest We haue made a vowe that we wyll taste nor eate nothinge vntyll we haue slayne Paule Cause hym therefore to be broughte forthe For wee are readye or euer hee come near Act. 23. to kyll hym But the Capitayne beynge monyshed of thys by Paules systers sonne caused him wyth stronge hande and warelye to bee conueyed vnto Felyx the hye debitye Paule standinge before Felyx the Debity the Iewes accused him that he was a pestilente felowe and a seditious Ac. 24.25 and when he had oftentymes harde hym and the Iewes and that the tyme was sore spente and that Festus should succede him in Cesaria Act. 27.28 hee wyllynge to shewe the Iewes a pleasure lefte Paule bounde the whiche perceyuinge that Festus dyd hym wronge appealed vnto Cesar After this appeale he suffered shipwrack and at Rome was bound with chaynes and sufferd great anguyshe and tribulation Act. 14. Paul and Barnabas exhorted them to continue in the faythe affirminge that we must thorow muche tribulation enter into the kingdome of God 2. Corin. 1. The Apostle wrytinge of him selfe sayeth Brethren I woulde not haue you ignorant of oure trouble which happened vnto vs in Asia Where with we were greued out of mesure passinge strength so greatlye that it yrked vs to lyue When we were come into Macedonia our fleshe had no rest 2. Corin. 7. but we wer troubled on euery syde outward was fightinge inwarde was feare And the Apostle commendinge the Thessaloniās sayd Ye became folowers of vs 1. Thes. 1. and of our Lord receauinge the worde with much affliction with ioye of the holy ghost There was aboute a fytye yeares from the tyme of the cōminge of the holy ghost vnto the disciples Apo. 1.5 Per totum and the time that Domitian exyled Iohn the Apostle And yet we rede not that he hadde in all that tyme so many dyuine consolations as hee hadde in the lyttle tyme of his tribulation As it is euident in the fyrste of the Apocalipse ¶ Of the multitude of euyll menne Capi. Cxii WHen the floude was ther were saued onely but .viii. persons For all fleshe had corrupte hys waye vpon earth Gene. 6. The children of Israell were mo then the children of Isaac Gene. 25. and Abraham had mo chyldren by Agar then by Sara In the .v. cytyes of Sodome were not founde .x. iust persons Gen. 18.19 so there was a multitude of euyll menne and fewe good Amonge al Iosephs brethren there wer but two Gene. 37. Ruben and Iudas that labourd to saue him but yet the euyll preuailde Moses sente spyes to consyder and search the lande of promise Nume 13. but there were but two of them good Caleph and Iosue Sixe hundred thousand fyghtynge men were nombred Nume 1. of the which two only Caleph and Iosue dyd enter into the land of promise There were mo wyth Absolon going about to vsurpe his fathers kingdome 2. regu 15 then wyth Dauid that raigned wel and iustly The greater parte of the children of Israel was in the kingdom of Samaria 3. reg 12. for there were ten tribes and the worst sort of people and the least part in the kingdome of Ierusalem for there were but two tribes 3. regu 20. The nomber of the king of Siriās fighting men that fought against Israel was so great that the king said The dust of Samaria is not ynough for all the people that followe me to take euery man an handful There was so greate a nomber of fighting mē in Holofernes host Iudi. 2. that they couered the ground of the lande like the grashoppers All the inhabitours of Egipte and the wemen the which stode in a great multitude Iere. 44. did sacrifice to straunge Gods There abode no moe wyth Iudas Machabeus then 800. men 1. Mach. 9. but in Bachides and Alchinus the traitors host were 10000. men and two thousand horsmen Ther was at Ierusalem when our Lorde suffred a greate multitude of people Iohn 19. yet was there not a manne found that woulde manifestly wythstand our Lordes death so falslye and wickedly procured But euerye man cryed delyuer not Iesus but Barrabas Certaine Iewes the whych Paule found at Rome at hys fyrst comming thither Act. 28. said vnto him As concerning this sect of Christiās we knowe that euerye wher it is spoken against ¶ Of good men which lurked and were as vnknown among the euyll Cap. Cxiii ALthoughe it be wrytten that all flesh had corrupt his way vpon earth Gene. 6.7 yet our lord said vnto Noe the haue I sene righteous before mee in thys generation The iust man Lot did inhabyte among the Sodomites Gene. 13. Ioseph did lead a chast and a faithful life in Egipt Gene. 39. Our Lord appeared vnto Moses in the lande of Madian Exod. 3. when he kepte Ietros hys father in lawes sheepe in the desart Samuel euen amonge the wycked children of Hely 1. regu 2. was holy and innocent Helias iudged all that were vnder Achab and Iezabell to be Idolaters hym self excepted 3. regu 19. but our Lord saide vnto hym I shall leaue me 7000. of whiche neuer man bowed hys knees vnto Baall Roma 11. Tobias was of the tribe of Neptalim and vnder the kingdome of Samaria Tob. 1. in the whych al were estemed to be Idolaters and wyth diuers vyces infected And yet being in captiuity he forsoke not the way of truthe Wheras al in a māner worshipped proud Aman Esther 3. only
