aulter 6 And thou shalt make two barres for the aulter of Sittim wood and couer them with brasse ' 7 And let them be put in the ringes along ' by the sides of the aulter to beare it with all 8 And make the aulter holowe with boordes euen as it was shewed thee in the mount so shalt thou make it 9 And thou shalt make the court of the tabernacle on the south side euen full south the curtaines for the court shal be of whyte twined silke of an hundreth cubites long for one side 10 And twentie pillers therof with their twentie sockets of brasse but the knops of the pillers and their whopes shal be siluer 11 In likewise on the north syde there shal be curtaynes of an hundred cubites long and twentie pillers with their twentie sockets of brasse and the knops and the whopes of siluer 12 And the breadth of the court whiche is westwarde shall haue curtaynes of fiftie cubites and the pillers of them shal be ten and the sockets of them ten ' 13 Fiftie cubites shal be in the court eastwarde ' euen full east 14 The curtaynes of one syde shal be of fifteene cubites the pillers of them three and the sockets three 15 And likewise on the other side shal be curtaines of fifteene cubites with their three pillers and three sockets 16 And in the gate of the court shal be a vayle of twentie cubites of blewe silke purple and scarlet and white twyned silke wrought with needle worke and foure pillers with their foure sockets 17 All the pillers rounde about the court shal be whoped with siluer and their knoppes shal be of siluer and their sockets of brasse 18 The length of the court shal be an hundred cubites and the breadth fiftie on euery side and the heyght of the curtaynes shal be fiue cubites of whyte twyned silke and their sockettes of brasse 19 All the vessels of the tabernacle in all maner of seruice and the pinnes therof yea and all the pinnes also of the court shal be of brasse 20 And thou shalt commaunde the chyldren of Israel that they geue thee pure oyle oliue beaten for the light that they may make the lampes to borne alwayes 21 In the tabernacle of the congregation without the vayle whiche is before the witnesse shall Aaron his sonnes dresse the lampes both euening and morning before the Lorde and it shal be a statute for euer vnto the generations of the chyldren of Israel AB The length of the court a hundred cubites on the south side in which there are .20 pillers of .5 cubites hye with their sockettes and heades and curtains of twined linnen CD The like length on the north side BC. The west side .50 cubites long in which there are .10 pillers of .5 cubites high with their sockettes and heades and curtains of twined linnen AD. The east side is also .50 cubites long E. The curtains of twined linnen of .50 cubites long and .3 pillers of .5 cubites high with their heades and sockettes F. Like curtaines on the side ouer agaynst it G. Curtains of .20 cubites long beyng at the entry of the court embrodered with .4 pillers H. The stakes or pinnes to which the cordes of the tentes are fastened ¶ The .xxviij. Chapter 1 The deckyng of Aaron the priest 6 The Ephod or the ornament that shoulde be vpon the shoulders 15 The pectorall or stomacher of iudgement 1 AND take thou vnto thee Aaron thy brother and his sonnes with him from among the children of Israel that Aaron may minister vnto me in the priestes office Nadab and Abihu Eleazar and Ithamar Aarons sonnes 2 And thou shalt make holy rayment for Aaron thy brother glorious and beautifull 3 And thou shalt speake vnto all that are wise hearted whom I haue filled with the spirite of wisdome that they make Aarons rayment to consecrate him that he may minister vnto me in the priestes office 4 These are the garmentes which they shall make a brestlap and an ephod a tunicle a brodered coate a miter and a girdle these holy garmentes shall they make for Aaron thy brother and his sonnes that they may minister vnto me in the priestes office ' 5 And let them take golde blewe silke ' purple scarlet and whyte twined silke 6 They shall make the ephod of golde blewe silke purple scarlet and whyte twined silke with brodered worke ' 7 The two sides shall come together and ' be closed vp in the two edges therof 8 And the girdle of the ephod shal be of the same workmanship and of the same stuffe euen of golde blewe silke purple scarlet and whyte twined silke 9 And thou shalt take two Onyx stones and graue in them the names of the children of Israel 10 Sixe names of them in the one stone and the other sixe in the other stone accordyng to their birth 11 After the worke of a stone grauer and of him that graueth signettes shalt thou graue the two stones with the names of the children of Israel and shalt make them to be set in ouches of golde 12 And thou shalt put the two stones vpon the two shoulders of the ephod that they may be stones of remembraunce vnto the children of Israel and Aaron shal beare their names before the Lord vpon his two shoulders for a remembraunce 13 And thou shalt make ouches of golde ' 14 And two chaynes of fine golde of a certayne length linke worke wreathed and fasten the wreathed chaynes to the ouches 15 And thou shalt make the brestlap of iudgement with brodered worke euen after the worke of the ephod thou shalt make it namely of golde blewe silke purple scarlet and whyte twined silke 16 Foure square it shal be and double an hande bredth long and an hande bredth brode 17 And thou shalt fill it with foure rowes of stones in the first rowe shal be a Sardius a Topas and Smaragdus 18 In the seconde rowe a Rubi Saphir ' and Diamonde ' 19 In the thirde a Lyncurius an Achat ' and an Ametyst ' 20 In the fourth a Turcas an Onyx and a Iaspis and they shal be set in golde in their inclosers 21 And the stones shal be grauen as signettes be grauen with the names of the children of Israel euen with twelue names euery one with his name accordyng to the twelue tribes 22 And thou shalt make vpon the brestlap two fastenyng chaynes of pure golde and wreathen worke 23 And thou shalt make likewise vpon the brestlap two ringes of golde and put them on the edges of the brestlap 24 And put the two wreathen chaynes of golde in the two ringes which are in the edges of the brestlap 25 And the other two endes of the chaines thou shalt fasten in two close ouches and put them vpon the shoulders of the ephod on the foreside of it 26 And thou shalt yet make two ringes of golde which thou shalt put in the two edges of the brestlap
aunswered them should I forsake my sweetnes and my good fruite and go to be promoted ouer the trees 12 Then sayde the trees vnto the vine Come thou and be kyng ouer vs. 13 The vine sayde vnto them Should I leaue my wine wherby I cheare both God and man and go to be promoted ouer the trees 14 Then said all the trees vnto the bryer Come thou and raigne ouer vs. 15 And the bryer sayde vnto the trees If it be true that ye will annoynt me kyng ouer you then come and put your trust vnder my shadow If no the fyre come out of the bryer waste the Cedar trees of Libanon 16 Nowe therfore if ye do truely and vncorruptly to make Abimelech kyng and if ye haue dealte well with Ierobaal his house and haue done vnto hym according to the deseruing of his handes 17 For euen my father fought for you and aduentured his life and ridde you out of the hande of Madian 18 And ye are rysen vp agaynst my fathers house this day and haue slayne his children beyng threescore ten persones vpon one stone and haue made Abimelech the sonne of his mayde seruaunt king ouer the men of Sichem because he is your brother 19 If ye then haue dealt truely and purely with Ierobaal and with his house this day then reioyce ye with Abimelech and let him reioyce with you 20 But if you haue not dealt truely then let a fire come out of Abimelech consume the men of Sichem the house of Mello and let there come out a fire frō among the men of Sichem out of the house of Mello consume Abimelech 21 And Ioatham ran away and fledde and went to Beer and dwelt there for feare of Abimelech his brother 22 When Abimelech had raigned three yeres ouer Israel 23 God sent an euyll spirite betweene Abimelech the men of Sichem and the citezins of Sichem brake their promise to Abimelech 24 That the wickednes done to the threescore and ten sonnes of Ierobaal might come on him and that God might lay the blood of them vnto Abimelech their brother which slue them and vpon the other men of Sichem which ayded him in the killing of his brethren 25 And the citezins of Sichem set men to lay awayte for hym in the toppe of the mountaynes which men robbed al that came along the way by them And it was tolde Abimelech 26 And Gaal the sonne of Obed came with his brethren and they gat them to Sichem and the men of Sichem put their confidence in him 27 And they went out into the fieldes and gathered in their grapes trode them and made mery went into the house of their god and dyd eate and drinke and cursed Abimelech 28 And Gaal the sonne of Obed sayde what is Abimelech what is Sichem that we shoulde serue him Is he not the sonne of Ierobaal Zebul is his officer Serue such as come of Hemor the father of Sichem for what reason is it that we shoulde serue him 29 Woulde God this people were vnder my hande then would I take Abimelech out of y e way And he spake against Abimelech Make thine hoast greater and go out 30 And when Zebul the ruler of the citie hearde the wordes of Gaal the sonne of Obed he was wroth 31 And sent messengers vnto Abimelech priuyly saying Behold Gaal the sonne of Obed and his brethren be come to Sichem and beholde they fortifie the citie agaynst thee 32 Now therfore vp by night thou and the people that is with thee and lye in wayte in the fielde 33 And rise early in the morning assone as the sunne is vp and fall vpon the citie And if he the people that is with hym come out against thee do to hym what thine handes shal be able 34 And Abimelech rose vp and all the people that were with him by night and they layde awayte against Sichem in foure companies 35 And Gaal the sonne of Obed went out and stoode in the entring of the gate of the citie And Abimelech rose vp and the folke that were with him from lying in wayte 36 And when Gaal sawe y e people he sayd to Zebul Beholde there come people downe from the top of the mountaines And Zebul sayd vnto him The shadow of the hylles seeme men vnto thee 37 And Gaal aunswered agayne sayd See there come folke downe by y e middle of the land another company come along by the playne of the charmars 38 Then sayd Zebul vnto him Where is nowe thy mouth that said what felowe is Abimelech that we should serue him Is not this the people that thou hast despysed Go out now fight with thē 39 And Gaal went out before the citezins of Sichem fought with Abimelech 40 And Abimelech chased him that he fled before him and many were ouerthrowen wounded euen vnto the entring of the gate 41 And Abimelech dwelt at Arumah and Zebul thrust out Gaal his brethrē that they shoulde not dwell in Sichem 42 And on the morow the people wēt out into the fielde And they told Abimelech 43 And he toke the people deuided them into three cōpanies layd awayte in the fielde and loked and behold the people were come out of the citie and he ran vpon them and smote them 44 And Abimelech and the companions that were with him rushed forward stoode in the entring of the gate of the citie and the two other companions ran vpon all the people that were in the fieldes and slue them 45 And when Abimelech had fought against the citie al that day he toke it and slue the people that was therin and destroyed the citie and sowed salte in it 46 And when all the men of the towre of Sichem heard that they entred into an holde of the house of the god Berith 47 And it was told Abimelech that all the men of the towre of Sichem were gathered together 48 And Abimeleh gat him to mount Zelmon both he all the people that were with him toke axes with him and cut downe bowes of trees toke them and bare them on his shulder sayde vnto the folke that were with hym what ye haue seene me do speede your selues do lykewyse as I haue done 49 And al the men that were among the people cut downe bowes and folowed Abimelech and put them into the hold and set the holde a fire by them so that al the men of the towre of Sichem died also vpon a thousande men women 50 Then went Abimelech to Thebez besieged it and toke it 51 But there was a strong towre within the citie and thyther ranne all the men and women and all the chiefe that were in the citie and shut it to them and gate them vp to the toppe of the towre 52 And Abimelech came vnto the towre and fought agaynst it and went harde vnto the doore
disciples vnto hym he gaue them power agaynst vncleane spirites to cast them out and to heale all maner of sicknesse and all maner of disease 2 The names of the twelue Apostles are these The first Simon whiche is called Peter and Andrewe his brother Iames the sonne of Zebedee Iohn his brother 3 Philip Bartholomewe Thomas and Matthewe which had ben a Publicane Iames y e sonne of Alphee Lebbeus whose surname was Taddeus 4 Simon the Cananite Iudas Iscariot which also betrayed hym 5 Iesus sent foorth these twelue whoÌ„ he coÌ„maunded saying Go not into the way of the Gentiles and into the citie of the Samaritanes enter ye not 6 But go rather to the lost sheepe of the house of Israel 7 As ye go preache saying The kyngdome of heauen is at hande 8 Heale the sicke cleanse y e lepers rayse the dead cast out deuyls Freely ye haue receaued freely geue 9 Possesse not golde nor syluer nor brasse in your purses 10 Nor yet scrippe towardes your iourney neither two coates neither shoes nor yet a staffe For the workman is worthy of his meate 11 But to whatsoeuer citie or towne ye shall come inquire who is worthy in it and there abyde tyll ye go thence 12 And when ye come into an house salute the same 13 And if the house be worthy let your peace come vpon it but if it be not worthy let your peace returne to you again 14 And whosoeuer shal not receaue you nor wyll heare your preachyng when ye depart out of that house or that citie shake of the dust of your feete 15 Veryly I say vnto you it shal be easier for the lande of the Sodomites and Gomorreans in the day of iudgement then for that citie 16 Beholde I sende you foorth as sheepe in the middest of woolfes Be ye therfore wyse as serpentes and harmelesse as doues 17 But beware of men For they shall delyuer you vp to the councels and shal scourge you in their synagogues 18 And ye shal be brought to the head rulers and kynges for my sake in witnesse to them and to the Gentiles 19 But wheÌ„ they delyuer you vp take ye no thought how or what ye shal speake For it shal be geuen you euen in that same houre what ye shall speake 20 For it is not ye that speake but y e spirite of your father which speaketh in you 21 The brother shall delyuer vp the brother to death and the father the sonne the chyldren shall ryse agaynst their fathers and mothers and shall but them to death 22 And ye shal be hated of all men for my names sake but he that endureth to the ende shal be saued 23 But when they persecute you in this citie flee ye into another For verily I say vnto you ye shall not ende all the cities of Israel tyll the sonne of man be come 24 The disciple is not aboue the maister nor the seruaunt aboue his lorde 25 It is enough for the disciple that he be as his maister is and that the seruaunt be as his lorde is If they haue called the lorde of the house Beelzebub howe much more shall they call them of his householde so 26 Feare them not therfore For there is nothing close that shal not be opened nothing hyd that shall not be knowen 27 What I tell you in darknesse that speake ye in lyght And what ye heare in the eare that preach ye on the houses 28 And feare ye not them which kyll the body but are not able to kyll the soule But rather feare hym which is able to destroy both soule and body in hell 29 Are not two litle sparowes solde for a farthyng And one of theÌ„ shall not light on the grounde without your father 30 Yea euen all the heere 's of your head are numbred 31 Feare ye not therefore ye are of more value then many sparowes 32 Euery one therfore that shall confesse me before men hym wyll I confesse also before my father which is in heaueÌ„s 33 But whosoeuer shall denye me before men hym wyll I also denye before my father which is in heauens 34 Thinke not that I am come to sende peace into the earth I came not to sende peace but a sworde 35 For I am come to set a man at varyaunce agaynst his father the daughter agaynst her mother and the daughter in lawe agaynst her mother in lawe 36 And a mans foes shal be they of his owne householde 37 He that loueth father or mother more then me is not worthy of me And he that loueth sonne or daughter more theÌ„ me is not worthy of me 38 * And he that taketh not his crosse foloweth me is not worthy of me 39 He that findeth his life shall lose it and he that loseth his lyfe for my sake shall fynde it 40 He that receaueth you receaueth me he that receaueth me receaueth hym that sent me 41 He that receaueth a prophete in the name of a prophete shall receaue a prophetes rewarde And he that receaueth a ryghteous man in the name of a ryghteous man shall receaue a ryghteous mans rewarde 42 And whosoeuer shall geue vnto one of these litle ones to drynke a cuppe of colde water only in the name of a disciple veryly I say vnto you he shall not lose his rewarde ⧠The .xi. Chapter â— Christe preacheth â— Iohn Baptist sendeth his disciples vnto him 7 Châ—istes testimonie concernyng Iohn 1â— The opinion of the people concernyng Christe and Iohn 20 Christe vpbraydeth the vnthanfull cities â—5 The Gospell is reuealed to the simple â— They that labour and are laden â—9 Christes yoke 1 AND it came to passe that when Iesus had made an ende of commaundyng his twelue disciples he departed thence to teache and to preache in their cities 2 ☞ When Iohn being in prison heard the workes of Christe he sent two of his disciples and sayde vnto him 3 Art thou he that shoulde come or do we loke for another 4 Iesus aunswered and sayd vnto them Go and shewe Iohn agayne what ye haue hearde and seene 5 The blinde receaue their sight the halt do walke the lepers are cleansed and the deafe heare the dead are raised vp and the poore receaue the Gospell 6 And happy is he that is not offended in me 7 And as they departed Iesus began to say vnto the multitude coÌ„cerning Iohn What went ye out into the wildernesse to see A reede shaken with the winde 8 Or what went ye out for to see A man clothed in soft rayment Beholde they that weare soft clothyng are in kinges houses 9 But what went ye out for to see A prophete yea I say vnto you and more then a prophete 10 For this is he of whom it is written Beholde I sende my messenger before thy face which
Ionathas was dearely beloued of Dauid in signe of friendship he gaue to Dauid his apparell and deliuered him from his fathers ire for he knew that he was elected kyng by God Dauid loued his sonne Miphiboseth and did mercifully with him as he promised to Ionathas for he set him at his table 2. Reg. 9. at last was slayne of the Philistines 2. Reg. 22. 〈◊〉 or Yshai is the sonne of Obed who was the father of Dauid this Obed was sonne to Booz to Noema Ruth 4â— This is Iesse or Yshai of whom Esaias the prophete wryteth cap. â—1 There shall come a sprigge foorth of the stemme of Yshai whiche is Christ and a young shoote shall growe out of his roote the spirite of the Lorde shall rest vpon hym c. In the time of Dauid Ioab the sonne of Seruia was lieftenaunt vpon the armie Iosaphat secretari that is wryter of the actes Sadoch and Abiathar priestes Saraias scribe that is chancelor Banaias ouerseer of Celetie and Pheleti whiche were of the garde to Dauids person Nathan and Gad were prophetes in his time Dauid had eyght wyues Egla Abigal Bethsabe Ager Maacha Abigail Achidoc which were mothers of these children in order as they go beside other concubines and other children many Nathan is he whom Dauid adopted vnto his sonne he was not NathaÌ„ the prophet By the counsel of this Ionadab Amon did defloure his sister 2. Reg. 13. A Amasa was lieftenaunt ouer the battayles of Dauid whom Ioab slue deceytfully vnder the colour of imbrasing hym .2 Regum 20. B This Azael was a man very swift in running whom Abner the sonne of Ner did kill whervpon him selfe also was slayne 2. Regum 2. C This Ioab was Dauids seruaunt whoÌ„ he mayntayned in hie dominion against all men whiche killed Abner the sonne of Ner the chiefe of Sauls hoast 2. Regum 2. D Abisai went with Dauid when he toke away the speare and pitcher of water from the head of Saul in his sleepe whom he would haue killed but Dauid woulde not suffer him 2. Reg. 23. E By this Ietran or Natan the sonne of Dauid the virgine descended as appeareth beginning from him so goyng downe to Marie in the right line Christes line IESSE DAVID Solomon 7 Christes lyne Abigail Sisters to Dauid Saruia Sammaa Nathan Ionadab Amasa A Azael Ioab C Abisai D Ietran or Natan E 6 Saphasias 5 Eliab Amsnadab Abiathar Achitob Adonias F 4. Absolon G 3 Celaab 2. Amon the first sonne H Sadoch 〈◊〉 the sonne of Iesse of Bethleem the youngest of his brethren elected of the Lord to be king and 〈◊〉 by Samuel annoynted 1. Reg. 16. after that in Ebrâ—n he was made king vpon the tribe of Iuda seuen yeres and syxe monethes thirdly vpon aâ— Israel thirtie and three yeres He with his harpe dyd mitigate the furie of Saul theâ—by the killing of Goliath wan Ionathas heart vnto hym he was made the sonne in lawe to the king and hauing commendation of the virgins in their songues aboue Saule suffred much enuie of hym was pursued diuersly by him to death but was deliuered by the fauour of God In Nobe he did eate the breades appoynted for the priestes and counterfeted a madnesse before Achis king of Geth he scaped from the handes of Saule when the Philistines came vpon him and when Saule persecuted him Dauid cut the hem of his cloke in the caue that he was in he maried Abigail the wyfe of Nabol the foolish after his death he toke priuily away the speare and pitcher of water which was at Saules head After Saul was dead comming from Achis in Sichelech slue the Amalechites the messenger that slue Saule he executed making a morning song for hym after whom Solomon his sonne succeeded in his kingdome 3. Reg. 1.2 cap. Here returneth the priesthood to the children of Eleasar in the time of Solomon who dyd reiect Abiathar which was of the children of Ithamar and restored to Sadoch the priesthood whiche was of the sonnes of Eleasar Solomon was constituted king of Israel of his father Dauid who slue his brother Athonias and Ioab and Semei receiued of God the gyft of wysedome gaue a notable iudgement of the harlottes children made the temple by the helpe of Hyram in seuen yeres and seuen monethes and the tenth day of September dyd consecrate it brought the arke of God into the teÌ„ple receaued honorably the queene of Saba and at the last he filed his olde age by the loue of women and by the worshipping of idoles therfore the Lord swore that he would deuide his kingdome from the hande of his sonne and after he had raigned fourtie yeres he was buried in the citie of Dauid 3. Reg. 11. cap. In the time of Solomon Banaias the sonne of Ioiada was ruler ouer the hoast Sadoch and Azarias were priestes Heliot and Haia children of Sessa were scribes Iosaphat was recorder Azarias sonne of Nathan was set ouer them which assisted the king Yssuar stuard of y e house AduraÌ„ set ouer the tributes 3. Re. 4. F Adonias was deposed by Dauid because he woulde raigne and dyd appoynt Solomon who slue him because he dyd aske Abisaak the Sunamite to wyfe 3. Reg. 2. G Absolon was a very fayre man he slue his brother Amon he had the fauour of the people he toke from his father his kingdome lay with his concubines at last was slayne with three speares 2. Regum 18. H Amon did defile his sister Thamar in his fayned sickenesse doyng him seruice by the counsell of Ionadab and therfore was slayne by Absolon who fled from his father and by sute of Ioab was reconciled 2. Reg. 13. Bâ—hops 〈…〉 Crisâ—ine Prohetes that were in the tymes of the kinges of Iuda in this second lyne Achias Azarias Abdo Semâ—ias Ichu Zacharias Elieser Oziel In this lyne on the right hâ—nde â—e put the kinges of Iuda raigning ouer two tribes of whom the first was Roboam for the three kinges before named Saul Dauid and Solomon had the rule of all Israel A Roboam despising the counsel of the seniors and folowing the aduice of the younger men did much trouble gods people by hys rashnesse he retayned two tribes with y e leuitical tribe it was called the kingdome of Iuda he vpon y e demerite of his sonnes did suffer the inuasion of Susar king of Egypt who toke away the targettes of gold put brasen in y e same place .3 Re. 14 B Abia. folowed y e sinnes of his father Roboam who gathered together .900 souldiers and dyd obreyd Ieroboam of his idolatrie and the lorde delyuered Israel into y e handes of Iuda and after 5000. of the people of Israel wer slaine â–ª Ieroboam fled Abia after his death was buried in the citie of Dauid in his time Azarias liued in the temple of Solomon 3. Reg. 15. C Assa did right before y e lorde he suppressed the stues and at the counsell of Azarias the prophete he destroyed all the idols
And agayne Methusalah lyued after he begat Lamech seueÌ„ hundreth eightie and two yeres and begate sonnes and daughters 27 And all the dayes of Methuselah were nine hundreth sixtie nine yeres and he dyed 28 Lamech liued an hundreth eyghtie two yeres and begate a sonne 29 And called his name Noah saying This same shall comfort vs as concerning our worke sorowe of our handes about the earth which God cursed 30 And Lamech lyued after he begat Noah fiue huÌ„dreth ninetie fiue yeres and begate sonnes and daughters 31 And all the dayes of Lamech were seuen hundreth seuentie and seueÌ„ yeres and he dyed 32 Noah was fiue hundreth yere olde Noah begate Sem Ham Iapheth ¶ The .vj. Chapter 2 The cause of deluge 3 An hundred and twentie yeres geuen for conuersion amendement of lyfe 4 Giantes 5 The wickednesse of man prouoketh God 7 It repenteth God that he had made man 9 The generations of Noe the iust 13 God foretelleth vnto Noah hym selfe the generall deluge 15 The fashion of the arke 18 Who should enter the arke 1 AND it came to passe that when men began to be multiplied in the vpper face of the earth there were daughters borne vnto theÌ„ 2 And the sonnes of God also sawe the daughters of men that they were fayre they toke them wyues such as they liked from among them all 3 And the Lorde sayde My spirite shall not alwayes stryue with man because he is fleshe yet his dayes shal be an hundreth and twentie yeres 4 But there were Giantes in those dayes in y e earth yea after that the sonnes of God came vnto the daughters of meÌ„ and hadde begotten chyldren of them the same became myghtie men of the worlde and men of renowme 5 But God sawe that the malice of man was great in the earth and all the imagination of the thoughtes of his heart was only euyll euery day 6 And it repented the Lord that he had made man vpon the earth he was touched with sorowe in his heart 7 And the Lorde sayde I wyll from the vpper face of the earth destroy man whom I haue created from man vnto cattell vnto worme and vnto foules of the ayre For it repenteth me that I haue made them 8 But Noah founde grace in the eyes of the Lorde 9 These are the generations of Noah Noah was a iust man and perfect in his generations And Noah walked with God 10 Noah begat three sonnes Sem Ham and Iapheth 11 The earth also was corrupt before God and the same earth was fylled with crueltie 12 And God loked vpon the earth and beholde it was corrupt for all fleshe had corrupt his way vpon earth 13 And God sayd vnto Noah the ende of all fleshe is come before me for the earth is fylled with crueltie through them and beholde I wyl destroy them with the earth 14 Make thee an Arke of Pine trees Habitations shalt thou make in the arke and shalt pitch it within and with out with pitche 15 And of this fashion shalt thou make it The length of the arke shalâ—e three hundreth cubites the breadth of it fiftie cubites the height of it thirtie cubites 16 A wyndowe shalt thou make in the arke and in a cubite shalt thou finishe it aboue but the doore of the arke shalt thou set in the syde therof With three loftes one aboue another shalt thou make it 17 And beholde I euen I do bryng a fludde of waters vpon the earth to destroy all fleshe wherin is the breath of lyfe vnder heauen and euery thyng that is in the earth shall perishe 18 With thee also wyll I make my couenaunt and thou shalt come into the arke thou and thy sonnes thy wife and thy sonnes wyues with thee 19 And of euery lyuyng thyng of all fleshe payre of euery one shalt thou bryng into the arke to kepe them alyue with thee they shal be male female 20 Of fethered foules also after their kinde and of all cattell after their kinde of euery worme of the earth after his kynde two of euery one shall come vnto thee to kepe them alyue 21 And take thou with thee of all meate that is eaten and thou shalt lay it vp with thee that it may be meate for thee and them 22 * Noah therfore dyd according vnto all that God commaunded hym euen so dyd he ¶ The .vij. Chapter 1 Noah is commaunded to enter the arke 5 Noah entreth the arke 11 The ouerflowyng of the deluge 13 Who did enter with Noah 17 Howe great the waters of the fludde were 1 ANd the Lord said vnto Noah come thou and al thy house into y e arke for thee haue I seene ryghteous before me in this generation 2 Of euery cleane beast thou shalt take with thee seuen and seuen the male and his female but of vncleane cattell two the male and his female 3 Of foules also of the ayre seuen and seuen the male and the female to kepe seede alyue vpon the face of all the whole earth 4 For after seuen dayes I wyl rayne vpon the earth fourtie dayes and fourtie nightes all substaunce that I haue made wyll I destroy from the vpper face of the earth 5 Noah therfore did according vnto all that God commaunded him 6 And Noah was sixe hundreth yere olde when the fluddes of water came vpon the earth 7 And Noah came and his sonnes and his wyfe and his sonnes wyues with him to the arke because of the waters of the fludde 8 Of cleane beastes and of vncleane beastes and of foules and of euery such as creepeth vpon the earth 9 There came two two vnto Noah vnto the arke the male and the female as God had commaunded Noah 10 And so it came to passe after seuen dayes that the waters of the flud were vpon the earth 11 In the sixe hundreth yere of Noahs lyfe in the seconde moneth the seuenteene day of y e moneth in the same day were all the fountaynes of the great deepe broken vp and the wyndowes of heauen were opened 12 And the rayne was vpon the earth fourtie dayes and fourtie nightes 13 In the selfe same day entred Noah and Sem and Ham and Iapheth the sonnes of Noah and Noahs wyfe and the three wiues of his sonnes with theÌ„ into the arke 14 They and euery beast after his kinde and al the cattel after their kinde yea and euery worme that creepeth vpon the grounde after his kinde and euerye byrde after his kinde and euery fleeyng and fethered foule 15 And they came vnto Noah into the arke two and two of all fleshe wherein is the breath of lyfe 16 And they entryng in came male and female of all fleshe as God had commaunded him and
vs. 11 And so Abimelech charged al his people saying He that toucheth this man or his wyfe shall dye the death 12 Then Isahac sowed in that lande and receaued in the same yere an hundred folde and the Lorde blessed hym 13 And the man waxed myghtie went foorth and grewe tyll he was exceeding great 14 For he had possessiō of sheepe of oxen and a myghtie housholde and therfore the Philistines had enuie at hym 15 For the Philistines stopped and fylled vp with earth all the welles which his seruauntes had digged in his father Abrahams tyme. 16 And Abimelech sayde vnto Isahac Get thee from vs for thou art mightier then we a great deale 17 Therefore Isahac departed thence and abode in the valley of Gerar and dwelt there 18 And Isahac returning digged againe the welles of water which they digged in the dayes of Abraham his father which the Philistines had stopped after the death of Abraham named them after the same names by the which his father had named them 19 Isahacs seruauntes digged in the valley and founde a well of springyng water 20 And the heardmen of Gerar did striue with Isahacs heardmen saying the water is ours Then called he the well contention because they stroue with hym 21 And they digged another well and stroue for that also and he called the name of it enmitie 22 And then he departed thence digged another well for the which they stroue not Therfore called he it roomth saying the Lorde hath made vs nowe roome that we may encrease vpon the earth 23 And he went vp thence to Beer-seba 24 And the Lorde appeared vnto hym the same night and sayde I am the God of Abraham thy father feare not for I am with thee and wyl blesse thee and multiple thy seede for my seruaunt Abrahams sake 25 And he builded an aulter there and called vpon the name of the Lorde and pitched his tent and there Isahacs seruauntes dygged a well 26 Then came Abimelech to him from Gerar and Ahuzath his friende and Phicol the captaine of his armie 27 And Isahac sayde vnto them wherfore come ye to me seyng ye hate me and haue put me away from you 28 Whiche aunswered We sawe most certainly that the Lord was with thee and we sayde let there be nowe an oth betwixt vs euen betwixt vs and thee and let vs make a league with thee 29 That thou shouldest do vs no hurt as we haue not touched thee and as we haue done vnto thee nothyng but good sent thee away in peace for thou art nowe the blessed of the Lorde 30 And he made them a feast and they dyd eate and drynke 31 And they rose vp betymes in the mornyng and sware one to another And Isahac sent them away and they departed from hym in peace 32 And the same daye Isahacs seruauntes came and tolde hym of a well which they had dygged and sayde vnto hym we haue founde water 33 And he called it Sebah and the name of the citie is called Beer-seba vnto this day 34 Esau was fourtie yere olde he toke a wyfe called Iudith the daughter of Beeri an Hethite and Basemath the daughter of Elon an Hethite also 35 Which were disobedient vnto Isahac and Rebecca ¶ The .xxvij. Chapter 1 Isahac byddeth Esau of his huntyng to prepare hym a dysshe 5 Iacob by the subtiltie of his mother foretaketh awaye his blessyng 26 Isahac kysseth his sonne 28 Isahac blesseth Iacob 30 Esau beyng returned frō huntyng bryngeth meates to his father 34 Esau after great outcryes at the last is blessed 39 Isahac blesseth Esau 41 Esau hateth Iacob and threatneth his death 43 Rebecca prouideth for Iacob a departyng into Mesopotamia 1 AND it came to passe that whē Isahac waxed olde his eyes were dimme so that he could not see he called Esau his eldest sonne saide vnto hym my sonne And he sayde vnto hym here am I. 2 And he sayde Beholde I am nowe olde and knowe not the daye of my death 3 Nowe therefore take I pray thee thy weapons thy quyuer and thy bowe and get thee to the fielde that thou mayest take me some venison 4 And make me well tastyng meates such as I loue and bryng it to me that I may eate that my soule may blesse thee before that I dye 5 But Rebecca hearde when Isahac spake to Esau his sonne And Esau wēt into the fielde to hunt venison and to bryng it 6 And Rebecca spake vnto Iacob her sonne saying Beholde I haue hearde thy father talkyng with Esau thy brother and saying 7 Bring me venison and make me daintie meate that I may eate and blesse thee before the Lorde afore my death 8 Nowe therfore my sonne heare my voyce in that which I cōmaunde thee 9 Get thee to the flocke and bryng me thence two good kyddes frō the goates and I wyll make of them pleasaunt meates for thy father such as he loueth 10 And thou shalt bryng it to thy father that he may eate and that he may blesse thee before his death 11 Then said Iacob to Rebecca his mother Beholde Esau my brother is a heary man and I am smoothe 12 My father shall peraduenture feele mee and I shall seeme vnto hym as though I went about to begyle hym and so shall I bryng a curse vpon me and not a blessyng 13 And his mother sayde vnto him Vpon me be the curse my sonne only heare my voyce and go and fetche me them 14 And Iacob went and fet them and brought them to his mother and his mother made pleasaunt meate such as she knewe his father loued 15 And Rebecca fet goodly rayment of her eldest sonne Esau whiche were in the house with her and put them vpon Iacob her younger sonne 16 And she put the skynnes of the kiddes vpon his handes and vpon the smoothe of his necke 17 And she put that pleasaunt meate and bread whiche she had prepared in the hande of her sonne Iacob 18 When he came to his father he sayde my father And he aunswered here am I who art thou my sonne 19 And Iacob sayde vnto his father I am Esau thy eldest sonne I haue done accordyng as thou baddest me aryse I pray thee syt and eate of my venison that thy soule may blesse me 20 And Isahac said vnto his sonne how commeth it that thou hast founde it so quickly my sonne He aunswered the lorde thy God brought it to my handes 21 Then sayde Isahac vnto Iacob Come neare and I wyll feele thee my sonne whether thou be my very sonne Esau or not 22 Then went Iacob to Isahac his father and he felt hym and sayde The voyce is Iacobs voyce but the handes are the handes of Esau 23 And he knewe him not because his handes were heary as his brother Esaus handes
whiche hath made me a father to Pharao and lorde of all his house and ruler throughout all the lande of Egypt 9 Haste you and go vp to my father and tell him thus saieth thy sonne Ioseph God hath made me lord of all Egypt come downe therfore vnto me tary not 10 And thou shalt dwell in the land of Gosen and be a neyghbour vnto me thou thy chyldren and thy chyldrens children thy sheepe and thy beastes and all that thou hast 11 And there wyll I prouide thee sustenaunce for there remaine yet fiue yeres of dearth lest thou and thy housholde all that thou hast come to pouertie 12 And beholde your eyes do see and the eyes also of my brother Beniamin that mine own mouth speaketh vnto you 13 Therfore tell my father of all my glorie in Egypt and of all that you haue seene and make hast and bryng my father hyther 14 And he fel on his brother Beniamins necke and wept and Beniamin wept on his necke 15 Moreouer he kissed al his brethren and wept vpon them and after that his brethren talked with him 16 And the fame thereof was hearde in Pharaos house so that they sayde Iosephes brethrē are come And it pleased Pharao well and all his seruauntes 17 And Pharao spake vnto Ioseph say vnto thy brethren this do ye lade your beastes and go and returne vnto the lande of Chanaan 18 Take your father and your housesholdes and come vnto me and I wyll geue you the good of the land of Egypt and ye shall eate the fat of the lande 19 And thou also shalt cōmaunde them this do ye take charets with you out of the lande of Egypt for your chyldren and for your wyues and bryng your father and come 20 Also regarde not your stuffe for the good of all the lande of Egypt is yours 21 And the children of Israel dyd euen so and Ioseph gaue them charettes accordyng to the commaundement of Pharao and gaue them vitayle also to spende by the way 22 And he gaue vnto eche of thē chaunge of raiment but vnto Beniamin he gaue three hundred peeces of siluer and fiue chaunge of rayment 23 And vnto his father he sent after the same maner ten asses laden with good out of Egypt and ten she asses laden with corne bread and meate for his father by the way 24 So sent he his brethren away and they departed and he sayd vnto them see that ye fall to no stryfe on the way 25 They departed therfore from Egypt and came into the lande of Chanaan vnto Iacob theyr father 26 And tolde him saying Ioseph is yet aliue and is gouernour ouer al the land of Egypt And Iacobs heart wauered for he beleued them not 27 And they tolde hym all the wordes of Ioseph whiche he had said vnto them And when he sawe the charets whiche Ioseph had sent to cary him the spirite of Iacob their father reuiued 28 And Israel saide I haue inough that Ioseph my sonne is yet alyue I will go and see him yer that I dye ¶ The .xlvj. Chapter 1 The goyng of Iacob into Egypt 3 God comforteth Iacob and reneweth his promises 7 The sonnes of Iacob 27 seuentie persons that entred into Egypt with Iacob 29 Ioseph meetyng his father kysseth him 34 The Egyptians do despise all heardmen 1 ISrael toke his iourney with all that he had and came to Beerseba and offred offeringes vnto the God of his father Isahac 2 And God spake vnto Israel in a vision by nyght saying Iacab Iacob And he aunswered here am I. 3 And he sayde I am God the God of thy father feare not to go downe into Egypt for I wyll there make of thee a great people 4 I wyll go downe with thee into Egypt and I wyll surely make thee come vp agayne and Ioseph shall put his hande vpon thyne eyes 5 And Iacob rose vp from Beer-seba and the sonnes of Israel caryed Iacob their father and their childrē and their wyues in the charettes whiche Pharao had sent to cary him 6 And they toke their cattell and the goodes whiche they had gotten in the lande of Chanaan came into Egypt both Icob and all his seede with him 7 His sonnes his sonnes sonnes with him his daughters and his sonnes daughters and all his seede brought he with him into Egypt 8 These are the names of the chyldren of Israel which came into Egypt both Iacob and his sonnes Ruben Iacobs first borne 9 The children of Ruben Hanoch and Phallu Hesron and Charmi. 10 The children of Simeon Iemuel Iamin and Ohad and Iachin and Sohar and Saul the sonne of a Chanaanitishe woman 11 The chyldren of Leui Gerson Cehath and Merari 12 The children of Iuda Er Onan Selah Phares and Zarah but Er and Onan dyed in the lande of Chanaan The children of Phares also were Hefron and Hamul 13 And the children of Isachar Thola Puuah and Iob and Simron 14 The chyldren of Zabulon Sered and Elon and Iahelel 15 These be the children of Lea whiche she bare vnto Iacob in Mesopotamia with his daughter Dina. All the soules of his sonnes and daughters make thirtie and three 16 The children of Gad Siphion and Haggi Suni and Esbon Eri Arodi and Areli 17 The children of Aser Imnah and Iisuah and Iisui and Beriah and Serah their sister And the chyldren of Beriah Heber and Malchiel 18 These are the sonnes of Zilpha whō Laban gaue to Lea his daughter and these she bare vnto Iacob euen sixteene soules 19 The chyldren of Rachel Iacobs wife Ioseph and Beniamin 20 And vnto Ioseph in the lande of Egypt were borne Manasses and Ephraim which Asenath the daughter of Potipera priest of On bare vnto him 21 The children of Beniamin Bela and Becher and Asbel Gera Naaman Ehi and Ros Muppim and Huppim and Arde. 22 These are the chyldren of Rachel which she bare vnto Iacob foureteene soules altogether 23 And the children of Dan Husim 24 The children of Naphthali Iahseel and Gum Ieser and Sillem 25 These are the sonnes of Bilha which Laban gaue vnto Rachel his daughter and she bare these vnto Iacob altogether seuen soules 26 And so the soules that came with Iacob into Egypt whiche came out of his loynes besides Iacobs sonnes wyues were altogether threscore sixe soules 27 And the sonnes of Ioseph whiche were borne hym in Egypt were two soules so that all the soules of the house of Iacob whiche came into Egypt were threscore and ten 28 And he sent Iuda before hym vnto Ioseph to direct his face vnto Gosen and they came into the lande of Gosen 29 And Ioseph made redy his charet and went vp to meete Israel his father vnto Gosen and presented him self vnto him and he fell on
