fyue cubytes longe brode y t it maye be foure square thre cubytes hye thou shalt make hornes vpon the foure corners of it shalt ouer laye it with brasse Make ashpaÌ„nes shouels basens fleshokes cole paÌ„nes All y e apparell therof shalt thou make of brasse Thou shalt make a gredyron also like a nett of brase foure brasen rynges vpon the foure corners of it from vnder vp aboute the altare shalt thou make it so that the gredyron reach vnto y e myddest of the altare Thou shalt make staues also for the altare of Fyrre tre ouer layed with golde and shalt put the staues in the rynges that the staues maye be on both the sydes of y e altare to beare it withall And holowe with bordes shalt thou make it like as it is shewed the in the mount And to y e habitacion thou shalt make a courte an hangynge of whyte twyned sylke vpoÌ„ y e one syde an C. cubytes loÌ„ge towarde the south xx pilers vpon xx brasen sokettes the knoppes w t their whopes of syluer Likewyse vpon y e north syde there shal be an hanginge of an C. cubytes loÌ„ge twenty pilers vpon twenty brasen sokettes and their knoppes w t their whopes of syluer But vpon the west syde the bredth of y e courte shal haue an hanginge of fiftie cubites longe ten pilers vpon ten sokettes VpoÌ„ the east syde also shal the bredth of the courte haue fiftie cubytes so that the hangynge haue vpon one syde fyftene cubites and thre pilers vpoÌ„ thre sokettes And vpon y e other syde fiftene cubytes also and thre pilers vpoÌ„ thre sokettes And in the courte gate there shal be an hangynge twenty cubytes brode of yalowe sylke scarlet purple and whyte twyned sylke wrought with nedle worke and foure pilers vpon their foure sokettes All the pilers rounde aboute the courte shall haue syluer whopes syluer knoppes sokettes of brasse And the length of y e courte shal be an huÌ„dreth cubytes the bredth fiftie cubytes the heygth fyue cubytes of whyte twyned sylke and y e sokettes therof shal be of brasse All y e vessels also of the habitacion to all maner seruyce and all the nales of it and all the nales of the courte shal be of brasse Commaunde y e children of Israel y t they bringe vnto y e the most cleare pure oyle oliue beaten to geue lighte y t it maye allwaye be put in the laÌ„pes in the Tabernacle of wytnes without the vayle that hangeth before the wytnesse And AaroÌ„ and his sonnes shal dresse it from the euenynge vntyll y e mornynge before the LORDE This shal be vnto you a perpetuall custome for youre posterities amonge the children of Israel The XXVIII Chapter ANd thou shalt take vnto the Aaron thy brother and his sonnes froÌ„ amonge the childreÌ„ of Israel that he maye be my prest namely Aaron his sonnes Nadab Abihu Eleazar and Ithamar thou shalt make holy clothes for AaroÌ„ y i brother honorable and glorious shalt speake vnto all them that are wise of hert whom I haue fylled with the sprete of wiszdome that they make garmentes to Aaron for his consecracion that he maye be my prest These are y e garmentes which they shal make a brestlappe an ouerbody cote a tunycle an albe a myter and a girdell Thus shal they make holy garmentes for y e brother AaroÌ„ and his sonnes that he maye be my prest They shal take therto golde yalow silke scarlet purple and whyte sylke The ouerbody cote shal they make of golde yalow sylke scarlet purple whyte twyned sylke of bâ—oderd worke that it maye be festened together vpon both the sydes by y e edges therof And his gyrdell vpoÌ„ it shall be of y e same woâ—maÌ„shippe stuff euen of golde yalowe sylke scarlet purple whyte twyned sylke And thou shalt take two Onix stones and graue in them the names of the children of Israel Syxe names vpon the one stone and the sixe other names vpon the other stone acordinge to the order of their age This shalt thou do by the stonegrauers that graue signettes so that y e stones with the names of the children of Israel to be set rounde aboute with golde and thou shalt put them vpon the two shulders of the ouer body cote that that they maye be stones of remembraunce for the children of Israel that Aaron maye beare their names vpon both his shulders before the LORDE for a remembraunce Thou shalt make hokes of golde also and two wretheÌ„ cheynes of pure golde and shalt fasten them vnto the hokes The brestlappe of iudgment shalt thou make of broderd worke euen after the worke of the ouerbody cote of golde yalow sylke scarlet purple and whyte twyned sylke Foure square shall it be and dubble an hande bredth longe and an handebredth brode And thou shalt fill it with foure rowes full of stones Let the first rowe be a Sardis a Topas and a Smaragde The seconde a Ruby a Saphyre and a Dyamonde The thirde a Ligurios an Achatt and an Ametyst The fourth a Turcas an Onix and a Iaspis In golde shall they be sett in all the rowes and shal stonde acordinge to y e twolue names of the children of Israel grauen of the stonegrauers euery one with his name acordinge to the twolue trybes And vpon the brestlappe thou shalt make wrethen cheynes by y e corners of pure golde and two golde rynges so that thou fasteÌ„ the same two rynges vnto two edges of the brestlappe and put the two wretheÌ„ cheynes of golde in the same two rynges that are in two edges of the brestlappe But the two endes of y e two wrethen cheynes shalt thou fasten in the two hokes vpon the ouerbody cote one ouer agaynst another And thou shalt make two other rynges of golde and fasten them vnto y e other two edges of y e brestlappe namely to y e borders therof wherwith it maye hange on the ynsyde vpon the ouerbody cote And yet shalt thou make two rynges of golde and fasten them vpon the two edges beneth to the ouerbody cote vpon the outsyde one ouer agaynst anothe where the ouerbody cote ioyneth together And the brestlappe shall be fastened by his rynges vnto the rynges of the ouerbody cote with a yalow lace that is maye lye close vpon the ouerbody cote and that the brestlappe be not lowsed from the ouerbody cote Thus shall Aaron beare the names of the children of Israel in y e brestlappe of iudgment vpon his hert whan he goeth into the Sanctuary for a remembraunce before the LORDE allwaye And in the brestlappe of iudgment thou shalt put light and perfectnesse that they be vpon AaroÌ„s hert whan he goeth in before the LORDE and that he maye beare the iudgment of the children of Israel vpon his hert before the LORDE allwaye Thou shalt make the tunykle also to the ouerbody cote all of yalow sylke and
downe for we darre not loke the man in the face yf oure yongest brother be not with vs. Then sayde thy seruaunt my father vnto vs Ye knowe that my wife bare me two sonnes one wente out fro me and I sayde he is torne in peces Yf ye take this fro me also and eny mysfortune happeÌ„ him then shal ye brynge my gray heer with sorowe downe vnto the graue Yf I now come home vnto my father the lad be not with me seynge his soule hangeth by the soule of this then shall it come to passe that yf he se not the lad there he shal dye So shal we thy seruauntes brynge the gray heer of thy seruaunt oure father with sorowe downe to the graue For I thy seruaunt became suertye for the lad vnto my father and sayde yf I brynge him not agayne I will beare the blame all my lyfe longe Therfore let thy seruaunt byde here in steade of y e lad to be my lordes bonde man and let the lad go vp with his brethren For how can I go vp vnto my father yf the lad be not with me Then shulde I se the mysery that shulde happen vnto my father The XLV Chapter THen coude not Ioseph refrayne him self before all them that stode aboute him and he coÌ„maunded euery man to go out from him and there stode no man by him whan Ioseph vttred him self vnto his brethren And he wepte loude so that y e Egipcians and Pharaos housholde herde it And he sayde vnto his brethren I am Ioseph is my father yet alyue And his brethren coulde not answere him they were so abashed before his face But he sayde Come nye vnto me And they came nye And he sayde I am Ioseph youre brother whom ye solde in to Egipte And now vexe not youre selues thinke not y t there is eny wrath because ye solde me hither For God sent me hither before you for yo r lyues sake For these are now two yeares that y e derth hath bene in the lande and there are yet fyue yeares behynde wherin there shal be no plowinge ner haruest But God sent me hither before you y t he might let you remayne vpon earth and to saue youre lyues by a greate delyueraunce And now it was not ye then that sent me hither but God which hath made me a father vnto Pharao lorde ouer all his house and a prynce in the whole lande of Egipte Haist you therfore and go vp vnto my father and saye vnto him Thy sonne Ioseph sendeth the this worde God hath made me lorde in all Egipte come downe vnto me tarye not thou shalt dwel in the lande of Gosen and be with me thou and thy children and thy childers childreÌ„ thy small and greate catell and all that thou hast There wyll I make prouysion for the for there are yet fyne yeares of derth that thou perishe not w t thine house and all that is thyne Beholde youre eyes and the eyes of my brother Ben Iamin se that I myne owne self speake vnto you by mouth Shewe my father all my worshipe in Egipte and all that ye haue sene haist you and come downe hither with my father And he fell aboute his brother Ben Iamyns neck and wepte and Ben Iamin wepte vpon his neck also And he kyssed all his brethren and wepte vpon them And afterwarde talked his brethren w t him And this tydinges came in to Pharaos house Iosephs brethren are come which pleased Pharao well and all his seruauntes And Pharao spake vnto Ioseph Saye vnto thy brethren Do thus lade youre beastes go youre waye and whan ye come in to the lande of Canaan take youre father and youre housholdes and come vnto me I wyl geue you of the goodes in the laÌ„de of Egipte so that ye shall eate the fatt in the lande And he commaunded them Do thus Take you charettes out of y e lande of Egipte for youre children and wyues and brynge youre father and come and regarde not youre housholde stuff for the goodes of all the laÌ„de of Egipte shal be yours The children of Israel dyd so and Ioseph gaue theÌ„ charettes acordynge to Pharaos commaundement and expenses by the waye and gaue them all vnto euery one a chaunge of rayment but vnto Ben Iamin he gaue thre hundreth syluer pens and fyue chaunge of rayment As for his father he sent him ten Asses laden with goodes out of Egipte and ten Asses with corne and bred and vytayles for his father by y e waye So he sent awaye his brethren and sayde vnto them Stryue not by the waye Thus they departed out of Egipte and came to the lande of Canaan vnto Iacob their father and tolde him and sayde Thy sonne Ioseph is yet alyue and is a lorde in all the lande of Egipte But his hert wauered for he beleued them not TheÌ„ tolde they him all the wordes of Ioseph which he had sayde vnto them And whan he sawe y e charettes that Ioseph had sent to fetch him his sprete reuyued he sayde I haue ynough that my sonne Ioseph is yet a liue I wil go and se him before I dye The XLVI Chapter ISrael toke his iourney with all that he had And whan he came to Berseba he offred offerynges vnto y e God of his father Isaac And God spake vnto him in a vision by night Iacob Iacob He sayde here am I. And he saide I am y e mightie God of thy father be not afrayed to go in to Egipte for there wyl I make a greate people of the. I wyll go downe with the wil brynge the vp also And Ioseph shal laye his hande vpon thine eyes Then Iacob gat him vp from Berseba and y e children of Israel caried Iacob their father with their children and wyues vpon the charettes that Pharao had sent to cary him And they toke their catell substaunce which they had gotten in the lande of Canaan and so came in to Egipte Iacob all his sede with him his children his childers children with him his doughters and the doughters of his children all his sede These are y e names of the children of Israel which came in to Egipte Iacob his sonnes The first borne sonne of Iacob Ruben The children of Ruben Hanoch Pallu Hezron and Charmi. The children of Simeon Iemuel Iamin Ohad Iachim Zohar and Saul the sonne of the Cananitish woman The childreÌ„ of Leui Gerson Cahath Merari The childreÌ„ of Iuda Er Onan Sela Phares Serah But Er and Onan dyed in the lande of Canaan The childreÌ„ of Phares Hesron and Hamul The children of Isachar Thola Phua Iob Semron The children of Zabulon Sered Elon and Iahleel These are the childreÌ„ of Lea which she bare vnto Iacob in Mesopotamia with his doughter Dina. These all together with sonnes doughters make thre thirtie soules The childreÌ„ of Gad Zipheon Haggi Suni Eâ—bon Eri
Iacob an Allmightie God but my name LORDE haue I not shewed vnto them My couenaunt also haue I made with them that I wil geue them the londe of Canaan the londe of their pilgremage wherin they haue bene straungers Morouer I haue herde the complaynte of the children of Israel whom y e Egipcians oppresse with laboure and haue remembred my couenaunt Therfore saye vnto the childrē of Israel I am the LORDE wil brynge you out from yo r burthens in Egipte wil rydd you from youre laboure and wil delyuer you thorow a stretched out arme greate iudgmētes and will receaue you for my people will be yo r God so that ye shal knowe that I the LORDE am yo r God which brynge you out from the burthen of Egipte and will brynge you in to the lande ouer the which I haue lift vp my hande to geue it vnto Abraham Isaac and Iacob y e same wil I geue vnto you for a possession I the LORDE Moses tolde this vnto the childrē of Israel But they herkened not vnto him for very anguysh of sprete for sore laboure Thē spake the LORDE vnto Moses sayde Go thy waye speake vnto Pharao the kynge of Egypte y t he let the childrē of Israel go out of his lande But Moses spake before y e LORDE saide Beholde y e childrē of Israel herkē not vnto me how shulde Pharao thē heare me And I am also of vncircumcised lyppes So the LORDE spake vnto Moses Aaron gaue thē a commaundemēt vnto the childrē of Israel vnto Pharao the kynge of Egipte y t they shulde brynge the childrē of Israel out of Egipte These are y e heades of the house of their fathers The children of Ruben the first sonne of Israel are these Hanoch Pallu Hezron Charmi These are the generacions of Ruben The children of Simeon are these Iemuel Iamin Ohad Iachin Zophar and Saul the sonne of the Cananitish woman These are the generacions of Symeon These are the names of the childrē of Leui in their generaciōs Gerson Kahath and Merari Leui was an hundreth and seuen thirtie yeare olde The children of Gerson are these Libni and Semei in their generacions The childrē of Kahath are these Amram Iezear Hebron Vsiel Kahath was an hundreth thre thirtie yeare olde The children of Merari are these Maheli and Musi These are y e generacions of Leui in their kynreds And Amram toke his vncles doughter Iochebed to wife which bare him Aaron Moses Amram was an C. vij thirtie yeare olde The childrē of Iezear are these Korah Nepheg Sichri The children of Vsiel are these Misael Elzaphan Sithri Aaron toke Elizaba y e doughter of Aminadab Nahassons sisters to wife which bare him Nadab Abihu Eleasar Ithamar The childrē of Korah are these Assir Elkana Abiassaph These are y e generaciōs of y e Korahites Eleasar Aarons sonne toke one of the doughters of Putiel to wife which bare him Phineas These are the heades amonge the fathers of the generacions of the Leuites This is y t Aaron Moses vnto whom y e LORDE sayde Bringe y e childrē of Israel out of the lande of Egipte w t their armies It is they namely Moses Aaron y t spake vnto Pharao the kynge of Egipte y t they might brynge the children of Israel out of Egipte The same daie spake y e LORDE vnto Moses in y e lande of Egipte sayde I am y e LORDE speake thou vnto Pharao y e kynge of Egipte all y t I saye vnto ye. And he answered before y e LORDE Beholde I am of vncircumcised lippes how shall Pharao thē heare me The VII Chapter THe LORDE sayde vnto Moses Beholde I haue made the a God ouer Pharao Aarō y e brother shal be y e prophet Thou shalt speake all y t I cōmaūde y e but Aaron y e brother shal speake vnto Pharao y t he maye let the childrē of Israel go out of his lande Neuertheles I wil harden Pharaos hert y t I maye multiplye my tokens wonders in the londe of Egipte And Pharao shal not heare you y t I maye shewe my hande in Egipte brynge myne armyes euen my people the childrē of Israel out of y e lande of Egipte by greate iudgmētes And y e Egipcians shal knowe y t I am the LORDE whan I shal stretch out my hande vpon Egipte and brynge the children of of Israel out from amonge them Moses and Aaron dyd as the LORDE cōmaūded them And Moses was fourescore yeare olde Aaron thre foure score yeare olde whan they spake vnto Pharao And y e LORDE sayde vnto Moses Aaron Whan Pharao sayeth vnto you Shew youre wonders then shalt thou saye vnto Aaron Take thy staff and cast it before Pharao it shal turne to a serpent Then wēte Moses Aaron in vnto Pharao dyd as the LORDE cōmaunded them And Aaron cast his staff before Pharao before his seruauntes it turned to a serpēt Then Pharao called for y e wyse men Sorcerers And the Sorcerers of Egipte also dyd like wyse with their Sorceries and euery one cast his staff before him they turned vnto serpentes But Aarons staff deuoured their staues So Pharaos hert was hardened and he herkened not vnto them euen as the LORDE had sayde And the LORDE sayde vnto Moses The hert of Pharao is hardened he refuseth to let y e people go Get y e vnto Pharao in the mornynge he holde he shal come vnto y e water mete thou him vpō the waters brynke take y e staff which turned to a serpēt in thine hande saye vnto him The LORDE God of the Hebrues hath sent me vnto the sendeth y e worde Let my people go that they maye serue me in the wyldernesse but hither to thou woldest not heare Therfore thus sayeth the LORDE Hereby shalt thou knowe y t I am y e LORDE Beholde w t the staff y t I haue in my hande wil I smyte the water which is in y e ryuer it shal be turned in to bloude so that the fishes in the ryuer shall dye the ryuer shall stynke it shall greue the Egipcians to drynke of y e water of the ryuer And y e LORDE spake vnto Moses Saye vnto Aaron Take y e staff stretchout thine hāde ouer y e waters of Egipte ouer their ryuers brokes pondes ouer all water poles y t they maye be turned to bloude that there maye be bloude in all y e lande of Egipte both in vessels of wodd and stone Moses Aaron dyd as y e LORDE cōmaunded them lift vp the staff smote the water y t was in the ryuer before Pharao his seruauntes all the water in the ryuer was turned in to bloude the fysh in the ryuer dyed the ryuer stanke so y t the Egipcians
