remeÌ„brauÌ„ce of me For as oft as ye shal eate of this bred drynke of this cuppe ye shal shewe the LORDES death vntyll he come Wherfore who soeuer shal eate off this bred and drynke off this cuppe of the LORDE vnworthely shal be giltye of the body and bloude of the LORDE But let a man examen himselfe and so let him eate of this bred and drynke of this cuppe For he that eateth and drynketh vnworthely eateth drynketh his awne damnacion because he maketh no differeÌ„ce of the LORDES body Therfore are there so many weake and sicke amoÌ„ge you and many slepe For yf we iudged oure selues we shulde not be iudged But whan we are iudged we are chastened of y e LORDE that we shulde not be dâ—ned with the worlde Wherfore my brethren whan ye come together to eate tary one for another But yf eny man honger let him eate at home that ye come not together vnto coÌ„dempnacion As for other thinges I wil set them in order whan I come The XII Chapter AS concernynge spirituall giftes brethren I wolde not that ye were ignoraunt Ye knowe that ye were HeytheÌ„ and wente youre wayes vnto doÌ„me Idols eueÌ„ as ye were led Wherfore I declare vnto you that no man speakynge thorow the sprete of God defyeth Iesus And no man can saye that Iesus is the LORDE but by the holy goost There are dyuerse giftes yet but one sprete and there are dyuerse offices yet but one LORDE and there are dyuerse operacions yet is there but one God which worketh all in all The giftes of the sprete are geuen vnto euery man to profit the coÌ„gregacion To one is geuen thorow the sprete the vtteraunce of wiszdome to another is geuen the vtteraunce of knowlege acordinge to the same sprete to another faith in the same sprete to another the giftes of healinge in the same sprete to another power to do miracles to another prophecienge to another iudgment to discerne spretes to another dyuerse tunges to another the interpretacion of tunges These all doth y e same onely sprete worke and distributeth vnto euery man acordinge as he will For as the body is one and hath yet many membres neuertheles all the membres of the body though they be many are yet but one body euen so Christ also For we are all baptysed in one sprete to be one body whether we be Iewes or Gentyles whether we be bonde or fre and haue all dronkeÌ„ of one sprete For the body also is not one membre but many Yf the fote saye I am not y e hande therfore am I not a membre of the body is he therfore not a membre of y e body And yf the eare saye I am not the eye therfore am I not a membre of the body is he therfore not a membre of the body Yf all the body were an eye where were then the hearinge Yf all were hearinge where then the smellinge But now hath God set the membres euery one seuerally in the body as it hath pleased him Neuertheles yf all the meÌ„bres were one membre where were then the body But now are the membres many yet is the body but one The eye can not saye vnto the hande I haue no nede of the or agayne the heade vnto the fete I haue no nede of you but rather a greate deale the meÌ„bres of the body which seme to be most feble are most necessary and vpon those membres of the body which we thinke least honest put we most honestie on and oure vncomly partes haue most beutye on For oure honest membres neade it not But God hath so measured y e body and geuen most honoure vnto that meÌ„bre which had nede that there shulde be no stryfe in the body but that the membres shulde indifferently care one for another And yf one membre suffre all the membres suffre with him and yf one membre be had in honoure all the membres are glad with him also But ye are the body of Christ and membres euery one of another And God hath ordeyned in the congregacion first the Apostles secoÌ„dly prophetes thirdly teachers then doers of miracles after that the giftes of healinge helpers gouerners dyuerse tunges Are they all Apostles Are they all prophetes Are they all teachers Are they all doers of miracles Haue they all the giftes of healinge Speake they all with tunges Can they all interprete But covet ye the best giftes And yet shewe I you a more excellent waye The XIII Chapter THough I spake with the tunges of men and angels and yet had not loue I were euen as sowndinge brasse or as a tynklinge Cymball * And though I coulde prophecy vnderstode all secretes and all knowlege and had all faith â–ª so * that I coulde moue mouÌ„taynes out of their places and yet had not loue I were nothinge And though I bestowed all my goodes to fede y e poore and though I gaue my body euen that I burned and yet haue not loue it profiteth me nothinge Loue is pacient curteous loue envyeth not loue doth not frowardly is not puft vp dealeth not dishonestly seketh not hir awne is not prouoked vnto anger thynketh not euell reioyseth not ouer iniquytâ— but reioyseth in the trueth beareth all thinges beleueth all thinges hopeth all thinges suffreth all thinges Though prophecienges fayle or tunges ceasse or knowlege perishe yet loue falleth neuer awaye For oure knowlege is vnparfecte and oure prophecienge is vnparfecte But whaÌ„ that which is perfecte commeth then shal the vnparfecte be done awaye Whan I was a childe I spake as a childe I vnderstode as a childe I ymagined as a childe But as soone as I was a man I put awaye childishnes Now we se thorow a glasse in a darke speakynge but theÌ„ shal we se face to face Now I knowe vnperfectly but theÌ„ shal I knowe eueÌ„ as I am knowne Now abydeth faith hope loue these thre but the greatest of these is loue The XIIII Chapter LAboure for loue Couet spirituall giftes but specially that ye maye prophecye For he y t speaketh with tunges speaketh not vnto men but vnto God for no man heareth him Howbeit in y e sprete he speaketh misteries But he that prophecieth speaketh vnto men to edifienge to exhortacion and to coÌ„forte He that speaketh with tunges edifieth himselfe but he that prophecieth edifieth the coÌ„gregacion I wolde that ye all spake with tunges but rather that ye prophecied For greater is he that prophecieth then he that speaketh w t tuÌ„ges excepte he also expounde it that the congregacion maye haue edifienge But now brethren yf I come vnto you and speake with tunges what shal I profet you excepte I speake vnto you ether by reuelacion or by knowlege or by prophecienge or by doctryne Likewyse is it also in y e thinges that geue sounde and yet lyue not whether it be a pype or an harpe excepte they geue distyncte soundes from
wall that was a stoppe betwene vs and hath also thorow his flesh put awaye the cause off hatred namely the lawe of the commaundemeÌ„tes contayned in the lawe wrytten that of twayne he mighte create one new man in him selfe and make peace and to reconcyle both vnto God in one body thorow the crosse and so he slewe y e hatred thorow his owne selfe and came and preached peace in the Gospell vnto you which were afarre of and to theÌ„ that were nye For thorow him we both haue intraunce in â—ne sprete vnto the father Now therfore ye are nomore gestes and straungers but citesins with the sayntes of the housholde of God buylded vpon y e foundacion of y e Apostles and prophetes where Iesus Christ is y e heade corner stone in whom euery buyldinge coupled together groweth to an holy temple in the LORDE in whom ye also are buylded together to be an habitacion of God in the sprete The III. Chapter FOr this cause I Paul am a presoner of Iesus Christ for you Heythen acordinge as ye haue herde of y e office of the grace of God which is geuen me to you warde For by reuelacion was this mystery shewed vnto me as I wrote abouâ— in fewe wordes wherby whan ye rede it 〈◊〉 maye perceaue myne vnderstondynge in y e mystery of Christ which mystery in tymes past was not opened vnto the childreÌ„ of meÌ„ as it is now declared to his holy Apostles and prophetes by the sprete namely that the Heythen shulde be inheritours also and of the same body and partakers of his promes in Christ by the Gospell wherof I am made a mynister acordynge to the gifte of the grace of God which is geueÌ„ me acordinge to the workynge of his power Vnto me the leest of all sayntes is this grace geuen that I shulde preach amonge the HeytheÌ„ y e vnsearcheable riches of Christ and to make all men se what is the fellishippe of the mystery which froÌ„ the begynnynge of the worlde hath bene hyd in God which made all thiÌ„ges thorow Iesus Christ to the intent that now vnto the rulers and powers in heaueÌ„ mighte be knowne by the congregacion the manifolde wyszdome off God acordinge to y e eternall purpose which he hath shewed in Christ Iesu oure LORDE by whom we haue boldnesse and intraunce in all confideÌ„ce thorow faith on him Wherfore I desyre that ye faynte not because of my tribulacions y t I suffre for you which is youre prayse For this cause I bowe my knees vnto the father of oure LORDE Iesus Christ which is the true father ouer all that is called father in heauen and in earth that he graunte you acordinge to y e riches of his glory to be strengthed with power by his sprete in y e inwarde maÌ„ that Christ maye dwell in youre hertes by faith that ye beynge roted and grounded in loue maye be able to coÌ„prehende with all sayntes what is the bredth and the length and the deepth and the heyth and to knowe the loue of Christ which loue yet passeth all knowlege that ye maye be fylled with all maner of fulnesse of God Vnto him that is able to do exceadinge abundauntly aboue all that we axe or vnderstonde acordinge to y e power that worketh in vs be prayse in the congregacion which is in Christ Iesu at all tymes for euer and euer Amen The IIII. Chapter I Therfore which am presoner in the LORDE exhorte you that ye walke as it becoÌ„meth yo r callinge wherin ye are called with all humblenes off mynde and mekenes and longe sufferinge forbearinge one another in loue and be diligent to kepe the vnite of the sprete thorow the bonde of peace One body and one sprete eueÌ„ as ye are called in one hope of youre callynge One LORDE one faith one baptyme one God and father of vs all which is aboue all and thorow all and in you all Vnto euery one of vs is geuen grace acordinge to the measure off the gifte off Christ. Therfore sayeth he He is gone vp an hye and hath led awaye captiuyte captyue and hath geueÌ„ giftes vnto men That he wente vp what is it but that he first came downe in to y e lowest partes of y e earth He that came downe is euen the same which is gone vp aboue all heauens to fulfill all And y e same hath set some to be Apostles some to be prophetes some to be Euangelistes some to be shepherdes teachers wherby the sayntes mighte be coupled together thorow comen seruyce to the edifienge of y e body of Christ tyll we all come vnto one maner of faith and knowlege of the sonne of God and become a perfecte man in to the measure of the perfecte age of Christ that we be nomore children waueringe caried aboute with euery wynde of doctryne thorow the wickednes of men and craftynes wherby they laye awayte for vs to disceaue vs. But let vs folowe the trueth in loue and in all thinges growe in him which is the heade euen Christ in whom all the body is coupled together and one membre hangeth by another thorow out all y e ioyntes Wherby one mynistreth vnto another acordinge to the operacion as euery membre hath his measure and maketh that y e body groweth to the edifienge of it selfe in loue This I saye therfore and testifye in the LORDE that ye walke nomore * as y e other Heythen walke in the vanite of their mynde blynded in their vnderstondinge beynge straungers froÌ„ the life which is in God thorow the ignoraunce that is in them because of the blyndnes of their hert which beynge past repentaunce haue geueÌ„ them selues ouer vnto wantonnes to worke all maner of vnclennes euen with gredynesse But ye haue not so learned Christ yf so be that ye haue herde of him are taught in him euen as the trueth is in Iesu. So then as concernynge the conuersacion in tyme past laye from you that olde man which marreth himselfe thorow disceauable lustes but be ye renued in the sprete of youre mynde and put on that new man which is shapen after God in true righteousnes and holynes Wherfore put awaye lyenge and speake euery man the trueth vnto his neghboure for as moch as we are membres one of another Be angrie but synne not Let not y e Sonne go downe vpoÌ„ youre wrath nether geue place to the bacbyter He that hath stollen let him steale nomore but let him laboure rather and do some good with his hondes that he maye haue to geue vnto him that nedeth Let no filthy communicacion proceade out of youre mouth but that which is good to edifye withall whaÌ„ nede is that it be gracious to heare And greue not the holy sprete of God wherwith ye are sealed vnto y e daye of redempcion Let all bytternes and fearsnes and wrath and
The CV psalme Halleluya O Geue thankes vnto the LORDE for he is gracious and his mercy endureth for euer Who can expresse y e noble actes of the LORDE or shewe forth all his prayse Blessed are they that allwaye kepe iudgment and do rightuousnes Remembre vs o LORDE acordinge to the fauoure that thou bearest vnto thy people o vyset vs w t thy sauinge health That we might se the pleasure of thy chosen that we might reioyse in the gladnesse of thy people and geue thankes with thine enheritaunce We haue synned with oure fathers we haue done amysse we haue dealt wickedly Oure fathers regarded not thy wonders in Egipte they kepte not thy greate goodnesse in remeÌ„braunce but were dishobedieÌ„t at the see eueÌ„ at the reed see Neuertheles he helped theÌ„ for his names sake that he might make his power to be knowne He rebuked the reed see and it was dried vp so he led theÌ„ thorow the depe as in a wildernesse Thus he saued them from the honde of the hater delyuered them from the honde of the enemie As for those y t troubled them the waters ouerwhelmed theÌ„ there was not one of theÌ„ left Then beleued they in his worde and songe prayse vnto him But within a whyle they forgat his workes wolde not abyde his councell A lust came vpoÌ„ them in the wildernesse so that they tempted God in the deserte Yet he gaue them their desyre and sent theÌ„ ynough at their willes They angred Moses in the teÌ„tes and Aaron the saynte of the LORDE So the earth opened swalowed vp Dathan and couered the congregacioÌ„ of Abiram The fyre was kyndled in their company the flame brent vp the vngodly They made a calfe in Horeb and worshipped the molteÌ„ ymage Thus they turned his glory into the similitude of a calfe y t eateth haye They forgat God their Sauio r which had done so greate thinges in Egipte Wonderous workes in the londe of Ham and fearfull thinges in the reed see So he sayde he wolde haue destroyed them had not Moses his chosen stonde before him in y e gappe to turne awaie his wrothfull indignacion lest he shulde destroye theÌ„ Yee they thought scorne of y t pleasaunt londe and gaue no credence vnto his worde But murmured in their tentes and herkened not vnto the voyce of the LORDE Then lift he vp his honde agaynst them to ouerthrowe them in the wildernes To cast out their sede amonge the nacions and to scater them in the londes They ioyned themselues vnto Baal Peor and ate the offeringes of the deed Thus they prouoked him vnto anger with their owne inveÌ„cions and the plage was greate amonge them Then stode vp Phineas and excuted iustice so the plage ceased And that was counted vnto him for rightuousnesse amonge all posterites for euermore They angerd him also at the waters of strife so that Moses was punyshed for their sakes Because they prouoked his sprete and he tolde theÌ„ planely with his lippes Nether destroyed they the Heithen as the LORDE commaunded them But were mengled amonâ—ge the Heithen and lerned their workes In so moch that they worshipped their ymages which turned to their owne decaye Yee they offred their sonnes their doughters vnto deuels And shed the innocent bloude of their sonnes and of their doughters whom they offred vnto the ymages of Canaan so that the londe was defyled wiâ—â— bloude Thus were they stayned w t theâ—â— owne workes and wente a whoringe with their owne invencions Therfore was the wrath of the LORDE kyndled agaynst his people in so moch that he abhorred his owne enheritaunce And gaue them ouer in to the honde of the HeitheÌ„ and they that hated them were lordes ouer them Their enemies oppressed theÌ„ and had them in subieccion Many a tyme dyd he delyuer them but they prouoked him with their owne inveÌ„cions and were brought downe for their wickednesse Neuerthelesse wheÌ„ he sawe their aduersite he herde their complaynte He thought vpoÌ„ his couenaunt and pitied theÌ„ â–ª acordinge vnto the multitude of his mercies Yee he made all those y t had led them awaye captiue to pitie them Delyuer vs o LORDE oure God gather vs from amoÌ„ge the Heithen that we maye geue thankes to thy holy name make oure boast of thy prayse Blessed be the LORDE God of Isâ— He sheweth his people the power of his workes that he maye geue them the heretage of the Heithen The workes of his hoÌ„des are verite iudgment all his coÌ„maundemeÌ„tes are true They stonde fast for euer euer are done in trueth equite He sent redempcion vnto his people he hath commaunded his couenaunt for euer holy reuerent is his name The feare of the LORDE is the begynnynge of wyszdome a good vnderstondinge haue all they that do therafter the prayse of it endureth for euer The CXI psalme Halleluya BLessed is the man y t feareth the LORDE hath greate delite in his commaundementes His sede shall be mightie vpon earth the generacion of the faithfull shal be blessed Riches pleÌ„teousnesse shal be in his house his rightuousnes endureth for euer Vnto the godly there ariseth vp light in the darcknesse he is merciful louynge rightuous Wel is him that is mercifull lendeth gladly poÌ„dreth his wordes w t discrecion For he shal neuer be moued the rightuous shal be had in an euer lastinge remembraunce He wil not be afrayed for eny euell tydinges his herte stondeth fast beleueth in y e LORDE His herte is stablished he wil not shrencke vntill he se his desyre vpon his enemies He hath sparsed abrode geueÌ„ to the poore his rightuousnes remayneth for euer his horne shal be exalted w t honor. The vngodly shal se it it shal greue him he shall gnash w t his â—â—th consume awaye the desyre of the vn godly shal perish The CXII psal Halleluya PRayse the LORDE O ye seruauntes O prayse the name of the LORDE Blessed be the name of the LORDE froÌ„ this tyme forth for euermore The LORDES name is worthy to be praysed froÌ„ the rysinge vp of the Sonne vnto the goinge downe of the same The LORDE is hye aboue all Heithen and his glory aboue the heaueÌ„s Who is like vnto the LORDE oure God y t hath his dwellinge so hye which humbleth himself to beholde that is in heauen and earth Which taketh vp the symple out of the dust and lifteth the poore out of the myre That he maye set him amonge the prynces euen amonge the prynces of his people Which maketh the baren woman to kepe house and to be a ioyfull mother of children Halleluya The CXIII psalme WHen Israel came out of Egipte the house of Iacob from amonge that straunge people Iuda was his SaÌ„ctuary Israel his dominion The see sawe that and fled Iordan turned backe The mountaynes stripped like rammes the
reioyse from youre hert as they that come with the pipe when they go vp to the mount of the LORDE vnto y e rock of Israel The LORDE also shal set vp the power of his voyce and declare his terrible arme with his angrie countenaunce yee and the flame of the consumynge fyre with earth quake tempest of wynde and hale stones Then shal the Assirian feare also because of the voyce of the LORDE which shal smyte him with the rodde And the same rodde which the LORDE wil sende vpon him shal moue the whole foundacion with trompet with noyse of warre and batell to destroye For he hath prepared the fyre of payne from the begynnynge yee euen for kynges also This hath he made depe wyde y e norishinge therof is fyre and wodde innumerable which the breath ofte LORDE kyndleth as it were a match of brymstone The xxxj Chapter WO vnto them that go downe in to Egipte for helpe and trust in horses and conforte them selues in Charettes because they be many and in horse mē because they be lustie and stronge But they regarde not the holy one of Israel and they aske no question at the LORDE Where as he neuertheles plageth y e wicked and yet goeth not from his worde whā he steppeth forth and taketh the victory agaynst the housholde of the frauwerde and against the helpe of euel doers Now the Egiptians are men and not God and their horses flesh and not sprete And as soone as the LORDE stretcheth out his honde then shal the helper fall and he that shulde haue bene helped and shal altogether be destroyed For thus hath the LORDE spokē vnto me Like as the Lyon or lyōs whelpe roareth vpon the pray that he hath gotten and is not afrayde though y e multitude of shepardes crie out vpon him nether abashed for all the heape of them So shal the LORDE of hoostes come downe from the mount Sion and defende his hill Like as byrdes flotre aboute their nestes so shal the LORDE of hoostes kepe saue defende and deliue Ierusalem Therfore o ye childrē of Israel turne agayne like as ye hahaue exceaded in youre goinge back For in y t daye euery man shal cast out his Idols of syluer and golde which ye haue made with youre synful hondes Assur also shal be slayne with the swerde not w t a mans swerde ▪ A swerde shal deuoure him but not a mans swerde And he shal fle from the slaughter and his seruauntes shal be taken prisoners ▪ He shal go for feare to his stronge holdes and his prynces shal fle from his badge This hath y e LORDE spokē whose light burneth in Sion and his fyre in Ierusalem The xxxij Chapter BEholde the kinge shal gouerne after y e rule of rightuousnes and y e princes shal rule acordinge to the balaunce of equite He shal be vnto mē as a defence for the wynde and as a refuge for the tempest like as a ryuer of water in a thurstie place and y e schadowe of a greate rock in a drie lōde The eyes of the seinge shall not be dymme and the eares of them that heare shal take diligēt hede The hert of the vnwise shal attayne to knowlege and the vnparfite tūge shal speake planely and distinctly Then shal the nygarde be no more called gentle ner the churle lyberall But the churle wil be churlishly mynded and his hert wil worke euell and playe the ypocrite and ymagyn abhominaciōs agaynst God to make the hungrie leane and to with holde drinke from the thurstie These are the perlous weapons of the cuvetous these be his shameful councels that he maye begyle the poore with disceatful workes yee euen there as he shulde geue sentence with the poore But the liberall person ymagineth honest thinges and commeth vp with honesty Vp ye rich and ydle cities harken vnto my voyce Ye careles cities marcke my wordes After yeares and dayes shal ye be brought in feare o ye carelesse cities For Haruest shal be out and the grape gatheringe shal not come O ye rich ydle cities ye that feare no parell ye shal be abashed and remoued when ye se the barennesse the nakednesse and preparinge to warre Ye shal knock vpō youre brestes because of the pleasaunt felde and because of the fruteful vynyarde My peoples felde shal bringe thornes and thistels for in euery house is voluptuousnes in the cities wilfulnes The palaces also shal be broken and the greatly occupide cities desolate The towers and bulwerckes shal be become dennes for euermore the pleasure of Mules shal be turned to pasture for shepe Vnto the tyme that y e sprete be poured vpon vs from aboue Then shal the wildernesse be a fruteful felde the plenteous felde shal be rekened for a wodde Then shal equyte dwel in the deserte and rightuousnesse in a fruteful londe And the rewarde of rightuousnesse shal be peace and hir frute rest and quietnesse for euer And my people shal dwel in the ynnes of peace in my tabernacle and pleasure where there is ynough in thē all And whē the hale falleth it shal fall in the wodde and in the citie O how happy shal ye be whē ye shal safely sowe youre sede besyde all waters dryue thither the fete of youre oxē asses The xxxiij Chapter THerfore wo vnto the o robber shalt not thou be robbed also and vnto the that laiest wait as who saye there shulde no waite be layde for the Wo vnto the which doest hurte euen so shalt thou be hurt also And as thou layest waite so shal wait be layde for the also LORDE be merciful vnto vs we wait for the. Thine arme is at a poynte to vyset vs but be thou oure health in the tyme of trouble Graūte that the people maye fle at the anger of thy voyce that at thy vpstondinge the Gentiles maye be scatred abrode and that their spoyle maye be gathered as the greshoppers are comonly gathered together in to the pyt Stonde vp LORDE thou that dwellest on hie Let Siō be fylled with equyte and rightuousnesse Let treuth and faithfulnesse be in hir tyme power health wisdome knowlege the feare of God are hir treasure Beholde their aungels crie with out the messaungers of peace wepe bytterly The stretes are waist there walketh no man therin the appoyntmen is broken the cities are despised they are not regarded the desolate earth is in heuynes Libanus taketh it but for a sporte that it is hewen downe Saron is like a wyldernes Basā Charmel are turned vpside downe And therfore saieth y e LORDE I wil vp now wil I get vp now wil I aryse Ye shal conceaue stubble and beare strawe youre sprete shal be the fyre that it maye consume you the people shal be burnt like lyme as thornes burne that are hewen of cast in the fyre Now herken to ye that are farre of how
by Then shal it be sayde This waist lōde is become like a garden of pleasure and the voyde desolate and brokē downe cities are now stronge and fensed agayne Then the residue of the Heithen that lye rounde aboute you shal knowe that I am the LORDE which repayre that was broken downe and plant◠agayne that was made waist Euen I the LORDE haue spoken it wil do it in dede Thus saieth the LORDE God I wil yet once be founde agayne of y e house of Israel do this for them I shal increase them as a flocke of men Like as the holy flocke and the flocke of Ierusalem are in the hie solempne feastes so shal also the wilde waisted cities be fylled with flockes of men and they shal knowe that I am the LORDE The XXXVII Chapter THe honde of the LORDE came vpon me caried me out in the sprete of the LORDE let me downe in a playne felde that laye full of bones he led me rounde aboute by them ▪ beholde the bones that laye vpon the felde were very many maruelous drye also Then sayde he vnto me Thou sonne of man thinkest thou these benes maye lyue agayne I answered O LORDE God thou knowest And he sayde vnto me Prophecy thou vpon these bones speake vnto them Ye drye bones heare the worde of the LORDE Thus saieth the LORDE God vnto these bones Beholde I will put breth in to you that ye maye lyue I wil geue you synowes make flesh growe vpon you couer you ouer with skynne so geue you breth that ye maye lyue and knowe that I am the LORDE So I prophecied as he had cōmaunded me And as I was prophecienge there came a noyse and a greate mocion so that the bones ranne euery one to another Now whē I had loked beholde they had synowes and flesh grewe vpon them and aboue they were couered with skynne but there was no breth in them Then sayde he vnto me Thou sonne of man prophecie thou towarde the wynde prophecy and speake to the wynde Thus saieth the LORDE God Come o thou ayre from the foure wyndes blowe vpon these slayne that they maye be restored to life So I prophecied as he had commaunded me Then came the brethtn to them and they receaued life and stode vp vpon their fete a maruelous greate sorte Morouer he sayde vnto me Thou sonne of man these bones are the whole house of Israel Beholde they saye oure bones are dryed vp oure hope is gone we are clene cut of Therfore prophecie thou speake vnto them Thus saieth the LORDE God Beholde I wil open youre graues o my people take you out of youre sepulcres bringe you in to the londe of Israel agayne So shall ye knowe y t I am the LORDE when I open youre graues bringe you out of them My sprete also wil I put in you ye shal lyue I wil set you agayne in youre owne londe and ye shal knowe that I am the LORDE which haue sayde it and fulfilled it in dede The worde of the LORDE came vnto me sayenge Thou sonne of man take a sticke and wryte vpon it Vnto Iuda to the children of Israel his companyons Then take another sticke and wryte vpon it Vnto Ioseph the stocke of Ephraim and to all the housholde of Israel his companyons And than take both these together in thine honde so shal there be one stycke therof Now yf the childrē of thy people saye vnto the wilt thou not shewe vs what thou meanest by these Then geue them this answere Thus saieth the LORDE God Beholde I wil take the stocke of Ioseph which is in the honde of Ephraim and of the trybes of Israel his felowes and wil put them to the stocke of Iuda make them one stocke and they shal be one in my honde And the two stickes where vpon thou wrytest shalt thou haue in thine honde that they maye se and shalt saye vnto them Thus saieth the LORDE God beholde I wil take awaye the childrē of Israel from amonge the Heithen vnto whom they be gone and wil gather them together on euery syde and bringe them agayne in to their owne londe yee I wil make one people of thē in y e londe vpon the mountaynes of Israel and they all shal haue but one kinge They shall nomore be two peoples from hensforth nether be deuyded in to two kingdomes they shal also defyle thē selues nomore with their abhominacions Idols and all their wicked-doinges I wil helpe thē out of all their dwellinge places wherin they haue synned will so clense them that they shal be my people and I their God Dauid my seruaunt shal be their kinge they all shal haue one shepherde only They shal walke in my lawes and my commaundementes shal they both kepe fulfill They shal dwell in the londe that I gaue vnto Iacob my seruaunt where as youre fathers also haue dwelt Yee euē in the same londe shal they their children their childers children dwell for euermore and my seruaunt Dauid shal be their euerlastynge prynce Morouer I will make a bonde of peace with them which shal be vnto them an euerlastinge couenaunt I wil sattle thē also and multiplie them my Sanctuary wil I set amonge thē for euermore My dwellinge shal be w t them yee I wil be their God they shal be my people Thus the Heithen also shal knowe that I the LORDE am y e holy maker of Israel whē my Sanctuary shal be amonge them for euer more The XXXVIII Chapter ANd the worde of the LORDE came vnto me sayenge Thou sonne of man turne thy face towarde Gog in the londe of Magog which is the chefe prynce at Mesech and Tubal prophecy agaynst him and saye Thus saieth the LORDE God O Gog thou chefe prynce of Mesech and Tubal beholde I wil vpon the and wil turne the aboute and put a bytt in thy chawes I wil bringe the forth and all thine hoost both horse horsmen which be all weapened of the best fashion a greate people that handle altogether speares shyldes and swerdes the Perses Moryans and with them the Lybians which all beare shyldes and helmettes Gomer and all his hoostes the house of Thogorma out of the north quarters and all his hoostes yee and moch people with the. Therfore prepare the set thy self in araye with all thy people that are come vnto the by heapes and be thou their defence After many dayes thou shalt be visited and in the latter yeares thou shalt come in to the lōde that hath bene destroyed with the swearde now is replenished agayne w t dyuerse people vpon the mountaynes of Israel which haue lōge lyen waist Yee they be brought out of the nacions dwell all safe Thou shalt come vp like a stormy wether to couer the lōde and as it were a darcke cloude thou with all thine
worlde Then cried he vpon me and spake vnto me sayenge Beholde these that go towarde y e north shal still my wrath in the north countre And the worde of the LORDE came vnto me sayenge Take of the presoners that are come from Babilon namely Heldai Tobias and Idaia come thou the same daye and go in to the house of Iosias the sonne of Sophony Then take golde and syluer and make crownes therof and set them vpon the heade of Iesua the sonne of Iosedec the hie prest and speake vnto him Thus saieth the LORDE of hoostes Beholde the man whose name is the braunch he that shall springe vp after him shal buylde vp the temple of the LORDE yee euen he shall buylde vp the temple of the LORDE He shal beare the prayse he shall syt vpon the LORDES trone and haue the dominacion A prest shall he be also vpon his trone a peaceable councell shal be betwixte them both And the crownes shal be in the temple of the LORDE for a remembraunce vnto Helem Tobias Idaia and Hen the sonne of Sophony And soch as be farre of shal come and buylde the temple of the LORDE that ye maye knowe how that the LORDE of hoostes hath sent me vnto you And this shal come to passe yf ye wil herken diligently vnto the voyce of the LORDE youre God The VII Chapter IT happened also in the fourth yeare of kynge Darius that the worde of the LORDE came vnto Zachary in the fourth daye of the ix moneth which is calleth Casleâ— what tyme as Sarasar and Rogomelech and the men that were with them sent vnto Bethel for to praye before y e LORDE and that they shulde saye vnto the prestes which were in the house of the LORDE of hoostes and to the prophetes Shulde I wepe in the fyfte moneth and absteyne as I haue done now certayne yeares Then came the worde of the LORDE of hoostes vnto me sayenge Speake vnto all the people of the londe and to the prestes and saye when ye fasted and mourned in the v vij moneth now this lxx yeares dyd ye fast vnto me When ye ate also and dronke dyd ye not eate and drinke for youre owne selues Are not these the wordes which the LORDE spake by his prophetes afore tyme when Ierusalem was yet inhabited and welthy she and the cities rounde aboute her when there dwelt meÌ„ both towarde the south and in the playne countrees And the worde of the LORDE came vnto Zachary sayenge Thus saieth y e LORDE of hoostes Execute true iudgment shewe mercy and louynge kyndnesse euery man to his brother Do the wyddowe the fatherlesse the straunger and poore no wronge and let no man ymagen euell agaynst his brother in his hert Neuertheles they wolde not take hede but turned their backes and stopped their eares that they shulde not heare yee they made their hertes as an Adamant stone lest they shulde heare the lawe wordes which the LORDE of hoostes sent in his holy sprete by the prophetes afore tyme. Wherfore the LORDE of hoostes was very wroth at them And thus is it come to passe that like as he spake and they wolde not heare euen so they cried and I wolde not heare saieth the LORDE of hoostes but scatered them amonge all Gentiles whom they knewe not Thus the londe was made so desolate y t there traualed no man in it nether to ner fro for that pleasaunt londe was vtterly layed waist The VIII Chapter SO the worde of the LORDE came vnto me sayenge Thus saieth the LORDE of hoostes I was in a greate gelousy ouer Sion yee I haue bene very gelous ouer her in a greate displeasure thus saieth the LORDE of hoostes I wil turne me agayne vnto Sion and wil dwel in the myddest of Ierusalem so that Ierusalem shal be called a faithfull and true cite the hill of the LORDE of hoostes yee an holy hill Thus saieth the LORDE of hoostes There shall yet olde men and women dwel agayne in the stretes of Ierusalem yee and soch as go with staues in their hondes for very age The stretes of the cite also shal be full of yonge boyes and damselles playnge vpon the stretes Thus saieth the LORDE of hoostes yf the residue of this people thynke it to be vnpossible in these dayes shulde it therfore be vnpossible in my sight sayeth the LORDE of hoostes Thus saieth the LORDE of hoostes Beholde I wil delyuer my people from the londe of the east and west and wil brynge them agayne that they maye dwel at Ierusalem They shal be my people and I will be their God in trenth and rightuousnesse Thus saieth the LORDE of hoostes let youre hondes be stronge ye that now heare these wordes by the mouth of the prophetes which be in these dayes that the foundacion is layed vpon the LORDE of hoostes house that the temple maye be buylded For why before these dayes nether men ner catel coude wynne eny thinge nether might eny man come in and out in rest for trouble but I let euery man go agaynst his neghboure Neuerthelesse I wil now intreate the residue of this people nomore as afore tyme saieth the LORDE of hoostes but they shal be a sede of peace The vynyarde shal geue hir frute the grounde shal geue hir increase and the heauens shal geue their dew and I shal cause the remnaunt of this people to haue all these in possession And it shall come to passe that like as ye were a curse amonge the Heithen O ye house of Iuda and ye house of Israel Euen so wil I delyuer you that ye shal be a blessynge feare not but let youre hoÌ„des be stronge For thus saieth the LORDE of hoostes like as I deuysed to punysh you what tyme as youre fathers prouoked me vnto wrath sayeth the LORDE of hoostes and spared not Euen so am I determed now in these dayes for to do wel vnto the house of Iuda and Ierusalem therfore feare ye not Now the thinges that ye shal do are these Speake euery man the treuth vnto his neghboure execute iudgment truly and peaceably within youre portes none of you ymagyn euell in his hert agaynst his neghboure and loue no false oothes for all these are the thinges that I hate sayeth the LORDE And the worde of the LORDE of hoostes came vnto me sayenge thus sayeth the LORDE of hoostes The fast of the fourth moneth the fast of the fifth the fast of the seuenth and the fast of the tenth shal be ioye and gladnesse prosperous hye feastes vnto the house of Iuda Only loue the treuth and peace Thus saieth the LORDE of hoostes There shall yet come people and the inhabiters of many cities and they that dwell in one cite shal go to another sayenge â–ª Vp let vs go and praye before the LORDE â—â—t vs seke the LORDE of hoostes I wil go with you
