where is he that brought them out of the sea with the pastours of his flocke Where is he that put in the middes of him the spirit of his holie one †He that brought out Moyses to the right hand by the arme of his maiestie that diuided the waters before them that he might make to himself an euerlasting name †He that brought them out through the depthes as an horse in the desert that stumbled not †As the beast that goeth downe in the plaine filde the spirit of our Lord was their conductor so didst thou bring thy people that thou mightest make thee a name of glorie †Attend from heauen and looke from thy holie habitation of thy glorie where is thy zele and thy strength the multitude of thy bowels and of thy mercies they haue held backe them selues toward me †For thou art our father and “ Abraham hath not knowen vs and Israel hath bene ignorant of vs thou ô Lord art our father our redemer from the begynning is thy name †Why hast thou made vs erre ô Lord from thy waies hast thou hardned our hart that we feared not thee Returne for thy seruants the tribes of thine inheritance †As nothing haue they possessed thy holie people our enemies haue troden downe thy sanctification †We are become as in the begynning when thou didst not rule ouer vs neither was thy name inuocated vpon vs. ANNOTATIONS CHAP. LXIII 16. Abraham hath not knovvne vs. The faithful people considering their ovvne great frequent inueterate sinnes vvith the extreme calamities wherinto they vvere fallen for the same supposed that their progenitor Abraham vvhom God had particularly called out of his countrie Iacob of vvhose tvvelue sonnes the vvhole nation vvas propagated did no longer acknowlege them for their children because they had so greuously offended God vvere not vvorthie of anie fauour Al vvhich notwithstanding yet they hoped in Gods incomparable mercie that his diuine goodnes being Creator of al who had elected them for his peculiar people brought them out of Aegypt and often deliuered them from sundrie afflictions vvould againe reduce them from captiâ—itie and as their merciful father remitte their sinnes and releue their miseries though Abraham Iacob and other Patriarches had iustly reiected them as lost children This being the proper literal sense of this place according to S. Ieroms and other ancient Doctors explication it maketh nothing at al for the old and new heresie of Vigilantius Luther denying that Sainctes in an other life do knovv vvhat is donne in this vvorld For albeit the Patriarches in zele of iustice did not acknovvlege their carnal posteritie because of their great sinnes for their children yet they knevv their state as S. Augustin li. de cura pro mortuis interpreting this and other places of holie Scripture teacheth partly by relation of such as passed from hence to them partly by holie Angels and especially by diuine inspirations As it is clere that Abraham knevv the state of poore Lazarus of the rich glutton describing vvhat ech of them had deserued and consequently receiued Much more both the old Patriarches and al other Sainctes in eternal glorie knovv â—â—h other though neuer sene nor knovvne before in this vvorld as S. Gregorie teacheth li 4 c. 33. Dialogi The glorified Sainctes see also in God that vvhich perteyneth to their clientes that pray vnto them in earth so farre as God doth ordaine more clerly by light of glorie then prophetes see by light of prophecie as S. Augustin teacheth But touching the maner he saith it exceeded the reach of his vnderstanding hovv Martyrs do helpe those vvho it is certaine are holpen by them So discoursing at large of the vncertaine maner shevveth that there is no doubt at al of the thing it selfe that Sainctes in heauen do knovv mortal mens necessities heaâ—e their prayers and helpe them by their intercession and merites vvhich he confirmeth also li. 20. c. 21. cont Faust Tract 8. in Ioan. Ser. 5. de Sanctis Likevvise S. Ierom against Vigilanâ—ius S. Gregorie li. 3. Epist ep â—0 li. 7. ep 126. li. 9. ep 38 and others in manie places CHAP. LXIIII. The Iewes in captiuitie pray to God for release 4. acknowleging his former great benefites and their owne sinnes fleing now to his mercie VVOVLD God thou wouldest breake the heauens in sunder and wouldst descend at thy presence the mountaines should melt away †As the burning of fyre would they melt the waters would burne with fyre that thy name might be made knowen to thine enemies at thy presence the nations should be trubled †When thou shalt doe meruelous thinges we shal not sustayne thou art descended and at thy presence the mountaines are melted †From the begynning of the world they haue not heard nor receiued with the eares the eie hath not seene ô God beside thee what thinges thou hast prepared for them that expect thee †Thou hast mette him that reioyceth and doth iustice in thy waies they shal remember thee behold thou art angrie and we haue sinned we haue bene alwayes in them and we shal be saued †And al we are become as one vncleane and al our iustices as the cloth of a menstrued woman and we haue al fallen as a leafe and our iniquities as the winde haue taken vs away †There is none that inuocateth thy name that ryseth vp and holdeth thee thou hast hid thy face from vs and hast dashed vs in the hand of our iniquitie †And now Lord thou art our father and we clay and thou art our maker and al we the workes of thy handes †Be not angrie ô Lord ynough and remember no more our iniquitie loe regard al we are thy people †The citie of thy holie one is made desert Sion is made desert Ierusalem is become desolate †The house of our sanctification and of our glorie where our fathers praysed thee is turned into the burning of fyre and al our thinges worthie to be desired are turned into ruines †Wilâ— thou vpon these thinges conteyne thyself ô Lord wilt thou hold thy peace and afflict vs vehemently CHAP. LXV The gentiles shal seeke and finde Christ 2. Whom the Iewes wil persecute and shal be reiected only a few reliques reserued 13. So the Church shal multiplie and abound in graces THEY haue sought me that before asked not they haue found that sought me not I said Behold me behold me to a Gentilitie that did not inuocate my name †I haue spred foâ—th mine handes al the day to an incredulous people which goeth in a way not good after their owne cogitations †A people that prouoke me to anger before my face alwayes that immolate in gardens and sacrifice vpon brickes †That dwel in sepulchers and sleepe in temples of idols that eate swines flesh and profane potage in their vessels †That say
children of Heth answered saying †My lord heare vs thou art a prince of God among vs in our principal sepulchres burie thou thy dead and no man can let thee but that in his owne monument thou mayest burie thy dead †Abraham rose vp and adored the people of the land towit the children of Heth †and he said to them If it please your soule that I burie my dead heare me and be intercessors for me to Ephron the sonne of Seor †that he geue me the duble caue which he hath in the vttermost part of his field for money to the worth therof let him deliuer it to me before you for possession of a sepulchre †And Ephron dwelt in the middest of the children of Heth. And Ephron made answer to Abraham in the hearing of al that went in at the gate of the citie saying †No it shal not be so my lord but thou rather harken to that which I doe say The field I deliuer to thee and the caue that is therin in the presence of the children of my people burie thy dead †Abraham adored before the people of the land †And he spoke to Ephron his people standing round about I beseech thee to heare me I wil geue money for the field take it and so I wil burie my dead in it †And Ephron answered †My lord heare me The ground which thou desirest is worth foure hundred sicles of siluer this is the price between me and thee but how much is this burie thy dead †Which when Abraham had heard he weyed the money that Ephron had asked in the hearing of the children of Heth foure hundred sicles of siluer of common currant money †And the field that before time was Ephrons wherin was the duble caue looking towards Mambre aswel it as the caue and al the trees therof in al the lymits therof round about †was made sure to Abraham for a possession in the sight of the children of Heth and of al that went in at the gate of his citie †And so Abraham buried Sara his wife in the duble caue of the field that looked towards Mambre this is Hebron in the land of Chanaan †And the field was made sure to Abraham and the caue that was in it for a possession to burie in of the Children of Heth. CHAP. XXIIII Abrahams seruant adiured and sent by him into Mesopotamia to seke a wife for Isaac 12. prayeth to God for a signe findeth Rebecca 34. and demanding her for this purpose 50. with her parents 58. and her owne consent she goeth with him 67. is maried to Isaac who therby is comforted for the death of his mother AND Abraham was old and of manie dayes and our Lord had blessed him in al things †And he said to the elder seruant of his house which was ruler ouer al that he had Put thy hand vnder my thighe †that I may adiure thee by our Lord God of heauen and earth that thou take not a wife for my sonne of the daughters of the Cananites among whom I dwel †but that thou goe vnto myne owne countrie and kindred and thence take a wife for my sonne Isaac †The seruant answered If the woman wil not come with me into this land whether must I bring thy sonne backe againe to the place from whence thou didest come forth †And Abraham said Beware thou neuer bring my sonne backe againe thither †Our Lord God of heauen which tooke me out of my fathers house and out of my natiue countrie which spake to me and sware to me saying To thy sede wil I geue this land he shal send his angel before thee and thou shalt take from thence a wife for my sonne †but if the woman wil not folow thee thou shalt not be bound by the oath only bring not my sonne thither againe †The seruant therfore put his hand vnder the thigh of Abraham his lord and sware to him vpon this worde †And he tooke tenne camels of his lords heard and departed of al his goods carying something with him and setting forward went on into Mesopotamia to the citie of Nachor †And when he had made the camels lye downe without the towne beside a wel of water at euen at the time when wemen are wont to come forth to drawe water he said †O Lord God of my lord Abraham mete me to day I beseech thee and doe mercifully with my maister Abraham †Behold I stand nigh to the fountaine of water and the daughters of the inhabiters of this citie wil come forth to drawe water †Therfore “ the maid to whom I shal say Bowe downe thy tankard that I may drinke and she shal answere Drinke yea to thy camels also wil I geue drinke she it is whom thou hast prouided for thy seruant Isaac and by this I shal vnderstand that thou hast delt mercifully with my maister †Neyther had he yet ended these wordes within him selfe behold Rebecca came forth the daughter of Bathuel the sonne of Melcha wife to Nachor the brother of Abraham hauing a tankard on her shoulder †a passing comely maide most beautiful virgin not knowen to man and she was gone downe to the fountaine and had filled her tankard and came backe †And the seruant ranne to mete her and said Geue me a little water to drinke of thy tankard †Who answered Drinke my lord And quickly she let downe the tankard vpon her arme and gaue him drinke †And when he had druncke she added but for thy camels also I wil drawe water til al doe drinke †And powring out the tankard into the troughes she ranne backe to the wel to drawe water and being drawen gaue it to al the camels †But he musing beheld her with silence desirous to know whether our Lord had made his iourney prosperous or not †And after that the camels had drunck the man plucked forth golden earelettes weying two sicles and as manie braceletts of tenne sicles weight †And he said to her whose daughter art thou shew me is there anie place in thy fathers house to lodge †Who answered I am the daughter of Bathuel the sonne of Melcha whom she bare to Nachor †And she added saying Of strawe also and hay we haue good store and a large place to lodge in †The man bowed him selfe and adored our Lord †saying Blessed be the Lord God of my lord Abraham that hath not taken away his mercie truth from my lord and hath brought me the streight way into the house of my lords brother †The maide therfore ranne and reported into her mothers house al things that she had heard And Rebecca had a brother named Laban who in al haist went forth to the man where the fountaine was †And when he had seene the eareletts and braceletts in his sisters hands and had heard al her words reporting These words spake
the way â— He sendeth messengers and giftes to pacifie his brother Esau 24. wrestling with an Angel is not ouercome in fine the Angel benummeth his thiegh blesseth him and for telleth that he shal be called Israel IACON also went on his iourney that he had begunne and the Angels of God met him †Whom when he had seene he said These are the Campes of God and he called the name of that place Mahanaim that is Campes †And he sent also messengers before him to Esau his brother into the land of Seir into the countrie of Edom †and he commanded them saying Thus speake ye vnto my lord Esau This saith thy brother Iacob I haue soiourned and haue bene with Laban vntil this present day †I haue oxen and asses and sheepe and men seruants and wemen seruants and now I send a lâ—agacie to my lord that I may finde grace in thy sight †And the messengers returned to Iacob saying We came to Esau thy brother and behold he cometh with spede to mete thee with foure hundred men †Iacob “ feared exceedingly being sore affraid diuided the people that was with him the flockes also and the shepe and the oâ—en and the camels into two troupes †saying If Esau come to one troupe and strike it the other troupe that remaineth shal be saued †And Iacob said O God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac O Lord that didest say to me Returne into thy land and into the place of thy natiuitie and I wil doe thee good †I am inferiour to al thy mercies and thy truth that thou hast fulfilled to thy seruant With my staffe I passed ouer this Iordain and now with two troupes I doe returne †Deliuer me from the hand of my brother Esau because I am sore affraid of him lest perhaps he come and strike the mother with the children †Thou didest say that thou wouldest do good to me and dilate my seed as the sand of the sea which for multitude can not be numbred †And when he had slept there that night he separated of those things which he had giftes to his brother Esau †she goates two hundred he goates twentie ewes two hundred and rammes twentie †thirtie milch camels with their coltes sourtie kine and twentie bulles twentie she asses and their foles ten †And he sent by the handes of his seruants euerie flocke by it selfe and he said to his seruants Goe before me and let there be a space betwen flocke and flocke †And he commanded the former saying If thou mete my brother Esau and he aske thee whose art thou or whither goest thou or whose are these that thou doest folowe †thou shalt answere Iacobes thy seruant he hath sent them for gifts to my lord Esau himselfe also cometh after vs. †In like maner he gaue commandements to the second and the third and to al that folowed the flocks saying With the selfe same words speake ye to Esau when you shal finde him †And ye shal adde Iacob also thy seruant himselfe foloweth on after vs for he said I wil pacifie him with the gifts that goe before and afterward I wil see him perhaps he wil be gracious vnto me †The giftes therfore went before him but himselfe lodged that night in the campe †And when he was risen early he tooke his two wiues and his handmaides as manie with his eleuen sonnes and passed ouer the ford Iaboc †And when he had set ouer al things that appertained to him †he taried alone and behold “ a man wrasteled with him til morning †Who when he saw that he could not ouercome him he touched the sinowe of his thighe and forthwith it shranke †And he said to him Let me goe for it is breake of day He answered I wil not let thee goe vnlesse thou blesse me †He therfore said What is thy name He answered Iacob †But he no thy name quoth he shal not be called Iacob but Israel for if thou hast bene strong against God how much more shalt thou preuaile against men †Iacob asked him Tel me by what name art thou called He answered Why doest thou aske my name and blessed him in the same place †And Iacob called the name of the place Phanuel saying I haue sene God face to face and my soule was made safe †And immediatly the sunne rose to him after that he was past Phanuel but he halted on his foote †For which cause the children of Israel eate not the sinowe that shrunke in Iacobes thighe vnto his present day because he touched the sinowe of his thighe and it shrunke ANNOTATIONS CHAP. XXXII 7. Feared exceedingly Iustly may we meruel why Iacob so often assured by Gods promises confirmed by his manie blessings protected in al former dangers accompained the night before with armies of Angels indued also with al vertues and namely with perfect charitie which expelleth feare was for al this so vehemently afeard S. Augustin answereth that he neither distrusted in God nor did anie vnlawful thing but did his owne endeuour wisely and confidently lest by presuming or desparing he should rather haue tempted God then trusted in him The causes of his feare were in respect of him selfe and his brother For considering Gods former promises benefites protections were not to be presumed as absolute signes of his perpetual loue but conditional if him selfe perseuered sincerly in Gods seruice And seing The iust man novveth not vvhether he be vvorthie of loue or of hatred he might doubt lest by his twentie yeares conuersation among Infidels in Mesopotamia he had contracted some sinnes for which God might suffer him to fall into calamitie and affliction And though he was in dede stil more and more vertuous and consequently in Gods more fauour and protection yea so much the more by how much lesse he presumed of his owne good state and merites yet by the vehement apprehending of his brothers inclination to reuenge the greatnes of the occasion by procuring the first-birth-right and his fathers blessing from him the newes of his speedie coming towards him with foure hundred men the natural situation of the place where Esau might esâ—aly inuâ—ron him and as he humbly thought his owne vnworthines he was possessed with natural feare such as happeneth to constant men and was sore afflicted for the tender care of his familie But reflecting vpon Gods goodnes he prudently disposed of his people and flockes and besought God to protect him and his by prayer qualified with requisite conditions to wit with humilitie not asking for his owne but for Abraham and Isaacs sake and for Gods owne promise acknowledging himselfe to be lesse then Gods mercies towards him with gratitude recounting great benefites receiued saying VVith my staffe I passed ouer this Iordan and novv vvith â—vvo troupes I do returne with confidence in that God had said he VVould dilate his
out of al Israel he appointed them princes of the people tribunes and centurions and quinquagenarians and deanes †Who iudged the people at al time and whatsoeuer was of greater difficultie they referred to him themselues iudging the easier cases only †And he dismissed his allied who returning went into his countrie CHAP. XIX Nere to mount sinai with commemoration of their deliuerie from Aegyptâ— the people are commanded to be sanctified â—6 and so our Lord coming in thunders and lightnings speaketh with Movses IN the third moneth of the depature of Israel out of the Land of Aegept this day they came into the wildernesle of Sinai †For departing out of Raphidim and coming to the desert of Sinai they camped in the same place and there Israel pitched their tentes ouer against the mountaine †And Moyses went vp to God and our Lord called him from the mountaine and said This shalt thou say to the house of Iacob and shalt tel the children of Israel †Your selues haue sene what I haue done to the Aegyptians how I haue carried you vpon the winges of eagles and haue taken you vnto me †If therfore you wil heare my voice and keepe my couenant you shal be my peculiar of al peoples for al the earth is myne †And you shal be vnto me a priestlie kingdome and a holie nation these are the wordes that thou shalt speake to the children of Israel †Moyses came and calling together the nations of the people he declared al the wordes which our Lord had commanded him †And al the people answered together Al thinges that our Lord hath spoken we wil doe And when Moyses had reported the peoples wordes to our Lord †our Lord said to him Now presently wil I come to thee in the darkenesse of a cloude that the people may heare me speaking to thee and may beleue thee for euer Moyses therfore told the peoples wordes to our Lord †Who said to him Goe to the people and sanctifie them to day and to morow and let them wash their garmentes †And let them be readie against the third day for in the third day the Lord wil descend in the sight of al the people vpon the mount Sinai †And thou shalt appoynt certaine limites to the people in circuite and shalt say to them Beware ye ascend not into the mount and that you touch not the endes therof euerie one that toucheth the mount dying shal dye †Handes shal not touch him but he shal be stoned to death or shal be shot through with arrowes whether it be beast or man it shal not liue When the trumpet shal beginne to sound then let them ascend into the mount †And Moyses came downe from the mount to the people and sanctified them And when they had washed their garments †he said to them Be readie against the third day and come not neere your wiues †And now the third day was come and the morning appeared and behold thunders deganne to be heard and lightenings to flash and a verie thicke cloude to couet the mount and the noyse of the trumpet sounded exceedingly and the people that was in the campe feared †And when Moyses had brought them forth to mete with God from the place of the campe they stoode at the botome of the mount †And al the mount Sinai smoked for because our Lord was descended vpon it in fyre and the smoke arose from it as out of a fornace and al the mount was terrible †And the sound of the trumpet grew lowder by litle and litle and was drawen out a length Moyses spake and God answered him †And our Lord descended vpon the mount Sinai in the very toppe of the mount and he called Moyses into the toppe therof Whither when he was ascended †he said vnto him Goe downe and charge the people lest perhaps they wil passe their limittes to see the Lord and a very great multitude of them perish †The priestes also that come to the Lord let them be sanctified lest he strike them †And Moyses said to our Lord The comon people can not ascend into the mount Sinai for thou didst charge and command saying Put limittes about the mount and sanctifie it †To whom our Lord said Goe gette thee downe and thou shalt come vp Aaron with thee but the priests and the people let them not passe the limittes nor ascend to the Lord lest perhappes he kil them †And Moyses went downe to the people and told them al. ANNOTATIONS CHAP. XIX 1. This day The first day of the third moneth the children of Israel came into the desert of Sinai so counting 16 dayes remaining of the first moneth when they parted from Aegypt al the second moneth of 〈◊〉 dayes this first day of the third moneth and three dayes more in which they were sanctified by washing and other ceremonies v. 10. the Law was geuen the fifteth day in figure of the Law of Christ promulgated on whitsunday the fifteth day after our Redemption VVherby we see meruelous correspondence of diuine Mysteries in the old and new Testament S. Augustin Epist 119 c. 16. CHAP. XX. Moyses receiueth the D cologue or tenne commandments of God for al the people 23. with repâ—â—tion that they â—â—al not make â—aâ—â— goddes nor make Altares but of earth or vnbeâ—ved stone and without slippes AND our Lord spake al these wordes †I am the Lord thy God which brought thee forth out of the Land of Aegypt out of the house of seruitude †Thou shalt not haue strange goddes before me †Thou shalt not make to thee a grauen thing noâ— any similitude that is in heauen aboue that is in the earth beneth neither of those thinges that are in the waters vnder the earth †Thou shalt not adore them nor serue them I am the Lord thy God mightie ielous visiting the iniquitie of the fathers vpon the children vpon the third and fourth generation of them that hate me †and doing mercie vpon thousandes to them that loue me and keepe my preceptes †Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vaine for the Lord wil not hold him innocent that shal take the name of the Lord his God vainly †Remember that thou saâ—ctifâ—â— the sabbath day †Six dayes shalt thou worke and shalt doe al thy workes †But on the seuenth day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God thou shalt doe to worke in it thou and thy sonne and thy daughter thy man seruant and thy woman seruant thy beast and the stranger that is with in thy gates †For six dayes the Lord made heauen and earth and the sea and al thinges that are in in them and rested in the seuenth day therfore the Lord blessed the sabbath day and sanctified it †Honour thy father and thy mother that thou mayst be long liude vpon the earth
the time when now the first ripe grapes are to be eaten †And when they were gone vp they viewed the Land from the desert of Sin vnto Rohob as you enter to Emath †And they went vp at the south side and came to Hebron where were Achiman and Sisai and Tholmai the sonnes of Enac for Hebron was built seuen yeares before Tanis the citie of Aegypt †And going forward as farre as the Torrent of cluster they cutte of a branch with the grapes therof which two men carried vpon a leauer They tooke of the pomegranates also and of the figges of that place †which was called Nehelescol that is to say the Torrent of cluster for that thence the children of Israel had caried a cluster †And the discouerers of the Land returning after fourtie daies hauing circuted al the countrie †came to Moyses Aaron and to al the assemblie of the children of Israel into the desert of Pharan which is in Cades And speaking to them to al the multitude they shewed the fruites of the Land †and reported saying We came into the Land to which thou didst send vs which in very deede floweth with milke and honie as by these fruites may be knowen †but it hath very strong inhabitantes and cities great and walled The stocke of Enac we saw there †Amalec dwelleth in the south the Hetheite and the Iebuseite and the Amorrheite in the mountaines but the Chananeite abideth beside the sea and about the streames of Iordan †Among these thinges Caleb appeasing the murmuring of the people that rose against Moyses said Let vs goe vp and possesse the Land because we may obtaine it †But the others that had bene with him said No we are not able to goe vp to this people because it is stronger then we †And they detracted from the Land which they had viewed before the children of Israel saying The Land which we haue viewed deuoureth her inhabitantes the people that we beheld is of a tall stature †There we saw certaine monsters of the sonnes of Enac of the gyantes kind to whom being compared we seemed as it were locustes CHAP. XIIII The mutinous murmuring people being vnplacable 11. God expostulateth their ingratitude threatneth to destroy them 13. Yet Moyses pacifieth his wrath 22. but so that al which were numbered coming from Aegypt except Câ—leb and Iosue shal die in the wildernes 31. and their children shal possesse the promised land 40. Then fighting contrarie to Moyses admonition are beaten and manie slaine by their enimies THERFORE al the multitude crying out wept that night †and al the children of Israel murmured against Moyses and Aaron saying †Would God we had died in Aegypt and in this vaste wildernesse would God we might die and that our Lord would not bring vs into this Land lest we fal by the sword and our wiues and children be ledde captiue Is it not better to returne into Aegypt †And one said to an other Let vs appoint a captaine and let vs returne into Aegypt †Which Moyses and Aaron hearing fel flatte vpon the ground before al the multitude of the children oâ— Israel †But Iosue the sonne of Nun and Caleb the sonne of Iephone who them selues also had viewed the land rent their garmentes †and spake to al the multitude of the children of Israel The Land which we haue circuted is very good †If our Lord be propitious he shal bring vs into it and deliuer vs a ground flowing with milke and honie †Be not rebellious against our Lord neither feare ye the people of this land for euen as bread so we may deuoure them al aide is gone from them our Lord is with vs feare ye not †And when al the multitude cried and would haue stoned them the glorie of our Lord appeared ouer the roofe of couenant in the sight of al the children of Israel †And our Lord said to Moyses How long wil this people detract me How long wil they not beleue me in al the signes that I haue done before them †I wil strike them therfore with pestilence and wil consume them but thee I wil make prince ouer a great nation and a stronger then this is †And Moyses said to our Lord That the Aegyptians from the middes of whom thou hast brought forth this people †and the inhabitantes of this Land which haue heard that thou Lord art among this people and art sene face to face and thy cloude protecteth them and in a piller of a cloude thou goest before them by day and in a piller of fire by night †may heare that thou hast killed so great a multitude as it were one man and may say †He could not bring in the people into the Land for which he had sworne therfore did he kil them in the wildernesse †Let therfore the strength of our Lord be magnified as thou hast sworne saying †The Lord is patient and ful of mercie taking away iniquitie and wicked deedes leauing no man innocent which visitest the sinnes of the fathers vpon the children vnto the third and fourth generation †Forgeue I besech thee the sinne of this thy people according to the greatnes of thy mercie as thou hast bene propitious to them since their going out of Aegypt vnto this place †And our Lord said I haue forgeuen it according to thy word †Liue I and the whole earth shal be replenished with the glorie of the Lord. †But yet al the men that haue sene my maiestie and the signes that I haue done in Aegypt and in the wildernesse and haue tempred me now ten times neither haue obeied my voice †they shal not see the Land for the which I sware to their fathers neither shal any of them that hath detracted me behold it †My seruant Caleb who being ful of an other spirit hath folowed me wil I bring in vnto this Land which he hath circuted and his seede shal possesse it †Because the Amalecite and the Cananeite dwel in the valleis To morrow remoue the campe and returne into the wildernesse by the way of the Redde sea †And our Lord spake to Moyses and Aaron saying †How long doth this vngratious multitude murmur against me I haue heard the complaintes of the children of Israel †Say therfore to them liue I sayeth our Lord According as you haue spoken I hearing it so wil I do to you †In this wildernesse shal your carcasses lie Al you that are numbered from twentie yeares vpward and haue murmured against me †you shal not enter into the Land ouer the which I haue lifted vp my hand to make you inhabite it except Caleb the sonne of Iephone and Iosue the sonne of Nun. †But your litle ones of whom you said that they should be a pray to the enemies wil I bring in that they may see the Land that hath misliked you â€
and there is none other †Keepe his preceptes and commandementes which I command thee that it may be wel with thee and thy children after thee and thou mayest remayne a long time vpon the Land which the Lord thy God wil geue thee †Then Moyses separated three cities beyond Iordan at the east side †that he might flee to them which should kil his neighbour not voluntarily neither was his enemie a day or two before and he might scape to some of these cities †Bosor in the wildernesse which is situated in the champion countrie of the tribe of Ruben and Ramoth in Galaad which is in the tribe of Gad and Golan in Basan which is in the tribe of manasses †This is the law that Moyses sette before the children of Israel †and these are the testimonies and ceremonies and iudgementes which he spake to the children of Israel when they came out of Aegypt †beyond Iordan in the valley against the temple of Phogor in the land of Sehon king of the Ammorrheite that dwelt in Hesebon whom Moyses stroke The children of Israel also comming out of Aegypt †possessed his land and the land of Og the king of Basan the two kinges of the Amorrheites which were beyond Iordan toward the rysing of the sunne †from Aroer which is situated vpon the banke of the torrent Arnon vnto the mountaine Sion which is also Hermon †al the plaine beyond Iordan at the east side vnto the sea of the wildernesse and vnto the foote of mount Phasga ANNOTATIONS CHAP. IIII. 2. You shal not adde Moyses can not meane that no more should be written nor commanded for then the last chapter of this booke and the rest of the Bible should not haue benne written after his death neither ought the Priestes or Prophetes to haue commanded anie thing not expressed in the law And wheras Protestantes say that al other Scriptures are included in the lawe or pertaine to the explicatioÌ„ or performance therof we also answer that vnwritten TraditioÌ„s both in the old and new Testament are likewise implied included or perteine to the explication or performance of the law For euen as the written doctrin of the Prophetes yea and of Christ and his Apostles in general is conteined in the law of Moyses so also are certaine fastes feastes rites ceremonies and other traditions proued and confirmed by general speaches and axiomes written in holie Scriptures as by our Sauiours wordes to his Apostles Luc. 10. He that heareth you heareth me S. Paules to other Christians 1. Cor. 10. other things vvhen I come I vvil dispose 2. Thess 2. Hold the traditions vvhich you haue lerned and the like VVherupon S. Augustin Li. 1. cont Crescon c. 33. geueth this rule that albeit an euident example can not be produced of holie Scripture yet the truth of the same Scriptures is holden by vs vvhen vve do that pleaseth the vvhole Church vvhich the authoritie of Scriptures commendeth The same he teacheth Epist 80. and in manie other places So do S. Epiphanius in compend sides Cathol S Hierom. Dialog cont Lucifer c. 4. S. Chrysost ho. 4. in 1. Thessal 4. S. Basil de Spiritu Sancto c. 39. S. Ireneus li. 3. c. 4. CHAP. V. The tenne commandements are repeted and explaned 23. with commemoration of their dread and feare When they heard the voice from the clowde and saw the mountaine burne AND Moyses called al Israel and said to them Heare Israel the ceremonies iudgements which I speake in your eares this day lerne them and fulfil them in worke †The Lord our God made a couenant with vs in Horeb. †Not with our fathers did he make the couenant but with vs at this present and doe liue †Face to face did he speake to vs in the mount out of the middes of the fyre †I was arbiter and mediatour betwixt our Lord and you at that time to shew you his wordes for you feared the fire and went not vp into the mount and he said †I the Lord thy God that brought thee out of the Land of Aegypt out of the house of seruitude †Thou shalt not haue strange goddes in my sight †“ Thou shalt not make to thee a thing grauen nor the similitude of any thinges that are in heauen aboue and that are in the earth beneath and that abide in the waters vnder the earth †Thou shalt not adore them and thou shalt not serue them For I am the Lord thy God a Iealouse God tendering the iniquitie of the fathers vpon the children vnto the third and fourth generation to them that hate me †and doing mercie vpon manie thousandes to them that loue me and keepe my preceptes †Thou shalt not vsurpe the name of the Lord thy God in vaine for he shal not be vnpunished that taketh his name vpon a vaine thing †Obserue the day of the Sabbath to sanctifie it as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee †Six dayes shalt thou worke and shalt doe al thy workes †The seuenth is the day of the Sabbath that is the rest of the Lord thy God Thou shalt not doe any worke therin thou and thy sonne and daughter man seruant and woman seruant and oxe and asse and al thy cattel and the stranger that is within thy gates that thy man seruant may rest and thy woman seruant euen as thy selfe †Remember that thou also didest serue in Aegypt and the Lord thy God brought thee out from thence in a strong hand and stretched out arme Therfore hath he commanded thee that thou shouldest obserue the Sabbath †Honour thy father and mother as our Lord thy God hath commanded thee that thou mayst liue a long time and it may be wel with thee in the Land which the Lord thy God wil geue thee †Thou shalt not murder †Neither shalt thou committe aduoutrie †And thou shal not steale †Neither shalt thou speake against thy neighbour false testimonie †Thou shalt not couet thy neighbours wife Nor house nor field nor man seruant nor woman seruant nor oxe nor asse and al thinges that are his †These wordes spake our Lord to al your multitude in the mount out of the middes of the fiâ—e and the cloude and the darkenes with a loude voice adding nothing more and he wrote them in the two tables of stone which he deliuered vnto me †And you after you heard the voice out of the middes of the darkenes and saw the mount burne came to me al the princes of the tribes and the elders and you said †Behold the Lord our God hath shewed vs his maiestie and greatnes for we haue heard his voice out of the middes of the fire and haue proued this day that God speaking with man man hath liued †Why shal we die therfore and this exceding great fire deuoure vs For if we heare the voice of the Lord our God any more we
burne their sculptiles †Because thou art a holie people to the Lord thy God The Lord thy God hath chosen thee to be his peculiar people of al peoples that are vpon the earth †Not because you passed al nations in number is our Lord ioyned vnto you and hath chosen you wheras you are fewer then al peoples †but because our Lord hath loued you and hath kept the oath which he sware to your fathers and hath brought you forth in a strong hand and redemed you from the house of seruitude out of the hand of Pharao the king of Aegypt †And thou shalt know that the Lord thy God he is a strong and faith ful God keping his couenant and mercie to them that loue him and to them that keepe his preceptes vnto a thousand generations †and rendring forthwith to them that hate him so that he destroyeth them and differreth no longer immediatly rendering to them that they deserue †Keepe therfore the preceptes and ceremonies and iudgementes which I command thee this day to doe them †If after thou hast heard these iudgementes thou keepe and doe them the Lord also thy God wil keepe the couenant vnto thee and the mercie which he sware to thy fathers †and he wil loue and multiplie thee and wil blesse the fruite of thy wombe and the fruite of thy land thy corne and vintage oile and heardes the flockes of thy sheepe vpon the Land for the which he sware to thy fathers that he would geue it thee †Blessed shalt thou be among al peoples There shal be none barren with thee of neither sexe as wel in men as in thy flockes †Our Lord wil take away from thee al disease and the sore infirmities of Aegypt which thou knowest he wil not bring vpon thee but vpon al thyne enemies †Thou shalt deuoure al the peoples which the Lord thy God wil gene thee Thyn eye shal not spare them neither shalt thou serue their goddes lest they be the ruine of thee †If thou say in thy hart These nations are moe then I how shal I be able to destroy them †Feare not but remember what the Lord thy God did to Pharao and to al the Aegyptians †the exceding great plagues which thyne eies saw and the signes and wonders and the strong hand and the stretched out arme that the Lord thy God might bring thee forth so wil he doe to al peoples whom thou fearest †Moreouer hornettes also wil the Lord thy God send vpon them vntil he destroy and consume al that escaped thee and can hide them selues †Thou shalt not feare them because the Lord thy God is in the middes of thee a mightie God and terrible †he wil consume these nations in thy sight by litle and litle and by partes Thou mayest not destroy them al together lest perhappes the beastes of the earth multiplie against thee †And the Lord thy God wil geue them in thy sight and wil kil them vntil they be vtterly destroyed †And he wil deliuer their kinges into thy handes and thou shalt destroy their names vnder heauen no man shal be able to resist thee vntil thou destroy them †Their sculptiles thou shalt burne with fyre thou shalt not couet the siluer and gold wherof they were made neither shalt thou take to thee any thing therof lest thou offend because it is the abomination of the Lord thy God †Neither shalt thou bring in ought of the Idol into thy house lest thou become anathema as also that is As filthines thou shalt detest it and as vncleannes and filth thou shalt account it abominable because it is anathema CHAP. VIII The people is put in mind of afflictions which happened in the deserte and of benefites as wel past as promised 11. to the end they loue and serue God more effectually EVERIE commandement that I command thee this day take diligent heede that thou doe it that you may liue and be multiplied and entring in may possesse the Land for the which our Lord sware to your fathers †And thou shalt remember al the iourney through the which the Lord thy God hath brought thee fourtie yeares by the desert that he might afflict and proue thee and that the thinges that were in thy hart might be made knowen whether thou wouldest keepe his commandementes or not †He afflicted thee with penurie and gaue thee for meate Manna which thou knewest not nor thy fathers for to shew vnto thee that not in bread onlie a man liue but in euerie word that procedeth from the mouth of God †Thy rayment wherwith thou wast couered hath not decayed for age and thy foote is not worne loe this is the fourtith yeare †That thou mayest recount in thy hart that as a man disciplineth his sonne so the Lord thy God hath disciplined thee †that thou shouldest keepe the cōmandementes of the Lord thy God walke in his wayes and feare him †For the Lord thy God wil bring thee in vnto a good land a land of riuers waters and of fountaynes in the plains wherof and mountaynes deepe floudes gush out †a land of wheate of barley vineyardes wherein figge trees and pomegranates and oliueyardes doe grow a land of oyle and honie †Where without any penutie thou shalt eate thy bread and enioy abundance of al thinges whose stones are yron and out of the mountaynes therof are digged metalles of brasse †that when thou hast eaten and art ful thou mayest blesse the Lord thy God for the excellent land which he hath geuen thee †Obserue and beware lest at any time thou forget the Lord thy God and neglect his commandementes and iudgementes and ceremonies which I command thee this day †lest after thou hast eaten and art filled hast built goodlie houses and dwelled in them †and shalt haue heardes of oxen and flockes of sheepe of gold and siluer and of al thinges plentie †thy hart be lifted vp and thou remember not the Lord thy God that brought thee out of the Land of Aegypt out of the house of seruitude †and was thy conductor in the huge and terrible wildernesse wherein was the serpent burning with his breath and the scorpion and the dipsas and no waters at al who brought forth riuers out of the hardest rocke †and fed thee with Manna in the wildernesse which thy fathers knew not And after he had afflicted and proued thee at the last he had mercie vpon thee †lest thou shouldest say in thy hart Myne owne force and the strength of myne owne hand haue archieued al these thinges for me †But remember the Lord thy God that he hath geuen thee strength that he might fulfil his couenant concerning which he sware to thy fathers as this present day sheweth †But if forgetting the Lord thy God thou shalt folow strange goddes and shalt serue and adore them behold now I foretel thee
