Yea ☞ if I had all fayth so that I coulde moue mountaynes out of their places and haue not loue I were nothyng 3 And though I bestowe all my goodes to feede the poore and though I geue my body that I burned and haue not loue it profiteth me nothyng 4 Loue suffreth long and is curteous Loue enuieth not loue doth not frowardely swelleth not 5 Dealeth not dishonestlie seeketh not her owne is not prouoked to anger thynketh none euyll 6 Reioyceth not in iniquitie but reioyceth in the trueth 7 Suffreth all thynges beleueth all thynges hopeth all thynges endureth all thynges 8 Though y e prophesiynges fayle other tongues ceasse or knowledge vanishe away yet loue falleth neuer away 9 ☞ For our knowledge is vnperfect and our prophesiyng is vnperfect 10 But when that which is perfect is come then that which is vnperfect shal be done away 11 When I was a chylde I spake as a childe I vnderstode as a childe I imagined as a chylde But assoone as I was a man I put away chyldishnesse 12 Nowe we see in a glasse euen in a darke speakyng but then shall we see face to face Nowe I knowe vnperfectly but then shall I knowe euen as I am knowen 13 Nowe abydeth fayth hope and loue these three but the chiefe of these is loue ¶ The .xiiij. Chapter 1 He exhorteth to loue commendeth the gift of tongues and other spirituall giftes 5 But chiefely prophesiyng 34 He commaundeth women to kepe scilence in the Church 40 And sheweth what good order ought to be obserued in the Churche 1 FOlowe after loue and couet spirituall giftes but most chiefelie that ye may prophesie 2 For he that speaketh with the tongue speaketh not vnto men but vnto God For no man heareth hym Howbeit in the spirite he speaketh misteries 3 But he that prophesieth speaketh vnto men to their edifiyng to their exhortation and to their comfort 4 He that speaketh with the tongue edifieth hym selfe he that prophesieth edifieth the Churche 5 I woulde y t ye al spake with tongues but rather that ye prophesied For greater is he that prophesieth then he that speaketh with tongues except he expounde it that the Churche may haue edifiyng 6 Nowe brethren yf I come vnto you speakyng with tongues what shall I profite you except I speake to you eyther by reuelation or by knowledge or by prophesiyng or by doctrine 7 Moreouer thynges without lyfe geuing sound whether it be a pipe or an harpe except they make a distinction in the soundes howe shall it be knowen what is piped or harped 8 And also yf the trumpe geue an vncertayne sounde who shall prepare him selfe to the warre 9 Euen so lykewyse when ye speake with tongues except ye speake wordes that haue signification howe shall it be vnderstande what is spoken For ye shall speake into the ayer 10 There are so many kyndes of voyces as it commeth to passe in the worlde and none of them are without signification 11 If I knowe not what the voyce meaneth I shal be lyke vnto hym that speaketh an aliaunt and he that speaketh shal be an aliaunt vnto me 12 Euen so forasmuch as ye couet spirituall giftes seke that ye may excell vnto the edifiyng of the Churche 13 Wherfore let him that speaketh with tongue pray that he may interprete 14 For yf I pray with tongue my spirite prayeth but my vnderstanding is without fruite 15 What is it then I wyll pray with the spirite and wyll pray with the vnderstandyng also I wyll syng with the spirite and wyll syng with the vnderstandyng also 16 Els when thou blessest with the spirite howe shall he that occupieth the rowme of the vnlearned say Amen at thy geuyng of thankes seyng he vnderstandeth not what thou sayest 17 Thou veryly geuest thankes well but the other is not edified 18 I thanke my God I speake with tongues more the ye all 19 Yet had I rather in the Churche to speake fiue wordes with my vnderstandyng to the information of other then ten thousande wordes with the tongue 20 Brethren be not chyldren in wytte Howbeit as concerning maliciousnesse be chyldren but in wytte be perfect 21 In the lawe it is written With sundry tongues and with sundry lyppes wyll I speake vnto this people and yet for all that will they not heare me sayth the Lorde 22 Wherfore tongues are for a signe not to them that beleue but to them that beleue not But prophesiyng serueth not for them that beleue not but for them which beleue 23 If therfore when all the Churche is come together in one all speake with tongues there come in they that are vnlearned or they which beleue not wyll they not say y t ye are out of your wittes 24 But yf all prophesie and there come in one y t beleueth not or one vnlearned he is rebuked of all men and is iudged of euery man 25 And so are the secretes of his heart made manifest and so falleth he downe on his face and worshippeth God and sayth that God is in you of a trueth 26 Howe is it then brethren When ye come together euery one of you hath a psalme hath a doctrine hath a tongue hath a reuelation hath interpretation Let all thynges be done vnto edifiyng 27 Yf any man speake with tongue let it be by two or at the most by three and that by course and let one interprete 28 But yf there be no interpreter let him kepe scilence in the Churche and let him speake to hym selfe and to God 29 Let the prophetes speake two or three and let the other iudge 30 If any reuelation be made to another that sitteth by let y e first holde his peace 31 For ye may all prophesie one by one that all may learne and all may haue comfort 32 And the spirites of the prophetes are subiect to the prophetes 33 For God is not the aucthour of confusion but of peace as in all Churches of the saintes 34 Let your women kepe scilence in the Churches For it is not permitted vnto them to speake but to be vnder obedience as sayth the lawe 35 If they wyll learne any thyng let thē aske their husbandes at home For it is a shame for women to speake in the Churche 36 Sproung the worde of God from you Either came it vnto you only 37 If any man thynke hym selfe to be a prophete either spiritual let him knowe that the thinges that I write vnto you are y e commaundementes of the Lorde 38 But yf any man be ignoraunt let hym be ignoraunt 39 Wherfore brethren couet to prophesie and forbyd not to speake with tongues 40 Let all thynges be done honestlie and in order ¶ The .xv. Chapter 1 He proueth the resurrection of the dead ◠and first that Christe is risen 22 then that we shall ryse 52 and the maner howe 1 MOreouer brethren I declare vnto you the Gospell
wysdome of them of the olde time and exerciseth hym selfe in the prophetes 2 He kepeth the sayinges of famous men and preasseth to the vnderstanding of darke sentences of wysdome 3 He seketh out the misterie of secrete sayinges and exerciseth himselfe therin continually 4 He doth seruice among great men and appeareth before the prince he goeth into a straunge countrey and trauayleth thorowe it loke what good or euyll is among men he proueth and seketh it out 5 He purposeth in his heart to resort early vnto the Lord that made him and to pray before the highest God he openeth his mouth in prayer and prayeth for his sinnes 6 When the great Lorde will he shal be filled with the spirite of vnderstanding that he may then powre out wyse sentences and geue thankes vnto the Lord in his prayer 7 He shall order his deuice and leade his knowledge a right and geue him vnderstanding of secrete thinges 8 He shall shewe foorth the science of his learning and reioyce in the couenaunt of the lawe of the Lorde 9 The whole congregation shall commende his wysdome and it shall neuer be put out the remembraunce of hym shall neuer be forgotten and his name shal continue from one generation to an other 10 His wysdome shal be spoken of among the people and the whole congregation shall openly declare his prayse 11 While he liueth he hath a greater name then a thousand beside and after death the same name remayneth vnto hym 12 Yet will I speake of mo men of vnderstanding for I am ful as the moone 13 Hearken vnto me ye holy vertuous children bring foorth fruite as the rose that is planted by the brookes of the fielde 14 And geue ye a sweete smell as incense florishe as the rose garden sing a song of prayse O geue thankes vnto God ouer all his workes 15 Geue magnificence vnto his name and set hym foorth in his prayse with your lippes with musicke and harmonie Yea euen with the song of your lippes with harpes and playing and in geuing thankes vnto him say after this maner 16 All the workes of the Lord are exceeding good all his commaundementes are meete and conuenient in due season 17 A man neede not to say what is that what is that for at a time conuenient they shall all be sought At his commaundement the water was as a wall and at the worde of his mouth the water stoode still 18 In his commaundement is euery thing acceptable and reconciled and his health can not be minished 19 The workes of all fleshe are before him and there is nothing hyd from his eyes 20 He seeth from euerlasting to euerlasting and there is nothing to wonderful or hye vnto hym 21 A man neede not to say then what is this or that For he hath made al thinges to do good vnto man 22 His blessing shall run ouer as the streame and moysture the earth lyke a fludde of water 23 Like as he maketh the drouth so shall his wrath fall vpon the heathen 24 His wayes are playne and right vnto the iust but the vngodly stumble at them 25 For the good are good thinges created from the beginning euyll thinges for the vngodly 26 All thinges necessarie for the lyfe of man are created from the beginning water fire iron and salt meale wheate and hony milke and wine oyle and clothing 27 All these thinges are created for the best to the faythfull but to the vngodly shall all these thinges be turned to hurt and harme 28 There be spirites that are created for vengeaunce and in their rigorousnesse haue they fastened their tormentes In the tune of the ende they shall poure out their strength and pacifie the wrath of him that made them 29 Fire hayle hunger and death al these thinges are created for vengeaunce 30 The teeth of wilde noysome beastes the scorpions serpentes and the sworde are created also for vengeaunce to the destruction of the vngodly 31 They shal be glad to do his commaundementes and when neede is they shal be redy vpon earth and when their houre is come they shall not ouerpasse the commaundement of the Lorde 32 Therfore haue I taken a good courage vnto me from the beginning and haue thought to put these thinges in writing and to leaue them behinde me 33 All the workes of the Lorde are good and he geueth euery one in due season and when neede is 34 So that no man neede not to say This is worse then that for in due season they are all pleasaunt and good 35 And therefore prayse the Lorde with whole heart and mouth geue thankes vnto his name The .xl. Chapter 1 Many miseries light in a mans life 11 All thinges passe away but a firme and stable fayth ramayneth 14 Of the blessing of the righteous and prerogatiue of the feare of God 1 A Great trauaile is created for all men and an heauy yoke vpon all the sonnes of Adam from the day that they go out of their mothers wombe till they be buried in the earth the mother of all thinges 2 Namely their thoughtes and imaginations feare of the heart counsel meditations longing desire the day of death 3 From the hyghest that sitteth vpon the glorious seate vnto the lowest and most simple vpon the earth 4 From him that is gloriously arayde and weareth a crowne vnto him that is but homely and simplie clothed 5 There is nothing but wrath zeale fearefulnesse vnquietnesse and feare of death rigorousnes anger stryfe And in the might when one shoulde rest and sleepe vpon his bed the sleepe chaungeth his vnderstanding and knowledge 6 A litle or nothing is his rest in the sleepe aswel as in the day of labour He feareth is disquieted in the vision of his heart as one that runneth out of a battayll 7 And in the time of health he awaketh and maruayleth that the feare was nothing 8 Such thinges happen vnto all fleshe both man and beast but seuen folde to the vngodly 9 Moreouer death bloodshedding strife and sworde oppression hunger destruction and punishement 10 These thinges are all created against the vngodly and for their sakes came the fludde also 11 All that is of the earth shall turne to earth againe and al waters ebbe againe into the sea 12 All bribes and vnrighteousnesse shal be put away but faythfulnesse and trueth shall endure for euer 13 The substaunce and goodes of the vngodly shal be dryed vp and sinke away as a water fludde they shal make a sound like a great thunder in the rayne 14 Like as the righteous reioyceth when he openeth his hande so shall the transgressours be faynt when their goodes vanishe and consume away 15 The children of the vngodly shal not obtayne many braunches 16 And the vncleane rootes vpon the hye rockes shal be rooted out before the grasse by the water side vpon the riuer bankes
translation as that hereafter might folowe no other that might see that which as yet was not vnderstanded In this poynt it is conuenient to consider the iudgement that Iohn once byshop of Rochester was in who thus wrote It is not vnknowen but that many thinges hath ben more diligently discussed and more clearely vnderstanded by the wittes of these latter dayes aswell concerning the gospels as other scriptures then in olde tyme they were The cause whereof is saith he for that to the olde men the yse was not broken or for that their age was not sufficient exquisitely to expende the whole mayne sea of the scriptures or els for that in this large field of the scriptures a mā may gather some eares vntouched after the haruest men howe diligent soeuer they were For there be yet saith he in the gospels very many darke places whiche without all doubt to the posteritie shal be made muche more open For why should we dispayre herein seing the gospell wryteth he was deliuered to this intent that it might be vtterly vnderstanded of vs yea to the very inche VVherfore forasmuche as Christe sheweth no lesse loue to his Churche now then hitherto he hath done the aucthoritie wherof is as yet no whit diminished and forasmuch as that holy spirite the perpetuall keper and gardian of the same Church whose gyftes and graces do flowe as continually and as aboundantly as from the deginning who can doubt but that such thinges as remayne yet vnknowen in the gospell shal be hereafter made open to the latter wittes of our posteritie to their cleare vnderstanding Thus farre this wryter Only good readers let vs oft call vpon the holy spirite of God our heauenly father by the mediation of our Lorde and sauiour with the wordes of the octonary psalme of Dauid who did so importunatly craue of God to haue the vnderstanding of his lawes and testament Let vs humblye on our knees pray to almightie God with that wyse kyng Solomon in his very wordes saying thus O God of my fathers and Lorde of mercies thou that hast made all thynges with thy worde and didst ordayne man through thy wisdome that he shoulde haue dominion ouer thy creatures which thou hast made and that he shoulde order the worlde according to holinesse and righteousnesse and that he shoulde execute iudgement with a true heart geue me wisdome whiche is euer about thy seate and put me not out from among thy chyldren For I thy seruaunt and sonne of thy handmayden am a feeble person of a short time and to weake to the vnderstanding of thy iudgementes and lawes And though a man be neuer so perfect among the children of men yet if thy wisdome be not with him he shal be of no value O sende her out therfore from thy holy heauens and from the throne of thy maiestie that she may be with me and labour with me that I may knowe what is acceptable in thy sight for she knoweth and vnderstandeth all thinges and she shall leade me soberly in my workes and preserue me in her power So shall my workes be acceptable by Christe our Lorde To whom with the father and the holy ghost be all honour and glorie worlde without ende Amen ⧠A prologue or preface made by Thomas Cranmer late Archbishop of Canterburie COncernyng two sundry sortes of people it seemeth much necessarie that some thyng be sayde in the entrie of this booke by the way of a preface or prologue wherby hereafter it may be both the better accepted of them which hitherto coulde not well beare it and also the better vsed of them which heretofore haue misused it For truely some there are that be to slowe and neede the spurre some other seme to quicke and neede more of the brydle some lose their game by short shotyng some by ouer shotyng some walke to much on the left hande some to much on the ryght In the former sort be all they that refuse to reade or to heare redde the scripture in the vulgar tongue much worse they that also let or discourage the other from the readyng or hearyng therof In the latter sort be they which by their inordinate readyng vndiscrete speakyng contentious disputyng or otherwise by their licentious lyuyng slaunder and hynder the worde of God most of all other wherof they woulde seeme to be greatest furtherers These two sortes albeit they be most farre vnlyke the one to the other yet they both deserue in effect lyke reproche Neither can I well tell whether of them I may iudge the more offendour hym that doth obstinately refuse so godly and goodly knowledge or hym that so vngodly and so vngoodly doth abuse the same And as touchyng the former I woulde maruayle much that any man shoulde be so mad as to refuse in darknesse lyght in hunger foode in colde fire for the worde of God is lyght Lucerna pedibus meis verbum tuum Thy worde is a lanterne vnto my feete It is foode Non in solo pane viuit homo sed in omni verbo dei Man shall not lyue by bread only but by euery worde of God It is fire Ignem veni mittere in tertam quid volo nisi vt ardeat I am come to sende fire on the earth and what is my desire but that it be kindled I woulde maruayle I say at this saue that I consider how much custome vsage may do So that if there were a people as some write de Cymeriis which neuer sawe the sunne by reason that they be situated farre towarde the North pole and be inclosed and ouershadowed with hye mountaynes it is credible and lyke inough that yf by the power and wyll of God the mountaynes shoulde sinke downe and geue place that the lyght of the sunne myght haue entraunce to them at the first some of them woulde be offended therwith And the olde prouerbe affirmeth that after tillage of corne was first founde many delited more to feede of mast and acornes wherwith they had ben accustomed then to eate bread made of good corne Such is the nature of custome that it causeth vs to beare al thinges well and easyly wherwith we haue ben accustomed and to be offended with all thynges thervnto contrary And therfore I can well thinke them worthy pardon which at the commyng abrode of scripture doubted and drewe backe But such as wyll persist styll in their wilfulnesse I must needes iudge not only foolishe frowarde and obstinate but also peeuishe peruerse and indurate And yet if the matter shoulde be tryed by custome we myght also to aleage custome for the readyng of the scripture in the vulgar tongue and prescribe the more auncient custome For it is not muche aboue one hundred yere ago since scripture hath not ben accustomed to be read in the vulgare tongue within this realme and many hundred yeres before that it was translated and red in the Saxones tongue which at that time was our mother tongue
his butlership agayne whiche also reached the cuppe into Pharaos hande 21 But he hanged the chiefe baker euen as Ioseph had interpreted vnto him 22 Neither dyd the chiefe butler remember Ioseph but forgat hym ¶ The .xlj. Chapter 2 The dreame of Pharao of seuen kyne 5 Another dreame of eares of corne 9 The butler mentioneth Ioseph before Pharao 14 Ioseph beyng delyuered out of pryson declareth Pharao his dreames foretellyng aboundaunce and famine 39 Ioseph is made gouernour ouer the victualles 45 Ioseph taketh a wyfe 48 Ioseph gathereth the grayne of the yeres of plenteousnes 50 The sonnes of Ioseph 51 Manasses 52 Ephraim 54 Famine through the whole worlde 1 ANd after two yeres Pharao dreamed and beholde he thought that he stoode by a ryuers syde 2 And there came out of the ryuer seuen goodly kyne and fat fleshed and fedde in a medowe 3 And seuen other kyne came vp after them out of the ryuer euyll fauoured and leane fleshed stoode by the other kyne vpon the brynke of the ryuer 5 And he slept agayne and dreamed the seconde tyme and beholde seuen eares of corne grewe vppon one stalke ranke and goodly 6 And agayne seuen thinne eares blasted with the east winde sprang vp after them 7 And the seuen thinne eares deuoured the seuen ranke full eares And Pharao awaked and see it was a dreame 8 And when the mornyng came his spirite was troubled and he sent and called for all the southsayers of Egypt and all the wyse men thereof And Pharao tolde them his dreame but there was none of them that coulde interprete it vnto Pharao 9 Thē spake the chiefe butler vnto Pharao saying I do remember my faultes this day 10 Pharao beyng angry with his seruauntes put in warde in the chiefe stewardes house both me and the chiefe baker 11 And we dreamed both of vs in one nyght and eche mans dreame of a sundry interpretation 12 And there was with vs a young man an Hebrue borne seruaunt vnto the chiefe stewarde to whom when we tolde them he declared our dreames to vs accordyng to eyther of our dreames 13 And as he declared them to vs euen so it came to passe For he restored me to myne office agayne and hanged hym 14 Pharao sent therfore and called Ioseph and they brought him hastyly out of the dungeon And he shaued himselfe and chaunged his rayment and came vnto Pharao 15 And Pharao sayde vnto Ioseph I haue dreamed a dreame no man can interprete it I haue heard say of thee that assoone as thou hearest a dreame thou canst interprete it 16 Ioseph aunswered Pharao saying Not I but God shall geue Pharao an aunswere of peace 17 And Pharao sayde vnto Ioseph In my dreame me thought I stoode by a ryuers syde 18 And there came out of the ryuer seuen fat flesshed and well fauoured kyne and fedde in a medowe 19 And then seuen other kyne came out after them poore and very yll fauoured and leane flesshed such as I neuer saw in all the lande of Egypt they were so yll fauoured 20 And the seuen leane and yll fauoured kyne did eate vp the first seuen fat kine 21 And when they had eaten them vp a man coulde not perceaue that they had eaten them but they were styll yll fauoured as they were at the begynnyng and I awoke 22 And I saw againe in my dreame and beholde seuen eares sprang out of one stalke full and fayre 23 And beholde seuen eares agayne withered thinne and blasted with the east wynde sprang vp after them 24 And the thinne eares deuoured the seuen good eares and I haue tolde the southsayers but there was no man that coulde tell what it meaneth 25 And Ioseph aunswered Pharao both Pharaos dreames are one God hath shewed Pharao what he is about to do 26 The seuen good kyne are seuen yeres and the seuen good eares are seuē yeres also and it is but one dreame 27 Lykewyse the seuen thinne and euyll fauoured kine that came vp after them are seuen yeres and the seuen emptie blasted eares with the east wynde shal be seuen yeres of famine 28 This worde which I haue sayde vnto Pharao is it that God is about to do and sheweth it vnto Pharao 29 Beholde there come seuen yeres of great plenteousnes throughout all the lande of Egypt 30 And agayne there shall aryse after them seuen yeres of famine and all the plenteousnes shal be forgotten in the lande of Egypt and the famine shall consume the lande 31 Neither shall the plenteousnes be knowen in the lande by reason of that famine that shall come after for it shal be exceedyng great 32 And as concernyng that the dreame was doubled vnto Pharao the seconde tyme beholde the thyng is certainly prepared of God and God wyll shortly bryng it to passe 33 Nowe therfore let Pharao prouide for a man of vnderstandyng and wisedome set him ouer the land of Egypt 34 And let Pharao do this also that he make officers ouer the lande take vp the fift part of the inheritaunce in y e land of Egypt in the seuen plenteous yeres 35 And let them gather all the foode of these good yeres that come and laye vp corne vnder the hande of Pharao and let them kepe foode in the cities 36 And so shall that foode be for store in the lande agaynst the seuen yeres of famine which shall come in the lande of Egypt that y e lande perishe not through famine 37 And the saying seemed good in y e eyes of Pharao and in the eyes of all his seruauntes 38 Then saide Pharao vnto his seruauntes May there be founde a man suche as this is in whom the spirite of God is 39 And Pharao saide vnto Ioseph Forasmuch as God hath shewed thee all this there is no man of vnderstandyng or of wisedome lyke vnto thee 40 Thou therfore shalt be ouer my house and accordyng to thy worde shall all my people be ruled only in the kynges seate wyll I be aboue thee 41 And Pharao sayde agayne vnto Ioseph beholde I haue set thee ouer all the lande of Egypt 42 And Pharao toke of his ryng from his hande and put it vpon Iosephes hande arayed him in cloth of raynes put a golden cheyne about his necke 43 And set hym vpon the best charet he had saue one and they cried before him tender father and made hym ruler ouer all the lande of Egypt 44 And moreouer Pharao said vnto Ioseph I am Pharao and without thee shal no man lyft vp his hande or foote in all the lande of Egypt 45 And Pharao called Iosephes name Zaphnath Paaneach he gaue hym to wyfe Asnath the daughter of Potipherah priest of On. Then went Ioseph ouer the lande of Egypt 46 And he