and I sayde O LORDE thou spakest vnto thy creature from the begynnynge euen the first daye and saydest Let heauen and earth be made and thy worde was a perfecte worke And then was there the sprete and the darcknesses were yet on euery syde and sylence there was no mans voyce as yet from the. Then commaundedst thou a fayre light to come forth out of thy treasures that thy worke might appeare and be sene Vpon the seconde daye thou maydest the sprete of the firmament and commaundedst it to parte asunder to make a deuysion betwixte the waters that the one parte might remayne aboue and the other beneth Vpon the thirde daye thou broughtest to passe y t the waters were gathered in the seuenth parte of the earth Sixe partes hast thou dryed vp and kepte them to the inteÌ„t y t men might sowe and occupie huszbandrie therin As soone as thy worde wente forth the worke was made For immediatly there was greate in numerable frute many dyuerse pleasures desyres of temptacion floures of chaungeable coloure and smell and this was done the thirde daye Vpon the fourth daye thou coÌ„maundedst that the Sonne shulde geue his shyne and y e Moone hir light the starres didest thou sett in ordre and gauest them a charge to do seruyce euen vnto man that was for to be made VpoÌ„ the fifth daye thou saydest vnto the seuenth parte where the waters were gathered that they shulde bringe forth diuerse beastes foules and fishes And so it came to passe that the domme water and without soule brought forth lyuynge beastes at the commaundement of God that all people might prayse thy wonderous workes Then didest thou preserue two soules y e one thou calldest Enoch and the other Leuiathan and didest separate the one from the other for the seuenth parte namely where the water was gathered together might not holde them both Vnto Enoch thou gauest one parte which was dryed vp the thirde daye that he shulde dwell in the same parte wherin are a thousande hilles But vnto LeuiathaÌ„ thou gauest the seuenth parte namely the moyst and hast kepte him to deuoure what thâ—â— wylt and whan Vpon the sixte daye thou gauest coÌ„maundement vnto the earth that before the it shulde brynge forth beastes catell and all y e crepe besydes this Adam also whom thou maydest lorde of all thy creatures Of him come we all and the people also whom thou hast chosen specially vnto thy self All this haue I sayde now and spoken before the that I might shewe how that the worlde is made for oure sakes As for the other people which also come of Adam thou hast sayde that they are nothinge but be like a spetle and hast lickened the abundauÌ„ce of them vnto a droppe that falleth from the rofe of the house And now O LORDE the HeitheÌ„ which haue euer bene reputed as nothinge haue begoÌ„ne to be lordes ouer vs and to deuoure vs but we thy people whom thou hast called y e first borne thy only begotten and thy feruent louer are geuen in to their handes and power Yf the worlde now be made for oure sakes why haue we not the inheritaunce in possession with the worlde How longe shal this endure The VII Chapter ANd it happened after that I had spoken out these wordes there was sent vnto me an angell which had bene by me also the nightes afore and he sayde vnto me Vp Eszdras and heare the wordes that I am come to tell the. And I sayde speake on LORDE my God TheÌ„ sayde he vnto me The see is sett in a wyde place y t it might be depe and greate but the intrauÌ„ce is narow and small like a ryuer For who wolde go in to the see to loke vpon it and to rule it Yf he wente not thorow the narow how might he come in to the brode Item another A cite is buylded and sett vpon a brode felde and is full of all goodes the intraunce is narow and sodane like as yf there were a fyre at the right hande and a depe water at the left and as it were onely one strate path betwixte theÌ„ both so small that there coude but one man go there Yf this cite now were geuen to an heyre he neuer wente thorow this parlous waye how wolde he receaue his inheritauÌ„ce And I sayde It is so LORDE Then sayde he Euen so is Israel also a porcion And why for their sakes haue I made the worlde whan Adam traÌ„sgressed my statutes then was y e thinge iudged that was done â–ª Then were y e intraunces of the worlde made narow full of sorow and trauayle They are but few euell full of parels and laboure For the intraunces of the fore worlde were wyde and sure and brought immortall frute Yf they now which are entred in to this worlde maye not comprehende these strayte and vayne thinges moch lesse maye they coÌ„prehende and vnderstonde the secrete thinges Why disquietest thou thy self then seynge thou art but a corruptible maÌ„ And what woldest thou knowe where as thou art but mortall And why hast thou not receaued in to thine hert the thinge that is for to come but that is present TheÌ„ sayde I O LORDE LORDE thou hast ordened in thy lawe that the righteous shulde inheret these thinges but that the vnfaithfull and vngodly shulde perishe Neuertheles the righteous shall suffre strayte thinges and hope for wyde for they that haue lyued vngodly suffred strayte thinges shal not se the wyde And he saide vnto me There is no iudge aboue God and none that hath vnderstondinge aboue the Hyest For there be many y t perish because they despyse y e lawe of God that is sett before them For God hath geuen strayte commaundement to soch as come that they knowe what they do and how they shulde lyue and yf they kepte this they shulde not be punyshed Neuertheles they were not obedient vnto him but spake agaynst him ymagined vayne thinges purposed to synne and sayde morouer that there was no God that God regarded it not His wayes haue they not knowne his lawe haue they despysed denyed his promyses in his statutes ordinaunces haue they not bene faithfull stedfast and haue not perfourmed his workes And therfore Eszdras vnto the full plenty and to the emptye emptynesse Beholde the tyme shal come y t these tokens which I haue tolde the shal come to passe the bryde shall appeare the earth y t now passeth awaye shal be shewed whoso euer is delyuered from y e foresayde euels shal se my woÌ„ders For my sonne Iesus shal be openly declared w t those y t be w t him they y t remayne shal be mery in foure hundreth yeares After these same yeares shall my sonne Christ dye and all men that haue life and y e worlde shal be turned in to the olde sylence seuen dayes like as in the fore iudgmentes so that no man shall
the raginge of the see delyuereth the possessed and dryueth the deuels in to the heerde of swyne helpeth the sick woman and Iairus daughter Chap. IX He sendeth out the twolue Apostles to preach Herode heareth tell of hiÌ„ He fedeth fyue thousande men with fyue loaues and two fishes the disciples confesse him to be the sonne of God he transfigureth himself vpon the mount delyuereth the possessed and teacheth his disciples to be lowly They desyre veÌ„geaunce but he reproueth them Chap. X. He sendeth the seuentye before him for to preach and geueth theÌ„ a charge how to behaue them selues prayseth his heauenly father answereth the scrybe that tempted him â–ª and by the example of the Samaritane sheweth who is a maÌ„s neghbour Martha receaueth the LORDE into hir house Mary Magdalene is feruent in hearinge his worde Chap. XI He teacheth his disciples to praye dryueth out a deuel and rebuketh the blasphemous pharises They requyre sygnes and tokens He eateth with the pharisee and reproueth the ypocrisy of the pharises scrybes and ypocrites Chap. XII The leuen of the pharises Christ conforteth his disciples agaynst persecucion warneth them to bewarre of cuvetousnesse by the symilitude of a certayne rich man he wyll not haue them to hange vpoÌ„ earthly thinges but to watch and to be ready agaynst his commynge Chap. XIII Of the Galileans whom Pilate slew and of those that dyed in Syloe The symilitude of the fyge tre Christ healeth the sicke woman The parable of the mustarde sede and leuen Few entre in to the kyngdome Christ reproueth Herode and Ierusalem Chap. XIIII Iesus eateth with the pharisee healeth the dropsye vpon the Sabbath teacheth to be lowly telleth of the greate supper and warneth them that wyll folowe him to laye their accomptes before what it wyll cost theÌ„ The salt of the earth Chap. XV. The louynge mercy of God openly set forth in the parable of the hundreth shepe and of the sonne that was lost Chap. XVI The parable of the wicked Mammon Not one title of Gods worde shal perish Of the rich man and of poore Lazarus Chap. XVII Christ teacheth his disciples to avoyde occasions of euell one to forgeue another stedfastly to trust in God and no man to presume in his owne workes He healeth the ten lepers speaketh of the latter dayes and of the ende of the worlde Chap. XVIII He teacheth to be ferueÌ„t in prayer coÌ„tinually Of the pharisee and the publican The kyngdome of God belongeth vnto childreÌ„ Christ answereth the ruler and promiseth rewarde vnto all soch as suffre losse for his sake and folowe him The blynde maÌ„ is restored to his sight Chap. XIX Of Zacheus and the ten seruauntes to whoÌ„ the ten taleÌ„tes were delyuered Christ rydeth to Ierusalem and wepeth ouer it Chap. XX. They axe Christ one questyon and he axeth them another The parable of the vynyarde Of tribute te be geueÌ„ vnto the Emperoure how Christ stoppeth the mouthes of the Saduceâ—s Chap. XXI Christ commendeth the poore wyddow telleth of the destruccion of Ierusalem of false teachers of the tokeÌ„s and troubles for to come of the ende of the worlde and of his owne commynge Chap. XXII Christ is betrayed they eate the easter lambe The institucion of the sacrameÌ„t They stryue who shal be greatest he reproueth them He prayeth thre tymes vpon the mount They take him and bringe him to the hye prestes house Peter denyeth him thryse and they bringe him before the councell Chap. XXIII Iesus is brought before Pilate and Herode The wemeÌ„ make lameÌ„tacion for him He prayeth for his enemies forgeueth the synner vpon his right hande dyeth on the crosse and is buried Chap. XXIIII The wemen come to the graue Christ apeareth vnto the two disciples that go towarde Emaus stondeth in the myddest of all his disciples openeth their vnderstondinge in the scriptures geueth them a charge and ascendeth vp into heauen The gospell of S. Luke The prologe of S. Luke FOR so moch as many haue taken in hande to set forth y e wordes of the actes that are come to passe amonge vs like as they delyuered theÌ„ vnto vs which from the begynnynge sawe them their selues and were mynisters of the worde I thought it good after that I had diligently searched out all from the begynnynge to wryte the same orderly vnto the good Theophilus that thou mightest knowe the certeÌ„te of y e wordes wherof thou art infourmed The first Chapter IN the tyme of Herode kynge of Iewry there was a prest named Zachary of the course of Abia and his wife of the doughters of Aaron hir name Elizabeth They were both righteous before God and walked in all the commaundementes and statutes of the LORDE vnreproueably And they had no childe for Elizabeth was baren and they were both well stricken in age And it came to passe as he executed the prestes office before God whan his course came acordinge to the custome of the presthode it fell to his lott to burne incense And he wente into the temple of the LORDE and the whole multitude of the people was without in prayer whyle the incense was aburnynge And the angell of the LORDE appeared vnto him and stode on the right syde of the altare of inceÌ„se And whan Zachary sawe him he was abaszhed there came a feare vpon him But the angell sayde vnto him Feare not Zachary for thy prayer is herde And y e wife Elizabeth shal beare the a sonne whose name thou shalt call Ihon thou shalt haue ioye and gladnesse and many shal reioyce at his byrth for he shal be greate before the LORDE Wyne and stronge drynke shal he not drynke And he shal be fylled w t the holy goost euen in his mothers wombe And many of the children of Israel shal he turne vnto the LORDE their God And he shal go before him in the sprete and power of Elias to turne the hertes of y e fathers vnto the children and the vnfaithfull vnto the wyszdome of the righteous to make the people ready for the LORDE And Zachary sayde vnto the Angel Wherby shal I knowe this For I am olde and my wife well stricken in age The angell answered and sayde vnto him I am Gabriell that stonde before God and am sent to speake vnto the and to shewe the these glad tydinges And beholde thou shalt be domme and not able to speake vntyll the daye that this come to passe because thou hast not beleued my wordes which shal be fulfylled in their season And the people wayted for Zachary and marueyled that he taried so longe in the teÌ„ple And whaÌ„ he weÌ„te out he coude not speake vnto them And they perceaued that he had sene a vision in the teÌ„ple And he beckened vnto them and remayned speachlesse And it fortuned whaÌ„ the tyme of his office was out he wente home in to his house And after those dayes Elizabeth his wife conceaued and hyd hir self fyue monethes
iudge them that are without Do ye not iudge thē that are within As for them that are without God shal iudge them Put awaye frō you him that is euell The VI. Chapter HOw dare one off you hauynge busynes with another go to lawe before the vnrighteous and not before the sayntes Do ye not knowe that the sayntes shal iudge the worlde Yf the worlde then shal be iudged off you are ye not good ynough to iudge small matters Knowe ye not that we shal iudge the angels how moch more thinges that pertayne to the tēporall life Therfore yf ye haue iudgmentes of temporall matters take them that are despysed in the congregacion and set them to be iudges This I saye to youre shame Is there vtterly no wyse man amōge you What not one at all that can iudge betwene brother brother but one brother goeth to lawe with another and that before the vnbeleuers Now therfore is there vtterly a faute amōge you that ye go to lawe one with another Why rather suffre ye not wronge Why suffre ye not youre selues rather to be defrauded but ye youre selues do wrōge and defraude and that euen the brethrē Knowe ye not that y e vnrighteous shal not inheret the kyngdome of God Be not disceaued Nether whoremongers ner worshippers off ymages ner breakers off wedlocke ner weaklinges nether abusers of them selues with mankynde ner theues nether the couetous ner drōkardes ner cursed speakers ner extorcioners shal inheret the kyngdome of God And soch haue some of you bene but ye are waszhed ye are sanctified ye are made righteous by the name of the LORDE Iesus and by the sprete of oure God I maye do all thinges but all thinges are not profitable I maye do all thinges but I wil be broughte vnder no mās power Meates are ordeyned for y e bely the bely for meates But God shal destroye both it and them The body belongeth not vnto whordome but vnto the LORDE and the LORDE vnto the body God hath raysed vp the LORDE and shal rayse vs vp also by his power Knowe ye not that youre bodies are the mēbres of Christ Shal I now take the membres of Christ and make them the membres of an harlot God forbyd Or do ye not knowe that he which cleueth vnto an harlot is one body For they shal be two sayeth he in one fleszhe But he that cleueth vnto the LORDE is one sprete Fle whordome All synnes y t a man doth are without the body But he that commytteth whordome synneth agaynst his awne body Or knowe ye not that youre body is the temple of the holy goost Whom ye haue of God and are not youre awne For ye are dearly boughte Prayse ye God therfore in yo body in yo sprete which are Gods The VII Chapter AS concernynge the thinges wherof ye wrote vnto me I answere It is good for a man not to touche a woman Neuertheles to avoyde whordome let euery man haue his awne wife and let euery woman haue hir awne huszbande Let the mā geue vnto the wife due beneuolence likewyse also the wife vnto y e man The wife hath not power ouer hir awne body but the huszbande likewyse the man hath not power ouer his awne body but the wife Withdrawe not yo selues one frō another excepte it be with the consent of both for a tyme that ye maye geue youre selues vnto fastinge and prayer and thē come together agayne lest Sathan tempte you for yo incontynēcye But this I saye of fauoure and not of commaundemēt Howbeit I wolde rather y t all mē were as I am Neuertheles euery one hath his proper gifte of God one thus another so To them verely y t are vnmaried and to wedowes I saye It is good for thē that they abyde also as I do But yf they cannot absteyne let them mary For it is better to mary then to burne But vnto them that are maried commaunde not I but the LORDE that the wife separate not her selfe from the huszbande but yf she separate her selfe y t she remayne vnmaried or be reconcyled to hir huszbande and let not the huszbande put awaye his wife from him As for the other vnto thē saye I not y e LORDE Yf eny brother haue an vnbeleuynge wife and she is content to dwell with him let him not put hir awaye And yf a woman haue an vnbeleuynge huszbande and he is content to dwell with her let her not put him awaye For the vnbeleuynge huszbande is sanctified by the wife and the vnbeleuynge wife is sanctified by the huszbande or els were youre children vncleane but now are they holy But yf the vnbeleuynge departe let him departe A brother or a sister is not boūde in soch cases but God hath called vs in peace For what knowest thou O womā whether thou shalt saue y e mā Or what knowest thou O man whether thou shalt saue the woman But euen as God hath distributed vnto euery one and as the LORDE hath called euery man so let him walke and so orden I in all congregacions Yf eny man be called beynge circumcysed let him take no Heythenshippe vpon him Yf eny man be called in the Heythenshippe let him not be circumcysed Circumcision is nothinge and vncircumcision is nothinge but the kepynge of the commaundementes of God Let euery one abyde in the callynge wherin he is called Art thou called a seruaūt care not for it neuertheles yf thou mayest be fre vse it rather For he that is called in the LORDE beynge a seruaūte is a freman of the LORDE Likewyse he that is called beynge fre is a seruaūt of Christ. Ye are dearly boughte be not ye the seruauntes of men Brethren let euery one wherin he is called therin abyde with God As concernynge virgins I haue no commaundement of the LORDE neuertheles I saye my goodmeanynge as I haue optayned mercy of the LORDE to be faithfull I suppose it is good for y e present necessite for it is good for a man so to be Art thou bounde vnto a wife seke not to be lowsed Art thou lowsed frō a wife seke not a wife But yf thou take a wife thou synnest not And yf a virgin mary she synneth not Neuertheles soch shal haue trouble in the fleszhe But I fauoure you Howbeit this I saye brethren the tyme is shorte Farthermore this is the meanynge y t they which haue wyues be as though they had none and they that wepe be as though they wepte not and they that reioyse be as though they reioysed not they that bye be as though they possessed not they that vse this worlde be as though they vsed it not For the faszhion off this worlde passeth awaye But I wolde that ye shulde be without care He that is syngle careth for the thinges of the LORDE how he maye please the LORDE But he that is
maried careth for the thinges of the worlde how he maye please his wife and is deuyded A woman and a virgin that is syngle careth for the thinges of the LORDE that she maye be holy both in body also in sprete But she that is maried careth for y e thinges of the worlde how she maye please hir huszbande This I saye for youre profit not that I wil tangle you in a snare but for that which is honest and comly vnto you that ye maye coÌ„tynually cleue vnto the LORDE without hynderaunce But yf eny man thinke that it is vncomly for his virgin yf she passe the tyme of mariage and yf nede so requyre let him do what he lyst he synneth not let theÌ„ be coupled in mariage Neuertheles he that purposeth surely in his hert hauynge no nede but hath power of his awne wyll and determeth so in his hert to kepe his virgin doth well Fynally he that ioyneth his virgin in mariage doth well but he that ioyneth not his virgin in mariage doth better The wife is bounde to the lawe as longe as hir huszbande lyueth But yf hir huszbande slepe she is at liberty to mary vnto whom she wil onely that it be done in the LORDE But she is happier yf she so abyde after my iudgment I thinke verely that I also haue the sprete of God The VIII Chapter AS touchinge thinges offred vnto Idols we are sure y t we all haue knowlege Knowlege puffeth a maÌ„ vp but loue edifyeth Neuertheles yf eny maÌ„ thinke y t he knoweth eny thinge he knoweth not yet how he oughte to knowe But yf eny man loue God the same is knowne of him So are we sure now coÌ„cernynge the meates offred vnto Idols that an Idoll is nothinge in the worlde and that there is none other God but one And though there be that are called goddes whether in heauen or in earth as there be goddes many and lordes many yet haue we but one God euen the father of whoÌ„ are all thinges and we in him â–ª one LORDE Iesus Christ by whoÌ„ are all thinges and we by him But euery man hath not knowlege for some make yet conscieÌ„ce ouer the Idoll and eate it as a thinge offred vnto Idols and so their conscience beynge weake is defyled Neuertheles meate furthureth not vs vnto God Yf we eate we shal not therfore be the better yf we eate not we shal not therfore be the lesse But take hede that this youre liberty be not an occasion of fallynge vnto y e weake For yf eny man se the which hast knowlege syt at the table in the Idols house shal not his conscience whyle it is weake be occasioned to eate of the Idoll offeringes And so thorow thy knowlege shal the weake brother perishe for whoÌ„ Christ dyed But whan ye synne so agaynst the brethren and wounde their weake coÌ„science ye synne agaynst Christ. Wherfore yf meate offende my brother I wyl neuer eate flesh lest I offende my brother The IX Chapter AM I not an Apostle Am I not fre Haue I not sene Iesus Christ oure LORDE Are not ye my worke in the LORDE Yf I be not an Apostle vnto other yet am I youre Apostle for the seale of myne Apostelshippe are ye in the LORDE Myne answere vnto them that axe me is this Haue we not power to eate and drynke Haue we not power also to leade aboute a sister to wife as well as other Apostles and as the brethren of the LORDE and Cephas Or haue onely I and Barnabas not power this to do Who goeth a warfare at eny tyme vpon his awne wages Who planteth a vynyarde and eateth not of the frute therof Who fedeth a flocke and eateth not of the mylke of the flocke Saye I these thinges after the maner of men Sayeth not the lawe the same also For it is wrytten in the lawe off Moses Thou shalt not mosell the mouth of the oxe that treadeth out the corne Doth God take thought for the oxen Or sayeth he it not alltogether for oure sakes For no doute it is wrytteÌ„ for oure sakes For he that eareth shulde eare vpon hope and he y t throszheth shulde troszhe vpon hope y t he mighte be partaker of his hope Yf we haue sowne vnto you spiritual thinges is it a greate thiÌ„ge yf we reape yo bodely thiÌ„ges But yf other be partakers of this power on you wherfore are not we rather Neuertheles we haue not vsed this power but suffâ—e all thinges lest we shulde hynder the Gospell off Christ. Knowe ye not that they which laboure in the temple haue their lyuynge of y e temple and they that wayte at the altare enioye the altare Euen thus also hath y e LORDE ordeyned that they which preach the Gospell shulde lyue of y e Gospell But I haue vsed none of these thinges Nether wryte I therof that it shulde be done so vnto me for I had rather dye theÌ„ that eny man shulde brynge my reioysinge to naughte For in that I preach the Gospell I neade not boost my selfe for I must nedes do it And wo vnto me yff I preach not the Gospell Yf I do it with a good wyll I shall haue my rewarde but yff I do it agaynst my wyll yet is the office commytted vnto me Wherfore theÌ„ shal I be rewarded Namely therfore that I preach the Gospell and do the same frely for naughte that I abuse not my libertye in y e Gospell For though I am fre from all men yet haue I made my selfe euery mans seruaunt y t I mighte wynne y e moo Vnto the Iewes I am become as a Iewe to wynne y e Iewes To them that are vnder the lawe I am become as though I were vnder the lawe to wynne them which are vnder the lawe Vnto them that are without lawe I am become as though I were without lawe where as yet I am not without the lawe of God but am in y e lawe of Christ to wynne theÌ„ that are without lawe To the weake am I become as weake to wynne the weake I am become of all faszhions vnto euery man to saue some at y e leest But this I do for the Gospels sake that I mighte be partaker therof Knowe ye not that they which runne in a course runne all yet but one receaueth the rewarde Runne ye so that ye maye optayne Euery one that proueth mastrye absteyneth from all thinges and they do it that they maye optayne a corruptible crowne but we to optayne an vncorruptible crowne I therfore so runne not as at an vncertayne thinge So fighte I not as one y t beateth y e ayre but I tame my body and brynge it in to subieccion lest whan I preach vnto other I my selfe be a cast awaye The X. Chapter BRethren I wolde not that ye shulde be ignoraunt of this that oure fathers were all vnder the cloude
forbyd that I shulde reioyse saue onely in the crosse of oure LORDE Iesus Christ wherby the worlde is crucified vnto me and I vnto the worlde For in Christ Iesu nether circūcision avayleth eny thinge ner vncircumcision but a new creature And as many as walke acordynge to this rule peace and mercy be vpon thē and vpon Israel of God From hence forth let no man put me to busynesse for I beare in my body the markes of the LORDE Iesu. Brethren the grace of oure LORDE Iesu Christ be with youre sprete Amen Vnto the Galathians sent from Rome The Epistle of the Apostle S. Paul to the Ephesians The summe of this Epistle Chap. I. The euerlastinge ordinaunce and eleccion of God in sauynge all men thorow Christ Iesus his sonne We are ordened vnto good workes The dominion of Christ. Chap. II. Paul sheweth them what maner of people they were before their conuersion and what they are now in Christ. Chap. III. He sheweth the cause of his presonment desyreth them not to faynte because of his trouble and prayeth God to make thē stedfast in his sprete Chap. IIII. He exhorteth them vnto mekenes longe sufferinge vnto loue and peace euery one to serue and edifie another with the gifte that God hath geuē him to bewarre of straunge doctrine to laye asyde the olde conuersacion of gredy lustes and to walke in a new life Chap. V. He exhorteth them vnto loue warneth them to bewarre of vnclennes cuvetounesse foolish talkynge and false doctryne to be circumspecte to avoyde dronkennesse to reioyse and to be thankfull towarde God to submytt thēselues one to another He teacheth how wemen shulde obeye their huszbōdes and how louyngly men ought to intreate their wyues Chap. VI. How children shulde behaue themselues towarde their fathers and mothers Likewyse fathers towarde their children Seruauntes towarde their masters Agayne masters towarde their seruaūtes An exhortacion to the spirituall battayll and what weapens christen men shulde fight withall The Epistle of the Apostle S. Paul to the Ephesians The first Chapter PAul an Apostle of Iesus Christ by the will of God To y e sayntes which are Ephesus to thē that beleue on Iesus Christ. Grace be with you and peace from God oure father frō the LORDE Iesus Christ. Blessed be God the father of oure LORDE Iesus Christ which hath blessed vs w t all maner of spirituall blessynge in heauenly thynges by Christ acordinge as he had chosen vs by him or euer the foundacion of the worlde was layed that we shulde be holy and without blame before him in loue ordeyned vs before to receaue vs as children thorow Iesus Christ acordinge to the pleasure of his will vnto the prayse of the glory of his grace wherby he hath made vs accepted in the Beloued in whom we haue redempcion thorow his bloude namely the forgeuenes of synnes acordynge to y e riches of his grace which he hath shed vpon vs abundauntly in all wyszdome and prudēce and hath opened vnto vs the mystery of his wil acordinge to his pleasure which he had purposed in himselfe y t it shulde be preached whā the tyme was fullcome that all thinges shulde be gathered together by Christ both the thinges which are in heauen and also the thinges that are vpon earth euen by him by whom also we are come to the inheritaunce we that were therto predestinate before acordinge to y e purpose of him which worketh all thinges after y e councell of his owne wyll that we mighte be to the prayse of his glory euen we that before beleued on Christ on whō also ye beleued after that ye herde the worde of trueth namely y e Gospell of youre saluacion wherin whan ye beleued ye were sealed with the holy sprete of promes which is the ernest of oure inheritaunce to oure redempcion that we mighte be his owne to the prayse off his glory Wherfore I also in so moch as I haue herde of the faith which ye haue in y e LORDE Iesu and of youre loue vnto all y e sayntes ceasse not to geue thankes for you and make mencion of you in my prayers that y e God of oure LORDE Iesus Christ the father of glory maye geue vnto you the sprete of wyszdome and open vnto you the knowlege of himselfe and lighten the eyes of youre vnderstondinge that ye maye knowe what is the hope of youre callynge and what the riches of his glorious enheritaunce is vpon the sayntes what is the exceadinge greatnesse of his power towarde vs which beleue acordinge to y e workynge of his mightie power which he wroughte in Christ whan he raysed him vp frō the deed and set him on his righte hāde ī heauēly thinges aboue all rule power and mighte and dominaciō and aboue all that maye be named not onely in this worlde but also in y e worlde to come And hath put all thinges vnder his fete and hath made him aboue all thinges the heade of the cōgregacion which is his body and the fulnesse of him that fylleth all in all The II. Chapter ANd quyckened you also whan ye were deed thorow trespaces and synnes in the which in tyme past ye walked acordinge to the course off this worlde and after the prynce that ruleth in the ayre namely after y e sprete which now worketh in the children of vnbeleue amonge whom we also had oure conuersacion in tyme past in the lustes of oure flesh and dyd the wyll of the flesh and of the mynde and were naturally the children of wrath euen as well as other But God which is riche in mercy thorow his greate loue wherwith he loued vs euē whā we were deed in synnes hath quyckened vs in Christ for by grace are ye saued and hath raysed vs vp with him and set vs with him in heauēly thinges thorow Christ Iesus y t in tymes to come he mighte shewe the exceadinge riches of his grace in kyndnesse to vs warde in Christ Iesu. For by grace are ye saued thorow faith and that not of youre selues For it is y e gifte of God not of workes lest eny mā shulde boast him selfe For we are his workmanshippe created in Christ Iesu vnto good workes to y t which God ordeyned vs before that we shulde walke in them Wherfore remēbre that ye which afore tyme were Gentyles after the flesh and were called vncircumcision of thē that are called circumcision after the flesh which circumcision is made with the hande that ye at the same tyme were without Christ and reputed aleauntes from the comen welth of Israel and were straungers from the Testamentes of promes therfore had ye no hope and were without God in this worlde But now ye that be in Christ Iesu and afore tyme were farre of are now made nye by the bloude of Christ. For he is o peace which of both hath made one and hath broken downe the
roaringe cursed speakynge be farre froÌ„ you with all maliciousnes But be ye curteous one to another mercifull and forgeue one another eueÌ„ as God hath forgeuen you in Christ. The V. Chapter BE ye the folowers therfore of God as deare children and walke in loue euen as Christ loued vs and gaue him selfe for vs an offerynge and sacrifice of a swete sauoure vnto God As for whordome and all vnclennes or couetousnes let it not be named amoÌ„ge you as it becommeth sayntes nether fylthines ner folish talkynge ner ieastynge which are not comly but rather geuynge of thaÌ„kes For be sure that no whore monger or vncleane person or couetous person which is a worshipper off ymages hath inheritaunce in the kyngdome of Christ and of God Let no man disceaue you with vayne wordes for because of these commeth the wrath of God vpon the children of vnbeleue Be not ye therfore companions with them For sometyme ye were darknesse but now are ye lighte in the LORDE Walke as the children of lighte 〈◊〉 the frute of the sprete is all maner of goodnes and righteousnes and truâ—th and proue what is pleasinge vnto the LORDE and haue no fellishippe with y e vnfrutefull workes of darknes but rather rebuke theÌ„ For it is shame euen to name those thinges which are done of them in secrete But all thinges are manifest whan they are rebuked of the lighte For what so euer is manifest that same is lighte Therfore sayeth he Awake thou that slepest and stonde vp froÌ„ the deed and Christ shal geue the lighte Take hede therfore how ye walke circumspectly not as the vnwyse but as y e wyse and redeme the tyme for it is a miserable tyme. Wherfore be not ye vnwyse but vnderstonde what the wil of the LORDE is and be not dronken with wyne wherin is excesse but be full of the sprete and talke amoÌ„ge youre selues of Psalmes and ymnes and spirituall songes synginge and makynge melody vnto the LORDE in youre hertes geuynge thankes alwayes for all thinges vnto God the father in the name of oure LORDE Iesus Christ submyttinge youreselues one to another in the feare of God Let the wemen submytte them selues vnto their huszbandes as vnto the LORDE For the huszbande is the wyues heade eueÌ„ as Christ also is the heade of the congregacion and he is the Sauioure of his body Therfore as the congregacion is in subieccion to Christ likewyse let the wyues be in subieccion to their huszbandes in all thinges Ye huszbandes loue youre wyues even as Christ loued the congregacion and gaue himselfe for it to sanctifye it and clensed it in the fountayne of water by the worde to make it vnto himselfe a glorious congregacion hauynge no spot ner wrynkle ner eny soch thinge but that it shulde be holy and without blame So oughte men also to loue their wyues euen as their awne bodyes He that loueth his wife loueth himselfe For no maÌ„ euer yet hated his awne fleszhe but norisheth and cheriszheth it euen as the LORDE doth also the congregacion For we are membres of his body of his flesh and of his bones For this cause shal a man leaue father and mother and cleue vnto his wife and they two shal be one flesh This is a greate secrete but I speake of Christ and the congregacion Neuertheles do ye so that euery one of you loue his wife euen as himselfe but let the 〈…〉 huszbande The VI. Chapter YE children obey youre elders in the LORDE for that is righte Honoure thy father and thy mother That is the first commaundement that hath eny promes that thou mayest prospere and lyuelonge vpon earth And ye fathers prouoke not youre children vnto wrath but brynge theÌ„ vp in the nourtoure and informacion of the LORDE Ye seruauntes obey youre bodely masters with feare and tremblynge in synglenes of youre hert euen as vnto Christ not with seruyce onely in the eye sighte as men pleasers but as the seruauntes off Christ doynge the wyll off God from the hert with good wyll Thynke that ye serue the LORDE and not meÌ„ and be sure that what good soeuer a man doth he shal receaue it agayne of the LORDE whether he be bonde or fre And ye masters do euen the same vnto theÌ„ puttynge awaye threatenynges and knowe that euen youre master also is in heauen nether is there eny respecte of personnes with him Fynally my brethren be stronge in the LORDE and in the power of his mighte put on the armo of God that ye maye stonde stedfast agaynst the craftie assautes off the deuell For we wrestle not agaynst flesh and bloude but agaynst rule agaynst power namely agaynst the rulers of the worlde of the darknesse of this worlde agaynst y e spretes of wickednes vnder the heauen For this cause take ye the armoure of God y t ye maye be able to resiste in the euell daye and stonde perfecte in all thinges Stonde therfore and youre loynes gyrde aboute with the trueth hauynge on the brest plate of righteousnes and shod vpoÌ„ yo fete with the gospell of peace that ye maye be prepared Aboue all thinges take holde of the shylde of faith wherwith ye maye quenche all the fyrie dartes of the wicked And take the helmet of saluacion the swerde of the sprete which is the worde of God And praye allwayes with all maner of prayer and supplicacion in the sprete and watch there vnto with all instaunce and supplicacion for all sayntes and for me that the worde maye be geuen me that I maye open my mouth boldly to vtter the secretes of the Gospell wherof I am a messaunger in bondes that I maye speake therin frely as it becommeth me to speake But that ye maye also knowe what case I am in and what I do Tichicus my deare brother and faithfull mynister in the LORDE shal shewe you all whom I haue sent vnto you for the same cause that ye mighte knowe what case I stonde in and that he mighte comforte youre hertes Peace be vnto the brethreÌ„ and loue with faith from God the father from the LORDE Iesu Christ. Grace be with all them that loue oure LORDE Iesus Christ vnfaynedly Amen Sent from Rome vnto the Ephesians by Tichicus The Epistle of the Apostle S. Paul to the Philippians The summe of this epistle Chap. I. He exhorteth them to increace in loue in knowlege and experience of godly thinges maketh mencion of his presonment at Rome is glad to heare Christ preached is coÌ„tent ether to dye or lyue and prayeth them to lede a godly conuersacion to be of one mynde and to feare no persecucion Chap. II. He exhorteth them to vnite and brotherly loue and to bewarre of strife and vayne glory And for a sure ensample he layeth Christ before them Chap. III. He warneth theÌ„ to bewarre of false teachers
