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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64433	The testament of the twelve patriarchs, the sons of Jacob translated out of Greek into Latin by Robert Grosthead ... and out of his copy into French and Dutch by others, and now Englished ...; Testaments of the twelve patriarchs. English. 1658.	Grosseteste, Robert, 1175?-1253.	1658 (1658)	Wing T794_VARIANT; ESTC R33914	69,032	168

pot the beare the bed doe note the strength the lust Of Ruben and unconstant head who therefore was accurst The Testament of Ruben THis is the copy of Rubens testament concerning all the things which hee gave in charge to his children before he died in the 125. yeare of his life Two yeares after the decease of Joseph his children and childrens children came to visit him in his sicknesse and be said unto them My children I die goe the way of my Fathers And seeing there his brethren Iuda Gad and Aser he said unto them Lift me up my brethren that I may tell you and my Children the things that I have hidden in my heart for I am henceforth drawing to my long home Then standing up he kissed them and weeping said Harken my brethren and you my children give ear to the words of your father Ruben mark what I give in charge to you Behold I command you this day before the God of Heaven that ye walke not in the ignorance of youthfulnesse and fornication wherein I overshot my selfe and defiled the bed of my Father Jacob For I assure you that the Lord did therfore strike me with a sore plague in my flanks the space of 7 moneths a I had perished if my Father b Jacob had not prayed to the Lord for mee because he was minded to have slaine mee I was thirty yeares old when I did this evill in the sight of the Lord and seven moneths was I sick to the death and with a free heart did I seven yeere penance before the Lord I drank no wine nor strong drink no flesh came within my mouth I tasted not any fine bread but I mourned for my sinne for it was great and there shall none such bee done in Israel And now my sonnes heare mee that I may shew you what I saw concerning the seven spirits of error in my repentance Belial giveth seven spirits against a man which are the welsprings of youthful workes and seven spirits are given man in h●s creation wherby all his works are done The first is the spirit of life wherewith is created his being The second is the spirit of seing wherwith cometh lusting The third the spirit of hearing wherwith cometh learning The 4 th is the spirit of smelling wherewith cometh delight by drawing in of the aire and by breathing of it out againe The fift is the spirit of speech wherewith knowledge is made The sixt is the spirit of Tasting whereof cometh the feeding upon things that are to be eat●n and drunke and through them is engendered strength because the substance of streng●h is in meat The seventh is the spirit of seed and generation wherewith entereth in the lust of pleasure For this cause it is the last of creation and the first of youth because it is full of Ignorance and Ignorance leadeth the yonger sort as a blind body into the ditch and as an ore to the stall Among all these is the eight spirit which is of sleep with whom is created the wasting away of Nature and the Image of Death With these spirits are mingled the spirits of errour Whereof the first is the spirit of lechery who lieth within the nature and senses of man The second spirit of unsatiablenes lieth in the belly The third spirit of strife lieth in the Liver in choler The fourth spirit is of bravery and gallantnes that the party may seeme comely by excesse The fifth is the spirit of Pride which moveth a man to minde over great things or to think well of himself The sixt is the spirit of lying or vain gloriousnesse in boasting a mans selfe and in desire to file his talke concerning his own kindred and acquaintance The seventh is the spirit of unrighteousnesse which stirreth up the affections that a man should perform the lustfull pleasures of his heart For unrighteousnesse worketh with all the other spirits by taking guile unto him Vnto all these spirits is matched the eight spirit which is the spirit of sleep or sluggishnesse in errour imagination and so the soules of young folkes perish because their minds are darkned and hidden from the truth understand not the law of the Lord neither obey the doctrine of their Fathers as befell to me in my youth But now my children love the truth and that shall preserve you Harken to your Father Ruben and let not your eyes 1. run a gazing after women neither bee ye 2. alone with a Woman that is married neither doe ye seeke about 3. what Women are doing For if I had not seene Bilha bathing her selfe in a secret place I had not fallen into that great w●ckednes But my mind ra●so so upon the naked Woman till it suffered mee not to sleepe till I had committed abhomination For while my Father Jacob was away