First the passage of the Israelites ouer Iordan In the five first chapters Secondly their conquest of the promised Land In the seuen chapters folowing Thirdly the partition of the same Land amongst nine Tribes and a half from the. 13. chap. to the 22. Fourthly In the three last chapters the returne of the other two Tribes and a half to their possessions on the east side of Iordan with Iosues last admonition to them al to serue God sincerly and his and Eleazars death THE BOOKE OF IOSVE IN HEBREW IEHOSVA CHAP. I. Iosue encoreged by our Lord 10. admonisheth the people to prepare themselues to passe ouer Iordan 12. and al the able men of the tribes of Ruben Gad and half Manasses to march armed before the rest 16. Al promise to doe whatsoeuer he commandeth AND it came to passe after the death of Moyses the seruant of our Lord that our Lord spake to Iosue the sonne of Nun the minister of Moyses and said to him †Moyses my seruant is deade arise and passe ouer this Iordan thou and al the people with thee into the Land which I wil geue to the children of Israel †Euerie place the steppe of your foote shal treade wil I deliuer to you as I haue spoken to Moyses †From the desert and Libanus vnto the great riuer Euphrates al the land of the Hetheites vnto the great sea against the going downe of the sunne shal be your border †No man shal be able to resist you al the daies of thy life as I haue beene with Moyses so wil I be with thee I wil not leaue nor forsake thee †Take courage and be strong for thou shalt by lotte diuide to this people the Land for the which I sware to their fathers that I would deliuer it to them †Take courage therfore and be very strong that thou keepe and doe al the Law which Moyses my seruant hath commanded thee decline not from it to the right hand or to the left that thou mayest vnderstand al thinges which thou doest †Let not the volume of this law depart from thy mouth but thou shalt meditate in it daies and nightes that thou maiest keepe and doe al thinges that be written in it then shalt thou direct thy way and vnderstand it †Behold I command thee take courage and be strong Feare not and dreade not because the Lord thy God is with thee in al the thinges to whatsoeuer thou shalt goe †And Iosue commanded the princes of the people saying Passe through the middes of the campe and command the people and say †Prepare for your selues victuals for after the third day you shal passe ouer Iordan and shal enter to possesse the Land which our Lord your God wil geue you †To the Rubenites also and Gaddites and halfe tribe of Manasses he said †Remember the word which Moyses the seruant of our Lord commanded you saying Our Lord your God hath geuen you rest and al this Land †Your wiues and children and cattel shal tarie in the Land which Moyses deliuered to you beyond Iordan but passe you ouer armed before your brethren al that are strong of hand fight for them †vntil our Lord geue rest to your brethren as to you also he hath geuen and they also possesse the Land which our Lord your God wil geue them and so returne into the Land of your possession and you shal dwel in it which Moyses the seruant of our Lord gaue you beyond Iordan against the rysing of the sunne †And they made answer to Iosue and said Al thinges that thou hast commanded vs we wil doe and whither soeuer thou shalt send vs we wil goe †As we obeyed Moyses in al thinges so wil we obey thee also only be our Lord thy God with thee as he was with Moyses †He that shal gainesay thy mouth and not obey al thy wordes that thou shalt command him let him die thou only take courage and doe manfully CHAP. II. Two discoueres sent into Hiericho are hid and concealed by Rahab 8. and vpon promise of like safetie to her whole samilie 21. she helpeth them secretly away THERFORE Iosue the sonne of Nun sent from Setim two men to spie in secrete and said to them Goe and view the Land and the citie of Iericho Who going entred into the house of a woman a harlot named Rahab and rested with her †And it was told the king of Iericho and said Behold there are men come in hither by night of the children of Israel to spie the Land †And the king of Iericho sent to Rahab saying Bring forth the men that came to thee and are entred into thy house for they be spies and are come to view al the Land †And the woman taking the men hid them and said I confesse they came to me but I knew not whence they were †and when the gate was a shutting in the darke and they withal went out I know not whither they be gone pursew quickly and you shal ouertake them †But she made the men to goe vp into the roofe of her house and couered them with the stalke of flaxe which was there †And they that were sent folowed them the way that leadeth to the ford of Iordan and they being gone out the gate for with was shutte †Neither were they yet a sleepe that lay hidde and behold the woman went vp to them and said †I know that the Lord hath geuen this Land to you for your terrour is fallen vpon vs and al the inhabitantes of the Land are become fainte †We haue heard that the Lord dried vp the water of the Redsea at your entring when you came out of Aegypt and what thinges you did to the two kinges of the Amorrheites that were beyond Iordan Sehon and Og whom you slew †And hearing these thinges we greatly feared and our hart fainted neither did there remaine spirite in vs at your entring in for the Lord your God he is God in heauen aboue in the earth beneth †Now therfore sweare to me by the Lord that as I haue done mercie with you so you also doe with my fathers house and you geue me a true signe †that you saue my father and mother my brethren and sisters and al thinges that he theirs and deliuer our soules from death †Who answered her Be our liues for you vnto death only if thou betray vs not And when our Lord shal haue deliuered vs the land we wil doe in thee mercie and truth †She therfore did let them downe by a corde out of a window for her house ioyned fast to the wall †And she said to them Goe vp to the mountaines lest perhaps they meete you returning and there lie hid three daies til they returne and so you shal goe on your way †Who said to her We shal be quitte from this oath wherwith thou hast sworne vs †if
Israel †And the children of Israel did euil in the sight of our Lord and serued Baalim †And they left our Lord the God of their fathers that had brought them out of the Land of Aegypt and folowed strange goddes and the goddes of the peoples that dwelt round about them and adored them and they prouoked our Lord to anger †leauing him and seruing Baal and Astaroth †And our Lord being wrath against Israel deliuered them into the handes of ransackers who tooke them and sold them to the enemies that dwelt round about neither could they resist their aduersaries †but whither soeuer they had meant to goe the hand of our Lord was vpon them as he spake and sware to them and they were vehemently afflicted †And our Lord raysed vp Iudges that should deliuer them from the handes of the wasters but neither would they heare them †fornicating with strange goddes and adoring them They did quickly forsake the way in the which their fathers had gone and hearing the commandementes of our Lord they did al thinges contrarie †And when our Lord raysed vp Iudges in their daies he was moued with mercie and heard the groninges of the afflicted and deliuered them from the slaughter of the wasters †But after the Iudge was dead they returned and did much worse things then their fathers had done folowing strange goddes seruing them and adoring them They left not their inuentions and the verie hard way by which they were accustomed to walke †And the furie of our Lord was angrie against Israel said Because this nation hath made my couenāt frustrate which I had made with their fathers hath cōtemned my voice †I also wil not destroy the nations which Iosue did let alone and died †that in them I may trie Israel whether they wil keepe the way of the Lord and walke in it as their fathers kept it or no. †Our Lord therfore left al these nations and would not quickly ouerthrow them neither deliuered them into the handes of Iosue CHAP. III. The people associating them selues with Gentiles against whom they ought to fight 8. are inuaded by forraine kinges 9. but repenting are deliuered by Othoniel 12. Falling againe afflicted and repenting 15. are deliuered by Aod 21. secretely killing Eglon their enemie 31. After him Samgar defendeth Israel against the Philisthimes THESE are the Nations which our Lord left that in them he might instruct Israel and al that had not knowen the warres of the Chananeites †that afterward their children might lerne to fight with their enemies and to be accustomed to warre †the fiue princes of the Philisthimes and the Chananeite and Sidonian and Heueite that dwelt in mount Libanus from mount Baal Hermon to the entring into Emath †And he left them that in them he might trie Israel whether they would heare the commandementes of our Lord which he had commanded their fathers by the hand of Moyses or not †Therfore the children of Israel dwelt in the middes of the Chananeite and Hetheite and Amorrheite and Pherezeite and Heueite and Iebuseite †and they tooke their daughters to wiues and them selues gaue their owne daughters to their sonnes serued their goddes †And they did euil in the sight of our Lord and forgat their God seruing Baalim and Astaroth †And our Lord being wrath against Israel deliuered them into the handes of Chusan Rasathaim the king of Mesopotamia and they serued him eight yeares †And they cried to our Lord who raysed them vp a sauiour and deliuered them to witte Othoniel the sonne of Cenez the yonger brother of Caleb †and the Spirit of our Lord was in him and he iudged Israel And he went forth to fight and our Lord deliuered into his handes Chusan Rasathaim the king of Syria and oppressed him †And the land rested fourtie yeares and Othoniel the sonne of Cenez died †And the children of Israel added to doe euil in the sight of our Lord who strengthned against them Eglon the king of Moab because they did euil in his sight †And he ioyned to him the children of Ammon and Amalec and he went and stroke Israel and possessed the Citie of palmes †And the children of Israel serued Eglon the king of Moab eightene yeares †and afterward they cried to our Lord who raysed vp vnto them a sauiour called Aod the sonne of Gera the sonne of Iemini who vsed both handes for the right And the children of Israel sent by him presentes to Eglon the king of Moab †Who made him self a two edged sword hauing in the middes a hafte in length the palme of a hand and was girded therwith vnder his cassocke on the right thigh †And he presented the giftes to Eglon the king of Moab And Eglon was exceeding grosse †And when he had presented the giftes vnto him he brought his felowes on the way that came with him †And returning from Galgal where the Idols were he said to the King I haue a secrete message to thee ô king And he commanded silence and al being gone forth that were about him †Aod went in to him and he sate in a sommer chamber alone and he said A word from God I haue to thee Who forthwith rose out of his throne †And Aod put forth his left hand and tooke the dagger from his right thigh and fastened it into his bellie †so mightely that the haft folowed the blade in the wound and was closed vp fast with the most fatte grease Neither did he plucke out the dagger but as he had striken so leift it in the bodie and forthwith by the secrete partes of nature the ordure of the bellie came forth †But Aod shutting the doores of the chamber very diligently and locking them sure †went out by a posterne doore And the kinges seruantes going in saw the doores of the chamber shut and they said Peraduenture he purgeth his bellie in the sommer chamber †And expecting long til they were ashamed and seeing that no man did open they tooke a key and opening they found their lord on the earth lying dead †But Aod whiles they were trubled escaped and passed by the Place of Idols whence he had returned And he came into Seirath †and forthwith the trumpet sounded in the mount of Ephraim and the children of Israel went downe with him him self going in the front †Who said to them Folow me for our Lord hath deliuered our enemies the Moabites into our handes And they went downe after him and occupied the fordes of Iordan which bring ouer into Moab and they suffered no man to passe †but they stroke the Moabites at that time about ten thousand al stoute and strong men none of them could escape †And Moab was humbled that day vnder the hand of Israel and the Land rested eightie yeares †After him was Samgar the sonne of Anath who stroke of the
Who is this that said what shal Saul reigne ouer vs Geue vs the men and we wil kil them †And Saul sayd No man shal be killed this day because our Lord this day hath releued Israel †And Samuel said to the people Come and let vs goe into Galgal and let vs renewe there a kingdome †And al the people went into Galgal and there they made Saul king before our Lord in Galgal they immolated there pacifique victimes before our Lord. And Saul reioysed there and al the men of Israel excedingly CHAP. XII Samuel being iustified by the people for his good behauiour 6. chargeth them with ingratitude towardes God 14. admonishing them and shewing by a signe that they offended in demanding a king 20. Exhorteth them now to serue God promiseth to pray for them and forwarneth that they shal receiue as they deserue AND Samuel sayd to al Israel Behold I haue heard your voice according to al thinges which you haue spoken to me and I haue appointed a king ouer you †And now the king goeth before you and I am waxen old and haue gray heares moreouer my sonnes are with you therfore hauing conuersed with you from my youth vntil this day loe I am readie †Speake of me before our Lord and before his Christ whether I haue taken any mans oxe or asse If I haue calumniated any man if I haue oppressed any man if I haue taken gift of any mans hand and I wil contemne that same this day and wil restore it to you †And they said thou hast not calumniated vs nor oppressed vs nor taken ought of any mans hand †And he sayd to them Witnes is our Lord against you and witnes is his Christ in this day that you haue not found any thing in my hand And they said Witnes †And Samuel said to the people Our Lord who made Moyses and Aaron and brought our fathers out of the Land of Aegypt is present †Now therefore stand that I may contend in iudgement against you before our Lord concerning al the mercies of our Lord which he hath done with you and with your fathers †how Iacob entred into Aegypt and your fathers cried to our Lord and our Lord sent Moyses and Aaron and brought your fathers out of Aegypt and placed them in this place †Who forgat our Lord their God and he deliuered them in the hand of Sisara master of the hoste of Haser and in the hand of the Philisthijmes and in the hand of the king of Moab and they sought against them †But afterward they cried to our Lord and said We haue sinned because we haue forsaken our Lord and haue serued Baalim and Astaroth now therefore deliuer vs from the hand of our enemies and we wil serue thee †And our Lord sent Ierobaal and Badan and Iepte and Samuel and deliuered you from the hand of your enemies round about and you dwelt securely †But you seing that Naas king of the children of Ammon was come against you you said to me Not so but a king shal reigne ouer vs whereas our Lord your God did reigne among you †Now therfore your king is readie whom you haue chosen and desired behold our Lord hath geuen you a king †If you shal feare our Lord and serue him and heare his voice and not exasperat the mouth of our Lord both you and the king which reigneth ouer you shal be folowers of our Lord your God †but if you wil nor heare the voice of our Lord but shal exasperat his wordes the hand of our Lord shal be vpon you and vpon your fathers †But now also stand and see this great thing which our Lord wil doe in your sight †Is it not wheare haruest to day I wil cal vpon our Lord he wil geue * noyses and rayne and you shal know and see that you haue done great euil to your selues in the sight of our Lord desiring a king ouer you †And Samuel cried to our Lord and our Lord gaue noyses and raine in that day †And al the people feared excedingly our Lord and Samuel And al the people said to Samuel Pray for thy seruantes to our Lord thy God that we die not for we haue added euil to al our sinnes that we desired vnto vs a king †And Samuel sayd to the people Feare not you haue done al this euil but yet depart not from the backe of our Lord but serue our Lord in al your hart †And decline not after vaine thinges which shal not profite you nor deliuer you because they are vaine †And our Lord wil not forsake his people for his great name because our Lord hath sworne to make you a people to him self †And farre from me be this sinne in our Lord that I should cease to pray for you and I wil teach you the good and right way †Therefore feare our Lord and serue him in truth and from your whole hart for you haue seene the great workes which he hath done among you †But if you shal perseuer in malice both you and your king shal perish together CHAP. XIII Saul and Ionathas preuaile in battel against the Philisthijms 5. who increasing their forcâ—s the Israâ—lites for feaâ—e flee away and hid themselues 8. Samuel not coming to the campe Saul presumeth to offer sacrifice 11. for which Samuel reproueth him and declareth that his kingdom shal be translated to an other 17. The Philisthijms oppresse the Israelites and depriue them of armour A CHILD of one yeare was Saul when he began to reigne and two yeares he reigned ouer Israel †And Saul chose to him selfe three thousand of Israel and there were with Saul two thousand in Machmas and in the mount of Bethel and a thousand with Ionathas in Gabaa of Beniamin moreouer the rest of the people he sent backe euerie man into their tabernacles †And Ionathas stroke the garrison of the Philisthijms which was in Gabaa Which when the Philisthijms had heard Saul sounded with the trumpet in al the land saying Let the Hebrewes heare †And al Israel heard this maner of bruite Saul hath striken the garrison of the Philisthijms and Israel tooke courage against the Philisthijms The people therfore cried after Saul in Galgal †And the Philisthims were gathered together to fight against Israel thirtie thousand chariotes and six thousand horsemen and the rest of the common people as the sand which is in the sea shore very much And going vp they camped in Machmas at the East of Bethauen †Which when the men of Israel had seene them selues put in a streict for the people was afflicted they hid them selues in caues and in secrete places in rockes also and in dennes and in cesternes †And the Hebrewes passed Iordan into the Land of Gad and Galaad And when Saul was yet in Galgal al the people was sore afrayd which
saying Bring him to me in the bed that he may be slaine †And when the messengers were come there was found a statua vpon the bed and skinnes of goates at the head thereof †And Saul sayd to Michol Why hast thou mocked me and let goe myn enemie that he might flee And Michol answered Saul Because he sayd to me Let me goe otherwise I wil kil thee †But Dauid fleing was saued and came to Samuel in Ramatha and told him al thinges that Saul had done to him and he Samuel went abode in Naioth †And it was told Saul by some saying Behold Dauid is in Naioth in Ramatha †Saul therefore sent seriantes to take away Dauid who when they had seene a troupe of prophetes prophecying Samuel standing ouer them the spirit of our Lord came also on them and they also began to prophecie †Which when it was told Saul he sent other messengers but they also did prophecie And againe Saul sent the third messengers who also prophecied And Saul being wrath for anger †went also him selfe into Ramatha and came as farre as the great cesterne which is in Socho and asked and said In what place are Samuel and Dauid And it was told him Loe they are in Naioth in Ramatha †And he went into Naioth in Ramatha and the Spirit of our Lord came vpon him and he walked going and he prophecied til he came into Naioth in Ramatha †And he stripped himselfe of his garments and prophecied with the rest before Samuel and sang naked al that day and night Wherupon there went out also a prouerb What is Saul also among the prophetes CHAP. XX. Ionathas comforteth Dauid 3. confirmeth their former league 18. By an appointed signe 24. endeuoring first but in vaine to pacifie his father 35. certifieth Dauid of his fathers malice against him 41. They meete againe secretly and sorowfully part ech from other BVT Dauid also fled from Naioth which is in Ramatha and coming spake before Ionathas What haue I done what is myn iniquitie and what sinne of myn against thy father that he seeketh my life †Who sayd to him God forbid thou shalt not die for neither wil my father doe any thing great or litle vnles he first tel me this word therefore only hath my father concealed from me no this shal not be †And he sware againe to Dauid And Dauid sayd Thy father surely knoweth that I haue found grace in thy sight and wil say Let not Ionathas know this left perhaps he be sad Yea more our Lord liueth and thy soule liueth by one degree only as I may so say I and death are diuided †And Ionathas said to Dauid Whatsoeuer thy soule shal say to me I wil doe for thee †And Dauid sayd to Ionathas Behold the calendes are to morowe I after the maner am wont to sitte beside the king to eate dismisse me therefore that I may be hid in the field vntil the euening of the third day †If thy father looking inquire for me thou shalt answer him Dauid desired me that he might goe quickely into Bethlehem his citie because there be solemne victimes to al of his tribe †If he shal say Wel peace shal be to thy seruant but if he be angrie know that his malice is complete †Doe mercie therefore toward thy seruant because thou hast caused me thy seruant to enter the league of our Lord with thee but if there be any iniquitie in me do thou kil me and bring me not in to thy father †And Ionathas sayd Be this farre from thee for neither can it be that I should not tel thee if I shal certainly know that my fathers malice is complete against thee †And Dauid answered Ionathas Who shal bring me word if thy father answer thee perhaps any thing sharpely of me †And Ionathas sayd to Dauid Come let vs goe forth abroad into the field and when they were both gone forth into the field †Ionathas said to Dauid Lord God of Israel if I shal search out my fathers meaning to morowe or the day after and some good thing be vpon Dauid and I send not immediatly vnto thee and make thee know thereof †these thinges doe our Lord to Ionathas and these thinges adde he But if my fathers malice shal perseuer against thee I wil reuele thyn care and wil dismisse thee that thou mayst goe in peace and our Lord be with thee as he hath beene with my father †And if I liue thou shalt doe me the mercie of our Lord but if I die †thou shalt not take away thy mercie from my house for euer when our Lord shal haue rooted out the enemies of Dauid euerie one out of the land take he away Ionathas from his house and our Lord require it of the handes of Dauides enemies †Ionathas therefore made a league with the house of Dauid and our Lord required it of the handes of Dauids enemies †And Ionathas added to sweare vnto Dauid because he loued him for as his owne soule so he loued him †And Ionathas sayd to him To morowe are the calendes and thou shalt be asked for †for thy sitting wil be inquired of til after to morowe Thou shalt therefore goe downe in hast and shalt come to the place where thou must be hid in the day when it is lawful to worke and thou shalt sit beside the stone which is named Ezel †And I wil shoote three arrowes nere it and wil shoote as it were excersising my self at a marke †I wil send also a boy saying to him Goe and fetch me the arrowes †If I shal say to the boy Loe the arrowes are on this side thee take them vp come thou to me because there is peace to thee and there is no euil our Lord liueth But if I shal speake thus to the boy Loe the arrowes are beyond thee Goe in peace because our Lord hath dimissed thee †And corcerning the word which I and thou haue spoken our Lord be betwen thee and me for euer †Dauid therefore was hidde in the fielde and the calendes came and the king sate downe to eate bread †And when the king was sette vpon his chaire according to the custome which was beside the wal Ionathas arose and Abner sate at the side of Saul and Dauids place appeared voide †And Saul sayd nothing that day for he thought it had chanced perhaps vnto him that he was not cleane nor purified †And when the second day was come after the calendes againe Dauids place appeared emptie And Saul said to Ionathas his sonne Why came not the sonne of Isa◠neither yesterday nor to day to eate †Ionathas answered Saul He desired me instantly that he might goe into Bethlehem †and he said Let me goe because there is a solemne sacrifice in the citie one of my brethren hath sent for me now therefore if I haue found grace in
holie persecution then bringing them forth of the fornace of Egypt in his strong hand as is recorded in the former age at last his Diuine Maiestie deliuered to them his perfect and eternal Law conteyned in two tables distributed into tenne preceptes teaching them their proper duties first towards himselfe their God and Lord then towards ech other Adding moreouer for the practise and execution therof other particular precepts of two sortes to witte Ceremonial prescribing certaine determinate maners and rites in obseruing the commandements of the first table pertaining to God and Iudicial lawes directing in particular how to fulfil the commandements of the second table concerning our duties towards our neighbours So we see the whole law is nothing els but to loue God aboue al and our neighboures as our selues The maner of performing al is to beleue and hope in one onlie Lord God honour and serue him alone who made al of nothing conserueth al wil iudge al and render to al men as they deserue and therfore fully to confirme this point he beginneth his commandements with expresse prohibition of al false and imaginarie goddes saying Exod. 20. v 3. Thou shalt not haue strange goddes after threates to the transgressours and recital of the other nine commandementes he concludeth v. 23. with repetition of the first saying You shal not make goddes of siluer nor goddes of gold shal you make to you 〈…〉 iâ— repeted and explaned Deut. 5. And in the next chapter Moyses 〈…〉 the people saith Heare Israel the Lord our God is one Lord. And God himselfe speaking againe sayth Exod. 23. See ye that I am onlie and there is no other God besides me The royal prophet Dauid 2 Reg. 22. and Psalm 17. who is God but our God and in sundrie other places the seneâ— doctrine of one God is grounded confirmed and established The Misterie of the B. Trinitie or of three Diuine Persons is no lesse true and certaine then that there is but one God though not so manifest to reason noâ— so expressly taught in the old Testament yet beleued then also and often in inuaded where God is expressed by names of the plural number as Elobim Elim Elahâ— Saddai Adonai Tsebaoth which import pluralitie of Persons in God who is bâ—â—e one nature and substance Distinction also of Persons in God 〈…〉 ced Exod. 33. God saying I wil cal in the name of the Lord That is as S. Augustin and other fathers expound it the second Person by his grace maketh his seruants to cal vpon God More distinctly Psalm 2. The Lord said to me Thou art my Sonne I this day haue begotten thee Psalm 109. The Lord said to my Lord that is God the Father to God the Sonne who according to his diuinitie is the Lord of Dauid according to his humanitie the sonne of Dauid The same king Dauid maketh mention also of the third Person the Holie Ghost praying Psalm 50. Thy holie Spirit take not from me In the forme of blessing the people Num. 6. al three Persons some to be vnderstood in the name of our Lord thrise repeted our Lord the Father blesse thee and keepe thee Our Lord the Sonne shew his face to thee and haue mercie vpon thee Our Lord the Holie Ghost turne his countenance vnto thee and geue thee peace Of the Incarnation of the Sonne of God we haue in this age manie prophecies and figures Moyses euidently Deut. 18 forsheweth that after other prophets Christ the Sonne of God should come in flesh and redeme mankind as S. Peter teacheth Act. 3. Likewise in his Canticle and Blessing of the tribes Deut. 32 33 he speaketh more expresly of Christ and his Church then of the Iewes and thier Synagogue The starre prophecied by Balaam Num. 24. forshewed both to Iewes and Gentiles that Christ should subdue al nations Iosuâ— both in name and office was a manifest figure of IESVS Christ Also the Iudge and Kinges some in one thing some in an other most especially king Dauid and king Salomon were figures of our Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ The brasen serpent Num. 21. sign fied Christ to be crucified as him selfe expenndeth it Ioan. 3. Bri fly the whole Law was a pedagogue or conductor to bring men to Christ Galat. 3. and by him to know God and them selues to wit God omnipotent al perfect Creator of al our Father Redemer and Sanctifier and man his chief earthlie creature though of himselfe wâ—â—kâ— and impotent yea through sinne miserable yet in nature of free condition indued wish vnderstanding to conceiue and discourse and with freewil to choose or refuse what liketh or displeaseth him For God appointing al creatures their offices ingraffed in al other thinges inuariable inclination to performe the same so that they could neither by vertue nor sinne make their state better not worse then it was created but ordaining Angels and men to a higher end of eternal felicitie left their wils free to agree vnto or to resist his precepts and counsels VVherupon Angels cooperating with Gods grace were confirmed in glorie and some reuoking were eternally damned Man also offending fel into damnable state but through penance may be saued if he cooperate with new grace of our Redemer which is in his choise to doe or omitte As when God gaue his people meate in the desert Exod. 16. he so instructed them how to receiue it and vse it without force or compulsion that he might proue them as himself speaketh whether they would walke in his law or no. And after making couenant with them Exod. 19. Deut. 26. required and accepted their voluntarie consent entring into formal contract or bargaine betwen him self and them he promising on the one partie to make them his peculiar people a priestlie kingdome and a holie nation they on the other partie promising loyaltie obedience and obseruation of his commandements saying Al thinges that our Lord hath spoken we wil doe For which cause Gods promises are conditional Deut. 7. if thou kepe his iudgements God wil keepe his couenant to thee Againe most plainly Deut. 11. Behold I sette before your sight this day benediction and malediction and Deut. 30. I cal for witnesses this day heauen and earth that I haue proposed to you life and death blessing and cursing Choose therfore life that thou mayest liue In al which it is certaine that Gods promise being firme mans wil is variable and so the euent not necessarie which made Caleb hoping of victorie to say Iosue 14. if perhaps our Lord be with me Neither doth Gods foreknowledge make the euent necessarie for he seeth the effect in the cause as it is voluntarie or casual yea God knoweth al before and some times fortelleth thinges vvhich conditionally vvould happen and in deed the condition fayling come not to passe as 1. Reg. 23. God answered that the men of Ceila would betray Dauid meaning if he staied there vvhich
our Lord was accomplished †And Ezechias reioysed and al the people because the ministerie of our Lord was accomplished For it pleased them that the thing should be done of a soden CHAP. XXX Ezechias by messengers and letters exhorteth the people both of Iuda and Israel to make Paesch in Ierusalem 11. which some of Israel and al Iuda performe 18. the fourtenth day of the second moneth though al could not be purified according to the law 23. they make an other feast of Azimes seuen dayes more the king aend princes geuing hostes to the people EZECHIAS also sent to al Israel and Iuda and he wrote letters to Ephraim and Manasses that they should come to the house of our Lord in Ierusalem and should make a Phase to our Lord the God of Israel †Counsel therfore being taken of the king and the princes and of al the assemblie of Ierusalem they decreed to make the Phase the second moneth †For they could not make it in his time because the Priestes that might suffise had not bene sanctified and the people had not as yet bene gathered into Ierusalem †And the word pleased the king and al the multitude †And they decreed to send messengers into al Israel from Bersabee vnto dan that they should come and make the Phase to our Lord the God of Israel in Ierusalem for manie had not made it as is prescribed by the law †And the postes went forth with letters of commandement from the king and his princes into al Israel and Iuda according to that which the king had commanded proclaming Children of Israel returne ye to our Lord the God of Abraham and Isaac and Israel and he wil returne to the remnant that hath escaped the hand of the king of the Assyrians †Become not as your fathers and brethren which haue reuolted from our Lord the God of their fathers who hath deliuered them into destruction as your selues see †Harden not your neckes as your fathers geue handes to our Lord and come to his Sanctuarie which he hath sanctified for ouer serue our Lord the God of your fathers and the wrath of his furie shal be turned away from you †For if you shal returne to our Lord your brethren and children shal haue mercie before their Lordes that haue led them captiue and they shal returne into this land for our Lord your God is merciful and wil not turne away his face from you if you shal returne to him †Therfore the postes went forward spedely from citie to citie through the land of Ephraim and of Manasses as farre as Zabulon they mocking and skorning them †Neuerthelesse certayne men of Aser and Manasses and Zabulon condescending to the counsel came to Ierusalem †But the hand of God was in Iuda to geue them one hart to doe the word of our Lord according to the precept of the king and of the princes †And much people was gathered into Ierusalem to make the solemnitie of Azimes in the second moneth †And rising they destroyed the altars that were in Ierusalem and ouerthrowing al thinges wherin incense was burnt to idols they threw it into the Torrent cedron †And they immolated the Phase the fourtenth day of the second moneth The Priestes also and the Leuites at length being sanctified offered holocaustes in the house of our Lord. And they stoode in their order according to the disposition law of Moyses the man of God but the Priestes receiued the bloud to be powred out of the handes of the Leuites †because a great multitude Was not sanctified therfore the Leuites immolated the Phase for them that came not in time to be sanctified to our Lord. †For a great part of the people of Ephraim and Manasses and Issachar and Zabulon that had not bene sanctified did eate the Phase not according to that which is writen and Ezechias prayed for them saying Our good Lord wil be merciful †to al them that in al their hart secke our Lord the God of their fathers and wil not impute it to them that they are not sanctified †Whom our Lord heard and was pacified to the people †And the children of Israel that were found in Ierusalem made the solemnitie of Azimes seuen daies in great ioy praysing our Lord euerie day The Leuites also and the Priestes by instrumentes that agreed to their office †And Ezechias spake to the hart of al the Leuites that had good vnderstanding concerning our Lord and they did eate during the seuen daies of the solemnitie immolating victimes of pacifiques and praysing our Lord the God of their fathers †And it pleased the whole multitude to celebrate it other seuen daies which also they did with great ioy †For Ezechias the king of Iuda had geuen the multitude a thousand oxen and seuen thousand sheepe but the princes had geuen the people oxen a thousand sheepe ten thousand there was sanctified therfore a verie great multitude of Priestes †And al the multitude of Iuda was ful of mirth as wel of the Priestes and Leuites as of al the assemblie that came out of Israel of the proselites also of the land of Israel and them that dwelt in Iuda †And there was made a great solemnitie in Ierusalem such as had not bene in that citie from the dayes of Salomon the sonne of Dauid the king of Israel †And the Priestes the Leuites rose vp blessing the people their voice was heard and their prayer came into the holie habitation of heauen CHAP. XXXI Idoles being destroyed in al Iuda and part of Israel Priestes and Leuites freely execute their functions 4 Tithes and first fruictes are payed in such abundance 15. that they are put in store houses and distributed by officers AND when these thinges had bene ritely celebrated al Israel that was found in the cities of Iuda went forth and they brake the idols and cut downe the groucs ouerthrew the excelses and destroyed the altars not onlie out of al Iuda and Beniamin but out of Ephraim also and Manasses til they vtterly destroyed them and al the children of Israel returned into their possessions and cities †And Ezechias appoynted companies of Priestes and of Leuites by their diuisions euerie man in his owne office to witte as wel of the Priestes as of the Leuites for the holocaustes and pacifiques that they should minister and confesse and sing in the gates of the campe of our Lord. †And the kinges part was that of his proper substance holocaust should be offered morning alwaies and euening in the Sabbathes also and the Calendes and in other solennites as it is writen in the law of Moyses †He commanded also the people that dwelt in Ierusaiem to geue portions to the Priestes and the Leuites that they might attend the law of our Lord. †Which when it was noysed in the eares of the multitude the children of Israel offered very manie
