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A08610	The monument of matrones conteining seuen seuerall lamps of virginitie, or distinct treatises; whereof the first fiue concerne praier and meditation: the other two last, precepts and examples, as the woorthie works partlie of men, partlie of women; compiled for the necessarie vse of both sexes out of the sacred Scriptures, and other approoued authors, by Thomas Bentley of Graies Inne student.; Monument of matrones. Part 1-4.	Bentley, Thomas, student of Gray's Inn.; Abergavenny, Frances Nevill, Lady, d. 1576.; Marguerite, Queen, consort of Henry II, King of Navarre, 1492-1549. Miroir de l'âme pécheresse. English & French.; Catharine Parr, Queen, consort of Henry VIII, King of England, 1512-1548. Lamentacion of a sinner.; Tyrwhit, Elizabeth, Morning and evening prayers.; Catharine Parr, Queen, consort of Henry VIII, King of England, 1512-1548. Prayers or meditacions.	1582 (1582)	STC 1892; ESTC S101562	669,543	1,114

goodnesse to haue praise for it And further thou hast retained me for thy sister wherefore I acknowledge my selfe more bound than to anie other creature Now I am sister vnto thee but so naughtie a sister that better it were for me that I were without the name than I to forget the name of adoption in so noble a kindred and also thy good and brotherlie behauiour towards me I with pride did rise against thee and not remembring my faults but going astraie from thee did agree with Aaron my brother being in will to giue iudgement against thy works and folowing the example of Miriam priuilie I grudged against thee which thing caused me to haue remorse in my conscience Alas right bountifull brother and true Moses which doest all with goodnesse and iustice I haue esteemed thy workes to be euen sinne being so bold to speake euen rashlie saieng Wherefore hast thou maried a strange woman Thou giuest vs a law and punishment if we do not fulfill it and then thou wouldest not be bound to it forbidding vs the thing which thou thy selfe doest For thou forbiddest vs to kill anie man and thou doest kill and sparest none of three thousand which thou commandedst to be slaine Further God gaue vs in commandement by thee that we should not marrie the daughter of a stranger yet thou tookest thy wife from among them Alas my deere brother Moses with a great manie of these words which I knowe to be foolish with Aaron and Miriam which is mine owne wit I imbraided thee wherof I repent For the liuelie voice of God rebukinglie tooke me vp before I went out of the place What wouldest thou then of my sinne Thou wouldest not haue me punished but rather wouldest my saluation and health in asking for me this great benefit that it might please God to mitigate his iudgement the which thing thou couldest not obtaine Wherefore I became a Lazar so that all that looked on mee might well saie I had not beene wise and for mine vncleannes and leprosie I was put out from the tents and tabernacles from among the people because the sicke should not infect such as were whole Oh what soule can haue a greater punishment than to be banished out of the companie of them which are holie in God! But what didst thou my sweet loue and brother seeing my repentance Thou prouidedst that my penance was soone at an end and with true loue madest meanes for me wherevpon I returned to thee O what brother would in stead to punish his foolish sister so naturallie cleaue vnto hir For iniurie grudge and great offence by hir committed thou giuest hir grace and loue in recompense Alas my brother how exceeding is this thy loue Much more is it than brotherhoode is bound to giue to so poore and wretched a woman as I am I haue done thee euill and thou giuest me good for it I am thine and thou saiest thou art mine euen so I am and euer will I feare no more the great foolishnesse of Aaron and Miriam for no man may separate me from thee and now that we are together as brother and sister I care little for all other for thy land is mine inheritance Let vs then keepe if it please thee but one houshold sith it hath pleased thee to humble thy selfe so much as to ioine thy hart with mine in making thy selfe a liuelie man I do right hartilie thanke thee and to thanke thee as I ought lieth not in my power Take my meaning then I praie thee excuse mine ignorance seeing I am of so great a kindred as to be thy sister O my God I haue good cause to loue to praise and to serue thee vnfeignedlie and not to feare nor desire anie thing saue thee onlie Keepe me well then I humblie praie thee for I will aske none other brother nor friend to helpe me If anie father haue had anie pitie vpon his children if anie mother haue taken anie care for hir sonne if anie brother haue hid the sinne of his sister it is thou The fourth Chapter Of the entier affection and loue of God towards the sinfull soule of man I Neuer sawe or else it