before me and saye Geue vs flesh that we maye eâ—te I am not able to beare all this people alone for it is to heuy for me And yf thou wylt deale thus w t me O kyll me then yf I haue founde fauoure in thy sight that I se not my wrechednesse And the LORDE saide vnto Moses Gather vnto me seuentye men amonge the Elders of Israel whom thou knowest y t they are the Elders in y e people and officers ouer them and brynge them before the Tabernacle of witnesse and set them there with the then wil I come downe and talke with the euen there take of thy sprete that is vpon the and putt it vpon them that they maye beare the burthen of the people with the y t thou beare not all alone And vnto y e people thou shalt saye SaÌ„ctifye yo r selues agaynst tomorow y t ye maye eate flesh for youre wepynge is come into the eares of the LORDE ye that saye Who shal geue vs flesh to eate for we were well at ease in Egipte Therfore shal the LORDE geue you flesh to eate not one daye not two not fyue not ten not twentye dayes longe but a moneth longe tyll it go out at youre noses and tyll ye lothe it euen because ye haue refused the LORDE which is amonge you and haue wepte before him sayde Wherfore wente we out of Egipte And Moses sayde Sixe hundreth thousande fote men are there of the people amoÌ„ge whom I am and thou sayest I wyll geue you flesh to eate a moneth loÌ„ge Shal the shepe and oxen be slayne to be ynough for them Or shal all the fishes of the see be gathered together to be sufficient for them The LORDE sayde vnto Moses Is the LORDES hande shortened then But now shalt thou se whether my wordes shall be fulfilled in dede or no And Moses weÌ„te out and tolde the people y e worde of the LORDE and gathered the seuentye men amonge the Eldest of the people set them rounde aboute the Tabernacle Then came the LORDE downe in a cloude spake vnto him toke of the sprete y t was vpon him put it vpon the seuentie Elders And whan the sprete rested vpon them they prophecied and ceassed not But in the hoost there remayned yet two men of whom the one was called Eldad y e other Medad the sprete rested vpoÌ„ them For they were wrytten vp also yet were they not gone out vnto the Tabernacle and they prophecied in the hoost Then ran there a lad tolde Moses sayde Eldad and Medad prophecie in the hoost Then answered Iosua y e sonne of Nun Moses seruaunte whom he had chosen and sayde My lorde Moses for bydde them But Moses sayde vnto him Art thou gelous for my sake wolde God y t all the people of y e LORDE coulde prophecie and that y e LORDE wolde geue them his sprete So Moses and the Elders of Israel gat them to the hoost Then wente out the wynde from y e LORDE caused quayles to come from the see scatred theÌ„ ouer the hoost here a dayes iourney there a dayes iourney rounde aboute y e hoost two cubytes hye aboue y e earth Then the people stode vp all that daye and all y t night and all the nexte daye and gathered quayles and he that gathered the leest gathered ten Homers they kylled them rounde aboute the hoost But whyle y e flesh was yet betwene their tethe or euer it was vp the wrath of the LORDE waxed whote amonge the people and slewe them with an exceadinge greate slaughter Therfore is the same place called the graues of lust because the voluptuous people were buried there From the lustgraues toke the people their iourney vnto Hazeroth and abode at Hazeroth The XII Chapter ANd Miriam Aaron spake agaynst Moses because of his wife the Morian which he had taken because he had takeÌ„ a Morian to wife and they sayde Doth the LORDE speake onely thorow Moses Speaketh he not also by vs And the LORDE herde it But Moses was a very meke man aboue all men vpon earth And haistely spake the LORDE vnto Moses and to Aaron and to Miriam Go out ye thre vnto y e Tabernacle of wytnesse And they wente out all thre Then came the LORDE downe in the cloudy piler stode in the dore of the Tabernacle called Aaron Miriam they both weÌ„te out And he sayde Heare my wordes Yf eny man be a prophet of the LORDE vnto him wil I shewe my self in a vision or wil speake vnto him in a dreame But not so w t my seruaunt Moses which is faithfull in all my house Mouth to mouth speake I vnto him he seyth the LORDE in his fashion not thorow darke wordes or licknesses Wherfore were ye not afrayed then to speake agaynst my seruaunt Moses And y e wrath of the LORDE waxed whote ouer them he turned him awaye and y e cloude also departed from the Tabernacle And beholde then was Miriam become leporus as it were snowe And Aaron turned him vnto Miriam and sawe that she was leporous and sayde vnto Moses Oh my lorde put not the synne vpon vs which we haue foolishly committed and synned that she be not as one that commeth deed out of his mothers wombe It hath eaten vp half hir flesh allready But Moses cried vnto the LORDE sayde Oh God heale her The LORDE sayde vnto Moses Yf hir father had spytte in hir face shulde she not be ashamed seuen dayes Let her be shut out of y e hoost seueÌ„ dayes after y t let her be receaued agayne So Miriam was shut out of the hoost seueÌ„ dayes the people wente no farther tyll Miriam was receaued againe Afterwarde departed the people from Hazeroth and pitched in y e wildernesse of Paran The XIII Chapter ANd the LORDE spake vnto Moses sayde Sende forth men to spye out y e lande of Canaan which I wil geue vnto y e children of Israel of euery trybe of their fathers a man and let them all be soch as are captaynes amonge them Moses sent theÌ„ out of the wildernes of Paran acordinge to the worde of the LORDE soch as were all heades amonge the children of Israel and these are their names Samma the sonne of Zacur of the trybe of Ruben Saphat the sonne of Hori of the trybe of Simeon Caleb y e sonne of Iephune of the trybe of Iuda Igeal the sonne of Ioseph of the trybe of Isachar Hosea the sonne of Nun of y e trybe of Ephraim Palti the sonne of Raphu of the trybe of Ben Iamin Gadiel the sonne of Sodi of y e trybe of Zabulon Gaddi the sonne of Susi of the trybe of Ioseph of Manasse Ammiel the sonne of Gemalli of the trybe of Dan. Sethur y e sonne of Michael of the trybe of Asser. Nahebi
nombred in the wildernesse of Sinai For y e LORDE sayde vnto theÌ„ y t they shulde dye in the wildernesse And there was not one of them lefte saue Caleb the sonne of Iephune and Iosua the sonne of Nun. The XXVII Chapter ANd the doughters of Zelaphead y e sonne of Hepher y e sonne of Gilead the sonne of Machir the sonne of Manasse amonge the kynreds of Manasse the sonne Ioseph whose names were Mahela Noa Hagla Milca Thirza came stode before Moses Eleasar the prest before the rulers the whole congregacion euen before the dore of y e Tabernacle of witnesse sayde Oure father is deed in the wildernesse was not in the company of them y t rose vp agaynst y e LORDE in the coÌ„gregacion of Corah but dyed in his awne synne and had no sonnes Wherfore shulde o r fathers name perishe then amonge his kynred though he hâ—ue no sonne Geue vs a possession also amâ—â—ge oure fathers brethren Moses broughte their cause before y e LORDE And the LORDE sayde vnto him The doughters of Zelaphead haue spokeÌ„ righte Thou shalt geue theÌ„ a possession to inhereâ— amonge their fathers brethren shalt turne their fathers enheritaunce vnto them And saye vnto the childreÌ„ of Israel Whan a maÌ„ dyeth hath no sonne ye shall turne his enheritaunce vnto his doughter Yf he haue no doughter ye shal geue it vnto his brethreÌ„ Yf he haue no brethren ye shal geue it vnto his fathers brethren Yf he haue no fathers brethreÌ„ ye shal geue it vnto his nexte kynszfolke which beloÌ„ge vnto him in his kynred y t they maye possesse it This shal be an ordynaunce and a perpetuall lawe vnto the children of Israel as the LORDE coÌ„maunded Moses And the LORDE sayde vnto Moses Get the vp in to this mount Abarim beholde the loÌ„de which I shal geue vnto the childreÌ„ of Israel And whan thou hast sene it thou shalt be gathered vnto y e people as Aaron y e brother was gathered for ye were dishobedient vnto my worde in the wyldernesse of Zin in y e strife of the coÌ„gregacion whan ye shulde haue sanctified me thorow the water before them This is the water of stryfe at Cades in the wyldernesse of Zin And Moses spake vnto the LORDE sayde O let the LORDE God of the spretes of all flesh set a maÌ„ ouer the congregacion which maye go in out before them to leade theÌ„ out in y t the congregacion of the LORDE be not as the shepe without a shepherde And the LORDE sayde vnto Moses Take vnto the Iosua the sonne of Nun which is a man in whom is the sprete and put thine handes vpon him set him before Eleasar the prest and before the whole congregacion and geue him a charge in their sighte beutyfye him with thy bewty that the whole congregacion of the children of Israel maye be obedieÌ„t vnto him And he shal stonde before Eleasar the prest which shall aâ—e councell for him after the maner of the lighte before the LORDE At the mouth of him shall both he and all the children of Israel with him and the whole congregacion go in and out Moses dyd as the LORDE coÌ„maunded him toke Iosua and set him before Eleasar the prest and before all the congregacion and layed his handes vpon him and gaue him a charge as the LORDE sayde vnto Moses The XXVIII Chapter ANd the LORDE spake vnto Moses sayde CoÌ„maunde y e childreÌ„ of Israel saye vnto theÌ„ The offerynge of my bred which is my offerynge of the swete sauoure shal ye kepe in his due season that ye maie offre vnto me And saye vnto theÌ„ These are the offerynges that ye shal offre vnto the LORDE Lambes of a yeare olde which are without blemysh euery daye two for a daylie burnt offerynge the one lambe in the mornynge the other at euen And therto a tenth deale of an Epha of fyne floure for a meat offerynge myngled with beateÌ„ oyle of the fourth parte of an Hin this is a daylie burnt offerynge which ye offred vpon mouÌ„t Sinai for a swete sauoure of a sacrifice vnto the LORDE And the drynk offeringe of the same y e fourth parte of an Hin to a lambe and this shal be poured in the Sanctuary for a gifte vnto the LORDE The other lambe shalt thou prepare at eueÌ„ like as the meat offerynge in the mornynge the drynk offeringe therof for a sacrifice of a swete sauoure vnto the LORDE On the Sabbath daye two lambes of a yeare olde without blemysh two teÌ„th deales of fyne floure myngled with oyle the drynk offerynge therof This is the burntofferynge of euery Sabbath besyde the daylie burnt offerynge w t his drynk offeringe And on the first daye of youre monethes ye shal offre a burnt offerynge vnto y e LORDE two yonge bullockes a ramme seueÌ„ lambes of a yeare olde without blemysh and allwaye thre tenth deales of fyne floure for a meat offerynge myngled with oyle vnto euery bullocke two tenth deales of fyne floure for a meat offerynge myngled with oyle vnto the ramme and a tenth deale of fyne floure for a meat offerynge myngled with oyle vnto euery lambe This is the burnt offerynge of a swete sauoure a sacrifice vnto y e LORDE And their drynk offerynges shal be half an Hin of wyne vnto euery bullocke the thirde parte of an Hin to the ramme y e fourth parte of an Hin to euery lambe This is the burnt offerynge of euery moneth in the yeare There shal be offered an he goate also for a syn offerynge vnto the LORDE to the daylie burnt offerynge with his drynk-offerynge And on the fourtene daye of the first moneth is the Easter vnto the LORDE and on the fyftene daye of the same moneth is the feast SeueÌ„ dayes shal vnleuended bred be eaten The first daye shal be an holy conuocacion No seruile worke shal ye do therin and ye shal offre a burnt offerynge vnto the LORDE two yonge bullockes one ramme seuen laÌ„bes of a yeare olde without blemysh with their meat offerynge thre tenth deales of fyne floure myngled with oile to either bullocke and two tenth deales to the ramme and one tenth deale to euery lambe amonge the seuen lambes And an he goate for a syn offeringe to make an attonement for you And these shal ye offre in the mornynge besydes the burnt offerynge which is a daylie burnt offerynge After this maner shal ye offre y e bred euery daye seuen dayes longe for an offeringe of a swete sauoure vnto the LORDE to the daylie burnt offerynge and drynk offerynge also And the seuenth daye shal be called an holy conuocacion with you no seruyle worke shal ye do therin And the daye of the fyrst frutes whaÌ„ ye offre the meat offerynge of the moneth vnto y e LORDE in youre wekes shal be an holy coÌ„uocacion also No worke of bondage shal
the water of stryfe He that sayeth vnto his father and to his mother I se him not and to his brother I knowe him not and to his sonne I wote not of him those haue obserued thy wordes and kepte y e couenaunt they shal teach Iacob thy iudgmentes and Israel thy lawe they shal laie incense before thy nose burnt offeringes vpon thine altare LORDE blesse thou his power accepte the workes of his handes smyte the loynes of them y t ryse vp agaynst him of them that hate him that they lifte not vp them selues And to Ben Iamin he saide The beloued of the LORDE shal dwell in hope on him All the daye longe shal he wayte vpon him and shal dwell betwene his shulders And to Ioseph he sayde His londelieth in the blessynge of the LORDE there are noble frutes of heauen of the dew and of the depe that lyeth beneth There are noble frutes of the increase of the Sonne and noble rype frutes of y e monethes And of y e toppes of the mountaynes of olde and of the hilles allwaye and of the noble frutes of y e earth and of 〈◊〉 fulnesse therof The good will of him that dwelleth in the buszshe come vpon the heade of Ioseph and vpon y e toppe of his heade that was separated frō amonge his brethren His bewtye is as a firstborne oxe and his hornes are as y e hornes of an Vnicorne with the same shal he puszshe the nacions together euen vnto the endes of the worlde These are the thousandes of Ephraim and the thousandes of Manasse And vnto Zabulon he sayde Reioyse Zabulon of thy outgoynge but reioyse thou Isachar of thy tentes They shall call the people vnto y e hyll and there shal they offre y e offeringes of righteousnes For they shal sucke the abundaunce of the see and the treasures hyd in the sonde And to Gad he sayde Blessynge haue Gad which maketh rowme He dwelleth as a lyon and spoyleth the arme and the toppe of the heade And he sawe his begynnynge that y e heape of the teachers laye hydd there and came with the rulers of the people and executed the righteousnesse of the LORDE and his iudgment on Israel And to Dan he sayde Dan a yonge lyon he shal flowe from Basan And to Nephtali he saide Nephtali shal haue abundaunce of pleasure shal be full of the blessynge of the LORDE his possession shal be towarde the west and south And to Asser he sayde Asser be blessed w t sonnes accepted be he with his brethren and dyppe his fote in oyle Yron and brasse be on thy shues Thyne age be as thy youth There is no God as the God of the iust He that sytteth vpon heauen be thy helpe And his glory is in the cloudes that is the dwellynge of God from the beginnynge and vnder the armes of the worlde And he shal dryue out thyne enemye before the and saye Be destroyed And Israel shall dwell safe alone The eye of Iacob shal be vpon y e londe where corne and wine is heauen also shal droppe with dewe Happye art thou Israel who is lyke vnto the O thou people y t art saued by the LORDE which is thy helpe shylde and the swerde of thy glorye Thyne enemies shal pyne awaye and thou shalt treade vpon the height of them The XXIIII Chapter ANd Moses wente from the felde of y e Moabites vp vnto mount Nebo vpō y e toppe of moūt Pisga ouer agaynst Iericho And the LORDE shewed him all the londe of Gilead vnto Dan and all Nephtali and the londe of Ephraim and Manasse and all the londe of Iuda vnto y e vttemost see and towarde the south and the region of the playne of Iericho the cite of the palme trees euen vnto Zoar. And the LORDE sayde vnto him This is the londe that I sware vnto Abraham Isaac and Iacob and sayde I wyll geue it vnto thy sede Thou hast sene it with thine eyes but thou shalt not go ouer thither So Moses y e seruaunt of the LORDE died there in the londe of the Moabites acordinge vnto the worde of y e LORDE And he buried him in a valley in the londe of the Moabites ouer agaynst the house of Peor And noman knewe of his graue vnto this daye And Moses was an hundreth and twentye yeare olde whan he dyed his eyes were not dymme and his chekes were not fallen And the children of Israel weped for Moses in y e felde of the Moabites thirtie daies and the dayes of the wepynge and mournynge for Moses were fulfilled And Iosua the sonne of Nun was filled with y e sprete of wyszdome for Moses had layed his hande vpon him and the children of Israel herkened vnto him and dyd as the LORDE commaunded Moses And there arose no prophet more in Israel like vnto Moses whom the LORDE knewe face to face in all tokens and wonders which the LORDE sent him to do in y e londe of Egipte vnto Pharao and to all his seruaūtes and his londe and in all this mightie hande and greate visions which Moses dyd in the sighte of all Israel The ende of the fifte boke of Moses called Deuteronomion The seconde parte of the olde Testament The boke of Iosua The boke of the Iudges The boke of Ruth The first boke of the Kynges The seconde boke of the Kynges The thirde boke of the Kynges The fourth boke of the kynges The first boke of the Cronicles The seconde boke of the Cronicles The first boke of Eszdras The seconde boke of Eszdras The boke of Hester The boke of Iosua What this boke conteyneth Chap. I. After the death of Moses God cōmaūdeth Iosua to get him vp and to go with the people ouer Iordane in to the londe of promes Chap. II. Two spyes are sent vnto Iericho and Rahab lodgeth them Chap. III. Iosua goeth forth with the people vnto Iordane The Leuites are ordeyned to go beforewith the Arke The one parte of Iordane stondeth styll the other renneth downe and the people go thorow it drye shodd Chap. IIII. Twolue stones doth Iosua cause to be taken out of Iordane and setteth them vp at Gilgall for a remembraunce Chap V. The kynges beyonde Iordane are afrayed The people in Gilgall are circumcysed They eate the Passeouer and vnleuended bred Chap. VI. How Iericho is wonne and taken Chap. VII The Israelites are put to flight before their enemies because one of thē had stollen of it that shulde haue bene damned and vtterly destroyed The trespacer is stoned vnto death Chap VIII The cite of Hai is wonne the people slayne the kynge taken alyue and hanged the cite brent Iosua buyldeth an altare vnto the LORDE The blessynges and curses are red Chap. IX The Heythen kynges prepare thē selues agaynst Israel The Gabaonites saue their lyues by crafte and suttyltie Chap. X. The Heythen laye sege to Gabaon but Iosua helpeth them and wynneth a greate felde commaundeth the Sonne
couenaunt with the â—â—dwellers of this londe but breake downe their altares Neuertheles ye haue not herkâ—â—ed vnto my voyce Wherfore haue ye done this Then saide I morouer I wil noâ— dryue them out before you that they mayâ— be a fall vnto you and their goddes a 〈◊〉 And whan y e messaunger of the LORDE had spoken these wordes vnto all the children of Israel the people lefte vp their voyce wepte and called y e name of the place Bochim and offred there vnto the LORDE For whan Iosua had sente awaye y e people and the childreÌ„ of Israel were gone euery one to his enheritauÌ„ce for to take possession of the londe the people serued the LORDE as longe as Iosua lyued and y e Elders which lyued longe after Iosua and y t sawe all the greate workes of the LORDE which he dyd for Israel Now whan Iosua the sonne of Nun the seruaunt of the LORDE was deed whan he was an huÌ„dreth and ten yeare olde they buried him in y e border of his inheritaunce at Timnath Here 's vpon mount Ephraim on the north syde of mount Gaas And whan all the same generacion was gathered vnto their fathers there came vp after them another generacion which knew not the LORDE ner the workes that he had done for Israel Then wroughte the children of Israel euell before the LORDE and serued Baalâ—m and forsoke y e LORDE the God of their fathers which broughte them out of the londe of Egipte and folowed other goddes the goddes of the nacions that dwelt rounde aboute them worshipped them displeased the LORDE for they forsoke y e LORDE euer more and more and serued Baal and Astaroth Then y e wrath of the LORDE waxed whote vpoÌ„ Israel he delyuered theÌ„ in to y e handes of those y t spoyled theÌ„ that they mighte spoyle them solde theÌ„ in to the handes of their enemies rouÌ„de aboute they were not able to withstonde their enemies eny more but what waye so euer they wolde out y e haÌ„de of the LORDE was agaynst theÌ„ to their hurte euen as the LORDE sayde and sware vnto them and they were sore oppressed Now whan the LORDE raysed them vp iudges which helped them out of the hande of soch as spoyled theÌ„ they folowed not the iudges nether but wente a whoringe after other goddes worshipped them and were soone gone out of y e waye y t their fathers walked in to heare the coÌ„maundementes of the LORDE dyd not as they dyd But whan y e LORDE raysed vp iudges vnto them the LORDE was with y e iudge and helped them out of the hande of their enemies as longe as the iudge lyued For the LORDE had pitie of their complaynte which they made ouer those y t subdued theÌ„ and oppressed them Neuertheles whan the iudge dyed they turned backe and marred all more theÌ„ their fathers so that they folowed other goddes to serue them and to bowe them selues vnto them they wolde not fall from their purposes ner from their obstinate waye Therfore waxed the wrath of the LORDE allwaie so whote ouer Israel that he sayde For so moch as the people haue transgressed my couenaunt which I commaunded their fathers folowe not my voyce I wil from hence forth dryue out none of the Heythen whoÌ„ Iosua lefte behynde him whaÌ„ he dyed that by them I maye proue Israel whether they wil kepe the waye of the LORDE to walke