Smoke wente vp from his nose and consumynge fyre out of his mouth coles were kyndled therof He bowed the heauens and came downe and it was darke vnder his fete He sat vpon Cherub and dyd flye and appeared vpon the fethers of the wynde He made darknes his pauylion rounde aboute him thicke water in the cloudes of y e ayre At the brightnesse of him were the fyre coles kyndled The LORDE thondered from heaueÌ„ and the Hyest put forth his voyce He shot his arowes and scatered them he lightened and discomfited them The pourynges out of the See were sene and the foundacions of the earth were discouered at the chydinge of the LORDE at the breth of the sprete of his wrath He sent downe from aboue and receaued me and drue me out of many waters He delyuered me fro my stronge enemye from them that hated me for they were to mightie for me They ouertoke me in the tyme of my trouble but the LORDE was my succoure He broughte me forth in to liberty he delyuered me because he had a fauoure vnto me The LORDE shal rewarde me after my righteousnes and acordinge to the clennes of my handes shal he recompence me For I haue kepte y e waye of the LORDE haue not bene vngodly agaynst my God For I haue an eye vnto all his lawes and haue not put his ordinaunces fro me Therfore wil I be perfecte vnto him and wyl eshue myne awne wickednes So shal y e LORDE rewarde me after my righteousnes acordinge to the cleÌ„nes of my handes in his eye sighte With the holy shalt thou be holy and w t the perfecte thou shalt be perfecte With the cleane thou shalt be cleane and with the frowarde thou shalt be frowarde For thou shalt saue the poore oppressed people and shalt set thine eyes agaynst the proude to brynge them downe For thou O LORDE art my lanterne The LORDE shal lighte my darknesse For in y e I shal discoÌ„fite an hoost of men in my God I shal leape ouer the wall The waye of God is perfecte y e wordes of the LORDE are tryed in the fyre he is a shylde for all theÌ„ that put their trust in him For where is there a God excepte y e LORDE Or who hath eny strength without oure God God hath streÌ„gthed me with power and made playne a perfecte waye for me He hath made my fete like hartes fete hath set me vp an hye He teacheth my handes to fighte and bendeth the stele bowe with myne armes And thou hast geuen me the shylde of y e health and with y e louynge correccion shalt thou multiplye me Thou hast enlarged my goinge vnder me and myne ankles haue not slyded I wyl folowe vpon myne enemies and destroye theÌ„ and wyl not turne backe agayne tyll I haue broughte them to naught I wil coÌ„sume them and thrust them thorow that they come not vp they shal fall vnder my fete Thou hast girded me with strength to y e battayll and hast subdued them vnder me y t rose vp agaynst me Thou hast made myne enemies to turne their backes vpoÌ„ me that I might destroye them that hate me They shal crye but there shal be no Sauioure yee euen vnto the LORDE but he answereth them not I wil beate them as small as the dust of the earth euen as y e claye of the stretes wil I make them thynne and sprede them out abrode But me shalt thou delyuer from the stryuynges of the people and shalt kepe me to be y e heade of the Heythen A people whom I haue not knowne â–ª shal serue me The straunge children haue denyed me at the hearynge of the eare shal they herkeÌ„ vnto me The straunge children are waxen olde are shut vp in their presons The LORDE lyueth and blessed be my God and magnified be the strength of my health God seyth that I be auenged and subdueth the people vnto me He bryngeth me out fro myne enemies from them y t ryse vp agaynst me shalt thou exalte me and from y e cruell man shalt thou delyuer me For this cause wyl I geue thankes vnto the amonge the Heythen and synge prayses vnto thy name Which doth greate health for his kynge sheweth mercy vnto Dauid his anoynted and to his sede for euermore The XXIII Chapter THese are the last wordes of Dauid Dauid the sonne of Isai sayde The man that was set vp to be y e anoynted of the God of Iacob a pleasaunt dyter of songes of Israel sayde The sprete of the LORDE hath spoken by me and the vtteraunce therof is done thorow my tunge He sayde The God of Israel hath spokeÌ„ vnto me the strength of Israel the gouernoure amonge men the righteous gouernoure in the feare of God As the lighte is in y e mornynge whan the Sonne aryseth so that for the brightnesse therof no cloude remayneth and as the grasse loketh vpon the earth thorow the rayne euen so shal my house be with God For he hath made an euerlastinge couenaunt with me well appoynted on euery syde and sure For this is all my health pleasure that it shal growe But the Belial shal be vtterly cleane roted out as the thornes which meÌ„ take not in their haÌ„des And they y t touch them shal destroye them w t yrons speares in the fyre shal they be brent that they maye be broughte to naught These are the names of Dauids Worthies Iasabeam y e sonne of Hachmoni the chefest amonge thre which lifte vp his speare slewe eight hundreth at one tyme. After him was Eleasar the sonne of Dodi the sonne of Ahohi amonge the thre Worthies with Dauid whan they spake despytefully