offered vpon the crosse for our redemption And so don you receyue the same that the prest in the masse dothe receyue at the aulter and he none other neyther more or lesse than you do but that he doth there consecrate receyue in bothe the fourmes because he doth there represent the persone of Christe and doth there ministre make that oblacion sacrifice offerynge not for hym selfe alone but for all Christianes as Christe dyd Not witstondyng yf the same preste shulde an other tyme out of masse be communed houseled as you be he shuld receyue as you do and none other than you do ¶ And thus I pray you be content for this mater and forthwith after your communioÌ„ do not you as many do renne forthe make haste vnto brekefaste or dyner or vnto bodyly recreacioÌ„ but rather gyue some thankes vnto our lord as becommeth a good Christian ¶ A prayer to be sayd immediately after your communioÌ„ and houselynge IN moost huÌ„ble Ex missale moost lowly and most harty louynge maner / with moost due reuerence I thanke the good lorde moost holy father eterne euerlastynge God that by the bountye of thy mercyfull grace woldest vouchsafe thus to refresshe and fede me with the brede of lyfe the holy sacred body precyous blode of thy sonne our lorde god sauyour Iesu Christe And I beseche thyne infinite pyteouse goodnes that this most high and holy sacrament of our saluacion that I most vnworthy wretche and moost vyle caytife haue nowe receyued come neuer hereafter in iudgement condempnacion vnto me for myne euyll merites deseruynges but rather good lorde it may come vnto the profyte and comforte of my body and vnto the saluacion and helthe of my soule vnto the lyfe euerlastyng Amen ¶ An other prayer for the same tyme. MOost swete lord sauyour Iesu I beseche thy grace for the vertue in the honour of thy moost holy body and blessyd blode whiche althoughe moche vnworthy I haue here now receyued graunt and gyue me the inwarde swetenes of thy charitie / who le vnfayned loue of all good persoÌ„s spirituall myght and strengthe in all temptacions purity of harte clennes of coÌ„science and in all my conuersacyon of lyfe suche Christiane disciplyne / good maners / behauyours as may auoyd all actyue sklaunder occasion gyueÌ„ And also to be vnto all ê‘sons exaÌ„ple of good edificacioÌ„ So that by thy gracyouse guydynge and gouernaunce I maye go forwarde and increace in thy religion with perseuerant constancy accordynge vnto that state degre that thou good lord haste called me vnto Amen ¶ A deuoute prayer / moche vsed vnto this sacrament with the Englysshe after the Latine ¶ The Antheme O Sacrum conuiuium in quo Christus sumitur recolitur memoria passionis eius mens inpletur gracia Et future glorie nobis pignus datur Alleluia ¶ That is to meane O Meruelouse solempne and holy sacred feest in that whiche feest our lord and sauiour Christe is receyued The memory and remembraunce of his passion is renewed called vnto mynde Our soule / harte / and mynde is replete and fulfylled with grace and comfort And the pledge and ernest token of the glory ande euerlastynge ioye blysse to come is vnto vs gyueÌ„ and delyuered ¶ Alleluya ¶ This Ebrew worde Alleluya of foure sillables in sowne and speakynge is as moche to meane as though you sayd in Englyssh All you people that ben here presente laude prayse your creatour and maker ¶ The versicle âšœ Panem de celo prestitisti eis Thou hast gyueÌ„ good lord vnto thy people this breade frome heuyn ¶ The responde or answere âšœ Omne delectamentum in se habentem Alleluya And this breade hathe in it selfe all delectament and pleasure ¶ Oremus âšœ Praye we or lett vs praye ¶ The collecte DEus qui nobis sub sacramento mirabili passionis tue memoriaÌ„ reliquisti tribue quesumus ita nos corporis sanguinis tui sacra misteria venerari vt redemptionis tue fructum in nobis iugiter sentiamus / qui viuis et regnas deus Per omnia secula seculorum Amen ¶ That is to meane GOod lorde sauyour Iesu the vnder this meruelous sacrament hast left vnto vs the memory remembraunce of thy passion Graunt vnto vs we beseche the so to honour worshyppe the holy sacred misteryes of thy blessyd bodye blode that we therby may coÌ„tynually vnderstande perceyue and fele in vs / the fruite / effecte / the profyte / and auayle of thy redemptyon lorde / that lyuest and reignest with god the father / in the vnitie of the holy ghost very selfe same essenciall god by all worldes of worldes Amen ¶ A lesson for your masse tyme whan you be not communed or houseled YOu muste nowe remembre that as is sayd before euery preste in the masse dothe represent and vse the person / and offyce of Christe / and doth in the same masse make oblacioÌ„ and offer the holy sacrament / not for hym selfe alone / but also for all faythfull Chrystians And therfor euery deuoute louer of Christ in clene lyue / couetynge / desyrynge / and wysshynge with feruoure of hart and mynde / to receyue there with the preste in euery masse the same sacramente shall doutles receyue a greate effecte and vertue therof Wherfore it may be for you moche meritoryous / profytable so in the masse tyme / and specially towarde the Agnus to prepare / ordeyne / and dyspose your selfe / with affectioÌ„ of hart / with desyre deuocioÌ„ of mynd with the charyte loue of all your whole soule vnto your lorde sauyour as thoughe you shuld at the same masse be actually coÌ„muned and houseled with the preste ¶ A prayer for the same purpose O Moost swete lord and sauyour Iesu Oratio doctoris Nydar pro communione spirituali thou knowest wel that I moche do couete and with all my harte / haue greate desyre now to receyue this blessed sacrament And wolde to god that accordyng vnto my wysshe and desyre I were vnto thy pleasure in thy syght so well disposed in my soule that now at this tyme / and euery day And if it myght coÌ„uenieÌ„tly be many tymes in the day I myght be able worthely to receyue it But lord Thou knowest what I am thou dost se and beholde my hart / my hole desyre of mynde soule / is openly sprade and knoweÌ„ before thy face / yet good lord I beseche the gracyous bountie and infinite goodnes graunt me this one peticyon / that is / that I maye nowe at this tyme / and in euery masse receyue spiritually in to my soule / some effecte vertue of this maruelouse misterie And so to be parteyner of the same / that my hart maye perceyue fele the swetenes of thy godly preseÌ„ce And that my soule all enflamed fyered with desyre and deuocion / may
god by cause it is coÌ„trary vnto his coÌ„maundemeÌ„t to swere false must nedes be more synne more ê“uoke his vengaunce Example shall I shew here of both that is to say howe god is prouoked by vsuall swerynge how by forswerynge false othes This story that foloweth I herde at StondoÌ„ a lytell vylage .xxv. myles froÌ„ LondoÌ„ not farre from the hyghe way vnto CaÌ„brydge / where for a tyme I dyd abyde in auoydynge that greate plage that both in London Cambrydge dyde than quyckely sharply reyne where also this story was open in the knowledge of all the couÌ„trey there aboute as don but smal tyme before A gentylman that was called mayster Baryngton whose wyfe was afterwarde maried in CaÌ„brydge vnto a gentylman called maister Caryngton so that there was but one lettre chauÌ„ged in her name that is to say C. for B. And of her also I herde the same story althogh as she sayd she was not present This sayd geÌ„tylmaÌ„ BaryngtoÌ„ was a great swerer dyd customably vse greate othes specially by the blode of our lord or as more coÌ„munely they swere by godes blode And vpoÌ„ a soÌ„day or els a feestfull holy day he wente forth on huÌ„tyng or hawkynge nothynge spedyng after his mynde he came vnto an alehous at a throughfare called Pulcriche .v. myles frome ware in the hyghe way to CaÌ„brydge that one syde of that whiche thoroughfare was in the sayd parisshe of StoÌ„doÌ„ where this gentylman was called for drynk anone he began to swere after his vnhappy custome saynge By godes blode this day is vnhappye And in a whyle after in sweryng so he bledde at the nose therwith more vexed he begane to rayle rayne god as they say in swerynge godes passyoÌ„ godes woundes godes flesshe godes nayles and euer his holy and blessed blode tyll at the laste he fell ferther to blede at the eares at the eyes at his wrestes and all the ioyntes of his handes and of all his body at his nauyll and foundemente of other places of his body meruelouse great quaÌ„tite and stremes of blode shotynge cut his tonge in a meruelous horrible vgseme and ferefull maner as blacke as pitche so that no persone durst come nere hym but stede a farre of cast holy water towarde hym / and so he conteynued euer swerynge / blasphemynge and bledynge / tyll he expyred and was deed And the more we after they layd hym in a carte / and caried hym to the sayde churche of Stondon and euer the body blede tyll he was burnd in the waye as they came in very greate haboundauÌ„ce This was a playn tokeÌ„ that god was moche displeased with that swerynge and dyde openly punysshe the same / in exaÌ„ple to all vsuall swerers It maye also be a good monicion and warnynge for suche ê‘sones that done myse vse the holy day in hawkyng huntynge suche other fruytles occupacions or pastymes A nother example of the same vsuall sweryng was shewed vnto me by a bacheler of diuinite called mayster George wercke / a fellowe thaÌ„ where I was also fellowe of the quenes colege in Cambrydge and after he was vycare of Harowe on the hyll whiche thynge he sayd vpon his conscience He sawe him selfe in a marchauntes house in London whiche was his speciall frende and sente for hym to gyue counseyle vnto the same persone a yonge man that