mercy for my sake With the sinnes of the world be at debate and strife And vnto grace my heauenly father will you take All they whom the law condemneth for synne By faith in me I saue and iustifie I am come sinners by repentance to winne Christe speaketh to Mary Like as the Prophet before did prophecie Thou woman with mercy I do thee preuent If thou canst in the Sonne of God beleue And for thy former lyfe be sory and repent All thy sinnes and offences I doe forgeue Infidelitie Who is the sonne of God sir of whom do ye talke Which hath this power wherof you do boast It is best for you out of this countrey to walke And neuer more be sene after in this coast The sonne of God quod he This is a pride in dede Trowest thou that the father can suffer this They come of Abrahams stocke and holy sede And thou saiest that they beleue all amisse Christ. Auoide out of this woman thou Infidelitie With the .vii. diuels which haue hir possessed I banish you hence by the power of my diuinitie For to saluation I haue hir dressed Infidelitie runneth away Mary falleth flat downe Cry all thus without the doore and roare terribly Diuels O Iesus the Sonne of God euer liuing Why comest thou before the tyme vs to torment In no person for thee we can haue any abidyng Out vpon thee the sonne of God omnipotent Christ. Arise woman and thanke the father of heauen Which with his mercy hath thee preuented By his power I haue reiâ—cted from the spirits seuen Which with vnbelief haue thy soule tormented Mary Blessed be thy name O father celestiall Honor and glory be giuen to thee world without end O Lord doest thou regard thus a womaÌ„ terrestriall To thee what tong is able worthy thanks to repend O what a synfull wretche Lord haue I bene Haue mercy on me Lord for thy names sake So greuous a sinner before this day was neuer sene Uouchsafe therfore compassion on me to take Iesus Christ. Canst thou beleue in God the maker of all thing And in his onely sonne whom he hath sent Mary I beleue in one God Lord and heauenly kyng And in thee his onely sonne with hearty intent Good Lord I confesse that thou art omnipotent Helpe my slender beliefe and infirmitie My faith Lord is waueryng and insufficient StreÌ„gth it I pray the with the power of thy maiesty No man can come to me that is in me beleue Christ â–ª Faith repeÌ„taÌ„ce entreth Except my father draw hym by his spirite Behold Faith and Repentance to thee here I geue With all other vertues to thy health requisite Note well the power of Gods omnipotencie Faith That soule which of late was a place of deuils He hath made a place for him self by his clemencie Purgyng from thence the multitude of euils Repentance The mercy of Christ thought it not sufficient To forgeue hir synnes and deuils to pourge But geueth hir grace to be penitent That is hir soule euer after this day to scourge The vertue of Repentance I do represent Which is a true turnyng of the whole lyfe and state Unto the will of the lord God omnipotent Sorowing for the sinnes past with displesure hate That is to say all the inward thoughts of the hart And all the imaginations of the mynde Which were occupied euill by Sathans arte Must hence forth be turned after an other kynd Dauid my father on his synnes did alway thinke Howe horrible they were in God almighties sight Teares were his sustenance yea both meat drinke His hole meditation was in heauen both day night So that Repentance is described in Scripture To be a returnyng from syn with all the soule hart And all the life tyme in repentyng to endure Declaring the same with the senes in euery part As thus like as the eyes haue ben vaynly spent Upon worldly and carnall delectations So henceforth to wepyng and teares must be bent And wholly giuen to godly contemplations Likewise as the eares haue ben open alway To here the blasphemyng of Gods holy name And fylthy talkyng euermore night and day Nowe they must be turned away from the same And glad to heare the Gospell of saluation How God hath mercy on them that doe call And how he is full of pitie and miseration Raisyng vp suche agayne as by synne dyd fall The tong which blasphemie hath spoken Yea and filthily to the hurt of soule and body Wherby the precepts of God haue ben broken Must hence forth praise God for his mercy daily Thus like as all the members in tymes past Haue ben seruantes of vnrighteousnesse and synne Now Repentance doth that seruice away cast And to mortifie all his lustes doth begynne True repentance neuer turneth backe agayn For he y t laieth his