of God calues an hundred rammes two hundred lambes foure hundred buckgoates for the sinne of al Israel twelue according to the number of the tribes of Israel †And they set the Priestes in theyr orders and the Leuites in theyr courses ouer the workes of God in Ierusalem as it is writen in the booke of Moyses †And the children of Israel of the transmigration made the Phase the fourtenth day of the first moneth †For al the Priestes and the Leuites were purified as it were one man al cleane to immolate the Phase for al the children of the transmigration and for theyr brethren the Priestes and them selues †And the children of Israel that were returned from the transmigration did eate and al that had separated them selues from the coinquination of the Gentiles of the earth vnto them to seeke our Lord the God of Israel †And they made the solemnitie of Azymes seuen dayes in ioy because our Lord had made them ioyful and had turned the hart of the king of Assur to them that he should helpe theyr handes in the worke of the house of our Lord the God of Israel CHAP. VII Esdras with manie other Priestes and Leuites ascendeth to â—erusalem to teach and assist the people 11. bringing Artaxerxes Edict declareth it to the people 27. and geueth thankes to God AND after these thinges in the reigne of Artaxerxes king of Persians Esdras the sonne of Saraias the sonne of Azarias the sonne of Helcias †the sonne of Sellum the sonne of Sadoc the sonne of Achitob †the sonne of Amarias the sonne of Azarias the sonne of Maraioth †the sonne of Zarahias the sonne of Ozi the sonne of Bocci †the sonne of Abisue the sonne of Phinees the sonne of Eleazar the sonne of Aaron the Priest from the begynning †The same Esdras came vp from Babylon and he was a quicke scribe in the law of Moyses which our Lord God gaue to Israel and the king gaue him according to the hand of our Lord his God vpon him al his petition †And there came vp of the children of Israel and of the children of the Priestes and of the children of the Leuites and of the singing men and of the porters and of the Nathineites into Ierusalem in the seuenth yeare of Artaxerxes the king †And they came into Ierusalem the fifth moneth that is the seuenth yeare of the king †For in the first day of the first moneth he began to goe vp from Babylon and in the first day of the fifth moneth he came into Ierusalem according to the good hand of his God vpon him †For Esdras prepared his hart to search the law of our Lord and to doe and to teach in Israel preceptes and iudgement †And this is the copie of the epistle of the edict which king Artaxerxes gaue to Esdras the Priest the learned scribe in the wordes and preceptes of our Lord and his ceremonies in Israel †Artaxerxes the king of kings to Esdras the Priest the most learned scribe of the law of God of heaueÌ„ greeting †It is decreed by me that whoÌ„soeuer it shal please in my kingdom of the people of Israel and of the Priestes and Leuites to goe into IerusaleÌ„ let him goe with thee †For thou art sent from the face of the king and of his seuen counselers that thou mayst visite Iewrie and Ierusalem in the law of thy God which is in thy hand †And that thou maist carie the siluer gold which the king his counselers haue voluntarily offered to the God of Israel whose tabernacle is in Ierusalem †And al the siluer and gold whatsoeuer thou shalt finde in al the prouince of Babylon and the people wil offer and of the Priestes that shal voluntarely offer to the house of theyr God which is in Ierusalem †take freely and bye diligently of this money calues rammes lambes and the sacrifices and libamentes of them and offer them vpon the altar of the temple of your God that is in Ierusalem †Yea and if it shal please thee and thy brethren to doe any thing with the rest of the siluer and gold doe ye according to the wil of your God †The vâ—â—â—els also which are geuen thee for the ministerie of the house of thy God deliuer thou in the sight of God in Ierusalem †Yea and other thinges wherof neede shal be for the house of thy God how much soeuer is necessarie for thee to spend thou shalt geue it out of the treasure and excheker of the king and from me †I Artaxerxes the king haue appointed and decreed to al the keepers of the common coffer that are beyond the Riuer that whatsoeuer Esdras the Priest the scribe of the law of God of heauen shal aske of you you geue it without delay †vnto an hundred talentes of siluer and vnto an hundred cores of wheat and vnto an hundred bates of wyne and vnto an hundred bates of oyle but salt without measure †Al that pertayneth to the rite of the God of heauen let it be geuen diligently in the house of the God of heauen lest perhaps he be angrie agaynst the kingdom of the king and of his sonnes †We doe you also to vnderstand concerning al the Priestes and Leuites and the singers and the porters the Nathineites and ministers of the house of this God that you haue no authoritie to put tolle and â—ribute and yearlie rentes vpon them †And thou Esdras according to the wisedom of thy God which is in thy hand appoyâ—t iuâ—ges and presidentes that they may iudge for al the people that is beyond the Riuer that is for them which know the law of thy God yea and the ignorant teach ye frely †And euerie one that shal not doe the law of thy God and the law of thy king diligently there shal be iudgement of him either vnto death or into banishment or to the confiscation of his substance or at the least into prison †Blessed be our Lord the God of our fathers which hath put this in the kinges hart that he would glorifie the house of our Lord which is in Ierusalem †and hath inclined his mercie toward me before the king and his counselers and al the mightie princes of the king and Itaking courage by the hand of our Lord my God which was on me gathered together out of Israel princes that should goe vp with me CHAP. VIII Esdras reciteth those that came with him from Babylon 21. the fast which â—e appointed 33. and how they brought the holie vessel into the Temple THESE therfore are the princes of the families and the genealogie of them that came vp with me in the reigne of Artaxerxes the king out of Babylon †Of the children of Phinees Gersom Of the children of Ithamar Daniel Of the children of Dauid Hattus †Of the children of Sechenias the children of Pharos Zacharias and with him were
and began to pray with teares †saying Thou art iust ô Lord al thy iudgementes are iust and al thy waies mercie truth and iudgement †And now Lord be mindful of me and take not reuenge of my sinnes neither remember the sinnes of me or of my parentes †Because we haue not obeyed thy commandmentes therfore we are deliuered in spoile and captiuitie and death and into a fable and into reproch to al nations in which thou hast dispersed vs. †And now Lord great are thy iudgementes because we haue not done according to thy preceptes haue not walked sincerely before thee †and now Lord according to thy wil do with me command my spirite to be receiued in peace for it is expedient for me to die rather then to liue †The verie same day therfore it chanced that Sara the daughter of Raguel in Rages a citie of the Medes she also heard reproch of one of her fathers handmaydes †because she had beene deliuered to seuen husbandes the diuel named Asmodeus had killed them forth with as they were entred in vnto her †Therfore when she rebuked the wench for her fault she answered her saying Let vs no more see sonne of thee or daughter vpon the earth thou murderer of thy husbandes †What wilt thou kil me also as thou hast now killed seuen husbandes At this voice she went into an higher chamber of her house and three dayes and three nightes did not eate nor drinke †but continewing in prayer with teares besought God that he would deliuer her from this reproch †And it came to passe the third day whiles she accomplished her prayer blessing our Lord †she sayd Blessed is thy name ô God of our fathers who when thou hast bene angrie wilt doe mercie in the time of tribulation forgeuest them their sinnes that inuocate thee †To thee ô Lord I turne my face to thee I direct myne eyes †I desire Lord that thou loose me from the bond of this reproch or els take me away from the earth †Thou knowest Lord that I neuer coueted a husband and haue kept my soule cleane from al concupiscence †Neuer haue I companied my self with sporters neither haue I made my selfe partaker with them that walke in lightnesse †But a husband I consented to take with thy feare not with my lust †And either I was vnworthie of them or they perhaps were not worthie for me because perhaps thou hast kept me for an other man †For thy counsel is not in mans power †But this hath euerie one for certayne that worshippeth thee that his life if it be in probation shal be crowned and if it be in tribulation it shal be deliuered and if it be in correction it shal be lawful to come to thy mercie †For thou art not delighted in our perditions because after a tempest thou makest a calme and after teares and weeping thou powrest in ioyfulnesse †Be thy name God of Israel blessed foreuer †At that time the prayers of both were heard in the sight of the glorie of the high God †and the holie Angel of our Lord Raphael was sent to cure them both whose prayers at one time were recited in the sight of our Lord. CHAP. IIII. Tobias thincking he shal dye geueth his sonne godlie admonitions 7. especially exhorteth him to geue almes diligently 13. to flee al fornication pride and fraude 21. And telleth him of money lent to a friend THERFORE when Tobias thought his prayer to be heard that he might haue died he called to him Tobias his sonne †and sayd to him Heare my sonne the wordes of my mouth lay them as a foundation in thy hart †When God shal take my soule * burie my bodie and thou shalt doe * honour to thy mother al the dayes of her life †for thou must be mindful what perils and how great she suffered for thee in her wombe †And when she also shal haue accomplished the time of her life burie her beside me †And al the dayes of thy life * haue God in thy mind and beware thou consent not to sinne at anie time and pretermitte the preceptes of our Lord God †* Of thy substance geue almes and turne not away thy face from anie poore person for so it shal come to passe that neither the face of our Lord shal be turned from thee †As thou shalt be able so be merciful †If thou haue much geue aboundantly if thou haue litle studie to impert also a litle willingly †For thou dost treasure vp to thy self a good reward in the day of necessitie †because almes deliuereth from al sinne and from death wil not suffer the soule to goe into darkenesse †Great confidence before God most high shal almes be to al them that doe it †* Take heed to thy self my sonne of al fornication beside thy wife neuer abide to know crime †* Neuer permitte pryde to rule in thy word for in it al perdition tooke his beginning †* Whosoeuer hath wrought anie thing for thee pay him his hyre immediatly and let not the hyre of thy hyred seruant remayne with thee at al. †* That which thou hatest to be done to thee by an other see thou doe it not to an other at anie time †Eate thy bread with the hungrie needie and of thy garmentes couer the naked †* Set thy bread and thy wine vpon the burial of a iust man and doe not eate and drinke therof with sinners †Seeke counsel alwaies of a wiseman †At al time blesse God and desire of him that he direct thy waies and that al thy counsels remayne in him †I tel thee also my sonne that I gaue tenne talentes of siluer whiles thou wast yet a child to Gabelus in Rages a citie of the Medes and I haue a bil of his hand with me †and therfore enquire how thou maist come to him and receiue of him the foresayd weight of siluer and restore him the bil of his hand †Feare not my sonne we leade in dede a poore life but we shal haue many good thinges if we feare God and depart from al sinne and doe wel CHAP. V. Yong Tobias seeking a guide for his iourney Raphael the Angel in shape of a man presenteth himself and vndertaketh this office 23. The mother lamenteth the abscence and danger of her sonne THEN Tobias answered his father and sayd I wil doe al things father whatsoeuer thou hast commanded me †But how I shal require this money I can nor tel he knoweth not me and I know not him what token shal I geue him Yea neither the way which leadeth thither did I euer know †Then his father answered him and sayd I haue the bil of his hand with me which when thou shalt
to Anna his wife How like is this yongman to my sisters sonne †And when he had spoken these wordes he sayd Whence are you ye yongmen our brethren †But they sayd We are of the tribe of Nephthali of the captiuitie of Niniue †And Raguel sayd to them Know you Tobias my brother Who sayd We know him †And when he spake much good of him the Angel sayd to Raguel Tobias of whom thou askest is this mans father †And Raguel put forth him selfe and with teares kissed him and weeping vpon his necke sayd Blessing haue thou my sonne because thou art the sonne of a good and most vertuous man †And Anna his wife and Sara theyr daughter wept †And after they had talked Raguel commanded a wether to be killed and a banket to be prepared And when he desired them to sitte downe to dinner †Tobias said I wil not eate nor drinke here this day vnlesse thou first assure my petition and promise to geue me Sara thy daughter †Which word Raguel hearing was sore afrayd knowing what had chanced to those seuen husbands which went in vnto her and he began to feare lest perhaps it might chance to him also in like maner and when he doubted and gaue no answer to him demanding †the Angel sayd to him Feare not to geue her to this man for to him fearing God is thy daughter dewe to be his wife therfore an other could not haue her †Then sayd Raguel I doubt not but God hath admitted my prayers and teares in his sight †And I beleue that therfore he hath made you come to me that this mayde might be ioyned to her kinred according to the law of Moyses and now haue no doubt but I wil deliuer her to thee †And taking his daughter by the right hand gaue it into the right hand of Tobias saying The God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Iacob be with you and he ioyne you together and fulfil his blessing in you †And taking paper they made a writing of the mariage †And after these things they made merie blessing God †And Raguel called to him Anna his wife and commanded her to prepare an other chamber †And she brought Sara her daughter in thither and she wept †And she sayd to her Be of good cheere my daughter our Lord of heauen geue thee ioy for the tediousnesse which thou hast suffered CHAP. VIII Tobias bruling part of the fishes liuer Raphael bindeth the diuel 4. Tobias and Sara pray 11. Raguel fearing that Tobias is dead maketh a graue for him but vnderstanding that he is wel filleth it vp againe 21. prepareth a feast geueth the half of his goodes presently for Saraes dawrie the other halfe after her parents death AND after they had supped they brought in the yong man to her †Tobias therfore remembring the Angels word brought forth out of his bag part of the liuer and layd it vpon liue coales †Then Raphael the Angel tooke the diuel and bound him in the desert of higher Aegypt †Then Tobias exhorted the virgin sayd to her Sara arise and let vs pray to God to day and to morow and the next morow because these three nights we are ioyned to God and when the third night is past we wil be in our wedlocke †For we are the children of holie men we may not be ioyned together as gentiles that know not God †And they rising together prayed both together that health might be geuen them †And Tobias sayd Lord God of our fathers the heauens the earth and the sea fountaynes and riuers and al thy creatures that are in them blesse thee †Thou madest Adam of the slime of the earth gauest him Eue an helper †And now Lord thou knowest that not for fleshlie lust doe I take my sister to wife but only for the loue of posteritie in the which thy name may be blessed for euer euer †Sara also sayd Haue mercie on vs Lord haue mercie vpon vs and let vs grow old both together in health †And it came to passe about the cock crowing Raguel bad his seruantes to be called for they went with him together to digge a graue †For he sayd Lest perhaps it may chance to him as also to the other seuen husbandes that went in vnto her †And when they had prepared the pitte Raguel returning to his wife sayd to her †Send one of thy handmaydes and let her see if he be dead that I may burie him before it be day †But she sent one of her handmaydes who going into the chamber found them safe and sound sleeping both together †And returning she brought good tydings and they blessed our Lord to witte Raguel Anna his wife †and sayd We blesse thee Lord God of Israel because it hath not chanced as we thought †For thou hast done thy metcie with vs hast excluded from vs the enemie that persecuted vs. †And thou hast taken pitie vpon two the only children Make them Lord blesse thee more fully and to offer vp to thee a sacrifice of thy prayse and of their health that al nations may know that thou art God onlie in al the earth †And forth with Raguel commanded his seruantes that they should fil vp the pitte which they had made before it were day †And he bad his wife make readie a feast and prepare al thinges that for victuals were necessarie to them that goe a iourney †He caused also two fatte kyne and foure wethers to be killed and great chere to be prepared for al his neighbours and al his freindes †And Raguel adiured Tobias that he should abide with him two weekes †And of al thinges which Raguel possessed he gaue the halfe part to Tobias and made this writing that the halfe part which was remayning after their decease should come to the dominion of Tobias CHAP. IX The Angel Raphael goeth to Gabelus receiueth the money and bringeth him to the mariage 8. They salute ech other and Gabelus wisheth al prosperitie to yong Tobias and his spouse THEN Tobias called the Angel to him whom he thought to be a man and he sayd to him Brother Azarias I pray thee harken to my wordes †If I should deliuer my self to be thy seruant I shal not deserue thy prouidence †Howbeit I besech thee that thou take vnto thee beastes and seruantes and goe to Gabelus into Rages the citie of Medes render him his handwriting and receiue of him the money and desire him to come to my mariage †For thyself knowest that my father numbreth the dayes and if I slacke one day more his soule is made sorowful †And surely thou sâ—est how Raguel hath adiured me whose adiuring I can not dispise †Then Raphael taking foure of Raguels seruantes two camels went into Rages the citie of Medes
eyes looke vpon the poore he lyeth in wayte in secret as a lyon in his denne †He lyeth in wayte to take the poore man violently violently to take the poore man whiles he draweth him In his snare he wil humble him selfe and shal fal when he shal haue dominion ouer the poore †For he hath sayed in his hart God hath forgotten he hath turned away his face not to see for euer †Arise Lord God let thy hand be axalted forget not the poore †Wherfore hath the impious prouoked God for he hath said in his hart He wil not enquire †Thou seest that thou considerest labour and sorrow that thou mayest deliuer them into thy handes To thee is the poore left to the orphane thou wilt be an helper †Breake the arme of the sinner and malignant his sinne shal be sought and shal not be found †Our Lord shal reigne for euer and for euer and euer ye Gentiles shal perish from his land †Our Lord hath heard the desire of the poore thy eare hath heard the preperation of their hart To iudge for the pupil and the humble that man adde no more to magnifie him selfe vpon the earth ANNOTATIONS PSALME IX 21. After the 21. verse the late Hebrew Doctors diuide this Psalme beginning there the tenth without anie new title but only this word Sela VVhich the Septuagint Theodotion and Symmachus translate Diapsalma that is change of meeter or musike also pause or rest in singing Aquila whom S. Iorom rather approueth translateth semper euer Some English Bibles omitte it others leaue it in the text not translating it into English It semeth to most Interpreters to be added as a note to sturre vp attention And it occureth often not only in the end of Psalmes but also in other places For it is thrise in the third Psalme And therefore maketh no argument that this Psalme should be diuided And those which diuide this into two ioyne two in the 147. Psalme So that al agree in the number of 150. Psalmes in the whole Psalter PSALME X. Dauids freindes aduising him to flee from the persecution of Saul he answereth that his trust is in Gods protection 2. Though the persecutor be very malitious 4. yet God wil ouerthrow him 5. and deliuer the iust Vnto the end the psalme of Dauid I TRVST in our Lord how say ye to my soule Passe ouer vnto the mountayne as a sparrow †For behold sinners haue bent the bow they haue prepared their arrowes in the quiuer that they may shoote in the darke at them that be right of hart †For they haue destroyed the thinges which thou didst perfite but the iust what hath he done †Our Lord is in his holie temple our Lord his seate is in heauen †His eies haue respect vnto the poore his eieliddes examine the sonnes of men †Our Lord examineth the iust and the impious but he that loueth iniquity hateth his owne soule †He shal rayne snares vpon sinners fyre and brimstone and blast of stormes the portion of their cuppe †Because our Lord is iust and hath loued iustice his countenance hath seene equitie PSALME XI The Prophet describeth the paucity of iust men and abundanc of wicked both at Christs first coming in flesh 6. and second in maiestie in the end of the world †Vnto the end for the octaue the Psalme of Dauid SAVE me Lord because the holy hath fayled because verities are diminished from among the children of men †They haue spoken vaine thinges euerie one to his neighbour deiceitful lippes they haue spoken in hart and hart †Our Lord destroy al deceitful lippes the tongue that speaketh great thinges †Which haue said We wil magnifie our tongue our lippes are of vs who is our Lord †For the miserie of the needie and mourning of the poore now wil I arise saith our Lord I wil put in a saluation I wil do confidently in him †Wordes of our Lord be chaist wordes siluer examined by fire tryed from the earth purged seuen fold †Thou Lord wilt preserue vs and keepe vs from this generation for euer †The “ impious walke round about according to thy highnes thou hast multiplied the children of men ANNOTATIONS PSALME XI 9. The impious vvalâ—e round about J S Augustin expoundeth this of worldlie men desiring temporal thinges signified by the seuen dayes wherin this whole life is turned about as in a whele not prouiding for the eight day which is eternitie after the day of Iudgement In an other place he sheweth also that this sentence agreeth aptly to the Platonistes who taught that this world neuer endeth but passeth and returneth round about in a reuolution of manie yeares so that al thinges should happen againe euen as they did before contrarie to this and manie other Scriptures affirming that God vvil preserue the iust and kepe them from this generation for euer VVhereas the reprobate who sette their whole mind on temporal thinges or expect a reuolution of al shal eternally walke without the kingdome of heauen neuer enter in though some may cal with the foolish virgins saith S. Ierom or some other learned author vpon this place Lord Lord open the dore to vs but he vvil ansvver that I knovv you not Mat. 25. PSALME XII A general prayer of the Church in tribulation either temporal or spiritual †Vnto the end the Psalme of Dauid HOw long â— Lord wilt thou forget me vnto the end How long doest thou turne away thy face from me †How long shal I put counsels in my soule sorrow in my hart by day †How long shal mine enemies be exalted ouer me †Regard and heare me ô Lord my God Illuminate mine eies that I sleepe not in death at any time †lest sometime mine enemie say I haue preuailed against him They that truble me wil reioyce if I be moued †but I haue hoped in thy mercie My hart shal reioyce in thy saluation I wil sing to our Lord which geueth me good thinges and I wil sing to the name of our Lord most high PSALME XIII After general grosse ignorance and impiety in the World 7. Christ shal be incarnate the Redemer of mankind †Vnto the end the Psalme of Dauid THE foole hath said in his hart There is no God They are corrupt and are become abominable in their studies there is not that doth good “ no not one †Our Lord hath looked forth from heauen vpon the children of men to see if there be that vnderstandeth and seeketh after God Al haue declined they are become vnprofitable together there is not that doth good no not one Their throte is an open sepulchre with their tongues they did deceitfully the poyson of
art with me Thy rod and thy staffe they haue comforted me †Thou hast prepared in my sight a table against them that truble me Thou hast fatted my head with oyle and my chalice inebriating how goodlie is it †And thy mercie shal folow me al the dayes of my life And that I may dwel in the house of our Lord in longitude of dayes PSALME XXIII Christ is Lord of the whole earth being Creatour and Redemer of man 3. Good life with faith in him is the way to heauen 7. whither Christ ascending with triumph Angels admire him †The first of the Sabbath the Psalme of Dauid THE earth is our Lordes and the fulnesse therof the round world and al that dwel therein Because he hath founded it vpon the seas and vpon the riuers hath prepared it †Who shal ascend into the mount of our Lord or who shal stand in his holie place †The innocent of handes and of cleane hart that hath not taken his soule in vayne nor sworne to his neighbour in guile †He shal receiue blessing of our Lord and mercie of God his Sauiour †This is the generation of them that seeke him of them that seeke the face of the God of Iacob †Lift vp your gates ye princes and be ye lifted vp ô eternal gates and the king of glorie shal enter in †Who is this king of glorie Our Lord strong mightie our Lord mightie in battel †Lift vp your gates ye princes and be ye lifted vp ô eternal gates and the king of glorie shal enter in Who is this king of glorie The Lord of powers he is the king of glorie PSALME XXIIII A general prayer of the faithful against al enemies 4. with desire to be directed in the way of godlines 7. and to be pardoned for sinnes past 9. acknowledging Gods meeknes 17. our weaknes necessitie of helpe and hope in God 22. concludeth with prayer for the whole Church †Vnto the end the Psalme of Dauid TO THEE ô Lord I haue lifted vp my soule †my God in thee is my confidence let me not be ashamed †Neither let mine enemies scorne me for al that expect thee shal not be confounded †Let al be confounded that do vniust thinges in vayne Lord shew me thy wayes and teach me thy pathes †Direct me in thy truth and teach me because thou art God my Sauiour and thee haue I expected al the day †Remember ô Lord thy commiserations and thy mercies that are from the beginning of the world †The sinnes of my youth and my ignorances doe not remember According to thy mercie remember thou me for thy goodnesse ô Lord. †Our Lord is sweete and righteous for this cause he wil geue a law to them that sinne in the way †He wil direct the milde in iudgement he wil teach the meeke his wayes †Al the wayes of our Lord be mercie and truth to them that seeke after his testament and his testimonies †For thy name ô Lord thou wilt be propitious to my sinne for it is much †Who is the man that feareth our Lord he appoynteth him a law in the way that he hath chosen †His soule shal abide in good things and his seede shal inherite the land †Our Lord is a firmament to them that feare him c. his testament that it may be made manifest to them †Myne eies are alwayes to our Lord because he wil plucke my fecte out of the snare †Haue respect to me and haue mercie on me because I am alone and poore †The tribulations of my hart are multiplied deliuer me from my necessities †See my humiliation and my labour and forgeue al my sinnes †Behold mine enemies because they are multiplied and with vniust hatred hated me †Keepe my soule and deliuer me I shal not be ashamed because I hoped in thee †The innocent and righteous haue cleaued to me because I expected thee †Deliuer Israel ô God out of al his tribulations PSALME XXV Dauid in banishment among the Philistimes trusteth in the iustice of his cause 9. and prayeth God earnestly to deliuer him that he may with more freedom and commodity serue him as he desireth †Vnto the end the Psalme of Dauid IVDGE me ô Lord because I haue walked in my innocencie and hoping in our Lord I shal not be weakened †Proue me Lord and tempt me burne my reynes and my hart †Because thy mercie is before mine eies and I am wel pleased in thy truth †I haue not sitten with the councel of vanitie and with them that doe vniust thinges I wil not enter in †I “ haue hated the Church of the malignant and with the impious I wil not sitte †I wil wash my handes among innocentes and wil compasse thy altar ô Lord †That I may heare the voice of praise and shew forth al thy meruelous workes †Lord I haue loued the beautie of thy house and the place of the habitation of thy glorie †Destroy not ô God my soule with the impious and my life with bloudie men †In whose handes are iniquities their righthand is replenished with giftes †But I haue walked in mine innocencie redeme me and haue mercie on me †My foote hath stood in the direct way in the Churches I wil blesse thee ô Lord. ANNOTATIONS PSALME XXV 5. I haue hated the Church of the malignant Holie Dauid forced by reason of persecution to dwel amongst Infidels the Philistians after he had twise spared king Saules life 1 Reg 24. v. 5. et c. 26. v. 9. lamented v. 19. how great affliction it was to him to be cast out that he could not a vvel in the inheritance of our Lord where God was rightly serued and that his enemies had done so much as in them lay to make him fal into idolatrie by their fact as it were saying â—oâ— serue strange goddes Neuertheles his zele was such that as he here professeth he hated the Church of the malignant that is the congregations of al miscreants his immaculate religious puritie was so perfect that he would not so much as in exâ—eâ—â—â—l shew conforme his actions to theirs in matters of religion nor yeld his 〈◊〉 presence in their conuenticles but said VVith the impious I vvil not siâ—â—â— instructing vs Christians for the word to the end in the title sheweth that this 〈◊〉 perteyneth also to vs that we must both hate the Church or con-â—â—â—◠〈◊〉 of the malignant to witte of Painims Iewes Turkes and Hererikes and â—â—t â—i tâ—
day soeuer I am in tribulation incline thine eare to me In what day soeuer I shal inuocate thee heare me speedely †Because my dayes haue vanished as smoke and my bones are withered as a drie burnt firebrand †I am striken as grasse and my hart is withered because I haue forgotten to eate my bread †For the voyce of my groning my bone hath cleaued to my flesh †I am become like a pellicane of the wildernes I am become as a nightcrow in the house †I haue watched and am become as a sparow solitarie in the housetoppe †Al the day did mine enemies vpbrayde me and they that praysed me sware against me †Because I did eate ashes as bread mingled my drinke with weeping †At the face of thy wrath and indignation because lifting me vp thou hast throwne me downe †My daies haue declined as a shadow and I am withered as grasse †But thou ô Lord endurest for euer and thy memorial in generation and generation †Thou rysing vp shal haue mercie on Sion because it is time to haue mercie on it because the time cometh †Because the stones therof haue pleased thy seruantes and they shal haue pittie on the earth therof †And the Gentiles shal feare thy name ô Lord and al the kinges of the earth thy glorie †Because our Lord hath built Sion and he shal be seene in his glorie †He hath had respect to the prayer of the humble and he hath not despised their petition †Let these thinges be written vnto an other generation and the people that shal be created shal praise our Lord. †Because he hath looked forth from his high holie place our Lord from heauen hath looked vpon the earth †That he might heare the gronings of the fettered that he might loose the children of them that are slayne †That they may shewforth the name of our Lord in Sion and his praise in Ierusalem †In the assembling of the people together in one and kinges to serue our Lord. †He answered him in the way of his strength Shew me the fewnes of my daies †Cal me not backe in the halfe of my daies thy yeares are vnto generation and generation †In the beginning ô Lord thou didst found the earth and the heauens are the workes of thy hands †They shal perish but thou art permanent and they shal al waxe old as a garment And as a vesture thou shalt change them and they shal be changed †but thou art the selfe same and thy yeares shal not faile †The children of thy seruantes shal inhabite and their seede shal be directed for euer PSALME CII Thankes to God for priuate 6. and publike benefites 17. His mercie iustice and other proprieties are immutable 20. Angels and al other creatures are inuited to praise him †To Dauid himself MY soule blesse thou our Lord and al thinges that are within me his holie name †My soule blesse thou our Lord and forget not al his retributions †Who is propitious to al thine iniquities who healeth al thine infirmities †Who redemeth thy life from deadly falling who crowneth thee in mercie and commiserations †Who replenisheth thy desire in good thinges “ thy youth shal be rewed as the eagles †Our Lord doth mercies and iudgement to al that suffer wrong †He made his waies knowne to Moyses his willes to the children of Israel †Our Lord is pitieful and merciful long suffering and very merciful †He wil not be angrie alwayes neither wil he threaten for euer †He hath not done to vs according to our sinnes neither according to our iniquities hath he rewarded vs. †For according to the height of heauen from the earth hath he strengthned his mercie vpon them that feare him †As far as the East is distant from the West hath he made our iniquities far from vs. †As a father hath compassion of his children so hath our †Lord compassion on them that feare him †because he hath knowen our making He remembred that we are dust †man his daies are as grasse as the floure of the filde so shal he florish †Because the spirit shal passe in him and he shal not stand and he shal know his place no more †But the mercie of our Lord from euerlasting and vnto euerlasting vpon them that feare him And his iustice is vpon the childrens children to them that keepe his testament †And are mindful of his commandmentes to doe them †Our Lord hath prepared his seate in heauen and his kindom shal haue dominion ouer al. †Blesse our Lord al ye his Angels mightie in powre doing his word that feare the voice of his wordes †Blesse our Lord al ye his hoastes you his ministers that doe his wil. †Blesse ye our Lord al his workes in euerie place of his dominion my soule blesse thou our Lord. ANNOTATIONS PSALME CII 5 Thy youth shal be renevved as the Eagles Aristotel and Plinie write that an Eagle decayeth not nor euer dieth by old age but the vpper part of her beake st l growing at last hâ—ndereth her from eating and so she dieth of famâ—ne Saadias and other Hebrew Rabbins reporte that an Eagle euerie tenne yeares washeth herselfe â—n the sea as in a baâ—h then flying very hiegh burneth her fethers in the elemental fire new fethers growing she becometh fresh as in her first youth tâ—l at last about an huadred yeares old she is not able to rise from the water and so is drowned S. Augustin more probably affirmeth that in long time her â—eâ—ke growing long and stopping her mouth that she can not eate she breaketh the vpper hooked part therof against a stone and so receiueth meate and recouereth strength as in her youth But whatsoeuer is the natural propert e of this kinglie birde the Royal Prophet here instructeth vs by the sâ—nilitude of her long life or by the renouation of her streingth that iust men Gods seruantes are spiritually renouated in Christ the principal rocke on whoâ— the Church al the faithful are built either by receiuing new streingth by his grace in their soules after they are weakened by sinne as S. Ierom and Eu hymius expound this place or by restauration of their bodies glorified in the resurrection as S. Augustin teacheth or by both as most Catholique Doctors vnderstand it For one sense of holie Scripture excludeth not an other Especially when one is subordinate to the other As here these two senses do very wel concurre seing the state of the bodie after the resurrection dependeth vpon the state of the soule at
Idumea †Wil t not thou ô God which hast repelled vs and wilt not thou goeforth ô God in our hoastes †Geue vs helpe out of tribulation because mans saluation is vayne †In God we shal doe strength and he wil bring our enemies to nothing PSALME CVIII Christ by the mouth of Dauid requesteth of God to be iustly declared innocent and his enimies punished 6. particularly describing Iudas the traitors malice 21. and his owne temporal afflictions 26. prayeth 30. and praiseth God for his deliuerie †Vnto the end a Psalme of Dauid O God conceale not my prayse because the mouth of the sinner and the mouth of the deceitful man is open vpon me †They haue spoken against me with deceitful tongue and with wordes of hatred they haue compassed me and they haue impugned me without cause †For that they should loue me they backbited me but I prayed †And they set against me euil thinges for good and hatred for my loue Appoint a sinner ouer him and let the diuel stand on his righthand †When he is iudged let him comeforth condemned and let his prayer be turned into sinne †Let his dayes be made fewe and let an other take his bishopricke †Let his children be made orphans and his wife a widow †Let his children be transported wandering and let them begge and let them be cast out of their habitations †Let the vsurer search al his substance and let strangers spoile his labours †Let there be none to helpe him neither let there be anie to haue pittie on his pupilles †Let his children come to destruction in one generation let his name be cleane put out †Let the iniquitie of his fathers returne to memorie in the sight of our Lord and let not the sinne of his mother be blotted out †Let them be before our Lord alwayes and let the memorie of them perish out of the earth †For that he remembred not to doe mercie †And he persecuted the poore and needie man and the compunct in hart to kil him †And he loued cursing and it shal come to him and he would not blessing and it shal be far from him And he put on cursing as a garment and it entred as water into his inner partes and as oile in his bones †Be it to him as a garment wherwith he is couered and as a girdle wherwith he is alwayes girded †This is the worke of them that detract from me before our Lord and that speake euils against my soule †And thou Lord Lord doe with me for thy names sake because thy mercie is swete Deliuer me †because I am needie and poore and my hart is trubled within me †As a shadow when it declineth am I taken away and I am shaken as locustes †My knees are weakened with fasting and my flesh is changed by reason of oile †And I am made a reproch to them they saw me and wagged their heades †Helpe me ô Lord my God saue me according to thy mercie †And let them know that this is thy hand and thou ô Lord hast done it †They wil curse and thou shalt blesse let them that rise vp against me be confounded but thy seruant shal reioyce †Let them that detract from me be clothed with shame and let them be couered with their confusion as with a duble patched cloke †I wil confesse to our Lord excedingly with my mouth and in the middes of manie I wil prayse him †Because he hath stood on the righthand of the poore that he might saue my soule from the persecutors PSALME CIX Christ rising and ascending into heauen sitteth on the right hand of God 2. beginning in Ierusalem reigneth in the Church of the whole earth 4. vseth the Priesthood of Melchisedechs order to the end of the world 6. and shal iudge the world †A psalme of Dauid OVR Lord sayd to my Lord Sitte on my right hand til I make thine enemies thy footestoole of thy feete †Our Lord wil sendforth the rod of thy strength from Sion rule thou in the middes of thine enemies †With thee the beginning in the day of thy strength in the brightnes of holie thinges from the wombe before the day starre I begat thee †Our Lord sware and it shal not repent him Thou art “ a Priest for euer “ according to the order of Melchisedech †Our Lord on thy righthand hath broken kinges in the day of his wrath †He shal iudge in nations he shal fil ruines he shal crush the heads in the land of manie †Of the torrent in the way he shal drinke therfore shal he exalt the head ANNOTATIONS CIX 4. A Priest for euer In two respectes Christ is a Priest for euer in that from the first instant of his incarnation he was and remaneth a Priest now also in heauen and al other Priestes are his ministerial vicares not successors So that al priestlie functions which they doe he by them doth the same as the principal Priest VVherupon saith S. Paul 1. Cor 4. So let a man thincke of vs as of the ministers of Christ and dispensers of the mysteries of God Secondly Christ dayly offering Sacrifice by the handes of his Priestes doth continually pacifie Gods wrath in behalf of those sinners for whom it is duly applied euen to the end of the world VVheras the Priesthood of Aaron and of al others in the old Testament ceassed by their deathes both in the office and in the effect 4 According to the order of Melchisedech As Melchisedech king of peace and iustice without father mother or genealogie expressed in holie Scriptures or otherwise knowen to the world was Priest or the Hieghest offered bread and wine an vnbloudie sacrifice communicating with both Chananeites and Hebrewes blessed Abraham and tooke tithes of him and his subiectes so Christ the true King of peace iustice without father of his humanity without mother of his Diuinitie the Sonne of God of ineffable genealogie borne of a virgin in his humanitie the Priest of God offereth Sacrifice not only bloudie on the Crosse but also vnbloudie in the formes of bread and wine continueth the same by the ministerie of other Priestes maketh al nations partakers therof blesseth them and receiueth of them al dutiful and rellgious seruice as of his subiectes PSALME CX Praise of God for benefites 4. especially for the B. Sacrament of the Eucharist 6 with other graces imperted to the Catholique Church Alleluia I Wil confesse to thee ô Lord with al my hart in the counsel of the iust and b the congregation †The workes of our Lord are great exquisite according to al his willes †Confession and magnificence his worke
