soule to be takeÌ„ from y e deuils to be put into their fained purgatory with lie al. PolichronicoÌ„ saith y t wheÌ„ Dunston coÌ„maunded y e deuils to leaue y e soule of Edwine that one deuil spake and said had not Dunston ben they stil mought haue tormeÌ„ted him But y e strength of their requiem Masses were of such abhominable operation y t they could kepe him no longer Thus these shameles rebels the ofspringes of Sathan are not ashamed to confirme say this to be true which is most pernisious filthy God for his mercies sake opeÌ„ the eyes of all obstinate papistes hinderers of his word that while the light of his glorious gospell shineth among vs both they and we all may imbrace the light and not to runne hedlong into the vale of darkenes where is weping wayling and gnashing of teath and endles woes for euer continuing remember the wordes of our sauiour Christe which he spake ouer Ierusalem saying Iâ—rusalem Ierusalem qua occidis prophetas lapidas eos qui mittuntur ad te quoties volui congregare filios tuos quemadmodum auis nidum suum sub pennas et noluisti O IerusaleÌ„ Ierusalem which killest y e prophets and stonest them that are sent vnto thee how oft would I haue gathered thy children together as the Hen gathereth her nest vnder her winges but ye would not let these few ensamples be sufficient CoÌ„sider wel of them and prayse them as they are worthy flye fables and cleaue to the veritie and then no doubt God will extend to vs his mercy Amen Problemes SAthan flourishing Uertue decreseth Uertue flourishing Sathan consumeth If will haue desire to froward intent Both froward and will in the end will be shent As Fides and Fallax be not of one minde So vice with vertue can neuer agrée Uice will to vice as euill by kinde When vertue shines bright strange sightes you shall sée A seruaunt I had both trusty and true Ful of obedience and very diligent Yet euill in maners â–ª full well did ensue In darkenes condemned no time to repent When earth by his vapour shall fume so the head That nothing may cause such apacient to sée Beware in the end it turne not to Lead And so of thy head neuer cured to be When Phaeton whipped his horsses gan runne The worlde to compasse as he then thought But Soll sone displased so wilfull a sonne And all his intent consumed to nought Where mault long lieth not looked vnto The Popes they deuoure and wast sone the corne Yet all not consumed for all they can doo When fier aproch ther better vnborne When Crocadill wéepeth and lieth full lowe Then danger nere crepeth of haue none take And the asse for pastour doth neigh with show Then Fallax from falshoode sée thou forsake The Uiper his kinde doth vse and kepe By resemblance of loue with an outwarde show So ire once kindled causeth some so wepe And like will to like as all 〈◊〉 well knew The Oke that is grene and fresh in his kinde The Iuy once spred and on the tope take holde By little and little his force is vntwinde And the Oke once fallen then nedes must vnfolde As spring of sommer the gates doo delight And Aquaries would be in Leos place The force of Philomisos may sone lose his fight And causelesse to forget eche knowen face The Snayle once voyde his house cannot gett Where substance of body is vtterly spent Nor life to sée light that once might haue set And house in the ende by tempest is rent When Leo by force his pray doth seke By Uenus assent and thinkest not to misse Philogines with heate may cause him to gréete So greate is his power deuoyde of all blisse When Vulcan with force hath done what he can With hammers and sledges to hollow the ground Yet Philamertia the enmye of man Surpasseth his force and geueth the wound Where the hogge is filled with vnwonted swill And the Ape is vsed to thinges not meete There deadly drincke full soone doth kill To late to morne lesse cause to weepe When golde into copper are changed in one And Acteons dogges are suffised with pray Then euery poore pastor shall dwell alone And of theyr whole liuing shall haue no nay When. Bon. in to ner yae be to some His banner displaied in place where he would Then L as Ioylese may say vndone Sith Pietas delaieth once that he could While Soll with his beames so fresh geueth light And Ely wisheth Zabeth long to raigne Then pray to Iehouah we lose not that sight In whome consisteth our profite and gayne All such as are wise vse iudgement by measure Be not to rash a solusion to geue And so it may chaunce sone to perseuer Much better to vnderstand the matter to atchiue FINIS ⧠Of the day of doome And comming of the Lord wherein is contayned the rewarde of the faithful the reprobate go into euerlasting fier BEholde heauâ—n and the heauen of heauens is the Lords and the earth with all that is therein notwithstanding the Lord had a lust vnto thy fathers to loue them and chose theyr seede after them euen you aboue all nations as thou seest this day Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your hart and be no more stifnecked for the Lord your God is God of Gods and Lord of Lordes a great God a mightie and a terrible God which regardeth no mans person nor taketh giftes he doth right vnto the fatherlesse and widdow and loueth