was kept wondrous secret that euer anie husband would thoroughlie forgiue his wife after she had him once offended and did returne vnto him There haue beene manie of them which for to auenge their wrongs haue caused the Iudges to put them to death Other beholding their sinnes did not spare their owne hands to kill them Other also seeing their faults to appeare did send them home again to their owne friends And some perceiuing their euill dispositions haue shut them vp in prison Now brieflie to conclude vpon their diuers complexions the end of their pretence is punishment and the least harme that euer I could perceiue in punishing them is this that they would neuer see them againe But I do wish that all of this mind should rather helpe to turne them than to forsake them And therfore my God I can find no man comparable vnto thee for of loue thou art the perfect example Now therefore I confesse with lowlie hart that I haue broken to thee mine oth promise Alas thou hadest chosen me for thy wife and didst set me vp in great state and honour For what greater honour may one haue than to be in the place of thy wife which sweetelie taketh hir rest so neere to thee and not onlie in suretie of soule and bodie but also of all thy goodes Queene Mistresse and Ladie O what great fauour is it that I so vile a creature am so ennoblished by thee to so honourable an husband Now to speake it brieflie I haue more by possessing of thee than anie man mortall can desire Yet when I remember mine vnwoorthie deseruing my hart doth sob and sigh mine eies let fall abundance of teares my mouth can not make too manie exclamations For there is neither new nor ancient writings that can shew so pitifull a case as the same is which I tell now Shall or dare I tell it May I pronounce it without shame Yea for it is my confusion not to shew the great loue of my husband and for his worship to declare my fault O my sauiour which wast crucified on the crosse for my sinnes this deede of thine is not such as a father to leaue his sonne or as a child to offend his mother or as a sister to chide and grudge But alas my fault is such and far greater For the more familiaritie I haue with thee and the more benefits I receiue of thee the greater is mine offence when I with thee dissemble speciallie that I should so doo which am called thy spouse and loued of thee as thy soule Shall I now tell the truth O my spouse I haue left thee forgotten thee and am run awaie from thee I did leaue thee for to go at my vaine pleasure I forsooke thee and chose me another yea I refused thee the

hide my fault from euerie bodie in giuing me againe the part of thy bed and also in shewing that the multitude of my sinnes are so hidden and ouercome by thy great victorie that thou wilt neuer remember them more so that now thou seest nothing in me but the graces gifts and vertues which it hath pleased thy free goodnesse to giue me O charitie most pretious I do see well that thy goodnesse doth consume my lewdnesse and maketh me a new godlie and ioifull creature The euill that was mine thou hast destroied and made me so perfect a creature that all the good a husband can do to his wife thou hast done it to me in giuing me a faithfull hope in thy promises Now haue I through thy good grace recouered the place of thy wife O happie and desired place O gratious bed O thou right honourable seate of peace rest from all warre high sleepe of honour separate from the earth Doest thou receiue this vnworthie creature giuing hir the scepter and crowne of thine Empire and glorious Realme Who did euer heare of such a storie as to raise vp one so high which of hir selfe was nothing and maketh of great valure which of it selfe was naught The fift Chapter Of the vnion of death and life in the faithfull soule by Christ ALas what is this For casting mine eies on high I see thy goodnes thine vnknowne grace and thy loue so incomprehensible that my sight is woonderfull in beholding thee but looking downeward I might see what I am and what I was willing to be Alas I do see in it the lewdenesse darkenesse and extreme deepenes of mine euils My death which by humblenes closeth mine eie the admirable goodnesse of thee and the vnspeakable euill which is in me thy right highnes pure maiestie my right fragill and mortall nature thy gifts goods beatitude my malice great vnkindnes O how good art thou vnto me and how vnking haue I bene vnto thee this that thou wilt and this that I pursue Which things considered causeth me to maruell how it pleaseth thee to ioine thy selfe to me seeing there is no comparison betweene vs both Thou art my God and I am thy worke thou my creator and I thy creature Now to speake brieflie though I cannot define what it is to be of thee yet know I my selfe to be the least thing that may be compared vnto thee O most happie loue Thou madest this agreement when thou didst ioine life