Whosoeuer he be that despiseth his father or his mother let hym dye for he hath deminished the estimation of his father mother his blood be vpon him 10 And the man that breaketh wedlocke with another mans wyfe euen he that breaketh wedlocke with his neyghbours wyfe let be slayne both the adulterer and the adultresse 11 And the man that lyeth with his fathers wyfe and vncouereth his fathers nakednes let them both die their blood be vpon them 12 If a man lye with his daughter in lawe let them dye both of them they haue wrought abhomination their blood be vpon them 13 If a man also lye with mankinde after the maner as with women kynde they haue both committed an abhomination let them dye their blood be vpon them 14 And if a man take a wyfe and her mother also it is wickednesse They shall burne with fire both hym them that there be no wickednesse among you 15 And if a man lye with a beast let hym ' dye and ye shall slea the beast also ' 16 If a woman go vnto any beast and lye downe thereto thou shalt kyll the woman and the beast also let them dye their blood be vpon them 17 If a man take his sister his fathers daughter or his mothers daughter see her nakednesse and she his nakednesse it is a wicked thing they shal be cut of in the sight of their people he hath vncouered his sisters nakednesse he shall beare his sinne 18 If a man lye with a woman hauing her natural disease and vncouer her nakednesse and open her fountayne and she also open the foūtayne of her blood they shall both be cut of from among their people 19 Thou shalt not vncouer the nakednesse of thy mothers sister nor of thy fathers sister for he that doth so hath vncouered his next kyn they shal beare their misdoyng 20 If a man lye with his vncles wyfe and vncouer his vncles nakednesse they shall beare their sinne and shall dye chyldlesse 21 If a man take his brothers wyfe it is an vncleane thyng he hath vncouered his brothers nakednesse they shal be chyldlesse 22 Ye shall kepe therefore all myne ordinaunces and all my iudgementes and do them that the lande whyther I bryng you to dwell therein spewe you not out 23 Ye shall not walke in the maners of this nation whiche I caste out before you For they committed all these thinges and therfore I abhorred thē 24 But I haue sayde vnto you ye shall enherite their lande and I wyll geue it vnto you to possesse it euen a lande that floweth with mylke and hony I am the Lorde your God whiche haue seperated you from other nations 25 And therefore shall ye put difference betweene cleane beastes and vncleane betweene vncleane foules and cleane Ye shal not defile your soules in beastes and foules and in all maner creeping thinges that the grounde bryngeth foorth whiche I haue seperated from you as vncleane 26 Therfore shall ye be holy vnto me for I the Lorde am holy and haue seuered you from other nations that ye shoulde be myne 27 If there be a man or woman that worketh with a spirit or that is a soothsayer let them dye Men shall ouerwhelme them with stones their blood be vpon them ' ¶ The .xxj. Chapter ' 'A lawe for the priestes ' 1 AND the Lorde sayde vnto Moyses Speake vnto the priestes the sonnes of Aaron say vnto them Let none be defiled by a corse among his people 2 But by his kynsman that is nye vnto him that is by his mother and his father by his sonne and his daughter and his brother 3 And by his sister a mayde that is nye vnto hym whom no man hath knowē for her shall he be defiled 4 But he shall not be defiled vpon hym that hath aucthoritie among his people to pollute him selfe 5 Let them not make baldnesse vpon their head nor shaue of y e lockes of their bearde nor make any cuttinges in their fleshe 6 They shal be holy vnto their God and not pollute the name of their God for the sacrifices of the Lorde made by fire and the bread of their God they do offer therfore they shall be holy 7 Let them not take a wyfe that is an whore or polluted nor put from her husband for such a one is holy vnto his god 8 Thou shalt sanctifie hym therfore for he offereth vp the bread of thy God he shall therefore be holy vnto thee for I the Lorde which sanctifie you am holy 9 If a priestes daughter fall to play the whore she polluteth her father therefore must she be burnt with fire 10 He that is the hie priest among his brethren vpon whose head the annoynting oyle was powred and that consecrated his hand to put on y e vestments shal not vncouer his head nor rent his clothes 11 Neither go to any dead body nor make hym selfe vncleane by his father or his mother 12 Neither shall go out of the sanctuarie nor pollute the holy place of his God for the crowne of the annoynting oyle of his God is vpon him I am the Lord. 13 He shall take a mayde vnto his wife ' 14 But a wydowe a deuorsed woman or a polluted or a harlot these shall he not marrie but shall take a mayde of his owne people to wyfe 15 Neither shal he defile his seede among his people for I am the Lorde whiche sanctifie hym 16 And the Lorde spake vnto Moyses ' saying ' 17 Speake vnto Aaron and say Whosoeuer of thy seede in their generations hath any deformitie let hym not prease for to offer bread vnto his God 18 For whosoeuer hath any blemishe shall not come neare as if he be blynde or lame or that hath a brused nose or that hath any misshapen member 19 Or is broken footed or broken handed ' 20 Or is crooke backt or bleare eyed or haue a webbe or other blemishe in his eyes or be skuruie or skabbed or hath his stones broken 21 No man that hath a blemishe is of the seede of Aaron the priest shall come nye to offer the sacrifices of the Lorde made by fire When he hath a deformitie let him not prease to offer the bread of his God 22 Let him eate the bread of his God ' euen of the most holy and of the holy ' 23 Only let him not go in vnto y e vayle nor come nye the aulter because he is deformed that he pollute not my sanctuarie for I am the Lorde that sanctifie them 24 And Moyses tolde it vnto Aaron and to his sonnes and vnto all the chyldren of Israel ' The .xxij. Chapter ' 3 Who ought to abstayne from eating the thinges that were offered 19 Howe what and when they shoulde be offered ' 1 AND the Lorde spake ' vnto Moyses saying 2 Speake vnto Aaron and his sonnes that
departed from the mount of the Lorde three dayes iourney and the arke of the couenaunt of the Lorde went before them in y e three dayes iourney to search out a resting place for theÌ„ 34 And the cloude of the Lorde was vppon them by day when they went out of the campe 35 And when y e arke went foorth Moyses sayde Rise vp Lorde and let thine enemies be scattered and let them that hate thee flee before thee 36 And when the arke rested he sayde Returne O Lord vnto the many thousandes of Israel ¶ The .xj. Chapter 1 The people murmureth 4 They desire fleshe 6 They lothe Manna 11 The wauering fayth of Moyses 16 The Lorde deuideth the burthen of Moyses to seuentie of the auncientes and they prophesie 31 It raigneth quayles 33 The fleshe raueners are punished 1 ANd when the people dyd wickedly it was a displeasure in the eares of the Lorde And when the Lorde hearde it his countenaunce was prouoked to wrath and the fire of the Lord burnt among them and consumed them that were the vttermost of the hoast 2 And the people cryed vnto Moyses And when Moyses made intercession vnto the Lorde the fire quenched 3 And he called the name of the place Taberah because the fire of the Lorde burnt among them 4 And a number of people that was among them fell a lustyng and turned them selues and wept euen as dyd also the chyldren of Israel and sayd who shall geue vs fleshe to eate 5 We remember the fishe which we did eate in Egypt for naught the cucumbers melons leekes onions garleck 6 But now our soule is dryed away for we can see nothing els saue Manna 7 The Manna was as coriander seede and to see to lyke Bedellion 8 And the people went about and gathered it grounde it in milles or beat it in morters and baked it in pannes and made cakes of it And the taste of it was lyke vnto the taste of freshe oyle 9 And when the deawe fell downe vpon the hoast in the nyght the Manna fell vpon it 10 And when Moyses hearde the people weepe throughout their housholdes euery man in the doore of his tent the wrath of the Lord was kindeled exceedingly and it greeued Moyses also 11 And Moyses sayde vnto the Lorde Wherefore hast thou dealt cruelly with thy seruaunt And wherefore haue I not founde fauour in thy sight seyng that thou puttest the wayght of all this people vpon me 12 Haue I conceaued all this people Or haue I begotten them that thou shouldest say vnto me Cary them in thy bosome as a nurse beareth the suckyng chylde vnto the lande which thou swarest vnto their fathers 13 Where shoulde I haue fleshe to geue vnto all this people whiche weepe before me saying Geue vs fleshe that we may eate 14 I am not able to beare all this people alone seyng it is to heauie for me 15 If thou deale thus with me kyll me I pray thee if I haue founde fauour in thy sight y t I see not my wretchednesse 16 And the Lorde sayde vnto Moyses Gather vnto me threscore and ten men of the elders of Israel which thou knowest that they are the elders of the people officers ouer them and thou shalt bryng them vnto the tabernacle of the congregation that they may stande there with thee 17 And I wyll come downe and talke with thee there and take of the spirite which is vpon thee and put vpon them and they shall beare the burthen of the people with thee lest thou be constrayned to beare it alone 18 And say thou vnto the people Be halowed agaynst to morowe and ye shall eate fleshe for your whyning is in the eares of the Lorde seyng ye sayd Who shall geue vs fleshe to eate We were happy in Egypt Therefore the Lorde wyll geue you fleshe and ye shall eate 19 Ye shall not eate one day nor two nor fiue dayes neither ten nor twentie dayes 20 But euen a moneth long vntill it come out at the nostrels of you and it shal be lothsome vnto you because that ye haue cast the Lorde aside whiche is among you and haue wept before hym saying Why came we thus out of Egypt 21 And Moyses sayde Sixe hundred thousand footemen are there of the people among which I am And thou hast sayd I wyll geue them flesh that they may eate a moneth long 22 Shall the sheepe the oxen be slayne for them to finde them either shall all the fishe of the sea be gathered together for them to suffise them 23 And the Lorde sayde vnto Moyses Shall the Lordes hande be waxed short Thou shalt see now whether my word shal come to passe vnto thee or not 24 And Moyses went out and tolde the people the saying of the Lorde and gathered the threscore and ten elders of the people and set them rounde about the tabernacle 25 And the Lord came downe in a cloude and spake vnto him and toke of the spirite that was vpon him and gaue it vnto the threscore ten elders And when the spirite rested vpon them they prophesied and dyd not ceasse 26 But there remayned two of the men in the hoast the name of the one was Eldad and the name of the other Medad And the spirite rested vpon them and thei were of them that were written and went not out vnto the tabernacle and they prophesied in the hoast 27 And there ran a young man and tolde Moyses and sayd Eldad and Medad do prophesie in the hoast 28 And Iosuah the sonne of Nun the seruaunt of Moyses one of his young men aunswered and sayde My lorde Moyses forbyd them 29 And Moyses sayd vnto hym Enuiest thou for my sake woulde God that all the Lordes people could prophesie and that the Lorde woulde put his spirite vpon them 30 And Moyses gate hym into the hoast he and the elders of Israel 31 And there went foorth a wynde from the Lorde and brought quayles from the sea let them fall about the hoast euen a dayes iourney rounde about on euery side of the hoast and they did flee in the ayre as it were two cubites hye ouer the earth 32 And the people stoode vp all that day and all that nyght and all the next day and they gathered quayles And he that gathered litle gathered ten homers ful And they spread them abrode for their vse rounde about the hoast 33 And whyle the fleshe was yet betweene their teeth yer it was chewed vp the wrath of the Lorde was â—dled against the people the Lorde smote the people with an exceedyng great plague 34 And he called the name of the place The graues of lust because the buried the people that lusted there 35 And the people toke their iourney from the graues of lust vnto Hazeroth and abode at Hazeroth ¶ The .xij. Chapter 1 Aaron and Miriam grudge agaynst
And they gathered them selues together agaynst Moyses and Aaron and sayde vnto them Ye take much vpon you seyng all the multitude are holy euery one of them and the Lorde is among them Why lyft you your selues vp aboue the congregation of the Lord 4 And when Moyses hearde it he fell vpon his face 5 And spake vnto Corah and vnto all his company saying To morowe the Lord wyll shewe who are his who is holy and who ought to approche nye vnto hym and whom he hath chosen he will cause to come neare vnto hym 6 This do therfore Take you firepannes both Corah all his companie 7 And do fire therin and put incense in them before the Lorde to morowe And the man whom the Lorde doth chose the same shal be holy Ye take much vpon you ye sonnes of Leui. 8 And Moyses sayd vnto Corah Heare I pray you ye sonnes of Leui 9 Seemeth it but a small thyng vnto you that the God of Israel hath seperated you from the multitude of Israel and brought you to hym selfe to do the seruice of the tabernacle of the Lorde and to stande before the multitude and to minister vnto them 10 He hath taken thee to hym and all thy brethren the sonnes of Leui with thee and seeke ye the office of the priest also 11 For which cause both thou and all thy companie are gathered together against the Lorde And what is Aaron that ye murmure agaynst hym 12 And Moyses sent and called Dathan and Abiram the sonnes of Eliab which sayde We wyll not come vp 13 Is it a small thyng that thou hast brought vs out of the land that floweth with mylke and honie to kyll vs in the wildernesse except thou make thy selfe lorde and ruler ouer vs also 14 Moreouer thou hast not brought vs vnto a lande that floweth with mylke honie neither geuen vs inheritaunce of fieldes and vineyardes Wylt thou put out the eyes of these men We wyll not come vp 15 And Moyses waxed very angry and sayde vnto the Lorde Turne not thou vnto their offeryng I haue not taken so much as an asse from them neither haue I hurt any of them 16 And Moyses sayde vnto Corah Be thou al thy company before the Lord both thou they and Aaron to morowe 17 And take euery man his censer and put incense in them and bryng ye before the Lorde euery man his censer euen two hundreth and fiftie censers thou also and Aaron euery one his censer 18 And they toke euery man his censer and put fire in them and layde incense theron and stoode in the doore of the tabernacle of the congregation with Moyses and Aaron 19 And Corah gathered all the congregation agaynst them vnto the doore of the tabernacle of the congregation And the glorie of the Lorde appeared vnto all the congregation ◠And the Lorde spake vnto Moyses and Aaron saying 21 Seperate your selues from among this congregation that I may consume them at once 22 And they fell vpon their faces and sayde O God the God of spirites of all fleshe hath not one man sinned Wilt thou be wroth with all the multitude 23 And the Lorde spake vnto Moyses saying 24 Speake vnto the congregation and say Get you away from about the tabernacle of Corah Dathan Abiram 25 And Moyses rose vp and went vnto Dathan and Abiram and the elders of Israel folowed hym 26 And he spake vnto the congregation saying Depart I pray you from the tentes of these wicked men and touche nothyng of theirs lest ye perishe in all their sinnes 27 And so they gate them from the tabernacle of Corah Dathan and Abiram on euery syde And Dathan Abiram came out stoode in the doore of their tentes with their wiues their sonnes and their litle children 28 And Moyses sayde Hereby ye shall knowe that the Lorde hath sent me to do all these workes for I haue not done them of myne owne mynde 29 If these men dye the common death of all men or if they be visited after the visitation of all men then the Lorde hath not sent me 30 But and if the Lorde make a newe thyng and the earth open her mouth and swallowe them vp with all that they haue and they go downe quicke into the pit then ye shall vnderstande that these men haue prouoked y e Lorde 31 And assoone as he had made an ende of speaking al these wordes the ground cloue asunder that was vnder them 32 And the earth opened her mouth and swalowed them vp and their houses and all the men that were with Corah and all their goodes 33 And they and all that they had went downe alyue vnto the pit and the earth closed vpon them and they perished from among the congregation 34 And all Israel that were about them fled at the crye of them And they sayde lest the earth swalowe vs vp also 35 And there came out a fire from the Lorde and consumed the two hundred and fiftie men that offered incense 36 And the Lorde spake vnto Moyses saying 37 Speake vnto Eleazar the sonne of Aaron the priest that he take vp the censers out of the burnyng and scatter the fire here and there for they are halowed 38 The censers of these sinners agaynst their owne soules let them make of them brode plates for a coueryng of the aulter For they offered them before the Lorde and therfore they are halowed and they shal be a signe vnto the children of Israel 39 And Eleazar the priest toke the brasen censers which they that were burnt had offered and made brode plates for a coueryng of the aulter 40 To be a remembraunce vnto the children of Israel that no straunger which is not of the seede of Aaron come neare to offer incense before the Lorde that he be not lyke vnto Corah and his companie as the Lorde sayde to hym by the hande of Moyses 41 But on the morowe all the multitude of the children of Israel murmured agaynst Moyses and Aaron saying Ye haue kylled the people of the Lorde 42 And whē the multitude was gathered agaynst Moyses and Aaron they loked towarde the tabernacle of the congregation And beholde the cloude couered it and the glorie of the Lorde appeared 43 And Moyses and Aaron came before the tabernacle of the congregation 44 And the Lorde spake vnto Moyses saying 45 Get you from among this congregation that I may consume thē quickly And they fell vpon their faces 46 And Moyses sayd vnto Aaron Take a censer and put fire therin out of the aulter and powre on incense and go quickly vnto the congregation make an attonement for them For there is wrath gone out from the Lorde and there is a plague begunne 47 And Aaron toke as Moyses cōmaunded hym and ranne into the middes of y e congregation and beholde the plague was begunne among the people and he put on incense and made an atonement
that it pleased the Lorde that he should blesse Israel he went not as he dyd twise before to meete a soothsaying but set his face towarde the wyldernesse 2 And Balaam lift vp his eyes and loked vpon Israel as he lay accordyng to his tribes and the spirite of God came vpon hym 3 And he toke vp his parable and sayd Balaam the sonne of Beor hath sayde and the man whose eyes is open hath sayde 4 He hath sayde whiche heareth the wordes of God and seeth the visions of the almightie and falleth downe with open eyes 5 Howe goodly are thy tentes O Iacob and thyne habitations O Israel 6 Euen as the valleys are they layde abrode as gardens by the riuers side as the tentes whiche the Lorde hath pitched and as cypres trees beside the waters 7 The water droppeth out of his bucket his seede shal be in many waters * and his king shal be hier then Agag and his kingdome shal be exalted 8 * God brought hym out of Egypt his strength is as the Vnicorne He shall eate the nations his enemies gnawe their bones and pearce them through with his arrowes 9 He couched hym selfe and lay downe as a Lion and as an elder Lion who shall stirre hym vp Blessed is he that blesseth thee and cursed is he that curseth thee 10 And Balac was wroth with Balaam and smote his handes together and Balac said vnto Balaam I sent for thee to curse mine enemies and behold thou hast blessed them this three tymes 11 Therfore nowe get thee quickly vnto thy place I thought that I would promote thee vnto honour but lo the Lord hath kept thee backe from worship 12 Balaam aunswered vnto Balac Tolde I not thy messengers whiche thou sendedst vnto me saying 13 If Balac woulde geue me his house full of siluer and golde I can not passe the word of the Lord to do either good or bad of mine owne minde But what the Lorde sayeth that wyll I speake 14 And nowe behold I go vnto my people Come therfore and I wyll aduertise thee what this people shall do to thy folke in the latter dayes 15 And he toke vp his parable and sayd Balaam the sonne of Beor hath sayde the man whose eye is open hath sayde 16 He hath said that heareth the wordes of God and hath the knowledge of the most hygh and beholdeth the vision of the almightie and that falleth and his eyes are opened 17 I shal see him but not nowe I shall beholde him but not nigh There shall come a starre of Iacob and ryse a scepter of Israel shall smyte the coastes of Moab and vndermine all the chyldren of Seth. 18 And Edom shal be possessed Seir shall fall to the possession of their enemies and Israel shall do manfully 19 Out of Iacob shall come he that shall haue dominion and shall destroy the remnaunt of the citie 20 And when he loked on Amaleck he toke vp his parable and said Amaleck is the first of the nations but his latter ende shall perishe vtterly 21 And he loked on the Kenites and toke vp his parable and sayde Strong is thy dwelling place and thou puttest thy nest in a rocke 22 Neuerthelesse the Kenite shal be rooted out vntyll Assur take thee prisoner 23 And he toke vp his parable and sayd Alas who shall lyue when God doth this 24 The shippes also shall come out of the coast of Chittim and subdue Assur and subdue Eber and he hym selfe shall perishe at the last 25 And Balaam rose vp and went and returned to his place and Balac also went his way ¶ The .xxv. Chapter 1 The people committeth fornication with the daughters of Moab 8 Phinehes kylleth Zamri and Cozbi 17 God commaundeth to kyll the Madianites 1 AND Israel abode in Sittim and the people began to commit whoredome with the daughters of Moab 2 Whiche called the people vnto the sacrifice of their gods And the people dyd eate and bowed downe to their gods 3 And Israel coupled hym selfe vnto Baal Peor and the indignation of the Lorde was kindeled against Israel 4 And the Lorde sayde vnto Moyses Take all the heades of the people and hang them vp before the Lorde against the sunne that the wrath of the Lordes countenaunce may be turned away from Israel 5 And Moyses sayde vnto the Iudges of Israel * Euery one slay his men that were ioyned vnto Baal Peor 6 And behold one of the chyldren of Israel came brought vnto his brethren a Madianitishe woman euen in the sight of Moyses and in the sight of all the multitude of the children of Israel that wept before the doore of the tabernacle of the congregation 7 And when Phinehes the sonne of Eleazar the sonne of Aaron the priest saw it he rose vp out of the myddes of the companie toke a iauelin in his hande 8 And went after the man of Israel into the tent thrust them through both the man of Israel also the woman euen thorowe the belly of her And the plague ceassed frō the chyldrē of Israel 9 And there dyed in the plague twentie and foure thousande 10 And the Lorde spake vnto Moyses saying 11 Phinehes the sonne of Eleazar the sonne of Aaron the priest hath turned myne anger away from the chyldren of Israel whyle he was zelous for my sake among thē that I had not consumed the childrē of Israel in my ielousie 12 Wherfore say beholde I geue vnto hym my couenaunt of peace 13 And he shall haue it and his seede after hym euen the couenaunt of the priestes office for euer because he was zelous for his Gods sake and made an attonement for the chyldren of Israel 14 The name of the Israelite thus kylled which was slayne with the Madianitishe woman was Zamri the sonne of Salu a Lorde of an house and kinred of Simeon 15 And the name of the Madianitishe womā that was slayne was Cozbi the daughter of Zur a head ouer the people of his fathers house in Madian 16 And the Lorde spake vnto Moyses saying 17 Vexe the Madianites smyte them 18 For they trouble you with their wyles whiche haue begyled you by deceyte in the cause of Peor in the cause of their sister Cozbi the daughter of a Lorde of the Madianites whiche was slayne in the day of the plague for Peors sake ' ¶ The .xxvj. Chapter ' ' 2 The chyldren of Israel are numbred ' 1 AND after the plague the Lorde spake vnto Moyses and vnto Eleazar the sonne of Aaron the priest saying 2 Take the number of al the multitude of the chyldren of Israel from twentie yeres old and aboue throughout their fathers houses all that are able to go to warre in Israel 3 And Moyses and Eleazar the priest spake vnto them in the fieldes of Moab by Iordan ouer against Iericho saying 4
the childreÌ„ of Israel that he also might teach them warre ' onely such as before knewe nothing therof 3 Of those whom he left there were fiue lordes of the Philistines and all the Chanaanites and the Sidonites the Heuites that dwelt in mount Libanon euen from mount Baal Hermon vnto one come to Hamath 4 Those remayned to proue Israel by and to wyt whether they would hearken vnto the commaundementes of the Lorde which he commaunded their fathers by the hande of Moyses 5 And the children of Israel dwelt among the Chanaanites Hethites Amorites Pherezites Heuites and Iebusites 6 And toke the daughters of them to be their wiues gaue their own daughters to their sonnes and serued their goddes 7 And the children of Israel did wickedly in the sight of the Lorde and forgat the Lorde their God and serued Baalim and Astheroth 8 Therfore the Lorde was angry with Israel and he solde them into the handes of Chusan Risathaim king of Mesopotamia and the children of Israel serued Chusan Risathaim eyght yeres 9 And when the children of Israel cryed vnto the Lorde the Lorde stirred vp a sauer to the children of Israel saued them euen Othoniel the sonne of Kenes Calebs younger brother 10 And the spirite of the Lorde came vpon him and he iudged Israel went out to warre And the Lorde deliuered Chusan Risathaim king of Mesopotamia into his hande and his hande preuayled against Chusan Risathaim 11 And the land had rest fourtie yeres and Othoniel the sonne of Kenes died 12 And the children of Israel agayne committed wickednes in the sight of the Lorde And the Lorde strengthed Eglon the king of the Moabites against the children of Israel because they had committed wickednes before the Lorde 13 And this Eglon gathered vnto him the children of Animon and the Amalekites and went and smote Israel and possessed the citie of Paulme trees 14 And so the children of Israel serued Eglon the king of Moab .xviii. yeres 15 But when they cryed vnto the Lord the Lord stirred them vp a sauer Ahud the sonne of Gera the sonne of Gemini a man lame of his right hande and by him the children of Israel sent a present vnto Eglon the king of Moab 16 But Ahud made him a dagger with two edges of a cubite length and he did gyrde it vnto his raymeÌ„t vpon his right thygh 17 And caried the present vnto Eglon the king of Moab And Eglon was a very fatte man 18 And when he had presented the present he sent the people that bare it away 19 But he him selfe turned agayne from the place of grauen images that was by Gilgal and sayde I haue a secret errande vnto thee O king which sayde Kepe scilence And all that stoode before hym went out from him 20 And Ahud came vnto him and in a sommer parler whiche he had sate he him selfe alone and Ahud sayd I haue a message vnto thee from God And he arose out of his seate 21 And Ahud put foorth his left hande toke the dagger from his right thygh and thrust it into his belly 22 And the hafte went in after the blade and the fatte closed the haft so that he might not drawe the dagger out of his belly but the dyrt came out 23 Then Ahud gat him out into the porche and shut the doores of the parler vpon him and locked them 24 When he was gone out his seruauntes came And when they sawe that the doores of the parler were locked they sayde Suerly he couereth his feete in his sommer chamber 25 And they taried till they were ashamed and seyng he opened not the doores of the parler they toke a key and opened them And beholde their Lorde was fallen downe dead on the earth 26 And Ahud escaped whyle they taried and was gone beyonde to the place of the grauen images and escaped into Seirath 27 And when he was come he blewe a trumpet in mount Ephraim And the childreÌ„ of Israel went downe with him from the hill and he went before them 28 And he sayde vnto them folowe me for the Lorde hath deliuered your enemies the Moabites into your hande And they descended after him and take the passages of Iordane toward Moab and suffered not a man to passe ouer 29 And they slue of the Moabites the same time vpon a ten thousande men which were all fatte men of warre and there scaped not a man 30 So Moab was subdued that day vnder the hande of Israel And the lande had rest fourescore yeres 31 After him was Samgar the sonne of Anath whiche slue of the Philistines sixe hundred men with an oxe goade and deliuered Israel also The .iiii. Chapter 1 Israel sinne and are geuen into the handes of Iabie 4 Deborah iudgeth Israel and erhorteth Barak to deliuer the people 16 Sisara fleeth 17 And is killed by Iael 1 ANd the children of Israel began agayne to do wickedly in y e sight of the Lord when Ahud was dead 2 And the Lorde sold them into the hand of Iabin king of Chanaan that raigned in Hazor whose captayne of warre was called Sisara which dwelt in Haroseth of the gentiles 3 And the children of Israel cried vnto the Lord for he had nine hundreth charettes of yron twentie yeres he troubled the children of Israel very sore 4 And Debora a prophetisse the wife of Lapidoth iudged Israel the same time 5 And the same Debora dwelt vnder a pauline tree betweene Ramath Bethel in mount Ephraim And the children of Israel came vp to her for iudgment 6 And she sent and called Barak the sonne of Abinoam out of Kedes Nephthalim and sayd vnto him Hath not the Lorde God of Israel commaunded saying Go and drawe toward mount Thabor and take with thee ten thousand men of the children of Nephthalim and of the children of Zabulon 7 And I will bring vnto thee to the riuer Kison Sisara y e captayne of warre vnto Iabin with his charettes and his people and will deliuer him into thyne handes 8 And Barak said vnto her If thou wilt go with me I will go But and if thou wilt not come with me I will not go 9 She sayd I will surely go with thee but this iourney that thou takest shall not be for thyne honour for the Lorde shall sell Sisara into the hande of a woman And Debora arose and went with Barak to Kedes 10 And Barak called Zabulon Nephthalim to Kedes and led after him ten thousande men and Debora went vp with him 11 But Haber the Kenite which was of the childreÌ„ of Hobab the father in lawe of Moyses remoued from the Kenites and pitched his tent vntill the playne of Zaanaâ—m whiche is by Kedes 12 And they shewed Sisara that Barak the sonne of Abindam was gone vp to mount Thabor 13 And Sisara gathered together al his charettes euen nine hundreth
by Rahels sepulchre in y e border of Beniamin euen at Zalezah and they wil say vnto thee y e asses which thou wētest to seke are found And lo thy father hath left the care of the asses soroweth for you saying What shal I do for my sonne 3 Then shalt thou go foorth frō thence shalt come to the playne of Thabor and ther shal meete thee three mē going vp to God to Bethel one carying three kiddes another carying three loues of bread another carying a botel of wine 4 And they wil salute thee and geue thee two loues of bread which thou shalt receaue of their handes 5 After that shalt thou come to the hil of God wher is the garison of the Philistines And when thou art come thyther to the citie thou shalt meete a companie of prophetes comming downe frō the hyghe place with a psalter a timbrell a pype a harpe before them and they shal prophesie 6 And the spirite of the Lorde wil come vpon thee also and thou shalt prophsie with them shalt be turned into another man 7 Therfore when these signes are come vnto thee do what thou hast to do for God is with thee 8 And thou shalt go downe before me to Gilgal and I also will come downe vnto thee to sacrifice burnt sacrifices to offre peace offringes Tary for me seuen dayes till I come to thee shewe thee what thou shalt do 9 And when he had turned his backe to go frō Samuel God gaue him another hearte and all those tokens came to passe that same day 10 And when they came thyther to the hill beholde the companie of prophetes met him and the spirite of God came vpon him he prophecied among thē 11 And all that knewe him before when they sawe that he prophecied among the prophetes they sayd eche to other what is this that is come vnto the sonne of Cis Is Saul also among the prophetes 12 And one of the same place aunswered and sayde Who is their father And therof came y e prouerbe What is Saul also among the prophetes 13 And whē he had made an ende of prophecying he came to the hyghe place 14 And Sauls vncle sayde vnto him and to his lad Whyther went ye He sayde To seke the asses And when we sawe that they were no where we came to Samuel 15 And Sauls vncle sayde Tell me I pray thee what Samuel sayd vnto you 16 Saul aunswered his vncle He tolde vs plainely that the asses were found But of y e kingdome wherof Samuel spake tolde he him not 17 And Samuel called the people together vnto the Lorde to Mispah 18 And sayd vnto the children of Israel Thus sayde the Lorde God of Israel I brought Israel out of Egypt and deliuered you out of the hand of the Egyptians and out of the handes of al kingdomes that troubled you 19 And ye haue this day cast away your God who onely deliuereth you out of al your aduersities and tribulations And ye haue sayd vnto him No but make a king ouer vs. Nowe therfore stande ye before the Lorde by your tribes your thousandes 20 And when Samuel had assembled together all the tribes of Israel the tribe of Beniamin was taken 21 When he had assembled together the tribe of Beniamin by their kinredes the kinred of Matri was caught and at the last Saul the sonne of Cis was caught And when they sought him he coulde not be founde 22 Therfore they asked the Lord further if the man should yet come thyther And the Lord aunswered Behold he hath hyd him selfe among the stuffe 23 And they ranne and fet him thence and when he stoode among the people he was hygher then any of the people from the shoulders vpwarde 24 And Samuel said to al the people See ye not him whom the Lorde hath chosen and howe there is none lyke him among all the people And all the people showted and sayd God saue the king 25 Then Samuel tolde the people the duetie of the kingdome wrote it in a booke and laide it vp before the Lord and sent all the people away euery man to his house 26 And Saul also went home to Gibea and there folowed him a band of men whose heartes God had touched 27 But the children of Belial sayd Howe shall he saue vs And they despised him and brought him no presentes And he helde his tongue The xi Chapter 1 Nahas the Ammonite warreth against Iabes Gilead who asketh helpe of the Israelites 6 Saul promiseth helpe 11 The Ammonites are slayne 14 The kingdome is renued 1 THen Nahas y e Ammonite came vp besieged Iabes in Gilead And all the men of Iabes sayd vnto Nahas Make a couenaūt with vs and we wil be thy seruauntes 2 And Nahas the Ammonite aunswered them In this will I make a couenaunt with you if I may thrust out al your right eyes and bring that shame vpon all Israel 3 To whom the elders of Iabes sayde Geue vs seuen dayes respite that we may sende messengers vnto all y e coastes of Israel and then if there be no man to deliuer vs we will come out to thee 4 Then came the messengers to Gibea of Saul and tolde this tydinges in the eares of the people And all the people lift vp their voyces and wept 5 And beholde Saul came folowing the cattell out of the fielde and Saul sayde what alyeth this people that thei wepe And they tolde him the tydinges of the men of Iabes 6 And the spirite of God came vpon Saul when he heard those tydinges he was exceeding angrie 7 And toke a yoke of oxen hewed them in peeces and sent them thorowout all the coastes of Israel by the handes of messengers saying Whosoeuer cōmeth not foorth after Saul and after Samuel so shal his oxen be serued And the feare of the Lord fell on the people and they came out with one consent 8 And whē he numbred them in Bezek the children of Israel were three hundred thousand men and the men of Iuda thirtie thousande 9 And they sayd vnto the messengers that came So say vnto the men of Iabes in Gilead To morowe by that time y e sunne be hotte ye shal haue helpe And the messengers came and shewed it to the men of Iabes which were glad 10 Therfore the men of Iabes sayde To morowe we will come out vnto you and ye shall do with vs all that pleaseth you 11 And on the morowe Saul put the people in three partes they came in vpon the hoast in the morning watche and slue the Ammonites vntill the heate of the day And they that remayned were skattered so that two of them were not left together 12 And the people sayd vnto Samuel Who is he that sayde shal Saul raigne ouer vs bring
him selfe wisely in all his wayes and the Lorde was with him 15 Wherefore when Saul sawe that he was so exceeding wise he was afrayde of him 16 But all Israel and Iuda loued Dauid because he went out and in before them 17 And Saul sayde to Dauid Beholde my eldest daughter Merob her I will geue thee to wife Onely be a valiaunt sonne vnto me fight the Lordes battayles For Saul thought Mine hand shall not be vpon him but the hande of the Philistines shal be vpon him 18 And Dauid aunswered Saul what am I and what is my lyfe or the kynred of my father in Israel that I should be sonne in lawe to the king 19 Howbeit when the time was come that Merob Sauls daughter shoulde haue ben geuen to Dauid she was geuē vnto Adriel a Meholathite to wife 20 Howbeit Michol Sauls daughter loued Dauid and they shewed Saul and the thing pleased him 21 And Saul sayde I will geue him her that she may be a snare to him and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him Wherefore Saul sayde to Dauid Thou shalt this day be my sonne in lawe in the one of the twayne 22 And Saul cōmaunded his seruaūtes to come with Dauid secretely to say Behold the king hath a fauour to thee and all his seruaūtes loue thee be now therefore the kinges sonne in lawe 23 And Sauls seruauntes spake those wordes in the eares of Dauid And Dauid said semeth it to you a light thing to be a kinges sonne in lawe seeing that I am a poore man and of smal reputation 24 And the seruauntes brought Saul word againe saying Of this maner spake Dauid 25 And Saul sayde This wise shall ye saye to Dauid The king careth for no other dowry but for an hundred foreskinnes of the Philistines to be auenged of the kynges enemies But Saul thought to make Dauid fall into the handes of the Philistines 26 And when his seruauntes tolde Dauid these wordes it pleased Dauid wel to be the kinges sonne in lawe And the dayes were not expired 27 Afterward Dauid arose with his men and went and slue of the Philistines two hundred men and Dauid brought their foreskinnes and they gaue them wholly to the king that he might be the kinges sonne in lawe Wherefore Saul gaue him Michol his daughter to wife 28 And Saul saw and vnderstoode how that the Lorde was with Dauid and that Michol his daughter loued him 29 And he was the more afrayde of Dauid and Saul became alway Dauids enemie 30 The Lordes of the Philistines vsed to go foorth and whē they went foorth Dauid behaued him selfe more wysely then all the seruauntes of Saul so that his name was much set by The .xix. Chapter 2 Ionathan declareth to Dauid the wicked purpose of Saul 11. Michol his wife saueth him 18. Dauid commeth to Samuel 23. The spirite of prophesie commeth on Saul 1 SAul spake to Ionathā his sonne and to all his seruauntes that they should kill Dauid 2 But Ionathā Sauls sonne had a great fauour to Dauid Ionathan tolde Dauid saying Saul my father goeth about to slay thee Nowe therfore I pray thee take heede to thy selfe vntyll the mornyng and abyde in some secrete place and hyde thy selfe 3 And I wyll go out and stande by my father in the fielde where thou art and wyll commune with my father of thee and whatsoeuer I see I wyll tell thee 4 And Ionathan spake good of Dauid vnto Saul his father and sayde vnto him Let not the king sinne against his seruaunt against Dauid for he hath not sinned against thee and his workes haue ben to theewarde very good 5 For he dyd * put his life in his hande and slue the Philistine and the Lorde brought to passe a great health for all Israel Thou sawest it and thou reioycedst Wherfore then wilt thou sinne against innocent blood and slay Dauid without a cause 6 And Saul hearkened vnto the voyce of Ionathan and Saul sware as the Lorde lyueth he shall not dye 7 And Ionathan called Dauid Ionathan shewed hym all those wordes Ionathan brought Dauid to Saul he was in his presence as in tymes past 8 And the warre began againe and Dauid went out and fought with the Philistines and slue them with a great slaughter and they fled from hym 10 And Saul entended to smyte Dauid to the wall with the iauelyn But he ryd him selfe out of Sauls presence as he smote the speare into the walle And Dauid fled was saued the same night 11 Saul also sent messengers vnto Dauids house to watch him and to slay him in the morning And Michol Dauids wyfe tolde it him saying If thou saue not thy selfe this night to morowe thou shalt be slayne 12 And so Michol let Dauid downe through a windowe and he went and fled and was saued 13 And Michol toke an image and layde it in the bed put a pillowe stuffed with goates heere vnder the head of it and couered it with a cloth 14 And when Saul sent messengers to fetche Dauid she said he is sicke 15 And Saul sent the messengers againe to see Dauid saying Bring him to me bed and all that I may slay him 16 And when the messengers were come in behold there lay an image in the bed with a pillowe of goates heere vnder the head of it 17 And Saul sayde vnto Michol Why hast thou mocked me so and sent away mine enemie that he is escaped Michol aunswered Saul For he sayd vnto me let me go or els I will kill thee 18 And so Dauid fled and escaped came to Samuel to Rama and tolde him all that Saul had done to him And he and Samuel went and dwelt in Naioth 19 And one tolde Saul saying Beholde Dauid is at Naioth in Rama 20 And Saul sent messengers to fet Dauid And when they sawe a company of prophetes prophecying Samuel standing as appoynted ouer them the spirite of God fell vpon the messengers of Saul and they prophecied to 21 And when it was tolde Saul he sent other messengers and they prophecied lykewyse And Saul sent messengers yet againe the third time and they prophecied also 22 Then went he him selfe to Rama and came to a great well that is in Sechu and he asked and sayde Where are Samuel Dauid And one sayd Beholde they be at Naioth in Rama 23 And he went thyther euen to Naioth in Rama and the spirite of God came vpon him also and he went prophecying vntill he came to Naioth in Rama 24 And he stript of his clothes prophecied before Samuel in lyke maner and fell naked al that day and all that night And therof it is that they say Is Saul also among the prophetes The .xx. Chapter 2 Ionathan comforteth Dauid 3. They renue their league 33 Saul would haue killed Ionathan