therin as their fathers dyd or not Thus the LORDE suffred all these nacions so that in a shorte tyme he droue them not out whom he had not geuen ouer in to Iosuas hande The III. Chapter THese are the nacions whom the LORDE suffred to remayne y t by them he mighte proue Israel which had no vnderstondinge in the warres of Canaan onely because y t the trybes of the childreÌ„ of Israel might knowe lerne to warre which afore had no knowlege therof namely The fyue lordes of y e Philistynes all the Cananites Sidonians the Hethites y t dwelt vpon mount Libanus fro mount Baal Hermon vntyll a man come vnto Hemath The same remayned that Israel mighte be proued by them that it mighte be knowne whether they wolde herken to the commaundementes of the LORDE which he commaunded their fathers by Moses Now whan the children of Israel dwelt thus amoÌ„ge the Cananites Hethites Amorites Pheresites Heuites Iebusites they toke their doughters to wyues gaue their doughters vnto their sonnes serued their goddes and wroughte wickednes before the LORDE forgat the LORDE their God serued Baalim Astaroth Then y e wrath of y e LORDE waxed whote ouer Israel he solde theÌ„ vnder the haÌ„de of Cusan Risathaim kynge of Mesopotamia so y e childreÌ„ of Israel serued Cusan Risathaim viij yeare TheÌ„ cried the childreÌ„ of Israel vnto the LORDE the LORDE raysed theÌ„ vp a sauio r which delyuered theÌ„ namely Athniel y e sonne of Kenas Calebs yongest brother And the sprete of the LORDE came vpon him he was iudge in Israel wente out a warre fare And y e LORDE delyuered Cusan Risathaim the kynge of Syria in to his haÌ„de so y t his hande was to stroÌ„ge for him Then was the londe in rest fortye yeares And Athniel the sonne of Kenas dyed But the children of Israel dyd yet more euell before the LORDE Then the LORDE strengthed Eglon the kynge of y e Moabites agaynst y e childreÌ„ of Israel because they wrought wickednesse before y e LORDE And he gathered vnto him y e childreÌ„ of Ammon the Amalechites weÌ„te and smote Israel and conquered the cite of the palme trees And the children of Israel serued Eglon y e kynge of y e Moabites eightene yeare TheÌ„ cried they vnto the LORDE And the LORDE raysed theÌ„ vp a sauioure namely Ehud the sonne of Gera y e sonne of Iemini which was a man that mighte do nothinge with his righte hande And whaÌ„ the childreÌ„ of Israel sent a present by him vnto Eglon the kynge of the Moabites Ehud made him a two edged dagger of a spanne longe gyrded it vnder his garmeÌ„t vpoÌ„ his righte thye broughte y e present vnto Eglon the kynge of y e Moabites As for Eglon he was a very fat man And whan he had delyuered the presente he let the people go that had caried the present and he himselfe turned backe from the Idols at Gilgall caused to saye thus vnto the kynge I haue a secrete thinge to tell the O kynge And he commaunded to kepe sylence all they that stode aboute him wente out from him And Ehud came in vnto him He sat in a syled Sommer perler which was for him selfe alone And Ehud saide I haue somwhat to saye vnto the of God TheÌ„ rose he vp froÌ„ his seate But Ehud put forth his lefte hande toke the dagger from his righte thye thrust
then they toke him slew him at y e ferye of Iordane so y t the same tyme there fell of Epraim two fortye M. Iephthae iudged Israel sixe yeares And Iephthae y e Gileadite dyed was buried in one of the cities of Gilead After him iudged ▪ Israel one Ebzan of Bethleem which had thirtie sonnes and as many doughters and his thirtie doughters gaue he forth to mariage and thirtie doughters toke he from without for his sonnes and iudged Israel seuen yeare and died and shulders loynes and wēte downe dwelt in the stone clyffe at Etam Then wente the Philistynes vp and layed sege vnto Iuda pitched at Lechi But they of Iuda sayde Wherfore are ye come vp against vs They answered we are come vp to bynde Samson y t we maye do vnto him as he hath done vnto vs. Then wēte there thre M. men of Iuda downe to the stone clyffe of Etam sayde vnto Samson Knowest thou not that the Philistynes raigne ouer vs Wherfore hast thou done this then vnto vs He sayde As they dyd vnto me so haue I done vnto thē agayne They sayde vnto him We are come downe to bynde the to delyuer y t into the hāde of the Philistynes Samson sayde vnto thē Then sweare promyse me y t ye wyll not slaye me They answered him We wyll not kyll the we wil but bynde the delyuer the in to their hande wyl not slaye ye. And they bounde him with two new coardes caried him from the stone And whan he came vnto Lechi the Philistynes shouted and rāne vnto him But y e sprete of y e LORDE came vpon him the coardes aboute his armes were like thredes burnt in the fyre so y t the bondes were lowsed from his hondes And he founde the cheke bone of a deed asse then put he forth his hande and toke it slewe a thousande men therwith And Samson sayde With an olde asses cheke bone yee euē with the cheke bone of an asse haue I slayne a thousande men And whan he had sayde y t he cast y e cheke bone out of his hande called the place Ramath Lechi But whā he was sore a thyrst he called vpō the LORDE saide Soch greate health hast thou geuē by the hāde of thy seruaunt but now must I dye a thyrst fall in to y e hande of y e vncircūcised Thē God opened a gome tothe in y e cheke bone so y t water wēte out whan he dranke his sprete came agayne he was refreszshed Therfore vnto this daye it is yet called y e well of y e cheke bone of him y t made intercession And he iudged Israel in the tyme of the Philistynes twētye yeare The XVI Chapter SAmson wente vnto Gasa there he sawe an harlot laye with her Thē was it saide vnto the Gasites Samson is come hither And they compased him aboute caused to laye wayte for him preuely watched all the nighte in the gate of y e cite all that nighte they helde them styll sayde Abyde tomorow whan it is lighte we wyll slaye him But Samson laye vnto mydnighte then rose he at mydnighte toke holde on both y e syde portes of y e gate of the cite w t both the postes lifte them out with the barres layed them vpon his shulders bare them vp to y e toppe of y e mount ouer agaynst Hebron After this he fell in to the loue of a woman by y e broke of Sorek whose name was Dalila vnto whom the prynces of the Philistynes came vp and sayde vnto her Persuade him and loke wherin he hath soch greate strēgth how we maye ouercome him y t we mighte bynde him subdue him so wyll we geuethe euery man a M. and an C. syluerlinges And Dalila sayde vnto Samson I praye the tell me wherin thy greate strēgth is how thou mightest be bounde to be subdued Samson sayde vnto her Yf I were bounde with seuē roapes of fresh senowes which are not yet dryed vp I shulde be weake and as another man Thē the prynces of the Philistynes broughte vp vnto her seuen new roapes which were not yet dryed vp And she bounde him therwith But there was wayte layed for him besyde her in the chamber and she sayde vnto him The Pilistynes vpon the Samson Neuertheles he brake the roapes in sunder euē as a twyned threde breaketh whan it hath catched the heate of the fyre And it was not knowne wherin his strength was Then sayde Dalila vnto Samson beholde thou hast begyled me dyssembled with me tell me yet wherwithall mayest thou be bounde He answered her Yf they bounde me with new coardes wherwith no labo r hath bene done I shulde be feble as another man Then toke Dalila new coardes bounde him withall and sayde The Philistynes vpō the Samson but there was wayte layed for him in the chamber And he brake them from his armes euen as it had bene a threde Dalila sayde vnto him Yet hast thou begyled me dessembled w t me O tell me yet wherwithall mightest thou be bounde He answered her Yf thou playtest seuē hayri◠lockes of my heade together in a fyllet and fastenest them in with a nayle I shulde be weake And she saide vnto him The Philistynes vpō the Samson But he awaked out of his slepe drue out y e playted hayrie lockes with the nale and the fyllet Thē sayde she vnto him How cāst thou saye y t thou louest me where as thine hert is not yet with me Thre tymes hast thou disceaued me and not tolde me wherin thy greate strength is So whan she was euery daye importune vpon him w t her wordes wolde not let him haue rest his soule was faynte euen vnto the death he shewed her his whole hert sayde vnto her There came neuer rasoure vpon my heade for I am a Nazaree of God fro my mothers wombe Yf I were shauen my strength shulde departe fro me so that I shulde be weake and as all other men Now whan Dalila sawe that he had opened all his hert vnto her ▪ she sent called for the prynces of the Philistynes sayde Come yet once vp for he hath opened his whole hert vnto me Thē came the prynces of the Philistynes vp vnto her broughte the money w t them in their handes And she made him to slepe vpon hir lappe called one which shoue of the seuē hayrie lockes of his heade And she beganne to vexe him Thē was his strength departed frō him And she sayde vnto him The Philistynes vpon the Samson Now whā he awoke out of his slepe he thoughte I wil go forth as I haue done afore tyme ease my selfe knewe not y t the LORDE was departed from him But the Philistynes toke him put out his eyes and broughte him downe to Gasa bounde him w
vncle He tolde vs y t the asses were foūde But of y e kyngdome he tolde him nothinge what Samuel had sayde Samuel called the people together vnto the LORDE to Mispa and spake vnto the children of Israel Thus saieth y e LORDE the God of Israel I broughte Israel out of Egipte and delyuered you from the hande of y e Egipcians and from the hande of all the kyngdomes that oppressed you But now haue ye refused yo r God which hath helped you out of all youre sorowes and troubles ye haue saide vnto him Set a kinge ouer v◠Well stonde ye now before y e LORDE acordinge to youre trybes and kynreds Now whan Samuel had brought forth all the trybes of Israel the trybe of Ben Iamin was taken And whan he had broughte forth the trybe of Ben Iamin with his kynreds the kynred of Matri was takē Saul the sonne of Cis was takē And they sought him but they founde him not Then axed they further at the LORDE whether he was for to come thither The LORDE answered Beholde he hath hyd him selfe amonge y e vessels Then ranne they thither and fetched him And whan he stode amonge the people he was hygher by the heade then all the people And Samuel sayde vnto all the people There se ye him whom the LORDE hath chosen for in all the people there is none like him Then gaue all the people a shoute and sayde God saue the new kynge Samuel tolde the people all the lawe of the kyngdome and wrote it in a boke and layed it before the LORDE And Samuel let all the people go euery one to his awne house And Saul wente home also vnto Gibea and there wente with him one parte of the hoost whose hertes God had touched But the childrē of Belial sayde What shal this felowe helpe vs and despysed him broughte him no presente But he made him as though he herde it no◠The XI Chapter NAhas y e Ammonite wēte vp layed sege vnto Iabes in Gilead And all the men of Iabes sayde vnto Nahas Be at one with vs we wyll serue the. But Nahas y e Ammonite answered them I wil make a couenaunt with you of this condicion that I maye thrust out all youre right eyes and put you to shame amonge all Israel Then sayde all the Elders of Iabes vnto him Geue vs seuen dayes respyte that we maye sende messaungers into all y e coastes of Israel Yf there be then no sauioure we wyl go forth vnto the. So the messaungers came vnto Gibea of Saul and spake this before the eares of the people Then all y e people lifte vp their voyce and wepte And beholde Saul came after the oxen out of the felde and sayde What ayleth the people that they wepe So they tolde him the earande of the men of Iabes Then came the sprete of God vpon him whan he had herde these wordes and his wrath was sore moued and he toke a couple of oxen and hewed them in sunder and sent them in to all the coastes of Israel by the messaungers sayenge Who so euer goeth not forth after Saul and Samuel his oxen shal be thus dealte withall Then fell the feare of the LORDE vpon the people so that they wente forth like as one man and they were tolde at Basek and of the childrē of Israel there were thre hundreth thousande men and thirtie thousande of the children of Iuda And they spake vnto the messaungers that were come Saye thus to the men of Iabes in Gilead Tomorow shal ye haue helpe whan y e Sonne is at the whotest Whan y e messaungers came and tolde this to the men of Iabes they were glad And the men of Iabes sayde Tomorow wyll we come forth vnto you that ye maye do vnto vs what so euer it pleaseth you And on y e nexte morow Saul set the people in thre partes and came into the hoost aboute the mornynge watch and smote the Ammonites tyll the daye was at the whotest As for those y t remayned they were so scatred that two of them abode not together Then sayde the people vnto Samuel Where are they that sayde Shulde Saul raigne ouer vs Delyuer vs here the men that we maye put them to death But Saul sayde There shal noman dye this daye for to daye hath the LORDE geuen health in Israel Samuel sayde vnto the people Come let vs go vnto Gilgall and renue the kyngdome there Then wente all the people vnto Gilgall and there they made Saul kinge before the LORDE at Gilgal and offred deed offeringes before the LORDE And Saul with all the men of Israel reioysed there greatly The XII Chapter SAmuel sayde vnto all Israel Beholde I haue herkened vnto youre voyce in all that ye sayde vnto me and haue made a kynge ouer you And now lo there goeth youre kynge before you As for me I am waxen olde and graye heered and my sonnes are with you and I haue gone before you fro my youth vp vnto this daye Beholde here am I ▪ answere ye agaynst me before the RORDE and his anoynted yf I haue taken eny mans oxe or asse yf I haue done eny man violence or wronge If I haue oppressed eny mā yf I haue receaued a gifte of eny mans hande and kepte it secretly I wil restore it you agayne They saide ▪ Thou hast done vs nether violence ner wronge nether oppressed ner taken ought of eny mans hande He sayde The LORDE be witnesse agaynst you and so be his anoynted this daye that ye haue founde nothinge in my hāde They saide Yee they shal be witnesses And Samuel sayde vnto the people The LORDE which made Moses and Aaron and broughte youre fathers out of the londe of Egipte is here present Stōde forth now therfore that I maye iudge you before the LORDE ouer the righteousnes of the LORDE which he hath done for you and youre fathers Whan Iacob was come in to Egipte youre fathers cryed vnto the LORDE And he sent Moses and Aaron to brynge youre fathers out of Egipte and to cause them for to dwell in this place But whan they forgat the LORDE their God he solde them vnder the power of Sissera the captayne at Hazor and vnder the power of the Philistynes and vnder the power of the kinge of the Moabites which foughte agaynst them But they cried vnto the LORDE and sayde We haue synned in that we haue forsaken the LORDE and serued Baalim and Astaroth But now deliuer vs from the hande of oure enemies and we wyl serue the. Then the LORDE sent Ierubaal Bedan Iephthae and Samuel delyuered you from youre enemies rounde aboute and caused you to dwell safe But whan ye sawe that Nahas the kynge of the children of Ammon came agaynst you ye sayde vnto me Not thou but a kynge shal raigne ouer vs where as notwithstōdinge youre God was youre kynge
mayest anoynte me him whom I shall shewe the. Samuel dyd as the LORDE sayde and came to Bethleem Then were the Elders of the cite astonnyed and wente forth to mete him and sayde Is thy commynge peaceable He sayde Yee I am come to do sacrifice vnto the LORDE Sanctifye youre selues come with me to the sacrifice And he sanctified Isai and his sonnes and called them to the sacrifice Now whaÌ„ they came in he behelde Eliab thoughte whether he shulde be his anoynted before the LORDE But y e LORDE sayde vnto Samuel loke not vpon his countenaunce ner vpon the tallnesse of his person For I iudge not after the sighte of man A man hath respecte vnto the thinge that is before his eyes but the LORDE loketh vpon the hert Then Isai called Abinadab broughte him before Samuel And he sayde This hath not the LORDE chosen Then Isai broughte Samma But he sayde This also hath not the LORDE chosen Then broughte Isai his seuen sonnes before Samuel Neuertheles Samuel saide vnto Isai The LORDE hath chosen none of these And Samuel sayde vnto Isai Are here all the childreÌ„ He sayde There is yet one y t leest of all and beholde he kepeth the shepe TheÌ„ sayde Samuel vnto Isai Sende cause him to be fetched for we will not syt downe at the table vntyll he come Then sent he caused him be broughte And he was well coloured w t fayre eyes of a beutyfull countenaunce And the LORDE saide Aryse and anoynte him that is he TheÌ„ toke Samuel his oyle hoâ—e anoynted him amonge his brethreÌ„ And the sprete of the LORDE came vpoÌ„ Dauid froÌ„ y e daye forth As for Samuel he gat him vp wente vnto Ramath But the sprete of the LORDE departed from Saul and an euell sprete from y e LORDE vexed him Then sayde Sauls seruauntes vnto him Beholde an euell sprete from God vexeth the. Let oure lorde saie vnto his seruauntes which stonde before him y t they seke a man which can playe vpon the harpe and instrumente that whan the euell sprete of God coÌ„meth vpon the he maye playe w t his hande to ease the withall Then sayde Saul vnto his seruauÌ„tes Prouyde me a maÌ„ that can playe well vpon the instrumente brynge him vnto me Then answered one of the children sayde Beholde I sawe a sonne of Isai y e Bethleemite which can playe vpon the instrumeÌ„te an honest valeauÌ„t man and one y t hath vnderstoÌ„dinge in matters is welfauoured TheÌ„ Saul sent messaungers vnto Isai sayeÌ„ge Sende me Dauid y e sonne which is with the shepe Then toke Isai an asse w t bred a bottell w t wyne and a kyd and sent it vnto Saul by Dauid his sonne So Dauid came to Saul stode before him he loued him well and he became his wapen bearer And Saul sente vnto Isai sayeÌ„ge Let Dauid remayne before me for he hath founde fauo r in my sighte Now whan the sprete of God came vpoÌ„ Saul Dauid toke y e harpe played w t his hande so was Saul refreszshed eased the euell sprete departed from him The XVII Chapter THe Philistynes gathered their hoost to y e battayl and came together to Socho in Iuda pitched their tentes betwene Socho Aseka at the ende of Damin But Saul the meÌ„ of Israel came together pitched in the Oke valley prepared them selues to the battayll agaynst the Philistynes And the Philistynes stode vpon a hyll on the one syde and the Israelites vpon a hyll on the other syde so that there was a valley betwene them Then stepte there forth from amoÌ„ge the Philistynes a stoute bolde man named Goliath of Gath sixe cubites and an hande breth hye and had an helmet of stele on his heade and a fast habergion vpon him and the weight of his habergion was fyue thousande Sicles of stele and harnesse of stele had he vpon his legges and a shylde of stele vpon his shulders and the shaft of his speare was like a weuers lome and the yron of his speare had sixe hundreth Sicles of yron and his wapen bearer wente before him And he stode and called vnto the hoost of Israel and sayde vnto them Wherfore are ye come forth to prepare youre selues to the battayll Am not I a Philistyne and ye the seruauntes of Saul Chose one amonge you to come downe vnto me yf he can fighte agaynst me and slaye me then wil we be youre seruauntes but yf I can ouercome him and slaye him then shal ye be oure seruauntes to do vs seruyce And the Philistyne sayde I haue spokeÌ„ diszdanedly vnto the hoost of Israel this daye Geue me one and let vâ— fighte together Whan Saul and all Israel herde these wordes of y e Philistyne they were astonnyed and sore afrayed But Dauid was the sonne of a man of Ephrata of Bethleem Iuda whose name was Isai which had eight sonnes and was an olde man in Sauls tyme and was well strycken in age amonge men And the thre eldest sonnes of Isai were gone with Saul to the battayll And there names were these Eliab the first borne Abinadab the seconde and Samma the thirde But Dauid was the yongest of all So whan the thre eldest were gone with Saul to the battayll Dauid wente agayne from Saul to kepe his fathers shepe at Bethleem But the Philistyne stepte forâ—h early in the mornynge and at euen and stode there fortye dayes Isai sayde vnto Dauid his sonne Take this Epha of firmentye for thy brethren and these ten loaues of bred and runne to the hoost vnto thy brethren these ten new cheses and brynge them to y e captayne and loke how thy brethren do whether it go well with them or no and take what they byd the. But Saul and they and all the men of Israel were in the Oke valley and foughte agaynst the Philistynes Then Dauid gat him vp early in the mornynge and commytted the shepe to y e keper and toke his burthen wente his waye as Isai commaunded him and came to the teÌ„t And the hoost was gone forth and had prepared them selues and cried in the battayl For Israel had set them selues in araye and the Philistynes were agaynst their hoost in their araye also Then lefte Dauid the vessell that he bare with the keper of the stuffe and ranne to the hoost and wente in and saluted his brethren And whyle he was yet talkynge with them beholde then came vp the stoute bolde man whose name was Goliath the Philistine of Gath out of the Philistynes hoost and spake like as afore and Dauid herde it But euery man of Israel whan he sawe the man fled from him and was sore afrayed of him And euery man in Israel sayde Haue ye sene the man commynge vp hither For he is come vp hither to speake diszdanedly vnto Israel And who so euer smyteth him him wyll the kynge make ryche and geue him his doughter