haÌ„d on the plough loketh away Is not apt in the kingdom of heauen to raigne Nor to be saued with my sainctes at the last day Mary O Lorde without thy grace I do here confesse That I am able to do nothyng at all Where it pleaseth thee my miserie to redresse Strength me now that hence forth I do not fall Graunt me Lord suche a perfect repentance And that I looke no more back but go forward still Put my miserie euermore into my remembrance That I may forthinke my life that hath ben so yll Fayth The holy vertue of Faith I do represent Ioyned continually with repentance For where as the person for synne is penitent There I ascertain him of helth and deliuerance Wherfore I am a certaine and sure confidence That God is mercifull for Christ Iesus sake And where as is a turnyng or penitence To mercy he will the penitent take Faith therfore is the gyft of God most excellent For it is a sure knowledge and cognition Of the good will of God omnipotent Grounded in the word of Christes erudition This faith is founded on Gods promission And most clerely to the mynde of man reuealed So that of Gods will he hath an intuition Which by the holy ghost to his heart is sealed Repentance This Faith with the word hath such propinquitie That proprely the one is not without the other Faith must be tried with the word of veritie As the chyld is by the father and mother Iesus Christ. Yea truly if this faith do from Gods word decline It is no faith but a certayn incredulitie Which causeth the mynd to waÌ„der in strange doctrine And so to fall at length into impietie Faith The word to a glasse compare we may For as it were therin Faith God doth behold Whom as in a cloude we loke vpon alway As hereafter more plainly it shal be told Mary My heart doth beleue and my mouth doth publish That my lord Iesus is the sonne of God eternall I beleue that my soule shall neuer perysh But raigne with him in his kyngdom supernall Repentance The operation of Faith is not to enquire What God is as touchyng his
propre nature But how good he is to vs to know faith doth desyre Which thing appereth in his holy Scripture Faith It is not inough to beleue that God is true only Which can neuer lie nor deceaue nor do yll But true faith is persuaded firmly and truely That in his word he hath declared his will And also what soeuer in that word is spoken Faith beleueth it as the most certaine veritie Which by his spirit he doth vouchsafe to open To all such as seke hym with all humilitie Repentance Christ the sonne of God here hath promised Forgiuenesse of synnes to you syster Mary Of his owne mercie this to do he hath deuised And not of your merites thus you see plainly If in this promise you be certain and without doubt Beleuing that the word of his mouth spoken He is able and also will do and bryng about Then that you haue Faith it is a token Mary O Iesu graunt me this true faith and beleue Lord I see in my self as yet imperfection Uouchsafe to me thy heauenly grace to geue That it may be my gouernance and direction Christ Mary my grace shall be for thee sufficient Goe thy way forth with faith and repentance To heare the Gospell of health be thou diligent And the wordes therof beare in thy remembrance Faith Though in person we shall no more appeare Yet inuisibly in your heart we will remayne Repentance The grace of God shal be with you both far nere Wherby from all wickednesse I shall you detaine Mary Honor praise and glory to the father eternall Thankes to the sonne very god and very man Blessed be the holy gost with them both coequall One god which hath saued me this day from SathaÌ„ Exeunt Christ I thank thee O father O lord of heueÌ„ earth of al That thou hast hidden these things from the sapient And hast reuealed them to the litle ones and small Yea so it pleased thee O father omnipotent All things of my father are committed vnto me And who the sonne is none but the father doth knew No maÌ„ but the sonne knoweth who y e father shold be And he to whom the sonne wil reueale and showe Come vnto me all you that with labor are opâ—â—essed And are heauy laden and I will you comfort Dispaire not for that you haue transgressed But for mercy do you boldly to me resort My yoake vpon your neckes do you gladly take And learn of me for I am lowe and meke in hart And you shal fynd rest for your soules neuer to slake My yoake and burden is light in euery part I came not into the world the righteous to call But the synfull persons vnto repentance The whoale haue no nede of the physition at all But the