Eccll. iij. Happie is the riche that is fouÌ„de without faute / aÌ„d he that turneth not froÌ„ the right waye for golde / neither putteth his trust in money or treasure Go to nowe ye ryche menne / wepe / aÌ„d howle on your wredchednes that shall come vppoÌ„ you 1. Timo. 6. Your riches are corrupt / your garmentes are moath eaten Your golde and your siluer are cancred / and the rust of them shal be a witnes against you and shall eate your flesh as it were fyre / ye haue heaped treasure to gether in your last dayes Leu. ix c Deut. 24. c Toby iiij c Beholde the hyer of the labourers whiche haue reped your owne feldes which hyer is of you kept backe by fraude crieth / aÌ„d the cries of them which haue reaped / are entred into the eares of the lorde Sobaoth Luke xv c Ye haue lyued in pleasure on the aerth and in wantonnes / ye haue condempned and haue killed the iuste / and he hath not resysted you â—ccle x. b There is nothing worse them a couetuous man What pridest thou the / O thou asshes There is not a more wicked thing then to loue moneye And why soche one hath his soule to selle / yet is he but a fylthy dounge while he liueth Although the Phisitian shewe his helpe neuer so longe / yet in coÌ„clusion it goeth after this manner / to daye a king / to morrowe dead For whan a man dieth he is the heyre of beastes / serpentes ande wormes Wo be vnto the proude welthy in SioÌ„ / to soche as thinke theÌ„ selues so sure vppoÌ„ the mount of Samaria Amos viâ— Luke vi c Which hold / theÌ„ selues for the best of the world / aÌ„d rule theÌ„ house of Israell euen as they lift / beholde / is the border of the land of the philistines wider then yours Ye are taken oute for the euell daye euen that sitte in the stole of wilfulnes / ye that ligh vppon beddes of yuorie / and vse your wantonnes vppon your couches / ye that eate the best lambes of the flocke / and the fattest calues of the droaue / ye that synge to the lute / aÌ„d in playinge of instrumentes compare your selues vnto Dauid / ye that drinke wine out of gobblettes / ande anointe your selues with the best oyle / but no man is sory for Ioseps hurte Iob. xxi b Eâ—ay v. b i. Reg. xvj d Who so trusteth in his riches / shal perish Prouer. xj Psal xl a Blessed is he that considereth the pore for the lorde shall deliuer him in the tyme of trouble See that ye gather you not treasure vppon earth / where rust and mothes corrupte / and where theues breake through and steale Math. vj c Luke xij d Eccl. 39. b But gather you treasure together in heauen / where nether rust nor mothes corrupt / ande where theues nether breake vp nor yet steale Pro. xxiij a Luke xij c For where youre treasure is / there is your harte also / ye can not serue God and Mammon Luke xv a Make you frendes with the vnrightuous Mammon / that whan ye shall haue nede / they maye receaue you into the eeuerlasting tabernacles i. Tim. vi b Prou. 23. a All they that wil be riche / fall into temtacion and snare / and into many folysh aÌ„d noysome lustes / whiche drowne men in destruccion and dampnation For couetuosnes is the roote of all euell / which whyle some lusted after / they erred from the fayth / and tangled them selues wyth many sorrowes Exhortacyon to the pooresycke and impotent Parsones Blessed are the poore in spirite / for theirs is the kingdome of heauen Math. â—5 a Luke vj. c All the dayes of the poore are miserable / but a quiet harte is as a continuall feast Prouer. 15 Psal xxxvj Better is a litle with the feare of the lorde / then great treasure Better is the poore that liueth Godly / then the blasphemer that is but a foole Pro xix a A poore man leading a Godly lyfe / is Pro. xxvij a better then the riche that goeth in frowarde wayes Psal xxxvj Pro. xv b Eccl. xxix d 1. Tim. vj. b A small thinge that the rightuous hath is better then great riches of the vngodlie The lorde knoweth the dayes of the Godlie / and their inheritaunce shall endure for euer Psal ix The lorde is a defence for the poore / a defeÌ„ce in the time of trouble For the lord forgetteth not the complainte of the pore The lord shall deliuer the poore from the mightie / and the wretched and miserable pore sely people / which haue no helpe The lord will not forget the poore / the paciente abiding of soche as be in trouble shall not perish for euer Psal xxj b He shal be fauourable to the simple and poore / he shall preserue the soules of soche as be in aduersite He shall deliuer their soules from extorcion and wronge / and