Mardocheus bowed not hys kne vnto hym Holy Iob was a gentile and as it is sayde hee descended of Esau and yet it is certaine Iob. 30. that he was maruelous noble both in faith and maners The which saide of him selfe I was the brother of dragons and the felow of Estriches Ieremy was wyth the people whithe remayned in Iudea after the destruction of Ierusalem Ier. 43. and he prayed for theym and declared the wyll of oure LORDE vnto them But they sayde vnto hym Thou liest our LORDE hathe not sente thee But Baruche prouoketh the against vs that hee myghte brynge vs into the handes and captiuitye of the Caldees Eze. 2. Our Lord sayd vnto Ezechiel thou sonne of man feare them not for the vnfaythful and prouokers are wyth the and thou dost dwel among Scorpyons Daniel Ananias Azarias and Misael dwelt among the Caldees Idolaters Dani. 3.6.14 the which labourd to induce bring them to Idolatry and to draw them from the worshipping of the very true God Dani. 13. Susanna liued in Babilon mooste chastly wheras the two olde priestes were vnchaste and vntrue iudges It semed that in Antiochus Epiphanis time that the Iewes were translated and brought to the rites and customes of the gentiles 2. Mac. 6.9 But yet there was found Mathathias and his sones Eleazarus and manye moe whyche were stable and stronge in the law of God Our Lord commending the faythe and deuotion of the Centurion Math. 8. sayd I haue not found so great faith in Israel Nicodemus a ruler of the Iewes cam to Iesus by night cōfest plainly Rabbi Iohn 3.19 we know that thou art a teacher come from God And after that our Lorde was crucifyed he came to bury him and brought a C. pound of precious oyntment Ioseph of the citye of Aramathia Mar. 15. a noble counselloure was also the dysciple of Iesu but yet a secreat disciple for feare of the Iewes But laying al feare a syde he went in boldlye vnto Pilate and made a deuoute peticyon askyng of an vndeuout tyraunte the body of Iesu. Gamaliell an honorable doctour of the lawe Act. 5. was a Pharisey and gaue good excellent counsaile to the chefe priestes for the Apostles There was a certayne man in Cesaria called Cornelius Act. 10. a deuout man and one that feared God wyth all hys housholde whiche gaue much almesse to the people prayed God alway ¶ Of the mobility and inconstancy of the people Ca. Cxiiii MOses returning out of the lād of Madian into Egipt told al the wordes of oure Lorde for the whych he had sent him Then foloweth And the people beleued And when they hard that oure Lorde had sanctified the chyldren of Israel they bowed theyr head and worshypped But afterwardes when they wer afflicted by Pharaos task masters Exo. 4.5 they said to Moses and Aaron Our Lorde loke vpon you and iudge which hath made the sauor of vs stink in the eyes of Pharao and in the eies of hys seruauntes and haue put a swearde in theyr hand to slea vs. When that the children of Israel after mani plages of Egypt came out of Egipt enriched armed our lorde going before them shewynge them the way by a cloud and fire Exo. 14.15 they saw the Egiptians folowyng after them and were sore afraid And saide vnto Moses because there were no graues in Egipt haste thou therfore brought vs awaye for to dye in the wildernesse After that they were comforted by Moses when our Lord deuided the sea that they passed ouer dry foted and that Pharaos host was drowned then the people feared oure Lorde and beleued him and hys seruaunt Moses saying we wyl sing vnto the Lord. And sone after commynge to Marath the people murmured because the waters were bytter when they were made swete by castinge in of a lyttle wodde Exo. 15.16 they murmured agayn for lacke of meat and sayde vnto Moses and Aaron would to God we had dyed in the lande of Egypt when we sate by the flesh pots and oure Lorde at the euen tyde sente them quayles and in the mornynge he sente theym Manna After thys when he shuld geue thē the law Exo. 19. they said All that our Lord hath said we wil do And whē Moses had shewed them the wordes and preceptes the whych he had receyued of our Lord Exo. 24. they sayde All the wordes whych our Lord hath sayd wyl we do But when Moses staid long in the mount with our Lorde about the description of the tabernacle Exo. 32. the people gathered them selues together vnto Aaron and said Make vs Gods to go before vs. After that the Tabernacle was reared vp Nume 11. and that the chefe men after that the fighting menne and Leuites were nombred had made theyr oblations and that all thynges were ordayned howe they should go on their iourney the people a non after began to murmur Nume 21. as greaued by muche labour After that the people had hard the spies relation they murmured and wept Nume 14. And sayde one to another Let vs make a captain and retourn vnto Egipt again They hearynge that theyr murmuring dyspleased our LORDE ascended vppe into the Mountayne and against Moses wyll and pleasure did fight and wer ouercomde by their ennemyes Nume 14. Agayne in the sedition of Chore there rose many agaynste Moses and Aaron Nume 16. and when they were most terriblye punished the multitude of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron sayinge ye haue kylled the people of oure Lorde And when oure Lorde hadde by the miracle of Aarons rod caused them to ceasse from their grudginge Nume 17. they sayed Beholde we are wasted away and consumed we all come to noughte who so euer cōmeth nye the dwelling of our Lorde dyeth Forthermore they proceded came to the waters of strife Nume 20. where they chode in suche manner wyth Moses and Aaron that they lykewyse mystrusted the diuine power And therefore oure Lorde punished them After that the people beganne to cōmit whoredome wyth the doughters of Moab Nume 25. whyche called the people vnto the sacryfice of theyr goddes Israell coupled hym selfe vnto Baall Peor And oure Lorde commaunded the heads of the people to bee hanged vp agaynst the sonne When Gedeon hadde delyuerd the chyldren of Israell from the hande of Madian and had slain zebee and Salmana the men of Israell sayed vnto him Iudi. 8. raygne thou ouer vs both thou thy sonne and thy sonnes sonne But after that he was dead hauinge .70 sonnes they went not aboute to take any of them to be their Lorde ruler Samuel the prophet delyuered the people of Israel from the hand of the Philistines 1. reg 7.8 and recouered the cityes whiche they had taken from Israell Afterwards they gathered thē selues together demaunded a king both against our Lords will and