the stranger to geue him foode and rayment loue ye therfore the stranger also for ye were strangers your selues in y e land of Egipt Thou shalt feare y e lord thy god him onely shalt y u serue to him shalt thou cleaue and sweare by his name he is thy praise thy God that hath done for thee these great terrible things which thine eyes haue sene Thy fathers went down into Egipt with 70. soules and now the Lord thy God hath made thee multiplied thee as the starres of heauen consider most gentle reader the mercifullnes of so puissaÌ„t a creatour that would not the death of a sinner but that he should be conuerted and turne from his wicked wayes if not that then where he promised life he will rewarde with horrible death takeheede therefore and be constant in all truth vnto the ende and God will preserue thee and on all those that haue no loue vnto his word among suche doth God let slip false prophets to deceaue them And therefore God shall sende them strong delusion that they should beleue lyes that al they might be damned which beleue not the truth but haue pleasure in vnrighteousnes and those which withdraw the faithful from the truth of the gospell Whoso dwelleth vnder the defence of the most highest shall abide vnder the shadow of the almightie
he tooke out two pence and gaue to the host and said vnto him take cure of him and whatsoeuer thou speÌ„dest more when I come agayne I will recompence thee Which now of these three thinkest thou was neighbour vnto him that was wounded and he said he y t shewed mercy on him The Lawyer perceiued not y t it was himselfe the which was wounded with extreame woundes of fained hope ignoraunce and sinne and the same whiche profered to heale those woundes was the Samaritan Christ which profered not health vnto him onely but also vnto all such as had confidence and trust in him But he iustifiyng himselfe therein condemned himselfe because there is none righteous but Christ alone And now Israell what doth thy Lord thy God require of thee but to feare y e Lord thy God and to walke in all his wayes to loue him and to serue thy Lord thy God with all thy hart and with all thy soule Namely that thou keepe the commaundementes of the Lord and his ordinaunces which I commaunde thee this day for thy wealth God geueth to maÌ„ that which is good before him wisdome vnderstanding and gladnes but vnto the sinner werines and superfluous care that he may gather and heape together the thing that afterward shalbe geuen vnto him whome it pleaseth God thys is now a vaine thing yea a very disquietnes and vexation of minde Marke also the wordes of our Sauiour Christ to Philip. Philip saith vnto him shew vs the father and it suffiseth vs Iesus sayde vnto hym haue I bene so long time with you yet hast thou not knowen me Philip. He that hath seene me hath â—eene the father and how sayest thou then shewe vs the father beleuest thou not that I am in the father and the father in me At the least beleue me for the very workes sake If ye loue me keepe my commaundementes and I will praye the father and he shall geue you another comforter that he may abide wyth you euer which is the spirit of truth whom y e worlde cannot receiue because the world seeth him not neyther knoweth him but ye know him but he dwelleth with you and shalbe in you I will not leaue you coÌ„fortles but will come vnto you All transitory things shall faile at the last and the workers thereof shal go withall Euery chosen worke shalbe iustified and he that medleth withall shall haue honour therein blessed is the man that keepeth himselfe in wisdome and exerciseth himself in vnderstanding and with discretion shall he thinke vpon the foreknowledge of God which considereth the wayes of wisdome in his hart hath vnderstanding in his secretes goeth after her as one that seeketh her out coÌ„tinueth in her wayes he looketh in at her windowes and harkeneth at her doores he taketh his rest besides her house and fasteneth her stake into her walles he shall pitch his tente nigh vnto her hand and in his tent shall good things rest for euermore he shall set his children vnder her couering and shal dwell vnder her braunches vnder her couering shall he be defended from the heat and in her glory shall he rest For I suppose that the afflictions of this life are not worthy of the glory which shalbe shewed vpon vs. Also the feruent desire of the creatures abideth looking when the sonnes of God shall appeare because y e creatures are subdued to vanitie against their will but for his will which subdued them in hope for the very creatures shalbe deliuered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the sonnes of God ¶ How we ought to loue our neighboures EUery beast loueth his like eueÌ„ so let euery man loue his neighbour all fleshe will resort to their like And euery man wyll keepe coÌ„pany with such as he is himsele But as the Wolfe agreeth with y e lambe so doth the vngodly with y e righteous What fellowship should an holy man haue with a dogge how can the rich and the poore agree together The wild asse is the Lions pray in the wildernes euen so are poore men the meate of the rich Like as the proud may not away with