shut vp left behind in Israel 22 And will make thyne house lyke the house of Ieroboam the sonne of Nabat lyke the house of Baasa the sonne of Ahia for the prouocation wherwith thou hast prouoked and made Israel to synne 23 And of Iezabel spake the Lord saying The dogges shall eate Iezabel by the wall of Iezrahel 24 And he that dieth of Ahab in y e towne him shall dogges eate and he that dieth in the fielde him shal the fowles of the ayre eate 25 But there was none lyke Ahab which dyd euen sell him selfe to worke wickednesse in the sight of the Lorde and that because Iezabel his wyfe pricked hym forwarde 26 He dyd exceeding abhominablie in folowing foule idols according to all thinges as dyd the Ammorites whom the Lorde cast out before the children of Israel 27 And it fortuned that whē Ahab heard those wordes he rent his clothes and put sackcloth about his flesh and fasted and lay in sackcloth went bare foote 28 And the worde of the Lorde came to Elia the Thesbyte saying 29 Seest thou howe Ahab humbleth him selfe before me because he so submitteth him selfe before me I wil not bring that euil in his dayes but in his sonnes dayes will I bring euyll vpon his house The .xxii. Chapter 2 Iehosaphat and Ahab fight against the king of Syria 15 Michea sheweth the king what shal be the successe of their interprise 24 Zedekia the false prophet smiteth him 34 Ahab is slayne 40 Ahazia his sonne succeedeth 41 The raigne of Iehosaphat 51 and Ioram his sonne 1 ANd they cōtinued three yeres without warre betweene Syria Israel 2 And in the third yere dyd Iehosaphat the king of Iuda come downe to the king of Israel 3 And the king of Israel sayde vnto his seruauntes Know ye not that Ramoth in Gilead is ours and we sit still and take it not out of the hande of the king of Syria 4 And he sayde vnto Iehosaphat Wilt thou come with me to battayle against Ramoth in Gilead And Iehosaphat sayde vnto the king of Israel I am as thou art my people as thy people and my horses as thy horses 5 And Iehosaphat sayde vnto the king of Israel Aske counsel I pray thee at the worde of the Lorde to day 6 And then the king of Israel gathered the prophetes together vpon a foure hundred men sayde vnto them Shall I go against Ramoth in Gilead to battayle or shall I let it alone And they sayde Go vp for the Lorde shall deliuer it into the handes of the king 7 And Iehosaphat sayd Is there here neuer a prophete of the Lord more that we might inquire of him 8 And the king of Israel sayde vnto Iehosaphat There is yet one man Michea the sonne of Iimla by whom we may aske counsell of the Lorde But I hate him for he doth not prophecie good vnto me but euyll And Iehosaphat sayde Let not the king say so 9 Then the king of Israel called a chamberlayne sayde Fet Michea the sonne of Iimla hyther at once 10 And the king of Israel and Iehosaphat the king of Iuda sate eyther in his seate and their apparell on them in a voyde place besyde the entring in of the gate of Samaria and all the prophetes prophecied before them 11 And Zedekia the sonne of Chanaana made hornes of iron and sayde thus sayth the Lord With these hornes shalt thou pushe the Syrians vntill thou haue made an ende of them 12 And all the prophetes prophecied euen so saying Go vp to Ramoth in Gilead and prosper for the Lorde shall deliuer it into the kinges hande 13 And the messenger that was gone to cal Michea spake vnto him saying Beholde the wordes of y e prophetes speake good vnto the king with one mouth Let thy worde therefore I pray thee be lyke the worde of euery one of them to speake that whiche is good 14 And Michea sayde As the Lorde lyueth whatsoeuer the Lord sayth vnto me that will I speake 15 And so he came to the king the king sayd vnto him Michea ought we to go against Ramoth in Gilead to battayle or to be stil He aunswered to him Go and prosper the Lorde shall deliuer it into the hande of the king 16 And the king sayde vnto him So and so many times do I charge thee that thou tell me nothing but that whiche is true in the name of the Lorde 17 He sayd I saw all them of Israel scattered vpon the hilles as sheepe that haue not a sheephearde And the Lorde sayde These haue no maister let euery man returne to his house in peace 18 And the king of Israel sayde vnto Iehosaphat Dyd I not tell thee that he woulde prophecie no good vnto me but euyll 19 And he sayd againe Heare thou therefore the word of the Lorde I sawe the Lord sit on his seate and all the hoast of heauen stoode about him on his right hande and on his left 20 And the Lorde sayde Who shall persuade Ahab that he may go and fall at Ramoth in Gilead And one sayde on this maner and another on that 21 And there came foorth a certayne spirite and stoode before the Lorde and sayde I will persuade him And the Lorde sayde vnto him Wherwith 23 Nowe therefore beholde the Lorde hath put a lying spirite in the mouth of all these thy prophetes and the Lorde hath spoken euyll towarde thee 24 But Zedekia the sonne of Chanaana went to smote Michea on the cheke and sayde When went the spirite of the Lorde from me to speake vnto thee 25 And Michea sayde Behold thou shalt see in that day when thou shalt go from chamber to chamber to hyde thee 26 And the king of Israel sayde Take Michea and cary him vnto Amon the gouerner of the citie and vnto Ioas the kinges sonne 27 And say Thus sayeth y e king Put this felow in the prison house and feede him with bread of affliction and with water of trouble vntill I returne in peace 28 And Michea sayde If thou returne in peace the Lord hath not spoken by me And he sayde Hearken ye people euery one of you 29 And so the king of Israel and Iehosaphat the king of Iuda went vp to Ramoth in Gilead 30 And the king of Israel sayde vnto Iehosaphat I wil chaunge my apparell and will enter into the battel but put thou on thyne apparell And the king of Israel chaunged him selfe and went to battell 31 But the king of Syria commaunded the thirtie and two captaynes that had rule ouer his charettes saying Fight neither with small nor great saue onely against the king of Israel 32 And when the captaynes of the charets saw Iehosaphat they sayd Surely it is the king of Israel And they turned to fight against him And Iehosaphat cryed 33 And so it came to passe that when the captaynes of the charettes sawe that he
workers with spirites and tellers of fortunes and wrought much wickednesse in the sight of the Lorde to anger him 7 And he put an image of a groue that he had made euen in the temple of which the Lord had sayd to Dauid and Solomon his sonne in this house and in Hierusalem which I haue chosen out of all tribes of Israel will I put my name for euer 8 Neither will I make the feete of Israel moue any more out of the lande which I gaue their fathers so that they will obserue and do all that I haue commaunded them and according to all the law that my seruaunt Moyses commaunded them 9 But they hearkened not and Manasse led them out of the way to do more wickedly then dyd the heathen people whom the Lorde destroyed before the children of Israel 10 And the Lord spake by his seruauntes the prophetes saying 11 Because Manasse king of Iuda hath done such abhominations and hath wrought more wickedly then all the Amorites whiche were before him dyd and hath made Iuda sinne also with his idols 12 Therfore thus sayth the Lord God of Israel Behold I will bring such euyll vpon Hierusalem and Iuda that whoso heareth of it both his eares shal tingle 13 And I will stretche ouer Hierusalem the squaryng line of Samaria the plummet of the house of Ahab And I will wype out Hierusalem as a man wypeth a dishe and when he hath wyped it turneth it vp syde downe 14 And I will leaue the remnaunt of myne inheritaunce and deliuer them into the hand of their enemies and they shal be robbed and spoyled of all their aduersaries 15 Euen because they haue done euyll in my sight and haue angred me sence the time their fathers came out of Egypt vnto this day 16 And Manasse shed innocent blood exceeding much till he replenished Hierusalem from corner to corner besyde his sinne wherwith he made Iuda to sinne and to do euyll in the sight of the Lorde 17 The rest of the wordes that concerne Manasse and all that he dyd and his sinne that he sinned are they not written in the booke of the cronicles of the kinges of Iuda 18 And Manasse slept with his fathers and was buried in the garden of his owne house euen in the gardē of Vzza Amon his sonne raigned in his steade 19 Amon was twentie and two yeres olde when he began to raigne and he raigned two yeres in Hierusalem His mothers name also was Mesullemeth the daughter of Harus of Iotba 20 And he dyd euyll in the sight of the Lord as his father Manasse dyd 21 And walked in al the way that his father walked in and serued the idols that his father serued and worshipped them 22 And he forsoke the Lord God of his fathers and walked not in the way of the Lorde 23 And the seruauntes of Amon conspired against hym slue the king in his owne house 24 And the people of the land slue al them that had conspired against king Amon and the people made Iosia his sonne king in his steade 25 The rest of the wordes that concerne Amon what thinges he dyd are they not written in the booke of the cronicles of the kinges of Iuda 26 And they buryed him in his sepulchre in the garden of Vzza Iosia his sonne raigned in his steade The .xxii. Chapter 4 Iosia repaireth the temple 8 Helkia findeth the booke of the law and causeth it to be presented to Iosia 14 who sendeth to Hulda the prophetisse to inquire the Lordes will 1 IOsia was eight yeres olde when he began to raigne he raigned thirtie one yeres in Hierusalem His mothers name also was Iedida the daughter of Adaia of Bozcath 2 He dyd that which is right in the sight of the Lorde walked in all the wayes of Dauid his father and bowed neither to the right hande or to the left 3 And it came to passe that in the eyghtteenth yere of the raigne of king Iosia the king sent Saphan the sonne of Azalia the sonne of Mesulam the scribe to the house of the Lord saying 4 Go vp to Helkia the hye priest that he may summe the siluer whiche is brought into the house of the Lorde which the kepers of the porche haue gathered of the people 5 And let them deliuer it into the hande of them that do the worke and that haue the ouersight of the house of the Lord and let them geue it to them that worke in the house of the Lorde to repaire the decayed places of the temple 6 Euen vnto carpenters and masons and workers vpon the walles and for to bye tymber and free stone to repaire the temple 7 Howbeit let no reckenyng be made with them of the money that is deliuered into their hande for their vse is to deale faithfully 8 And Helkia the hie priest said vnto Saphan the scribe I haue founde the booke of the lawe in the house of the Lorde And Helkia gaue the booke to Saphan and he read in it 9 And Saphan the scribe came to the king and brought him worde againe and sayde Thy seruauntes haue gathered the money that was founde in the temple and haue deliuered it vnto them that do the worke and that haue the ouersight of the house of the Lorde 10 And Saphan the scribe shewed the king saying Helkia the priest hath deliuered me a booke And Saphan read in it before the king 11 And it fortuned that when the king had hearde the wordes of the booke of the lawe he rent his clothes 12 And the king commaunded Helkia the priest and Ahikan the sonne of Saphan and Achbor the sonne of Michaia and Saphan the scribe and Asahia a seruaunt of the kinges saying 13 Go ye and enquire of the Lord for me and for the people and for al Iuda concerning the wordes of this booke that is founde For great is the wrath of the Lord that is kyndled against vs because our fathers haue not hearkened vnto the wordes of this booke to do according vnto al that which is written therin for vs. 14 So Helkia the hye priest and Ahikam Achbor and Saphan and Asahia went vnto Hulda the prophetisse the wyfe of Sallum the sonne of Thikua the sonne of Harhas keper of the wardrope which prophetisse dwelt in Hierusalem in the house of the doctrine they communed with her 15 And she aunswered them thus sayth the Lorde God of Israel Tell the man that sent you to me 16 Thus sayth the Lorde Behold I wil bring euyll vpon this place and on the inhabiters therof euen all the wordes of the booke whiche the king of Iuda hath read 17 Because they haue forsaken me and haue burnt incense vnto other gods to anger me with all the workes of their handes My wrath also shal be kindled against this place and shall not be quenched 18 But to the king of Iuda whiche sent you
Asan fiue townes ' 33 And all their villages that were round about the same cities vnto Baal This is the habitation of them and their genealogie 34 Mosobab and Iamlech and Iosa the' sonne of Amasia ' 35 And Ioel and Iehu the sonne of Iosibi the sonne of Saraia the sonne of Asiel 36 And Elioenai and Iaakoba Isohaia ' and Asaiah Adiel Ismiel and Benaia ' 37 And Ziza the sonne of Siphi the sonne of Allon the sonne of Iedaia the sonne of Zimri the sonne of Semaia 38 These are famous captaynes in their kinredes setting vp greatly the house of their fathers 39 And they went to the entring in of Gedor euen vnto the eastsyde of the valley to seke pasture for their sheepe 40 And they founde fat pasture and good and a wide lande quiete and fruitefull for they of Ham had dwelt there before 41 And these now afore written by name came in the dayes of Hezekia king of Iuda and smote the tentes of them and the habitations that were found there and destroyed them vtterly vnto this day and dwelt in their roomes because ther was pasture there for their sheepe 42 And some of the children of Simeon went to mount Seir euen fiue hundred men hauing for their captaynes Phelathia Nearia Raphaia and Vzziel the sonnes of Isi 43 And smote the rest of the Amalekites that were escaped and they dwelt there vnto this day ' The .v. Chapter ' 1 The birth right taken from Ruben and geuen to the sonnes of Ioseph 3 The genealogie of Ruben 11 and Gad. 23 And of the halfe tribe of Manasse 1 THe sonnes of Ruben the eldest sonne of Israel forasmuch as he was the eldest had defiled his fathers bedde his birthright was geuen vnto the sonnes of Ioseph the sonne of Israel Howbeit the genealogie is not reckened after this birthright 2 For Iuda preuayled aboue his brethren of his tribe came the chiefe and the birthright was geuen to Ioseph 3 The sonnes then of Ruben the eldest sonne of Israel were Henoch Phalu Hezron and Charmi. 4 The sonnes of Ioel Samaiah his sonne Gog his sonne and Semhi his sonne ' 5 Micah his sonne Reaia his sonne and ' Baal his sonne 6 Beera his sonne whom Thiglath Pilneser king of Assyria caried away for he was a great lorde among the Rubenites 7 And when his brethren in their kinredes reckened the genealogie of their generations Ieiel and Zachariah were the chiefe 8 And Baal the sonne of Azan the sonne of Sema the sonne of Ioel dwelt in Aroer so foorth vnto Nebo and Baal-meon 9 And eastwarde he inhabited vnto the entring in of the wildernesse from the riuer Euphrates for they had much cattel in the land of Gilead 10 And in the dayes of Saul they warred with the Agarites whiche were ouerthrowen by their hand and they dwelt in their tentes throughout all the east land of Gilgal 11 And the children of Gad dwelt ouer against them in the land of Basan euen vnto Salcha 12 And in Basan Iohel was the chiefest and Sapham the next then Ianai and Saphat 13 And their brethren of the housholde of their fathers were Michael Mesullam Seba Iorai Iahcan Zia Eber seuen 14 These are the children of Abihail the sonne of Huri the sonne of Iaroah the sonne of Gilead the sonne of Michael the sonne of Iesisai the sonne of Iahdo the sonne of Buz 15 Ahi the sonne of Abdiel the sonne of Guni was a captayne of the housholde of their fathers 16 And they dwelt in Gilead in Basan and in her townes and in all the suburbes of Saron and in their borders 17 And these were reckened by kinredes in the dayes of Iotham king of Iuda and in the dayes of Ieroboam king of Israel 18 The sonnes of Ruben and of Gad and of halfe the tribe of Manasse were fighting men and hable to beare shielde and sworde and to shoote with bowe exercised in warre euen foure and fourtie thousand seuen hundred and threescore that went out to the warre 19 And they fought with the Hagarites ' with Ietur Nephis and Nodab ' 20 And they were helped of the Lorde against them and the Hagarites were deliuered into their hande and so were all that were with them For they cryed to God in the battayle and he heard them because they put their trust in him 21 And they toke of their cattell of their camels fiftie thousande and two hundred and fiftie thousande sheepe and two thousande asses and of the soules of men an hundred thousande 22 And there fell many wounded because the warre was of God And they dwelt in their steades vntil the time that they were caryed away 23 And the children of the halfe tribe of Manasse dwelt in the lande from Basan vnto Baal Hermon and Semir and vnto mount Hermon for they were growen to a great multitude 24 And these were the heades of the housholdes of their fathers Epher and Iesi Eliel and Azriel Ieremia and Hodauia and Iahdiel strong men and valiaunt famous men and heades of the housholdes of their fathers 25 And they transgressed against the God of their fathers and went a whoring after the gods of the people of the lande whom God destroyed before them 26 And the God of Israel stirred vp the spirite of Phul king of Assyria the spirite of Thiglath Pilneser king of Assyria and caried them away euen the Rubenites the Gadites and the halfe tribe of Manasse and brought them vnto Halah Habor Hara and to the riuer Gosan vnto this day ' The .vi. Chapter ' 10 The genealogie of the sonnes of Leui. 31 Their order in the ministerie of the tabernacle 4◠Aaron and his sonnes priestes 54.57 Their habitation 1 THe sonnes of Leui Gersom Caath and Merari 2 The sonnes of Caath Amram Izahar Hebron Vzziel 3 The childrē of Amram Aaron Moyses Miriam The sonnes also of Aaron Nadab Abihu Eleazar and Ithamar ' 4 Eleazar begat Phinehes Phinehes begat ' Abisua ' 5 Abisua begat Boki Boki begat Vzzi ' 6 Vzzi begat Zarahia Zarahia begat ' Meraioth ' 7 Meraioth begat Amaria and Amaria ' begat Ahitob ' 8 Ahitob begat Zadoc and Zadoc begat ' Ahimaaz ' 9 Ahimaaz begat Azaria and Azaria begat ' Iohonan 10 Iohonan begat Azaria whiche ministred in the temple that Solomon buylt in Hierusalem ' 11 Azaria begat Amaria Amaria begat ' Ahitob ' 12 Ahitob begat Zadoc and Zadoc begat ' Sallum ' 13 Sallum begat Helkia and Helkia begat ' Azaria ' 14 Azaria begat Saraia and Saraia begat ' Iehozedech 15 And Iehozedech departed when the Lorde caryed away Iuda and Hierusalem by the hand of Nabuchodonoser ' 16 The sonnes of Leui Gersom Caath ' and Merari ' 17 And these be the names of the sonnes ' of Gersom Libni and Simhi ' 18 And the sonnes of Caath were Amram ' Izahar Hebron and Vzziel 19 The sonnes of Merari Mahali and Musi and these are the kinredes of
the archers founde him and he was wounded of shooters 4 Then saide Saul to his harnesse bearer Drawe thy sword and thrust me through therwith that these vncircumcised come not and do me shame But his harnesse bearer would not for he feared exceedingly So Saul caught a sword and fell vpon it 5 And when his harnesse bearer saw that Saul was dead he fell on a sword also and dyed 6 And thus Saul and his three sonnes and al they of his house dyed together 7 And when all the men of Israel that were in the valley sawe how they fled and that Saul his sonnes were dead they forsoke their cities and ran away and the Philistines came and dwelt in them 8 And it fortuned that on the morowe when the Philistines came to strip the dead bodies they founde Saul and his sonnes ouerthrowen in mount Gilboa 9 And when they had stript him they toke his head and his harnesse and sent them into the lande of the Philistines rounde about to shewe them vnto their idols and to the people 10 And they put his harnesse in the house of their god and set vp his head in the temple of Dagon 11 And when all they of Iabes in Gilead hearde all that the Philistines had done to Saul 12 They arose all the strongest of them and fet away the body of Saul and the bodies of his sonnes and brought them to Iabes and buried the bones of them vnder an oke in Iabes and fasted seuen dayes 13 So Saul dyed for his trespasse that he trespassed against the Lorde in that he kept not the word of the Lorde and in that he sought and asked counsaile of a woman that wrought with a spirite 14 And asked not of the Lorde and therefore he slue him and turned the kingdome vnto Dauid the sonne of Isai ¶ The .xj. Chapter 3 After the death of Saul Dauid is annoynted in Hebron 5 The Iebusites rebell against Dauid from whom he taketh the towre of Sion 6 Ioab is made captayne 10 His valiaunt men 1 THen all Israel gathered them selues to Dauid vnto Hebron saying 2 Beholde we be thy bones and thy fleshe And moreouer in tyme past euen when Saul was king thou leddest Israel out in And the Lorde thy God sayde vnto thee Thou shalt feede my people Israel and thou shalt be captayne ouer my people Israel 3 Therefore came all the elders of Israel to the king to Hebron and Dauid made a couenaunt with them in Hebrō before the Lorde And they annoynted Dauid king ouer Israel according to the worde of the Lorde by the hande of Samuel 4 And Dauid and all Israel went to Hierusalem which is Iebus where as were the Iebusites the inhabiters of the lande 5 And the inhabiters of Iebus sayde to Dauid Thou commest not in here Neuerthelesse Dauid wan the castel of Sion which is called the citie of Dauid 6 And Dauid sayde Whosoeuer smyteth the Iebusites first shal be the principall captayne and a lorde So Ioab the sonne of Zaruia went first vp and was made the chiefe captayne 7 And Dauid dwelt in the castell Sion and therefore they called it the citie of Dauid 8 And he built the citie on euery syde euen from Millo round about and Ioab repaired the rest of the citie 9 And Dauid prospered waxed great the Lorde of hoastes was with him 10 These are the principall men of power whom Dauid had and that claue to him in his kingdome with all Israel to make him king according to the word of the Lorde ouer Israel 11 And this is the number of the mightie men whom Dauid had Iosobeam the sonne of Hachmoni the chiefe among thirtie he lift vp his speare against three hundred and wounded them at one tyme. 12 After him was Eleazar his vncles sonne an Ahothite which was one of the three mightiest 13 He was with Dauid at Pasdammim and there the Philistines were gathered together to battaile And there was there a parcell of grounde full of barly and the people fled before the Philistines 14 And they stept foorth into the middest of the fielde and saued it and slue the Philistines and the Lorde gaue a great victorie 15 And the three of the thirtie chiefe captaynes went to a rocke to Dauid into the caue Adullam And the hoast of the Philistines abode in the valley of Rephaim 16 And when Dauid was in the holde the Philistines watch was at Bethlehem that same tyme. 17 And Dauid longed and sayde Oh that one woulde geue me drinke of the water of the well that is at the gate at Bethlehem 18 And the three brake through the hoast of the Philistines and drewe water out of the wel that was by y e gate at Bethlehem and toke it and brought it to Dauid Neuerthelesse Dauid woulde not drinke of it but rather offered it to the Lorde 19 And sayd my God forbyd it me that I shoulde do this thing Shall I drinke the blood of these men that haue put their liues in ieoperdie for with the ieoperdie of their liues they brought it therefore he would not drinke it And this did these three mightiest 20 And Abisai the brother of Ioab he also was captayne among three For he lyft vp his speare against three hundred and wounded them and had a name among the three 21 Yea among three he was more honorable then the two for he was their captayne Howbeit he attayned not to the first three 22 Banaia y e sonne of Iehoiada the sonne of a very strong man which had done many actes of Cabzeel he slue two strong lions of Moab went downe and slue a lion in a pit in time of snowe 23 And he slue an Egyptian whose stature was euen fiue cubites long and in the Egyptians hand was a speare lyke a weauers beame And the other went downe to him with a waster plucked the speare out of the Egyptians hand and slue him with his owne speare 24 Such thinges did Banaia the sonne of Iehoiada and had the name among the three mightiest 25 And was honorable among thirtie but attayned not vnto the first three And Dauid made him of his counsaile 26 The other men of armes were these Asahel the brother of Ioab Elhanan his vncles sonne of Bethlehem 27 Samoth the Harodite Helez the Pelonite 28 Ira the sonne of Ickes the Thekoite Abieser the Anatothite 29 Sibbecai the Husathite Ilai the Ahohite 30 Maharai the Nepthophathite Heled the sonne of Baana the Nethophathite 31 Ithai the sonne of Ribai of Gibea that pertayned to the children of Beniamin Benaia the Phirathonite 32 Hurai of the riuers of Gaas Abiel the Arbathite 33 Azmaueth the Baharumite Elihaba the Salabonite 34 The sonnes of Hassem the Gezonite Ionathan the sonne of Sage an Hararite 35 Ahiam the sonne of Sacar the Hararite Eliphal the sonne of Vr. 36 Hepher the Mecherathite Ahia the Pelonite 37 Hezro the Carmelite
Naari the sonne of Ezbai 38 Ioel the brother of Nathan Mibhar the sonne of Hagari 39 Zelec the Ammonite Naharai a Berothite the bearer of the harnesse of Ioab the sonne of Zaruia 40 Ira the Iethrite and Gareb a Iethrite 41 Vria the Hethite and Zahad the sonne of Ahlai 42 Adina the sonne of Sisa a Rubenite a captaine of the Rubenites and thirtie with him 43 Hanan the sonne of Maacah and Iosaphat a Mithanite 44 Vzzia an Astherathite Sama Iehiel the sonnes of Hothan an Aroerite 45 Iediel the sonne of Zimri and Ioha his brother a Thosaite 46 Eliel a Mahauite Ieribai and Iosaia the sonnes of Elnaam and Iithma a Moabite 47 Eliel and Obed and Iasiel a Mesobaite The .xii. Chapter 1 What they were that went with Dauid when he fled from Saul 1 THese are they that came to Dauid to Ziklag while he yet kept himselfe close because of Saul the sonne of Cis and they were very strong helpers in battaile 2 They were weaponed with bowes and could hurle stones with the right hand and with the left and shoote arrowes out of a bowe were of Sauls brethren euen of Beniamin 3 The chiefest were Ahiezer and Ioas the sonnes of Simaa a Gibeonite and Ieziel and Pelet the sonnes of Asmaueth Beracah and Iehu of Anathoth 4 And Ismaia a Gibeonite a mightie man among thirtie and more then the thirtie Ieremiah Iehaziel Iehonan and Iosabad of Gedor 5 Eleusai Ierimoth Bealia Semaria and Seaphatia the Haraphites 6 Elcana Iesia Azarael Ioezer Iosebeam Coranites 7 Ioela and Zebadiah the sonnes of Ieroam of Gedor 8 And of the Gadites there seperated themselues some vnto Dauid into the houlde of the wildernesse men of might and men apt for the warre that coulde handle shielde and speare whose faces were lyke the faces of lions and they were as swyft as the Roes in the mountaynes 9 Ezer the first Obdia the seconde and Eliab the third 10 Masmana the fourth Ieremia the fifth 11 Atthai the sixt Eliel the seuenth 12 Iohanan the eight Elsabad the ninth 13 Ieremia the tenth and Machbanai the eleuenth 14 These were of the sonnes of Gad and were captaines ouer the men of warre one of the least coulde resist an hundred and the greatest a thousand 15 These are they that went ouer Iordane in the first moneth when he had filled ouer all his banckes and they put to flight all them of the valley both toward the east and west 16 And there came of the children of Beniamin Iuda to the houlde vnto Dauid 17 And Dauid went out to meete them and aunswered and sayd vnto them If ye be come peaceably vnto me to helpe me myne heart shal be knit vnto you but and if you come to betraye me to myne aduersaries seeing there is no wickednes in myne handes the God of our fathers loke thereon and rebuke it 18 And the spirite came vpon Amasai which was the chiefe among thirtie saide Thyne are we Dauid and on thy side thou sonne of Isai Peace peace be vnto thee peace be to thy helpers for thy God is thyne helpe Then Dauid receaued them made them heades of companies of the men of warre 19 And there fell some of Manasse to Dauid when he came with the Philistines against Saul to battaile but they helped them not For the lordes of the Philistines toke aduisement and sent him away againe saying he will fall to his maister Saul to the ieoperdie of our heades 20 As he went to Ziklag there fel to him of Manasse Adna Iozadad Iediel Michael Iozabad Elihu and Zilthai heades of the thousandes that were of Manasse 21 And they holpe Dauid against the rouers For they were all mightie men of warre and captaynes in the hoast 22 For at that tyme there came one or other to Dauid day by day to helpe him vntil it was a great hoast like the hoast of God 23 And this is the number of the chiefe captaynes that were prepared to battaile and came to Dauid to Hebron to turne the kingdome of Saul to him according to the word of the Lorde 24 The children of Iuda that bare shield and speare were sixe thousand eight hundred redie prepared to the warre 25 Of the children of Simeon men of might to warre .vii. M. one hundred 26 Of the children of Leui foure thousand and sixe hundred 27 And Iehoiada was the chiefe of them of Aaron and with him three thousand and seuen hundred 28 And Zadoc a young man strong and valiaunt and of his fathers housholde twentie and two captaines 29 And of the children of Beniamin the brothren of Saul three thousand And a great part of them did vnto that tyme folowe the house of Saul 30 And of the children of Ephraim twentie thousand and eight hundred mightie men of warre and famous men in the houshoulde of their fathers 31 And of the halfe tribe of Manasse eyghteene thousand which were appointed by name to come and make Dauid king 32 And of the children of Isachar which were men that had vnderstanding of the tymes to knowe what Israel ought to do the heads of them were two hundred all their brethren were at their wyll 33 And of Zabulon which we◠out to battaile expert in warre and in all instrumentes of warre fiftie thousand which coulde set the battaile in arraye they were not of double heart 34 And of Nephthali a thousand captaines and with them with shielde and speare thirtie and seuen thousand 35 And of Dan expert in battayle twentie eyght thousand and sixe hundred 36 And of Aser that went out to the warre and kept the forefront of the battaile fourtie thousand 37 And of the othersyde of Iordane of the Rubenites and Gadites and of the halfe tribe of Manasse with all manner of instrumentes of warre an hundred and twentie thousand 38 All these were men of warre keping the forefront of the battel and with perfecte heart came to Hebron to make Dauid king ouer all Israel And all the rest of Israel was of one accorde to make Dauid king 39 And there they were with Dauid three dayes eating drinking for their brethren had prepared for them 40 Moreouer they that were nye them euen vnto Isachar Zabulon Nephthali brought bread on asses cammels mules oxen meate flowre figges reasinges wine oyle oxen and sheepe aboundantly For there was ioy in Israel ¶ The .xiij. Chapter 7 The arke is brought againe from Kariathiarim to Hierusalem 9 Vzza dyeth because he toucheth it 1 ANd Dauid counsailed with the captaynes of thousandes and hundredes and with al the Lordes 2 And sayde vnto all the congregation of Israel If it seeme you good to be of the Lord our God we will send abrode vnto our brethren that are left in all the lande of Israel and with them also to the priestes and Leuites which are in their suburbes to gather them together vnto
so the children of Israel were brought vnder at that time the children of Iuda preuayled because they leaned vnto the Lorde God of their fathers 19 And Abia folowed after Ieroboam and toke cities from him Bethel with the townes belonging thereto Iesana with the townes that belonged thereto and Ephron with her townes 20 And Ieroboam recouered no strength againe in the dayes of Abia And the Lorde plagued him and he dyed 21 But Abia waxed mightie and maryed foureteene wiues and begat twentie and two sonnes and sixteene daughters 22 The rest of the actes of Abia his maners and his sayinges are written in the story of the prophete Iddo The .xiiij. Chapter 3 Asa destroyeth idolatrie and commaundeth his people to serue the true God 11 He prayeth vnto God when he shoulde go to fight 12 He obtayneth the victorie 1 SO Abia slept with his fathers and they buryed him in the citie of Dauid and Asa his sonne raigned in his steade in whose dayes the lande was in quietnesse ten yeres 2 And Asa did that was good right in the eyes of the Lorde his God 3 For he toke away straunge aulters and the high places and brake downe the images and cut downe the groues 4 And commaunded Iuda to seeke the Lorde God of their fathers and to do according to the lawe and commaundement 5 And he put away out of all the cities of Iuda the high places the images the kingdome was quiet before him 6 And he built strong cities in Iuda because the lande was in rest and he had no warre in those yeres for the Lorde had geuen him rest 7 Therefore he saide vnto Iuda let vs builde these cities make about them walles towres gates and barres for the lande is yet in rest before vs because we haue sought the Lorde our God we haue sought him and he hath geuen vs rest on euery side And so they built and it prospered with them 8 And Asa had an armie of men that bare shieldes and speares out of Iuda three hundred thousand out of Beniamin that bare shieldes drewe bowes two hundred and fourescore thousand all these were valiaunt men 9 And there came out against them Zarah the blacke Morian with an hoast of ten hundred thousand three hundred charettes came as farre as Maresa 10 And Asa went out before him and they ioyned the battaile in the valley of Zephata beside Maresa 11 And Asa cryed vnto the Lorde his God and saide Lorde it is no harde thing with thee to helpe with many or them that haue no power Helpe vs therfore O Lorde our God for we trust to thee and in thy name we go against this multitude Thou art the Lord our God and no man shall preuaile against thee 12 So the Lord smote the blacke Moores before Asa and Iuda and the blacke Moores fled 13 And Asa the people that was with him folowed after them vnto Gerar And the blacke Moores hoast was ouerthrowen that there was none of them left but were destroyed before the Lord and before his hoast And they caryed away a mightie great pray 14 And they smote all the cities rounde about Gerar for the feare of the Lorde came vpon them And they spoyled all the cities there was exceeding much spoyle in them 15 They smote also the tentes of cattaile and caryed away plentie of sheepe and camels and returned to Hierusalem ¶ The .xv. Chapter 1 The exhortation of Azaria 8 Asa purgeth his countrey of idolatrie 11 He sacrifiseth with the people 14 They sweare together to serue the Lorde 16 He deposeth his mother for her idolatrie 1 AND the spirite of God came on Azaria the sonne of Obed 2 And he went out to meete Asa and said vnto him Heare me Asa and al Iuda and Beniamin the Lorde is with you while ye be with him and when ye seeke him he wyll be founde of you and againe when ye forsake him he also wyll forsake you 3 Nowe for a long season Israel hath ben without the true God and without priestes to teache and without law 4 And when any man in his trouble did turne vnto the Lorde God of Israel and sought him he was found of them 5 And in that time there was no peace to him that did go out and in but great sedition was there among all the inhabiters of the earth 6 And nation was destroyed of nation and citie of citie for God did moue all aduersitie among them 7 Play ye therefore the men and let not your handes slacke for your worke shal be rewarded 8 And when Asa heard those wordes and the prophecie of Azaria the sonne of Obed the prophete he toke courage and put away the abhominable idols out of all the lande of Iuda and Beniamin and out of the cities which he wan in mount Ephraim and renued the aulter of the Lorde that was before the porche of the Lorde 9 And he gathered al Iuda and Beniamin and the straungers with them out of Ephraim Manasse Simeon For there fell many to him out of Israel when they sawe that the Lord his God was with him 10 So they assembled together at Hierusalē the third moneth the fifteenth yere of the raigne of Asa 11 And they offered vnto the Lorde the same time of the spoyle which they had brought seuen hundred oxen and seuen thousand sheepe 12 And they made a couenaunt to seeke the Lorde God of their fathers with all their heart and all their soule 13 And whosoeuer woulde not seeke the Lorde God of Israel shoulde dye for it whether he were small or great man or woman 14 And they sware vnto the Lorde with a loude voyce showting and blowing with trumpettes and shawmes 15 And all they in Iuda reioyced at the oth for they had sworne vnto the Lord with all their heart sought him with all their lust and he was found of them And the Lorde gaue them rest rounde about on euery syde 16 And king Asa put Maacha his mother out of aucthoritie because she had made an abhominable idol in a groue And Asa broke downe her idol stamped it burnt it at the brooke Cedron 17 But al the high places were not taken away out of Israel though the heart of Asa was perfect all his dayes 18 And he brought into the house of God the thinges that his father had dedicate and that he him selfe had dedicate euen siluer and golde and iewels 19 And there was no more warre vnto the thirtie and fiue yere of the raigne of Asa ¶ The .xvi. Chapter 1 Asa for feare of Baasa king of Israel maketh a couenaunt with Benhadad king of Aram. 7 He is reproued by the prophete 10 whom he putteth in prison 12 He putteth his trust in the phisitions 13 His death 1 IN the thirtie and sixth yere of the raigne of Asa came Baasa king of Israel against
the sonne of Iemla And Iehosaphat sayde Let not the king say so 8 And the king of Israel called one of his chamberlaynes and sayde Fetch hyther quickly Michea the sonne of Iemla 9 And the king of Israel and Iehosaphat king of Iuda sate eyther of them on his seate in their apparell in a thresshing floore beside the gate of Samaria al the prophetes prophecied before theÌ„ 10 And one Zedekia the sonne of Chanaana had made him hornes of iron and sayde thus sayth the Lorde With these thou shalt pushe Syria vntill they be brought to naught 11 And all the prophetes prophecied euen so saying Go vp to Ramoth in Gilead it shall prosper with thee for the Lord shall deliuer it into the hand of the king 12 And the messenger that went to call Michea spake to him saying Behold the wordes of the prophetes speake good to the king with one assent let thy wordes therefore I pray thee be like one of theirs that thou speake that whiche is pleasaunt 13 And Michea sayde As the Lorde liueth euen what my God sayth that wil I speake 14 And when he was come to the king the king sayd vnto him Michea should we go to Ramoth in Gilead to fight or leaue of And he sayd Go vp al shal be well and they shal be deliuered into your hande 15 And the king sayde to him So and so many times do I charge thee that thou say nothing but the trueth to me in the name of the Lorde 16 Then he sayd I did see all them of Israel scattered in the mountaynes as sheepe that haue no sheephard And the Lorde sayde These haue no maister let them returne euery man therfore to his house in peace 17 And the king of Israel said vnto Iehosaphat Did I not tel thee that he would not prophecie good vnto me but euyll 18 But he said againe Therfore heare ye the word of the Lord I saw the Lord sit vpon his seate and all the companie of heauen stoode on his right hande and on his left 19 And the Lord sayd Who shall deceaue Ahab king of Israel that he may go vp and be ouerthrowne at Ramoth in Gilead And one sayde this a nother that 20 And there came out a spirite stoode before the Lorde and sayde I will deceaue him And the Lorde sayde vnto him Wherin 21 And he sayde I wil go out and be a lying spirite in the mouth of all his prophetes And the Lord sayd Thou shalt deceaue him and shalt preuayle go out and do euen so 22 And nowe therfore behold the Lorde hath put a lying spirite in the mouthes of all these thy prophetes and the Lord hath spoken euyll against thee 23 And Zedâ—kia the sonne of Chanaana went to and smote Michea vpon the cheeke sayde By what way went the spirite of the Lorde from me to speake with thee 24 And Michea sayd Beholde thou shalt see the day wheÌ„ thou shalt go froÌ„ chamber to chamber for to hyde thy selfe 25 And the king of Israel sayd Take ye Michea and bring him to Amon the gouerner of the citie to Ioas the kinges sonne 26 And ye shall say thus sayth the king Put this felowe in the prison house and feede him with bread of affliction and water of trouble vntil I come againe in peace 27 And Michea said If thou come againe in peace then hath not the Lord spoken by me And he sayde Hearken to ye people euery one of you 28 And so the king of Israel and Iehosaphat the king of Iuda went vp to Ramoth in Gilead 29 And the king of Israel sayde vnto Iehosaphat I must chaunge me when I go to the battell but see that thou haue thyne owne apparel vpon thee And the king of Israel chaunged him selfe and they came to the battel 30 But the king of Syria had commaunded the captaynes of the charets that were with him saying See that ye fight not against small or great saue against the king of Israel only 31 And when the captaynes of the charets saw Iehosaphat they sayd It is y e king of Israel And therfore they compassed about hym to fight But Iehosaphat cried out and the Lord helped him and God chased them away from him 32 For it came to passe that when the captaynes of the charets perceaued that it was not the king of Israel they turned backe againe from him 33 And a certayne man drewe a bow with all his might and smote the king of Israel beweene the ioyntes of his habergin and he sayde to his charetman Turne thyne hand that thou mayst carie me out of the hoast for I am wounded 34 And the battel increased that day Howbeit the king of Israel caused his charet to stand still against the Syrians vntill euen And about the time of the sunne goyng downe he died The .xix. Chapter 1 After Iehosaphat was rebuked by the prophete he calleth againe the people to the honoring of the Lord. 5 He appoynteth iudges and ministers 9 and exhorteth them to feare God 1 ANd Iehosaphat the king of Iuda came home againe in peace to Hierusalem 2 And Iehu the sonne of Hanani the sear went out to meete him and sayd to king Iehosaphat Wouldest thou helpe the vngodly and loue them that hate the Lorde Therfore is wrath come downe vpon thee from before the Lorde 3 Neuerthelesse there are some good actes founde in thee in that thou hast hewen downe the groues out of the lande and hast prepared thyne heart to seke God 4 And Iehosaphat dwelt at Hierusalem and turned and went out to the people from Beerseba to mount Ephraim and brought them againe vnto the Lorde God of their fathers 5 And he set iudges in the lande throughout all the strong cities of Iuda citie by citie 6 And sayde to the iudges Take heede what ye do for ye execute not the iudgementes of man but of God whiche is with you in the iudgement 7 Wherfore now let the feare of the Lord be vpon you and take heede be doyng the thing that pleaseth hym for there is no vnrighteousnes with the Lorde our God that he shoulde haue any respect of persons or take rewardes 8 Moreouer in Hierusalem did Iehosaphat set of the Leuites of the priestes and of the auncient fathers ouer Israel in the iudgement and cause of the Lord And they returned againe to HierusaleÌ„ 9 And he charged them saying Thus shal ye do in the feare of the Lord faythfully and with a pure heart 10 What cause soeuer come to you of your brethren that dwell in their cities betweene blood and blood betweene lawe and commaundemeÌ„t betweene statutes and ordinaunces ye shall warne them that they trespasse not against y e Lorde and so wrath come vpon you and your brethren Thus do ye shal not offende 11 And beholde Amaria the hie priest is among you in all matters of the Lorde and