Achaia For froÌ„ you was the worde of the LORDE noysed out not onely in Macedonia Achaia but iÌ„ all quarters also is yo r faith iÌ„ God spred abrode so that it nedeth not vs to speake eny thinge at all For they them selues shewe of you what maner of entrynge in we had vnto you and how ye are turned vnto God from ymages for to serue the lyuynge and true God and to loke for his sonne from heaueÌ„ whom he raysed vp from the deed euen Iesus which hath delyuered vs froÌ„ the wrath to come The II. Chapter FOr ye youre selues brethren knowe of oure intrauÌ„ce vnto you how that it was not in vayne but as we had suffred afore were shamefully intreated at Philippos as ye knowe we were bolde in oure God to speake vnto you y e Gospel of God with moch stryuynge For oure exhortacion was not to brynge you to erroure ner yet to vnclennes nether was it with gyle but as we are alowed of God that the Gospell shulde be commytted vnto vs to preache euen so we speake not as though we wolde please meÌ„ but God which tryeth oure hertes For we haue not gone aboute with flateringe wordes as ye knowe ner wayted for oure owne profit God is recorde nether soughte we prayse of men nether of you ner of eny other whan we mighte haue bene chargeable vnto you as the Apostles off Christ but we were tender amonge you Like as a norsse cherisheth hir children euen so had we hartely affeccion towarde you and wolde with good wyl haue dealte vnto you not onely the Gospell of God but oure lyues also because ye were deare vnto vs. Ye remembre brethren oure laboure and trauayle For daye and nighte wroughte we because we wolde not be chargeable vnto eny of you and preached the Gospell of God amonge you Ye are witnesses and so is God how holyly and iustly and vnblameable we behaued oure selues amoÌ„ge you thaâ— beleue as ye knowe how that as a 〈…〉 his children euen so exhorte 〈…〉 and besoughte euery one 〈…〉 wolde walke worthely before God 〈…〉 hath called you vnto his kyngdome 〈…〉 For this cause thanke we God without ceassynge because that whaÌ„ ye receaued of vs the worde of the preachinge of God ye receaued it not as y e worde of men but eueÌ„ as it is of a trueth the worde of God which worketh in you that beleue For ye brethren are become the folowers off the congregacions off God which in Iewry are in Christ Iesu so that ye haue suffred euen like thinges of youre kynsmen as they haue suffred of the Iewes Which as they put the LORDE Iesus to death and their awne prophetes euen so haue they persecuted vs also and please not God and are coÌ„trary to all men forbyddinge vs to speake vnto the Heythen that they mighte be saued to fulfill their synnes allwaye for the wrath is come vpon them allready vnto y e vttemost But we brethren for as moch as we haue bene kepte from you for a season as concernynge the bodely presence but not in the hert we haue haisted the more with greate desyre to se you personally Therfore wolde we haue come vnto you I Paul two tymes but Sathan withstode vs. For who is oure hope or ioye or crowne of reioysinge are not ye it in y e sighte of oure LORDE Iesus Christ at his commynge Yes ye are oure prayse and ioye The III. Chapter WHerfore sence we coulde no longer forbeare we thoughte it good to remayne at Athens alone sent Timotheus oure brother and mynister of God and oure helper in y e gospell of Christ to stablysh you and to comforte you in youre faith that noman shulde be moued in these troubles for ye youre selues knowe that we are euen appoynted there vnto And whan we were with you we tolde you before that we shulde suffre tribulacion euen as it is come to passe as ye knowe For this cause seynge I coulde no longer forbeare I sent that I mighte haue knowlege of youre faith lest happly the tempter had tempted you and lest oure laboure had bene in vayne But now that Timotheus is come froÌ„ you vnto vs and hath shewed vs of youre faith and loue how that ye haue allwaye good remembraunce of vs desyringe to se vs 〈…〉 to se you therfore brethren 〈…〉 in you in all oure 〈…〉 thorow youre faith For 〈…〉 yf ye stonde stedfast in y e â—ORDE For what thankes can we recompeÌ„ce to God agayne for you because of this ioye that we haue concernynge you before oure God We praye exceadingly daye and nighte that we mighte se you presently and fulfill that which is lackynge in yo r faith God himselfe o r father o r LORDE Iesus Christ gyde oure iourney vnto you But the LORDE increace you make you flowe ouer in loue one towarde another and towarde all men euen as we do towarde you that yo r hertes maye be stable and vnblameable in holynes before God oure father at the commynge of oure LORDE Iesus Christ with all his sayntes The IIII. Chapter FVrthermore we beseke you brethren and exhorte you in the LORDE Iesus that ye increace more and more euen as ye haue receaued of vs how ye oughte to walke and to please God For ye knowe what commaundementes we gaâ—ue you by oure LORDE Iesus Christ. For this is the will of God euen youre sanctifienge that ye shulde absteyne from whordome y t euery one of you shulde knowe how to kepe his vessell in holynes and honoure not in the lust of concupiscence as the Heythen which knowe not God And that no man go to farre ner defraude his brother in bargayninge For the LORDE is the auenger of all soch thinges as we haue sayde testified vnto you afore tyme. For God hath not called vs to vnclennesse but vnto holynes He therfore that despyseth despyseth not man but God which hath geuen his holy sprete in to you But as touchinge brotherly loue ye nede not that I wryte vnto you for ye youre selues are taught of God to loue one another yee and that thinge ye do vnto all the brethreÌ„ which are thorow out all Macedonia But we beseke you brethren that ye increace yet more and more and that ye study to be quyete and to medle with youre awne busynesse and to worke with youre awne haÌ„des as we commaunded you that ye maye walke honestly towarde theÌ„ that are without and that nothinge be lackynge vnto you We wolde not brethren that ye shulde be ignoraunt concernynge them which are fallen a slepe that ye sorowe not as other do which haue no hope For yf we beleue that Iesus dyed and rose agayne euen so theÌ„ also which slepe by Iesus shal God brynge with him For this we saye vnto you in the worde of the LORDE that we which lyue and are remaynynge
helpe of God ouerloke it better amende it Now wil I exhorte the who so euer thou be y e readest scripture yf thou fynde oughte therin y t thou vnderstondest not or that apeareth to be repugnaunt geue no temerarious ner haystye iudgmeÌ„t therof but ascrybe it to thyne awne ignoraunce not to the scrypture thynke y t thou vnderstondest it not or y t it hath some other meanynge or y t it is happlye ouersene of y e interpreters or wronge prynted Agayne it shall greately helpe y t to vnderstonde scripture yf thou marke not onely what is spoken or wrytten but of whom vnto whom with what wordes at what tyme where to what intent with what circumstaunce consyderynge what goeth before and what foloweth after For there be some thynges which are done wrytteÌ„ to the intente y t we shulde do lykewyse as whan Abraham beleueth God is obedient vnto his worde defendeth Loth his kynsman from violent wronge There be some thynges also which are wrytteÌ„ to the intente y t we shulde eschue soch lyke As whan Dauid lyeth with Vrias wyfe causeth him to be slayne Therfore I saye whan thou readest scripture be wyse circumspecte whan thou commest to soch straunge maners of speakynge darke sentences to soch parables similitudes to soch dreames or vysions as are hyd from thy vnderstondynge coÌ„mytte them vnto God or to the gyfte of his holy sprete in them y t are better lerned then thou As for the commendacyon of Gods holy scripture I wolde fayne magnifye it as it is worthy but I am farre vnsufficieÌ„t therto therfore I thoughte it better for me to holde my tonge then with few wordes to prayse or commeÌ„de it exhortynge y e most deare reader so to loue it so to cleue vnto it so to folowe it in thy daylye conuersacyon y t other men seynge thy good workes the frutes of y e holy goost in the maye prayse the father of heauen geue his worde a good reporte for to lyue after the lawe of God to leade a vertuous conuersacyon is the greatest prayse y t thou canst geue â—nto his doctryne But as touchynge the euell reporte and disprayse that the good worde of God hath by the corrupte and euell conuersacyon of some y t daylye heare it and professe it outwardly with theyr mouthes I exhorte y e most deare reader let not y t offende the ner withdrawe thy mynde froÌ„ the loue of y e trueth nether moue y e to be partaker in lyke vnthankfulnes but seynge y e lighte is come in to the worlde loue nomore the workes of darknes receaue not the grace of god in vayne Call to thy remembraunce how louynge mercifull God is vnto the how kyndly and fatherly he helpeth the in alâ— trouble teacheth thyne ignoraunce healeth the in all thy sycknesse forgeueth the all thy synnes fedeth y e geueth the drynke helpeth y e out of preson norysheth the in straunge countrees careth for the seyeth y t thou wante nothynge Call this to mynde I saye that earnestly and consydre how thou hast receaued of god all these benefites yee and many mo then thou canst desyre how thou art bounde lykewise to shewe thy selfe vnto thy neghboure as farre as thou canst to teach him yf he be ignoraunt to helpe him in all his trouble to heale his sycknes to forgeue him his offences and that hartely to fede him to cherish him to care for him and to se y t he wante nothyng· And on this behalfe I beseke the thou y t hast y e ryches of this worlde and louest God with thy harte to lyfte vp thyne eyes and se how greate a multitude of poore people renne thorow euery towne haue pitie on thyne awne flesh helpe them with a good harte and do with thy councell all that euer thou canst that this vnshamefast beggynge maye be put downe that these ydle folkes maye be set to laboure that soch as are not able to get theyr lyuynge maye be prouyded for At the leest thou y t art of councell with soch as are in auctoryte geue them some occasyon to cast theyr heades together and to make prouysyon for the poore Put the in remembraunce of those noble cityes in other countrees that by the auctoryte of theyr prynces haue so rychely aÌ„d well prouided for theyr poore people to the greate shame deshonestye of vs yf we lykewyse receauynge y e worde of God shewe not soch lyke frutes therof wolde God y t those men whose office is to maynteyne y e comon welth were as diligent in this cause as they are in other Let vs bewarre by tymes for after vnthankfulnes there foloweth euer a plage the mercyful hande of God be with vs defende vs that we be not partakers therof Go to now most deare reader syt the downe at the Lordes fete and reade his wordes as Moses teacheth the Iewes take them in to theyr herte let thy talkynge communicacion be of them whan thou syttest in thyne house or goest by y e waye whan thou lyest downe whan thou ryseth vp And aboue all thynges fasshyon thy lyfe coÌ„uersacion acordyng to the doctryne of the holy goost therin that thou mayest be partaker of y e good promyses of god in the Byble be heyre of his blessynge in Christ. In whom yf thou put thy trust be an vnfayned reader or hearer of hys worde with thy hert thou shalt fynde swetenesse theryn spye woÌ„derous thynges to thy vnderstondynge to the auoydynge of all sedicyous sectes to the abhorrynge of thy olde synfull lyfe to the stablyshynge of thy godly conuersacyon In the first boke of Moses called Genesis thou mayest lerne to knowe the almightye power of god in creatynge all of naught his infinite wysdome in ordryng the same his ryghteousnes in punyshynge y e vngodly his loue fatherly mercy in comfortynge the righteous with his promes c. In the seconde boke called Exodus we se the myghtye arme of god in delyuerynge his people from so greate bondage out of Egypte and what prouysyon he maketh for them in the wildernes how he teacheth them with his wholsome worde and how the Tabernacle was made and set vp In the thyrde boke called Leuiticus is declared what sacrifices the prestes Leuites vsed and what theyr office ministracyon was In the fourth boke called Numerus is declared how the people are nombred and mustred how the captaynes are chosen after y e trybes kynreds how they weÌ„te forth to y e battayll how they pitched theyr tentes how they brake vp The fyfth boke called Deuteronomium sheweth how that Moses now beynge olde rehearseth the lawe of god vnto y e people putteth them in remembraunce agayne of all the wonders benefices that god had shewed for them and exhorteth them earnestly to loue y e Lorde theyr god to cleue vnto him to put their trust
in him and to herken vnto his voyce After the death of Moses doth Iosue brynge the people in to the loÌ„de of promes where God doth wonderous thynges for his people by Iosue which distributeth y e londe vnto them vnto euery trybe theyr possession But in theyr wealth they forgat the goodnes of God so that oft tymes he gaue theÌ„ ouer in to the hande of theyr enemies Neuertheles whan so euer they called faithfully vpon him and conuerted he delyuered them agayne as the boke of Iudges declareth In the bokes of the kynges is descrybed the regiment of good and euell prynces and how the decaye of all nacions commeth by euel kynges For in Ieroboam thou seyst what myschefe what ydolatrye soch like abhominacyon foloweth whaÌ„ the kynge is a maynteyner of false doctryne aÌ„d causeth the people to synne agaynst God which fallinge awaye from gods worde increased so sore amonge them that it was the cause of all theyr sorowe and misery the very occasion why Israel first and then Iuda were caryed awaye in to captyuite Agayne in Iosaphat in Ezechias and in Iosias thou seyst the nature of a vertuous kynge He putteth downe the houses of ydolatrye seyth that his prestes teach nothynge but y e lawe of God coÌ„maundeth his lordes to go with them and to se that they teach the people In these kynges I saye thou seyst the coÌ„dicyon of a true defender of y e fayth for he spareth nether cost ner laboure to manteyne the lawes of God to seke the welth prosperite of his people and to rote out the wicked And where soch a prince is thou seyst agayne how God defendeth him and his people though he haue neuer so many enemyes Thus wente it with theÌ„ in the olde tyme and euen after y e same maner goeth it now with vs God be praysed therfore aÌ„d graunte vs of his fatherly mercy that we be not vnthankfull lest where he now geueth vs a Iosaphat an Ezechias yee a very Iosias he sende vs a Pharao a Ieroboam or an Achab. In the two first bokes of Eâ—dras in Hester thou seyst the delyueraunce of the people which though they were but fewe yet is it vnto vs all a speciall coÌ„forte for so moch as God is not forgetfull of his promes but bryngeth them out of captiuite acordynge as he had tolde them before In the boke of Iob we lerne comforte and pacience in that God not onely punysheth the wicked but proueth tryeth the iust and righteous howbeit there is noman innocent in his sighte by dyuerse troubles in this lyfe declaryng therby y t they are not his bastardes but his deare sonnes and that he loueth them In the Psalmes we lerne how to resorte onely vnto God in all oure troubles to seke helpe at him to call onely vpon him to satle oure myndes by pacieÌ„ce how we ought in prosperite to be thankfull vnto him The Prouerbes and the Preacher of Salomon teach vs wysdome to knowe God oure owne selues and the worlde and how vayne all thynges are saue onely to cleue vnto God As for the doctryne of the Prophetes what is it els but an earnest exhortacion to eschue synne to turne vnto God a faythfull promes of the mercy aÌ„d pardon of God vnto all them y t turne vnto him and a threatenyng of his wrath to the vngodly sauynge that here and there they prophecye also manifestly of Christ of y e expulsion of the Iewes and callynge of the Heythen Thus moch thought I to speake of y e olde Testament wherin almyghtie God openeth vnto vs his myghtye power his wysdome his louynge mercy righteousnesse for the which cause it oughte of no man to be abhorred despysed or lyghtly regarded as though it were an olde scripture y t nothyng beloÌ„ged vnto vs or y t now were to be refused For it is Gods true scripture testimony which the Lorde Iesus commaundeth the Iewes to search who so euer beleueth not the scripture beleueth not Christ and who so refuseth it refuseth God also The New Testament or Gospell is a manyfest and cleare testymony of Christ how God perfourmeth his ooth and promes made in the olde Testament how the New is declared and included in the Olde and the Olde fulfylled and verifyed in the New Now where as the most famous interpreters of all geue sondrye iudgmentes of the texte so farre as it is done by y e sprete of knowlege in the holy goost me thynke noman shulde be offended there at for they referre theyr doinges in mekenes to the sprete of trueth in the congregacyon of god sure I am that there commeth more knowlege and vnderstondinge of the scripture by theyr sondrie translacyons then by all the gloses of oure sophisticall doctours For that one interpreteth somthynge obscurely in one place the same transâ—ateth another or els he him selfe more manifestly by a more playne vocable of the same meanyng in another place Be not thou offended therfore good Reader though one call a scrybe that another calleth a lawyer or elders that another calleth father mother or repentaunce that another calleth pennaunce or amendment For yf thou be not disceaued by mens tradicioÌ„s thou shalt fynde nomore dyuersite betwene these termes then betwene foure pens and a grote And this maner haue I vsed in my translacyon callyng it in some place pennaunce that in another place I call repentaunce and that not onely because the interpreters haue done so before me but that the aduersaries of the trueth maye se how that we abhorre not this worde peÌ„naunce as they vntruly reporte of vs no more then the interpreters of latyn abhorre penitere whan they reade resipiscere Onely oure hertes desyre vnto God is that his people be not blynded in theyr vnderstondyng lest they beleue pennaunce to be ought saue a very repeÌ„taunce ameÌ„dment or conuersyon vnto God and to be an vnfayned new creature in Christ and to lyue acordyng to his lawe For els shall they fal in to the olde blasphemy of Christes bloude and beleue that they theÌ„ selues are able to make satisfaccion vnto God for theyr awne synnes from the which erroure god of his mercy and pleÌ„teous goodnes preserue all his Now to conclude for so moch as all the scripture is wrytten for thy doctryne ensample it shal be necessary for the to take holde vpon it whyle it is offred the yee and with ten handes thankfully to receaue it And though it be not worthely ministred vnto the in this translacyon by reason of my rudnes Yet yf thou be ferueÌ„t in thy prayer God shal not onely sende it the in a better shappe by the mynistracyon of other that beganne it afore but shall also moue the hertes of them which as yet medled not withall to take it in hande and to bestowe the gifte of theyr vnderstondynge theron as well in oure language as other famous interpreters do in other languages And I praye God that
fyue cubytes longe brode y t it maye be foure square thre cubytes hye thou shalt make hornes vpon the foure corners of it shalt ouer laye it with brasse Make ashpaÌ„nes shouels basens fleshokes cole paÌ„nes All y e apparell therof shalt thou make of brasse Thou shalt make a gredyron also like a nett of brase foure brasen rynges vpon the foure corners of it from vnder vp aboute the altare shalt thou make it so that the gredyron reach vnto y e myddest of the altare Thou shalt make staues also for the altare of Fyrre tre ouer layed with golde and shalt put the staues in the rynges that the staues maye be on both the sydes of y e altare to beare it withall And holowe with bordes shalt thou make it like as it is shewed the in the mount And to y e habitacion thou shalt make a courte an hangynge of whyte twyned sylke vpoÌ„ y e one syde an C. cubytes loÌ„ge towarde the south xx pilers vpon xx brasen sokettes the knoppes w t their whopes of syluer Likewyse vpon y e north syde there shal be an hanginge of an C. cubytes loÌ„ge twenty pilers vpon twenty brasen sokettes and their knoppes w t their whopes of syluer But vpon the west syde the bredth of y e courte shal haue an hanginge of fiftie cubites longe ten pilers vpon ten sokettes VpoÌ„ the east syde also shal the bredth of the courte haue fiftie cubytes so that the hangynge haue vpon one syde fyftene cubites and thre pilers vpoÌ„ thre sokettes And vpon y e other syde fiftene cubytes also and thre pilers vpoÌ„ thre sokettes And in the courte gate there shal be an hangynge twenty cubytes brode of yalowe sylke scarlet purple and whyte twyned sylke wrought with nedle worke and foure pilers vpon their foure sokettes All the pilers rounde aboute the courte shall haue syluer whopes syluer knoppes sokettes of brasse And the length of y e courte shal be an huÌ„dreth cubytes the bredth fiftie cubytes the heygth fyue cubytes of whyte twyned sylke and y e sokettes therof shal be of brasse All y e vessels also of the habitacion to all maner seruyce and all the nales of it and all the nales of the courte shal be of brasse Commaunde y e children of Israel y t they bringe vnto y e the most cleare pure oyle oliue beaten to geue lighte y t it maye allwaye be put in the laÌ„pes in the Tabernacle of wytnes without the vayle that hangeth before the wytnesse And AaroÌ„ and his sonnes shal dresse it from the euenynge vntyll y e mornynge before the LORDE This shal be vnto you a perpetuall custome for youre posterities amonge the children of Israel The XXVIII Chapter ANd thou shalt take vnto the Aaron thy brother and his sonnes froÌ„ amonge the childreÌ„ of Israel that he maye be my prest namely Aaron his sonnes Nadab Abihu Eleazar and Ithamar thou shalt make holy clothes for AaroÌ„ y i brother honorable and glorious shalt speake vnto all them that are wise of hert whom I haue fylled with the sprete of wiszdome that they make garmentes to Aaron for his consecracion that he maye be my prest These are y e garmentes which they shal make a brestlappe an ouerbody cote a tunycle an albe a myter and a girdell Thus shal they make holy garmentes for y e brother AaroÌ„ and his sonnes that he maye be my prest They shal take therto golde yalow silke scarlet purple and whyte sylke The ouerbody cote shal they make of golde yalow sylke scarlet purple whyte twyned sylke of bâ—oderd worke that it maye be festened together vpon both the sydes by y e edges therof And his gyrdell vpoÌ„ it shall be of y e same woâ—maÌ„shippe stuff euen of golde yalowe sylke scarlet purple whyte twyned sylke And thou shalt take two Onix stones and graue in them the names of the children of Israel Syxe names vpon the one stone and the sixe other names vpon the other stone acordinge to the order of their age This shalt thou do by the stonegrauers that graue signettes so that y e stones with the names of the children of Israel to be set rounde aboute with golde and thou shalt put them vpon the two shulders of the ouer body cote that that they maye be stones of remembraunce for the children of Israel that Aaron maye beare their names vpon both his shulders before the LORDE for a remembraunce Thou shalt make hokes of golde also and two wretheÌ„ cheynes of pure golde and shalt fasten them vnto the hokes The brestlappe of iudgment shalt thou make of broderd worke euen after the worke of the ouerbody cote of golde yalow sylke scarlet purple and whyte twyned sylke Foure square shall it be and dubble an hande bredth longe and an handebredth brode And thou shalt fill it with foure rowes full of stones Let the first rowe be a Sardis a Topas and a Smaragde The seconde a Ruby a Saphyre and a Dyamonde The thirde a Ligurios an Achatt and an Ametyst The fourth a Turcas an Onix and a Iaspis In golde shall they be sett in all the rowes and shal stonde acordinge to y e twolue names of the children of Israel grauen of the stonegrauers euery one with his name acordinge to the twolue trybes And vpon the brestlappe thou shalt make wrethen cheynes by y e corners of pure golde and two golde rynges so that thou fasteÌ„ the same two rynges vnto two edges of the brestlappe and put the two wretheÌ„ cheynes of golde in the same two rynges that are in two edges of the brestlappe But the two endes of y e two wrethen cheynes shalt thou fasten in the two hokes vpon the ouerbody cote one ouer agaynst another And thou shalt make two other rynges of golde and fasten them vnto y e other two edges of y e brestlappe namely to y e borders therof wherwith it maye hange on the ynsyde vpon the ouerbody cote And yet shalt thou make two rynges of golde and fasten them vpon the two edges beneth to the ouerbody cote vpon the outsyde one ouer agaynst anothe where the ouerbody cote ioyneth together And the brestlappe shall be fastened by his rynges vnto the rynges of the ouerbody cote with a yalow lace that is maye lye close vpon the ouerbody cote and that the brestlappe be not lowsed from the ouerbody cote Thus shall Aaron beare the names of the children of Israel in y e brestlappe of iudgment vpon his hert whan he goeth into the Sanctuary for a remembraunce before the LORDE allwaye And in the brestlappe of iudgment thou shalt put light and perfectnesse that they be vpon AaroÌ„s hert whan he goeth in before the LORDE and that he maye beare the iudgment of the children of Israel vpon his hert before the LORDE allwaye Thou shalt make the tunykle also to the ouerbody cote all of yalow sylke and
it be eaten for it is holy And thus shalt thou do with Aaron and his sonnes all that I haue commaunded ye. Seuen dayes shalt thou fyll their handes and offer a bullocke daylie for a synne offeringe because of them y t shal be reconciled And thou shalt halowe the altare whan thou reconcylest it shalt anoynte it that it maye be consecrated Seuen dayes shalt thou reconcyle the altare consecrate it that it maye be an altare of the Most holy Who so wyll touch the altare must be consecrated And this shalt thou do with the altare Two lambes of one yeare olde shalt thou offer euery daye vpon it the one lambe in the mornynge and the other at euen And to one lambe a tenth deale of wheate floure meÌ„gled with y e fourth parte of an Hin of beaten oyle and y e fourth parte of an Hin of wine for a drynk offerynge With the other lambe at euen shalt thou do like as with y e meate offerynge and drynk offerynge in the mornynge for a swete sauoure of sacrifice vnto y e LORDE This is the daylie burnt offerynge amonge youre posterities at the dore of the Tabernacle of wytnesse before the LORDE where I will proteste vnto you and talke with the. There wil I proteste vnto the children of Israel and be sanctified in my glory and wyl halowe the Tabernacle of wytnes and the altare and consecrate AaroÌ„ and his sonnes to be my prestes And I wyl dwell amonge the children of Israel wyll be their God so y t they shal knowe how that I am the LORDE their God which brought them out of the londe of Egipte that I might dwell amonge them euen I the LORDE their God The XXX Chapter THou shalt make also an incense altare to burne incense of Fyrre tre a cubyte longe brode eauen foure squared and two cubytes hye with his hornes shalt ouerlaye it with pure golde the rofe the walles of it rounde aboute and the hornes therof a crowne of golde shalt thou make rounde aboute it and two golde rynges on ether syde vnder the crowne that there maie be staues put therin to beare it with all The staues shalt thou make of Fyrre tre also and ouerlaye theÌ„ with golde and shalt set it before the vayle that hangeth before the Arke of wytnesse and before the Mercy seate y t is vpon the wytnesse from whence I wyl proteste vnto the. And Aaron shal burne swete incense theron euery morninge whaÌ„ he dresseth the lampes In like maner whan he lighteth the lampes at euen he shall burne soch incense also This shal be the daylie incense before the LORDE amonge youre posterities Ye shall put no straunge incense therin offer no burnt offerynge ner meat offerynge nether drynk offerynge theron And vpon y e hornes of it shall Aaron reconcyle once in a yeare with y e bloude of the synne offerynge which they shall offer that are reconcyled This shal be done amonge youre posterities for this is the most holy vnto the LORDE And the LORDE Espake vnto Moses and sayde Whan thou nombrest the heades of the children of Israel then shal euery one geue vnto the LORDE the reconcylinge of his soule y t there happeÌ„ not a plage vnto them whan they are nombred Euery one that is tolde in the nombre shall geue half a Sycle after the Sycle of the Sanctuary one Sycle is worth twentye Geras This half Sycle shal be y e LORDES Heue offerynge Who so is in the nombre from twenty yeare and aboue shal geue this Heue offerynge vnto y e LORDE The riche shal not geue more and the poore shal not geue lesse in the half Sycle which is geuen vnto the LORDE to be an Heue offerynge for the reconcylinge of their soules And this money of recoÌ„cilinge shalt thou take of the children of Israel put it to the Gods seruyce of the Tabernacle of wytnes that it maye be a remembraunce vnto the children of Israel before the LORDE that he maye let himself be reconcyled ouer their soules And the LORDE spake vnto Moses and sayde Thou shalt make a brasen lauer also with a fote of brasse to wash and shalt set it betwixte the Tabernacle of witnesse and y e altare and put water therin that AaroÌ„ and his sonnes maye wash their handes and fete therout whan they go in to the Tabernacle of wytnesse or to the altare to mynistre vnto the LORDE with offerynge incense y t they dye not This shal be a perpetuall custome for him and his sede amonge their posterities And y e LORDE spake vnto Moses and sayde Take vnto the spyces of the best fyue hundreth Sycles of Myrre and of CynamoÌ„ half so moch euen two hundreth and fyftie and of Kalmus two hundreth and fiftye and of Cassia fyue hundreth after the Sycle of the Sanctuary an Hin of oyle olyue and make an holy anoyntinge oyle after the craft of the Apotecary And there w t shalt thou anoynte the Tabernacle of wytnesse the Arke of wytnes the table with all his apparell y e candilsticke with his apparell the altare of incense the altare of burnt offerynges with all his apparell the lauer with his fote and thus shalt thou consecrate them that they maye be most holy for who so wil touch theÌ„ must be consecrated Thou shalt anoynte Aaron also and his sonnes and consecrate them to be my prestes And thou shalt speake vnto the childreÌ„ of Israel and saye This oyle shal be an holy oyntment vnto me amonge yo r posterities It shal not be poured vpon mans body nether shalt thou make eny soch like it for it is holy therfore shal it be holy vnto you Who so maketh eny soch like or geueth a strauÌ„ger therof the same shal be roted out from amonge his people And the LORDE sayde vnto Moses Take vnto the spyces Balme Stacte Galban and pure franckencense of one as moch as of another and make incense therof after the craft of the Apotecary myngled together that it maye be pure holy And thou shalt beate it to poulder and shalt put of the same before the wytnesse in the Tabernacle of wytnesse from whenâ—e I wyll proteste vnto the but it shal be holy vnto the for the LORDE Who so maketh soch to cense therwith shal be roted out from amoÌ„ge his people The XXXI Chapter ANd the LORDE spake vnto Moses saide I haue called by name Bezaleel the sonne of Vri y e sonne of Hur of y e trybe of Iuda and haue fylled him with y e sprete of God with wyszdome and vnderstoÌ„dynge and knowlege and to worke with all maner of connynge worke in golde syluer brasse to graue stones connyngly and to set them to carue well in tymbre and to make all maner worke And beholde I haue geuen him Ahaliab the sonne of Ahisamach of the trybe of Dan to be his companyon and haue geuen
bred shalt thou kepe Seuen daies shalt thou eate vnleueÌ„ded bred like as I coÌ„maunded the in the tyme of the moneth Abib for in the moneth Abib thou wentest out of Egipte * All y t first breaketh the Matrix is myne soch as shal be male amoÌ„ge y e catell y t breaketh the Matrix whether it be oxe or shepe But the first of thyne Asse shalt thou bye out w t a shepe yf thou redeme it not then breake his necke All the first borne of thy children shalt thou redeme And se that no man appeare before me â—mpâ—ye Sixe dayes shalt thou labo r vpon y e seâ—eÌ„th daye shalt thou rest both from plowinge and reapynge The feast of wekes shalt thou kepe with the firstlinges of the wheate haruest and the feast of yngaderynge at y e yeares ende Thryse in a yeare shal all yo r men children appeare before the Souernoure euen the LORDE and God of Israel Whan I shal cast out the Heithen before the enlarge y â— borders there shal no man desyre thy loÌ„de for so moch as thou goest vp thre tymes in the yeare to appeare before y e LORDE thy God Thou shalt not offer the bloude of my sacrifice w t leueÌ„ded bred And the offerynge of the Easter feast shal not remayne ouer night vntill the mornynge The firstlinges of y e first frutes of thy loÌ„de shalt thou brynge in to the house of the LORDE thy God Thou shalt not seith a kydd whyle it is yet in his mothers mylke And the LORDE saide vnto Moses wryte these wordes for because of these wordes haue I made a couenaunt with the with Israel And he was there with the LORDE fourtye dayes and fourtye nightes and ate no bred and dranke no water And he wrote in the tables the wordes of the couenauÌ„t euen ten verses Now whaÌ„ Moses came downe fro mouÌ„t Sinai he had the two tables of wytnesse in his hande wyst not y t the skynne of his face shyned because he had talked with him And whaÌ„ Aaron all the childreÌ„ of Israel sawe y t the skynne of his face shyned they were afrayed to come nye him TheÌ„ Moses called them And they returned vnto him both Aaron all the chefest of the coÌ„gregacion And he talked w t them Afterwarde came all the children of Israel vnto him And he coÌ„maunded theÌ„ all y t the LORDE had sayde vnto him vpon the mount Sinai Now whan he had made an ende of talkynge w t theÌ„ he put a couerynge vpoÌ„ his face And whan he weÌ„te in before y e LORDE to talke w t him he toke y e couerynge of till he weÌ„te out agayne And whan he came forth spake w t the childreÌ„ of Israel what was coÌ„maunded him theÌ„ the childreÌ„ of Israel sawe his face how y t the skynne of his face shyned so he put the couerynge vpoÌ„ his face agayne tyll he wente in agayne to talke with him The XXXV Chapter ANd Moses gathered all the coÌ„gregacion of y e childreÌ„ of Israel together and sayde vnto them This is it y t the LORDE hath commaunded you to do Sixe dayes shall ye worke but the seuenth daye shall ye kepe holy a Sabbath of the LORLES rest Who so euer doeth eny worke therin shall dye Ye shal kyndle no fyre vpon the Sabbath daye in all youre dwellynges And Moses sayde vnto y e whole congregacion of the children of Israel This is it that the LORDE hath commaunded Geue from amonge you Heue offerynges vnto y e LORDE so that euery one brynge the LORDES Heue offerynge with a fre hert golde syluer brasse yalowe sylke scarlet purple whyte sylke and goates hayre reed skynnes of rammes doo skynnes and Fyrre tre oyle for the lampes and spyces for the anoyntinge oyle and for swete incense Onix stones and stones to be set in y e ouerbody cote and for the brestlappe And who so is wyse of hert amonge you let him come make what the LORDE hath commaunded namely the Habitacion with the tent couerynge therof the rynges bordes barres pilers sokettes The Arke w t the staues therof the Mercy seate the vayle the table with his staues all his apparell the shewbred The caÌ„dilsticke of light and his apparell and his lampes the oyle for the lightes The altare of incense with his staues The anoyntynge oyle and spyces for incense The hangynge before y e Tabernacle dore The alter of burnt offerynges with his brasen gredyron staues and all his apparell The lauer with his fote The hanginges of the courte with the pilers and sokettes therof the hangynge of the courte dore The nales of the habitacion and of y e courte with their coardes The mynistringe garmentes for the seruyce in the Holy y e holy vestimentes of Aaron the prest w t the vestimentes of his sonnes for y e prestes office Then wente all the congregacion of the childreÌ„ of Israel out fro Moses euery one brought the gift of his hert all that they wolde of fre will the same brought they for an Heue offerynge vnto the LORDE for y e worke of the Tabernacle of witnesse for all the seruyce therof for the holy vestimeÌ„tes Both men wemen that were of a wyllynge hert brought bracelettes earynges rynges gyrdels and all maner Iewels of golde Euery man also brought golde for Waue offerynges vnto the LORDE And who so euer fouÌ„de by him yalow sylke scarlet purple whyte sylke goates hayre reed skynnes of raÌ„mes and Doo skynnes brought it And who so euer houe vp syluer brasse brought it for y e Heue offerynge vnto the LORDE And who so euer founde Fyrre tre by him brought it for all maner of worke of the Gods seruyce And soch wemen as were wyse herted spanne with their haÌ„des and brought their sponne worke of yalow sylke scarlet purple and whyte sylke And soch wemen as had hye vnderstondinge in wyszdome spanne goates hayre As for y e prynces they brought Onix stones and set stones for y e ouerbody coate and for the brestlappe and spyces and oyle for y e lightes and for the anoyntinge oyle and for swete incense Thus the children of Israel brought fre wyllynge offerynges both man and wemeÌ„ for all maner of worke that the LORDE had commaunded by Moses to be made And Moses saide vnto the childreÌ„ of Israel Beholde y e LORDE hath called by name Bezaleel y e sonne of Vri y e sonne of Hur of the trybe of Iuda hath fylled him w t the sprete of God that he maye haue wyszdome vnderstondinge knowlege for all maner of worke to worke connyngly in golde syluer brasse to graue precious stones to set them to carue in wodd to make all maner of connynge workes and hath geueÌ„ instruccion in his hert both him and Ahaliab the sonne of Ahisamach of y e trybe of Dan. These hath he fylled w