sicke haue nede of deliuerance Uerily I say vnto you that the angels Haue more ioy in one synner that doth repent Than in many righteous persons else Which are no sinners in their iudgement Here entreth Symon the Pharisie and malicious Iudgement Symon biddeth Christ to dynner Symon God spede you syr heartily and well to fare I reioyce much that I chaunce you here to fynde In good soth I was sory and toke muche care That I had no tyme to declare to you my mynde We know that you do much good in the countrey here Wherfore the liuyng God is glorified You heale the sicke persons both farre and nere Like as it hath ben credibly testified Christ. My father euen vnto this tyme worketh truely And I work according to his commandement wil The sonne can do nothyng of hym selfe duely But that he seeth the father doyng alway still Whatsoeuer the Father doth the sonne doth the same For the father doth the sonne entierly loue And sheweth him al things to the praise of his name And shal shew him greter works thaÌ„ these as you shal proue Malicioê° iudge Lo sir what nede you haue more testimonie You heare that he doth him self the sonne of God call Doth not the law condemne that blasphemie Commaunding such to be slaine great and small Symon For a season it behoueth vs to haue pacience I shewed you the reason wherfore of late At this season I pray you do your diligence And semble rather to loue hym than to hate Shall it please you syr this day to take payne With me at my house to take some repast You shal be welcome doubtlesse I tell you playne No great puruiance for you I entend to make Christ. My meate is to doe his will that hath me sent But syr I thanke you of your great curtesy To come to you I shall be very well content So that you will appoynt the houre stedily Symon All things be in maner ready I thinke verily In the meane season in my gardein we will walke Take the paines to go with me I pray you heartily Till dinner be ready of matters we will talke Christ With a good will I will waite vpon you Pleaseth it you to go before you know the way Symon Sirrâ— you see how that we are appointed now Make all thyngs ready without delay Malicioê° iudge Sir I will go about as fast as I may In good fayth I would that I might haue my will I would prepare for hym a galowes this day Upon the whiche I desyre his bloud to spill Infidelitie A vengeance take hym thefe is he gone From Mary Magdalene he did me chace From Symon the Pharisie he will driue me anon So that no where I shal be able to shew my face Malicioê° iudge Nay we are so surely fixed in the Pharisies mynde That his blasphemous words can not driue vs theÌ„ce Womens heartes turne oft as doth the wynde And agayne of the law they know not the sence In malice I haue made them all so blynde That they iudge nothyng in Christ aryght To the letter of the law so fast I do them bynde That of the spirite they haue no maner of light Infidelitie I will tell thee Malicious Iudgement His wordes be of suche strength and great power That the diuell hym self and all his rablement He is able to expell and vtterly to deuoure Malicioê° iudge Tushe hyde thy self in a Pharisies gowne Suche a one as is bordered with the coÌ„maundemeÌ„ts And then thou maist dwel both in citie and in towne Beyng well accepted in all mens iudgements Infidelitie As for a gowne I haue one conuenient And lo here is a cappe agreing to the same Malicioê° iudge As thou saiest that geare is very ancient I warant thee now to escape all blame Mary of one thyng thou must take good hede As nere as thou canst let him not behold thy face Doubt thou not but he shall haue his mede If I remayne with the Iewes any space Infidelitie And as for the reuerend byshop Cayphas With all the Aldermen of Ierusalem Will helpe to bryng that matter to passe For I am like for euer to dwell with them Malicioê° iugemeÌ„t The same Christ dineth with