Nabuchodonozor that all the wise men at Babilon should be put to deathe Dani. 2. they calde to theyr felowes to seke mercy at gods hand Then was there a vision shewed vnto Daniel by nyght And so the kyng by the occasyon of hys seruant Daniel spared the wyse men of Babylon After the death of Iudas Machabeus wycked men came vp 1. mach 6. and there was a great dearth in the lande and Bachides made the vngratious lordes in the land And there came great tribulation in Israel the whiche perauenture should not haue chaunced yf they had had Iudas to theyr lord and master When the fyrst of those vii brethreÌ„ was fryed in the cauldron 2. Mach. 7. the other with theyr mother exhorted one another to die strongly and manfully Iudas Marchabeus went to take the city of Chytopolis 2. Mach. 12. But for the Iewes sake which were within it the which they intreated louingly he dyd them no euil but gaue them thanckes exhorting them to be frendlye vnto hys kindred As longe as Peter remained wyth the Apostles Math. 26. he was stedfast sure but when he was in the hye pryestes court warming him selfe by the fyre wyth his seruauntes he began to deny our Lord. Iohn 9. Anon after that our Lorde had geuen him his sighte that was blynde from hys byrthe the Phariseys caste him out of the sinagoge But the beninge Lord Iesus receiued him amoÌ„g his faithful When all the disciples were wyth one accord together Act. 2. the holye ghoste came vpon them and inestimably did teach them and strengthen them It is thus wrytten of the faythfull the which wer in the primitiue churche Al that beleued kept them selues together Act. 2. and had al things commen Then followeth They did eat theyr meate together wyth gladnesse and singlenesse of hart praising our lord and hande fauoure wyth all the people Saule after his conuersyon came to Ierusalem and assaide to couple him self to the disciples but they wer al afraid and fled from hym and beleued not that he was a disciple But Barnabas tooke him Act. 9. brought him to the Apostles The men which were wyth Paule in the ship when the greate tempest raged Act. 27. were all saued because Paule was in theyr company For the aungel of our Lord saide vnto hym Loe God hathe geuen thee all theym that saile with thee ¶ Of the society and fellowshyp of euell men Capi. Cxx. ABraham departed wel from the Caldees Gen. 11.15 where men were infected with Idolatrye so that oure Lord remembreth that as a benefite saying I am the Lord that broughte the out of Hur of the Caldees A man shuld forsake and leaue his country not only in body but also in thought and affection Gene. 12. Where vpon our lord sayde vnto Abraham which was gone out of his countrye in body Get thee out of thy countrye c. And note the promises whiche were made there We rede not that our lord appeared vnto Abraham as long as he was in companye wyth euill men in Hur of the Caldees Gen. 13.15.17.18 it is not red that the lord apeared to him although he was taken for a good man But after hee departed thence we reade that he was oftentymes visyted wyth deuine apparitions Gen. 13.19 Lot by the occasyon of the wycked Sodomites with whome he inhabyted and dwelt suffred great iniuryes and wronges It appeareth by Lot how harde it is to leaue the accustomed companye of the euel Gene. 19. the which could eueÌ„ scarcely be drawen away by the angell froÌ„ the Sodomites Gen. 21. Ismaels play and pastime with Isaac dyspleased Sara Gen. 28. Our Lord many diuers manner of wayes dyd comfort Iacob auoidyng the companye of his wicked brother Iacob wold not go on wyth his vngratious and euell brother Gene. 33. although he had pacified him with giftes Not withstanding his brother instantlye desired hym and hadde shewed hym signes and tokens of dilection loue Moses said to the congregation of Israel Nume 26. depart from the tents of these wycked men and touch nothynge of theyrs least ye pearyshe in all theyr synnes Our Lord sayd to Moses coÌ„maund the children of Israel that they when they enter into the lande of Canaan Nume 33. destroy al the inhabitors of the land but if ye wyl not destroy them they the remayne shall be as it were prickes in youre eyes and Dartes in youre sydes By the occasyon of Acham whyche toke wyth him of the excommunicate thynges of Iericho Iosu. 7. the people were ouerthrowne in battayle Through certaine chyldren of Beliall the whych had commytted a detestable dede against the Leuites wife Iudi. 19.20 al the children of Beniamin fewe excepted were slaine The chyldren of Israel would not destroy the inhabyters of the land Iudi. 1.2 as the Lord commaunded them therefore theyr chaunce was vnfortunate and euell The familiaritye and amitye that Amnon Dauids sonne hadde wyth Ionadab 3. regu 13. gaue hym an occasion and a waye to enforce Thamar hys syster Many simple persons drue vnto Absolon rebellyng agaynste hys father 2. regu 15 the whych would neuer haue conspired against Dauid if they had contynued with good and peaceable men at Ierusalem For certain which were yet alyue of the house and family of Saul 2. regu 21. ther fel a great hunger in the land vntyll that they at the peticion of the Gabanites were hanged Iosaphat the king of Iuda was almost slaine goynge to warfare wyth Achab 2. Para. 19. and was reproued by the lordes prophet saying Thou helpest the vngodlye and louest them that hate the lord and therefore thou deseruest the ire and anger of the lord Ochozias king of Iuda walked in Achabs wayes 4. reg 8. and did euill before the lord The cause foloweth for he was Achabs sonne in law Elizeus the prophet said vnto Iosaphat king of Israel 2. Pat. 20. because thou hast ioyned thy self wyth Ochozia the lord hath broken thy workes and destroid thy shyps The man of God came to Amasia king of Iuda 2. para 25 and said O king let not the armye of Israel come wyth thee for the lord is not with Israel But if thou thinke that the battayl doth consyst in the strength of the hoast God shall make thee fall before thy ennemye When the chyldren of Israel aftâ—r theyr comming agayne from Babylon 1. Esd. 3.4 were a buildinge the Temple their aduersaries wold haue builded with them but they vsing good counsail refused them When all the other wente to the golden calues Tob. 1. which Ieroboam â—ad made Tobias alone fled al their coÌ„panies and went to Ierusalem to worshyp the lord God of Israel Blessed Iob sayd I am the brother of Dragons Iob. 30. and the companyon of Estriches esa 6. When Esay hadde sayde I am a man of vncleane lyppes he