was prentyse or els seruaunte vnto the same marchaunte / whiche yongman dyd vse to swere for his commune othe / by the bones of god or by godes bones And it came to passe that he was taken with a greate meruelous sekenes so that no Physyke ne medicine myght helpe ne ease hym but that he lay styl in bedde so longe that the flesshe and the skynne of his armes and fyngers and of his legges thyes shynnes / fete toes / dyd deuyde in sondre / as though they had ben slytte with a knyfe so that the bare bones myght openly be sene and feled And so in the same maner / after he had with greate contricion and open coÌ„fession of that swerynge receyued the sacramentes of the churche / he departed this lyfe vnto our lorde Here bene nowe two notable exaÌ„ples of vsuall swerynge The thyrde shall I shewe you of forswerynge or false sweryng whiche was shewed vnto me of an honest preest of my familier acqueyntaunce that was vycare of Halywell where saynte Wenefredes well is besyde the abbey of Basyng werke in Flynt shyre in the borders of Wales .xiiii. myles from Weslchester whiche thynge he sayde on his conscience he dyde se hym selfe and was ther present with greate multitude of other people thousandes A certeyne man was called to be sworne in a greate mater bytwene two parties whiche sayd parties dyd put the mater hooly vnto the determination of his othe and met bothe at a certeyne place where was a crucifixe a holy rode that dyd many myracles whervpon he shulde swere and so dyd in the syght and herynge of a great multitude of people gathred on bothe partyes And his othe gyuen he layd both his haÌ„des vpon the fete of the rode / and sware false contrary vnto his conscience and so was dampnably forsworne whiche thynge god wold haue knowen For whaÌ„ he wolde haue taken his handes away to departe both the handes cleued and stycked faste vnto the fete of the rode as though they had beÌ„ glued or fastened with nayles therevnto And than he wolde with violence haue pulled them of than with sterynge and hasty mouyng to and fro the steppe whervpoÌ„ he stode slypped and voyded frome hym And than hanged he styll by his handes so remayned hangynge styll contynually the space of thre dayes maruelous moche people came thyther to se and loke vpoÌ„ hym of the whiche many ben yet lyuyge So at the laste after thre dayes whaÌ„ he had with great contricion openly coÌ„fessed his defaute / receyued the sacramentes of the churche whan the people supposed thought verely he shulde there haue expired died he was sodeynly losed and delyuered / and lyued many yeres after a good holy lyfe / vnto the glory of God and great example of them that bene swerers Lib. iiii cap xviii âšœ Saynt Gregory in his dialoges doth shewe of a chylde that as he had herd of other persones dyd swere great othes had pleasure therin and sodeynly whan he was swerynge in his fathers lap vpon his kne / the deuyll came openly rauysshed and by violence toke hym from his father / and caried him away / that he was neuer sene after Here maye you perceyue the great peryll and ieopardy of sweryng For the loue of our lorde therfore good deuout christiaÌ„s take good hede therto / as well in your selfe as in your folkes And yet shulde you haue no lesse garde or awayte vnto lyeng or makyng of lyes or lesynges For the lye or lesynge is very mother vnto both the defautes
ê‘don mayster Wyllyam Bonde / in his boke called the Pylgremage of perfeccyon in the .vii. chapyter of the secoÌ„de boke and in the thyrde and .iiii. chapyters of the thyrde boke in the .iii. dayes iourney Some other ê‘sons ben deceyued onely by the corrupcyon of fantasye whiche causeth them to thynke and beleue verely that suche thynges as by onely ymagynacyon come vnto theyr myndes ben verely spoken vnto them / as some done thynke that the crowe or other byrde dothe saye or synge certayne wordes or that the bell or bellys done rynge and saye after theyr ymagynacyon And of this sorte ben many persones moche different accordynge to the disease of the hede / as the fantasye is more or lesse corrupted And yet some of theÌ„ wyll shewe many meruaylous thynges that they beleue verely for true which in dede were neuer true But these persones done coÌ„munelye shewe nothynge that is greatly euyll nor yet any greate good / but that men may fone discerne and perceyue for fantasyes ymagynacyon / except the persones were some preuey synners And than wyl the wycked speryte be redye to put hym selfe in prease / and with that corrupcyoÌ„ to helpe forth vnto illusyon But yet ben other deceyuers thoughe none of this sorte / but of a more deuelisshe sorte very ypocrytes that feyne them selfe to haue reuelacyons knowe well they haue none suche but that to deceyue the people seme in a transe or rapt / whan they wyll as we rede of Dauid i. â—eg xxi d. that feyned him selfe