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A09151	The testaments of the [twelue] patriarches the sonnes [of] Iacob: translated out of the Greeke [into] Latine by Robert Grosthed, some[time] Byshop of Lyncolne, and out of his copye into French and Dutch by others: Now Englished by A. G. To the credit whereof an auncient Greeke copye written in parchment, is kept in the Vniversitie Library of Cambridge.; Testamentum duodecim patriarcharum. English.	Gilby, Anthony, ca. 1510-1585.; Grosseteste, Robert, 1175?-1253.; Golding, Arthur, 1536-1606, attributed name.	1576 (1576)	STC 19467; ESTC S113653	69,583	168

the land in Charets horsemen buryed him in y place which Iacob had appointed ¶ The Testament of Ruben made to his Children at his death concerning the thinges that he had in his minde by the suggestion of the spirite of foreknowledg ▪ Behold the pot the heare the bed doe note the strength the lust Of Ruben and vnconstant head who therefore was accurst THys is the copye of Rubens Testament concerninge all the thynges whiche hee gaue in charge to hys children before hee dyed in the hundred fiue and twenty yeare of his life Two yeares after the decease of Ioseph his children childrens children came to visite him in his sicknes and he sayd vnto them My children I dye and goe the way of my fathers And saying there his brethren Iuda Gad and Aser he sayd vnto them Lift me vp my brethren that I may tell you and my children the thinges that I haue hidden in my hart for I am henceforth drawing to my long home Thē stāding vp he kissed thē and weeping sayde Harken my brethren and you my childrē geue care to the word of your father Ruben mark what I giue in charge to you Behold I cōmaund you this day before y God of heauē that ye walke not in the ignoraunce of youthfulnesse and fornicatiō whereint● I ouershot my selfe and de●●●ed the bed of my father Iacob For I assure you that the Lord did therfore 〈◊〉 me with a sore plague in my flankes by the space of seuen monthes and ‡ I had perished if my father Iacob had not prayed to the Lorde for m●e because he was minded to haue slayne mee I was thirtye yeares old when I did this euill in the sight of the Lorde seuen monethes was I sick to y death and ‡ with a free hart did I seuen yeare penance before the Lord I dranke no wine nor stronge drinke no fleshe came within my mouth I tasted not any fine bred but I mourned for my sinne for it was great there shall none such be done in Israell And nowe my sonnes heare me that I may shewe you what I sawe concerninge the seuen spyrites of error in my repentaunce Belyall geueth seuen spirites agaynst a man whiche are the welspringes of youthfull workes and seuen spirites are géuen man in his creation whereby all hys works are done The first is the spirit of life wherewith is created hys béeing The second is the spirite of séeing wherwith cometh lusting The y spirite of hearing wherew t cometh learning The is y spirit of smelling wherw t cometh delight by drawing in of y ayre by breathing of it out agayn The is the spirit of speech wherwith knowledge is made The is y spirit of tascing wherof commeth y feedyng vpon thinges y are to be eaten drunke through them is ingendred strength because the substaunce of strength is in meate The seuenth is the spirit of séede and generation wherwith entreth sinne through y lust of pleasure For this cause it is the last of creation the first of youth because it is full of ignoraunce and ignoraunce leadeth the yonger sort as a blynd body into the ditch and as an Oxe to the stal Amōg all these is the eight spirit which is of sléep with whō is created the wasting away of nature and the image of death With these spirites are mingled the spirites of error Wherof the first is the spirite of Lechery who lyeth within in the nature and senses of man. The second spirit vnsatiablenesse lyeth in the belly The third spirite of strife lyeth in the lyuer and in choler The fourth spirite is of brauery and galantnesse that the partie may seeme co●ly by excesse The fistbe is the spirte of pride which moueth a man to minde ouer great thinges or to thinke well of himselfe The ●rth is the spirit of Lying or vayne gloriousnes in boasting a mans selfe and in desire to ●ile his talke concerning his owne kin●ed and acquaintaūce The seuenth is the spirit o● vnrighteousnes whiche stirreth vp the affections that a man should