death together but y e vnion hath made aliue death life dieng and life without end haue made our death a life Death hath giuen vnto life a quickning y t through death I being dead may receiue life and by death I am rauished with him which is aliue I liue in him otherwise of my self I am dead And as concerning bodelie death to me it is nothing but a comming out of prison death is to me life for through death I am aliue And as this mortall life filleth me full of care and sorowe so death yeeldeth me content O what a godlie thing is it to die that the soule may liue For in deliuering hir from this mortall death she is deliuered from the death miserable and matched with hir most mightie louer Is not then the soule blamelesse which faine would by to haue life Yes trulie and ought to call death hir welbeloued friend O sweet death pleasant sorowe mightie king deliuering from all wickednes O Lord those which trust in thee and in thy death are mortified by the hope they haue in thy passion Thus with a sweet sleepe dost thou put them out of that death which causeth manie to lament O how happie is the same sleepe vnto him which when he awaketh doth find through thy death life euerlasting For death is none other thing to a Christian man but a libertie or deliuerance from his mortall band and the death which is fearefull to the wicked is pleasant and acceptable to them that are good bicause that death through death is destroied Therefore my God if I were rightlie taught I should call death life the end of labour and beginning of euerlasting ioie For I knowe that long life doth let me from the sight of thee O death come and doe thine office on me that I may see my spouse or else sweet loue transforme me in thee and then shall I the better tarie the comming of death O sweet Lord let me die that I may liue with thee For there is none other that can deliuer me but thou onelie O my Sauiour through faith I am planted and ioined with thee O what vnion is this sith that through faith I am assured to thee and may call thee father brother sonne and husband O my father what paternitie O my brother what fraternitie O my child what delectation O my spouse what coniunction is this A father full of humilitie a brother hauing our similitude a sonne engendred through faith and loue a husband louing and releeuing in all extremitie But whom dost thou loue Alas it is she whom thou hast withdrawne from the snare wherin through malice she was bound and hast put hir in place name and office of a daughter sister mother and wife O my Sauiour it is a great sauour of sweetnesse right pleasant and delectable when a soule after the hearing of thy word shall cal thee without feare his father his brother child and spouse such a soule doubtlesse may continuallie burne in loue Is there anie loue vnlesse it be this maner of loue but it hath some euill condition Is there anie pleasure to be hereto compared Is there anie honour to this but may be accounted shame Yea is there anie profit equall to this Moreouer to conclude is there any thing that I could more earnestlie loue Alas no. For he that vnfeinedlie loueth God reputeth all these things wordlie of lesse valure than the dunghill Pleasure profit and honour of this world are all but vanitie and trifles vnto him which hath found God Such loue is so profitable honourable abundant in grace that I dare saie she onlie sufficeth the hart of a godlie soule and yeeldeth hir so constant that she neuer desireth or would haue other For whosoeuer hath God as he ought to be had accounteth all other things superfluous or vaine Now thanked be my Lord and my father through faith I haue gotten the same loue wherfore I ought to be satisfied and content Now haue I thee my father for defence of my want on foolishnes and my long youth Now haue I thee my brother for to succour my sorowes wherein I find no end Now haue I thee my sonne for my feeble age as an onlie staie Now haue I thee a true and faithfull husband for the satisfieng of my whole hart And now sith I haue thee I will and doo forsake all them that are in the world holding thee fast that thou maiest no more escape me Seeing now that I haue possessed

