ever in ioy and rest without trouble and sure never to lose it Thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven as to love all that thou lovest and to hate all that thou hatest and that wee keep evermore thy commandements Our daily bread give us to day that is to say bread of doctrin bread of penance and bread for our bodily sustentation And forgive us all our sins that we have done against thee against our neighbours and against our self Semblably as we forgive other that have offended us by words in our bodies or our goods And suffer not that we be overcome in temptation that is to say as by the devill the world and the flesh But deliver us from all evill works ready done and also them for to come Here followeth the History of the Pater noster row OVR Father which art in Heaven hallowed be thy name Let thy kingdome come Thy will be done as well in earth as it is in heaven Give us this day our daily bread And forgive us our trespasses as we forgive our trespassers And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evill For thine is the kingdome and the power and the glory for ever and ever Amen IN the story here before sheweth the simple people how this holy praier the Pater noster should be said to God the father to God the son God the holy Ghost to none other The which praier containeth and taketh all that be rightfully asked of God our Lord Iesus Christ made it there to the intēt that we should have more hope and devotion and he made it on a time when he taught his Apostles speally to make orison And then the disciples said Lord and master learn us to pray and then our Lord opened his holy mouth and said to his Apostles when ye will make any prayers after this maner as here followeth shall you begin saying thus Our father which art in heaven hallowed be thy name Thy kingdom come Thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven Give us this day our dayly bread And forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespasse against us and let us not be led into temptation But deliver vs from evill Amen Hereafter followeth the salutation that the Angell Gabriel made to the glorious Virgin Mary with the greeting of the holy woman S. Elizabeth Haile Mary full of grace our Lord is with thee Blessed art thou of all women and blessed be the fruit of thy wombe Iesus Secondly in the booke of Iesus the Salutation is such Haile Mary full of grace our Lord is with thee Blessed be thou amongst all women and blessed be the fruit of thy wombe Iesus Christ Amen The salutation of the Angel Gabriel IN this salutation is three mysteries The first is the salutation that the Angell Gabriel made The second is the loving commendation that S. Elizabeth made mother to S. Iohn Baptist The third is the supplicatiō that our mother holy church maketh And they be the most fair words that we can say to our Lady that is the Ave Maria wherin we salute her praise her pray her and speak to het And therfore it is only said to her and not to S. Katherine nor to S. Margaret nor to none other Saint And if thou demaund how thou maist then pray to other saints I say to thee thou must pray as our mother holy Church praieth in saying to Saint Peter Holy S. Peter pray for us S. Thomas pray for us That they may pray to God to give us grace he forgive us our sins And that he give us grace to doe his will penance keep his commandements so we shall pray to the saints in heaven after the necessity that we have S. Peter S. Andrew S. Iames the great S. Iohn S. Thomas S. Iames the lesse S. Philip S. Bartholomew S. Matthew S. Simon S. Iude and S. Matthias CHAP XI Thirdly in the book of Iesus is salutary science and is the Credo which we ought to beleeve on pain of damnation I beleeve in God the father almighty maker of heaven and Earth and in Iesus Christ his only Sonne our Lord. which was conceived of the holy Ghost and suffered passion under Ponce Pilate crucified dead and buried went into hell the third day rose from death Ascended into heaven and siteth on the right hand of God the Father And after shall come to iudge the quick and the dead I beleeve in the holy Ghost The Holy Catholick Church the communion of Saints and remission of sinnes The rising of the flesh The life everlasting Amen SAint Peter put the first article and said I believe in God the Father almightie creator of heaven and earth Saint Andrew put to the second and said I beleeve in Iesus Christ his onely son our Lord. Saint Iames the great put to the third saying I beleeve that he was conceived of the holy Ghost born of the Virgin Mary Saint Iohn put to the fourth saying I beleeve that he suffered passion under Ponce Pilate was crucified dead and buried Saint Thomas put to the fift saying I beleeve that he descended into hell and the third day arose from death to life Saint Iames the lesse put to the sixt saying I beleeve that he ascended into heavē and sitteth on the right hand of God the father omnipotent Saint Philip put to the seventh saying I beleeve that after he shall come to iudge the quick and the dead S. Bartholomew put to the eight saying I beleeve in the holy Ghost S. Matthew put to the ninth saying I