to the Philistynes and were gathered together to the battayll and the men of Israel wente vp Then stode he vp and smote the Philistynes tyll his hande was so weery that it crompâ—ed with the swerde And the LORDE gaue a greate victory at the same tyme so that the people turned after him to spoyle After him was Samma the sonne of Age y e Hararite WhaÌ„ the Philistynes had gathered themselues in a company and in the same place there was a pece of loÌ„de full of small corne and the people fled before the Philistynes theÌ„ stode he in the myddes of y e pece of londe â–ª delyuered it smote y e Philistynes And God gaue a greate victory And these thre pryncipall amonge thirtie came downe in the haruest vnto Dauid in to the caue of Adullam the hoost of y e Philistynes laye in y e valley of Rephaim But Dauid was at the same tyme in the castell and y e Philistynes people laye at Bethleem And Dauid was desyrous and sayde Wolde God y t some man wolde fetch me a drynke of water out of the well at Bethleem vnder the gate TheÌ„ brake the thre Worthies in to the hoost of the Philistynes and drue of the water out of the well
What so euer he be that feareth the LORDE he shal shewe him the waye that he hath chosen His soule shall dwell at ease and his sede shall possesse the londe The secrete of the LORDE is amonge them that feare him and he sheweth them his couenaunt Myne eyes are euer lokynge vnto the LORDE for he shal plucke my fete out of y e nett Turnethe vnto me and haue mercy vpon me for I am desolate and in misery The sorowes of my herte are greate O brynge me out of my troubles Loke vpon my aduersite and misery and forgeue me all my synnes Considre how myne enemies are many and beare a malicious hate agaynst me O kepe my soule and delyuer me let me not be confounded for I haue put my trust in the. Let innocency and righteuous dealinge wayte vpon me for my hope is in the. Delyuer Israel O God out of all his trouble The XXV A psalme of Dauid BE thou my iudge O LORDE for I walke innocently my trust is in the LORDE therfore shall I not fall Examen me O LORDE and proue me trie out my reynes and my hert For thy louynge kyndnesse is before myne eyes and I walke in thy trueth I syt not amoÌ„ge vayne personnes and haue no fellishipe with the disceatfull I hate the congregacion of the wicked and I will not syt amonge the vngodly I waszshe my hondes with innocency O LORDE and so go I to thine aulter That I maye shewe the voyce of thy prayse and tell of all thy wonderous workes LORDE I loue the habitacion of thy house and y e place where thy honoure dwelleth O destroye not my soule with the synners ner my life with the bloud thurstie In whose hondes is wickednesse and their right honde is full of giftes But as for me I will walke innocently O delyuer me and be mercifull vnto me My fote stondeth right I wil prayse the O LORDE in the congregacions The XXVI A psalme of Dauid THe LORDE is my light and my health whom then shulde I feare the LORDE is the strength of my life for whom theÌ„ shulde I be afrayed Therfore when the wicked euen myne enemies my foes came vpon me to eate vp my flesh they stombled and fell Though an hoost of men were layed agaynst me yet shal not my hert be afrayed and though there rose vp warre against me yet wil I put my trust in him One thinge haue I desyred of the LORDE which I wil requyre namely that I maye dwell in the house of the LORDE all the dayes of my life to beholde the fayre beutie of the LORDE and to vyset his temple For in the tyme of trouble he hath hyde me in his tabernacle yee in the secrete place of his dwellinge hath he kepte and set me vp vpon a rocke of stone And now hath he lift vp my heade aboue myne enemies that coÌ„passed me rounde aboute Therfore wil I offre in his dwellinge the oblacion of thaÌ„kesgeuynge I wil both synge speake prayses vnto the LORDE HerkeÌ„ vnto my voyce O LORDE when I crie vnto the haue mercy vpon me heare me My hert speaketh vnto the my face seketh the yee LORDE thy face wil I seke O hyde not thou thy face fro me cast not thy seruaunt of in displeasure Thou art my succoure leaue me not nether forsake me O God my Sauioure For my father and my mother haue forsaken me but the LORDE hath taken me vp Shewe me thy waye O LORDE and lede me in the right path because of myne enemies Delyuer me not in to the wylles of myne aduersaries for there are false wytnesses rysen vp against me and they ymagyn myschefe Neuerthelesse I beleue verely to se the goodnesse of the LORDE in the londe of the lyuynge O tary thou y e LORDES leysure be stronge let thine hert be of good comforte and wayte thou still for the LORDE The XXVII A psalme of Dauid UNto the wil I crie o my stronge defence thinke no scorne of me lest yf thou make the as though thou herdest not I become like them that go downe in to y e pytte Heare the voyce of my humble peticion when I crie vnto the and holde vp my hondes towarde thy holy temple O plucke me not awaye amonge the vngodly and wicked doers which speake frendly to their neghboure but ymagin myschefe in their hertes Rewarde them acordinge to their dedes and wickednesse of their owne inuencions Recompense them after y e workes of