Smoke wente vp from his nose and consumynge fyre out of his mouth coles were kyndled therof He bowed the heauens and came downe and it was darke vnder his fete He sat vpon Cherub and dyd flye and appeared vpon the fethers of the wynde He made darknes his pauylion rounde aboute him thicke water in the cloudes of y e ayre At the brightnesse of him were the fyre coles kyndled The LORDE thondered from heaueÌ„ and the Hyest put forth his voyce He shot his arowes and scatered them he lightened and discomfited them The pourynges out of the See were sene and the foundacions of the earth were discouered at the chydinge of the LORDE at the breth of the sprete of his wrath He sent downe from aboue and receaued me and drue me out of many waters He delyuered me fro my stronge enemye from them that hated me for they were to mightie for me They ouertoke me in the tyme of my trouble but the LORDE was my succoure He broughte me forth in to liberty he delyuered me because he had a fauoure vnto me The LORDE shal rewarde me after my righteousnes and acordinge to the clennes of my handes shal he recompence me For I haue kepte y e waye of the LORDE haue not bene vngodly agaynst my God For I haue an eye vnto all his lawes and haue not put his ordinaunces fro me Therfore wil I be perfecte vnto him and wyl eshue myne awne wickednes So shal y e LORDE rewarde me after my righteousnes acordinge to the cleÌ„nes of my handes in his eye sighte With the holy shalt thou be holy and w t the perfecte thou shalt be perfecte With the cleane thou shalt be cleane and with the frowarde thou shalt be frowarde For thou shalt saue the poore oppressed people and shalt set thine eyes agaynst the proude to brynge them downe For thou O LORDE art my lanterne The LORDE shal lighte my darknesse For in y e I shal discoÌ„fite an hoost of men in my God I shal leape ouer the wall The waye of God is perfecte y e wordes of the LORDE are tryed in the fyre he is a shylde for all theÌ„ that put their trust in him For where is there a God excepte y e LORDE Or who hath eny strength without oure God God hath streÌ„gthed me with power and made playne a perfecte waye for me He hath made my fete like hartes fete hath set me vp an hye He teacheth my handes to fighte and bendeth the stele bowe with myne armes And thou hast geuen me the shylde of y e health and with y e louynge correccion shalt thou multiplye me Thou hast enlarged my goinge vnder me and myne ankles haue not slyded I wyl folowe vpon myne enemies and destroye theÌ„ and wyl not turne backe agayne tyll I haue broughte them to naught I wil coÌ„sume them and thrust them thorow that they come not vp they shal fall vnder my fete Thou hast girded me with strength to y e battayll and hast subdued them vnder me y t rose vp agaynst me Thou hast made myne enemies to turne their backes vpoÌ„ me that I might destroye them that hate me They shal crye but there shal be no Sauioure yee euen vnto the LORDE but he answereth them not I wil beate them as small as the dust of the earth euen as y e claye of the stretes wil I make them thynne and sprede them out abrode But me shalt thou delyuer from the stryuynges of the people and shalt kepe me to be y e heade of the Heythen A people whom I haue not knowne â–ª shal serue me The straunge children haue denyed me at the hearynge of the eare shal they herkeÌ„ vnto me The straunge children are waxen olde are shut vp in their presons The LORDE lyueth and blessed be my God and magnified be the strength of my health God seyth that I be auenged and subdueth the people vnto me He bryngeth me out fro myne enemies from them y t ryse vp agaynst me shalt thou exalte me and from y e cruell man shalt thou delyuer me For this cause wyl I geue thankes vnto the amonge the Heythen and synge prayses vnto thy name Which doth greate health for his kynge sheweth mercy vnto Dauid his anoynted and to his sede for euermore The XXIII Chapter THese are the last wordes of Dauid Dauid the sonne of Isai sayde The man that was set vp to be y e anoynted of the God of Iacob a pleasaunt dyter of songes of Israel sayde The sprete of the LORDE hath spoken by me and the vtteraunce therof is done thorow my tunge He sayde The God of Israel hath spokeÌ„ vnto me the strength of Israel the gouernoure amonge men the righteous gouernoure in the feare of God As the lighte is in y e mornynge whan the Sonne aryseth so that for the brightnesse therof no cloude remayneth and as the grasse loketh vpon the earth thorow the rayne euen so shal my house be with God For he hath made an euerlastinge couenaunt with me well appoynted on euery syde and sure For this is all my health pleasure that it shal growe But the Belial shal be vtterly cleane roted out as the thornes which meÌ„ take not in their haÌ„des And they y t touch them shal destroye them w t yrons speares in the fyre shal they be brent that they maye be broughte to naught These are the names of Dauids Worthies Iasabeam y e sonne of Hachmoni the chefest amonge thre which lifte vp his speare slewe eight hundreth at one tyme. After him was Eleasar the sonne of Dodi the sonne of Ahohi amonge the thre Worthies with Dauid whan they spake despytefully to the Philistynes and were gathered together to the battayll and the men of Israel wente vp Then stode he vp and smote the Philistynes tyll his hande was so weery that it crompâ—ed with the swerde And the LORDE gaue a greate victory at the same tyme so that the people turned after him to spoyle After him was Samma the sonne of Age y e Hararite WhaÌ„ the Philistynes had gathered themselues in a company and in the same place there was a pece of loÌ„de full of small corne and the people fled before the Philistynes theÌ„ stode he in the myddes of y e pece of londe â–ª delyuered it smote y e Philistynes And God gaue a greate victory And these thre pryncipall amonge thirtie came downe in the haruest vnto Dauid in to the caue of Adullam the hoost of y e Philistynes laye in y e valley of Rephaim But Dauid was at the same tyme in the castell and y e Philistynes people laye at Bethleem And Dauid was desyrous and sayde Wolde God y t some man wolde fetch me a drynke of water out of the well at Bethleem vnder the gate TheÌ„ brake the thre Worthies in to the hoost of the Philistynes and drue of the water out of the well
the Iesraelite which he denyed to geue the for money for Naboth lyueth no more but is deed And whan Achab herde y e Naboth was deed he rose to go downe vn-the vyniarde of Naboth the Iesraelite and to take possession of it But the worde of the LORDE came to Elias the Theszbite and sayde Get the vp and go downe to mete Achab the kynge of Israel which is at Samaria beholde he is in Naboths vynyarde in to the which he is gone downe to take possession of it and talke thou with him and speake Thus sayeth the LORDE Thou hast slayne and taken in possession And thou shalt talke morouer vnto him and saye Thus sayeth the LORDE Euen in the place where the dogges licked vp Naboths bloude shall the dogges licke thy bloude also And Achab sayde vnto Elias Hast thou euer founde me thine enemye He saide Yee I haue founde the because thou art euen solde to do euell in the sighte of the LORDE Beholde I wyll brynge mysfortune vpon the and take awaye thy posterite and wil rote out from Achab euen him that maketh water agaynst the wall and him that is shut vp and lefte behynde in Israel and thy house wyll I make as the house of Ieroboam y e sonne of Nebat and as the house of Baesa the sonne of Ahia because of y e prouocacion wherwhith thou hast prouoked me vnto wrath and made Israel to synne And ouer Iesabel spake the LORDE also and sayde The dogges shal deuoure Iesabel in y e felde of Iesrael Who so of Achab dyeth in y e cite him shal the dogges eate vp and who so dyeth in the felde the foules vnder the heauen shall eate him vp So cleane solde to do myschefe in y e sighte of the LORDE hath no man bene as Achab for his Iesabel hath so disceaued him and he maketh him selfe a greate abhominacion that he goeth after Idols acordīge vnto all as dyd the Amorites whom the LORDE expelled before the children of Israel But whan Achab herde these wordes he rēte his clothes put a sack cloth on his body fasted and slepte in sack cloth and wente aboute hanginge downe his heade And the worde of the LORDE came to Elias the Theszbite sayde Hast thou not sene how Achab humbleth him selfe before me For so moch now as he hūbleth him selfe in my sighte I wil not brynge that plage whyle he lyueth but by his sonnes life wil I brynge mysfortune vpon his house The XXII Chapter ANd there passed ouer thre yeares that there was no warre betwene the Sirians Israel But in the thirde yeare wente Iosaphat the kynge of Iuda downe to the kynge of Israel And the kynge of Israel sayde vnto his seruauntes Knowe ye not y t Ramoth in Gilead is oures and we syt styll and take it not out of the hande of the kynge of Syria And he sayde vnto Iosaphat Wilt thou go with me to the battaill vnto Ramoth in Gilead Iosaphat sayde vnto the kynge of Israel I wyll be as thou my people as thy people and my horses as thy horses And Iosaphat sayde vnto y e kynge of Israel Axe this daye at the worde of the LORDE Then the kynge of Israel gathered the prophetes aboute a foure hundreth men and sayde vnto them Shal I go vnto Ramoth in Gilead to fighte or shal I let it alone They sayde Go vp y e LORDE shal delyuer it in to y e kinges hande But Iosaphat sayde Is there not one prophet here more of y e LORDE that we maye axe at him The kinge of Israel saide vnto Iosaphat Here is yet a man one Micheas the sonne of Iemla at whom we maye axe of the LORDE but I hate him for he prophecieth me no good but euell Iosaphat sayde Let not the kynge saye so Then called the kynge of Israel a chamberlayne and sayde Brynge hither soone Micheas the sonne of Iemla As for the kynge of Israel and Iosaphat y e kinge of Iuda they sat ether of them vpon his seate arayed in their garmentes in the place at y e dore of the porte of Samaria and all y e prophetes prophecied before thē And Sedechias the sonne of Cnaena had made him hornes of yron and sayde Thus sayeth the LORDE With these shalt thou puszshe at y e Syrians tyll thou brynge them to naughte And all the prophetes prophecied likewyse and sayde Go vp vnto Ramoth in Gilead thou shalt prospere right well the LORDE shal delyuer it in to the kynges hande And the messaunger that wente to call Micheas sayde vnto him Beholde The wordes of y e prophetes are with one acorde good before the kynge let thy worde therfore be as their worde and speake thou good also Micheas sayde As truly as the LORDE liueth loke what the LORDE sayeth vnto me y t wyl I speake And whan he came to the kynge the kynge sayde vnto him Micheas shal we go vnto Ramoth in Gilead to fight or shall we let it alone He sayde vnto him Yee go vp thou shalt prospere righte well the LORDE shall geue it in to the kynges hande But the kynge sayde vnto him agayne I charge y t that thou saye no other thinge vnto me but the trueth in the name of y e LORDE He sayde I sawe all Israel scatred abrode vpon the mountaynes as the shepe that haue no shepherde And the LORDE saide Haue these no lorde Let euery one turne home agayne in peace Then sayde y e kinge of Israel vnto Iosaphat Tolde not I y e that he wolde prophecye me no good but euell He sayde Heare now therfore the worde of the LORDE I sawe the LORDE syt vpon his seate and all the hoost of heauen stōdinge by him at his righte hande at his lefte And the LORDE saide Who wil disceaue Achab to go vp fall at Ramoth in Gilead And one sayde this another that Then wēte there forth a sprete stode before the LORDE and sayde I wyl disceaue him The LORDE sayde vnto him Wherwith He sayde vnto him I wyll go forth and be a false sprete in the mouth of all his prophetes He saide Thou shalt disceaue him and shalt be able go forth and do so Beholde now the LORDE hath geuē a false sprete in y e mouth of all these y e prophetes and the LORDE hath spoken euell ouer the. Then stepte forth Sedechias the sonne of Cnaena and smote Micheas vpon the cheke and sayde What is the sprete of the LORDE departed fro me to speake with the Micheas sayde Beholde thou shalt se it in y t daye whan thou shalt go frō one chamber to another to hyde the. The kynge of Israel sayde Take Micheas and let him remayne with Amon the ruler of the cite and with Ioas the kynges sonne and saye Thus sayeth the kynge Put this man in preson and fede him with bred and water of trouble tyll I come agayne in peace Micheas sayde Yf
y e LORDE but I hate him for he prophecieth me no good but allwaye euell namely Micheas the sonne of Iemla Iosaphat sayde Let not the kynge saye so And the kynge of Israel called one of his chamberlaynes sayde Brynge hither soone Micheas the sonne of Iemla And the kynge of Israel and Iosaphat the kynge of Iuda sat either of them vpon his seate arayed in their garmentes Euen in the place at the dore of the porte of Samaria sat they and all y e prophetes prophecied before them And Sedechias the sonne of Cnaena had made him hornes of yron and sayde Thus sayeth the LORDE With these shalt thou puszshe at the Syrians tyll thou brynge them to naughte And all the prophetes prophecied likewyse sayde Go vp vnto Ramoth in Gilead and thou shalt prospere and y e LORDE shal delyuer it in to the kynges hande And the messaunger that wente to call Micheas spake vnto him and sayde Beholde y e wordes of the prophetes are with one acorde good before the kynge let thy worde I praye the be as one of theirs and speake thou good also But Micheas sayde As truly as the LORDE lyueth loke what my God sayeth vnto me y t wyl I speake And whan he came to the kynge the kynge sayde vnto him Micheas shulde we go vnto Ramoth in Gilead to the battayll or shulde we let it alone He saide Go vp and ye shal prospere It shal be geuē you in youre handes But y e kynge sayde vnto him I charge y e yet agayne that thou tell me nothinge but y e trueth in the name of the LORDE Then saide he I sawe all Israel scatered abrode vpō the mountaynes as the shepe y t haue no shepherde And the LORDE sayde Haue these no lorde Let euery one turne home agayne in peace Thē sayde the kynge of Israel vnto Iosaphat Dyd not I tell the y t he wolde prophecie me no good but euell And he sayde Therfore heare ye the worde of the LORDE I sawe the LORDE syt vpon his seate and all the hoost of heauen stondinge at his righte hande at his lefte And the LORDE sayde Wo wyll disceaue Achab the kynge of Israel that he maye go vp fall at Ramoth in Gilead And whan one sayde thus another so there came forth a sprete and stode before y e LORDE and sayde I wyl disceaue him The LORDE sayde vnto him Wherwith He sayde I wyll go forth and be a false sprete in the mouth of all his prophetes And he sayde Thou shalt disceaue him and shalt be able go thy waye and do so Beholde now the LORDE hath geuen a false sprete in the mouth of all these thy prophetes and the LORDE hath spokē euell agaynst the. Then stepte forth Sedechias the sonne of Cnaena and smote Micheas vpon the cheke and sayde Which waye is the sprete of y e LORDE departed fro me to speake thorow the Micheas sayde Beholde thou shalt se it whan thou commest in to y e ynmost chamber to hyde the. But the kynge of Israel sayde Take Micheas and let him remayne w t Amon the ruler of the cite and with Ioas the sonne of Melech and saye Thus sayeth the kynge Put this man in preson and fede him w t bred and water of trouble tyll I come agayne in peace Micheas saide Yf thou commest agayne in peace then hath not the LORDE spoken thorow me And he sayde Herken to all ye people So the kynge of Israel and Iosaphat y e kynge of Iuda wente vp vnto Ramoth in Gilead And y e kynge of Israel sayde vnto Iosaphat Chaunge thy clothes and come to the battayll in thine araye And y e kynge of Israel chaunged his rayment came in to the battayll But the kynge of Syria had commaunded the rulers of his charettes Ye shal fighte nether agaynst small ner greate but onely agaynst the kynge of Israel Now whan the rulers of the charrettes sawe Iosaphat they thoughte It is y e kynge of Israel and they wēte aboute to fighte agaynst him But Iosaphat cryed and the LORDE helped him And God turned them from him for whan the rulers of the charettes sawe that it was not y e kynge of Israel they turned back from him But a certayne man bended his bowe harde shot the kynge of Israel betwene the mawe and the longes Thē sayde he vnto his charet man Turne thine hāde and cary me out of the hoost for I am wounded And the battayll was sore the same daye And the kynge of Israel stode vpon his charet agaynst the Syrians vntyll the euenynge and dyed whā the Sonne wente downe The XIX Chapter BVt Iosaphat the kynge of Iuda came home agayne in peace vnto Ierusalem And Iehu y e sonne of Hanani the Seer wēte forth to mete him sayde vnto kynge Iosaphat Shuldest thou so helpe the vngodly and loue them that hate the LORDE And for this cause is y e wrath vpō the from the LORDE neuertheles there is some good founde in the that thou hast put the groues out of the londe and hast prepared thine hert to seke God So Iosaphat abode at Ierusalem And he wente agayne amonge the people from Berseba vnto moūt Ephraim and broughte them agayne to the LORDE God of their fathers And he set Iudges thorow out the londe in all the stronge cities of Iuda and a certayne in euery cite And sayde vnto the Iudges Take hede what ye do for ye execute not the iudgment of man but of the LORDE and he is with you in iudgmēt therfore let the feare of the LORDE be with you and bewarre and do it for with the LORDE oure God there is no vnrighteousnes ner respecte of personnes ner acceptinge of giftes And at Ierusalem dyd Iosaphat ordeyne certayne of the Leuites and prestes and of the awnciēt fathers of Israel for y e iudgment of the LORDE and ouer the matter of the lawe and caused them to dwell at Ierusalem and commaunded them and sayde Se that ye do thus in the feare of the LORDE in faithfulnes in a perfect hert In all causes that come vnto you from youre brethren which dwell in their cities betwene bloude and bloude betwene lawe and commaundement betwene statutes and ordinaunces ye shal enforme them y t they synne not against the LORDE and so the wrath to come vpon you and youre brethren Do thus and ye shal not offende Beholde Amaria the prest is chefe ouer you in all causes of y e LORDE so is Sabadia the sonne of Ismael prynce in the house of Iuda in all the kynges matters Ye haue officers likewyse the Leuites before you Take a good corage vnto you and be doynge and the LORDE shal be with the good The XX. Chapter AFter this came the childrē of Moab the children of Ammon and certayne of Amanim w t them to fighte against Iosaphat And they came and tolde Iosaphat and sayde There cōmeth a greate multitude agaynst the