sheweth the cause why For I dwell amonge people that hathe vncleane lyppes also It was said vnto Ezechiel vnfaithfull and subuerters are wyth thee eze 2. and thou dost dwel amonge Scorpyons The wycked hurt one another for the two old men toke audacitye and boldnesse of thys to accuse Susanna Dani. 13. because they both agreed to one myschefe So longe as Iudas Machabeus fought for hys people 1. mach 8.9 trusting to the ayd and healpe of God al thyng prospered wyth hym but after that he made amitye and societye wyth the mooste puissaunt Romaines sone after hee was ouercumd and slaine in battail The like thing chanced to Ionathas Iudas brother 1. mach 12. Peter being with the disciples at the supper of oure Lorde was verye bolde and sure mat 26. but when he came to the hie priestes courte he at the voyce of a wenche denyed our Lorde The blynde manne that sat by the waye syde begginge Luc. 18. cryed vnto our Lorde Iesus And they that went before rebuked hym that hee shoulde holde hys peace He that was borne blynde whome oure Lorde restored vnto his syghte agayne Ihon. 9. was not counted amonge the faythfull of christ vntyll the Pharysees hadde thrust hym oute of the synagoge At tymes many euyll and wicked persons drawe to one euil society and felowshippe Nume 22. to hurte those that bee good So came Balaac and Balaam together to cursse the people of Israell Adonizedech king of Ierusalem and other foure kinges came together against the Gabaonites Iosu. 10. because they had made peace with Iosue Also Iabin the kinge of Asor and other .30 kinges came against Iosue and the chyldren of Israell Iosu. 11. And the fyue princes of the Philistines of Canane of Sydon and Euei Item Madian Amalâ—ch and other natioÌ„s of the East And thus is that sayinge of Esay vnderstanded Siria rested vpon Ephraim that is the ten tribes Esa. 7. and the kinge of Siria agreed in one vtterlye to extirpate and destroye the king of Iuda Luc. 23 Agayne at the tyme of oure Lordes passyon Herode and Pilate were made frendes Panle doth commende the Philipians sayinge In the myddes of a croked and a peruerse natyon Philip. 2. amonge whome ye shyne as lyghtes in the worlde Act. 2. Peter the Apostle sayed vnto certayne Iewes which harde the worde of God Saue your selues from thys vntowarde generation Paulus Sergius the ruler desired to heare the worde of God But he had with hym one Elimas the sorcerer Act. 13. a pseude prophet a Iewe the which withstode Paule and Barnabas sekinge to turne the ruler away from the faith The men of Listria were of suche simplicity that they estemed Paule and Barnabas to be gods and come downe to the earthe in the likenes of menne And when Paule had euen skarsely apaysed them and had begonne to shewe theÌ„ the way of truth thether came certayne Iewes the whiche perswaded the people so that they stoned Paule and lefte him for dead When that our Lordes worde did stronglye encrease and growe in Ephesus and the god did many myracles there by Paule Act. 19. Demetrius whiche made siluer shrynes for Diana called together workemen of like occupation and moued a greate sedytion against Paule ¶ Of good prosperity Capitu. Cxxi THe aboundaunce of temporall thinges is oftentymes the occasion of muche synne as in that regyon and countrey the whiche was watered and lyke the garden of our Lord Gen. 13. and like the land of Egipt as thou coÌ„mest vnto zoar the whiche the wicked Sodomites dyd inhabite When Gedeon was litle and threshed wheate Iudi. 6.8 hee was good and the Aungell of oure Lorde did visite him But after he had obtayned the victorye against the Madianites he mysbehaued hym selfe Saule or euer he was made kinge was good 1. regu 15. but after he toke vpon him to rule he waxed proude and brake oure Lordes commaundement After that Dauid had made greate war and had gotten many victoies of hys ennemies 2. regu 11. he remayninge in quietnes at Ierusalem coÌ„mitted aduouterye and afterwardes ensued murther Dauid by the occasion of the multitude of his subiectes 2. regu 24. waxed proud and caused his people to be numbred But yet note how greuously he was punished In Salomons tyme siluer was of no valure 3. reg 10.11 For in Ierusalem syluer was as plenteous as stones But note how maruelus and how terrible a thinge it was that his abundaunce of thinges hurte him more then hys wisedome auayled him Or euer Ieroboam had dominion and rule ouer the .x. tribes 3 regu 12. we rede not that he was euyl but that he was a good yong man and a deligent but sone after he had obtayned the kyngdome he made golden calues and leaste hee shoulde bee tourned oute of hys domynion and rule hee auerted and tourned the people from GOD. Amasias the kynge of Iuda made warre against Edome 4. reg 14 Where vpon hys hart became proud and intended to fight against Ioas the kinge of Isell but he prosperd not When Roboams kingedome was fortified 2. Para. 11. and comforted he forsoke the lawe of oure Lorde and all Israell wyth hym When Osias the kinge of Iuda became myghtye 2. Para. 20. hys harte arose to his destruction for hee wente into the temple to burne incense vppon the aulter of incense Manasses kinge of Ierusalem was exceadynge euyll 