37 And Eliezer the sonne of Dodauah of Maresa prophesied against Iehosaphat saying Because thou hast ioyned thy selfe with Ahaziahu y e lord hath broken thy workes And the shippes were brokē that they were not able to go to Tharsis The .xxi. Chapter 3 Iehosaphat dieth 1 Iehoram succedeth him 4 Which killeth his brethren 6 He was brought to idolatrie 11 and seduceth the people 16 He is oppressed of the Philistines 18 His miserable ende 1 IEhosaphat also slept with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the citie of Dauid and Iehoram his sonne raigned in his steade 2 And he had brethren whiche were the sonnes of Iehosaphat Azaria Iehiel Zacharia Azariahu Michael and Sephatiahu All these are the sonnes of Iehosaphat king of Iuda 3 And their father gaue thē many great giftes of gold and siluer and other speciall substaunce with strong cities in Iuda but the kingdome gaue he to Iehoram for he was the eldest 4 And Iehoram rose vp against the kingdome of his father and preuayled and siue all his brethren with the sworde and diuers of the lordes of Israel 5 Iehoram was thirtie and two yeres olde when he began to raigne and he raigned eyght yeres in Hierusalem 6 And he walked in the way of the kinges of Israel like as dyd the house of Ahab for he had the daughter of Ahab to wise and he wrought euyll in the eyes of the Lorde 7 Howbeit the Lord woulde not destroy the house of Dauid because of the couenaunt that he had made with Dauid as he promised to geue a light to hym and to his sonnes for euer 8 In his dayes the Edomites rebelled when they were vnder the dominion of Iuda and made them selues a king 9 And Iehoram went foorth with his lordes and all his charets were with him and he rose vp by night and smote the Edomites which compassed him in and the captaynes of the charets 10 But Edom rebelled still so that they woulde not be vnder the hande of Iuda vnto this day That same time also dyd Libna depart from being vnder his hande because he had forsaken the Lord God of his fathers 11 Moreouer he made high places in the mountaynes of Iuda caused the inhabiters of Hierusalem to commit fornication and prouoked Iuda to idolatrie 12 And there came a writing to him from Elia the prophete saying Thus sayth the Lord God of Dauid thy father Because thou hast not walked in the wayes of Iehosaphat thy father and in the wayes of Asa king of Iuda 13 But walkedst in the wayes of the kinges of Israel and hast made Iuda and the dwellers of Hierusalem to go a whoring like to the whordome of the house of Ahab and hast slayne thy brethren euen thy fathers house whiche were better then thou 14 Beholde with a great plague will the Lorde smite thy folke thy children thy wyues and all thy goods 15 And thou shalt suffer great payne euen a disease of thy bowels vntill thy guttes fall out by reason of thy sicknes day by day 16 And so the Lorde stirred vp against Iehoram the spirite of the Philistines and the Arabians that were besyde the blacke Moores 17 And they came vp into Iuda and wasted it caried away all the substaunce that was found in the kinges house and his sonnes and his wyues so that there was neuer a sonne left hym saue Iehohahaz which was the youngest among his sonnes 18 And after all these thinges the Lorde smote him in his bowels with an incurable disease 19 And it came to passe that in processe of time euen after the ende of two yeres his guttes fell out in his sicknes and so he died of very euyll diseases And they made no burning for him lyke the burning of his fathers 20 When he began to raigne he was thirtie and two yeres olde and raigned in Hierusalem eyght yeres and liued wretchedly howebeit they buried him in the citie of Dauid but not among the sepulchres of the kinges The .xxii. Chapter 1 Ahaziahu raigneth after Iehoram 8 Iehu king of Israel killeth Ahaziahu 10 Athaliahu putteth to death all the kinges linage 11 Ioas escapeth 1 ANd the inhabiters of Hierusalem made Ahaziahu his young sonne king in his stead For the men of warre that came with the hoast of the Arabians had slayne all his eldest sonnes And so Ahaziahu the sonne of Iehoram king of Iuda was made king 2 Two fourtie yeres old was he when he began to raigne and he raigned one yere in Hierusalem His mothers name was Athaliahu the daughter of Amri 3 And he walked also in the wayes of the house of Ahab for his mother by her counsel enticed him to do wickedly 4 Wherfore he dyd that which was euyll in the sight of the Lord as dyd they that were of the house of Ahab for they were his counselers after the death of his father to his destruction 5 And he walked after their counsel and went with Iehoram sonne of Ahab king of Israel to fight against Hazael king of Syria at Ramoth in Gilead and the Syrians smote Iehoram 6 And he returned to be healed in Iezrahel of the woundes whiche were geuen him at Rama whē he fought with Hazael king of Syria and Ahaziahu the sonne of Iehoram king of Iuda went downe to see Iehoram the sonne of Ahab at Iezrahel because he was diseased 7 At it came of God that Ahaziahu shoulde be dispised for his comming to Iehoram for when he was come he went out with Iehoram against Iehu the sonne of Nimsi whom y e Lord had annointed to destroy the house of Ahab 8 And so it came to passe that when Iehu was executing iustice vpon the house of Ahab and had founde the lordes of Iuda and the sonnes of the brethren of Ahaziahu that wayted on Ahaziahu he slue them 9 And he sought Ahaziahu they caught him where he was hid in Samaria and brought him to Iehu and when they had slayne him they buried him because said they he is the sonne of Iehosaphat whiche sought the Lorde with all his heart And the house of Ahaziahu had no powre to kepe still the kingdome 10 But when Athaliahu the mother of Ahaziahu sawe that her sonne was dead she arose and destroyed all the kinges seede in the kinred of the house of Iuda 11 And Iehosabeth the daughter of the king toke Ioas the sonne of Ahaziahu and stale him from among the kinges sonnes that were slayne put him and his nurse in a priuie chamber and so Iehosabeth the daughter of king Iehoram the wyfe of Iehoiada the priest and the sister of Ahaziahu hid him from Athaliahu that he was not slayne 12 And so he was with them hyd in the house of God sixe yeres and Athaliahu raigned ouer the lande The .xxiii. Chapter 1 Ioas the sonne of Ahazia is made king 3 Athaliahu is put to
house of the Lorde and hired masons and carpenters to repaire the house of the Lorde and so dyd they artificers in iron and brasse to mende the house of the Lorde 13 And so the workmen wrought and the worke mended through their handes and they made the house of God as it ought to be and strengthed it 14 And when they had finished it they brought the rest of the money before the king and Iehoiada and therwith were made vessels for the house of the Lorde euen vessels to minister withall and to serue for burnt offringes chargers and spoones vessels of golde and siluer And they offered burnt offringes in the house of the Lord continually all the dayes of Iehoiada 15 But Iehoiada waxed olde and dyed full of dayes for an hundred and thirtie yeres olde was he when he died 16 And they buried him in the citie of Dauid among the kinges because he dealt well with Israel and with God and with his house 17 And after the death of Iehoiada came the lordes of Iuda and made obeysaunce to the king And the king hearkened vnto them 18 And so they left the house of the Lorde God of their fathers and serued groues and idoles and then came the wrath of God vpon Iuda and Hierusalem for this their trespaces sake 19 And he sent prophetes to them to bring thē againe vnto the Lord they testified vnto them but they woulde not heare 20 And the spirite of God came vpon Zacharia the sonne of Iehoiada the priest which stoode by the people and sayd vnto them thus sayth God Why transgresse ye the commaundementes of the Lorde that ye can not prosper For because ye haue forsaken the Lord he also hath forsaken you 21 And they conspired against him and stoned him with stones at the commaundement of the king euen in the court of the house of the Lorde 22 And so Ioas the king remembred not y e kindnesse whiche Iehoiada his father had done to him but slue his sonne And when he died he sayde The Lorde loke vpon it and require it 23 And when the yere was out it fortuned that the hoast of Syria came vp against him and they came against Iuda and Hierusalem and destroyed all the lordes of the people from among the people and sent all the spoyle of them vnto the king to Damascon 24 For the Syrians came with a small companie of men and the Lorde deliuered a verie great hoast into their hande because they had forsaken the Lord God of their fathers And they gaue sentence against Ioas. 25 And when they were departed from him they left him in great diseases and his owne seruauntes conspired against him for the blood of the children of Iehoiada the priest and slue hym on his bed and he died and they buried him in the citie of Dauid but not in the sepulchres of the kinges 26 And these are they that conspired against him Zabad the sonne of Simeath an Ammonite Iehosabad the sonne of Simrith a Moabite 27 And his sonnes the summe of the taxe that was raysed in his time and the repairing of the house of God beholde they are written in the storie of the booke of the kinges and Amaziahu his sonne raigned in his steade The .xxv. Chapter 3 Amazia putteth them to death which slue his father 10 He sendeth backe them of Israel 11 He ouercommeth the Edomites 14 He falleth to idolatrie 17 And Ioas king of Israel ouercommeth Amazia 27 He is slayne by a conspiracie 1 AMaziahu was twentie and fiue yeres olde when he began to raigne and he raigned twentie and nine yeres in Hierusalē His mothers name was Iehoadan of Hierusalem 2 And he dyd that which is right in the sight of the Lorde but not with a perfect heart 3 And assoone as he was setled in the kingdome he slue his seruauntes that had killed the king his father 4 But he slue not their children because it is written thus in the lawe and booke of Moyses where the Lorde commaunded saying The fathers shall not dye for the children neither shall the children dye for the fathers but euery man shall dye for his owne sinne 5 And Amaziahu gathered Iuda together and made them captaynes ouer thousandes and ouer hundredes according to the houses of their fathers throughout all Iuda and Beniamin And he numbred them from twentie yeres olde and aboue and found among them three hundred thousande chosen men able to go to battell and that could handle speare and shield 6 He hired also an hundred thousande strong fighting men out of Israel for an hundred talentes of siluer 7 And there came a man of God to him and sayde O king let not the armie of Israel come with thee for the Lorde is not with Israel to wit with al the children of Ephraim 8 But if thou wilt needes be faytlesse come on and take the battell in hande and God shall make thee fall before the enemie For God hath power to helpe and to cast downe 9 And Amaziahu saide to the man of God What shal we do then for the hundred talentes which I haue geuen for the hoast of Israel The man of God aunswered The Lorde is able to geue thee much more then they be 10 And Amaziahu separated them to wit the armie that was come to him out of Ephraim to go home againe Wherefore they were exceeding wroth with Iuda returned home in great anger 11 And Amaziahu toke heart and caried out his people and went to the salt valley and smote of the children of Seir ten thousand 12 And other ten thousand did the children of Iuda take alyue caried them vnto the top of a rocke and cast them downe from the top of the rocke that they all to burst 13 But the souldiers of the armie which Amaziahu sent away that they should not go with his people to battaile fell vpon the cities of Iuda from Samaria vnto Bethron and smote three thousand of them and toke much spoyle 14 And it chaunced after that Amaziahu was come from the slaughter of the Edomites he brought the gods of the children of Seir and set them vp to be his gods and bowed him selfe before them and burned incense vnto them 15 Wherfore the Lorde was wroth with Amaziahu sent vnto him a prophete which saide vnto him Why hast thou sought the gods of the people which were not able to delyuer their owne people out of thyne hande 16 And it chaunced that as y e prophete talked with him the king saide vnto him Haue men made thee of the kinges counsel Ceasse why wylt thou be beaten And the prophete ceassed and said I am sure that God is minded to destroy thee because thou hast done this and agreest not vnto my counsell 17 Then Amaziahu king of Iuda toke aduise and sent to Ioas the sonne of Iehoahaz the sonne of Iehu king of Israel and
againe with shame towarde his owne lande And when he was come into the house of his god they that came of his owne body slue him therewith the sworde 22 And so the Lorde saued Hezekia and the inhabiters of Hierusalem out of the hand of Sennacherib the king of the Assyrians and from the hande of all other and mayntayned them on euery side 23 And many brought offeringes vnto the Lorde to Hierusalem and presentes to Hezekia king of Iuda so that he was magnified in the sight of all nations from thence foorth 24 In those dayes Hezekia was sicke to the death and prayed vnto the Lorde which aunswered him and shewed him a wonderfull miracle 25 But Hezekia dyd not againe vnto God according to it that he had shewed him for his heart arose there came wrath vpon hym and vpon Iuda and Hierusalem 26 Notwithstanding Hezekia submitted him selfe after that his heart was risen vp he and the inhabiters of Hierusalem and the wrath of the Lorde came not vpon them in the dayes of Hezekia 27 And Hezekia had exceeding much riches and honour And he gat him treasures of siluer and gold pretious stones and spices shieldes and of all maner pleasaunt iewels 28 And made store houses for the fruites of corne for wine and oyle and stalles for all maner of beastes and foldes for sheepe 29 And he made him cities had of sheepe and oxen great aboundaunce For God had geuen him substaunce exceeding much 30 This same Hezekia stopped the vpper water springes of Gihon and brought them downe to the west side of the citie of Dauid And Hezekia prospered in all his workes 31 And when the princes of Babylon sent vnto him ambassadours to enquire of the wonder that chaunced in the lande God left him to trye him and that all that was in his heart might be knowen 32 The rest of the deedes of Hezekia and his goodnes beholde they are written in the vision of Esai the prophet the sonne of Amoz in the booke of the kinges of Iuda and Israel 33 And Hezekia slept with his fathers and they buried hym in the most worthy place of the sepulchres of the sonnes of Dauid and all Iuda and the inhabiters of Hierusalem dyd him worship at his death and Manasse his sonne raigned in his steade The .xxxiii. Chapter 1 Manasses an idolater 9 He causeth Iuda to erre 11 He is led away prisoner into Babylon 12 He prayeth to the Lorde and is deliuered 15 He abolisheth idolatrie 16 and setteth vp true religion 20 He dieth and Amon his sonne succeedeth 24 whom his owne seruauntes slay 1 MAnasse was twelue yeres olde when he began to raigne and he raigned fiftie and fiue yeres in Hierusalem 2 But dyd euyll in the sight of the Lorde like vnto the abhominations of the heathen whom the Lord cast out before the children of Israel 3 For he went to and buylt the high places whiche Hezekia his father had broken downe And he reared vp aulters for Baalim and made groues and worshipped all the hoast of heauen and serued them 4 And he buylt aulters in the house of the Lorde where as the Lord yet had sayd In Hierusalē shal my name be for euer 5 And he buylded aulters for all the hoast of heauen in the two courtes of y e house of the Lorde 6 And he burnt his children in fire in the valley of the sonne of Hinnon He was a sorcerer he regarded the crying of birdes vsed inchauntmentes and mayntayned workers with spirites and sears of fortunes and wrought much euyll in the sight of the Lorde to anger hym withall 7 And he put the carued image and an idol whiche he had made in the house of God Of which house God had sayd to Dauid and to Solomon his sonne In this house and in Hierusalem whiche I haue chosen afore all the tribes of Israel will I put my name for euer 8 Neither will I make the foote of Israel to remoue any more out of the land whiche I haue ordeyned for your fathers yf so be that they wil be diligent and do all that I haue commaunded them in all the law and statutes and ordinaunces by the hande of Moyses 9 And so Manasse made Iuda and the inhabiters of Hierusalem to erre and to do worse then the heathen whom the Lord destroyed before the children of Israel 10 And the Lord spake to Manasse and to his people but they woulde not regarde 11 Wherfore the Lord brought vpon them the captaynes of the hoast of the king of the Assyrians whiche toke Manasse in holde and bounde him with chaynes and caried him to Babylon 12 And when he was in tribulation he besought the Lord his God and humbled him selfe exceedingly before the God of his fathers 13 And made intercession to him and God was intreated of him and hearde his prayer and brought him againe to Hierusalem into his kingdome and then Manasse knewe that the Lorde was God 14 After this he buylt a wall without the citie of Dauid on the west side of Gion in the valley as they came to the fishe gate and round about Ophel brought it vp of a very great heyght and put captaynes of warre in all the strong cities of Iuda 15 And he toke away straunge gods and images out of the house of God and all the aulters that he had buylt in the mount of the house of God and Hierusalem and cast them out of the citie 16 And he prepared the aulter of the Lord and sacrifised thereon peace offeringes and thanke offeringes and charged Iuda to serue the Lorde God of Israel 17 Neuerthelesse the people dyd offer stil in the high places howbeit vnto the Lorde their God only 18 The rest of the actes of Manasse and his prayer vnto his God the wordes of the sears that spake to him in the name of the Lorde God of Israel behold they are written in the sayinges of the kinges of Israel 19 And his prayer and howe that he was hearde and all his sinnes and his trespasse and the places where he made high places and set vp groues and images before he was meekened beholde they are written among the sayinges of the sears 20 And Manasse slept with his fathers they buried him in his owne house and Amon his sonne raigned in his roome 21 Amon was two and twentie yeres old when he began to raigne and raigned two yeres in Hierusalem 22 But he did euill in the sight of the Lord like as dyd Manasse his father for Amon sacrifised to all the carued images whiche Manasse his father had made and serued them 23 And submitted not him selfe before the Lorde as Manasse his father had meekened him selfe but Amon trespassed greatly 24 And his owne seruauntes conspired against him and slue him in his owne house 25 But the people of the lande slue al them that had conspired against king Amon
his burthen 24 Haue I put my trust in golde or haue I sayde to the wedge of golde thou art my confidence 25 Haue I reioyced because my power was great and because my hande gat so much 26 Dyd I euer greatly regarde the rysing of the sunne or had I the goyng downe of the moone in great reputation 27 Hath my heart medled priuyly with any disceite or did I euer kisse myne owne hande 28 That were a wickednesse worthy to be punished for then shoulde I haue denyed the God that is aboue 29 Haue I euer reioyced at the hurt of myne enemie or was I euer glad that any harme happened vnto him Oh no 30 I neuer suffred my mouth to sinne by wishing a curse to his soule 31 Dyd not the men of myne owne hous holde say Who shall let vs to haue our belly full of his fleshe 32 The straunger dyd not lodge in the streete but I opened my doores vnto him that went by the way 33 Haue I kept secrete my sinne and hyd myne iniquitie as Adam dyd 34 Though I coulde haue made afeard a great multitude yet the most contemptible of the families dyd feare me so I kept scilence and went not out of the doore 35 O that I had one which woulde heare me beholde my signe in the whiche the almightie shal aunswere for me though he that is my contrarie partie hath written a booke against me 36 Yet will I take it vpon my shoulder as a garlande binde it about my head 37 I will tell hym the number of my goinges go vnto him as to a prince 38 But if case be that my lande crye against me or that the forowes thereof make any complaynt 39 If I haue eaten the fruites therof vnpayed for yea if I haue greeued the soules of the maisters therof 40 Then let thystles growe in steede of my wheate and cockle for my barlye Here end the wordes of Iob. 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Chapter 1 Elihu reproueth them of folly ◠Age maketh not a man wife but the spirite of God 1 SO these three men ceassed to aunswere Iob because he held him selfe a righteous man 2 But Elihu the sonne of Barachel the Buzite of the kinred of Ram was very sore displeased at Iob because he called hym selfe iust before God 3 And with Iobs three friendes he was angry also because they had founde no reasonable aunswere and yet condempned Iob. 4 Nowe taried Elihu till they had ended their cōmunication with Iob for why they were elder them he 5 So when Elihu sawe that these three men were not able to make Iob aunswere he was miscontent 6 Therfore Elihu the sonne of Barachel the Buzite aunswered and sayde Considering that I am young and ye be men of age I was afrayde and durst not shewe foorth my mynde 7 For I thought thus within my selfe It becommeth old men to speake and the aged to teache wysdome 8 Euery man no doubt hath a mynde but it is the inspiration of the almightie that geueth vnderstanding 9 Great men are not alway wyse neither doth euery aged man vnderstande the thing that is lawfull 10 Therefore I say heare me and I wil shewe you also myne vnderstanding 11 For when I had wayted till ye made an end of your talking and hearde your wysdome what arguments ye made in your communication 12 Yea when I had diligently pondred what ye sayde I found not one of you that made any good argument against Iob that directly could make aunswere vnto his wordes 13 Lest ye should say We haue found out wisdome God shall cast hym downe and no man 14 He hath not spoken vnto me and I wil not aunswere hym as ye haue done 15 For they were so abashed that they coulde not make aunswere nor speake one worde 16 When I had wayted for they spake not but stoode still and aunswered no more 17 Then aunswered I in my turne and I shewed myne opinion 18 For I am full of matter and the spirite within me compelleth me 19 Beholde my belly is as the wine whiche hath no vent lyke the newe bottels that bruste 20 Therfore will I speake that I may haue a vent I will open my lippes and make aunswere 21 I will regarde no maner of person no man will I spare 22 For if I woulde go about to please men I knowe not howe soone my maker would take me away The .xxxiii. Chapter 5 Elihu accuseth Iob of ignoraunce 14 He sheweth that God hath diuers meanes to instruct man and to drawe hym from sinne 19. He afflicteth man and sodenly deliuereth hym 26 Man beyng deliuered geueth thankes to God 1 WHerefore heare my wordes O Iob and hearken vnto all that I will say 2 Behold I haue now opened my mouth my tongue hath spoken in my throte 3 My heart doth order my wordes aright and my lippes talke of pure wysedome 4 The spirite of God hath made me and the breath of the almightie hath geuen me my lyfe 5 If thou canst then geue me aunswere prepare thy selfe and stande before me face to face 6 Beholde before God I am euen as thou for I am fashioned made euen of the same molde 7 Beholde my terrour shall not feare thee neither shall my hande be heauy vpon thee 8 Now hast thou spoken in myne eares I haue heard the voyce of thy wordes 9 I am cleane without any fault I am innocent there is no wickednesse in me 10 But lo he hath piked a quarell against me and taketh me for his enemie 11 He hath put my foote in the stockes and looketh narowlye vnto all my pathes 12 Behold in this hast thou not done right I wil make aunswere vnto thee that God is greater then man 13 And why doest thou then striue against him for he shall not geue the accomptes of all his wordes 14 For God speaketh once or twise and yet man vnderstandeth it not 15 In dreames and visions of the night when slumbring commeth vpon men that they fall asleepe in their beddes 16 He roundeth them in the eares and sealeth their correction 17 That he may withdrawe man from euyll enterprises and deliuer hym from pride 18 And kepe his soule from the graue and his life from the sworde 19 He chasteneth hym with sickenesse vpon his bedde he layeth sore punishement vpon his bones 20 So that his lyfe may away with no bread and his soule abhorreth to eate any dayntie meate 21 In so much that his body is cleane consumed away and his bones appeare which before were not seene 22 His soule draweth vnto the graue and his lyfe to death 23 Now yf there be a messenger one among a thousande sent for to speake vnto man and to shew him the right way 24 Then the Lord is mercifull vnto him and sayth He shal be deliuered that
felicitie of thy chosen that I may reioyce at the gladnes of thy people and that I may glorie with thyne inheritaunce 6 We haue sinned with our fathers we haue done amisse and dealt wickedly 7 Our fathers did not well consider thy wonders in Egypt neither did they remember thy manifolde great goodnes but they rebelled at the sea euen at the red sea 8 Neuerthelesse he saued them for his names sake that he myght make his power to be knowen 9 And he rebuked the red sea and it was dryed vp so he led them through the deepe as through a wyldernesse 10 And he saued them from the hande of suche as hated them redeemed them from the hande of the enemie 11 As for their aduersaries the waters ouerwhelmed them there was not one of them left remayning 12 Then beleued they his wordes and song prayse vnto him 13 But within a very short whyle they forgat his workes they woulde not wayte for his counsell 14 And they were taken with a great lust in the wyldernesse and they tempted God in the desert 15 And he gaue them their desire and sent leannes withal into their soule 16 They enuied also at Moyses in the tentes and at Aaron the saint of God 17 So the earth opened and swalowed vp Dathan and couered the company of Abiram 18 And the fire was kindled in their company the flambe brent vp the vngodly 19 They made a calfe in Horeb and worshipped the moulten image 20 Thus they turned their glory into the similitude of a calfe that eateth hay 21 They forgat God their sauiour who had done so great thynges in Egypt wonderous workes in y e land of Cham and terrible thinges at the red sea 22 Wherfore he appointed to destroy them had not Moyses his chosen stand in the breache before hym to turne away his wrathful indignation lest he should destroy them 23 Yea they thought scorne of the lande most to be desired they gaue no credite vnto his worde 24 But they murmured in their tentes they would not hearken vnto the voyce of God 25 Then lift he vp his hand against them to geue them an ouerthrowe in the wildernesse to geue their seede an ouerthrowe amongst the nations and to scatter them in sundry landes 26 They ioyned them selues vnto Baal Peor they also did eate of the sacrifices of the dead 27 And they prouoked the Lorde vnto anger with their owne inuentions and a plague fell mightily amongst them 28 Then stoode vp Phinehes he executed iustice and so the plague ceassed 29 And that was imputed vnto hym for righteousnesse in generation and generation for euermore 30 They also prouoked God at the waters of strife and all was not well with Moyses for their sakes 31 For they had caused an alteration to be of his spirite so that he spake vnaduisedly with his lippes 32 Moreouer they destroyed not the Heathen as God commaunded them 33 But they were mingled amongst the Heathen and learned their workes 34 Insomuch that they dyd seruice vnto their idols whiche were to theÌ„ a snare 35 Yea they sacrifised their sonnes and their daughters vnto deuils 36 And they shed innocent blood euen the blood of their sonnes and of their daughters whom they sacrifised vnto the idols of Chanaan and the lande was defiled with blood 37 Thus were they stayned with their owne workes and went a whoryng with their owne inuentions 38 Therfore was the wrath of God kindeled against his people insomuch that he abhorred his owne inheritaunce 39 And he gaue them ouer into the hand of the Heathen and they that dyd hate them were lordes ouer them 40 Their enemies oppressed them and brought them into subiection vnder their hande 41 Many a time dyd God deliuer them but they rebelled against hym with their owne inuentions and were brought downe for their wickednes 42 Neuerthelesse he did beholde them in their aduersitie in geuing eare to their complaint 43 And he remembred his couenaunt and repented according to the multitude of his mercies 44 Yea he made all those that led them away captiue to pitie them 45 Saue vs O God our Lorde and gather vs from among the Heathen that we may geue thankes to thy holy name and glory of thy prayse 46 Blessed be God the Lord of Israel froÌ„ world to world without end and let all people say so be it Prayse ye the Lord. The argument of the .cvii. psalme ¶ The prophete exhorteth all men to prayse God and to thanke God for it is he that helpeth them in all distresses when they crye vnto him He prouideth houses and cities for them that els would wander as vagabondes in wyldernesse He satisfieth the hungry and the thirstie He setteth at libertie prisoners and captiues He healeth the sicke and diseased He comforteth and helpeth those that be in ieoperdie of seas He maketh a fruitfull lande barren a barren grounde fruitfull He bringeth princes to lowe estate setteth vp the poore in honour At these things the godly reioyseth the mouth of the wicked is stopped 1 COnfesse you it vnto God for he is gratious and his mercy endureth for euer 2 Let such as God did redeme speake whom he hath redeemed from the hande of the enemie 3 And whom he gathered out of the landes from the east and from the west from the north and from the south 4 They went astray out of the way in solitarines â—andâ— in wildernes and found no citie to dwell in they were hungry and thirstie their soule fainted in them 5 And they cry vnto god in their trouble who deliuereth them froÌ„ their distresse 6 And he leadeth them foorth by the right way that they might go to the citie inhabited 7 O that men would confesse vnto God his louyng kindnesse and his marueylous actes done to the chyldren of men 8 For he satisfieth the greedie soule and filleth the hungry soule with goodnes 9 Suche as fit in darknesse and in the shadowe of death beyng fast bounde in miserie and iron 10 Because they went from the wordes of the Lorde and lightly regarded the counsayle of the most highest 11 Therfore he humbled their heart thorowe heauines they fall downe and there is none to helpe them 12 And they cry vnto god in their trouble who deliuereth theÌ„ out of their distresse 13 For he bringeth them out of darknesse and out of the shadowe of death and breaketh their bondes in sunder 14 O that men would confesse vnto God his louing kindnes and his marueylous actes done to the chyldren of men 15 For he breaketh the gates of brasse smyteth the barres of iron in sunder 16 Foolish men are plagued for their mischeuous wayes for their wickednes 17 Their soule abhorreth all maner of meate and they be euen harde at deathes doore 18 And they crye vnto God in their trouble who deliuereth them
their heades 17 With an east wynde wyll I scatter them before their enemies and when their destruction commeth I wil turne my backe vpon them but not my face 18 Then sayd they Come let vs imagine somethyng agaynst this Ieremie for the priestes shall not be destitute of the lawe neither shall the wise men be destitute of counsayle nor the prophetes destitute of the worde of God Come and let vs smite hym with the tongue and let vs not marke all his wordes 19 Consider me O Lorde and heare the voyce of mine enemies 20 Shall they recompence euyll for good for they haue digged a pit for my soule Remember howe that I stoode before thee to speake good for them and to turne away thy wrath from them 21 Therfore let their children dye of hunger and let them be oppressed with the sworde Let their wiues be robbed of their children and become widowes let their husbandes be slayne let their young men be kylled with the sworde in the fielde 22 Let the noyse be hearde out of their houses when thou bryngest the murtherer sodaynly vpon them for they haue digged a pit to take me and layde snares for my feete 23 Yet Lorde thou knowest all their counsayle that they haue deuised to slay me forgeue not their wickednesse and let not their sinnes be put out of thy sight but let them be iudged before thee as giltie this do thou vnto them in the tyme of thine indignation The .xix. Chapter 1 He prophecieth the destruction of Hierusalem for the contempt and dispisyng of the worde of God 1 THus sayde the Lorde Go thy way and buye thee an earthen pitcher and bryng foorth the senatours chiefe priestes 2 Vnto the valley of the children of Hennom which lyeth without the east gate and shewe them there the wordes that I shall tell thee 3 And say thus vnto them Heare the worde of the Lorde ye kinges of Iuda and ye citezins of Hierusalem thus saith the Lorde of hoastes the God of Israel Beholde I wyll bryng suche a plague vpon this place that the eares of all that heare it shall glowe 4 And that because they haue forsaken me and vnhalowed this place and haue offered in it vnto straunge gods whom neither they their fathers nor the kynges of Iuda haue knowen they haue filled this place also with the blood of innocentes 5 And they haue set vp an aulter vnto Baal to burne their children for a burnt offring vnto Baal whiche I neither commaunded nor charged them neither thought once thervpon 6 Beholde therfore the time commeth saith the Lorde that this place shall no more be called Thopheth nor the valley of the chyldren of Hennom but the valley of slaughter 7 For in this place wyll I bryng to naught the counsayle of Iuda and Hierusalem and kyll them downe with the sworde before their enemies and I wyll deliuer them into the handes of them that seeke their liues and their dead carkasses will I geue to be meate for the foules of the ayre the beastes of the fielde 8 And I will make this citie so desolate and despised that whosoeuer goeth thereby shal be abashed and iest vpon her because of all her plagues 9 I will feede them also with the flesh of their sonnes and their daughters yea euery one shall eate vp another in the besieging straytnesse wherewith their enemies that seeke their liues shall kepe them in 10 And the pitcher shalt thou breake in the sight of the men that goeth with thee 11 And say vnto them Thus saith the Lorde of hoastes Euen so wyll I destroy this people and citie as a man breaketh an earthen vessell that can not be made whole agayne in Thopheth shall they be buried for they shall haue none other place 12 Thus wyll I do vnto this place also saith the Lorde and to them that dwel therin yea I wyll make this citie as Thopheth 13 For the houses of Hierusalem and the houses of the kynges of Iuda shal be defiled like as Thopheth and so shal al the houses in whose roofes they did sacrifice vnto all the hoast of heauen and powred drinke offerings vnto straunge gods 14 And so Ieremie came from Thopheth where the Lorde had sent hym to prophesie and stoode in the court of the house of the Lorde and spake to all the people 15 Thus saith the Lorde of hoastes the God of Israel Beholde I will bryng vpon this citie and vpon euery towne about it all the plagues that I haue deuised against them because they haue ben obstinate and would not obay my warninges ¶ The .xx. Chapter 2 Ieremie is smitten and cast into pryson for preaching of the worde of God 3 He prophecieth the captiuitie of Babylon 7 He complayneth that he is a mocking stocke for the worde of God 9 He is compelled by the spirite to preache the worde 1 WHen Phashur the priest the sonne of Emmer chiefe in the house of the Lorde hearde Ieremie preache these wordes so stedfastly 2 He smote Ieremie and put hym in the prison that is in the hye gate of Beniamin towardes the house of the Lorde 3 The next day folowing Phashur brought Ieremie out of the prison agayne Then saide Ieremie vnto him The Lorde shall call thee no more Phashur that is excellent and increasing but Magor that is fearefull and afraide euery where 4 For thus saith the Lorde Beholde I wil make thee afraide euen thy selfe and all that fauour thee which shall perishe with the sworde of their enemies euen before thy face and I wyll geue whole Iuda into the hands of the king of Babylon whiche shall cary some vnto Babylon prisoners and slay some with the sworde 5 Moreouer all the substaunce of this citie whatsoeuer they haue gotten with their trauaile all their precious thinges all the treasure of the kinges of Iuda wyll I geue into the handes of their enemies whiche shall spoyle them and cary them vnto Babylon 6 But as for thee O Phashur thou shalt go into captiuitie with all thyne housholde and to Babylon shalt thou come where thou shalt dye and be buried thou and all thy fauourers to whom thou hast preached lies 7 O Lord if I am deceaued then hast thou deceaued me thou enforcedst me and hast preuayled dayly am I despised and laughed to scorne of euery man 8 For since I began to preache I cryed out against violencie and exclamed against oppression for the whiche cause they cast the worde of the Lorde in my teeth to my reproche continually 9 Wherefore I thought from hencefoorth not to speake of hym nor to preache any more in his name but the worde of the Lorde was a very burning fire in my heart and in my bones whiche when I woulde haue stopped I might not 10 Veryly I hearde the euyll reportes of many terrour was on euery side of me complayne
similitude of fire rounde about within from the appearaunce of his loynes vpward and from the appearaunce of his loynes downewarde I sawe as the lykenesse of fire and brightnesse rounde about it 28 As the likenesse of a bowe that is in a cloude in a raynie day so was the appearaunce of the brightnesse rounde about this was the appearaunce of the similitude of the glory of God when I sawe it I fell vpon my face and hearkened vnto the voyce of one that spake ¶ The .ij. Chapter The prophete is sent to call the people from their errour 1 AND then said he vnto me Stande vp vpon thy fete O thou sonne of man and I wyll talke with thee 2 And the spirite entred into me when he had spoken vnto me set me vpon my feete so that I heard him that spake vnto me 3 And he sayde vnto me Thou sonne of man I sende thee to the children of Israel to a rebellious people which haue rebelled against me both they and their forefathers haue wickedly behaued them selues against me euen vnto this very day 4 For they are children of a harde face and stiffe heart I do sende thee vnto them and thou shalt say vnto them Thus saith the Lorde God 5 And whether they wyll heare or refuse for they are a rebellious house yet they may knowe that there hath ben a prophete among them 6 And thou sonne of man feare them not neither be afraide of their wordes for bryers and thornes are with thee and thou doest dwell among scorpions feare not their wordes nor be abashed at their lookes for they are a rebellious house 7 And thou shalt speake my wordes vnto them whether they wyll heare or refuse for they are rebellious 8 Therefore thou sonne of man obay thou all thinges that I say vnto thee and be not thou rebellious lyke the rebellious house open thy mouth and eate that I geue thee 9 And when I looked beholde a hand was sent vnto me and lo in it was a roule of a booke 11 And he opened it before me and it was written within and without and there was written therein lamentations and mourning and wo. The .iii. Chapter 1 The prophete beyng fed with the worde of God and with the constant boldnesse of the spirite is sent vnto the people that were in captiuitie 17 The office of true preachers 1 AFter this said he vnto me Thou sonne of man eate whatsoeuer thou findest eate this roule and go thy way and speake vnto the house of Israel 2 So I opened my mouth and he fed me with this roule 3 And he saide vnto me Thou sonne of man thy belly shall eate and thy bowels shalt thou fill with this roule that I geue thee Then dyd I eate and it was in my mouth sweeter then honie 4 And he saide vnto me Thou sonne of man go get thee vnto the house of Israel and declare my wordes vnto them 5 For not to a people of profounde lippes and harde language art thou sent but vnto the house of Israel 6 Not to many nations whiche haue profounde lippes and harde languages whose wordes thou vnderstandest not otherwise if I had sent thee vnto them they would haue hearkened vnto thee 7 But the house of Israel will not hearken vnto thee for they will not hearken vnto me for al the house of Israel haue stiffe foreheades stubburne heartes 8 Beholde therefore I haue made thy face strong against their faces thy forehead strong against their foreheades 9 As an Adamant harder then the flint stone haue I made thy forehead thou shalt not feare them nor be abashed at their lookes for they are a rebellious house 10 He sayde moreouer vnto me Thou sonne of man all my wordes that I shall speake vnto thee receaue in thyne heart and hearken with thyne eares 11 And go get thee to the captiuitie to the chyldren of thy people and thou shalt speake vnto them and shalt say vnto them Thus saith the Lord God whether they will heare or leaue 12 With that the spirite tooke me vp and I hearde behinde me a voyce of a great rushing to wit Blessed be the glory of Iehouah from his place 13 I hearde also the noyse of the winges of the beastes ioyning one with another and the ratling of the wheeles that were before them euen a noyse of great rushing 14 Nowe when the spirite lift me vp and tooke me away I went in bitternesse and furie of my spirite but the hande of the Lorde vpon me was strong 15 Then I came to the captiues in Thelabib that dwelt by the riuer Chebar and I sate where they sate and I remayned there seuen dayes astonished among them 16 And when the seuen dayes were expired the Lorde saide vnto me 17 Thou sonne of man I haue made thee a watchman vnto the house of Israel therefore thou shalt heare the worde at my mouth and geue them warning from me 18 When I shall say vnto the wicked Thou shalt surely dye and thou geuest not him warning nor speakest to admonishe the wicked of his euill way and so to liue then shal the same vngodly man dye in his owne vnrighteousnesse but his blood wyl I require of thyne hand 19 Neuerthelesse if thou geue warning vnto the wicked and he yet turne not from his vngodlynesse and from his wicked way he shall dye in his owne wickednesse but thou hast deliuered thy soule 20 Nowe if a righteous man go from his righteousnesse and do the thing that is euyll I wyll lay a stumbling blocke before him and he shall dye because thou hast not geuen him warning dye shall he in his owne sinne so that his righteousnesse whiche he hath done shall not be thought vpon but his blood will I require at thyne hande 21 Neuerthelesse if thou exhortest that righteous that he sinne not and so the righteous do not sinne then shall he liue because he hath receaued thy warning and thou hast deliuered thy soule 22 And there came the hand of the Lord vpon me and he sayd vnto me Stande vp and go into the fielde that I may there talke with thee 23 So when I had risen vp and gone foorth into the fielde beholde the glorie of the Lord stoode there like the glorie which I sawe by the riuer Chebar then fell I downe vpon my face 24 And the spirite came into me whiche set me vp vpon my feete and spake vnto me and said vnto me Go thy way and shut thy selfe in thyne house 25 Beholde O thou sonne of man they haue prepared bandes against thee and they wyll binde thee with them and thou shalt not go out among them 26 And I will make thy tongue cleaue to the roofe of thy mouth that thou shalt be dumbe and not be as a reprouer vnto them for they are a rebellious house 27 But when I speake vnto thee I wyl open my mouth