bring her to me to liue together knowing that she wil communicate vnto me of good thinges and wil be a comfort of my cogitation tediousnes †I shal haue for her sake glorie with the multitudes and honour with the ancient being yong †and I shâ—â— be â—â—â—nd sharpe in iudgement and in the sight of the mightie I shal be meruelous and the faces of princes wil meruel at me †Holding my peace they shal expect me and whiles I speake manie wordes they shallay their hands on their mouth †Moreouer by her I shal haue immortalitie and I shal leaue an eternal memorie to them that shal be after me †I shal dispose peoples and nations shal be subiect to me †Horrible kings hearing shal feare me in the multitude I shal seme good and in battel strong †Entring into my house I shal rest with her for her conuersation hath no bitternes nor her companie tediousnes but ioy and gladnesse †Thinking these thinges with myselfe and recording in my hart that immortalitie is in the kindred of wisedom †and good delectation in her frendship and in the workes of her handes honestie without defect and wisdom in the disputation of her talke and glorie in the communication of her wordes I went about seeking that I might take her to me †And I was a wittie childe and had gotten a good soule †And wheras I was more good I came to a bodie vndefield †And as I knew that I could not otherwise be continent vnlesse God gaue it this verie thing also was wisdom to know whose this gift was I went to our Lord and besought him and said from my whole hart CHAP. IX A prayer made by Salomon for wisdom 9. wherby Superiors are able to gouerne 13. Which by only humane wisdom they can not rightly performe GOD of my fathers and Lord of mercie which madest al thinges with thy word †and by thy wisdom didst appoint man that he should haue dominion of the creature that was made by thee †that he should dispose the round-world in equitie and iustice and execute iudgement in direction of hart †geue me wisdom the assistant of thy seates and repel me not from thy children †because I am thy seruant and the sonne of thy handmaide a weake man and of smal time and lesse to the vnderstanding of iudgement and lawes †And if one be perfect among the children of men and thy wisdom be absent from him he shal be counted for nothing †Thou hast chosen me king to thy people and iudge of thy sonnes and daughters †and badst me build a temple in thy holie mount and an altar in the citie of thy habitation a similitude of thy holie tabernacle which thou didst prepare from the beginning †and thy wisdom with thee which knew thy workes which then also was present when thou madest the roundworld and knew what was pleasing to thyne eyes and what was direct in thy precepts †Send her from thy holy heauens and from the seate of thy greatnes that she may be with me and may labour with me that I may know what is acceptable with thee †for she knoweth al thinges vnderstandeth and shal conduct me in my workes soberly shal keepe me with her might †And my workes shal be acceptable and I shal gouerne thy people iustly and shal be worthie of the seates of my father †For who of men is able to know the counsel of God or who can thinke what God wil †For the cogitations of mortal men be fearful and our prouidences vncertaine †For the bodie that is corrupted burdeneth the soule and the earthlie habitation presseth downe the vnderstanding that thinketh manie thinges †And we doe hardly coniecture the thinges that are in the earth and the thinges that are in sight we finde with labour But the thinges that are in the heauens who shal search out †And thy sense who shal know vnles thou geue wisdom and send thy holie spirit from on high †and so the pathes of them that are on the earth may be corrected and men lerne the thinges that please thee †For by wisdom they were healed whoseouer haue pleased thee ô Lord from the begynning CHAP. X. The benefites of wisdom are declared by examples in Adam 4. Noe 5. Abraham 6. Lot 10. Iacob 13. Ioseph 15. And the people of Israel SHE kept him that was first made of God father of the world when he was created alone †and she brought him out of his sinne and gaue him powre to conteyne al thinges †After the vniust departed in his anger from her by the furie of brothers man slaughter perished †For whose cause when water destroyed the earth wisdom healed it againe gouerning the iust by contemptible wood †She euen in the consent of wickednes when the nations had confederated themselues knewe the iust and preserued him without blame to God and in his sonnes mercie kept the strong †She deliuered the iust fleing from the impious that perished when the fyre came downe vpon Pentapolis †to whom for a witnes of their wickednes the desert land standeth smoking and trees hauing fruites at vncertain season and the memorie of an incredulous soule a standing piller of salt †For pretermitting wisdom they did not only slippe in this that they were ignorant of good thinges but they left also vnto men a memorie of their foolishnes that in those thinges in which they sinned in they could not be hid neither †But wisdom hath deliuered them that obserue her from sorowes †And the iust fleing his brothers wrath she conducted by the right wayes and shewed him the kingdom of God and gaue him the knowlege of the holie did honest him in labours and accomplised his labours †In the fraude of the circumuenters of him she was present with him and made him honorable †She kept him from the enemies and from seducers she defended him and from seducers she defended him and gaue him a strong fight thas he might ouercome and know that wisdom is mightier then al. †She forsooke not the iust being sold but deliuered him from sinners and she went downe with him into the pitte †and in bands leaft him not til she brought him the scepter of a kingdome and might against them that oppressed him and shewed them to be lyers that spotted him and gaue him eternal glorie †The iust people and seede without blame she deliuered from the nations that oppressed them †She entered into the soule of the seruant of God and stood against dreadful kinges in wonders and signes †And she rendred to the iust the hope of their labours and conducted them in a meruelous way and she was vnto them for a couerr in the day and for the
testamentes †and their children because of them abide for euer their seede and their glorie shal not be forsaken †Their bodies are buried in peace and their name liueth vnto generation and generation †Let peoples tel their wisdom and the Church declare their praise †Henoch pleased God and was translated into paradise that he may geue repentance to the nations †Noe was found perfect iust and in the time of wrath he was made a reconciliation †Therefore was there a remnant least to the earth when the flood was made †The testaments of the world were made with him that al flesh should no more be destroyed with the flood †Abraham the great father of the multitude of the nations and there was not found the like to him in glorie who kept the law of the Highest and was in couenant with him †In his flesh he made the couenant to stand and in tentation he was found faithful †Therefore by an oath he gaue him glorie in his nation that he should encrease as an heape of earth †and that he would exalt his seede as the starres and they should inherite from sea to sea and from the riuer to the endes of the earth †And he did in like manner in Isaac for Abraham his father †Our Lord gaue him the blessing of al nations and confirmed his couenant vpon the head of Iacob †He knew him in his blessinges and gaue him an inheritance diuided him his portion in twelue tribes †And he preserued vnto him men of mercie and found grace in the eies of al flesh CHAP. XLV Praises of Moyses 7. Aaron 16. and his priestlie progenie 22. Against whom Chore with his complices rebelling were destroyed MOYSES beloued of God and men whose memorie is in benediction †He made him like in the glorie of saintes and magnified him in the feare of his enemies And with his wordes he appeased monsters †He glorified him in the sight of kinges and gaue him commandment before his people shewed him his glorie †In his faith and meekenes he made him holie and chose him of al flesh †For he heard him and his voice and brought him into a cloude †And he gaue him precepts face to face and a law of life and discipline to teach Iacob his testament and Israel his iudgements †He exalted Aaron his brother high and like to himself of the tribe of Leui. †He established vnto him an euerlasting testament and gaue him the priesthood of the nation and made him blessed in glorie †and he girded him about with a girdle and put vpon him a robe of glorie and crowned him in furniture of power †Garments to the feete and breches and an Ephod he put vpon him and compassed him with litle belles of gold very manie round about †to geue a sound in his going to make sound heard in the temple for a memorie to the children of his nation †An holie robe of gold and hyacinthe and purple a wouen worke of a wiseman indued with iudgement and truth †Of twisted scarlet the worke of an artificer with precious stones figured in the closure of gold and grauen by the worke of a lapidarie for a memorial according to the number of the tribes of Israel †A crowne of gold vpon his miter grauen with a seale of holines and the glorie of honour a worke of power and the adorned desires of the eies †There were none such so faire before him euen from the beginning †No stranger was clothed with them but only his children alone and his nephewes for euer †His sacrifices were consumed with fire euerie day †Moyses filled his handes anoynted him with holie oile †It was made vnto him for an euerlasting testament and to his seede as the daies of heauen to doe the function of priesthood and to haue praise and to glorifie his people in his name †He chose him of al that liued to offer sacrifice to God incense and good odour for a memorial to pacifie for his people †and he gaue them power in his preceptes in the testaments of his iudgementes to teach Iacob his testimonies and in his law to geue light to Israel †Because strangers stood against him and for enuie men compassed him about in the desert they that were with Dathan and Abiron and the congregation of Core in anger †Our Lord God saw and it pleased him not and they were consumed in the violence of wrath †He did prodigious thinges vnto them and consumed them in flame of fire †And he added glorie to Aaron and gaue him an inheritance and diuided vnto him the first fruites of the increase of the earth †He prepared them bread in the first vnto satietie for the sacrifices also of our Lord they shal eate which he gaue to him and to his seede †But he shal not inherite the nations in the land and he hath no part in the nation for himself is his portion inheritance †Phinees the sonne of Eleazar is the third in glorie in imitating him in the feare of our Lord †and to stand in the reuerence of the nation in the goodnes and alacritie of his soule he pacified God for Israel †Therefore did he establish vnto him a couenant of peace to be the prince of the holies and of his nation that the dignitie of priesthood should be to him and to his seede for euer †And the testament to Dauid king the sonne of Iesse of the tribe of Iuda and inheritance to him and to his seede that he might geue wisdom into our hart to iudge his nation in iustice that their good thinges might not be abolished their glorie in their nation he made euerlasting CHAP. XLVI Praises of Iosue 9. Caleb 13. the Iudges of Israel 16. Namely of Samuel Iudge and Prophet STRONG in battel was Iesus the sonne of Naue successour of Moyses among the prophets who was great according to his name †most great in the saluation of Gods elect to ouerthrow the enemies rising vp that he might get the inheritanâ— of Israel †What glorie obteyned he in lifting vp his handes and casting swordes against the cities †Who before him did so resist â—or our Lord himself brought the enemies †Whether was not the sunne hindered in his anger and one day was made as two †He inuocated the mightie soueraine in assaulting of the enemies on euerie side and the great and holie God heard him in haile stones of exceeding great force †He made violent assault against the nation of his enemies and in the goeing downe he destroyed the aduersaries †that the nations might know his might that it is not easie to fight against God And he folowed at the back of the mightie †And in the daies of Moyses did mercie and Caleb the
ancient people the thinges to come and that shal be hereafter let them shew vnto them †Feare ye not neither be ye trubled from that time I haue made thee to heare and haue declared you are my witnesses Is there a God beside me and a maker whom I haue not knowen †Al the makers of an idol are nothing and their best beloued thinges shal not profite them Them selues are their witnesses that they doe not see nor vnderstand that they may be confounded †Who hath formed a god and molten a sculptil profitable to nothing †Behold al the partakers therof shal be confounded for the makers are of men they shal al assemble they shal stand and feare and shal be confounded together †The yron smith hath wrought with the file with coales and with hammers he hath formed it and hath wrought in the arme of his strength he shal hunger and faynt he shal not drinke water and shal become wearie †The carpenter hath stretched out a rule he hath formed it with a plaine he hath made it with corners and hath fashioned it round with the compasse and he hath made the image of a man as it were a beautiful man dwelling in a house †He hath cut downe cedars taken the helme tree the oke that stood among the trees of the forest he hath planted the pine tree which the rayne nourished †And it was made a fyre for men he tooke of them and was warmed and kindled them and baked bread but of the rest he wrought a god and adored he made a sculptil and bowed downe before it †Halfe he burnt with fyre and of the halfe broyled he flesh eate it he sod pottage and was filled and was warmed and sayd Aha I am warme I haue sene the fyre †But the rest therof he made a god and a sculptil to him self he boweth before it and besecheth saying Deliuer me because thou art my God †They haue not knowen nor vnderstood for they haue forgotten that their eies could not see and that they could not vnderstand with their hart †They doe not recount in their minde nor know nor feele that they should say Halfe therof I haue burnt with fyre and I haue baked bread vpon the coales therof I haue broyled flesh haue eaten and of the rest therof shal I make an idol shal I fal downe before the stocke of a tree †Part therof is ashes an vnwise hart adored it he wil not saue his soule nor say Perhaps there is a lie in my right hand †Remember these thinges ô Iacob and Israel because thou art my seruant I haue formed thee thou art my seruant ô Israel foget me not †I haue cleane taken away thine iniquities as a cloude thy sinnes as a mist returne to me because I haue redemed thee †Prayse ye ô heauens because the Lord hath done mercie make iubilation ye endes of the earth ye mountaynes sound prayse thou forest and euerie tree therof because the Lord hath redemed Iacob and Israel shal be glorified †Thus sayth our Lord thy redemer and thy maker from the wombe I am the Lord that make al thinges that alone stretch out the heauens that establish the earth and none with me †That make the signes of diuiners voide and turne the southsayers into furie That turne the wise backward and that make their knowlege foolish †That rayseth vp the word of his seruant and accomplisheth the counsel of his messengers which say to Ierusalem Thou shalt be inhabited to the cities of Iuda You shal be built and I wil rayse vp the desertes therof †Which say to the depth Be thou desolate and thy riuers I wil drie vp †Who say to Cyrus Thou art my pastour and thou shalt accomplish al my wil. Who say to Ierusalem Thou shalt be built and to the temple Thou shalt be formed CHAP. XLV Cyrus by Gods prouidence ouercoming Babylon wil deliuer the Iewes from captiuitie 4. Yet is reprehended because he acknowledgeth not God 8. Vpon which occasion the prophet foresheweth the coming of Christ 14. in figure of whom he addeth more of Cyrus 18. and auoucheth that there is but one true God THVS sayth the Lord to my christ Cyrus whose right hand I haue taken to subdew the Gentiles before his face and to turne the backes of kinges to open the doores before him and the gates shal not be shut †I wil goe before thee and wil humble the glorious of the earth I wil breake the brasen gates and wil burst the iron barres †And I wil geue thee hidden treasures mysteries of secretes that thou mayst know that I am the Lord which cal thy name the God of Israel †For my seruant Iacob and Israel myne elect and I haue called thee by thy name I haue resembled thee and thou hast not knowen me †I the Lord there is none els beside me there is no God I girded thee and thou hast not knowen me †that they which are from the rising of the sunne and which are from the wâ—st may know that there is none beside me I the Lord and there is none oher †that forme light and create darknesse make peace and create euil I the Lord that doe al these thinges †Droppe dew ye heauens from aboue and let the cloudes rayne the iust be the earth opened and bud forth a sauiour and let iustice spring vp withal I the Lord haue created him †Woe to him that gainesayeth his maker a sheard of the earthen pottes shal the clay say to him that fashioneth it What makest thou thy worke is without handes †Woe to him that sayth to his father Why doest thou beget and to the woman Why doest thou trauel †Thus sayth our Lord the holy one of Israel the maker therof Aske me thinges to come concerning my children and the worke of my handes command you me †I made the earth man vpon the same I haue created my handes stretched forth the heauens and I haue commanded al their host †I haue raysed him vp to iustice wil direct al his wayes he shal build my citie dismisse my captiuitie not for price nor for giftes sayth our Lord the God of hostes †Thus sayth our Lord The labour of Aegypt and the merchandise of Aethiopia and of Sabaim the high men shal passe to thee shal be thine they shal walke after thee they shal goe bound with manicles and they shal adore thee and shal beseche thee Onlie in thee is God and there is no God beside thee †Verely thou art God hidden the God of Israel a sauiour †They are al confounded and ashamed the forgers of errours are gone together into confusion †Israel is saued in our Lord with eternal saluation you shal not be confounded and you shal not be ashamed for euer and euer â€
prefigured the reiection of the Iewes 12. til Gods mercie recalleth them 17. The Prophet lamenting their obstinacie 22. sheweth that their sinne is the cause of their miserie THVS saith our Lord to me Goe and get thee a girdle of linnen and thou shalt put it about thy loynes shalt not put it into water †And I got a girdle according to the word of our Lord and put it about my loynes †And the word of our Lord was made to me the second time saying †Take the girdle which thou hast gotten which is about thy loynes and rising goe to Euphrates and hide it there in an hole of the rocke †And I went and hidde it in Euphrates as our Lord had commanded me †And it came to passe after manie daies our Lord said to me Arise goe to Euphrates and take from thence the girdle which I commanded thee that thou shouldst hide it there †And I went to Euphrates and digged and tooke the girdle out of the place where I had hid it and behold the girdle was rotten so that it was fitte for noe vse †And the word of our Lord was made to me saying †Thus saith our Lord so wil I make the pride of Iuda the great pride of Ierusalem †This most wicked people which wil not heare my wordes and walke in the peruersitie of their hart and haue gone after strange goddes to serue them and to adore them they shal be as this girdle which is fitte for no vse †For as the girdle cleaueth to the loynes of a man so haue I fast ioyned to me al the house of Israel and al the house of Iuda saith our Lord that they might be my people and name and prayse and glorie and they heard not †Thou shalt say therefore vnto them this word Thus saith our Lord the God of Israel Euerie bottle shal be filled with wine And they shal say to thee Why are we ignorant that euerie bottle shal be filled with wine †And thou shalt say to them Thus saith our Lord Behold I wil fil al the inhabitants of this land the kinges that of the stocke of Dauid sitte vpon his throne and the priests and the prophets and al the inhabitants of Ierusalem with drunkennes †And I wil disperse them euerie man from his brother and the fathers and sonnes together saith our Lord I wil not spare and I wil not yelde neither wil I haue mercie not to destroy them †Heare ye and geue eare Be not eleuated because our Lord hath spoken †Geue ye glorie to our Lord your God before it waxe darke and before your feete stumble at the darke mountaines you shal looke for light and he wil turne it into the shadow of death and into darkenes †But if you wil not heare this in secret my soule shal weepe because of the pride weeping it shal weepe and mine eie shal droppe teares because the flocke of our Lord is taken †Say to the king and to her that ruleth Be humbled sitte downe because the crowne of your glorie is come downe from your head †The cities of the South are shut and there is none that may open them al Iuda is transported with a perfect transmigration †Lift vp your eies and see you that come from the North where is the flocke that is geuen thee thy noble cattel †what wilt thou say when he shal visite thee for thou hast taught them against thee and instructed them against thyne owne head shal not sorowes apprehend thee as a woman in trauel †And if thou shalt say in thy hart Why are these thinges come vnto me For the multitude of thine iniquitie thy more shamelie partes are discouered the soles of thy feete are polluted †If the Aethiopian can change his skinne or the leopard his spottes you also can doe wel when you haue learned euil †And I wil scatter them as stubble which is violently taken with the winde in the desert †This is thy lot and portion of thy measure from me saith our Lord because thou hast forgotten me and hast trusted in lying †Wherefore I haue also made bare thy thighes against thy face and thine ignominie hath appeared †thine adulteries and thy neying the wickednesse of thy fornication vpon the litle hilles in the field I haue seene thine abominations Woe to thee Ierusalem thou wilt not be made cleane after me how long yet CHAP. XIIII Iurie shal be afflicted with drought and famine 11. Neither shal the prophets prayer nor their fastes nor sacrifices auaile them 14. Falseprophetes shal perish with the seduced people 17. Ieremie lamenting exhorteth them to repentance THE word of our Lord that was made to Ieremie concerning the wordes of the drought †Iurie hath mourned and the gates thereof are fallen downe are obscured on the earth and the crie of Ierusalem is come vp †The greater men haue sent their inferiours to the water they came to drawe they found no water they caried backe their vessels emptie they were confounded and afflicted and couered their heades †For the waste of the land because there came no rayne vpon the earth the husbandmen were confounded they couered their heades †For the hinde also brought forth in the field and left it because there was no grasse †And the wild asses stood vpon the rockes they drew winde as dragons their eies failed because there was no grasse †If our iniquities haue answered vs Lord do for thy names sake because our reuoltinges are manie to thee we haue sinned †O expectation of Israel the sauiour thereof in the time of tribulation why wilt thou be as a seiourner in the land and as a wayfaring man turning in to lodge †Why wilt thou be as a wandring man as the strong that can not saue but thou ô Lord art in vs and thy name is inuocated vpon vs forsake vs not †Thus saith our Lord to his people which hath loued to moue their feete and haue not rested and hath not pleased our Lord Now wil he remember their iniquities and visite their sinnes †And our Lord said to me Pray not for this people to good †When they shal fast I wil not heare their prayers and if they shal offer holocaustes and victimes I wil not receiue them because with sword and famine and pestilence I wil consume them †And I said A a a ô Lord God the Prophetes say to them You shal not see the sword and there shal be no famine among you but he wil geue you true peace in this place †And our Lord said to me The prophetes prophecie falsely in my name I sent them not and I commanded them not neither haue I spoken vnto them lying vision and deceitful diuination guilfulnes and the seduction of their owne hart they prophecie vnto you †Therefore thus saith our Lord of the prophets that
desolation among al peoples into which our Lord hath dispersed vs. †And we are made vnderneath and not aboue because we haue sinned to the Lord our God in not obeying his voice †To the Lord our God iustice but to vs and to our fathers confusion of face as is this day †Because our Lord hath spoken vpon vs al these euils that are come vpon vs †and we haue not besought the face of the Lord our God to returne euerie one of vs from our most wicked waies †And our Lord hath watched in euils and hath brought them vpon vs because our Lord is iust in al his workes which he hath commanded vs †and we haue not heard his voice to walke in the precepts of our Lord which he hath geuen before our face †And now ô Lord God of Israel which brought out thy people out of the Land of Aegypt in a strong hand and in signes and in wonders and in thy great strength and in a mightie arme and madest thee a name as is this day †we haue sinned we haue done impiously we haue dealt vniustly ô Lord our God in al thy iustices †Let thy wrath be turned away from vs because we are left a few among the nations where thou hast dispersed vs. †Heare ô Lord our prayers and our petitions and bring vs our for thine owne sake and grant vs to fynde grace before their face that haue led vs away †that al the earth may know that thou art the Lord our God and that thy name is inuocated vpon Israel and vpon his stocke †Looke ô Lord from thy holie house vpon vs and incline thine eare and heare vs. †Open thine eies see because the dead that are in hel whose spirite is taken from their bowels shal not geue honour and iustification to our Lord †but the soule that is sorowful for the greatnes of euil and goeth crooked and weake and the eyes fayling and the hungrie soule geueth glorie and iustice to thee their Lord. †For not according to the iustices of our fathers doe we powre out prayers and aske mercie before thy sight ô Lord our God †but because thou hast sent thy wrath and thy furie vpon vs as thou hast spoken by the hande of thy seruants the prophets saying †Thus sayth our Lord Bowe downe your shoulder your necke and doe workes for the king of Babylon and you shal sitte in the land which I haue geuen to your fathers †But if you wil not heare the voice of the Lord your God to worke for the king of Babylon I wil make you to faile out of the cities of Iuda and from without Ierusalem †and I wil take from you the voice of mirth and the voice of ioy and the voice of the bridegrome and the voice of the bride and al the land shal be without foote steppe that inhabite it †And they heard not thy voice to worke for the king of Babylon and thou hast established thy wordes which thou spakest by the handes of thy seruants the prophets that the bones of our kinges and of our fathers should be transported out of their place †and behold they are cast forth in the heare of the sunne and in the frost of the night and they are dead in verie sore paines in famine and by sword and by casting forth †And hast made the temple in which thy name was there inuocated as it is this day for the iniquitie of the house of Israel and of the house of Iuda †And thou hast done in vs ô Lord our God according to al thy goodnes and according to al that thy great compassion †as thou spakest by the hand of thy seruant Moyses in the day that thou didst command him to write thy law before the children of Israel †saying If you wil not heare my voice this great multitude shal be turned into a verie litle one among the Gentiles whither I wil disperse them †because I know that the people wil not heare me for it is a people of a stiffe necke and they shal be conuerted to their hart in the land of their captiuitie †and they shal knowe that I am the Lord their God and I wil geue them a hart and they shal vnderstand and eares and they shal heare †And they shal praise me in the land of their captiuitie and shal be mindful of my name †And they shal turne away them selues from their hard backe and from their malignant workes because they shal remember the way of their fathers that sinned against me †And I wil recal them backe into the land which I sware to their fathers Abraham Isaac and Iacob and they shal haue the dominion therof and I wil multiplie them and they shal not be lesned †And I wil establish vnto them an other testament euerlasting that I be their God and they shal be my people and I wil no more moue my people the children of Israel from the land that I haue geuen them CHAP. III. VVith further confession of their sinnes 8. they acknowledge their iust captiuitie 12. because they haue left true wisdome 16. which was geuen to their fathers 23. not to rich men or mightie giants 29. but to those that serue God 34. whom the starres obey 36. with a cleare prophecie of Christ. AND now ô Lord omnipotent God of Israel the soule in distresses the pensiue spirite cryeth to thee †heare Lord and haue mercie because thou art a merciful God and haue mercie vpon vs because we haue sinned before thee †Because thou sittest for euer and shal we perish euerlastingly †O Lord omnipotent God of Israel heare now the prayer of the dead of Israel and of their children that haue sinned before thee and haue not heard the voice of the Lord their God and euils haue stoocke fast to vs. †Remember not the iniquities of our fathers but remember thy hand and thy name in this time †because thou art the Lord our God and we wil praise thee ô Lord †because for this end thou hast geuen thy feare in our hartes and that we may inuocate thy name and may praise thee in our captiuitie because we are conuerted from the iniquitie of our fathers which haue sinned before thee †And behold we are in our captiuitie this day wherby thou hast dispersed vs into reproch and into malediction and into sinne according to al the iniquities of our fathers which haue reuolted from thee ô Lord our God †Heare Israel the commandments of life harken with your eares that you may know prudence †What is the matter Israel that thou art in the land of the enemies †Thou art waxen old in a strange land thou art defiled with the dead thou art reputed with them that goe downe into hel †Thou hast forsaken the fountaine of wisdom †for if thou
eyes the same is the first king †But wheras that being broken there rose vp foure for it foure kinges shal rise vp of his nation but not in his strength †And after their reigne when iniquities shal be increased there shal arise a king impudent of face and vnderstanding propositions †And his strength shal be made strong but not in his owne strength and more then can be beleued shal he waste al thinges and shal prosper and doe And he shal kil the strong and the people of the saints †according to his wil and craft shal be directed in his hand and he shal magnifie his hart and in the abundance of al thinges he shal murder very manie agaynst the prince of princes shal he arise without hand he shal be destroyed †the vision of the euening and the morning which hath bene sayd is true thou therfore seale the vision because it shal be after manie dayes †And I Daniel languished and was sicke for certaine dayes and when I was risen vp I did the kings workes and was astonied at the vision and there was none that could interprete it CHAP. IX Daniel confessing that they are iustly afflicted for their sinnes 15. prayeth for speedie mercie 20. An Angel signifieth to him that within seuentie wekes of yeares Christ wil come 26. and be slayne his people the Iewes denying him whom he wil therfore reiect IN the first yeare of Darius the sonne of Assuerus of the seede of the Medes who reigned ouer the kingdom of the Chaldees †the first yeare of his kingdom I Daniel vnderstood in bookes the number of the yeares wherof the word of our Lord was made to Ieremie the prophete that seuentie yeares should be accomplished of the desolation of Ierusalem †And I sette my face to our Lord my God to pray and besech in fastinges sackcloth and ashes †And I prayed our Lord my God and I confessed and said I besech thee ô Lord God great and terrible which keepest couenant mercie to them that loue thee and keepe thy commandements †We haue sinned we haue done iniquitie we haue dealt impiously and haue reuolted we haue declined from thy commandments and iudgements †We haue not obeyed thy seruants the prophets that haue spoken in thy name to our kinges to our princes to our fathers and to al the people of the land †To thee ô Lord iustice but to vs confusion of face as is to day to the man of Iuda and to the inhabiters of Ierusalem and to al Israel to them that are nere and to them that are farre of in al the landes to which thou hast cast them out for their iniquities in which they haue sinned against thee †O Lord to vs confusion of face to our princes to our fathers that haue sinned †But to thee Lord our God mercie and propiciation because we haue reuolted from the †and haue not heard the voice of the Lord our God to walke in his law which he gaue vs by his seruants the prophetes †And al Israel haue transgressed thy law and haue declined from hearing thy voice and the malediction hath distilled vpon vs the detestation which is written in the booke of Moyses the seruant of God because we haue sinned to him †And he hath established his wordes which he spake vpon vs and vpon our princes that iudged vs that he would bring in vpon vs a great euil such as neuer was vnder al the heauen according to that which hath bene done in Iersalem †As it is written in the law of Moyses al this euil is come vpon vs and we besought not thy face ô Lord our God that we might returne from our iniquities might thinke on thy truth †And our Lord hath watched vpon the malice and hath brought it vpon vs iust is the Lord our God in al his workes which he hath done for we haue not heard his voice †And now ô Lord our God which broughtest forth thy people out of the Land of Aegypt in a strong hand madst thee a name according to this day we haue sinned we haue done iniquitie †O Lord according to al thy iustice but let thy wrath be turned away I besech thee and thy furie from thy citie Ierusalem from thy holie mount For by reason of our sinnes and the iniquities of our fathers Ierusalem and thy people are a reproch to al round about vs. †Now therfore heare ô our God the petition of thy seruant his prayers and shew thy face vpon thy sanctuarie which is desert for thyne owne sake †Incline my God thine eare heare open thine eyes and see our desolation the citie vpon which thy name is inuocated for neither in our iustifications doe we prostrate prayers before thy face but in thy manie commiserations †Heare ô Lord be pacified ô Lord attend doe delay not for thine owne sake my God because thy name is inuocated vpon thy citie vpon thy people †And when I yet spake prayed and confessed my sinnes and the sinnes of my people of Israel and did prostrate my prayers in the sight of my God for the holie mount of my God †as I was yet speaking in prayer loe the man Gabriel whom I had sene in the vision from the beginning quickly flying touched me in the time of the euening sacrifice †And he taught me and spake to me sayd Daniel now am I come forth to teach thee and that thou mighst vnderstand †From the beginning of thy prayers the word came forth and I am come to shew it to thee because thou art a man of desires and doe thou marke the word and vnderstand the vision †Seuentie weekes are abbridged vpon thy people vpon thy holie citie that preuarication may be consummate and sinne take an end iniquitie be abolished and euerlasting iustice be brought vision be accomplished and prophecie the Holie one of holies be anointed †Know therfore marke From the going forth of the word that Ierusalem be built againe vnto Christ the prince there shal be seuen weekes sixtie two weekes the streete shal be built againe the walles in * straitnes of the times †And after sixty two weekes Christ shal be slaine and it shal not be his people that shal denie him And the city the sanctuary shal the people dissipate with the prince to come the end therof waste after the end of the battel the appoynted desolation †And he wil confirme the couenant to manie one weeke and in the halfe of the weeke shal the hoste the sacrifice fayle and there shal be in the temple the abomination of desolation euen to the consummation and to the end shal the desolation endure CHAP. X. After fasting other voluntarie afflictions 4. Daniel seing a
temple of our Lord. †And they that are far shal come and shal build in the temple of our Lord and you shal know that the Lord of hosts sent me to you But this shal be if hearing you wil heare the voice of our Lord your God CHAP. VII The fast of the fift and seuenth moneth obserued in the captiuitie being good 5. was vnperfect 8. fasting from sinne is alwayes more necessarie AND it came to passe in the fourth yeare of Darius the king the word of our Lord was made to Zacharie in the fourth of the ninth moneth which is Casleu †And Sarasar and Rogommelech and the men that were with him sent to the house of God to besech the face of our Lord that they should say to the priests of the house of the Lord of hosts and to the prophets saying Must I weepe in the fifth moneth or must I san ctifie myself as now I haue done manie yeares †And the word of the Lord of hosts was made to me saying Speake to al the people of the land and to the priests saying when you fasted and mourned in the fifth and the seuenth for these seuentie yeares did you fast a fast vnto me †and when you did eate and drinke did you not eate for your selues and drinke for your selues †Why are they not the wordes which our Lord spake in the hand of the former prophets when Ierusalem as yet was inhabited and was welthie it self and the cities round about it and toward the South and in the champine there was dwelling †And the word of our Lord was made to Zacharie saying †Thus sayth the Lord of hosts saying Iudge ye true Iudgement and doe ye mercie miserations euerie man with his brother †And the widow and the pupil and the stranger and the poore doe not calumniate and let not a man thinke in his hart euil to his brother †And they would not attend and they turned away the shoulder departing and they aggrauated their eares not to heare †And they made their hart as the adamant lest they should heare the law the wordes which the Lord sent in his spirit by the hand of the former prophetes and there was great indignation made from the Lord of hosts †And it came to passe as he spake and they heard not so shal they crie I wil not heare sayth the Lord of hosts †And I dispersed them through out al kingdoms which they know not and the land was left desolate of them for that there was none passing returning and the land to be desired they layd into a desert CHAP. VIII God wil geue abundance of spiritual benefites to al nations by Christ 7. to whom shal be conuerted 13. manie Iewes 20. but manie more Gentiles AND the word of the Lord of hosts was made saying †Thus sayth the Lord of hostes I haue bene ielous for Sion with great zeale and with great indignation haue I bene ielous for it †Thus sayth the Lord of hosts I am returned to Sion and I wil dwel in the middes of Ierusalem and Ierusalem shal be called the Citie of truth the Mount of the Lord of hosts the sanctified mount †Thus sayth the Lord of hosts As yet shal old men dwel and old wemen in the streets of Ierusalem and euerie mans stafe in his hand for multitude of yeares †And the streets of the citie shal be filled with infantes and girles playing in the streets therof †Thus sayth the Lord of hosts If it shal seme hard in the eyes of the remnant of this people in those dayes Why shal it be hard in mine eyes sayth the Lord of hosts †Thus sayth the Lord of hosts Behold I wil saue my people from the land of the East and from the land of the Going downe of the sunne †And I wil bring them and they shal dwel in the middes of Ierusalem and they shal be my people and I wil be their God in truth and in iustice †Thus sayth the Lord of hosts Let your handes be strengthned you that heare in these dayes these words by the mouth of the prophets in the day that the house of the Lord of hosts was founded that the temple might be built †For before those dayes there was no hyre for men neither was there hyre for beasts neither was there peace to the comer in nor goer out for tribulation and I did let goe al men euerie one against his neighbour †But now not according to the former dayes wil I doe to the remnant of this people sayth the Lord of hosts †but the seede of peace shal be the vine shal geue his fruite and the earth shal geue her spring and the heauens shal geue their dew and I wil make the remnant of this people to possesse al these thinges †And it shal be as you were a malediction among the Gentils ô house of Iuda house of Israel so wil I saue you and you shal be a benediction feare not let your handes be strengthned †Because thus sayth the Lord of hosts As I purposed to afflict you when your fathers had prouoked me to wrath sayth our Lord †and I had no mercie so conuerting I haue meant in these dayes to doe good to the house of Iuda and Ierusalem feare not †These then are the wordes which you shal doe Speake ye truth euerie one with his neighbour truth and iudgement of peace iudge ye in your gates †And thinke ye not euerie man in your hart euil against his frend lying othe loue ye not for al these things are such as I hate sayth our Lord. †And the word of our Lord of hosts was made to me saying †Thus sayth the Lord of hosts The fast of the fourth and the fast of the fifth and the fast of the seuenth and the fast of the tenth shal be to the house of Iuda into ioy and gladnes into goodlie solemnities truth onlie and peace loue ye †Thus sayth the Lord of hosts vntil peoples come dwel in manie cities †and the inhabitants goe one to an other saying Let vs goe and besech the face of our Lord and let vs seeke the Lord of hosts I also wil goe †And manie peoples shal come and strong nations to seeke the Lord of hosts in Ierusalem to besech the face of our Lord. †Thus sayth the Lord of hosts In those dayes wherein ten men of al the tongue of the Gentils shal take hold and they shal take hold of the skirt of a man that is a Iewe saying We wil goe with you for we haue heard that God is with you CHAP. IX The bordering enimies of the Iewes shal beleue in Christ 9. who wil first come to the Iewes in mekenes yet in solemnitie riding on an asse 11. deliuer the godlie from the lake 12. geue great thinges to the