2. Para. 33 But afterwardes being bounde in Babilon and in tribulation he prayde vnto oure Lorde and dyd exceadinge greate penaunce before our Lord. They dyd eat and were fylled and became fat 2. Esd. 9 and lyued in wealth thorow thy greate goodnes And prouoked thee to anger Wordly prosperity doth somtimes multiplye and muche encrease and bringe carnall frendes together Tobi. 2.11 the whiche aduersitye dothe auoyde and flye for Tobias kinsmen and frends after he had recouered his sight and was enriched came vnto him the whiche thinge is not redde that they dyd as longe as he was blynde and that hys wyfe went to the weauinge worke After that Nabuchodonozor hadde ouercomde Arphaxat the king of Medes his kingdome was exalted Iudith 1. and his hart was lyfte vp Although Aman was next vnto the mighty and puissaunt king Ahaswerus Esth. 3.5 and had great richesse children and frendes yet he was troubled and vexed that Mardocheus woulde not bow hys kne vnto him as though he had had nothyng Note the shortnesse of this prosperity As long as the plage of the lorde was ouer Iob althoughe certayne frendes came vnto hym yet they wer onerous and heauye comfortors nor it is not red that they gaue hym any thing But after the lorde had geuen Iob twise as much as he had before then came there vnto hym al his brethren and all that had bene of his acquaintance before Iob. 42. and dyd comforte him
the more vpon earth Of the two harlottes whyche contended and pleated before Salomon 3. rgu 3 shee spake folyshelye and wyckedlye that sayed of the intante Let it bee neyther myne nor thyne but denyde it When Amans wyfe hard the complaynt that her husbaÌ„d made of Mardocheus Esth. 5. she answered and sayed commaunde a loftye galous to bee made that he may be hanged thereon As Iob was sytting vpon the dunghyll and scrapinge of the fylth of his sores with a potshard Iob. 2. hys wyfe sayde vnto him Cursse God and dye But he made her a good and a dyscreate answer sayinge Thou speakest lyke a folyshe woman Shall we receyue prosperitye at the hande of GOD and not receyue aduersitye Our Lord approued not the chyldren of Zebedes mothers peticyon Mat. 20. when she said Graunt that these my two sonnes may sytte the one on the right hand and the other on the left in thy kingdom Peter at the voyce of a maid denied our Lord. mat 26. The woman of Samaria spake manye symple wordes vnto our Lorde Iohn 4. or euer she stumbled vpon the truth ¶ Of the superfluous ornamentes and raimente of wemen Capi. cxxx THamar Iudas doughter in law Gene. 38. beinge mineded to intice her father in lawe that by him she might be conceyued put her widowes garments from her and couered her self with a cloke When the comming of Iehu whiche slue Ioram the kynge of Israell was hearde of 4. regu 9. Iesabell payneted her eyes starched her face and tired her head Iudith dothe testify that her ornamentes and apparell whych she toke deceiued Holofernesse Iudith 16. She putte on the apparell of gladnesse she anoynted her face wyth oyntmentes shee bounde vp her here in an houe to beguile him We read of Esther that when she should come into the king Esth. 2. she requyred no ornamentes as other wemen did And threatninge it is wrytten Esay 3. In that day our Lorde shall take awaye the gorgiousnesse of their apparell spanges chaines partlets Colers Bracelets Houes the goodly floured wide and broydred raiment broches hedbandes ringes garlandes holye day clothes vales kerchers pinnes glasses cipresses bonets and taches Salomon describeth the reprehensible garmentes of an euill woman Prouer. 7. saying I spied a yong fole and there mette hym a woman decked lyke an harlot prepared to intrap the soul of man ful of words wandering hither and thither and vnquiet The wise man not without a cause doth monish vs Eccle. 9. when he saith Turn away thy face from a wel decked and a beautiful woman For such womeÌ„ intice and prouoke men to synne Wemens apparel shall not be outward wyth broydred hear 1. Peter 3. hanging on of gold ether in putting on of gorgyous apparell ¶ Of deathe in generall Cap. Cxxxi THe sentence of God wherwith he said vnto man Gen. 2. In what dai so euer ye shall eate thereof shalt dye the deathe It is playne and euident that man assone as sinne is committed doth die So that the liuing man doth die as it were continuallye As Sainte Augustine sayth in hys fourtene booke of the Citye of God Notwithstanding that men before the floude liued so manye yeares gen 9. yet scripture after the descriptioÌ„ of their liues saith And he died It was no maruaile that oure fore fathers feared to die and desired to be longe liued For they as yet coulde not ascende vp into heauen nor haue the fruition of the deuine vision vntyll the commyng of our sauyour the which opened the gates of heauen And therefore holye Lot was monyshed to saue him self in the mouÌ„taine Gen. 19. He feard to go thether least some misfortune should fal vpon him and that he should die there The wycked also do desire to dye wel Nume 23. I pray God that my soule may die the death of the ryghteous that my last end may be like his said Balaam Althoughe Moses would not obey our Lordes commaundement Deutâ— 24 which woulde he shoulde haue passed ouer Iordan Yet it seemeth that he wold gladly haue lyued longer if it hadde pleased our Lord. For he sayth Our LORDE is angry with me Lo I must die in this land and shal not go ouer Iordan A great part of the rewarde of Moses lawe semed to consist and stande in long lyfe Deute 32. Set your haries vnto al the woordes whyche I testifye vnto you for if ye fulfill and do them ye shal prolong your dayes in the lande whether ye go to coÌ„quere and to possesse it Zebee and Salmana desired rather to be slayne wyth the hand of worthy Gedeon Iudi. 8. then wyth the hande of Iether his yongest sonne Dauyd whych