at his Father Isaacks and I in Gader hard by Euphrata a house of Bethlehem Bilha fel 4. drunken and as she lay asleepe uncovered in her chamber I went in so and seeing her nakednesse wrought wickednesse with her leaving her asleepe went my way By and by an Angel of God bewrayed my wickednes to my father Jacob who comming home mourned for mee and touched not Bilha any more Therefore looke not upon the beautie of women neither muse you upon their doings but walke ye with a single heart in the feare of the Lord God busying your selves about some worke and keeping your selves occupied either in learning or about your flockes untill such time as God give you such wives as he listeth lest you doe suffer as I have done I durst not looke my Father in the face to his dying day nor speake to any of my brethren for shame My conscience bi●eth me even yet still for my sin But my Father comforted me and prayed for me unto the Lord that his wrath might passe away from me as the Lord himselfe shewed unto me Therefore from that time forth I was kept from sinning any more And you my children likewise keepe ye that I shall tell you and you shall not sinne For Fornication is the destruction of the Soule separating it from God and making it to draw unto Idols because it leadeth the minde and understanding into errour and bringeth men to their grave before their time For whoredom hath undone many men although a man be ancient or noble yet doth it shame him and make him a laughing stock both before Belial and the sons of men But Ioseph because he kept himselfe from all Women and cleansed his thoughts from all fornication found favour both before the Lord and men The Egyptian Woman did much so him by using the helpe of witches and by offering him slaubar sauces but the purpose of his mind admitted no noysome desire For this

of the visions that I had seene but he would not ●o with us unto Bethel But when we came to Bethel my father Jacob saw in a vision concerning mee that I should be their priest before the Lord And he arose in the morning and tithed all things to the Lord by me Then came we to Hebron to dwell there and by and by Isaac called me to expound the law of the Lord acc●rding as Gods angell had shewed it to me and he taught mee the law of Priesthood Sacrifices Burnt offerings ●ir●●●ings Free-will offerings and offerings for health Every day he taught me understanding and called upon me continu●lly before the Lord saying My son give no care to the spirit of fornication for he will follow thee and defile the holy things by thy seede Therefore take thee a Wife in thy youth such an one that hath not any blemish nor uncleannesse nor is of the kindred of the Allophytes or of the Gentiles And before thou enter into the Holies wash and likewise ere thou sacrificest also when thou hast done offer unto the Lord the fruites of the twelve trees that are ever green as my father Abraham taught me to do and the fruite of all clean beastes and of clean soules offer thou in sacrifice Likewise offer up thy first-born of all things and the first fruits of thy Vine and sprinkle thy Sacrifices with Salt Now therefore my Sons keep ye all the things that I command you for whatsoever I have heard of my Fathers that have I told unto you I am clear from all the wickednesse and sin which you shall commit to the end of the world Ye shall work wickedness against the Saviour of the world and ye shall seduce Israel stirring up much evill against him from the Lord and dealing wickedly with him so that Jerusalem shall not continue by reason of your naughtinesse The Veil of the Temple shall be rent in sunder to discover your foulnesse and ye shall be scattered as prisoners amongst the Heathen and be scorned cursed and trodden under-foot Neverthelesse the House which the Lord shall choose shall be called Jerusalem as the Book of Enoch the righteous containneth Therefore when I was twenty and eight years old I took a Wife whose name was Melcha and she conceived and bare me a son called his name Gershon because we were but strangers in our land for Gershon signifieth vanishment Now I knew of him that he should not be of the chief degree The second was Caath who was born the five and thirtieth year I saw a vision Eastward how all the congregation stood up aloft and therefore I called his name Caath which signifieth the beginning of greatnesse and learning The third was Merari who was born in the five and fiftieth year of my life And because his mother was hardly delivered of him she called him Merari which is as much to say as my bitterness And in the threescore and fourth year of my life was my daughter Jochebed born in E●●pt and so was I honorable among my ●rethren Also my son Gershon took him a wife which bare him Lybni and Schimi The sons of Caath were Amram Yshvar Hebron and Uziel and the sons of Merari were Mahali and Mushi An the fourscore and fourteenth year of my life Amram took