me Herken vnto me o Iacob Israel whō I haue called I am euen he that is I am y e first and the last My honde is the foundacion of the earth my right honde spanneth ouer the heauens As soone as I called thē they were there Gather you all together ād herken Which of yonder goddes hath declared this that the LORDE wil do by the kinge of Babilon whom he loueth fauoureth and by the Caldees his arme ▪ I my self alone haue tolde you this before Yee I shal call him and bringe him forth geue him a prosperous iourneye Come nye heare this haue I spokē eny thīge darckly sence the begynnynge whē a thīge begynneth I am there Wherfore the LORDE God with his sprete hath sent me And thus saieth the LORDE thine avenger the holyone of Israel I am y e LORDE thy God which teach the profitable thinges and lede y e the waye that thou shuldest go Yf thou wilt now regarde my cōmaundement thy welthynes shal be as the water streame thy rightuousnes as the wawes flowinge in the see Thysede shal be like as the sonde in the see the frute of thy body like the grauel stones therof Thy name shal not be roted out nor destroyed before me Ye shal go awaye from Babilon and escape the Caldees with a mery voyce This shal be spoken of declared abrode go forth vnto the ende of the worlde so that it shal be sayde The LORDE hath defended his seruaunte Iacob that they suffred no thurste whē they trauayled in the wildernesse He claue the rockes a sonder and the water gusshed out As for the vngodly they haue no peace saieth the LORDE MESSIAS The xlix Chapter HErken vnto me ye Iles and take hede ye people from farre The LORDE hath called me fro my byrth and made mēcion of my name fro my mothers wōbe he hath made my mouth like a sharpe swerde vnder y e shadowe of his honde hath he defended me and hyd me in his quyuer as a good arowe and sayde vnto me Thou art my seruaunt Israel I wil be honoured in the. Then answerde I I shal lese my laboure I shal spende my strength in vayne Neuertheles I wil commytte my cause and my worke vnto the LORDE my God And now saieth the LORDE euē he that fashioned me fro my mothers wombe to be his seruaūte that I maye bringe Iacob agayne vnto him howbeit Israel will not be gathered vnto hī agayne In whose sight I am greate which also is my LORDE my God and my strēgth Let it be but a smal thinge that thou art my seruaunt to set vp the kinreddes of Iacob to restore the destructiō of Israel yf I make the not also the light of the Gentiles that thou mayest be my health vnto the ende of the worlde Morouer thus saieth the LORDE the avēger and holy one of Israel because of the abhorringe and despisinge amonge the Gentiles concernynge the seruaunt of all them y t beare rule Kynges and prynces shal se and arise and worshipe because of the LORDE that he is faithfull and because of the holy one of Israel which hath chosen the. And thus saieth the LORDE In the tyme apoynted wil I be present with the. And in the houre of health wil I helpe the delyuer the. I wil make the a pledge for y e people so y t thou shalt helpe vp the earth agayne and chalenge agayne the scatred heretages That thou mayest saye to y e presoners go forth to them that are in darknesse come in to the light that they maye fede in the hie wayes get their lyuynge in all places There shal nether hunger ner thirste heate nor Sonne hurte them For he that fauoureth them shal lede them and geue them drīke of the springe welles I will make wayes vpon all my mountaynes and my fote pathes shal be exalted And beholde they shal come from farre lo seme from the north and west some from the south Reioyse ye heauens and synge prayses thou earth Talke of ioye ye hilles for God wil cōforte his people haue mercy vpon his y t be in trouble Then shal Sion saye God hath forsaken me and the LORDE hath forgottē me Doth a wife forget the childe of hir wombe ād the sonne whō she hath borne And though she do forget yet wil not I forget the. Beholde I haue written the vp vpon my hondes thy walles are euer in my sight They that haue broken the downe shal make haist to buylde the vp agayne and they that made the waist shal dwell in the. Lift vp thine eyes and loke aboute the all these shal gather them together and come to the. As truly as I lyue saieth the LORDE thou shalt put them all vpō the as an apparell and gyrde thē to the as a bryde doth hir Iewels As for thy londe that lieth desolate waisted destroyed it shal be to narow for thē that shal dwell in it And they y t wolde deuoure the shal be farre a waye Then the childe whō y e barē shall bringe forth vnto y e shal saye in thine eare this place is to narow syt nye together y t I maye haue rowme Then shalt thou thinke by thy self Who hath begottē me these seinge I am barē alōe a captyue an outcast And who hath norished thē vp for me I am desolate alone but frō whēce come these And therfore thus saieth the LORDE God Beholde I will stretch out myne honde to the Gentiles and set vp my token to the people They shal bringe the thy sonnes in their lappes carie thy doughters vnto y e vpon their shulders For kinges shal be thy noursinge fathers and Quenes shal be thy noursinge mothers They shal fall before the w t their faces flat vpon the earth and lick vp the dust of thy fete that thou mayest knowe how that I am the LORDE And who so putteth his trust in me shal not be confounded Who spoyleth the giaunte of his pray or who taketh the presoner from the mightie And therfore thus saieth the LORDE The prisoners shal be taken from the giaunte and the spoyle delyuered from the violēte for I wil maynteyne thy cause agaynst thine aduersaries and saue thy sonnes And wil fede thine enemies with their owne fleshe and make thē drinke of their owne bloude as of swete wyne And all flesh shal knowe o Iacob that I am the LORDE thy Sauioure and stronge auenger Chap. I. THus saieth the LORDE Where is the bill of yo r mothers deuorcemēt that I sent vnto her or who is the vsurer to whō I solde you Beholde for youre owne offēces are ye solde because of youre transgression is youre mother forsakē For why wolde no mā receaue me when I came when I called no man gaue me answere Was my hōde clene smytē of that it
Chapter FOr the which cause the LORDE oure God hath perfourmed his deuyce wherof he certified vs and oure heades that ruled in Ierusalē yee and oure kynges oure princes with all Israel and Iuda And soch plages hath y e lorde brought vpō vs as neuer came to passe vnder the heauē like as it is fulfilled in Hierusalem acordinge as it is written in the lawe of Moses that a man shulde eate y e flesh of his owne sonne the flesh of his owne doughter Morouer he hath delyuered them in to the hondes of all the kinges y t are rounde aboute vs to be confounded and desolate scatred thē abrode in all londes naciōs Thus are we brought beneth not aboue for we haue synned against the LORDE o r God not bene obedient vnto his voyce Therfore y e LORDE o r God is rightuous we with o r fathers as reason is are brought to opē shame as it is to se this daye And as for these plages y t are come vpon vs allready y e LORDE had deuyced thē for vs yet wolde we not praye vnto y e LORDE oure God y t we might euery mā turne frō his vngodly wayes So y e LORDE hath caused soch plages to come vpon vs for he is rightuous in all his workes which he hath cōmaunded vs which we also haue not done ner harkened vnto his voyce for to walke in y e cōmaundemētes of y e LORDE y t he had geuē vnto vs. And now o LORDE God of Israel thou that hast brought thy people out of the londe of Egipte with a mightie honde with tokens and wōdres with thy greate power ād outstretched arme and hast gotten thy selff a name as it is come to passe this daye O LORDE oure God we haue synned we haue done wickedly we haue behaued oure selues vngodly in all thy rightuousnesses Turne thy wrath frō vs we beseke the for we are but a few left amonge the Heithen where thou hast scatred vs. Heare o r prayers o LORDE oure peticiōs bringe vs out of captiuyte for thine owne sake get vs fauoure in the sight of thē which haue led vs awaye y t all lōdes maye knowe that thou art the LORDE oure God and that Israel and his generacion calleth vpon thy name O LORDE loke downe frō thy holy house vpon vs enclyne thine eare heare vs. For the deed y t be gone downe to their graues whose soules are out of their bodies ascribe vnto the LORDE nether prayse ner rigtuous-makynge but the soule that is vexed for the multitude of hir synnes which goeth on heuely and weakely whose eyes begynne to fayle yee soch a soule ascrybeth prayse and rightuousnesse vnto the LORDE O LORDE we poure out oure prayers before the and requyre mercy in thy sight O LORDE oure God not for eny godlynesse off oure forefathers but because thou hast sent out thy wrath indignacion vpon vs acordinge as thou dydest threaten vs by thy seruaūtes the prophetes sayenge Thus sayeth the LORDE Bowe downe youre shulders and neckes and serue the kynge of Babilon so shal ye remayne still in the londe that I gaue vnto youre fathers Yff ye will not do this ner heare the voyce of y e LORDE youre God to serue the kynge of Babilon I shall destroye you in the cities of Iuda within Ierusalem and without I will also take from you the voyce off myrth and the voyce of ioye the voyce of the brydegrome and the voyce of the bryde ād there shal no man dwell more in the londe But they wolde not herken vnto thy voyce to do the kynge of Babilon seruyce and therfore hast thou perfourmed the wordes that thou spakest by thy seruauntes the prophetes namely that the bones of oure kynges and the bones of oure fathers shulde be trāslated out of their place And lo now are they layde out in the heate of y e Sonne in the colde of y e night ād deed in greate mysery w t hunger w t swearde w t pestilence are clene cast forth As for the tēple wherin thy name was called vpon thou hast layde it waist as it is to se this daye y t for the wickednes of the house of Israel the house of Iuda ▪ O LORDE o r God thou hast intreated vs after all thy goodnes acordinge to all y e greate louinge mercy of thyne like as thou spakest by thy seruaunte Moses in the daye when thou didest cōmaūde him to wryte thy lawe before the children of Israel sayenge Yf ye will not herkē vnto my voyce thē shal this greate multitude be turned in to a very smal people for I wil scatre thē abrode Not withstōdinge I am sure that this folke will not heare me for it is an hardnecked people But in y e lōde of their captiuyte they shall remembre them selues lerne to knowe y t I am the LORDE their God when I geue thē an herte to vnderstōde eares to heare Then shal they prayse me in the lōde of their captiuyte thynke vpon my name Then shall they turne them frō their harde backes from their vngodlynes Then shal they remembre the thynges y t happened vnto their forefathers which synned agaynst me So will I bringe them agayne in to the londe which I promised w t an ooth vnto their fathers Abrahā Isaac Iacob they shal be lordes of it yee I wil increace thē and not minysh thē And I wil make another couenaūt with them soch one as shal endure for euer namely y t I will be their God and they shal be my people and I wil nomore dryue my people the children off Israel out of the londe y t I haue geuē thē The III. Chapter ANd now o LORDE allmightie thou God of Israel o r soule y t is in trouble o r sprete y t is vexed crieth vnto the heare vs o LORDE haue pite vpon vs for thou art a mercifull God be gracious vnto vs for we haue synned before ye. Thou endurest for euer shulde we thē vtterly perishe ▪ O LORDE almightie thou God of Israel Heare now y e prayer of y e deed Israelites of their childrē which haue synned before y e not herkened vnto the voyce of the LORDE their God for the which cause these plages hange now vpō vs. O LORDE remēbre not y e wickednes of o r forefathers but thinke vpō thy power name now at this tyme for thou art y e LORDE o r God y e o LORDE wil we prayse For thou hast put y e feare ī o r hartes to y e intēt y t we shulde call vpon y e name prayse y e in oure captiuyte and y t we might turne from the wickednesse of oure forefathers y t synned before the. Beholde we are yet this daye in oure captiuyte where as thou hast scatred vs
anothers Chap. XIX The captiuyte off the kyngâ—s of Iuda The crueltie of kinges and princes Chap. XX. The greate vnthanfulnesse off the people Agayne the merciful longe sufferaunce of God Chap. XXI The swearde prophecyed to come vpon Israel and the Ammonites by the kynge of Babilon Chap. XXII The synnes wherfore IerusaleÌ„ was punished both the prophetes prestes rulers and comon people Chap. XXIII The Idolatry or whordome of Samaria and Ierusalem Chap. XXIIII The destruccion off Ierusalem and captiuyte of the people signified by the pot Chap. XXV Agaynst Ammon Moab Seir and the Palestynes Chap. XXVI He mourneth vpon the cite off Tyre otherwyse called Zor for the destruccion that was to come vpon her Chap. XXVII XXVIII Agaynst the prince of Tyre and agaynst Sidon Chap. XXIX XXX.XXXI.XXXII Plages vpon Egipte and the kynges therof Chap. XXXIII The office off a preacher The worde of God must be folowed in very 〈◊〉 and not only in mouth Chap. XXXIIII Agaynst euell shepherdes Christ the only true shepherde is promised Chap. XXXV Agaynst the mount Seir that is agaynst the Edomites Chap. XXXVI A promyse of the delyueraunce of Israel Chap. XXXVII A consolacion for the Israelites and a figure of the generall resurreccioÌ„ signified by the drye bones Chap. XXXVIII XXXIX Of Gog and Magog with their destruccion Chap. XL. From this chapter vnto the ende the prophet seith in a vision the buyldinge agayne of IerusaleÌ„ aÌ„d the temple Wherby is descrybed the mystery off the church off christ and saluacion of the faithfull in hiâ— â–ª The first Chapter IT chauÌ„sed in the xxx yeare the fifth daye off the fourth Moneth that I was amonge the presoners by the ryuer off Cobar where the heauens opened I sawe a vision of God Now the fifth daye off the Moneth made out the fyfth yeare off kynge Ioachims captiuyte At the same tyme came y e worde off the LORDE vnto Ezechiel the sonne off Buzi prest in the londe off the Caldees by the water of Cobar where the honde off the LORDE came vpoÌ„ him And I loked beholde a stormy wynde came out off the north with a greate doude full of fyre which w t his glistre lightened all rounde aboute And in y e myddest off the fyre it was all cleare and as it were the licknesse of foure beastes which were fashioned like a man sauynge that euery one had foure faces and foure wynges Their legges were straight but their fete were like bullockes fete and they glistred as it had bene fayre scoured metall Vnder their wynges vpon all the foure corners they had mens hondes Their faces and the it wynges were towarde the foure corners yet were the wynges so that one euer touched another When they wente they turned them not aboute but ech one wente straight forwarde Vpon the rightside off these foure their faces were like the face off a man and the fa off a Lyon But vpon the left side they had the face off an oxe and the face off an Aegle Their faces also and their wynges werespred out aboue so that two wynges off one touched euer two wynges off another and with the other two they couered their bodie Euery one when it wente it wente straight forwarde Where as the sprete led them thither they wente and turned not aboute in their goynge The fashion and countenauÌ„ce of the beestes was like hote coales off fyre euen as though burnynge cresshettes had bene amonge the beestes and the fyre gaue a glistre and out off the fyre there wente lighteninge WheÌ„ y e beestes weÌ„te forwarde backwarde one wolde haue thought it had lightened Now wheÌ„ I had well considered the beestes I sawe a worke off wheles vpon the earth with foure faces also like the beestes The fashion worke of the wheles was like the see The foure wheles were ioyned and made to loke vpon as it had bene one whele in another When one wente forwarde they wente all foure and turned theÌ„ not aboute iÌ„ their goinge They were large greate and horrible to loke vpon Their bodies were full off eyes rounde aboute them all foure WheÌ„ the beestes weÌ„te the wheles wente also with them And when the beestes lift them selues vp from y e earth the wheles were lift vp also Whyther so euer the sprete wente thither wente they also y e wheles were lift vp folowed theÌ„ for y e sprete of life was in the wheles When y e beestes weÌ„te forth stode still or lift them selues vp from the earth then the wheles also wente stode still were lift vp for y e breth off life was in the wheles Aboue ouer y e heades of the beestes there was a firmament which was fashioned as it had bene off the most pure Christall that was spred out aboue vpon their heades vnder the same firmament were their wynges layed abrode one towarde another and two wynges couered the body of euery beest And when thy wente forth I herde the noyse off their wynges like the noyse of greate waters as it had bene the voyce off the greate God and a russhinge together as it were off an hoost off men And when they stode still they let downe their winges Now when they stode still and had letten downe their wynges it thondred in the firmament that was aboue their heades Aboue the firmament that was ouer their heades there was the fashion off a seate as it had bene made off Saphir Apon the seate there sat one like a maÌ„ I behelde him and he was like a cleare light as it had bene all of fyre with in from his loynes vpwarde And beneth when I loked vpon him vnder y e loynes me thought he was like a shyninge fyre that geueth light on euery syde Yee the shyne and glistre y t lightened rounde aboute was like a raynbowe which in a raynie daye apeareth in the cloudes EueÌ„ so was the similitude wherin the glory off the LORDE apeared WheÌ„ I sawe it I fell vpon my face and herkened vnto the voyce off him that spake The II. Chapter THen sayde he vnto me Stonde vp vpon thy fete O thou sonne of maÌ„ and I will talke with the. And as he was commonynge with me the sprete came in to me and set me vp vpon my fete so that I marcked the thinge that he sayde vnto me And he sayde Beholde thou sonne off man I will sende the to the children off Israel to those runnagates and obstinate people for they haue takeÌ„ parte agaynst me and are runne a waye fro me both they and their forefathers vnto this daye Yee I will sende y e vnto a people y t haue rough vysages and stiff stomackes vnto whom thou shalt saye on this maner This the LORDE God himselff hath spoken y t whether they be obedient or no for it is a frauwarde housholde they maye knowe yet that there hath bene a prophet amonge them Therfore thou sonne off man feare theÌ„ not