wept for hys childe beynge sycke and dyseased 2. re 12. woulde not weepe for hys chylde which was departed When Helyas sate vnder the Iunyper tree 3. re 19. he desyred for hys soule that he myghte dye And sayde It is nowe ynoughe o LORDE take my soule for I am not better then my fathers Hezechias kyng of Iuda did walk before oure Lord in truthe and was good Yet whan Esaye brought hym word that he should die Esay 38. he prayd our Lord with sorowful teares to proloÌ„g his life for a while Tobias being much prouoked with his wiues answer Tobi. 3.4 tooke it heauilye and with teares began to make hys prayer sayinge O Lorde thou arte righteous commaâ—â—de my spirite to be receiued in peace for more expedient were it for me to die then to liue So when he thoughte hys prayer to be hearde hee called vnto hym hys sonne After that Sara Raguels doughter was iniuried by her maid she praied vnto our Lord Tob. 3. and amonge all other thinges sayde I beseche the o Lorde lose me oute of the bondes of thys rebuke or els take me vtterlye awaye from of the earthe Ieremy praied king Sedechia most humbly that he wold not slaye hym Ieâ—e 38. nor commaund hym to be led agayne to that pryson where he laye before least he die there After the death of the crosse which oure Sauyoure woulde susâ—ayne and suffre Math. 27. he apertlye and manifestly declared that a iust man ought not only to dye but to suffer euen readily anye kynde of deathe for to obey oure Lord. Before the commynge of the holye ghoste math 26 the Apostles feared death exceadingly the which when our Lord was taken lefte hym and fledde from hym But after that they were fortyfyed and had receiued strengthe from aboue they beynge sette before princes and tyrants spake faithfully and chearely Paule feared but little yea he feared not death which saide I am ready not to be bound onlye Act. 21. but also to dye for the name of oure LORDE Iesu. If the Iewes knowe that I haue hurte theym Act. 25. or commytted anye thynge worthy of death I refuse not to die And this is
house with fyre Achab beinge wounded in battayl dyed at euen and the dogges licked vp Nabothes bloud 3. Re. 21.22 the which Achab dissemblinge the thyng that he shuld and myght haue voyded was stoned and he dyed 4. regu 1. When Eliseus went vp to Bethel a sorte of yll taughte chyldren mocked hym And there came oute two beares and tare .42 of them One of those two which were present wyth the kinge of Israell 4. regu 7. would not credit Heliseus wordes for speakynge of the abundaunce that was to come The next daye after the people that ranne to the spoyle trode hym downe and so he dyed Benadab kinge of Siria whiche dyd the children of Israel much woo 4. regu 8. was at the laste strangled of Asahell hys sonne Iehu beholdinge wicked Iezabell the whyche was the cause of muche euyll 4. regu 9. commaunded her to be caste down hedlyng the which was so trotrodeÌ„ with horses that she albeit she was a kings doughter was not buried for there was nothinge left but her skul her fret and the palmes of her hands Athalia Ochozias mother destroyed all the kynge seede that she might raygne ouer the people 4. regu 11. afterwardes by Ioiada the preastes coÌ„maundement she was slayne mooste fylthelye Ioas that euyll and vnkynde kinge of Iuda 4. regu 12. the whiche caused Zacharias Ioiada the preaste sonne to be stoned was slayn after that of his own seruants Senacheryb that proude kinge of the Assyrians 4. regu 19. and blasphemer of God of heauen auoyded and fledde oute of Iewry wyth shame ynoughe hys owne sonnes flewe him Sedechias kynge of Iuda beynge euyll to God and man was taken as he fled and wente hys wayes 4. regu 25. The kynge of Babylon flewe hys sonnes before hys eyes And after that hys owne were put oute he was caryed to Babilon and there he dyed wretchedlye Holofernes toke and destroied many conntreys Iudith 13. and at lengthe beynge a sleape and dronken a woman smote of hys head Proude Aman the whyche caused men to worshippe him Esther 7. was hanged on the galowes that he had made for Mardocheus Balthazar the king of BabiloÌ„ was nothing amended by the ensample of his father Nabuchodonozor Dani. 3.5 the whiche euen before him was changed into a beast And being at his banket he saw a wryting in the wall Mane Thetel Phares and the very same night he was slain and his kingdome translated to the Medes and Perses Dani. 6. Danyels accusers by Darius the kinge of Perses commaundemente were cast into the Lions den and deuoured The like chaunced in the xiiii chapter It is said that Alexander after that he went vnto hys bed 1 Mach. 1 knewe that he should die as though that before that time he neyther had remembraunce nor knowledge of death Alchinus the traytor was to smytten with the palsy 1. Mach. 9. that he coulde not speake nor coÌ„maund any of his house concerning his businesse and so he died in great misery Antiochus was sorye in his minde that Andronicus had vniustly put Onias the hie priest to death 2. mach 4. And commaunded that Andronicus should be slayne in the same place wher he coÌ„mitted to great impiety and wyckednesse When Lysimachus had commytted many great sacrilegis in the temple 2. Mach. 4. the multitude gathered them together againste him and killed hym beside the treasury Wicked Iason that toke his owne brother prisonner 2. Mach. 5. and had expelled many out of theyr country peryshed from home and was throwne out vnburyed no man mournyng for hym Antiochus whiche had martired other mens bowels suffred an horryble and greuous payne of hys bowels 2. Mach. 9. and he died a miserable and a meruelous death vpon the mountaines Menelaus the whiche for a time had gotten the dominion and rule 2. Mach. 13. was cast headlonge oute of a hie tower among the ashes The riche manne whose grounde brought forth plentiful frutes thought