lowlines euen so doth the rich abhorre the poore If a rich man fall his frendes set him vp agayne But when the poore falleth his aquaintance forsake him If a rich man fall into error he hath many helpers he speaketh proude wordes and yet men iustifie him But if a poore man goe wronge he is punished yea though he speake wisely yet can it haue no place WheÌ„ the rich man speaketh euery man holdeth his tonge and loke what he saith they prayse it vnto the clouds But if the poore maÌ„ speake they say what fellow is this and he do amisse they shal destroy him for what felowship hath righteousnes with vnrighteousnes what company hath light with darckenes what concorde hath Christ with beliall eyther what part hath he that beleueth with an infidell and how agreeth the temple of God with Images Beware of vnrighteous thinges he gaue euery man also a commaundement coÌ„cerning his neighbour their wayes are euer before him are not hid from his eyes The mercy that a man sheweth is as it wer a purse wyth him and the grace that is geuen to a man preserueth him as the aple of an eye But as touching brotherly loue ye neede not that I write vnto you for ye are taught of god to loue one an other who so discouereth secretes leseth his credence and findeth no frende after his mynde loue thy frende and bynde thy selfe in faithfulnes with him but if thou bewraiest his secretes thou shalt not get him againe for like as the man is that destroyeth his enemy so is he also that dealeth foolishly in the frendshippe of his neighbour Like as one that letteth a birde goe out of his hands cannot take her againe also he that loueth his neighbour hath fulfilled the law I say walke in the spirit and fulfil not the lustes of the flesh for the flesh lusteth contrary to the spirit and y e spirit contrary to the flesh these are contrary one to the other so that ye cannot do that which you would but and if ye be ledde of the spirit then are ye not vnder the lawe The deedes of the flesh are manifest which are these fornication vncleannes wantonnes idolatry witchcraft hatred varience zeale wrath strife sedition sectes enuiyng murther droÌ„kennes glotony such like of y e which I tell you before as I haue tolde you in time past y t they which such things commite shal not inherit the kingdome of God But y e fruit of y e spirit is loue ioy peace long suffring geÌ„tlenes goodnes faithfulnes mekenes teÌ„peraÌ„ce against such there is no law they that are Christes haue crucified the flesh with the appetites and lustes He that loueth his father and mother sonne or daughter more then Christ is not worthy of him
seruants to do thē seruice as in resisting the forrayne enemy shewing our selues obedient subiects vnto our prince gouerners not after a sodomicall order but after those orders y t are as wel to be alowed of God as of y e Prince or magistrats Euery one y t euill doth hateth y e light neither cōmeth to y e light least his dedes should be reproued but he y t doth truth commeth to the light that his deedes may be knowne how y t they are wrought in God He that commeth from heauen is aboue all and what he hath seene and heard that he testifieth and no man receaueth his testimony he that hath receaued his testimony hath set to his seale that God is true Which seale signifieth our Christian beliefe the which when we haue heard do forth wyth followe to the vttermost on our parts and do stedfastly stande to the same refusing no plagues that may be layde on the body for that sweete fruite of happy ioye but euen to the ende therein so to continue and then haue we beleued and also sealed But he that seeketh hys prayse that sent hym the same is true and no vnrighteousnes is in him yea and he that sent me is true Let God be true and euery man a lyer as it is written that thou mightest be iustified in thy sayinges and ouercome when thou art iudged Let vs geue none occasion of euill that in oure office be founde no fault but in all thinges let vs behaue our selues as the ministers of God in much pacience in afflictions in necessityes in anguishes in stripes in imprisonmentes in striues in laboures in watchynges in fastynges in puernes in knowledge in long sufferyng in kindenes in the holye ghost in loue vnfayned in the worde of truthe in the power of God by the armour of righteousnes of the right hande and on the lefte by honour and dishonoure by euill reporte and good reporte as deceyuers and yet true And I saw heauen open and behold a white horse and he that sate vpon him was called faithfull and true and in righteousnes he doth iudge and make battaile And I sawe an angell stande in the sunne and he cried with a loude voyce saying to all the foules that flye by the midst of heauen come and gather your selues to the supper of the great God that all flesh may be deuoured The multitude that cried are the vniuersall church or congregation of the faithfull which is also to be vnderstanded the wyfe of the lambe The lambes supper is the lyfe euerlasting for all true beleuers to rest in perpetual ioy and endeles felicitie The foules that are called to the slaughter are the true preachers of christes doctrine who are commaunded to kill