subuersion the wrath of indignation †Now therfore ô my sonnes be ye emulatours of the law geue your liues for the testament of your fathers †And remember the workes of the fathers which they haue done in their generations you shal receiue great glorie and an eternal name †Abraham was he not in tentation found faythful and it was reputed to him vnto iustice †Ioseph in the time of his distresse kept the commandment and he was made lord of Aegypt †Phinees our father feruent in the zele of God receiued the testament of an euerlasting priesthood †Iesus whiles he accomplished the word was made the duke in Israel †Caleb whiles he testifieth in the church receiued an inheritance †Dauid in his mercie obteyned the seate of the kingdom for euer †Elias whiles he zeleth the zele of the law was receiued into heauen †Ananias and Azarias and Misael beleuing were deliuered out of the flame †Daniel in his simplicitie was deliuered out of the lions mouth †And so thinke ye through generation generation that al that hope in him are not weakened †And of the wordes of the sinful man be not afrayd because his glorie is dung worme †to day he is extolled to morow he shal not be found because he is turned into his earth his cogitation is perished †You therfore my sonnes take courege doe manfully in the law because in it you shal be glorious †And behold Simon your brother I know that he is a man of counsel heare ye him alwayes he shal be a father to you †And Iudas Machabeus valiant of strength from his youth let him be to you the prince of warfare he shal manage the battel of the people †And you shal bring to you al the doers of the law and reuenge ye the reuenge of your people †Repay retribution to the Gentiles and attend to the precept of the law †And he blessed them and was layd to his fathers †And he died the hundreth and six and fourtith yeare and he was buried by his sonnes in the sepulchers of his fathers in Modin and al Israel lamented him with great lamentation CHAP. III. Iudas Machabeus punisheth the wicked 10. killeth Apollonius in battel 13. Seron braggeth but is also ouerthrowen 25. Antiochus furiously incensed 29. gathereth money in Persis 32. leauing Lysias viceroy 38. who sending a great armie against the Israelites 42. Iudas and his bretheren commending the cause to God by prayer and penance 54. resolue to fight against their enemies AND Iudas that was called Machabeus his sonne arose in his steed †and al his bretheren helped him and al that had ioyned themselues to his father and they fought the battel of Israel with ioy †And he dilated glorie to his people and put on him a brigantine as a giant and girded about him his warlie armour in battels and protected the campe with his sword †He became like a lion in his actes and as a lions whelpe roaring in hunting †And he persecuted the wicked enquiring them out and such as trubled his people them he burnt with fyre †and his enemies were repelled for feare of him al the workers of iniquitie were trubled and saluation was directed in his hand †And he exasperated manie kinges and reioyced Iacob in his workes and for euer his memorie is in benediction †And he walked through the cities of Iuda and destroyed the impious out of them and turned away wrath from Israel †And he was renowned euen to the vttermost part of the earth he gathered theÌ„ that perished †And Apollonius gathered together the Gentils and from Samaria a powre much and great to make battel against Israel †And Iudas vnderstood it and wentforth to meete him and he stroke and killed him and there fel manie wounded and the rest fled away †And he tooke the spoiles of them and the sword of Apollonius Iudas tooke away and he fought with it al his dayes †And Seron capitaine of the armie of Syria heard that Iudas gathered a congregation of the faithful and an assemblie with him †and he sayd I wil make me a name wil be glorified in kingdom wil ouerthrow Iudas and those that are with him that despised the word of the king †And he prepared himself and there went vp with him a campe of the impious strong helpers to doe vengeance vpon the children of Israel †And they approched euen as far as Bethoron Iudas went forth to meete him with few †But as they saw the armie coming to meete them they sayd to Iudas How shal we a few be able to fight against so great a multitude and so strong and we are wearied with fasting to day †And Iudas sayd It is an easie matter for manie to be inclosed in the hand of few there is no difference in the sight of the God of heauen to deliuer in manie and in few †Because not in the multitude of the armie is the victorie of battel but from heauen is the strength †They come to vs in an obstinate multitude and in pride to destroy vs and our wiues and our children and to spoile vs. †But we wil fight for our liues and our lawes †and our Lord himself wil destroy them before our face but you feare them not †And as he ceased to speake he flew vpon them sodenly and Seron was destroyed and his host in his sight †and he pursewed him in the descent of Bethoron euen to the playne and there fel of them eight hundred men and the rest fled into the land of the Phylisthims †And the feare of Iudas and of his bretheren and the dread fâ—l vpon al the nations round about them †And his name came to the king and al nations told of the battels of Iudas †And as king Antiochus heard these wordes he was wrath in his mind and he sent and gathered the armie of al his kingdom a campe exceding strong †and he opened his treasurie and gaue wages to the armie for a yeare and he commanded them that they should be readie at al assayes †And he saw that money fayled out of his treasures and the tributes of the region smal because of the dissension and the plague that he had made in the land to take away the ordinances that were from the first dayes †and he feared lest he should not haue as once and twise for costs and gifts which he had geuen before with a large hand and he had abunded aboue the kinges that had bene before him †And he was excedingly astonied in minde purposed to goe into Persis and to take the tributes of the regions and to gather together much siluer †And he left Lysias a noble man of the bloud royal ouer the kings affayres from the
riuer Euphrates euen to the riuer of Aegypt †and that he should bring vp Antiochus his sonne til he returned †And he deliuered to him half the armie and Elephants and he gaue him in commandment concerning al thinges that he would concerning the inhabitants of Iurie and Ierusalem †and that he should send an armie to them to destroy and roote out the powre of Israel and the remnant of Ierusalem and to take away the memorie of them out of the place †and that he should appoynt inhabitants in al their costs children strangers should by lot distribute their land †And the king tooke the part of the armie that remayned and went forth from Antioch the citie of his kingdom in the yeare an hundreth and seuen and fourtie and he passed ouer the riuer Euphrates walked through the higher countries †And Lysias chose Ptolomee the sonne of Doryminus and Nicanor and Gorgias mightie men of the kings freindes †And he sent with them fourtie thousand men and seuen thousand horsemen that they should come into the land of Iuda and should destroy it according to the word of the king †And they went forth with al their power and came and ioyned nere to Enimaum in the champaine countrie †And the merchants of the countries heard the name of them and they tooke siluer and gold exceding much and seruants and they came into the campe to take the children of Israel for slaues and there were added to them the armie of Syria and of the land of the strangers †And Iudas saw and his bretheren that the euils were multiplied and the armies approched to their borders and they knew the kings words which he commanded to doe to the people vnto destruction and consummation †and they sayd euerie one to his neighbour Let vs set vp the abasing of our people and let vs fight for our people and our holies †And an assemblie was gathered that they should be readie vnto battel and that they should pray and desire mercie and miserations †And Ierusalem was not inhabited but was as a desert there was none that came in and went out of her children and the holie place was conculcated and the children of strangers were in the castel there was the inhabitation of the Gentils and pleasure was taken away from Iacob and there failed their pipe and harpe †And they gathered together and came into Maspha against Ierusalem because the place of prayer in Israel was in Maspha before †And they fasted that day and clothed themselues with heareclothes and put ashes on their head and they rent their garments †and they layd open the bookes of the law out of which the Gentils searched the similitude of their idols †and they brought the ornaments of priests and first fruites and tithes and raysed vp Nazareits that had fulfilled their dayes †and they cried with a lowd voice to heauen saying What shal we doe with these whither shal we carie them †And thy holies are conculcated and they are contaminated and thy priests are brought into mourning and into humiliation †And behold the Nations are come together against vs to destroy vs thou knowest what thinges they intend against vs. †How shal we be able to stand before their face vnles thou ô God doe helpe vs †And with trumpets they cried out with a lowd voice †And after these thinges Iudas appointed captaynes of the people tribunes and centurions and a seargents and decurions †And he sayd to them that built houses and despoused wiues and planted vyneyards and to the fearful that euerie one should returne into his house according to the law †And they remoued the campe and pitched at the South of Emmaum †And Iudas sayd Gird vp your selues and be mightie sonnes and be readie agaynst the morning that you may fight against these nations which are assembled against vs to destroy vs and our holies †because it is better for vs to dye in battel then to see the euils of our nation and of the holies †but as it shal be the wil in heauen so be it done CHAP. IIII. Gorgias with six thousand souldiars wel appointed intending sudenly to destroy the Israelites armie of three thousand not wel armed 8. is defeated halfe of his men slaine the rest running away 16. Iudas staying his men from spoyling til the enemies were out of sight then they take rich prayes and render thankes to God 28. The next yeare Lysias with three score thousand foote and six thousand horsemen inuading Iurie Iudas with tenne thousand making his prayer to God killeth fiue thousand 35. the rest flying Lysias gathereth more souldiars 36. Iudas with his bretheren and others clense the temple and renew holie thinges 55. Offer Sacrifice 58. and institute a feast of the dedication of a new Altar AND Gorgias tooke fiue thousand chosen horsemen they remoued the campe by night †that they might approch to the campe of the Iewes and might strike them sodenly and the children that were of the castel were their guides †And Iudas heard and arose he and the mighties to strike the powre of the kings armie that were in Emmaum †For as yet the armie was dispersed from the campe †And Gorgias came into the campe of Iudas by night and found no man and he sought them in the mountaynes because he sayd These flee from vs. †And when the day was come Iudas appeared in the filde with three thousand men onlie which had not harnes and swords as they would †and they saw the campe of the Gentils strong and the men in brigantines and horsemen round about them and these were skilful to battel †And Iudas sayd to the men that were with him Feare not the multitude of them of their assault be not afrayd †Remember in what sort our fathers were saued in the redsea when Pharao with a great armie folowed them †And now let vs crie towards heauen and our Lord wil haue mercie on vs and wil be mindful of the testament of our fathers wil destroy this armie before our face this day †and al Nations shal know that there is one that redemeth and deliuereth Israel †And the aliens lifted vp their eyes and saw them coming against them †And they went out of the campe into battel and these that were with Iudas sounded with the trumpet †And they mette together and the Gentils were discomfited and fled into the playne †but al the hi◠most fel by the sword and they pursewed them as far as Gezeron and euen to the playnes of Idumea and of Azotus and of Iamnia and there fel of them euen to three thousand men †And Iudas returned and his armie folowing him †And he sayd to the people Couet not the spoiles because there is battel against vs †and Gorgias and his
himself worse to the Iewes then his father †Which thinges when Iudas vnderstood he coÌ„manded the people that day and night they should inuocate our Lord that as alwayes now also he would helpe them †as who were afrayed to be depriued of the law their countrie the holie temple and that he would not suffer the people that had of late taken breath a litle while to be againe subdued to the blasphemous nations †Al therfore doing it together and crauing mercie of our Lord with weeping fastinges being prostrate for three dayes continually Iudas exhorted them to prepare them selues †But he with the ancients consulted before the king should bring his armie to Iurie and winne the citie to goe out and to committe the euent of the thing to the iudgement of our Lord. †Committing therfore the power and charge of al to God the creatour of the world and hauing exhorted his companie to fight manfully and to stand euen to death for the lawes the temple the citie their countrie and citizens he placed his armie about Modin †And hauing geuen a signe to his companie of the victorie of God with most valient yong men piked out by night setting vpon the kings court in the campe he slew foure thousand men and the greatest of the elephants with them that had bene placed thereupon †and he filled the campe of the enemies with exceeding feare and perturbation and the thinges being prosperously atcheiued they departed †And this was done when the day appeared the protection of our Lord helping him †But the king hauing taken a taste of the hardines of the Iewes attempted the difficultie of the places by policie †and he moued his campe to Bethsura which was a strong hold of the Iewes but he was put to flight he fel he was diminished †And to them that were within Iudas sent necessaries †But one Rhodocus of the Iewes armie vttered the secretes to the enemies who being sought for was apprehended and shut vp †Againe the king had talke with them that were in Bethsura he gaue the right hand he tooke it he went away †He ioyned battel with Iudas he was ouercome And as he vnderstood that Phillippe rebelled at Antioch who was left ouer the affayres dismayed in mynde intreating the Iewes and yelding vnto them he sweareth concerning al thinges that seemed reason being reconciled he offered sacrifice honoured the temple and gaue hosts †He embraced Machabeus made him gouernor prince from Ptolemais euen to the Gerrenians †But after as he came to Ptolemais the Ptolemaians tooke greuously the couenant of amitie being offended lest perhaps they would breake their league †Then Lysias went vp to the iudgement seate and declared the reason and appeased the people and returned to Antioch and in this maner the kinges iorney and returne proceded CHAP. XIIII Demetrius hauing taken certaine holdes from Antiochus 3. Alcimus lately deposed from the office of high priest 6. accuseth good men of disloyaltie 11. others also incense Demetrius 12. Wherupon Nicanor being sent into Iurie maketh Alcimus againe highpriest 18. hath peace with Iudas conuersing with him most familiarly 26. But by Alcimus suggestion seeketh to deliuer him into the king â—andes 30. otherwise threatneth to prophane the temple 34. The priestes pray God to protect them 37. Razias being accused and pursued 41. in extreme distresse killeth himself with meruelous corege of spirite BVT after the space of three yeares Iudas vnderstood and they that were with him that Demetrius the sonne of Seleucus with a strong multitude and with shippes was come vp by the port of Tripolis to commodious places †and held the countries against Antiochus and his gouernor Lysias †And one Alcimus that had bene highpriest but voluntarily was contaminated in the time of the confusion considering that there was saftie for him by no means nor accesse to the altar †came to king Demetrius in the yeare an hundred fiftie offering him a crowne of gold a palme besides these Talloes which seemed to be of the temple And that same day in deede he held his peace †But hauing gotten a commodious time for his madnes being called of Demetrius to counsel and asked on what thing and counsels the Iewes rested he answered †They of the Iewes that are called Assidians of whom Iudas Machabeus is captaine nourish battels and moue seditions neither doe they suffer the realme to be quiet †For I also being defrawded of my ancestours glorie I meane of the high priesthood am come hither †principally in deede keping fidelitie to the kings commodities but secondly also prouiding for my citizens forby their naughtines al our stocke is not a little vexed †But al these thinges being knowen ô king prouide I pray thee both for the countrie for our stocke according to thy humanitie published to al men †For as long as Iudas is aliue it is vnpossible that there be peace to the affayres †And such thinges being sayed of him the other freinds also behauing themselues as enemies against Iudas incensed Demetrius †Who forthwith sent Nicanor chiefe ouer the elephants captaine into Iurie †geuing him commission that he should take Iudas himselfe but them that were with him he should disperse make Alcimus the high priest of the greatest temple †Then the nations which had fled from Iudas out of Iurie ioyned them selues by troupes with Nicanor esteming the miseries and calamities of the Iewes the prosperities of their owne affayres †The Iewes therfore hauing heard of Nicanors coming the assemblie of the nations being sprinkled with earth besought him that ordayned his people to kepe them for euer and that protecteth his portion by euident signes †And the captaine commanding forthwith they remoued from thence and they came together to the castel of Dessau †And Simon the brother of Iudas had ioyned battel with Nicanor but he was made afrayd with the sodaine coming of the aduersaries †Neuertheles Nicanor hearing the manlines of Iudas companions and greatnes of courege that they had for the conflicts of their countrie was afrayde to make tryall by bloud †Wherfore he sent Posidonius and Theodotius Mathias before to geue and take the right handes †And when there was long consultation of these thinges and the captaine himself had moued it to the multitude there was one sentence of them al to accord vnto amitie †Therfore they appointed a day wherin they might secretly deale among them selues and seates were brought forth and sette for euery one †But Iudas commanded armed men to be in places conuenient lest perhaps some mischefe might sodainly arise from the enemies they made agreable communication †Nicanor abode at Ierusalem and did nothing vniustly and the flockes of the multitudes that had bene gathered together he diminished †And he esteemed Iudas alwayes deare from the
after he begat Reu two hundred nine yeares and begat sonnes and daughters †And Reu liued thirtie two yeares and begat Sarug †Reu liued also after he begat Sarug two hundred seauen yeares and begat sonnes daughters †And Sarug liued thirtie yeares and begat Nachor †And Sarug liued after he begat Nachor two hundred yeares and begat sonnes and daughters †And Nachor liued nine and twentie yeares and begat Thare †And Nachor liued after he begot Thare an hundred and nintene yeares and begat sonnes and daughters †And Thare liued seauentie yeares and begat Abram and Nachor and Aran. †And these are the generations of Thare Thare begat Abram Nachor Aran. Moreouer Aran begat Lot †And Aran died before Thare his father in the land of his natiuitie in Vr of the Chaldees †And Abram Nachor maried wiues the name of Abram his wife was Sarai and the name of Nachor his Wife Melcha the daughter of Aran the father of Melcha and the father of Iescha †And Sarai was barren neither had she children †Thare therfore tooke Abram his sonne and Lot the sonne of Aran his sonne Sarai his daughter in law the wife of Abram his sonne and brought them out of Vr of the Chaldees for to goe into the land of Chanaan and they came as farre as Haran and dwelled there †And the dayes of Thare came to two hundred fiue yeares and died in Haran ANNOTATIONS CHAP. XI 4. Let vs make Here we may see in Nemrod the common causes of heresies and the maner of Hertikes ptoceding For he hauing a sutle proud and aspiring mind first detracted from God perswading men as is noted before not to depend vpon Gods prouidence and finding some others of like humour they conspired together and drew more folowers by bearing the simpler sorte in hand for it was vnpossible wise men should beleue it that they would make a towre of defence against a new floud if God should thinck to drowne the world againe But their principal intention was to make themselues great and strong for the present and famous to posteritie Al which God ouerthrew neither suffering them to build vp their imagined castle of strength nor to be praised for their worke but made them infamous to the worlds end 7. Let v◠confound God in dissipating this vaine worke of men would vse the ministerie of Angels As not only Philo Iudeus and Origen but also S. Augustin S. Gregorie and other fathers expound these wordes Come let vs descend and confound their tongue Where they also note Gods singular wisdome mercie and iustice so punishing the offence that he turneth it to his owne glorie and the profite of al men shewing his powre and soueraigne Maiestie by two great miracles First by so suddainly and vtterly depriuing al those builders of their vsual tongue that presently they could neither speake it nor vnderstand it Secondly by geuing diuers distinct languages to seueral sortes or families which they immediatly vnderstood and spoke most promptly as if they had long before lerned and vsed the same But to no man was geuen more then one language And so to the more commoditie of al mankind they were forced to part into sundrie coastes of the earth which they inhabited and replenished with distinct Nations hauing the same Angels their spiritual Patrones and Protectors which had seuerally changed their language In particular it was profitable to the good who being before oppressed by the vnited powre of manie wicked were releeued as S. Gregorie teacheth when their persecutors were diuided These good were the familie of Heber as S. Chtisostom and S. Augustin proue For seing the change of tongues was inflicted for punishment it appeareth that Heber and his familie were innocent of the vaine attempt whose tongue was not changed but remained the same and of him was called the Hebrew tongue for distinction sake after there were manie tongues which before had no distinct name being the only tongue of al men Againe touching the offenders who were punished in their tongues that they could not be vnderstood commanding one an other because they would not vnderstand God iustly commanding them al they also reaped this profite that they were forced to leaue of that bad worke and withal to seeke more ample habitations who If they had there more increased in number and streingth vvould vvithout doubt saith S. Chrisostom haue attempted vvorse things And infinite manslaughter would haue benne committed amongst so manie for possession of that one citie towre Finally the fathers note that as God wrought here much good by diuision of tongues so he wrought much more by communion of tongues geuen to the Apostles therby inabling them to gether one Church of al Tongues and Nations 12. Begat Sale Here is an intricate difficultie For the Hebrew and Latin text both here and in Palalippomenon saying Arphaxad begat Sale the 72. Interpreters and S. Luke place Cainan betwen them as sonne of Arphaxad and father of Sale Eusebius also in his Chronicle with most Greeke Doctors and S. Augustin count Cainan in this Genealogie of Sem. VVherupon manie do number him in this ranck and suppose that Moyses omitted him for some Mysterie and yet writeth truly that Arphaxad begat Sale not his proper sonne but his sonnes sonne as S. Mathew sayth Ioram begat Ozias who was his nephewes nephew But against this solution it is replied that then Arphaxad should haue bene a grandfather at 35. yeares of age which were strange in those daies how soeuer it is now And a greatter difficultie or rather absurditie must also be granted that Arphaxad begat both Cainan at the age of 35. yeares according to the 72. Interpreters and that Sale was also begotten the same yeare according to the Hebrew being both true VVhich inconuenience is not in the Genealogie written by S. Matthew Others therfore according to the Hebrew and Latin text with most Latin Doctors omit Cainan in this place and Paralipomenon namely with S. Hierom who diligently examining and reconciling varieties betwen the Hebrew and the Greeke maketh no mention at al of this difference VVhich maketh some to coniecture that in S. Hieroms time Cainan was not in the Greeke copies at least not in those that he had and held for the best And at this day some haue him not VVhich may be admitted for a probable answere touching the Hebrew and Greeke of the old Testament But for so much as al copies both Greeke Latin also S. Hieroms Edition of S. Lukes Gospel haue Cainan the difficultie stil remaineth betwen Moyses and S. Luke How then shal this doubt be solued we can not solue it And no maruel For venerable Bede could not VVhose wordes are these S. Luke vseth rather the Greeke testimonies then the Hebrew wherof hapeneth that I much maruel at
restored vntouched 14. with great giftes 17. and Abraham praying Abimelechs house is cured ABRAHAM remoued from thence into the south countrie and dwelt betwene Cades and Sur and he liued as a pilgrime in Gerara †And he said of Sara his wife She is my sister Abimelech therfore the king of Gerara sent and tooke her †And God came to Abimelech in a dreame by night and said to him Loe thou shalt dye for the woman that thou hast taken for she hath a husband †But Abimelech had not touched her and he said Lord wilt thou kil a nation that is ignorant and iust †Did not he say to me She is my sister and she say He is my brother in simplicitie of my hart and cleanenes of my hands haue I done this †And God said to him And I do know that thou didest it with a sincere hart and therfore I kept thee that thou shouldest not sinne against me and I permitted not that thou shouldest touch her †Now therfore restore the wife to her husband because he is a prophet and he shal pray for thee and thou shalt liue but if thou wilt not restore her know thou that dying thou shalt dye thou and al things that are thine †And Abimelech forth with rising vp in the night called al his seruantes and he spake al these words to their eares and al the men were sore afraid †And Abimelech called also for Abraham and said to him What hast thou done to vs what haue we offended against thee that thou hast brought vpon me and vpon my kingdom a great sinne that which thou oughtest not to doe thou hast done to vs. †And again expostulating he said What sawest thou that thou didest this †Abraham answered I thought with my selfe saying Perhaps there is not the feare of God in this place and they wil kil me for my wife †howbeit otherwise also in verie deed she is my sister the daughter of my father and not the daughter of my mother and I tooke her to wife †And after that God brought me out of my fathers house I said to her This mercie thou shalt doe with me In euerie place which we shal come vnto thou shalt say that I am thy brother †Therfore Abimelech tooke shepe oxen and seruants and handmayds and gaue to Abraham and restored to him Sara his wife †and said The land is before you dwel whersoeuer it shal please thee †And to Sara he said Behold I haue geuen thy brother a thousand peeces of siluer this shal serue thee for a veile of thine eyes to al that are with thee and whither soeuer thou shalt goe remenber also thou wast taken †And Abraham praying God healed Abimelech and his wife and his handmaids and they bare children for our Lord had closed vp euerie matrice of the house of Abimelech for Sara Abrahams wife CHAP. XXI Isaac is borne 4. circumcised 8. and weaned 9. Agar and Ismael are put forth of Abrahams house 15. but after desolation are nourished and prosper in the desert 22. King Abimelech and Abraham make a league confirming it with oath AND our Lord visited Sara as he had promised and fulfilled the things which he spake †And she conceaued and bare a sonne in her old age at the time that God had foretold her †And Abraham called the name of his sonne which Sara bare him Isaac †and he circumcised him the eight day as God had commanded him †when he was an hundred yeares old for at this age of his father was Isaac borne †And Sara said Laughter God hath made to me whosoeuer shal heare of it wil laugh with me †And again she said Who that shal heare of it would beleue Abraham that Sara gaue sucke to a sonne which she bare him now being an old man †The child therfore grewe and was weined and Abraham made a great feast in the day of his weining †And when Sara had senne the sonne of Agar the Aegyptian playing with Isaac her sonne she said to Abraham †Cast out this handmaid and her sonne for the sonne of the handmaid shal not be heire with my sonne Isaac †Abraham tooke this greuously for his sonne †To whom God said Let it not sâ—me greuous to thee for the boy and for thy handmaid al things that Sara shal say to thee heare her voice because in Isaac shal seed de called to thee †But the sonne also of the handmaid I wil make into a great nation because he is thy seede †Abraham therfore rose vp in the morning and taking bread and a bottle of water put it vpon her shoulder and deliuered the boy and dismist her Who went away and wandred in the wildernesse of Bersabee †And when the water in the bottle was spent she cast the boy vnder one of the trees that were there †And she went her way and sate ouer against a great way of as farre as a bowe can cast for she said I wil no see the child dying and sitting ouer against she lifted vp her voice and wept †And God heard the voice of the boy and an angel of God called Agar from heauen saying What doest thou Agar feare not for God hath heard the voice of the boy from the place wherin he is †Arise take vp the boy and hold his hand for into a great nation wil I make him †And God opened her eyes who seing a wel of water went and filled the bottle and gaue the boy to drinke †And God was with him who grew and abode in the wildernes and became a young man archer †And he dwelt in the wildernes of Pharan and his mother tooke a wife for him out of the land of Aegypt †The same time said Abimelech and Phicol the general of his armie to Abraham God is with thee in al things which thou doest †Sweare therfore by God not to hurt me and my posteritie and my stocke but according to the mercie that I haue done thee thou shalt doe to me and to the land wherin thou hast liued a stranger †And Abraham said I wil sweare †And he rebuked Abimelech for the wel of water which his seruants had taken away by force †And Abimelech answered I knew not who did this thing yea and thy selfe didest not tel me and I heard not of it but to day †Abraham therfore tooke sheepe and oxen and gaue to Abimelech and both of them made a league †And Abraham set seuen ewe lambes of the flocke apart †To whom Abimelech said What meane these seuen ewe lambes which thou hast made to stand apart †But he said Seuen ewe lambes shalt thou take at my hand that they may be a testimonie for me that I digged this wel †Therfor was that place called Bersabee because there both did sweare †And they made a league for the wel
of Beniamin of Isboseths part the sonne of Saul and twelue of the seruantes of Dauid †And euery one taking the head of his mate sticked his sword into the side of his aduersarie and they fel together the name of the place was called The field of the valiantes in Gabaon †And there rose a very sore battel in that day and Abner was put to flight the men of Israel by the seruantes of Dauid †And there were there the three sonnes of Saruia Ioab and Abisai and Asael moreouer Asael was a most swift runner as it were one of the roes that abide in the wooddes †And Asael pursued Abner and declined not to the right hand nor to the left omitting to pursue Abner †Abner therefore looked backe behind him and said Art thou Asael Who answered I am †And Abner said to him Goe to the right hand or to the left and apprehend one of the young men and take to thee his spoyles But Asael would not leaue but vrged him †And againe Abner said to Asael Retyre and do not folowe me left I be compelled to sticke thee to the ground and I shal not be able to lift vp my face to Ioab thy brother †Who contemned to heare and would not goe aside Abner therefore stroke him with his speare turned backe in the priuy partes and thrust him through and he dyed in the same place and al that passed by that place wherein Asael fel and dyed did stay †But whiles Ioab and Abisai pursued Abner fleeing the sunne went downe and they came as farre as the hil of the water conduit that is ouer against the valley the way of the desert in Gabaon †And the children of Beniamin were assembled together to Abner and being gathered in a plumpe into one troupe they stoode in the toppe of one hil †And Abner cried out to Ioab and said Shal thy sword rage vnto vtter destructrion knowest thou not that desperation is dangerous how long differrest thou to say to the people that they leaue to pursue their brethren †And Ioab said Our Lord liueth if thou hadest spoken in the morning had the people retyred from pursuing their brethren †Ioab therefore sounded the trumpette and al the armie stood neither did they pursue Israel any further nor enter into fight †And Abner and his men went through the champaine country al that night and they passed Iordan and hauing viewed al Beth horon came to the campe †Moreouer Ioab returning after he had leift Abner assembled al the people and there wanted of Dauids seruantes nintene men beside Asael †But the seruantes of Dauid stroke of Beniamin and of the men that were with Abner three hundred three score who also died †And they tooke Asael buried him in the sepulchre of his father in Bethlehem and Ioab and the men that were with him walked al the night and in the very twilight they came into Hebron CHAP. III. â—â—boseths forces daily decay Dauid increaseth in powre and hath manie sonnes 7. Abner vpon occasion of a sclander breaketh from Isboseth and serueth Dauid bringing Michol to him and much people of Israel 23. Ioab of emulation and reuenge killeth Abner 28. for which Dauid is offended with Ioab 31. and mourneth for Abner THERE was made therefore long strife betwen the house of Saul and betwen the houre of Dauid Dauid prospering and alwaies stronger then himself but the house of Saul decreasing daily †And there were sonnes borne to Dauid in Hebron and his first begotten was Amnon of Achinoam the Iezrahelite †And after him Cheleab of Abigail the wife of Nabal of Carmel moreouer the third Absalom the sonne of Maacha the daughter of Tolmai king of Gessur †And the fourth Adonias the sonne of Haggith and the fifth Saphathia the sonne of Abital †The sixt also Iethraam of Egla the wife of Dauid these were borne to Dauid in Hebron †Therefore when there was battel betwen the house of Saul and house of Dauid Abner the sonne of Ner ruled the house of Saul †And Saul had a concubine named Respha the daughter of Aia. And Isboseth said to Abner †Why diddest thou go in to my fathers concubine Who being wrath exceedingly for the wordes of Isboseth said What am I a dogges head against Iuda this day which haue done mercie vpon the house of Saul thy father and vpon his brethren and neerest freinds haue not deliuered thee into the hands of Dauid hast thou sought against me that thou mightest charge me for a woman to day †These things do God to Abner and these things adde he to him vnlesse as our Lord hath sworne to Dauid so I doe truth to him †That the kingdom be transferred from the house of Saul and the throne of Dauid be exalted ouer Israel and ouer Iuda from Dan to Bersabee †And he could not answer him any thing because he feared him †Abner therefore sent messengers to Dauid for himself saying Whose is the land And that they should say Make amitie with me my hand shal be with thee and I wil reduce vnto thee al Israel †Who said Very wel I wil make amitie with thee but one thing I desire of thee saying Thou shalt not see my face before thou bring Michol the daughter of Saul and so thou shalt come and see me †And Dauid sent messengers to Isboseth the sonne of Saul saying Restore my wife Michol which I berrothed to me for an hundred prepuces of the Philisthijms †Isboseth therefore sent and tooke her from her husband Phaltiel the sonne of Lais. †And her husband folowed her weeping as farre as Bahurim and Abner said to him Goe and returne Who returned †Abner also spake to the ancients of Israel saying Both yesterday and the day before you sought Dauid that he might reigne ouer you †Now therefore do so because our Lord hath spoken to Dauid saying In the hand of my seruant Dauid I wil saue my people Israel from the hands of the Philistijms and of al their enemies †And Abner spake also to Beniamin And he went to speake vnto Dauid in Hebron al things which pleased Israel and al Beniamin †And he came to Dauid into Hebron with twentie men and Dauid made a feast to Abner and to his men that came with him †And Abner sayd to Dauid I wil rise that I may gather vnto thee my lord king al Israel and may enter a league with thee and thou mayst reigne ouer al as thy soule desireth When Dauid therefore had brought Abner on the way and he was gone in peace †forthwith Dauids seruantss and Ioab came hauing slayne the robbers with a praye exceding great and Abner was not with Dauid in Hebron Because he had now dismissed him and he was departed in peace †And Ioab and al the armie which were with him came afterward it was therefore told Ioab that