to destroy hys barnes Luc. 12. and builde greater he trusted to liue longe But the Lord said vnto him Thou foole this night thou shalt die The example of the rich glutton is very terrible Luc. 16. he died was buried and brought into hell Because that Ananias and his wife Saphira craftely kept away parte of the price of the land which was sold Act. 5. they at Peters increpatyon fearfully gaue vp the ghost Herode arayed in royall apparell fate in hys iudgement seat Act. 12. and made an oration to the people And they gaue a shout sayinge It is the voyce of a God and not of a man And immediatly the angell of the LORDE smote hym because he gaue not God the honoure and he was eaten of wormes and gaue vp the ghost ¶ Of the pretious deathe of the iust Cap. Cxxxiiii WHen Caine and Abell were in the field Gen. 4. Caine rose vp against Abel and slue hym Ihon dothe shewe the cause for hys woorkes and doynges were euel and hys brothers iust Enoche walked wyth God Gen. 5. and he was no more sene for God toke hym awaye Abraham dyed in a lustye age Gen. 25. verye olde and was putâ—e to hys people The dayes of Isaac were an 180. yeares Gene. 35. he died euen for very age and was put vnto his people beyng olde and ful of dayes When Iacob hadde commaunded all that he would vnto hys sonnes Gene. 49. he plucked vppe hys feete vnto the bed and dyed and was putte vnto hys people After that Ioseph hadde taken an oth of hys brethren Gene. 50. and hadde sayde GOD wyll visytte you carye my bones hence wyth you he died Nume 20. Moses and Aaron as the LORD commaunded them went vppe into mount Hor in the syght of al the multitude And whan Aaron had put of his clothes and put them vpon Eleazar his sonne he died there Moses the seruaunt of God dyed at Gods commaundement in the lande of Moab Deut. 34. The Lord buried hym but no manne knoweth of hys sepulchre vnto this day 1. Para. 29. Dauid after he had instructed hys sonne Salomon and made hys oratyon vnto God for him and al the people he died in a good age ful of dais richesse and honor 4 re 2. As Helias and Helizeus were walking together a charet of fyre horses of fyre departed them a sondre and Helias went vp thorow the whirlwinde into heauen 2. Para. â—4 The spirit of God came vpon Zacharia Ioâ—adas sonne Whiche sayde vnto the people Why transgresse ye the commaundementes of the Lord that ye can not prosper And they gathered them selues agaynst hym and stoned him at the commaundemeÌ„t of the king and so he dyed Thobias in the hour of his death Tobi. 14. called hys sonne vnto hym and seuen spryngaldes hys sonnes Children and sayde vnto them My deathe is at hande And a little after it is sayde of hys sonne that when he was ninety yeare of age and had fulfylled them in the feare of the LORDE wyth ioy and gladnesse they buried him Iob after his afflyctyons lyued an hundred and fortye yeares Iob. 41. and sawe his childers children into the fourthe generation and so died beinge olde and of a perfect age Dauid whyche lamented for hys sonne beyng sicke 2. re 12.18 woulde not weepe for hys innocente Chylde that dyed But hee wepte sore for Absolon the paricide Matathias after he had instructed comforted his Children 1. mach 2. gaue them his blessynge and dyed and was put vnto hys fathers 1. Mach. 9. When Iudas Machabeus saw the multitude of hys ennemyes and so fewe of hys owne men he sayde If our time be come let vs die manfully for our brethren Eleazarus after manye tormentes dyed 2. Mach. 6 leauinge to all the people a remembraunce of hys deathe for an example of vertue and manlinesse 2. Mach. 7. The seuen brethren wyth their deuout mother made a wonderfull and a laudable end And there may be noted many examples of vertue Mar. 6. Ihon the Baptist for the truthe and honesty of mariage was beheaded of Herode the Tetrarch It is wrytten thus of Lazarus that famous poore man And it fortuned that the begger dyed Luc. 16. and was caryed by the aungels into Abrahams bosome Dauid after he had instructed hys sonne Salomon 1. Para. 29. and made hys oratyon vnto God for him and al the people he died in a good age ful of dais richesse and honor How so euer the thefe lyued vnto whome Christe sayde Luc. 23. This day shalt thou be wyth me in Paradise He died happely When Sainte Steuen was stoned hee called on the LORDE saying Act. 7. LORDE Iesu receaue my spirit And hee knealed downe and cryed wyth a loude voyce and saide Lorde laye not thys synne to theyr charge And when he hadde thus spoken hee fell a sleape Lette vs geue dylygence that oure deathe maye bee lyke vnto hys And oure Sauyoure and LORD IESUS CHRISTE by hys syngulare deathe Li. 4. de tri Lib. 14. de ciui dei as sayth Saint Augustyne destroyed oure dowble Deathe and graunted vnto vs as saythe the selfe Augustyne so greate grace of faythe that hee was and became the instrumente of deathe the whyche is as it manyfestly appeares contrary to lyfe by the whyche wee should come to lyfe The which life the true author of eternall healthe that is the waye the truthe and lyfe and hathe the dominyon ouer death and lyfe Graunt vs. The whyche wyth the father and the holye ghoste lyueth and raygneth one God worlde without end So be it FINIS