vnto their loue For it is a thyng that doth the heart greatly moue At such sights of women I haue known men in dede That with talking beholding their noses wil blede â–ª Through great corage moued by such goodly sights â–ª Labouring the matter further with al their myghts Mary Your wordes do not onely prouoke my desire But in pleasure they set my heart on fyre Infideli Sometime for your pleasure you may weare a past â–ª But aboue all thâ—n is gyrd your self in the waste Upon your ouer body you may nothyng els weare But an vnliued garment without any other geare Let your body be pent and togither strained As hard as may be though therby you be pained Pride Use will make the thyng easy there is no doubt 〈◊〉 Yea pardie gentlewomen vse it now all about Infiâ—â—â—litie Your nether garmeÌ„ts must go by gymmes ioynts Aboue your buttocks thei must be tied on w t points Some women a doublet of fyne lynnen vse to weare Unto the which they tye theyr other nether geare With wiers houpes your garments must be made Pleasure your mynion shall shew you in what trade 〈◊〉 In the wast I wil haue ye as small as a wand Yea so smal that a man may span you with his hand Infideli It skilleth not though in the buttocks you be great Car. con No for there she is like many tymes to be beate Marie Well wantons well are ye not ashamed Pryde In dede mistresse they are worthy to be blamed You must reioyce in your richesse and good And set muche by your kynrede and noble blood Boast of them and when of them you do talke Of their coÌ„mendatioÌ„s let your tong euermore walk Daily thus my lord my father or mi lady my mother My lorde my vncle and my maister my brother Mary I promise you I come of a stocke right honorable Therfore my talk of them can not be to coÌ„mendable Infidelitie It is a stock they say right honorable and good That hath neither these nor whore in their blood No more words how say you M. here by pleasure Mary Forsoth swete heart I loue him beyond al measure Infideli Body of god for this al this while haue I wrought By your smirking loke ofttimes on him so I thought What do you loue hym better than you loue me Mary Which of you I should loue best truly I can not se. Infidelitie This is a true prouerbe and no fained fable Few womens words be honest constant and stable ConcupisceÌ„ce Truly M. Mary if ye loue me ther is nothing lost Loue they say ieopardeth all and spareth for no cost Voluptas autem est sola quae nos vocet ad se Et aliciat suapte natura Pleasure sayth one man of his owne nature Allecteth to hym euery humayn creature Now what person soeuer doth pleasure hate As a beast is to be abiected both early and late Let me haue a worde or two in your eare How say you by that like you not that pretie geare Mary Ha ha ha you are a fond body pleasure verily Infidelitie Doth he not moue you to matrimonie Take hede that he bryng you not to suche dotage For many incommodities truely be in mariage Cupiditi Semper habent lites alterque iurgia lectus In quo nupta iacet minimum dormitur in illo The bedde wherin lieth any maried wife Is neuer without chidyng braulyng and strife That woman shall neuer sleape in quiete Which is maried contrary to hir diete Pride Of all bondage truely this is the ground A gentlewoman to one husband to be bound Car. con Tushe mistresse Mary be ye not in subiection Better it is to be at your owne election What thyng in this world excelleth libertie Neither gold nor treasure for a suretie Take you now one and then an other hardely Such as for the tyme will to you louyngly apply Mary That will be a meane truly to lese my good name And so among the people I shal suffer blame Infidelitie Ye shal not kepe my counsel if ye can not kepe your own Can you not make good chere but it must be known Concupiscence As touching that I will be to you suche a meane As shal teache you alwais to conuey the matter clene Pride Take you none but gentlemen with veluet coates It is to be thought that they ar not without groates Cupiditi In any wise see that your louers be yong and gay And suche fellowes as be well able to pay Mary Nay truely if I should attempt any such geare I would take where I loued alway here and there Concupiscence Spoken like a worthy swete gyrle by the masse I warant all this geare will well come to passe Infidelitie You must euer haue a tongue well fyled to flatter Let your garmentes be sprinkled with rose water Use your ciuet pommander muske which be to sell That the odor of you a myle of a man may smell With swete oyntments such as you can appoynt Use you euermore your propre body to anoynt Concupiscence With fine meats pure wines do your body norish That will cause you in all pleasure to florishe And when one for your mynde you can espye Use a smylyng countenance and a wanton eye Pride Upon all suche as ye mynd not looke you aloft To them that be not of your diet be you not soft Mary Ha ha ha laugh â–ª now I pray God I dye if euer I did se Such pleasant companions as you all be You speake of many thynges here of pleasure Which to vse truely requireth muche treasure Car. con If you can wisely occupie this pretie geare I will warant you to get an hundred pound a