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mercy_n	holy_a	son_n	trinity_n	4,094	5	10.4029	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14063	A hundreth good pointes of husbandry lately maried vnto a hundreth good poynts of huswifery: newly corrected and amplified with dyuers proper lessons for housholders, as by the table at the latter ende, more plainly may appeare: set foorth by Thomas Tusser Gentle man, seruant to the right honorable Lorde Paget of Beudefert.	Tusser, Thomas, 1524?-1580.	1570 (1570)	STC 24373; ESTC S111444	36,086	88

him to serue what better gift than to the poore that ready be to sterue 5 What greater praise of God and man than hatred to forsake what mercylesse shall mercy get that mercy none wil take 6 What worse dispaire than loth to die for feare to go to Hell what greater faith than trust in god through christ in heuē to dwel Principall pointes of Religion 1 TO pray to God continually 2 To learne to know him rightfully 3 To honour God in Trinitie The Trinitie in Vnitie The Father in his Maiestie The Sonne in his humanitie The Holy ghostes benignitie 4 To serue him alway holily 5 To aske him all thing needefully 6 To praise him alway worthily 7 To loue him alway stedfastly 8 To dread him alway fearfully 9 To aske him mercy hartely 10 To trust him alway faithfully 11 To obey him alway willingly 12 To abide him alway paciently 13 To thank him alway fatherly 14 To liue here alway vertuously 15 To vse thy neighbour honestly 16 To looke for death still presently 17 To helpe the poore in miserie 18 To hope for heauens felicitie 19 To haue faith hope and charitie 20 To count this life but vanitie be pointes of Christianitie ¶ The husband mannes belife 1 THis is my stedfast Creede my faith and all my trust that in the heauens there is a God most mighty true iust That made the hanging Skies so deckt with diuers lightes of darknesse made the cherefull daies and all our restfull nightes 2 That clad this earth with herbe with trees of sundry fruites with beast with birde both wild tame of strange sundry suites That intermixt the same with mynes like veines of ore of siluer golde or precious stones and treasures many more 3 That ioyned brookes to Dales to Hilles fresh water springes with Ryuers sweete alonges the Medes to profite many things That made the hory Frostes the flaky Snowes so trim the hony Dewes the blustering winde to serue as pleaseth him 4 That made the surging Seas in course to ebbe and flowe that skilfull man with sayling shippe mought trauell to and fro And stored so the same for mannes vnthankfull sake that euery nation vnder heauen mought thereby profit take 5 That sendeth thundring claps like terrors out of Hell that man may know what God it is that in the heauens doth dwell That sendeth threatning plagues to kepe our liues in awe his benefites if we forget or do contemne his lawe 6 This is that Lorde of hostes the father of vs all the maker of what ere was made my God on whome I call Which for the loue of man sent downe his onely Sonne begot of him before the worldes were any whit begonne 7 This entred Maries wombe as faith affirmeth sure conceyued by the holy ghost borne of that virgin pure This was both God and man of Iewes the hoped king and liued here saue onely sinne like man in euery thing 8 This was that virgins child that same most holy priest that Lambe of God the Prophet great whom scripture calleth Christ This that Messias was of whome the Prophet spake that should treade down the serpents head our attonement make 9 This Iudas did betray to false dissembling Iewes which vnto Pilate being Iudge did falsely him accuse Who through that wicked Iudge and of those Iewes dispight condemned and tormented was with all the power they might 10 To liuing wight more yll what could such wretches do more percing woundes more bitter paines then they did put him to They crowned him with thorne that was the king of kinges that thought to saue the soule of man aboue all wordly thinges 11 This was the Pascall lambe whose loue for vs so stoode that on the mount of Caluerine did shed for vs his bloode Where hanging on the Crosse no shame he did forsake tyll death geuen him by pearcing speare an ende of life did make 12 This Ioseph seing dead the body thence did craue and tooke it forthwith from the Crosse and layde it in his graue Downe thence he went to hell in vsing there his will his soule I meane his slayed corps in Tombe remaining still 13 From death to life againe the thirde day this did rise and seene on earth to his elect tymes oft in sundry wise And after into heauen ascend he did in sight and sitteth on the right hand there of God the father of might 14 Where for vs wretches all his father he doth praye to take respect vnto his death and put our sinnes away From thence with sounded trump whiche noise all flesh shal dread he shall returne with glory againe to iudge the quick and dead 15 Then shal that voice be hearde come come ye good to mee get you to hell you workers euill where paine shall euer bee This is that louing Christ which I my Sauiour call and onely put my trust in him and in none else at all 16 In God the holy ghost I firmely do beleue which from the father and the Sonne proceding life doth geue Which by the prophets spake which doth all comfort sende which I do trust shal