sonnes shall washe ' their handes and their feete therin ' 20 Euen when they go into the tabernacle of the congregation or when they go in to the aulter to minister and to burne the Lordes offeryng they shall washe them selues with water lest they dye 21 Likewise they shal washe their handes their feete lest they dye and it shal be an ordinaunce vnto them for euer both vnto hym his seede throughout their generations 22 And the Lorde spake vnto Moyses ' saying ' 23 Take vnto thee principal spices of the most pure Mirrhe fiue hūdreth sicles of sweete Synamond halfe so much euen two hundreth and fiftie sicles of sweete Calamus two hundreth and fiftie sicles 24 Of Cassia fiue hundreth sicles after the waight of the sanctuarie and of oyle Olyue an hyn 25 And thou shalt make of the oyle an holy oyntment euen an oyntment compound after the craft of the apoticarie 26 It shal be the oyle of holy oyntment and thou shalt annoynt the tabernacle of the congregation therwith and the arke of the testimonie 27 And the table and al his apparell and the candlesticke and all his vessels and the aulter of incense ' 28 And the aulter of burnt sacrifice with ' all his vessels and the lauer his foote 29 And thou shalt sanctifie them that they may be most holye whatsoeuer toucheth them shal be sanctified 30 And thou shalt anoynt Aaron and his sonnes and consecrate them that they may minister vnto me in the priestes office 31 And thou shalt speake vnto the children of Israel saying This shal be an holy oynting oyle vnto me throughout your generations 32 Vpon mans fleshe shall it not be powred neither shal ye make any other after the makyng of it for it is holy and ' shal be holy vnto you ' 33 Whosoeuer maketh lyke that or whosoeuer putteth any of it vpon a straūger shall perishe from amongst his people 34 And the Lorde sayde vnto Moyses Take vnto thee sweete spices Starte Onycha sweete Galbanum these spices with pure Frankensence of eche a lyke wayght 35 And make of them sweete smellyng incense after the craft of the apoticarie mingled together pure and holy 36 And beate it to powder and put of it before the arke of the testimonie in the tabernacle of the congregation where I wyll meete with thee it shal be vnto you most holy 37 And you shal not make to your selues after the makyng of that incense which thou shalt make it shal be vnto you holy for the Lorde 38 Whosoeuer shall make lyke vnto that ' to smell thereto shall perishe from amongst ' his people ¶ The .xxxj. Chapter 1 God geueth his spirite to Besaleel and Ooliab the workemen to inuent all thynges which appertayne to the trimme makyng of the tabernacle 13 What signe the Sabboth is 18 Tables of stone written with the finger of God 1 AND the Lorde spake vnto Moyses saying 2 Beholde I haue called by name Besaleel the sonne of Vri the sonne of Hur of the tribe of Iuda 3 And I haue fylled hym with the spirite of God in wisedome and vnderstandyng in knowledge and in all maner worke 4 To fynde out wittie deuises and to worke in golde siluer and in brasse 5 And in the craft to set stones and to carue in tymber and to worke in all maner workmanship 6 And beholde I haue geuen hym to be his companion Ooliab the sonne of Achisame◠of the tribe of Dan and in the heartes of all that are wise hearted I haue put wisedome to make all that I haue commaunded thee 7 The tabernacle of the congregation the arke of the testimonie the mercie seate that is thervpon and all the furniture of the tabernacle 8 And the table and his furniture and the pure candlesticke with all his furniture and the aulter of incense 9 And the aulter of burnt offeryng and all his furniture and the lauer with his foote 10 The vestmentes to minister in and the holy garmentes for Aaron the priest and the garmentes of his sonnes to minister in 11 And the annoyntyng oyle and sweete incense for the sanctuarie accordyng to all that I haue commaunded thee shal they do 12 And the Lorde spake vnto Moyses saying 13 Speake vnto the children of Israel and say In any wyse see that ye kepe my Sabbothes for it is a signe betweene me you in your generations for to knowe that I the Lorde am he that doth sanctifie you 14 Kepe my Sabboth therefore for it is holy vnto you He that defileth it shal be put to death for whosoeuer worketh therin the same soule shal be rooted out from amongst his people 15 Six dayes shall men worke and in the seuenth day is the Sabboth of the holy rest of the Lorde whosoeuer doth any worke in the Sabboth day shall dye the death 16 Wherefore let the children of Israel kepe the Sabboth that they obserue the Sabboth throughout their generations it is a perpetuall couenaunt 17 For it is a signe betweene me and the children of Israel for euer for in six dayes the Lorde made heauen and earth and in the seuenth day he rested and was refreshed 18 And when the Lorde had made an end of commnuyng with Moyses vpon the mount Sinai he gaue hym two tables of witnesse euen tables of stone writen with the finger of God ¶ The .xxxii. Chapter 1 The Israelites do pray vnto the golden calfe 7 God warneth Moyses of the sinne of the people 9 The people of Israel of a styffe necke 11 Moyses intreateth God for Israel cityng his promises 15 Moyses descendeth of the hyll The tables described of God 19 Moyses beyng angry breaketh the tables and the calfe 21 He chideth his brother Aaron 27 The Idolaters be murdered of the Leuites at Moyses commaundement 30 Moyses rebuketh the offence of the people 31 He wyll be putten out of the booke of lyfe and haue the peoples offence pardoned 33 They that be writen in the booke of God 1 ANd when y e people sawe that it was lōg or Moyses came downe out of the mountaine they gathered them selues together vnto Aaron and sayd vnto hym Vp make vs Gods to go before vs for we wote not what is become of this Moyses the man that brought vs out of the lande of Egypt 2 And Aaron sayd vnto them Plucke of the golden earynges which are in the eares of your wiues of your sonnes of your daughters bring them vnto me 3 And all the people plucked of the golden earinges which they had in their eares and brought them vnto Aaron 4 And he receaued them of their handes fashioned it with a grauer made of it a calfe of molten mettel and they said These be thy gods O Israel which brought thee out of the lande of Egypt 5 And when Aaron sawe that he made an aulter before it and Aaron made proclamation saying To morowe is
wyll cast out the nations before thee and enlarge thy coastes neyther shall any man desyre thy lande when thou shalt go vp to appeare before the Lorde thy God thryse in a yere 25 Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice vpon leauen neither shal ought of the sacrifice of the feast of Passouer be left vnto the mornyng 26 The first rype fruites of thy lande thou shalt bryng vnto the house of the Lorde thy God Thou shalt not seethe a kyd in his mothers mylke 27 And the Lorde sayde vnto Moyses Write these wordes for after the tenour of these wordes I haue made a couenaunt with thee and with Israel 28 And he was there with the Lorde fourtie dayes and fourtie nyghtes and dyd neither eate bread nor drinke water and he wrote vpon the tables the wordes of the couenaunt euen ten commaundementes 29 And when Moyses came downe from mount Sinai the two tables of testimonie were in Moyses hande when he came downe from the mount Moyses wyste not that the skynne of his face shone whyle he talked with hym 30 And Aaron and all the chyldren of Israel looked vpon Moyses and beholde the skynne of his face shone and they were afrayde to come nye hym 31 And when Moyses had called them Aaron and all the chiefe of the congregation came vnto him and Moyses talked with them 32 And afterwarde all the chyldren of Israel came nye and he commaunded them all that the Lorde had sayde vnto hym in mount Sinai 33 And when Moyses had made an ende of communyng with them he put a coueryng vpon his face 34 And agayne when Moyses went in before the Lorde to speake with hym he toke the coueryng of vntyll he came out And he came out and spake vnto the chyldren of Israel that whiche he was commaunded 35 And the chyldren of Israel sawe the face of Moyses that the skynne of Moyses face shone and Moyses put the coueryng vpon his face agayne vntyll he went in to commune with hym ¶ The .xxxv. Chapter 1 The Sabboth is commaunded 4 First fruites are required and gyftes 21 The redines of the people in offering 30 Besaleel and Ooliab the artificers are commended vnto the people of Moyses 1 ANd Moyses gathered al the congregation of the children of Israel together and sayd vnto thē These are the wordes whiche the Lord hath commaunded that ye shoulde do them 2 Sixe dayes ye shall worke but the seuenth day shal be vnto you the holy Sabboth of the lordes rest whosoeuer doth any worke therin shall dye 3 Ye shall kindle no fire throughout your habitation vpō the Sabboth day 4 And Moyses spake vnto all the congration of the childrē of Israel saying This is the thyng whiche the Lorde commaunded saying 5 Take from amongest you an heaue offering vnto the Lorde Whosoeuer is of a wyllyng heart let hym bryng that heaue offeryng to the Lorde namely golde syluer and brasse ' 6 And blewe silke purple scarlet white ' sylke goates heere ' 7 And Rammes skynnes red Taxus ' skynnes with Sittim wood ' 8 Oyle for light and spyces for annoyntyng ' oyle and for the sweete incense ' 9 And Onyx stones and stones to be set ' in the Ephod and in the brestlap 10 And let all them that are wise hearted among you come and make all that the Lorde hath commaunded 11 The tabernacle and the tent therof his couering his ringes his boordes his barres his pillers and his sockets ' 12 The arke the staues therof with the ' mercy seate the vaile that couereth it ' 13 The table and his barres and all his ' vessels and the shew bread 14 The candelsticke of light and his furniture and his lampes with the oyle for the lyght 15 The incense aulter and his barres the annoyntyng oyle and the sweete incense and the hangyng of the doore at the entryng in of the tabernacle 16 The aulter of burnt sacrifice with his brasen grediron his staues and all his vessels the lauer and his foote 17 And the hangynges of the court with his pyllers and their sockettes and the hangyng in the doore of the court 18 The pinnes of the tabernacle and the' pinnes of the court with their cordes ' 19 The ministring garmentes to minister in the holy place and the holy vestmentes for Aaron the priest and the vestmentes of his sonnes that thei may minister in the priestes office 20 And all the congregation of the chyldren ' of Israel departed from the presence ' of Moyses 21 And euery one came as many as their heartes couraged them as many as their spirites made them wyllyng and brought an heaue offering for the Lord to the makyng of the tabernacle of the congregation and for all his vses for the holy vestmentes 22 And they came both men and women euen as many as were wyllyng hearted and brought bracelettes and earinges ringes and chaynes whiche iewelles were all of golde all the men brought a waue offeryng of golde vnto the Lorde 23 And euery man with whom was found blewe silke purple scarlet whyte silke and Goates heere red skynnes of Rammes and Taxus skynnes brought them 24 All that dyd heaue vp an oblation of golde and brasse brought an heaue offering vnto the Lorde and all men with whom was founde Sittim wood for any maner worke of the ministration brought it 25 And all the women that were wyse hearted dyd spinne with their handes and brought the spun worke both of blewe silke purple scarlet white silke 26 And all the women that excelled in wisdome of heart spun Goates heere 27 And the lordes brought Onyx stones and stones to be set in the Ephod and in the brestlap 28 And spyce and oyle for lyght for the anoynting oyle for the sweete incense 29 And the chyldren of Israel brought a willing offeryng vnto the Lorde both men women as many as had willing heartes to bryng for all maner workes whiche the Lorde had commaunded to be made by the handes of Moyses 30 And Moyses sayde vnto the chyldren of Israel beholde the Lord hath called by name Besaleel y e sonne of Vri the sonne of Hur of the tribe of Iuda 31 And hath filled hym with the spirite of God in wisdome and vnderstanding in knowledge and in all maner worke 32 To finde out curious workes which are made in golde siluer and brasse 33 In the crafte of stones to set them and in caruing of wood to make any maner of subtile worke 34 And he hath put in his heart that he may teache both he and Ooliab the son of Achisamech of the tribe of Dan. 35 Them hath he filled with wysdome of heart to worke al maner of grauen and brodered needle worke in blew silke and purple in scarlet and whyte silke and in weauyng and to do all maner of worke and wittie deuises The .xxxvi. Chapter 1 The makyng
speare is and the cruse of water that was at his head 17 And Saul knew Dauids voyce and sayd Is this thy voyce my sonne Dauid And Dauid sayde It is my voyce my lorde O king 18 And he sayde Wherefore doth my lorde thus persecute his seruaunt for what haue I done or what euyll is in myne hand 19 Nowe therefore I praye thee let my lorde the king heare the wordes of his seruaunt If the Lorde haue stirred thee vp against me let him smell the sauour of a sacrifice But and if they be the children of men cursed are they before the Lorde for they haue cast me out this day from abidyng in the inheritaunce of the Lorde saying Go serue other goddes 20 Now therefore let not my blood fall to the earth before the face of the Lorde For the king of Israel is come out to seeke a flea as when one doth hunt a partridge in the mountaynes 21 Then saide Saul I haue sinned Come agayne my sonne Dauid for I will do thee no more harme because my soule was precious in thyne eyes this day Beholde I haue played the foole and haue erred exceedinly 22 And Dauid aunswered and said Beholde the kinges speare let one of the young men come ouer and fet it 23 The Lorde rewarde euery man according to his righteousnes and faythfulnesse For the Lorde deliuered thee into my hand this day but I would not lay mine hand vpon the Lordes annoynted 24 And behold like as thy life was much set by this day in myne eyes so be my lyfe set by in the eyes of the Lorde that he deliuer me out of all tribulation 25 Then Saul saide to Dauid Blessed art thou my sonne Dauid for thou shalt do great thinges and preuaile And so Dauid went his way and Saul turned to his place agayne The .xxvii. Chapter 2 Dauid fleeth to Achis king of Gath who geueth him Ziklag 8. Dauid destroyeth certayne of the Philistines 10. Achis is deceaued by Dauid 1 ANd Dauid sayd in his heart I shall perishe one day by the hand of Saul therefore is there nothing better for me then to flee and saue my self in the land of the Philistines and Saul shall ceasse and seeke me no more in all the coastes of Israel and so shall I escape out of his hand 2 And Dauid arose and he and the sixe hundred men that were with him went vnto Achis the sonne of Maoch king of Gath. 3 And Dauid dwelt with Achis at Gath both he and his men euery man with his housholde and Dauid with his two wiues Ahinoam the Iezrahelite and Abigail Nabals wyfe the Carmelite 4 And it was tolde Saul that Dauid was fled to Gath and he sought no more for him 5 And Dauid sayde vnto Achis If I haue now founde grace in thyne eyes let them geue me a place in some towne in y e countrey that I may dwell there For why should thy seruaunt dwell in the head citie of the kingdome with thee 6 Then Achis gaue him Ziklag that same day for which cause Ziklag pertayneth vnto the kinges of Iuda vnto this day 7 And the tyme that Dauid dwelt in the countrey of the Philistines was foure monethes and certaine dayes 8 And Dauid and his men went vp and inuaded the Gesurites the Gerzites the Amalekites For those natiōs were from the beginnyng the inhabitauntes of the lande as men go to Sur vnto the land of Egypt 9 And Dauid smote the lande left neither man nor woman alyue and droue away the sheepe the oxen the asses camelles and clothes and returned and came to Achis 10 And Achis saide Where haue ye ben a rouing this day And Dauid aunswered Against the south of Iuda and against the south of the Ierameelites and against the south of the Kenites 11 And Dauid saued neither man nor woman alyue to bring to Gath saying lest they should tell on vs saying so dyd Dauid and so will be his maner all the whyle he dwelleth in the countrey of the Philistines 12 And Achis beleued Dauid saying He hath made his people Israel vtterly to abhorre him therefore he shal be my seruaunt for euer The .xxviii. Chapter 2 Dauid hath the chiefe charge promysed about Achis 8. Saul consulteth with a witch and she causeth him to speake with Samuel 18. Who declareth his ruine 1 ANd in those dayes the Philistines gathered theyr hoast together to warre to fight with Israel And Achis sayd to Dauid Be sure thou shalt go out with me to battayle thou and the men that are with thee 2 And Dauid sayde to Achis Surelie thou shalt knowe what thy seruaunt can do And Achis said to Dauid Then I will make thee keper of my head for euer 3 Samuel was then dead and all Israel had lamented him and buried him in Rama his owne citie And Saul had put away the sorcerers and the soothsayers out of the land 4 And the Philistines gathered together and came and pytched in Sunem And Saul gathered all Israel together and they pytched in Gilboa 5 And when Saul sawe the hoast of the Philistines he was afrayde his heart was sore astonied 6 And when Saul asked councell of the Lorde the Lorde aunswered him not neither by dreames nor by Vrim nor yet by prophetes 7 Then sayd Saul vnto his seruaūtes Seeke me a woman that hath a familier spirite that I may go to her and aske of her And his seruauntes sayd to him Beholde there is a woman that hath a familier spirite at Endor 8 And Saul chaunged him selfe and put on other rayment and then went he two men with him and they came to the woman by nyght and he sayde I pray thee coniecture vnto me by the familier spirite bring me him vp whom I shall name vnto thee 9 And the woman saide vnto him Beholde thou knowest what Saul hath done how he hath destroyed the sorcerers and the soothsayers out of the land Wherfore then layest thou a snare for my soule to cause me to die 10 And Saul sware to her by the Lord saying As the Lorde lyueth there shall no harme come to thee for this thyng 11 Then saide the woman Whom shall I fetch vp vnto thee He aunswered Bring me vp Samuel 12 When the woman sawe Samuel she cryed with a loude voyce and spake to Saul saying Why hast thou deceaued me for thou art Saul 13 And the king saide vnto her Be not afrayd What sawest thou The woman saide vnto Saul I sawe gods ascending vp out of the earth 14 He saide vnto her againe What fashion is he of She aunswered There cōmeth vp an olde man with a mantel vpon him And Saul perceaued that it was Samuel and he stowped with his face to the ground and bowed him selfe 15 And Samuel said to Saul Why hast thou vnquieted me to make me be brought vp Saul aunswered I am sore encumbred for y e