deare shall their bloude be in his sight Eccl. 21. a Exod. v. b The prayer of the poore goeth out of the mouth and commeth vnto the eares / and his vengeaunce or defence shall come and that hastelie A symple man which laboureth aÌ„d worketh / is better then one that is gorgious and wanteth breade Pro. xij b Eccl. 10. d Thou arte the poore maÌ„s helpe o lorde a strength for the nedeful in his necessyté Esay xxv a Thou art vnto him a defence against euell wether / ande a shadowe against the heate The poore shall not alwaye be oute of remembraunce / the pacient abiding of soche as be in trouble shall not perish for euer Psal ix The lord shall kepe the simple folke by theyr right / defende the children of the pore / and punish the wrongeous doers Psal lxxj a The poore fely people couet water / aÌ„d they can get none / aÌ„d their toÌ„gue is waxeÌ„ drie for thrust Esaye xij I the lord shal heare theÌ„ I the God of Israell will not forsake theÌ„ Hath not God chosen the poore of this worlde / which are riche in faith aÌ„d heires of the kingdome which he promised to theÌ„ that loue hym Iacob ij a The poore that wanteth strength / aÌ„d hath great pouerte / Eccl. xj the eye of GOD loketh vppoÌ„ him to good / setteth him vp froÌ„ his low / estate and lifteth vp his h ade Exhortation to the artificer or handycraftes man Genes iij In the sweate of thy face shalt thou rate thy breade / tyll thou be turned agayne vnto aerth whence thou arte taken Iob. v. a Man is borne to labour / like as the byrde for to flye An ydle hande maketh pore / but a quicke labouring hand maketh riche Prouer. x. a Who so gathereth in Sommer / ys wise / but he that is slougysh in haruest / bringeth hym self to confusyon In all thy workes be
Iesus christ our lorde and Sauiour So be it Afther that thou hast praied on this maner seīg that we be all sinners it shal be expedient if thou hast conuenient leasure therunto to confesse thy selfe on this maner vnto God the father The confessyon of our synnes vnto God the father O Almightie God ād heauenlie father / maker of heauen and earth / I confesse my selfe vnto the / euen from the very harte / that I am a miserable / wretched and abhominable synner Ande haue wickedlie transgressed all thy holy commaundementes / and the diuine preceptes of thy Godlie will The synnes alas which I haue cōmitted in my flesh against the are so great and so excedingly encreased / that they are no lesse innumerable then the sandes of the sea And they thrust me downe euen as an intollerable burden In these wicked synnes oh lorde God haue I hitherto walked according to the wil of the prince of the world / whiles I dyd that that was pleasaunt to the flesh ande euell lustes / thorough vayne thoughtes / the blindnes of my harte / the outwarde pretence of Godlynes and fained faith This came to passe Ah wretche that I am because that I dyd neuer aernestly stryue against the suggestiōs of Sathan / nor the concupiscences or desyres of the world / nor yet the lustes of my flesh But fylthilie obeied them a thousād tymes more / than the admonicions of thy holie spirite O lorde my God It came to passe also / that I dyd set nought by thy Godly counsell / despised thy holie name / and feared thy vengeaunce and heauy displeasure nothing at all But what soeuer I haue in this behalf offended thy moost Godly maieste / it sore repēteth me / ād the faulte greueth me euē vnto the very harte And if it were not o moost mercifull father that thou haddest layde vp mercy in the bowelles / bloude ād woundes of Iesus Christ thy sonne ande our lorde / for so manie as vnfainedly repent and trulie beleue be their synnes neuer so great and manie / I shulde see none other waye / but throwe my selfe downe headlong through desperation into the bottomles pit of hell But for as moche as thou haste sett thy welbeloued sonne Iesus Christ / to be our mediatour and mercie stocke And haste promised grace / mercy and forgiuenes of synnes to as many as aske it in his name / through faith in his bloude Therfore in this tyme of grace and mercye / I myserable synner come nowe vnto the / ande desire the my lorde God that thou wilt graunt me / thorowe that our lorde Iesus Christ / a right ande true faith And for his sake / forgiue me all my synnes / and make me to walke dayly more and more in a newe harte / and in the frutes of the holy ghoost / that I maye vtterly despise all the vngodly lustes of this worlde / and that I maye be founde continent / pure of liuing