be my guide when this my life shal ende 17 A holy Catholik Church on earth I graunt there is and those which frame their liues by that shall neuer speede amisse The head whereof is Christ his worde the chiefest post preseruer of this Temple great is God the holy ghost 18 I do not doubt there is a multitude of Saintes more good is done resembling them then shewing thē our plaints Their faith and woorkes in Christ that glorie them did giue which glory wee shall likewise haue if likewise we do liue 19 At God of Heauen there is forgiuenesse of our sinnes through Christes death through faith in it through none other gine If we whiles here we liue repentant mercy craue through sted fast hope faith in Christ for giuenesse we shal haue 20 I hope and trust vpon the rysing of the fleshe this corps of myne that first must dye shall rise againe afreshe The body and soule euen then in one shal ioyned be As Christ did rise from death to life euen so through Christ shall we 21 As Christ is glorified and neuer more shall dye As Christ ascended is to heauen through Christ euen so shall I. As Christ I count my heade and I a member of his so God I trust for Christ his sake shal settle me in blisse Thus here we learne of God that there be persons three the Father Sonne the holy ghost one God in trinitie In substance all lyke one one God one Lorde one might whose persons yet we do deuide and so we may by right As God the father is the maker of vs all so God the Sonne redemer is to whome for helpe we call And God the Holy ghost doth make vs pure and clene and moueth vs to waile for grace we being ouer seene This is that God of Gods whome euery soule should loue whome all mens

heartes should quake for feare his wrath on thē to moue That this same mighty God aboue all other chiefe shall saue my soule from dolefull Hell is all my whole beliefe Of the omnipotencie of God and debilitie of man. 1 O God thou glorious god what god is like to thee what life what strength is like to thine as al the world may see Thy heauens thine earth the Seas and all thy workes therin do shew to whō thou wouldest to know what thou hast euer bene 2 But all the thoughtes of man are bent to wretched euels man doth commit Idolatrie bewitched of the Diuels What euill is left vndone where man may haue his will man euer was an hipocrite and euer will be still 3 What dayly watch is made the soule of man to sle by Lucifer by Balsabub Mammon and Asmode In diuelishe pride in wrath in couering to much in fleshly lust the tyme is spent the life of man is such 4 The ioy that here he hath is as a sparke of fier his actes be like the smoldering smoke himself but dirt and mier His strength euen as a reede his age like to the floure his breath or life is but a puffe vncerteine euery houre 5 But for the Holy ghost and for his giftes of grace the death of Christ the mercy great man were in woful case O graunt vs therefore Lorde tamende that is a misse and when from hence we do depart to rest with thee in blisse Th. Thusser FINIS Note that those staues which be marked with this marke or Paraph ¶ before them do appertaine to Huswiferie are fitly intermixed with Husbandrye for the apte tyme and vse of them The table to Husbandrie THe Preface fo 2 The commoditie of husbandrie fo 2 The praise of husbandrie fo 2 The Epistle to the Lord Paget fo 3 The Epistle to the reader fo 3 The description of husbandrie fo 4 The Ladder to thrift fo 4 xxiiii Lessons alwaye to be obserued fo 5 Husbandrie for August fo 7 Husbandrie for September fo 9 Husbandrie for October fo 10 Husbandrie for Nouember fo 10 Husbandrie for December fo 11 A digression so 12 A discription of time and the yere fo 12 A description of life ryches fo 12 A description of housekeping fo 13 A description of Christmas fo 13 A description of apte time to spende fo 13 Against fantastical scruplenes fo 14 Christmas husbandly fare fo 14 Husbandrie for Ianuary fo 14 Husbandrie for February fo 16 Husbandrie for March. fo 17 Husbandrie for Aprill fo 18 Husbandrie for May fo 18 Husbandrie for Iune fo 20 Husbandrie for Iuly fo 20 The kindlye propertie of euerye Moneth fo 22 A comparison betwene good husbandrie and euill fo 20 A Sonet fo 23 A comparison betweene Champion and Seuerall fo 23 The table to Huswiferie THe Preface fo 26 The praise of Huswiferie fo 26 The Epistle to the lady Paget fo 26 A description of Huswife and Huswiferie fo 27 Twenty Lessons alwaye to bee obserued fo 27 A digression of Cock crowning fo 28 Huswiferie before breakefast or morning workes fo 29 Huswiferie betweene breakfast dinner or fornoone workes fo 29 Dinner fo 32 After noone woorkes fo 33 Euening workes fo 34 Supper fo 34 Workes after supper fo 35 The Ploughmans feasting daies fo 36 The good huswifely Phisik fo 36 The good motherly nurssery fo 37 What childrē should be trained vp in Musike fo 37 A Sonet to the Lady Paget fo 38 A comparisō betwene good huswiferie and euill fo 38 Husbandly poesies for the hall fo 39 Poesies for the Parlour fo 39. Poesies for the Geastes Chamber fo 40 Poesies for the bed chamber fo 40 Principall points of religion fo 41 The Husbandmans belief fo 41 Of the omnipotencie of God and debilitie of man fo 43 FINIS Imprynted at London in Fletestrete within Temple barre at the signe of the Hand and starre by Rychard Tottel Anno. 1570. Cum priuilegio