Beelzebub the god of Ekrom as though there had ben no God in Israel whose word thou mightest seeke after therfore thou shalt not come downe of the bed on which thou art gone vp but shalt dye the death 17 And so he dyed according to the worde of the Lorde which Elias had spoken And Iehoram his brother began to raigne in his steade in the second yere of Iehoram the sonne of Iehosaphat king of Iuda because he had no sonne 18 The rest of the wordes that concerne Ahazia what thinges he dyd are they not written in the booke of the cronicles of the kinges of Israel The .ij. Chapiter 8 Elias deuideth the waters with his cloke 11 He is taken vp into heauen 13 Elisa taketh his cloke and deuideth Iordane 20 The bitter and venemous waters are healed 23 The children that mocke Elisa are rent in peeces with beares 1 AND it chaunced that whē the Lord would take vp Elias into heauen by a whorle wind Elias went with Elisa from Gilgal 2 And Elias saide vnto Elisa Tary here I praye thee for the Lorde hath sent me to Bethel Elisa saide vnto him As the Lorde lyueth and as thy soule liueth I will not leaue thee And they came downe to Bethel 3 And the children of the prophetes that were at Bethel came out to Elisa and saide vnto him knowest thou not how that the Lord wyll take away thy maister from thy head this day He saide I knowe it also holde you your peace 4 And Elia saide vnto him Elisa tary here I praye thee for the Lorde hath sent me to Iericho He saide As the Lorde lyueth and as thy soule lyueth I will not leaue thee And so they came to Iericho 5 And the children of the prophetes that were at Iericho came to Elisa and said vnto him Knowest thou not that the Lorde wil take away thy maister from thy head this day He aunswered I know it also holde ye your peace 6 And Elias said vnto him Tary I pray thee here for the Lorde hath sent me to Iordane He saide As the Lord liueth as thy soule lyueth I wyll not leaue thee And so they two went together 7 And fiftie men of the sonnes of the prophetes came stoode on the other syde a farre of and they two stoode by Iordane 8 And Elias toke his mantell wrapt it together and smote the waters and they were deuided parte the one way and part the other so that they two went ouer through the drye lande 9 And it fortuned that assoone as they were ouer Elias saide vnto Elisa Aske what I shal do for thee yer I be taken away from thee And Elisa saide I pray thee let thy spirite be double vpon me 10 And he said Thou hast asked an hard thing Neuerthelesse if thou see me whē I am taken away from thee thou shalt haue it so yf thou do not it shall not be 11 And it fortuned that as they went walking and talking beholde there appeared a charet of fyre and horses of fyre parted them both a sunder and Elias went vp through the whorle winde into heauen 12 And Elisa sawe and cryed O my father O my father the charet of Israel and the horsemen thereof And he sawe him no more and he toke his owne clothes and rent them in two peeces 13 He toke vp also the mantell of Elias that fell from him and went backe againe and stoode by Iordanes syde 14 And toke the mantel of Elias that fel from him and smote the waters he said Where is the Lord God of Elias he him selfe And when he had smitten the waters they parted this waye and that waye and Elisa went ouer 15 And when the childrē of the prophetes which were at Iericho sawe him from a farre they sayde The spirite of Elias doth rest on Elisa And they came to meete him and fel to the grounde before him 16 And saide vnto him See now there be with thy seruauntes fiftie strong men let thē go we pray thee seeke thy maister yf happly the spirite of the Lorde hath taken him vp and cast him vpon some mountaine or into some valley And he saide Ye shall send none 17 And when they laye vpon him tyll he was ashamed he said Send They sent therefore fiftie men which sought him three dayes but found him not 18 And when they came againe to him which taryed at Iericho he saide vnto them Did I not saye vnto you that ye should not go 19 And the men of the citie saide vnto Elisa beholde sir the dwelling of this citie is pleasaunt as thou thy selfe seest but the water is naught the grounde barren 20 He saide Bring me a new cruse and put salt therein And they brought it to him 21 And he went vnto the spring of the waters and cast the salt in thyther and saide thus saith the Lord I haue healed these waters there shall not come hencefoorth either death or barennesse 22 So the waters were healed vnto this day according to the saying of Elias which he spake 23 And he went vp from thence vnto Bethel And as he was going vp the way there came litle children out of the citie and mocked him saide vnto him Go vp thou balde head go vp thou balde head 24 And he turned backe and loked on them and cursed them in the name of the Lorde And there came two shee beares out of the wood and tare fourtie and two children of them 25 And he went from thence to mount Carmel and from thence he turned againe to Samaria ¶ The .iii. Chapter 1 The raigne of Iehoram 6 He and Iehosaphat go to warre against Moab which rebelled 13 Elisa reproueth him ▪ 17 and geueth their hoast water 24 The Moabites are ouercome 27 Their king sacrificeth his sonne 1 NOW Iehoram the sonne of Ahab began to raigne vpon Israel in Samaria the eyghtteenth yere of Iehosaphat king of Iuda and raigned twelue yeres 2 And he wrought euil in the sight of the Lorde but not lyke his father and lyke his mother for he put away the images of Baal that his father had made 3 Neuerthelesse he cleaued vnto the sinnes of Ieroboam the sonne of Nabat which made Israel to sinne and departed not therefrom 4 And Mesa king of Moab was a lorde of sheepe and rendered vnto the king of Israel an hundred thousand lambes and an hundred thousand rammes with the wooll 5 But when Ahab was dead it fortuned that the king of Moab rebelled against the king of Israel 6 And king Iehoram went out of Samaria the same season and numbred all Israel 7 And went sent to Iehosaphat the king of Iuda saying The king of Moab hath rebelled against me wilt thou come with me against Moab in battell He aunswered I will come vp for as I am so art thou and as my people be so are thy people thy horses as myne 8
the streete 18 They shall driue him from the light into darkenesse and chaste him cleane out of the worlde 19 He shall neither haue children nor kinsfolkes among his people no nor any posteritie in his dwellinges 20 They that come after him shal be astonyed at his day and they that go before shal be afrayde 21 Such are now the dwellinges of the wicked and this is the place of him that knoweth not God The .xix. Chapter 1 Iob reproueth his friendes 15 and reciteth his miseries and greuous paines 15 He assureth him selfe of the generall resurrection 1 IOb aunswered and saide 2 How long wyll ye vexe my soule and trouble me with wordes 3 Lo ten times haue ye reproched me and are not ashamed but haue laughed me to scorne 4 Be it that I haue erred in deede myne errour then remaineth with my selfe 5 But if ye wyll aduaunce your selues against me and rebuke me for the shame that is come vpon me 6 Know this then that it is God which hath ouerthrowē me and hath compassed me with his net 7 If I complaine of the violence that is done vnto me I cannot be heard and if I crye there is no sentence geuen with me 8 He hath hedged vp my way that I can not passe and he hath set darkenesse in my pathes 9 He hath spoyled me of myne honour and taken the crowne away from my head 10 He hath destroyed me on euery side and I am gone my hope hath he taken away as a tree pluckt vp by the roote 11 His wrath is kindled against me he taketh me as though I were his enemie 12 His men of warre come together which made their way ouer me and besieged my dwelling rounde about 13 He hath put my brethren farre away from me and myne acquaintaunce are also become straungers vnto me 14 Myne owne kinsefolkes haue forsaken me and my best acquainted haue forgotten me 15 The seruauntes and maydens of myne owne house toke me for a straunger and I am become as an aliaunt in their sight 16 I called my seruaunt and he gaue me no aunswere no though I prayed him with my mouth 17 Myne owne wyfe might not abyde my breath though I prayed her for the children sake of myne owne body 18 Yea the young men despised me and when I rose they spake euill vpon me 19 All my most familiers abhorred me and they whom I loued best are turned against me 20 My bone cleaueth to my 〈◊〉 and to my fleshe onely there is 〈◊〉 the skinne aboue my teeth 21 Haue pitie vpon me haue pitie vp◠me O ye my friendes for the handed God hath touched me 22 Why do ye persecute me as God do◠and are not satisfied with my fleshe 23 O that my wordes were now written O that they were put in a booke 24 And grauen with an iron penne in leade or in stone to continue 25 For I am sure that my redeemer 〈◊〉 and he sha◠rayse vp at the 〈◊〉 day them that lye in the dust 26 And though after my skinne the wormes destroy this body yet shall I see God in my fleshe 27 Whom I my selfe shall see and myne eyes shall beholde and none other for me though my rames are consumed within me 28 But ye saide why is he persecuted and there was a deepe matter in me 29 But beware of the sworde for the sword wylbe auenged of wickednesse and be sure that there is a iudgement The .xx. Chapter 1 Sophar sheweth that the wicked and the couetous shall haue a short ende 22 though for a time they florishe 1 THen aunswered Sophar the Naamathite and saide 2 For the same cause do my thoughtes compell me to aunswere and therefore make haste 3 I haue sufficiently heard the checking of my reproofe therefore the spirite of myne vnderstanding causeth me to aunswere 4 Knowest thou not this of olde and since God plaged man vpon earth 5 That the gladnesse of the vngodlie hath ben short and that the ioy of hypocrites continued but the twinckling of an eye 6 Though he be magnified vp to the heauen so that his head reacheth vnto the cloudes 7 Yet at a turne he perisheth for euer insomuch that they which haue seene him shall say Where is he 8 He shall vanishe as a dreame so that he can no more be founde and shal passe away as a vision in the night 9 So that the eye which sawe him before shal haue no more sight of him and his place shall know him no more 10 His children shal be faine to agree with the poore and his handes shall restore their goodes 11 From his youth his bones are full of pleasures but now shall it lye downe within him in the earth 12 When wickednesse was sweete in his mouth he hyd it vnder his tongue 13 That he fauoured that would he not forsake but kept it close in his throte 14 The bread that he did eate is turned to the poyson of serpentes within his bodye 15 The riches that he deuoured shall he parbreake againe for God shall drawe them out of his belly 16 He shall sucke the gall of serpentes and the adders tongue shall slay him 17 So that he shall no more see the ryuers and brookes of hony and butter 18 The thing he hath laboured for shall he restore and shall not eate of it great trauaile shall he make for riches but he shall not enioy them 19 And why he hath oppressed the poore and not helped them houses hath he spoyled and not builded them 20 Because he could not perceaue when his belly was well through his greedie desire he shall not escape 21 There shall none of his meate be left therefore shall no man loke for his goodes 22 When he had plenteousnesse of euery thing yet was he poore though he was helped on euery side 23 And it shall come to passe that wherewith he purposed to fill his belly God shall powre the furie of his wrath theron and shall cause his indignation to raigne vpon him and vpon his meate 24 He shall flee from the iron weapon and the bowe of steele shall strike him through 25 The arowe is taken foorth and gone out of the quiuer and a glistering swo◠through the gall of him so feare shall come vpon him 26 All darknesse shal be hid in their secrete places an vnkindled fire shal consume him and loke what remaineth in his house it shal be destroyed 27 The heauen shal declare his wickednesse and the earth shall take part against him 28 The substaunce that he hath in his house shal be taken away and perishe in the day of the Lordes wrath 29 This is the portion that the wicked man shal haue of God and the heritage that he may loke for of God because of his wordes ¶ The .xxi. 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he fall not downe to the graue for I am sufficiently reconciled 25 Then shal his fleshe be as freshe as a childes and shal returne as in the dayes of his youth 26 He shall pray vnto God and he will be fauorable vnto him and he shall see his face with ioy for he will render vnto man his righteousnesse 27 A respect hath he vnto men let man then say I haue offended I did vnrighteously it hath done me no good 28 Yea he hath deliuered my soule from destruction and my lyfe shall see the light 29 Lo all these worketh God alway with man 30 That he bring backe his soule from the graue to the light yea the light of the lyuing 31 Marke wel O Iob and heare me hold thee still and I will speake 32 But if thou hast any thing to say then aunswere me and speake for I desire to iustifie thee 34 If thou hast nothing then heare me and hold thy tongue and I shall teache thee wysdome The .xxxiiii. Chapter 5 Elihu chargeth Iob that he calleth him selfe righteous 12 He sheweth that God is iust in iudgementes 24 God destroyeth the mightie 30 By him the hypocrite raigneth 1 ELihu proceeding in his aunswere sayde 2 Heare my wordes O ye wise men hearken vnto me ye that haue vnderstanding 3 For the eare discerneth wordes and the mouth tasteth the meates 4 As for iudgement let vs seke it out among our selues that we may knowe what is good 5 And why Iob hath sayd I am righteous and God hath taken away my iudgement 6 In my right I shoulde be a lyer my wounde is incurable without my fault 7 Where is there such a one as Iob that drinketh vp scornefulnesse like water 8 Which goeth in the companie of wicked doers and walketh with vngodly men 9 For he hath sayde It profiteth a man nothing that he shoulde walke with God 10 Therfore hearken vnto me ye that haue vnderstanding farre be it from God that he shoulde meddle with wickednesse farre be it from the almightie that he shoulde meddle with vnrighteous dealing 11 For he shall rewarde man after his workes and cause euery man to finde according to his wayes 12 Sure it is that God wil not do wickedly neither wyll the almightie paruert iudgement 13 Who ruleth the earth but he or who hath placed the whole world 14 If he set his heart vpon man and gather vnto hym selfe his spirite and his breath 15 All fleshe shall come to naught at once and all men shall turne againe vnto dust 16 If thou nowe haue vnderstanding heare what I say and hearken to the voyce of my wordes 17 May he be a ruler that loueth not right or may he that is a very innocent man do vngodly 18 Is it reason that thou shouldest say to the king Thou art wicked or thou art vngodly and that before the princes 19 God hath no respect vnto the persons of the lordly and regardeth not the riche more then the poore for they be al the worke of his handes 20 In the twinckling of an eye shall they dye and at midnight when the people and the tirantes rage then shall they perishe be taken away without handes 21 For his eyes loke vpon the wayes of man and he seeth all his goinges 22 There is no darkenesse nor shadowe of death that can hide the wicked doers from him 23 For God wil not lay vpon man more then he hath sinned that he should enter into iudgement with him 24 He shall destroy the mightie without seeking and shall set other in their steede 25 Therefore shall he declare their workes he shall turne the night and they shal be destroyed 26 The vngodly doth he punishe openly 27 Because they tourned backe from him and would not consider all his wayes 28 Insomuch that they haue caused the voyce of the poore to come vnto him and now he heareth the complaint of such as are in trouble 29 When he geueth quietnesse who can make trouble and when he hydeth his face who can beholde him whether it be vpon nations or vpō one man onely ▪ 30 Because the hypocrite doth raigne because the people are snared 31 Surely of God onely it can be saide I haue pardoned I wyll not destroy 32 If I haue gone amisse enfourme thou me If I haue done wrong I wyll leaue of 33 Wyll he perfourme the thing through thee for thou hast reproued his iudgement thou also hast thyne owne minde and not I But speake on what thou knowest 34 Let men of vnderstanding tell me and let a wyse man hearken vnto me 35 Iob hath not spoken of knowledge neither were his wordes according to wysdome 36 O father let Iob be well tryed because he hath aunswered for wicked men 37 Yea aboue his sinne he doth wickedly triumpheth among vs and multiplieth his wordes against God The .xxxv. Chapter 6 Neither doth godlines profite or vngodlines hurt God but man 18 The wicked crye vnto God and are not heard 1 ELihu spake moreouer and saide 2 Thinkest thou it right that thou sayest I am more righteous then God 3 For thou sayest what aduauntage wyll it be vnto thee and what profite shall I haue of my sinne 4 Therefore wyll I geue aunswere vnto thee and to thy companions with thee 5 Loke vnto the heauen and beholde it consider the cloudes which are hyer then thou 6 If thou hast sinned what hast thou done against him If thyne offences be many what hast thou done vnto him 7 If thou be righteous what geuest thou him or what wyll he receaue of thyne hande 8 Thy wickednesse may hurt a man as thou art and thy righteousnesse may profite the sonne of man 9 They which are oppressed crye out vpon the multitude yea they crye out for the power of the mightie 10 But none sayth Where is God that made me and that geueth vs occasion to praise him in the night 11 Which teacheth vs more thē the beastes of the earth and geueth vs more wysdome then the foules of heauen 12 If any such complaine no man geueth aunswere and that because of the wickednesse of proude tirauntes 13 For God wyll not heare vanitie neither wyll the almightie regarde it 14 Although thou sayest to God thou wylt not regarde it yet iudgement is before him trust thou in him 15 But now because his anger hath not visited neither called men to accompt with great extremitie 16 Therefore doth Iob open his mouth but in vaine he maketh many wordes without knowledge The .xxxvi. Chapter 1 Elihu sheweth the power of God 6 and his iustice 9 and wherefore he punisheth 13 The propertie of the wicked 1 ELihu also proceeded and saide 2 Holde thee still a litle I shall shew thee what I haue yet to speake on gods behalfe I wyll open vnto
way which seemeth right vnto a man but the ende therof are the wayes of death 13 The heart is sorowfull euen in laughter and the ende of myrth is heauinesse 14 A backe slydyng heart shal be fylled with his owne wayes but a good man shall depart from hym 15 An ignoraunt body beleueth euery worde but who so hath vnderstanding loketh well to his goynges 16 A wyse man feareth and departeth from euyll but the foole is angry and counteth hym selfe sure 17 An vnpatient man dealeth foolishly but he that is well aduised is hated of the foole 18 The ignoraunt haue foolishnesse in possession but the wyse are crowned with knowledge 19 The euyll shall bowe them selues before the good and the vngodly shall wayte at the gates of the ryghteous 20 The poore is hated euen of his owne neyghbours but the riche hath many fâ—endes 21 Who so dispiseth his neighbour sinneth but blessed is he that hath pitie of the poore 22 Without doubt they erre that worke wickednesse but they that muse vpon good thynges vnto such shall happen mercie and trueth 23 In euery labour there is some profite â–ª but vayne wordes bryng foorth onely penurie 24 Riches are as a crowne vnto the wise â–ª but the ignoraunce of fooles is very foolishnesse 25 A faythfull witnesse deliuereth soules but a deceiptfull witnesse bryngeth foorth lyes 26 In the feare of the Lord is an assured strength and his children are vnder a sure defence 27 The feare of the Lorde is a well of lyfe to auoyde the snares of death 28 In the multitude of people is the kynges honour but the decay of the people is the confusion of the prince 29 He that is patient hath much vnderstanding but he that is soone displeased exalteth foolishnesse 30 A mery heart is the lyfe of the body but enuie consumeth away the bones 31 He that doth a poore man wrong blasphemeth his maker but who so honoureth him hath pitie on the poore 32 The vngodly is cast away for his iniquitie but the ryghteous hath a good hope euen in death 33 Wisdome resteth in the heart of hym that hath vnderstandyng and it shal be knowen among them that are vnlearned 34 * Righteousnesse setteth vp the people but the sacrifice of the heathen is sinnefull 35 A discrete seruaunt is a pleasure vnto the kyng but his wrath is agaynst hym that doth dishonour hym The .xv. Chapter 1 A Soft aunswere appeaseth wrath but rough wordes stirre vp anger 2 The tongue of such as be wise vseth knoweledge aryght as for a foolishe mouth it babbleth out nothyng but foolishnesse 3 The eyes of the Lorde in euery place â–ª beholdeth both the good and the bad 4 A wholsome tongue is a tree of lyfe but the frowardnesse therof doth make sad the spirite 5 A foole dispiseth his fathers correction â–ª but he that taketh heede when he is reproued shall haue the more vnderstandyng 6 The house of the ryghteous is full of riches but in the fruites of the vngodly there is trouble 7 The lippes of the wise do sowe knowledge but the heart of the foolishe do not so 8 The Lorde abhorreth the sacrifice of the vngodly but the prayer of the righteous is acceptable vnto hym 9 The way of the vngodly is an abhomination vnto the Lorde but who so foloweth righteousnesse him he loueth 10 Correction is greeuous vnto hym that forsaketh the way and who so hateth correction shall dye 11 Hell and destruction are before the Lorde howe much more then the heartes of the children of men 12 A scornefull body loueth not one that rebuketh hym neither wyll he come vnto the wyse 13 A mery heart maketh a chearfull countenaunce but by the sorowe of the heart the mynde is heauy 14 The heart of hym that hath vnderstandyng doth seke knowledge but the mouth of fooles is fed with foolishnesse 15 All the dayes of the poore are miserable but a quiet heart is a continuall feast 16 Better is a litle with the feare of the Lorde then great treasure and trouble therwith 17 Better is a dynner of hearbes with loue then a fat oxe with euyll wyll 18 An angry man stirreth vp strife but he that is patient stylleth discorde 19 The way of a slouthfull man is as an hedge of thornes but the way of the ryghteous is playne 20 A wyse sonne maketh a glad father but a foolishe man dispiseth his mother 21 Foolishnesse is ioy to him that is destitute of knowledge but a man of vnderstandyng walketh vprightly 22 Thoughtes without counsayle shall come to naught but wheras men are that can geue good counsayle there is stedfastnesse 23 A ioyfull thing it is to a man wheÌ„ his counsayle is folowed and howe good is a worde spoken in season 24 The way of lyfe is on hygh to the wise that a man shoulde beware of hell beneath 25 The Lorde wyll breake downe the house of the proude but he shall make fast the borders of the wydowe 26 The Lorde abhorreth the imaginations of the wicked but the wordes of the pure are pleasaunt 27 The greedy couetous man rooteth vp his owne house but who so hateth rewardes shall lyue 28 The heart of the ryghteous studyeth his aunswere afore but the wicked mans mouth spueth out mischiefe 29 The Lorde is farre from the vngodly but he heareth the prayer of the ryghteous 30 The clearnes of the eye reioyseth the heart a good name feedeth the bones 31 The eare that hearkeneth to the refourmation of lyfe shall dwell among the wyse 32 He that refuseth to be refourmed dispiseth his owne soule but he that submitteth him selfe to correction is wyse 33 The feare of the Lorde is the ryght science of wisdome and lowlynesse goeth before honour The .xvj. Chapter 1 A Man may wel purpose a thyng in his heart but the aunswere of the tongue commeth of the Lorde 2 A man thynketh all his wayes to be cleane but it is the Lorde that iudgeth the myndes 3 Commit thy workes vnto the Lorde and what thou deuisest it shall prosper 4 The Lorde hath made all thynges for his owne sake yea the vngodly for the day of wrath 5 The Lorde abhorreth all such as be of a proude heart and though hande be ioyned in hande yet they shall not be vnpunished 6 With mercie and faythfulnesse sinnes be forgeuen and by the feare of the Lorde euyll is eschewed 7 When a mans wayes please the Lord he maketh his very enemies to be his frendes 8 Better it is to haue a litle with ryghteousnesse then great rentes wrongfully gotten 9 A man deuiseth a way in his heart but it is the Lorde that ordereth his goynges 10 When the prophecie is in the lippes of the kyng his mouth shall not go wrong in iudgement 11 A true wayght and ballaunce are the Lordes iudgement all the wayghtes of the bagge