madde and in a rage vpon a certayne tyme For a good purpose to saue his selfe And so playde his pagyant that he frothed or fomed at the mouthe / raged as thoughe he had ben furyous and madde in dede And so done these wretches the disceyuynge of many persones wilfully and of purpose But howe to be ware of suche wretches and ypocrytes surely it is very harde For as to gyue ouerlyght credence to suche persones is agaynst wysdome so vtterly to coÌ„dempne theÌ„ or to dispyse them / is peryllous agaynste vertue Wysdome is therfore to proue well the spiryte before yet do I nowe ymagyn what many persons wyll say hereunto that is that this exercyse is a mater ouer hyghe / and excedynge the wyttes and vnderstandyng of symple vnlerned people And so is the tother worke also / wherunto I do sende them in this worke that is to say / the disposicyon and ordynaunce vnto coÌ„minyon or houselynge Wherunto I saye agayne that bothe the workes ben so deuyded into such partes that euery person may take what he wyll accordynge to his state and condicyon Rede the werke ones ouer and than chose / for I thynke there ben but fewe persones but that they may lyghtly vnderstande and vse one of those exercyses And as a great lerned man sayd of a werke that he had sende forthe althoughe this werke were so deuysed Cicero de orato ê‘fecto that fewe persones myght attayne to the full heyght and clere vnderstandynge therof yet shulde no person dispayre ne be discouraged thereby For as a prycke or marke is set in a butte for all men to shute at althoughe none hytte the prycke Those that done shute nere ben nat wtout prayse i. Cor. ix d. And saynt Paule sayeth whan there is a glayue set vp for renners all or many done renne / but one catcheth the glayue alone / and yet is it nother shame ne rebuke to wynne the seconde or the thyrde game But here in our caÌ„pe none that dothe assaye to renne / shal be without a synglar rewarde i. Cor. iii. c. For as the same apostle sayeth euery person shall receyue his propre wages or rewarde acccordyng to his labour and deseruynge And many tymes it may here fortune and come to passe / that those that come laste shal be fyrst and best rewarded Math. xx b. So sayeth our sauyour in the gospell Erunt primi nouissimi et nouissimi primi In this campe / the fyrst shal be last and the last shall in rewarde be fyrst The respect and weyght of this labour standeth nat in the bodely exercyse of the outwarde werke / but in the infors and dilygence of the wyll / put therunto your good wyll and dilygence to do what you can And thoughe it be but very very lytle that you spede or do in this exercyse that lytle lytle thoughe it be neuer so lytle yet shall it be greatly rewarded And peradueÌ„ture moch more meryte and rewarde shall the dull persone haue by that infors dilygeÌ„ce and good wyll than shall the lerned and quycke wytted persons that more lyghtly and with lesse labour done spede in this mater Let no person therfore dispayre ne take discomforte with any dulnesse For the poete sayeth Labor improbus omnia vincit Importune labour doth ouercoÌ„e all thynges And yet though some persons can by no meanes fall vnto the hyghest exercise of this lessoÌ„ let theÌ„ fall vnto prayer / and be sory that they can nat flye so hygh makyng protestacyon / and call our lorde to wytnesse / that fayne gladly they wolde do what beste myght please his goodnes / And let them there coÌ„mytte recommende betake and bequeth them selfe body and soule vnto his handes at that tyme as they intende to do at the houre of dethe And beseche his grace / that this recommendacyon bequeste may stande / and of hym be receyued for that tyme / and therwith let them saye In manns tuas c. as is beforesayd Some ê‘sones euery yere ones at the least and some .iiii. tymes that euery quarter ones / done make theyr funeralles / that is / all the solempnyte of theyr buryalles with Dirige and masse / offre theyr masse peny them selfe And after that / make a feast dele almes as thoughe they were than deed in dede buryed / also whiche custome I prayse very moch And yf that were done euery moneth ones or euery weke / or yet euery daye of them that haue abilyte and tyme therunto I wolde thynke iudge it a deuoute and meritoryous obseruaunce For those persones that by any of these / or lyke meanes done so prepare make them selfe redy to dethe may be sure neuer to dye sodenly For many persones ben sore affrayde of soden dethe / done ful hartely make prayer that they neuer dye sodenly Let them vse this maner / or some one of these formes and maner of exercyses / they may be sure of theyr prayer / that is neuer to dye sodeÌ„ly Study therfore good deuout soules to be redy at euery houre / and pray vnto our lorde Phi. i. c that you may haue the wyll that saynt Paule had whaÌ„ he sayde I couet and desyre / to be dyssolued and to departe this lyfe / and to be with Chryst Whether he brynge vs all that made vs. Amen ⧠The olde wretche youre assured beademan of Syon Rycharde Whytford