yeare Infidelitie Hold vp the market and let them pay for the ware Be euer catchyng and takyng doe you not spare Mary I may vse daliance and pastyme a while But the courage of youth will soone be in exile I remember yet since I was a little foole That I learned verses when I went to schoole Which be these Forma bona fragilis est quantum acceâ—â—t ad annoâ— â–ª â—â—t minor spacio carpitur illa suo Nec semper viola nec semper lilia florent Et riget amissa spina relicta rosa. The pleasure of youth is a thyng right frayle And is yearely lesse so that at length it doth faile The swete violets and lylies flourishe not alway The rose soone drieth and lasteth not a day I see in other women by very experience That the tyme of youth hath no long permanence Infidelitie In good faith when ye ar come to be an old maude Then it will be best for you to play the baude In our countrey there be suche olde mother bees Which are glad to cloke baudry for their fees This is the order such as wer harlots in their youth May vse to be baudes euermore for a truth Pride When the courage of them is altogither past In age they vse to get their liuyng with such a
as in hell in my soule had their place These were the merites and dedes that I had Onely thy vnspeakable mercy did me preuent And though that my life hath bene so bad Yet thou wilt no more but that I should repent O who shall geue me a fountayne of teares That I may shed abundantly for my synne This voice of the Lord alwais souÌ„deth in myn eares Repent repent and thou shalt be sure heauen to wyn He saith also do the fruictes of Repentance O Lord who is able those worthy fruictes to do I am not able to doe sufficient penance Except thy grace good Lord do helpe me therto But like as the parts of my body in tymes past I haue made seruants to all kynd of iniquitie The same iniquitie away for euer I do cast And will make my body seruant to the veritie This haire of my head which I haue abused I repute vile and vnworthie to wipe my lordes fete No obsequie therwith of me shalbe refused To do my Lord Iesus seruice as it is most mete These fleshly eies which with their wanton lookes Many persons to synne and vice haue procured They haue ben the diuels volumes and bookes Which from the seruice of God haue other allured Nowe you synfull eyes shed out teares and water Wash the Lords fete with theÌ„ whoÌ„ you haue offended To shew such obsequie to hym it is a small matter Which by his grace hath my synfull life amended O wretched eies can you wepe for a thing temporall As for the losse of worldly goodes and parents And can you not wepe for the lorde celestiall Which losse incomparably passeth all detrimentes With this oyntment most pure and precious I was wont to make this carkas pleasant and swete Wherby it was made more wicked and vicious And to all vnthriftynesse very apt and mete Now would I gladly this oyntment bestowe About the innocent feete of my sauiour That by these penitent fruictes my lord may know That I am right sory for my sinfull behauiour All my worldly substance abused before And through vnbelief of synne made instruments Now will I bestow them onely to his honor In helpyng hym and for his sake other innocents I shall not ceasse to seeke till my lord I haue found He is in the house of Symon I heard say The house standeth on yonder same ground It was told me that he dyneth there to day I was not ashamed to synne before the Lordes sight And shal I be ashamed before maÌ„ the same to coÌ„fesse To my Lord Iesus now forth will I go right Acknowledgyng to him my penitent heart doubtlesse Let Marie creepe vnder the table abydyng there a certayne space behynd and doe as it is specified in the Gospell Then Malicious Iudgement speaketh these wordes to Infidelitie Malicioê° iugemeÌ„t Lo syr what a felow this is it doth appere If he were suche a prophet as of him self he doth say He would know what maner of woman this same is here A sinner she is he can not say nay Infidelitie A sinner quod he yea she is a wicked sinner in dede This is she from whom he did me expell Behold how boldly after hym she doth procede A harlot she is truly I may tell you in counsell Malicioê° iudge Yea and yet to touche hym he doth her permit Which is agaynst the law for persons defiled Ought not among the iust to intromit But from their company should be exiled Malicioê° iudge I pray you see how busy about hym she is She washeth his feet with teares of hir eyes Heigh mary yonder is like to be nothyng amisse Behold she anoynteth him to