smote them but vnfaynedly shall they trust vnto the Lorde the holy one of Israel 21 The remnaunt euen the posteritie of Iacob shall conuert vnto God the mightie one 22 For though thy people O Israel be as the sande of the sea yet shal the remnaunt of them conuert vnto him The decreed consumption ouerfloweth with righteousnesse 23 And therefore the Lorde of hoastes shall perfectly fulfill the thing that he hath determined in the middest of the whole worlde 24 Therefore thus saith the Lorde God of hoastes Thou my people that dwellest in Sion be not afraide for the king of the Assirians he shall smyte thee with a rod and shall lyft vp his staffe against thee as the Egyptians dyd sometime 25 But very soone after shall my wrath and indignation be fulfilled in the destruction of them 26 Moreouer the Lorde of hoastes shall stirre vp a scourge for him like as was the slaughter of Madian vpō the rocke Oreb and as the destruction of the Egyptians when he lyfted vp his rod vpon the sea 27 Then shal his burthen be taken from thy shoulders and his yoke from thy necke yea the same yoke shal be destroyed because of the vnction 28 He shal come to Aiath and go thorow towarde Migron at Michmas shall he lay vp his harnesse 29 They shall go ouer the foorde Geba shal be their resting place Rhama shal be afraide Gibea Saul shall flee away 30 Lift vp thy voyce O daughter Gallim geue eare to Laisa thou poore Anathoth 31 Madmena shall tremble for feare but the citizens of Gabim are manly 32 Yet shall he remaine at Nob that day after that shall he lyft vp his hande against the mount of the daughter Sion the hyll of Hierusalem 33 But see the Lord God of hoastes shall breake downe the bough with feare he shall hewe downe the proude and fell the high minded 34 The thickets also of the wood shall he roote out with iron and Libanus shall haue a fall thorowe the mightie The .xj. Chapter 1 He prophecieth of the natiuitie of Christe and of his people 6 Of the remnaunt of Israel 10 And of the fayth of the heathen or gentiles 1 AND there shall come a sprig foorth of the stemne of Esai and a young shoote shall growe out of his roote 2 The spirite of the Lorde shall rest vpon him the spirite of wysdome and vnderstanding the spirite of counsaile and strength the spirite of knowledge and of the feare of the Lorde 3 And shall make hym of deepe iudgement in the feare of God For he shall not geue sentence after the thing that shal be brought before his eyes neither reproue after the hearing of his eares 4 But with righteousnesse shal he iudge the poore and with equitie shall he refourme the simple of the worlde and he shall smyte the worlde with the rod of his mouth and with the breath of his mouth shall he slay the vngodly 5 Righteousnesse shal be the gyrdle of his loynes and faythfulnesse the gyrding vp of his raynes 6 The Woolfe shall dwell with the Lambe and the Leoparde shall lye downe by the Goate Bullockes Lions and cattell shall kepe company together so that a litle chylde shall leade them 7 The Cowe and the Beare shall feede together and their young ones shall lye together the Lion shall eate strawe lyke the Oxe or the Cowe 8 The chylde whyle he sucketh shall haue a desire to the serpentes nest and when he is weaned he shall put his hande into the Cockatrice denne 9 No man shall do euill vnto another no man shall destroy another in all the hyll of my holynes for the earth shal be full of the knowledge of the Lorde euen as the sea floweth ouer with water 10 And in that day shall the gentiles enquire after the roote of Iesse whiche shal be set vp for a token vnto the people and his rest shal be glorious 11 At the same time shall the Lord take in hande agayne to recouer the remnaunt of his people whiche shal be left aliue from the Assirians Egyptians Arabians Morians Elamites Chaldees Antiochians from the Ilandes of the sea 12 And he shall set vp a token among the gentiles and gather together the dispearsed of Israel yea and the outcastes of Iuda from the foure corners of the worlde 13 The hatred of Ephraim also and enemies of Iuda shal be cleane rooted out Ephraim shall beare none euyll wyll to Iuda Iuda shall not vexe Ephraim 14 But they both together shall flee vppon the shoulders of the Philistines towarde the west and spoyle them together that dwell towarde the east The Idumites and the Moabites shal come vnder their handes and the Amonites shal be obedient vnto them 15 The Lord also shal cleaue the tongues of the Egyptians sea and with his mightie winde shall he lyft vp his hand ouer Nilus and shall smyte his seuen streames and make men go ouer drye shod 16 And thus shall there be a way for his people that remayneth from the Assirians lyke as it happened to the Israelites what tyme they departed out of the lande of Egypt The .xij. Chapter 4 The song of the Churche for the obtayning of the victorie and ouercomming of the worlde 1 AND in that day thou shalt say O Lorde I wyll prayse thee for thou wast displeased at me but refrayne thou from thy wrath and comfort me 2 Beholde God is my saluation in whō I wyll trust and not be afrayde for the Lorde God is my strength and my song he also is become my saluation 3 Therfore with ioy shall ye drawe water out of the welles of saluation 4 And then shall ye say Geue thankes vnto the Lorde call vpon his name declare his workes among the people kepe them in remembraunce for his name is excellent 5 O sing prayses vnto the Lorde for he hath done great thinges as it is knowen in all the worlde 6 Crye out and sing thou that dwellest in Sion for great is the holy one of Israel in the middest of thee ¶ The .xiij. Chapter 1 He prophecieth the destruction of Babylon the captiuitie and the comming agayne of the people 1 THis is the burthen of Babylon whiche Esai the sonne of Amos did see Lift vp the banner vppon the high hyll call vnto thē wagge your hande that they may go into the gates of the princes 3 I haue commaunded my sanctified I haue also called my valiaunt ones ioying in my honour to execute my wrath 4 There is a noyse of a multitude in the mountaynes lyke as of a great people a rushing as though the kingdomes of the nations came together the Lorde of hoastes mustreth his armye to battayle 5 They come out of a farre countrey from the ende of the heauen euen the Lorde hym selfe with the ministers of his wrath to destroy the whole lande 6 Mourne ye for the day of the Lord is at hande and shall come as a
against the vayne traditions of men 1 WO vnto thee O Ariel Ariel thou citie that Dauid dwelt in Go on from yere to yere and let the lambes be slayne 2 I wyll lay siege vnto Ariel so that there shal be heauinesse and sorowe in it and it shal be vnto me euen an aulter of slaughter 3 A will besiege thee rounde about and fight against thee thorowe a bulwarke and wyll reare vp diches against thee 4 Thou shalt be brought downe and shalt speake out of the ground and thy speache shall go lowe out of the dust 5 Thy voyce also shall come out of the grounde lyke the voyce of a witche and thy talkyng shall whisper out of the dust 5 Moreouer the noyse of the straunge enemies shal be like thinne dust and the multitude of tirauntes shal be as drye strawe that can not tary euen sodenly and in haste shall their blast go 6 Thou shalt be visited of the Lorde of hoastes with thunder earthquake and with a great noyse with storme and tempest and with the flambe of a consuming fire 7 And the multitude of all nations that fight against Ariel shal be as a dreame seene by night euen so shall they be that make warre against it and strong holdes to ouercome it and that lay any siege vnto it 8 In conclusion it shal be euen as when a hungry man dreameth that he is eating and when he awaketh his soule is emptie or as when a thirstie man dreameth that he is drinking and when he awaketh he is yet fainte and his soule hath appetite euen so shall the multitude of all nations that fighteth against mount Sion 9 Ponder these thinges once in your mindes and wonder Blinded are they them selues and the blinde guides of other They are drunken but not with wine they are vnstable but not thorow strong drinke 10 For the Lorde hath couered you with a slumbring spirite and hath closed your eyes your prophetes also and rulers that shoulde see them hath he couered 11 And the vision of all the prophetes is become vnto you as the wordes of a booke that is sealed vp whiche men deliuer to one that is learned saying Reade thou in it and he saith I can not for it is sealed 12 And the booke is geuen to him that is not learned saying Reade thou in it and he saith I am not learned 13 Therfore thus hath the Lorde sayd Forsomuche as this people when they be in trouble do honour me with their mouth and with their lippes but their heart is farre fro me and the feare whiche they haue vnto me proceedeth of a commaundement that is taught of men 14 Therefore wyll I do marueyles among this people euen marueylous thinges I say and a wonder For the wysdome of their wyse men shall perishe and the vnderstanding of their wittie men shall hyde it selfe 15 Wo vnto them that kepe secrete their thoughtes to hide their counsell from the Lorde and to do their workes in darknesse saying Who seeth vs and who knoweth vs 16 Doubtlesse your destruction is in reputation as the potters clay And doth the worke say of hym that made it he made not me And doth an earthen vessell say of hym that fashioned it he had no vnderstanding 17 Is it not harde at hande that Libanus shal be turned into a low fielde and that the lowe fielde shal be taken as the wood 18 And in that day shall deafe men heare the wordes of the booke and the eyes of the blynde shall see euen out of the cloude and out of darknesse 19 The meeke spirited also shall be merie in the Lorde and the poore among them that be lowly shall reioyce in the holy one of Israel 20 For he that dyd violence is brought to naught and the scornefull man is consumed and they rooted out that made haste early to vnrighteousnesse 21 Making a man to sinne in the worde and that toke him in a snare whiche reproued them in the open place and they that haue turned the cause of the righteous to naught 22 Therefore thus saith the Lorde to the house of Iacob euen thus saith he that redeemed Abraham Iacob shall not nowe be confounded nor his face pale 23 But when he seeth his chyldren the worke of my handes in the middes of hym they shall sanctifie my name and prayse the holy one of Iacob and feare the God of Israel 24 They also that haue ben of an erronious spirite shall come to vnderstanding and they that haue ben scornefull shall learne doctrine The .xxx. Chapter 1 Against them that forsake the counsell of God and cleaue to the counsell of men 3 The prophete also threatneth the remnaunt of the people that after the destruction of Hierusalem went into Egypt 1 ALas for those disobedient chyldren saith the Lorde that they will take counsell and not of me that they wyll take a secrete aduice and not out of my spirite and therefore adde they sinne vnto sinne 2 Euen they that walke to go downe into Egypt and haue asked no question at my mouth but seeke strength in the might of Pharao and trust in the shadowe of Egypt 3 Therefore shall the strength of Pharao be your confusion and the trust in the shadowe of Egypt your shame 4 For his captaynes were at Zoan and his embassadours came vnto Hanes 5 They were ashamed of the people that coulde do them no good and that might not helpe them nor shewe them any profit but were their confusion and rebuke 6 The burthen of the beastes of the south In a land of trouble anguishe from whence shall come the young and olde lion the viper and firie serpent that fleeth against them that vpon coltes beare their riches and vpon camels their treasures to a people that can do them no good 7 For vayne and nothing worth shall the helpe of the Egyptians be Therefore haue I cryed vnto Hierusalem they shall haue strength inough if they wyll settle their mindes in quietnesse 8 Nowe therefore go thy way and write this before them in a table and note it in a booke that it may finally remaine and be kept styll for euer 9 For this is an obstinate people and dissembling chyldren chyldren that refuse to heare the lawe of the Lorde 10 For they say vnto the seers see not and to them that be cleare of iudgement loke not out right thinges for vs but speake fayre wordes vnto vs loke out errours 11 Get you out of this way depart out of this path and turne the holy one of Israel from vs. 12 Wherefore thus saith the holy one of Israel Because your heartes ryse against this word and because you trust in wrong dealing and peruerse iudgement and put your confidence therin 13 Therfore shall ye haue this mischiefe for your destruction and fall like as an hye wall that falleth because of some rift or blast whose breakyng commeth sodainly 14
for the breath of the Lord bloweth vpon them of a trueth the people are grasse 8 The grasse withereth and the floure fadeth away yet the worde of our God endureth for euer 9 Go vp vnto the hye hyll O Sion thou that bryngest good tidinges lyft vp thy voyce with power O thou preacher Hierusalem lyft vp without feare say vnto the cities of Iuda Beholde your God 10 Beholde y e Lorde God shal come with power and shall of him selfe beare rule with his arme beholde his rewarde with hym and his workes before hym 11 He shall feede his flocke like an heardman he shall gather the lambes together with his arme and cary them in his bosome and shall kyndly intreate those that beare young 12 Who hath measured the waters in his fist who hath measured heauen with his spanne and hath comprehended all the earth of the worlde in three measures who hath wayed the mountaynes and hylles in a ballaunce 13 Who hath directed the spirite of the Lorde or who gaue hym counsayle and shewed hym 14 Who is of his counsayle and geueth hym vnderstandyng and hath taught hym the path of iudgement who taught hym cunnyng and opened to hym the way of vnderstandyng 15 Beholde all people are in comparison of hym as a droppe of a bucket full and are counted as the least thyng that the ballaunce wayeth yea and the Isles he taketh vp as a very litle thyng 16 Libanus is not sufficient to minister fire to his offeryng and all the beastes therof are not inough for one sacrifice 17 All people in comparison of hym are reckened as nothyng yf they be compared with hym lesse then nothyng and as it that is not 18 To whom then wyll ye lyken God or what similitude will ye set vp to him 19 Shall the caruer make hym a carued image and shall the goldesmith couer hym with golde or cast hym into a fourme of siluer plates 20 Moreouer shal the image maker that the poore man which is disposed may haue some thyng to set vp also seeke out and choose a tree that is not rotten and carue thereout an image that moueth not 21 Knowe ye nothyng hearde ye neuer of it hath it not ben preached vnto you since the beginning haue ye not ben enfourmed of this by the foundation of the earth 22 It is he that sitteth vpon the circle of the world whose inhabiters are in comparison of him but as grashoppers he spreadeth out the heauens as a couering he stretcheth them out as a tent to dwell in 23 He bringeth princes to nothing and the iudges of the earth as though they were not 24 So that of them it may be sayde they be not planted nor sowne agayne neither their stocke rooted agayne in the earth for assoone as he bloweth vpon them they wither and fade away lyke the strawe in a whirle winde 25 To whom nowe will ye liken me and whom shall I be lyke saith the holy one 26 Lift vp your eyes on high and consider who hath made those thinges which come out by so great heapes and he calleth them al by their names there is nothing hid from the greatnesse of his power strength and might 27 Howe may then Iacob thinke or may Israel say My wayes are hid from the Lord and my God knoweth not of my iudgementes 28 Knowest thou not or hast thou not hearde that the euerlasting God the Lorde whiche made all the corners of the earth is neither weerie nor fainte and that his wysdome can not be comprehended 29 It is he that geueth strength vnto the weerie and power vnto the faint 30 Children are weerie and faint and the strongest men fall 31 But vnto them that haue their trust in the Lorde shall strength be increased Egles winges shall growe vpon them when they runne they shall not fall and when they go they shall not be weerie The .xlj. Chapter 2 Of the goodnesse and mercy of God towarde the people 1 BE styll you Ilandes and hearken vnto me let the people lay their strength together let them come hither and then shew their cause we will go to the lawe together 2 Who raysed vp the iust man from the east and called hym to go foorth who cast downe the people and subdued the kynges before him that he may throw them al to the ground with his sworde and scatter them lyke stubble with his bowe 3 He foloweth vpon them and goeth safely him selfe that in a way where before his foote had not troden 4 Who hath made and created these thinges euen he that called the generations from the beginning euen I the Lorde whiche am the first and with the last 5 The Isles sawe and did feare and the endes of the earth were abashed drewe nye and came hither 6 Euery man helped his neighbour and sayd to his brother be strong 7 The carpenter comforted the goldsmith and the goldsmith the hammerman saying sowder wyll do very well in it and they fastened it with nayles that it shoulde not be moued 8 But thou Israel art my seruaunt thou Iacob whom I haue chosē thou art the seede of Abraham my beloued 9 Thou art he whom I led from the endes of the earth for I called thee euen from among the glorious men of it and sayd vnto thee Thou art my seruaunt I haue chosen thee and not cast thee away 10 Be not afraide for I am with thee Melt not away as waxe for I am thy God to strength thee helpe thee and kepe thee with the right hande of my righteousnesse 11 Beholde all they that resist thee shall come to confusion and shame and thine aduersaries shal be destroyed brought to naught 12 So that who so seeketh after them shall not finde them thy destroyers shall perishe and so shall they that vndertake to make battayle against thee be as that is not as a thing of naught 13 For I the Lorde thy God wyll strengthen thy right hande euen I that say vnto thee Feare not I wyll helpe thee 14 Be not afraide thou litle worme Iacob and thou despised Israel for I wil helpe thee saith the Lorde and the holy one of Israel thy redeemer 15 Beholde I will make thee a treading cart and a newe flaile that thou mayest threshe and grinde the mountaines and bring the hilles to powder 16 Thou shalt fanne them and the winde shall carrie them away and the whirle winde shall scatter them but thou shalt reioyce in the Lorde and shalt delight in the holy one of Israel 17 When the thirstie and poore seeke water and finde none and when their tongue is drye of thirst I geue it them saith the Lorde I the God of Israel forsake them not 18 I bryng foorth fluddes in the hilles and welles in the playne fieldes I turne the wildernesse to riuers and the drye lande to conduites of water 19 I plant in the waste