temperate / good rightuous / honest / diligent in all goodnes / meke / mercifull / modest / humble and ready to forgiue soche as offend me / euen from the very harte And so lyue all the dayes of my lyue accordyng to thy dyuine wyll and true feare That I maye die to the world / to all sinne and to my selfe And with a good confydence and mery harte / loke for the comminge of the lorde / ād my sauiour Iesus Christe To whome with the and the holy ghoost / be all honour ande glorie for euer and euer So be it Thou mayest if thou wilt after thy confessyon / saye the lordes prayer called the Pater noster And so commending thy selfe vnto God fall to some honest ād vertuous exercyse / according vnto thy calling But what so euer thou doest / do it with purenes of harte / and with synglenes of eye Yea so do it / as though God were present / and loked vppon the / as vndoubtedly he doth The prayer to be sayde when thou goest to bedde O God the almightie lord / by whose ordre ande wyll the night ande darknes do nowe approche / wherin we shal giue our selues to quiet and slepe We moost instauntly desyre the / that thou graciously receaue vs into thy tuicion ande kepinge / that the prince of darkenes do not hurte vs with his terrous and feares And although we must slepe / because of oure feblenes / yet let oure harte and minde wacche vnto the. Go thou before vs / and shewe vs the waye as a piller of fyre / that we maye followe the so well in rest / as in busynes ande occupations of this lyfe And graunt that we be not founde in thy syght / children of nyght ād darkenes / but of daye and lyght / through Iesus Christ our lorde So be it An other Prayer THys our mortall body / whiche through synne daylye decayeth ād diminissheth / must at the last altogether perish ād become earth / wherof it is come and made ād then shall our vanitie / whiche we through our owne ignoraunce / haue made vnto our selues / take an ende But moost mercifull creatour and maker of all thinges / vouchsafe so to breake / deuide and dyssolue me / thy poore creature who am gathered / knyt and made of the / and graunt that I maye alwayes haue in minde / thy dissolution / and of whome I am knit together / hauing an eye to what place I must go to thintēt that I / not being prepared / be no brought without nuptiall or brydall garment / before thy iudgement seate For like as whē the daye is ones past / we giue our selues to rest / euē so must we / this life being ended / rest in the death Nothing is more lyke vnto life / then the daye / ande nothing more like vnto death / then the night And nothing so lyke the graue or sepulchre as the couche bedde or bedsteade Thus / good keper ād defēder frō all euell / graūt vs / nowe lying in impotencie and feblenes / of our selues / that / through the / we maye be preserued this night from all the assaultes of the deuell of hell AMEN Whan thou goest to thy labour or worke Prayer O Moost kinde and gentle heauenly father / thou knowest / and hast also taught vs / howe great the weakenes of mā is / so that man without thy Godly helpe can do nothing Thus vouchsafe to sēde vs thy holie spirite / that he may strengthen / stirre ande moue our vnderstanding and reason / in all thinges that we this daye outwardely shall go aboute and take in hande / or of that we inwardlie shall thinke or haue in minde / to the intent that it may all be done to thy glorie / ād to the proffyt of our neighbour So be it Whan a man is bounde towardes anye Iourney Prayer THys our lyfe / most mercifull lorde / is nothing els but a pilgrimage and through fare / for we haue here
The ordenaRye for all faythfull Chrystiās to leade a vertuous and Godly lyfe here in this vale of miserie ¶ Translated out of Doutche into Inglysh by Anthony Scoloker ¶ i. Cor. vij ¶ Let euerie one abyde in the calling wherin he is called IMPRINTED at Ippeswych / by Anthony Scoloker Dwellyng in S. Nycholas Parryshe Anno. 1548. ¶ Cum priuilegio ad imprimendum solum ¶ To the christen Reader PAule good Christen reader the fyrst to Timothe the seconde chapter / speaking of our great graundmother Eue / who after that she was deceaued and subdued vnto the transgressyon / brought forth death vppon all her posterite declareth / that to heale so great a wounde / and to appeare beautifully in the eyes of the mightie Lorde whose dere sonne Iesus Christ sayde 2. Timo. 2. Iohn 27. Father those that thou hast geuen vnto me I will that where I am they be also with me / that they maye