were lifted vp aboue This is the beest that I sawe at the water of Cobar Now when the Cherubins wente the wheles wente with them when the Cherubins shoke their wynges to lift them selues vpwarde the wheles remayned not behynde but were with them also Shortly when they stode these stode also And when they were lift vp y e wheles were lift vp also with thē for the sprete of life was in the wheles Then the glory of the LORDE was lift vp from the thresholde of the temple and remayned vpon the Cherubins And the Cherubins flackred with their wynges and lift thē selues vp from the earth so that I sawe when they went and the wheles with them And they stode at the east syde of the porte that is in the house of the LORDE So the glory of the LORDE was vpon them This is the beest that I sawe vnder the God of Israel by the water of Cobar And I perceaued that it was the Cherubins Euery one had foure faces euery one foure wynges vnder their winges as it were mēs hondes Now the figure of their faces was euen as I had sene them by the water of Cobar so was the countenaunce of thē Euery one in his goinge wente straight forwarde The XI Chapter MOrouer the sprete of the LORDE lift me vp brought me vnto y e east porte of the LORDES house And beholde there were xxv men vnder the dore amōge whom I sawe Iaasanias the sonne of Asur Pheltias the sonne of Banias the rulers of the people Then sayde the LORDE vnto me Thou sonne of man These men ymagin myschefe and a wicked councel take they in this cite sayenge Tush there is no destruccion at honde let vs buylde houses This Ierusalem is the cauldron we be the flesh Therfore shalt thou prophecie vnto them yee prophecie shalt thou vnto them O sonne of man And with that fell the sprete of the LORDE vpon me and sayde vnto me Speake thus saieth the LORDE On this maner haue yee spokē O ye house of Israel and I knowe the ymaginaciōs of youre hertes Many one haue ye murthured in this cite filled the stretes full of the slayne Therfore thus saieth the LORDE God The slayne men that ye haue layed on the grounde in this cite are the flesh this cite is the cauldron But I wil bringe you out of it ye haue drawē out y e swearde euē so wil I also bringe a swearde ouer you saieth y e LORDE God I will dryue you out of this cite and delyuer you in to youre enemies honde wil condemne you Ye shal be slayne in all the coastes of Israel I wil be avenged of you to lerne you for to knowe that I am the LORDE This cite shal not be youre cauldron nether shal ye be the flesh therin but in the coastes of Israel wil I punysh you that ye maye knowe that I am the LORDE in whose commaundementes ye haue not walked ner kepte his lawes but haue done after the customes of the Heithen that lie rounde aboute you Now when I preached Pheltias the sonne of Banias dyed Then fell I downe vpō my face cried with a loude voyce O LORDE God wilt thou then vterly destroye all the remnaunt in Israel And so the worde of the LORDE came to me on this maner Thou sonne of man Thy brethren thy kynsfolke y e whole house of Iuda which dwell at Ierusalem saye They be gone farre from the LORDE but the londe is geuen vs in possession Therfore tell them thus saieth the LORDE God I wil sende you farre of amōge the Gentiles scatre you amonge the nacions I wil halowe you but a litle in the londes where ye shall come Tell them also thus saieth the LORDE God I wil gather you agayne out of the nacions bringe you from the countrees where ye be scatred will geue you the londe of Israel agayne thither shal ye come And as for all impedimentes all youre abhominacions I will take them awaye And I wil geue you one herte wil plante a new sprete within yo r bowels That stony herte wil I take out of youre body geue you a fleshy herte that ye maye walke in my commaundementes and kepe myne ordinaunces do them that ye maye be my people and I youre God But loke whose hertes are disposed to folowe their abhominacions and wicked lyuynges Those mens dedes will I bringe vpon their owne heades saieth the LORDE God After this dyd the Cherubins lift vp their winges and the wheles wente with them and the glory of the LORDE was vpon them So the glory of the LORDE wente vp from the myddest of the cite stode vpon the mount of the cite towarde the east But the wynde toke me vp in a vision which came by the sprete of God it brought me agayne in to Caldea amonge the presoners Then the vision that I had sene vanyshed a waye fro me So I spake vnto the presoners all the wordes of the LORDE which he had shewed me The XII Chapter THe worde of the LORDE came vnto me sayenge Thou sonne of mā thou dwellest in the myddest of a frauwerde housholde which haue eyes to se yet se not eares haue they to heare and yet heare they not for they are an obstinate housholde Therfore O thou sonne of man make thy gere redy to flit and go forth by fayre daye light y t they maye se. Yee euē in their sight shalt thou go from thy place to another place yf peraduenture they wil considre y t they be an vnobedient housholde Thy gere that thou hast made redy to flit withall shalt thou beare out by fayre daye light that they maie se thou y i self shalt go forth also at euē in their sight as a mā doth whē he flitteth Dygge thorow the wall that they maye se and beare thorow it the same thinge that thou tokest vp in their sight As for thy self thou shalt go forth in the darcke Hyde thy face that thou se not y e earth for I haue made the a shew tokē vnto the house of Israel Now as y e LORDE cōmaunded me so I dyd y e gere that I had made redy brought I out by daye At euen I brake downe an hole thorow the wall with my honde when it was darcke I toke the gere vpō my shulders and bare them out in their sight And in the mornynge came the worde of the LORDE vnto me sayenge Thou sonne of man yf Israel y t frauwerde housholde axe the and saye what dost thou there Then tell them Thus saieth the LORDE God This punyshment toucheth the chefe rulers at Ierusalem and all the house of Israel that dwell amonge them Tell them I am youre shew token like as I haue done so shal it happen vnto you Flyt shal ye also and go in to captiuyte The chefest that is
amonge you shall lade his shulders in the darcke and get him awaye He shal breake downe the wall to carie stuff there thorow He shal couer his face that he se not the grounde with his eyes My lyne will I sprede out vpon him and catch him in my net and carie him to Babilon in the loÌ„de of the Caldees which he shal not se yet shal he dye there As for all his helpers and all his hoostes that be aboute him I will scatre them towarde all the wyndes and drawe out a swearde after them So when I haue scatred them amonge the Heithen and strowed them in the londes they shal knowe that I am y e LORDE But I will leaue a litle nombre of them from the swearde hunger pestilence to tell all their abhominacions amonge the Heithen where they come that they maye knowe how that I am the LORDE Morouer the worde of the LORDE came vnto me sayenge Thou sonne of man with a fearfull treÌ„blinge shalt thou eate thy bred with carefulnesse sorowe shalt thou drynke thy water And vnto the people of the londe speake thou on this maner Thus saieth the LORDE God to them that dwell in Ierusalem and to the londe of Israel Ye shall eate youre bred with sorowe and drynke youre water with heuynesse Yee the londe with the fulnesse therof shal be layde waist for y e wickednesse of them that dwell therin And the cities that now be well occupied shal be voyde and the londe desolate that ye maye knowe how that I am the LORDE Yet came the worde of the LORDE vnto me agayne sayenge Thou sonne of man what maner of byworde is that which ye vse in the londe of Israel sayenge Tush seynge that the daies are so slacke in commynge all the visioÌ„s are of none effecte Tell them therfore thus saieth the LORDE God I wil make that byworde to ceasse so that it shall nomore be comonly vsed in Israel But saye this vnto them The daies are at honde that euery thinge which hath bene prophecied shal be fulfilled There shall no vision be in vayne nether eny prophecie fayle amonge the children of Israel For it is I the LORDE that speake it and what so euer I y e LORDE speake it shal be perfourmed and not be slacke in commynge Yee euen in youre dayes O ye frauwarde housholde will I deuyse some thinge bringe it to passe saieth the LORDE God And the worde of the LORDE came vnto me sayenge Beholde thou sonne of man The house of Israel saye in this maner Tush as for the vision that he hath sene it will be many a daye or it come to passe Is it farre of yet the thinge that he prophecieth Therfore saye vnto them Thus saieth the LORDE God All my wordes shal nomore be slacke Loke what I speake that same shal come to passe saieth the LORDE The XIII Chapter THe worde of the LORDE came vnto me sayeÌ„ge Thou sonne of man Speake prophecie agaynst those prophetes that preach in Israel sayeth thou vnto them that prophecie out of their owne herâ—es Heare the worde of the LORDE thus saieth the LORDE God Wo be vnto those folish prophetes that folowe their owne sprete and speake where they se nothinge O Israel thy prophetes are like the foxes vpon the drie felde For they stonde not in the gappes nether make they an hedge for the house of Israel that meÌ„ might abyde the parell in the daye of the LORDE Vayne thinges they se tell lies to mayntene their preachinges withall The LORDE saye they hath spokeÌ„ it when in very dede the LORDE hath not sent them Vayne visioÌ„s haue ye sene spokeÌ„ false prophecies when ye saye the LORDE hath spoken it where as I neuer sayde it Therfore thus saieth the LORDE God Because youre wordes be vayne ye seke out lies Beholde I wil vpon you saieth y e LORDE Myne hondes shal come vpon the prophetes that loke out vayne thinges and preach lies they shal not be in the councell of my people ner written in the boke of the house of Israel nether shal they come in the londe of Israel that ye maye knowe how that I am the LORDE God And that for this cause they haue disceaued my people tolde them of peace where no peace was One setteth vp a wall they dawbe it with lowse claye Therfore tell them which dawbe it with vntempered morter that it shall fall For there shal come a greate shuwer of rayne greate stones shall fall vpon it a fore storme of wynde shal breake it so shal y e wall come downe Shal it not then be sayde vnto you where is now the morter that ye dawbed it withall Therfore thus saieth the LORDE God I will breake out in my wrothfull displeasure with a stormy wynde so that in myne anger there shal come a mightie shuwer of rayne hale stones in my wrath to destroye withall As for y e wall that ye haue dawbed with vntempered morter I wil breake it downe make it eauen with the grounde so that the foundacion therof shal remoue it shal fall yee ye youre selues shall perish in the myddest therof to lerne you for to knowe that I am the LORDE Thus wil I perfourme my wrath vpon this wall vpon them that haue dawbed it with vntempered morter and then will I saye vnto you The wall is gone the dawbers are awaye These are the prophetes of Israel which prophecie vnto the cite of Ierusalem loke out visions of peace for them where as no peace is saieth the LORDE God Wherfore o thou sonne of meÌ„ set thy face agaynst the doughters of y e people which prophecie out of their owne hertes speake thou prophecie agaynst them saye Thus saieth the LORDE God Wo be vnto you that sowe pilowes vnder all arme holes and bolsters vnder the heades both of yonge and olde to catch soules withall For when ye haue gotten the soules of my people in youre captiuyte ye promyse them life and dishonoure me to my people for an handfull of barly for a pece of bred when ye kyll the soules of them that dye not promyse life to them that lyue not Thus ye dyssemble with my people y t beleueth yo r lies Wherfore thus saieth the LORDE God Beholde I wil also vpoÌ„ the pillowes wherwith ye catch the soules in flyenge theÌ„ will I take from youre armes let the soules go that ye catch in flyenge You re bolsters also wil I teare in peces delyuer my people out of youre honde so that they shal come nomore in youre hoÌ„des to be spoyled ye shal knowe that I am the LORDE Seinge y t with youre lyes ye discomforte the herte of the rightuous whom I haue not discomforted Agayne For so moch as ye corage the honde of the wicked so that he maye not turne from his wicked waye
nothinge vpon vsury he taketh nothinge ouer he withdraweth his honde from doinge wronge he hādleth faith fully betwixte man man he walbeth in my commaundementes kepeth my lawes perfourmeth thē faithfully This is a rightuous mā he shal surely lyue saieth the LORDE God Yf he now get a sonne that is a murthurer a shedder of bloude yf he do one of these thinges though he do not all he eateth vpon the hilles he defyleth his neghbours wife he greueth the poore and nedy he robbeth and spoyleth he geueth not the detter his pledge agayne he lifteth vp his eyes vnto Idols medleth with abhominable thinges he lendeth vpon vsury and taketh more ouer Shal this man lyue He shal not lyue Seinge he hath done all these abhominacions he shall dye his bloude shal be vpon him Now yf this man get a sonne also that seith all this fathers synnes which he hath done and feareth nether doth soch like Namely he eateth not vpon the mountaynes he lifteth not his eyes vp to the Idols of Israel he defyleth not his neghbours wife he vexeth no man he kepeth no mans pledge he nether spoyleth ner robbeth eny man he dealeth his meate with the hungrie he clotheth the naked he oppresseth not the poore he receaueth no vsury ner eny thinge ouer he kepeth my lawes and walketh in my commaundementes This man shal not dye in his fathers synne but shall lyue without fayle As for his father because he oppressed and spoyled his brother and dyd wyckedly amonge his people lo he is deed in his owne synne And yet saye ye Wherfore thē shulde not this sonne beare his fathers synne Therfore because the sonne hath done equyte and right hath kepte all my commaundementes and done them therfore shall he lyue in dede The same soule y t synneth shall dye The sonne shal not beare the fathers offence nenether shal the father beare the sonnes offence The rightuousnes of the rightuous shall be vpon himself and the wickednes of the wicked shal be vpon himself also But yf y e vngodly will turne awaye from all his synnes that he hath done and kepe all my commaundemētes and do the thinge y t is equall right doutles he shal lyue and not dye As for all his synnes that he dyd before they shall not be thought vpon but in his rightuousnes that he hath done he shal lyue For haue I eny pleasure in the death of a synner saieth the LORDE God but rather that he conuerte and lyue Agayne yf the rightuous turne awaye from his rightuousnes and do iniquyte acordinge to all the abhominacions that y e wicked mā doth shal he lyue All the rightuousnes that he hath done shall not be thought vpō but in the fawte that he hath offended withall and in the synne that he hath done he shal dye And yet ye saye Tush the waye of y e LORDE is not indifferēt Heare therfore ye house of Israel Is not my waye right Or are not youre wayes rather wicked When a rightuous mā turneth awaye from his rightuousnesse and medleth with vngodlynes he must dye therin Yee for the vnrightuousnes that he hath done must he dye Agayne when the wicked man turneth awaye from his wickednesse that he hath done and doth the thinge which is equall and right he shal saue his soule alyue For in so moch as he remembreth himself and turneth him from all the vngodlynes that he hath vsed he shall lyue and not dye And yet saieth the house of Israel Tush the waye of the LORDE is not equall Are my wayes vnright o ye house of Israel Are not youre wayes rather vnequall As for me I wil iudge euery man acordinge to his wayes O ye house of Israel saieth the LORDE God Wherfore be conuerted and turne you clene from all youre wickednesse so shal there no synne do you harme Cast awaye frō you all youre vngodlynesse that ye haue done make you new hertes and a new sprete Wherfore wil ye dye O ye house of Israel seynge I haue no pleasure in y e death of him that dyeth saieth the LORDE God Turne you then and ye shal lyue The XIX Chapter BVt mourne thou for the prynces off Israel saye Wherfore laye thy mother that lyonesse amōge the lyons norished hir yonge ones amōge the lyons whelpes One of hir whelpes she brought vp it became a lyon it lerned to spoyle and to deuoure folke The Heithen herde of him toke him in their nettes brought him in chaynes vnto the londe of Egipte Now when the damme sawe that all hir hope comforth was awaye she toke another of hir whelpes and made a lyon of him which wente amonge the lyons became a fearce lyon lerned to spoyle and to deuoure folcke he destroyed their palaces and made their cities waist In so moch that the whole londe and euery thinge therin were vtterly desolate thorow the very voyce of his roaringe Then came the Heithen together on euery syde out of all countrees agaynst him layed their nettes for him and toke him in their pytte So they bounde him with chaynes and brought him to the kinge of Babilon which put him in preson that his voyce shulde nomore be herde vpon the mountaynes of Israel As for thy mother she is like a vyne in thy bloude planted by the water syde hir frutes and braunches are growen out of many waters hir stalkes were so stronge that men might haue made staues therof for officers she grew so hie in hir stalkes So when men sawe that she exceaded y e heith and multitude of hir braunches she was roted out in displeasure and cast downe to the grounde The East wynde dryed vp hir frute hir stronge stalkes were broken of wythered and brent in the fyre But now she is planted in the wildernesse in a drye and thurstie grounde And there is a fyre gone out of hir stalkes which hath brēt vp hir braunches and hir frute so that she hath no mo stronge stalkes to be staues for officers This is a piteous and miserable thinge The XX. Chapter IN in the xvij yeare the x daye of the v Moneth it happened that certayne of the elders of Israel came vnto me for to axe councell at the LORDE and sat them downe by me Then came the worde of the LORDE vnto me on this maner Thou sonne of man Speake to the elders of Israel and saye vnto them Thus saieth the LORDE God Are ye come hither to axe eny thinge at me As truly as I lyue saieth the LORDE I will geue you no answere Wilt thou not reproue them thou sonne of man wilt thou not reproue them Shewe them the abhominacions of their forefathers tell thē Thus saieth the LORDE God In the daye when I chose Israel and lift vp myne honde vpon the sede of the house of Iacob shewed my self vnto them in the londe of Egipte Yee when I lifte
all be slayne with 〈…〉 Acordinge to their vn clennesse 〈◊〉 vnfaithfull dealinges so haue I entreated them and hyd my face from them Therfore thus saieth y e LORDE God Now will I bringe agayne the captyues of Iacob and haue mercy vpon the whole house of Israel and be gelous for my holy names sake All their confucion and offence that they haue done agaynst me shal be taken awaye and so safely shal they dwell in their londe that no man shal make them a frayed And when I haue brought theÌ„ agayne from amonge the people when I haue gathered them together out of their enemies londes and am praysed in them before many Heithen then shall they knowe that I am the LORDE their God which suffred them to be led in to captiuyte amonge the Heithen but now haue brought them agayne in to their owne londe and not left one of them yonder After that will I hyde my face nomore from them but will poure out my sprete vpon the house of Israel saieth the LORDE God The xl Chapter IN the xxv yeare of oure captiuyte in the begynnynge of the yeare the x daye of the moneth that is the xiiij yeare after that y e cite was smytten downe the same daye came the honde of the LORDE vpon me and caried me forth euen in to the londe of Israel brought heme in the visions of God and set me downe vpoÌ„ a maruelous hie mountayne whervpon there was a buyldinge as it had bene of a cite towarde the north Thither he caried me and beholde there was a man whose similitude was like brasse which had a threde of flax in his honde and a meterodde also He stode in the dore sayde vnto me marcke well with thine eyes herken to with thine eares and fasten it in thine hert whatso euer I shal shewe the for to the intent that they might be shewed the therfore art thou brought hither And what soeuer thou seyst thou shalt certifie the house of Israel therof Beholde there was a wall on the outsyde rounde aboute the house the meterodde that he had in his honde was six cubites longe a spanne So he measured the bredth of the buyldinge which was a meterodde and the heyth also a meterodde Then came he vnto the eastdore and wente vp the stares â— measured the postes of the dore 〈…〉 was a meterodde thicke 〈…〉 was a meterodde longe 〈…〉 the chambers were 〈…〉 of the dore within the 〈…〉 meterodde He measured als◠〈…〉 of the â—nnermer dore which 〈…〉 meterodde TheÌ„ measured he the entrie of 〈…〉 that conteyned eght cubites and his pilers two cubites and this entrie stode inwarde The chambers of the dore eastwarde were thre on euery syde alike brode and longe The pilers also that stode of both the sydes were of one measure After this he measured the wydenesse of the dore which was x cubites the heyth of the dore xiij cubites The edge before the chaÌ„bres was one cubite bâ—ode vpoÌ„ both the sydes the chambres six cubites wyde of either syde He measured y e dore from the rygge of one chaÌ„bre to another whose wydenesse was xxv cubites one dore stode agaynst another He made pilers also lx cubites hie rounde aboute the courte dore Before the inwarde parte vnto the fore entre of the ynnermer dore were fiftie cubites The chambers and their pilers within rounde aboute vnto y e dore had syde wyndowes So had the fore entries also whose wyndowes wente rounde aboute within And vpon the pilers there stode date trees Then brought he me in to the fore courte where as were chaÌ„bres paued workes made in y e fore courte rouÌ„de aboute xxx chaÌ„bres vpon one paued worcke Now the paued worke was a loÌ„ge besyde the dores and that was the lower paued worke After this he measured y e bredth from the lower dore vnto the ynnermer courte of the out syde which had an hundreth cubites vpon the east the north parte And the dore in the vttemost courte towarde the north measured he after the leÌ„gth and bredth his thre chambres also on either syde with his pilers fore entries which had euen the measure of the first doâ—e His heyth was fiftie cubites the bredth xxv cubites his wyndowes porches with his date trees had euen like measure as the dore towarde the east there where vij steppes to go vp vpoÌ„ their porche before them Now y e dore of the ynnermer courte stode straight ouer agaynst the dore that was towarde y e north east From one dore to another he measured an C cubites After that he brought me to the south syde where there stode a dore towarde y e south whose pilers and porches he measured these had the fyrst measure with their porches they had wyndowes rounde aboute like the first â—yndowes The heyth was I cubites y e 〈◊〉 xxv with steppes to go vp vpon his 〈◊〉 stode before him with his pilers and daâ—â— trees on either syde And the dore of the ynnermer courte stode towarde the south he measured from one dore to another an C cubites So he brought me in to y e ynnermer courte thorow the dore of the south syd â–ª which he measured it had the measure afore sayde In like maner his chambres pilers and fore entries had euen the fore sayde measure also And he had with his porches rounde aboute wyndowes of l cubites hye xxv cubites brode The porches rounde aboute were xxv cubites longe and v cubites brode and his porch reached vnto y e vttemost courte vpon his pilers there were date trees and viij steppes to go vp vpon He brought me also in to the ynmost courte vpon the east syde and measured the dore acordinge to y e measure afore sayde His chaÌ„bers pilers and porches had euen the same measure as the first had with his porches he had wyndowes rouÌ„de aboute The heith was l cubites y e bredth xxv cubites His porches reached vnto the vttemost courte his pilers also had date trees on either syde and viij steppes to go vp vpon And he brought me to the north dore and measured it which also had the foresayde measure His chaÌ„bres pilers and porches had wyndowes rounde aboute whose heyth was l cubites and the bredth xxv His pilers stode towarde the vttemost courte and vpon them both were date trees and viij steppes to go vp vpon There stode a chambre also whose intrauÌ„ce was at the dore pilers and there the burnt offringes were waszshed In the dore porche there stode on ether syde two tables for the slaughtinge to slaye the brent offringes synne offringes and trespace offringes thervpon And on the out syde as men go forth to the north dore there stode two tables Foure tables stode on ether syde of the dore that is viij tables whervpon they slaughted Foure tables were of hewen stone for the burnt offringes of a cubite and a half longe and brode