kepe them from colde So that when the showers in the mountaynes haue rayned vpon them they be all wett they haue none other sucoure but to kepe them amonge the rockes They spoyle the suckinge fatherlesse children and put the poore in preson In so moch that they let them go naked without clothinge and yet the 〈◊〉 beare the sheeues The poore are 〈◊〉 to laboure in their oyle mylles yee 〈…〉 treade in their wyne presses and yet 〈…〉 thyrst The whole cite crieth vnto tâ—e LORDE with sighinge the soules of the â—layne make their complaynte But God destroyeth them not for all this where as they not w t stoÌ„dinge are rebellious and disobedient enemies which seke not his light and waye ner turne agayne in to his path Tymely in the mornynge do they aryse to murthur the symple and poore in the night they go a stealinge The eye of the vngodly is like the aduouterer that wayteth for the darcknesse and sayeth thus in him self Tush there shal no maÌ„ se me so he disgyseth his face In the night season they search the houses and hyde them selues in the daye tyme but wil not knowe y e light For as soone as the daye breaketh the shadowe of death commeth vpoÌ„ them and they go in horrible darcknesse The vngodly is very swyft O y t his porcioÌ„ also vpoÌ„ earth were swyfter then y e runnynge water which suffreth not y e shipmaÌ„ to beholde the fayre pleasauÌ„t vyniardes O y t they for the wickednesse which they haue done were drawen to the hell sooner theÌ„ snowe melteth at the heate O y t all coÌ„passion vpon theÌ„ were forgotteÌ„ y t their daynties were wormes that they were clene put out of remembraunce vtterly heweÌ„ downe like an vnfrutefull tre For they manteyne the baren make them y t they can not beare vnto wyddowes they do no good They plucke downe the mightie w t their power when they them selues are gotten vp they are neuer without feare as longe as they liue And though they might be safe yet they wil not receaue it for their eyes loke vpon their owne wayes They are exalted for a litle but shortly are they gone brought to extreme pouerte takeÌ„ out of the waye yeâ— vtterly plucte of as the eares of corne Is it not so Who wil theÌ„ reproue me as a lyar saye y t my wordes are nothinge worth The XXV Chapter THen answered Baldad the Suhite sayde Power feare is with him aboue that maketh peace sittinge in his hynesse whose men of warre are innumerable and whose light aryseth ouer all But how maye a man coÌ„pared vnto God be iustified Or how can he be clene that is borne of a woman Beholde the Moone shyneth nothinge in comparison to him the starres are vnclene in his sight How moch more theÌ„ maÌ„ that is but corrupcion and the sonne of man which is but a worme The XXVI Chapter IOb answered and sayde O how helpest thou the weake what comforte geuest thou vnto him that hath no streÌ„gth Where is y e couÌ„cell y t thou shuldest geue him which hath no wyszdome Wilt thou so shewe thine excellent rightuousnes Before whom hast thou spoken those wordes Who made the breth to come out of y e mouth The giauntes worthies y t are slayne lye vnder y e worlde w t their coÌ„panions yee all they which dwell beneth in the hell are not hyd froÌ„ him the very destruccion it self caÌ„ not be kepte out of his sight He stretcheth out y e north ouer the emptie haÌ„geth y e earth vpoÌ„ nothinge He byndeth y e water in his cloudes that they fall not downe together He holdeth back his stole that it caÌ„not be sene and spredeth his cloudes before it He hath coÌ„pased the waters w t certayne boundes vntill the daye night come to an ende The very pilers of heaueÌ„ treÌ„ble quake at his reprofe He stilleth the see with his power thorow his wyszdome hath he set forth y e worlde With his sprete hath he garnished the heaueÌ„s with his hande hath he wounded the rebellious serpeÌ„t This is now a shorte summe of his doynges But who is able sufficiently to rehearce his workes Who can perceaue and vnderstonde y e thondre of his power The XXVII Chapter IOb also proceaded and weÌ„te forth in his communicacion sayeÌ„ge As truly as God lyueth which hath taken awaye my power fro me the Allmightie that hath vexed my mynde My lippes shall talke of no vanite and my tonge shal speake no disceate whyle my breth is in me and as longe as the wynde that God hath geuen me is in my nostrels God forbydde that I shulde graunte youre cause to be right As for me vntill myne ende come wil I neuer go fro myne innocency My rightuous dealynge wil I kepe fast not forsake it For my conscience reproueth me not in all my conuersacion Therfore myne enemy shal be founde as the vngodly he y t taketh parte agaynst me as the vnrightuous What hope hath y e Ypocrite though he haue greate good and though God geue him riches after his hertes desyre Doth God heare him the sooner wheÌ„ he crieth vnto him in his necessite Hath he soch pleasure delyte in the Allmightie that he darre allwaye call vpon God I wil teach you in the name of God the thinge that I haue of y e Allmightie wil I not kepe from you Beholde ye stonde in yo r owne conceate as though ye knew all thinges Wherfore then do ye go aboute w t soch vayne wordes sayeÌ„ge This is the porcion that the wicked shall haue of God the heretage that Tyrauntes shal receaue of y e Allmightie Yf he get many childreÌ„ they shal perish w t the swearde his posterite shall haue scarcenesse of bred Loke whom he leaueth behinde him they shal dye be buried no man shall haue pite of his wyddowes Though he haue as moch money as the dust of the earth raymeÌ„t as ready as the claye he maye well prepare it but the godly shal put it vpon him and the innoceÌ„t shal deale out the money His house shal endure as the moth as a bothe that the watch man maketh When the rich man dyeth he carieth nothinge with him he is gone in y e twincklynge of an eye Destruccion taketh holde vpoÌ„ him as a water floude y e teÌ„pest stealeth him awaye in the night season A vehement wynde carieth him hence departeth a storme plucketh him out of his place It ruszsheth in vpon him and spareth him not he maye not escape from the power therof Than clappe meÌ„ their hoÌ„des at him yee and ieast of him wheÌ„ they loke vpon his place The XXVIII Chapter THere are places where syluer is molteÌ„ where golde is tryed where yron is dygged out of the grounde stones resolued to metall
God of Abraham for God is farre farre hyer exalted then the mightie lordes of the earth The XLVII A psalme of the children of Corah GReate is y e LORDE hyelie to be praysed in y e cite of o r God eueÌ„ vpoÌ„ his holy hill The hill of Sion is like a fayre plaÌ„te wherof all the londe reioyseth vpon the north syde lyeth the cite of the greate kinge God is well knowne in hir palaces y t he is the defence of the same For lo kynges are gathered and gone by together They marveled to se soch thinges they were astonâ—ied sodeÌ„ly cast downe Feare came there vpon theÌ„ sorowe as vpoÌ„ a woman in hir trauayle Thou shalt breake y e shippes of the see thorow the east wynde Like as we haue herde so se we in the cite of the LORDE of hoostes in the cite of o r God God vpholdeth the same for euer Sela. We wayte for thy louynge kyndnesse o God in the myddest of thy temple O God acordinge vnto thy name so is y e prayse vnto the worldes ende thy right hoÌ„de is full of rightuousnes Oh let the mouÌ„t Sion reioyse y e doughters of Iuda be glad because of thy iudgmeÌ„tes Walke aboute Sion go rounde aboute her and tell hir towres Marke well hir walles set vâ— hir houses that it maye be tolde them y t come after For this God is o r God for euer euer and he shal allwaie be o r gyde The XLVIII A psalme of the children of Corah O Heare this all ye people pondre it well all ye that dwell vpoÌ„ the earth Hye lowe riche poore one w t another My mouth shal speake of wyszdome and my hert shal muse of vnderstondinge I wil encline myne eare to the parable shewe my darcke speach vpon the harpe Wherfore shulde I feare the euell dayes wheÌ„ the wickednesse of my heles coÌ„paseth me rounde aboute They that put their trust in their good boost them selues in the multitude of their riches No man maye deliuer his brother ner make agrement for him vnto God For it costeth more to redeme their soules so that he must let that alone for euer Yee though he lyue loÌ„ge se not y e graue For it shal be sene y t soch wyse meÌ„ shal dye perishe together as well as the ignoraunt and foolish leaue their goodes for other Loke what is in their houses it coÌ„tinueth still their dwellinge places endure from one generacion to another are called after their owne names vpon the earth Neuerthelesse maÌ„ abydeth not in soch hono r but is coÌ„pared vnto y e brute beastes becoÌ„meth like vnto theÌ„ This waie of theirs is very foolishnesse yet their posterite prayse it w t their mouth Sela. They lye in the hell like shepe death shal gnawe vpon them the rightuous shal haue dominacion of them in the moâ—â—nynge by tymes their streÌ„gth shal consumâ— hell shal be their dwellinge But God shal deliuer my soule from the power of hell when he receaueth me Sela. O be not thou afrayed whan one is made riche thâ— glory of his hense increased For he 〈◊〉 cary nothingâ— awaye w t him when he dyeâ— nether shal his pompe folowe him 〈◊〉 he lyueth he is counted an happie 〈◊〉 so loÌ„ge as he is in prosperite meÌ„ speake good of him But wheÌ„ he foloweth his fathers generacion he shal neuer se light eny more When a man is in honoure and hath no vnderstoÌ„dinge he is compared vnto the brute beastes and becommeth like vnto them The XLIX A psalme of Asaph THe LORDE euen the mightie God hath spokeÌ„ called the worlde from the rysinge vp of the sonne vnto the goinge downe of the same Out of Sion â—peareth the glorious beutie of God Oure God shal come and not kepe sylence there goeth befoâ—â— him a consumynge fyre and a mightie tempest rounde aboute him He shal call the heauens from aboue and the earth that he maye iudge his people Gather my sayntes together vnto me those y t set more by the couenaunt then by eny offeringe And the heauens shal declare his rightuousnesse for God is iudge himself Sela. Heare o my people let me speake let me testifie amonge you o Israel I am God euen thy God I reproue the not because of thy sacrifice y e burnt offeringes are allwaye before me I wil take no bullockes out of thy house ner gotes out of thy foldes For all the beestes of the felde are myâ—e and thousandes of catell vpon the hilles I knowe all the foules vpon the mountaynes and the wilde beastes of the felde are in â—y sight Yf I be hongrie I wil not tell â—he for y e whole worlde is myne and all that â—herin is Thynkest thou that I wil eate â—he flesh of oxen or drynke the bloude of goaâ—es Offre vnto God prayse and thankesgeuynge and paye thy vowes vnto the most â—yest And call vpoÌ„ me in the tyme of trouâ—le so wil I heare the that thou shalt thanâ—e me But vnto the vngodly sayeth God Why doest thou preach my lawes and taâ—est my couenaunt in thy mouth Where â—s thou hatest to be refourmed and castest â—y wordes behynde the Yf thou seist a â—hefe thou runnest with him and art partaâ—er with the aduouterers Thou lettest yeâ—outh speake wickednesse thy tonge payneth disceate Thou syttest and speakest aâ—aynst thy brother yee and slaundrest thine â—wne mothers sonne This thou doest whyâ—e I holde my tonge and thinkest me to be eâ—eÌ„ soch one as thy self but I wil reproue the set my self agaynst the. O considre this 〈◊〉 that forget God lest I plucke you awaie 〈◊〉 there be none to delyuer you Who so â—â—reth me thaÌ„kes and prayse he honoureth me this is the waye wherby I wil shewe him the sauynge health of God The L. A psalme of Dauid HAue mercy vpon me o God after thy goodnes acordinge vnto thy greate mercies do awaye myne offences Wash me well fro my wickednesse clense me fro my synne For I knowlege my fautes and my synne is euer before me Agaynst the only agaynst the haue I synned and done euell in thy sight that thou mightest be iustified in thy saynges and shuldest ouer come when thou art iudged Beholde I was borne in wickednesse and in synne hath my mother conceaued me But lo thou hast a pleasure in the treuth â–ª and hast shewed me secrete wyszdome O reconcile me with Isope and I shal be clene wash thou me and I shal be whyter then snowe Oh let me heare of ioye and gladnesse that the bones which thou hast broken maye reioyse Turne thy face fro my synnes and put out all my myszdedes Make me a clene hert o God and renue a right sprete within me Cast me not awaie from thy presence and take not thy holy sprete fro me O geue me the comforte of thy helpe agayne and stablish me with thy fre sprete Then
I was in heuynesse I thought vpoÌ„ God wheÌ„ my hert was vexed then dyd I speake Sela. Thou heldest myne eyes waâ—â—â—ge I was so feble that I coude not speake Then remembred I the tymes of olde the yeares that were past I called to remembraunce my songe in the night I commoned with myne owne herte and sought out my spâ—ete Wil the LORDE cast out for euer Wil he be nomore intreated Is his mercy cleane gone Is his promyse come vtterly to an ende for euermore Hath the LORDE forgotten to be gracious Or hath he shut vp his louynge kyndnesse in displeasure Sela. At the last I came to this poynte that I thought O why art thou so foolish the right honde of the most hyest can chaunge all Therfore wil I remembre the workes of the LORDE and call to mynde thy wonders of olde tyme. I wil speake of all thy workes and my talkynge shal be of thy doinges Thy waye o God is holy who is so greate mightie as God Thou art the God that doth wonders thou hast declared thy power amonge the people Thou with thine arme hast delyuered thy people euen the sonnes of Iacob and Ioseph Sela. The waters sawe y e o God y e waters sawe y e were afrayed y e depthes were moued The thicke cloudes poured out water y e cloudes thoÌ„dered and thy arowes wente abrode Thy thonder was herde rounde aboute the lighteninges shone vpon the grounde the earth was moued and shoke withall Thy waye was in the see and thy pathes in the greate waters yet coude no man knowe thy fotesteppes Thou leddest thy people like a flocke of shepe by the honde of Moses and Aaron The LXXVII A psalme of Asaph HEare my lawe o my people encline yo r eares vnto y e wordes of my mouth I wil open my mouth in parables and speake of thinges of olde Which we haue herde and knowne and soch as oure fathers haue tolde vs. That we shulde not hyde them from the children of the generacions to come but to shewe the honoure of the LORDE his might and wonderfull workes that he hath done He made a couenaunt with Iacob and gaue Israel a lawe which he coÌ„maunded oure forefathers to teach their children That their posterite might knowe it and the children which were yet vnborne To the intent y t when they came vp they might shewe their children the same That they also might put their trust in God not to forget what he had done but to kepe his coÌ„maundementes And not to be as their forefathers a frowarde and ouerthwarte generacion a generacion that set not their herte a right and whose sprete was not true towarde God Like as the children of Ephraim which beynge harnessed and carienge bowes turned them selues backe in the tyme of battayll They kepte not the couenauÌ„t of God wolde not walke in his lawe They forgat what he had done and the wonderfull workes that he had shewed for them Maruelous thinges dyd he in the sight of their fathers in the londe of Egipte euen in the felde of Zoan He deuyded the see and let them go thorow it and made the waters to stonde like a wall In the daye tyme he led them with a cloude and all the nâ—ght thorow with a light of fyre He cloaue the hard rockes in the wildernesse and gaue them drynke therof as it had bene out of the greate dâ—â—pth He brought waters out of the 〈◊〉 rocke so that they gushed out like 〈…〉 Yet for all this they synned agaynst him and prouoked the most hyest in the wildernesse They tempted God in their hertes and requyred meate for their lust For they spake agaynst God and sayde Yee yee God shal prepare a table in the wyldernesse shall he Lo he smote the stony rocke that the watery streames gushed out and the streames flowed withall but how can he geue bred and prouyde flesh for his people When the LORDE herde this he was wroth so the fyre was kyndled in Iacob and heuy displeasure agaynst Israel Because theâ— beleued not in God and put not their trust in his helpe So he commauÌ„ded the cloudes aboue and opened the dores of heauen He rayned downe Manna vpoÌ„ them for to eate and gaue them bred from heauen Then ate they angels fode for he sent them meate ynough He caused the east wynde to blowe vnder the heauen and thorow his power he brought in the south wynde He made flesh to rayne vpon them as thicke as dust and fethered foules like the sonde of y e see He let it fall amoÌ„ge their teÌ„tes rouÌ„de aboute their habitacioÌ„s So they ate were fylled for he gaue them their owne desyre They were not dispoynted of their lust But whyle y e meate was yet in theyr mouthes The heuy wrath of God came vpoÌ„ theÌ„ slewe y e welthiest of theÌ„ smote downe y e chosen men of Israel But for all this they synned yet more and beleued not his woÌ„derous workes Therfore their dayes were consumed in vanite and sodenly their yeares were gone When he slewe them they sought him and turned them â—arly vnto God They thought then that God was their socoure and that the hye God was their redemer Neuerthelesse they dyd but flater him in their mouthes and dissembled with him in their tonges For their herte was not whole with him nether continued they in his couenaunt But he was so mercifull that he forgaue their mysdedes and destroyed them not Yee many a tyme turned he his wrath awaye and wolde not suffre his whole displeasure to aryse For he considered y t they were but flesh euen a wynde that passeth awaye and commeth not agayne O how oft haue they greued him in the wildernesse How many a tyme haue they prouoked him in the deserte They turned backe tempted God and moued the holy one in Israel They thought not of his haÌ„de in y e daye when he delyuered them from the hande of y e enemie How he had wrought his miracles in Egipte and his woÌ„ders in the londe of Zoan How he turned their waters in to bloude so that they might not drynke of the ryuers How he sent lyse amonge them to eate them vp and frogges to destroye them How he gaue their frutes vnto the catirpiller and their laboure vnto the greshopper How he bett downe their vynyardes with hayle stones and their Molbery trees with the frost How he smote their catell with haylestones and their flockes with hote thoÌ„der boltes How he sent vpon them y e furiousnesse of his wrath anger displeasure with trouble and fallinge in of euel angels When he made a waye to his fearfull indignacioÌ„ and spared not their soules from death yee and gaue their catell ouer to the pestilence When he smote all the firstborne in Egipte the most principall and mightiest in y e dwellinges of Ham. But as for his owne people
vp the grounde But myne eyes loke vnto y e o LORDE God in the is my trust oh cast not out my soule Kepe me froÌ„ y e snare which 〈…〉 me and froÌ„ the trappes 〈…〉 Let the vngodly fall 〈…〉 nettes together vntill I be 〈…〉 them The CXLI A psalme of Dauid I Crie vnto the LORDE with my voyce yee eueÌ„ vnto the LORDE do I make my supplicacion I poure out my complaynte before him and shewe him of my trouble When my sprete is in heuynesse for thou knowest my path in the waye where in I walke haue they preuely layed a snare for me I loke vpon my right honde se there is no man that wil knowe me I haue no place to fle vnto no man careth for my soule Therfore do I crie vnto the o LORDE and saye thou art my hope and my porcion in the londe of the lyuynge CoÌ„sidre my complaynte for I am brought very lowe Oh delyuer me fro my persecuters for they are to stronge for me Brynge my soule out of preson that I maye geue thaÌ„kes vnto thy name which thinge yf thou wilt grauÌ„te me then shal the rightuous resorte vnto my coÌ„pany The CXLII A psalme of Dauid HEare my prayer o LORDE considre my desyre answere me for thy treuth rightuousnesse sake And entre not in to iudgment with thy seruaunt for in thy sight shal no man lyuynge be iustified For the enemie persecuteth my soule he smyteth my life downe to the grounde he layeth me in the darcknesse as the deed men of the worlde Therfore is my sprete vexed within me and my herte within me is desolate Yet do I remeÌ„bre the tymes past I muse vpoÌ„ all y e workes yee I exercise my self in the workes of thy hondes I stretch forth my hondes vnto the my soule crieth vnto the out of the thyrstie londe Sela. Heare me o LORDE and that soone for my sprete waxeth faynte hyde not y e face fro me lest I be like vnto theÌ„ that go downe in to the graue Oh let me heare thy louynge kyndnesse by tymes in the mornynge for in the is my trust shewe thou me the waye that I shulde walke in for I lift vp my soule vnto the. Delyuer me o LORDE fro myne enemies for I resorte vnto the. Teach me to do the thinge that pleaseth the for thou art my God let thy louynge spreâ—e lede me forth vnto the londe of rightuousnesse QuyckeÌ„ me o LORDE for thy names sake and for thy rightuousnesse sake brynge my soule out of trouble And of thy goodnesse scater myne enemies abrode and destroye all them that vexe my soule for I am thy seruaunt The CXLIII A psalme of Dauid BLessed be the LORDE my refuge which teacheth my haÌ„des to warre my fyngers to fight My hope and my castell my defence and my delyuerer my shylde in whom I trust which gouerneth the people that is vnder me LORDE what is maÌ„ that thou hast soch respecte vnto him Or the sonne of man that thou so regardest him Man is like a thinge of naught his tyme passeth awaye like a shadowe Bowe thy heaueÌ„s o LORDE come downe touch the mountaynes y t they maye smoke withall â–ª Sende forth the lightenynge scater theÌ„ shute out thine arowes and consume them Sende downe thine hande from aboue delyuer me and take me out of y e greate waters from the hande of straunge childreÌ„ Whose mouth talketh of vanite their right haÌ„de is a righthande of falsede That I maye synge a new songe vnto the o God synge prayses vnto the vpon a tenstrynged luck Thou that geuest victory vnto kynges and hast delyuered Dauid thy seruaunt from the parell of the swerde Saue me and delyuer me from the honde of straunge childreÌ„ whose mouth talketh of vanite and their right hande is a right hande of falsede That 〈◊〉 sonnes maye growe vp as the yoÌ„ge plantes and that oure doughters maye be as the polished corners of the temple That o r garners maye be full and plenteous with all maner of stoare that o r shepe maye brynge forth thousandes and hundreth thousands in oure villages That oure oxen maye be stronge to laboure that there be no myschaunce 〈◊〉 decaye and no complayninge in oure stretes â–ª Happie are the people that be in soch a â—â—se yee blessed are the people which haue the LORDE for their God The CXLIIII A psalme of Dauid I Wil magnifie the o my God kyngeâ— I wil prayse y e name for euer euer Euery daye wil I geue thankes vnto the and prayse y e name for euer and euer Greate is the LORDE maruelous worthy to be praysed there is no ende of his greatnesse One generacion shal prayse thy wâ—kes vnto another and declare thy power As for me I wil be talkiÌ„ge of thy worshipe thy glory thy prayse and woÌ„derous workes â–ª So that men shal speake of the might of thy maruelous actes and tell of y e greatnes â–ª The memoriall of y e abundaunt kyndneâ— shal be shewed and meÌ„ shal synge of thy righteousnesse The LORDE is gracious and mercifull longe sufferynge of greate goodnesse The LORDE is louynge vnto euery man and his mercy is ouer all his workes All thy workes prayse the o LORDE and thy sayntes geue thankes vnto the. They shewe the glory of thy kyngdome and talke of y e power That y e power thy gloâ—â— mightynesse of thy kyngdome migâ—◠〈◊〉 knowne vnto men Thy kyngdome is an euerlastinge kyngdome thy dominion endureth thorow out all ages The LORDE vpholdeth all soch as shulde fall and lifteth vp all those that be downe The eyes of all wayte vpon the and thou geuest them their meate in due season Thou openest thine haÌ„de and fyllest all thinges lyuynge with plenteâ—usnesse The LORDE is righteous in all his wayes holy in all his workes The LORDE is nye vnto all them that call vpon him yee all soch as call vpon him faithfully He fulfilleth the desyre of them that feare him he heareth their crie and helpeth them The LORDE preserueth all them that loue him but scatereth abrode all the vngodly My mouth shal speake the prayse of the LORDE And let all flesh geue thankes vnto his holy name for euer and euer Halleluya The CXLâ— psalme PRayse the LORDE o my soule whyle I lyue wil I prayse the LORDE yee as loÌ„ge as I haue eny beynge I wil synge prayses vnto my God O put not yo r trust in prynces ner in the childe of man for there is no helpe in theÌ„ For when y e breth of man goeth forth he shal turne agayne to his earth and so all his thoughtes perishe Blessed is he that hath y e God of Iacob for his helpe and whose hope is in the LORDE his God Which made heauen and earth y t see and all that therin is which kepeth his promise for euer Which helpeth them to right y t suffre wronge which fedeth y e
Be not haistely angrie in y e mynde for wrath resteth in the bosome of a foole Saye not thou What is the cause that y e dayes of y e olde tyme were better then they y t be now ▪ for that were no wyse question Wyszdome is better then riches yee moch more worth then the eye sight For wyszdome defendeth as well as moneye and the excellent knowlege and wyszdome geueth life vnto him that hath it in possession Considre the worke of God how that no man can make the thinge straight which he maketh croked Vse well the tyme of prosperite and remembre the tyme of mysfortune for God maketh the one by the other so that a man can fynde nothinge els These ij thīges also haue I cōsidred in y e tyme of vanite y t the iust man perisheth for his rightuousnes sake the vngodly liueth in his wickednesse Therfore be thou nether to rightuous ner ouer wyse y t thou perish not be nether to vnrightuous also ner to foolish lest thou die before thy tyme. It is good for the to take holde of this not to let y t go out of thy hande For he y t feareth God shal escape them all Wyszdome geueth more corage vnto the wyse then ten mightie men of the citie for there is not one iust vpō earth y t doth good sinneth not Take not hede vnto euery worde y t is spoken lest thou heare thy seruaunt curse the for thine owne hert knoweth that thou thy self also hast oft tymes spokē euell by other men All these thinges haue I proued because of wyszdome for I thought to be wyse but she wente farther fro me then she was before yee so depe that I might not reach vnto her I applied my mynde also vnto knowlege and to seke out sciēce wisdome and vnderstondinge to knowe the foolishnesse of the vngodly and the erroure of dotinge fooles And I founde that a woman is bytterer then death for she is a very angle hir hert is a nett and hir handes are cheynes Who so pleaseth God shal escape from her but the synne◠will be taken w t her Beholde sayeth y e preacher this haue I diligently searched out proued y t I might come by knowlege which as yet I seke and fynde it not Amonge a thousande men I haue founde one but not one woman amonge all Lo this onely haue I founde that God made man iust right but they seke dyuerse sotylties where as no man hath wyszdome vnderstōdinge to geue answere there vnto The VIII Chapter WYszdome maketh a mās face to shyne but malice putteth it out of fauoure Kepe the kynges commaundemēt I warne the the ooth y t thou hast made vnto God Be not haistie to go out of his sight se thou cōtynue in no euell thinge for what so euer it pleaseth him y t doeth he Like as when a kynge geueth a charge his commaundement is mightie Euen so who maye saye vnto him what doest thou Who so kepeth the commaundement shall fele no harme but a wyse mans herte discerneth tyme and maner For euery thinge wil haue opportunite and iudgment and this is the thinge that maketh men full of carefulnes sorowe And why a man knoweth not what is for to come for who wyll tell him Nether is there eny mā y t hath power ouer y e sprete to kepe stil y e sprete ner to haue eny power in the tyme of death It is not he also that can make an ende of the batayll nether maye vngodlynes delyuer him y t medleth withall All these thinges haue I considered and applied my mynde vnto euery worke that is vnder the Sonne how one man hath lordshipe vpon another to his owne harme For I haue oft sene y e vngodly brought to their graues and fallen downe from the hye and glorious place in so moch y t they were forgotten in the cite where they were had in so hye greate reputacion This is also a vayne thinge Because now that euell workes are not haistely punyshed the hert of man geueth him self ouer vnto wickednesse But though an euell personne offende an hundreth tymes and haue a longe life yet am I sure that it shal go well with thē that feare God because they haue him before their eyes Agayne as for the vngodly it shall not be well with him nether shal he prolōge his dayes but euen as a shadowe so shall he be that feareth not God Yet is there a vanite vpon earth There be iust men vnto whom it happeneth as though they had the workes of the vngodly Agayne there be vngodly with whom it goeth as though they had the workes of y e rightuous This me thinke also a vaine thinge Therfore I commende gladnesse because a man hath no better thinge vnder the Sonne then to eate and drynke and to be mery for that shal he haue of his laboure all the daies of his life which God geueth him vnder the Sonne When I applied my mynde to lerne wyszdome and to knowe the trauayle that is in the worlde and that of soch a fashion y t I suffred not myne eyes to slepe nether daye ner night I vnderstode of all y e workes of God that it is not possible for a man to attayne vnto y e workes that are done vnder y e Sonne and though he bestowe his laboure to seke them out yet can he not reach vnto thē yee though a wyse man wolde vndertake to knowe them yet might he not fynde them The IX Chapter FOr all these thinges purposed I in my mynde to seke out The righteus and wyse yee and their workes also are in the hande of God and there is no man that knoweth ether the loue or hate of the thinge that he hath before him It happeneth vnto one as vnto another It goeth with the rightuous as with the vngodly with the good cleane as with the vncleane with him that offereth as with him that offereth not like as it goeth with the vertuous so goeth it also with the synner As it happeneth vnto the periured so happeneth it also vnto him that is afrayed to be man sworne Amonge all thinges y t come to passe vnder the Sonne this is a misery that it happeneth vnto all alyke This is the cause also that the hertes of men are full of wickednesse madd foolishnesse is in their hertes as longe as they lyue vntill they dye And why As longe as a man lyueth he is careles for a quyck dogg saye they is better thē a deed lion for they that be lyuynge knowe y t they shall dye but they y t be deed knowe nothinge nether deserue they eny more For their memoriall is forgottē so y t they be nether loued hated ner envyed nether haue they eny more parte in y e worlde in all y t is done vnder the Sonne Go thou y e waye then eate thy bred with
which they owe vnto me that turne they to mens lawes and doctrynes therfore wil I also shewe vnto this people a maruelous terrible and greate thinge Namely this I wil destroye the wisdome of their wise and the vnderstoÌ„dinge of their lerned men shal perish Wo be vnto them that seke so depe to hyde their ymaginacion be fore the LORDE which rehearce their couÌ„cels in y e darknes and saye who seith vs or who knoweth vs Which ymaginacion of yours is euen as when the potters claye taketh advisemeÌ„t as though the worke might saye to y e worke master make me not or as when an erthen vessel saieth of the potter he vnderstondeth not Se ye not that it is hard by that Libanus shal be turned in to Charmel and that Charmel shal be taken as a wodde Then shal deaf men vnderstonde the wordes of the boke and the eyes of the blynde shal se without eny cloude or darknes The oppressed shal holde a mery feast in the LORDE and the poore people shal reioyse in the holy one of Israel Then shal the furious people ceasse and y e mockers shal be put awaye and all they y t do wronge shal be rooted out soch as laboure to drawe meÌ„ vnto synne and y t disceaue him which reproueth them in the gate soch as turne good personnes to vanite And therfore the LORDE euen the defender of Abraham saieth thus vnto the house of Iacob Now shal not Iacob be ashamed nor his face coÌ„founded when he seith amonge his children whom my hondes haue made soch as halowe my name amonge them that they maye sancifie the holy one of Iacob and feare the God of Israel and that they which afore tyme were of an erroneous sprete haue now vnderstondinge and y t soch as before coude not speake are now lerned in my lawe The xxx Chapter WO be to those shrenkinge children saieth the LORDE which seke councel but not at me which take a webbe in honde but not after my will that they maye heape one synne vpon another They go downe in to Egipte and axe me no councel to seke helpe at the power of Pharao and coÌ„forte in the shadowe of the EgipciaÌ„s But Pharaos helpe shal be youre coÌ„fucion and the comforte in the Egipcians shadowe shal be youre owne shame You re rulers haue bene at Zoan and yo r messaungers came vnto Hanes But ye shal all be ashamed of the people y t maye not helpe you which shal not bringe you strength or comforte but shame and confucion Youre beastes haue borne burthens vpoÌ„ their backes towarde the South thorow the waye that is ful of parell and trouble because of the lyoÌ„ and lyones of the Cockatrice and shutynge dragon Yee the Mules bare youre substaunce and the Camels brought yo r treasure vpon their croked backes vnto a people that can not helpe you For the Egipcians helpe shal be but vane and lost Therfore I tolde you also y t youre pryde shulde haue an ende Wherfore go heÌ„ce and write them this in their tables and note it in a booke that it maye remayne by their posterite and be stil kepte For it is an obstinate people vnfaithful children children that will not heare the lawe of the LORDE They darre saye to the prophetes Intro mitte youre selues with nothinge and vnto y e Soythsayers tell us of nothinge for to come but speake frendly wordes vnto vs and preach vs false thinges Treade out of the waye go out of the path turne the holy one of Israel from vs. Therfore thus saieth the holy one of Israel In as moch as ye haue cast of youre bewtie and conforted youre selues with power and nymblenesse and put youre confidence therin therfore shal ye haue this myschefe agayne for youre destruction and fall like as an hie wall that falleth because of some rift or blast whose breakinge cometh sodenly And youre destruction shal be like as an ertheÌ„ pot which breaketh no man touchinge it yee and breaketh so sore that a man shal not fynde a sheuer of it to fetch fyre in or to take water with all out of the pyt For the LORDE God euen the holy one of Israel hath promised thus With stilsittinge and rest shal ye be healed In quyetnesse and hope shal youre strength lie Notwithstondinge ye regarde it not but ye will saie No for thus are we coÌ„strayned to fle vpoÌ„ horses And therfore shall ye fle we must ryde vpon swift beastes and therfore youre persecutours shal yet be swifter A thousand of you shal fle for one or at the most for fyue which do but only geue you euell wordes vntil ye be desolate as a ship mast vpon an hie mountayne and as a beaken vpon an hill Yet stondeth the LORDE waitinge that he maye haue mercy vpon you and lifteth him self vp that he maye receaue you to grace For the LORDE God is rightuous Happie are all thei that wate for him For thus o thou people of Sion and ye citisens of Ierusalem shal ye neuer be in heuynes for doutlesse he will haue mercy vpon the. As soone as he heareth the voyce of thy crie he will helpe the. The LORDE geueth you the bred of aduersite and the water of trouble But thine instructer fleyth not farre from the yf thine eyes loke vnto thine instructer and thine eares harken to his worde that crieth after the and saieth This is the waye go this and turne nether to the right honde nor the leffte Morouer yf ye destroye the syluer workes of youre Idols and cast awaye the golden coapes that ye deckt them withall as fylthynes and saie get you hence TheÌ„ wil he geue rayne to the sede that ye shal sowe in the earth and geue you breade of the encrease of the earth so that all shal be plenteous and abundaunt Thy catel also shal he fede in the brode medowes yee thyne oxeÌ„ and Muâ—es that till the grounde shal eate good fodder which is pourged w t y e fanne Goodly ryuers shal flowe out of all his mountaynes and hilles In the daye of the greate slaughter when the towers shal fall the Moone shal shyne as the Sonne and y e SoÌ„ne shyne shal be seueÌ„ folde and haue as moch shyne as in seuen dayes beside In that daye shal the LORDE bynde vp y e brussed sores of his people and heale their woundes Beholde the glory of the LORDE shal come from farre his face shal burne that no man shal be able to abyde it his lippes shal wagge for very indignacion and his tunge shal be as a consumynge fyre His breath like a vehement floude of water which goeth vp to the throte That he maye take awaye y e people which haue turned them selues vnto vanite and the brydle of erroure that lieth in other folkes chawes But ye shal synge as the vse is in y e night of the holy solempnite Ye shal