driue away flies Trow you y e maister Symon thinketh not somwhat Yes I hold you a groate though he say nothing Malicioê° iudge He is not content I warant you that Which thyng you may see by his lookyng Symon Syrs take away here we will no more now This fyrst Are you in such things to be tought What meane you wherabout do you looke I maruell wherabout you do occupy your thought Iesus Christ. Simon the truth is so I haue a thing in my mynd Which vnto you I must nedes expresse and say Simon Maister say what you will wordes are but wynde I will heare you truely as paciently as I may Christ There were two detters whom I dyd well know Whiche were in debt to a lender that was thriftie The one fiue hundred pence truely did owe And the other ought not aboue fiftie Neither of these debters had wherwith to pay Wherfore the lender forgaue both as it dyd behoue Nowe according to your iudgement I pray you say Which of these detters ought the lender most loue â–ª Symon Mary he to whom most was forgiuen I suppose In few wordes truly you haue heard my sentence Christ. You haue rightly iudged and to the purpose Absoluyng my question like a man of science See you this woman I know that in your hertes You condemne her as a synner very vnmete To enter among you and to touche any partes Of my body yea either head or feete Saying among your selues if this were a Prophet He would know what maner a woman this is Which thus commeth in while we be at meate A sinner she is and hath done greatly amisse I say vnto you that into this world â–ª I am come To call suche great detters vnto repentance The iust which in their coÌ„ceits owe but a small suÌ„me Haue no nede of their creditours deliuerance Infidelitie What a thief is this he iudgeth our masters thoght If we destroy hym not he will surely marre all Malicioê° iudge I euer sayd that he was worse than nought But among vs puruey for him we shall Symon Sir you take vpon you very presumptuously I haue bydden you vnto my house here of good will And you reason of matters here contemptuously But take your pleasure it shall not greatly skill Christ. I say vnto you that for this cause was I borne To beare witnesse vnto the veritie I see who be hypocrites full of dissemblyng scorne And who be persons of faith and simplicitie Where as you thinke you haue done me pleasure In bidding me to eate and drinke with you here Your intent was to shew your richesse and treasure And that your holynesse might to me appeare But this woman hath shewed to me a little obsequie For these gestures whiche she sheweth to me Procede from a true meanyng heart verily As by her humilite plainly you may see When I came into your house the truth to say You gaue me no water to washe my feete withall This woman hath washed them here this day With the teares of her eies which on them did fall With the haire of hir head she hath wiped the same Thinking all other clothes therto ouer vile Horrible in hir fight is hir synne and blame Thinkyng hir self worthy of eternall exile You gaue me no kisse as the maner of the countrey is But this woman since the tyme
that I came in Would not presume my head or mouth to kisse But my feete lamenting in hir heart for hir syn My head you did not anoynt with oyle so swete As men of this countrey do their guestes vse But with most precious balme she anointed my fete No cost about that oyntment she doth refuse Blessed are they as the Prophete doth say Whose sinnes are forgiuen couered by Gods mercy Not by the dedes of the lawe as you thinke this day But of Gods good will fauour and grace freely At this womans synne you do greatly grutche As though your selues were iust holy and pure But many sinnes are forgiuen hir bicause she loued muche And of the mercy of God she is sure He to whom but a little is remitted in dede Loueth but a little we se by experience All haue sinned and of Gods glory haue nede Therfore humble your selues with penitence I say to thee woman thy synnes are forgeuen all God for my sake will not them to thee impute For strength to continue to hym do thou call And see that thankes thou do to hym attribute Mary The mercy of God is aboue all his workes truely What is it that God is not able to bryng to passe I thanke thee Lord Iesu for thy great mercy Thou art the sonne of the liuyng God our Messias Malicioê° iudge Now say you by this here is a greater matter yet He forgiueth synnes as one with God equall Infidelitie And he may perceiue truely that hath any wit That he is but a man wretched and mortall Christ. Woman