vnto the Lord God of Israel Lord when thou wentest out of Seir when thou departedst out of the field of Edom the earth trembled and the heauens rained the clouds also dropped water The mountaines melted before the Lord euen as did Sinai before the Lord God of Israel In the daies of Samgar the some of Anath in the daies of Iael the high waies were vnoccupied for feare of the enimies and the trauellers walked through bywaies The townes were not inhabited they decaied I say and the inhabitants thereof were gone in Israel vntill I Deborah came vp which miraculously mooued by God to pitie deliuer them rose vp a mother in Israel They chose new gods and then had they war or the enimie in the gates was there a shield or speare seene among fortie thousand of Israel they had no hart to resist their enimies My hart is set on the gouernours of Israel and loueth them that are willing among the people praise yee the Lord. Speake yee gouernours that ride on faire Asse s or Moiles yee that dwell by Middin in danger of your enimies and that walke by the waies For the noise of the archers among the drawers of water ceased There shall they rehearse the righteousnesse of the Lord his righteousnesse in his vnfenced townes in Israel then did the people of the Lord go downe to the gates without feare of the enimie Up Debora vp arise and sing a song Arise Barak and lead thy captiuitie or them that kept thy people in bondage and captiuitie captiue thou sonne of Abinoam For they that remaine haue dominion ouer the mightie of the people the Lord hath giuen mee dominion ouer the strong Of Ephraun their roote Iosua first arose and fought against Amalek and after thee Iosua Beniamin that is Saule shall fight against thy people O Amalek Of Machir came rulers and of Zebulun they that handle the penne of the writer euen the learned did helpe to fight And the princes of Issachar were with Debora and the whole tribe of Issachar and also Barak he was sent on foote into the vallie for the diuisions of Ruben were great thoughts of hart Why abodest thou among the sheepfolds to heare the bleatings of the flocks For the diuisions of Ruben that came not ouer Iordan to helpe their brethren in their necessitie were great thoughts of hart and much maruelling Gilead abode beyond Iordan yet came to helpe their brethren therefore thou Ruben canst haue no excuse and why doth Dan remaine in ships Asher continued on the sea shore and taried in his desolate decaied places But the people of zebulun and Nepthalie haue ieoparded their liues vnto the death in the hie places of the field The kings came and fought then fought the king of Chanaan in Taanach by the waters of Megiddo and wan no monie but lost all They fought from heauen euen the starres in their courses fought against Sisera and by Gods power his people were holpen to ouer come their enimies The riuer of kishon swept them away as a béesome doth the filth of the house that ancient riuer the riuer Kishon O my soule thou hast marched valiantly Then were the horse hoofes broken with the praunsing and oft beating together of their mightie men Curse ye the citie of Meros where ye fought said the Angel of the Lord curse the inhabitants thereof bicause they came not to helpe the Lord to helpe the Lord against the mightie Iael the wife of Heber the Kenite shall be blessed aboue other women blessed shall she be aboue women dwelling in tents He asked water and she gaue him milke she brought foorth butter in a lordlie dish She put hir hand to the naile and hir right hand to the workmans hammer with the hammer smote she Sisera she smote off his head after she had wounded and persed his temples He bowed him downe at hir feete he fell downe and lay still at hir feete he bowed himselfe downe and fell when he had sunk downe he lay there dead destroied The mother of Sisera looked out at a windowe and cried through the lattise Why is his chariot so long a comming Why tarie the wheeles of his chariots All hir wise Ladies answered hir yea she answered or comforted hir selfe with hir owne words Surely they haue gotten and found they diuide the spoile euerie man hath a damsell or two Sisera hath a praie of diuers coloured garments euen a praie of raiment died with sundrie colours and that are made of needle worke raiment of diuers colours and of needle worke on both sides which is meete for him that is chiefe in distributing of the spoiles So let all thine enimies perish O Lord but they that loue him shall be as the sunne when hee riseth in his might and growe dailie more and more in Gods fauour And the land had rest fortie yeeres The praier or blessing of Naomy for hir two daughters in lawe Ruth and Orpah Ruth 1 8 9. THE Lord shew fauour and deale as kindlie with you my good daughters as yee haue dealt with the dead your husband 's my two sonnes and with mee Yea the Lord grant you that you may find rest either of you in the house of hir husband The praier or vow of Hanna for a sonne 1. Samuel 1 11. O Lord of hosts if thou wilt looke on the trouble of thine handmaid and remember mee and not forget thine handmaid but giue vnto thine handmaid a manchild then I will giue him vnto the Lord all the daies of his life and there shall no rasor come vpon his head The song and thankesgiuing of Hanna after she by praier had obteined a sonne called Samuel 1. Samuel 2. MIne hart reioiceth in the Lord and mine horne is exalted in the Lord for I haue recouered strength and glorie by his benefit my mouth is inlarged or wide open ouer mine enimies so that I can now answere them that reprooue my barrennesse for I reioice in