hym 33 The very same houre was this matter fulfilled vpon Nabuchodonozor so that he was cast out of mens companie did eate grasse like oxen and his body was wet with the deawe of heauen till his heere 's were growen as Egles fethers and his nayles like byrdes clawes 34 When this time was past I Nabuchodonozor lift vp myne eyes vnto heauen and mine vnderstanding was restored vnto me then gaue I thankes vnto the highest I magnified praysed hym that liueth for euermore whose power is an euerlasting power and his kingdome is from one generatiō to another 35 And all they that dwel vpon the earth are to be reputed as nothing and according to his will he worketh in the armie of heauen among the inhabitours of the earth and there is none that may resist his hand or say vnto him what doest thou 36 At the same time was myne vnderstanding geuen me againe and I was restored to the honour of my kingdome my glorie and my beautie was restored vnto me my counsellers and princes sought vnto me and I was established in my kingdome my glorie was augmented towarde me 37 Now therfore I Nabuchodonozor prayse and extol magnifie the king of heauen whose workes are all trueth his wayes iudgement and those that walke in pryde he is able to abase The .v. Chapter 1 Balthasar king of Babylon abusing the vessels of the temple seeth an hande wryting in the wal 8 The soothsayers called of the king can not expounde the wryting 13 Daniel is called which readeth it and interpreteth also 30 Balthasar beyng slaine Darius succedeth in his roome 1 KIng Balthasar made a great feast to a thousand of his princes and dranke wine before the thousande 2 And Balthasar when he had tasted the wine commaunded to bring hym the golden and siluer vessels whiche his father Nabuchodonozor had brought from the temple in Hierusalem that the king and his princes and his wyues and his concubines might drinke therin 3 So were brought the goldē vessels that they had taken out of the temple of the Lordes house at Hierusalem and the king and his princes his wyues and his concubines drunke in them 4 They drunke wine praysed the gods of golde siluer brasse iron wood and stone 5 In the very same houre there appeared fingers of a mans hande wryting right ouer against the candlesticke vpon the plaster of the wall of the kinges palace and the king sawe the knockles of the hande that wrote 6 Then chaunged the king his countenaunce his thoughtes troubled hym so that the ioyntes of his loynes were loosed and his knees smote one against the other 7 Wherfore the king cryed mightyly that they should bring the soothsayers Chaldees wysardes the king spake also to the wise men of Babylon said Who so can reade this wryting shewe me the interpretation thereof shal be clothed with purple and haue a cheyne of golde about his necke and shal be the third ruler in the kingdome 8 Vpon this came al the kinges wise men but they coulde neither reade the wryting nor shewe the king the interpretation 9 Then was king Balthasar greatly troubled and his countenaunce was chaunged in him and his princes were astonied 10 Nowe the queene by reason of the talke of the king his princes came into the banket house and the queene spake and sayde O king lyue for euer let not thy thoughtes trouble thee and let not thy countenaunce be chaunged 11 There is a man in thy kingdome that hath the spirite of the holy Gods within him in the dayes of thy father light and vnderstanding wysdome like the wysedome of the gods was founde in hym whom the king Nabuchodonozor thy father the king I say thy father made chiefe of the wyse men soothsayers Chaldeans and wysardes 12 Because that such an aboundaunt spirite knowledge and vnderstanding to expound dreames to open secretes to declare harde doubtes was founde in him yea euen in Daniel whom the king named Baltassar let Daniel be called and he shal declare the interpretation 13 Then was Daniel brought before the king so the king spake vnto Daniel and sayde Art thou that Daniel whiche art of the children of the captiuitie of Iuda whom my father the king brought out of Iurie 14 I haue hearde of thee that thou hast the spirite of the holy gods that light and vnderstanding and excellent wysdome is founde in thee 15 Now haue there ben brought before me wyse men and soothsayers to reade this wryting and to shewe me the interpretation therof but they could not declare the interpretation of the thing 16 Then hearde I of thee that thou couldest shewe interpretations and dissolue doubtes nowe if thou canst reade his writing shew me the meaning therof thou shalt be clothed with purple and haue a cheyne of gold about thy necke be the thirde ruler in the kingdome 17 Then Daniel aunswered and sayd before the king As for thy rewardes kepe them to thy selfe and geue thy giftes to another yet I wil reade the writing vnto the king and shewe him the interpretation 18 O thou king the most high god gaue vnto Nabuchodonozor thy father a kingdome and maiestie and honour glorie 19 And for the maiestie that he gaue him al people nations and languages trembled and feared before him he slue whom he would he smote whom it pleased him againe whom he would he set vp and whom he list he put downe 20 But because his heart was loftie and his minde strengthened in pride he was deposed from his kingly throne and they toke his glory from him 21 He was driuen out from the sonnes of men his heart was made lyke the beastes and his dwelling was with the wilde Asses they fed him with grasse lyke Oxen and his body was wet with the deawe of the heauen till he knewe that the most hie God bare rule ouer the kingdome of men and that he appoynteth ouer it whom so euer he pleaseth 22 And thou his sonne O Balthasar hast not submitted thyne heart though thou knewest all these thinges 23 But hast lift vp thy selfe against the Lorde of heauen so that the vessels of his house were brought before thee that thou and thy princes with thy wyues and concubines might drinke wine thereout and thou hast praysed the gods of siluer and golde of brasse and iron of wood and stone which neither see heare nor vnderstand As for the God in whose hande consisteth thy breath and all thy wayes thou hast not glorified him 24 Then was the knockles of the hand sent from him and hath written this writing 25 And this the writing that he hath writtē MENE MENE THECEL VPHARSIN 26 Now the interpretation of the thing is this MENE God hath numbred thy kingdome and brought it to an ende 27 THECEL thou art wayed in the
touchyng thy lyfe I am not sent to shewe thee for I do not knowe it The .v. Chapter 1 In the latter tymes trueth shal be hyd 6 Vnrighteousnesse and all wickednesse shall raigne in the worlde 23 Israel is reiected and God deliuereth them 35 God doth all thyng in season 1 NEuerthelesse as concernyng the tokens marke this Behold the dayes shall come that they which dwell vpon earth shal be taken in a great number and the way of the trueth shal be hyd and the lande shal be barren from faith 2 But iniquitie shal be increased aboue that which nowe thou seest or that thou hast hearde long ago 3 And the lande that thou seest nowe to haue rule shalt thou shortly see waste 4 But yf God graunt thee to lyue thou shalt see after the thirde trumpet that the sunne shall sodaynly shyne agayne in the night and the moone three tymes in the day 5 And blood shall droppe out of wood and the stone shall geue his voyce and the people shal be vnquieted 6 And euen he shall rule whom they hope not that dwell vpon earth and the foules shall flitte 7 And the Sodomitishe sea shall cast out the fishe and make a noyse in the nyght which many haue not knowen but they shal all heare the voyce therof 8 There shal be a confusion also in many places and the fire shal be oft sent out agayne and the wylde beastes shall chaunge their places and menstruous women shall beare monsters 9 And salt waters shal be founde in the sweete and all friendes shall fyght one agaynst another then shall all wyt and vnderstandyng be hyd and put asyde into their secrete places 10 And shal be sought of many and yet not be founde then shall vnryghteousnesse and voluptuousnesse haue the vpper hande vpon earth 11 One lande also shall aske another and say Is ryghteousnesse that maketh a man righteous gone through thee And it shall say no 12 At the same tyme shall men hope but nothyng obteyne they shall labour but their wayes shall not prosper 13 To shewe thee such tokens I haue leaue and if thou wylt pray agayne and weepe as nowe and fast seuen dayes thou shalt heare yet greater thynges 14 Then I awaked and a fearfulnesse went through all my body my mynde was feeble so that I almost sowned withall 15 So the angel that was come to talke with me helde me comforted me and set me vp vpon my feete 16 And in the seconde nyght it came to passe that Salathiel the captayne of the people came vnto me saying Where hast thou ben and why is thy countenaunce so heauy 17 Knowest thou not that Israel is committed vnto thee in the lande of their captiuitie 18 Vp then and eate and forsake vs not as the sheephearde that leaueth his flocke in the handes of wicked wolues 19 Then sayde I vnto hym Go thy wayes fro me and come not nye me And he hearde it and as I sayde so went he his way from me 20 And so I fasted seuen dayes mournyng and weepyng lyke as Vriel the angell commaunded me 21 And after seuen dayes so it was that the thoughtes of my heart were very greeuous vnto me agayne 22 And my soule receaued the spirite of vnderstandyng and I began to talke with the most hyghest agayne 23 And sayde O Lorde Lorde of euery wood of the earth and of all the trees thereof thou hast chosen thee one only vineyarde 24 And of all landes of the whole worlde thou hast chosen one pyt and of all floures of the grounde thou hast chosen thee one lilie 25 And of all the deapthes of the sea thou hast fylled thee one ryuer and of all builded cities thou hast halowed Sion vnto thy selfe 26 And of all the foules that are created thou hast named thee one doue and of all the cattell that are made thou hast prouided thee one sheepe 27 And among all the multitudes of peoples thou hast gotten thee one people vnto this people whom thou louedst thou gauest a lawe that is proued of all 28 And nowe O Lorde why hast thou geuen this one people ouer vnto many and vpon the one roote thou hast prepared others and why hast thou scattered thy one only people among many 29 Which treade them downe yea which haue euer withstande thy promises and neuer beleued thy couenauntes 30 If thou didst so much hate thy people yet shouldest thou punishe them with thine owne handes 31 Nowe when I had spoken these wordes the angell that came to me the nyght afore was sent vnto me 32 And sayde vnto me Heare me and I wyll instruct thee hearken to the thyng that I say and I shall tell thee more 33 And I sayde Speake on my Lorde Then sayde he vnto me Thou art sore troubled in mynde for Israels sake Louest thou that people better then he that made them 34 And I sayde No Lorde but of very griefe and compassion haue I spoken for my reynes payne me euery houre because I woulde haue experience of the way of the most hyest and seke out part of his iudgement 35 And he sayde vnto me That thou mayest not And I sayde Wherfore Lorde wherunto was I borne then or why was not my mothers wombe then my graue that I myght not haue seene the miserie and trouble of Iacob and the wearyng out of the stocke of Israel 36 And he sayde vnto me Number me the thynges that are not yet come gather me together the droppes that are scattered abroade make me the floures greene agayne that are withered 37 Open me the places that are closed and bring me foorth the wyndes that in them are shut vp shewe me the image of a voyce and then I wyll declare to thee the thyng that thou labourest to knowe 38 And I sayde O Lorde Lorde who may knowe these thynges but he that hath not his dwellyng with men 39 As for me I am vnwise howe may I then speake of these thynges wherof thou askest me 40 Then sayd he vnto me Lyke as thou canst do none of these thynges that I haue spoken of euen so canst thou not fynde out my iudgement or in the ende the loue that I haue promised vnto my people 41 And I sayde Beholde O Lorde yet art thou nye vnto them that be reserued tyll the ende and what shal they do that haue ben before me or we that be nowe or they that shall come after vs 42 Aâ— sayde vnto me I wyll lyken my iudâ—ment vnto a ryng Lyke as there is no slacknesse of the last euen so there is no swiftnesse of the first 43 So I aunswered and sayde Couldest thou not make those that haue ben made and be nowe and that are for to come at once that thou mightest shewe thy iudgement the sooner 44 Then aunswered he me and sayde The creature may not haste aboue the maker neither may the worlde holde them at once that
God shall helpe thee shortly 14 And Tobias saide vnto him Canst thou bring my sonne to Gabelus vnto the citie of Rages in Medea and when thou commest againe I shall pay thee thy hyre 15 And the angell saide vnto him I shall leade thy sonne and bring him to thee againe 16 Then Tobias aunswered him Tell me I pray thee of what house or of what tribe art thou 17 The angel Raphael saide vnto him Seekest thou after the kinred of an hireling or an hired man him selfe for thy sonne to go with him 18 But that I make thee not carefull I am Azarias the sonne of great Hanamas 19 And Tobias aunswered Thou art come of a great kinred but I pray thee be not displeased that I desire to know thy kindred 20 The angell said vnto him Thy sonne shall I leade foorth safely and bryng him whole sounde to thee againe 21 Then aunswered Tobias and saide well go on your way and God be in your iourney and his angell beare you company 22 So when they had prepared all thinges that they woulde take with them in their iourney Tobias bade his father and his mother farewell and they went on their way both together 23 Nowe when they were gone his mother began to weepe saide The staffe of our age hast thou taken away and sent him from vs. 24 Woulde God that money had neuer ben for the which thou hast sent him away 25 For our pouertie was sufficient for vs why we shoulde haue counted it rychesse that we saw our sonne here 26 Then saide Tobias vnto her Weepe not our sonne shall go safely and come to vs againe sounde and thyne eyes shall see him 27 For I trust that the good angell of God shall beare him company and order well all the thinges that he doth so that he shall come to vs againe with ioy 28 At these wordes his mother left of from weeping and held her peace The .vj. Chapter 2 Tobias deliuered from the fishe 8 Raphael sheweth him certaine medicines 19 He conducteth him toward Sara 1 SO Tobias went on his way and a dogge folowed him and the first night they abode by the water of Tigris 2 Then went he out to washe his feete and beholde there came foorth an horrible fishe to deuour him 3 Of whom Tobias was afrayde and cryed with a loude voyce saying Lord he commeth vpon me 4 And the angell saide vnto him Take him by the gyll and drawe him to thee And he did so and drew him vpon the lande and the fishe began to leape at his feete 5 Then saide the angell vnto him Take out the bowels of this fishe as for the heart the gal and the lyuer keepe them by thee for these thinges are necessary and good for medicines 6 Tobias did so and rosted the flesh and they tooke it with them in their iourney the residue they salted as much as was sufficient for them tyll they came to Rages a citie of the Medes 7 Then Tobias asked the angell and saide vnto him I pray thee brother Azaria tell me whereto are these thinges good of the fishe that thou hast bidden me keepe 8 The angell aunswered him and said If thou layest a peece of the heart vpon the coales the smoke thereof dryueth away all maner of euill spirites whether it be from man or from woman so that from thencefoorth the same shall come no more vnto them 9 The gal is good to annoynt or to strike the eyes withall where as there is any blemishe in them so that they shal be whole 10 And Tobias saide vnto him Where wilt thou that we remaine The angell aunswered 11 And saide Here is a nye kinsman of thyne and of thy tribe one Raguel by name which hath a daughter called Sara hath neither sonne nor daughter but her 12 All his good belongeth vnto thee and thou must mary her 13 And therefore desire her of her father and he shall geue her thee to wyfe 14 Then aunswered Tobias and saide As I vnderstand she hath ben maryed vnto seuen husbandes and they all are dead and I haue heard say that the deuill slue them 15 I am afrayd therfore lest such thinges happen vnto me also which if it came to passe seeing I am the onely sonne of my father and my mother I should bryng them in their age with sorowe to their graues 16 Then saide the angell Raphael vnto him Heare me I wyll tell thee what they be of whom the deuil hath power 17 Namely they that receaue mariage after such a fashion that they shut God out from them and from their heart and geue them selues to their owne lust euen as it were an Horse Mule which haue no vnderstanding vpon such hath the deuill power 18 But when thou takest her and art come in to the chamber withhold thy selfe from her three dayes and geue thy diligence vnto nothing but vnto prayer with her 19 And in the first night rost the lyuer of the fishe and the deuill shal be driuen away 20 The second night shalt thou be receaued into the company of the holy patriarches 12 The third night shalt thou obtayne the blessing of God so that whole children shall be borne of you 22 After the third night take the mayden in the feare of God and more for the desire of children then for any fleshely lust that in the seede of Abraham thou mayest obtayne the blessing in children ¶ The .vii. Chapter Tobias maryeth Sara Raguels daughter 1 THen went they in to Raguel which receaued them ioyfully 2 And when Raguel loked vpon Tobias he saide vnto Anna his wyfe How lyke is this young man vnto my sisters sonne 3 And when he had spoken this he said Whence be ye ye young men and our brethren They saide Of the tribe of Nephthali out of the captiuitie of Niniue 4 Then said Raguel vnto them Know ye my brother Tobias They saide yea we know him well 5 And when he had spoken much good of him the angell saide vnto Raguel Tobias of whom thou askest is this young mans father 6 Then Raguel bowed him selfe downe and wept and toke him about the necke and kissed him 7 And saide Gods blessing haue thou my sonne for thou art the sonne of a good vertuous man 8 And Anna his wyfe and Sara his daughter wept also 9 Now when they had talked together Raguel bade kill a wether to make a feaste And when he had exhorted them to sit downe to dinner 10 Tobias saide I wyll neither eate nor drinke here this day except thou first graunt me my petition and promise me to geue me thy daughter Sara 11 When Raguel heard this he was astonied for he knewe what had happened vnto the other seuen men that went in vnto her and he began to feare that it shoulde chaunce vnto him also in lyke maner And while he stoode so in doubt and gaue the young man no aunswere 12 The angell
spirite of discipline fleeth from deceipt and withdraweth hym selfe from thoughtes that are without vnderstanding and is declared when wickednesse commeth 6 For the spirite of wysdome is louing and will not absolue hym that blasphemeth with his lippes for God is witnesse of his raynes and a true beholder of his heart an hearer of his tongue 7 For the spirite of the Lorde filleth the rounde compasse of the worlde and the same that vpholdeth all thinges hath knowledge also of the voyce 8 Therfore he that speaketh vnrighteous thinges can not be hid neither shall the iudgement of reprofe let him escape 9 And why inquisition shal be made for the thoughtes of the vngodly and the sounde of his wordes shall come vnto God so that his wickednesse shal be punished 10 For the eare of ielousie heareth all thinges the noyse of the grudginges shall not be hid 11 Therefore beware of murmuring whiche is nothing worth and refraine your tongue from sclaunder For there is no worde so secrete that it shall go for naught and the mouth that speaketh lyes slayeth the soule 12 O seeke not your owne death in the errour of your lyfe destroy not your selues thorowe the workes of your owne handes 13 For God hath not made death neither hath he pleasure in the destruction of the liuing 14 For he created all thinges that they might haue their being and the generations of the worlde were healthfull and there is no poyson of destruction in them nor the kyngdome of hell vpon the earth 15 For righteousnesse is euerlasting and immortall but vnrighteousnesse bringeth death 16 Neuerthelesse the vngodly call it vnto them both with workes and wordes and whyle they thinke to haue it their friende they come to naught they haue made an agreement with it for they are worthy to be of her part ¶ The .ii. Chapter The imaginations and desires of the wicked and theyr counsayle against the faythfull 1 FOr the vngodly say reasoning with them selues but not a right our life is short and tedious and in the death of a man there is no remedie neither is there any man knowen to haue returned from the graue 2 For we are borne at all aduenture and we shal be here by more fortune after as though we had neuer ben for our breath is as a smoke in our nosetrilles and wordes as a sparke raysed out of our heartes 3 Whiche being extinquished our body shal be turned into ashes and our spirite shall vanishe as the soft ayre 4 Our life shall passe away as the trace of a cloude and come to naught as the miste that is driuen away with the beames of the sunne and put downe with the heate thereof Our name also shal be forgotten by litle and litle and no man shall haue our workes in remembraunce 5 For our tyme is a very shadowe that passeth away and after our ende there is no returning for it is fast sealed so that no man commeth agayne 6 Come on therefore let vs enioy the pleasures that are present and let vs chearefully vse the creatures like as in youth 7 Let vs fill our selues with good wine and oyntment and let there no flowre of the tyme escape vs 8 Let vs crowne our selues with rose buddes afore they be withered 9 Let there be no fayre medowe but our lust go thorowe it Let euery one of vs be partakers of our volupteousnes let vs leaue some token of our pleasure in euery place for that is our portion and this only our lot 10 Let vs oppresse the poore righteous let vs not spare the wydowe nor olde man let vs not regarde the heades that are gray for age 11 Let the lawe of vnrighteousnesse be our strength for the thing that is feeble is nothing worth 12 Therefore let vs defraude the righteous and why he is not for our profite yea he is cleane contrary to our doinges he checketh vs for offending against the lawe and slaundereth the faultes of our maner of liuing 13 He maketh his boast to haue the knowledge of God yea he calleth hym selfe Gods sonne 14 He is made vnto vs for reproffe of our thoughtes 15 It greeueth vs also to looke vpon him for his life is not like other mens his wayes are of another fashion 16 He counteth vs but vayne persons he withdraweth hym selfe from our wayes as from filthynes he commendeth greatly the latter ende of the iust and maketh his boast that God is his father 17 Let vs see then if his wordes be true let vs proue what shall happen in the ende of hym 18 For if the iust man be the sonne of god he wyll receaue hym and deliuer hym from the handes of his enemies 19 Let vs examine him with despitefull rebuke and tormenting that we may know his meekenesse and proue his pacience 20 Let vs condempne him with the most shamefull death for as him selfe saith he shal be rewarded of God 21 Suche thinges do they imagine and go astray for their owne wickednesse hath blinded them 22 As for the mysteries of God they vnderstande them not they neither hope for the rewarde of righteousnesse nor regarde the worship that holy soules shall haue 23 For God created man to be vndestroyed yea after the image of his owne lykenes made he hym 24 Neuerthelesse thorowe enuie of the deuyll came death into the worlde and they that helde of his side do finde it The .iij. Chapter 1 The conseruation and assuraunce of the ryghteous 7 The rewarde of the faythfull 11 Who are miserable 1 BVt the soules of the ryghteous are in the hande of God there shal no torment touche them 2 In the syght of the vnwise they appeared to die their ende is taken for miserie 3 And their departyng from vs to be vtter destruction but they are in rest 4 For though they suffer payne before men yet is their hope full of immortalitie 5 They are punished but in few thinges neuerthelesse in many thinges shal they be well rewarded for God proueth thē and findeth them meete for hym selfe 6 As golde in the furnace doth he trye them and receaueth them as a burnt offeryng and when the tyme commeth they shal be loked vpon 7 They shall shyne and runne through as the sparkcles among the stubble 8 They shal iudge the nations and haue dominion ouer the people and their Lorde shall raigne for euer 9 They that put their trust in him shall vnderstande the trueth and such as be faythfull shall perseuer with hym in loue for his saintes haue grace mercie and he hath care for his elected 10 But the vngodly shal be punished accordyng to their owne imaginations for they haue dispised the righteous and forsaken the Lorde 11 For who so dispiseth wisdome and nurture he is vnhappy and as for the hope of such it is but vayne their labours vnfruitfull and their workes vnprofitable 12 Their wyues are vndiscrete and