his house and our Lord had geuen him rest on euery side from al his enemies †he sayd to Nathan the prophet Doest thou see that I dwel in a house of cedar and the arke of God is sette in the middes skinnes †And Nathan sayd to the king Al that is in thy hart goe doe because our Lord is with thee †And it came to passe in that night and behold the word of our Lord to Nathan saying †Goe and speake to my seruant Dauid Thus sayth our Lord Shalt thou build me a house to dwel in †For neither haue I dwelt in house from the day that I brought the children of Israel out of the Land of Aegypt vntil this day but I walked in tabernacle and in tent †Through out al the places that I haue passed with al the children of Israel speaking did I speake to one of the tribes of Israel which I commanded to feede my people Israel saying Why did you not build me a house of cedar †And now these thinges shalt thou say to my seruant Dauid Thus sayth the Lord of hostes I tooke thee out of the pastures folowing the flockes that thou shouldest be prince ouer my people Israel †and I haue beene with thee wheresoeuer thou hast walked and haue slayne al thine enemies from thy face and haue made thee a great name according to the name of the great ones that are in the earth †And I wil appoint a place for my people Israel and wil plant it and they shal dwel vnder it and shal be trubled no more neither shal the children of iniquitie adde to afflict them as before †From the day that I appointed Iudges ouer my people Israel and I wil geue thee rest from al thine enemies and our Lord foretelleth thee that our Lord wil make thee a house †And when thy daies shal be accomplished and thou shalt sleepe with thy fathers I wil rayse vp thy seede after thee which shal come forth of thy wombe and I wil establish his kingdom †He shal build a house to my name and I wil establish the throne of his kingedome for euer †I wil be to him for a father and he shal be to me for a sonne who if he shal do any thing vniustly I wil rebuke him in the rod of men and in the plagues of the sonnes of men †But my mercie I wil not take away from him as I tooke from Saul whom I remoued from thy face †And thy house shal be faithful and thy kingdom for euer before thy face and thy throne shal be firme continually †According to al these wordes and according to al this vision so did Nathan speake to Dauid †And Dauid went in and sate before our Lord and said Who am I ô Lord God and what is my house that thou hast brought me thus farre †But this also hath semed litle in thy sight ô Lord God vnles thou didst speake also of the house of thy seruant for a long time for this is the law of Adam Lord God †What can Dauid therefore adde yet to speake vnto thee for thou knowest thy seruant ô Lord God †For thy word and according to thy hart thou hast done al these great thinges so that thou wouldest notifie it to thy seruant †Therefore art thou magnified ô lord God because there is none like to thee neither is there a God besides thee in al thinges that we haue heard with out eares †And what nation is there in the earth as thy people Israel for the which God hath gone that he might redeme it to be his people and might make him selfe a name doe for them great wonders and horrible thinges vpon the earth before the face of thy people whom thou redemedst to thy self out of Aegypt from the nations and from their goddes †For thou hast confirmed thy people Israel to be an euerlasting people and thou Lord God art become their God †Now therefore ô Lord God raise vp for euer the word that thou hast spoken vpon thy seruant and vpon his house and doe as thou hast spoken †that thy name may be magnified for euer and it may be said The Lord of hostes is God ouer Israel And the house of thy seruant Dauid shal be established before our Lord †because thou ô Lord of hostes God of Israel hast reueled the eare of thy seruant saying A house I build thee therefore hath thy seruant found his hart to pray thee with this prayer †Now therefore ô Lord God thou art God and thy wordes shal be true for thou hast spoken to thy seruant these good thinges †Beginne therefore and blesse the house of thy seruant that it may be for euer before thee because thou Lord God hast spoken by thy blessing shal the house of thy seruant be blessed for euer CHAP. VIII Diuers nations and countries to which Israel payed tribute are subdued by Dauid and pay tribute to Israel 16. Chief officers are mentioned AND it came to passe after these thinges Dauid stroke the Philistijms and humbled them and Dauid tooke the Bridle of tribute out of the hand of the Philistijms †And he stroke Moab and measured them with a corde making them euen with the earth and he measured two cordes one to kil and one to saue aliue and Moab became seruing Dauid vnder tribute †And Dauid stroke Adarezer the sonne of Rohob king of Soba when he went forth to haue dominion ouer the riuer Euphrates †And Dauid hauing taken of his part a thousand seuen hundred horsemen and twentie thosand footemen hogh sinewed al the chariot horses and he leift of them a hundred chariotes †There came also Syria of Domaâ—cus to bring ayde vnto Adar ezer the king of Soba and Dauid stroke of Syria two and twentie thousand men †And Dauid put a garrison in Syria of Damascus and Syria became seruing Dauid vnder tribute and our Lord preserued Dauid in al thinges to whatsoeuer he went forth †And Dauid tooke the golden armour which the seruantes of Adarezer had and brought them into Ierusalem †And out of Bete and out of Beroth the cities of Adar-ezer king Dauid tooke brasse exceding much †And Tou the king of Emath heard that Dauid had striken al the force of Adar-ezer †And Tou sent Ioram his sonne to king Dauid to salute him congratulating and to geue thankes for that he had ouerthrowen Adarezer and striken him For Tou was enemie to Adarezer and in his hand were vessels of gold and vessels of siluer and vessels of brasse †which also king Dauid sanctified to our Lord with the siluer and gold that he had sanctified of al the nations which he had subdewed †of Syria and Moab and the children of Ammon and the Philistijms and Amalec and of the spoiles of Adarezer the sonne of Rohob king of Soba †Dauid also
made himselfe a name when he returned hauing taken Syria in the Valle of Salt-pittes eightene thousand being slayne †and he put souldiours in Idumea and placed a garrison and al Idumea was made to serue Dauid and our Lord preserued Dauid in al thinges to whatsoeuer he proceeded †And Dauid reigned ouer al Israel Dauid also did iudgement and iustice to al his people †And Ioab the sonne of Seruia was ouer the armie moreouer losaphat the sonne of Ahilud was recorder †and Sadoc the sonne of Achitob and Achimelech the sonne of Abiathar were priestes and Saraias scribe †And Banaias the sonne of Ioiada was ouer the Cerethi and Phelethi and the sonnes of Dauid princes CHAP. IX Miphiboseth a lame sonne of Ionathas is piously releeud by Dauid 9. geuing to his vse the particuar inheritance of Saul AND Dauid sayd Is there any thinke you that is remaining of the house of Saul that I may do mercie with him for Ionathas sake †And there was of the house of Saul a seruant named Siba whom when the king had called vnto him he said to him art thou Siba And he answered I am so thy seruant †And the king said Is there anie remaining of the house of Saul that I may doe with him the mercie of God And Siba said to the king There is yet liuing a sonne of Ionathas lame of his feete †Where is he quoth he And Siba sayd to the king Behold he is in the house of Machir the sonne of Ammiel in Lodabar †King Dauid therefore sent and tooke him out of the house of Machir the sonne of Ammiel of Lodabar †And when Miphiboseth the sonne of Ionathas the sonne of Saul was come to Dauid he fel on his face and adored And Dauid said Miphiboseth Who answered Here I am thy seruant †And Dauid said to him Feare not because doing I wil do mercie on thee for Ionathas thy father I wil restore the landes of Saul thy father and thou shalt eate bread vpon my table alwaies †Who adoring him said Who am I thy seruant that thou hast respect vpon a dead dogge like vnto me †The king therefore called Siba the seruant of Saul and said to him Al thinges whatsoeuer were Sauls and al his house I haue geuen to thy masters sonne †Til for him therefore the land thou and thy sonnes and thy seruants and thou shalt bring in meates for thy masters sonne that he may be maintained and Miphiboseth the sonne of thy lord shal eate alwaies bread vpon my table And Siba had fiftene sonnes and twentie seruants †and Siba said to the king As thou my lord king hast commanded thy seruant so wil thy seruant doe and Miphiboseth shal eate vpon my table as one of the sonnes of the king †And Miphiboseth had a little sonne called Micha and al the kinred of the house of Siba serued Miphiboseth †Moreouer Miphiboseth dwelt in Ierusalem because he did eate alwaies of the kings table and he was lame on both feete CHAP. X. Hanon king of Ammon for euil entreating Dauids men sent vnto him of curtesie 7. is iustly plagued with his confederates 15. Also the second time they are ouerthrowen by Dauid AND it came to passe after these thinges that the king of the children of Ammon died and Hanon his sonne reigned for him †And Dauid said I wil doe mercie with Hanon the sonne of Naas as his father hath done mercie with me Dauid therefore sent conforting him by his seruants vpon his fathers death But when the seruantes of Dauid were come into the land of the children of Ammon †the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanon their lord Thinkest thou that for the honour of thy father Dauid hath sent comforters vnto thee and not rather that he might search and spy into the citie and ouerthrow it hath Dauid sent his seruants vnto thee †Hanon therefore tooke the seruants of Dauid and shaued the one half of their breard and curte away halfe their garments vnto the burtockes and sent them away †Which when it was told Dauid he sent to meete them for the men were counfounded very fowly and Dauid commanded them Tary in Iericho til your beard be growen and then returne †And the children of Ammon seing that they had done iniurie to Dauid sent and hyred for wages the Syrian of Rohob and the Syrian of Soba twentie thousand footemen and of the king Maacha a thousand men and of Istob twelue thousand men †Which when Dauid had heard he sent Ioab and the whole armie of warryers †The children therefore of Ammon issued forth and sette their men in aray before the verie entrance of the gate but the Syrian of Soba and Rohab and Istob and Maacha were by them selues in the fielde †Ioab therefore seing that there was battel prepared against him both before him and behind him he piked out of al the chosen of Israel and directed his armie agaynst the Syrian †and the rest of the people he deliuered to Abisai his brother who directed his armie against the children of Ammon †And Ioab sayd If the Syrian shal preuayle against me thou shalt ayde me and if the children of Ammon shal preuayle agaynst thee I wil ayde thee †Play the man and let vs fight for our people and the citie of our God and our Lord wil doe that which is good in his sight †Ioab therefore and the people that were with him began to fight against the Syrians Who immediatly fled from his face †And the children of Ammon seing that the Syrians were fled they also fled from the face of Abisai and entred into the citie and Ioab returned from the children of Ammon and came to Ierusalem †Therefore the Syrians seing that they were fallen before Israel they gathered themselues together †And Adar-ezer sent and fetched out the Syrians that were beyond the riuer and brought their armie and Sobach the maister of Adar-ezers warre was their chief captaine †Which when it was told Dauid he gathered together al Israel and passed ouer Iordan and came into Helam the Syrians put them selues in aray against Dauid fought against him †And the Syrians fled from the face of Israel and Dauid slewe of the Syrians seuen hundred chariotes and fourtie thousand horsemen and Sobach the prince of the warre he stroke who forth with died †And al the kinges that were to ayde Adarezer seing them selues ouercome of Israel were afrayd and fled eight fiftie thousand before Israel And they made peace with Israel and serued them and the Syrians were afrayd any more to ayde the children of Ammon CHAP. XI Dauid ouercome with concupiscence committeth adulterie with Bethsabee 6. not finding other meanes to hide the crime causeth her husband Vrias to be slaine 27. Then marieth her she beareth a sonne and God is offended AND it came to
And thou didst answere me The saying is good which I haue heard †Why then hast thou not kept the oath of our Lord and the precept that I commanded thee †And the king said to Semei Thou knowest al the euil wherof thy hart is priuy to thy selfe which thou dist to Dauid my father our Lord hath rendred thy malice vpon thy head †And king Salomon be blessed and the throne of Dauid shal be stable before our Lord for euer †The king therfore commanded Banaias the sonne of Ioiada who going out stroke him and he died CHAP. III. King Salomon marieth Ikaraos sister 3. offereth Victims in high places 5. admonished by God in his sleepe to demand what he wil he asketh wisdom to gouerne his people 10. which God granteth him with much richesse also and glorie 16. He decideth a controuersie betwen two wemen contending about a liuing child and a dead THE kingdom therfore was established in the hand of Salomon and he was ioyned in affinitie to Pharao the king of Aegypt for he tooke his daughter and brought her into the citie of Dauid vntil he accomplished building his owne house and the house of our Lord and the wal of Ierusalem round about †But yet the people immolated in the excelses for there was no temple built to the name of our Lord vntil that day †And Salomon loued our Lord walking in the preceptes of Dauid his father sauing that he immolated in the excelses and burnt incense †He went therfore into Gabaon to immolate there for that was a verie great excelse a thousand hostes for holocaust did Salomon offer vpon that altar in Gabaon †And our Lord appeared to Salomon in a dreame by night saying Aske what thou wilt that I may geue it thee †And Salomon said Thou hast done great mercie with thy seruant Dauid my father euen as he walked in thy fight in truth and iustice and a right hart with thee for thou hast kept thy great mercie and hast geuen him a sonne sitting vpon his throne as it is this day †And now Lord God thou hast made thy seruant to reigne for Dauid my father but I am a litle childe and ignorant of my going out and coming in †And thy seruant is in the middes of the people which thou hast chosen a people infinite which can not be numbred and counted for the multitude †Thou shalt therfore geue to thy seruant a docible hart that he may iudge the people discerne betwen good and euil For who shal be able to iudge this people this thy people great in number †The word therfore was liked before our Lord that Salomon had asked such a thing †And our Lord sayd to Salomon Because thou hast asked this thing and hast not desired for thy self manie dayes nor riches nor the liues of thine enemies but hast desired wisedom for thy self to discerne iudgement †behold I haue done vnto thee according to thy wordes haue geuen thee a wise hart and intelligent in so much that 〈◊〉 before thee hath beene like thee nor shal aâ—ise after thee †Yeâ— and these thinges which thou diâ—â—â— not aske I haue geuen thee to witte riches and glorie so that none hath beene like thee â—â—â—â—g the kinges al dayes hertofore †And if thou wilt wall 〈◊〉 my wayes and keepe my preceptes and my â—â—n mandâ—â—â—ntes as thy father waâ—kâ—â— I wil make thy dayeslong †Therfore Salomon awaked and perceiued that it was a dreame and when he was come to Ierusalem he stood before the arke of couenant of our Lord and offered holocaustes and made pacifique victimes and a great feast to al his seruantes †Then came there two wemen har lottes to the king and stood before him †of the which one said I besech thee my lord I and this woman dwelt in one house and I was deliuered of a childe beside her in the chamber †And the third day after that I was deliuered she also was deliuered and we were together and no other person with vs in the house except we two †And this womans childe died in the night For sleping she oppressed him †And rysing in the dead tyme of the night she tooke my childe from the side of me thy handmayd being aslepe and layed it in her bosome and her childe that was dead she put in my bosome †And when I was rysen in the morning to geue my childe milke he appeared dead whom more diligently beholding when it was cleere day I found that it was not mine which I bare †And the other woman answered It is not so as thou sayst but thy childe is dead and mine liueth On the contrarie part she sayd Thou liest for my childe liueth and thy childe is dead And in this maner they stroue before the king †Then sayd the king This woman saith My childe liueth and thy childe is dead And this hath answered No but thy childe is dead and mine liueth †The king therfore said Bring me a sword And when they had brought a sword before the King †Diuide quoth he the liuing child into two partes and geue the halfe part to one and halfe to the other †But the woman whose childe was aliue said to the king for her bowels were moued vpon her childe I besech thee my lord geue her the childe aliue and kil it not On the contrarie part she sayd be it neither mine nor thine but let it be diuided †The king answered and said Geue vnto this woman the infant aliue and let it not be killed for this is the mother therof †Al Israel therfore heard the iudgement that the king had iudged and they feared the king seing the wisedom of God to be in him to doe iudgement CHAP. IIII. Chiefe men of Salomons kingdom are recited by their names and offices 22. likewise the prouision of victuals for his house 26. the number of his horses 19. his wisedom excelleth al others 3â— he writte manie parables and verses and lernedly discoursed of al thinges AND king Salomon was reigning ouer al Israel †and these were the princes which he had Azarias the sonne of Sadoc the priest †Elihoreph and Ahia the sonnes of Sisa Scribes Iosaph at the sonne of Ahilud register †Banaias the sonne of Ioiada ouer the armie and Sadoc and Abiathar priestes †Azarias the sonne of Nathan ouer them that assisted the king Zabud the sonne of Nathan priest the kinges frend †and Ahizar gouernour of the house and Adoniâ—am the sonne of Abda ouer the tributes †And Salomon had twelue gouernours ouer al Israel which serued out victuals for the king and for his house for euerie one ministred necessaries eche man his moneth in the yeare †And these are their names Benhur in mount Ephraim †Bendecar in Macces and in Salebim and in Bethsames and in Elon and in Bethhanan †Benhesed in Aruboth his was Socho and al the land
deliuer and saue them First Othoniel of the tribe of Iuda then Aod of Beniamin after him Samgar the Scripture not signifying of what tribe then Barach with Debora of Ephraim Gedeon of Manasses Abimelech his basâ— sonne an vsurper Thola of Issachar Iair and Iephte of Manasses Abesan of Iuda Aialon of Zabulon Abdon of Ephraim Sampson of Dan and Heli who was also high priest of Aarons stocke otherwise called Zaraias 1. Paralip 6. and Samuel also of the tribe of Leut a Prophet In his time the people demanding and vrging to haue a King Saul of the tribe of Beniamin was annointed 1. Reg. 10. But for transgressing Gods commandments especially for exercising spiritual function without warrant 1. Reg. 13. and not destroying idolaters 1. Reg. 15. was deposed and Dauid of the tribe of Iuda was annointed King who after manie great trubles possessed the whole kingdome and died in peace leauing his sonne Salomon inuested and annointed king in his throne The Church being thus established in distinct states and orders albeit there were manie imperfections in al sortes of persons and great sinnes committed yet God so punished offenders and chastised the whole people that he stil conserued the greatest or chiefe part in true faith and religion For whiles they were in the desert they murmured very often against God and his Ministers their Superiours Exod. 17. Num. 11. 14 20. 21. Manie fel to idolatrie Exod. 32. Aaron not free from cooperating in the peoples sinne Nadab and Abiu Aarons sonnes and consecrated priestes offered strange fire Leuit. 10 Core Dathan and Abiron with their complices made a great schisme Num. 16. Manie committed carnal fornication with Infidels and were therby drawen to spiritual Num. 25. Of which and other like â—innes the Psalmist speaketh Psal 94. exhorting his people not to harden their hartes as in the desert their fathers had tempted God Fourtie yeares was I offended sayth God with that generation and sayd They alwayes erre in hart And therfore he sware in his wrath that the same generation should not enter into the promised land of Chanaan but their children entred and possessed it Num. 14. Iesue 3. A 〈…〉 the people falling to idolatrie and other sinnes were afflicted and sore pressâ—d by forraine enemies but repenting were deliuered and saued by certain capitaines called Iudges and Sauiours as appeareth in the booke of iudges They had also tribulations by some of their owne nation for among the Iudge one called Abimelee was a tyrannical vsurper Iudic. 9. Saul their first King falling from God vniustly persecuted Dauid 1. Reg. 18. â— Ambitious Absolom rebelled against the King his father 2. Reg. 15. and Seba of the tribe of Beniamin raised an other rebellion 2. Reg. 20. â—â—â—â—wise Adonias assisted by Abiathar the high priest and by Ioab general of the armie pretended to reigne his father Dauid yet liuing to preuent S 〈…〉 n of the kingdom 3. Reg. 1. So God both shewed his iustice in suffering suâ—â— afflictions to happen for punishment of sinne and his mercie in sauing hiâ— Church from ruine Moreouer for preseruatioÌ„ of the Church there were diuers diuine Ordinances prouided by the law For first al were strictly commanded not to coÌ„municate with Infidels in their idolatrie Ex. 23. nor with Schismatikes in their schisme Nu. 16. but to destroy al Idolaters Num. 33. and shunne al nouelties in religion as a sure marke of idolatrie or false doctrine Deut. 13. Further to conserue vnitie there was but one Tabernacle and one Altar for Sacrifice in the whole people of Israel VVherupon when the two tribes and halfe on the other side Iordan had made a seueral altar al the tribes that dwelt in Chanaan suspecting it was for sacrifice sent presently to admonish them and prepared to make warre against them except they destroyed their new altar but being aduertised that it was only an altar of monument and not for sacrifice were therwith satisfied Iosue 22. Afterwards the tribe of Dan setting vp idolatrie and the other tribes not correcting it they were al punished VVhich happened by occasion of an other enormous sinne committed and not corrected in the tribe of Beniamin For the other eleuen tribes making warre against them for this iust cause yea by Gods direction and warrant yet had the worse susteyning great slaughter of men in two conflictes and in the third Beniamin was almost destroyed Iudic. 20. Finally for decision of al controuersies and ending of strife the High Priest was expresly ordayned supreme Iudge Deut. 17. And al were commanded in paine of death to submitte their opinions and obey his sentence with promise of Gods assistance wherby his definitions were certaine and infallible For in consultations of doubtes and difficult cases God inspired him with doctrine of veritie Exod. 28. 29. Leuit. 8. Num. 3. 7. 9. 1. Reg. 23 30. VVhich iudgement Seate Christ admonished the Iewes to repayre vnto and folow Math. 23. though the Iudges themselues did not the thinges which they taught In so much that Caiphas through this assistance of Gods spirite being otherwise a wicked man yet pronounced the truth That one must die for the people VVhich therfore S. Iohn the Euangelist ascribeth to his Chayre and office because he was High priest that yeare Ioan. 11. Seing then Gods prouidence and continual assistance was so clere and assured in the Church of the old Testament much more is the Church of christ builded vpon a sure rocke assured of his perpetual assistance and always preserued from erring in Faith or in general practise of Religion And that by Gods like assured ordinance of one supreme head and Iudge S. Peter his Successour for vvhom our Sauiour prayed that his faith should not faile Further commanding him that he should confirme his brethren Al vvhich vvse see is performed in the Successours of S. Peter vvheras the successours of the other Apostles are al failed long since The same most assured stabilitie of the Church of Christ is further confirmed by the whole Lavv and Prophetes Namely Deut. 32. and 33. vvhere Moyses fortelleth more povver and grace in the Church to be collected in the Gentiles of al natioÌ„s then euer vvas in that of the Israelites or Iews Likewise 1. Reg. 2. The same vvas both prefigured and prophecied by holie Anna The hungrie those that desire Gods grace and glorie are filled vntil the barren woman the Church of the Gentiles bare verie manie she that had manie children was weakned Shewing that the Church of the Iewes had manie vntil the plenitude of Gentiles much more abounded Wherfore the Psalmist inuiteth al nations to praise God saying Psal 116. Praise our Lord al ye Gentiles praise him al ye peoples Also 2. Reg. 7. God promised Dauid saying Thy Kingdome for euer before thy face and thy throne shal be firme continually which was not verified in Dauids temporal kingdome For it was
brethren to minister in the presence of the Arke continually day by day and in their courses †Moreouer Obededom and his brethren sixtie eight and Obededom the sonne of Idithun and Hosa he appoynted for porters †And Sadoc the priest and his brethren priestes before the tabernacle of our Lord in the excelse which was in Gabaon †that they should offer holocaustes to our Lord vpon the altar of holocaust continually morning and euening according to al thinges that are writen in the law of our Lord which he commanded Israel †And after him Heman and Idithun and the rest of the chosen men euerie one by his name to confesse vnto our Lord Because his mercie is for euer †Heman also and Idithun sounding the trumpet and quauering on the cymbals and al musical instrumentes to sing vnto God and the sonnes of Idithun he made porters †And al the people returned into their house and Dauid to blesse also his house CHAP. XVII Dauid determining to build a Temple 11. is admonished by Nathan the prophet that not he but his sonne sbal build it and be established in the kingdom 16. Dauid extolleth Gods benignitie towards him and the people AND when Dauid dwelt in his house he sayd to Nathan the prophete Behold I dwel in a house of cedar and the Arke of the couenant of our Lord is vnder skinnes †And Nathan sayd to Dauid Al thinges that are in thy hart doe for God is with thee †Therfore that night the word of God came to Nathan saying †Goe and speake to Dauid my seruant Thus sayth our Lord Thou shalt not build me a house to dwel in †For neither haue I remayned in house from the time that I brought out Israel vntil this day but I haue bene alwaies changing places of tabernacle and in tent †abyding with al Israel Did I speake to one at the least of al the iudges of Israel whom I commanded to feede my people and did I say Why haue you not built me a house of cedar †Now therfore so shalt thou speake to my seruant Dauid Thus sayeth the Lord of hostes I tooke thee when in the pastâ—res thou didâ—st folow the flocke that thou shouldest be prince of my people Israel †And I haue beene with thee whither soeuer thou wentest and I haue slayne al thine enemies before thee and haue made thee a name as of one of the great ones that are renowmed in the earth †And I haue geuen a place to my people Israel it shal be planted and shal dwel therin and shal be moued no more neither shal the children of iniquitie consume them as from the beginning †since the dayes that I gaue Iudges to my people Israel and humbled al thine enimies I therfore tel thee that our Lord wil build thee a house †And when thou shalt haue accomplished thy daies to goe to thy fathers I wil rayse vp thy seede after thee which shal be of thy children and I wil establish his kingdom †He shal build me a house and I wil confirme his throne for euer †I wil be to him for a father and he shal be to me for a sonne and my mercie I wil not take from him as I tooke from him that was before thee †And I wil establish him in my house and in my kingdom for euer and his throne shal be most firme for euer †According to al these wordes and according to al this vision so spake Nathan to Dauid †And when king Dauid came and sate before our Lord he sayd Who am I Lord God and what is my house that thou shouldest geue me such thinges †But this also hath semed little in thy sight and therfore thou hast spoken concerning the house of thy seruant for time to come also and hast made me renowned aboue al men Lord God †What can Dauid adde farther wheras thou hast soe glorified thy seruant and knowen him †Lord for thy seruant according to thy hart thou hast done al this magnificence and would haue al thy great wonders to be knowen †Lord there is not the like to thee and there is none other beside thee of al whom we haue heard with our eares †For what other is there as thy people Israel one nation in the earth to the which God went to deliuer it and make it his people and with his greatenesse and terrours cast out the nations before the face of it which he deliuered out of Aegypt †And thou hast made thy people Israel to be thy people euer and thou Lord art made the God therof †Now therfore Lord the word which thou hast spoken to thy seruant and concerning his house be it confirmed for euer and do as thou hast spoken †And let thy name remayne and be magnified for euer and let it be sayd The Lord of hostes is God of Israel and the house of Dauid his seruant permanent before him †For thou Lord my God hast reueled the eare of thy seruant to build him a house and therfore thy seruant hath found confidence to pray before thee †Now therfore Lord thou art God and thou hast spoken to thy seruant so great benefittes †And thou hast begunne to blesse the house of thy seruant that it be alwaies before thee for thee ô Lord blessing it it shal be blessed for euer CHAP. XVIII King Dauid hath great victories making manie nations tributarie 15. his chiefe officeres are recounted AND it came to passe after these thinges that Dauid stroke the Philisthijms and humbled them and tooke away Geth and her daughters out of the hand of the Philisthijms †and stroke Moob and the Moabites were made Dauids seruantes offering him giftes †At that time Dauid stroke Adazezer also the king of Soba of the countrie of Hemath when he went on to dilate his empire as farre as the riuer Euphrates †Dauid therfore tooke a thousand chariotes of his seuen thousand horsmen twentie thousand footemen he hoghsinewed al the chariot horses sauing an hundred chariotes which he reserued to himself †And the Syrian also of Damascus came moreouer to giue ayde to Adarezer the king of Soba but Dauid stroke also of his two twentie thousand men †And he put souldiars in Damascus that Syria also should serue him bring giftes And our Lord holpe him in al thinges to the which he went †Dauid also tooke the golden quyuers which the seruantes of Adarezer had and he brought them into Ierusalem †Moreouer of The bath and Chun the cities of Adarezer verie much brasse of which Salomon made the brasen Sea and pillers and brasen vessels †Which when Tou the king of Hemath had heard to witte that Dauid had striken al the armie of Adarezer the king of Soba †he sent Adoram his soune to king Dauid to desire peace of him to congratulate him that he had striken and had ouerthrowen Adarezer
for Tou was aduersarie to Adarezer †But al the vessel also of gold and siluer and brasse king Dauid consecrated to our Lord with the siluer and gold which he had taken out of al the nations as wel of Idumea and Moab the children of Ammon as of the Philisthijms and Amalec †And Abisai the sonne of Saruia stroke Edom in the Vale of salt pittes eightene thousand †and he appoynted a garryson in Edom that Idumea should serue Dauid and our Lord saued Dauid in al thinges to which he went †Dauid therfore reigned ouer al Israel did iudgement and iustice to al his people †Moreouer Ioab the sonne of Saruia was ouer the armie and Iosaphat the sonne of Ahilud commenter †And Sadoc the sonne of Achitob Ahimelech the sonne of Abiathar Priestes and Susa Scribe †Banaias also the sonne of Ioiada ouer the legions Cerethi and Phelethi moreouer the sonnes of Dauid the chief at the kinges hand CHAP. XIX The king of Ammon euil intreating king Dauids men whom he had curteously sent to condole the death of his father is ouerthrowen in battel 16. with the Assyrians his hyred confederates AND it chanced that Naas the king of the children of Ammon died and his sonne reigned for him †And Dauid sayd I wil do mercie with Hanon the sonne of Naas for his father hath done me pleasure And Dauid sent messengers to confort him vpon the death of his father Who when they were come into the land of the children of Ammon to confort Hanon †the princes of the children of Ammon fayd to Hanon Thou thinkest perhaps that Dauid for honour sake toward thy father hath sent some that should comfort thee neither markeâ—t thou that his seruantes are come to thee to espie and seeke out and searche thy land †Therfore Hanon made the seruantes of Dauid balde and shaued them and cut away their cotes from the buttockes to the feete and sent them away †Who when they were gone and had sent word to Dauid he sent to meete them for they had susteyned great reproch and commanded them to tarie in Iericho til their beard grewe and then they should returne †And the children of Ammon seing that they had done iniurie to Dauid as wel Hanon as the rest of the people they sent a thousand talents of siluer to hyre them chariotes and horsemen out of Mesopotamia and from Siria Maacha and from Soba †And they hyred two and thirtre thousand chariotes and king Maacha with his people Who when they were come camped ouer agaynst Medaba The children of Ammon also being gathered together out of their cities came to the battel †Which when Dauid had heard he sent Ioab and al the host of valiant men †and the children of Ammon issuing forth put their armie in aray beside the gate of the citie and the kinges that were come to ayde him stood apart in the field †Ioab therfore vnderstanding that battel was made agaynst him before and behind chose the most valiant men of al Israel and marched on against the Syrian †And the rest of the people he gaue vnder the hand of Abisai his brother and they went forth agaynst the children of Ammon †And he sayd If the Syrian shal ouercome me thou snalt ayde me and if the children of Ammon shal ouercome thee I wil ayde thee †Take courage and let vs play the men for our people and for the cities of our God and our Lord wil doe that which is good in his sight †Ioab therfore matched on and the people that were with him agaynst the Syrian to battel and he put them to flight †Moreouer the childen of Ammon seing that the Syrian was fled themselues also fled from Abisai his brother and went into the citie and Ioab also returned into Ierusalem †But the Syrian seing that he was fallen before Israel sent messengers and brought the Syrian that was beyond the riuer and Sophach the General of Aderezeâ—s warre was their captayne †Which when it was told Dauid he gathered together al Israel and passed Iordan and fel vpon them and directed his armie agaynst him they fighting on the contrarie part †And the Syrian fled from Israel and Dauid slewe of the Syrians seuen thousand chariotes and fourtie thousand footemen and Sophach General of the armie †And the seruantes of Adarezer seing themselues to be ouercome of Israel fled to Dauid serued him and Syria would no more giue ayde to the children of Ammon CHAP. XX. King Dauid prospereth in Warre agaynst the Ammonites 4. and Philisthims 6. among Whom Ionathan Dauids nephew by his brother killeth a monfiruous giant Which had twelue fingers and twelue toes AND it came to passe after the compasse of a yeare at such time when kinges are wont to goe forth to battel Ioab gathered together the armie and force of warre and spoyled the land of the children of Ammon and went on and besieged Rabba Moreouer Dauid taried in Ierusalem when Ioab stroke Rabba and destroyed it †And Dauid tooke the crowne of Melchom from his head and found in it a talent weight of gold and most precious pearles and he made himself therof a diademe he tooke also the spoiles of the citie very much †And the people that was therin he brought forth and he made harrowes and sleddes and chariotes shod with Iron to passe ouer them soc that they were cut in sunder broken in peces so did Dauid to al the cities of the children of Ammon he returned with al his people into Ierusalem †After these thinges there was warre begunne in Gazer agaynst the Philisthians in which Sobachai the Husathite stroke Saphai of the kinred of Raphaim humbled them †An other battel also was fought agaynst the Philistheans wherein Adeodatus the sonne of Saltus a Bethlehemite stroke the brother of Goliath the Getheite the staffe of whose speare was as it were a weauers beame †But an other battel also happened in Geth wherin there was a verie long man hauing fingers and toes by six and six that is together foure and twentie who also was borne of the stocke of Rapha †This man blasphemed Israel and Ionathan the sonne of Samaa the brother of Dauid stroke him These be the children of Rapha in Geth which fel by the hand of Dauid and of his seruantes CHAP. XXI Dauid sinneth in numbring his people 8. repenteth and prayeth yet is punished many dying of the plague 15. til God shewing mercie spareth the rest 16. Dauid accusing himselfe and excusing the people is commanded by the Angel to offer sacrifice which he 22 bying ground for an altar 26. performeth BVT Satan rose agaynst Israel and moued Dauid to number Israel †And Dauid sayd to Ioab and to the princes of the people Goe and number Israel from Bersabee vnto Dan and bring me the number that I may know †And Ioab answered
together to Ozias al together with one voice †said God iudge betwen vs and thee because thou hast done euil agaynst vs in that thou wouldest not speake peaceably with the Assyrians and for this cause God hath sold vs into their handes †And there is none to helpe wheras we lye prostrate before their eies in thirst great destruction †And now assemble ye al that are in the citie that we may of our owne accord yeld vs al to the people of Holofernes †For it is better that captiues we blesse our Lord liuing then we should die and be a reproch to al flesh when we shal see our wiues and our infantes die before our eies †We cal to witnes this day heauen and earth and the God of our fathers which taketh vengeance of vs according to our sinnes that now you deliuer the cirie into the hand of Holofernes armie that our end may be short in the edge of the sword which is made longer in the drught of thirst †And when they had said these thinges there was made great weeping and howling of al in the assemble and for manie houres with one voice they cried to God saying †We haue sinned with our fathers we haue done vniustly we haue committed iniquitie †Thou because thou art gracious haue mercie vpon vs or in thy scourge reuenge our iniquities and deliuer not them that trust in thee to a people that knoweth not thee †that they say not among the Gentiles Where is their God †And when they wearied with these cries and tyred with these weepings had held their peace †Ozias rysing vp embrued with teares said Be of good chere bretheren and these fiue daies let vs expect mercie of our Lord. †For peraduenture he wil cut of his indignation and wil geue glorie to his name †But if after fiue dates be past there come no aide we wil doe these wordes which you haue spoken CHAP. VIII Iudith a most veriuous rich fayre renowmed widow 9. rebuketh the high priest and ancientes for their determination to deliuer the citie if ayde come not in fiue dayes 14. exhorteth al to penance 28. They al agree to her godlie aduise 30. praying for good sucesse of her intention which they yet know not AND it came to passe when Iudith a widow had heard these wordes which was the daughter of Merari the sonne of Idox the sonne of Ioseph the sonne of Ozias the sonne of Elai the sonne of Iamnor the sonne of Gedeon the sonne of Raphaim the sonne of Achitob the sonne of Melchias the sonne of Enan the sonne of Nathanias the sonne of Salathiel the sonne of Simeon the sonne of Israel †and her husband was Manasses who died in the daies of barley haruest †for he was occupied with them that bound sheues in the field and the heate came vpon his head and he died in Bethulia his citie and was buried there with his father †And Iudith was leaft his widow now three yeares and six monethes †And in the higher partes of her house she made her self a secrete chamber in which she abode shut vp with her maides †and hauing cloth of heare vpon her loynes she fasted al the daies of her life but Sabbathes and new-moones and the feastes of the house of Israel †And she was of an exceding beautiful countenance to whom her husband had leaft much richesse and a great familie and possessions ful of heardes of oxen and flockes of sheepe †And she was among al most famous because she feared our Lord very much neither was there that spake an il word of her †When she therfore had heard that Ozias had promised that after the fifth day were past he would yeld the citie she sent to the ancientes Chabri and Charmi. †And they came to her and she said to them What is this word wherein Ozias hath consented to yeld the citie to the Assyrians if within fiue daies there come no ayde to vs †And what are you that tempt our Lord †This is no word that may prouoke mercie but rather that may rayse vp wrath and inflame furie †You haue set a time for the mercie of our Lord and according to your pleasure you haue appointed him a day †But because our Lord is patient let vs be penitent for this same thing and sheding teares let vs desire his pardon †for not as man so wil God threaten neither as the sonne of man wil he be inflamed to anger †And therfore let vs humble our soules to him and being setled in an humble spirit seruing him †let vs say weeping to our Lord that according to his wil so he doe his mercie with vs that as our hart is trubled in their pride so also we may glorie in our humilitie †because we haue not folowed the sinnes of our fathers which forsooke their God and adored strange goddes †for which abomination they were geuen into the sword and into confusion to their enemies but we know no other God but him †Let vs humbly expect his consolation and he wil require our bloud of the afflictions of our enemies and he wil humble al Nations what soeuer shal rise vp against vs and the Lord our God wil make them without honour †And now bretheren because you are ancientes in the people of God and their soules depende of you by your speach comforte their hartes that they be mindful that our fathers were tempted to be proued whether they did worshippe their God truly †They must be mindful how our father Abraham was tempted and by many tribulations proued was made the freind of God †So Isaac so Iacob so Moyses al that haue pleased God through manie tribulations haue passed faithful †But they that did not receiue the tentations with the feare of our Lord and vttered their impatience and reproch of their murmuring against our Lord †were destroyed of the destroyer and perished by serpents †And we therfore let vs not reuenge ourselues for these thinges which we suffer †but reputing these verie punishments to be the scourges of our Lord lesse then our sinnes wherwith as seruantes we are chastised let vs thinke them to haue chanced to our amendement and not to our destruction †And Ozias and the ancientes sayd to her Al thinges which thou hast spoken be true and there is no reprehension in thy wordes †Now therfore pray for vs because thou art a holie woman and fearing God †And Iudith said to them As you know that which I could speake to be of God †so that which I haue disposed to doe proue if it be of God and pray that God establish my counsel †You shal stand at the gate this night and I wil goe out with myne abra and pray ye that as you haue said in fiue dayes our Lord respect his people Israel †But I