¶ Imprynted by me IohnÌ„ Waylande / at LoÌ„don within the Temple barre / at the sygne of the blewe Earlande An. M.D.xxxvii ¶ The werke for housholders nowe newly corrected and set forthe into a dyaloge betwene the housholder and his housholde / by a professed brother of Syon Rycharde Whytford with an addicyon of pollecye for housholdynge / set forth also by the same brother INRI ¶ Certayne small werkes of a brothers of Syon Rycharde Whytforde ⧠The contentes of this boke FIrst a dyaloge and coÌ„municacyon betwene the housholder and his housholde ¶ An other dyaloge betwene the curate and his ghostly chylde ¶ Two maners of alphabetes / crosroes / called A. b. c. ¶ A dayly exercyse and experyeÌ„ce of deth / all duely corrected by the selfe auctour and nowe prynted trewely ⧠The sayd auctour requyred me instantly that I shulde nat prynte nor ioyne any other werkes vnto his Specially of vncertayne auctours For of late he founde a werke ioyned in the same volume with his werkes / and bought and taken for his werke / and was nat his But was put there in stede of a werke of his That before was named amonge the contentes of his boke And yet his werke lefte out / as is contayned in this preface here vnto the reders ⧠Vnto the deuout reders Rycharde Whytforde a professed brother of Syon / gretyng in our sauyour Iesu euerlastynge I Suppose and thynke verely good deuout reders / that whan you rede these pore symple werkes some of you that haue had mynde to rede them / wyll nowe meruayle to se and perceyue that these ben the same werkes that went forthe before and nothynge chaunged in substaunce / but onely the tytle and some fewe thynges added Some other wyll paraduenture iudge or feare in me ambicyon that I wold seme to make many werkes / and yet dyd sende forthe but the same newely chaunged or disguysed To satisfye therfore your deuoute myndes with the trothe in trewe coÌ„scyence / there is none such cause But yet causes there ben dyuers appartaynynge bothe vnto you me One cause is that I trust verely you haue them here in a more perfecte lettre than you had before And also more truely prynted For of a suretye the tother letter was moche vicyous and faultye / that in some places that myght seme vnto my neglygencye And also in the same volume or boke / is one of my workes left out / whiche werke is nombred amonge the contentes of the same volume and boke And in stede of my werke is an other heretyke or heretycall werke set in place / and the whole boke solde for my werke / whiche thynge is the most chefe cause of the sayd mutacyon or chaunge For that thynge dothe nat onely put me vnto infamye and sclaunder but also dothe put all the reders in ieopardye of conscyence to be infecte and also in the daunger of the kynges lawes for the manyfolde erronyous opynyons that ben contayned in the same boke Nowe iudge you deuout reders whether these causes ben nat reasonable for the sayd mutacyon and chaunge I praye you therfore of your charyte take all vnto the beste And by my poore aduyse / rede nat those bokes that go forth without named auctours For doubtles many of them that seme very deuout and good werkes ben full of heresyes And your olde englysshe poete sayeth There is no poyson so peryllous of sharpnes as that is that hathe of sugre a swetnes I wolde gladly the welth and nat the ieopardye of your soules our lord god most swete sauyour Iesu my iudge / who kepe you and sende you the increase of grace AmeÌ„ ¶ A Dialoge or coÌ„munycacion bytwene the housholder and his housholde The spekers ¶ Fyrst speketh the housholder than speketh one of the housholde for all the residue The housholder GOod chylderne frendes I had of late couÌ„sell to call you all to gether And for the discharge of my conscience to shewe vnto you a forme of lyuynge fyrst therfore lett vs coÌ„sydre that all we bene mortall as well the ryche as the poore the yonge as the olde there is no difference none excepte all must nedes dye And thoughe we lyue very loÌ„ge yet shall we dye shortly for the lengest lyfe of this worlde is very shorte And yet haue we no certayne ne yet coÌ„iecture of knowlege whaÌ„ / where / howe or in what state we shall departe this lyfe And sure we bene that as we bene founde at that tyme so shall we be takeÌ„ and without respite or delay forthwith shall we be presented and brought before the hyghe iudge that can nat be deceyued to make a counte of all our lyfe past where no man of lawe may speke for vs ne any excuse may serue vs. Our owne conscyence shall there speke and tell playne trouthe wtout craft or dissymulacion and in a momente a twynclynge of an eye shall clerly confesse all our hole