I say thy faith hath saued thee go in peace Now art thou pacified in thy conscience Through thy faithe I doe all thy sinnes releace Assuryng thee to haue mercy for thy negligence Mary O ioyfull tydynges O message most comfortable Let no sinner be he neuer in so great dispaire Though he were synfull and abhominable Let him come and he will make hym faire Blessed be the Lord of such compassion and pitie Praise we his name with glorie and honor I shall declare his mercy in towne and citie Thankes be to thee my Lord now and euermore Symon I see the wordes whiche I haue heard proued true Men say that you are new fangled and friuolous Goyng about the law and our rulers to subdue Introducyng sectes perillous and sedicious Malicioê° iudge I can no longer containe but must say my mynde In dede it is so for by his diuelishe erudition Which he soweth among the people of our kynde At length they will make a tumult and sedition Such blasphemy since the beginning was not heard That a man shal call him self Gods naturall sonne To condemne the law of God he is not afeard Despisyng all things that our fathers haue done Infidelitie Pleaseth it you reuerend father to geue me licence To say my mynde to this blasphemerand thiefe In fewe wordes you shall haue my sentence Of all heretikes I iudge hym to be the chiefe Perceiue you not how he doth begyn He commeth to none of the princes and gouerners But a sort of synners he goeth about to wyn As publicans whores harlots and vniust occupiers Them he preferreth before such men as you be Saying that they before you shall be saued An honest man in his company you shall not see But euen them which haue them selues yll behaued Much good doe it you here is sause for your meate Maister Simon looke vpon this felow in season For in continuance he will worke such a feate That you shall not release with all your reason Christ. O Symon put away that Malicious iudgement Which in your heart you do stubbornly contayne You shall not perceyue Gods commandement As long as he in your conscience doth remayne Malicioê° iugemeÌ„t Lo syr now that God he hath blasphemed Now his law he doth contemne and despise The Iustice therof of hym is nothyng estemed To destroy the same vtterly he doth deuise Symon Thinke you vs ignorant of gods law and will Which vpon our garments do them weare Who but we doe the law of God fulfill For his precepts with vs in all places we beare Christ. To fulfill the law requireth Gods spirite For the law is holy iust and spirituall Of loue to be obserued it is requisite And not of these obseruances externall As long as you haue this malicious iudgement Accompanied with Infidelitie I say you can not kepe Gods commaundement Though you shew an outward sanctitie Infidelitie Lo syr here he calleth me Infidelitie And you know that I am called Legal Iustification You heare that it was spoken by Gods maiestie That a man shall liue by the lawes obseruation An honest guest come out dogge yea mary Good maners thus to taunt a man at his table But with fooles it is follie to vary His wordes be taken but as a tale or a fable Symon Away with this geare how long shall we syt here At once We haue somewhat els to do I thinke Christ. Thankes be to thee O Father for this chere Thankes be to thee for our repast of meate drinke Now sir you shall licence me to depart And the heauenly Father might illumine your mynd Expellyng this infidelitie from your hart Which with Malicious iudgemeÌ„t kepeth you blynd Symon Fare ye well for me you shall no countes render All shall be layd vnder the feete that is here spoken Infide Though you forget it yet we purpose to remember Exit You know the way go I pray you the doore is open Malicioê° iudge For Gods sake syr you and such as you be Looke vpon this felow by myne aduise For what he goth about all you may see Yea you haue had warnyng of hym twise or thrise Infidelitie All the multitude beginneth after him to ronne You see hym and know his doctrine and opinion If you suffer hym till more people he hath wonne Strangers shall come and take our dominion Haue you not heard his open blasphemie The sonne of God he presumeth him self to name The Iustice of the lawe he condemneth vtterly To suffer him to lyue will turne to your shame Symon It shall behoue you to dog him from place to place Note whether openly he teache suche doctrine If he doe accuse hym before his face For I will cause the byshops hym to examine And where as he willeth you vs to expell Infidelitie Callyng vs wicked nicknames at his pleasure He goeth about to make you to rebell Against God his lawes as he doth without mesure Malicioê° iugemeÌ„t For my part I wil watche hym so narowly That a word shall not scape me that doth sounde Agaynst you the fathers that liue so holyly But to accuse hym for it a way shalbe found Symon Well the tyme of our euenyng seruice is at hand We must depart the sacrifice to prepare Infideli Exeunt If you depart we may not here ydle stande For to wayte vpon you at all tymes ready we are At my beyng here euen now of late It pleased my