are saide of thee ô cittie of God †I wil be mindeful of Raab and Babylon knowing me Behold the foreners and Tyre the people of the Aethiopians these were there †Shal it not be said of Sion Man and man is borne in her and the Highest himselfe founded her †Our Lord wil declare in scriptures of peoples and of princes of those that haue bene in her †The habitation in thee is as it were of al reioycing PSALME LXXXVII A faithful person sore and long afflicted lamentably complaineth praying God 15. not stil to repel him being leift desolate 19. without al consolation of freindes A Canticle of a Psalme to the children of Core vnto the end for Maheleth to answer of vnderstanding to Eman the Ezrahite O †Lord the God of my saluation in the day haue I cried and in the night before thee †Let my prayer enter in thy sight incline thine eare to my petition †Because my soule is replenished with euils and my life hath approched to hel †I am accounted with them that descend into the lake I am become as a man without helpe †free among the dead as the wounded sleeping in the sepulchres of whom thou art mindeful no more and they are cast of from thy hand †They haue put me in the lower lake in the darke places and in the shadowe of death †Thy furie is confirmed vpon me and al thy waues thou hast brought in vpon me †Thou hast made my familiars far from me they haue put me abomination to themselues I was deliuered and came not forth †myne eies languished for pouertie I cried to thee ô Lord al the day I stretched out my handes to thee †Wil t thou doe meruels to the dead or shal phisicians raise to life and they confesse to thee †Shal any in the sepulchre declare thy mercie and thy truth in perdition †Shal thy meruelous workes be knowne in darkenes and thy iustice in the land of obliuion †And I ô Lord haue cried to thee and in the morning shal my praier preuent thee †Why doest thou o Lord reiect my prayer turnest away thy face from me †I am poore and in labours from my youth and being exalted humbled and troubled †Thy wrathes haue passed vpon me and thy terrours haue trubled me †They haue compassed me as water al the day they compassed me together †Thou hast made frend and neighboure far from me and my familiars because of miserie PSALME LXXXVIII Gods mercie and truth with his great promises to Dauid 6. his powre in the whole world and iust iudgements are the true ioy of his seruantes 20. Christs kingdom shal remaine for euer 31. yea manie offending yet al shal not perish 39. but after great affliction 47. God wil respect mans infirmitie 50. his owne promise and the enimies reproching his seruantes and himselfe 53. who is blessed for euer Of vnderstanding to Ethan the Ezrahite THe mercies of our Lord I wil sing for euer In generation and generation I wil shewe forth thy truth in my mouth †Because thou saidst Mercie shal be built vp for euer in the heauens thy truth shal be prepared in them †I haue ordained a testament with mine elect I haue sworne to Dauid my seruant †for ever wil I prepare thy seede And I wil build thy seat vnto generation and generation †The heauens shal confesse thy meruelous workes ô Lord yea and thy truth in the church of saintes †For who in the cloudes shal be equal to our Lord shal be like to God among the sonnes of God †God who is glorified in the counsel of saintes great and terrible ouer al that are round about him †O Lord God of hoastes who is like to thee thou art mightie ô Lord and thy truth round about thee †Thou rulest ouer the powre of the sea and the mouing of the waues therof thou doest mitigate †Thou humbledst the proud one as one wounded in the arme of thy strength thou hast dispersed thine enimies †The heauens are thine and the earth is thine the round earth and the fulnes therof thou hast founded †the north and the sea thou hast created Thabor and Hermon shal reioice in thy name †thy arme is with might Let thy hand be confirmed and thy righthand exalted †iustice and iudgement is the preparation of thy seat Mercie and truth shal goe before thy face †blessed is the people that knoweth iubilation Lord they shal walke in the light of thy countinance †and in thy name they shal reioyce al the day and in thy iustice they shal be exalted †Because thou art the glorie of their streingth and in thy good pleasure shal our horne be exalted †Because our protection is of our Lord and of the holie one of Israel our king †Then didst thou speake in vision to thy saintes and saidst I haue put helpe on the mightie one and haue exalted an elect one of my people †I haue found Dauid my seruant with myne holie oyle haue I anointed him †For mine hand shal helpe him and myne arme shal strengthen him †The enimie shal nothing preuale in him and the sonne of iniquitie shal not adde to hurt him †And I wil cut downe his enimies before his face and them that hate him I wil put to flight †And my truth and my mercie with him and in my name shal his horne be exalted †And I wil put his hand in the sea and his righthand in the riuers †He shal inuocate me Thou art my Father my God and the protector of my saluation †And I wil put him the firstbegotten high aboue the kings of the earth †I Wil kepe my mercie vnto him for euer and my testament faithful to him †I wil put his seed for euer and euer and his throne as the daies of heauen †But if his children shal forsake my lawe and wil not walke in my Iudgementes †If they shal profane my iustices and not kepe my commandmentes †I wil visite their iniquities with a rod and their sinnes with stripes †But “ my mercie I wil not take away from him neither wil I hurt in my truth †Neither wil I profane my testament and the words that procede from my mouth I wil not make frustrate †Once I haue sworne in my holie if I lie to Dauid †his seede shal continewe for euer †And his throne as the Sunne in my sight and as the Moone perfect for euer and a faithful witnesse in heauen †“ But thou hast repelled and dispised thou hast differred thy Christ †Thou hast ouerthrowne the testament of thy seruant thou hast profaned his
loosed him the prince of the people and released him †He appointed him lord of his house and prince of al his possession †That he might instruct his princes as himselfe and might teach his ancientes wisedom †And Israel entered into Aegypt and Iacob was a seiourner in the land of Cham. †And he increased his people excedingly and strengthned them ouer their enemies †He turned their hart that they hated his people and to worke guile toward his seruantes †He sent Moyses his seruant Aaron him selfe whom he chose †He did put in them the wordes of his signes and of his wonders in the Land of Cham. †He sent darkenes and obscured and did not exasperate his wordes †He turned their waters into bloud and killed their fishes †Their land broughtforth frogges in the inner chambers of their kinges †He sayd and the caenomyia came and the cinifes in al their coastes †He made theyr raynes haile fire burning in their land †And he stroke their vines and their figtrees and he destroyed the wood of their coastes †He said the locust came and the bruchus wherof there was no number †And it did eate al the grasse in their land and it did eate al the fruicte of their land †And he stroke euerie first begotten in their land the first fruictes of al their labour †And he brought themforth with gold and siluer and there was not in their tribes a feeble person †Aegypt was glad at their departure because the feare of them lay vpon them †He spred a cloude for their protection and fire to shine vnto them by night †They made petition and the quaile came and he filled them with the bread of heauen †He diuided the rocke and waters flowed riuers ranne in the drie ground †Because he was mindful of his holie word which he had vttered to Abraham his seruant †And he broughtforth his people in exultation and his elect in ioy †And he gaue them the countries of the Nations and they possessed the labours of peoples †That they might keepe his iustifications and seeke after his lawe PSALME CV The prophet exhorteth the people to render thankes and praises to God 6. for remitting their manifold sinnes in the desert 34. and in the conquered land 38. foreshewing like sinnes to come Gods wrath and punishment for the same 44. and that he wil geue grace of repentance to some 47. for which he prayeth and praiseth God Allelu ia CONFESSE ye to our Lord because he is good because his mercie is for euer †Who shal speake the powers of our Lord shal make al his prayses to be heard †Blessed are they that keepe iudgement and doe iustice at al time †Remember vs ô Lord in the good pleasure of thy people visite vs in thy saluation †To see in the goodnes of thyne elect to reioyce in the ioy of thy nation that thou maist be praysed with thine inheritance †We haue sinned with our fathers we haue dealt vniustly we haue done iniquitie †Our father 's in Aegypt did not vnderstand thy meruelous workes they were not mindeful of the multitude of thy mercie And they prouoked thee to wrath going vp vnto the sea the Read sea †And he saued them for his name sake that he might make his power knowen †And he rebuked the Read sea and it was made drie and he led them in the depths as in a desert †And he saued them from the hand of them that hated them and “ he redemed them out of the hand of the enemie †And water ouerwhelmed those that afflicted them there did not one of them remaine †And they beleued his wordes and they sang his praise †They had quickly donne they forgot his workes and they expected not his counsel †And they coueted concupiscence in the desert and tempted God in the place without water †He gaue them their petition and sent saturitie into their soules †And they prouoked Moyses in the campe Aaron the holie of our Lord. †The earth was opened and swalowed Dathan and ouerwhelmed the congregation of Abiron †And a fire flamed vp in their sinagogue the flame burnt the sinners †And they made a calfe in Horeb and they adored the sculptil †And they changed their glorie into the similitude of a calfe that eateth grasse †They forgat God which saued them which did great thinges in Aegypt †meruelous thinges in the land of Cham terrible thinges in the Read sea †And he sayd to destroy them if Moyses his elect had not stood in the way before him To turne away his wrath that he should not destroy them †and they estemed for naught the land that was to be desired They did not beleue his word †and they murmured in their tabernacles they heard not the voice of our Lord. †And he lifted vp his hand ouer them to ouerthrowe them in the desert †And to cast doune their seede among the Nations and to disperse them in the countries †And they were professed to Beelphegor and they did eate the sacrifices of the dead †And they prouoked him in their inuentions and ruine was multiplied on them †And Phinees stood and pacified and the slaughter ceased †And it was reputed to him vnto iustice in generation and generation euen for euer †And they prouoked him at the waters of contradiction and Moyses was vexed for them †because they exasperated his spirit And he playnely affirmed in his lippes †they destroyed not the nations of which our Lord spake to them †And they were mingled among the nations and learned their workes †and they serued their sculptils and it became a scandal to them †And they immolated their sonnes and their daugheters to diuels †And they shed innocent bloud the bloud of their sonnes and of their daughters which they sacrificed to the sculptils of Chanaan And the land was infected with bloud †and was contaminated in their workes and they did fornicat in their inuentions †And our Lord was wrath with â—urie vpon his people and he abhorred his inheritance †And he deliuered them into the handes of the nations and they that hated them had the dominion of them †And their enimies afflicted them and they were humbled vnder their handes †he did often deliuer them But they exasperated him in their counsel and they were humbled in their iniquities †And he saw when they were afflicted and he heard their prayer †And he was mindeful of his testament and it repented him according to the multitude of his mercie
alike †For that which is made with him that made it shal suffer torments †For this cause also in the idol of the nations there shal be no respect because the creatures of God were made to hatred and for tentation to the soules of men and for a snare to the feete of the vnwise †For the begynning of fornication is the deuising of idols and the inuenting of them is the corruption of life †For neither were they from the begynning neither shal they be for euer †For this vanitie of men came into the world and therfore there is found a short end of them †For “ the father being sorowful with bitter moorning made vnto himself the image of his sonne quickly taken away and him that then was a dead man now he began to worshipe as god and appointed holie thinges and sacrifices among his seruants †Afterward by succession of time the wicked custom preuayling this errour was kept as a law and thinges grauen were worshipped by the commandement af tyrants †And those whom openly men could not honour for that they were far of their figure being brought from a far they made an euident image of the king whom they would honour that by their carefulnes they might honour as present him that was absent †And to the worshipping of these the excellent diligence also of the artificer holpe them forward that were ignorant †For he willing to please him that entertained him laboured by his art to fashion the similitude in better sort †And the multitude of men caried away by the beautie of the worke him that a little before had bene honoured as a man now they estemed for a god †And this was the deceyuing of mans life because men seruing either affection or kinges gaue the name that is not communicable to stones and wood †And it was not sufficient that they erred about the knowlege of God but also liuing in a great battail of ignorance so manie and so great euils they cal peace †For either sacrificing their children or making abscure sacrifices or hauing watches ful of madnes †they now neither keepe life nor mariage cleane but one killeth an other by enuie or playing the adulterer maketh him sorowful †and al thinges are mingled together bloud manslaughter theft and fiction corruption and infidelitie truble and pâ—â—iutie disquieting of the good †forgetfulnes of God inquination of soules immutation of natiuitie inconstancie of mariage disorder of adulterie and vnchastnes †For the worshippe of idols not to be named is the cause of al euil and the beginning and end †For either when they reioyce they are madde or certes prophecie false thinges or liue vniustly or quickly forsweare themselues †For whiles they trust in idols which are without soule swearing amisse they hope not to be hurt †Two euil thinges therfore shal happen to them worthely because they haue thought euil of God attending to idols and haue sworne vniustly in guile contemning iustice †For it is not the powre of them that are sworne by but the punishment of them that sinne goeth alwayes through the trangression of the vniust ANNOTATIONS CHAP. XIIII 15. The father made vnto himself the image of his sonne Caluin here chargeth this booke with error in affirming that idolatrie begane by supersticiously honoring images of the dead Against which he alleageth that Labans idoles and others more ancient were before anie images of dead men were honoured But he argueth vpon a false ground For labans idols were images as the Hebrew word Teraphim signifieth and is so translated in the English Bibles 1552. and 1577. but because they were images of false goddes and for that Laban called them his goddes a later Bible 1603. rranslateth it better idoles as the Latin and Greke haue idola It is also certaine that Ninus king of Assirians long before Laban yea before Abraham sette vp the image of his Father Belus otherwise called Iuppiter to be publikly honored by the people as S. Cyril sheweth li. 3. in Iulianum nere the end and S. Ambrose or an other graue Auctor writeth the same in cap. 1. ad Romanos Likewise S. Cyprian li. de Idolorum vanitate S. Chrysostom ho. 87. in Matth. and Egesippus apud S. Ieronym li. de Viris Illustrib testifie that the making of mens images in memorie of the dead was the occasion and beginning of idolâ—tric according as this place repotteth that a Father sorovving for the death of his sonne made an image in his memorie begane to worshippe him as a god causing his seruants also to honour his dead sonne vvith rites and sacrifices VVhich priuate idolatrie vvas absolutely the first that is recorded in holie Scripture or anie other good auctor And the first publique is counted by most auctors that of Ninus vvorshipping the image of his father Belus vvith diuine honour who also pardoned al offenders how enormious soeuer their crimes were that fled vnto that image VVhich allurment together vvith so great a kinges auctotitie drevv innumerable to publique idolatrie VVherupon S. Ierom noteth in cap. 2. Oseae that Ninus became so great and glorious as to make his father to be honored as a god CHAP. XV. The wise gratfully praise the swetenes and mercie of God by whom they are deliuered from idolatrie 6. detesting the makers worshippers of idols BVT ô thou our God art sweete and true patient and disposing al thinges in mercie †For if we sinne we are thine knowing thy greatnes and if we sinne not we know that we are counted with thee †For to know thee is absolute iustice and to know iustice and thy powre is the roote of immortalitie †For mens inuention of euil art hath not brought vs into errour nor the shadow of a picture being a labour without fruite a shape grauen by diuerse colours †the sight wherof geueth concupiscence to the sensles and and he loueth the shape without life of a deade image †The louers of euils are worthie to haue their hope in such thinges both they that make them and that loue and that worshippe them †Yea and the potter pressing softe earth with labour fashioneth euerie vessel to our vses and of the same clay maketh the vessels that are cleane to vse and in like maner them that are contrarie to these but what the vse of these vessels is the potter is iudge †And with vaine labour he fashioneth a god of the same clay he which a litle before was made of earth and a litle after returneth backe whence he was taken being exacted the debte of the life which he had †But his care is not because he shal labour nor because he hath a short life but he contendeth with goldsmithes and siluer smithes yea and he imitateth the copper smithes and counteth it a glorie because he maketh vaine thinges †For his hart is ashes
Honour of parents procureth Gods blessing 11. dishonoring them his curse 19. Mekenes and modestie auaile much but curiositie to know secret mysteries is dangerous 27. A charitable sincere and docile hart 33. with workes of mercie merite reward THE children of wisdom are the Church of the iust and their nation obedience and loue †Heare your fathers iudgement ò children and so doe that you may be saued †For God hath honoured the father in the children and inquiring of the mothers iudgement hath confirmed it vpon the children †He that loueth God praying shal obteyne for sinnes and shal refrayne himself from them and shal be heard in the prayer of dayes †And as he that gathereth treasure so he also that honoureth his mother †He that honoureth his father shal haue ioy in children and in the day of his prayer he shal be heard †He that honoureth his father shal liue the longer life he that obeyeth the father shal refresh the mother †He that feareth our Lord honoureth his parents and as his lordes he wil serue them that begat him †In worke and word al patience honour thy father †that blessing may come vpon thee from him his blessing may remayne in the later end †The fathers blessing establisheth the houses of the children but the mothers curse rooteth vp the foundation †Glorie not in the contumelie of thy father for his confusion is no glorie to thee †For the glorie of a man is by the honour of his father and the father without honour is the dishonour of the sonne †Sonne receiue the old age of thy father and make him not sorowful in his life †and if he fayle in vnderstanding pardon him and despise him not in thy strength for the almes to the father shal not be in obliuion †For good shal be restored thee for the sinne of thy mother †and in iustice it shal be builded to thee and in the day of tribulation there shal be remembrance of thee and as yee in the clere weather shal thy sinnes melt away †Of what an euil fame is he that forsaketh his father and he is cursed of God that doth exasperate his mother †Sonne doe thy workes in meekenes and thou shalt be beloued aboue the glorie of men †The greater thou art humble thy self in al thinges and thou shalt finde grace before God †because the might of God onlie is great and he is honoured of the humble †Seeke not thinges higher then thy self and search not thinges stronger then thy habilitie but the thinges that God hath commanded thee thincke on them alwayes and in manie of his workes be not curious †For it is not necessarie for thee to see with thyne eies those thinges that are hid †In superfluous thinges search not manie wayes and in manie of his workes thou shalt not be curious †For verie manie thinges are shewed to thee aboue the vnderstanding of men †Manie also haue their suspicion supplanted and haue held their senses in vanitie †A hard hart shal fare il in the later end and he that loueth danger shal perish in it †A hart that goeth two wayes shal not haue successe and the peruerse of hart shal be scandalized in them †A wicked hart shal be laden with sorowes and the sinner wil adde to commit sinne †To the synagogue of the proude there shal be no health for the shrubbe of sinne shal be rooted vp in them and it shal not be perceiued †The hart of the wise is vnderstood in wisdom and a good eare wil heare wisdom with al desire †A wise hart and that which hath vnderstanding wil absteyne it self from sinnes and in the workes of iustice shal haue successe †Water quencheth burning fyre and almes resisteth sinnes †and God is the beholder of him that rendreth grace he remembreth him afterward and in the time of his fal he shal finde a sure stay CHAP. IIII. An exhortation to practise workes of mercie 12. With commendation of wisdom 23. obseruing due times not to omite for anie feare or sham fastnes to say the truth 34. also to be diligent meke and liberal SONNE defraude not the almes of the poore and turne not away thyne eies from the poore †Despise not the hungrie soule and exasperate not the poore in his pouertie †Afflict not the hart of the needie and deferre not the gift to him that is in distresse †Reiect not the petition of him that is afflicted and turne not away thy face from the needie †From the poore turne not away thine eies for anger and leaue not to them that aske of thee to curse thee behinde thy backe †For the prayer of him that curseth thee in the bitternes of his soule shal be heard and he that made him wil heare him †Make thyself affable to the congregation of the poore and to the ancient humble thy soule and to a great man bow thy head †Bow downe thyne eare to the poore without sadnesse and render thy debt and answer him peaceable wordes in mildenes †Deliuer him that suffereth iniurie out of the hand of the proud and be not faynt harted in thy soule †In iudging be merciful to pupils as a father as an husband to their mother †and thou shalt be as the obedient sonne of the Highest and he wil haue mercie on thee more then a mother †Wisdom inspireth life to her children and receaueth them that seeke after her and wil goe before them in the way of iustice †And he that loueth her loueth life and they that shal watch to her shal embrace her sweetnes †They that shal hold her shal inherite life and whither soeuer he shal enter God wil blesse him †They that serue her shal be seruants to the holie and them that loue her God loueth †He that heareth her shal iudge nations and he that beholdeth her shal remayne confident †If he beleue her he shal inherite her and her creatures shal be in confirmation †because in tentation she walketh with him and first of al she chooseth him †Feare and dread and probation she wil bring vpon him and she wil torment him in the tribulation of her doctrine til she trie him in her cogitations and credite his soule †And she wil establish him and make a direct way vnto him and reioyce him †and wil disclose her secretes to him and wil heape vpon him as treasures knowlege and vnderstanding of iustice †But if he goe amis she wil forsake him and deliuer him into the handes of his enimie †Sonne obserue time and avoyd from euil For thy soule be not ashamed to say the truth †For there is shame that bringeth sinne there is shame that bringeth glorie and grace †Accept no face against thine owne face nor against
his time The end of the Sapiential Bookes THE FOVRT PART OF THE OLD TESTAMENT CONTEINING PROPHETICAL BOOKES The argument of Prophetical bookes in general AMongst manie great benefites which God bestowed vpon his peculiar people in the old Testament one principal and very excellent was that besides their ordinarie Pastors and gouerners in spiritual causes the Priestes of Aarons progenic and other clergie men of the same tribe of Leui in â—erarchical subordina ion of one chief with other superiors and subiectes disposed in sacred functions he also gaue them other extraordinarie Prophetes of sundrie tribes as admonitors and guides to reduce them from errors of sinne into the right way of vertue Which office the same Prophetes performed as wel by threatning the offenders with Gods wrath and punishment as by exhorting them to repentance and so to trust in Gods assured mercie that he would geue them better times and reliefe from their miseries But most especially these holie Prophetes did foresee and foretel the happie times of Grace in the New Testament The coming of Messias Christ our Redemer and Sauiour With the mysteries of his Incarnation Birth Passion Death Resurrection Ascension Coming of the Holie Ghost Fundation Propagation perpetual Stabilitie of his Church and finally the General Iudgement Eternal Glorie of the blessed and Euerlasting paine of the damned For albeit they preached and prophecied manie thinges properly and immediatly perteyning to the particular state and people of the Iewes and other nations Where they conuersed yet the principal summe of al the prophetical bookes is of Christ and his Church Yea al the old Testament is a general prophecie and forshewing of the New Which as we noted in the beginning is conteyned and lieth hid in the old Neuertheles speaking more distinctly of the proper arguments or contents of the foure partes of the old Testament the former three more peculiarly setforth the Law the Historie and Sapiential precepts and this last part chiefly conteyneth Prophecies of thinges to come Of which the greatest part is now come to passe or dayly fulfilled and the rest shal likewise be performed in due time So now in order after the Legal Historical and Sapiential bookes folow the Prophetical and are these according to the names of the Prophetes that writte them Isaie Ieremie with Baruch Ezechiel and Daniel commonly called the greatter Prophetes and the twelue lesser aâ—e Osee Ioel Amos Abdias Ionas Micheas Nahum Abacuc Sophonias Aggeus Zacharie and Malachie Who were al singularly inspired and gouerned in their preachings and writinges by the Holie Ghost that they could not erre Yea they were so illuminated in their vnderstanding that they clerly saw that which they vttered And therfore their Prophecies are called Visions for the assured infallibilitie of truth which they auouch For as nothing is more certaine in vulgar knowlege then that which we see with our corporal eyes and therfore of al witnesses the eye witnes is estemed the surest and as in al natural knowlege that is most certaine which is sene by discourse of reason so in supernatural knowlege nothing is more assured then that which is sene by supernatural light Whereof there be three sortes the light of Faith of Prophecie and of Glorie Al three certaine and vndoubted but most clere and manifest is the vision by light of glorie wherby God is sene in himself and al thinges in him that perteyne to the state of euerie glorious Sainct Next therto is the vision by light of prophecie wherwith God illuminateth the vnderstanding of the Prophet by a special extraordinarie and transitorie light of grace that either he clerly seeth the reueled truthes or at least perfectly knoweth that he is moued by the Holie Ghost though he vnderstand not al that the Holie Ghost intendeth and so when and where it is Gods wil he vttereth the same for instruction of others The last which is also certaine but more obscure is the supernatural knowlege which al Catholique Christians haue by light of faith assuredly beleuing al thinges which God reueleth by his Church Concerning therfore this excellent diuine gift of Prophecie granted to few for the benefite of al Gods seruants we are here to informe the vulgar reader that wheras these prophecies are for most part hard to be vnderstood and as S. Peter teacheth not knowen by priuate interpretation but must be interpreted by the same Spirite wherwith they were written our purpose is not to explicate them nor yet to produce large explications of the godlie lerned Fathers but rather fewer and briffer notes then hertofore and for the rest we remitte the more lerned and studious readers according to their capacities to search the same in the commentaries of ancient and late Expositers wishing others to content themselues with the more easie partes of holie Scriptures and other godlie bookes and daylie instructions of spiritual teachers And such as do also read these may obserue with vs these amongst other special causes of the hardnes of the Prophetes One cause is the frequent interruption of sentences with suddaine change from one person or matter to an other without apparent coherence Which S. Ierom noteth in sundrie places As I saie 7. after that the Prophet hath seuerely reprehended king Achab for his distrust of Gods assistance against his temporal enimies v. 13. in the next wordes he prophecieth that a Virgin shal conceiue and beare a sonne Christ our Sauiour and the like in other places An other cause is that the Prophetes speake thinges of some persons which are to be fulfilled in others either of their progenie or prefigured by them As the prophecie of the Iewes and Gentiles comprised in the historie of Esau Iacob Likewise that which Iacob prophecied Gen. 49. of Simeon an Leui not fulfilled in themselues but in the Scribes and Priestes descending of their stock Also much of that which Dauid semeth to speake of Salomon Psal 88. can only be vnderstod of Christ Other examples wil occurre in the Prophetes ensuing Briefly for we can not here expresse al the causes in few wordes prophecies are often times vttered in figuratiue speaches and often not in wordes but in factes other times so mixed with histories and temporal thinges with spiritual againe some thinges perteyning to the old Testament so ioyned with mysteries of the new and the like that most hard it is to discerne nay not possible without special reuelation or instruction of others to know to what purpose or thing euerie part perteyneth or is to be applied for some thinges are spoken only of the historie some thinges of misteries manie thinges of both And the reason why the Holie Ghost doth so vtter these prophecies is noted by S. Ierom in Nahum 3. that the proud and malicious enimies of Religion may not vnderstand them lest sayth he a holie thing should be geuen to dogges pearles cast to swine most sacred mysteries
Lord of hostes is his name thy redemer the holie one of Israel shal be called the God of al the earth †For as a woman forsaken mourning in spirit hath our Lord called thee and as a wife cast of from her youth hath thy God sayd †For a moment a litle while haue I forsaken thee in great mercies wil I gather thee †In a moment of indignation haue I hid my face a litle while from thee and in mercie euerlasting haue I had mercie on thee sayd thy redeemer our Lord. †As in the daies of Noe is this thing to me to whom I sware that I would no more bring in the waters of Noe vpon the earth so haue I sworne not to be angrie with thee and not to rebuke thee †For the mountaines shal be moued and the little hilles shal tremble but my mercie shal not depart from thee and the couenant of my peace shal not be moued sayd our Lord thy miseratour †Poore litle one shaken with tempest without al comfort behold I wil lay thy stones in order and wil found thee in sapphires †and I wil put the iasper stone for thy munitions and thy gates into grauen stones and al thy borders into stones worthie to be desired †Al thy children taught of our Lord a multitude of peace to thy children †And in iustice thou shalt be founded depart far from calumnie because thou shalt not feare and from dread because it shal not approch to thee †Behold the borderer shal come which was not with me thy stranger sometime shal be ioyned to thee †Behold I haue created the smith that bloweth the coles in the fire and bringeth forth a vessel for his worke I created the killer to destroy †Euerie vessel that is made agaynst thee shal not prosper and euerie tongue resisting thee in iudgement thou shalt iudge †This is the inheritance of the seruants of our Lord and their iustice with me sayth our Lord. CHAP. LV. God promiseth abundance of spiritual graces to the faithful 4. that shal beleue in Christ of al nations 7. and sincerely serue him ALYE that thirst come to the waters and you that haue no siluer make hast bye eate come bye without siluer and without any exchange wine and milke †Why bestow you siluer not for bread your labour not for saciety Hearing heare ye me and eate that which is â—â—d and your soule shal be delighted in fatnes †Incline your eare come to me heare and your soule shal liue and I wil make an euerlasting couenant with you the faythful mercies of Dauid †Behold I haue geuen him for a witnes to the peoples for a prince and master to the Gentiles †Behold thou shalt cal the nation which thou knowest not and the nations that knew not thee shal runne to thee because of the Lord thy God and the holie one of Israel because he hath glorified thee †Seeke ye our Lord whiles he may be found inuocate him whiles he is neere †Let the impious forsake his way and the vniust man his cogitations and returne to our Lord and he wil haue mercie on him and to our God because he is bountiful to forgeue †For my cogitations are not your cogitations nor your wayes my wayes sayth our Lord. †For as the heauens are exalted aboue the earth so are my wayes exalted aboue your wayes and my cogitations aboue your cogitations †And as the showre cometh downe and the snow from heauen and returneth no more thither but inebriateth the earth and watereth it and maketh it to spring and geueth seede to the sower and bread to him that eateth †so shal my word be which shal proceede from my mouth it shal not returne to me voyde but it shal doe what thinges soeuer I would and shal prosper in these thinges for which I sent it †Because you shal goe forth in ioy and in peace shal you be conducted the mountaines and the litle hilles shal sing prayse before you and al the wood of the countrie shal clap the hand †For the shrubbe shal come vp the firre tree and for the nettle shal grow the myrtle tree and our Lord shal be named for an euerlasting signe that shal not be taken away CHAP. LVI God inuiteth al men in thought and dede to kepe his law 4. promiseth blessing and reward to those that professe and kepe perpetual chastitie 9. and reproueth euil pastors THYS sayth our Lord Keepe ye iudgement and doe iustice because my saluation is nere to come and my iustice to be reueled †Blessed is the man that doth this thing and the sonne of man that shal apprehend this keping the Sabbath that he pollute it not keping his handes that he doe no euil †And let not the sonne of the stranger that cleaueth to our Lord say By seperation the Lord wil diuide me from his people †And “ let not the eunuch say Behold I am a drie tree Because thus sayth our Lord to the eunuches They that shal kepe my Sabbathes and shal choose the thinges that I would and shal hold my couenant †I wil geue vnto them in my house and within my walles a place and a name better then sonnes and daughters an euerlasting name wil I geue them which shal not perish †And the children of the stranger that cleaue to the Lord to worshipe him to loue his name to be his seruants euerie one that kepeth the Sabbath not to pollute it and that holdeth my couenant †I wil bring them into my holie mount and wil make them ioyful in the house of my prayer their holocaustes and their victims shal please me vpon mine altar because my house shal be called the house of prayer to al peoples †Sayth our Lord God that gathereth the dispersed of Israelâ— As yet wil I gather vnto it the gathered together therof †Al ye beasts of the fielde come to deuoure al ye beastes of the forest †His watchmen al blind haue bene ignorant dume dogges not able to barke seing vaine thinges sleeping and louing dreames †And most inpudent dogges they haue knowne no sacieâ—ie the pastors themselues haue bene ignorant of vnderstanding al haue declined into their owne way euerie one to his owne auarice from the highest euen to the last †Come let vs take wine and be filled with drunkennes and it shal be as today so also to morow and much more ANNOTATIONS CHAP. LVI 4. â—â—â— not the Eunuch say I am a drie tree To be barren vvithout children vvas ignominious amongst the Iewes in the old testament because God hauing then chosen that only nation for his peculiar people the conseruation and increase of his Church depended much vpon their multiplication But seing the Church of Christ in the nevv testament should be gathered