that dwell at Lachis which is an occasion of y e synne of y e doughter of Sion for in the came vp the wickednesses of Israel Yee she sent hir coursers in to the londe of Geth The houses of lies will disceaue the kynges of Israel And as for the o thou that dwellest at Morassa I shal brynge a possessioner vpon the ād the plage of Israel shal reach vnto Odolla Make the balde and shaue the because of thy tender children Make the cleane balde as an Aegle for they shal be caried awaye captyue from the. The II. Chapter WO vnto them that ymagyn to do harme and deuyse vngraciousnesse vpon their beddes to perfourme it in y e cleare daye for their power is agaynst God When they covet to haue londe they take it by violence they robbe men off their houses Thus they oppresse a mā for his house euery man for his heretage Therfore thus sayeth the LORDE Beholde agaynst this housholde haue I deuysed a plage wherout ye shal not plucke youre neckes Ye shal nomore go so proudly for it will be a perlous tyme In that daye shall this terme be vsed and a mournynge shal be made ouer you on this maner We be vtterly desolate the porcion off my people is translated Whan wil he parte vnto vs the londe that he hath taken from vs Neuerthelesse there shal be noman to deuyde the thy porcion in the congregacion off the LORDE Tush holde youre tunge saye they It shall not fall vpon this people we shall not come so to confucion sayeth the house off Iacob Is the sprete off the LORDE so clene awaye or is he so mynded Treuth it is my wordes are frendly vnto them that lyue right but my people doth the contrary therfore must I take parte agaynst them for they take awaye both cote and cloke from the symple Ye haue turned youre selues to fight the women off my people haue ye shot out frō their good houses and taken awaye my excellent giftes from their children Vp get you hence for here shall ye haue no rest Because off their Idolatry they are corrupte and shall myserably perish Yff I were a fleshly felowe and a preacher of lyes and tolde them that they might syt bebbinge and bollynge and be droncken O that were a prophet for this people But I will gather the in dede o Iacob and dryue the remnaunt off Israel all together I shall cary them one with another as a flocke in the folde and as the catell in their stalles that they maye be disquieted of other men Who so breaketh the gappe he shall go before They shall breake vp the porte and go in and out at it Their kynge shall go before them and the LORDE shal be vpon the heade of them The III. Chapter HEare o ye heades of the house of Iacob and ye leders of the house of Israel Shulde not ye knowe what were laufull and right But ye hate the good and loue the euell ye plucke of mens skynnes and the flesh from their bones Ye eate the flesh of my people ād flay of their skynne ye breake their bones ye choppe them in peces as it were in to a cauldron ād as flesh into a pot Now the tyme shall come that when they call vnto the LORDE he shall not heare them but hyde his face from them because that thorow their owne ymaginaciōs they haue dealte so wickedly And as concernynge the prophetes that disceaue my people thus the LORDE sayeth agaynst them When they haue eny thinge to byte vpon then they preach that all shal be well but yf a man put not some thinge in to their mouthes they preach of warre agaynst him Therfore youre vision shal be turned to night youre prophecyenge to darcknesse The Sonne shall go downe ouer those prophetes the daye shal be darcke vnto them Then shall the vision seers be ashamed y e sayth sayers confounded yee they shal be fayne all the packe of thē to stoppe their mouthes for they haue not Gods worde As for me I am full of strength of y e sprete of y e LORDE full of iudgment boldnesse to shewe the house of Iacob their wickednesse the house of Israel their synne O heare this ye rulers of the house of Iacob and ye iudges of the house off Israel ye that abhorre the thinge that is laufull and wraist asyde the thinge that is straight Ye that buylde vp Sion with bloude and Ierusalem with doynge wronge O ye iudges ye geue sentence for giftes O ye preastes ye teach for lucre O ye prophetes ye prophecy for money Yet wil they be takē as those that holde vpon God and saye Is not the LORDE amonge vs Tush there can no misfortune happen vs. Therfore shal Sion for youre sakes be plowed like a felde Ierusalē shall become an heape of stones and the hill of y e temple shal be turned to an hye wodde The IIII. Chapter BVt in the latter dayes it wil come to passe that the hill off the LORDES house shal be set vp hyer thē eny moūtaynes or hilles Yee the people shall preese vnto it and the multitude off the Gentiles shal haist them thither sayēge Come let vs go vp to the hill of the LORDE to the house of the God of Iacob that he maye teach vs his waye and that we maye walke in his pathes For the lawe shall come out off Sion ād the worde of God from Ierusalem and shall geue sentence amonge the multitude off the Heithen and refourme the people off farre coūtrees so that of their swerdes they shal make plowshares and sythes off their speares One people shall not lift vp a swerde agaynst another yee they shall nomore lerne to fight but euery man shal syt vnder his vinyarde and vnder his fyge tre and no man to fraye him awaye for the mouth off y e LORDE of hoostes hath spoken it Therfore where as all people haue walked euery man in y e name of his owne god we will walke in the name of oure God for euer and euer At the same tyme sayeth the LORDE will I gather vp the lame and the outcastes and soch as I haue chastened and will geue yssue vnto the lame and make of y e outcastes a greate people and the LORDE himself shal be their kynge vpon the mount Sion frō this tyme forth for euermore And vnto the O thou tower of Eder thou stronge holde off the doughter Sion vnto the shal it come euē the first lordshipe and kyngdome of the doughter Ierusalē Why thē art thou now so heuy is there no kynge in the are thy councelers awaye that thou art so payned as a woman in hir trauayle And now o thou doughter Sion be sory let it greue the as a wife laboringe with childe for now must thou get the out off the cite and dwell vpon the playne
will curse youre blessinges yee curse them will I yf ye do not take hede Beholde I shal corruppe youre sede and cast donge in youre faces euen the donge of youre solempne feastes and it shal cleue fast vpon you And ye shall knowe that I haue sent this commaundement vnto you that my couenaunt which I made with Leui might stonde sayeth y e LORDE of hoostes I made a couenaunt of life and peace w t him this I gaue him that he might stonde in awe of me and so he dyd feare me aÌ„d had my name in reuerence The lawe of treuth was in his mouth and there was no wickednesse founde in his lippes He walked with me in peace aÌ„d equyte and dyd turne many one awaye from their synnes For the prestes lippes shulde be sure knowlege that men maye seke the lawe at his mouth for he is a messaunger of the LORDE of hoostes But as for you ye are gone clene out off the waye and haue caused the multitude to be offended at the lawe ye haue broken the couenaunt of Leui sayeth the LORDE of hoostes Therfore wil I also make you to be despised and to be of no reputacion amonge all y e people because ye haue not kepte my wayes but bene parciall in the lawe Haue we not all one father Hath not one God made vs why doth euery one off vs then despyse his owne brother and so breake the couenaunt of oure fathers Now hath Iuda offended yee the abhominacion is done in Israel and in IerusaleÌ„ for Iuda hath defyled the SaÌ„ctuary of the LORDE which he loued and hath kepte the doughter of a straunge God But the LORDE shal destroye the maÌ„ that doth this yee both the master the scolar out off the tabernacle of Iacob with him that offreth vp meatofferynge vnto the LORDE off hoostes Now haue ye brought it to this poynte agayne that the aulter of the LORDE is couered with teares wepynge and mournynge so that I will nomore regarde the meatofferynge nether wil I receaue or accepte eny thinge at youre hoÌ„des And yet ye saye wherfore Euen because that where as the LORDE made a couenauÌ„t betwixte y e and the wife off thy youth thou hast despysed her Yet is she thyne owne coÌ„panyon and maried wife So dyd not the one yet had he an excellent sprete What dyd then the one He sought the sede promised of God Therfore loke well to youre sprete let no man despyse y e wife of his youth Yf thou hatest her put her awaye sayeth the LORDE God of Israel and geue her a clothinge for the scorne sayeth the LORDE of hoostes Loke well then to youre sprete and despyse her not Ye greue the LORDE with youre wordes and yet ye saye wherwithall haue we greued him In this that ye saye All that do euell are good in the sight of God and soch please him Or els where is the God that punysheth The III. Chapter BEholde I wil sende my messaunger which shal prepare the waye before me and the LORDE whom ye wolde haue shal soone come to his temple yee euen the messaunger of the couenaunt whom ye longe for Beholde he commeth sayeth the LORDE of hoostes But who maye abyde the daye of his commynge Who shal be able to endure when he appeareth For he is like a goldsmythes fyre aÌ„d like wasshers sope He shall syt him downe to trye and to clense y e syluer he shal pourge the children of Leui and purifie them like as golde and syluer that they maye brynge meatofferinges vnto the LORDE in rightuousnes Then shall the offeringe of Iuda and Ierusalem be acceptable vnto the LORDE like as from the begynninge in the yeares afore tyme. I will come punysh you I my self wil be a swift wytnes agaynst the witches agaynst the aduouterers agaynst false swearers yee aÌ„d agaynst those that wroÌ„geously kepe backe the hyrelynges dewty which vexe the wyddowes the fatherlesse oppresse the straunger and feare not me sayeth the LORDE of hoostes For I am the LORDE y t chaunge not ye o children of Iacob wil not leaue of ye are gone awaye fro myne ordinauÌ„ces sens y e tyme of youre forefathers haue ye not kepte them Turne you now vnto me and I wil turne me vnto you sayeth the LORDE of hoostes Ye saye Wherin shal we turne Shulde a man vse falsede and disceate with God as ye vse falsede and disceate with me Yet ye saye wherin vse we disceate with the In Tythes and heaue offerynges Therfore are ye cursed with penury because ye dyssemble with me all the sorte of you Brynge euery Tythe in to my barne y t there maye be meat in myne house and proue me withall sayeth the LORDE of hoostes yf I wil not open the wyndowes of heauen vnto you and poure you out a blessinge with plenteousnesse Yee I shal reproue the consumer for youre sakes so that he shall not eate vp the frute of youre grounde nether shal y e vynyarde be baren in the felde sayeth y e LORDE of hoostes In so moch that all people shal saye that ye be blessed for ye shall be a pleasaunt loÌ„de sayeth the LORDE off hoostes Ye speake hard wordes agaynst me sayeth the LORDE And yet ye saye What haue we spoken agaynst the Ye haue sayed It is but lost laboure to serue God What profit haue we for kepynge his commaundementes and for walkinge humbly before the LORDE off hoostes Therfore maye we saye that the proude are happie and that they which deale with vngodlynesse are set vp for they tempte God and yet escape But they that feare God saye thus one to another The LORDE coÌ„sidreth and heareth it Yee it is before him a memoriall boke written for soch as feare the LORDE and remembre his name And in the daye that I wil make saieth y e LORDE of hoostes they shal be myne owne possession and I will fauoure them like as a man fauoureth his owne sonne that doth him seruyce Turne you therfore and considre what difference is betwixte the rightuous and vngodly betwixte him that serueth God aÌ„d him that serueth him not For marck the daye commeth that shall burne as an oueÌ„ and all the proude yee and all soch as do wickednesse shal be straw and the daye that is for to come shall burne theÌ„ vp sayeth the LORDE of hoostes so that it shal leaue them nether rote ner braunch But vnto you that feare my name shall the SoÌ„ne of rightuousnesse aryse health shal be vnder his winges Ye shal go forth multiplie as y e fat calues Ye shal treaded 〈◊〉 y e vngodly for they shal be like the 〈◊〉 vnder the soles of youre fete in the daye y t I shal make sayeth the LORDE of hoostes Remembre the lawe of Moses my seruaunt which I committed vnto him in â—reb for all Israel with the statutes and ordinaunces Beholde
of the prophet Ieremy and tyll the londe had hir rest namely all the tyme y t it laye wayest had it rest quyetnes lxxvij yeares The II. Chapter NOw whā kynge Cyrus raigned ouer the Persians whā the LORDE wolde perfourme the worde y t he had promysed by the mouth of the prophet Ieremy the LORDE raysed vp the sprete of Cyrus the kynge of the Persiās so y t he caused this wrytinge to be proclamed thorow out his whole realme sayenge Thus sayeth the kynge of y e Persians The LORDE of Israel that hye LORDE hath made me kynge of the lōde and commaunded me to buylde him an house at Ierusalem in Iewry Yf there be eny now of youre people y e LORDE be with him and go vp with him to Ierusalem And all they that dwell rounde aboute y t place shal helpe thē whether it be with golde with syluer with giftes with horses and necessary catell and all other thinges that are brought w t a fre wyll to the house of the LORDE at Ierusalē Then the pryncipall mē out of the trybes and vyllages of Iuda and Ben Iamin stode vp so dyd the prestes also the leuites whō the LORDE had moued to go vp and to buylde the house of the LORDE at Ierusalē And they that were aboute them helped them w t all maner of golde and syluer and catell also and with many liberall giftes and this dyd many one whose mynde was stered vp therto Kynge Cyrus also brought forth the vessels and ornamentes that were halowed vnto the LORDE which Nabuchodonosor the kynge of Babilon had caried awaye from Ierusalem and consecrated them to his Idoll and ymage and delyuered them to Mithridatus his treasurer and by him they were delyuered to Salmanasar y e debyte in Iewry And this was the nōbre of them Two thousande and iiij C. syluer boules xxx syluer basens xxx basens of golde ij M. and iiij C. vessels of syluer and a thousande besyde All the vessels of golde and syluer were v. M.viij C. and lx These were nombred vnto Salmanasar and them that were come agayne with him to Ierusalē out of the captiuyte of Babilon Now in the tyme of kynge Artaxerses the kynge of Persia these men Balemus and Mithridatus Sabellius Rathimus Balthemus Semelius y e scrybe and other that dwelt in Samaria in other places vnder y e dominion therof Wrote a letter vnto kynge Artaxerses wherin they complayned vnto the kynge of them in Iewry and Ierusalem The letter was made after this maner Syr thy seruauntes Rathimus the story wryter Sabellius the Scrybe other iudges of thy courte in Celosyria and Phenices Be it knowne and manifest to o r lorde the kyn that the Iewes which are come vp frō you vnto vs into the rebellious and wicked cite begynne to buylde it agayne and the walles aboute it and to set vp the tēple of the new Now yf this cite and the walles therof be sett vp agayne they shal not only refuse to geue trybutes and taxinges but also rebell vtterly agaynst the kynge And for so moch as they take this in hande now aboute the temple we thought it reason to thinke no scorne of it but to shewe it vnto o r lorde the kynge to certifie him therof to the intent y t yf it please the kinge he maye cause it be sought in the bokes of olde and thou shalt fynde soch warnynge wrytten and shalt vnderstonde that this cite hath allwaye bene rebellious and disobedient that it hath subdued kynges and cities and that the Iewes which dwell therin haue euer bene a rebellious obstinate vnfaithfull and fightinge people for the which cause this cite is waysted Wherfore now we certifie oure lorde the kynge that yf this cite be buylded and occupied agayne the walles therof set vp a new thou canst haue no passage in to Celosyria and Phenices Then wrote the kynge to Rathimus the story wryter to Balthemus to Sabellius y e scrybe and to the other officers and dwellers in Syria and Phenices after this maner I haue red the epistle which thou sentest vnto me and haue commaunded to make diligent search and haue founde that the cite hath euer resisted kynges that the same people are dishobedient and haue caused moch warre that mightie kynges haue raigned in Ierusalem which also haue raysed vp taxinges of Syria and Phenices Wherfore I haue commaūded those people that they shal not buylde the cite that they make no more in it and that they procede no further with the buyldinge for so moch as it might be the cause of warre and displeasure vnto kynges Now whan Rathymus and Sabellius the scrybe and the rulers in the londe had red the wrytinge of kynge Artaxerses they gatt them together and came in all the haist to Ierusalem with an hoost of horsemen and with moch people of fote and forbad them to buylde And so they left of from buyldinge of the temple vnto the seconde yeare of kynge Darius The III. Chapter KYnge Darius made a greate feast vnto his seruaūtes vnto all his courte to all the officers of Media and Persia yee and to all the debytes rulers that were vnder him from India vnto Ethiopia an hundreth xxvij countrees So whan they had eaten and dronken beinge satisfied and were gone home agayne Darius the kynge wente in to his chambre layed him downe to slepe and so awaked Then the thre yonge men that kepte the kynges personne and watched his body commoned amonge them selues and spake one to another Let euery one of vs saye some thinge and loke whose sentence is wyser and more excellent then the other vnto him shal kinge Darius geue greate giftes and clothe him with purple He shal geue him vessels of golde to drynke in clothes of golde and coueringes he shall make him a costly charett a brydle of golde he shall geue him a bonet of whyte sylke and a chayne of golde aboute his neck yee he shal be the seconde pryncipall nexte vnto kynge Darius that because of his wyszdome and shal be called y e kynges kynsman So euery one wrote his meaninge sealed it and layed it vnder the kinges pelowe and sayde whan the kynge aryseth we will geue him oure wrytinges and loke whose worde the kynge and his chefe lordes iudge to be the most wysely spoken the same shall haue the victory One wrote wyne is a stronge thinge The secōde wrote The kynge is strōger The thirde wrote wemen haue yet more strength but aboue all thinges y e trueth beareth awaye the victory Now whan the kynge was rysen vp they toke their wrytinges and delyuered them vnto him and so hered them Then sent he forth to call all his chefe lordes all the debytes rulers of the countrees of Media and Persia. And whan they were sett downe in the councell the wrytinges were red before them And he commaunded to call for y e