for Ierusalēs sake I will not ceasse vntill their rightuousnes breake forth as y e shyninge light their health as a burnynge lampe Then shal the Gētiles se thy rightuousnesse all kinges thy glory Thou shalt be named with a new name which the mouth of y e LORDE shal shewe Thou shalt be a crowne in the honde of the LORDE and a glorious garlāde in the hōde of thy God From this tyme forth thou shalt neuer be called the forsakē thy lōde shal nomore be called the wildernesse But thou shalt be called Hephziba that is my beloued y e londe Beula that is a maried womā for y e LORDE loueth y e thy lōde shal be inhabited And like as yonge mā taketh a doughter to mariage so shal God mary himself vnto y e sonnes And as a brydegrome is glad of his bryde so shal God reioyse ouer the. I wil set watchmē vpō thy walles o Ierusalem which shall nether ceasse daye nor night to preach y e LORDE And ye also shall not kepe him close nor leaue to speake of hī vntill Ierusalē be set vp made the prayse of the worlde The LORDE hath sworne by his right honde by his stronge arme that frō hence forth he wil not geue thy corne to be meate for thine enemies ner y e wyne wherī thou hast laboured to be drynke for y e straungers But they that haue gathered in the corne shal eate it geue thankes to the LORDE they that haue borne in the wyne shall drynke it in the court of my Sanctuary Stōde back departe a sunder ye y t stonde vnder y e gate make rowme ye people repayre the strete take awaye y e stones set out a tokē for the people Beholde y e LORDE proclameth in the endes of the worlde tel y e doughter Siō se thy Saluaciō cometh beholde he bringeth his treasure w t him his workes go before him For they whō y e LORDE delyuereth shal be called the holy people as for the thou shalt be named the greatly occupied and not the forsaken The lxiij Chapter WHat is he this that cometh from Edom with stayned reade clothes of Bosra which is so costly cloth cometh in so neēbly with all his strēgth I am he y t teacheth rightuousnes am of power to helpe Wherfore thē is thy clothinge reade thy raymēt like his y t treadeth in y e wyne presse I haue troddē the presse my self alone of all people there was not one with me Thus haue I trodē downe myne enemies in my wrath and set my fete vpō them in my indignacion And their bloude sprange vpō my cloothes so haue I stayned all my rayment For the daye of vengeaūce that I haue takē in honde the yeare of my delyueraunce is come I loked aboute me and there was no mā to shewe me eny helpe I fel downe and no man helde me vp Thē I helde me by myne owne arme my feruētnesse susteyned me And thus haue I troden downe the people in my wrath and bathed them in my displeasure In so moch that I haue shed their bloude vpon the earth I will declare the goodnesse of the LORDE yee and the prayse of the LORDE for all that he hath gyuen vs for the greate good y t he hath done for Israel which he hath gyuen them of his owne fauoure acordinge to the multitude of his louynge kindnesses For he sayde These no doute wil be my people and no shrēkinge children and so he was their Sauioure In their troubles he forsoke thē not but the angel that went forth from his presence delyuered them Of very loue kindnesse that he had vnto them redemed he them He hath borne them and caried them vp euer sence the worlde begāne But after they prouoked him to wrath and vexed his holy minde he was their enemie and fought agaynst them him self Yet remēbred he the olde tyme of Moses his people How he brought them from the water of the see as a shepherde doth with his shepe how he had geuen his holy sprete amonge them how he had led Moses by the right honde with his glorious arme how he had deuyded the water before them wherby he gat him self an euerlastinge name how he led them in the depe as an horse is led in the playne that they shulde not stomble The sprete of the LORDE led them as a tame beast goeth in the felde Thus o God hast thou led thy people to make thy self a glorious name with all Loke downe then from heauē and beholde the dwellinge place of thy sanctuary thy glory How is it y t thy gelousy thy strength the multitude of thy mercies and thy louynge kyndnesse wyl not be entreated of vs Yet art thou o r father For Abraham knoweth vs not nether is Israel acquanted with vs. But thou LORDE art oure father and redemer and thy name is euer lastinge O LORDE wherfore hast thou led vs out of thy waye wherfore hast thou hardened oure hertes that we feare the not Be at one with vs agayne for thy seruauntes sake y t are of the generaciō of thy heretage Thy people hath had but litle of thy Sanctuary in possessiō for oure enemies haue takē it in And we are become euen as we were from the beginnynge but thou art not their LORDE for they haue not called vpon thy name The lxiiij Chapter O That thou woldest cleue the heauen in sonder come downe that the mountaynes might melt awaye at thy presence like as at an hore fyre and that the malicious might boyle as the water doth vpon the fyre Wherby thy name might be knowne amōge thine enemies y t the Gētiles might trēble before ye. That thou mightest come downe with thy wonderous straunge workes then shulde the hilles melt at thy presence For sence the begynnynge of the worlde there was none excepte thou o God that herde or perceaued nether hath eny eye sene what thou dost for thē that put their trust in the. Thou helpest him that doth right with cherefulnesse and them that thynke vpon thy wayes But lo thou art angrie for we offende and haue bene euer in synne and there is not one whole We are all as an vnclene thinge all oure rightuousnesses are as the clothes stayned with the floures of a woman we fall euerychone as the leaf for oure synnes carie vs awaye like the wynde There is no man that calleth vpon thy name that stondeth vp to take holde by the. Therfore hydest thou thy face from vs and consumest vs because of oure synnes But now o LORDE thou father of ours we are the claye and thou art oure potter and we all are the worke of thy hondes Be not to sore displeased o LORDE and kepe not oure offences to lōge in thy remembraunce but considre that we all are thy people
rest in myne house ād florishinge in my palace sawe a dreame which made me afrayed ād the thoughtes that I had vpō my bed with the visions of myne heade troubled me Then sent I out a commission that all they which were of wiszdome at Babilō shulde be brought before me to tell me the interpretacion of the dreame So there came the soythsayers charmers Caldees and coniurers of deuels to whom I tolde the dreame but what it betokened they coude not shewe me till at the last there came one Daniel otherwyse called Balthasar acordinge to the name of my God which hath the sprete of the holy goddes in him to whom I tolde the dreame sayenge O Balthasar thou prynce of saythsayers For so moch as I knowe that thou hast the sprete of the holy goddes and no secrete is hyd from the tel me therfore what y e visiō of my dreame y t I haue sene maye signifie I sawe a vision in my heade vpon my bed and beholde there stode a tre vpon the grounde which was very hye greate and mightie y e heyth reached vnto the heauē and the bredth extended to all the endes of the earth his leaues were fayre he had very moch frute so y t euery mā had ynough to eate therin The beastes of the felde had shadowes vnder it and the foules off the ayre dwelt in the bowes therof Shortly all creatures fed of it I sawe in my heade a vision vpon my bed beholde a watcher euē an holy angel came downe from heauen and cryed mightely sayenge Hew downe the tre breake off his braunches shake of his leaues and scatre his frute abrode that all the beestes maye get them awaye from vnder him and the foules from his braunches Neuertheles leaue the grounde of his rote still in the earth and bynde him vpon the playne felde with cheynes of yron and stele With the dew of heauen shall he be wet and he shall haue his parte in the herbes of the grounde with other wylde beastes That mans herte off his shall be taken from him and a beastes herte shall be geuen him till seuen yeares be come and gone vpon him This erande of the watcher is a cōmaundemēt grounded and sought out in the councel off him that is most holy to lerne men for to vnderstonde that the hyest hath power ouer the kyngdomes off men ād geueth them to whom it liketh him and bryngeth the very outcastes off men ouer them This is the dreame y t I kynge Nabuchodonosor haue sene Therfore o Balthasar tell thou me what it signifieth for so moch as all the wyse men off my kyngdome are not able to shewe me what it meaneth But thou canst do it for y e sprete of the holy Goddes is in the. Then Daniel whose name was Balthasar helde his peace by the space of an houre ād his thoughtes troubled him So the kynge spake and sayde O Balthasar let nether the dreame ner the interpretacion theroff feare the. Balthasar answered sayenge O my LORDE this dreame happen to thyne enemies and the interpretacion to thyne aduersaries As for the tre that thou sawest which was so greate mightie whose heyth reached vnto the heauen and his bredth in to all the worlde whose leaues were fayre ād the frute moch vnder the which the beastes of the felde had their habitacion and vpon whose braunches the foules of the ayre dyd syt Euen thou o kynge art the tre greate strōge Thy greatnesse increaseth reacheth vnto the heauen so doth thy power to the endes ef the earth But where as the kynge sawe a watcher euen an holy angel that came downe from heauen and sayde hew downe the tre and destroye it yet leaue the groun-of the rote in the earth and bynde him vpon the playne felde with cheynes off yron and stele He shall be wet with the dew off heauen and his parte shal be with the beestes of the felde till seuen yeares be come and gone vpon him This o kynge is y e interpretaciō yee it is the very deuyce of him y t is hyest of all it toucheth my LORDE the kynge Thou shalt be cast out fro men and thy dwellinge shal be with the beestes of the felde with grasse shalt thou be fed like an oxe Thou must be wet with the dew of the heauen yee seuen yeares shall come and go vpon the till thou knowe that the hyest hath power vpon the kyngdomes of men geueth them to whom he lyst Morouer where as it was sayde that the rote of the tre shulde be be left still in the grounde it betokeneth y t thy kyngdome shall remayne whole vnto y e after thou hast lerned to knowe that the power commeth from heauen Wherfore o kinge be contēt with my councel that thou mayest lowse thy synnes with rightuousnesse ād thyne offences with mercy to poore people for soch thinges shall prolonge thy peace All these thynges touch the kynge Nabuchodonosor So after xij monethes the kynge walked vp and downe in the paalace off the kyngdome off Babilon and sayde This is the greate cite off Babilō which I myself with my power strength haue made a kynges courte for the honoure off my magesty Whyle these wordes were yet in the kynges mouth there fell a voyce from heauē sayengt O kinge Nabuchodonosor to the be it spokē Thy kyngdome shall departe from the thou shalt be cast out of mens company thy dwellinge shal be with the beestes off the felde so that thou shalt eate grasse like as an oxe till seuen yeares be come and gone ouer the euen vntill thou knowest that the hyest hath power vpon the kyngdomes off men and that he maye geue them vnto whom it pleaseth him The very same houre was this matter fulfylled vpō Nabuchodonosor so that he was cast out off mēs cōpany ate grasse like an oxe His body was wet with the dew of heauen till his hayres were as greate as Aegles fethers and his nales like byrdes clawes When this tyme was past I Nabuchodonosor lift vp myne eyes vnto heauen and myne vnderstondinge was restored vnto me agayne Then gaue I thankes vnto the hyest I magnified and praysed him that lyueth for euermore whose power endureth all waye and his kyngdome from one generacion to another in comparyson off whom all they that dwell vpon the earth are to be reputed as nothinge He handleth acordinge to his will amōge y e powers of heauen amonge the inhabitours of the earth and there is none that maye resiste his honde or saye what doest thou At the same tyme was myne vnderstondynge geuen me agayne and I was restored to the honoure of my kingdome to my dignite and to myne owne shappe agayne My greatestates and prynces sought vnto me and I was set in my kyngdome agayne so that I had yet greater worshipe Thē dyd I Nabuchodonosor loaue magnifie and prayse the kynge of heauen for all his workes
are true and his wayes right As for those that go on proudly he is able to brī bringe them downe The V. Chapter BAlthasar the kynge made a greate bancket to his thousande lordes withall these thousande he made greate cheare and when he was dronken w t wyne he commaunded to brynge him y e golden and syluer vessel which his father Nabuchodonosor had taken out of the temple at Ierusalem that the kynge and his lordes with his quene and concubynes might drīke therout So they brought the golden vessel that was takē out of the temple of the LORDES house at Ierusalem Then the kynge and his lordes with his quene and concubines dronke out of them They dronke wyne and praysed their Idols of golde syluer copper yron wodde and stone In the very same houre there appeared fyngers as it had bene of a mans honde writynge right ouer agaynst the candelsticke vpon the playne wall in the kynges palace and the kynge sawe the palme of y e honde y t wrote Then chaunged the kynge his countenaunce and his thoughtes troubled him so that the ioyntes off his body shoke and his knees smote one agaynst the other Wherfore the kynge cryed mightely that thy shulde brynge him the charmers Caldees and coniurers of deuels The kynge spake also to the wysemen of Babilon and sayde Who so can rede this wrytynge and shewe me the playne meanynge theroff shall be clothed with purple haue a cheyne off golde aboute his necke and rule the thirde parte off my kyngdome Vpon this came all the kynges wyse men but they coude nether rede the wrytinge 〈◊〉 shewe the kynge what it signified Thē was the kynge sore afrayed in so moch that his coloure chaunged and his lordes were so sorevexed So by reason off this matter y t had happened to the kynge his lordes the quene went vp herself in to the bancket house and spake vnto the kynge sayenge O kynge God saue thy life for euer Let not y t thoughtes trouble the and let not thy countenaunce be chaunged For why there is a man in y e kyngdome that hath the sprete off the holy goddes within him as it was sene in thy fathers dayes He hath vnderstondinge ād wysdome like the goddes Yee the kynge Nabuchodonosor thy father made this man chest of the soythsayers charmers Caldees and deuel coniurers because that soch an abundaunt sprete knowlege wisdome to expoūde dreames to open secretes and to declare harde dowtes was founde in him yee euen in Daniel whom the kynge named Balthasar Let this same Daniel be sente for and he shall tell what it meaneth Then was Daniel brought before the kinge So the kynge spake vnto Daniel and sayde Art thou that Daniel one off the presoners of Iuda whom my father the kynge brought out of Iewry I haue herde speake of the that thou hast the sprete of the holy goddes experience and vnderstōdinge and that there hath bene greate wisdome founde in the. Now haue there bene brought me wise and connynge charmers to rede this wrytynge and to shewe me the meanynge theroff But they coude not tell me what this matter signified Then herde I saye y t thou canst expounde darcke thinges and declare harde doutes Well than yf thou canst rode this writinge and shewe me the meaninge therof thou shalt be clothed w t purple haue a cheyne of golde aboute thy necke rule the thirde parte of my kyngdome Daniel answered and sayde before y e kynge As for thy rewardes kepe them to thy self or geue y e rych giftes to another yet not thelesse I wil rede the wrytynge vnto y e kinge and shewe him the interpretacion therof O kinge God the hyest gaue vnto Nabuchodonosor thy father y e dignite of a kynge w t worshipe hono r so y t all people kynreddes tunges stode in awe feare of him by reason off the hye estate that he had lent him For why he slewe whom he wolde he smoke whom it pleased him Agayne whom he wolde he set vp and whom he list he put downe But because his herte was so proude and his stomack set fast vnto wylfulnesse he was deposed from his kyngly trone and his magesty was taken from him He was shot out from amonge men his herte was like a beestes herte and his dwellynge was with the wylde Asses he was fayne to eate grasse like an oxe and his body was wet with the dew off the heauen till he knewe that the hyest had power vpon the kyngdomes of men and setteth ouer them whom he list And thou his sonne o Balthasar for all this hast not submitted thine hert though thou knewest all these thinges but hast magnified thy selff aboue the LORDE off heauen so that the vessels off his house were brought before the that thou and thy lordes with thy quene and concubynes might drynke wyne therout And hast praysed the Idols of syluer and golde copper and yron off wodde stone As for the God in whose honde consisteth thy breth ād all thy wayes thou hast not loaued him Therfore is the palme off this honde sent hither from him to token vp this wrytinge And this is the scripture that is written vp Mane Thetel Phares Now the interpretacion off the thynge is this Mane God hath nombred thy kyngdome and brought it to an ende Thetel Thou art weyed in the balaunce and art founde to light Phares Thy kyngdome is delt in partes and geuen to the Medes and Perses Then commaunded Balthasar to cloth Daniel with purple to hange a cheyne off golde aboute his necke and to make a proclamacion concernynge him that he shulde be the ruler off the thirde parte off his kyngdome The very same night was Balthasar the kynge off the Caldees slayne and Darius out of Media toke in the kyngdome beynge lxij yeare off age The VI. Chapter IT pleased Darius to set ouer his kīgdome an C and xx lordes which shulde be in all his kingdome aboute Aboue these he set thre prynces off whom Daniel was one that the lordes might geue accomptes vnto them and the kynge to be vndiseased But Daniel exceaded all these princes ād lordes for the sprete off God was plenteous in him so that the kynge was mynded to set him ouer the whole realme Wherfore the prynces and lordes sought to pyke out in Daniel some quarel agaynst the kyngdome yet coude they fynde none occasion ner fawte vpon him For why he was so faythful y t there was no blame ner dishonesty founde in him Then sayde these men we will get no quarell agaynst this Daniel excepte it be in the lawe off his God Vpon this wente the princes and lordes together vnto the kynge and sayde thus vnto him kynge Darius God saue thy life for euer All the great estates off the realme as y e prynces dukes senatours and iudges are determed to put out a commaundement off y e kynge and to make a sure
I will sende you 〈◊〉 y ◠prophet before the cōmynge off the daye of the great and fearfull LORDE He shall 〈◊〉 the hertes of the fathers to their children and the hertes of the children to their fathers that I come not and smyte the earth with cursynge The ende of the prophet Malachy APOCRIPHA The bokes and treatises which amonge the fathers of olde are not rekened to be of like authorite with the other bokes of the byble nether are they foūde in the Canon of the Hebrue The thirde boke of Eszdras The fourth boke of Eszdras The boke of Tobias The boke of Iudith Certayne chapters of Hester The boke of Wyszdome Ecclesiasticus The Storye of Susanna The Storye of Bell. The first boke of the Machabees The seconde boke of the Machabees Vnto these also belongeth Baruc whom we haue set amōge the prophetes next vnto Ieremy because he was his scrybe and in his tyme. The transzlatoure vnto the reader THese bokes good reader which be called Apocrypha are not iudged amonge the doctours to be of like reputacion with the other scripture as thou mayest perceaue by S. Ierome in epistola ad Paulinum And the chefe cause therof is this there be many places in them that seme to be repugnaunt vnto the open and manyfest trueth in the other bokes of the byble Neuertheles I haue not gathered them together to the intent that I wolde haue them despysed or litle sett by or that I shulde thinke them false for I am not able to proue it Yee I doute not verely yf they were equally conferred with the other open scripture tyme place and circumstaunce in all thinges considered they shulde nether seme contrary ner be vntruly peruersly aledged Treuth it is A mās face can not be sene so wel in a water as in a fayre glasse nether cā it be shewed so clearly in a water that is stered or moued as in a styll water These many other darck places of scripture haue bene sore stered and myxte with blynde and cuvetous opynions of men which haue cast soch a myst afore the eyes of y e symple that as longe as they be not cōferred with the other places of scripture they shall not seme other wyse to be vnderstonde then as cuvetousnes expoundeth them But who so euer thou be that readest scripture let the holy goost be thy teacher and let one text expounde another vnto the As for soch dreames visions and darck sentences as be hyd from thy vnderstondinge commytte them vnto God and make no articles of them But let the playne text be thy gyde and the sprete of God which is the author therof shal lede the in all trueth As for the prayer of Salomō which thou findest not herin y e prayer of Azarias and the swete songe that he and his two felowes songe in the fyre the first namely the prayer of Salomon readest thou in the eight chapter of the thirde boke of the kynges so that it appeareth not to be Apocryphum The other prayer and songe namely of the thre children haue I not founde amonge eny of the interpreters but onely in the olde latyn texte which reporteth it to be of Theodotios translacion Neuertheles both because of those y t be weake and scrupulous and for their sakes also that loue soch swete songes of thankesgeuinge I haue not left them out to the intent that the one shulde haue no cause to complayne and that the other also might haue the more occasion to geue thankes vnto God in aduersite as the thre children dyd in the fyre Grace be with the. Amen The thirde boke of Eszdras What this boke conteyneth Chap. I. The vertuous kynge Osias renueth the seruyce of God setteth the prestes in their ordre and holdeth the feast of Easter Of his death Of Iechonias his sonne Of kynge Ioachim and Sedechias Chap. II. God moueth kinge Cyrus to delyuer the presoners like as he promysed by the prophet Ieremy Of kynge Artaxerses by whose auctorite the Iewes are forbydden to buylde vp Ierusalem Chap. III. Of the feast that kinge Darius made and of the thre yonge men that wrote euery one his sentence to proue who might saye the best The first sheweth his mynde Chap. IIII. The seconde goeth aboute to proue his sentence the wisest but Zorobabel getteth the victory for the trueth beareth euer the bell Darius cōmaundeth to buylde vp Ierusalem agayne Chap. V. What they be how many that come agayne to Ierusalem out of the captiuyte of Babilon The tēple and the altare are buylded agayne The Heithen withstonde them Chap. VI. The officers in Syria laboure vnto kynge Darius to forbyd the buyldinge of the temple at Ierusalem but he commaundeth to kepe the ordinaunce that kynge Cyrus made before Chap. VII The aduersaries myndes are satisfied the buyldinge is fynished and the Passeouer holden Chap. VIII How Eszdras and the other beinge discharged by the letters and commaūdemēt of kinge Artaxerses go vp to Ierusalem The complaynte concernynge those that were defyled and vncleane Chap. IX Of the councell that was taken as touchinge the vncleane mariage The first Chapter ANd Iosias helde the feast of Easter in Ierusalem vnto the LORDE and slewe y e Passeouer the xiiij daye of the first moneth He set y e prestes also in ordre acordīge to their daylie courses beynge arayed in longe garmētes in the tēple of the LORDE And he spake vnto the Leuites the holy ministers of Israel that they shulde halowe them selues vnto the LORDE to set the holy arke of the LORDE in the house that kynge Salomō the sonne of Dauid had buylded and sayde Ye shal nomore beare the Arke vpon yo r shulders Now serue yoo r LORDE take the charge of his people of Israel after youre vyllagies and youre trybes acordinge as kynge Dauid the kynge of Israel hath ordened acordinge as Salomon his sonne hath honorably prepared Yee loke y t ye all do seruyce in the temple acordinge to the ordringe and distribucion of the pryncipall mē which are appoynted out of the trybes to do seruyce for the childrē of Israel Kyll y e Passeouer prepare offeringes for yo r brethren and do accordinge to the commaundemēt of y e LORDE which he gaue vnto Moses And vnto y e people y t was foūde Iosias gaue xxx thousande of shepe lambes kyddes and goates thre thousande oxē These the kynge of his kyngly liberalite gaue vnto the people acordinge as he had promysed to the prestes for the Passeouer he gaue two thousande shepe an hundreth oxē Morouer Iechonias Semeias and Nathanael brethren Hasabias Iehiel and Iosabad gaue them to the Passeouer fyue thousande shepe and fyue hundreth bullockes And whan these thinges were brought to passe the prestes and the Leuites stode goodly in their ordre and had the vnleuended bred thorow out y e trybes And after the ordringe of the pryncipall men in the trybes they offred vnto the
wildernesse Moses intreateth for the people Chap. XIX Like as the wicked are euer synnynge more and more so doth the wrath of God neuer ceasse tyll they be destroyed Of them that were punyshed in the tyme of Loth. The first Chapter O Set youre affeccion vpoÌ„ wyszdome ye that be iudges of the earth Haue a good opinion of the LORDE seke him in the synglenesse of hert For he will be fouÌ„de of them that tempte him not and appeareth vnto soch as put their trust in him As for frowarde thoughtes they separate from God but vertue yf it be alowed refourmeth y e vnwyse And why wyszdome shall not entre in to a frowarde soule ner dwell in the body that is subdued vnto synne For the holy goost abhorreth fayned nurtoure withdraweth himself froÌ„ y e thoughtes that are without vnderstondinge where wickednes hath the vpper haÌ„de he flieth from thence For the sprete of wyszdome is louynge gentle and gracious and wil haue no pleasure in him that speaketh euell with his lippes For God is a witnesse of his reynes a true searcher out of his hert and an hearer of his tonge For the sprete of y e LORDE fylleth the rounde compasse of the worlde and y e same that vpholdeth all thinges hath knowlege also of the voyce Therfore he that speaketh vnrighteous thinges can not be hydd nether maye he escape the iudgmeÌ„t of reprofe And why inquysicion shal be made for the thoughtes of the vngodly and the reporte of his wordes shal come vnto God so that his wickednes shal be punished For the eare of gelousy heareth all thinges and the noyse of the grudginges shal not be hydd Therfore bewarre of murmuringe which is nothinge worth and refrayne youre tonge from slauÌ„der For there is no worde so darck and secrete that it shall go for naught and the mouth that speaketh lyes slayeth the soule O seke not youre owne death in y e erroure of youre life destroye not youre selues thorow the workes of youre awne handes For God hath not made death nether hath he pleasure in the destruccion of the lyuynge For he created all thinges that they might haue their beynge yee all the people of the earth hath he made that they shulde haue health that there shulde be no destruccion in them and that the kyngdome of hell shulde not be vpon earth for righteousnesse is euerlastinge and immortall but vnrighteousnes bringeth death Neuerthelesse the vngodly call her vnto them both w t wordes workes whyle they thinke to haue a frende of her they come to naught for the vngodly that are confederate with her and take hir parte are worthy of death The II. Chapter FOr y e vngodly talke ymagin thus amonge them selues but not right The tyme of oure life is but short tedious when a man is once gone he hath nomore ioye ner pleasure nether knowe we eny man y t turneth agayne from death for we are borne of naught we shal be herafter as though we had neuer bene For oure breth is as a smoke in oure nostrels y e wordes as a sparck to moue oure herte As for o r body it shal be very aszshes y t are queÌ„ched o r soule shal vanish as y e soft ayre Oure life shall passe awaye as y e trace of a cloude come to naught as y e myst y t is dryueÌ„ awaye w t the beames of y e Sonne put downe w t the heate therof Oure name also shal be forgotten by litle litle no man shal haue oure workes in remembraunce For o r tyme is a very shadow y t passeth awaye after o r ende there is no returnynge for it is fast sealed so y t no maÌ„ coÌ„meth agayne Come on therfore let vs enioye y e pleasures y t there are let vs soone vse y e creature like as in youth We wil fyll oure selues w t good wyne oyntment there shal no floure of the tyme go by vs. We wil crowne o r selues w t roses afore they be wythered There shal be no fayre medowe but o r lust shall go thorow it Let euery one of you be partaker of oure volupteousnes Let vs leaue some token of o r pleasure in euery place for y t is oure porcion els gett we nothinge Let vs oppresse the poore righteous let vs not spare the wyddowe ner olde man let vs not regarde y e heades y t are gray for age Let y e lawe of vnrighteousnesse be oure auctorite for y e thinge y t is feble is nothinge worth Therfore let vs defraude the righteous whyâ—he is not for o r profit yee he is cleane coÌ„trary to o r doinges He checketh vs for offendinge agaynst y e lawe slaundreth vs as transgressours of all nurtor. He maketh his boost to haue y e knowlege of God yee he calleth him self Gods sonne He is the bewrayer of oure thoughtes It greueth vs also to loke vpon him for his lyfe is not lyke other mens his wayes are of another fashion He counteth vs but vayne personnes he w t draweth him self from o r wayes as from fylthynes he coÌ„mendeth greatly y e latter ende of the iust maketh his boast y t God is his father Let vs se then yf his wordes be true let vs proue what shal come vpon him so shal we knowe what ende he shal haue For yf he be y e true sonne of God he will receaue him delyuer him from the handes of his enemies Let vs examen him with despitefull rebuke and tormentinge that we maye knowe his dignite proue his pacience Let vs condemne him with the most shamefull death for like as he hath spoken so shal he be rewarded Soch thinges do the vngodly ymagin go astraye for their owne wickednes hath blynded them As for the misteries of God they vnderstonde them not they nether hope for the rewarde of righteousnesse ner regarde the worshipe that holy soules shall haue For God created man to be vndestroied yee after the ymage of his awne licknesse made he him Neuerthelesse thorow envye of the deuell came death in to the worlde and they that holde of his syde do as he doth The III. Chapter BVt the soules of y e righteous are in y e hande of God y e payne of death shal not touch theÌ„ In y e sight of the vnwyse they appeare to dye their ende is takeÌ„ for very destruccion The waye of the righteous is iudged to be vtter destruccion but they are in rest And though they suffre payne before men yet is their hope full of immortalite They are punished but in few thinges neuerthelesse in many thinges shal they be well rewarded For God proueth them fyndeth theÌ„ mete for himself yee as the golde in the fornace doth he trye them receaueth them as a brent
thinges doth no hert vnderstonde but he vnderstandeth euery hert and who vnderstandeth his wayes No man seyth his storme and the most parte of his workes are secrete Who wil declare the workes of his righteousnes Or who shal be able to abyde them for the couenaunt is farre from some and the tryenge out of men is in the fulfillynge He that is humble of hert thinketh vpon soch thinges but an vnwyse and erroneous man casteth his mynde vnto foolish thinges My sonne herken thou vnto me lerne vnderstādinge and marck my wordes with thine hert I wyll geue the a sure doctrine planely shal I enstrucke the. God hath sett his workes in good ordre from the begynninge and parte of them hath he sundered from the other He hath garnyshed his workes from euerlastinge and their begynnynges acordinge to their generacions None of thē hyndered another nether was eny of them dishobedient vnto his worde After this God loked vpō the earth and fylled it with his goodes With all maner of lyuinge beastes hath he couered the grounde and they all shal be turned vnto earth agayne The XVII Chapter BOd shope man of the earth and turned him vnto earth agayne He gaue him the nombre of dayes and certayne tyme yee and gaue him power of the thinges that are vpō earth He clothed him with strength and made him after his owne licknes He made all flesh to stonde in awe of him so that he had the dominion of all beastes foules He made out of him an helper like vnto him self and gaue them discrecion and tonge eyes and eares and a hert to vnderstande and fylled them with instruccion vnderstandinge He created for them also the knowlege of the sprete fylled their hert with vnderstandinge and shewed them good and euell He sett his eye vpō their hertes declaringe vnto them his greate and noble workes that they shulde prayse his holy name together reioyse of his wonders be tellinge of his noble actes Besydes this he gaue them instruccion and the lawe of life for an heretage He made an euerlastinge couenaunt with them and shewed them his righteousnes iudgmentes They sawe his glory with their eyes and their eares herde the maiesty of his voyce And he saide vnto them bewarre of all vnrighteous thinges He gaue euery man also a commaundement concernynge his neghboure Their waies are euer before him and are not hyd from his eyes He hath sett a ruler vpon euery people but Israel is y e LORDES porcion All their workes are as the Sonne in y e sight of God his eyes are allwaye lokynge vpon their wayes All their vnrighteousnesses are manifest vnto him all their wickednesses are open in his sight The mercy y t a man sheweth is as it were a purse w t him and a mans good dede preserueth him as the apple of an eye At the last shall he awake rewarde euery man vpon his heade as he hath deserued and shal turne them together in to the nethermost partes of the earth But vnto them that wyll repent he hath geuē the waye of righteousnes As for soch as be weake he comforteth thē suffreth them and sendeth them the porcion of y e verite O turne then vnto the LORDE forsake thy synnes make thy prayer before the LORDE do the lesse offence turne agayne vnto the LORDE forsake thine vnrighteousnes be an vtter enemy to abhominacion lerne to knowe the righteousnes and iudgmentes of God stonde in the porcion that is sett forth for the in the prayer of the most hye God Go in to the porcion of the holy worlde with soch as be lyuinge and geue thankes vnto God Who wil prayse the LORDE in the hell Abyde not thou in the erroure of the vngodly but geue him thākes before death As for y e deed thankfulnesse perisheth from him as nothinge Geue thou thankes in thy life yee whyle thou art lyuynge whole shalt thou geue thankes and prayse God and reioyse in his mercy O how greate is the louynge kyndnesse of the LORDE and his mercifull goodnes vnto soch as turne vnto him For all thinges maye not be in man why the sonne of man is not immortall and he hath pleasure in the vanyte of wickednes What is more cleare thē the Sonne yet shal it fayle Or what is more wicked then the thinge that flesh and bloude hath ymagined and that same shall be reproued The LORDE seyth the power of the hye heauen and all are but earth and aszshes The XVIII Chapter HE that lyueth for euermore made all thinges together God onely is righteous remayneth a victorious kynge for euer Who shal be able to expresse the workes of him Who hath sought out the grounde of his noble actes Who shal declare the power of his greatnesse Or who will take vpon him to tell out his mercy As for the wonderous workes of y e LORDE there maye nothinge be taken from them nothinge maye be put vnto them nether maye the grounde of them be founde out But whan a man hath done his best he must begynne agayne and whan he thinketh to be come to an ende he must go agayne to his laboure What is man Wherto is he worth What good or euell can he do Yf the nombre of a mans dayes be allmost an hundreth yeare it is moch Like as the droppes of rayne are vnto y e see and as a grauell stone is in comparison of the sonde so are these few yeares to the dayes euerlastinge Therfore is y e LORDE pacient with them and poureth out his mercy vpon them He sawe and perceaued the thoughtes and ymaginacions of their harte that they were euell therfore heaped he vp his mercifull goodnes vpon them and shewed them the waie of righteousnes The mercy that a mā hath reacheth to his neghboure but y e mercy of God is vpon all flesh He chasteneth he teacheth and nourtureth yee euen as a shepherde turneth agayne his flock so doth he all them that receaue chastenynge nurtoure and doctryne Mercifull is he vnto them that stonde in awe of his iudgmentes My sonne whan thou doest good make no grudginge at it and what so euer thou geuest speake no discomfortable wordes Shal not the dew coole the heate Euen so is a worde better then a gift Is not a frendly worde a good honest gift but a gracious man geueth them both A foole shal cast a man in the tethe and that roughly a gift of the nygarde putteth out y e eyes Get the righteousnes before thou come to iudgmēt Lerne before thou speake and go to phisick or euer thou be sick examen and iudge thy self before the iudgment come and so shalt thou fynde grace in the sight of God Humble thy self afore thou be sick and in tyme of thy disease shewe thy conuersacion Let not to praye allwaye and stonde not in feare to be refourmed