performe the lustfull pleasures of his harte For vnrighteousnes worketh with all the other spirits by taking guile vnto him Unto all these spirites is matched the vii● spirit which is the spirite of sléepe or sluggishnes in error and imagination and so the soules of young folkes perishe because their mindes are dar●kned from the truth and vnderstand not the law of the Lord neither obey the doctrine of their fathers as be●el to me in my youth But now my childrē loue the truth and that shall preserue you Harken to your father Ruben and let not your eyes runne gazing after women neither be ye alone with a woman that is maried neither seeke you about what women are a doing For if I had not sene Billa bathing of her selfe in a secret place I hadde not fallen into that great wickednes But my mind ran so vpon the naked woman that it suffered me not to sleepe till I had committed abhomination For while my father Iacob was away at his Father Isaackes I in Gader hard by Ephrata a house of Bethleem Billa fell drunken as shee lay a sleepe vncouered in her chamber I went in and seeyng her nakednes wrought wickednesse with her and leauing her a sléepe went my way By and by an Angell of God bes●rayed my wickednes to my Father Iacob who comming home mourned for me touched not ▪ Billa any more Therefore looke not vppon the be●u●tye of women neyther muse you vpon theyr de●nges but walke ye with a single harte in the feare of the Lorde busi●nge your selues about some worke and keeping your selues occupyed either in 〈◊〉 ▪ or aboute your flockes till God geue you such wiues as he lifteth leaste 〈◊〉 suffer as I haue bone I durst not looke my father in the face to hys dying day nor speake to any of my brethren for shaine My conscience byteth me● euē yet still for my sinne But my father comforted me and prayed for me to the Lorde that his wrath myght passe away from me as the Lorde himselfe shewed vnto me Therefore from that time forth I was kept from sinning any more And you my children likewise keepe ye all that I shall tell you and you shal not sinne For fornication is y destruction of the soule separating it from God 4 making i● to draw vnto Idols because it leadeth the minde and vnderstanding into error and bringth men to their gra●e before their time For whor●●om hath vndone many men And although a man be auncient or noble yet doth it sha●e him make hym a laughingstock both before Belial the sonnes of mē But Ioseph because he kept himselfe from all

women and cleansed hys thoughtes from all fornication found fauour both before the Lord and men The Egiptian woman did much to him by vsing the helpe of witches and by offering him slaversawees but the purpose of his minde admitted no noysome desire For this cause the God of my father● deliuered him from al death b●t● séene and vnséene for if fornicatiō ouerrule not your minde neyther shall Belial preuayle against you women are hurtfull thinges my sonnes because that when they wāt power and strength against a man they worke guilfully to draw him to them by traines whom they cannot ouermatch in strēgth hym they ouercome by deceit For the Angel of the Lord which taught me folde me●e of them that they be ouermaistred by the spirit of fornicatiō more then men be and that they be euer practising in their harts agaynst mē first making their mindes to erre by decking of them selues thē sheadyng their poison in to them by sight finally catching them prisoners by their doynges for a woman is not able to inforce a man. Therfore my sonnes flee fornication charge your wiues and daughters that they trim not their heades will them to chasten their lookes for euery woman that dealeth deceitfullye in these things is reserued to y punishmēt of the world to come For by such meanes were y Watchers deceiued before the floud as soone as they saw thē they fell in loue one with another conceiued a work●ng in their mindes and turned them selues into the shape of mē and appeared to them in their companying with their husbandes and the womē by conceiuing the desire of them in the imagination of their mynd brought forth Giants For the ● Wat●here appeared to them of heigth vnto heauen Therefore keepe your selues from fornication if ye intend to haue a cleane mynde keepe your senses from all women and forbid them likewise the company of men that they may haue also cleane mindes For although cōtinuall companyings