sayde Thus hath y e LORDE done vnto me in y e dayes wherin he hath loked vpoÌ„ me to take awaye frome my rebuke amoÌ„ge men And in the sixte moneth was the angell Gabriel sent from God in to a cite of Galile called Nazareth vnto a virgin that was spoused vnto a man whose name was Ioseph of the house of Dauid and the virgins name was Mary And the angell came in vnto her and sayde Hayle thou full of grace the LORDE is with the blessed art thou amonge wemen WhaÌ„ she sawe him she was abaszhed at his sayenge and thought What maner of salutacion is this And the angell sayde vnto her Feare not Mary for thou hast fouÌ„de grace with God Beholde thou shalt coÌ„ceaue in thy woÌ„be beare a sonne shalt call his name Iesus he shal be greate shal be called y e sonne of the Hyest And the LORDE God shal geue him y e seate of Dauid his father he shal be kinge ouer y e house of Iacob for euer there shal be no ende of his kyngdome Then sayde Mary vnto the angell How shal this be seinge I knowe not a maÌ„ The angell answered sayde vnto her The holy goost shal come vpon the the power of the Hyest shal ouer shadowe the. Therfore that Holy also which shal be borne of the shal be called the sonne of God And beholde thy cosen Elizabeth she also hath coÌ„ceaued a sonne in hir olde age this is the sixte moneth of her which is reported to be barem for w t God is nothinge vnpossyble And Mary sayde Beholde here am I the hand 〈◊〉 of the LORDE be it vnto me as thou hast sayde And the angell departed froÌ„ her And Mary arose in those dayes and wente in to the mouÌ„taynes with haist into y e cite of Iewry and came in to y e house of Zachary and saluted Elizabeth And it fortuned as Elizabeth herde the salutacion of Mary the babe sprange in hir wombe And Elizabeth was fylled with the holy goost cried loude and sayde Blessed art thou amoÌ„ge wemen and blessed is the frute of y e wombe And how happeneth this to me that y e mother of my LORDE commeth vnto me Beholde whan I herde the voyce of thy salutacion the babe sprange in my wombe w t ioye And blessed art thou that hast beleued for y e thinges shal be perfourmed which were tolde y e froÌ„ y e LORDE And Mary sayde My soule magnifieth the LORDE And my sprete reioyseth iÌ„ God my Sauioure For he hath loked vpoÌ„ the lowe degre of his hande mayde Beholde froÌ„ hence forth shal all generacions call me blessed For he that is Mightie hath done greate thinges vnto me and holy is his name And his mercy endureth thorow out all generacions vpon them that feare him He sheweth strength with his arme and scatreth them that are proude in the ymaginacion of their hert He putteth downe the mightie from the seate and exalteth them of lowe degre He fylleth the hongrie with good thinges and letteth the riche go emptye He remeÌ„breth mercy and helpeth vp his seruaunt Israel Euen as he promysed vnto oure fathers Abraham and to his sede foreuer And Mary abode with her aboute thre monethes and then returned home agayne And Elizabethes tyme was come that she shulde be delyuered she brought forth a sonne And hir neghbours and kynsfolkes herde y t the LORDE had shewed greate mercy vpoÌ„ her they reioysed with her And it fortuned vpon the eight daye they came to circumcyse y e childe and called him Zachary after his father And his mother answered and sayde No but he shal be called Ihon. And they sayde vnto her There is none in y e kynne y t is so called And they made signes vnto his father how he wolde haue him called And he axed for wrytinge tables wrote sayde His name is Ihon. And they marueyled all And immediatly was his mouth and his toÌ„ge opened and he spake praysed God And there came a feare vpon all their neghbours And all this acte was noysed abrode thorow out all the hill countre of Iewry And all they y t herde therof toke it to hert and sayde What maner of man wil this childe be For the hande of the LORDE was with him And Zachary his father was fylled with the holy goost and prophecied and sayde Blessed be y e LORDE God of Israel for he hath vysited and redemed his people And hath set vp an horne of saluacion in the house of his seruaunt Dauid Euen as he promysed afore tyme by the mouth of his holy prophetes That he wolde delyuer vs froÌ„ oure enemies from y e hande of all soch as hate vs. And y t he wolde shewe mercy vnto oure fathers thynke vpoÌ„ his holy couenauÌ„t Euen the ooth y t he sware vnto oure father Abraham for to geue vs. That we delyuered out of y e haÌ„de of o enemies might serue him without feare all the dayes of oure life in soch holynes and righteousnes as is accepte before him And thou childe shalt be called a prophet of the Hyest for thou shalt go before y e LORDE to prepare his wayes And to geue knowlege of saluacion vnto his people for the remyssion of their synnes Thorow the tender mercy of oure God wherby the daye sprynge from an hye hath vysited vs. That he might geue light vnto them y t syt in darcknesse and shadowe of death and to gyde oure fete into the waye of peace And the childe grew and waxed stronge in sprete and was in the wyldernes tyll the tyme that he shulde shewe him self vnto the people of Israel The II. Chapter IT fortuned at the same tyme that there weÌ„te out a coÌ„maundement froÌ„ Augustus the Emperoure that the whole worlde shulde be taxed And this taxynge was the first that was executed whan Syrenius was leftenaunt in Siria And they wente all euery one to his owne cite to be taxed Then Ioseph gat him vp also froÌ„ Galile out of the cite of Nazareth into Iewry to y e cite of Dauid which is called Bethleem because he was of y e house and lynage of Dauid that he might be â—axed w t Mary his spoused wife which was w t childe And it fortuned whyle they were there y e tyme was come that she shulde be delyuered And she brought forth hir first begotteÌ„ sonne wrapped him inswadlinge clothes and layed him in a maunger for they had els no rowme in the ynne And there were in y e same region shepherdes in the felde by the foldes and watchinge their flocke by night And beholde y e angell of the LORDE stode by theÌ„ and y e brightnes of the LORDE shone rounde aboute them and they were sore afrayed And the angell sayde vnto them Be not afrayed Beholde I brynge you tydiÌ„ges of greate ioye which shall happen vnto all people
his disciples was called vnto y e mariage And whan the wyne fayled the mother of Iesus saide vnto him They haue no wyne Iesus sayde vnto her WomaÌ„ what haue I to do w t the Myne houre is not yet 〈◊〉 His mother sayde vnto y e mynisters Whatsoeuer he sayeth vnto you do it There were set there sixe water pottes of stone after y e maner of the purifienge of y e Iewes euery one coÌ„teyninge two or thre measures Iesus sayde vnto theÌ„ Fyll the water pottes with water And they fylled theÌ„ vp to y e brymme And he sayde vnto theÌ„ Drawe out now brynge vnto the Master of the feast And they bare it WhaÌ„ the master of y e feast had taisted y e wyne which had bene water and knewe not whence it came but the mynisters that drue y e water knewe it the Master of the feast called the brydegrome and sayde vnto him Euery man at the first geueth the good wyne whan they are dronken theÌ„ that which is worse But thou hast kepte backe the good wyne vntyll now This is the first token that Iesus dyd at Cana in Galile and shewed his glory and his disciples beleued on him Afterwarde wente he downe to Capernaum he his mother his brethreÌ„ and his disciples and taried not longe there And the Iewes Easter was at hande And Iesus weÌ„te vp to Ierusalem and founde syttinge in the teÌ„ple those that solde oxen shepe and doues and chaungers of money And he made a scourge of small cordes and droue them all out of the teÌ„ple with the shepe and oxen and poured out the chaungers money and ouerthrewe the tables and sayde vnto them that solde the doues Haue these thinges heÌ„ce and make not my fathers house an house of marchaundyse His disciples remembred it that is wrytten The zele of thine house hath euen eaten me Then answered the Iewes and sayde vnto him What token shewest thou vnto vs that thou mayest do these thinges Iesus answered sayde vnto theÌ„ Breake downe this temple and in thre dayes wil I set it vp agayne Then sayde the Iewes Sixe and fourtye yeare was this temple abuyldinge and wilt thou set it vp in thre dayes But he spake of y e teÌ„ple of his body Now whaÌ„ he was rysen agayne from the deed his disciples remembred that he thus sayde and they beleued the scripture and the wordes which Iesus spake WhaÌ„ he was at IerusaleÌ„ at Easter in y e feast many beleued on his name whan they sawe y e tokeÌ„s y t he dyd But Iesus coÌ„mytted not himself vnto theÌ„ for he knewe theÌ„ all neded not y t eny maÌ„ shulde testifye of man for he knewe well what was in maâ— â–ª The III. Chapter THere was a man of the Pharises named Nicodemus a ruler amoÌ„ge the Iewes The same came vnto Iesus by night sayde vnto hiÌ„ Master we knowe y t thou art come a teacher froÌ„ God for no maÌ„ can do these tokeÌ„s y t thou doest excepte God be with him Iesus answered and sayde vnto him Verely verely I saye vnto the Excepte a man be borne a new he can not se the kyngdome of God Nicodemus sayde vnto him How can a man be borne whan he is olde Can he entre into his mothers wombe and be borne agayne Iesus answered Verely verely I saye vnto the Excepte a maÌ„ be borne of water and of the sprete he can not come in to y e kyngdome of God That which is borne of flesh is flesh that which is borne of the sprete is sprete Maruell not that I sayde vnto y e Ye must be borne of new The wynde bloweth where he wyl and thou hearest his sounde but thou canst not tell wheÌ„ce he commeth and whither he goeth So is euery one that is borne of the sprete Nicodemus answered and sayde vnto him How maye these be Iesus answered sayde vnto hiÌ„ Art thou a Master in Israel knowest not these Verely I saye vnto y e We speake that we knowe and testifie that we haue sene and ye receaue not oure wytnesse Yf ye beleue not whan I tell you of earthly thinges how shulde ye beleue whaÌ„ I speake vnto you of heauenly thinges And noman ascendeth vp in to heauen but he that is come downe from heaueÌ„ namely the sonne of man which is in heauen And like as Moses lift vp the serpent in the wyldernes euen so must the sonne of man be lift vp that who so euer beleueth in him shulde not perish but haue euerlastinge life For God so loued the worlde that he gaue his onely sonne that who so euer beleueth in hiÌ„ shulde not perishe but haue euerlastinge life For God sent not his sonne in to y e worlde to condempne the worlde but that the worlde might be saued by him He that beleueth on him shal not be coÌ„demned But he that beleueth not is coÌ„demned allready because he beleueth not on the name of the onely sonne of God But this is y e coÌ„dempnacion that the light is come in to the worlde and men loued the darknesse more theÌ„ y e light for their workes were euell Whosoeuer doth euell hateth the light and coÌ„meth not to the light that his dedes shulde not be reproued But he that doth the trueth commeth to the light that his workes maye be knowne for they are done in God Afterwarde came Iesus his disciples in to the loÌ„de of Iewry and had his beynge there with them and baptysed Ihon baptysed also in Enon besyde Salem for there was moch water there And they came thither and were baptysed for Ihon was not yet put in preson Then arose there a question amonge the disciples of Ihon with the Iewes aboute the purifienge and they came vnto Ihon and sayde vnto him Master he y t was with the beyonde Iordan of whom thou barest wytnesse beholde * he baptyseth and euery man coÌ„meth vnto him Ihon answered and sayde A man can receaue nothinge excepte it be geuen him from heaueÌ„ Ye youre selues are my witnesses how that I sayde I am not Christ but am sent before him He that hath the bryde is the brydegrome but the frende of the brydegrome stondeth and herkeneth vnto him and reioyseth greatly ouâ—r the voyce of the brydegrome this same ioye of myne is now fulfilled He must increace but I must decreace He that commeth from an hye is aboue all He that is of the earth is earthly and speaketh of the earth He that commeth froÌ„ heauen is aboue all and testifieth what he hath sene herde and no man receaueth his wytnesse But he that receaueth it hath set to his seale that God is true For he whoÌ„ God hath sent speaketh y e wordes of God for God geueth not the sprete vnto him by measure The father loueth the sonne and hath geuen him all thinges in to his hande He that beleueth
in Christ. The III. Chapter· BEgynne we then agayne to prayse o selues Or nede we as some other of pistles of commēdacion vnto you or letters of commēdacion from you Ye are oure epistle wrytten in oure hertes which is vnderstonde and red of all mē in that ye are knowne how that ye are y e epistle of Christ mynistred by vs and wryttē not with ynke but with the sprete of the lyuynge God not in tables of stone but in fleshy tables of the hert Soch trust haue we thorow Christ to God warde not that we are sufficient of oure selues to thynke eny thinge as of oure selues but oure ablenesse commeth of God which hath made vs able to be mynisters of the new Testament not of the letter but of the sprete For the letter kylleth but the sprete geueth life But yf the mynistracion y t kylleth thorow the letter and was figured in stones was glorious so that the childrē of Israel mighte not beholde the face of Moses for y e clearnesse of his countenaūce which glory neuertheles is done awaye how shal not y e mynistracion of y e sprete be moch more glorious For yf the office that preacheth damnacion be glorious moch more doth the office that preacheth righteousnes exceade in glory For y e other parte that was glorified is nothinge glorified in respecte of this exceadinge glory For yf that which is done awaye be glorious moch more shal y t which remayneth be glorious Seynge then that we haue soch trust we vse greate boldnesse and do not as Moses which put a vayle before his face so that y e children of Israel mighte not se the ende of it that is done awaye But their myndes are blynded For vnto this daye remayneth the same coueringe vntakē awaye in the olde Testament whan they rede it which in Christ is put awaye But euen vnto this daye whan moses is red the vayle hangeth before their hertes Neuertheles whā they turne to the LORDE the vayle shal be taken awaye For the LORDE is a sprete where the sprete of the LORDE is there is libertye But now the glory of y e LORDE apeareth in vs all with open face and we are chaunged into the same ymage from one clearnes to another euē as of the sprete of the LORDE The IIII. Chapter THerfore seynge we haue soch an office euen as mercy is come vpon vs we faynte not but cast from vs the clokes of vnhonestye and walke not in craftines nether corruppe we the worde of God but open the trueth and reporte oure selues to euery mans conscyence in the sighte of God Yf oure Gospell be yet hyd it is hyd in them that are lost amonge whom the God of this worlde hath blynded y e myndes of them which beleue not that y e lighte of the Gospell of the glory of Christ which is the ymage of God shulde not shyne vnto them For we preach not o r selues but Iesus Christ to be the LORDE and oure selues youre seruauntes for Iesus sake For God that cōmaunded the light to shyne out of darcknesse hath geuen a cleare shyne in oure hertes y t by vs y e light of y e knowlege of the glory of God mighte come forth in the face of Iesus Christ. But this treasure haue we in earthen vessels that y e power which excelleth might be of God and not of vs. We are troubled on euery syde yet are we not without shift We are in pouertie but not vtterly without somwhat We are persecuted but we are not forsaken We are oppressed neuertheles we perish not We allwayes be are aboute in oure body the dyenge of the LORDE Iesus y t the life also of the LORDE Iesus might appeare in oure body For we which lyue are alwayes delyuered vnto death for Iesus sake that the life also of Iesus might appeare in oure mortall flesh Therfore is death now mightie in vs but life in you But seynge that we haue the same sprete of faith acordinge as it is wrytten I beleued and therfore haue I spokē we also beleue therfore we speake for we knowe that he which raysed vp y e LORDE Iesus shal rayse vs vp also by y e meanes of Iesus and shal set vs with you For all thinges do I for youre sakes that the plēteous grace by the thākesgeuynge of many maye redounde to the prayse of God Therfore are we not weery but though o r outwarde man be corrupte yet the inwarde is renewed daye by daye For oure trouble which is but temporall and lighte worketh an exceadinge and an eternall weighte of glorye vnto vs which loke not on the thinges that are sene but on them which are not sene For y e thinges which are sene are temporall but the thinges that are not sene are eternall The V. Chapter WE knowe surely y t yf oure earthy house of this dwellynge were destroyed we haue a buyldynge ordeyned of God an house not made with handes but euerlastynge in heauen And in the same sighe we also after oure māsion which is from heauen and longe to be clothed therwith so yet yf that we be founde clothed and not naked For as longe as we are in this tabernacle we sighe and are greued for we had rather not be vnclothed but to be clothed vpon that mortalite might be swalowed vp of life But he that hath ordeyned vs for this is God which hath geuen vs the earnest of the sprete Therfore are we allwaye of good cheare and knowe that as longe as we dwell here in the body we are not at home with the LORDE for we walke in faith and se him not Neuertheles we are of good comforte and had leuer to be absent from the body to be at home with the LORDE Wherfore whether we be at home or frō home we endeuoure oure selues to please him For we must all appeare before the iudgment seate of Christ y t euery one maye receaue in his body acordinge to y t he hath done whether it be good or bad Seynge then that we knowe how that the LORDE is to be feared we fare fayre with men but we are knowne well ynough vnto God I trust also that we are knowne in youre consciences We prayse not oure selues agayne vnto you but geue you an occasion to reioyse of vs y t ye maye haue to reioyse agaynst them which reioyse after the outwarde appearaunce and not after the hert For yf we do to moch we do it vnto God yf we kepe measure we do it for youre sakes For the loue of Christ constrayneth vs in as moch as we thus iudge that yf one be deed for all then are all deed And therfore dyed he for all that they which lyue shulde not hence forth lyue vnto them selues but vnto him which dyed for them and rose agayne Therfore hence forth knowe we noman after y