beleeve in the holy Church Catholike S. Simon put to the tenth saying I beleeve the communion of saints and remission of sinnes Saint Iude put to the eleventh saying I beleeve the resurrection of the flesh Saint Matthias put to the twelfth saying I beleeve the life eternall Amen Here followeth the Creed as it ought to be said I Beleeve in God the father almighty creator of heaven earth And in Iesus Christ his only son our Lord. That was conceived by the holy Ghost born of the Virgin Mary Sufferd passion under Ponce Pilate crucified dead and buried Descended into hel and the third day arose from death Ascended into heaven and sitteth on the right hand of God the father omnipotent And after shall come to iudge the quick and the dead I beleeve in the holy Ghost The holy Church Catholike The communion of saints Remission of sins Resurrection of the flesh and life eternall Amen THis Creede was made composed by the xii Apostles of our Lord of the which every Apostle hath put to his Article as is here above shewed in the Creed as much of one part as of the other our faith Catholike is cōtained in the said xii Articles that is the begining of our health without which none may be saved ne do nothing that is agreeable to God and faith ought to be at the
great benefit yeild a small The x branch of Envy To Iudge The deeds of other not appertaining By ignorance ere they know him In doubt of that which they know not Or to iudge without being required Doing false iudgements For any gifts received or to receive For love or for hate Lightly for certain malice Evil to be good or contrarily By lightnesse for they been accustomed Or so to do weening to do it by sport Or wittingly willing for to annoy another The xi branch of Envy Substraction In temporall things Not giving to the poor goods that be superfluous Retaining lawfull goods without departing Goods that are exposed in evill usages In spirituall things Not being busie about the salvation of sinners Not admonishing sinners to leave their sin Not shewing to other the good that they can Or of Counsel Not giving counsell to them that ask it Or giving evill counsell willingly Not counselling when they may them that do ill The xii of branch of Envy Drawing other to sin By example When they do evill afore their subiects When any leadeth another in company to do ill Or under the colour of good do great hurt By counsell Drawing the great to ill that thine may shew lesse Or by their sin more delectably And be glad that they consent to sin with them By force Of requiring or admonishing Not ceasing till they consent to evill By oppression and in constraining them The xiii branch of Envy False love For the love and favour of man Them that favor thee and do thy will Them that may noy thee to the end they do not To the end thou maist be seen gentle and meek For earthly profit Feigning thee to be a friend to him and art not Feigning that thou lovest him more than thou dost Shewing to be his friend and art his enemy For fleshly humanity Defending or sustaining any in their evill Promoting them which art not worthy to be For to labour to live more deliciously ¶ Here endeth the branches and small spraies of Envy and followeth the branches and small sprays of wrath as Iniquity Hatred Continuall Consenting Frowardly Homicide Vengeance Impatience Clamour Blasphemy And out of each of these ten branches commeth nine other small branches and so the whole number is xcix branches the which letteth a man that he may not love Gode ne his own soul and for this sin it is hard to be accustomed in a man and be saved The i. branch of Wrath. Iniquity Mocking himself Leting other to love that mocketh thee For declarations that thou hast in mocking Or that thou art accustomed so to do Cursing Other in his thought without speaking Or of his mouth by words Sowing discord and noyse between people Deceiving Giving wilfull counsell for to do evill Awaiting the sinner for to do evill Seeing sin and not reprove it when they may The ii branch of Wrath. Hatred Discord By manifests and rancours Seeming a friend and have rancour at the heart For to make peace and keep malice in thy mind Iniury In defaming other In taking his goods from him In hurting his body or his good name Conspiration to schismatise or procure division in the Church Coniuring in persons in good or in evill Conspiring in any works The iii. branch of Wrath. Continuing in vility Reprevings Pepreeve the poverty in which they are The flagellations that they have or had Or that they be come of a poor kindred Sharp words Provoking other to anger Full of repreeving and iniurys Such as may bear hurt and damage Greeving his neighbours By outragious words and sayings By hurting of his person or homicide For to take from him his goods or renown The iiii branch of Wrath. Consenting Not amending When they have domination upon the sinner Or when he is familiar with them That helpeth to do evill and might let it Reioycing in evill Praising and reioycing the sinners And not to mourn for the sin they have done Nor correcting them that be evill Hoping to do evill By help that thou givest to them For thou defendest them that