do not alw●res worke wickednesse yet breede they incur●ble stinges to them and to vs euerlasting shame before Belial because that fornication hath neither vnderstandyng nor godlynes in it and all enuiousnes dwelleth in the desire therof and for that cause shall ye enuy the childrē of Le●y and seeke to be exalted aboue thē but ye shall not be able to compasse it for god will ●duenge them and you shall dye a daungerfull death for vnto I cuy I●da hatl the Lord geuen the souereinty and vnto me and Dan and Ioseph hath he graunted to be princes with thē Wherfore I charge you heare Leuy for he shal know the law of the lord and deal forth ●udgement and offer sacrifices for all Israel til the full time of Christ the chief priest because the Lorde hath spoken it I charge you by the GOD of heauen that euery of you deale faithefully with his neighbour and sticke vnto Leuy in humblenesse of hart that ye maie receiue blessyng at his mouthe for he shall blesse Israell and Iuda God hath chosen Iuda to be the kyng of all people wherefore worship you his seede for he shall dye for you in battailes bothe visible and inuisible and shall raigne ouer you worlde without ende Ruben hauyng geuen his children the foresaied charge and blessed them died Then thei put him in a coffin and caried him out of Egipte buried hym at Hebron in the double caue where his fathers slepte Finis ¶ The Testament of Simeon made to his Children at his death concernyng 〈◊〉 The harte in wom●ns mouthe the face the sworde the Wolfe the cap All these paint out the cauious race that runne to their mishap THe copie of Simeons wordes whiche he spake to his Sonnes at his death in the hundred and twenteth yere of his life in the whiche Ioseph died For they came to visite hym vpon his death bed and he sittyng vp kissed them saiyng Harken my children heare me your father Simeon whatsoeuer I haue in my hart I am my father Iacobs second sōne and my Mother Lea named me Simeon because the Lorde heard her praier I became very mightie I went through with my doynges and was not afraied of any thyng For my harte was stout my minde vnmoueable and my stomack discourageable for hardinesse is giuen of the highest in●o mennes soules and bodies In those daies I enuied Ioseph because my father loued hym I hardened my harte againste hym to kill hym because the Prince of errour sendyng forthe the spirite of enuie blynded my mynde that I could not take heede to spare my Father Iacob But his God the God of his fathers sēdyng his Angel did rid hym out of my handes For while I wēt into Sychem to crary tarre for our flockes and Ruben into Dotai●● where all our necessaries were laied vp in store our brother Iuda solde hym to the Ismalits and therefore when my brother was come againe he was sorie for he intended to haue conueyed hym safe againe to our father But I was angrie with Iuda for lettyng hym go aliue and bare him grudge fiue monthes after howbeit God ●etted me and restrained the woorkyng of my handes for my right hande was halfe withered vp for vii daies together Then did I perceiue my Sonnes that that befell me for Iosephes sake whereupon I repented sone after and besought the lord to restore my hande and I would abstaine from all rancour enuie and follye For I knewe I had conceiued a wicked thought against the Lorde and against my Father Iacob for my brother Iosephes sake whō I enuied Now therefore my children kepe your selues frō the spirites of error and enuie For enuie ouerruleth the. mynde of euery man●●e sufferyng h●m not to eate or drinke in rest ▪ or to doe any good thyng is alwaies eggyng him to slaie the partie whom he enuieth and ●inyng away at his prosperitie Twoo yeres together I punished my soule with fastyng in the feare of the Lorde For I knewe that the waie to deliuer me from enuie was the feare of the lorde If a mā flee to the lorde the wicked spirit fleeth frō hym so as his mynde becommeth meke and of spitefull he becōmeth pitifull bearyng no grudge towardes suche as loue hym so his enuie ceaseth And because my father sawe me sadde he asked me the cause of it To whom I lied saiyng I haue a paine in my stomacke for I was foriest of all my brothers for that I had been the cause of Iosephes sellyng into Egipte And when I came into Egipt and was put in ward by hym as a spie Then perceiued I that I was iustly punished and I was not sorie for it But Ioseph beyng a good man and hauyng Gods spirite in hym beyng ful of pitie and mercie mynded not to doe me any harme but loued me