thy saluation There is none holie as the Lord yea there is none besides thee and there is no god like our God Speake no more presumptuouslie against God in condemning my barrennesse let not arrogancie come out of your mouth for the Lord is a God of knowledge and his purposes come to passe and by him enterprises are established The bowe with the mightie men are broken and they that were weake haue girded themselues with strength They that were full are hired foorth for bread and sell their labours for necessarie foode and the hungrie are no more hired but cease to haue néede so that the barren hath borne seuen euen many and shee that had many children is waren feeble The Lord killeth maketh aliue bringeth downe to the graue and raiseth vp againe The Lord maketh poore and maketh rich bringeth lowe and exalteth vp on high He raiseth vp the poore out of the dust and according to his owne will lifteth vp the begger from the dunghill to set

than thou hast done with our next neighbours whose painefull miseries and bloudie broiles may be a sufficient warning vnto vs to hate our sin and iniquitie least the like calamitie or euer we be aware do compasse and hedge vs round about Giue vs grace therefore in time of peace and happie prosperitie so to walke that thy fatherlie blessings be not withdrawne nor taken from vs and the rod of thy sharpe correction laid vpon our neckes euen in such sort as thou hast visited our brethren in other countries whose bodies by the meanes of ciuill dissention haue beene made a praie to the sword We heare and vnderstand that not far off but euen hard at the gates of our borders the father is readie in armes to seeke the destruction of his sonne the sonne is as greedie to gape for the bloud of his father We heare how violentlie the brother thirsteth after the bloud of his brother friend is against friend neighbour against neighbour yong men are murthered old men are suddenlie slaine manie a wife is husbandlesse manie a child is desolate and fatherlesse The cruell harted enimie spareth none he maketh hauocke no teares can staie him from his affectioned tyrannie The tender infants are haled from the earnefull paps of their weeping mothers and torne to peece-meale before the sorowfull eies of their carefull parents Old age is contemned godlie matrones are abused virgins are defloured and rauished by violence a spectacle of extreame crueltie for vs to behold and a glasse of great carefulnesse for vs to looke vpon that haue worthilie deserued like or far greater punishments Yet with-holdest thou from vs thy scourge although our offences are so great and diuers that might heape vp the sentence of thine exceeding iustice against vs. In place of war and bloudie battell thou hast giuen vnto vs prosperitie and perfect peace In place of penurie dearth and scarsitie thou hast giuen vs increase fulnesse and great plentie In stead of discord and dissention thou hast sent vs vnitie and concord and by thy celestiall prouidence we are defended from the cruell enimie and from the domesticall and ciuill war And besides these thy gratious gifts to heape vp our consolation and ioie thou hast giuen vs thy true and liuelie word as a lanterne to direct vs and guide our footesteps from vanitie to vertue from wickednes to godlie wisdome from licentious libertie to newnesse of life and godlie conuersation Besides all these thine inestimable graces freelie bestowed vpon vs thou hast giuen vs godlie and zealous Preachers which plentiouslie breake vnto vs out of thine eternall testament the bread of life whereon good Lord giue our soules such power to feede by faith that they may be nourished to eternall ioie and we by the diligent obseruing and obeieng of thy commandements may be preserued from all kind of dissention and peaceablie enioie the fruits of pure peace trustie tranquillitie Grant this O mercifull Father for thy son Christs sake our onelie Sauiour and Redeemer Christ Iesus Amen A godlie and fruitfull praier to be said in time of bloudie battell O Lord our heauenlie Father and euerliuing God we thy wretched and most miserable creatures confesse and acknowledge wee haue woorthilie deserued the rod of thy correction and punishment and doo merit manie sharpe and bitter stripes that knowing thy blessed and glorious will haue of set purpose contemned thy diuine and heauenlie precepts for which cause the sentence of thy wrath is sharpelie kindled against vs euen as it hath beene against thy chosen people Israel in the daies of our forefathers who glorieng in their wickednesse were plagued in the fulnesse of thine indignation The sword of their enimies beset them round about and hemmed them in on euerie side The Iebusites the Ammonites the Philistines and the Amorites oppressed them diuerselie their strong holds were rased their cities were besieged their houses were ransacked their goods and their