and deuoure all flesh with the sharpenes of their preaching in rebuking the fleshly liuing in all degrees O Israell if thou wilt turne thee O England if thou wilt turne thee and leaue thine abhominations then turne vnto me sayth the Lord for euen as the Prophet spake vnto Israell euen the very same speaketh he vnto thee O England And if thou wilt put away thyne offences out of my sight thou shalt not be moued and shalt sweare the Lord liueth in truth in equitie and righteousnes and all people shall be fortunate ioyfull in hym Heare the wordes of the Lord O ye children of Israell for the Lord must punishe them that dwell in the lande And why there is no truth there is no mercye there is no knowledge of God in the lande but swearing lying manslaughter thefte and adultry haue gotten the vpper hande therefore shall the lande be in a miserable case and all those wycked offendours that are therin shall be rooted out The Lord kepeth not his wrath for euer and why his delight is to haue compassion thou shalt kepe thy truth with Iacob thy mercy for Abraham like as thou hast sworne vnto our fathers long ago And it shall come to passe that like as ye were a curse among the heathen O ye house of Iuda and ye house of Israel euen so wil I deliuer you that you shal be a blessyng Feare not but let your hands be strong for thus saith the Lorde of hostes Like as I deuised to punish you what time as your fathers prouoked me vnto wrath saith the Lord of hostes and spared not euen so am I determined now in these dayes for to do well vnto the house of Iuda and Ierusalem Therfore feare ye not Nowe the thinges that you shall doo are these speake euery man the truth vnto his neighbour execute iudgement truely and patiently within your portes None of you imagine euill in his harte agaynste hys neyghbour and loue no false othes for all these are y e thynges that I hate sayth the Lorde The law of truth was in his mouthe and there was no wickednes found in his lyps he walked with me in peace and equitie and did turne many one away from their sinnes Kyng Darius made a great feaste vnto hys seruauntes vnto all hys Courte and to all the officers of Media and Percia yea to all the Deputies and rulers that were vnder hym from Iudea vnto Ethiopia a 127. countries so when they had eaten and dronken beyng satisfied and were gone home agayne Darius the king went into his Chaumber and there layde him downe to sleepe and after a while a waked In the meane season the three young men that kepte the kinges person and watched hys bodye communed among themselues and spake one to an other let euery one of vs say something and looke whose sentence is wisest and moste excellent aboue the other vnto him shall Kyng Darius geue greate gyftes and clothe him with Purple and set hym nere the Kinges presence and so euerye one wrote hys meaning sealed it and layde it vnder the kinges Pillowe and sayde when the kyng ariseth we will geue him our writinges and looke whose worde the king and his chiefe Lordes iudge to be most wisely spoken the same shall haue the victory one wrote Wine is a strong thing the second wrote the King is stronger the third wrote Woemen haue yet more strength but aboue all thinges the truth heareth away the victory and this last probleme was written by Zorababel and was by the king and his counsaile estemed most best in that he preferred truth aboue al thinges True frendship and frindes ye surely shall finde where many pure hartes are made in one minde Tobias of the tribe and Citie of Nepthalem whiche lyeth in the hye countreyes of Galile aboute Naason the way towarde the West hauyng the Citie Sephet vppon the lefte syde thoughe he was taken prisoner in the dayes of Salmanazer kyng of the Assirians neuerthelesse being in captiuitie he forsooke not the way of truthe They that doo sinne in vnrighteousnes are the ennemies of theyr owne soules wherefore I tell you the truthe and wyll hyde nothyng from you
serue the Lorde in the truth seeke after hys wyll and doo the thyng that pleaseth him For God is gracious and mercifull he forgeueth sinnes in the tyme of trouble and is a defendour for all them that seeke hym in the truthe And we sawe the glorye of it as the glorye of the onelye begotten sonne full of grace and truthe If ye beleue not that I am he ye shall dye in your sinnes Then sayde they vnto him what art thou and Iesus sayth vnto them euen the very same thing that I spake vnto you I haue many thinges to saye and to iudge of you yea and he that sent me is true then sayde hee to those Iewes whiche beleued on hym if ye continue in my worde then are ye my verye disciples and ye shall knowe the truth and the truth shall make you free but now ye goe about to kill me a man that hath tolde you the truth which I haue hearde of God why doo ye not knowe my speache euen because ye can not abyde the hearyng of my woorde ye are of your Father the Diuell and the lustes of your father will ye serue he was a murtherer from the beginnyng and abode not in the truth therefore ye beleue me not whiche of you rebuketh me of sinne if I say the truth why do ye not beleue me For this cause was I borne and for thys cause came