he vnto me The wickednesse of the house of Israel and Iuda is exceedyng great so that the lande is full of blood the citie full of reuoltyng from God for they say The Lorde hath forsaken the earth and the Lorde seeth it not 10 As touchyng me also mine eye shall not spare them neither wyll I haue pitie but wyll recompence their wayes vpon their heades 11 And beholde the man that had the lynnen rayment vpon hym and the writers inckhorne by his syde reported the matter and sayde As thou hast commaunded me so haue I done ⧠The .x. Chapter 2 Of the man that toke hotte burnyng coales out of the middle of the Wheeles of the Cherubims 8 A rehearsall of the vision of the wheeles of the beastes and of the Cherubims 1 AND as I loked beholde in the firmament that was aboue the head of the Cherubims as it were a Saphir stone made lyke the similitude of a throne was seene ouer them 2 Then spake he to hym that had the lynnen rayment vpon hym and sayde Crepe in betwene the wheeles that are vnder the Cherub and take thine hand full of hotte coales out from betwene the Cherubims and scatter them ouer the citie And he crept in that I myght see 3 Nowe the Cherubims stoode vpon the ryght syde of the house when the man went in and the cloude fylled the inner court 4 And the glorie of the Lorde remoued from the Cherubims and came vpon the doore of the house so that the temple was full of cloudes and the court was full of the shine of the Lordes glorie 5 Yea and the sounde of the Cherubims winges was hearde into the fore court lyke as it had ben the voyce of the almightie God when he speaketh 6 Nowe when he had bidden the man that was clothed in lynnen saying Take fire from the middest of the wheeles which were vnder the Cherubims he went and stoode besyde the wheeles 7 Then one Cherub reached foorth his hande from betwene the Cherubims vnto the fire that was betwene the Cherubims and toke therof and gaue it into the handes of hym that had on the lynnen rayment which toke it and went out 8 And vnder the wynges of the Cherubims there appeared the likenesse of a mans hande 9 I loked also and behold foure wheeles beside the Cherubims one wheele by one Cherub and another by another Cherub and the wheeles were to loke vpon after the fashion of the precious stone Tharsis 10 As touchyng their appearaunce they were all foure of one fashion as yf one wheele had ben in another 11 When they went foorth they went vpon their foure sides not turnyng backe in their goyng for which way the head of the first loked after it they went so that they turned not backe in their goyng 12 And their whole bodyes their backes their handes and wynges yea and the wheeles also were full of eyes rounde about the foure wheeles 13 And to the wheeles he cryed to them in my hearyng O wheele 14 Euery one of them had foure faces so that the face of the first was the face of a Cherub and the face of the seconde the face of a man and of the thirde the face of a lion and of the fourth the face of an egle 15 And the Cherubims were lyfted vp This is the beast that I sawe at the water of Chebar 16 Nowe when the Cherubims went the wheeles went by them and when the Cherubims lyft vp their wynges to mount vp from the earth the same wheeles also turned not from besides them 17 Shortly when they stoode these stoode also and when they were lifted vp the wheeles lift vp them selues also with them for the spirite of the beast was in the wheeles 18 Then the glorie of the Lorde departed from aboue the doore of the temple and remayned vpon the Cherubims 19 And the Cherubims flackered with their wynges and lyft them selues vp from the earth so that I sawe when they went the wheeles besides them and they stoode at the doore of the east gate of the house of the Lorde so the glorie of the God of Israel was vpon them on hye 20 This is the beast that I sawe vnder the God of Israel by the riuer of Chebar and I perceaued that it was the Cherubims 21 Euery one had foure faces and euery one foure wynges and vnder their wynges the likenesse of mens handes 22 Touchyng the similitude of their countenaunces they were the very same countenaunces which I sawe at the riuer Chebar and the selfe same appearaunces euery one in his goyng went strayght forwarde The .xj. Chapter 1 Who they were that seduced the people of Israel 5 Agaynst these he prophecieth shewyng them howe they shal be dispersed abrode 19 The renuyng of the heart commeth of God 21 He threatneth them that leane vnto their owne counsayles 1 MOreouer the spirite lift me vp and brought me vnto the east gate of the Lordes house which lyeth eastwarde and beholde at the entry of the gate were fiue and twentie men among whom I sawe Iaazaniah the sonne of Azur and Pheltiah the sonne of Banaiahu the rulers of the people 2 Then sayde he vnto me Thou sonne of man these men imagine mischiefe a wicked counsayle take they in this citie 3 Saying It is not neare let vs builde houses this Hierusalem is the cauldron and we be the fleshe 4 Therfore shalt thou prophecie against them yea prophecie O sonne of man 5 And with that fell the spirite of the Lorde vpon me and sayde vnto me Speake thus saith the Lorde On this maner haue ye spoken O ye house of Israel and I knowe the imaginations of your heartes 6 Many one haue ye murthered in this citie and fylled the streetes full of the slayne 7 Therfore thus saith the Lorde God The slayne men that ye haue layde on the grounde in the citie are the fleshe and this citie is the cauldron but I wyll bryng you out of it ye haue feared the sworde and I wyll bring a sworde ouer you saith the Lorde God 8 And I wyll bryng you out of the middest therof and deliuer you into the handes of straungers and wyll execute iudgementes among you 10 Ye shall fall by the sworde in the borders of Israel wyll I iudge you and ye shall knowe that I am the Lorde 11 This citie shall not be your cauldron neither shall ye be the fleshe therin but in the borders of Israel wyll I punishe you 12 That ye may knowe that I am the Lorde in whose commaundementes ye haue not walked nor kept my lawes but haue done after the customes of the heathen that lye rounde about you 13 Nowe when I prophecied Pheltiah the sonne of Banaiahu dyed then fell I downe vpon my face and cryed with a loude voyce saying Ah Lorde God wylt thou then vtterly destroy all the remnaunt in Israel 14 And so the worde
midst of a plaine fielde that was full of bones 2 And he led me rounde about by them and beholde there were very many in the open fielde and lo they were very drye 3 Then saide he vnto me Thou sonne of man thinkest thou these bones may liue againe I aunswered O Lorde God thou knowest 4 And he saide vnto me Prophecie thou vpon these bones speake vnto them Ye drye bones heare the worde of the Lorde 5 Thus saith the Lorde God vnto these bones Beholde I wyll cause breath to enter into you that ye may lyue 6 I wyll geue you sinowes and make fleshe growe vpon you and couer you ouer with skinne so geue you breath that ye may liue and knowe that I am the Lorde 7 So I prophecied as I was cōmaunded and as I was propheciyng there was a noyse and lo a great motion so that the bones came neare together bone to his bone 8 Now when I had loked behold they had sinowes flesh grewe vpon them and aboue they were couered with skin but there was no breath in them 9 Then saide he vnto me Thou sonne of man prophecie thou towarde the winde prophecie thou towarde the winde prophecie speake to the winde thus saith the Lorde God Come O thou ayre from the foure windes and blowe vpon these slaine that they may lyue 10 So I prophecied as he had commaunded me then came the breath into them and they receaued lyfe and stoode vp vpon their feete a marueilous great armie 11 Moreouer he said vnto me Thou sonne of man these bones are the whole house of Israel Behold they say Our bones are dryed vp our hope is gone and we are cleane cut of 12 Therefore prophecie thou and speake vnto them thus saith the Lorde God Beholde I wyll open your graues O my people and cause you to come vp out your sepulchres and bring you into the lande of Israel againe 13 So shal ye know that I am the Lord when I open your graues O my people bring you out of your sepulchres 14 My spirite also wil I put in you and ye shal liue I wil set you againe in your owne lande and ye shall knowe that I the Lorde haue sayde it and fulfilled it in deede sayth the Lorde 15 The word of the Lord came vnto me saying 16 Thou sonne of man take one sticke and write vpon it Vnto Iuda and to the children of Israel his companiōs Then take another sticke and write vpon it Vnto Ioseph the stocke of Ephraim to all the housholde of Israel his companions 17 And ioyne thee them one to another into one sticke and they shal be as one in thy hande 18 Now if the children of thy people speake vnto thee saying Wilt thou not shew vs what thou meanest by these 19 Then geue them this aunswere thus sayth the Lorde God Beholde I will take the stocke of Ioseph whiche is in the hand of Ephraim and of the tribes of Israel his felowes and wil put them with him euen with the stocke of Iuda and make them one stocke and they shal be one in my hande 20 And the stickes where vpon thou wrytest shalt thou haue in thy hand that they may see 21 And thou shalt say vnto them thus sayth the Lorde God Beholde I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen vnto whom they be gone and will gather them together on euery side and bring them againe into their owne lande 22 Yea I wil make one people of them in the land vpon the mountaynes of Israel and one king shal be king to them al they shall no more be two peoples neither be deuided from hencefoorth into two kingdomes 23 They shall also defile them selues no more with their idoles and abhominations and al their wicked doynges I wil saue them out of all their dwelling places wherin they haue sinned and will so cleanse them that they shal be my people and I wil be their God 24 Dauid my seruaunt shal be their king and they all shall haue one sheepheard only they shall walke in my iudgementes and my commaundementes shall they kepe and fulfill them 25 They shall dwell in the lande that I gaue vnto Iacob my seruaunt wheras your fathers also haue dwelt yea euen in the same land shal they their children their childers children dwell for euermore and my seruaunt Dauid shal be their prince for euer 26 Moreouer I will make a bonde of peace with them whiche shal be vnto them an euerlasting couenaunt I will settle them also and multiplie them my sanctuarie will I set among them for euermore 27 My tabernacle shal be with them yea I wil be their God and they shal be my people 28 Thus the heathen also shal know that I the Lorde do sanctifie Israel when my sanctuarie shal be among them for euermore The .xxxviii. Chapter 1 He prophecieth that Gog and Magog shall come with an appoynted hoast into the land of promise 12 Their intent 17 He rehearseth that the comming of Gog was before prophecied of the prophetes 21 The destruction of hym 1 AND the worde of the Lorde came vnto me saying 2 Thou sonne of man set thy face towarde Gog the land of Magog which is the chiefe prince at Mesech and Tubal prophecie against him 3 And say thus sayth the Lorde God O Gog thou chiefe prince of Mesech and Tubal beholde I will vpon thee 4 And I will turne thee backe and put hookes in thy chawes I will bring thee foorth and all thyne hoast both horse and horsemen all armed with all sortes of armour a great multitude with speares and shieldes all handling swordes 5 They of Paras of Cush Phut with them euen all hauing shieldes and helmets 6 Gomer and all his hoastes the house of Togarma out of the north quarters and all his hoastes yea and much people with thee 7 Therfore prepare thee set thy selfe in aray with all thy people that are come vnto thee by heapes be thou their defence 8 After many dayes thou shalt be visited and in the latter yeres thou shalt come into the lande that hath ben turned and tost with the sworde and gathered together againe out of many people vpon the mountaynes of Israel which haue ben alwayes subiect to waste but it is brought out of the people and they dwell all safe 9 Thou shalt ascend and come vp like a storme as a cloude to couer the lande shalt thou be thou with al thine hoastes a great multitude of people with thee 10 Moreouer thus sayth the Lorde God At the same time shall thinges come into thy minde so that thou shalt thinke euyll thoughtes 11 And say I will vp to the lande of vnwalled villages I will go to them that be at rest whiche dwell safely all dwelling without walles they haue neither barres nor gates 12 To spoyle the pray and to
come foorth of his chamber and the bride out of her closet 17 Let the priestes the Lordes ministers weepe betwixt the porche the aulter and let them say Spare thy people O Lord and geue not ouer thine heritage to reproche that the heathen shoulde rule ouer them Wherfore shoulde they say amongst the heathen Where is their God 18 And then the Lorde wyll be ielous ouer his lande wyll spare his people 19 Yea the Lorde wyll aunswere and say to his people Beholde I wyll sende you corne and wine and oyle and wyll satisfie you therwith and wyll not geue you ouer any more to be a reproche among the heathen 20 And I wyll remoue farre of from you the northen armie and I wyll driue him into a lande barren and desolate with his face towardes the east sea and his hinder partes towardes the vttermost sea and his stinch shall arise and his corruption shall ascende because he hath exalted him selfe to do this 21 Feare not O thou lande be glad and reioyce for the Lorde wyll do great thinges 22 Be not afrayde ye beastes of the fielde for the fruitfull places of the desert are greene for the tree beares her fruite the figge tree and the vine yeelde their strength 23 Be glad then ye children of Sion and reioyce in the Lorde your God for he hath geuen you moderate rayne he wyll sende downe for you the rayne euen the first rayne the latter rayne in the first moneth 24 And the barnes shal be fylled with corne and the presses shall ouerflowe with wine and oyle 25 And I wyll restore to you the yeres which the grashopper the canker worme the locust and the caterpiller haue deuoured my great armie which I sent amongst you 26 And you shall eate in plentie and be satisfied and shall prayse the name of the Lorde your God which hath dealt wonderously with you and my people shall not be ashamed any more 27 And you shall knowe that I am in the middle of Israel and that I am the Lorde your God and none but I and my people shall neuer be ashamed 28 And it shall come to passe after this I wyll powre out my spirite vpon all fleshe and your sonnes and your daughters shall prophecie your olde men shall dreame dreames your young men shall see visions 29 Also in those dayes vpon the seruauntes and vpon the handmaydens wyll I powre out my spirite 30 And I will shewe wonders in heauen and in earth blood and fire and pillers of smoke 31 The sunne shal be turned into darknesse and the moone into blood before that great and terrible day of the Lord come 32 But whosoeuer shall call on the name of the Lord shal be saued for there shal be deliueraunce in mount Sion and in Hierusalem as the Lord hath promised and also in the remnaunt whom the Lorde shall call The .iij. Chapter Of the iudgement of God agaynst the enemies of his people 1 FOr beholde in those dayes and in that time when I shall bryng agayne the captiuitie of Iuda Hierusalem 2 I wyll also gather all the gentiles and cause them to come into the valley of Iehosaphat and I will pleade with them there for my people and heritage Israel which they haue scattered amongst the nations and haue parted my lande 3 And thei haue cast lottes for my people and chaunged the boy for an harlot and solde the gyrle for wine that they might drynke 4 And what haue you to do with me O Tyre and Sidon and all the coastes of Palestine wyll ye render me recompence and if you recompence me I shal swiftly and speedyly returne your recompence vpon your owne heades 5 For ye haue taken my siluer and my golde my pleasaunt pretious thinges haue caryed them into your temples 6 You haue solde also the children of Iuda and the children of Hierusalem to the Gretians that you might send them farre from their owne countrey 7 Beholde I will rayse them out of that place whither you haue solde them and wyll returne your recompence vpon your owne heades 8 And I wyll sell your sonnes and your daughters into the handes of the children of Iuda and they shall sell them vnto the Sabeans to a nation that dwelleth farre of for the Lorde hath spoken it 9 Publishe this thyng among the gentiles proclayme warre wake vp the mightie men let all the men of warre drawe neare and come vp 10 Breake your plowe shares into swordes and your sithes into speares let the weake say I am strong 11 Assemble your selues and come all you heathen and gather your selues together rounde about there shall the Lord cast downe thy mightie men 12 Let the heathen arise and come vp to the valley of Iehosaphat for there will I sit to iudge all nations rounde about 13 Put in your sithes for y e haruest is ripe come ye and descende for the wine presse is full yea the presses ouerflowe for their wickednesse is multiplied 14 O people people come into the valley of finall iudgement for the day of the Lorde is at hande in the valley of finall iudgement 15 The sunne and the moone shal be darkned and the starres shall withdrawe their light 16 The Lord also shall rore out of Sion and out of Hierusalem shall he geue his voyce the heauens and the earth shall shake but the Lorde wyll be the hope of his people and the strength of the children of Israel 17 So shall you knowe that I am the Lorde your God dwellyng in Sion my holy mountayne then shall Hierusalem be holy and there shall no straungers passe through here any more 18 And in that day shall the mountaynes drop downe sweete wine and the hylles shall flowe with mylke all the riuers of Iuda shall runne with water and a fountayne shall come out of the house of the Lorde and shall water the valley of Sittim 19 Egypt shal be waste and Edom shal be a desolate wildernesse for the iniuries done to the children of Iuda because they haue shed innocent blood in their lande 20 But Iuda shal dwel for euermore and Hierusalem from generation to generation 21 I wil also clense the blood of them that I haue not clensed and the Lord dwelleth in Sion ⧠The booke of the prophete Amos. The first Chapter 1 The condition and state of Amos and the time of his prophecie 3 The worde of the Lorde against Damascus the Philistines ▪ Cyrus Idumea and Ammon 1 THe wordes of Amos who was among the sheepheardes at Thecua whiche he sawe vpon Israel in the dayes of Ozia king of Iuda and in the dayes of Ieroboam the sonne of Ioas king of Israel two yere before the earth quake 2 And he sayde The Lord shal roare out of Sion and vtter his voyce from Hierusalem and the dwelling places of the sheepheardes shall mourne the top of Charmel shall
hoastes Consider your owne wayes in your heartes 8 Get you vp to the mountayne and fetche wood and buyld this house I wil take pleasure in it and I wil be glorified sayth the Lorde 9 Ye loked for much and lo it came to litle and when ye brought it home I dyd blowe vpon it and why sayth the Lord of hoastes because of my house that is waste and you run euery man into his his owne house 10 Therfore vpon you the heauen is stayed from deawe the earth is stayed from yeelding her increase 11 And I haue called for a drought vpon the land and vpon the mountaynes and vpon the corne vpon the wine and vpon the oyle and vpon al that the ground bringeth foorth vpon men vpon cattel and vpon all the labour of the handes 12 When Zorobabel the sonne of Salathiel and Iosua the sonne of Iosedech the hye priest with all the remnaunt of the people hearde the voyce of the Lorde their God and the wordes of the prophete Haggeus as the Lorde their God had sent him then the people dyd feare before the Lorde 13 Then Haggeus the Lordes messenger sayd in the Lordes message vnto the people saying I am with you saith the Lorde 14 And the Lorde stirred vp the spirite of Zorobabel the sonne of Salathiel a prince of Iuda and the spirite of Iosua the sonne of Iosedech the hie priest and the spirite of all the people they came and dyd the worke in the house of the Lorde of hoastes their God The .ii. Chapter 1 He sheweth that the glorie of the seconde temple shall exceede the first 1 IN the twentie and fourth day of the sixt moneth in the seconde yere of king Darius 2 In the seuenth moneth in the twentie and one day of the moneth came the worde of the Lord by the ministerie of the prophete Haggeus saying 3 Say nowe to Zorobabel the sonne of Salathiel prince of Iuda and to Iosua the sonne of Iosedech the hie priest and to rest of the people saying 4 Who is among you left whiche sawe this house in her first glorie and howe do you see it now Is it not in your eyes in comparison of it as nothing 5 Yet nowe be of good cheare O Zorobabel sayth the Lord and be of good comfort O Iosua thou hye priest sonne of Iosedech and be strong all ye people of the lande sayth the Lorde and worke for I am with you sayth the Lorde of hoastes 6 According to the worde that I couenaunted with you when ye came out of Egypt and my spirite shall remayne with you feare ye not 7 For thus sayth the Lorde of hoastes Yet a litle whyle and I will shake the heauens and the earth and the sea and the drie lande 8 And I will moue all nations and the desire of all nations shall come and I will fill this house with glorie sayth the Lorde of hoastes 9 The siluer is myne and the golde is myne sayth the Lorde of hoastes 10 The glorie of the seconde house shal be greater then the glorie of the first sayth the Lorde of hoastes and in this place will I geue peace sayth the Lorde of hoastes 11 In the twentie and fourth day of the nynth moneth in the second yere of king Darius came the word of the Lord vnto the prophete Haggeus saying 12 Thus sayth the Lord God of hoastes Aske nowe ye priestes concernyng the lawe saying 13 If one beare holy fleshe in the skirt of his coate with his skirt do touche the bread potage wine oyle or any other meate shall it be holy And the priestes aunswered and sayde No. 14 And Haggeus sayd If a polluted person touche any of these shall he not be polluted And the priestes aunswered and saide He shal be polluted 15 Then Haggeus aunswered and sayde So is this people and so is this nation before me sayth the Lord and so is al the worke of their handes that which they offer there is vncleane 16 And nowe consider I pray you in your mindes from this day and vpward before there was layed one stone vpon an other in the house of the Lorde 17 Before these thinges were done when one came to a heape of twentie measures there were but ten so who came to the wyne presse for to drawe out fiftie vessels of wyne out of the presse there were but twentie 18 I smote you with blasting and with mildeawe and with hayle in all the worke of your handes and you turned not vnto me sayth the Lorde 19 Consider nowe in your mindes from this day and afore from the foure and twentie day of the nynth moneth vnto the day that the foundation of the lordes temple was layde consider it in your mindes 20 Is the seede yet in the barne as yet the vines and the figge tree and the pomegranate the oliue tree hath not brought foorth from this day will I blesse you 21 And againe the worde of the Lorde came vnto Haggei in the foure twentie day of the moneth saying 22 Speake to Zorobabel the prince of Iuda and say I will shake the heauens and the earth 23 And I will ouerthrow the throne of kingdomes I wil destroy the strength of the kingdomes of the heathen and I will ouerthrowe the charettes and the sitters thereon and the horse and the riders shall fall downe euery one by the sworde of his brother 24 In that day saith the Lord of hoastes will I take thee Zorobabel my seruaunt sonne of Salathiel sayth the Lord will make thee as a signet for I haue chosen thee sayth the Lorde of hoastes ⧠The booke of the prophete Zacharias The first Chapter 1 He moueth the people to returne to the Lord and eschewe the wickednesse of their fathers 36 He prefigureth Christe and his Apostles 1 IN the eyght moneth of the seconde yere of king Darius came the worde of the Lord vnto Zacharias the sonne of Barachias the sonne of Addo the prophete saying 2 The Lorde hath ben sore displeased with your forefathers 3 And say thou vnto them thus sayth the Lorde of hoastes Turne you vnto me saith the Lord of hoastes I wil turne vnto you sayth the Lord of hoastes 4 Be ye not like your forefathers vnto whom prophetes cryed saying thus sayth the Lorde of hoastes Turne you from your euyl wayes and from your wicked imaginations But they woulde not heare nor regarde me sayth the Lorde 5 What is nowe become of your forefathers do the prophetes liue for euer 6 But did not my wordes and statutes whiche I commaunded by my seruauntes the prophetes take hold of your forefathers and they returned sayde Like as the Lorde of hoastes determined to do vnto vs according to our owne wayes and imaginations euen so hath he dealt with vs. 7 Vpon
1 THE heauy burthen which the Lorde hath deuised for Israel Thus saith the Lorde which spread the heauens abrode layde the foundatiō of the earth and gaue man the breath of lyfe 2 Beholde I wyll make Hierusalem a cuppe of surfet vnto all the people that are rounde about her yea Iuda him selfe also shal be in the siege against Hierusalem 3 At the same time wyll I make Hierusalem an heauy stone for all people so that al such as lyft it vp shal be torne and rent and all the people of the earth shal be gathered together against it 4 In that day saith the Lorde I wyll make al horses astonyed and those that ryde vpon thē to be out of their wittes I wyll open myne eyes vpon the house of Iuda and smite all the horses of the people with blindnesse 5 And the princes of Iuda shall say in their heartes The inhabiters of Hierusalem shall geue me consolation in the Lorde of hoastes their God 6 In that time wyll I make the princes of Iuda lyke an hot burning ouen with wood and like a fire brand among the strawe so that they shall consume al the people rounde about them both vpon the right hande and the left Hierusalem also shal be inhabited againe namely in the same place where Hierusalem standeth 7 The Lorde shall preserue the tentes of Iuda as afore time so that the glorye of the house of Dauid and the glory of the citezins of Hierusalem shal not be exalted against Iuda 8 In that day shall the Lorde defende the citezins of Hierusalem so that the weakest then among them shal be as Dauid and the house of Dauid shal be as gods house and as the angel of the Lorde before them 9 At the same tyme wyll I go about to destroy all such people as come against Hierusalem 10 Moreouer vpon the house of Dauid vpon the citezins of Hierusalem wyll I poure out the spirite of grace compassion so that they shall loke vpon me whom they haue pearsed and they shal lamēt for him as men mourne for their onely begotten sonne yea and be sory for him as men are sory for their first childe 11 Then shal there be a great mourning at Hierusalem like as the lamentation at Adadremmon in the fielde of Mageddon 12 And the lande shal bewaile euery kindred by them selues alone the kindred of the house of Dauid by them selues and their wyues by them selues the kindred of the house of Nathan them selues and their wyues by them selues 13 The kindred of the house of Leui them selues alone and their wyues by them selues the kindred of the house of Semei them selues alone and their wyues by them selues 14 In lyke maner all the other generations euery one by them selues alone and their wyues by them selues The .xiii. Chapter 1 Of the well of grace and trueth 2 Of the cleane riddaunce of Idolatrie and of false prophetes 1 IN that time shall the house of Dauid and the citezins of Hierusalem haue an open wel to washe of sinne and vncleannesse 2 And then saith the Lorde of hoastes I wyll destroy the names of the idols out of the lande so that they shal no more be put in remembraunce As for the false prophetes also and the vncleane spirites I wyl take them out of the lande 3 So that if any of them prophecie any more his owne father and mother that begat him shal say vnto him Thou shalt dye for thou speakest lyes vnder the name of the Lord yea his owne father and mother that begat him shall wounde him when he prophecieth 4 And then shal those prophetes be confounded euery one of his vision when he prophecieth neither shal they weare heere cloth any more to deceaue men withall 5 But he shal be fayne to say I am no prophete I am an husbandman for so am I taught by man from my youth vp 6 And if it be saide vnto him How came these woundes then in thyne handes He shal aunswere Thus was I wounded in the house of myne owne friendes 7 Aryse O thou sworde vpon my shephearde and vpon the man that is my felow saith the lord of hoastes smite the shepheard the sheepe shal be scattred abroade and so wyll I turne my hande to the litle ones 8 And it shall come to passe saith the Lorde that in all the lande two partes shal be rooted out but the third part shall remayne therein 9 And the same third part wyl I bring through the fire wyl cleanse them as the siluer is cleansed yea and trye them lyke as golde is tryed then shal they call vpon my name and I wyll heare them I wyll say it is my people and they shall say Lorde my God ⧠The .xiiij. Chapter 1 The wasting of the Churche vnder the figure of Hierusalem 9 Of the kingdome of the Lorde 1 BEholde the day of the Lorde commeth and thy spoyle shal be deuided in the middest of thee 2 For I wyll gather together all the heathen to fight against Hierusalem so that the citie shal be wonne the houses spoyled and the women defiled the halfe of the citie shall go away into captiuitie and the residue of the people shal not be caryed out of the citie 3 After that shall the Lorde go foorth to fight against those heathen as men vse to fight in the day of battaile 4 Then shall his feete stand vpon the mount Oliuet that lyeth vpon the east side of Hierusalem and the mount Oliuet shall cleaue in two eastwarde and westwarde so that there shal be a great valley and the halfe mount shal remoue toward the north the other towarde the south 5 And ye shall flee vnto the valley of my hylles for the valley of the hylles shall reache vnto Asal yea flee shall ye lyke as ye fled for the earthquake in the dayes of Oziah king of Iuda and the Lorde my God shall come and all the sainctes with him 6 In that day shall there be no cleare light but darke 7 This shal be that speciall day which is knowen vnto the Lorde neither day nor night but about the euening time it shal be light 8 In that time shall there waters of lyfe runne out from Hierusalem the halfe part of them towarde the east sea and the other halfe towarde the vttermost sea and shall continue both sommer and winter 9 And the Lorde him selfe shal be king ouer all the earth At that time shall there be one Lorde onely and his name shall be but one 10 All the lande shal be turned as a plaine from Gibea to Remmon towardes the south of Hierusalem She shal be set vp and inhabited in her place from Beniamins port vnto the place of the first port and vnto the corner port and from the towre of Hananeel vnto the kinges wine presses 11 There shal men dwell and there shal
saide vnto him Feare not to geue him thy daughter for vnto this man that feareth God belongeth thy daughter to wyfe therefore might none other haue her 13 Then saide Raguel I doubt not but God hath accepted my prayers teares in his sight 14 And I beleue he caused you to come vnto me for the same intent that this daughter of myne might be maryed in her owne kindred according to the law of Moyses And nowe doubt thou not but I wyll geue her vnto thee 15 So he toke the right hande of his daughter and gaue her into the right hande of Tobias and saide The God of Abraham the God of Isahac the God of Iacob be with you ioyne you together and fulfill his blessing in you 16 And they toke a letter made a writing of the mariage 17 And then made they mery and praysed God 18 And Raguel called Anna his wyfe vnto him and bade her prepare another chamber 19 And thither he brought Sara his daughter and she wept 20 Then saide he vnto her Be of good cheare my daughter the Lorde of heauen geue thee ioy for the heauinesse that thou hast suffered The .viii. Chapter 2 Tobias driueth away the euill spirite 4 He prayeth to God with his wyfe 11 Raguel prepareth a graue for his sonne in lawe 16 Raguel blesseth the Lorde 1 NOW after that they had supped they brought the young man in to her 2 Then thought Tobias vpon the wordes of the angel and toke out of his bagge a peece of the lyuer of the fishe and layed it vpon the hotte coales 3 So the angell Raphael tooke holde of the deuil and sent him away bound him in the wildernesse of the hygher Egypt 4 Then spake Tobias vnto the virgin and saide Vp Sara let vs make our prayer vnto God to day to morow and ouermorow For these three nightes wyl we reconcile our selues with God and when the third holy night is past we shall ioyne together in the duetie of mariage 5 For we are the children of holy men and we may not come together as the heathen that know not God 6 Then stoode they vp both together and besought God earnestly that he would preserue them 7 And Tobias saide O Lorde God of our fathers praysed be thou of heauen and earth of the sea welles fluddes and of al thy creatures that be therein 8 Thou madest Adam of the moulde of the earth and gauest him Eua for an helper 9 And now Lorde thou knowest that it is not because of voluptuousnes that I take this sister of myne to wyfe but onely for the loue of children in whom thy name may be blessed for euer 10 And Sara saide Haue mercie vpon vs O Lorde haue mercy vpon vs and let vs both come whole and sounde together to a good age 11 And about the cocke crowing it came to passe that Raguel called his seruaūtes 12 And they went with him to make a graue 13 For he saide It is chaunced nowe vnto him peraduenture as it did vnto the other seuen men that went in vnto her 14 Now when they had made the graue Raguel came againe to his wyfe and saide vnto her Send one of thy maydens to loke if he be dead that I may bury him afore it be light day 15 So she sent a mayden to see which when she came into the chamber found them whole and founde sleeping together 16 And so she came againe and brought good tidinges Then Raguel and Anna his wyfe praysed the Lorde 17 And saide Praysed be thou O Lorde God of Israel that it is not happened vnto vs as we thought 18 For thou hast dealt mercifully with vs and put away from vs the enemie that persecuted vs 19 And hast shewed mercy vnto yonder two the onely borne children of their parentes O Lorde cause them to magnifie thee more perfectly and to offer the sacrifice of thy prayse of their health that all people may knowe that thou onely art God in all the earth 20 And immediatly Raguel commaunded his seruauntes to fyll the graue that they had made with earth afore it was light 21 And bade his wyfe prepare a feaste to make redie all thinges that were necessary for meate to such as went by the way 22 He caused two fat kine also and foure weathers to be slaine and meates to be prepared for all his neighbours and freindes 23 And Raguel charged Tobias to remayne with him two weekes 24 As for all the good that he had he gaue Tobias the halfe of it and made this writing that the halfe which remayned should fall vnto Tobias after their death ¶ The .ix. Chapter The angell goeth to Gabelus at the desire of Tobias which delyuereth the letter and receaueth the money 1 THen Tobias called vnto him the angell whō he thought to haue ben a man and saide vnto him Brother Azarias I pray thee hearken vnto my wordes 2 If I shoulde geue my selfe to be thy seruaunt I shall not deserue thy prouidence 3 Neuerthelesse I beseche thee that thou wilt take the beastes and the seruauntes go vnto Gabelus in Rages the citie of the Medes and delyuer him his hand writing and receaue the money of him and pray him to come to my mariage 4 For thou knowest thy selfe that my father doth number the dayes and if I tary one day to long he wyll be sory in his minde 5 Now seest thou how earnestly Raguel hath required me so that I can not say him nay 6 Then toke Raphael foure of Raguels seruauntes and two Camels and went vnto Rages the citie of the Medes And when he had founde Gabelus he gaue him his hand writing and receaued all the money 7 He tolde him also of Tobias the sonne of Tobi how al thinges had happened and caused him to come with him to the mariage 8 Now when he came into the house of Raguel he founde Tobias sittyng at the table and he leaped vp they kissed one another and Gabelus wept and praysed God 9 And saide The blessing of the God of Israel haue thou for thou art the sonne of a right vertuous and iust man and of one that feareth God geueth great almes 10 And blessing haue thy wyfe and your elders 11 That ye may see your children and your childrens children vnto the third fourth generation and your seede be blessed of the God of Israel which raigneth worlde without end 12 And when they all had sayde Amen they went to the feast but with the feare of the Lorde held they the feast of the mariage The .x. Chapter 1 Tobias and his wyfe thinke long for their sonne 10 Raguel sendeth away Tobias and Sara 1 NOw whyle young Tobias made long tarying by reason of the mariage his father was full of care heauinesse saying Canst thou thinke what shoulde be the cause that my sonne tarieth so long or why he should be kept so long there
is written by the prophete 6 And thou Bethlehem in the lande of Iuda art not the least among the princes of Iuda For out of thee shall there come a capitain that shal gouerne my people Israel 7 Then Herode when he had priuilye called the wyse men inquired of thē diligently what tyme the starre appeared 8 And he sent them to Bethlehem and sayde Go and search diligently for the young childe and when ye haue founde hym bryng me worde agayne that I may come and worship hym also 9 ☞ When they had hearde the kyng they departed and loe the starre which they sawe in the east went before them tyl it came stoode ouer the place wherin the young chylde was 10 When they sawe the starre they reioyced excedyngly with great ioy 11 And went into the house and founde the young chylde with Marie his mother and fell downe and worshypped hym and opened their treasures and presented vnto hym gyftes golde and frankensence and mirre 12 And after they were warned of God in a dreame that they shoulde not go agayne to Herode they returned into their owne countrey another way ☜ 13 When they were departed beholde the Angel of the Lord appeared to Ioseph in a dreame saying Aryse take the young chylde and his mother and flee into Egipte and be thou there tyll I bryng thee worde For it wyll come to passe that Herode shall seke y e young chylde to destroy hym 14 When he arose he toke the young chylde and his mother by nyght and departed into Egipt 15 And was there vnto the death of Herode that it myght be fulfylled whiche was spoken of the Lorde by the prophete saying Out of Egipte haue I called my sonne 16 Then Herode when he sawe that he was mocked of the wyse men was excedyng wroth and sent foorth and slew all the chyldren that were in Bethlehē and in all the coastes as many as were two yere olde or vnder according to the tyme which he had diligently searched out of the wyse men 17 Then was fulfylled that which was spoken by Ieremie the prophete saying 18 In Rama was there a voyce hearde lamentation wepyng great mournyng Rachel weping for her children and woulde not be comforted because they were not ☜ 19 ☞ But when Herode was dead beholde an Angel of the Lorde appeared to Ioseph in a dreame in Egipt saying 20 Aryse and take the young chylde and his mother and go into the lande of Israel For they are dead whiche sought the young chyldes lyfe 21 And he arose toke the young chylde and his mother came into the lande of Israel 22 But when he hearde that Archelaus dyd reigne in Iurie in the rowme of his father Herode he was afrayde to go thyther Notwithstandyng after he was warned of God in a dreame he turned aside into the parties of Galilee 23 And went and dwelt in a citie which is called Nazareth that it myght be fulfylled which was spoken by the prophetes He shal be called a Nazarite ▪ ¶ The .iij. Chapter ¶ 1 Iohns preachyng office lyfe baptisme 7 reprehendyng of the Pharisees 13 and baptizyng of Christe in Iordane 1 IN those dayes came Iohn the Baptist preachyng in the wyldernesse of Iurie and saying 2 Repent for the kingdome of heauen is at hande 3 For this is he of whom it is spoken by the prophete Esayas saying The voyce of one crying in the wyldernesse prepare ye the way of the Lorde make his pathes strayght 4 This Iohn had his rayment of Camels heere and a girdle of a skynne about his loynes his meate was locustes and wylde hony 5 Then went out to hym Hierusalem and all Iurie and all the region rounde about Iordane 6 And were baptized of hym in Iordane confessying their sinnes 7 But when he sawe many of the Pharisees and Saducees come to his baptisme he sayde vnto them O generation of vipers who hath warned you to flee from the anger to come 8 Bryng foorth therefore fruites meete for repentaunce 9 And be not of suche mynde that ye woulde say within your selues we haue Abraham to our father For I say vnto you that God is able of these stones to rayse vp chyldren vnto Abraham 10 Euen now is the axe also put vnto the roote of the trees therefore euery tree which bryngeth not foorth good fruite is hewen downe and cast into the fire 11 I baptize you in water vnto repentaunce But he that shall come after me is mightier then I whose shoes I am not worthy to beare he shall baptize you with the holy ghost and with fire 12 Whose fanne is in his hande and he wyll purge his floore and gather his wheate into his garner but wyl burne vp the chaffe with vnquencheable fire 13 Then commeth Iesus from Galilee to Iordane vnto Iohn to be baptized of hym 14 But Iohn forbad hym saying I haue nede to be baptized of thee and commest thou to me 15 Iesus aunsweryng sayde vnto hym Suffer it to be so nowe For thus it becommeth vs to fulfyll all righteousnes Then he suffred hym 16 And Iesus when he was baptized came strayghtwaye out of the water and loe the heauens was open vnto hym and Iohn sawe the spirite of God descendyng lyke a doue and lyghtyng vpon hym 17 And loe there came a voyce from the heauens saying This is my beloued sonne in whom I am well pleased ¶ The .iiij. Chapter ¶ 1 Christe fasteth is tempted 17 he begynneth to preache 18 he calleth Peter Andrewe Iames and Iohn and healeth all the sicke 1 THen was Iesus ledde away of the spirite into wyldernesse to be tempted of the deuyll 2 And when he had fasted fourtie dayes and fourtie nightes he was afterwarde an hungred 3 And when the tempter came to hym he sayde If thou be the sonne of God commaunde that these stones be made breade 4 But he aunswered and sayde it is written Man shall not lyue by breade only but by euery worde that proceadeth out of the mouth of God 5 Then the deuyll taketh hym vp into the holy citie and setteth hym on a pinacle of the temple 6 And saith vnto hym If thou be the sonne of God cast thy selfe downe For it is written He shall geue his Angels charge ouer thee with their handes they shall lyft thee vp lest at any tyme thou dashe thy foote agaynst a stone 7 And Iesus sayde to hym It is written agayne Thou shalt not tempt the Lorde thy God 8 Agayne the deuyll taketh hym vp into an exceadyng hye mountayne and sheweth hym all the kyngdomes of the worlde and the glorie of them 9 And sayth vnto hym All these wyll I geue thee yf thou wylt fall downe and worshyp me 10 Thē sayth Iesus vnto hym Auoyde Sathan For it is written Thou shalt worshyp the Lorde thy God and hym