lyfe and euery wryncle and parte therof whiche confessioÌ„ if our lyfe were good shal be vnto our great honour comforte reioysynge ioye euerlastynge And contrary if it were euyl it shal be vnto our great shame rebuke vnto our endles sorowe payne and wo euerlastynge We haue nede therfore to be well ware howe we spende our tyme howe we passe this lyfe or rather howe this lyfe passeth vs. And moche shall it auayl and profyte vnto the helth of our soules ofte tymes for to remembre our laste ende The wyse maÌ„ sayth Ecclesi vii ✿ In omnibus operibê° tuis memorare nouissima tua c. In all thy werkes sayth he remeÌ„bre thyne endynge daye what thynges shall come vnto the at thy laste ende and thou shalte neuer do synne ne coÌ„tynue euerlastyngly therin ¶ One of the houshold Syr we all byseche you than that you wyll shewe teche vs that forme meane our waye that you speke of ¶ The houshold The fyrste poynte therfore of a good ChristiaÌ„ is to entende and purpose with good harte constaunte mynde to auoyde synne and dyligently to study howe to fle and beware of the occasyons therof And than to appoynte hym selfe vnto some custumable course of good ê“fytable exercyse Psalmo xxxiii ✿ Diuerte a malo fac bonuÌ„ saythe the prophete Tourne awaye thy face thy harte wyll mynde froÌ„ all euyll and appoynte thy selfe to worke good werkes ¶ The ê‘sone of the houshold Syr hyt is sone sayd Fle euyll do good But I pray you shew vs forther howe to do so ¶ The houshold For a fourme therfore howe to folowe the same by coÌ„tinuaunce I shall shewe you my poore aduyse I speke vnto you good symple and deuoute soules that wolde fayne lyue well your selfe also coÌ„forte all other vnto the same Fyrst than eueryche begynne with your selfe And as sone as you do awake in the mornynge to aryse for all daye Fyrst sodeynly tourne your mynde and remembrauÌ„ce vnto
/ that the persone hath perfyte faythe and byleue in god / and vnto god ¶ The seconde article Saynte Andrew ¶ Et in Iesum Christum filiuÌ„ eius vnicum dominum nostrum ✿ And I also byleue perfytely vpon our lorde Iesu Christe his onely begoteÌ„ sone that is to say the only begoten sone of the sayd father ¶ The thyrde article Saynte Iohan. ¶ Qui coÌ„ceptus est de spuÌ„ sctoÌ„ natê° ex maria virgine ✿ And also I byleue perfytly the our sayd lorde Iesu was conceyued of the holy ghost borne of our lady saynt Mary she remaynyng abydyng euer euer a virgine ¶ The fourth article ¶ Passus sub pontio Pilato / crucifixus mortuus et sepultus Saynte Iames the more ✿ And also I perfytly byleue that our sayde lorde Iesu dyd suffre his passion was crucified deed and buried vnder the power and iugement of a man called by propre name Poncius / and by his seconde or surename Pylate ¶ The fyfth artycle ¶ Descendit ad inferna Saynte thomas of Inde tertia die resurrexit a mortuis ✿ And I byleue perfytely also / that our sayd lorde Iesu after his sayde passyon and dethe / descended and wente downe vnto the lowe places of hell / and brought forthe froÌ„ thense our fyrste father Adam and all that were there with hym / and that vpoÌ„ the thyrde day after his deth he dyde aryse from deth / and all the bondes therof vnto lyfe euerlastynge ¶ The syxth artycle Saynte Iames / the lesse ¶ Ascendit ad celos sedet ad dexteram dei patris oiÌ„potentis ✿ And also I byleue perfytly that our sayd lorde Iesu dyd ascende and slye vp vnto the hyghest heuens and ther doth syt vpon the ryght hande of god the father oiÌ„potent and almyghty ¶ The seuenth article Saynte Philipe ¶ Inde veÌ„turus est iudicare viuos et mortuos And I also ê‘fytely byleue that he wyll come theÌ„se agayne in to this worlde to iuge all persones quycke and deed ¶ The .viii. article Saynte Bartelmewe ¶ Credo in spiritum sanctum ✿ I byleue perfytly also vpoÌ„ the holy ghost the spirite of the father and of the sone with them both the same selfe god ¶ The .ix. article Saynte Mathewe ¶ Sanctam ecclesiam catholicaÌ„ ✿ I also byleue that the church of Christe is and was / and euer more shal be holy faythfull / therefore I do gyue fayth and credeÌ„ce vnto the same and vnto the determinacions therof ¶ The .x. article ¶ Sanctorum communionem Saynte Symon remissioneÌ„ peccatorum ✿ I byleue also the communioÌ„ of sayntes that is to say / I byleue that all the workes and good dedes of all good holy persones / ben and shal be coÌ„mune so that euery faythfull Christian hath shall haue part with other And also I byleue the remisson of synnes that is to say / that all maner of synnes may and shal be forgyuen / if forgyuenes be duely desyred and axed ¶ The .xi. article ¶ Carnis resurrectionem Saynte Iude called also saint Tadeus ✿ I also byleue the resurrection of our flesshe / that is to saye / I byleue that all maner of persones shall aryse at the daye of dome in soule body with the same flesshe blode