he vvould not grant this request for as much as he had determined the contrarie it is euident that Ieremie Ezechiel Daniel and some other prophetes then liuing had also great zele very like to the others and therfore this text speaketh not of others like vnto them but as S. Ierom in his commentaries vpon this place S. Chrysostom ho. 1. in 1. Thess 1. and S. Gregorie li. 9. Moral c. 12. vnderstand it of Moyses and Samuel them selues being in assured happie state where their former great zele and charitie were now greater and more perfect then in this life CHAP. XVI The prophet is forbid to marie trublesome times not suffering the cares of familie 5. He must neither goe to places of feasting nor mourning more dying then can be mourned or buried 10. Al which is for their idolatrie 15. but after captiuitie the people shal be released 16. And both Iewes and Gentiles conuerted to Christ. AND the word of our Lord was made to me saying †Thou shalt not take a wife and thou shalt not haue sonnes and daughters in this place †Because thus saith our Lord concerning sonnes and daughters that are begotten in this place and concerning their mothers which beare them and concerning their fathers of whose stocke they were borne in this land †by the deathes of diseases they shal die they shal not be mourned and they shal not be buried they shal be as a dunghil vpon the face of the earth they shal be consumed both with sword and famine and their carcasse shal be meate for the foules of the ayre and beastes of the earth †For thus saith our Lord Enter not into the house of feasting neither goe thou to mourne nor comfort them because I haue taken away my peace from this people saith our Lord mercie and commiserations †And great and litle shal die in this land they shal not be buried nor mourned and they shal not cut them selues neither shal baldnes be made for them †And they shal not breake bread among them to him that mourneth to comfort him vpon the dead and they shal not geue them drinke of the cuppe to comfort them vpon their father and mother †And enter not into the house of feasting to sitte with them and to eate and drinke †because thus saith our Lord of hostes the God of Israel Behold I wil take away out of this place in your eies and in your daies the voice of ioy and the voice of gladnes the voice of the bridegrome and the voice of the bride †And when thou shalt tel this people al these wordes and they shal say to thee Wherefore hath our Lord spoken vpon vs al this greate euil what is our iniquitie and what is our sinne that we haue sinned to the Lord our God †Thou shalt say to them Because your fathers haue forsaken me saith our Lord and gone after strange goddes and serued them and adored them and me they haue forsaken my law they haue not kept †But you also haue wrought worse then your fathers for behold euerie one walketh after the peruersitie of his euil hart that he heare me not †And I wil cast you forth out of this land into a land which you and your fathers knew not and there you shal serue strange goddes day and night which shal not geue you anie rest †Therefore behold the daies come saith our Lord it shal be said no more The Lord liueth that brought forth the children of Israel out of the Land of Aegypt †But The Lord liueth that brought the children of Israel out of the Land of the North and out of al the landes to the which I did cast them out and I wil bring them againe into their land which I gaue to their fathers †Behold I wil send manie fishers saith our Lord they shal fishe them and after this I wil send them manie hunters they shal hunt them from euerie mountaine and from euerie litle hil and out of the caues of rockes †Because mine eies are vpon al their waies they are not hid from my face and their iniquitie hath not bene hid from mine eies †And I wil repay first their duble iniquities and their sinnes because they haue contaminated my land with the carcasses of their idols and with their abominations they haue filled mine inheritance †O Lord my force and my strength and my refuge in the day of tribulation to thee the Gentiles shal come from the endes of the earth and shal say In very deede our fathers haue possessed lying vanitie which hath not profited them †Why shal a man make goddes vnto himself and they are not goddes †Therefore behold I wil shew them at this time I wil shew them my hand and my powre and they shal know that my name is the Lord. CHAP. XVII For obstinacie in sinne the Iewes shal be ledde captiue 5. He is cursed that trusteth in flesh 7. and blâ—ssed that trusteth in God 9. Only God searcheth the hart geuing to euerie one as they deserue 11. The prophet prayeth to be deliuered from his enemies 19. preacheth obseruation of the Law 24. so they shal prâ—sper otherwise perish THE sinne of Iuda is written with yron penne in naile of Adamant grauen vpon the bredth of their hart and in the hornes of their altars †When their children shal remember their altars and their groues and their trees with greene leaues in the high mountaines †sacrificing in the field I wil geue thy strength and al thy treasures into spoile thine excelses for sinne in al thy costes †And thou shalt be left alone of thine inheritance which I gaue thee and I wil make thee serue thine enemies in a land which thou knowest not because thou hast kindled a fire in my furie it shal burne for euer †Thus saith our Lord Cursed be the man that trusteth in man maketh flesh his arme and his hart departeth from our Lord. †For he shal be as litle bushes in the desert and shal not see when good shal come but he shal dwel in drynes in the desert in a land of saltnes and not habitable †Blessed be the man that trusteth in our Lord and our Lord shal be his confidence †And he shal be as a tree that is planted vpon the waters that spreddeth his rootes towards moysture and it shal not feare when the heate cometh And the leafe thereof shal be greene and in the time of drought it shal not be careful neither shal it cease at anie time to bring forth fruite †The hart of man is peruerse and vnsearcheable who shal know it †I the Lord that searche the hart and proue the reynes which geue to euerie one according to his way and according to the fruite of his inuentions †The partrich hath nourished that which she brought not forth
you shal know that I am the Lord when I shal set my face against them †and shal make their land not passable and desolate because they haue bene preuaricatours sayth our Lord God CHAP. XVI God by his prophet setting his benefites 15. and the Iewes wickednes before their eyes 31. compareth them with other idolaters 35. and after threatned punishment 45. with further comparison of other nations 52. exhorting them to repentance 60. offereth mercie by a new couenant of Christs Gospel AND the word of our Lord was made to me saying †Sonne of man make knowne to Ierusalem her abominations †and thou shalt say Thus saith our Lord God to Ierusalem Thy roote and thy generation of the land of Chanaan thy father an Amorrheite and thy mother a Cetheite †And when thou wast borne in the day of thy birth thy nauil was not cut and thou wast not washed with water to health nor salted with salt nor swadled in cloutes †No eye had mercie on thee to do vnto thee one of these thinges hauing pitie on thee but thou wast throwen forth vpon the face of the earth in the abiection of thy soule in the day that thou wast borne †And passing by thee I saw thee to be troden downe in thy bloud and I said to thee when thou wast in thy bloud Liue. I said to thee I say In thy bloud liue †Multiplied as the spring of the field haue I made thee and thou wast multiplied and made great and thou wentest in and camest to the ornaments of wemen thy breastes swelled and thy heare budded and thou wast naked and ful of confusion †And I passed by thee and saw thee and behold thy time the time of louers and I spred my garment ouer thee and couered thy ignominie And I sware to thee and I entered a couenant with thee saith our Lord God thou wast made myne †And I washed thee with water and made cleane thy bloud from of thee and I anoynted thee with oile †And I clothed thee with diuers colours shod thee with hyacinth and I girded thee with silke and clothed thee with fine garments †And I adorned thee with ornament and gaue bracelettes on thy handes and a cheine about thy necke †And I gaue a iewel vpon thy face and ringes to thine eares and a crowne of beautie on thy head †And thou wast adorned with gold and siluer and wast clothed with silke embrodered worke and manie colours thou hast eaten floure and honie and oile and wast made very beautiful excedingly and didst prosper to a kingdom †And thy name went forth into the Gentils because of thy beautie because thou wast perfect in my beautie which I had put vpon thee saith our Lord God †And hauing confidence in thy beautie thou hast fornicated in thy name and thou hast layd forth thy fornication to euerie passenger to be made his †And taking of thy garments thou madest thee idoles embrodred on each side thou didst fornicate vpon them as hath not bene done nor shal not hereafter †And thou tookest the vessels of thy beautie of my gold and my siluer which I gaue thee and thou madest thee images of men and hast fornicated in them †And thou tookest thy garments of manie colours and coueredst them and mine oile and mine incense thou didst put before them †And my bread which I gaue thee the floure and oile and honie wherwith I haue nourished thee thou didst set in their sight for an odour of sweetnes and it was done saith our Lord God †And thou hast taken thy sonnes and thy daughters which thou didst begete to me hast immolated the same vnto them to deuoure Why is thy fornication smal †Thou hast immolated my sonnes and hast geuen them consecrating them to the idols †And after al thine abominations and fornications thou wast not mindful of the dayes of thy youth when thou wast naked and ful of confusion troden downe in thy bloud †And it chanced after al thy malice wo wo to thee faith our Lord God †thou didst also build thee a stewes and madest thee a brothel house in al streetes †At euerie head of the way hast thou built a signe of thy prostitution and hast made thy beautie abominable and hast diuided thy feete to euerie one that passeth by and hast multiplied thy fornications †And thou hast fornicated with the children of Aegypt thy neighbours of great flesh hast multiplied thy fornication to prouoke me †Behold I wil strech out my hand vpon thee and wil take away thy iustification and I wil geue thee into the soules of the daughters of Palestine that hate thee that are ashamed of thy wicked way †And thou hast committed fornication with the sonnes of the Assyrians because neither as yet wast thou filled and after thou didst fornicate neither so wast thou saciated †And thou didst multiplie thy fornication in the Land of Chanaan with the Chaldees and neither so wast thou saciated †Wherin shal I clense thy hart saith our Lord God wheras thou doest al these the workes of a woman that is a whore and malapert †Because thou hast built thy brothel house in the head of euerie way and thy excelse thou hast made in euerie strete neither becamest thou as an harlot that by disdayne augmenteth the price †but as a woman aduouteresse that ouer her husband bringeth in strangers †To al harlots are rewards geuen but thou hast geuen rewardes to al thy louers thou didst geue them giftes to come vnto thee on euerie side to fornicate with thee †And in thee it was done contrarie to the custome of wemen in thy fornications and after thee there shal be no fornication for in that thou gauest rewardes and didst not take rewardes it hath bene done contrarie in thee †Therfore heare ô harlot the word of our Lord. †Thus saith our Lord God Because thy brasse is powred out and thine ignominie is reueled in thy fornications vpon thy louers and vpon the idols of thine abominations in the bloud of thy children whom thou gauest them †Behold I wil gather together al thy louers with whom thou hast taken pleasure al whom thou hast loued with al whom thou didst hate and I wil gather them together vpon thee on euerie side and wil discouer thine ignominie before them and they shal see al thy turpitude †And I wil iudge thee by the iudgements of aduouteresses and them that shed bloud and I wil geue thee into bloud of furie and zele †And I wil geue thee into their handes and they shal destroy thy brothel house and throw downe thy stewes and they shal turne thee naked out of thy garments and shal take away the vessels of thy beautie and shal leaue thee naked and ful of ignominie †And they shal bring vpon thee a multitude and they shal
Maloban and Enaathan and Samea and Ioribum Nathan Enuagam Zacharias and Mosolam the leaders them selues and that were skilful †And I sayd to them that they should come to Loddeus who was at the place of the treasurie †And I commanded them to say to Loddeus and his brethren and to them that were in the treasurie that they should send vs them that might doe the function of priesthood in the house of the Lord our God †And they brought vnto vs according to the mightie hand of the Lord our God cunning men of the children of Moholi the sonne of Leui the sonne of Israel Sâ—bebia his sonnes and brethren which were eightene †Asbia and Amin of the sonnes of the children of Chananeus and their children twentie men †And of them that serued the temple whom Dauid gaue and the princes themselues to the ministerie of the Leuites of them that serued the temple two hundred twentie Al their names were signified in writings †And I vowed there a fast to the yong men in the sight of God that I might aske of him a good iourney for vs and them that were with vs and for the children and the cattel because of ambushementes †For I was ashamed to aske of the king footemen and horsemen in my companie to guard vs against our aduersaries †For we sayd to the king that the power of our Lord wil be with them that seeke him with al affection †And agayne we besought the Lord our God according to these thinges whom also we had propicious and we obteyned of our God †And I separated of the rulers of the people and of the Priestes of the temple twelue men and Sedebia and Asanna and with them of their brethren ten men †And I weyed to them the gold and siluer and the vessels of the house of our God perteyning to the Priestes which the king had geuen and his counselers and the princes and al Israel †And when I had weyed it I deliuered of siluer an hundred fiftie talentes and siluer vessels of an hundred talentes and of gold an hundred talentes †And of vessels of gold seuen score and twelue brasen vessels good of shyning brasse resembling the forme of gold †And I sayd to them You are also sanctified to our Lord and the vessels be holie and the gold and siluer is vowed to our Lord the God of our fathers †Watch and keepe til you deliuer them to some of the rulers of the people and to the Priestes and Leuites and to the princes of the cities of Israel in Ierusalem in the treasurie of the house of our God †And those Priestes and Leuites that receiued the gold and siluer and vessels brought it to Ierusalem into the temple of our Lord. †And we went forward from the riuer Thia the twelfth day of the first moneth til we entred into Ierusalem †And when the third day was come in the fourth day the gold being weyed and the siluer was deliuered in the house of the Lord our God to Marimoth Priest the sonne of Iori †And with him was Eleazar the sonne of Phinees and with them were Iosadus the sonne of Iesus and Medias and Banni the sonne of a Leuite by number and weight al thinges †And the weight of them was writen the same houre †And they that came out of the captiuitie offered sacrifice to our Lord the God of Israel oxen twelue for al Israel rammes eightie six †lambes seuentie two bucke goates for sinne twelue and for health twelue kyne al for the sacrifice of our Lord. †And they read againe the preceptes of the king to the kinges officers and to the deputies of Coelesyria and Phoenice and they honored the nation and the temple of our Lord. †And these thinges being finished the rulers came to me saying The stocke of Israel and the princes and the Priestes and the Leuites †and the strange people and nations of the land haue not separated their vncleannes from the Chananeites and Hetheites and Pherezeites and Iebuseites and Moobites Aegyptians and Idumeians †For they are ioyned to their daughters both themselues and their sonnes and the holie sede is mingled with the strange nations of the earth and the rulers and magistrates were partakers of that iniquitie from the beginning of the reigne it self †And forth with as I heard these thinges I rent my garmentes and the sacred tunike and tearing the heares of my head and my beard I sate sorowful and heauie †And there assembled to me mourning vpon this iniquitie as manie as were then moued by the word of our Lord the God of Israel and I sate sad vntil the euening sacrifice †And I rising vp from fasting hauing my garmentes rent and the sacred tunike kneeling and stretching forth my handes to our Lord †I sayd Lord I am confounded and ashamed before thy face †for our sinnes are multiplied ouer our heades and our iniquities are exalted euen to heauen †Because from the times of our fathers we are in great sinne vnto this day †And for the sinnes of vs and of our fathers we haue bene deliuered with our brethren and with our Priestes to the kinges of the earth into sword and captiuitie and spoile with confusion vnto this present day †And now what a great thing is this that mercie hath happened to vs from thee ô Lord God leaue thou vnto vs a roote and a name in the place of thy sanctification †to discouer our light in the house of the Lord our God to geue vs meate in al the time of our bondage †And when we serued we were not forsaken of the Lord our God but he sette vs in fauour appointing the kinges of the Persians to geue vs meate †and to glorifie the temple of the Lord our God and to build the desolations of Sion to geue vs stabilitie in Iurie and Ierusalem †And now what say we Lord hauing these thinges For we haue transgressed thy preceptes which thou gauest into the handes of thy seruants the prophetes †saying That the land into which ye entred to possesse the inheritance therof is a land polluted with the coinquinations of the strangers of the land and their vncleanes hath filled it wholy with their filthines †And now your daughters you shal not match with their sonnes and their daughters you shal not take for your sonnes †And you shal not seeke to haue peace with them for euer that growing strong you may eate the best things of the land and may distribute the inheritance to your children for euer †And the thinges that happen to vs al are done for our nauhtie workes and our great sinnes †And thou gauest vs such a roote and we are returned againe to transgresse thy ordinances that we would be mingled with the vncleannes of the nations of this land †Wil t not thou be wrath with vs to
may retyre backe before vs and we may make vs other woodes †And in like maner the waues of the sea they also deuised a deuise and sayd Come let vs goe vp let vs ouerthrow the woodes of the filde that there also we may consummate an other countrie for our selues †And the woodes deuise was made vaine for fire came and consumed it †Likewise also the deuise of the waues of the sea For the sand stood stayed them †For if thou wert iudge of these whom wouldest thou begin to iustifie or whom to condemne †And I answered and sayd Verely they deuised a vayne deuise For the earth is geuen to the wood and a place to the sea to carie her waues †And he answered me and sayd Thou hast iudged wel and why hast thou not iudged for thy self †For as the earth is geuen to the wood and the sea for the waues therof so they that inhabite vpon the earth can vnderstand onlie the thinges that are vpon the earth and they vpon the heauens the thinges that are aboue the height of the heauens †And I answered and sayd I besech thee Lord that sense may be geuen me to vnderstand †For I meant not to aske of thy superiour thinges but of those that passe by vs dayly For what cause Israel is geuen into reproche to the gentiles the people whom thou hast loued is geuen to impious tribes the law of our fathers is brought to destruction the written ordinances are no where †and we haue passed out of the world as locustes and our life is astonishment and dreade and we are not worthie to obtaine mercie †But what wil he doe to his name that is inuocated vpon vs and of these thinges I did aske †And he answered me and sayd If thou search very much thou shalt often meruail because the world hastening hasteneth to passe †and can not comprehend the thinges which in times to come are promised to the iust because this world is ful of iniustice and infirmities †But concerning the thinges that thou demandest I wil tel thee for the euil is sowed and the destruction therof is not yet come †If then that which is sowen be not turned vp and the place depart where the euil is sowen that shal not come where the good is sowen †Because the grayne of il seede hath bene sowen in the hart of Adam from the beginning and how much impietie hath it ingendered vntil now and doth ingender vntil the floore come †And esteme with thy self the graine of the il seede how much fruite of impietie it hath ingendred †When the eares shal be cut which are innumerable what a great floore wil they begin to make †And I answered and sayd How and when shal these things be why are our yeares few and euil †And he answered me and sayd to me Hasten not aboue the Highest For thou doest hasten in vaine to be aboue him for thy excesse is much †Did not the soules of the iust in their cellars aske of these things saying How hope I so and when shal the fruite come of the floore of our reward †And Ieremiel the Archangel answered to those things and sayd When the number of the sedes in you shal be filled because he hath weyed the world in a balance †and with a measure hath he measured the times and in number he hath numbered the times and hath not moued nor stirred them vntil the foresayd measure be filled †And I answered and sayd O Lord Dominatour we also are al ful of impietie †And lest perhaps for vs the floores of the iust be not filled for the sinnes of the inhabitantes vpon the earth †And he answered me and sayd Goe and aske a woman with childe if when she hath accomplished her nine monethes her wombe can yet hold the infant within it †And I sayd it can not Lord. And he sayd to me in hel the cellars of the soules are like to the matrice †For as she that is In trauail maketh hast to escape the necessitie of trauailing so this also hasteneth to render those thinges which are commended to it †From the beginning it shal be shewed thee touching those thinges which thou doest couer to see †And I answered and sayd If I haue found grace before thine eyes if it be possible and if I by fitte †shew mee if there be more to come then is passed or moe things haue passed then are to come †What passed I know but what is to come I know not †And he sayd to me Stand vpon the right side and I wil shew thee the interpretation of the similitude †And I stood and saw and behold a burning fornace passed before me it came to passe when the flame passed I saw and behold the smoke ouercame †After these thinges there passed before me a clowd ful of water and with violence casting in much raine and when the violence of raine was cast the droppes therin ouercame †And he sayd to me Thinke with thyself as the raine increaseth more then the droppes and the fire then the smoke so did the measure that passed more a bound But the droppes and the smoke ouercame †and I prayed sayd shal I liue thinkest thou vntil these dayes or what shal be in those dayes †He answered me and sayd Of the signes wherof thou askest me in part I can tel thee how beit of thy life I was not sent to tel thee neither doe I know CHAP. V. Diuers signes of thinges to come are shewed to Esdras by an Angel 16. for the comforth of the people in captiuitie BVT concerning signes behold the dayes shal come wherin they that inhabite the earth shal be taken in a great number and the way of truth shal be hid and the countrie shal be barren from fayth †And iniustice shal be multiplied aboue that which thy self seest aboue that which thou hast heard in time past †And they shal put their foote into the countrie which now thou seest to reigne and they shal see it desolate †And if the Highest geue thee life thou shalt see after the third trumpet and the sunne shal sodenly shine agayne in the night and the moone thrise in a day †and out of wood bloud shal distil and the stone shal geue his voice and the peoples shal be moued †and he reigne whom they hope not that inhabite vpon the earth and foules shal make their flight away †the sea of Sodom shal cast the fishes and shal make a noise in the night which manie knew not and al shal heare the voice therof †and there shal be made a confusion in manie places and the fire shal often be sent backe and the sauage beastes shal goe to other places and wemen in their monethlie flowers shal bring forth monsters †and in swete waters shal salt
that with sorowes haue kept thy testimonies †Neither thinke thou of them that in thy sight haue conuerst falsly but remember them that according to thy wil haue knowen thy feare †Neither be thou willing to destroy theÌ„ that haue had the maners of beastes but respect them that haue taught thy law gloriously †Neither haue indignation towards them which are iudged worse then beastes but loue them that alwayes haue confidence in thy iustice and glorie †Because we and our fathers languish with such diseases but thou for sinners shalt be called merciful †For if thou shalt be desirous to haue mercie on vs then thou shalt be called merciful to vs hauing no workes of iustice †For the iust which haue manie workes layd vp of their owne workes shal receiue reward †For what is man that thou art angrie with him or the corruptible kinde that thou art so bitter touching it †For in truth there is no man of them that be borne which hath not done impiously and of them that confesse which haue not sinned †For in this shal thy iustice be declared and thy goodnes ô Lord when thou shalt haue mercie on them that haue no substance of good workes †And he answered me and sayd Thou hast spoken somethinges rightly and according to thy wordes so also shal it be done †because I wil not in dede thinke vpon the worke of them that haue sinned before death before the iudgement before perdition †but I wil reioyce vpon the creature of the iust and I wil remember their pilgrimage also and saluation and receiuing of reward †Therfore as I haue spoken so also it is †For as the husbandman soweth vpon the ground manie seedes and planteth manie plantes but not al which were sowen in time are preserued nor yet al that were planted shal take roote so they also that are sowen in the world shal not al be saued †And I answered and sayd If I haue found grace let me speake †As the seede of the husbandman if it come not vp or receiue not the rayne in time if it be corupted with much rayne perisheth †so likewise also man who made with thy handes and thou named his image because thou art likened to him for whom thou hast made al thinges and hast likened him to the seede of the husbandman †Be not angrie vpon vs but spare thy people and haue mercie on thy inheritance And thou hast mercie on thy creature †And he answered me and sayd The thinges that are present to them that are present and that shal be to them that shal be †For thou lackest much to be able to loue my creature aboue me and to thee often times euen to thyselfe I haue approched but to the vniust neuer †But in this also thou art meruelous before the Highest †because thou hast humbled thyself as becometh thee hast not iudged thyself that among the iust thou maist be very much glorified †For which cause manie miseries and miserable thinges shal be done to them that inhabite the world in the later dayes because they haue walked in much pride †But thou for thyselfe vnderstand for them that are like vnto thee seeke glorie †For to you paradise is open the tree of life is planted time to come is prepared abundance is prepared a citie is builded rest is approued goodnes is perfited perfit wisdome †The roote of euil is signed from you infirmitie and mothe is hid from you corruption is fled into hel in obliuion †Sorowes are past the treasure of immortalitie is shewed in the end †Adde not therfore inquiring of the multitude of them that perish †For they also receiuing libertie haue despised the Highest and contemned his lawe and forsaken his wayes †Yea and moreouer they haue troden downe his iust ones †and haue sayd in their hart that there is no God and that knowing that they dye †For as the thinges aforesayd shal receiue you so thirst and torment which are prepared shal take them for he would not man to be destroyed †But they them selues also which aâ—e created haue deâ—yled his name which made them haue bene vnkinde to him that prepared life †Wherfore my iudgement now approcheth †Which thinges I haue not shewed to al but to thee to few like vnto thee And I answered and sayd †Behold now Lord thou hast shewed me a multitude of signes which thou wilt beginne to doe in the latter times but thou hast not shewed me at what time CHAP. IX Certaine signes shal goe before the day of iudgement 14. More shal perish then be saued 25. Prayer with other good workes are meanes to saluation AND he answered me and sayd Measuring measure thou the time in it selfe and it shal be when thou seest after a certaine part of the signes which are spoken of before shal passe †then shalt thou vnderstand that the same is the time wherin the Highest wil beginne to visite the world that was made by him †And when there shal be sene in the world mouing of places and truble of peoples †then shalt thou vnderstand that of these spake the Highest from the dayes that were before thee from the beginning †For as al that is made in the world hath a beginning and also a consummation and the consummation is manifest †so also the times of the Highest haue the beginning manifest in wonders and powers and the consummations in worke and in signes †And it shal be euery one that shal be saued and that can escape by his workes and by fayth in which you haue beleeued †shal be leaft out of the foresayd dangers and shal see my saluation in my land and in my costes because I haue sanctified my â—elfe from the world †And then shal they be in miserie that now haue abused my wayes and they that haue reiected them in contempt shal abide in torments †For they that knew not me hauing obtained benefits when they liued †and they that loathed my law when they yet had libertie †and when as yet place of penance was open to them vnderstoode not but despised they must after death in torment know it †Thou therfore be not yet curious how the impious shal be tormented but inquire how the iust shal be saued and whose the world is and for whom the world is and when †And I answered and sayd †I haue spoken hertofore and now I say and hereafter wil say that they are moe which perish then that shal be saued †as a floud is multiplied aboue more then a droppe †And he ansvvered me and sayd Like as the field so also the sedes and as the flovvers such also the colours and as the workeman such also the worke and such as the husbandman such is the husbandrie because it was the time of the world †And
powre by his meruelous workes m nor were content with his prouidence but carnally coueted thinges not necessarie Exo. 16 17. n According to their carnal desâ—â—â—s o Holie by his function Num. 16. p They adored the image that represented a calf not God Exo. 23. q God being their true glorie they changed him for a false god of the Aegyptians who especially honoâ—ed a calfe called Apâ—s making an image therof and attributed their deliuerie from Aegypt to this imagned god Exo. 32. v. 4 8. Of which and the like foolish and abominable idolatrie S Paul writeth Rom. 1 v. 23. They changed the glorie of the incorruptible God into a similitude of the image of a corruptible man and of foules and of foure footed beastes and of them that crepe where we see what maner of imagies holie Scriptures condemne and not the imagies of Christ and his Sainctes r He sayd he would destroy them but for Moyses prayer spared them Exo 32. Num. 14. Num 14. v. 21. 22. Å¿ The Idol of Moabites and Madianitees Num. 25. v. â— t As God is in deede the liuing God that liueth of himselfe and geueth life to others so false goddes are called dead goddes that can not geue life to anie but doe kil al that serue them at least spiritually and often corporally v Phinees moued by the zele of God as the holie text witnesseth Nu. 25. v. 11. in killing the adulterers pleased God and merited reward Num 20. v. 2. 12. w Moyses afflicted in spirite by the enormious murmuring of the people doubted whether God would geue them water out of the rocke or no not doubting of his powre but of his wil and so when he should haue spoken to the rocke Num. 20. v. 8. he spoke to the incredulous people v. 10. and therin offended God for which he was temporally punished v. 12. Deut. 1. v. 37. c. 3. v. 26. c. 4. v. 21. Deut 2. v. 2. 12. v. 2. 3. Iudic 2. v. 11. 12. Iudic. 2. v. 5. 6. c. Iere. 15. v. 5. x Some Iewes offered these most cruel vnnatural and abominable sacrifices perhaps in the times of Iudges when they were mingled with idolatrous people and serued their goddes Iud. z. v. 12. c. 3 v. 6. But it is more expresse after Dauids time wherof he here prophecieth and was veryfied by Achaz 4 Reg. 16 v. 3. and by Manasses 4 Reg. 21. v. 6. VVhich with other idolatrie king Iosias destroyed 4 Reg 2 v. 1â— y God respected them with his merciful eye and gaue them grace to repent z Here the Psalmist concludeth both the historie and prophecie of this Psame with prayer and praise as foloweth :: A verie fitte prayer in time of schisme The read sea a figure of Baptisme Al former sinnes destroyed in Baptisme Gods perpetual prouidence towards al men The 3. key a Praise God by confessing his mercie prouidence and goodnes 1. Paâ— 16. v. 34. b God of his mercie promised the Redemer of mankind streight after Adams fal c VVhich redemption was intended for al and faileth not of Gods part in anie but of mens owne wilful refusing to be duly penitent and to kepe Gods precepts d Literally of such as wander in this world hauing no setled place to dwel in spiritually of al mankind after his fal e Whensoeuer they cal vpon God he helpeth them as is best for their spiritual health f Al Gods benefites which are of his mercie not of mans deserte are iust matter of praising God g Calamities in this world are commonly inflicted for sinnes h As before in the 6 13 and 19 verses i This verse also is foure times in this Psalme v 8 15. 21. and 1. to admonish vs that as there is oâ—e meanes â—o escape from al dangers by crying to God as v 6 13. 19 and 28 with mouâ—nâ—ng and pâ—nance so there is one cause of praise and thankes for our deliuerie which is Gods me câ—e and grace k God to shew sometimes his powre also to benefite some and to punish others changeth the accustomed course of thinges and states of men at his diuine pleasure as here the â—oyal prophet reciteth some examples And some others are â—ecoâ—ded in dâ—ueâ—s times and places l No doubt much charge was made in the earth by Noeâ— flood And manie thincke that the land of Chanaan was made more fruictful in the time of the Iewes inhabiting and now is more barrane againe m He alludeth to the countrie about Sodome and Gomotre which was most fruictful and most pleasant Gen 13. v 10 but shortly after vvas burnt vvith fire and brunston Gen. 19 v 24 subuerted and turned into a dead and salt sea n Made abundance of fruict to grow o Againe some countries punished for sinnes p An other change in releeuing the poore being humbled Dauid singeth prayses for benefites receiued the 8 key a This Psalme was â—ongue with instruments beginning the musike and voices folowing Psal 56. v. 8. The former part of this Psalme to the 7. verse is the same in sense and almost in wordes with the latter part of the 56 from the 8. verse b King Dauid subdued not only some partes of Chanaan not subiect to the lewes before 2. Reg. 51. Par. 11. but also brought the Philistims Moabites Ammonites Idumeans Amalechites the kinges of Soba Syria and Emath to pay tribute 2. Reg. 8 1. Par. 18. c Yet al these victories and conquestes were but a figure of Christs powre and dominion in al nations And therfore the rest of this Psalme by S. Augustin and other fathers iudgement was rather prophetically vttered by Dauid in the person of Christ and more perfectly performed by Christ in his Church then historically auerred of Dauid himselfe :: The rest of this Psalme is the same with the latter part of the 59. from the 7. verse Psal 59. v. 7. Christ persecuted his enimies punished the 5. key a The wordes of Christ b The Pharisees and Herodians Mat. 22. with their mouth acknowleged Christ a true speaker and a teacher of the way of God in truth therby to draw him into danger and to sheede his bloud c At other times they accused him of great crimes lastly of treason against Caesar d A prediction that Iudas would not make recourse to anie good counseller but complaine of his miserable tormented conscience to the wicked who gaue him no comfort at al e and so desparing the diuel perswaded him to hang himselfe Act. t. v. 16. f The office of Apostleshippe g The posteritie or successors of wicked persecuters prosper not long in this world h Arch heritâ—kes that deuise newe opinions are shortly forsa ken their folowers stil coining new heresies of their owne differing from their false masters i Let them obserue this that vse more swearing and blaspheming then praying or meditating k Christs soule was pensiue when he prayed in the garden and he did workes of penance for
but in al perfection a man :: God promised the Iewes multiplication of men :: And of catle which were a principal riches as appeareth by the word pecunia deriued of pecus Isa 54 Ioa. 6. :: The seede of Israel remaineth foreuer not in the incredulous Iewes saith S. Ierom but in those which with the Apostles by the Apostles beleue in Christ :: VVhen the citie was besie ged and Ieremie in prison prophecied that it should be taken and subdued by the enimies yet he bought landes to signifie that in time they should be deliuered from captiuitie :: Sedecias was brought to the king of Babylon in Reblatha where they put out his eyes thence caried him blind to Babylon 4. Reg. 25. and so coming to that citie he could not see it Ezech. 12. v. 13. Exo 3â— :: By the force of the sword famine pestilence as Psa 59. v. 6. that they flee from the face of the bovv :: VVhen they were in the vvildernes newly deliuered from Aegypt they committed manie hainous crimes in murmuring schisme idolatrie and other carnal spiritual sinnes Psal 35. 1. Reg. 21. :: Lest anie should thinke that by Gods iust and seuere punishment or by anie reuolting from his seruice the Church might be vtterly destroyed he stil promiseth mercie towards the reliques of his people that they shal neuer al fayle but continew til the Redemer of mankind Christ shal come And much lesse shal Christs Church euer faile after his coming :: Besides manie other reuelations this prophet had two visions in prison in confirmation that God would conserue his people and Church for euer notwithstanding their manifold great sinnes great affliction and destruction of manie for the same :: An euident prophecie and promise of Christ Iere. 23. v. 5. :: Borne of the seede of Dauid :: Dauids progenie shal continew vnto Christ whose kingdom vvhich is his Church shal haue no end Luc. 1. v. 33 Psal 88. v. 30. :: S Hypolitus and al ancient Fathers teach that the holie Eucharist is the coÌ„plement of al sacrifices of the old Testament :: Gods most special prouidence blessed the families of Dauid and Aaron aboue al other kinreds :: See ch 32. v. 4. 4. Reg. 25. v. 7. :: Recidiuation into sinnes after remission offendeth God more then the former sinnes as ouâ— Sauiour teacheth by a parable Ma. 18. Exo. 21. Deut. 15. :: God was not the cause of the Babylonians crueltie but permitted and directed the same to punish the Iewes :: Here againe it appeareth that the prophet obserueth not the order of time in vvriting his visions For the thing here recorded happened before the prophecies mentioned in the former chapters :: This Ionadab vvas a man of powre estimation very familiar vvith Iehu king of Israel 4. Reg. 10. v. 15 :: The Rechabites descended not of Israel but of Iethro a Madianite Moyses father in lavv as both Hebrevv Lâ— in Do 〈…〉 by 〈…〉 on :: In case of necessitie they entered into the city otherwise remained in tentes :: Seing these religious Rechabites obserued obediently the rule of their father founder in vvorkes of supererogation othervvise not commanded much more al are bound to kepe Gods commandments Iere. 18. v. 11. 25. v. 5. Religious Orders in the old Testament The rule of Rechabites differed from the Nazareites children of the Propheces They were figures of more perfect orders in the Church of Christ Mat. 19. v. 12. 21. Diuers kindes of Religious Orders Luc 18. v. 22. Varieties of Religious Orders make no difference in Catholique Religion But do much adorne the whole Church Psal 44. v. 11. 1â— :: Besides preaching which the euil disposed did either not duly regard or quickly forget God commanded that his wil should also be written for a perpetual admonition if they would read it or heare it redde and for a testimonie against them and a warning to others :: He was not now in prison for v. 19. certaine noble men of the court aduised both Baruch and him to hide themselues but kept himself close in some secret place as most Priestes do now in England that they may better exercise their function then if they were in the persecutors handes :: The secretarie cut out the leaues and burnt them by the kings commandment as appeareth v. 25. c. :: God did not translate them to an other place but they hyding themselues by Gods direction the searchers could not finde them :: His sonne Iechonias reigned but three monethes which is counted as no reigne Theodoret. Ch. 22. v. 19. Nor anie of his issue in wordlie glorie as their predecessors had reigned S. Tho. p. 3. q. 3â— a. 2. ad 3. 4 Reg. 24. 2 Para. 36. â— Esd 1. :: As Herod dealt afterwards with S. Iohn Baptist so this king estemed reuerenced and feared Ieremie and yet persecuted him :: It is an old deuise of persecuters to pretend false causes against the innocent so Iulian the Apostata charged Cristian Catholiques with treason and sedition Hist. tripart li. 6. c. 27. so did also the Arrians Vandals other heretikes against Catholiques as Raffinus and Victor testifie Iere 2â— â— 9. :: The Hebrew phrase life shal beliuing and liuing he shal liue signifieth that he shal liue most securely Mystically this saftie in voluntarie banishment signifieth that voluntarie temporal penance saueth from eternal damnation :: God euer moueth some to pittie the innocent afflicted til at last he geueth them acrowne of glorie for their constant patience :: Prophecies are not only certaine when a thing is absolutly affirmed but also when they are conditional as this was and the euent should haue bene accordingly if the king had folowed the prophets aduise though by not going the contrarie captiuitie and much miserie happened to the king and people 4. Reg. 25 â— Reg. 25. Iere 52. :: Possession of one gate gaue sufficient entrance to the whole armie whereupon the king and his chiefe nobles fled by a posterne gate :: He expostulated iustly reproued Sedecias for rebelling breaking his othe shewing ingratitude for so much as Nabu chodonosor had made him king reposed coÌ„fidence in him The fifth part Ieremie prophecieth the destruction of the Iewes going into Aegypt and of sundrie nations for their idolattie and crueltie :: This heathen prince seing the Iewes afflicted for their sinnes confesseth the iustice of God not sparing to punish his owne elected people 4. Reg. 25. :: Being chiefe gouernour he promiseth according to his place to defend the people to answer for them and to be their agent and procurator in whatsoeuer the Chaldees should command or require of them * This thing 4. Reg. 25. :: Such cruel tragedies are commonly atchiued by falshood treacherie pretending freindshipe intending mischief :: Not sincerely weping but hypocritically feaâ—ing to lament the destruction of the Temple Citie :: Auarice tameth crueltie when nothing els can :: It semeth