do evill By counsell that thou givest The v. branch of Wrath. Frowardly Impugning goodnesse Beleeving in any heresy For to have meat and drink For the love of one and hate of another Hanting strifes By customance for the reioyce in them By manifest hate that they will make appear By secret rancours in their hearts Strife by words As in questions inutile and froward For to shew his science For to gainsay him to whom they speak The vi branch of Wrath. Homicide In defending Having will to slay and kill Himself or other without will to slay To slay unadvisedly or ignorantly Slaying wilfully By treason By hate For he which they slay is good Which they ween not to evill Weening to do well and do slay some man In coniecturing any thing ioyously Or by him give any medicine The vii branch of Wrath. Vengeance For wrong doing Saying semblable iniuries In saying more greater iniuries Or iniuries though that they been lesse Weening that it be his domage and is not Noying him that correcteth thee for thy wealth Or do evill to him that doth thee good If it displease thee they have done for thy weal. By fault of something If any giveth or lendeth thee not their goods That he hath not done that he is not bound to do Or hath not holpen thee to do thy ill will The viii branch of Wrath. Impatience In iudgements of God When that which pleaseth God displeaseth thee Or for the will of God pleaseth thee not Or thou hatest that which God would have done In his wretchednesse If thou be in any malady or sicknesse Or if thou be in great poverty and need Or if thou have any troubles or adversitys Of wrongs of his neighbours For they have missaid thee in words Or they have misdone to thy person Or they have misdone in thy goods The ix branch of Wrath. Clamour Debate for in utile things As of beauty and fairnesse of women Or of his linage friends and parents Or of things which do annoy To make leasing and false tales By very malice and hate By vaunting craking and boasting By fraud and unfaithfullnesse Clattering To vanquish by force of speaking Or for to annoy by clattering Or for pleasure that they take in it The x. branch of Wrath. Blaspheming Knowing of God the which appertaineth not to him As of his soveraign might and puissance Or of great goodnesse in us Or of his right wise iustice Affirming of good things unworthily By any error in which they be For dread and fear of loosing For covetise of winning To say that is good that is not In beleeving as doth Idolaters In opinion by evill understanding Doing against the ordinances of the Church Here endeth the brâ—nches and small spraies of the sinne of Wrath. And hereafter followeth the xvii branches of Sloth as Evil thought Annoy of wealth readinesse to evill Pusilanimity Evill will breaking vowes
be noysome and after labour it well and then sow good seeds In like wise a man should labour and cleanse his conscience of all his sins labour by holy meditations and sow vertues and good operations for to gather fruit of everlasting life Then sith that here before hath been spoken of vices rudely and lightly now it behoveth hereafter to speak of vertues in the third part of this present book the which shall be as a little garden pleasant full of trees flowers in the which the contemplative person may sport play by good ensignments gather sundry vertues and edify himself in good exercise wherewith his soul shall bee enormed and ordained after his spouse Iesus Christ when he shall come to visit and dwell with him In the beginning of the which part shall be the Orason dominicall of our Lord with the declaration the better to understand it and the said part shall contain six parts The first part shall be the declaration of the said prayer the second of the salutation Angelike that Gabriel made to Mary when shee conceived her child Iesus the third shall be of the twelve articles of our faith the iv shall be of the ten Commandements of the Law the v. shal be of the field of vertues For the first ye ought to know that by the orison of our Lord that is the Pater noster when wee say it wee demand of God suffisance of all things necessary for salute and help of our souls and of our bodys not only for us but for all other and for all this cause we ought to have the said orison in great contemplation say it with great devotion unto God And unto young people it should be taught and said to them for though they understand it not yet it profiteth them to have the kingdom of heaven and they say it in perfect love and charity In the Pater noster we ask seven petitions by each petition we may understand seven other things as the seven Sacraments of holy Church the seven gifts of the holy ghost the seven armours of iustice spirituall The seven vertues principall that wee should exercise The seven works of mercy bodily The seven works of mercy ghostly The seven deadly sinnes that we should dread The declaration is this Our father which art in heaven thy name be made holy In this petition we ask of God our Father to be his Sons for otherwise we cannot be called his Sons nor he our Father and that his name may be made by us more holy than any other thing wherefore we receive