and bones that they were borne with and dyed with ¶ The .xii. article Saynte Mathie ¶ Et vitam eternam Amen †And I also byleue euerlastyng lyfe that is to say that after the generall resurrection all maner of persones / as well good as euyll dampned or saued / shall coÌ„tynue in lyfe euerlastynge eyther in ioye or payne neuer departe therfroÌ„ This worde Amen is declared before in the ende of the Pater noster ¶ This maner of the Pater noster Aue and Crede I wold haue vsed rede vpoÌ„ the boke at euery mele / or at the leeste ones a day with a lowde voyce as I sayde that all the persones presente may here it And yet forther I wolde aduyse counseyle all other housholders to se as I do knowe / and proue / that euery persone in theyr house / all that ben vnder theyr gouernaunce and charge can say the same and therfore they muste take the laboure to here them theym selfe and wher nede is to teche them For many that ben aged and can not say wyll be abasshed to lerne it openly and yet if they here it dayly redde after the maner shewed before they shall by vse and custome lerne it very well And some other persones there bene that can saye ryght well / both vpon the boke and without but yet amonge them some bene dullardes and slouthfull and seme negligente and careles / and so done they not saye it but in tyme forgete it / as in maner they hade neuer lerned it I pray you therfore good deuoute housholders do as I do take the payne to here them your selfe at the leeste ones a weke let none escape you / olde nor yong It shall byleue me be vnto you a great discharge of conscience and not without merite greate rewarde And charge them straytly vnder payne of punysshement / that they say it euery day thre tymes at the leest / that is to saye / in the mornynge / at none or myddaye / at nyght Than must you teche them to knowe by ordre the preceptes or coÌ„maundementes of god the names of the .vii. priÌ„cipall synnes of theyr .v. wyttes as thus The coÌ„maundementes of god ben .x. in noÌ„bre The fyrst The fyrst that we shall haue no straunge ne other godes but one alone and hym to loue honoure drede aboue all thynges The .ii. The seconde we may not take the name of god in vayne therfore we may not vse to swere The thyrde The .iii. we must kepe our holy day with close mynde vnto god reuerende deuocion and therfore we may do no bodely or worldly labours for lucre therin .iiii. The fourth we muste with reuerende and due lowly maner do honoure vnto our parentes that is to say vnto our fathers and mothers and we shall haue by the promyse of god longe lyfe therfore .v. The .v. we shall not slee or kyll any persone neyther in dede nor yet in wyll or mynde nor yet may we hate any persone in harte For who so euer so doth i. Ioh. iii. is an homicide and maÌ„sleer .vi. The .vi. we maye do no lechery .vii. The .vii. we may do no thefte .viii. The .viii. we may bere no false wytnes ne make any lye or lesynge .ix. The .ix. we may not coueyte or desyre any wedded or maried persone .x. And the .x. we may not coueyte ne desyre any other mannes goodes These bene the .x. coÌ„mauÌ„demeÌ„tes gyueÌ„ coÌ„mauÌ„ded by almyghty god / gyueÌ„ ben deuyded in two partes as two tables or bokes Exod. xx The fyrste
flyght in to Egypte that was whā kynge Herode dyd pursue our sauyour and wyllyng surely to slee hym dyde cause to slee all the Innocent chyldren within the coostes countrey of Bethleē ¶ The disputacion that was after his retourne and cōmynge frōe Egypte agayne whan he wēt with his mother and Ioseph vnto Hierusalem there vnknowynge vnto them remayned and taryed / tyll that thre dayes after with great sekynge they founde hym in the tēple disputyng amōge the doctours than was he .xii. yeres of age ¶ His humiliacion and meke behauyoure vnto his parentes / that was whā he lefte that hyghe place and exercise of contemplacion and went with them and was obedient vnto them ¶ His educaciō or bryngynge vp that was whan he taried and dwelled at Nazareth with his blessed mother and with Ioseph her husbande euer occupied after theyr wyll and mynde vnto theyr conforthe and euer as he grewe encreased in age and statur so dyd he appere and shewe hym selfe in grace and vertue ¶ His Baptysme that was whan he was baptised of saynt Iohn̄ baptiste in the flode of Iordane where the voyce of the father of heuen was herde and the holy ghoste in the kynde and lykenes of a doue was sene whiche dyd testifye and declare for trouth that Christe was god and man the Messie and sauyoure of the worlde ¶ Wyldernes that is that immediatly and forthwith after his sayde baptisme he was led by the spirite of god in to a wyldernes / not farre frome the sayd flode of Iordane to the ende and purpose to be attempted of the deuyll ¶ Faste that is that he in the wyldernes dyd faste frome all maner of fode meat or drynke