I into the world that I should beare witnes of the truth and al that are of the truth heare my voyce I say the truth in Christ and I lye not if the truth of Christ be in me this reioysing shall not be takeÌ„ away froÌ„ me in the region of Achaia Wherfore because I loue you not God knoweth neuerthelesse what I do that will I do to cut away occasion that they might be found like vnto vs in that wherin they reioyce we can do nothing agaynst the truth but for the truth But let vs follow the truth in loue and in all thinges growe in him whiche is the head euen Christ. Let no maÌ„ deceiue you with vain words for because of such things coÌ„meth the wrath of God vpon the children of disobedience be not ye therefore companions of them Ye were sometime darkenes but now are ye light in the lord walke as children of light for the fruite of the spirite consisteth in all goodnes righteousnes and truth Study to shew thy selfe laudable vnto God a workeman that neadeth not to be ashamed distributing the word of God truely and iustly as for vngodly vanities of vices passe thou ouer them for they will encrease vnto greater vngodlinesse and theyr wordes shall freate euen as doth the disease of a canker of whose number is Himeneus and Pliletus which as coÌ„cerning the truth haue erred saying that the resurrection is passed al ready and do destroy the fayth of some but the sure ground of God standeth still hath this seale the lord knoweth them that are his and let euery man that calleth on Christ depart from his iniquitie This witnes is true wherefore rebuke thou them sharpely that they may be sounde in the fayth not taking heede to Iewishe fables and commaundements of men that turne away the truth If we say that we haue felowship with him and walke in darkenes we lye and do not the truth I haue not writteÌ„ vnto you as though ye knew not the truth but as though ye knewe it and knowe also that no lye commeth of truth God graunt al christian hearers and readers of his worde to be as well followers as hearers that after this life we may all raygne in the eternall and euerlasting kingdome with God the father and his sonne Iesus Christ to whome be all glory and dominion both now and euer The description of wisdome ANd the Lord spake vnto Moyses saying beholde I haue called by name Besalael the sone of Ury the sonne of Haâ—â—e of the tribe of Iuda and I haue filled him with the spirit of God in wisdome and vnderstanding in knowledge and in all maner of worke to finde out subtill feates and to worke in golde siluer and brasse And now harken O Israell vnto the ordinaunces and lawes which I teach you c. Kepe it therefore and do them for that is your wisdome The valiant and kingly Prophet Dauid in that he feared the Lord the Lord prospered hym and he behaued him selfe wisely in all his wayes and the Lord was with hym wherefore when Same sawe that he was so exceding wife he was afrayde of Dauid The dayes of Dauid drewe nye that he shoulde dye and he charged Salomon his sonne saying I go the way of all the world be thou strong therefore and shew thy selfe a man Kepe thou the watch of y e Lord thy God that thou walke in his wayes and keepe his statutes and his precepts his iudgementes and his testimonies euen as it is written in the lawe of Moyses that thou mayst prosper in all y t thou dooste and in euery thing that thou medlest wiâ—h all concerning Ioab the sonne of Zarine in that he slewe the two capitaines Abner and Amasa Deale with hym therefore according vnto wisdome and bring not his hore heade down to the graue in peace Prudence coÌ„sisteth in knowledge of things good euill ⧠Of wisdome The signification THe house which standeth on the rocke signifieth the stedfast beliefe of the faythfull The other which standeth in the valy and on sandy ground is the church of Antichrist and all popishe preaching whiche house by violence of the water which falleth froÌ„ the heigth ouer turneth it and so lieth voyde and empty Seperate them that do craftely flatter thee froÌ„ those that do faithfully loue thee least the ill men haue most profite by thee By these examples it is manifest that God hath â—lwayes and at all tymes preserued not onely those rulers and maiestrates the which haue vsed and kept hys preceptes wyth prudent wisdome and iust dealing but also as well the poore and simple hath not onely bene vnto those realmes a most prosperous sauiour in sending aboundaunce of all fertility but in the ende an euerlasting redemer vnto enlesse ioyes and most happy felicity Consider the excellent wisdome of Salomon in doyng iustice betwene the two women that stroue for the quicke childe when as the one of them through her necligence smothered her childe and by craft ment to lay her fact on the other to auoyde the blame was reproued and the true mother of the liuing childe was knowen Also God gaue SalomoÌ„ wisdome and vnderstanding exceding much and a large hart euen as the sand that is on the sea shore and Salomons wisdome exceded the wisedome of all the children of the East countrey and all the wisedome of Egipt for he was wiser then all men yea theÌ„ Ethan the Ezrahite and Hemam Chalcol and Darda the sonnes of