the Sacrament of baptism without that man may not be made the Son of God and to receive the vertue of meeknesse against pride and then to cloth the naked and help the needy both bodily and ghostly The second is thy kingdome come to us in this petition Insomuch the name of God may not be perfectly hallowed of us in this world we ask his realm in the which perfectly we shall hallow it for to that kingdome we be very heirs This petition is the sacrament of priesthood by the which we are taught to good works and the gift of the holy ghost is the gift of understanding for to understand and desire the kingdome of heaven and we arm us with the helm of largess against covetous The third petition is thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven for it is the perfect will of God that his will should be fulfilled that is his commandement by this petition we make obeisance to God in our hearts when we desire to do his will by this is understood the sacrament of marriage by the which we avoid fornication and the gift of counsell of the holy ghost for to order our obeysance veritably and so we arm us with the armour of salvation against Envy The fourth petition is our daily bread give us this day Here we ask of God to be sustained with materiall bread for our bodies and spirituall bread for our souls that is the bread of life the body of Iesus Christ the which wee receive by faith in mind of his passion The gift of the holy ghost is strength to be faithfull in our belief take we the sword of patience against the sinne of ire and visit the sick men bodily and use vertue of temperance against wrath The fift petition is forgive us our sinnes as we forgive all men for trust well he that will not forgive for the love of God God will never forgive him his sinnes And these three petitions following we ask of God to be delivered from all evill as of the sin that we have done deadly and by these wee ask of God to be assoiled and to give us pardon by his mercy by the which we understand the sacrament of penance and forgiveness of sinne the holy ghosts gift is science for to understand the works of mercy and to escape sin And so clothe us with lightnes against covetise comfort poor prisoners and give good counsell to them that ask and need it and take the vertue of faith against covetise The vi petition is suffer us not to be overcome in temptation by the second evill that is done but it may happen and we fall by the way of temptation Here we ask of God to be stedfast in the faith that we may gladly do good works in the vertue of hope and strength to do good deeds and to withstand temptation to the which profiteth to us the sacrament of confirmation which giveth to us the knowledge of God by the vertue of verity The gift of the holy ghost so take we the spear of soberness against gluttony comfort Pilgrims by vertue of hope The vii petition is to deliver us from evill Amen The third evill is evill of pain that sinners may have if they serve not God by this petition we ask that we may be delivered from all pains and saved in Paradice unto this say we all Amen By these we ask so it be done as we desire By the which we receive the sacrament of the latter annointing which giveth us the sure way of salvation the gift of the holy ghost is dread of iudgements of God and gird us with the girdle of chastity against letchery and bury we them that be dead bodily and pray for our enemies ghostly get in us the vertue of charity and eschue the sin of letchery Thus endeth the Salutary science of the garden of vertues CHAP. X. Hereafter followeth another declaration of the Pater noster OVr Father right marvellous in his creation sweet and loving rich of all goods that be in heaven mirror of trinity crown of iocundity and treasure of felicity Holy be thy name and sweet as hony in our mouth thou art the melodious harp that causeth devotion to sound in our ears and to have it continually by the desire of our hearts Thy realm come to us in the which we shall be
heart by knowledge of God In the mouth by confession and praysings to him in worke by exercising of his commandements and good works and the which sheweth them that so doth to have true faith and life that is to say to save theÌ„ And how will that faith in heart be good in the mouth also neverthelesse the best is that which lyeth in good works one doth and is the same faith that lyeth in the heart and mouth for there is but one faith one God And this same Creed ought to be had and known of every man and womaÌ„ having age competent understanding of reason and ought for to say it both in the morning in the evening every day devoutly for it is of right great devotion Therefore a good christian man assoon as he riseth from his bed and is arrayed and clothed kneeleth beside his bed or other where and first blesseth him with the sign of the cross and then saith Credo in deum or I beleeve in God the father almighty as is above said Then after the Pater noster to God and to our Lady the Ave Maria and afterward recommends him to his good Angel in making praier to him saying My good Angell I require thee to keep and govern me In like wise when he