for in her is the spirite of vnderstandyng which is holy one only manifolde subtile quicke mouyng cleare vndefiled plaine sweete louyng the thyng that is good sharpe which can not be letted doyng good 23 Kynde to man stedfast sure free from care hauyng all vertues circumspect in all thynges and passyng through all vnderstanding cleane subtile spirites 24 For wisdome is nimbler then all nimble thynges she goeth through and attayneth to all thynges because of her cleannesse 25 For she is the breath of the power of God and a pure influence flowing from the glorie of the almightie God therfore can no defiled thyng come vnto her 26 For she is the bryghtnesse of the euerlastyng lyght the vndefiled mirrour of the maiestie of God and the image of his goodnesse 27 And beyng but one she can do all thinges and remaynyng in her selfe she renueth all and in all ages of tymes entryng into holy soules she maketh Gods friendes and prophetes 28 For God loueth none if he dwell not with wisdome 29 For she is more beautifull then the sunne and geueth more lyght then the starres and the day is not to be compared vnto her 30 For vpon the day commeth nyght but wickednesse can not ouercome wisdome The .viij. Chapter The effectes of wisdome 1 WIsdome reacheth from one ende to another mightily and louyngly doth she order all thynges 2 I haue loued her and laboured for her euen from my youth vp I dyd my diligence to mary my selfe with her such loue had I vnto her beautie 3 That she hath the companie of God it commendeth her nobilitie yea the Lorde of all thynges hym selfe loueth her 4 For she is the scoolemaistresse of the nurture of God and the choser out of his workes 5 If a man woulde desire riches in this lyfe what is richer then wisdome that worketh all thynges 6 For yf prudencie worke what is it among all thynges that worketh better 7 And yf a man loue ryghteousnesse her labours are but vertues For why she teacheth sobernesse and prudence righteousnesse and strength which are such thinges as men can haue nothyng more profitable in their lyfe 8 If a man desire much knowledge she can tell the thynges that are past and discerne thynges for to come she knoweth the subtilties of wordes and can expounde darke sentences she forseeth signes and wonders or euer they come to passe and the endes of all tymes and ages 9 Therfore I purposed after this maner I wyll take her into my companie that she may liue with me knowyng for certaintie she shall geue me good counsayle and speake comfortably vnto me in my carefulnesse and griefe 10 For her sake shall I be well honestly taken among the commons and with honour among the elders though I be young 11 I shal be founde to be of sharpe iudgement so that I shal be marueylous in the sight of great men and the faces of princes shall wonder at me 12 When I holde my tongue they shall byde my leasure and when I speake they shall geue good eare vnto me and if I talke much they shall lay their handes vpon their mouth 13 Moreouer by the meanes of her I shall obtayne immortalitie and leaue behynde me an euerlastyng memoriall among them that come after me 14 I shall set the people in order and the nations shal be subdued vnto me 15 Horrible tirauntes shal be afraide when they do but heare of me among the multitude I shal be counted good and mightie in battayle 16 When I come home I shall fynde rest with her for her companie hath no bitternesse and her felowshyp hath no tediousnesse but mirth and ioy 17 Nowe whē I considered these thinges by my selfe and pondered them in my heart howe that to be ioyned vnto wisdome is immortalitie 18 And great pleasure to haue her friendshyp and that in the workes of her handes are infinite riches and that who so kepeth companie with her shal be wise and that he which talketh with her shall come to honour I went about sekyng howe to get her vnto me 19 For I was a lad of ripe witte and had a good vnderstandyng 20 But when I grewe to more vnderstandyng I came to an vndefiled body 21 Neuerthelesse when I perceaued that I coulde not enioy it except God gaue it me and that was a poynt of wisdome also to knowe whose gyft it was I stepped vnto the Lorde and besought hym and with my whole heart I sayde after this maner The .ix. Chapter A prayer of Solomon to obteyne wisdome 1 O God of my fathers and Lorde of mercie thou hast made all thynges with thy worde 2 And ordeyned man through thy wisdome that he shoulde haue dominion ouer the creatures which thou hast made 3 That he shoulde order the worlde accordyng to equitie and righteousnesse and execute iudgement with a true heart 4 Geue me wisdome which is euer sittyng about thy seate and put me not out from among thy children 5 For I thy seruaunt and sonne of thy handmayden am a feeble person and of a short tyme and to young to the vnderstandyng of iudgement and lawes 6 And though a man be neuer so perfect among the children of men yet yf thy wisdome be not with hym he shal be nothyng regarded 7 Thou hast chosen me to be a kyng vnto thy people and the iudge of thy sonnes and daughters 8 Thou hast commaunded me to builde a temple vpon thy holy mount and an aulter in the citie wherin thou dwellest a likenesse of thy holy tabernacle which thou hast prepared from the beginning 9 And thy wisdome with thee which knoweth thy workes which also was with thee whē thou madest the worlde and knewe what was acceptable in thy syght and ryght in thy commaundementes 10 O sende her out of thy holy heauens from the throne of thy maiestie that she may be with me and labour with me that I may knowe what is acceptable in thy syght 11 For she knoweth and vnderstandeth all thynges and she shall leade me soberly in my workes and preserue me in her power 12 So shall my workes be acceptable and then shall I gouerne thy people ryghteously and be worthy to sit in my fathers seate 13 For what man is he that can knowe the counsayle of God or who can thinke what the wyll of God is 14 For the thoughtes of mortall men are miserable and our forecastes are but vncertaine 15 For why a corruptible body is heauy vnto the soule and the earthy mansion kepeth downe that vnderstandyng that museth vpon many thynges 16 Very hardly can we discerne the thynges that are vpon earth and great labour haue we or we can fynde the thynges which are before our eyes who hath then sought out the ground of the thynges that are done in heauen 17 Oh Lorde who
at the last he declareth his vngraciousnesse 8 A nygarde hath a wicked eye he turneth away his face and despiseth men 9 A couetous mans eye hath neuer enough in the portion of wickednesse vntill the time that he wyther away and haue lost his owne soule 10 A wicked eye enuieth bread and there is scarcenesse vpon his table 11 My sonne do good to thy selfe of that thou hast and geue the Lorde his due offeringes 12 Remember that death tarieth not and how that the graue is not shewed vnto thee for the couenaunt of this world shall dye the death 13 Do good vnto thy friende before thou dye and according to thy abilitie reache out thyne hande geue vnto the poore 14 Be not disapoynted of the good day and let not the portion of the good desire ouerpasse thee 15 Shalt thou not leaue thy trauayles and labours vnto other men In the deuiding of the heritage geue and take and sanctifie thy soule 16 Worke thou righteousnes before thy death for in the hell there is no meate to finde 17 All fleshe shall fade away lyke a garment and lyke a florishing leafe in a greene tree 18 Some growe some are cast downe euen so is the generation of fleshe and blood one commeth to an ende another is borne and this is the condition of all times thou shalt dye the death 19 All transitorie thinges shal fayle at the last the worker therof shal go withal 20 Euery chosen worke shal be iustified and he that medled withall shall haue honour therin 21 Blessed is the man that kepeth hym in wysdome and exerciseth him selfe in vnderstanding and with discretion shall thinke vpon the foreknowledge of God 22 Whiche considereth the wayes of wysdome in his heart hath vnderstanding in her secretes 23 Goeth after her as one that seketh her out and continueth in her ways 24 He loketh in at her windowes hearkeneth at her doores 25 He taketh his rest beside her house and fasteneth his stake in her walles he shal pitche his tent nye vnto her hand and in his tent shall good thinges rest for euermore 26 He shal set his children vnder her couering shall dwell vnder her braunches 27 Vnder her couering shall he be defended from her heate and in the glorie shal he rest The .xv. Chapter 1 The goodnesse that foloweth hym which feareth God 8 God reiecteth and casteth of the sinner 11 God is not the auctour of euyll 1 HE that feareth God wil do good who so kepeth the lawe shall obtayne wysdome 2 As an honorable mother shall she meete hym and she as his wife maried of a virgin shal receaue him 3 With the bread of lyfe and vnderstanding shal she feede him geue him the water of wholsome wisdome to drinke 4 If he be constant in her he shall not be moued and if he holde him fast by her he shall not come to confusion 5 She shall bring him to honour among his neyghbours and in the middest of the congregation shall she open his mouth With the spirite of wysdome and vnderstanding shall she fyll him and cloth him with the garment of glorie 6 She shall heape the treasure of myrth and ioye vpon him and geue him an euerlasting name to heritage 7 Foolishe men will not take holde vpon her but such as haue vnderstanding will meete her Foolishe men shall not see her for she is farre from pryde and disceyte 8 Men that go about with lyes will not remember her but men of trueth shal be founde in her and shall prosper euen vnto the beholding of God 9 Prayse is not seemely in the mouth of the vngodly for he is not sent of the Lorde 10 But if prayse come of wysdome and be plenteous in a faythfull mouth then the Lorde will prosper it 11 Say not thou it is the Lordes fault that I am gone by for thou shalt not do the thing that God hateth 12 Say not thou he hath caused me to do wrong for he hath no neede of the vngodly 13 God hateth al abhomination of errour and they that feare God will loue none such 14 God made man from the beginning and left him in the hande of his counsell He gaue his commaundementes and preceptes 15 If thou wilt obserue the commaundementes and kepe acceptable faythfulnesse for euer they shall preserue thee 16 He hath set water and fyre before thee reache out thine hande vnto which thou wilt 17 Before man is lyfe and death good and euyll loke what him lyketh shal be geuen him 18 For the wysdome of God is great and mightie in power and beholdeth all thinges continually 19 The eyes of the Lorde are vpon them that feare him and he knoweth all the workes of man 20 He hath commaunded no man to do vngodly neither hath he geuen any man licence to sinne for he desireth not a multitude of infidels and vnprofitable children The .xvi. Chapter 1 Of vnhappie and wicked children 19 No man can hyde him selfe from God 24 An exhortation to the receauing of instruction 1 DElite not thou in the multitude of vngodly children and haue no pleasure in them if they feare not God 2 Trust not thou to their lyfe and regarde not their labours 3 For one sonne that feareth God is better then a thousand vngodly And better it is for a man to dye without children then to leaue beynde hym such children as are vngodly 4 For by one that hath vnderstanding may a whole citie be vpholden but though the vngodly be many yet shal it be wasted through them 5 Many such thinges hath mine eye seene and greater thinges then these haue I heard with myne eares 6 In the congregation of the vngodly shal a fire burne and among vnfaythful people shall the wrath be kindled 7 The olde giauntes optayned no grace for their sinnes whiche were destroyed trusting to their owne strength 8 Neither spared he them among whō Lot was a straunger but smote them and abhorred them because of the pride of their wordes 9 He had no pitie vpon them but destroyed all the people that were so stout in sinne 10 And forsomuch as he ouersawe the sixe hundred thousand that gathered them selues together in the hardnesse of their heart in afflicting them in pitiing them in smiting them and healing them with mercie and chastisement it were maruell if one being hardnecked should be free 11 For mercy wrath is with him he is both mightie to forgeue and to powre out displeasure 12 Lyke as his mercy is great euen so is his punishement also he iudgeth a man according to his workes 13 The vngodly shall not escape in his spoyle the long patience of him that sheweth mercie shall not byde behinde 14 He wyll make a place for euery mercifull deede and euery man shall finde according to his workes 15 The Lorde hardened Pharao that he should not know him and
that his workes might be knowen vpon the earth vnder the heauen 16 His mercie is knowen to all creatures he hath seperated his light from the darkenesse with an adamant 17 Say not thou I wyll hide my selfe from God for who wyll thinke vpon me from aboue I shall not be knowen in so great an heape of people for what is my soule among so many creatures 18 Beholde the heauen yea the heauen of heauens of God the deepe the earth and all that therein is shal be moued at his presence 19 The mountaynes the hilles and the foundations of the earth shall shake for feare when God visiteth them 20 These thinges doth no heart vnderstand worthyly but he vnderstandeth euery heart 21 And who vnderstandeth his wayes No man seeth his stormes and the most part of his workes are secrete 22 Who wyll declare the workes of his righteousnesse or who shal be able to abide them For the couenaunt is farre from some and trying out of men is in the ende 23 He that is humble of heart thinketh vpon such thinges but an vnwyse and erronious man casteth his minde vnto foolishe thinges 24 My sonne hearken thou vnto me and learne vnderstanding and marke my wordes with thyne heart I wyll geue thee a sure doctrine and plainely shall I instruct thee 25 Marke my wordes then in thyne heart for in righteousnesse of the spirite do I speake of the wonders that God hath shewed among his workes from the beginning in the trueth do I shew the knowledge of him 26 God hath set his workes in good order from the beginning part of them hath he sundred from the other 27 He hath garnished his workes from euerlasting and their beginninges according to their generations they are not hungrie nor weeried in their labours nor ceasse from their offices 28 None of them hindred another neitheir was any of them disobedient vnto his wordes 29 After this God loked vpon the earth and filled it with his goodnesse 30 With all maner of liuing beastes hath he couered the grounde and they all shal be turned vnto earth againe ¶ The .xvii. Chapter 1 The creation of man and the goodnesse that God hath done vnto him 20 Of almes 26 and repentaunce 1 GOd shaped man of the earth made him after his owne image and turned him vnto earth againe and cloathed him with his owne strength 2 He gaue him the number of dayes and certaine time yea and gaue him power of the thinges that are vpon earth 3 He made all fleshe to stand in awe of him so that he had the dominion of all beastes and foules 4 He made out of him an helper lyke vnto to him selfe gaue them discretion and tongue eyes and eares and a heart to vnderstande 5 He gaue them a spirite and a speache to declare his workes filled them with instruction and vnderstanding 6 He created for them also the knowledge of the spirite filled their heartes with vnderstanding and shewed them good and euill 7 He set his eye vpon their heartes declaring vnto them his great and noble workes 8 That they should prayse his holy name together reioyce of his wonders and be telling of his noble actes 9 Beside this he gaue them instruction and the lawe of life for an heritage that they might now know that they were mortall 10 He made an euerlasting couenaunt with them and shewed them his righteousnesse and iudgementes 11 They sawe the maiestie of his glorie with their eyes and their eares heard the maiestie of his voyce and he saide vnto them beware of all vnrighteous thinges 12 He gaue euery man also a cōmaundement concerning his neighbour 13 Their wayes are euer before him and are not hid from his eyes 14 Euery man from his youth is geuen to euill and their stony heartes can not become fleshe 15 He hath set a ruler vpon euery people but Israel is the Lordes portion 16 Whom he nourisheth with discipline as his first borne and geueth him most louing light and doth not forsake him 17 All their workes are as the sunne in the sight of God his eyes are alway looking vpon their wayes 18 All their vnrighteousnesses are manifest vnto him and al their wickednesses are open in his sight 19 And as he is mercifull and knoweth his worke he doth not leaue them nor forsake them but spareth them 20 The mercie that a man sheweth is as a seale with him and the grace that is geuen to man preserueth him as the apple of an eye and geueth repentaunce to their sonnes and daughters 21 At the last shall he awake and reward euery man vpon his head shall turne them together into the neathermost partes of the earth 22 But vnto them that wyll repent he hath geuen the way of righteousnesse As for such as be weake he comforteth them suffereth them and sendeth them the portion of the veritie 23 O turne then vnto the Lorde forsake thy sinnes make thy prayer before the Lorde do the lesse offence 24 Turne againe vnto the Lorde for he wyll bring thee from darkenesse vnto holsome light forsake thyne vnrighteousnesse be an vtter enemie to abhomination 25 Learne to know the righteousnesse and iudgementes of God stand in the portion that is set foorth for thee and in the prayer of the most hye God 26 Go in the portion of the holy worlde with such as be lyuing geue thankes vnto God 27 Who wil prayse the Lorde in the hel abide not thou in y e errour of the vngodlie but geue him thankes before death 28 As for the dead thankfulnes perisheth from him as nothing Geue thou thankes in thy lyfe yea whyle thou art lyuing and whole shalt thou geue thankes and prayse God and reioyce in his mercie 29 O how great is the louing kindnesse of the Lorde and his mercifull goodnes vnto such as turne vnto him 30 For all thinges may not be in man and why the sonne of man is not immortal and he hath pleasure in the vanitie of wickednesse 31 What is more cleare then the sonne yet shall it fayle 32 Or what is more wicked then the thyng that fleshe and blood hath imagined and that same shal be reproued 33 The Lorde seeth the power of the hye heauen and al are but earth and asshes The .xviii. Chapter 1 The marueylous workes of God 6 The miserie and wretchednes of man 9 Against God ought we not to complaine 21 The perfourming of vowes 1 HE that lyueth for euermore made al thinges together God onely is righteous and there is none other but he and remaineth a victorious king for euer 2 He ordereth the worlde with the power of his hande and all thinges obey his wyl for he gouerneth all thinges by his power and deuideth the holy thinges from the prophane 3 Who shal be able to expresse the workes of him who wyll seeke out the grounde of his
that in this same nyght before the Cocke crowe thou shalt denie me thryse 35 Peter sayde vnto hym Though I shoulde dye with thee yet wyll I not denie thee Lykewyse also sayde all the disciples 36 Then came Iesus with them vnto a place which is called Gethsemane and sayde vnto the disciples Sit ye here whyle I go and pray yonder 37 And he toke with him Peter and the two sonnes of Zebedee and began to waxe sorowfull and heauy 38 Then sayde Iesus vnto them My soule is heauy euen vnto the death tary ye here and watche with me 39 And he went a litle farther and fell sâ—at on his face and prayed saying O my father if it be possible let this cuppe passe from me Neuerthelesse not as I wyll but as thou wylt 40 And he came vnto the disciples and founde them aslepe and sayth vnto Peter What coulde ye not watche with me one houre 41 Watche and praye that ye enter not into temptation The spirite in deede is wyllyng but the fleshe is weake 42 He went away once againe prayed saying O my father if this cuppe may not passe away froÌ„ me except I drinke it thy wyll be fulfylled 43 And he came and founde them a slepe agayne for their eyes were heauy 44 And he left them and went agayne and prayed the thirde tyme saying the same wordes 45 Then commeth he to his disciples and sayth vnto them Slepe hencefoorth take your rest beholde the houre is at hande and the sonne of man is betrayed into the handes of synners 46 Ryse let vs be goyng beholde he is at hande that doth betray me 47 Whyle he yet spake loe Iudas one of the twelue came and with hym a great multitude with swordes staues from the chiefe priestes and elders of the people 48 But he that betrayed him gaue them a token saying Whomsoeuer I kysse that same is he holde hym fast 49 And foorthwith he came to Iesus and sayde hayle maister and kyssed hym 50 And Iesus sayde vnto hym Frende wherefore art thou come Then came they and layed handes on Iesus and toke hym 51 And beholde one of them which were with Iesus stretched out his hande and drewe his sworde and stroke a seruaunt of the hye priestes and smote of his eare 52 Then saide Iesus vnto hym Put vp thy sworde into his sheathe For all they that take the sworde shall peryshe with the sworde 53 Thynkest thou that I can not nowe pray to my father and he shall geue me more then twelue legions of Angels 54 But howe then shall the scriptures be fulfylled For thus must it be 55 In that same houre sayde Iesus to the multitudes Ye be come out as it were vnto a thiefe with swordes and staues for to take me I sate dayly with you teachyng in the temple and ye toke me not 56 But all this is done that the scriptures of the prophetes myght be fulfylled Then all the disciples forsoke him and fledde 57 And they toke Iesus and ledde hym to Caiaphas the hye prieste where the scribes and the elders were assembled 58 But Peter folowed hym a farre of vnto the hye priestes palace and went in and sate with the seruauntes to see the ende 59 The chiefe priestes and elders and all the councell sought false witnesse agaynst Iesus for to put hym to death 60 But founde none yea when many false witnesses came yet founde they none At the last came two false witnesses 61 And sayde This felowe sayde I am able to destroy the temple of God and to buylde it agayne in three dayes 62 And the chiefe priest arose and sayde vnto hym Aunswerest thou nothyng Why do these beare witnesse agaynst thee 63 But Iesus helde his peace And the chiefe priest aunswered and sayde vnto hym I charge thee by the liuing God that thou tel vs whether thou be Christ the sonne of God 64 Iesus saith vnto him thou hast said Neuerthelesse I saye vnto you hereafter shall ye see the sonne of man sitting on the ryght hande of power and commyng in the cloudes of the skye 65 Then the hye priest rent his clothes saying He hath spoken blasphemie what nede we of any mo witnesses Beholde now ye haue hearde his blasphemie 66 What thynke ye They aunswered and sayde he is worthy to dye 67 Then dyd they spyt in his face and buffeted hym with fistes And other smote hym on his face with the paulme of their handes 68 Saying prophecie vnto vs O Christ who is he that smote thee 69 Peter sate without in the palace And a damsell came to hym saying Thou also wast with Iesus of Galilee 70 But he denied before them all saying I wote not what thou sayest 71 When he was gone out into the porch another wenche sawe hym and sayde vnto them that were there This felowe was also with Iesus of Nazareth 72 And agayne he denyed with an oth I do not knowe the man 73 And after a whyle came vnto hym they that stode by and sayde vnto Peter Surely thou art euen one of them for thy speache bewrayeth thee 74 Then began he to curse to sweare that he knewe not the man And immediatly the Cocke crewe 75 And Peter remembred the worde of Iesu which sayde vnto hym before the Cocke crowe thou shalt denie me thrise and he went out and wept bytterly ¶ The .xxvij. Chapter ¶ 2 Christe is delyuered vnto Pilate 5 Iudas hangeth hym selfe 24 Christe is crucified among thieues 57 he dyeth and is buried 64 watchmen kepe the graue 1 WHen the mornyng was come all the chiefe priestes and the elders of the people helde a councell agaynst Iesus to put hym to death 2 And brought hym bounde and deliuered hym to Pontius Pilate the deputie 3 Then Iudas whiche had betrayed hym seyng that he was condempned repented hym selfe and brought agayne the thirtie peeces of syluer to the chiefe priestes and elders 4 Saying I haue synned betraying the innocent blood And they said what is that to vs see thou to that 5 And he cast downe the peeces of siluer in the temple and departed and went and hanged hym selfe 6 And the chiefe priestes toke the peeces of syluer and sayde It is not lawfull for to put theÌ„ into the treasurie because it is the price of blood 7 And they toke councell and bought with them a potters fielde to burye straungers in 8 Wherfore that fielde is called the fielde of blood vntyll this day 9 Then was fulfylled that which was spoken by Ieremie the prophet saying And they toke thirtie siluer peeces the price of hym that was valued whom they bought of the children of Israel 10 And gaue them for the potters fielde as the Lorde appoynted me 11 Iesus stode before the deputie and the deputie asked him saying Art thou the king of the Iewes Iesus saith vnto hym thou sayest