39 And they caught hym and thrust him out of the vineyarde and slewe hym 40 When the Lorde therfore of the vineyarde commeth what wyll he do vnto those husbande men 41 They sayde vnto hym He wyll miserably destroy those wicked men wyll let out his vineyard vnto other husband men which shall delyuer him the fruite in due seasons 42 Iesus sayth vnto them Did ye neuer reade in the Scriptures The stone which the buylders refused the same is become the head of the corner This is the Lordes doing and it is marueylous in our eyes 43 Therefore saye I vnto you the kyngdome of God shal be taken from you geuen to a nation bryngyng foorth the fruites therof 44 And whosoeuer falleth on this stone shal be broken in peeces but on whomsoeuer it falleth it shal all to grynd him 45 And when the chiefe priestes and pharisees had heard his parables they perceaued that he spake of them 46 And they went about to laye handes on hym but they feared the multitudes because they toke him as a prophet ¶ The .xxij. Chapter ¶ 2 The mariage of the kynges sonne 17 Tribute to be geuen to the Emperour 25 Christe confuteth the opinion of the Saducees concernyng the resurrection 36 and aunswereth the Scribe vnto his question 1 AND Iesus aunswered and spake vnto them againe by parables and sayde 2 ☞ The kyngdome of heauen is lyke vnto a man that was a kyng which made a mariage for his sonne 3 And sent foorth his seruauntes to call them that were bidden to the wedding and they woulde not come 4 Agayne he sent foorth other seruauntes saying Tell them which are bidden beholde I haue prepared my dinner my oxen and my fatlynges are kylled and all thynges are redy come vnto the mariage 5 But they made lyght of it and went their wayes one to his farme another to his marchaundize 6 And the remnaunt toke his seruauntes and entreated them spitefully and slewe them 7 But when the kyng hearde therof he was wroth and sent foorth his men of warre and destroyed those murtherers and brent vp their citie 8 Then sayde he to his seruauntes the mariage in dede is prepared But they which were bidden were not worthy 9 Go ye therfore out into the hye wayes and as many as ye fynde bid them to the mariage 10 And the seruauntes went out into the hye wayes and gathered together all as many as they coulde fynde both good and bad and the weddyng was furnished with ghestes 11 Then the kyng came in to see the ghestes and whē he spyed there a man which had not on a weddyng garmēt 12 He sayde vnto hym frende howe camest thou in hyther not hauyng a weddyng garment And he was euen speachlesse 13 Then sayde the kyng to the ministers bynde hym hande and foote and cast hym into vtter darknesse there shal be wepyng and gnasshyng of teeth 14 For many be called but fewe are chosen ☜ 15 ☞ Then went the Pharisees and toke councell how they myght intangle hym in his talke 16 And they sent out vnto hym their disciples with the Herodians seruauntes saying Maister we knowe that thou art true and teachest the way of God truely neither carest thou for any man for thou doest not respect mens persons 17 Tell vs therfore howe thynkest thou Is it lawfull that tribute be geuen vnto Caesar or not 18 But Iesus perceauyng their wickednesse sayde Why tempt ye me ye hypocrites 19 Shewe me the tribute money And they brought vnto hym a peny 20 And he sayde to them whose is this image and superscription 21 They say vnto hym Caesars Then sayde he vnto them Geue therfore vnto Caesar the thynges which are Caesars and vnto God those thynges that are gods ☜ 22 When they had hearde these wordes they marueyled and left hym and went their way 23 The same day came to hym the Saducees which say that there is no resurrection and asked hym 24 Saying Maister Moyses sayde that if a man dye hauing no childrē his brother shoulde mary his wyfe and rayse vp seede vnto his brother 25 Ther were with vs seuen brethren and the first maryed a wyfe and deceassed without issue and left his wyfe vnto his brother 26 Likewyse the seconde and the thirde vnto the seuenth 27 Last of all the woman dyed also 28 Therfore in the resurrection whose wyfe shall she be of the seuen For they all had her 29 Iesus aunswered sayde vnto them ye do erre not knowyng the Scriptures nor the power of God 30 For in the resurrection they neither mary nor are geuen in maryage but are as the Angels of God in heauen 31 But as touchyng the resurrection of the dead haue ye not read that which is spoken vnto you of God which sayth 32 I am the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Iacob God is not the God of the dead but of the lyuyng 33 And when the multitudes hearde this they were astonyed at his doctrine 34 ☞ But when the Pharisees had heard that he had put the Saducees to silence they came together 35 And one of them which was a lawyer asked hym a question temptyng hym and saying 36 Maister which is the great commaundent in the lawe 37 Iesus sayde vnto hym Thou shalt loue the Lorde thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soule and with all thy mynde 38 This is the first and great commaundement 39 And the seconde is lyke vnto this Thou shalt loue thy neyghbour as thy selfe 40 In these two commaundementes hang all the lawe and the prophetes 41 Whyle the Pharisees were gathered together Iesus asked them 42 Saying what thynke ye of Christe whose sonne is he They sayde vnto hym the sonne of Dauid 43 He sayde vnto them howe then doth Dauid in spirite call him Lorde saying 44 The Lorde sayd vnto my Lorde sit thou on my ryght hande tyll I make thyne enemyes thy footestoole 45 If Dauid then call him Lorde howe is he then his sonne 46 And no man was able to aunswere hym a worde neither durst any man from that day foorth aske hym any mo questions ☜ ¶ The .xxiij. Chapter ¶ 3 Christe cryeth wo to the Pharisees Scribes and hypocrites 37 and prophesieth the destruction of Hierusalem 1 THen spake Iesus to the multitudes and to his disciples 2 Saying The Scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moyses seate 3 All therfore whatsoeuer they bid you obserue that obserue and do but do not ye after their workes for they say and do not 4 Yea they bynde together heauy burthens and greeuous to be borne and lay them on mens shoulders but they them selues wyll not moue them with one of their fingers 5 All their workes they do for to be sene of men They make broade their philacteries and enlarge the hemmes of their garmentes 6 And loue the vppermost seates
see the sepulchre 2 And behold there was a great earthquake for the Angell of the Lorde descended from heauen and came roulled backe the stone from the doore and sate vpon it 3 His countenaunce was lyke lyghtnyng and his rayment white as snowe 4 And for feare of him the kepers were astonyed and became as dead men 5 The Angell aunswered and sayde vnto the women feare ye not For I knowe that ye seke Iesus whiche was crucified 6 He is not here he is rysen as he saide Come se the place where that the Lord was layde 7 And go quickly tell his disciples that he is rysen agayne from the dead And beholde he goeth before you into Galilee there shall ye see hym Loe I haue tolde you ☜ 8 ☞ And they departed quickly from the sepulchre with feare and great ioy and dyd runne to bryng his disciples worde 9 And as they went to tell his disciples beholde Iesus met them saying All hayle And they came and helde him by the feete and worshypped hym 10 Then sayde Iesus vnto them be not afrayde Go tell my brethren that they go into Galilee there shal they see me 11 When they were gone beholde some of the watche came into the citie and shewed vnto the hye priestes all the thynges that were done 12 And they gathered theÌ„ together with the elders and toke councell and gaue large money vnto the souldiers 13 Saying Saye ye that his disciples came by nyght stole hym away while ye slept 14 And yf this come to the deputies eares we wyll perswade hym and saue you harmelesse 15 So they toke the money dyd as they were taught And this saying is noysed among the Iewes vntyl this day ☜ 16 ☞ Then the eleuen disciples went awaye into Galilee into a mountayne where Iesus had appoynted them 17 And when they sawe hym they worshypped hym But some doubted 18 And Iesus came and spake vnto theÌ„ saying All power is geuen vnto me in heauen and in earth 19 Go ye therfore teache all nations baptizing them in the name of the father and of the sonne and of the holye ghost 20 Teachyng theÌ„ to obserue all thynges whatsoeuer I haue commaunded you And loe I am with you alway euen vnto the ende of the worlde ☜ ¶ Here endeth the Gospell by Saint Matthaewe ⧠The Gospell by Saint Marke ¶ The first Chapter ¶ 2 The office of Iohn the Baptist 9 The baptisme of Christe 13 his fastyng 14 his preachyng 17 and the callyng of Peter Andrewe Iames Iohn 23 Christe healeth the man with the vncleane spirite 29 helpeth Peters mother in lawe 41 and clenseth the leper 1 THE begynnyng of the Gospel of Iesu Christ the sonne of God 2 As it hath ben written in the prophetes Beholde I sende my messenger before thy face whiche shall prepare thy waye before thee 3 A voyce of hym that crieth in the wyldernesse Prepare ye the waye of the Lorde and make his pathes strayght 4 Iohn did baptize in the wyldernesse and preached the baptisme of repentaunce for the remission of sinnes 5 And all the land of Iurie and they of Hierusalâ— went out vnto hym and were all â—â—ptized of hym in the ryuer of Iordanâ—â—onfessyng their synnes 6 Iohn â—s clothed with Camelles heere aâ—â— with a girdle of a skynne about his loynes and he did eate locustes and wylde hony 7 And preached saying He that is stronger then I commeth after me whose shoe latchet I am not worthy to stowpe downe and vnloose 8 I haue baptized you with water but he shal baptize you with the holy ghost 9 And it came to passe in those dayes that Iesus came froÌ„ Nazareth of Galilee was baptized of Iohn in Iordane 10 And assone as he was come vp out of the water he sawe heauen open the spirite descending vpon him like a doue 11 And there came a voyce from heauen Thou art my deare sonne in whom I am well pleased 12 And immediatly the spirite driueth hym into wyldernesse 13 And he was there in the wyldernesse fourtie dayes and was tempted of Satan was with wylde beastes And the Angels ministred vnto hym 14 After that Iohn was deliuered to prison Iesus came into Galilee preachyng the Gospell of the kyngdome of God 15 And saying The tyme is come and the kyngdome of God is at hande repent and beleue the Gospell 16 As he walked by the sea of Galilee he sawe Simon and Andrewe his brother castyng nettes into the sea for they were fysshers 17 And Iesus saide vnto them Folowe me and I wyll make you to become fysshers of men 18 And strayghtway they forsoke their nettes and folowed hym 19 And when he had gone a litle further thence he saw Iames the sonne of Zebedee and Iohn his brother which also were in the shippe mendyng their nettes 20 And anone he called them And they lefte their father Zebedee in the shippe with the hired seruauntes and folowed hym 21 And they came into Capernaum strayghtway on the Sabboth dayes he entred into the synagogue taught 22 And they were astonyed at his learnyng For he taught them as one that had aucthoritie not as the Scribes 23 And there was in their synagogue a man vexed with an vncleane spirite he cried 24 Saying Alas what haue we to do with thee thou Iesus of Nazareth Art thou come to destroy vs I knowe thee what thou art euen that holy one of God 25 And Iesus rebuked hym saying holde thy peace and come out of hym 26 And when the vncleane spirite hadde torne hym cryed with a loude voyce he came out of hym 27 And they were all amased insomuch that they demaunded one of another among them selues saying What thing is this What newe doctrine is this For with aucthoritie commaunded he the fowle spirites and they obeyed him 28 And immediatly his fame spread abrode throughout all the region borderyng on Galilee 29 And foorthwith when they were come out of the synagogue they entred into the house of Simon and Andrewe with Iames and Iohn 30 But Simons wyues mother lay sicke of a feuer anone they tell hym of her 31 And he came toke her by the hande and lyft her vp and immediatly the feuer forsoke her and she ministred vnto them 32 And at euen when the sonne was downe they brought vnto hym all that were diseased and them that were vexed with deuyls 33 And all the citie was gathered together at the dore 34 And he healed many that were sicke of diuers diseases and caste out many deuyls and suffred not the deuyls to speake because they knewe hym 35 And in the mornyng before day Iesus when he was rysen vp departed and went out into a solitarie place and there prayed 36 And Simon they that were with hym folowed after hym 37
disciples that a shippe shoulde wayte on hym because of the people leste they shoulde thronge hym 10 For he had healed many insomuche that they preassed vpon him for to touch hym as many as had plagues 11 And when the vncleane spirites sawe hym they fell downe before hym and cryed saying Thou art the sonne of God 12 And he straytely charged them that they shoulde not make hym knowen 13 And he went vp into a mountayne called vnto him whom he woulde and they came vnto hym 14 And he ordeyned twelue that they shoulde be with him and that he might sende them foorth to preache 15 And that they myght haue power to heale sicknesses and to cast out deuyls 16 And he gaue vnto Simon to name Peter 17 And he called Iames the sonne of Zebedee and Iohn Iames brother and gaue them to name Boanarges which is to say the sonnes of thunder 18 And Andrewe and Philip and Bartholomewe and Matthewe and Thomas and Iames the sonne of Alphee and Thaddeus and Simon Cananite 19 And Iudas Iscariot which also betrayed hym And they came into the house 20 And the people assembled together agayne so that they had no leysure so much as to eate bread 21 And when they that belonged vnto hym hearde of it they went out to laye handes vpon hym For they sayde he is madde 22 And the scribes whiche came downe from Hierusalem sayde He hath Beelzebub and by the chiefe deuyll casteth he out deuyls 23 And he called them vnto hym sayde vnto them in parables Howe can Satan driue out Satan 24 And yf a realme be deuided agaynst it selfe that realme can not endure 25 And yf a house be deuided agaynst it selfe that house can not continue 26 And yf Satan make insurrection agaynst him selfe be deuided he can not continue but hath an ende 27 No man can enter into a strong mans house and take away his goodes except he first bynde the strong man and then spoyle his house 28 Veryly I say vnto you al sinnes shal be forgeuen vnto the chyldren of men blasphemies wherewith so euer they haue blasphemed 29 But he that speaketh blasphemie agaynst the holy ghoste hath neuer forgeuenesse but is in daunger of eternall dampnation 30 For they sayde he hath an vncleane spirite 31 There came also his mother and his brethren and stoode without and sent vnto hym to call hym out 32 And the people sate about him saide vnto hym Beholde thy mother and thy brethren seke for thee without 33 And he aunswered them saying who is my mother and my brethren 34 And when he had loked rounde about on his disciples which sate in compasse about hym he sayde Beholde my mother and my brethren 35 For whosoeuer doeth the wyl of God the same is my brother and my sister and mother ¶ The .iiij. Chapter ¶ 2 The parable of the sower 37 Christe stylleth the tempest of the sea which obeyed hym 1 AND he began agayne to teache by the sea syde And ther gathered vnto hym much people so greatly that he entred into a shippe and sate in the sea and all the people was by the sea syde on the shore 2 And he taught them many thinges by parables and sayde vnto them in his doctrine 3 Hearken Beholde there went out a sower to sowe 4 And it fortuned as he sowed that some fell by the way syde and the fowles of the ayre came and deuoured it vp 5 Some fell on stonie grounde where it had not muche earth and immediatly sprange vp because it had not deapth of earth 6 But assoone as the sonne was vp it caught heate and because it hadde not roote it wythered away 7 And some fell among thornes and the thornes grewe vp and choked it and it gaue no fruite 8 And some fell vpon good grounde and dyd yelde fruite that sprang vp and grewe and brought foorth some thirtie folde and some sixtie folde and some an hundred folde 9 And he saide vnto them He that hath eares to heare let hym heare ☜ 10 And when he was alone they that were about hym with the twelue asked of hym the parable 11 And he sayde vnto them To you it is geuen to knowe the misterie of the kingdome of God But vnto them that are without all thynges are done by parables 12 That when they see they may see and not discerne and whē they heare they may heare and not vnderstande lest at any tyme they shoulde turne and their sinnes shoulde be forgeuen them 13 And he sayde vnto them Knowe ye not this parable And howe then wyll ye knowe all other parables 14 The sower soweth the worde 15 And they that receaued seede by the way side are those where the worde is sowē but when they haue hearde Satan cōmeth immediatly and taketh away the word that was sowen in their heartes 16 And lykewyse they that receaue seede into the stonie grounde are they which when they haue hearde the worde at once receaue it with gladnesse 17 Yet haue no roote in them selues and so endure but a tyme and anone when trouble and persecution aryseth for the wordes sake immediatlye they are offended 18 And those be they that receaue seede among thornes and those I saye are such as heare the worde 19 And the cares of this worlde and the deceytfulnesse of ryches and the lustes of other thynges enter in and choke the worde and it is made vnfruitefull 20 And they whiche receaue seede into good grounde are suche as heare the worde and receaue it so that one corne doth bryng foorth thirtie some sixtie some an hundred 21 And he saide vnto them Is the candle lyghted to be put vnder a busshell or vnder the table And not to be put on a candelsticke 22 For there is nothing so priuie that shal not be opened neither hath it ben so secrete but that it shall come abrode 23 If any man haue eares to heare let hym heare 24 And he sayde vnto them take heede what ye heare With what measure ye meate with the same shall it be measured to you agayne And vnto you that heare shall more be geuen 25 For vnto hym that hath shall it be geuen and from hym that hath not shal be taken away euen that which he hath 26 And he sayde so is the kyngdome of God euen as yf a man shoulde sowe seede in the grounde 27 And shoulde slepe and ryse vp nyght and day and the seede shoulde spryng growe vp he knoweth not howe 28 For the earth bringeth foorth fruite of her selfe first the blade then the eare after that the full corne in the eare 29 But when the fruite is brought foorth anone he thrusteth in the sickle because the haruest is come 30 And he sayde Wherevnto shall we lyken the kyngdome of God Or with what comparyson shall we compare it 31 It is like a grayne of mustarde
whiche was the sonne of Asaac which was the sonne of Abraham whiche was y e sonne of Thara which was the sonne of Nachor 35 Which was y e sonne of Saruch which was the sonne of Ragau whiche was the sonne of Phaleg which was y e sonne of Heber which was the sonne of Sala 36 whiche was the sonne of Arphaxad whiche was the sonne of Sem whiche was the sonne of Noe whiche was the sonne of Lamech 37 Whiche was the sonne of Mathusala whiche was the sonne of Enoch which was the sonne of Jared whiche was the sonne of Maleleel whiche was the sonne of Cainan 38 Which was the sonne of Henos which was y e sonne of Seth which was y e sonne of Adam which was the sonne of God ¶ The .iiij. Chapter ¶ 1 The temptation and fastyng of Christe 13 he ouercommeth the deuyll 16 he teacheth at Nazareth with great admiration of the people 24 A prophete is despysed teaching in his owne countrey 33 He healeth the man possessed with a deuill 34 the deuill confesseth him to be Christe 38 he healeth Peters wyues mother 40 he healed many of diuers diseases 41 the deuyls confesse Christe and are of hym reproued 43 and he preacheth through the cities 1 IEsus being full of the holy ghost returned from Iordane was ledde by the spirite into wyldernesse 2 And was fourtie dayes tempted of the deuyll and in those dayes dyd he eate nothyng And when they were ended he afterwarde hungred 3 And the deuyll sayde vnto hym If thou be the sonne of God commaunde this stone that it be made bread 4 And Iesus aunswered hym saying It is written that man shall not lyue by bread only but by euery word of god 5 And the deuyll toke hym into an hye mountayne shewed hym all the kingdomes of y e worlde in a moment of time 6 And the deuyl saide vnto hym all this power wyll I geue thee euerywhyt the glory of them for that is deliuered vnto me and to whomsoeuer I wyll I geue it 7 If thou therfore wilt fall downe before me worship me they shal be all thine 8 Iesus aunswered sayde vnto hym Hence from me Satan For it is writtē Thou shalt worship the Lorde thy God and hym only shalt thou serue 9 And he caryed hym to Hierusalem set hym on a pinacle of the temple and sayde vnto him If thou be the sonne of God cast thy selfe downe from hence 10 For it is written that he shall geue his Angels charge ouer thee to kepe thee 11 And in their handes they shall beare thee vp that thou dasshe not thy foote at any tyme agaynst a stone 12 And Iesus aunswered and sayde vnto hym It is sayde Thou shalt not tempt the Lorde thy God 13 And assoone as all the temptatiō was ended the deuyll departed from hym for a season 14 ☞ And Iesus returned by the power of the spirite into Galilee there went a fame of hym throughout all the region rounde about 15 And he taught in their synagogues was commended of all men 16 And he came to Nazareth where he was nursed and as his custome was he wēt into the synagogue on the Sabboth day and stoode vp for to reade 17 And there was deliuered vnto hym the booke of the prophete Esaias And whē he had opened the booke he founde the place where it was written 18 The spirite of the Lord vpon me because he hath annoynted me to preache the Gospel to the poore he hath sent me to heale the broken hearted to preache deliueraunce to the captiue recouering of syght to the blynde freely to set at libertie them that are bruised 19 And to preache the acceptable yere of the Lorde 20 And he closed the booke and gaue it agayne to the minister and sate downe And the eyes of all them that were in y e synagogue were fastened on hym 21 And he began to say vnto thē this day is this scripture fulfilled in your eares 22 And all bare him witnesse wondred at y e gratious wordes whiche proceaded out of his mouth ☜ And they sayde is not this Iosephes sonne 23 And he saide vnto them Ye wyll vtterly say vnto me this prouerbe phisition heale thy selfe ☞ Whatsoeuer we haue heard done in Capernaū do y e same here lykewyse in thine owne countrey 24 And he saide Veryly I say vnto you no prophete is accepted in his owne countrey 25 But I tell you of a trueth many wydowes were in Israel in the dayes of Elias when heauen was shutte three yeres sixe monethes when great famishment was throughout all y e lande 26 And vnto none of thē was Elias sent saue vnto Sarepta a citie of Sidon vnto a woman that was a wydowe 27 And many lepers were in Israel in the tyme of Elizeus the prophete and none of them was clensed sauyng Naaman the Syrian 28 And all they in the synagogue when they hearde these thynges were fylled with wrath 29 And rose vp and thrust hym out of the citie and led hym euen vnto the edge of the hyll wheron their citie was built y e they might cast him downe headlong 30 But he passyng through the myddes of them went his way ☜ 31 ☞ And came downe to Capernaum a citie of Galilee and there taught them on the Sabboth dayes 32 And they were astonyed at his doctrine For his preachyng was with power 33 And in the synagogue there was a man which had an vncleane spirite of a deuyll and cryed with a loude voyce 34 Saying Oh what haue we to do with thee thou Iesus of Nazareth Art thou come to destroy vs I knowe who thou art euen the holy one of God 35 And Iesus rebuked hym saying Holde thy peace and come out of hym And when the deuyll had throwen him in the middes he came out of hym and hurt hym not 36 And feare came on them all and they spake among them selues saying What maner a thyng is this For with auctoritie and power he commaundeth the foule spirites and they come out 37 And the fame of hym spread abrode throughout euery place of the countrey rounde about ☜ 38 ☞ And when he was risen vp and come out of the synagogue he entred into Simons house And Simons wiues mother was taken with a great feuer they made intercession to hym for her 39 And he stoode ouer her and rebuked the feuer and the feuer left her And immediatly she arose and ministred vnto them 40 When the Sunne was downe all they that had sicke taken with diuers diseases brought them vnto hym And he layde his handes on euery one of them and healed them 41 And deuyls also came out of many crying saying Thou art that Christe the sonne of God And he rebuked thē and suffred them not to speake For they knewe that he was Christe 42 As soone as it was
Moyses Elias 31 That appeared in the maiestie spake of his departyng which he shoulde end at Hierusalem 32 But Peter and they that were with him were heauie with sleepe and wheÌ„ they awoke they sawe his maiestie and two men standyng with hym 33 And it came to passe as they departed froÌ„ him Peter said vnto Iesus Maister it is good beyng here for vs let vs make three tabernacles one for thee one for Moyses and one for Elias and wyst not what he sayde 34 Whyle he thus spake there came a cloude and ouershadowed them they feared wheÌ„ they wer come into y e cloude 35 And there came a voyce out of the cloude saying this is my deare sonne heare him â—6 And assoone as the voyce was paste Iesus was founde alone and they kept it close and tolde no man in those dayes any of those thynges which they hadde seene 37 And it came to passe that on the next day as they came downe from the hyll much people met hym 38 And beholde a man of the companie cried out saying Maister I besech thee behold my sonne for he is all y t I haue 39 And see a spirite taketh hym and sodenly he cryeth and teareth hym that he fometh agayne with much payne departeth from him when he hath rent hym 40 And I besought thy disciples to cast hym out and they coulde not 41 Iesus aunswered and saide O faithlesse and croked nation howe long shall I be with you and shall suffer you Bryng thy sonne hyther 42 As he was yet a commyng the fiende rent hym and tare hym And Iesus rebuked the vncleane spirite and healed the chylde and deliuered hym to his father 43 And they were all amased at the mightie power of God But whyle they wondred euery one at all thinges which he dyd he sayde vnto his disciples 44 Let these sayinges sincke downe into your eares For it wyll come to passe that the sonne of man shal be deliuered into the handes of men 45 But they wyst not what that worde meant and it was hydde from them that they vnderstoode it not And they feared to aske hym of that saying 46 Then there arose a disputatioÌ„ among them which of them should be the greatest 47 When Iesus perceaued the thought of their heartes he toke a chylde and set hym harde by hym 48 And sayde vnto them Whosoeuer receaueth this chylde in my name receaueth me And whosoeuer receaueth me receaueth him that sent me For he that is least among you all the same shal be great 49 And Iohn aunswered and sayde Maister we sawe one castyng out deuyls in thy name and we forbad hym because he foloweth not with vs. 50 And Iesus sayde vnto hym Forbyd ye â—hymâ— not For he that is not against vs is with vs. 51 And it came to passe when the tyme was come that he shoulde be receaued vp he set his face to go to Hierusalem 52 And sent messengers before him And they went entred into a towne of the Samaritanes to make redy for hym 53 And they woulde not receaue him because his face was as though he woulde go to Hierusalem 54 When his disciples Iames Iohn sawe this they sayde Lord wylt thou that we coÌ„maunde fire to come downe from heauen and consume them euen as Elias dyd 55 Iesus turned about rebuked them saying Ye wote not what maner spirite ye are of 56 For the sonne of man is not come to destroye mens lyues but to saue them And they went to another towne 57 ☞ And it came to passe that as they went walkyng in the way a certayne man sayde vnto hym I wyll folowe thee Lorde whyther so euer thou go 58 And Iesus sayde vnto hym Foxes haue holes and byrdes of the ayre haue nestes but the sonne of man hath not where to lay his head 59 And he sayde vnto another folowe me And the same sayde Lorde suffer me first to go and burie my father 60 Iesus sayde vnto hym Let the dead burie their dead but go thou preache the kyngdome of God 61 And another sayde Lorde I wyll folowe thee but let me first go byd them farewell which are at home at my house 62 Iesus sayde vnto hym No man that putteth his hande to the plowe and loketh backe is apt to the kyngdome of God ☜ ⧠The .x. Chapter 1 He sendeth seuentie disciples to preache geuyng them charge howe to behaue themselues 1â— He threatneth the obstinate and vnthankfull cities 1â— He admonisheth his disciples of humilitie 20 Wherof we shoulde reioyce 21 He geueth thankes to his father 26 He aunswered the lawyer that tempted hym 33 Who is our neyghbour 38 Of Martha and Marie 1 AFter these thynges the Lorde appoynted other seuentie also and sent them two and two before hym into euery citie and place whyther he hym selfe woulde come 2 Therefore sayde he vnto them The haruest is great but the labourers are fewe Pray ye therfore the Lorde of the haruest to sende foorth labourers into his haruest 3 Go your wayes beholde I sende you foorth as lambes among wolfes 4 Beare no wallet neither scrippe nor shoes salute no man by the way 5 * Into whatsoeuer house ye enter first say peace be to this house 6 And yf the sonne of peace be there your peace shall rest vpon hym yf not it shall turne to you agayne 7 And in the same house tary styll eatyng and drinking such thynges as they shall set before you For the labourer is worthy of his rewarde ☜ Go not from house to house 8 And into whatsoeuer citie ye enter and they receaue you eate such thynges as are set before you 9 And heale the sicke that are therin and say vnto them the kyngdome of God is come nye vpon you 10 But into whatsoeuer citie ye enter they receaue you not go your ways out into the streates of the same and saye 11 Euen the very dust of our citie which cleaueth on vs we do wype of agaynst you Notwithstandyng be ye sure of this that the kyngdome of God was come nye vpon you 12 I say vnto you that it shal be easyer in that day for Sodome then for that citie 13 Wo vnto thee Chorazin wo vnto thee Bethsaida For if the miracles had ben done in Tyre and Sidon whiche haue ben done in you they had a great whyle ago repented of their sinnes syttyng in sackecloth and asshes 14 Therfore it shal be easyer for Tyre and Sidon at the iudgement then for you 15 And thou Capernaum which art exalted to heauen shalt be thrust downe to hell 16 He that heareth you heareth me and he that despiseth you despiseth me and he that despiseth me despiseth hym that sent me 17 And the seuentie turned agayne with ioy saying Lord euen the very deuils are subdued to vs through
with God 3 All thynges were made by it and without it was made nothyng that was made 4 In it was lyfe and the lyfe was the lyght of men 5 And the lyght shyneth in darkenesse and the darknesse comprehended it not 6 There was a man sent from God whose name was Iohn 7 The same came for a witnesse to beare witnesse of the lyght that all men through hym myght beleue 8 He was not that lyght but was sent to beare witnesse of the lyght 9 That lyght was the true lyght which lyghteth euery man that commeth into the worlde 10 He was in the worlde and the worlde was made by hym and the worlde knewe hym not 11 He came among his owne and his owne receaued hym not 12 But as many as receaued hym to them gaue he power to be the sonnes of God euen them that beleued on his name 13 Which were borne not of blood nor of the wyll of the fleshe nor yet of the wyll of man but of God 14 * And the same word became fleshe and dwelt among vs and we sawe the glory of it as the glory of the only begotten sonne of the father full of grace and trueth ☜ 15 ☞ * Iohn beareth witnesse of hym and cryeth saying This was he of whom I spake he that commeth after me is preferred before me for he was before me 16 And of his fulnesse haue all we receaued and grace for grace 17 For the lawe was geuen by Moyses but grace and trueth came by Iesus Christe 18 * No man hath seene God at any tyme The onely begotten sonne which is in the bosome of the father he hath declared hym ☜ 19 ☞ And this is the recorde of Iohn When the Iewes sent priestes and leuites from Hierusalem to aske hym What art thou 2◠And he confessed and denyed not and sayde playnely I am not that Christe 21 And they asked hym What then art thou Elias And he sayth I am not Art thou that prophete And he aunswered no. 22 Then sayde they vnto hym What art thou that we may geue an aunswere to them that sent vs What sayest thou of thy selfe 23 He sayde I am the voyce of a cryer in the wildernesse make strayght the way of the Lorde as sayde the prophete Esaias 24 And they which were sent were of the pharisees 25 And they asked hym and sayde vnto hym Why baptizest thou then yf thou be not Christe nor Elias neither that prophete 26 Iohn aunswered them saying I baptize with water but there standeth one among you whom ye knowe not 27 He it is which though he came after me was before me whose shoes latchet I am not worthy to vnloose 28 These thynges were done in Bethabara beyonde Iordane where Iohn dyd baptize ☜ 29 ☞ The next day Iohn seeth Iesus comming vnto hym and saith beholde the lambe of God which taketh away the sinne of the worlde 30 This is he of whom I sayde After me commeth a man which is preferred before me for he was before me 31 And I knewe hym not but that he shoulde be declared to Israel therfore am I come baptizing with water 32 And Iohn bare recorde saying I sawe the spirite descende from heauen lyke vnto a doue and abode vpon hym 33 And knewe hym not But he that sent me to baptize with water the same saide vnto me vpon whom thou shalt see the spirite descende and tary styll on hym the same is he which baptizeth with the holy ghost 34 And I sawe and bare recorde that he is the sonne of God ☜ 35 The next day after Iohn stoode agayne and two of his disciples 36 And he behelde Iesus as he walked by sayth beholde the lambe of God 37 And the two disciples hearde hym speake and they folowed Iesus 38 And Iesus turned about and sawe them folowe hym sayth vnto them What seeke ye They sayde vnto hym Rabbi which is to say yf one interprete it Maister where dwellest thou 39 He sayeth vnto them come and see They came and sawe where he dwelt and abode with hym that day For it was about the tenth houre 40 One of the two which hearde Iohn speake folowed hym was Andrewe Simon Peters brother 41 The same founde his brother Simon first and sayth vnto hym We haue founde Messias which is by interpretation the annoynted 42 And brought hym to Iesus And Iesus behelde hym and sayde Thou art Simon the sonne of Iona thou shalt be called Cephas which is by interpretation a stone 43 The day folowyng Iesus woulde go into Galilee founde Philip and sayth vnto hym folowe me 44 Philip was of Bethsaida the citie of Andrewe and Peter 45 Philip founde Nathanael and sayth vnto hym We haue founde hym of whom Moyses in the lawe and the prophetes dyd write Iesus of Nazareth the sonne of Ioseph 46 And Nathanael sayde vnto hym * Can there any good thyng come out of Nazareth Philip sayth vnto him come and see 47 Iesus sawe Nathanael commyng to hym sayeth of hym Beholde a ryght Israelite in whom is no guile 48 Nathanael sayth vnto hym Whence knewest thou me Iesus aunswered and sayde vnto hym Before that Philip called thee when thou wast vnder the fygge tree I sawe thee 49 Nathanael aunswered and sayde vnto hym Rabbi thou art euen the very sonne of God thou art y e kyng of Israel 50 Iesus aunswered sayde vnto hym Because I sayde vnto thee I saw thee vnder the fygge tree thou beleuest Thou shalt see greater thynges then these 51 And he sayth vnto hym Veryly veryly I say vnto you hereafter shall ye see heauen open and the Angels of God ascendyng descendyng vpon the sonne of man ☜ ¶ The .ij. Chapter ¶ 7 Christe begynneth to worke miracles and turned water into wyne 12 he goeth to Capernaum and so ascendeth to Hierusalem 14 he casteth buyers and sellers out of the temple 19 he forewarneth his death and resurrection 23 and many beleue in hym when they see his miracles 1 AND the thirde day was there a mariage in Cana a citie of Galilee and the mother of Iesus was there 2 And Iesus was called and his disciples vnto the mariage 3 And whē the wyne fayled the mother of Iesus sayth vnto hym they haue no wyne 4 Iesus saith vnto her Woman what haue I to do with thee myne houre is not yet come 5 His mother sayth vnto the ministers Whatsoeuer he sayth vnto you do it 6 And there were set there sixe water pottes of stone after the maner of the purifiyng of the Iewes conteynyng two or three firkins a peece 7 Iesus sayth vnto them fyll the water pottes with water And they fylled them vp to the brym 8 And he sayth vnto them drawe out nowe and beare vnto the gouernour of feast And they bare it 9
When the ruler of the feast had tasted the water that was made wyne and knewe not whence it was but the ministers which drewe the water knewe the gouernour of the feast calleth the brydegrome 10 And sayth vnto hym Euery man at the begynnyng doth set foorth good wine and when men haue well dronke then that which is worse But thou hast kept the good wyne vntyll nowe 11 This begynnyng of miracles dyd Iesus in Cana of Galilee and shewed his glory his disciples beleued on hym ☜ 12 After this he went downe to Capernaum he and his mother and his brethren and his disciples and there continued not many dayes 13 ☞ And the Iewes Passouer was at hande Iesus went vp to Hierusalem 14 And founde sittyng in the temple those that solde oxen and sheepe and doues and chaungers of money 15 And when he had made as it were a scourge of small cordes he droue them all out of the temple with the sheepe oxen and powred out the chaungers money and ouerthrewe the tables 16 And saide vnto them that solde doues Haue these thinges hence and make not my fathers house an house of marchaundize 17 And his disciples remembred that it was written The zeale of thine house hath euen eaten me 18 Then aunswered the Iewes sayde vnto hym What token shewest thou vnto vs seeyng that thou doest these thynges 19 Iesus aunswered sayde vnto them Destroy this temple in three dayes I wyll reare it vp 20 Then sayde the Iewes fourtie and sixe yeres was this temple a buildyng and wilt thou reare it vp in three dayes 21 But he spake of the temple of his body 22 Assoone therfore as he was rysen from death agayne his disciples remembred that he thus had sayde And they beleued the scripture the wordes which Iesus had sayde 23 When he was in Hierusalem at the Passouer in the feast day many beleued on his name when they sawe his miracles which he dyd 24 But Iesus dyd not commit hym selfe vnto them because he knewe all men 25 And neded not that any shoulde testifie of man For he knewe what was in man ☜ ¶ The .iij. Chapter ¶ Christe teacheth Nicodemus 15 Of fayth 16 The loue of God towarde the worlde â—â— Condemnation 25 Iohn baptizeth 27 Iohn teacheth his disciples 1 THere was a man of the pharisees named Nicodemus a ruler of the Iewes 2 The same came to Iesus by night said vnto him Rabbi we knowe that thou art a teacher come from God for no man coulde do these miracles that thou doest except God were with him 3 Iesus aunswered sayde vnto hym Veryly veryly I say vnto thee except a man be borne agayne he can not see the kyngdome of God 4 Nicodemus sayth vnto hym Howe can a man be borne when he is olde can he enter into his mothers wombe and be borne agayne 5 Iesus aunswered Veryly veryly I say vnto thee except a man be borne of water and of the spirite he can not enter into the kyngdome of God 6 That which is borne of the fleshe is fleshe and that which is borne of the spirite is spirite 7 Maruayle not thou that I sayde to thee ye must be borne agayne 8 The wynde bloweth where it listeth and thou hearest the sounde therof but canst not tell whence it commeth and whither it goeth So is euery one that is borne of the spirite 9 Nicodemus aunswered and sayde vnto hym howe can these thynges be 10 Iesus aunswered sayde vnto hym Art thou a maister in Israel and knowest not these thynges 11 Veryly veryly I say vnto thee we speake that we do knowe testifie that we haue seene and ye receaue not our witnesse 12 If I haue tolde you earthly thynges and ye beleue not howe shall ye beleue yf I tell you of heauenly thynges 13 * And no man ascendeth vp to heauen but he that came downe from heauen euen the sonne of man which is in heauen 14 * And as Moyses lyft vp the serpent in the wyldernesse euen so must the sonne of man be lyft vp 15 That whosoeuer beleueth in hym perishe not but haue eternall lyfe ☜ 16 ☞ * For God so loued the worlde that he gaue his only begotten sonne that whosoeuer beleueth in hym shoulde not perishe but haue euerlastyng lyfe 17 For God sent not his sonne into the worlde to condempne the worlde but that the worlde through hym myght be saued He that beleueth on hym is not condempned 18 But he that beleueth not is condempned alredy because he hath not beleued in the name of the only begotteÌ„ sonne of God 19 And this is the condempnation that lyght is come into the worlde and men loued darknesse rather then lyght because their deedes were euyll 20 For euery one that euyll doeth hateth the lyght neither commeth to the light lest his deedes shoulde be reproued 21 But he that doeth trueth coÌ„meth to the lyght y t his deedes may be knowen howe that they are wrought in God ☜ 22 After these thynges came Iesus and his disciples into the lande of Iurie and there he taryed with theÌ„ * baptized 23 And Iohn also baptized in Enon besides Salim because there was much water there and they came and were baptized 24 For Iohn was not yet cast into prison 25 ☞ And there arose a question betwene Iohns disciples and the Iewes about purifiyng 26 And they came vnto Iohn and sayde vnto hym Rabbi he that was with thee beyonde Iordane to whom thou barest witnesse beholde the same baptizeth and all men come to hym 27 Iohn aunswered and sayde A man can receaue nothyng except it be geuen hym from heauen 28 Ye your selues are witnesses howe that I sayde I am not Christe but am sent before hym 29 He that hath y e bride is the bridegrome But the friende of the brydegrome which standeth heareth him reioyceth greatly because of y e brydegromes voyce This my ioy therfore is fulfylled 30 He must increace but I must decreace 31 He that commeth from an hye is aboue all He that is of the earth is earthlye and speaketh of the earth He that commeth from heauen is aboue all 32 And what he hath seene and hearde that he testifieth and no man receaueth his testimonie 33 He that hath receaued his testimonie hath set to his seale that God is true 34 For he whom God hath sent speaketh the wordes of God For God geueth not the spirite by measure vnto hym 35 The father loueth the sonne and hath geuen all thynges into his hande 36 He that beleueth on the sonne hath euerlastyng lyfe He that beleueth not the sonne shall not see life but the wrath of God abydeth on hym ☜ ⧠The .iiij. Chapter ¶ 7 Christe weryed asketh water of the woman of Samaria 10 The liuely water 24 He teacheth true worshippe 26