nacion with my power haue I troden downe the hertes of all both hye and lowe In all these thinges also I sought rest a dwellinge in some enheritaunce So y e creator of all thinges gaue me a commaundement he that made me appoynted me a tabernacle and saide vnto me Let thy dwellinge be in Iacob and thy inheritaunce in Israel rote thy self amōge my chosen I was created from the begynninge and before the worlde shal not leaue of vnto the worlde to come In the holy habitacion haue I serued before him and so was I stablished in Sion In y e holy cite rested I in like maner in Ierusalem was my power I toke rote in an honourable people euen in the porcion of y e LORDE in his heretage kepte me in y e fulnes of the sayntes I am sett vp an hye like a Ceder vpō Libanus as a Cypers tre vpon the mount Hermon I am exalted like a palme tre in Cades as a rose plāte in Iericho As a fayre olyue tre in the felde am exalted like as a plantayne tre by the water syde I haue geuen a smell in the stretes as y e Cynamom and Balme that hath so good a sauoure yee a swete odoure haue I geuen as it were Myrre of the best I haue made my dwellinges to smell as it were of rosyn Galbanum of Clowes and Incense as Libanus whan it is not hewē downe mine odoure is as the pure Balme As the Terebynte haue I stretched out my braunches and my braunches are the braunches of honoure and louynge fauoure As y e vyne haue I brought forth frute of a swete sauoure and my floures are y e frute of hono and riches I am the mother of bewtye of loue of feare of knowlege of holy hope In me is all grace of life and trueth In me is all hope of life and vertue O come vnto me all ye that be desyrous of me and fyll youre selues with my frutes for my sprete is sweter then hony so is my inheritaunce more then the hony combe the remembraunce of me endureth for euermore They that eate me shal haue the more honger and they that drynke me shal thyrste the more Who so herkeneth vnto me shall not come to confucion and they that worke in me shal not offende They that make me to be knowne shal haue euerlastinge life All these thinges are the boke of life the couenaunt of the Hyest and the knowlege of the trueth Moses commaunded the lawe in the preceptes of righteousnes for an heretage vnto the house of Iacob and cōmitted y e promyses vnto Israel Out of Dauid his seruaūt HE ordened to raise vp a most mightie kinge syttinge in the seate of honoure for euermore This fylleth with wyszdome like as the floude of Phison as y e floude of Tigris whan the new frutes are a growinge This bringeth a plenteous vnderstandinge like Euprates fylleth it vp as Iordane in the time of haruest This maketh nurto r to breake forth as the light as the water Gihon in y e haruest The first hath not knowne her perfectly nomore shal the last seke out y e grounde of her For hir thought is fuller thē the see and hir councell is profounder then the greate depe I wyszdome haue cast out floudes I am as a greate waterbroke out of y e riuer I am as the ryuer Dorix and as a water condyte am I come out of the garden of pleasure I sayde I wyl water the garden of my yonge plantes and fyll the frute of my byrth So my waterbroke became exceadinge greate and my ryuer approched vnto the see For I make doctryne to be vnto all mē as light as the fayre mornynge and I shall make it to be euer the clearer I will pearse thorow all the lower partes of the earth I wyll loke vpon all soch as be a slepe and lighten all thē that put their trust in the LORDE I shal yet poure out doctrine like as prophecy and leaue it vnto soch as seke after wyszdome and their generacions shal I neuer fayle vnto the holy euerlastinge worlde Beholde how that I haue not laboured for my self onely but for all them y t seke after y e trueth The XXV Chapter THre thinges there are y t my sprete fauoureth which be also alowed before God and men The vnyts of brethren the loue of neghbours and man wyfe that agree well together Thre thinges there be which my soule hateth and I vtterly abhorre the life of them A poore man that is proude A rich mā that is a lyar and an olde body that doteth and is vnchaste Yf thou hast gathered nothinge in thy youth what wylt thou fynde thē in thine age O how pleasaūt a thinge is it whā gray headed men are discrete whan the elders can geue good councell O how cōly a thinge is wyszdome vnto aged men yee vnderstondinge and councell is a glorious thinge The crowne of olde men is to haue moch experience y e feare of God is their worshipe There be ix thinges which I haue iudged in my hert to be happie and the tenth wil I tell forth vnto men with my tonge A man y t whyle he lyueth hath ioye of his children and seith y e fall of his enemies Well is him that dwelleth with an houswife of vnderstōdinge and that hath not fallen with his tonge and y t hath not bene faine to serue soch as are vnmete for him Wel is him y t fyndeth a faithfull frende wel is him which talketh of wiszdome to an eare y t heareth him O how greate is he y t fyndeth wyszdome knowlege Yet is he not aboue him that feareth the LORDE The feare of God hath sett itself aboue all thinges Blessed is y e man vnto whō it is graunted to haue the feare of God Vnto whō shal he be lickened y t kepeth it fast The feare of God is the begynnynge of his loue and the begynnynge of faith is to cleue fast vnto it The heuynes of the hert is all the punyshment and the wickednes of a woman goeth aboue all All punyshment plage is nothinge in comparison of the plage of the hert euē so all wickednes is nothinge to the wickednes of a woman What so euer happeneth vnto a man is nothinge in comparison of it y t his euell willers do vnto him and all vengeaunce is nothinge to the vengeaūce of the enemye There is not a more wicked heade then the heade of the serpēt and there is no wrath aboue y e wrath of a woman I wyl rather dwell with a lyon and dragon then to kepe house with a wicked wyfe The wickednesse of a woman chaungeth hir face she shal moffell hir coūtenaunce as it were a Beer as a sack shall she shewe it amonge the neghbours Hir husbande is
heauen and in earth Go ye youre waye therfore and teach all nacions and baptyse them in the name of the father and of the sonne and of the holy goost and teach them to kepe all thinges what soeuer I haue commaunded you And lo I am with you euery daye vnto the ende of the worlde The ende of the gospell of S. Mathew The gospell of S. Marke What S. Marke conteyneth Chap. I. The office of Ihon the baptist The baptyme of Christ his fastynge his preachinge and the callynge of Peter Andrew Iames and Ihon. Christ healeth the man with the vncleane sprete helpeth Peters mother in lawe and clenseth the leper Chap. II. He healeth the man of the palsye calleth Leui the customer eateth with open synners and excuseth his disciples Chap. III. He helpeth the man with the dryed hande choseth his apostles and casteth out the vncleane sprete which the Pharises ascrybe vnto the deuell The brother sister and mother of Christ. Chap. IIII. The parable of the sower Christ stilleth the tempest of the see which obeyeth him Chap. V. He delyuereth the possessed from the vncleane sprete the woman from the bloudye yssue and rayseth the captaynes doughter Chap. VI. Christ preacheth at home and is not regarded He sendeth out his disciples Ihon baptist is taken and headed Christ fedeth fyue thousande men with fyue loaues and two fiszhes He walketh vpon the see Chap. VII The Pharises are not cōtent that the disciples eate with vnwaszhen handes but Christ rebuketh thē selues for breakinge the commaundementes of God healeth the woman of Canaans daughter and maketh the domme to speake Chap. VIII He fedeth foure thousande mē with vij loaues reproueth the Pharises that are so desyrous of tokens warneth his disciples to bewarre of their leuen maketh a blynde man to see axeth his disciples what men holde of him reproueth Peter telleth his disciples of his passion and exorteth them to folowe him ▪ Chap. IX The transfiguracion of Christ which healeth the childe that was possessed of a domme sprete teacheth his disciples to be lowly and to auoyde occasions of euell Chap. X. Christ geueth his answere concernynge mariage and that it is harde for th◠rich to come in to heauē reproueth the disdayne of his disciples lerneth thē to be meke and restoreth blynde Barthimeus to his sight Chap. XI Christ rydeth in to Ierusalem dryueth the marchauntes out of the temple curseth the fyge tre and confoundeth the Pharises Chap. XII He rebuketh the synne and vnthankfulnesse of the Iewes with a goodly symilitude taketh thē in their owne disceatfull questions exorteth to bewarre of their doctryne and lyuynge and commendeth the good wyll of the poore wyddowe Chap. XIII He warneth his disciples to bewarre of false teachers and disceauers comforteh them agaynst the trouble for to come tellinge them of the horrible destruccion of Ierusalem of his commynge and ende of the worlde Chap. XIIII The Magdalene anoynteth Christ. They eate the easter lambe and the supper of the LORDE Christ is taken and brought in to Caiphas house Peter denyeth him Chap. XV. The crucifienge of Christ and how he was buried Chap. XVI The resurreccion of Christ which appeareth vnto Mary Magdalene and to his disciples whom he sendeth forth in to the worlde to preach the gospell and ascēdeth vp in to heauen himself The gospell of S. Marke The first Chapter THis is the begynnynge of the gospell of Iesus Christ the sonne of God as it is wryttē in the prophetes Beholde I sende my messaūger before thy face which shal prepare thy waye before the. The voyce of a cryer is in the wyldernes Prepare the waye of the LORDE make his pathes straight Ihon was in the wyldernes and baptysed and preached the baptyme of amendment for the remyssion of synnes And there wente out vnto him the whole londe of Iewry and they of Ierusalem and were all baptysed of him in Iordan and knowleged their synnes Ihon was clothed with Camels heer and with a lethron gerdell aboute his loynes and ate locustes and wylde hony and preached and sayde There commeth one after me which is stronger then I before whom I am not worthy to stoupe downe and to lowse vp y e lachet of his shue I baptyse you with water but he shal baptyse you with the holy goost And it happened at the same tyme that Iesus came out of Galile from Nazareth and was baptysed of Ihon in Iordan And as soone as he was come out of the water he sawe that the heauens opened and the goost as a doue cōmynge downe vpon him And there came a voyce from heauē Thou art my deare sonne in whom I delyte And immediatly the sprete droue him in to the wyldernes and he was in the wyldernes fourtye dayes and was tempted of Sathan and was with the wylde beestes And the angels mynistred vnto him But after that Ihon was taken Iesus came in to Galile and preached the gospell of the kyngdome of God and sayde the tyme is fulfylled and the kyngdome of God is at hande Amende youre selues and beleue the gospell So as he walked by the see of Galile he sawe Symon and Andrew his brother castinge their nettes in the see for they were fyszhers And Iesus sayde vnto thē Folowe me and I wil make you fyszhers of mē And immediatly they left their nettes and folowed him And when he was gone a lytle further from thence he sawe Iames the sonne of Zebede and Ihon his brother as they were in the shyppe mendynge their nettes And anone he called them And they left their father Zebede in the shyppe with the hyred seruauntes and folowed him And they wente in to Capernaum and immediatly vpon the Sabbathes he entred in to the synagoge and taught And they were astonnyed at his doctryne for he taught them as one hauynge power and not as the Scrybes And in their synagoge there was a man possessed with a foule sprete which cried and sayde Oh what haue we to do with the thou Iesus of Nazareth Art thou come to destroye us I knowe that thou art euen y t holy one of God And Iesus reproued him and sayde holde thy tonge and departe out of him And the foule sprete tare him and cried with a loude voyce and departed out of him And they were all astonnyed in so moch that they axed one another amonge thē selues sayde What is this What new lernynge is this For he cōmaundeth the foule spretes with power and they are obedient vnto him And immediatly the fame of him was noysed rounde aboute in the coastes and borders of Galile And forth with they wente out of the synagoge and came in to the house of Symō and Andrew w t Iames and Ihon. And Symons mother in lawe laye had the feuers and anone they tolde him of her And he came to her and set her vp and toke her by y e hande and the feuer
the people lest they shulde thrunge him for he healed many of them in so moch that all they which were plaged preased vpon him that they might touch him And whan the foule spretes sawe him they fell downe before him and cried and sayde Thou art the sonne of God And he charged them strately that they shulde not make him knowne And he wente vp in to a mountayne and called vnto him whom he wolde and they came vnto him And he ordeyned y e twolue that they shulde be with him and that he might sende them out to preach and that they might haue power to heale sicknesses and to cast out deuyls And vnto Symon he gaue the name Peter and Iames the sonne of Zebede and Ihon the brother of Iames and gaue thē the name Bonarges that is to saye the children of thonder and Andrew and Philippe and Bartylmew and Mathew and Thomas and Iames y e sonne of Alpheus and Taddeus and Symon of Cana and Iudas Iscarioth which betrayed him And they came to house Then assembled the people together agayne in so moch that they had no leysure to eate And when they that were aboute him herde of it they wente out to holde him For they sayde he taketh to moch vpon him But the scrybes that were come downe from Ierusalem sayde He hath Belzebub and thorow the chefe deuell casteth he out deuyls And he called them together and spake vnto them in symilitudes How can one Sathan dryue out another And yf a realme be deuyded in it self how can it endure And yf a house be deuyded agaynst it self it can not contynue Yf Sathan now ryse agaynst him self and be at variaunce with him self he can not endure but is at an ende No man can entre in to a stronge mans house and take awaye his goodes excepte he first bynde the stronge man and then spoyle his house Verely I saye vnto you All synnes shal be forgeuen the children of men and the blasphemy also wherwith they blaspheme But who so blasphemeth the holy goost hath neuer forgeuenes but is giltie of the euerlastinge iudgment For they sayde he hath an vncleane sprete And there came his mother and his brethrē and stode without and sente vnto him and called him And the people sat aboute him and sayde vnto him Beholde thy mother and thy brethrē axe after the without And he answered and sayde Who is my mother and my brethren And he loked rounde aboute him vpon his disciples which sat rounde in compasse aboute him and sayde Beholde my mother and my brethren For who so euer doth the will of God the same is my brother and my sister and my mother The IIII. Chapter ANd he begāne agayne to teach by y e see side And there gathered moch people vnto him so that he wente in to a shippe and sat vpon the water And all the people stode vpon the londe by the see syde And he preached longe vnto thē by parables and sayde vnto thē in his doctryne Herken to beholde there wente out a sower to sowe it happened whyle he was sowinge that some fell by the waye syde Then came the foules vnder the heauen and ate it vp Some fell vpon stonye grounde where it had not moch earth and anone it came vp because it had not depe earth Now whā the Sonne arose it caught heate and in so moch as it had no rote it wythred awaye And some fel amonge the thornes the thornes grew vp and choked it and it gaue no frute And some fell vpon a good grounde which gaue frute that came vp and grew And some bare thirtie folde and some sixtie folde and some an hundreth folde And he sayde vnto them Who so hath eares to heare let him heare And whan he was alone they that were aboute him w t the twolue axed him concernynge this parable And he sayde vnto thē Vnto you it is geuen to knowe the mystery of the kyngdome of God but vnto them that are without all thinges happen by parables that with seynge eyes they maye se and not discerne and that with hearinge eares they maye heare and not vnderstōde lest at eny tyme they turne and their synnes be forgeuen them And he sayde vnto them Vnderstonde ye not this parable How wyl ye then vnderstonde all other parables The sower soweth the worde These be they that are by the waye syde where the worde is sowne and as soone as they haue herde it immediatly commeth Sathā and taketh awaye the worde that was sowen in their hertes And likewyse are they that are sowen on the stonye grounde which when they haue herde the worde receaue it with ioye and haue no rote in them but endure for a tyme. When trouble and persecucion aryseth for y e wordes sake immediatly they are offended And these are they that are sowen amōge the thornes which heare the worde and y e carefulnes of this worlde and the disceatfulnes of riches and many other lustes entre in and choke the worde and so is it made vnfrutefull And these are they y t are sowen vpō a good grounde Which heare y e worde and receaue it and brynge forth frute some thirtie folde and some sixtie folde and some an hundreth folde And he sayde vnto thē Is a candle lighted to be put vnder a buszhell or vnder a table Is it not lighted to be set vpon a candelsticke For there is nothinge hyd that shal not be openly shewed and there is nothinge secrete y t shal not be knowne Who so hath eares to heare let him heare And he sayde vnto them Take hede what ye heare With what measure ye mete with the same shal it be measured vnto you agayne And vnto you that heare this shal more be geuen For who so hath vnto him shal be geuen and who so hath not from him shal be taken awaye euen that he hath And he sayde The kyngdome of God is after this maner as when a man casteth sede vpon the londe and slepeth and stondeth vp night and daye and the sede spryngeth vp groweth he not knowinge of it For the earth bryngeth forth frute of her selfe first the grasse afterwarde the eare then the full wheate in the eare But whan she hath brought forth the frute he putteth to the syckell because the haruest is come And he sayde Where vnto wyl welicken the kyngdome of God Or by what symilitude wyl we compare it It is like a grayne of mustarde sede which whā it is sowē vpō the londe is the leest amonge all sedes of the earth And whā it is sowen it groweth vp and is greater then all herbes and getteth greate braunches so y t the foules vnder the heauē maye dwell vnder y e shadowe therof And by many soch parables he spake the worde vnto thē there after as they might heare it without parables spake he nothinge vnto
sayde vnto thē Do no man violence ner wronge and be content with youre wages But whan the people were in a doute thought all in their hertes whether he were Christ Ihon answered and sayde vnto thē all I baptyse you with water but after me there cōmeth one stronger thē I whose shue lachet I am not worthy to lowse he shal baptyse you with the holy goost and with fyre Whose fanne is in his hande and he shal pourge his floore and shal gather y e wheate in to his barne and shal burne the chaffe with vnquencheable fyre And many other thynges more exorted he preached vnto the people But Herode the Tetrarcha whā he was rebuked of him because of Herodias his brothers wife and for all the euels that Herode dyd besydes all this he layed Ihō in preson And it fortuned whan all the people receaued baptyme and whan Iesus also was baptysed and prayed that heauen opened and the holy goost came downe in a bodely shappe like a done vpon him And out of heauen there came a voyce which sayde Thou art my deare sonne in whō I delyte And Iesus was aboute thirtie yeares whan he beganne And he was taken for the sonne of Ioseph which was the sonne of Eli which was the sonne of Mathat Which was the sonne of Leui ▪ Which was the sonne of Melchi Which was the sonne of Ianna Which was the sonne of Ioseph Which was the sonne of Mathathias Which was the sonne of Amos. Which was the sonne of Nahum Which was the sonne of Eszli Which was the sonne of Nange Which was the sonne of Maath Which was the sonne of Mathathias Which was the sonne of Simei Which was the sonne of Ioseph Which was the sonne of Iuda Which was the sonne of Iohanna Which was the sonne of Resia Which was the sonne of Zorobabel Which was the sonne of Salathiel Which was the sonne of Neri Which was the sonne of Melchi Which was the sonne of Abdi Which was the sonne of Cosam Which was the sonne of Elmadam Which was the sonne of Her Which was the sonne of Ieso Which was the sonne of Eliezer Which was the sonne of Iorem. Which was the sonne of Mattha Which was the sonne of Leui. Which was the sonne of Simeon Which was the sonne of Iuda Which was the sonne of Ioseph Which was the sonne of Ionam Which was the sonne of Eliachim Which was the sonne of Melca Which was the sonne of Menam Which was the sonne of Mathathan Which was the sonne of Nathan Which was the sonne of Dauid Which was the sonne of Iesse Which was the sonne of Obed. Which was the sonne of Boos Which was the sonne of Salmon Which was the sonne of Naasson Which was the sonne of Aminadab Which was the sonne of Aram. Which was the sonne of Esrom Which was the sonne of Phares Which was the sonne of Iuda Which was the sonne of Iacob Which was the sonne of Isaac Which was the sonne of Abraham Which was the sonne of Thara Which was the sonne of Nahor Which was the sonne of Serug Which was the sonne of Regu Which was the sonne of Peleg Which was the sonne of Eber. Which was the sonne of Salah Which was the sonne of Caynan Which was the sonne of Arphachsad Which was the sonne of Sem. Which was the sonne of Noe. Which was the sonne of Lamech Which was the sonne of Mathusalah Which was the sonne of Henoch Which was the sonne of Iared Which was the sonne of Mahaleel Which was the sonne of Renan Which was the sonne of Enos Which was the sonne of Seth. Which was the sonne of Adam Which was the sonne of God The fourth Chapter IEsus full of the holy goost came agayne from Iordane and was led of y e sprete into wyldernes fourty dayes lōge was he tēpted of y e deuell And in those dayes ate he nothinge And whan they were ended he hongred afterwarde And the deuell sayde vnto him Yf thou be y e sonne of God cōmaunde this stone y t it be bred And Iesus answered sayde vnto hī It is wrytten Man shal not lyue by bred onely but by euery worde of God And y e deuell toke him vp into an hye moūtayne and shewed him all the kyngdomes of y e whole worlde in y e twinckelinge of an eye sayde vnto him All this power wil I geue vnto the and the glory therof for it is geuē ouer vnto me and I geue it to whom I wil. Yf thou now wilt worshippe me they shal all be thine Iesus answered him and sayde Auoyde fro me thou Satan It is wrytten Thou shalt worshippe the LORDE thy God and him onely shalt thou serue And he caried him to Ierusalem and set him vpon a pynnacle of the temple and sayde vnto him Yf thou be y e sonne of God cast thy self downe from hence For it is wryttē He shal geue his angels charge ouer the to kepe the and with their handes they shal holde the vp that thou dashe not thy fote agaynst a stone And Iesus answered and sayde vnto him It is sayde Thou shalt not tempte the LORDE thy God And whan y e deuell had ended all the temptacions he departed from him for a season And Iesus came agayne in the power of the sprete into Galile And the fame of him was noysed thorow out all y e region rounde aboute And he taught in their synagoges and was commended of euery man And he came vnto Nazareth where he was noursed and as his custome was he wēte in to the synagoge vpon y e Sabbath and stode vp for to rede Then was there delyuered him the boke of y e prophet Esay And whan he had turned ouer the boke he founde the place where it is wrytten The sprete of the LORDE is with me because he hath anoynted me to preach the Gospell vnto y e poore hath he sent me to heale the broken harted to preach delyueraūce to the captyue and sight to the blynde and frely to set at liberty them that are brused and to preach the acceptable yeare of the LORDE And whan he had closed the boke he gaue it agayne to y e mynister sat him downe And the eyes of all that were in the synagoge were fastened on him And he begāne to saye vnto them This daye is this scripture fulfilled in youre eares And they all gaue him wytnesse and wōdred at the gracious wordes which proceaded out of his mouth and they saide Is not this Iosephs sonne And he sayde vnto them Doutles ye wyl saye vnto me this prouerbe Phisician heale thyself For how greate thinges haue we herde done at Capernaū Do the same here also in thine owne countre But he saide Verely I saye vnto you There is no prophet accepted in his owne countre Neuertheles of a trueth I saye vnto you There were many wedowes in Israel in
He sayde vnto him What is wrytten in the lawe How readest thou He answered and sayde Thou shalt loue thy LORDE God with all thy hert with all thy soule with all thy strength and with all thy mynde and thy neghboure as thy self He sayde vnto him Thou hast answered right this do and thou shalt lyue But he wolde haue iustified himself sayde vnto Iesus Who is then my neghboure Then answered Iesus and sayde A certayne man wente downe from Ierusalem vnto Iericho and fell amonge murthurers which stryped him out of his clothes and wounded him and wente their waye and left him half deed And by chaūce there came downe a prest the same waye and whan he sawe him he passed by And likewyse a Leuite whā he came nye vnto the same place and sawe him he passed by But a Samaritane was goynge his iourney and came that waye and whan he sawe him he had compassion vpon him wente vnto him bounde vp his woundes and poured oyle and wyne therin and lifte him vp vpon his beast and brought him in to the ynne and made prouysion for him Vpon the next daye whan he departed he toke out two pens and gaue them to the oost and sayde vnto him Take cure of him and what so euer thou spendest more I wil paye it the whan I come agayne Which of these thre now thinkest thou was neghboure vnto him that fell amonge the murtherers He sayde He that shewed mercy vpon him Then sayde Iesus vnto him Go thy waye then and do thou likewyse It fortuned as they wēte that he entred in to a towne where there was a woman named Martha which receaued him in to hir house And she had a sister called Mary which sat hir downe at Iesus fete and herkened vnto his worde But Martha made hir self moch to do for to serue him And she srepte vnto him and sayde LORDE carest thou not that my sister letteth me serue alone Byd her therfore that she helpe me But Iesus answered and sayde vnto her Martha Martha thou takest thought and combrest thy self aboute many thinges there is but one thinge nedefull Mary hath chosen a good parte which shal not be taken awaye from her The XI Chapter ANd it fortuned that he was in a place and prayed And whan he had ceassed one of his disciples sayde vnto him LORDE teach vs to praye as Ihon also taught his disciples He sayde vnto thē Whan ye praye saye O oure father which art in heauen halowed be thy name Thy kyngdome come Thy wil be fulfilled vpon earth as it is in heauen Geue vs this daye oure daylie bred And forgeue vs oure synnes for we also forgeue all them that are detters vnto vs. And lede vs not in to temptacion but delyuer vs from euell And he sayde vnto them Which of you is it that hath a frende and shulde go to him at mydinght and saye vnto him frende lende me thre loaues for a frende of myne is come to me out of the waye and I haue nothinge to set before him and he within shulde answere and saye Disquyete me not the dore is shutt allready and my children are with me in the chamber I can not ryse and geue the. I saye vnto you and though he wolde not aryse and geue him because he is his frende Yet because of his vnshame fast begginge he wolde aryse and geue him as many as he neded And I saye vnto you also Axe and it shal be geuen you Seke and ye shal fynde knocke and it shal be opened vnto you For who so euer axeth receaueth and he that seketh fyndeth and to him that knocketh shal it be opened Yf the sonne axe bred of eny of you that is a father wyl he geue him a stone therfore Or yf he axe a fyszhe wyl he for the fish offre him a serpent Or yf he axe an egg wyl he profer him a scorpion Yf ye then which are euell can geue youre children good giftes how moch more shal the father of heauen geue the holy sprete vnto them that axe him And he droue out a deuell that was domme and it came to passe whan the deuell was departed out the domme spake and the people wondred But some of them sayde He dryueth out the deuels thorow Beelzebub the chefe of the deuels The other tempted him and desyred a token of him from heauen But he knewe their thoughtes and sayde vnto them Euery kyngdome deuyded within it self shal be desolate and one house shal fall vpō another Yf Sathan then be at variaunce within himself how shal his kyngdome endure Because ye saye that I dryue out deuels thorow Beelzebub And yf I dryue out deuels thorow Beelzebul by whom thē do youre children dryue them out Therfore shall they be youre iudges But yf I cast out the deuels by the fynger of God then is the kyngdome of God come vnto you Whan a stronge harnessed man kepeth his house that he possesseth is in peace but whan a stronger then he commeth vpō him and ouercommeth him he taketh frō him all his wapens wherin he trusted and deuydeth the spoyle He that is not with me is agaynst me and he that gathereth not with me scatereth abrode Whan the vncleane sprete is gone out of a man he walketh thorow drye places sekynge rest and fyndeth none Then sayeth he I wil turne agayne in to my house from whence I wente out And whan he commeth he fyndeth it swepte and garnished Then goeth he and taketh vnto him seuen other spretes worse thē himself And whan they are entred in they dwell there And the ende of that man is worse then the begynnynge And it fortuned whan he spake soch a certayne woman amonge the people lift vp hir voyce and sayde vnto him Blessed is y e wombe that bare the and the pappes that thou hast sucked But he sayde Yee blessed are they that heare the worde of God and kepe it Whan the people were gathered thicke together he beganne to saye This is an euell generacion they desyre a tokē and there shal no token be geuen them but the tokē of the prophet Ionas For like as Ionas was a tokē vnto the Niniuytes so shal the sonne of man be vnto this generacion ▪ The quene of the south shal aryse at the iudgmēt with the men of this generacion and shall condempne them for she came from the ende of the worlde to heare the wyszdome of Salomon And beholde here is one more then Salomon The men of Niniue shal aryse at the iudgment with this generacion and shall condempne them for they dyd pennaunce after the preachinge of Ionas and beholde here is one more thē Ionas No man lighteth a candell and putteth it in a preuy place nether vnder a buszhell but vpon a candilsticke that they which come in maye se y e light The eye is the light of the body Yf thine eye then be
consolacion agaynst trouble for to come taketh frō thē the heuynesse that they had because of his departinge and promiseth them the holy goost the spirite of comforte Chap. XV. The true vyne the huszbandman the braunches A doctryne of loue and a swete comforte agaynst persecucion Chap. XVI Cōsolacion agaynst trouble Prayers are herde thorow Christ. Chap. XVII The most hartely louinge prayer of Christ vnto his father for all soch as receaue the trueth and be his awne Chap. XVIII Christ is betrayed The wordes of his mouth smyte the officers to the grounde Peter smyteth of Malchus eare Iesus is brought before Anna Caiphas and Pilate Chap. XIX Christ is crucified He commendeth his mother vnto Ihon sheddeth his bloude and is buried Chap. XX. The resurreccion of Christ which appeareth to Mary Magdalene and to all his disciples to their greate comforte Chap. XXI He appeareth to his disciples agayne by the see of Tyberias and commaundeth peter earnestly to fede his shepe The gospell of S. Ihon. The first Chapter IN the begynnynge was the worde and the worde was with God and God was y e worde The same was in the begynnynge w t God All thinges were made by the same and without the same was made nothinge that was made In him was the life and the life was the light of men and the light shyneth in the darknesse and the darknesse comprehended it not There was sent from God a man whose name was Ihon. The same came for a witnesse to beare wytnesse of y e light that thorow him they all might beleue He was not that light but that he might beare witnesse of y e light That was the true light which lighteth all men that come in to this worlde He was in the worlde the worlde was made by him and y e worlde knewe him not He came in to his awne and his awne receaued him not But as many as receaued him to them gaue he power to be the children of God euen soch as beleue in his name Which are not borne of bloude ner of the wyl of the flesh ner of the wyl of man but of God And the worde became flesh and dwelt amonge vs and we sawe his glory a glory as of the onely begottē sonne of the father full of grace and trueth Ihon bare wytnesse of him cryed and sayde It was this of whom I spake After me shal he come that was before me For he was or euer I and of his fulnesse haue all we receaued grace for grace For the lawe was geuen by Moses grace and trueth came by Iesus Christ. No man hath sene God at eny tyme. The onely begottē sonne which is in the bosome of the father he hath declared the same vnto vs. And this is the recorde of Ihon whan the Iewes sent prestes and Leuites frō Ierusalem to axe him Who art thou And he confessed and denyed not And he confessed and sayde I am not Christ. And they axed him What thē Art thou Elias He sayde I am not Art thou the Prophet And he answered No. Then sayde they vnto him What art thou thē y t we maye geue answere vnto thē that sent vs What sayest thou of y e self He sayde I am y e voyce of a cryer in the wyldernesse Make straight y e waye of the LORDE As y e prophet Esay sayde And they that were sent were of y e Pharises And they axed him sayde vnto him Why baptysest thou then yf thou be not Christ ner Elias ner a prophet Ihon answered them and sayde I baptyse with water but there is one come in amonge you whom ye knowe not It is he that cōmeth after me which was before me whose shue lachet I am not worthy to vnlowse This was done at Bethabara beyonde Iordane where Ihon dyd baptyse The nexte daye after Ihon sawe Iesus commynge vnto him and sayde Beholde the lābe of God which taketh awaye the synne of the worlde This is he of whom I sayde vnto you After me commeth a man which was before me For he was or euer I and I knewe him not but that he shulde be declared in Israel therfore am I come to baptyse with water And Ihon bare recorde sayde I sawe the sprete descende from heauen like vnto a doue and abode vpon him I knewe him not But he that sent me to baptyse with water y e same sayde vnto me Vpon whom thou shalt se the sprete descende and tary styll on him the same is he that baptyseth with the holy goost And I sawe it and bare recorde that this is the sonne of God The nexte daye after Ihon stode agayne and two of his disciples And whā he sawe Iesus walkynge he sayde Beholde the lābe of God And two of his disciples herde him speake and folowed Iesus And Iesus turned him aboute and sawe them folowinge and sayde vnto thē What seke ye They sayde vnto him Rabbi which is to saye by interpretacion Master Where art thou at lodginge He sayde vnto them Come and se it They came and sawe it abode with him the same daye It was aboute the tenth houre One of the two which herde Ihon speake and folowed Iesus was Andrew the brother of Symon Peter the same founde first his brother Symon and sayde vnto him We haue founde Messias which is by interpretacion y e Anoynted and brought him to Iesus Whan Iesus behelde him he sayde Thou art Symon the sonne of Ionas thou shalt be called Cephas which is by interpretacion a stone The nexte daye after wolde Iesus go agayne in to Galile and founde Philippe and sayde vnto him Folowe me Philippe was of Bethsaida the cite of Andrew and Peter Philippe founde Nathanael and sayde vnto him We haue founde him of whō Moses in the lawe and y e prophetes haue wrytten euen Iesus the sonne of Ioseph of Nazareth And Nathanaell sayde vnto him What good can come out of Nazareth Philippe sayde vnto him Come and se. Iesus sawe Nathanael cōmynge to him and sayde of him Beholde a righte Israelite in whom is no gyle Nathanael sayde vnto him From whence knowest thou me Iesus answered and sayde vnto him Before y t Philippe called the whan thou wast vnder the fygge tre I sawe the. Nathanaell answered and sayde vnto hī Rabbi thou art y e sonne of God thou art y e kynge of Israel Iesus answered sayde vnto him Because I sayde vnto the that I sawe the vnder the fygge tre thou beleuest thou shalt se yet greater thinges thē these And he sayde vnto him Verely verely I saye vnto you Frō this tyme forth shal ye se the heauen open and the angels of God goinge vp downe ouer the sonne of man The II. Chapter ANd vpon the thirde daye there was a mariage at Cana in Galile and the mother of Iesus was there Iesus also and