by the space of .xl. dayes and fourty nyghtes contynually together ¶ Temptaciō / that is that immediatly and forthwith after that faste whan he beganne to waxe hūgry the deuyll dyd tempte him vnto glotonye and vnto pryde / vnto couetyse ¶ Victory / that is that our sauioure dyd cōfounde the deuyll in all his temptaciōs for our welth had ouer hym the vyctory maystry ¶ Election / that is the chosynge of his disciples and the appoyntyng and deuydyng of them in to dyuers degrees and ordres ¶ Preachyng that was whan he spake openly vnto the people / and that cōmunly in paraboles ¶ Teachynge / that was whan he taught his disciples apostles secretly by thē selfe suche misteries as apperteyned vnto thē to know and not vnto the cōmune people ¶ Laboures that was whā he wente aboute from towne to towne from cite to cite from countrey to countrey in hunger thurste colde and many a wery iourney ¶ Miracles whiche he dyd in many a sondry maner In tournyng water in wyne / in fedynge of many thousandes with a small porcion of vytayle In curynge helynge of all maner of syckenes diseases in shewynge to many theyr secrete inward thoughtes ¶ The Maundy / that was the laste souper that he made to ende and conclude the olde testamente / by the pascal lambe / and to ordeyne begynne the newe testament ¶ The ministery or seruyce / that was whan he wasshed the fete of his disciples arisynge therunto frome the soupper ¶ The Consecracion that was whan he retournyng agayne vnto the table dyd of bread wyne consecrate make his owne holy body and sacred blode and therewith dyd cōmune and howsell his apostles / and gaue them power to consecrate make the same wherby they were all made preastes ¶ The sermone / that was whā after all this he preached vnto his apostles a solempne maruelous swete sermō makyng specially mēciō of loue vnite peace cōcorde ¶ Agony / that was whan he went a syde from the company with saynt Peter saynt Iohn̄ and saynt Iames / yet went somwhat from them vnto prayer / wherin he swet water blode for agony / fere / care / and trouble of mynde / for the maner of that bytter passyon and moste cruell dethe that he sawe to come / and howe lytell it shulde be regarded and set by ¶ Betraynge / that was whan the traytoure Iudas that before had solde hym vnto the Iewes / came with a company of harneysed men / with a false flaterynge kysse shewed vnto them whiche was he ¶ Takynge / that was whan after that kysse the soudyers layde hande vpon hym and toke hym / all his disciples fledde and forsoke hym for the tyme. ¶ Bysshopes / that is whan the soudiers that toke hym / brought hym vnto the bysshopes Anne and Cayphas where he was examined and by false wytnes accused / and cruelly tormēted all the nyght ¶ Pylate that is that on the morowe he was presented by the Iewes falsly accused vnto Pylate ¶ Herode / that is whan Pylate had examined hym and coulde not fynde hym in any thynge defauty than dyd he sende hym vnto Herode the kynge ¶ Pylate agayne that is whā Herode had examined hym in many thynges / and he wolde answere hym vnto nothynge than he put vpō hym a whyte foles cote / with derysion and mokery sente hym agayne vnto Pylate ¶ Examinacion that was whā after many newe false accusaciōs of the Iewes he ferther examined hym by longe processe ¶ Flagellacion that was whā Pylate wyllynge to delyuer hym bycause he foūde hym in all thynges fautles and yet coulde not appease the crye and malyce of the Iewes dyd put hym naked and tyed him vnto a pyller and caused hym to be cruelly scourged so that no place of his body was vntorne or vnwounded ¶ Coronacion that was whan the Iewes wolde not yet be satisfyed and contente Pylate caused hym to be crowned with a crowne of sharpe thornes and with a rede in his hande in stede of a septre / clothed in purpure brought hym forth amonge them and sayde in mockage / Beholde your kynge ¶ Condempnacion / that was whan the Iewes wold in nowyse be otherwyse contente than with his deth Pylate set in a trone as iudge condempned him iudged hym vnto the deth of the crosse ¶ Fatigacion / that was whā Pylate hade putt vpon hym his owne clothes agayne / and gyuen the sayde iugement thā layde the heuy crosse vpō his necke / vnder the whiche for very werynes and fayntenes he fell downe as not able to bere it any forther and thā caused they a nother mā to bere it for hym vnto the place / that was the mounte of Caluary ¶ Crucifixion that was whan he came vnto the place they caused hym to put hym selfe naked agayne and to ioyne and frame his body vnto the crosse whervnto they nayled him with foure great nayles Lib. iiii reuelat btē Brygide cap. lxx b one through the mydle of hys ryght hande the seconde through the lefte hāde and through eyther fote one laynge the legges on croswyse the one ouerthwarte ouer the other and so dyd they hang hym