see my glorie After the first rudiment of a Chrstian the which is faith iij waytyng virgins / ought to be attendaunt ande seruiceable vnto him / that in this vale of miserie intēdeth to leade a parfect life / Loue holines and discretion Vnder the which discretion as it maye be gathered by the properte of the Greke terme ī that place are comprised chastite / temperaunce / modesté and decēt shame fastnes / because all these vertues are alwayes coherent ande Ioined to gether sophroline And holines / like as she requireth to flie frō all vice / so doth she require the exercise of all vertuous workes and doinges that procede effectually frō faith / thorowe loue That the name of him maye be sanctified who sayde vnto his father I haue declared vnto thē / thy name And will declare it / that the loue wherwith thou hast loued me / maye be in them and I in them Ioan. 15. Wherfore that by loue / the duetie of all men from the lowest to the highest maye be knowen from the one to the other / reade ouer this lytle booke / that walkinge in the daungerous patthes of this exile thou mayest knowe howe to be trained vnto the mansyon place / prepared vnto the rightuous that neuer shall haue ende Howe the spirituall Prelates ought to vse thē selues towardes the Comune People BEholde / I sende you forth as shepe amonge wolues Math. 10. b Go ye your waye ande teach all nations and baptyse them in the name of the father / and of the sonne / ād of the holighoost Math. 27. c And teache them to kepe all thinges / what soeuer I haue commaunded you Iohn 15. b. Col. 1. a. Yea haue not chosen me / but I haue chosen you / and ordeined you / that ye go / and bringe forth frute Iohn 25. c. Act. 1 ◠and 2. ◠And ye shall beare me witnes / not onelie at Ierusalē / but also through oute the lande of Iury / and Samaria / and to the vttermust coastes of the earth Ioan. 20. c. Receyue the holyghoost Whose synnes soeuer ye remit / they are remitted vnto them ande whose synnes soeuer ye retaine / they are retained Mat. 18. b. Math. 16. c. Verely I saye vnto you what soeuer ye shall binde vppon earth / shal be bounde also in heauen / and what soeuer ye lowse vppon earth / shal be lowsed also in heauē Act. 20. d. Take hede vnto your selues / and to all the flocke / amonge the whiche the holyghoost hath set you to be Bysshoppes / to fede the congregation of God / whiche he hath purchased with his owne bloude Ephes 4. a. Iesus christ which came downe from heauen / ande is gone vp againe aboue all heauens to fulfyll all / hath set some to be Apostles / some to be Prophetes / some to 1. Cor. 12. c. be Euangelistes / some to be shepheardes and teachers / wherby the saintes might be coupled together / thorowe comē seruice to the edefying of the body of Christ A Bisshoppe must be blamelesse 1. Tim. 3. a. Leuit. 21. b. Ezec. 44. d. Tet. 3. b. The husband of one wife sober / discrete / manerlie / harberous / apte to teache / not geuē to moche wine / no fyghter / not geuen to fylthy lucre / but gentle abhorring stryfe / abhorring conuetuousnes / and one that ruleth his owne house honestlie / hauing obediēt children with all honestie For yf he can not rule his owne house / howe shall he care for the congregation of God The seruaunt of the lorde ought not to striue / but to be gentle vnto euerye mā / apte to teache / one that can forbeare the euell / one that can with mekenes enforme them that resyst / if God at any tyme wyll giue them repentaunce for to knowe the trueth / and to turne againe from the snare of the deuell / which are holden in pryson of hym / at his wyll 2. Tim. 2. c. Gal. 6. a Preach the woorde / be feruent be yt in 2. Tim. 4. a season or oute of seasō / Improue / rebuke / exhorte wyth all longe sufferynge ād doctrine For the tyme wyll come / whan they shall not suffere wholsome doctrine / but after theyr owne lustes shall they whose eares ytche get thē an heape of teachers / and shall turne theyr eares from the trueth / and shal be geuen vnto fables But watch thou in all thinges / suffer aduersytie / do the worke of a preacher of the Gospell / fullfyll thyne offyce vnto the vttermust Pro. 27. c. Ioh. 10. a See that thou knowe the nombre of thy cattell / and loke well to thy flokes Tito 1. b A Bysshoppe must cleaue faste vnto the true woorde of doctrine / that he maye be able to exhorte with wholsome learning / and to improue them that saye against it 1. Pet. 5. c. Act. 5. c. Act. 20. d. The Elders which are among you I exhorte / whiche am also an Elder / ande a witnes of the affliction in Christe / ande partaker of the glory that shal be opened Fede Christes flocke which is amōg you / ande take the ouersyght of them / not as though ye were cōpelled therto / but willinglie / not for the desyre of fylthy sucre / but of a good minde / not as though ye were lordes ouer the parysshens / but that ye Tit. 2. a. be an ensample to the flocke Who soeuer wil be great amonge you / let hym be your minister / and who soeuer wil be chefe let hi be your seruaunt Mat. 20. a. Euen like as the sonne of man came / not to be serued but to do seruice / and to gyue hys life to a redemption for many Mat. 10. a. Go and preache the Gospell / sayinge The kingdom of heauē is at hande Heale the sycke / clense the lepers raise the deade / cast out the deuelles Frelie ye haue receiued / frely giue againe
dyligent ande quicke / so shall there no sycknes happen vnto the. eccle 31. c Roma xij b Be not proude to do thy worke / ande despayre not in the tyme of aduersyte eccl x. d Who so is slouthfull and slacke in his labour / is the brother of hym that is a waister Pro. xviij b Slouthfulnes bringeth slepe / and an ydle soule shall suffre hunger Pro. xix c The deuises of one that is diligent / bringe plentuousnes / but he that is vnaduised / commeth vnto pouerte Prou. xxj a He that laboureth not / shall not eate ij Tess iij. A man shall goo forth to hys worke / and tylle hys lande vntyll the eueninge psal 103. c Thou shalt eate the laboures of thyne owne handes / so shall it go well with the / and thou shalt be blessed psal 127. a Thy wife shal be as a frutefull vyne vppon the walles of thy house Thy children like the oliue braunches rounde aboute thy table Lothus shall the man be blessed that feareth the lorde eccl v. b Iob. x. c A labouring maÌ„ slepeth swetelie / whether it be litle or moche that he eateth / but the aboundauÌ„ce of the riche wyll not suffer him to slepe Prou. 23. a Iere. xvij b Take not ouer great trauayle and laboure to be riche Eccl. xix a A labouring man that is geuen vnto dronkennes / shall not be riche Prou. x b Delyte not thou in slepe / least thou come vnto pouerte / but open thyne eyes / aÌ„d thou shall haue breade ynough eccl xxxij b All that a man eateth ande drinketh / yea / what so soeuer a man enioyeth of all his labour / the same is a gifte of God Exhortation to Religious or deuoute Parsones Pure deuocion and vndefiled before God the father / is this Iaco. 1. c To vysit the freÌ„dles and widdowes in theyr aduersite / and to kepe him selfe vnspotted of the world If any man amonge you seme deuoute / and refraine not his tongue / but deceaue his owne harte / this mannes deuocion is in vaine The feare of the lorde is the right god seruice that preserueth and iustifieth the harte / and geueth mirth and gladnes eccl â— Exhortacion to the marchauÌ„t prou xx â— It is nought / It is nought saith the byer / but wheÌ„ he hath it / he doth praise it prouer xi a A false balaunce is an abhomination vnto the lorde Leuit. xix Deale not wroÌ„gfully with thy neyghbour / with metyarde / weight or measure Whan thou fellest ought vnto thy neighbour / or byest any thynge of hym / deceaue nor oppresse him not Deut. xxv Leuit. xix b Thou shalt not haue in thy bagge two maner of weyghtes / a great and a small Neyther shalt thou haue in thy house diuers measures / a great aÌ„d a small / that thy lyfe maye be longe in the lande / which the lord thy God shall geue the / for who soeuer doâ—h so â—s an abhominacion vnto the Lorde thy God God knoweth both the deceauer / and hym that is deceaued Iob. xij Exhortation to the husbandman Prou. xij Who so tilleth his grounde shal be fylled with breade Prouerb xj Who so hoordeth vp his corne / shal be cursed among the people / but blessing shal lyght vppon his head that selleth it Deu. xxiiij Leuit. 