Lord Iesus of his great mercy Mary entreth with Iustificatiō To speake sentences here in my presence Of the which I haue no perfect intelligence The fyrst is Many sinnes are forgiuen hir sayd he Because she hath loued much meanyng me I pray you most holy Iustification Of this sentence to make a declaration Iustificaion A question right necessary to be moued For therby many errors shall be reproued It were a great errour for any man to beleue That your loue dyd deserue that Christ shold forgeue Your synnes or trespasses or any synne at all For so to beleue is an errour sanaticall And how can your loue desyre forgiuenesse of your yl Seing that the law it is not able to fulfill The law thus commaundeth as touchyng loue Thou shalt loue thy Lord God as it doth behoue With al thy hert with al thy soule w t al thy strēgth And thy neighbor as thy self He saith also at length There was neuer man borne yet that was able To performe these preceptes iust holy and stable Saue onely Iesus Christ that lambe most innocent Which fulfilleth the law for suche as are penitent But loue foloweth forgiuenesse of synnes euermore As a fruict of faith and goth not before In that parable which vnto you he recited Wherin he declared your sinnes to be acquited He called you a detter not able to pay Then your loue paid not your dets perceiue you may The forgiuenesse of your sinnes you must referre Only to Christes grace then you shall not erre Of this thing playn knowledge you may haue In these wordes go in peace thy fayth doth thee saue So by faith in Christ you haue Iustification Frely of his grace and beyond mans operation The which Iustification here I do represent Which remayn with all suche as be penitent Here commeth loue a speciall fruicte of Faith As touchyng this heare mekely what he saith Mary O how much am I vnto Iesus Christ bound In whom so great mercy goodnesse I haue found Not onely my synfull lyfe he hath renued But also with many graces he hathe me endued Loue entreth I am named loue from true faith procedyng Where I am there is no vertue nedyng Loue commyng of a conscience immaculate And of a faith not fained nor simulate Is the end of the law as Scripture doth say And vnto eternall felicitie the very path way This loue grounded in Faith as it is sayd Hath caused many euyls in men to be layd For where as the loue of God in any is perfite There in all good workes is his whole delite This true loue with Mary was present verily When to Christ she shewed that obsequie But this loue dyd procede from beleue When Christ of his mercy dyd hir sinnes forgeue Loue deserued not forgeuenesse of sinnes in dede But as a fruite therof truely it did succede Iustification Of this matter we might tary very long But then we should do our audience wrong Which gently hath heard vs here a long space Wherfore we will make an end nowe by Gods grace Praying God that all we example may take Of Mary our synfull lyues to forsake And no more to looke backe but to go forward still Folowyng Christ as she did and his holy will Loue. Such persons we introduce into presence To declare the conuersion of hir offence Fyrst the lawe made a playne declaration That she was a chylde of eternall damnation By hearyng of the law came knowledge of synne Then for to lament truely she dyd begynne Nothyng but desperation dyd in hir remayne Lokyng for none other comfort but for hell payne But Christ whose nature is mercy to haue Came into this world synners to saue Which preached repentance synnes to forgeue To as many as in hym faithfully dyd beleue By the word came faith Faith brought penitence But bothe the gyft of Gods magnificence Thus by Faith onely Marie was iustified Like as before it is playnly verified From thens came loue as a testification Of Gods mercy and her iustification Mary Now God graunt that we may go the same way That with ioy we may ryse at the last day To the saluation of soule and body euermore Through Christ our Lord to whom be all honor FINIS