shall be high Priestes Iudges and Scribes for in their mouthe shall the holie thinges be kept Whē I awooke I perceiued that this vision was like the other and I laied it vp in my harte and shewed it not to any man liuyng vpon yearth The firste twoo daies I and Iuda wente to our Grandfather Isaac and he blessed me according to all the saiynges of the visions that I had seen but he would not goe with vs vnto Bethel But when we came to Bethel my father Iacob sawe in a vision concerning me that I should bee their Prieste before the Lorde And he rose in the Mornyng and tithed all thynges to the lorde by me Then came we to Hebron to dwell there and by and by Isaac called me to expound the lawe of the lorde accordyng as Gods Aungell had shewed it me and he taught me the Lawe of Priesthoode Sacrifices Burnt offerynges Firstlynges Freewill offerynges and offerynges for health Euery daie he taught me vnderstādyng and called vpō me continually before the lord saiyng my sonne geue no eare to the spirite of fornication for he will folowe thee and defile the holie thynges by thy seede Therefore take thee a wife in thy youth suche a one as hath not any blemishe nor vncleannesse nor is of the kindred of the Allophites or of the Gentiles And before thou enter into the holies wash did likewise ere thou sacrificest and also whē thou hast doen Offer vnto the lorde the fruites of the twelue trees that are euer grene as my father Abraham taught me to do and the fruite of all cleane beastes of cleane foules offer thou in Sacrifice Likewise offer vp the first borne of all thynges and the firste fruites of the vine and sprinckle all thy Sacrifices with salte Now therefore my sonnes keepe ye all the thynges that I commaunde you for ▪ whatsoeuer I haue heard of my fathers that haue I told vnto you I am cleare from al the wickednesse and synne whiche you shall commit to the ende of the worlde Ye shall woorke wickednesse againste the Sauiour of the worlde and ye shall seduce Israel stirring vp muche euill against him from the lorde and dealyng wickedly with hym so that Hierusalem shall not continue by reason of your naughtinesse The Ueile of the Temple shal be rente asunder to discouer ▪ your foulenesse and ye shall bee scattered as prisoners among the Heathen and bee scorned curssed and troden vnder foote Neuerthelesse the house whiche the lorde shall chuse shall bee called Hierusalem as the booke of Enoch the righteous conteineth Therefore when I was .xxviii. yeres olde I tooke a wife whose name was Melcha and she conceiued and bare me a Sonne and called his name Gershon because we were but straūgers in our lande For Gershon signified banishement Now I knewe of hym that he should not bee of the chief degree The seconde was Caath who was borne the xxxv yeare I sawe a vision Eastwarde how all the Congregation stoode vp a lofte and therefore I called his name Caath whiche signifieth the beginnyng of greatnesse and learnyng The third was Merari who was borne in the fiue and fifteth yeare of my life And because his mother was hardely deliuered of hym she called hym Merari whiche is as muche to say as my bitternesse And in the three score and fourth yeare of my life was my daughter Iochebed borne in Aegipt and so was I honorable among my brethren Also my soonne Gershon tooke a wife whiche bare him Libny and Schimi The sonnes of Caath were Amram Ysh●ar Hebron and Vziel and the Soonnes of Merari were Mahaly and Mushi In the fower score and fowerteenth yeare of my life Amram tooke to wife my daughter Iochebed because that he and she were borne bothe on one day I was eight yere old when I entered into the land of Chanaan and eighteene yere olde when I entered the office of Priesthoode At eight and twentie yeres I tooke a wife and at fourtie yeres olde I entered into Egipt And beholde ye bee nowe my Childrens children in the thirde generation Ioseph died in the hundred and tenth yeare And now my Children I warne you feare the Lorde your GOD with all your harte and walke plainely in all thynges accordyng to his Lawe Moreouer bryng vp your children in learnyng that they maye haue vnderstandyng by readyng the lawe of God without ceasyng all their life lōg For whosoeuer knoweth Gods lawe shal be honoured and goe wheresoeuer he wil he