voyce and sayde vnto them Ye men of Iurie and all ye that dwell at Hierusalem be this knowen vnto you and with your eares heare my wordes 15 For these are not drunken as ye suppose seeyng it is but the thirde houre of the day 16 But this is that which was spoken by the prophete Ioel 17 And it shal be in the last dayes sayth God of my spirite I wyll powre out vpon all fleshe And your sonnes and your daughters shall prophesie and your young men shall see visions and your olde men shall dreame dreames 18 And on my seruauntes and on my handemaydens I wyll powre out of my spirite in those dayes and they shall prophesie 19 And I wyll shewe wonders in heauen aboue and tokens in the earth beneath blood and fyre and the vapour of smoke 20 The Sunne shal be turned into darknesse and the Moone into blood before that great and notable day of the Lord come 21 And it shall come to passe that whosoeuer shall call on the name of the Lorde shal be saued ☜ 22 ☞ Ye men of Israel heare these wordes Iesus of Nazareth a man approued of God among you with miracles wonders and signes which God dyd by hym in the middes of you as ye your selues also knowe 23 Hym haue ye taken by the handes of vnryghteous persons after he was deliuered by the determinate councell and foreknowledge of God and haue crucified and slayne hym 24 Whom God hath raised vp and loosed the sorowes of death because it was vnpossible that he shoulde be holden of it 25 For Dauid speaketh of hym I sawe the Lorde alwayes set foorth before my face for he is on my ryght hande that I shoulde not be moued 26 Therfore dyd my heart reioyce and my tongue was glad Moreouer also my fleshe shall reste in hope 27 Because thou wylt not leaue my soule in hell neither wylt thou suffer thyne holy one to see corruption 28 Thou hast shewed me the wayes of lyfe thou shalt make me full of ioy with thy countenaunce ☜ 29 Ye men and brethren let me freely speake vnto you of the patriarke Dauid For he is both dead and buryed and his sepulchre remayneth with vs vnto this day 30 Therfore seeyng he was a prophete and knewe that God had sworne with an oth to hym that Christe as concernyng the fleshe should come of the fruite of his loynes should syt on his seate 31 He knowyng this before spake of the resurrection of Christe that his soule shoulde not be left in hell neither his fleshe shoulde see corruption 32 This Iesus hath God raysed vp wherof we all are witnesses 33 Then sence that he by the ryght hande of God was exalted and hath receaued of the father the promise of the holy ghost he hath shed foorth this which ye nowe see and heare 34 For Dauid is not ascended into heauē but he sayeth The Lorde sayde to my Lorde syt thou on my ryght 35 Vntill I make thy foes thy footstoole 36 Therfore let all the house of Israel know for a suretie that God hath made that same Iesus whom ye haue crucified Lorde and Christe 37 Nowe when they hearde this they were pricked in their heartes and sayde vnto Peter vnto the other Apostles Ye men brethren what shall we do 38 Then Peter sayde vnto them Repent and be baptized euery one of you in the name of Iesus Christe for the remission of sinnes and ye shall receaue the gyft of the holy ghost 39 For the promise was made vnto you and to your chyldren and to all that are a farre of euen as many as the Lorde our God shall call 40 And with many other wordes bare he witnesse and exhorted them saying Saue your selues from this vntowarde generation 41 Then they that gladly receaued his worde were baptized And the same day there were added vnto them about three thousand◠soules 42 And they continued stedfastly in the Apostles doctrine and felowship and in breakyng of bread and in prayers 43 And feare came vpon euery soule And many wonders and signes were done by the Apostles 44 And all that beleued kept them selues together and had all thynges common 45 And solde their possessions goodes and parted them to all men as euery man had neede 46 And they continued dayly with one accorde in the temple and brake bread from house to house and dyd eate their meate together with gladnesse and singlenesse of heart 47 Praysyng God had fauour with all the people And the Lorde added to the Churche dayly such as should be saued ¶ The .iij. Chapter ¶ 7 The halt is restored to his feete 12 Peter preacheth Christe vnto the people 1 NOwe Peter and Iohn went vp together into the temple at the nynth houre of prayer 2 And a certayne man that was lame from his mothers wombe was brought whom they layde dayly at the gate of the temple which is called beawtifull to aske almes of them that entred into the temple 3 When he sawe Peter and Iohn that they woulde go into the temple he desired to receaue an almes 4 And Peter fastenyng his eyes vpon hym with Iohn sayde Loke on vs. 5 And he gaue heede vnto thē trustyng to receaue somethyng of them 6 Then sayde Peter Syluer and golde haue I none but such as I haue geue I thee In the name of Iesus Christe of Nazareth ryse vp and walke 7 And he toke hym by the ryght hande and lyft hym vp And immediatly his feete and ancle bones receaued strength 8 And he sprang stoode and walked and entred with them into the temple walkyng and leaping praysyng God 9 And all the people sawe hym walke and prayse God 10 And they knewe hym that it was he which sate and begged at the beawtifull gate of the temple And they wondred and were sore astonyed at that which had happened vnto hym 11 And as the lame which was healed helde Peter and Iohn all the people ran amased vnto them in the porche that is called Solomons 12 And when Peter sawe that he aunswered vnto the people ☞ Ye men of Israel why maruayle ye at this or why loke ye so on vs as though by our owne power or godlynesse we had made this man to go 13 The God of Abraham and of Isaac and of Iacob the God of our fathers hath glorified his sonne Iesus whom ye betrayed and denyed in the presence of Pilate when he had iudged hym to be loosed 14 But ye denyed the holy and iust and desired a murtherer to be geuen you 15 And kylled the Lorde of lyfe whom God hath raysed from the dead of the which we are witnesses 16 And his name through the fayth in his name hath made this man sounde whom ye see and knowe And the fayth which is by hym hath geuen to this man health in the presence of you all 17 And nowe
be circumcised after the maner of Moyses ye can not be saued 2 So when there was rysen discention and disputyng not a litle vnto Paul and Barnabas agaynst them they determyned that Paul and Barnabas and certayne other of them shoulde go vp to Hierusalem vnto the Apostles and elders about this question 3 And after they were brought on their way by y e Churche they passed through Phenices and Samaria declaryng the conuersation of the gentiles and they brought great ioy vnto all the brethen 4 And when they were come to Hierusalem they were receaued of y e Church and of the Apostles and elders And they declared all thynges that God had done with them 5 Then rose vp certayne of the sect of the pharisees which dyd beleue saying that it was needefull to circumcise thē and to commaunde to kepe the lawe of Moyses 6 And the Apostles and elders came together for to consider of this matter 7 And when there had ben much disputyng Peter rose vp and sayde vnto thē Ye men brethren ye knowe how that a good while ago God did chose among vs that the gentiles by my mouth shoulde heare the worde of the Gospel and beleue 8 And God whiche knoweth the heartes bare them witnesse and gaue vnto them the holy ghost euen as he dyd vnto vs 9 And put no difference betwene vs and them purifiyng their heartes by fayth 10 Nowe therfore why tempt ye God to put on the disciples neckes the yoke * which neither our fathers nor we were able to beare 11 But we beleue that through the grace of the Lorde Iesu Christe we shal be saued euen as they 12 Then all the multitude was scilent and gaue audience to Barnabas and Paul which tolde what signes and wonders God had shewed among the gentiles by them 13 And when they helde their peace Iames aunswered saying Men and brethren hearken vnto me 14 Simeon tolde howe God at the begynnyng dyd visite to receaue of the gentiles a people in his name 15 And to this agree the wordes of the prophetes as it is written 16 * After this I wyll returne and wyll buylde agayne the tabernacle of Dauid which is fallen downe and that which is fallen in decay of it wyll I buylde agayne and I wyll set it vp 17 That the residue of men myght seke after the Lorde and all the gentiles vpon whom my name is called sayth the Lorde which doth all these thynges 18 Knowen vnto God are all his workes from the begynnyng of the worlde 19 Wherfore my sentence is that we trouble not them which from among the gentiles are turned to God 20 But that we write vnto them that they absteyne themselues from fylthyneste of idols and frō fornication and from strangled and from blood 21 For Moyses of olde tyme hath in euery citie them that preache hym in the synagogues when he is read euery Sabboth day 22 Then pleased it the Apostles elders with the whole Church to sende chosen mē of their owne companie to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas That is Iudas whose sirname was Barsabas and Silas which were chiefe men among the brethren 23 And wrote letters by them after this maner 24 The Apostles and elders brethren sende greetinges vnto y e brethren which are of the gentiles in Antiochia Syria Cilicia Forasmuch as we haue heard that certayne which departed from vs haue troubled you with wordes cumbred your myndes saying ye must be circumcised and kepe the lawe to whō we gaue no such commaundent 25 It seemed therfore to vs a good thing when we were come together with one accorde to sende chosen men vnto you with our beloued Barnabas and Paul 26 Men that haue ieoparded their lyues for y e name of our Lorde Iesus Christe 27 We haue sent therefore Iudas and Silas which shall also tell you y e same thynges by mouth 28 For it seemed good to the holy ghost and to vs to charge you with no more then these necessarie thynges That is to say 29 That ye abstayne from thynges offered to idols and from blood and from strangled and from fornication From which yf ye kepe your selues ye shall do well So fare ye well 30 Nowe therfore when they were departed they came to Antioche and gathered the multitude together and delyuered the epistle 31 Which when they had read they reioyced of the consolation 32 And Iudas and Silas beyng prophetes exhorted y e brethren with many wordes and strengthed them 33 And after they had taryed there a space they were let go in peace of the brethren vnto the Apostles 34 Notwithstandyng it pleased Silas to abyde there styll 35 Paul also and Barnabas continued in Antioche teachyng and preachyng the worde of the Lorde with other many 36 But after a certayne space Paul sayde vnto Barnabas Let vs go agayne and visite our brethren in euery citie where we haue shewed y e worde of the Lorde and see howe they do 37 And Barnabas gaue counsell to take with them Iohn whose sirname was Marke 38 But Paul woulde not take hym vnto their companie which departed from them from Pamphylia and went not with them to the worke 39 And the contention was so sharpe betwene thē that they departed a sunder one from the other and so Barnabas toke Marke sayled vnto Cypers 40 And Paul chose Silas and departed beyng committed of the brethren vnto the grace of God 41 And he went through Cyria Cilicia stablisshyng the Churches ¶ The .xvj. Chapter 1 Paul circumciseth Timothie 7 The spirite calleth them from one countrey to another 24 Lydia is conuerted 28 Paul and Silas imprisoned conuert the iaylour 37 and are delyuered because they be Romanes 1 THen came he to Derbe and to Lystra And beholde a certayne disciple was there named Timotheus a womans sonne which was a Iewesse and beleued but his father was a Greke 2 Of whom the brethren that were at Lystra and Iconium reported well 3 Paul woulde that he should go foorth with hym and toke circumcised hym because of the Iewes which were in those quarters for they knewe all that his father was a Greke 4 And as they went through the cities they delyuered them the decrees for to kepe that were ordayned of y e Apostles and elders which were at Hierusalem 5 And so were the Churches stablisshed in the fayth and encreased in number dayly 6 Nowe when they had gone throughout Phrygia and the region of Galatia and were forbidden of the holy ghost to preache the worde in Asia 7 They commyng to Mysia sought to go into Bithynia but the spirite suffred them not 8 And they passyng through Mysia came downe to Troada 9 And a vision appeared to Paul in the nyght There stoode a man of Macedonia and prayed hym saying Come into Macedonia and helpe vs. 10 And after he had seene y e visiō immediatly we
1 AND it came to passe y t whyle Apollo was at Corinth Paul passed through the vpper coastes and came to Ephesus and founde certaine disciples 2 And sayde vnto them Haue ye receaued the holy ghost sence ye beleued And they saide vnto hym We haue not hearde whether there be any holy ghost or no. 3 And he sayde vnto them Vnto what then were ye baptized And they sayde vnto Iohns baptisme 4 Then sayde Paul Iohn veryly baptized with the baptisme of repentaunce saying vnto the people that they should beleue on hym which shoulde come after hym that is on Christe Iesus 5 When they heard this they were baptized in the name of the Lorde Iesu 6 And whē Paul had layde his handes vpon them the holy ghost came on thē and they spake with tongues and prophesied 7 And all the men were about twelue 8 And he went into the synagogue and spake boldlye for the space of three monethes disputyng perswadyng those thynges that appertayne to the kyngdome of God ☜ 9 But when diuers waxed harde hearted and beleued not but spake euyll of the way of the Lorde and that before the multitude he departed from them seperated y e disciples And he disputed dayly in the scoole of one called Tyrannus 10 And this continued by the space of two yeres so that all they whiche dwelt in Asia hearde the worde of the Lord Iesu both Iewes and Grekes 11 And God wrought speciall miracles by the handes of Paul 12 So that from his body were brought vnto the sicke napkins and partlettes and the diseases departed from them the euyll spirites went out of them 13 Then certaine of the vagabounde Iewes exorcistes toke vpon them to call ouer them which had euyll spirites the name of the Lorde Iesus saying We adiure you by Iesus whom Paul preacheth 14 And there were seuen sonnes of one Sceua a Iewe and chiefe of y e priestes which dyd so 15 And the euyll spirite aunswered and sayde Iesus I knowe and Paul I knowe but who are ye 16 And the man in whom the euyll spirite was ran on them ouercame thē preuayled agaynst them so that they fled out of that house naked woūded 17 And this was knowen to all y e Iewes Grekes also which dwelt at Ephesus and feare came on them all the name of the Lorde Iesus was magnified 18 And many that beleued came confessed and shewed their workes 19 Many also of thē whiche vsed curious craftes brought their bookes burned them before all men and they counted the price of them founde it fiftie thousande peeces of syluer 20 So myghtyly grew the word of God and preuayled 21 After these thinges were ended Paul purposed in the spirite when he had passed ouer Macedonia and Achaia to go to Hierusalem saying After I haue ben there I must also see Rome 22 So sent he into Macedonia two of them that ministred vnto hym Timotheus and Erastus but he hym selfe remayned in Asia for a season 23 And the same time there arose no litle a do about that way 24 For a certaine man named Demetrius a syluer smyth which made shrines for Diana was not a litle beneficiall vnto the craftes men 25 Whom he called together with the workemen of like occupation and sayde Sirs ye knowe that by this craft we haue aduauntage 26 Moreouer ye see and heare that not alone at Ephesus but almost throughout all Asia this Paul hath perswaded and turned away much people saying that they be not gods which are made with handes 27 So that not only this our craft commeth into peryll to be set at naught but also that the temple of y e great goddesse Diana should be despised and her magnificence should be destroyed whom all Asia and the worlde worshippeth 28 And when they hearde these sayinges they were full of wrath and cryed out saying great is Diana of y e Ephesians 29 And all the citie was on a rore they russhed into the common hall with one assent and caught Gaius Aristarcus men of Macedonia Paules companious 30 When Paule woulde haue entred in vnto y e people the disciples suffred hym not 31 But certaine of y e chiefe of Asia which were his friendes sent vnto hym desiryng hym that he would not preasse into the common hall 32 Some therfore cryed one thyng and some another and the assemblie was all out of quiet and the more part knew not wherfore they were come together 33 And they drewe Alexander out of the multitude the Iewes thrustyng hym forwardes And Alexander beckened with the hande and would haue geuen the people an aunswere 34 But when they knewe that he was a Iewe there arose a shoute almost for the space of two houres of all men crying great is Diana of the Ephesians 35 And when the towne clarke had pacified the people he sayde Ye men of Ephesus what man is it that knoweth not how that the citie of the Ephesians is a worshipper of the great goddesse Diana and of the image whiche came downe from Iupiter 36 Seing then that these thinges can not be spoken against ye ought to be contēt and to do nothyng rasshely 37 For ye haue brought hyther these men which are neither robbers of Churches nor yet despisers of your goddesse 38 Wherfore yf Demetrius the craftes men which are with hym haue a matter agaynst any man the lawe is open and there are deputies let them accuse one another 39 But yf ye inquire any thyng concernyng other matters it shal be determined in a lawfull assemblie 40 For we are in ieopardie to be accused of this dayes vprore forasmuch as there is no cause wherby we may geue a reckenyng of this concourse of people 41 And when he had thus spoken he let the assemblie depart ¶ The .xx. Chapter 1 Paul goeth into Macedonia and Grecia 7 he celebrateth the Lordes supper and preacheth 9 At Troas he rayseth vp Eutichus from the dead 17 At Ephesus he calleth the elders of the Church together and committeth the keping of Gods flocke to them 29 warneth them of false teachers 36 maketh his prayer with them 38 and departeth by shippe towardes Hierusalem 1 AND after the vprore was ceassed Paul called the disciples toke his leaue of them and departed for to go into Macedonia 2 And whē he had gone ouer those parties and had geuen them a long exhortation he came into Grece 3 And there abode three monethes And when the Iewes layde wayte for hym as he was about to sayle into Syria he purposed to returne through Macedonia 4 And there accompanied him into Asia Sopater of Berrea and of the Thessalonians Aristarcus and Secundus and Gaius of Derbe and Timotheus and out of Asia Tychicus and Trophimus 5 These going before taried vs at Troas 6 And we sayled away frō Philippos after the dayes of sweete bread came
elder beheaded of Herode Agrippa and Peter was caste in pryson and was deliuered by the angell of the Lorde This kyng also dyed in his seuenth yere iiii Fadus dearth xlvi xiii Paul and Barnabas after their preachyng returned vnto Antioch where they continued many dayes with the congregation v. ii Felix about this xlvii xiiii vi iii. time came into xlviii xv   Syria   About the begynnyng of this yere Paul and Barnabas toke their iourney through Phenitia and Samaria vnto Hierusalem to the sinode or counsell After that they returned vnto Antioche where they remayned a yere whyther commeth Peter whom Paul rebuketh Galath ii Then Paul goeth vnto Cilicia and Licaonia vii Tiberius Alex.  xlix xvi viii ii  l. xvii In these yeres were conuerted the countreys of Phrigia Galatia Misia Frō Troade he went by water into Macedonia and conuerted the cities namely Philippos Appolonia Amphipolis Thessalonia Athens ix iii.  li. xviii x. Cumanus Agrippa y e yonger lii xix Paul goeth by sea vnto Hierusalem from thence he commeth agayne vnto Antioche from Antioche he visiteth the congregations of him in time past constituted in Galacia and Phrigia xi Eelix ii liii xx xii ii iii. liiii xxi xiii iii. iiii lv xxii xiiii iiii v. lvi xxiii Paul ferieth ouer into Grecia From thence about Easter in his .xii. yere he goeth by sea into Syria not a strayght course because of the Iewes but firste vnto Phylippa a citie of Macedonia and commeth about Pentecost vnto Hierusalem there he is imprisoned of the Iewes set at libertie immediatly of Claudius Lisia tribunus and is sent vnto Cesarea to Felix is kept in custodie of Felix two yeres Nero v. vi lvii xxiiii Festus commeth about May into Iudea before whom he pleadeth his matter After that before Festus and Agrippa the kyng He is sent vnto Rome in Italie the seconde yere of Nero. ii Festus Portius vii lviii xxv iii. ii viii lix xxvi iiii iii. ix lx xxvii v. iiii x. lxi xxviii vi Albinus xi lxii xxix vii ii xii lxiii xxx viii iii. xiii lxiiii xxxi ix iiii xiiii lxv xxxii x. Florus xv lxvi xxxiii xi ii xvi lxvii xxiiii xii iii. xvii lxviii xxxv xiii iiii xviii lxix xxxvi xiiii Vaspasianus dux xix lxx xxxvii After that Saint Paul had preached the Gospell of Christe both in the east and west about xxxvii yeres he was in the last yere of Nero the Emperour beheaded at Rome with the sworde ¶ The Epistle of the Apostle Saint Paul to the Romanes ¶ The first Chapter 1 Paul sheweth by whom and to what purpose he is called 16 What the Gospell is 18 The vengeaunce of God vpon the wicked 20 The vse of the creatures 24 The ingratitude and punishement of the wicked 1 PAul the seruaunt of Iesus Christe called to be an Apostle seuered into the Gospel of God 2 Which he had promised afore by his prophetes in y e holy scriptures 3 Of his sonne which was made of the seede of Dauid after the fleshe 4 And hath ben declared to be the sonne of God with power after the spirite that sanctifieth by the resurrectiō from the dead of Iesus Christe our Lorde 5 * By whom we haue receaued grace and apostleship that obedience myght be geuen vnto the fayth in his name among all heathen 6 Among whom ye are also the called of Iesus Christe ☜ 7 To all that be in Rome beloued of God saintes by callyng grace to you and peace from God our father and the Lorde Iesus Christe 8 First verily I thanke my God through Iesus Christe for you all that your fayth is publisshed throughout all the worlde 9 For God is my witnesse whom I serue with my spirite in the Gospell of his sonne that without ceassyng I make mention of you 10 Praying alwayes in my prayers that by some meane at the last one tyme or other I myght take a prosperous iourney by the wyll of God to come vnto you 11 For I long to see you that I myght bestowe among you some spirituall gift that ye myght be stablisshed 12 That is that I might haue consolation together with you eche with others fayth yours and mine 13 I woulde that ye should knowe brethren howe that I haue oftentymes purposed to come vnto you and haue ben let hytherto that I myght haue some fruite also among you as among other of the gentiles 14 I am debter both to the grekes and to the barbarous both to the wyse and to the vnwise 15 So that as much as in me is I am redy to preache the Gospell to you that are at Rome also 16 For I am not ashamed of the Gospell of Christ because it is the power of God vnto saluation to all that beleue to the Iewe first and also to the Greke 17 For by it is the ryghteousnes of God opened frō fayth to fayth As it is written the iuste shall lyue by fayth 18 For the wrath of God appeareth from heauen against all vngodlynesse vnrighteousnes of men which withholde the trueth in vnrighteousnes 19 For that that may be knowen of God is manifest among them because God hath shewed it vnto them 20 For his inuisible thinges being vnderstanded by his workes through the creation of the worlde are seene that is both his eternall power and godhead So that they are without excuse 21 Because that when they knewe God they glorified hym not as God neither were thankefull but waxed full of vanities in their imaginations * and their foolishe heart was blynded 22 When they counted them selues wyse they became fooles 23 And turned the glorie of the immortall God vnto an image made not only after the similitude of a mortal man but also of birdes and foure footed beastes and of crepyng beastes 24 Wherefore God gaue them vp to vncleanenesse through the lustes of their owne heartes to defyle their owne bodies among them selues 25 Whiche chaunged his trueth for a lye and worshipped and serued the creature more then the creator which is to be praysed for euer Amen 26 Wherefore God gaue them vp vnto shamefull lustes * For euen their women dyd chaunge the naturall vse into that which is agaynst nature 27 And likewise also the men left the naturall vse of the woman and brent in their lustes one with another * and men with men wrought fylthynesse and receaued to them selues the rewarde of their errour as it was accordyng 28 And as they regarded not to knowe God euen so God deliuered them vp vnto a leude mynde that they should do those thinges which were not comely 29 Beyng full of all vnrighteousnes fornication craftynesse couetousnes maliciousnes full of enuie murther debate deceite euyll conditioned whysperers 30 Backbyters haters of God dispiteful proude boasters bryngers vp of euyll thinges disobedient to father mother 31 Without
but with the fleshe the lawe of sinne ⧠The .viij. Chapter 1 The assuraunce of the faythfull 6 The fruites of the holy ghost 3 The weakenesse of the lawe 17 Of hope 18 Of patience vnder the crosse 29 Of the foreknowledge of God 1 THere is then no dampnation to them which are in Christe Iesu which walke not after the fleshe but after the spirite 2 For the lawe of the spirite of lyfe through Iesus Christe hath made me * free from the lawe of sinne and death 3 * For what the lawe coulde not do in as much as it was weake through the fleshe God sendyng his owne sonne in the similitude of sinfull fleshe euen by sinne condempned sinne in the fleshe 4 That the ryghteousnesse of the lawe myght be fulfylled in vs which walke not after the fleshe but after the spirite 5 For they that are carnall are carnally mynded But they that are spirituall are spiritually mynded 6 To be carnally mynded is death But to be spiritually mynded is lyfe peace 7 Because that the fleshly mynde is enmitie agaynst God For it is not obedient to the lawe of God neither can be 8 So then they that are in the fleshe can not please God 9 But ye are not in the fleshe but in the spirite yf so be that the spirite of God dwell in you If any man haue not the spirite of Christe the same is none of his 10 And yf Christe be in you the body is dead because of sinne but the spirite is lyfe for ryghteousnesse sake 11 But yf y e spirite of hym that raysed vp Iesus from the dead dwell in you euen he that raised vp Christe from the dead shall also quicken your mortall bodyes because that his spirite dwelleth in you 12 ☞ Therfore brethren we are detters not to the fleshe to lyue after the fleshe 13 For if ye liue after y e fleshe ye shall dye But if ye through the spirite do mortifie the deedes of the body ye shall lyue 14 For as many as are lēd by the spirite of God they are the sonnes of God 15 For ye haue not receaued the spirite of bondage agayne to feare but ye haue receaued the spirite of adoption wherby we cry Abba father 16 The same spirite beareth witnesse to our spirite that we are y e sonnes of God 17 If we be sonnes then are we also heyres the heyres of God and ioynt-heyres with Christe So that we suffer together that we may be also glorified together 18 ☞ For I am certaynely perswaded that the afflictions of this tyme are not worthy of the glory which shal be shewed vpon vs. 19 * For the feruent desire of the creature abydeth lokyng whē the sonnes of God shall appeare 20 Because the creature is subiect to vanitie not wyllyng but for hym which hath subdued the same in hope 21 For the same creature shal be made free from the bondage of corruptiō into the glorious libertie of y e sonnes of God 22 For we knowe that euery creature groneth with vs also and trauayleth in payne euen vnto this tyme. 23 Not only they but we also which haue the first fruites of the spirite and we our selues mourne in our selues and wayte for the adoption euen the deliueraunce of our body ☜ 24 For we are saued by hope But hope that is seene is no hope For howe can a man hope for that which he seeth 25 But and yf we hope for that we see not thē do we with pacience abide for it 26 Lykewyse the spirite also helpeth our infirmities For we knowe not what to desire as we ought but y e spirite maketh great intercession for vs with gronynges which can not be expressed 27 And * he that searcheth the heartes * knoweth what is the meanyng of the spirite for he maketh intercession for the saintes accordyng to the pleasure of God ☜ 28 ☞ For we knowe y t all thinges worke for the best vnto them that loue God to them which also are called of purpose 29 For those which he knewe before he also dyd predestinate that they shoulde be lyke fashioned vnto the shape of his sonne that he myght be y e first begotten among many brethren 30 Moreouer whom he dyd predestinate thē also he called And whom he called them also he iustified And whom he iustified them he also glorified 31 What shall we then say to these thynges If God be on our syde who can be agaynst vs 32 Which spared not his owne sonne but gaue hym for vs all Howe shall he not with hym also geue vs all thynges 33 Who shall lay any thyng to the charge of Gods chosen It is God that iustifieth 34 Who is he that can condempne It is Christe which dyed yea rather which is raysed agayne which is also on the ryght hande of God and maketh intercession for vs. 35 Who shall seperate vs from the loue of God Shall tribulation or anguishe or persecution either hunger either nakednesse either peryll either sworde 36 As it is written For thy sake are we kylled all daye long and are counted as sheepe for the slaughter 37 Neuerthelesse in all these thinges we ouercome through hym that loued vs. 38 For I am sure that neither death neither lyfe neither angels nor rule neither power neither thynges present neither thynges to come 39 Neither heygth nor deapth neither any other creature shal be able to seperate vs from the loue of God which is in Christe Iesu our Lorde ☜ ¶ The .ix. Chapter 1 Paul declareth his feruent loue towardes his nation 11 he treateth of election and reprobation 24 Also of the callyng of the gentiles 30 and of the castyng of of the Iewes 1 I Say y e trueth in Christ I lye not my conscience also bearyng me witnesse by the holy ghost 2 That I haue great heauinesse continuall sorowe in my heart 3 For * I haue wisshed my selfe to be cursed from Christe for my brethren my kynsmen as pertaynyng to y e fleshe 4 Which are the Israelites To whom pertayneth the adoption and the glory the couenauntes * and the lawe that was geuen and the seruice of God and the promises 5 Of whom are the fathers of whom as concernyng the fleshe Christe came which is God in all thynges to be praysed for euer Amen 6 And it can not be that the worde of God shoulde take none effect For they are not all Israelites which are of Israel 7 Neither are they all chyldren that are the seede of Abraham But in Isaac shall thy seede be called 8 That is to say They which are the chyldren of the fleshe are not the chyldren of God But they which be the childrē of promise are counted the seede 9 For this is a worde of promise About this tyme wyll I come and Sara shall haue a sonne 10 Not only this but also Rebecca was with chylde by
deedes of the lawe but by the fayth of Iesus Christe And we haue beleued on Iesus Christ that we might be iustified by the fayth of Christe and not by the deedes of the lawe because by the deedes of the lawe no fleshe shal be iustified 17 If then whyle we seke to be made ryghteous by Christe we our selues are founde sinners is therfore Christe the minister of sinne God forbyd 18 For yf I builde agayne the thynges which I destroyed then make I my selfe a trespasser 19 For I through the lawe am dead to the lawe that I myght lyue vnto God I am crucified with Christe 20 Neuerthelesse I lyue yet nowe not I but Christe lyueth in me And y e lyfe which I nowe liue in the fleshe I lyue by the faith of the sonne of God which loued me and gaue hym selfe for me 21 I reiect not the grace of God ▪ For yf ryghteousnesse come of the lawe then Christe is dead in vayne ¶ The .iij. Chapter 1 He rebuketh them sharply 2 and proueth by dyuers reasons that iustification is by fayth 6 as appeareth by the example of Abraham 10.19.24 and by the office and the ende both of the lawe 11.25 and of fayth 1 O Foolishe Galathians who hath bewitched you that ye shoulde not obey y e trueth To whom Iesus Christe was described before the eyes among you crucified 2 This only woulde I learne of you whether ye receaued the spirite by the deedes of the lawe or by the hearyng of the fayth 3 Are ye such fooles that after ye haue begun in the spirite ye woulde nowe ende in the fleshe 4 Haue ye suffered so great thynges in vayne Yf it be yet in vayne 5 He therfore that ministreth to you the spirite and worketh miracles among you doth he it through the deedes of the lawe or by hearyng of the fayth 6 Euen as Abraham beleued God it was ascribed to hym for righteousnesse 7 Knowe ye therfore that they which are of fayth the same are the chyldren of Abraham 8 For the scripture seyng aforehande that God woulde iustifie the Heathen through fayth shewed beforehand glad tydynges vnto Abraham saying In thee shall all nations be blessed 9 So then they which be of fayth are blessed with the faythfull Abraham 10 For as many as are of the deedes of the lawe are vnder the curse For it is writtē Cursed is euery one that continueth not in all thinges which are written in the booke of the lawe to do them 11 But that no man is iustified by y e lawe in the sight of God it is euident For the iust shall lyue by fayth 12 And the lawe is not of fayth but the man that doth them shall lyue in them 13 Christe hath redeemed vs from the curse of the lawe beyng made a curse for vs. For it is written Cursed is euery one that hangeth on tree 14 That the blessyng of Abraham might come on the gentiles through Iesus Christe that we myght receaue the promise of the spirite through fayth 15 Brethren I speake after y e maner of men Though it be but a mans testamēt yet if it be alowed no man reiecteth it or addeth therto 16 ☞ To Abraham and his seede were the promises made He sayth not to the seedes as of many but to thy seede as of one which is Christe 17 This I say that the lawe which began afterwarde beyonde foure hundred and thirtie yeres doth not disanull the testament that was confirmed afore of God vnto Christewarde to make the promise of none effect 18 For yf the inheritaūce be of the lawe then not nowe of promise But God gaue it vnto Abraham by promise 19 Wherfore then serueth the lawe It was added because of transgressions tyl the seede came to whom the promise was made and it was ordayned by Angels in the hande of a mediatour 20 A mediatour is not a mediatour of one but God is one 21 Is the lawe then against the promise of God God forbyd For yf there had ben a lawe geuen which coulde haue geuen life then no doubt righteousnesse shoulde haue ben by the lawe 22 But the scripture hath concluded all vnder sinne that the promise by y e fayth of Iesus Christe shoulde be geuen vnto them that beleue ☜ 23 But before fayth came we were kept vnder the lawe and were shut vp vnto the fayth which shoulde afterwarde be reuealed 24 Wherfore the lawe was our scholemaister vnto Christe that we shoulde be iustified by fayth 25 But after that fayth is come we are no longer vnder a scholemaister 26 For ye are all the chyldren of God by fayth in Christe Iesu 27 For all ye that are baptized haue put on Christe 28 There is no Iewe neither Greke there is neither bonde nor free there is neither male nor female For ye are all * one in Christe Iesu 29 If ye be Christes then are ye Abrahams seede and heyres accordyng to the promise ¶ The .iiij. Chapter 2 He sheweth wherfore the ceremonies were ordayned which beyng shadowes must ende when Christe the trueth commeth 9 He moueth them by certayne exhortations 22 and confirmeth his argument with a strong example or allegorie 1 AND I say that the heyre as long as he is a chylde differeth nothyng from a seruaūt though he be Lorde of all 2 But is vnder tuters and gouernours vntyll the tyme appoynted of the father 3 Euen so we when we were chyldren were in bondage vnder y e rudimentes of the worlde 4 But when the fulnesse of the tyme was come God sent his sonne made of a woman and made vnder the lawe 5 To redeeme them that were vnder the lawe that we myght receaue the adoption of chyldren 6 Because ye are sonnes God hath sent the spirite of his sonne into your heartes crying Abba father 7 Wherfore thou art no more a seruaunt but a sonne If thou be a sonne thou art also an heire of God through Christ 8 Notwithstandyng when ye knewe not God ye dyd seruice vnto thē * which by nature are no Gods 9 But nowe after that ye haue knowen God yea rather are knowen of God howe turne ye agayne vnto the weake and beggarly rudimentes whervnto againe ye desire a freshe to be in bondage 10 Ye obserue dayes and monethes and tymes and yeres 11 I am in feare of you lest I haue bestowed on you labour in vayne 12 Brethren I besech you be as I am for I am as ye are Ye haue not iniured me at all 13 Ye knowe howe through infirmitie of the fleshe I preached the Gospell vnto you at the first 14 And my temptation which was in my fleshe ye dispised not neither abhorred but receaued me as an Angel of God euen as Christe Iesus 15 What is then your felicitie For I beare you recorde that yf it had ben possible ye
woulde haue plucked out your owne eyes and haue geuen them to me 16 Am I therfore become your enemie because I tell you the trueth 17 They are gelouse ouer you amisse Yea they intende to exclude you that ye shoulde be feruent to them warde 18 It is good alwayes to be zelous in a good thyng and not only when I am present with you 19 My litle chyldren of whom I trauayle in birth agayne vntyll Christe be fashioned in you 20 But I desire to be present with you nowe and to chaunge my voyce for I stande in doubt of you 21 Tell me ye that desire to be vnder the lawe do ye not heare the lawe 22 ☞ For it is written that Abraham had two sonnes the one by a bonde mayde the other by a free woman 23 But he which was of the bonde woman was borne after the fleshe but he which was of the free woman was borne by promise 24 Which thynges are spoken by an allegorie For these are two testamentes the one from the mount Sina which gendreth vnto bondage which is Agar 25 For Agar is the mount Sina in Arabia and bordreth vpon the citie which is nowe called Hierusalem and is in bondage with her chyldren 26 But Hierusalem which is aboue is free which is the mother of vs all 27 For it is written Reioyce thou baren that bearest no chyldren breake foorth and crye thou that trauaylest not For the desolate hath many mo chyldren then she which hath an husbande 28 But brethren we are after Isaac the chyldren of promise 29 But as then he that was borne after the flesshe persecuted hym that was borne after the spirite euen so is it now 30 Neuerthelesse what saith the scripture put away the bondwoman and her sonne For the sonne of the bond-woman shall not be heire with the sonne of the free woman 31 So then brethren we are not chyldren of the bonde woman but of the free ☜ ⧠The .v. Chapter 2 He laboureth to drawe them away from circumcision 17 and sheweth them the battell betwixt the spirite and the flesshe and the fruites of them both 1 STande fast therfore in the libertie wherwith Christe hath made vs free and be not intangled agayne with y e yoke of bondage 2 Beholde I Paul saye vnto you that yf ye be circumcised Christe shall profite you nothyng 3 For I testifie agayne to euery man which is circumcised that he is a detter to do the whole lawe 4 Christe is become but vayne to you as many of you as are iustified by the lawe are fallen from grace 5 For we through the spirite wayte for the hope of ryghteousnes by fayth 6 For in Iesus Christe neither is circumcision any thing woorth neither yet vncircumcision but fayth which worketh by loue 7 Ye dyd runne well who was a let vnto you that ye should not obey y e trueth 8 Not the perfection of hym that called you 9 A litle leauen doth leauen the whole lumpe of dowe 10 ☞ I haue truste towarde you in the Lorde that ye wyll be none otherwyse mynded But he that troubleth you shall beare iudgement whatsoeuer he be 11 And brethren if I yet preache circumcision why do I yet suffer persecution Then is the slaunder of the crosse ceassed 12 I woulde to God they were cut of which trouble you 13 For brethren ye haue ben called into libertie Only let not libertie be an occasiō to the flesshe but by loue serue one another 14 For all the lawe is fulfylled in one worde which is this Thou shalt loue thy neyghbour as thy selfe 15 Yf ye byte and deuoure one another take heede lest ye be consumed one of another ☜ 16 ☞ Then I say walke in the spirite and ye shall not fulfyll the lust of the flesshe 17 For the flesshe lusteth contrary to the spirite and the spirite contrary to the flesshe These are contrary one to the other so that ye can not do what ye woulde 18 But and yf ye be ledde of the spirite then are ye not vnder the lawe 19 The deedes of the flesshe are manifest which are these adulterie fornication vncleannesse wantonnesse 20 Worshippyng of images witchcrafte hatred variaunce zeale wrath strife seditions sectes 21 Enuyinges murthers drunkennesse gluttonies and such lyke of the whiche I tell you before as I haue tolde you in tyme past that they which do suche thinges shall not inherite the kingdome of God 22 But the fruite of the spirite is loue ioye peace long sufferyng gentlenesse goodnesse fayth 23 Mekenesse temperauncie agaynst such there is no lawe 24 They truely that are Christes haue crucified the flesshe with the affections and lustes ☜ 25 ☞ Yf we lyue in y e spirite let vs walke in the spirite 26 Let vs not be desirous of vayne glorie prouoking one another enuying one another ¶ The .vj. Chapter 1 He exhorteth them to vse gentlenesse towarde the weake 2 and to shewe their brotherly loue and modestie ◠also to prouide for their ministers 9 to perseuer 14 to reioyce in the crosse of Christe 15 to newnesse of lyfe 1◠and last of all wysheth to them with the rest of the faythfull all prosperitie 1 BRethren yf a man be taken in any fault ye which are spiritual restore such a one in the spirite of mekenes consideryng thy selfe lest thou also be tempted 2 Beare ye one anothers burthen and so fulfyll the lawe of Christe 3 For if any man seeme to him selfe that he is somewhat when he is nothyng the same deceaueth hymselfe in his owne fansie 4 But let euery man proue his owne worke then shall he haue reioyceyng only in his owne selfe and not in another 5 For euery man shall beare his owne burthen 6 Let hym that is taught in the word minister vnto hym that teacheth hym in all good thynges 7 Be not deceaued God is not mocked For whatsoeuer a man soweth that shall he also reape 8 For he that soweth into his flesshe shal of the flesshe reape corruption But he that soweth into the spirite shall of the spirite reape lyfe euerlastyng 9 Let vs not be weery in well doyng for in due season we shall reape yf we faynt not 10 Whyle we haue therefore tyme let vs do good vnto all men specially vnto thē which are of the housholde of fayth ☜ 11 Ye see how large a letter I haue written vnto you with myne owne hande 12 As many as desire with outwarde appearaunce to please carnally the same constrayne you to be circumcised onlye lest they shoulde suffer persecution for the crosse of Christe 13 For they thēselues which are circumcised kepe not the lawe but desire to haue you circumcised that they myght reioyce in your flesshe 14 God forbyd that I shoulde reioyce but in the crosse of our Lorde Iesus Christe wherby the world is crucified vnto