When his braunche is yet tender and hath brought foorth leaues ye knowe that sommer is neare 29 So ye in lyke maner when ye see these thynges come to passe vnderstand that he is nye euen at the doores 30 Veryly I say vnto you that this generation shall not passe tyll all these thynges be done 31 Heauen and earth shall passe away but my wordes shall not passe away 32 But of that day and tyme knoweth no man no not the Angels which are in heauen neither the sonne him selfe saue the father only 33 Take heede watche and pray for ye knowe not when the tyme is 34 As a man which is gone into a straunge countrey and hath left his house and geuen auctoritie to his seruauntes and to euery man his worke and commaunded the porter to watche 35 Watche ye therfore for ye knowe not whē the maister of the house wyl come at euen or at mydnyght whether at the cocke crowyng or in the dawnyng 36 Lest yf he come sodenly he fynde you slepyng 37 And that I say vnto you I say vnto all watche ¶ The .xiiij. Chapterr ¶ 1 The hygh priestes conspire agaynst Christe 3 A woman powreth precious oyntment on Christes head 10 Iudas for money betrayeth Christe 12 the Passouer is prepared and eaten 22 the institution of the Lordes Supper 25 Christes prayers and agonie in Gethsemani 46 the takyng and examinyng of Christe before the hygh priest 67 Peter denieth Christe 72 and weepeth 1 AFter two dayes was the feaste of the Passouer of vnleuened bread And the hye priestes and the scribes sought howe they myght take him by craft and put hym to death 2 But they sayde not in the feast day lest any busines arise among the people 3 And when he was at Bethanie in the house of Simon the leper euen as he sate at meate there came a woman hauyng an alabaster boxe of very precious oyntment called Narde pistike and she brake the boxe and powred it on his head 4 And there were some that had indignation within them selues and sayde what neded this waste of oyntment 5 For it myght haue ben solde for more then three hundred pence and haue ben geuen to the poore And they grudged agaynst her 6 And Iesus sayde let her alone why trouble ye her She hath done a good worke on me 7 For ye haue poore with you alwayes and whensoeuer ye wyll ye may do thē good but me haue ye not alwayes 8 She hath done that she coulde she came aforehande to annoynt my body to the burying 9 Veryly I say vnto you whersoeuer this Gospel shal be preached throughout the whole worlde this also that she hath done shal be rehearsed in remembraunce of her 10 And Iudas Iscariot one of the twelue went away vnto y e hye priestes to betray hym vnto them 11 When they hearde that they were glad and promised that they woulde geue hym money And he sought howe he myght conueniently betray hym 12 And the first day of vnleuened bread when they dyd sacrifice the Passouer his disciples sayde vnto hym Where wylt thou that we go and prepare that thou mayest eate the Passouer 13 And he sendeth foorth two of his disciples and sayth vnto them Go ye into the citie there shall meete you a man bearing a pitcher of water folowe him 14 And whyther soeuer he goeth in say ye to the good man of the house the maister sayth Where is the ghest chaumber where I shall eate the Pasouer with my disciples 15 And he wyll shewe you a large vpper chaumber paued and prepared there make redy for vs. 16 And his disciples went foorth came into the citie founde as he had sayd vnto them they made redy the Passouer 17 And when it was nowe euen tyde he came with the twelue 18 And as they sate at boord dyd eate Iesus sayde Veryly I say vnto you one of you that eateth with me shall betray me 19 And they began to be sory and to say to hym one by one is it I And another sayde is it I 20 He aunswered and sayde vnto them It is one of the twelue euen he that dyppeth with me in the platter 21 The sonne of man truely goeth as it is written of hym but wo to that man by whom the sonne of man is betrayed Good were it for that man yf he had neuer ben borne 22 And as they dyd eate Iesus toke bread and whē he had blessed he brake it and gaue to them and sayde Take eate this is my body 23 And he toke the cup and when he had geuen thankes he toke it to them and they all dranke of it 24 And he sayde vnto them This is my blood of the newe Testament which is shed for many 25 Veryly I say vnto you I wyll drinke no more of the fruite of the vine vntyll that day that I drinke it newe in the kyngdome of God 26 And when they had praysed God they went out into y e mount of Oliues 27 And Iesus sayth vnto them All ye shal be offended because of me this nyght For it is written I wyll smyte the sheepehearde and the sheepe shal be scattered 28 But after that I am risen agayne I wyll go into Galilee before you 29 Peter sayde vnto hym Although all men be offended yet wyll not I. 30 And Iesus sayth vnto hym Veryly I say vnto thee that this day euen in this night before the cocke crowe twise thou shalt deny me three tymes 31 But he spake more vehemently no yf I shoulde dye with thee I wyll not deny thee Likewise also sayde they all 32 And they came into a place which was named Gethsemani and he sayth to his disciples Sit ye heare whyle I shall pray 33 And he taketh with hym Peter and Iames and Iohn and began to waxe abasshed and to be in an agonie 34 And sayth vnto them My soule is heauie euen vnto the death tarry ye here and watche 35 And he went foorth a litle and fell flat on the grounde and prayed that yf it were possible the houre myght passe from hym 36 And he sayde Abba father all thynges are possible vnto thee take away this cup from me Neuerthelesse not that I wyll but that thou wylt be done 37 And he came founde them slepyng and sayth vnto Peter Simon slepest thou Couldest not thou watche one houre 38 Watche ye and pray lest ye enter into temptation the spirite truely is redy but the fleshe is weake 39 And agayne he went asyde prayed and spake the same wordes 40 And he returned and founde them a slepe agayne For their eyes were heauie neither wist they what to aunswere hym 41 And he came the thirde tyme sayde vnto them slepe hencefoorth and take your ease it is inough The houre is come beholde the sonne of man is betrayed into the handes of sinners
hereafter 8 Peter sayth vnto hym Thou shalt neuer wasshe my feete Iesus aunswered hym If I wasshe thee not thou hast no part with me 9 Simon Peter sayth vnto him Lorde not my feete only but also the handes and the head 10 Iesus sayth to hym He that is wasshed nedeth not saue to washe his feete but is cleane euery whit And ye are cleane but not all 11 For he knewe who it was that should betray hym Therfore sayde he ye are not all cleane 12 So after he had wasshed their feete and receaued his clothes and was set downe agayne he sayde vnto them Wote ye what I haue done to you 13 Ye call me Maister and Lorde and ye say well for so am I. 14 If I then your Lorde and Maister haue wasshed your feete ye also ought to wasshe one anothers feete 15 For I haue geuen you an ensample that ye shoulde do as I haue done to you ☜ 16 Veryly veryly I say vnto you The seruaunt is not greater thē his maister neither the messenger greater then he that sent hym 17 Yf ye knowe these thynges happy are ye yf ye do them 18 I speake not of you all I knowe whom I haue chosen But that the scripture may be fulfylled He that eateth bread with me hath lyft vp his heele agaynst me 19 Nowe tell I you before it come that when it is come to passe ye myght beleue that I am he 20 Veryly veryly I say vnto you he that receaueth whomsoeuer I sende receaueth me And he that receaueth me receaueth hym that sent me 21 When Iesus had thus sayde he was troubled in spirite and testified saide Veryly veryly I say vnto you that one of you shall betray me 22 Then the disciples loked one on another doubtyng of whom he spake 23 There was one of Iesus disciples leanyng on Iesus bosome euen he whom Iesus loued 24 To hym beckened Simon Peter therfore that he shoulde aske who it was of whom he spake 25 He then when he leaned on Iesus brest sayde vnto hym Lorde who is it 26 Iesus aunswered He it is to whom I geue a sop when I haue dipped it And he wet the sop and gaue it to Iudas Iscariot Simons sonne 27 And after the sop Satan entred into hym Then sayde Iesus vnto hym That thou doest do quickly 28 That wiste no man at the table for what intent he spake vnto hym 29 Some of thē thought because Iudas had the bagge that Iesus had sayde vnto hym bye those thynges that we haue neede of agaynst the feast or that he shoulde geue somethyng to y e poore 30 Assoone then as he had receaued the sop he went immediatly out and it was nyght 31 Therfore when he was gone out Iesus sayd Nowe is the sonne of man glorified And God is glorified in hym 32 Yf God be glorified in hym God shall also glorifie hym in hym selfe and shall strayghtway glorifie hym 33 ☞ Litle children yet a litle whyle am I with you Ye shall seeke me and as I sayde vnto the Iewes whither I go thither can ye not come Also to you say I nowe 34 A newe commaundement geue I vnto you that ye loue together as I haue loued you that euen so ye loue one another 35 By this shall all men knowe that ye are my disciples yf ye haue loue one to another 36 Simon Peter saide vnto him Lorde whither goest thou Iesus aunswered hym Whither I go thou canst not folowe me nowe but thou shalt folowe me afterwardes ☜ 37 Peter sayde vnto hym Lorde why can not I folowe thee nowe I wyll ieoparde my lyfe for thy sake 38 Iesus aunswered hym Wylt thou ieoparde thy lyfe for my sake Veryly veryly I saye vnto thee the Cocke shall not crowe tyll thou haue denyed me thryse ¶ The .xiiij. Chapter 〈◊〉 armeth his disciples with consolation agaynst trouble Christes diuinitie 6 Christe the way the trueth and the lyfe 9 Christe and the father one 13 To aske of God in the name of Christe 26 He promiseth the spirite to comfort them of loue and keping Christes commaundement the spirite is our teacher 27 He promiseth his peace 1 ANd he sayde vnto his disciples Let not your hearte be troubled Ye beleue in god beleue also in me 2 In my fathers house are many dwellyng places If it were not so I woulde haue tolde you I go to prepare a place for you 3 And yf I go to prepare a place for you I wyll come agayne and receaue you euen vnto my selfe that where I am there may ye be also 4 And whither I go ye knowe and the way ye knowe 5 Thomas sayth vnto hym Lorde we knowe not whither thou goest And howe is it possible for vs to knowe the waye 6 Iesus sayth vnto hym I am the way and the trueth and the lyfe No man cōmeth vnto the father but by me 7 If ye had knowen me ye had knowen my father also And nowe ye knowe hym and haue seene hym 8 Philip sayth vnto hym Lorde shewe vs the father and it suffiseth vs. 9 Iesus sayth vnto hym Haue I ben so long tyme with you yet hast thou not knowen me Philip he that hath seene me hath seene the father And howe sayest thou then shewe vs the father 10 Beleuest thou not that I am in the father the father in me The wordes that I speake vnto you I speake not of my selfe but the father that dwelleth in me is he that doth the workes 11 Beleue me that I am in the father and the father in me Or els beleue me for the workes sake 12 Veryly veryly I say vnto you he that beleueth on me the workes that I do the same shal he do also and greater workes then these shall he do because I go vnto the father 13 And whatsoeuer ye aske in my name that wyll I do that the father may be glorified in the sonne 14 If ye shall aske any thing in my name I wyll do it ☜ 15 ☞ If ye loue me kepe my commaundementes 16 And I wyll pray the father and he shall geue you another comforter that he may byde with you for euer 17 Euen the spirite of trueth whom the worlde can not receaue because the worlde seeth hym not neither knoweth hym But ye knowe hym For he dwelleth with you and shal be in you 18 I wyll not leaue you comfortlesse but wyll come to you 19 Yet a litle whyle and the worlde shall see me no more but ye shall see me because I lyue and ye shall lyue also 20 That day shall ye knowe that I am in my father and you in me I in you 21 He that hath my commaundementes and kepeth them the same is he that loueth me And he that loueth me shal be loued of my father and I wyll loue him and wyll shew myne owne selfe
me and I vnto the worlde 15 For in Christe Iesu neither circumcision auayleth any thing nor vncircumcision but a newe creature 16 And as many as walke accordyng to this rule peace be on them and mercie and vpon the Israel that is of God 17 From hencefoorth let no man put me to busynesse For I beare in my body the markes of the Lorde Iesus 18 Brethren the grace of our Lorde Iesus Christe be with your spirite Amen The Epistle vnto the Galathians was sent from Rome ¶ The Epistle of the Apostle S. Paul vnto the Ephesians ¶ The first Chapter After his salutation 4 he sheweth that the chiefe cause of their saluation standeth in the free election of God through Christe 16 he declareth his good wyll towarde them geuyng thankes praying God for their fayth 21 The maiestie of Christe 1 PAul an apostle of Iesus Christe by the wyll of God To the saintes which are at Ephesus and to the faythfull in Christe Iesus 2 Grace be with you and peace from God our father from the Lorde Iesus Christe 3 Blessed be God the father of our Lorde Iesus Christe whiche hath blessed vs in all spirituall blessyng in heauenly thynges by Christe 4 According as he had chosen vs in hym before the foundation of the world that we shoulde be holy and without blame before hym through loue 5 Who hath predestinate vs into the adoption of childrē by Iesus Christ vnto hym selfe according to the good pleasure of his wyll 6 To the prayse of the glorie of his grace wherein he hath made vs accepted in the beloued 7 In whom we haue redemption through his blood the forgeuenesse of sinnes accordyng to the rychesse of his grace 8 Wherein he hath abounded towarde vs in all wysedome and prudence 9 And hath opened vnto vs the misterie of his wyll accordyng to his good pleasure which he had purposed in himselfe 10 That in the dispensation of the fulnesse of the tymes he myght gather together in one all thinges in Christe both which are in heauen and which are in earth in hym 11 In whom also we are chosen beyng predestinate accordyng to the purpose of hym who worketh all thynges after the councell of his owne wyll 12 That we shoulde be vnto the prayse of his glorie whiche before beleued in Christe 13 In whom also ye after that ye heard the worde of trueth the Gospell of your saluation wherin also after that ye beleued were sealed with the holy spirite of promyse 14 Whiche is the earnest of our inheritaunce vnto y e redemption of the purchased possession vnto the prayse of his glorie 15 Wherfore I also after that I hearde of the fayth which ye haue in the Lorde Iesus and loue vnto all the saintes 16 Ceasse not to geue thankes for you makyng mention of you in my prayers 17 That the God of our Lorde Iesus Christe the father of glorie may geue vnto you the spirite of wisdome and reuelation in the knowledge of hym 18 The eyes of your myndes beyng lightened that ye maye knowe what the hope is of his callyng and what the richesse of the glorie of his inheritaunce is in the saintes 19 And what is the exceedyng greatnesse of his power to vswarde which beleue accordyng to the workyng of his myghtie power 20 Which he wrought in Christe when he raysed hym from the dead and set him on his ryght hande in heauenly places 21 Farre aboue all rule and power and myght and dominion and euery name that is named not in this worlde only but also in the worlde to come 22 And hath put all thynges vnder his feete and gaue him to be the head ouer all thynges to the Churche 23 Which is his body the fulnesse of him that fylleth all in all ¶ The .ij. Chapter 5 To magnifie the grace of Christe which is the only cause of saluation 11 he sheweth them what maner of people they were before their conuertiō 18 and what they are nowe in Christe 1 AND you that were dead in trespasses and sinnes 2 In the which in time passed ye walked according to the course of this worlde after the gouernour that ruleth in the ayre the spirite that nowe worketh in the chyldren of disobedience 3 Among whom we all had our conuersation also in tyme past in the lustes of our flesshe fulfyllyng the wyll of the flesshe and of the mynde were by nature the chyldren of wrath euen as other 4 But God which is ryche in mercie for his great loue wherwith he loued vs 5 Euen when we were dead by sinnes hath quickned vs together with Christ by grace are ye saued 6 And hath raysed vs vp together and made vs syt together in the heauenly in Christe Iesus 7 That in ages to come he might shew the exceedyng ryches of his grace in kyndnesse to vswarde through Christe Iesus 8 For by grace are ye made safe through fayth and that not of your selues it is the gyft of God 9 Not of workes lest any man shoulde boast hym selfe 10 For we are his workmanship created in Christe Iesus vnto good workes whiche God hath ordeyned that we shoulde walke in them 11 Wherfore remember that ye being in tyme passed gentiles in the flesshe called vncircumcision of that which is called circumcision in the flesshe made by handes 12 That at that tyme ye were without Christe beyng aliauntes from the common wealth of Israel and straungers frō the testamentes of promise hauyng no hope without God in this worlde 13 But nowe in Christe Iesus ye which sometyme were farre of are made nye by the blood of Christe 14 For he is our peace which hath made both one and hath broken downe the wall that was a stoppe betwene vs 15 Taking away in his flesshe the hatred euen the lawe of commaundementes conteyned in ordinaunces for to make of twayne one newe man in hym selfe so makyng peace 16 And that he myght reconcile both vnto God in one body through his crosse and slewe hatred thereby 17 And came and preached peace to you which were a farre of and to them that were nye 18 For through hym we both haue an entraunce in one spirite vnto the father 19 ☞ Nowe therefore ye are no more straungers and foreyners but citezins with the saintes and of the housholde of God 20 And are built vpon the foundation of the apostles and prophetes Iesus Christe hym selfe beyng the head corner stone 21 In whom all the buyldyng coupled together groweth vnto an holy temple in the Lorde 22 In whom ye also are buylded together for an habitation of God through the spirite ☜ ⧠The .iij. Chapter 1 He sheweth the cause of his imprisonment 13 desireth them not to faynt because of his trouble 14 and prayeth God to make them stedfast in his spirite 1 FOr this cause I Paul am a prisoner of Iesus