shall be no straunger Also he shall haue moe freindes then his forefathers hadde and many shall bee glad to serue hym and to heare the lawe at his mouthe My sonnes deale rightfully vpon yearth that ye maie finde heauen and sowe good thinges in your myndes that ye maye finde them in your life For if ye sowe euill thynges ye shall finde and reape all maner of combraunce and trouble Get ye wisedome in the feare of God For if captiuitie come and Cities and Countreis bee destroyed golde and siluer and al possessions perish but none can take awaie the wise mannes wisedome saue onely the blindnesse of vngodlinesse and synne For his wisedome shall become a shield to hym among his enemies and make a straunge countrey to bee as his owne home and cause hym to finde frendship in the middest of his foes If he teach and doe suche thynges he shal sitte with kynges as did our brother Ioseph And truely my children I knowe by the writynges of Enoch that in the ende ye shall doe wickedly laiyng your handes moste spitefully vpon the lorde through you your brethren shal be confounded and made a scornyng stocke to all Nations Howbeeit our Father Israell is cleare frō the wickednesse of the high Priestes whiche shall saye hande vpon the Sauior of the worlde The heauē aboue the yearth is cleane you be the lightes of the Heathen as the Sūne and the Moone What shall al the Heathē do if you be ouerdarckned with wickednesse and bryng cursednesse vpon your countrey folke for whose sakes the lighte of the worlde is put into you to inlighten al men withal this light of the worlde shall you wilfully ste● and teache commaundementes cōtrary to the righteousnesse of god He shall purloine yn● Lordes offerynges and suche awaie peeces of it Before ye doe your Sacri●ices to the Lorde ye shall steale awaie the choiceste thynges and eate them disdainfullie with Harlottes teachyng Commaundementes of coueteousnesse Ye shall defile Maried women and enforce Maidens in Hierusalem Ye shall matche your selues with Whores and Harlottes ye shal take the Daughters of the Heathen to wife ▪ purifiyng them with vnrighteous purifiyng and youre minglyng shall bee as Sodome and Gomorrha and ye shall be swolne with wickednesse in the Priesthoode in so muche that ye shall disdainefully laughe the h●lie thynges to scorne not

man all maner of naughtinesse I confesse vnto you my children thys day that I was glad in my hart at the death of Ioseph that true and good man and reioyced at the sellyng of hym because our Father loued hym more than vs. For the spirite of spitefulnes and pryde said vnto me Thou art his Soune too as well as he And one of the spirites of Belial wrought with me saiyng Take this sworde and slea Ioseph with it and when he is dead thy father shall loue thee This was the spirit of spitefulnes which counseled nice to deuour Ioseph as the Leopard deuoureth a Ryd But the God of our Father Iacob did not put hym into my handes nor suffer me to find him alone that I might dispatch twoo Scepters in Israell by committyng that wickednesse And now my childrē I tell you of a truth that vnlesse ye keepe your selues frō this spirite of lying and wrath and loue truth and long sufferance ye shal perish Wrath is blynde my Children and no wrathfull man looketh truth in the face because that although they were his Father and Mother yet doth he beholde them as his enemies Though he be hys brother ▪ yet he knoweth hym not though he be the Lords Prophet yet obeieth he him not though he bee a. righteous man yet he regardeth hym not and though hee bee his frcinde yet he considereth it not For the spirite of wrathe besetteth hym with the Snares of errour blindyng hys naturall eyes and dimmyng the eyes of his mynde by falsehoode and geuyng to hym a sight of hys owne makyng And wherein bleareth he his eyes In hatred of hart For he geueth hym a self willed hart against hys Brother to spite hym and enuy hym My Sounes wrath is mischevous for it becommeth a soule to the soule and subdueth the body to it selfe by ouer masteryng the soule and geueth power to the bodye to worke all wickednes And when the soule hath wrought it iustifieth the thyng done because it seeth not Therefore he that is wrathfull if he be a man of might hath treble power in hys anger One through the healpe and furtheraunce of his seruauntes Another of hys riches wherethrough he perswadeth and ouercommeth in