riches were caried awaie by force of the bloud-thirstie enimie their yoong men were led awaie captiue their virgins were wofullie defloured But in fine when thou Lord God didst behold their hartie and earnest contrition thou didst withdrawe thy frowning countenance sentest them speedie and safe deliuerance One while thou Lord sentest them Moses to bring them out of the seruitude of Pharao the stonie and stubborne-harted king of the Aegyptians another while Iephthah set them free from the sword of the Ammonites wherewith they were greeuouslie afflicted and to make thy power and excellent glorie fullie knowne thou gauest Samson much fortitude to bridle the proud Philistines Ouer besides these thou of thy loue and miraculous goodnes hast made feeble women mightie and victorious conquerors Debora was a shield to thy people Iudith comforted the distressed Bethulians cut off the head of proud Holophernes that thy selfe good Lord when thou beholdedst their teares and hartie sorowe for their offences didst prepare thy selfe to go foorth with their hoasts Thou thy selfe I saie with the breath of thy nostrils didst confound and ouerthrowe their enimies So good Lord be thou now present with vs in the fulnesse of thy diuine power looke vpon vs with the eies of thy fauourable pitie Forget our corrupt and most filthie offences let our contrite and sorowfull harts be a meane to vanquish thy displeasure conceiued against vs be thou present with vs in this time of necessitie and trouble set thy hand to helpe and assist vs against the enimie be thou present with vs in this time of perill and danger go thou foorth with our hosts then shall we be assured to preuaile let not the multitude of furious foes dismaie vs. For victorie we doo knowe consisteth not in the power nor strength of manie men horses armour nor weapons but it is thou O mercifull Father that giuest the conquest where and to whom thou pleasest To thee therefore in this great extremitie we flie and appeale beseeching thee of thine inestimable loue and kindnesse for the loue of our Sauiour Iesus Christ to looke vpon our true repentant harts and in the fulnesse of thy miserations and pities to set vs free from the power of the raging enimie and to pardon our sinnes and greeuous offences that hencefoorth we may vow and dedicate our harts and minds wholie to walke in integritie and newnesse of life which grant good Lord to whom with thy sonne Christ Iesus and the holie Ghost be praise and glorie attributed for euer and euer world without end Amen A godlie praier to be said in time of anie common plague priuate affliction or trouble OEternall and euerliuing God the Father of all consolation comfort vouchsafe of thine infinite loue and kindnesse to strengthen mee with thy heauenlie grace patiently to beare and with meekenesse to suffer this crosse of affliction and trouble which thou hast laid vpon me for the vse of sinne and iniquitie I knowe O gratious and louing Father that my deserts are such as woorthilie haue prouoked thee

thou wouldest nourish faith in thy seruant that I may neuer wauer in thy heauenlie doctrine Increase obedience that I neuer turne from thy precepts fortifie constancie that entring into thy steps I be not pulled backe nor through the terrour or intisements of Satan ouerthrowne but may perseuere in thee which art the true waie vnto death Build my sure trust that accustomed with thy promises I neuer waxe old in the exercise of vertue but forgetting those things which are past I may cōtinuallie striue to com to perfecter Accept my contrite hart the woonted sacrifice of thy delight the oblation of these my petitions granting the summe of my requests Blot out all mine offences for thine owne sake and increase thy grace in me that I may in all things carrie vpright swaie and equall iudgement gouerne thy people in the light of thy word and feare of thy lawes and dailie more and more die to my selfe and liue and be led by thy spirit fearing nothing but thee than the which nothing is greater or mightier louing nothing beside thee than whom nothing is more to be beloued glorieng in nothing but in thee which art the glorie of all Saints requiring nothing beside thee which art the best desiring nothing but thee which art the full and perfect felicitie with the Father and the holie Ghost aboue the starrie firmament to whome be praise both now and euer Amen The KINGS Heast or GODS familiar speech to the QVEENE Collected out of the holie Psalmes of good King DAVID as they are learnedlie expounded by THEODORE BEZA Wherein almightie GOD after a diuine sort speaking vnto hir Maiestie as he sometimes did vnto Dauid though not in so mysticall maner doth first declare his mercifull prouidence in preseruing hir and his gratious goodnesse in exalting hir to the Crowne exhorting hir therewithall humblie to acknowledge his souereigntie ouer all earthlie powers