yeare Deute 26. and theyr clothes waxed not old nor their shoes were not consumed vpon their fete Ther was a certain man at Listra the which was a crepel from his mothers wombe Actes 14. and neuer had walked vnto whome Paul loking vpon him saide with a loude voyce Stande vpright on thy fete and he start vp and walcked Nume xxii Balaam commyng to curse gods people was reproued of the asse that he rode vpon Iosu. iii. After that the children of Israell were entred into the floud of Iordan the waters that came downe from aboue did swell and rise vp vppon an heape like a mountaine and the waters that were beneath departed into the dead or salt Sea Iosue vi After that the children of Israell had compassed the city of Iericho vii times the wall fell downe Iosu. x. Our Lord obeyed to Ioâ—ues vow sayinge Sunne stand thou still vpon Gabeon Iosu vii Our Lord sent the sweard into al the hostes of the Medianites they slue one a nother so that by a fewe many were ouercommed and discomfited iii. Reg. v. By our Lordes Arke the whiche the Philistines toke were many miracles shewed i. Reg. xiiii Ionathas and his Harnesse bearer destroyed so manye of the Philistines that it was taken for a myracle and al the hostes were troubled This likewise was no smal thing that Dauid 1. regum 17 beinge but yonge inexpert and vnarmed preuailed against that stronge and armed Philistiane Goliah It is red 3. regum 17 that Helias did miracles as when he asked of God such a drought that it rained not vpon th earth for the space of thre yeres and a half Likewise the rauens brought him bread and flesh twise euery day 3. regum 17 Consequentlye he reuiued the womans childe 3. regum 17 Afterward through praiers 3. regum â—8 he obtained of God fire that wonderfully consumed the burnt sacrifice and after hys Prayer there was a greate raine After this the angell of oure Lorde shewed him breade and water 4. regum 1. And throughe his praiers the fire burnte vp ii captains ouer fiftye with theyr fiftyes At length he deuided the waters of Iordan with his mantel 4. regum 2 and was taken vp in a charet of fire into heaueÌ„ 4. regu 4. Many like thinges are wrytten of Helizeus for the increased the poore widowes oyle that was indetted 4 regu 4. The selfe obtained a childe for the sunamite And after it was departed he reuiued it againe 4. regu 4. He cast meale into the pottage that was firste bitter and made it sweete And multiplied the loues for the prophets children 4. regum 5. He healed Naaman the Sirian of his leprosy 4. regum 6 He maketh yron to swim vpon the water 4. regum 6 He knew many thinges being absent as though he had bene present And caused his seruaunt to see the firy charets of Aungels And he smote the hoastes of the Assiryans wyth blindnesse 4. reg 7.8 Uery often he prognosticated thinges that were to come 4. regu 13. The carkase of a certain dead man touchinge the bodye of Elizeus reuiued 4. regu 19. Whan king Sennacherib besieged the city of Laâ—his three were slayne of his men in one night an hundred foure score and fiue thousande in the daies and time of king Ezechiell The children of Ammon 2. Para. 20. of Moab of the mount of Seir gathered theÌ„ selues together against kinge Iosaphat and what time the Leuites began to laud and praise GOD in the hoast of Iosaphat their aduersaries tourninge theyr weapons agaynste them selues and murthered one an other Thys thynge was verye maruailous 4. reg 20 that the Sunne at the peticyon of Ezechia wente ten lines or degrees backewarde in the Dyall of Achaz Tobias was foure yeares blinde Tob. 11. but afterwardes by the angels counsell he annoynted his eyes wyth the gall of the Fishe and receyued hys sighte The myracle of Daniels three fellowes Daniel 3. and howe magnificentlye they were deliuered from the fornace of burning fire is worthye to be remembred Daniell 6. Likewise how that Daniel remained vii daies with the Lions vnhurted Ionas 1.2 By Ionas occasion the Sea was sore troubled but after they had cast him into the Sea a fishe swallowed him vp and he liued there thre dais and afterwardes escaped and came out safe and sounde 2. Macha 3 Heliodorus proued the mighte and power of God when he woulde haue spoyled the temple For he was beaten and scourged of two yonge men very greuously 2. Macha 8 There pearished againste the Galathians in Babilon .6000 menne throughe the aid of 12000. men sente vnto them from heauen Luke 1. The Angell of our Lord appeared vnto Zachary declaringe vnto hym from God that Helizabeth his baren and old wife shuld beare him a sonne the which geuinge no credence to the Aungels wordes was made domme vntil the childe was circumcised and then his speache was restored him againe And this was very maruelous that Ihon Luke 1. being yet in his mothers woÌ„b reioysed and sprange at the salutation of blessed Mary the whiche hadde newly conceiued oure sauioure And when blessed Elizabeth knewe it she reioysed saying Blessed arte thou among women And also that there came wise men from the East to Ierusalem Mathe. 2. a starre leading and going before them Oure Lorde Iesus beinge called to the marriage Ihon. 2. at the beginnynge of hys miracles tourned water into wine Nor this was no small miracle of our Lord Luke 4. that he whan they of Nazareth filled with wrathe led him euen to the edge of the hill that they mighte caste him downe headlonge went hys way euen thorow the middest of them And Iesus wente aboute Math. 4. and they brought vnto him all sicke people he healed them As for the miracles which oure sauioure vouchsaued to do beinge conuersaunt amonge the people are gathered out of the Euangelicall historye For he reuiued thre deade men that is the Doughter of Iaâ—rus the Archsinagoge Math. 9. and the widowes soÌ„ne that was caried oute of the Citye Luke 7. The thyrde was Lazarus Ihon. 11. After that he healed a leuen leapers Of the one Math. viii Luke v. Of the other ten Luke xvii Afterwardes he gaue syxe blynde men theyr syght Of two Math. ix of other two Math. xx Of one other Mark viii Of hym that was borne blinde Ihon. ix He deliuerd vii specially that wer possessed of Deuils Of two of them Mathew viii Of the one of them the whyche was mooste famous whose name as he saide was called Legio is touched Luke viii Of one other the whyche was blinde and dumme Math. xii Of a certaine Lunatyke the whiche coulde not bee delyuered but by Prayer and Fastinge Math. xvii Marke ix And of an other vncleane spirite that was caste