God 3 But fornication and all vncleannesse or couetousnesse let it not be once named among you as it becommeth saintes 4 Neither fylthynesse neither foolyshe talkyng neither iestyng which are not comely but rather geuyng of thankes 5 For this ye knowe that no whoremonger neither vncleane person nor couetous person which is a worshipper of images hath any inheritaunce in the kyngdome of Christe and of God 6 Let no man deceaue you with vayne wordes For because of such thynges commeth the wrath of God vppon the chyldren of disobedience 7 Be not ye therefore companions of them 8 For ye were sometimes darknesse but nowe are ye lyght in the Lorde Walke as chyldren of lyght 9 For the fruite of the spirite is in all goodnesse and righteousnesse trueth 10 Approuyng what is acceptable vnto the Lorde 11 And haue no felowship with the vnfruitefull workes of darknesse but rather euen rebuke them 12 For it is shame euen to name those thynges whiche are done of them in secrete 13 But all thynges when they are rebuked of the lyght are manifest For all that which do make manifest is lyght 14 Wherefore he sayth Awake thou that sleepest and stande vp from the dead and Christe shall geue thee lyght 15 ☞ Take heede therfore howe ye walke circumspectlye not as vnwyse but as wyse 16 Redeemyng the time because y e dayes are euyll 17 Wherfore be ye not vnwise but vnderstandyng what the wyll of the Lord is 18 And be not drunke with wine wherin is excesse but be fylled with the spirite 19 Speaking vnto your selues in psalmes and hymnes and spirituall songues syngyng and makyng melodie to the Lorde in your heartes 20 Geuing thankes alwayes for all thinges vnto God and the father in y e name of our Lorde Iesus Christe 21 Submittyng your selues one to another in the feare of God ☜ 22 Wyues submit your selues vnto your owne husbandes as vnto the Lorde 23 For the husbande is the head of the wyfe euen as Christe is the head of the Church he is the sauiour of the bodie 24 But as the Church is subiect to Christ lykewyse the wyues to their owne husbandes in all thynges 25 Ye husbandes loue your wyues euen as Christe also loued the Churche and gaue hym selfe for it 26 To sanctifie it clensyng it in the fountayne of water in the worde 27 To make it vnto hym selfe a glorious Churche not hauyng spot or wrinckle or any such thyng but that it should be holy and without blame 28 So ought men to loue their wyues as their owne bodies He that loueth his wyfe loueth hym selfe 29 For no man euer yet hated his owne flesshe but norissheth cherissheth it euen as the Lorde the Churche 30 For we are members of his body of his flesshe and of his bones 31 For this cause shall a man leaue father and mother and shal be ioyned vnto his wyfe and two shal be made one flesshe 32 This is a great secrete but I speake of Christe and of the Churche 33 Therfore euery one of you do ye so Let euery one of you loue his wyfe euen as hym selfe and let the wyfe reuerence her husbande ¶ The .vj. Chapter 1 Howe chyldren shoulde behaue them selues towarde their fathers and mothers 4 Lykewyse parentes towarde their chyldren 5 seruauntes towardes their maisters 9 Maisters towarde their seruauntes 13 An exhortation to the spiritual battayle and what weapons the christians shoulde fyght withall 1 CHyldren obey your fathers and mothers in the Lorde for this is ryght 2 Honour thy father and mother whiche is the first commaundement in promise 3 That thou mayest prosper and lyue long on earth 4 Fathers prouoke not your children to wrath but bring them vp in instruction and information of the Lorde 5 Seruauntes obey them that are your bodyly maisters with feare and tremblyng in singlenesse of your heart as vnto Christe 6 Not with seruice vnto the eye as men pleasers but as the seruaūtes of Christ 7 Doyng the wyll of God frō the heart with good wyll seruyng the Lorde and not men 8 Knowyng that whatsoeuer good thyng any man doeth that shall he receaue agayne of the Lorde whether he be bonde or free 9 And ye maisters do the same thynges vnto them puttyng away threatnyng knowyng that your maister also is in heauen neither is respecte of person with hym 10 ☞ Finally my brethren be strong in the Lorde in the power of his might 11 Put on all the armour of God that ye may stande agaynst the assaultes of the deuyll 12 For we wrastle not agaynst blood flesshe but agaynst rule agaynst power agaynst worldly gouernours of the darknesse of this worlde agaynst spirituall craftynesse in heauenly places 13 Wherfore take vnto you the whole armour of God that ye may be able to resist in the euyll day and hauing finished all thynges to stande fast 14 Stande therfore hauyng loynes girt about with the trueth and puttyng on the brest plate of righteousnesse 15 And hauyng your feete shodde in the preparation of the Gospell of peace 16 Aboue all takyng the shielde of fayth wherwith ye may quenche all the fierie dartes of the wicked 17 And take the helmet of saluation and the sworde of the spirite whiche is the worde of God ☜ 18 Praying alwayes in all prayer and supplication in the spirite and watche thervnto with all instaunce and supplication for all saintes 19 And for me that vtteraunce may be geuē vnto me y t I may open my mouth freely to vtter y e secretes of the Gospell 20 Whereof I am messenger in bondes that therein I may speake freely as I ought to speake 21 But y t ye may also knowe my affaires and what I do Tichicus a deare brother and faythfull minister in the Lord shall shewe you all thynges 22 Whom I haue sent vnto you for the same purpose that ye myght knowe of our affaires and that he myght comfort your heartes 23 Peace be vnto the brethren and loue with fayth from God the father and from the Lorde Iesus Christe 24 Grace be with all them whiche loue our Lorde Iesus Christe in sinceritie Amen ⧠Sent from Rome vnto the Ephesians by Tichicus ⧠The Epistle of Saint Paul the Apostle to the Philippians ¶ The first Chapter 1 Saint Paul discouereth his heart towardes them 3 by his thankes geuyng 4 prayers 8 and wisshes for their fayth and saluation 7.12.20 He sheweth the fruite of his crosse 15.27 and exhorteth them to vnitie 28 and pacience 1 PAul Timotheus the seruauntes of Iesus Christ To all the saintes in Christ Iesus whiche are at Philippos with the bisshops deacons 2 Grace be vnto you and peace frō God our father and from the Lorde Iesus Christ 3 ☞ I thanke my God with all remembraunce of you 4 Alwayes in all my prayer for all you makyng prayer with
praying 4 Sence we hearde of your fayth in Christe Iesus and of the loue which is to all saintes 5 For the hopes sake which is layde vp for you in heauen of which hope ye hearde before in the worde of trueth of the Gospell 6 Which is come vnto you euen as it is into all the worlde is fruitfull as it is also in you from the day ye hearde of it and knewe the grace of God in trueth 7 As ye also learned of Epaphras our deare felowe seruaunt which is for you a faythfull minister of Christe 8 Who also declared vnto vs your loue in the spirite 9 ☞ For this cause we also sence y e day we hearde haue not ceassed to pray for you and to desire that ye myght be fulfylled with knowledge of his wyll in all wisdome spiritual vnderstandyng 10 That ye myght walke worthie of the Lorde in all pleasyng beyng fruitefull in all good workes and encreasyng in the knowledge of God 11 Strenthened with all might through his glorious power vnto all patience and long sufferyng with ioyfulnesse ☜ 12 Geuyng thankes vnto y e father which hath made vs meete to be partakers of the inheritaunce of the saintes in lyght 13 Who hath delyuered vs from the power of darcknesse and hath translated vs into the kingdome of his deare sonne 14 In whō we haue redemptiō through his blood the forgeuenesse of sinnes 15 Who is the image of the inuisible God the first borne of all creatures 16 For by him were all thinges created that are in heauē and that are in earth visible and inuisible whether they be maiestie or lordeshippe either rule or power All thynges were created by hym and for hym 17 And he is before all thynges and in hym all thynges consist 18 And he is the head of the body of the Churche he is the begynnyng the first borne of the dead that in all thynges he myght haue the preeminence 19 For it pleased the father that in hym shoulde all fulnesse dwell 20 And by hym to * reconcile all thynges vnto hym selfe to set at peace through the blood of his crosse by hym both the thynges in earth and thynges in heauen 21 And you which were sometyme straungers and enemies by cogitation in euyll workes hath he nowe yet reconciled 22 In the body of his fleshe through death to present you holye and vnblameable without fault in his syght 23 If ye continue grounded stablisshed in the fayth and be not moued away from the hope of the Gospell which ye haue hearde howe it is preached to euery creature which is vnder heauen wherof I Paul am made a minister 24 Nowe iowe I in my sufferynges for you and fulfyll that which is behynde of the passions of Christe in my fleshe for his bodyes sake which is y e Church 25 Wherof I am made a minister accordyng to the dispensation of God which is geuen to me to you warde to fulfyll the worde of God 26 The misterie hyd sence the worlde began and sence the begynnyng of generations but nowe is opened to his saintes 27 To whom God woulde make knowē what is the riches of the glorie of this misterie among the gentiles which is Christe in you the hope of glorie 28 Whom we preache warnyng euery man and teachyng euery man in all wisdome to present all men perfect in Christe Iesus 29 Wherunto I also labour striuyng according to his workyng which worketh in me mightylie ¶ The .ij. Chapter 1 Hauyng protected his good wyll towarde them 4 he admonisheth them not to turne backe from Christe 8 to the seruice of Angels or any other inuention or els ceremonies of the lawe 17 which haue finished their office and are ended in Christe 1 FOr I woulde that ye knew what great fight I haue for you and for them that are at Laodicea and for as many as haue not seene my face in the fleshe 2 That their heartes myght be comforted beyng knyt together in loue and in al riches of certaintie of vnderstanding to knowe the misterie of God and of the father and of Christe 3 In whom are hyd all the treasures of wisdome and knowledge 4 This I say lest any man shoulde begyle you with perswasion of wordes 5 For though I be absent in the fleshe yet am I with you in the spirite ioying and beholdyng your order and your stedfast fayth in Christe 6 As ye haue therfore receaued Christe Iesus the Lorde so walke ye in hym 7 Rooted and built in hym stablished in the fayth as ye haue ben taught aboundyng therin with thankes geuing 8 ☞ * Beware lest any man spoyle you through philosophie vayne deceipt after the tradition of men and after the rudimentes of the worlde and not after Christe 9 For in hym dwelleth all the fulnesse of the Godhead bodyly 10 And ye are complete in him which is the head of all principalitie and power 11 In whom also ye are circumcised with circumcisiō made without handes by puttyng of the body of sinnes of the fleshe in the circumcision of Christe 12 Buried with him in baptisme in whō ye are also risen agayne through y e fayth of the operation of God who hath raysed hym from the dead 13 * And ye beyng dead to sinne and to the vncircumcision of your fleshe hath he quickened with him forgeuyng all your trepasses ☜ 14 And puttyng out the hande writing of ordinaunces that was agaynst vs and that hath he taken out of the way fastenyng it to his crosse 15 Spoylyng all principalities powers hath made a shewe of them openly triumphyng ouer them in it 16 Let no man therfore iudge you in meate or in drinke or in part of an holy-day or of the newe moone or of the Sabboth dayes 17 Which are shadowes of thynges to come but the body is of Christe 18 Let no man begile you of victorie in the humblenesse and worshippyng of Angels intrudyng hym selfe into those thinges which he hath not seene causelesse puft vp with his fleshly mynde 19 And holdeth not the head wherof all the body by ioyntes bandes supported and knit together encreaseth with the encrease of God 20 Wherefore yf ye be dead with Christe from y e rudimentes of the world why as though lyuyng in the worlde are ye led with traditions 21 Touche not taste not handle not 22 Which all be in corruption in abusyng after the commaundementes and doctrines of men 23 Which thynges haue a shewe of wisdome in superstition humblenesse of mynde and in hurtyng of the body not in any honour to the satisfiyng of y e flesh ¶ The .iij. Chapter 1 He sheweth where we shoulde seke Christe 5 he exhorteth to mortification 10 to put of the olde man and to put on Christe 12 to the which he addeth exhortation both generall and
wyll God bryng with hym 15 For this say we vnto you in the worde of the Lorde that we whiche lyue remayning vnto the cōmyng of the Lord shall not preuent them which sleepe 16 For the Lorde hym selfe shal descende from heauen in a shoute and in the voyce of the Archangell and in the trumpe of God And the dead in Christ shall aryse first 17 Than we which lyue which remaine shal be caught vp together with them in the cloudes to meete the Lorde in the ayre And so shall we euer be with the Lorde 18 Wherfore comfort your selues one another in these wordes ☜ The .v. Chapter 1 He infourmeth them of the day of iudgement and commyng of the Lorde 6 Exhortyng them to watche 12 and to regarde such as preache Gods word among them 1 BVt of the tymes seasons brethrē ye haue no neede that I write vnto you 2 For ye your selues knowe perfectlye that the day of the Lord shall so come euen as a theefe in the nyght 3 For when they shal say peace safetie then shall sodeyne destruction come vppon them as sorowe vpon a woman with chylde and they shall not escape 4 But ye brethren are not in darknesse that that day shoulde ouertake you as a theefe 5 ☞ Ye are all the chyldren of lyght and the chyldren of the daye We are not of the nyght neither of darkenesse 6 Therefore let vs not sleepe as do other but let vs watche and be sober 7 For they that sleepe sleepe in the night and they that be druncken are druncken in the nyght 8 But let vs which are of the day be sober puttyng on the brest plate of fayth and loue and a helmet the hope of saluation 9 For God hath not appoynted vs to wrath but to obtayne saluation by our Lorde Iesus Christe 10 Whiche dyed for vs that whether we wake or sleepe we shoulde lyue together with hym 11 Wherefore comfort your selues together and edifie euery one another euen as ye do ☜ 12 And we beseche you brethren to know them whiche labour among you and haue the ouersight of you in the Lorde and admonishe you 13 That ye haue them in hye reputation in loue for their worke and be at peace among your selues 14 ☞ We exhort you brethren warne them that are vnruly comfort the feeble mynded lyft vp the weake be pacient towarde all men 15 See that none recompence euyll for euyll vnto any man but euer folowe that whiche is good both among your selues and to all men 16 Reioyce euer 17 Pray continually 18 In all thinges geue thankes For this is the wyl of God in Christe Iesus towarde you 19 Quenche not the spirite 20 Despise not prophesiynges 21 Examine all thynges holde fast that which is good 22 Abstayne from all appearaunce of euyll 23 And the very God of peace santifie you throughout And I pray God that your whole spirite and soule and body may be preserued blamelesse in the comming of our Lorde Iesus Christe 24 Faythfull is he whiche called you whiche wyll also do it 25 Brethren pray for vs. 26 Greete all the brethren in an holy kysse 27 I charge you in the Lorde that this epistle be read vnto al the holy brethren 28 The grace of our Lord Iesus Christ be with you Amen ⧠The first epistle vnto the Thessalonians written from Athens The seconde Epistle of the Apostle Saint Paul to the Thessalonians ⧠The first Chapter 3 He thanketh God for their fayth loue and pacience 11 He prayeth for the encrease of the same 12 And sheweth what fruite shall come therof 1 PAul and Siluanus and Timotheus vnto the Church of the Thessalonians in God our father and the Lord Iesus Christe 2 Grace vnto you and peace from God our father the Lorde Iesus Christe 3 We are bound to thanke God alwayes for you brethren as it is meete because that your fayth groweth exceedyngly and the loue of euery one of you toward another aboundeth 4 So that we our selues reioyce in you in the Churches of God ouer your pacience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that ye suffer 5 Which is a token of the ryghteous iudgment of God that ye may be counted woorthy of the kyngdome of God for which ye also suffer 6 For it is a ryghteous thing with God to recompence tribulation to them that trouble you 7 And to you whiche are troubled reste with vs in the reuelation of the Lorde Iesus from heauen with the Angels of his power 8 In flamyng fire rendryng vengeance vnto them that knowe not God and that obey not the Gospell of our Lorde Iesus Christe 9 Which shal be punisshed with euerlastyng dampnation from the presence of the Lorde frō the glorie of his power 10 When he shall come to be glorified in his saintes and to be made marueylous in all them that beleue because our testimonie toward you was beleued in that day 11 Wherfore also we praye alwayes for you that our God woulde make you worthy of the callyng fulfyll all good pleasure of goodnesse in the worke of fayth in power 12 That the name of our Lorde Iesus Christe may be glorified in you and ye in hym accordyng to the grace of our God and the Lorde Iesus Christe ¶ The .ij. Chapter 3 He sheweth them that the day of the Lorde shall not come tyll the departyng of the fayth come first 9 and the kyngdome of Antichriste 15 And therfore he exhorteth them not to be deceaued but to stande stedfast in the thinges that he hath taught them 1 WE besech you brethren by the comming of our Lorde Iesus Christe and by our assembling vnto hym 2 That ye be not sodenlye moued from your minde nor be troubled neither by spirite nor by worde nor yet by letter as from vs as though the daye of Christe were at hande 3 Let no man deceaue you by any meanes for the Lorde shall not come excepte there come a fallyng away first that that man of sinne be reuealed the sonne of perdition 4 Whiche is an aduersarie and is exalted aboue all that is called God or that is worshipped so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God shewing hym selfe that he is God 5 Remember ye not that when I was yet with you I tolde you these thynges 6 And nowe ye knowe what withholdeth that he myght be reuealed in his tyme. 7 For the misterie of iniquitie doth alredie worke tyll he whiche nowe onlye letteth be taken out of the way 8 And then shall that wicked be reuealed whom the Lorde shall consume with the spirite of his mouth and shall destroy with the brightnesse of his commyng ☜ 9 Euen hym whose commyng is after the workyng of Satan in all power signes and wonders of lying 10
and misteries (e) Blacke thorowe the spottes of sinne and persecution (f) Fayre thorow fayth in the blood of Christe (g) After the doctrine of the Apostles Exo. xiiii c. (h) So long as y e Churche foloweth Christe she shall not erre from the true fayth of saluation Cant. iiii a. (a) Christe among his enemies (b) The loue of the Church towarde Christe (c) His fruite that is his worde 〈…〉 e His 〈◊〉 was hidden vnder our fleshe We can not knowe hym in this lyfe perfectly (g) That is sinne and infidelitie is put away by Christe (h) Good workes (i) The voyce of the holy ghost k Suppresse the heretikes at the beginning when they preache false doctrine (l) The Church prayeth Christe to be a present helpe alwaies in tyme of neede (a) Christe is not founde by carnal reason but by the scripture (b) We must continue in prayer though we feele no comfort at the first Cantâ— ii b. (c) By this is vnderstanded the chyldren of Israel whiche in the wyldernes did folow Christe (d) By Solomons bedsteede is vnderstanded the temple of Solomon the whiche is defended by the sword that is by the worde (e) Euery man must learne the word of God by the whiche he shal be defended in the time of temptation “ Some reade the pauement of golde the couering of purple (f) Ye that be of the number of the faythful Christe 〈◊〉 his Churche wherein he hath great delight A simple fayth and 〈◊〉 The fruites of a true fayth (d) By the teeth is signified fayth by the whiche we are all made the sonnes of God equally (e) By the necke are signified the preachers (f) The two breastes signifie the two testamentes (g) The preachyng of the Gospel bringeth forth much consolation profite (h) The Churche is defended by Christe (i) He prayeth for the grace of the holy ghost towarde the Churche without the whiche nothing can prosper in it (a) The garden signifieth the Churche of God in the whiche Christe bestoweth his singuler benefites b Christe doth leaue his for a tyme for that he would stirre vp in them a greater desire of hym (c) The Church setteth foorth Christe to be of most perfection comlinesse “ Some reade and remayne by the fulâ— vessels (a) Christe is conuersant in his Churche which is directed by his scriptures Or ouercome me (b) There be many in the Churche of God diuers orders and degrees therin (c) Diuers perticuler Churches dispersed maketh but one catholike Churche (d) Christe loketh vpon his Church subiect to affliction what fruite it bryngeth e Sulamite that is Hierusalem the which was Shalem that signifeth peace (a) Thy nauell is replenyshed with the rich knowledge of Gods worde heauenly desires (b) The Church is ful of spirituall treasures (c) The two testamentes coÌ„meth from God and they be of equall aucthoritie The preachers ought to be pure (e) The magistrates must he well instructed in the worde of God (f) Thy iudges of good and euyll (g) The prince that alwayes standdeth aboue lyke a watchman to defend the body (h) The Churche doth encrease the more it is pressed and persecuted h 〈…〉 the sacramentes must folowe the pure word of god alway (i) Christe wyll call them that professe his worde to accompt what fruite they do bryng (k) God geueth his graces to the faythfull the which be in his Church (a) The fathers of the olde testament desireth to see the incarnation of Christe Cant. ii a. (b) His gratious fauour shall preserue me from desperation in aduersitie and froÌ„ presumption in prosperitie (c) The Churche desireth to be ioyned vnto Christe by the seale of the holy ghost d The Iewes Church speâ—keth this 〈◊〉 Church 〈◊〉 Gentiles 〈◊〉 which 〈◊〉 both testamentes The Apostles preacheth to them that are called inwardlye of God to saluation (f) By this thousand is signified the greatest profite which is lyfe euerlastyng which is obteined by the grace of God not by our merites (g) Christe dwelleth in his Church and his sheepe heare his voyce (h) The Church doth pray that Christe departing with his bodyly presence he woulde assist her in all kinde of necessites with the grace of his heauenly spirite (a) A reuelation or prophecie 〈…〉 Christe his Church his wordes (b) The causes why God forsaketh his people is idolatrie heathenishe superstition couetousnesse and trust in other thinges then in God alone (a) The prudent that is such â—s can 〈◊〉 by their prudencie â—ges to come The incarnation of Christe is the ioy of the faythfull â–ª (b) They are saued whose sinnes are remitted and washt away with the blood of Christe (c) Christe wyll preserue and defende the glorie tâ— is the faithâ— in all troubles temptations (a) God loketh to receaue of his people the thankefull fruites â–ª of fayth and not the vnpleasant workes of faythlesse ingratitude (b) Their glorie their noble and honorable personages (c) The 〈◊〉 of Iuda 〈◊〉 be ouerwhâ—med with â—iserable affliction (a) Gods sacramente◠〈◊〉 not bare signes but with the sigâ— and the worâ— the matter siâ—nified is exâ—bited to the faythfull (a) Dauids house that is Ahaâ— (b) The heere of the head and the beard the prâ—â—â—smâ—n of authoritie â–ª 〈◊〉 feete the â—â—â—mon sort of people (a) Mans policie and deuise without God preuayleth not (b) Affiaunce is to be put in God and not â—n mans poliâ—â—â— or helpe (c) The wordes of Christ (d) We must seeke in Gods word what to folowe for in meanes without Gods worde there is no light (a) Christe his kingdome and his names (a) Christe shal be borne of the seede of Esai (b) The armour of Christe and of his kyngdome (c) The tongue that is the arme of the sea that hindereth the passage (a) Burthen that is the prophecie (a) The carelesse and obstinate dispisers of tymely repentaunce moued by the preachyng of gods worde shall repent when it is to late 〈…〉 and idoâ— haue 〈◊〉 â—rust 〈…〉 idoâ— and 〈◊〉 some one 〈◊〉 â—en â—n 〈…〉 ther◠〈…〉 in â—ayâ— (b) Not be able through weerinesse â–ª or it shall not profite him 〈◊〉 the â—ead and braunche â—re meaâ— the honorable and chiefest of the â—ande â–ª by the â—andâ— reede the multitude and lower sort of 〈◊〉 â–ª a The waste sea is Babylon or Chaldee (a) Hierusalem is meant by the valley of vision Luk. xix f. Iere. ix a. b The armourie that Solomon made and furnished with munition â— Reg â— (c) The Lorde doth not forbyd to make prouision of sure defence agaynst the enemies so that our trust be put in him â–ª and not in our fortresses and strong holdes 〈…〉 b. Esai 36 a. Iob. xii b. Apoc. iii. b. Eâ— xxâ—â— a 〈…〉 and the strength of the â—ea â—s meant Tyrus (b) That crowneth her selfe that is which boasted her selfe to be as it were the Queene of all cities on the sea coast Luk. xxi c. Esai xxvi a Luk. xiiii d.