unto wife my daughter Jochebed because that be and she were born both on one day I was eight year old when I entred into the Land of Canaan and eighteen year old when I entred into the office of Priesthood At eight and twenty yeares 〈◊〉 a Wife and at fourtie yeares ●ld I en●red into Egypt and behold ye be ●ow my childrens children in the third generation Joseph died in the hundreth and tenth year And now my Children I warn you feare the Lord your God with all your heart and walke plainely in all thinges according to his Law Moreover bring up your children in learning that they may have understanding by reading the law of God without ceasing all their life long For whosoever knoweth Gods law shall be honoured and go wheresoever he will be shall be no stranger also he shall have more friends than his forefathers had 〈◊〉 many shall be glad to serve him and 〈◊〉 heare the law at his mouth My sonnes deale rightfully upon earth that you may finde Heaven and sowe good things in your minds that you may finde them in your life For if ye sowe evill things ye shall finde and reape all manner of combrance and trouble Get yee wisedome i● the feare of God for if captivitie come and Cities and Countries be destroyed gold and silver and all possessions perish but none can take away the wise man wisedome save only the blindnesse of ungodlinesse and sinne For his wisedome shall become a shield to him among his enemies and make a strange countrey to be as his owne home and cause him to find friendship in the midst of his foes If he teach and doe such things he shall sit with Kings as did our brother Joseph And truly my Children I know by the writings of Enoch that in the end ye shall doe wickedly laying your hands most spitefully upon the Lord and through you your brethren shall be confounded and made a scorning stock to all nations Howbeit our Father Israel is cleare from the wickednesse of the high Priests which shall lay hands upon the Saviour of the World The Heaven above the earth is cleane you be the lights of the heathen as the Sun and the Moone What shall all the heathen do if you be overdarkned with wickednesse and bring cursednesse upon your country folke for whose sakes the light of the World is put into you to inlighten all men withal this light of the World shall you most wilfully steal and teach commandements contrarie to the righteousnes of God Ye shall purloin the Lords offering and filch away pieces of it Before you do your sacrifices unto the Lord ye shall steale away the choicest things and eat them disdainfully with Harlots teaching Commandements of covetousnesse Ye shall defile maryed women and inforce maidens in Jerusalem you shall match your selves with who●es and Harlots you shall take the daughters of the Heathen unto wife purifying them with unrighteous purifying and your mingling shall be like unto Sodom and Gomorrha and ye shall be swoln with wickednesse in the Priesthood insomuch that you shall most disdainfully and spitefully laugh the holy things to scorn not only vaunting and boasting your selves against men but also being puffed and swoln up with pride against the Commandements of God For this cause shall the Temple which the Lord shal have chosen be undoubtedly left desolate in uncleannesse and you your selves become captives to all Nations and be loathed and abhord among them and receive endlesse shame and confusion through Gods righful judgement and all that see you shall shun

father Jacobs commandements but did whatsoever be willed me And Abraham the Father of my fathers blessed me to fight for Israel so did Isaac blesse me likewise I know that the kingdome shall stand by mee but I have read in the boks of Enoch the righteous that ye shall work wickednesse in the latter daies Therfore my Children keepe your selves from lecherie and covetousnes and give ear unto your father Juda for those things withdraw men from Gods law blind the understanding of their minds teach them a pride neither suffer they any man to shewe mercy b to his neighbour they bereave his soule c of all good things hold it downe in paines and sorrowes also they disappoint him of his rest sleepe d and consume his flesh F●nally e they hinder Gods sacrifices neglect his blessings disobey the speaking of the Prophets and are offended at the word of godlinesse for these two passions are contrary to the commandements of God He that serveth them cannot obey God because they dazell mens minds and walke abroad as well a nights as of dayes My children covetousnesse leadeth men to Idolatry For through doting upon money he calleth them gods which are not and compelleth the infected party to growe most vilely out of kinde For monies sake I lost my children and had not the penance of the flesh and the humbling of my soule had not the prayers of my father Jacob been I had died as now without Children But the God of my fathers being mercifull and full of pitie and compassion