vnrighteousnes and third of the nature of his own body which of it self worketh euil And though he that is angry bee a poore man yet hath he his naturall power doubled For the said spirite doth alwayes further his wickednes by causing his deedes to be matched with liyng Wherefore consider the power of wrath how vaine it is Fo hee is bitter in speeche and walketh at Sathans right hand that his deedes may be wrought in vntrustinesse and liyng for Sathan doth first of all styng hym by speeche and when he hath once pricked hym forewarde hee strengthneth hym by dedes and troubleth his vnderstanding with bitter nippes and losses and so prouoketh his mynde to excessiue wrath Therefore when any man speaketh against you be not moued to anger and if he praise ye as good men bee not puffed vp nor chaunged into voluptuousues and sternnesse of countenaunce For when a man heareth a thing that misliketh hym first it ticleth him and stingeth his minde so that he thinkes he hath iuste cause to be angry Now therfore my children if ye fall into any losse hinderance be not out of patience for the spirit of impatience maketh men to lust for the thyng that is forgone to be angry for the want of it Beare you losses willingly and bee not out of quiet for it for vnquietnes ingendreth anger and vntrueth and it is euill to haue a double face Anger and vntruth talke one to another to trouble the vnderstandyng And when the mynde is combred with disdeine the Lorde departeth from it and Belial getteth the dominion of it Therefore my Children keepe the Lords commaundementes and lawes eschew vntruth and hate it that the Lord may dwel in you and Belial flee from you Speake euerie of you the trueth to hys neighbour that ye fall not willingly into incomberaunce and so shall ye be in quiet and ye shal haue the God of peace warxe shall not preuaile against you Loue the Lord all your life long and loue ye one another with a sothfast hart For I am sure that in the latter daies ye shall depart frō the Lord walke in all naughtines working the abhominations of the Gentiles and huntyng wicked women in all leudnes through the workyng of deceitfull spirits in you For I haue read in Enoch that Sathan is your prince and that all y spirites of fornication and pride shall plie themselues in laiyng snares for the Children of Dan to make them sinne before the lord But my children sticke ye vnto Leuy and looke vpon hym in all thinges The children of Iuda shall snatch away other mens goods like Lyons through couetousnesse For this cause shall ye be led away with them into captiuitie and there receiue all the plagues of Egipt and all the malice of the Heathen whereupon ye shall returne to the Lord obteine mercy and he shall bring you into his holy place and proclaime peace to you The Lordes sauing health shall spring vp vnto you out of the Tribes of Iuda and Leuy He shall make warre against Belial and geue our young men the victorye in reuengement Hee shall deliuer the imprisoned soules of the sainc●es from Beliall and turne your vnbeleuyng hartes to the Lorde and geue euerlastyng peace to suche as call vppon hym The Sainctes shall rest in hym and the righteous shall reioyce in the newe Hierusalem whiche shall glorifie God for euer Hiernsalem shall no more be wasted nor Israell led into captiuitie because the Lord shal be conuersant among men in the middest of it and the holy one of Israell shall reigne ouer them in lowlinesse and pouertie and he that beleueth in him shall certainly reigne in heauen Now my children feare the Lord and beware of Satan and hys spirites And drawe neare vnto God and to the angell that excuseth you for he is the mediator betweene God and man to set peace in Israell He shall stand against the kingdome of the enemie and therefore will the enemie labour to ouerthrow all that call vpon the Lords for he knoweth that whensoeuer Israell decayeth ▪ then shall his enemies kingdome come to an end But the said angell shall strengthen Israell that hee come not to an euill end At that tyme shall Israel depart from iniquitie and the Lorde shall visite suche as do his will. In all places of Israel and among the heathen his name shall bee the sauiour Therfore my children keepe your selues from all no●●ome dealings and put from you wrathe and all vntruthe Loue truth and mildnes and looke what you haue heard of your Father deliuer it ouer to your Children