goeth to rest at night And so at the least twice in the day at the morrow and in the evening CHAP. XII Fourthly In the book of Jesus is the ten Commandements of the Law that God gave to Moses on the Mount of Sinai for to preach and to teach the people One God only thou shalt love and worship perfectly By God in vain thou shalt not swear nor by that he made truly The Sundays thou shalt keep in serving God devoutly Father and Mother thou shalt honor and shalt live longly Manslayer thou shalt not be indeed willingly Letcherous thou shalt not be of thy body ne consentingly No mans good shalt thou not steal nor withhold falsely False witnesse thou shalt not hear in any wise lyingly The work of the flesh desire but in marriage only The goods of other covet not to have them uniustly Fourthly the said commandements ought to be observed accomplished upon pain of everlasting damnation of body and soul of them have the usage of reasoâ— or without the knowledge of them convenable we may not eschue and fly the sins nor have knowledge of them nor confesse us veritably of our sins wherefore the ignorance of the common by desire affection or other malice excuseth not them that know them not but accuseth and condemneth them and therfore our Lord commandeth them to be had in meditation in their houses and without in sleeping and in waking and in all works And thus we beholden and bound to keep them so that he which never heard speak of them and thinketh not to do evill if he trespasse in one willingly and dieth soon after he should be damned perdurably By this it appeareth that ignorance of the commandements be perillous wherefore each man and women study for to know them learn theÌ„ such as thou must give a reckoning for as your children servants other The five Commandements of the Church FIftly in the book of Iesus been the five Commandements of the holy Church which ought to be kept of all them that have usage of reason after as they be of power And it is said after that they be of power for if the man or woman that may not confesse them or receive at Easter or keep the holy day commanded or that at the fast of obligation when they have will to do them and bee lawfully letted sinne not But every man and woman keep them that Avarice Sloth or desire to see many pleasures as dances plaies or iuglers or dispraising of our mother holy Church be not cause they trespasse the commandement to the end they run not in damnatiâ—â— from the which keep us for the mercy of God Amen Here is to be noted that the transgression of the Commandements of holy Church obligeth deadly sinne and by continuance eternall damnation as doth the obligation of the commandements of the Law of whom is spoken before For they that hear the Priests reading the commandements in the Church on the Sundays in the parochial service time and accomplisheth the said Commandements heareth God and doth his will but all that mispraiseth the Priest and doth not their commandements after the ordinance of the Church mispraiseth God and sinneth mortally CHAP. XIII Hereafter followeth of the man in the Ship that sheweth the unstablenesse of the world Qui finem attendit Foelix qui bene vivit Ergo quisquis ades precor hic sta perlege pensa Mortem praemetuens veniam pete cortere plara De reliquis cautus bene fac te crimine serva Foelix qui potuit tam tutum tangere portum Sed miser est quicunque sub peste gehenne Vive mori presto munda sub mente quietis Semita non virtus Deus optimus anchora portus GOd guide me right that once I might Come to the port of peace Mine exchange make and return take That mine enemies may cease One me followed would me have shallowed In the gulf dangerous With worldly glosse he doth me tosse Among the waves perillous On rases hollow some do me follow Enemies me to take A great number do smite me under I doubt I shall not esâ—ape The fiend with woe the world also My flesh doth me trouble In wake and sleep to me they creep Thus encreaseth my sorrow double They bid me not spare but buy their ware As all worldly vanity They say hope among for to live long Thus do they cumber me The world doth smile me to beguile And so doth the other two Now must I seek some me to keep To save me from my foe I have found one even God alone I need none other aid That by his might put them to flight And made them all afraid He spake to me full courteously And profered me full fair If I do well with him to dwell In heaven to be his heir Versus NOs sumus in hoc mundo sicut navis super mare Semper est in periculo semper timet accubare Praevigilanti nos oportet remigare Ne bibamus de poculo dirae mortis amarae Esto homo res fragilis curis oppressa labore Mortis judicii barathri perplexa timore Si virtus sola tutam dat ducere vitam Virtus sola potest aeternam condere famam Foelicem merita faciunt non copia rerum Grandia non ditant ditat bene grandibus uti Discite nunc mortalis quam sint mortalia vana Praecessere patres matres magnique parentes Nos sequimur paribus ad mortem passibus imus Vnde superbimus in terram terra redimus Super non fueram nec ero post tempore pauco Millia nunc putrium quorum jam multa voluptas Perdita fama silet anima