19. c Whan thou hast reaped downe thyne haruest / and hast forgotten a shefe in the felde / thou shalt not turne again to fetche it / but it shal be for the straunger / the fatherles and the widdowe / that the lorde thy God maye blesse the in all the workes of thy handes In like case when thou hast plucked thine oliue trees and viniarde Whan thou reapest thy laÌ„de / thou shalt not reape downe the vtermust borders of it rounde aboute / nor gather it all clene vp Liuit xix c Deut. 24. d Euen so likewise thou shalt nor plucke thy viniarde clene also nor gather vp the grapes that are falleÌ„ downe / but shalt leaue them for the poore and straungers / for I am the lorde your God Exhortation to Souldiours or menne of warre Deut. x a WhaÌ„ thou goest oute to bataile against thine ennemies and seest horses and charectes of the people more theÌ„ thou / be not a trayde of them Nowe whaÌ„ ye are come nigh vnto the battaile / the priest shall steppe forth / ande speake to the people / and saye vnto them Heare o ye people ye go this daye into the battayle against your ennemies / let not your harte faint Deut. xii c Num. xiiij 2. Marc iiij Deut. 28 a Feare not / be not afrayde of them For the lorde your God goeth with you to fight for you agaynst your ennemies / that he maye saue you Numer xxj Whan thou commest nygh vnto a citie to fyght against it / thou shalt offre theÌ„ peace But if they wyll not deale peaceably with the / aÌ„d wyll warre with the / then besiege it Deu. x â— Whan thou must lighe a loÌ„ge season before a citie / against the which thou makest warre to take it thou shalt not destroy the trees / nor heawe them down with the axe for thou mayest eate of the frute / for it is but woode vppon the felde / and no man / ande can not come ande be bulwarkes against the. But the trees that thow knowest that men eate not of / those shalt thou destroye / and rote oute / and make bulwarkes therof / against the citie that warreth with the / tyll thou haue ouercome it Let hym that is a fearde ande fainte / turne home againe It is a small matter for mannie to be ouercome with fewe / yea / ther is no difference to the God that is in heauen / to delyuer by a great multitude or by a small companie / for the victorie of the battel staÌ„deth not in the multitude of the hoost but the strength commeth from heauen i Mach. iiiv i Reg. xiiij Ye Souldiours do no man wronge / and be content with your wages Luke iij. â— Exhortation to Custumers Tolners and Publicanes Ye Custumers aÌ„d coâ—ners / require no more of the people theÌ„ is appointed you Exhortation to Lombardes and vzurers Leu. xxv exod xxij c Deut. xxiij Ezech. 18. a If thy brother waxe poore / and fall in decaye besyde the / thou shalt receaue hym as a stranger / or gest / that he may lyue by the / and thou shalt take no vsurie of him / nor more then thou hast geuen / but shalt feare thy God / that thy brother maye liue besides the. For thou shalt not lende hym thy money vppon vsury / nor deliuer hym thy meate vppon advauntage Let no man take vsurie of his brother Thou shalt occupie no vsurie vnto thy brother / neither with money nor with fode / ner with any maner of thinge
wyne / and experte to set vp dronkennes Pro. xxiij Where is wo wher is sorrowe where is strife where is brawling where are woundes without cause where be reade eyes Is it noâ— amonge those that be euer at the wine / and seke oute where the best is / and occupie them selues to drinke oute gâ—bâ—eâ—s glases aÌ„d cuppes Loke not thou vppon the wine howe read it is / aÌ„d what colour it is iÌ„ the glasse It goeth doun softlie / but at the last it biteth like a serpent / aÌ„d stingeth like an Adder And when a man is dronk / he casteth his eyes vnto straunge women / ande dothe muse vppon froward thinges Luk. 21. c Rom. 13. b Take hede vnto your selues / that your hartes be not ouerladen with excesse of eating and with dronkennes Wyne is maruelous stronge and ouer commeth them that drinke it / it deceaueth the minde aÌ„d bringeth both the poore maÌ„ and the kinge to dotage aÌ„d vanite iii. Esdras ij Prou. xx a Thus doth it with the boÌ„dman aÌ„d with the free / with the poore and riche It taketh awaie their vnderstanding and maketh them careles and merie / so that none of them remembreth any heauines / dette or duetie It causeth also a man to thinke that the thinge which he doth / is honest and good / and remembreth not in what auctorite he is / and that he ought not to do soche thinges Moreouer whan men men are drinkinge / they forget all freÌ„dship / all brotherly faythfulnes and loue But as sone as they are droÌ„ken / they drawe oute the swearde / and will fight And whan they are laide downe from the wine / ande so rysen vp againe / they can not tell what they did Wyne is a voluptuous thinge / ande dronckennes causeth sedicion / who so deliteth therin / shall neuer be wyse Prou. xx a Ephe. b. b Be not thou a wyne bebber / for wyne hath destroied many a man Prou. 21. a Ephes v. b O howe well content is a wise man with a litle wine The fyre proueth the harde yron / euen so doth wine proue the hartes of