should be made heyres accordyng to the hope of eternall lyfe 8 ☞ This is a faythfull saying And of these thynges I wyll that thou confirme that they which haue beleued in God myght be carefull to shewe foorth good workes These thynges are good and profitable vnto men 9 But foolishe questions and genealogies and contentions and striuinges about the lawe auoyde for they are vnprofitable and vayne 10 A man that is an aucthour of sectes after the first and the seconde admonition auoyde 11 Knowyng that he that is such is subuerted and sinneth beyng dampned of hym selfe 12 When I shall sende Artemas vnto thee or Tychicus be diligent to come vnto me vnto Nicopolis For I haue determined there to wynter 13 Bryng Zenas the lawyer Apollos on their iourney diligently that nothing be lackyng vnto them 14 And let ours also learne to excell in good workes to necessarie vses that they be not vnfruitefull 15 All that are with me salute thee Greete them that loue vs in the fayth Grace be with you all Amen ¶ Written from Nicopolis a citie of Macedonia ¶ The epistle of Saint Paul vnto Philemon ¶ 5 He reioyceth to heare of the fayth and loue of Philemon 9 whom he desireth to forgeue his seruaunt Onesimus and louyngly to receaue hym agayne 1 PAul a prisoner of Iesus Christ and brother Timotheus Vnto Philemō the beloued and our felowe labourer 2 And to the beloued Apphia and to Archippus our felowe souldier and to the Churche in thy house 3 Grace to you and peace from God our father and the Lorde Iesus Christ 4 I thanke my God makyng mention alwayes of thee in my prayers 5 Hearyng of thy loue and fayth which thou hast towarde the Lorde Iesus and towarde all saintes 6 That the felowshippe of thy fayth may be effectuall in the knowledge of euery good worke which is in you towarde Christe Iesus 7 For we haue great ioy consolation in thy loue because the bowels of the saintes are refresshed by thee brother 8 Wherfore though I myght be much bolde in Christe to inioyne thee that which is conuenient 9 Yet for loues sake I rather beseche thee beyng such a one as Paul the aged nowe also a prisoner of Iesus Christe 10 I beseche thee for my sonne Onesimus whom I haue begotten in my bondes 11 Which in tyme passed was to thee vnprofitable but nowe profitable to thee and to me 12 Whom I haue sent agayne Thou therefore receaue hym that is myne owne bowels 13 Whom I woulde haue retayned with me that in thy steade he myght haue ministred vnto me in the bondes of the Gospell 14 But without thy mynde woulde I do nothyng that thy benefite shoulde not be as it were of necessitie but willingly 15 For happyly he therfore departed for a season that thou shouldest receaue hym for euer 16 Not nowe as a seruaunt but aboue a seruaunt a brother beloued specially to me but howe much more vnto thee both in the fleshe and in the Lorde 17 If thou count me therfore a felowe receaue hym as my selfe 18 If he haue iniuried or oweth thee ought that lay to my charge 19 I Paul haue written it with myne owne hande I wyll recompence it Albeit I do not say to thee howe that thou owest vnto me euen thyne owne selfe 20 Yea brother let me enioy this pleasure of thee in the Lorde Comfort my bowels in the Lorde 21 Trustyng in thine obedience I wrote vnto thee knowyng that thou wilt also do more then I say 22 Moreouer prepare me also a lodgyng for I trust that through your prayers I shal be geuen vnto you 23 There salute thee Epaphras my felowe prisoner in Christe Iesus 24 Marcus Aristarcus Demas Lucas my felowe labourers 25 The grace of our Lorde Iesus Christ be with your spirite Amen ¶ Written from Rome by Onesimus a seruaunt ¶ The Epistle of Saint Paul the Apostle vnto the Hebrewes ⧠The first Chapter ¶ 1 He sheweth the excellencie of Christe 4 aboue the Angels 7 and of their office 1 GOd which in time past at sundrie tymes and in diuers maners spake vnto the fathers in the prophetes 2 Hath in these last dayes spoken vnto vs in the sonne whom he hath appoynted heyre of all thynges by whom also he made the worldes 3 Who beyng the bryghtnesse of the glorie and the very image of his substaunce vpholdyng all thynges with the worde of his power hauing by him selfe pourged our sinnes hath syt on the ryght hande of the maiestie on hye 4 Beyng so much more excellent then the Angels as he hath by inheritaunce obtayned a more excellent name then they 5 For vnto which of the Angels sayde he at any tyme Thou art my sonne this day haue I begotten thee 6 And agayne I wyll be to hym a father and he shal be to me a sonne And agayne when he bryngeth in the first begotten sonne into the worlde he saith And let all the Angels of God worship hym 7 And vnto the Angels he sayth He maketh his Angels spirites and his ministers a flambe of fyre 8 But vnto the sonne he sayth * Thy seate O God shal be for euer and euer The scepter of thy kyngdome is a scepter of ryghteousnesse 9 Thou hast loued ryghteousnesse and hated iniquitie Therfore God euen thy God hath annoynted thee with the oyle of gladnesse aboue thy felowes 10 And thou Lorde in the begynnyng hast layde the foundation of the earth And the heauens are the workes of thy handes 11 They shall perishe but thou endurest and they shall waxe olde as doth a garment 12 And as a vesture shalt thou folde thē vp and they shal be chaunged but thou art the same thy yeres shall not fayle 13 But vnto which of y e Angels sayde he at any tyme Sitte on my right hande tyll I make thyne enemies thy foote stoole 14 Are they not all ministring spirites sent foorth into ministerie for their sakes which shal be heyres of saluation ⧠The .ij. Chapter 1 He exhorteth vs to be obedient vnto the newe lawe which Christe hath geuen vs 9 and not to be offended at the infirmitie lowe degree of Christe 10 because it was necessarie that for our sakes he shoulde take such an humble state vpon hym that he myght be lyke vnto his brethren 1 WHerfore we ought to geue the more earnest heede to the thynges which we haue heard lest at any tyme we should let them slippe 2 For yf the worde spoken by Angels was stedfast And euery transgression and disobedience receaued a iust recompense of rewarde 3 Howe shall we escape yf we neglect so great saluation which at the first began to be preached of the Lorde and was confirmed vnto vswarde by them that hearde it 4 God bearyng witnesse therto both with signes wonders also and with diuers powers and
sinneth hath not seene him neither knowen hym 7 Babes let no man deceaue you He that doeth righteousnes is ryghteous euen as he is righteous 8 He that committeth sinne is of the deuyll for the deuyll sinneth sence the beginning For this purpose appeared the sonne of God to loose the workes of the deuyll 9 Whosoeuer is borne of God sinneth not for his seede remayneth in him and he can not sinne because he is borne of God 10 In this are y e children of God knowē and the chyldren of the deuyll Whosoeuer doth not ryghteousnesse is not of God neither he that loueth not his brother 11 For this is the tidynges that ye heard from the begynnyng that ye shoulde loue one another 12 Not as Cain which was of that wicked and slewe his brother And wherfore slewe he hym Because his owne workes were euyll and his brothers good 13 ☞ Maruayle not my brethren though the worlde hate you 14 We knowe that we are translated from death vnto lyfe because we loue the brethren * He that loueth not his brother abideth in death 15 Whosoeuer hateth his brother is a manslear And ye knowe that no manslear hath eternall life abidyng in hym 16 Hereby perceaue we loue because he layde downe his lyfe for vs we ought to lay downe our lyues for the brethren 17 But who so hath this 〈◊〉 good and seeth his brother haue neede and shutteth vp his compassion from hym◠howe dwelleth the loue of God in hym 18 My babes let vs not loue in worde neither in tongue but in deede and in veritie 19 Hereby we knowe that we are of the trueth and shall assure our heartes before hym 20 For yf our heart condempne vs God is greater then our heart and knoweth all thynges 21 Dearely beloued yf our heart condempne vs not then haue we boldnesse towarde God 22 And whatsoeuer we aske we receaue of hym because we kepe his commaundementes and do those thynges which are pleasyng in his syght 23 And this is his cōmaundement that we beleue on the name of his sonne Iesus Christe and loue one another as he gaue commaundement 24 And he that kepeth his commaundementes dwelleth in him and he in him and hereby we knowe that he abideth in vs euen by the spirite which he hath geuen vs. ¶ The .iiij. Chapter 1 Difference of spirites 2 howe the spirite of God may be knowen from the spirite of errour ◠of the loue of God and of our neyghbours 1 DEarly beloued beleue not euery spirite but proue the spirites whether they are of God or not for many false prophetes are gone out into the worlde 2 Hereby shall ye knowe the spirite of God Euery spirite that confesseth that Iesus Christe is come in the fleshe is of God 3 And euery spirite which confesseth not that Iesus Christe is come in the fleshe is not of God And this is that spirite of antichriste of whom ye haue hearde howe that he shoulde come and euen nowe alredy is he in the worlde 4 Litle chyldren ye are of God haue ouercome them for greater is he that is in you then he that is in the worlde 5 They are of the world therfore speake they of the worlde the world heareth them 6 We are of God He that knoweth God heareth vs he that is not of God heareth vs not Hereby knowe we the spirite of veritie and the spirite of errour 7 Dearely beloued let vs loue one another for loue commeth of God And euery one that loueth is borne of God and knoweth God 8 He that loueth not knoweth not God for ☞ God is loue 9 In this appeared the loue of God to vs warde because God sent his only begotten sonne into the worlde that we myght lyue through hym 10 Herein is loue not that we loued God but that he loued vs and sent his sonne to be the agreement for our sinnes 11 Dearely beloued yf God so loued vs we ought also to loue one another 12 No man hath seene God at any time If we loue one another God dwelleth in vs and his loue is perfect in vs. 13 Hereby knowe we that we dwell in hym he in vs because he hath geuen vs of his spirite 14 And we haue seene and do testifie that the father sent the sonne to be the sauiour of the worlde 15 Whosoeuer confesseth that Iesus is the sonne of God in him dwelleth God and he in God 16 And we haue knowen and beleued the loue that God hath to vs. God is loue and he that dwelleth in loue dwelleth in God and God in hym 17 Herein is the loue perfect in vs that we shoulde haue boldnesse in the day of iudgement For as he is euen so are we in this worlde 18 There is no feare in loue but perfect loue casteth out feare for feare hath paynefulnesse He that feareth is not perfect in loue 19 We loue hym for he loued vs first 20 If a man say I loue God yet hate his brother he is a lyer For how can he y t loueth not his brother whom he hath seene loue God whō he hath not seene 21 And this commaundement haue we of hym that he which loueth God shoulde loue his brother also ☜ The .v. Chapter 1. Of the fruites of fayth 14.20 The office aucthoritie diuinitie of Christe 21 agaynst images 1 WHosoeuer beleueth that Iesus is Christe is borne of God And euerie one that loueth him which begat loueth hym also which is begotten H. L. of hym 2 By this we knowe that we loue the chyldren of God when we loue God and kepe his commaundementes 3 For this is the loue of God that we kepe his commaundementes and his commaundementes are not greeuous 4 ☞ For all that is borne of God ouercommeth the worlde And this is the victorie that ouercommeth y e worlde euen our fayth 5 Who is it that ouercommeth y e worlde but he which beleueth that Iesus is the sonne of God 6 This Iesus Christe is he that came by water and blood not by water only but by water and blood And it is the spirite that beareth witnesse because the spirite is trueth 7 For there are three which beare recorde in heauen the father the worde and the holy ghost and these three are one 8 And there are three which beare recorde in earth the spirite and water and blood and these three agree in one 9 If we receaue the witnesse of men the witnesse of God is greater For this is the witnesse of God that is greater which he testified of his sonne 10 He that beleueth on the sonne of God hath the witnesse in hym selfe ☞ He that beleueth not God hath made hym a lyer because he beleued not the recorde that God gaue of his sonne 11 And this is the recorde how that God hath geuen vnto vs eternall lyfe and this lyfe is in his sonne
vnto the beast who is able to warre with hym 5 And there was geuen vnto hym a mouth that spake great thynges and blasphemies and power was geuen vnto hym to do .xlij. monethes 6 And he opened his mouth vnto blasphemie agaynst God to blaspheme his name and his tabernacle and them that dwell in heauen 7 And it was geuen vnto hym to make warre with the saintes to ouercome them And power was geuen him ouer all kinredes and tongues and nations 8 And al y t dwel vpon the earth worshipped him whose names are not writteÌ„ in the booke of lyfe of y e lambe which was killed from the beginnyng of the world 9 If any man haue an eare let hym heare 10 He that leadeth into captiuitie shall go into captiuitie He that kylleth with a sworde must be kylled with a sworde Here is the patience and the fayth of the saintes 11 And I behelde another beast commyng vp out of the earth and he had two hornes lyke a lambe and he spake as dyd the dragon 12 And he dyd all that y e first beast coulde do in his presence he caused the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast whose deadly wound was healed 13 And he dyd great wonders so that he made fyre come downe from heauen on the earth in the syght of men 14 And deceaued them that dwelt on the earth by the meanes of those signes which he had power to do in the syght of the beast saying to them that dwelt on the earth that they shoulde make the image of the beast which had the wounde of a sworde and dyd lyue 15 And he had power to geue a spirite vnto the image of the beast that the image of the beast shoulde speake and shoulde cause that as many as woulde not worship the image of the beast shoulde be kylled 16 And he made all both smal great rich poore free bonde to receaue a marke in their right hand or in their forheads 17 And that no man myght bye or sell saue he that had the marke or y e name of the beast other y e number of his name 18 Here is wisdome Let hym that hath witte count y e number of the beast For it is the number of a man his number is sixe hundred threescore and sixe ¶ The .xiiij. Chapter 1 The notable companie of the lambe 6 One angel announceth the Gospel 8 Another the fall of Babylon 9 And the thirde warneth to flee from the beast 13 Of their blessednesse which dye in the Lorde 18 Of the Lordes haruest 1 AND I loked and lo a lambe stoode on the mount Sion and with hym an hundreth fourtie and foure thousande hauyng his fathers name written in their foreheades 2 And I hearde a voyce from heauen as the sounde of many waters and as the voyce of a great thunder And I hearde the voyce of harpers harpyng with their harpes 3 And they song as it were a newe song before the throne and before the foure beastes the elders and no man coulde learne that song but the hundreth and fourtie foure thousande which were redeemed from the earth 4 These are they which were not defiled with womeÌ„ for they are virgins These folowe the lambe whither soeuer he goeth These were redeemed froÌ„ men beyng the first fruites vnto God and to the lambe 5 And in their mouthes was founde no guile For they are without spot before the throne of God 6 And I sawe another angell flee in the middes of heauen hauyng the euerlastyng Gospell to preache vnto them that sit and dwel on the earth and to all nations and kinredes and tongues and people 7 Saying with a loude voyce Feare God and geue honour to hym for the houre of his iudgement is come and worshippe hym that made heauen and earth and the sea and fountaynes of water 8 And there folowed another angell saying Babylon is fallen is fallen that great citie for she made all nations drinke of the wyne of the wrath of her fornication 9 And the thirde angell folowed them saying with a loude voyce If any man worshippe the beast and his image and receaue his marke in his foreheade or on his hande 10 The same shall drynke of the wyne of the wrath of God yea of the pure wyne which is powred in y e cup of his wrath And he shal be punisshed in fyre brimstone before the holy angels and before the lambe 11 And the smoke of their torment ascendeth vp euermore And they haue no rest day nor nyght which worship the beast and his image and whosoeuer receaueth the prynt of his name 12 Here is the pacience of the saintes Here are they that kepe the commaundementes of God and the fayth of Iesus 13 And I hearde a voyce from heauen saying vnto me write Blessed are the dead which hereafter dye in the Lorde Euen so sayth the spirite that they rest from their laboures and their workes folowe them 14 And I loked and beholde a whyte cloude and vpon the cloude one sittyng lyke vnto the sonne of man hauyng on his head a golden crowne and in his hande a sharpe sickle 15 And another angell came out of the temple crying with a loude voyce to hym that sate on the cloude Thrust in thy sickle reape for the time is come to reape for the haruest of y e earth is ripe 16 And he that sate on the cloude thrust in his sickle on the earth and the earth was reaped 17 And another angell came out of the temple which is in heauen hauâ—ng also a sharpe sickle 18 And I sawe another angell came out from the aulter which had power ouer fyre and cryed with a loude crye to hym that had the sharpe sickle and sayde Thrust in thy sharpe sickle and gather the clusters of the vineyarde of y e earth for her grapes are ripe 19 And the angell thrust in his sharpe sickle on the earth and cut downe the grapes of the vineyarde of the earth and cast them into the great wynefat of the wrath of God 20 And the wynefat was troden without the citie and blood came out of the fat euen vnto the horse bridles by the space of a thousand sixe hundreth furlonges â–ª ¶ The .xv. Chapter 1 Seuen angels haue the seuen last plagues 3 The song of them that ouercome the beast 7 The seuen vials full of Gods wrath 1 AND I sawe another signe in heauen great marueylous seuen angels hauyng the seuen last plagues for in them is fulfylled the wrath of God 2 And I sawe as it were a glassie sea mingled with fyre and them that had gotten the victorie of the beast and of his image and of his marke and of the number of his name stande on y e glassie sea hauyng the harpes of God 3 And they sang the song of Moyses the seruaunt of God and the song of the lambe
Gene. vi a. (d) It is called the bodye of sinne for that it is an whole lumpe of sinne tossyng and tormentyng the whole man pluckyng him froÌ„ god wherby plagues miseries are heaped on man liueth as he were in the myddest of death (a) The law of the spirite and the law of sinne is here taken improperly for the power strength of y e lawe and sinne and it is called the spirite of lyfe because it quickeneth and geueth lyfe (b) God thorow the sacrifice of synne which Christ his only sonne offered vpon y e crosse in his flesh hath coÌ„dempned and abolished sin which raigned in our mortall fleshe (c) 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 greke words do not so much signifie wysedome and prudence as affection â–ª carefulnesse myndynge of any thyng (d) Alâ—eit we haue a bodye which is dead to al goodnes by reason of sinne which so strongly rayneth in it yet when we are grafted in Christe his spirite of lyfe geueth vs lyfe and iustifieth vs. Galat. iiii a. i. Tim. i. b. ii Cor. i. d. Ephe. i. a. (e) 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifieth to way or to consider But because the matter was certaine and S. Paul nothing doubted therof it is thus made I am perswaded (f) The creatures shal not 〈◊〉 before Gods chyldren be brought to 〈◊〉 perfection In the meane season they desire groâ—e â–ª and waâ—te (g) The right fourme and affection of prayer commeth by the holy ghoste who maketh intercession for vs not y t he prayeth mourneth but that he so stirreth our heartes that we lyft them vp to heauen earnestly and feruentlye which is the true prayer Nu. xiiii b. Luk. xx b. Iohn iii. b. Esaias liii d. Nu. xiiii b. Luk. xx b. Iohn iii. b. Esaias liii d. Psal 44. d. (a) He sawe the losse and destruction of his whole nation fallyng so farre from Gods true religion he considered howe sore God shoulde be dishonoured wheÌ„ his wonderfull benefites and blessinges bestowed vpon his people â–ª should take none effect but vtterly be defaced which so myghtilie moued hym that he 〈◊〉 rather to be â—at of from Christe then those thynges shoulde come to passe Rom. ii d. Gen. xxi b. Gen. xvii b (b) The wyll and purpose of God is the cause of the election and reprobation For his mercie and callyng through Christe are the meanes of saluation and the withdrawyng of his mercie is the cause of damnation Exod 33 d. Exod. ix b. Esai xlv b. Eccle. 33. b. Iere. xviii a. Oze ii d. 1 Peter ii b. Esai x. â— (c) The word here is taken for a thyng or matter The Lord diminisshed his people by sunday plagues persecutions vanishmentes brought them to a very fewe Like wyse meaneth S. Paul that a fewe of theÌ„ shal be saued whiche fewe notwithstandyng shall abound in righteousnesse to the glory of God (d) The seede is Christe Iesus â—owen abrode by his Apostles and Disciples Esa xxviii d (e) Christe doth iustifie vs by fayth without workes whiche thing y e Iews and iustitiaries can not beleue Therfore they stumble at Christ and are offended with him ☞ (a) That is a certayne affection but not after knowledge For no zeale nor no good intent 〈◊〉 be acceptable vnto God but only that which is grounded vpon fayth and the knowledge of God (b) It is called our owne righteousnes when we refuse the ryghteousnesse which coÌ„meth by Christe imagine an other ryghteousnes which commeth by our owne workes and defuses 〈◊〉 is 〈◊〉 hath 〈◊〉 the 〈…〉 and therefore wâ—â—â—â—euer beleueth in him is â—ounted iust before God as well as he had fulfilled the whole law hym selfe (d) For fayth teacheth vs that Christe is ascended vp into heauen to take vs with him and hath descended into the depth of death to destroy death and to dâ—yuer vs. Deu xxx c Esais 28. d. Ioel. ii g. Actes ii c. Esai liii a. Iohn xii a. Psal xix a. Deut. 32. c. Esai lii b. Esai lxv a. ii Re. xix b. (a) Those alters he meaneth wherevpon Abraham Isaac and Iacob dyd offer sacrifices in tyme past vppon the which it was lawful for y e Iewes to do sacrifice vntil the buildyng of the temple Esai vi c. Mat. xiii b. (b) That is pricking and vnquietnes of conscience (c) That is for that the Iewes contemnyng the Gospel of Christe fell away from God the preachyng of the Gospel came vnto the gentiles which is their saluatioÌ„ Rom. i. a. i Tim. ii a. ii Tim. i c. (d) These broken braunches were the vnbeleuyng Iewes whiche for their vnbeliefe were cut of from the promise of God in whose stede was the wilde Oliue that is the gentiles grafted thorowe fayth ii Cor. iii. d. Esai lix d. Psal xiiii c. Sapien. ix b. Esai lx c. i Cor. ii d. (e) By this the Apostle declareth that God by his free wyll and election doth geue saluation vnto men without any desertes of their owne (a) The Iewes in Moyses law were commaunded to offer vp the deâ—d â—arkases of beastes but Christians shoulde exhibite their owne liâ—ely bodyes for a sacrifice to God in mortifiyng their carnall lustes and framyng them selues by saith to Godlynesse and charitie (b) The worlde hath diuers significations in the scriâ—tures but here is takeÌ„ specially for the nature and disposited of men in the worlde which lyued after their lustes pleasures 〈◊〉 serueth not god in holines of lyfe and godly conuersation Two â—â—â—nges are reâ—â—â—ued yf we 〈◊〉 esteeme 〈◊〉 iudge soâ—â—â— of Gods 〈◊〉 in vs The one that we do not 〈◊〉 to our selues that whiche we haue not The next that we beast not of the gentiles but â—â—uerenâ—â—y and seberâ—y to 〈◊〉 â–ª to Gods honour and glory â— Cor. xii a â— Cor. xii a i Peter ii d. Eccle. 31. c. Heb. xiii â— Math. v. g. Deut. 32. d. (d) For â–ª either thou shalt wynne hym with thy benefite or els his conscience shall beare hym witnesse that Gods burnyng wrath hangeth ouer hym Sapi. vi a. Iohn iii. d. (a) For we are bounde in conscience by the worde of God to obey the hygher powers and in disobeyng we shoulde hurt the consciences of others thorowe our euill example Mat. xvii c. Leâ—â—t xix d Mat. xxi d. Mark xii c Galath v. b. Iames. ii b. (b) 〈◊〉 ther we go â–ª the neaâ—â—◠〈◊〉 we to the end Nowe therefore our perfect full saluatioÌ„ is nerer vnto vs then when we began first to beleue Luk. xxi f. Eccle. 31. c. and 38. d. (a) That is not to this ende â–ª contentiously to dispute with him in matters of religion wher vnto â–ª through the weaknes oâ— faith he can not as yet attayne lest he should depart with a greater scruple of conscience or be offended with vncharitable reasonyng Iacob iiii b. (b) We must be assured in our conscience by 〈◊〉 worde in all thyng that we do â–ª that yf we be
strong â–ª we mayâ— knowe what 〈◊〉 our libertie 〈◊〉 we be weake we may â—eâ—ne to 〈◊〉 dayly Actes 〈…〉 Esai lxv e. Philip. ii b. Math. xv b. Actes x. b. i Tim. iiii a. Mark vii d. Tituâ— i d. Fayth â–ª is here taken for a 〈◊〉 perswasion of the christian libertie in thinges indifferenâ— (d) This sentence both Augustine and Origen do take to be generally meant of all mens workes whatsoeuer they be whiche proceade not of a ryght conscience and an vndoubted fayth grounded vpon the worde of God Galath vi a (a) To edifie signifieth to do 〈◊〉 maner of â—â—â—es to our neâ—ghbour eyther to bryng hym to christ or yf he be â—â—â—ne that he may go forwarde in vertue â–ª Leuit. xix d Deut. xx f. 2 Reg. 22. d. Psal xviii g Deut. xx f. 2 Reg. 22. d. Psal xviii g Deut. 32. f. Psal cxvii a Esaias xi a. (b) He calleth here the offeryng of the gentiles the people of the gentiles whoÌ„ he won to god by the preachyng of y e Gospell (c) In other mans foundation he calleth here the churches that wer taught and instructed of other apostles Act. xi d. (d) That is â–ª to carry to the poore saintes that lyued at Hierusalem â–ª the almes that he gathered for theÌ„ among the gentiles wheâ—e he preached (e) That is when I shall faythfully delyuer it to theÌ„ â–ª as it were sealed most surely By fruite he meaneth almes whiche is the fruite of the fayth of those that had receaued the Gospell i. Coâ— xiiâ— â— (a) In y t primatiue church auncient widdowes and other vertuous women were chosen appoynted to minister vnto the nedy and therfore called ministers not because they had any publique auctoritie to teach in the congregation â–ª ii Cor. xii â— (b) This was a signe of amitie among the Iewes whiche S. Paul wylleth to be holy that is â–ª that it come from a mynde full of godly charitie (c) Ther are two markes to knowe the false apostles bye The one is when they leaue Christe serue theiâ— belly The other â–ª when they regarde not the holye scripture but preache lyes their owne fantasies Act xâ—x â— (a) Made holy by thee free mercy and callyng of God Rom. i. a. Galath i. a. () Or. conâ—â—â—e (b) For there is no condemâ—â—tion to theÌ„ 〈…〉 Christ 〈◊〉 Nu. xxiii e. i. Cor. x. c. Act. xviii d i. Cor. iii a. and .xvi. c. (c) When meÌ„ shoulde â—teribâ—te that vnto eloqueÌ„ce whiche onlye belongeth to the power of God Rom. i. b. Esai xxix d Esaias 33. c. Math. viii d Luke xi d. Iohn vi d. (a) That is the Gospell wherby God doth manifest hym selfe to the worlde or whereof God is the aucthor and witnesse Actes xiii d Esai lxiii â— Rom. viii a. (b) Mannes mynde â–ª which vnderstaÌ„deth and iudgeth Esaias xl c. Rom. xi c. (c) That is Christes spirite (a) Beyng ingraffed in Christe by fayth we begyn to moue by his spirite and as we profite in fayth we growe vp to a ripe age And here â—et him take hede that teacheth lest for mylke he geue poâ—poâ—soÌ„ For mylke strong meate in 〈◊〉 are one but only 〈◊〉 in maner â—ourme Ephe. ii d. (b) He reproueth the miniâ—ters of Corinth â–ª as teachers of curious doctrines questions Mat. xvi c. 1. Cor. vi d. Iob. v. b. (c) WheÌ„ they them selues are entangled in the same snares whiche they layde for others (d) But in God who worketh by his ministers to his owne glorie and the comfort of his Churche Deu. xxix d (a) Whether I haue great giftes or litle sewe or many â–ª (b) To wyt froÌ„ other meÌ„ preferreth thee Psa lxiiii d. Rom. viii f. (c) By this bytter tauntyng in abâ—ectyng hymselfe and exaltyng the Corinthians he maketh them ashamed of their vayne glorie () Or houre Actes xx â— i Theâ—â— ii Theâ—â— Act. xviii c. Heb. vi a. (d) Of the holy ghost (a) Who wold thynke that you wold suffer y e mischiefe vnpunyshed which y e most barbarous nations abhorre to speake of Leui. xviii d Math. 18. d. (b) Seyng you suffer such monstruous vices vnpunysshed â— Thes iii b Deut. xiii b “ Or against (a) He calleth them vniust whosoeuer are not sanctified in Christ Mat. vii d. Gal. v d. Eph. v. a Or extoâ—â—rs Eccle. 37· d. i. Cor. x. c. (b) For we are suâ—iect to those thinges which we can not want (c) They abused meates both in y t they offended other therby also prouoked their owne lustes to vnclearesse i. Cor. iii c. Gene. ii d. Matth xix Mark x. a. Eph. v. g. (a) Or expedient because mariage thorow mans corruptioÌ„ â–ª and not by gods institution â–ª bringeth â—aâ—es and troubles Tob. vi d. Ioel. ii d. (b) He sheweth that he coÌ„maundeth not precisely all meÌ„ to marrie but that God hath graunted this remedie vnto them which can not liue chast i. Tim. v. c. Mat. v. e. and xix a. (c) They that are borne of either of the pareÌ„tes faithfull are also counted members of Christes church because of the promise Eph. iiii a. i. Tim. vi â— (d) Or sincerely as in the presence of God Esâ— lx b. i Iohn ii c. Mat. vi d. Luk. vi c. (e) That is that she should mary to auoyde fornication Rom. vii a. () Or by the lawe of maryage Actes v. c. () Or taught i. Cor. x c. (a) which being idols yet are esteemed of men as Lordes and Seigneours i. Cor. viii g. (b) By thyne example with out any grossd of doctrine (c) which eateth against his conscieÌ„ce Rom. 14 d. Act. xi a. (a) I neede to further declaration but the workes that I haue wrought among you (b) Or a sister a wife Sainte Paule vseth none other worde to expresse a wyfe then 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 vallâ— what needeth it to adde a woman where was promised a sister wherfore I thâ—nke sayth he it ought to be translated a wyfe specially because it is expressed in the singuler number 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The olde translation printed transposeth the wordes saying Mulierem sotorem where the most old written copies constantly haue Sotorem mulierem as all the Greke copies 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Deu. xxv b i. Timo. v c. Roma xv f. Gal. vi b. Act. xx g. Mat. x. b. Actes xx g (c) The Greke worde 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifieth a guidaunce bestowing or distribution of thinges as it were to the profite of an housholde Act. xvi â— Gal. ii a. i. Cor. x. â— 2. Tim. 4. b. i. Pet. v. b. (d) Lest 〈◊〉 shoulde be reproued of men when they should see him do contrarie or contempâ—e that thinâ— which he taught others to do () That is into Moyses sawe as some reade Or as S. Augustine readeth by Moyses (a) That is Manna whiche was the outwarde signe or Sacrament of the spiritual grace () Or the same Mat. xvi c. (b) That is signified Christe as all Sacramentes do
shall prepare thy way before thee ☜ 11 ☞ Veryly I say vnto you among them that are borne of women arose not a greater then Iohn the Baptist Notwithstandyng he that is lesse in the kingdome of heauen is greater then he 12 From the dayes of Iohn the Baptist vntyll nowe the kingdome of heauen suffereth violence the violent plucke it vnto them 13 For all the prophetes and the lawe it selfe prophecied vnto Iohn 14 And if ye wyll receaue it this is Elias which was for to come 15 He that hath eares to heare let him heare 16 But whervnto shall I liken this generation It is like vnto litle children which sit in the markettes and call vnto their felowes 17 And say We haue pyped vnto you and ye haue not daunsed we haue mourned vnto you and ye haue not sorowed 18 For Iohn came neither eatyng nor drinking and they say he hath the deuil 19 The sonne of man came eatyng and drinking and they say beholde a glutton and an vnmeasurable drinker of wine and a friende vnto publicans sinners And wisdome is iustified of her children 20 ☞ Then began he to vpbrayd the cities which most of his mightie workes were done in because they repented not 21 Wo vnto thee Chorazin wo vnto thee Bethsaida for if the mightie workes which were shewed in you had ben done in Tyre or Sidon they had repented long ago in sackcloth and asshes 22 Neuerthelesse I say vnto you it shal be easier for Tyre and Sidon at the day of iudgement then for you 23 And thou Capernaum which art lift vp vnto heauen shalt be brought downe to hell For if the mightie workes which haue ben done in thee had ben done among them of Sodome they had remayned vntyll this day 24 Neuerthelesse I say vnto you that it shal be easier for the lande of Sodome in the day of iudgement then for thee ☜ 25 ☞ At that tyme Iesus aunswered and sayde I thanke thee O father Lorde of heauen and earth because thou hast hid these thinges from the wise and prudent and hast shewed them vnto babes 26 Euen so it is O father for so was it thy good pleasure 27 All thinges are geuen vnto me of my father And no man knoweth the sonne but the father neither knoweth any man the father saue the sonne and he to whomsoeuer the sonne wyll open him 28 Come vnto me all ye that labour sore and are laden and I wyll ease you 29 Take my yoke vpon you and learne of me for I am meeke lowly in heart and ye shall finde rest vnto your soules 30 For my yoke is easie and my burthen is lyght ☜ The .xij. Chapter Christe excuseth his disciples which plucke the eares of corne 1◠He healeth the dryed hande 2 helpeth the possessed that was blynde and dumbe 31 Blasphemie 34 The generation of vipers 3◠Of good wordes 3◠Of idle wordes 38 He rebuketh the vnfaithfull that woulde needes haue tokens 4 and sheweth who is his brother sister and mother 1 AT that tyme Iesus went on the Sabbath dayes through the corne and his disciples were an hungred and began to plucke the eares of corne to eate 2 But when the Pharisees sawe it they sayde vnto hym Beholde thy disciples do that which is not lawfull to do vpon the Sabbath day 3 But he sayde vnto them Haue ye not read what Dauid did when he was an hungred and they that were with him 4 Howe he entred into the house of God and did eate the shew bread which was not lawfull for hym to eate neither for them which were with hym but only for the priestes 5 Or haue ye not read in the lawe howe that on the Sabbath dayes the priestes in the temple prophane the Sabbath and are blamelesse 6 But I say vnto you that in this place is one greater then the temple 7 Wherfore if ye wist what this meaneth I will mercie not sacrifice ye woulde not haue condempned the giltlesse 8 For the sonne of man also is Lorde euen of the Sabbath day 9 And he departed thence and went into their synagogue 10 And beholde there was a man which had his hande dryed vp and they asked him saying Is it lawfull to heale vpon the Sabbath dayes that they might accuse him 11 And he sayde vnto them What man of you wyll there be that shall haue a sheepe if it fall into a pit on the Sabbath day wyll he not take holde of it and lift it out 12 Howe much more then is a man better then a sheepe Wherfore it is lawfull to do a good deede on the Sabbath dayes 13 Then saith he to the man Stretch foorth thy hande And he stretched it foorth and it was made whole like as the other 14 Then the Pharisees went out and helde a counsayle agaynst him howe they might destroy hym 15 But when Iesus knewe it he departed thence and great multitudes folowed him and he healed them all 16 And charged them that they shoulde not make him knowen 17 That it might be fulfylled which was spoken by Esaias the prophete saying 18 Beholde my childe whom I haue chosen my beloued in whom my soule well delighteth I wyll put my spirite vpon him and he shall shewe iudgement to the gentiles 19 He shall not striue nor crye neither shal any man heare his voyce in the streetes 20 A bruised reede shall he not breake and smokyng flaxe shall he not quenche tyll he sende foorth iudgement vnto victorie 21 And in his name shall the gentiles trust 22 Then was brought to him one possessed with a deuyll blinde and dumbe and he healed him insomuch that the blinde and dumbe both spake and sawe 23 And all the people were amased and sayde Is not this that sonne of Dauid 24 But when the Pharisees hearde it they sayde This felowe driueth the deuils no otherwise out but by Beelzebub the prince of the deuils 25 But whē Iesus knew their thoughtes he sayde vnto them Euery kingdome deuided agaynst it selfe shal be brought to naught and euery citie or house deuided agaynst it selfe shall not stande 26 And if Satan cast out Satan then is he deuided agaynst him selfe howe shall then his kingdome endure 27 Also if I by Beelzebub cast out deuils by whom do your children cast them out Therfore they shal be your iudges 28 But if I cast out the deuils by the spirite of God then is the kingdome of God come vpon you 29 Or els howe can one enter into a strong mans house spoyle his goodes except he first binde the strong man and then spoyle his house 30 He that is not with me is agaynst me and he that gathereth not with me scattereth abrode 31 Wherfore I say vnto you all maner of sinne and blasphemy shal be forgeuen vnto men but the blasphemy agaynst the spirite
shall not be forgeuen vnto men 32 And whosoeuer speaketh a worde agaynst the sonne of man it shal be forgeuen hym But whosoeuer speaketh agaynst the holy ghost it shall not be forgeuen hym neither in this worlde neither in the worlde to come 33 Either make the tree good and his fruite good or els make the tree euyll and his fruite euyll For the tree is knowen by his fruite 34 O generation of vipers howe can ye speake good thynges when ye your selues are euyll For out of the aboundaūce of the heart the mouth speaketh 35 A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bryngeth foorth good thynges And an euyll man out of euyll treasure bryngeth foorth euyll thynges 36 But I say vnto you of euery idell worde that men shall speake they shall geue accompt therof in the day of iudgment 37 For of thy wordes thou shalt be iustified and of thy wordes thou shalt be condemned ☜ 38 ☞ Then certayne of the Scribes and of the Pharisees aunswered hym saying Maister we wyl see a signe of thee 39 But he aunswered and sayde to them The euyll and adulterous generation seketh a signe and there shall no signe be geuen to it but the signe of the prophete Ionas 40 For as Ionas was three dayes and three nyghtes in the Whales belly so shall the sonne of man be three dayes and three nyghtes in the heart of the earth 41 The men of Niniue shall ryse in the iudgement with this nanon and condemne it because they repented at the preachyng of Ionas and beholde here is one greater then Ionas 42 The Queene of the south shall ryse in the iudgement with this generation and shall condemne it for she came from the vtmost partes of the earth to heare the wisdome of Solomon And beholde in this place is one greater then Solomon 43 When the vncleane spirite is gone out of a man he walketh throughout drye places sekyng rest and fyndeth none 44 Then he sayeth I wyll returne into my house from whence I came out And when he is come he fyndeth it emptie swept and garnyshed 45 Then goeth he and taketh vnto hym seuen other spirites worse then hym selfe and they enter in and dwell there And the ende of that man is worse then the begynnyng Euen so shall it be also vnto this frowarde generation 46 Whyle he yet talked to the people beholde his mother and his brethren stoode without desyryng to speake with hym 47 Then one sayde vnto hym beholde thy mother and thy brethren stande without desyryng to speake with thee 48 But he aunswered and sayde vnto hym that had tolde hym Who is my mother or who are my brethren 49 And he stretched foorth his hande towarde his disciples sayde beholde my mother and my brethren 50 For whosoeuer shall do the wyll of my father which is in heauen the same is my brother sister and mother ☜ ¶ The .xiij. Chapter ¶ 3 The parable of the seede 24 of the tares 31 of the mustarde seede 33 of the leuen 44 of the treasure hyd in the fielde 45 of the pearles 47 and of the nette 1 THE same day went Iesus out of the house sate by the sea syde 2 And great multitudes were gathered together vnto hym so greatly that he went and sate in a shippe and the whole multitude stoode on the shore 3 And he spake many thynges to them in parables saying Beholde the sower went foorth to sowe 4 And when he sowed some seedes fell by the wayes side and the fowles came and deuoured them vp 5 Some fell vpon stony places where they had not much earth and anone they sprong vp because they had no depenesse of earth 6 And when the sonne was vp they caught heate and because they had not roote they wythered away 7 Agayne some fell among thornes and the thornes sprong vp and choked them 8 But some fell into good grounde and brought foorth fruite some an hundred folde some sixtie folde some thirtie folde 9 Who hath eares to heare let hym heare 10 And the disciples came and sayde vnto hym Why speakest thou to them by parables 11 He aunswered and sayde vnto them because it is geuen vnto you to knowe the secretes of the kyngdome of heauen but to them it is not geuen 12 For whosoeuer hath to hym shal be geuen and he shall haue more aboundaunce But whosoeuer hath not from hym shal be taken away euen that he hath 13 Therfore speake I to them in parables because they seeyng see not and hearyng they heare not neither do they vnderstande 14 And in them is fulfylled the prophesie of Esaias saying by hearyng ye shall heare and shall not vnderstande and seeyng ye shall see shall not perceaue 15 For this peoples heart is waxed grosse and their eares are dull of hearyng and their eyes haue they closed lest at any tyme they shoulde see with their eyes and heare with their eares and shoulde vnderstande with their heart shoulde conuert that I myght heale them 16 But blessed are your eyes for they see and your eares for they heare 17 Veryly I say vnto you that many prophetes and ryghteous men haue desired to see those thynges which ye see and haue not seene and to heare those thynges which ye heare and haue not hearde 18 Heare ye therfore the similitude of the sower 19 When one heareth the worde of the kyngdome and vnderstandeth it not then commeth that euyll and catcheth away that which was sowen in his heart this is he which receaued seede by the way syde 20 But he that receaued the seede into stony places the same is he that heareth the worde and anone with ioy receaueth it 21 Yet hath he not roote in hym selfe but dureth for a season for when tribulation or persecution aryseth because of the worde by and by he is offended 22 He also that receaued seede into the thornes is he that heareth the worde and the care of this worlde and the disceiptfulnes of ryches choke vp the worde and so is he made vnfruitfull 23 But he that receaued seede into the good grounde is he that heareth the worde and vnderstandeth it which also beareth fruite and bryngeth foorth some an hundred folde some sixtie folde some thirtie folde 24 Another parable put he foorth vnto them saying ☞ The kyngdome of heauen is likened vnto a man which sowed good seede in his fielde 25 But whyle men slept his enemye came sowed tares among the wheate and went his way 26 But when the blade was sprong vp and had brought foorth fruite then appeared the tares also 27 So the seruauntes of the housholder came and sayde vnto hym Sir diddest not thou sowe good seede in thy fielde from whence then hath it tares 28 He sayde vnto them the malicious man hath done this The seruauntes sayde vnto hym wylt