and to worship him Secondlie he describeth vnto hir Grace the woorthie properties that are required to bee in euerie godlie Prince and wise Gouernour for the maintenance of his glorie and their estates Thirdlie he exhorteth hir Maiestie to the faithfull discharge of hir office and dutie in his feare and seruice to the increase of vertue and suppressing of vice And so shewing the commodities that will insue thereby to hir and hir people he fourthlie promiseth not onelie to be hir continuall defender against all hir enimies but also to blesse hir and hir Realme with manie large sweet and comfortable benefits both corporall celestiall and to make hir partaker of all his ancient mercies promised long since to hir father Dauid namelie vpon this condition if finallie she perseuere in the perfect loue and due obedience of hir spirituall spouse Christ Iesus ¶ The first Chapter of the HEAST ELIZABETH thou Uirgin mine the KINGS Daughter and fairest among women most full of beautie and maiestie attend a litle to my Heast and marke what I shall say Thou art my Daughter in deede this daie haue I begotten thee and espoused thee to thy King CHRIST my Sonne crowned thee with my gifts and appointed thee QVEENE to reigne vpon my holie mount Zion Behold I which am the onlie Lord by full right and authoritie of all men and doo my selfe gouerne the Empires and Kingdoms as the greatest King of all and most mightie Monarch of the whole world euen I the most high God and celestiall father haue elected thee a chosen vessell of high honour and price in my house and to that end haue mightilie preserued thee and miraculouslie deliuered thee out of so manie so great dangers and now at the last haue brought into thy subiection the people ouer whome thou hast authoritie It is I and none other which haue consecrated thee vnto my selfe and annointed thee with holie oile to be the Queene the Mother and the Nursse of my people in Israel and who onlie haue giuen thee this most excellent and goodlie heritage which thou possessest in peace Thee I saie O Daughter ELIZABETH haue I raised vp and chosen out a pure and perfect virgin from the rest of the whole people and that because I loued thee most deerelie aboue them all so that now thou maiest worthilie reioice and glorie of thy dignitie and honour yet by my singular power and benefit and for none other cause but that it hath pleased me thy God to exalt thee aboue others and to embrace and receiue thee into my speciall grace and fauour Therefore to the intent I might alwaies vse thy diligent seruice faithfull ministerie and dutifull endeuour in this great businesse and high office of a Queene and kinglie Gouernour and that by thy power receiued from me my people may be defended and cherished behold I haue ordeined a Lampe for thee mine annointed and powred foorth vpon thee all my bountie that none is able to be compared vnto thee yea I haue adorned thee most bountifullie and beautifullie with all my gifts and graces incomparable which shall neuer be taken from thee Now then O deere daughter consider diligentlie with thy selfe awhile what maner of husband thou art coupled and conioined vnto learne of him alone thy spouse Christ mine onlie Son I meane to whom as this daie I married thee what he requireth of thee namelie that thou shouldest forget thine owne Nation thy Fathers house and all other worldlie things now that thou art come vnder his authoritie and into the familie and spirituall societie of thy heauenlie Bridegroome Now therefore I saie bee wise O QVEENE bee learned thou Iudge of the earth that with all the Emperours Kings and Potentats of the world thou maist giue place vnto the Lord and resigne vp vnto him the honour of all glorie and power Giue I saie vnto the GOD of gods and King of kings euen the verie God of glorie the maiestie and dominion due vnto his name and fall downe and worship him doo vnto him all possible reuerence that giueth power to his people and blesseth both prince and subiect with his continuall benefits and reioice in him with feare and trembling O kisse this my sonne Christ thy spouse betimes least he be angrie and then thou suddenly perish when his wrath shall flame foorth Worship the Lord I saie with due worship and trust in him alone as she that wholie dependeth vpon his mercie fauour and protection so shalt thou be blessed and thy throne shall neuer be shaken Confesse who it is that hath set thee in so high a place far aboue other men that are thy subiects and remember also this that I the most high God am present with thee and thine assemblie of States and Senatours who haue not debarred my selfe of mine authoritie ouer you neither am I present as an idle beholder but as your Iudge also And knowe this assuredlie that as you are honoured in deed with that name Gods whereby mine authoritie ouer all men is declared And albeit I haue embraced you