knew that I sinned through ignorance For the prince of error had blinded mee and I overshot my selfe as a fleshly man and being corrupted with sinne knew not mine owne infirmitie but thought my selfe to be invincible Know ye therefore my sons that two spirits doe waite upon a man that is to wit the Spirit of truth and the Spirit of errour and in the middest betweene them is set the Spirit of understanding of the minde whose propertie is to incline which way it listeth the things that belong both to truth and untruth are written in the breast of man and God knoweth every whit of it and none of all mens works can bee hidden at any time from him because all the privities and secrets of mens hearts are written before the Lord and the spirit of truth beareth witnesse of all things and accuseth all and he that sinneth hath a burning in his heart and cannot lift up his face to his Iudge And now my children love ye Levi that yee may abide and exalt not your selve● above him lest yee perish The Lord hath given unto me the Kingdome and unto him the Priesthood and hath pu● the Kingdome a under the Priesthood Vnto Levi is given the Priesthood an● unto Juda the Kingdome and God hat● put the kingdome under the Priesthood Vnto me he hath given the things tha● are upon the Earth and unto b him the things that are in heaven As farre as the Heaven surmounteth the earth so far● doth c the priesthood surmount the kingdom that is upon the earth For the Lo●● hath chosen him above me to approch u●to him and to eat of his table and to tak● the firstlings of the children of Israel and thou shalt bee as a Sea to him For like as in the Sea both the righteous and unrighteous are in danger and the one sort are caught Prisoners and the other sort are inriched even so shall all kinde of men be hazarded in thee some sinking in misery other some floting in prosperity For in thee shall raign great whales which shall swallow up men as fishes and bring free mens sons and daughters into bondage They shall take away Mens Houses Lands Cattell and money by force and wrongfully they shall feed ravens other greedy fowles with many folkes flesh and they shall prosper and flourish in naughtinesse and be exalted through covetousnesse and there shall be false Prophets like stormes which shall persecute all righteous men But the Lord shall set them together by the eares among themselves there shall be continuall warres in Israel and my kingdome shall be knit up in strangers till the saviour of Israel come even till the comming of the God of righteousnesse that Jacob all nations may rest in peace and he shall maintain my kingdom in peace for ever For the Lord hath sworn to me that the kingdome of me and of my seede shall never faile world without end But I am very sorry my Children for the filthinesse trechery idolatry which ye shall worke against the Kingdome by following Witches and Conjurers by vowing your Daughters to deceitfull Divels by making them inchanters charmers and Strumpets and by intermedling your selves with the abhominations of the heathen for the which things the Lord shall bring upon you a famine b pestilence death and c sword wrathfull d besiegement e devouring dogs reproach f of friends and foes losse g paine of eies slaughter h of your children ravishings i of Wives spoile of your goods the burning k of your temple the desolation l of your country and the m captivity of your selves among all nations which shall geld some of you to make Eunuches for their wives but if ye returne to the Lord with hearty repentance humility walke in all the commandements of God he will visite you with mercy and lovinglie deliver you from the bondage of your enemies After this shall rise among you a Star out of Jacob and a man shall spring out of my seed which shall walk as the Day-sun of righteousnesse among the children of men in peace and meekenesse and righteousnesse and no sin shall be found in him The heavens shall open upon him to pour out the spirit of blessednesse upon him from the Father and he shall shed out the spirit of grace upon you and you shall be his children in truth walking in his flest and last Commandements This is the off-spring of the most high God and the well-spring of life to all flesh Then shall the Scepter of my Kingdom shine bright and out of your root shall spring the vessel of planting in whom shall grow up the Rod of righteousnesse unto the Gentiles to judge and save all such as call upon him After this shall Abraham Isaac and Jacob rise up again to life and I and the Princes my brethren shall be your Scepter in Israel Levi first I next Joseph the third Benjamin the fourth Simeon the fift Isachar the sixt and so all the rest And the Lord hath blessed us Levi shall be the messenger of my presence Simeon the power of my glory Reuben Heaven Issachar the earth Zabulon the Sea Joseph the Mountains Benjamin the Tabernacle Dan the lights Neptalim the Dainties