temple Chap. XXII Paul answereth the Iewes is scourged and layed in preson agayne Chap XXIII Paul commeth before the councell Debate ariseth amonge the people the captayne delyuereth him God conforteth him Chap. XXIIII Paul is accused before felix he answereth for himself Chap. XXV The Iewes accuse Paul before Festus he appealeth vnto the Emperoure and is sent vnto Rome Chap. XXVI Kynge Agrippa heareth Paul which telleth him his callinge from the begynnynge Chap. XXVII Pauls shippinge towarde Rome Iulius the captayne intreateth Paul curteously at the last they suffre shipwrake Chap. XXVIII The vyper hurteth not Pauls hande he healeth Publius father and preacheth Christ at Rome The Actes of the Apostles The first Chapter THE first treatise deare Theophilus haue I made of all that Iesus beganne to do and to teache vntyll y e daye that he was taken vp after that he thorow the holy goost had geuen commaundementes to to the Apostles whom he had chosen to whō also he shewed himself alyue after his passion by many tokēs and appeared vnto them fourtye dayes longe and spake vnto them of the kyngdome of God And whan he had gathered them together he commaunded them that they shulde not departe from Ierusalem but to wayte for the promyse of the father wherof sayde he ye haue herde of me For Ihon baptysed with water but ye shal be baptysed w t y e holy goost that within this few dayes Now whan they were come together they axed him and sayde LORDE shalt thou at this tyme set vp the kyngdome of Israel agayne But he sayde vnto them It belongeth not vnto you to knowe the tymes or seasons which the father hath kepte in his awne power but ye shal receaue the power of y e holy goost which shal come vpon you and ye shal be my witnesses at Ierusalem and in all Iewrye and Samaria and vnto the ende of the earth And whan he had spoken these thinges whyle they behelde he was taken vp and a cloude receaued him from their fight And whyle they loked after him as he wente in to heauen beholde there stode by them two men in whyte garmentes which also sayde ye men of Galile Why stonde ye gasynge vp in to heauen This Iesus which is takē vp from you in to heauen shal come euen so as ye haue sene him go in to heauen Then turned they agayne from y e mount that is called Oliuete which is nye to Ierusalem and hath a Sabbath dayes iourney And whan they came in they wente vp in to a parler where abode Peter and Iames Ihon and Andrew Philippe and Thomas Bartilmew and Mathew Iames the sonne of Alpheus and Simon Zelotes and Iudas the sonne of Iames. These all contynued with one acorde in prayer and supplicacion with the wemen and Mary the mother of Iesu and with his brethren And in those dayes Peter stode vp in the myddes amonge the disciples and sayde The company of the names together was aboute an hundreth and twentye Ye men and brethren this scripture must nedes be fulfylled which y e holy goost by the mouth of Dauid spake before of Iudas which was a gyde of thē that toke Iesus for he was nombred with vs and had opteyned the felashippe of this mynistracion This same trulye possessed the felde for the rewarde of vnrighteousnes and hanged himself and brast a sunder in the myddes and all his bowels guszhed out And it is knowne vnto all thē that dwell at Ierusalem in so moch that the same felde is called in their mother tonge Acheldema that is to saye the bloude felde For it is wrytten in the boke of psalmes His habitacion be voyde and noman be dwellinge therin And His biszhoprike another take Wherfore amonge these men which haue bene gathered together with vs all the tyme that the LORDE Iesus wēte out and in amonge vs begynnynge from the baptyme of Ihon vntyll y e daye that he was takē vp from vs must one be a wytnesse with vs of his resurreccion And they appoynted two Ioseph called Barsabas whose syrname was Iustus and Mathias makinge their prayer and sayenge Thou LORDE which knowest the hertes of all men shewe whether of these two thou hast chosen that the one maye take the rowme of this mynistracion and Apostelshippe from the which Iudas by transgression fell that he might go awaye in to his awne place And they gaue forth the lottes ouer them and the lot fell vpon Mathias And he was counted with the eleuen Apostles The II. Chapter ANd whan the Whit sondaye was fulfylled they were all with one acorde together in one place And sodenly there came a sounde from heauen as it had bene the cōmynge of a mightie wynde and it fylled the whole house where they sat And there appeared vnto them clouen tunges like as they had bene of fyre And he sat vpon ech one of them and they were all fylled with the holy goost And they beganne to preach with other tunges euen as the sprete gaue them vtteraunce There were dwellinge at Ierusalem Iewes men that feared God out of euery nacion that is vnder heauen Now whan this voyce came to passe the multitude came together and were astōnyed For euery one herde that they spake with his awne tunge They wondred all and marueyled and sayde amonge themselues Beholde are not all these which speake of Galile How heare we thē euery one his awne tunge wherin we were borne Parthians and Medes and Elamites and we that dwell in Mesopotamia and in Iewry and Capadocia Pontus and Asia Phrigia and Pamphilia Egipte and in the partes of Lybia by Cyren and straungers of Rome Iewes and Proselytes Cretes and Arabians we heare them speake with oure awne tunges the greate workes of God They were all amased and wondred and sayde one to another What wil this be But other mocked them and sayde They are full of swete wyne Then stode Peter vp with the eleuen and lift vp his voyce and sayde vnto them Ye men of Iewry and all ye that dwell at Ierusalē be this knowne vnto you and let my wordes entre in at youre eares For these are not dronken as ye suppose for it is yet but the thirde houre of y e daye but this is it that was spokē before by the prophet Ioel And it shal come to passe in the last dayes sayeth God I will poure out of my sprete vpon all flesh and youre sonnes and youre doughters shal prophecye and youre yonge men shal se visions and youre olde men shall dreame dreames and on my seruauntes and on my handmaydens wyll I poure out of my sprete in those dayes they shal prophecye And I wil shewe wonders in heauen aboue and tokens on the earth beneth bloude and fyre and the vapoure of smoke The Sonne shal be turned in to darknesse and the Moone in to bloude before that
take with thē Ihon whose syrname was Marke Howbeit Paul thoughte it mete not to take him with them which departed from them in Pamphilia and wente not with them vnto the worke And so sharpe was the strife betwene them that they departed asunder y e one frō the other and Barnabas toke Marke vnto him and sayled vnto Cypers But Paul chose Sylas and departed beynge cōmytted of the brethren vnto the grace of God He wente thorow Syria and Celicia stablishynge the congregacions The XVI Chapter HE came vnto Derba and to Lystra and beholde a certayne disciple was there named Timotheus the sonne of a Iewish woman which beleued but his father was a Greke y e same had a good reporte amonge the brethrē of Lystra and at Iconium Paul wolde that the same shulde go forth with him and toke and circumcysed him because of the Iewes that were in those quarters For they knewe all that his father was a Greke But as they wente thorow the cities they delyuered them the sentence to kepe which was concluded of the Apostles and Elders at Ierusalem Thē were the congregacions stablyshed in the faith and increased in nombre daylie But as they wente thorow Phrygia and the londe of Galacia they were forbydden of the holy goost to preache the worde in Asia Howbeit as they came in to Mysia they proued to take their iourney in to Bithinia and the sprete suffred them not Neuertheles whan they had passed thorow Mysia they came downe to Troada and there appeared a vision vnto Paul by night that there was a man of Macedonia which stode and prayed him and sayde Come downe to Macedonia and helpe vs. Whan he had sene y e vision we soughte immediatly to go vnto Macedonia beynge certified that y e LORDE had called vs thither to preach the Gospell vnto them Thē departed we from Troada and came the straight course vnto Samothracia on the nexte daye to Neapolis and from thence to Philippis which is the chefe cite of the londe of Macedonia and a fre cite In this cite abode we certayne dayes On the daye of the Sabbathes wēte we out of the cite besyde the water where men were wonte to praye and we sat downe and spake vnto the wemen that resorted thither And a deuoute woman named Lydia a seller of purple out of the cite of Thiatira herkened to whose hert the LORDE opened that she gaue hede vnto the thinges that Paul spake Whan she was baptysed and hir housholde she besoughte vs and sayde Yf ye thynke that I beleue on the LORDE then come in to my house and a byde there And she constrayned vs. It fortuned whan we wente to prayer y t there met vs a damsel which had a sprete of soythsayenge and broughte hir master and mastresse greate vauntage with soyth sayenge y e same folowed Paul and vs and cryed and sayde These men are the seruauntes of the most hye God which shewe vs y e waye of saluacion This dyd she many dayes But Paul was not content with it and turned him aboute and sayde vnto the sprete I cōmaunde the in the name of Iesu Christ that thou departe out of her And he departed out at the same houre But whā hir master and mastresse sawe that the hope of their vauntage was gone they toke Paul and Sylas drue them in to the market place before y e rulers broughte thē vnto the officers and sayde These men trouble oure cyte are Iewes and preach an ordynaunce which is not laufull for vs to receaue ner to obserue seynge we are Romaynes And the people rāne on them and the officers rente their clothes and cōmaunded them to be beaten with roddes And whan they had beaten them sore they cast thē in preson and commaunded the iayler to kepe them diligētly Which whan he had receaued soch commaundement he cast thē in to the ynner preson and put their fete in the stockes But at mydnight prayed Paul and Sylas and praysed God And the presoners herde them Sodenly was there a greate earth quake so that the foundacions of the preson were shaken And immediatly were all the dores open all their bondes lowsed Whā the keper of the preson waked out of slepe and sawe the preson dores open he drue out his swerde and wolde haue kylled him selfe for he thoughte y e presoners had bene fled But Paul cryed loude and sayde Do thy self no harme for we are all here He called for a lighte and sprange in and trembled and fell at the fete of Paul and Sylas and broughte them out and sayde Syrs what must I do to be saued They sayde Beleue on the LORDE Iesus and so shalt thou and thy housholde be saued And they preached the worde of the LORDE vnto him and to all that were in his house And he toke them to him in the same houre of the night and waszhed their strypes And immediatly was he baptysed and all his And he broughte them in to his house and set them a table and reioysed with all his housholde that he was become a beleuer on God And whan it was daye the officers of the cite sent mynisters and sayde Let those men go And the keper of the preson tolde this sayenge vnto Paul The officers haue sent hither that ye shulde be lowse Now therfore get you hēce and go in peace But Paul sayde vnto them They haue beaten vs openly vncondempned where as we are yet Romaynes and haue cast vs in preson and shulde they now thrust vs out preuely Not so but let them come them selues and brynge vs out The mynisters tolde these wordes vnto the officers And they feared whan they herde that they were Romaynes and came and besoughte them and prayed thē to departe out of the cite Then wente they out of the preson and entred in to the house of Lydia And whan they had sene the brethren and comforted them they departed The XVII Chapter AS they made their iourney thorow Amphipolis and Apollonia they came to Thessalonica where was a synagoge of the Iewes And Paul as his maner was wēte in vnto them and vpon thre Sabbathes he spake vnto them of the scripture opened it vnto thē and alleged that Christ must nedes haue suffred ryse agayne from the deed and this Iesus whom I preach vnto you sayde he is y e same Christ. And some of thē beleued and were ioyned vnto Paul and Sylas a greate multitude also of the deuoute Grekes and of the chefe wemen not a fewe But the styffnecked Iewes had indignacion and toke vnto them certayne euell men which were vagabundes and gathered a company and set the cite in a rore and preassed vnto the house of Iason and soughte to brynge them out vnto the comon people But whan they founde them not they drue Iason and certayne brethren vnto the rulers of the cite and cryed These that trouble all the worlde
agaynst And whā they had appoynted hī adaye there came many vnto hī in to his lodginge vnto whō he expoūded y e kyngdome of God preached vnto thē of Iesu out of y e lawe and out of the prophetes euē frō mornynge vntyll the euē And some beleued y e thinge y t he sayde but some beleued not But whā they agreed not amōge thē selues they departed whā Paul had spokē one worde Full well hath the holy goost spokē by y e prophet Esay vnto o fathers sayde Go vnto this people and saye With eares ye shal heare not vnderstōde with eyes shal ye se not perceaue For y e hert of this people is waxed grosse they heare hardly w t their eares their eyes haue they closed y t they shulde not once se w t their eyes heare w t their eares vnderstōde ī their hertes and be cōuerted y t I mighte heale thē Be it knowne therfore vnto you y t this saluaciō of God is sent vnto y e Heythē and they shal heare it And whā he sayde y t y e Iewes departed had a greate disputacion amonge thēselues But Paul abode two whole yeares in his owne hyred dwellinge receaued all thē y t came in vnto hī preachinge y e kyngdome of God and teachinge those thinges which concerne the LORDE Iesus with all boldnesse vnforbydden The ende of the Actes of the Apostles wrytten by S. Luke which was present at y e doynges of them The Epistle of the Apostle S. Paul to the Romaynes The Summe of this Epistle Chap. I. Paul declareth his loue towarde the Romaynes sheweth what the gospell is with the frute therof and rebuketh the beestlynesse of the flesh Chap. II. He rebuketh the Iewes which as touchinge synne are like the Heythē yee worse then they Chap. III. He sheweth what preferment the Iewes haue and that both the Iewes and Gētiles are vnder synne and are iustified only by the grace of God in Christ. Chap. IIII. He declareth by the exāple of Abrahā that faith iustifieth and not the lawe ner the workes therof Chap. V. The power of faith hope and loue ▪ and how death raigned frō Adā vnto Christ ▪ by whō only we haue forgeuenesse of synnes Chap. VI. For so moch as we be delyuered thorow christ from synne we must fashion oure selues to lyue as the seruauntes of God and not after oure awne lustes The vnlike rewarde of righteousnes and synne Chap. VII Christ hath delyuered vs from the lawe and death Paul sheweth what the flesh and outwarde man is and calleth it the lawe of the membres Chap. VIII The lawe of the sprete geueth life The sprete of God maketh vs Gods children and heyres with Christ. The abundaunt loue of God can not be separated Chap. IX Paul complayneth vpon the hard hertes of the Iewes that wolde not receaue Christ and how the Heythē are chosen in their steade Chap. X. The vnfaithfulnes of the Iewes Two maner of righteousnesses Chap. XI All the Iewes are not cast awaye therfore Paul warneth the Gentiles that be called not to be hye mynded ner to despyse the Iewes for the iudgmētes of God are depe and secrete Chap. XII The swete conuersacion loue and workes of soch as beleue in Christ. Chap. XIII The obedience of men vnto their rulers Loue fulfilleth the lawe It is now no tyme to folowe the workes of darknesse Chap. XIIII The weake ought not to be despysed No man shulde offende anothers conscience Agayne for outward thinges shulde no man condemne another Chap. XV. The infirmite and fraylnesse of the weake ought to be borne with all loue and kyndnesse after the ensample of Christ. Chap. XVI A chapter of salutacions He warneth them to bewarre of mens doctryne and commendeth vnto them certayne godly men that were louers and brethren in the trueth The Epistle of the Apostle S. Paul to the Romaynes The first Chapter PAVL the seruaunte of Iesus Christ called to be an Apostle put aparte to preach the Gospell of God which he promysed afore by his prophetes in y e holy scriptures off his sonne which was begottē of y e sede of Dauid after the flesh and mightely declared to be the sonne of God after the sprete which sanctifieth sence the tyme that he rose agayne from the deed namely Iesus Christ oure LORDE by whom we haue receaued grace and Apostelshippe amonge all Heythen to set vp the obedience of faith vnder his name of whom ye are a parte also which are called of Iesus Christ. To all you that be at Rome beloued of God and sayntes by callynge Grace be w t you and peace frō God oure father and the LORDE Iesus Christ. First I thanke my God thorow Iesus Christ for you all that youre faith is spoken of thorow out all the worlde For God is my witnesse whom I serue in my sprete in the Gospell of his sonne that without ceassynge I make mencion of you besekinge allwayes in my prayers that I mighte once haue a prosperous iourney by the will off God to come vnto you For I longe to se you that I mighte bestowe vpon you some spirituall gifte to strēgth you that is that I mighte be conforted with you thorow yo faith myne which we haue together But I wolde ye shulde knowe brethren how that I haue often tymes purposed to come vnto you but haue bene let hither to that I mighte do some good amonge you like as amonge other Gentyles I am detter both to the Grekes and to the vngrekes to the wyse and to the vnwyse Wherfore as moch as ī me is I am ready to preach the Gospell vnto you at Rome also For I am not ashamed of the Gospell of Christ for it is the power of God which saueth all that beleue theron the Iewe first also the Greke for in it y e righteousnes that is of value before God is opened which cōmeth out of faith ī to faith As it is wryttē The iust shal lyue by his faith For y e wrath of God is declared from heauen vpon all vngodlynes and vnrighteousnes of mē which witholde the trueth of God in vnrighteousnes because that it which maye be knowne of God is manifest with thē For God hath shewed it vnto thē that the inuisible thinges of God that is his euerlastinge power and Godheade mighte be sene whyle they are considered by the workes from the creacion of the worlde so that they are without excuse in as moch as they knewe that there is a God and haue not praysed him as God ner thanked him but became vayne in their ymaginacions and their foolish hert was blynded Whan they counted them selues wyse they became fooles and turned y e glory of the incorruptible God in to y e symilitude of y e ymage of a corruptible mā of byrdes of foure foted of crepinge
one another Chap. XIII The nature and condicions of loue Chap. XIIII Paul sheweth that the gift of prophecie interpretinge or preachinge excelleth the gift of tunges and how they ought both to be vsed Chap. XV. The resurreccion of the deed Chap. XVI He putteth thē in remembraunce of the gadderynge for the poore christē at Ierusalē and concludeth his epistle with the salutacions of certayne louynge brethren The first Epistle of the Apostle S. Paul to the Corinthians The first Chapter PAul called to be an Apostle of Iesus Christ thorow y e will of God and brother Sosthenes vnto the congregacion off God which is at Corinthum to them that are sanctified in Christ Iesus sayntes by callinge with all them that call vpon the name of oure LORDE Iesus Christ in euery place both off theirs and oures Grace be with you and peace from God oure father and from the LORDE Iesus Christ. I thāke my God allwayes on youre behalfe for the fauoure of God which is geuē you in Iesus Christ that in all poyntes ye are made ryche by him in euery worde and in all maner of knowlege euē as y e preachinge of Christ is confirmed in you so that ye wante nothinge in eny gifte and wayte but for the appearinge of oure LORDE Iesus Christ which shal strength you also vnto y e ende that ye maye be blamelesse in the daye of oure LORDE Iesus Christ. For God is faithfull by whō ye are called vnto the fellishippe of his sonne Iesus Christ oure LORDE But I beseke you brethrē thorow the name of oure LORDE Iesus Christ that ye all speake one thinge and let there be no discension amonge you but that ye be perfecte in one meanynge For it is shewed me my brethren of you by them which are of y e housholde of Cloes that there is stryfe amonge you I speake of that which euery one of you sayeth I holde of Paul Another I holde of Apollo ▪ The thirde I holde of Cephas The fourth I holde off Christ. Is Christ then deuyded in partes Was Paul crucified for you Or were ye baptysed in y e name of Paul I thanke God that I haue baptised none of you but * Crispus and Gaius lest eny shulde saye y t I in myne awne name had baptised I baptysed also y e housholde of Stephana Farthermore knowe I not whether I baptysed eny other For Christ sent me not to baptyse but to preach the Gospell not with wyszdome of wordes lest y e crosse of Christ shulde haue bene made of none effecte For the worde of y e crosse is foolishnesse to thē that perishe but vnto vs which are saued it is the power of God For it is wryttē I wyl destroye the wyszdome of the wyse wil cast away the vnderstondinge of y e prudēt Where are the wyse Where are y e scrybes where are y e disputers of this worlde Hath not God made the wyszdome of this worlde foolishnesse For in so moch as the worlde by the wyszdome therof knewe not God in his wyszdome it pleased God thorow foolish preachinge to saue them y t beleue For the Iewes requyre tokens and the Grekes axe after wyszdome But we preach Christ the crucified to the Iewes an occasion off fallinge and vnto the Grekes foolishnes But vnto them that are called both Iewes and Grekes we preach Christ the power of God and the wyszdome off God For the foolishnes of God is wyser then men and the weaknes of God is strōger thē men Brethren loke on youre callinge how that not many wysemē after the flesh not many mightie not many of hye degre are called but that foolish is before the worlde hath God chosen that he mighte cōfounde the wyse And that weake is before y e worlde hath God chosen y t he mighte confounde the mightye And the vyle and despysed before the worlde hath God chosen yee and that which is nothinge that he mighte destroye that which is oughte that no flesh shulde reioyse in his presence Of the same are ye also in Christ Iesu which of God is made vnto vs wyszdome and righteousnes and sanctifienge and redēpcion that acordinge as it is wrytten He that reioyseth shulde reioyse in the LORDE The II. Chapter ANd I brethrē whā I came vnto you came not w t hye wordes or hye wyszdome to shewe vnto you the preachinge of Christ. For I shewed not forth my selfe amonge you that I knewe eny thinge saue onely Iesus Christ euen the sam that ewas crucified And I was amonge you in weaknes and in feare and in moch tremblinge and my worde and my preachinge was not with entysinge wordes of mans wyszdome but in shewinge of the sprete and of power that youre faith shulde not stonde in the wyszdome of men but in the power of God That we speake of is wyszdome amonge thē y t are perfecte not y e wyszdome of this worlde nether of the rulers of this worlde which go to naughte but we speake of the wyszdome of God which is in secrete and lyeth hyd which God ordeyned before the worlde vnto oure glorye which none of y e rulers of this worlde knewe For yf they had knowne it they had not crucified the LORDE of glorye but as it is wrytten The eye hath not sene and the eare hath not herde nether hath it entred in to the hert of man that God hath prepared for them that loue him But God hath opened it vnto vs by his sprete For the sprete searcheth out all thinges yee euen the depenesses of the God heade For what mā knoweth what is in man saue the sprete of mā which is in him Euen so no man knoweth what is in God saue y e sprete of God As for vs we haue not receaued the sprete of this worlde but the sprete which cōmeth of God so that we cā knowe what is geuē vs of God which we also speake not with connynge wordes of mās wyszdome but with the cōnynge wordes of the holy goost and iudge spirituall matters spiritually Howbeit the naturall man perceaueth nothinge of y e sprete of God It is foolishnes vnto him and he can not perceaue it for it must be spiritually discerned But he that is spirituall discusseth all thinges and he is iudged of noman For who hath knowne y e mynde of the LORDE Or who shal enfourme him But we haue the mynde of Christ. The III. Chapter ANd I brethren coulde not speake vnto you as vnto spirituall but as vnto carnall euen as vnto babes in Christ. I gaue you mylke to drynke and not meate for ye mighte not then awaye withall nether maye ye yet euen now in so moch as ye are yet fleshlye For seynge there is enuyenge stryfe and discencion amonge you ▪ are ye not fleshly walke after y e maner of men For whan one sayeth I holde of Paul
in the coÌ„myng â–ª of the LORDE shal not come yer they which slepe For the LORDE himselfe shal come downe froÌ„ heauen with a shoute and voyce of y e Archangell and with the trompe of God and the deed in Christ shal aryse first then shal we which lyue and remayne be caught vp w t them also in the cloudes to mete the LORDE in the ayre and so shal we euer be with the LORDE Wherfore comforte youre selues one another with these wordes The V. Chapter BVt of y e tymes and seasons brethreÌ„ it is no nede to wryte vnto you For ye youreselues knowe perfectly that the daye of the LORDE shal come euen as a thefe in the nighte For whan they shal saye â–ª Tush It is peace there is no daunger then shall soden destruccion come vpoÌ„ theÌ„ euen as the payne of a woman trauaylinge with childe and they shal not escape But ye brethren are not in darknes that that daye shulde come on you as a thefe Ye are alltogether children of lighte and children of the daye We are not of the night nether of darknesse Therfore let vs not slepe as do other but let vs watch and be sober For they that slepe slepe in the nighte and they that be dronken are dronken in the nighte But let vs which are of the daye be sober armed w t the brestplate of faith and loue and with y e helmet of hope to saluacion For God hath not appoynted vs vnto wrath but to optayne saluacion by y e meanes of oure LORDE Iesu Christ â–ª which dyed for vs that whether we wake or slepe we shulde lyue together with him Wherfore comforte youre selues together and edifye one another euen as ye do We beseke you brethren that ye knowe them which laboure amonge you and haue the ouersighte of you in the LORDE and geue you exhortacion that ye haue theÌ„ the more in loue for their workes sake and be at peace with them We desyre you brethreÌ„ warne them that are vnruly coÌ„forte the feble mynded forbeare the weake be pacient towarde all men * So that none recompence euell for euell vnto eny man but euer folowe that which is good both amoÌ„ge youre selues and to all men Reioyse alwaye praye contynually in all thinges be thankfull for this is the wyll of God in Christ Iesu towarde you QueÌ„ch not y e sprete despyse not prophecieÌ„ges proue all thiÌ„ges kepe y t which is good Abstayne froÌ„ all suspicious thinges The very God â—f peace sanctifye you thorow out And I â—raye God that youre whole sprete soule â—ody be kepte blameles vnto y e coÌ„mynge of â—ure LORDE Iesus Christ. Faithfull is he which hath called you which wil also do it Brethren praye for vs. Grete all the brethreÌ„ with an holy kysse I charge you by y e LORDE that this epistle be red vnto all y e holy brethren The grace of oure LORDE Iesus Christ be with you Amen The first Epistle to the Tessalonians sent from Athens The seconde Epistle of the Apostle S. Paul to the Tessalonians The summe of this epistle Chap. I. He thanketh God for their faith and loue and prayeth for the increase of the same Chap. II. He sheweth them that the daye of the LORDE shal not come till the departinge froÌ„ the faith come first and therfore he exhorteth them not to be disceaued but to stonde stedfast in the thinges that hâ— hath taught them Chap. III. He desyreth them to praye for him that the gospell maye prospere and geueth theÌ„ warnynge to reproue the ydle and yf they wil not laboure with their handes that they shal not eate The first Chapter PAVL and Siluanus and Timotheus To the congregacion of y e TessaloniaÌ„s in God oure father and in the LORDE Iesus Christ. Grace be with you and peace from God oure father and from the LORDE Iesus Christ. We are bounde to thanke God allwayes for you brethren as it is mete because that youre faith groweth exceadingly and the loue of euery one of you increaseth towarde another amoÌ„ge youre selues so that we oure selues make oure boast of you in the congregacions of God of youre pacieÌ„ce and faith in all youre persecucions and troubles that ye suffre which is a token of the righteous iudgment of God that ye are counted worthy of the kyngdome of God for the which ye also suffre For it is a righteous thinge with God to recoÌ„pence tribulacion vnto theÌ„ y t trouble you but vnto you which are troubled rest with vs whaÌ„ the LORDE Iesus shal shewe himselfe from heauen with the angels of his power and with flammynge fyre to geue vengeauÌ„ce vnto them that knowe not God and to them that obeye not the Gospell of oure LORDE Iesus Christ. Which shal be punyshed with euerlastinge damnacion from y e presence of the LORDE and from the glory of his power whan he shal come to be glorified in his sayntes and to be come maruelous in all them that beleue because ye haue beleued oure testimony vnto you of the same daye * Wherfore we praye allwayes for you that oure God make you worthy of y e callynge and fulfill all delectacion of goodnes and the worke of faith in power that y e name of oure LORDE Iesus Christ maye be praysed in you and ye in him acordinge to the grace of oure God and of the LORDE Iesus Christ. The II. Chapter WE beseke you brethren by the commynge of o r LORDE Iesus Christ and in that we shal assemble vnto him that ye be not sodenly moued froÌ„ youre mynde and be not troubled nether by sprete nether by wordes ner yet by letter which shulde seme to be sent from vs as though y e daye of Christ were at hande Let noman disceaue you by eny meanes For the LORDE commeth not excepte the departynge come first and that that Man of synne be opened euen the sonne of perdicion which is an aduersary and is exalted aboue all y t is called God or Gods seruyce so that he sytteth as God in the temple of God and boasteth himselfe to be God Remembre ye not that whan I was yet with you I tolde you these thinges And now ye knowe what witholdeth it eueÌ„ that it mighte be vttered at his tyme. For the mystery of the iniquyte worketh allready tyll he which now onely letteth be takeÌ„ out of the waye And then shal that wicked be vttered whom the LORDE shal coÌ„sume with y e sprete of his mouth shal destroye with the appearaunce of his commynge euen him whose commynge is after the workynge of Sathan with all lyenge power and signes and wonders and with all deceauablenes of vnrighteousnes amonge them that perishe because they receaued not the loue of y e trueth that they might haue bene saued â–ª Therfore shal God sende them stroÌ„ge deâ—â—sion that they shulde beleue lyes y t all they
seyth not And this coÌ„maundement haue we of him that he which loueth God shulde loue his brother also The V. Chapter WHo so euer beleueth that Iesus is Christ is borne of God And who soeuer loueth him that begat loueth him also which was begotten of him By this we knowe that we loue Gods children whan we loue God and kepe his commaundementes For this is the loue of God that we kepe his commaundementes and his commaundemeÌ„tes are not greuous For all that is borne of God ouer commeth the worlde and this is the victory that ouercommeth the worlde eueÌ„ oure faith Who is it y t ouercommeth the worlde but he which beleueth that Iesus is the sonne of God This is he that coÌ„meth with water and bloude euen Iesus Christ not with water onely but with water and bloude And it is the sprete that beareth wytnes for the sprete is the trueth For there are thre which beare recorde in heauen the father the worde and the holy goost these thre are one And there are thre which beare recorde in earth the sprete water and bloude and these thre are one Yf we receaue the witnesse of men the witnesse of God is greater for this is the wytnesse of God which he testifyed of his sonne He that beleueth on y e sonne of God hath the wytnes in him selfe He that beleueth not God hath made him a lyar And this is that recorde euen y t God hath geueÌ„ vs euerlastinge life And this life is in his sonne He that hath the sonne of God hath life He that hath not the sonne of God hath not life These thinges haue I wrytteÌ„ vnto you which beleue on the name of the sonne of God that ye maye knowe how that ye haue eternall life and that ye maye beleue on y e name of the sonne of God And this is the fre boldnesse which we haue towarde him that yf we axe eny thinge acordinge to his wyll he heareth vs. And yf we knowe that he heareth vs what so euer we axe then are we sure that we haue y e peticions which we haue desyred of him Yf eny man se his brother synne a synne not vnto death let him axe and he shal geue him life for theÌ„ y t synne not vnto death There is a synne vnto death for the which saye I not that a man shulde praye All vnrighteousnes is synne and there is synne not vnto death We knowe that whosoeuer is borne off God synneth not but he that is begotteÌ„ of God kepeth himselfe y t wicked toucheth him not We knowe that we are of God the worlde is set alltogether on wickednes But we knowe that the sonne of God is come and hath geuen vs a mynde to knowe him which is true and we are in him y t is true in his sonne Iesu Christ. This is the true God and euer lastinge life Babes kepe youre selues from ymage The seconde Epistle of S. Ihon. The summe of this epistle He wryteth vnto a certayne lady reioyseth that her children walke in the trueth exhorteth theÌ„ vnto loue warneth them to bewarre of soch disceauers as denye that Iesus Christ came in the flesh prayeth them to contynue in the doctryne of Christ and to haue nothinge to do with them that bringe not this lernynge THE Elder To y e electe lady and hir childreÌ„ whom I loue in the trueth not I onely but all they also that haue knowne the trueth for the truthes sake which dwelleth in vs and shal be with vs for euer Grace mercy and peace be with you froÌ„ the LORDE Iesus Christ y e sonne of the father in the trueth and in loue I am greatly reioysed that I haue founde amonge thy children them that walke in y e trueth as we haue receaued a commaundement of the father And now lady I beseke the not as though I wrote a new commaundement vnto the but the same which we haue had from the begynnynge that we loue one another And this is the loue that we walke after his commaundementes This is the commaundement as ye haue herde froÌ„ the begynnynge that we shulde walke therin For many disceauers are come in to the worlde which confesse not y t Iesus Christ is come in the flesh this is a disceauer and an Antechrist Take hede to youre selues that we lose not that which we haue wrought but that we maye receaue a full rewarde Who so euer transgresseth and abydeth not in the doctryne of Christ hath not God he that abydeth in y e doctryne of Christ hath both the father and the sonne Yf eny man come vnto you and brynge not this doctryne receaue him not in to the house nether salute him for he that saluteth him is partaker of his euell dedes I had 〈◊〉 any thinges to wryte vnto you neuertheâ—â—â—â— I wolde not wryte w t papyre and ynke 〈…〉 to come vnto you and to 〈…〉 mouth that oure ioye 〈…〉 â—hildren of thy electe sister The thirde Epistle of S. Ihon. The summe of this epistle He is glad of Gaius that he walketh in the trueth exhorteth him to be louynge vnto the poore christen in their persecucion sheweth the vnkynde dealynge of Diotrephes and the good reporte of Demetrius THE Elder To the beloued Gaius whom I loue in the trueth My beloued I wysshe in all thinges that thou prospere and fare well euen as thy soule prospereth I reioysed greatly whan the brethren came and testified of the trueth that is in y e how thou walkest in the trueth I haue no greater ioye theÌ„ to heare that my childreÌ„ walke in the trueth My beloued thou doest faithfully what so euer thou doest to the brethren and to strauÌ„gers which haue borne witnesse of thy loue before the congregacion and thou hast done well that thou dyddest brynge them forwarde on their iourney worthely before God For because of his names sake they wente forth and toke nothinge of the Heythen We therfore oughte to receaue soch that we mighte be helpers vnto the trueth I wrote to the congregacion but Diotriphes which loueth to haue the preemynence amonge them receaued vs not Wherfore yf I come I wil declare his dedes which he doeth ieastinge vpoÌ„ vs with malicious wordes nether is he therwith coÌ„tent Not onely he himselfe receaueth not the brethreÌ„ but also he forbyddeth them that wolde and thrusteth them out of the congregacion My beloued folowe not y t which is euell but that which is good He that doeth well is of God but he that doeth euell seyth not God Demetrius hath good reporte of all men and of the trueth yee and we oure selues also beare recorde and ye knowe that oure recorde is true I had many thinges to wryte but I wolde not with ynke and pen wryte vnto the. But I trust shortly to se the and so wyl we speake together mouth to mouth Peace be with the. The louers salute the. Grete the louers