the proude / whan they be dronken eccle xxxjd Prou. xxxj 1. Timo. 5. Wyne soberly dronken / quickeneth the life of man If thou drinkest it measurably / thou shalt be temperate Wyne was made from the beginniÌ„g to make meÌ„ glad and not for dronkennes Wine measurably dronken / is a reioycing for the soule and body But if it be dronken with exces / it maketh bitternes and sorrowe vnto the minde Dronkennes fylleth the minde of the foolish / with shame ande ruine / dimynissheth the strength / aÌ„d maketh wouÌ„des Ephe. v â— Be not droncken / for therin is excesse Exhortation vnto all synners generally Ezech. xviij Deut. xiiij 4. Reg. 14. The same soule that sineth / shal die The childe shall not beare the fathers offence / nether shal the father beare the childes offence But the rightuousnes of the rightuous shal be vpoÌ„ hiÌ„ selfe / aÌ„d the wickednes of the wicked shal be vppoÌ„ hiÌ„ self also ii Para. 25. Iere iii. 18. a But if the vngodly will turne awaye from all his synnes that he hath done / and kepe all my commaundementes / and do the thinge that is aequall aÌ„d right / doutles he shall liue ande not dye And I will thinke no more vppon all his synnes that he did before ezech 18. a For I haue no pleasure in the death of a synner saith the lord God but rather that he conuert and lyue A generall exhortation vnto all men Thou shalt reprehend thy brother whan he synneth / least his offence come ouer all Leuit. 19. c Be ye all of one mynd / one suffer with an other / loue as bretheren / be pitifull / be curteous i Petr. iij. b Recompense not euel for euell / neyther rebuke for rebuke / but cotrary wise / blesse / and knowe that ye are called therto / euen that ye shuld be heires of the blessinge For who so listeth to liue / and wolde faine see good dayes / let him refraine his soÌ„g from euell / and his lippes that they speake no gile Genes xii Math. xv Let him eschue euell / ande do good Let him seke peace and ensue it For the eyes of the lorde / are ouer the rightuous / and his eares are open vnto their prayers But the face of the lorde beholdeth them that do euell Finis A right goodly rule howe all faithfull christians shall occupie and exercise them selues in their daily prayers ¶ Luke xxij Math. vj. ¶ Christ teacheth vs in his Gospell saying Praye that ye fall not into temptation IMPRINTED at Ippeswych by Anthony Scoloker Dwellyng in S. Nycholas Parryshe Anno. 1548. Cum priuilegio ad imprimendum solum Howe a man shall behaue him selfe in the morning when he ryseth When thou risest in the morninge / loke that thou with all humblenes of minde / knele downe / ande lifting vp thy harte / thy handes ande thyne eyes into heauen / vnto God the father almightie / praie on this manner The prayer for the morning O Almyghtie aÌ„d moost geÌ„tle God we thanke the for the swete slepe and comfortable reste / that thou hast geuen vs this night And for as moche as thou hast commaunded by thy holy worde / that no maÌ„ shuld be ydle / but all waies occupied iÌ„ vertuous exercises / euerye maÌ„ according to his calling We most humbly beseche the / that thine eyes maye attend vppon vs / dayly defende vs / in sorowe succour vs / cherish comforte ande gouuerne all our councels / studies and labours In soche wise that we maye so speÌ„de this daye / according to thy moost blessed will / without hurtinge of our neighbour / that we maye diligentlie and warelye eschue and auoide all thinges that shulde displease the / set thy alwayes before oure eyes / liue in thy feare / and euer worke that that maye be fouÌ„de acceptable before thy diuine Maieste / vnto the praise of thy moost holye name / through Iesu Chryst our lorde So be it An other prayer for the Mornyng SEeyng that thou O heaueÌ„ly father act that one ande alone almightie God / which art in euerie place / beholdest the councels / deuises and workes / yea / the very thoughtes of all men / and geuest to euery one according to theyr dedes We beseche the that for as moche as thou haste moost graciouslye preserued vs this night we may not speÌ„d this daye after oure owne minde aÌ„d pleasure which is alwaies euell and wicked but earnestly loke vppon / and dyligentlye followe thy fatherlie wil / thine euerlastiÌ„g couÌ„sel / thy healthful worde aÌ„d thy pleasure which is alwaies good / parfect aÌ„d holie / and fulfyll the same with good harte / that thy diuine name may alwayes be saÌ„tified / both nowe and euer of vs miserable synners through thy derely beloued sonne