vpoÌ„ the house of Israel and vpon the house off Iuda a new Testament not as the Testament which I made with their fathers in that daye whan I toke them by the handes to lede them out of the londe of Egipte for they contynued not in my Testament and I regarded them not sayeth the LORDE For this is the Testament that I wil make w t the house of Israell after those dayes sayeth the LORDE I wyl geue my lawes in their mynde and in their hertes wyl I wryte them And I wil be their God and they shal be my people and they shal not teach euery maÌ„ his neghboure and euery man his brother sayenge knowe y e LORDE for they shal knowe me from the leest to the most of them for I wil be mercifull ouer their vnrighteousnesses And on their synnes on their iniquyties wyl I not thynke eny more In that he sayeth A new he weereth out y e olde Now y t which is worne out and waxed olde is ready to vanish awaye The IX Chapter THat first Tabernacle verely had ordinaunces and seruynges off God and outwarde holynes For there was made a foretabernacle wherin was y e candilsticke and the table and the shewe bred and this is called y e Holy But behynde the seconde vayle was the Tabernacle which is called Holiest of all which had the golden censor and the Arke of the Testament ouerlayed rounde aboute with golde wherin was the golden pot with Manna and Aarons rodd that florished and the tables of the Testament Aboue therin were the Cherubins off glory ouershadowynge the Mercyseate Of which thinges it is not now to speake perticularly When these thinges were thus ordeyned the prestes wente allwayes in to the first Tabernacle and excuted y e seruyce of God But in to the seconde wente the hye prest alone once in the yeare not without bloude which he offred for himselfe and for the ignoraunce of the people Wherwith the holy goost this signifyeth that the waye of holynes was not yet opened whyle as yet the first Tabernacle was stondynge Which was a symilitude for the tyme then present in the which were offred giftes and sacrifices and coulde not make perfecte as partaynynge to the conscience him that dyd the Gods seruyce onely with meates and drynkes and dyuerse waszhinges and iustifienges of the flesh which were ordeyned vnto the tyme of reformacion But Christ beynge an hye prest of good thinges to come came by a greater and a more perfecte Tabernacle not made with handes that is to saye not of this maner buyldynge nether by the bloude of goates or calues but by his owne bloude entred he once for all in to the holy place and hath founde eternall redempcion For yff the bloude off oxen and off goates and the aszhes off the cowe whan it is sprenkled haloweth the vncleane as touchynge the purificacion of the flesh How moch more shal the bloude of Christ which thorow the eternall sprete offred him selfe without spot vnto God pourge oure conscience from deed workes for to serue tâ—â—geuynge God And for this cause is â—â—â—eâ—diatour of the new 〈…〉 thorow death which chaursed 〈◊〉 redempcion of those traÌ„sgressons that were vnder the first Testament they which were called mighte receaue the promes of eternall inheritaunce For where soeuer is a Testament there must also be the death of him that maketh the testament For a TestameÌ„t taketh auctorite whan men are deed for it is of no value as longe as he that made it is alyue For the which cause that first TestameÌ„t also was not ordeyned without bloude For whan all the commaundementes acordinge to the lawe were red of Moses vnto all the people he toke y e bloude of calues and of goates with water and purple woll and ysope and sprenkled the boke and all the people sayenge * This is the bloude of the Testament which God hath appoynted vnto you And the Tabernakle and all the vessels of the Gods seruyce sprenkled he with bloude likewyse And allmost all thinges are pourged with bloude after the lawe and without sheddynge of bloude is no remyssion It is necessary then that the symilitude of heauenly thinges be purified with soche but y e heauenly thinges themselues are purified with better sacrifices then are those For Christ is not entred in to the holy places y t are made with handes which are but symilitudes of true thinges but in to the very heauen for to apeare now before the face of God for vs Not to offer himselfe offâ— as the hye prest entreth in to the holy place euery yeare with straunge bloude for theÌ„ must he often haue suffred sence the worlde beganne But now in the ende of the worlde hath he appeared once to put synne to flight by the offerynge vp of himselfe And as it is appoynted vnto meÌ„ y t they shal once dye and then coÌ„meth the iudgmeÌ„t EueÌ„ so Christ was once offred to take awaye the synnes of many And vnto them that loke for him shal he appeare agayne without synne vnto saluacion The X. Chapter FOr the lawe * which hath but the shadowe off good thinges to come and not the thinges in their awne fashion can neuer by the sacrifices which they offer yeare by yeare continually make the commers there vnto perfecte Els shulde they haue ceassed to haue bene offred because that the offerers once pourged shulâ—◠〈◊〉 had nomore conscience of synnes 〈…〉 in those sacrifices there is maâ—e but a â—â—â—â—â—braunce of synnes euery yeaâ—e * For 〈…〉 y t the bloude of oxen â—nd of goates shulde take awaye synnes Wherfore whan he commeth in to the worlde he sayeth Sacrifice offerynge thou woldest not haue but a body hast thou ordeyned me Burnt offerynges and synneofferynges hast thou not alowed Then sayde I Lo I come I the begynnynge of the boke it is wrytten of me that I shulde do y e wyll O God Aboue whaÌ„ he had sayde Sacrifice and offerynge and burntsacrifices syn offerynges thou woldest not haue nether hast alowed which yet are offered after y e lawe TheÌ„ sayde he Lo I come to do wil thy O God there taketh he awaye the first to stablyszhe the latter In the which wyll we are sanctified by the offerynge vp of the body of Iesus Christ once for all And euery prest is ready daylie mynistringe and oftymes offereth one maner of offerynges which can neuer take awaye synnes But this man whan he had offred for synnes one sacrifice which is of value for euer sat him downe on the righte hande of God and from hence forth tarieth tyll his foes be made his fote stole For with one offerynge hath he made perfecte for euer theÌ„ that are sanctified And the holy goost also beareth vs recorde of this euen whan he sayde before This is the Testament that I wyl make vnto them after those dayes sayeth y e LORDE I
thou art fallen and repent and do the fyrst workes Or elles I wyl come vnto the shortly and wil remoue thy caÌ„delstycke out of his place excepte thou repent But this thou hast because thou hatest y e dedes of the Nicolaitans which dedes I also hate Let him y t hath eares heare what y e sprete saith vnto the congregacions To him that ouercommeth will I geue to eate of the tree of life which is in the myddes of y e paradise of God And vnto the angell of the congregacion of Smyrna wryte These thinges saith he that is fyrst and the last which was deed and is aliue I knowe thy workes and tribulacion and pouerte but thou art ryche And I knowe the blaspheny of them which call them selues Iewes and are not but are the coÌ„gregacion of Sathan Feare none of tho thinges which thou shalt soffre Beholde y e deuell shal cast of you in to preson to tempte you and ye shal haue tribulacion x. dayes Be faithfull vnto the deeth and I wil geue y e a crowne of life Let him that hath ears heare what the sprete saith to the congregacions He that ouer coÌ„meth shal not be hurte of the seconde deeth And to the angell of the congregacion in Pergamos wryte This sayth he which hath the sharpe swearde with two edges I knowe thy workes and where thou dwellest euen where Sathans seat is and thou kepest my name hast not denyed my faith And in my dayes Antipas was a faithfull witnes of myne which was slayne amonge you where Sathan dwelleth But I haue a fewe thinges agaynst the that thou hast there theÌ„ that manyntayne the doctryne of Balaam which taught in Balak to put occasion of syn before the children of Israell that they shulde eate of meate dedicat vnto ydoles and to commyt fornicacion Euen so hast thou theâ—â— that mayntayne y e doctryne of the Nicolaytans which thinge I hate But be coÌ„uerted or elles I wil come vnto the shortly and wil fight agaynste theÌ„ with the swearde of my mouth Let him y t hath eares heare what the sprete saith vnto the coÌ„gregacions To him that ouer commeth wil I geue to eate maÌ„na that is hyd and wil geue him a whyte stone in the stone a newâ— name wrytteÌ„ which no man knoweth sauinge he that receaueth it And vnto the angell of the coÌ„gregacion of Theatira write This saith the sonne of God which hath his eyes lyke vnto a flame of fyre whose fete are like brasse I knowe thy workes and thy loue seruice and faith and thy pacience and thy dedes which are mo at the last then at the firste Notwithstondinge I haue a feawe thinges agaynst the that thou sufferest that woman Iesabell which called her selfe a prophetisse to teache and to deceaue my seruauntes to make them committ fornicacion and to eate meates offered vp vnto ydoles And I gaue her space to repeÌ„t of her fornicacion and she repented not Beholde I wil cast her into a bed and them that commit fornicacion with her in to gret aduersite excepte they turne from their dedes And I wil kyll her childreÌ„ with deeth And all the coÌ„gregacioÌ„s shal knowe y t I am he which searcheth the reynes and hertes And I wil geue vnto euery one of you acordynge vnto youre workes Vnto you I saye and vnto other of theÌ„ of Thiatyra as many as haue not this lernynge and which haue not knowen the depnes of Sathan as they saye I wil put vpoÌ„ you none other burthen but y t which ye haue already Holde fast tyll I come and whosoeuer ouercoÌ„meth and kepeth my workes vnto y e ende to him wil I geue power ouer nacions and he shal rule them with a rodde of yron and as the vessels of a potter shal he breake them to sheuers EueÌ„ as I receaued of my father so wil I geue him y t mornynge starre Let him y t hath eares heare what the sprete sayth to the coÌ„gregacions The III. Chapter ANd wryte vnto the angell of the congregacion off Sardis this sayth he that hath the seuen spretes of God the seuen starres I knowe thy workes thou hast a name that thou lyuest and thou art deed Be awake and strength the thinges which remayne that are redy to dye For I haue not founde thy workes perfecte before God Remember therfore how thou hast receaued and hearde and holde fast and repent Yf thou shalt not watche I wil come on the as a these and thou shalt not knowe what houre I wil come vpon y e Thou hast a fewe names in Sardis which haue not defyled their garmentes and they shal walke with me in whyte for they are worthy He that ouercommeth shal be clothed in whyte araye and I wil not put out his name out of the boke of life and I wil coÌ„fesse his name before my father and before his angels Let him y t hath eares heare what the sprete sayth vnto the congregacions And wryte vnto y e angell of the coÌ„gregacioÌ„ of Philadelphia this sayth he y t is holy and true which hath the keye of Dauid which openyth and no man shutteth and shutteth and no man openeth I knowe thy workes Beholde I haue set before the an open doore and no man can shut it for thou hast a lyttell strength and hast not denyed my name Beholde I shal geue some of the congregacion of Sathan which call them selues Iewes and are not but dolye Beholde I wil make them that they shal come worshippe before thy fete and shal knowe that I haue loued the. Because thou hast kept the wordes of my pacience therfore wil I kepe the from the houre of temptacion which will come vpon all the worlde to tempte them that dwell vpoÌ„ the earth Beholde I come shortly Holde that which thou hast that no maÌ„ take awaye thy crowne Him that ouer commeth will I make a pyllar in the temple of my God and he shal goo no more out And I will wryte vpon him the name of my God and the name of y e cite of my God newe Ierusalem which coÌ„meth downe out of heauen from my God and I will wryte vpoÌ„ him my newe name Let him that hath eares heare what the sprete saith vnto the congregacions And vnto the angell of the coÌ„gregacion which is in Laodicia wryte This sayth Amen the faithfull and true witnes the begynnynge of y e creatures of God I knowe thy workes y t thou art nether colde nor hot I wolde thou were colde or hote So then because thou art bitwene bothe and nether colde ner hote I wyll spew the out off my mouth because thou saist thou art riche and incresyd with goodes and hast nede of nothinge and knowest not how thou art wretched miserable poore blynde and nakyd I counsell the to bye of me golde tryed in the fyre that thou mayste be riche and whyte rayment that thou mayste be clothed that
his mouth water after the womā as it had bene a ryuer that he might cause her to be caught of y e floud And the earth holpe the woman and the earth opened her mouth and swalowed vp the ryuer which the dragon cast out of his mouth And the dragon was wroth with the womā and went and made warre with the remnaunt of hyr sede which kepe the cōmaundementes of God and haue the testimony of Iesus Christ. And I stode on the see sonde The XIII Chapter ANd I sawe a beest rise out of the see hauinge seuen heades and x. hornes and vpon his hornes x. crownes and vpō his heed the names of blasphemy And the beest which I sawe was lyke a catt of the mountayne and his fete were as the fete of a bear and his mouth as the mouthe of a lyon And y e dragō gaue him his power and his seate and greate auctorite and I sawe one of his heades as it were wounded to death and his dedly wounde was healed And all the worlde wōdred at the beest and they worshipped the dragon which gaue power vnto the beest and they worshipped the beest sayenge who is like vnto the beest who is able to warre with him And there was geuen vnto him a mouth to speake greate thinges blasphemies and power was geuen vnto him to do xlij monethes And he opened his mouth vnto blasphemy agaynst God to blaspheme his name and his tabernacle and them that dwell in heauen And it was geuen vnto him to make warre with the sayntes and to ouercome them And power was geuen him ouer all kynred tonge and nacion and all that dwell vpon the earth worshipt him whose names are not wrytten in the boke of life of the lambe which was kylled from the beginnynge of the worlde Yf eny man haue an eare let him heare He that leadeth in to captiuite shal go in to captiuite he that killeth with a swearde must be killed with y e swearde Heare is the pacience and the faith of the saynctes And I behelde another beest commynge vp out of the earth and he had two hornes like a lambe and he spake as dyd the dragō And he dyd all that the first beest coulde do in his presence and he caused the earth and them which dwell therin to worshippe the fyrst beest whose deedly woūde was healed And he dyd greate wonders so that he made fyre come downe from heauē in the sight of men And deceaued them that dwelt on the earth by y e meanes of those signes which he had power to do in the sight of the beest sayenge to them that dwelt on the earth that they shulde make an ymage vnto the beest which had the wounde of a swearde and dyd liue And he had power to geue a sprete vnto the ymage of the beest and that the ymage of the beest shulde speake and shulde cause that as many as wolde not worshippe the ymage of the beest shulde be kylled And he made all bothe smale and greate ryche and poore fre and bond to receaue a marke in their right hondes or in their forheades And that noman might by or sell saue he y t had y e marke or the name of the beest ether the nombre of his name Here is wiszdome Let him that hath wyt count the nombre of the beest For it is the nombre of a man and his nombre is sixe hondred thre score and sixe The XIIII Chapter ANd I loked and lo a lambe stode on the moūt Syon and with him C. and xliiij thousande hauynge his fathers name wrytten in their forheades And I herde a voyce from heauen as the sounde of many waters and as the voyce of a greate thondre And the voyce that I herde was as the harpers that playe vpon their harpers And they songe as it were a newe songe before the seate before y e foure beestes and the elders and no man coulde learne y t songe but the hondred and xliiij M. which were redemed from the earth These are they which were not defyled with wemen for they are virgyns These folowe the lambe whither soeuer he goeth These were redemed from men beynge the fyrst frutes vnto God and to the lambe and in their mouthes was founde no gyle For they are withoutē spot before the trone of God And I sawe an angell flye in the myddes of heauen hauinge an euerlastinge Gospell to preache vnto them that syt and dwell on the earth and to all nacions kinreddes and tōges and people sayēge with a lowde voyce Feare God and geue honour to him for the houre of his iudgement is come and worshippe him that made heauen and earth and the see and the fountaynes off water And there folowed another angell sayenge She is fallen she is fallen euē Babilon that greate cite for she made all nacions drynke off the wyne off hyr whordome And the thyrde angel folowed thē sayenge with a loude voyce Yf eny man worshippe the beest and his ymage and receaue his marke in his forhed or on his honde the same shall drynke of the wyne of the wrath of God which is powred in the cuppe of his wrath And he shal be punyszhed in fyre and brymstone before the holy Angels and before the lambe And the smoke of their torment ascendeth vp euermore And they haue no res◠daye ner nyght which worshippe the beast and his ymage and whosoeuer receaueth the prynt of his name Here is the pacience of sayntes Heare are they that kepe the commaundementes and the faith off Iesu. And I herde a voyce from heauen sayenge vnto me wryte Blessed are y e deed which here after dye in the LORDE Yee the sprete sayeth that they rest from their laboures for their workes folowe them And I loked and beholde a whyte cloude and vpō y e cloude one syttynge like vnto the sonne of man hauinge on his heed a golden crowne and in his hōde a sharpe sykle And another angell came out of the temple cryenge with a loude voyce to him that sat on the cloude Thruste in thy sycle and reepe for the tyme is come to reepe for the corne of the earth is rype And he that sat on y e cloude thrust in his sykle on the earth and the earth was reeped And another angell came out of the temple which is in heauen hauinge also a sharpe sykle And another angel came out from the aultre which had power ouer fyre and cryed with a loude crye vnto hym that had the sharpe syckle and sayde Thruste in thy sharpe syckle and gather the clusters of y e earth for hir grapes are rype And the angell thrust in his syckle on the erthe and cut downe the grapes of the vynyarde of the earth and cast them in to the greate wynefat of y e wrath of God the wynefat was trodden without the cite and bloude came out of the fat euen vnto the
y t be thurstie ye that haue no moneye Come bye that ye maye haue to eate Come bye wyne mylck without eny money or moneye worth Wherfore do ye laye out yo r moneye for the thinge y t fedeth not and spende youre laboure aboute the thinge that satisfieth you not But herkē rather vnto me ād ye shal eate of the best youre soule shal haue hir pleasure in plēteousnes Enclyne youre eares come vnto me take hede youre soule shal lyue For I will make an euerlastinge couenaunt with you euē the sure mercies of Dauid Beholde I shal geue him for a witnesse amōge y e folke for a prynce captayne vnto the people Lo thou shalt call an vnknowne people a people that had no knowlege of the shall runne vnto the because off the LORDE thy God y e holy one of Israel which glorifieth the. Seke the LORDE while he maye be founde call vpō him while he is nye Let the vngodly man forsake his wayes ād the vnrightuous his ymaginaciōs turne agayne vnto the LORDE so shal he be merciful vnto him and to oure God for he is redy to forgeue For thus saieth the LORDE My thoughtes are not youre thoughtes youre wayes are not my wayes But as farre as the heauens are hyer then the earth so farre do my waies exceade yours my thoughtes yours And like as the rayne snowe cōmeth downe from heauē returneth not thither agayne but watereth the earth maketh it frutefull grene that it maye geue corne breade vnto the sower So the worde also that commeth out of my mouth shal not turne agayne voyde vnto me but shal accōplish my wil prospere in the thinge wherto I sende it And so shal ye go forth w t ioye be led with peace The mountaynes and hilles shal synge with you for ioye and all the trees of the felde shal clappe their hondes For thornes there shal growe Fyrre trees y e Myrte tre in the steade of breres And this shal be done to the prayse of the LORDE for an euerlastinge tokē that shal not be taken awaye The lvj Chapter THus saieth y e LORDE Kepe equite and do right for my sauynge health shal come shortly my rightuosnes shal be opened Blissed is the man y t doth this the mans childe which kepeth the same He that taketh hede y t he vnhalowe not the Sabbath that is he that kepeth himself that he do no euel Then shal not the straunger which cleaueth to the LORDE saye Alas the LORDE hath shut me cleane out from his people Nether shal the gelded man saye lo I am a drie tre For thus saieth the LORDE first vnto the gelded y t kepeth my Sabbath Namely that holdeth greatly of the thinge that pleaseth me and kepeth my couenaūt Vnto them wil I geue in my housholde and with in my walles a better heretage name thē yf they had bene called sonnes daughters I wil geue them an euerlastinge name that shall not perishe Agayne he saieth vnto the straūgers that are disposed to sticke to the LORDE to serue him to loue his name That they shal be no bōde mē And all they which kepe thē selues that they vnhalowe not the Sabbath namely that they fulfill my couenaūt Them wil I bringe to my holy moūtayne make thē ioyfull in my house of prayer Their burnt offringes and sacrifices shal be accepted vpō myne aulter for my house shal be an house of prayer for all people Thus saieth the LORDE God which gathereth together the scatred of Israel I wil bringe yet another cōgregacion to him All the beastes of the felde all the beastes of y e wod shal come to deuoure hī For his watch men are all blinde they haue alltogether no vnderstondinge they are all domme dogges not beinge able to barcke they are slepery slogish are they lie snortinge they are shamelesse dogges y t be neuer satiszfied The sheperdes also in like maner haue no vnderstondinge but euery man turneth his owne waye euery one after his owne couetousnes w t all his power Come saye they I wil fetch wyne so shal we fyll oure selues that we maye be dronken And do tomorow like as to daye yee and moch more The LVII Chapter· BVt in the meane season y e righteous perisheth no mā regardeth it in his hert Good godly people are taken awaye no mā cōsidreth it Namely that the righteous is conuayed awaye thorow y e wicked that he himself might be in rest lie quietly vpon his bed lyue after his owne pleasure Come hither therfore ye charmers children ye sonnes of the aduoutrer the whore Wherin take ye youre pleasure Vpō whom gape ye with yo r mouth bleare out yo r tonge Are ye not childrē of aduoutry a sede of dissimulaicon Ye take youre pleasure vnder the okes vnder all grene trees the childe beynge slayne in the valleys dennes of stone Thy parte shal be with the stony rockes by the ryuer Yee euen these shal be thy parte For there thou hast poured meat and drynk-offringes vnto thē Shulde I ouersee that Thou hast made thy bed vpon hie mountaynes thou wentest vp thither and therehast thou slayne sacrifices Behynde the dores postes hast thou set vp thy remembraunce When thou haddest discouered thyself to another then me when thou wētest downe ▪ made thy bed wyder that is when thou didest carue the certayne of yonder Idols louedest their couches where thou sawest thē Thou wentest straight to kinges with oyle dyuerse oyntmentes that is thou hast sent thy messaungers farre of and yet art thou fallen in to the pyt therby Thou hast had trouble for y e multitude of thyne owne wayes yet saydest thou neuer I wil leaue of Thou thinkest to haue life or health of thy self and therfore thou beleuest not that thou ar◠sick For when wilt thou be abaszshed or feare seinge thou hast broken thy promyse remembrest not me nether hast me in thine hert Thinkest thou that I also will holde my peace as afore tyme y t thou fearest me not Yee verely I wil declare y e goodnes y e workes but they shal not profit ye. whē thou criest let y e chosen heape delyuer the. But the wynde shal take them all awaye cary thē in to y e ayre Neuertheles they y t put their trust in me shal inheret the londe and haue my holy hill in possession And therfore thus he saieth Make redy make redy and clense y e strete take vp what ye can out of the waye that ledeth to my people For thus saieth the hie and excellēt euen he that dwelleth in euerlastingnesse whose name is the holy one I dwel hie aboue and in the sanctuary with him also y t is of a cōtrite and
hūble sprete y t I maye heale a troubled mynde and a cōtrite herte For I chide not euer am not wroth w t out ende But y e blastinge goeth fro me though I make the breath I am wroth w t hī for his couetousnes lust I smyte him I hyde me and am angrie whē he turneth him self and foloweth y e bywaye of his owne hert But yf I maye se his right waye agayne I make him whole I lede him and restore him vnto them whom he maketh ioyful that were sory for him I make the frutes of thākesgeuinge I geue peace vnto them that are farre of and to them that are nye saye I the LORDE that make him whole But the wicked are like the raginge see that cā not rest who se water fometh with the myre grauel Euēso y e wicked haue no peace saieth my God The LVIII Chapter ANd therfore crie now as loude as thou canst Leaue not of life vp thy voyce like a trōpet and shewe my people their offences and y e house of Iacob their synnes For they seke me dalye and wil knowe my wayes euen as it were a people that dyd right and had not forsaken the statutes of their God They argue with me concernynge right iudgment and wil pleate at the lawe with their God Wherfore fast we saye they and thou seist it not we put oure liues to straitnesse and thou regardest it not Beholde when ye fast youre lust remayneth still for ye do no lesse violence to youre detters lo ye fast to strife and debate and to smyte him with youre fist that speaketh vnto you Ye fast not as somtyme that youre voyce might be herde aboue Thynke ye this fast pleaseth me that a mā shulde chasten himself for a daye and to wryth his heade aboute like an hoke in an hairy cloth to lye vpon the earth Shulde that be called fastinge or a daye y t pleaseth y e LORDE But this fastinge pleaseth not me till y e tyme be thou lowse him out of bondage that is in thy daunger that thou breake the ooth of wicked bargaynes that thou let the oppressed go fre and take from them all maner of burthens It pleaseth not me till thou deale thy bred to the hongrie brynge the poore fatherlesse home in to thy house when thou seist the naked that thou couer him and hyde not thy face frō thine owne flesh Then shal thy light breake forth as y e mornynge and thy health florish right shortly thy rightuousnesse shal go before the and y e glory of the LORDE shal embrace the. Then yf thou callest the LORDE shal answere the yf thou criest he shal saye here I am Yee yf thou layest awaye thy burthens and holdest thy fyngers and ceasest from blasphemous talkinge yf thou hast compassion vpon the hongrie and refreszshest y e troubled soule Then shal thy light springe out in the darknesse and thy darknesse shal be as the noone daye The LORDE shal euer be thy gyde and satisfie the desyre of thine hert and fyl y e bones with marry Thou shalt be like a freshwatred garden and like the founteyne of water that neuer leaueth runnynge Then the places that haue euer bene waist shal be buylded of the there shalt thou laye a foundacion for many kynreds Thou shalt be called the maker vp of hedges and y e buylder agayne of y e waye of the Sabbath Yee yf thou turne thy fete from the Sabbath so that thou do not the thinge which pleaseth thyself in my holy daye then shalt thou be called vnto the pleasaunt holy glorious Sabbath of the LORDE where thou shalt be in hono r so y t thou do not after thine owne ymaginacion nether seke thine owne wil ner speake thine owne wordes Thē shalt thou haue y e pleasure in y e LORDE which shal carie y e hie aboue y e earth fede the w t the heretage of Iacob thy father for the LORDES owne mouth hath so promised The LIX Chap. BEholde the LORDES honde is not so shortened y t it can not helpe nether is his eare so stopped y t it maye not heare But yo r myszdedes haue separated you from yo r God yo r synnes hyde his face from you y t he heareth you not For yo r hondes are defyled with bloude and yo r fyngers w t vnrighteousnesse Yo r lippes speake lesynges yo r tonge setteth out wickednes No man regardeth righteousnes no mā iudgeth truly Euery man hopeth in vayne thinges and ymagineth disceate cōceaueth weerynesse bringeth forth euell They brede cockatrice egges weeue y e spyders webb Who so eateth of their egges dieth But yf one treade vpon thē there cōmeth vp a serpent Their webbe maketh no clothe they maye not couer thē w t their labours Their dedes are y e dedes of wickednes y e worke of robbery is in their hōdes Their fete runne to euell they make haist to shed innocēt bloude Their coūcels are wicked coūcels harme destrucciō are in their wayes But y e waye of peace they knowe not In their goinges is no equyte their wayes are so croked y t who so euer goeth therin knoweth nothinge of peace And this is y e cause y t equite is so farre frō vs y t rightuousnes cōmeth not nye vs. We loke for light lo it is darknesse for y e mornynge shyne se we walke in y e darke We grope like y e blynde vpon y e wall we grope euen as one y t hath none eyes We stomble at y e noone daye as though it were toward night in y e fallinge places like men y t are half deed We roare all like Beeres mourne stil like doues We loke for equite but there is none for health but it is farre frō vs. For o r offences are many before y e o r synnes testifie agaynst vs. Yee we must cōfesse y t we offende knowlege y t we do amysse Namely transgresse dyssemble agaynst y e LORDE fall awaye frō o r God vsinge presūptuous traytorous ymaginacions castinge false matters in o r hertes And therfore is equyte gone asyde righteousnes stōdeth farre of treuth is fallen downe in the strete and the thinge that is playne and open maye not be shewed Yee y e treuth is lade in preson and he that refrayneth himself frō euel must be spoyled When the LORDE sawe this it displeased him sore y t there was no where eny equite He sawe also that there was no man which had pitie therof or was greued at it And he helde him by his owne power and cleued to his owne rightuousnes He put rightuousnes vpō him for a brest plate set the helmet of health vpō his heade He put on wrath in steade of clothīge toke gelousy aboute him for a cloke like as when
Coudest thou not make those that haue bene made and that be now and that are fo◠to come in one that thou mightest shewe thy iudgment the sooner Then answered heme and sayde The creature maye not haist aboue the maker nether maye the worlde holde thē at once that shal be created And I sayde How hast thou sayde then vnto thy seruaunt that thou lyuynge maker hast made the creature lyuynge at once the creature bare it euē so might it now also beare them that be present at once And he sayde vnto me Axe the childeszbed of a womā and saye vnto her Yf thou bringest forth childrē why doest thou it not together but one after another Praye her therfore to brynge forth ten children at once And I sayde she can not but must do it one after another Then sayde he vnto me Euen so haue I geuen a childeszbed vnto the earth for those that be sowne vpon it by processe of tyme. For like as a yonge childe maye not brynge forth the thinges that belonge to the aged euen so haue I ordened the worlde which I made And I axed and sayde Seynge thou hast now geuē me a waye I wyl speake before y e for oure mother of whō thou hast tolde me is yet yonge now she draweth nye vnto age He answered me sayde Axe a woman that beareth children she shal tell the. Saye vnto her wherfore are not they whom thou hast now brought forth like those that were before the but lesse of stature And she shal answere the They y t be borne in the youth of strēgth are of one fashion and they that are borne in the tyme of age whan the childeszbed fayleth are other wyse Cōsidre now thyself how that ye are lesse of stature then those that were before you and so are they that come after you lesse then ye as the creatures which now begynne to be olde and haue passed ouer the strength of youth Then sayde I LORDE I beseke the yf I haue founde fauoure in thy sight shewe thy seruaunt by whom doest thou vyset thy creature The VI. Chapter ANd he sayde vnto me In the begynnynge whan the grounde was made before the worlde stode or euer y e wyndes blew before it thondred and lightened or euer the foundacions of Paradise were layed before the fayre floures were sene or euer the moueable powers were stablished before y e innumerable multitudes of angels were gathered together or euer y e highnesses of y e ayre were lifted vp afore y e measures of the firmament were named or euer y e chymneys in Sion were hote and or the presente yeares were sought out and or euer the invencions of them y t now synne were put asyde before they were sealed that now gather faith for a treasure then dyd I cōsidre and pondre all these thinges and they all were made thorow me and thorow none other by me also they be ended and by none other Then answered I and sayde which shal be the partynge asunder of the tymes Or whan shal be the ende of the first and the begynnynge of it that foloweth And he sayde vnto me From Abrahā vnto Isaac whā Iacob Esau were borne of him Iacobs hande helde first the hele of Esau for Esau is the ende of this worlde and Iacobis the begynnynge of it that foloweth The hande of man betwixte the hele and the hande Other question Eszdras axe thou not I answered then and sayde O LORDE LORDE yf I haue founde fauoure in thy sight I beseke the shewe thy seruaunt the ende of thy tokēs wherof thou shewdest me parte the last night So he answered and sayde vnto me Stōde vp vpon thy fete and heare the perfecte voyce and sounde There shal come a greate mocion but y e place where thou stōdest shal not be moued And therfore whan thou hearest the wordes be not afrayed for of the ende shal the worde and foundacion of y e earth be vnderstonde And why the worde therof trembleth and quaketh for it knoweth that it must be chaunged at the ende And it happened that whā I had herde it I stode vp vpon my fete and herkened and beholde there was a voyce y t spake and the sounde of it was like the sounde of many waters and it sayde Beholde y e dayes come y t I wyl begynne to drawe nye and to vyset them that dwell vpō earth and wyl begynne to make inquysicion of them what they be y t haue hurte equyte w t vnrighteousnes and whan the lowe estate of Sion shal be fulfylled and whan the worlde that shal vanish awaye shal be ouersealed then wyl I do these tokens The bokes shal be opened before the firmament and they shal se all together the children of a yeare olde shal speake w t their voyces the womē with childe shal brynge forth vntymely children of thre or foure monethes olde and they shall lyue and be raysed vp sodēly shal the sowne places appeare as the vnsowne the full store houses shal sodenly be founde emptie and the trompett shal geue a sounde which whā euery man heareth they shal be haistely afrayed At that tyme shall frendes fight one agaynst another like enemies and the earth shal stonde in feare with them The sprynges of the welles shal stonde styll and in thre houres they shal not renne Who so euer remayneth from all these thinge◠that I haue tolde the shal escape and se my saluacion and the ende of youre worlde And the men that are receaued shal se it they that haue not taisted death frō their byrth and the hert of the indwellers shal be chaunged and turned in to another meanynge for euell shal be put out and disceate shal be quenched As for faith it shal florish corrupcion shal be ouercome and the trueth which hath bene so longe without frute shal be declared And it happened whan he talked w t me that I loked demurely vpō him before whō I stode and these wordes sayde he vnto me I am come to shewe y e the tyme of y e night for to come Yf thou wilt praye yet more and fast seuē dayes agayne I shal tel the more thinges greater then before for thy voyce is herde before the Hyest for why the Mightie hath sene thy righteous dealynge he hath sene also thy chastite which thou hast had euer sence thy youth and therfore hath he sent me to shewe the all these thinges and to saye vnto the Be of good comforte and feare not and haist not with y e tymes that are past to thynke vayne thinges and make no haist of the latter tymes And it happened after this y t I wepte agayne and fasted seuen dayes in like maner that I might fulfill the thre wekes which he tolde me In the eight night was my hert vexed within me agayne and I beganne to speake before the Hyest for my sprete was greatly set on fyre and my soule was in distresse