theiâ—â—â—des paye them that they haue deserued For they regarde not the workes of the LORDE ner the operacion of his haÌ„des therfore shal he breake them downe and not buylde them vp Praysed be y e LORDE for he hath herde the voyce of my humble peticioÌ„ The LORDE is my streÌ„gth and my shylde my herte hoped in him I am helped therfore my hert dauÌ„seth for ioye and I will synge prayses vnto him The LORDE is the strength of his people he is the defender and Sauioure of his anoynted O helpe thy people geue thy blessynge vnto thy enheritaunce fede them and set them vp for euer The XXVIII A psalme of Dauid AScrybe vnto the LORDE o ye mightie ascribe vnto the LORDE worshipe and strength Geue the LORDE the honoure of his name bowe youre selues to the holy magesty of the LORDE It is the LORDE that commaundeth the waters It is the glorious God that maketh y e thonder it is the LORDE y t ruleth the see The voyce of the LORDE is mightie in operacion the voyce of the LORDE is a glorious voyce The voyce of the LORDE breaketh the Cedrâ— trees yee the LORDE breaketh the Ceders of Libanus He maketh them to skippe like a calfe Libanus and Sirion like a yonge vnycorne The voyce of the LORDE deuideth the flames of fyre the voyce of the LORDE shaketh the wildernesse yee the LORDE shaketh the wildernesse of Cades The voyce of the LORDE moueth y e hyndes discouereth the thicke buszshes in his temple shal euery man speake of his honoure The LORDE stilleth the water floude y e LORDE remayneth a kynge for euer The LORDE shall geue power vnto his people the LORDE shal geue his people the blessynge of peace The XXIX A psalme of Dauid I Wil magnifie y e O LORDE for thou hast set me vp not suffred my foes to triuÌ„phe ouer me O LORDE my God I cried vnto the and thou hast healed me Thou LORDE hast brought my soule out of hell thou hast kepte my life where as they go downe to the pytte Synge prayses vnto the LORDE o ye sayntes of his geue thankes vnto him for a remembraunce of his holynesse For his wrath endureth but the twincklinge of an eye and his pleasure is in life heuynesse maye well endure for a night but ioye commeth in the mornynge As forme wheÌ„ I was in prosperite I sayde Tush I shal neuer fall more And why
prayse For thou hast delyuered my soule froÌ„ death my fete froÌ„ fallinge y t I maye walke before God in y e light of y e lyuynge The LVI A psalme of Dauid BE mercifull vnto me o God be mercifull vnto me for my soule trusteth in y e â–ª vnder the shadowe of thy wynges shal be my refuge vntill wickednesse be euer past I call vnto God y e most hyest eueÌ„ y e God y t shal helpe me vp agayne â—e shal sende froÌ„ heauen saue me froÌ„ the reprofe of him that wolde swalowe me vp Sela. This shal God sende for his mercy and faithfulnesse sake I lye with my soule amonge the cruell lyons euen amonge the children of men whose tethe are speares and arowes and their tonge a sharpe swerde Set vp thy self o God aboue the heaueÌ„s and thy glory aboue all the earth They haue layed a nett for my fete pressed downe my soule they haue dygged a pyt before me and are fallen in to it them selues Sela. My hert is ready o God my hert is ready to synge and geue prayse Awake o my glory awake lute and harpe I my self wil awake right early I wil geue thaÌ„kes vnto the o LORDE amonge the people I wil synge prayses vnto the amonge the HeitheÌ„ For y e greatnes of thy mercy reacheth â—â—to the heauens and thy faithfulnesse vnto 〈◊〉 cloudes Set vp thy self o God 〈…〉 heaueÌ„s thy glory aboue all y e earth The LVII A psalme of Dauid â—F youre myndes be vpon rightuousâ—esse in dede then iudge the thinge that is right o ye sonnes of men But ye ymagin myschefe in youre hertes and youre hondes deale with wickednesse The vngodly are frowarde eueÌ„ from their mothers wombe as soone as they be borne they go astraie speake lyes They are as furious as the serpent euen like the deaf Adder that stoppeth hir eares That she shulde not heare the voyce of the charmer charme he neuer so wysely Breake their teth o God in their mouthes smyte the chaft bones of the lyons whelpes in sonder o LORDE That they maye fall awaye like water y e runneth a pace and that when they shote their arowes they maye be brokeÌ„ Let theÌ„ coÌ„sume awaye like a snale like the vntymely frute of a woman and let them not se the Sonne Or euer youre thornes be sharpe the wrath shal take them awaye quycke like a stormy wynde The rightuous shal reioyse when he seyth the vengeaunce and shal wash his fete in the bloude of the vngodly So that meâ— shal saye verely there is a rewarde for y e rightuous doutles there is a God that iudgeth the earth The LVIII A psalme of Dauid DElyuer me fro myne enemies o my God defende me froÌ„ theÌ„ y t ryse vp agaynst me O delyuer me froÌ„ the wicked doers saue me froÌ„ the bloudthurstie meÌ„ For lo they lye waytinge for my soule y e mightie meÌ„ are gathered together against me w t out eny offence or faute of me o LORDE They ruÌ„ne prepare theÌ„ selues w t out my faute Arise come thou helpe me beholde StoÌ„de vp o LORDE God of hoostes thou God of Israel to vyset all Heithen be not mercifull vnto theÌ„ y t offende of malicious wickednesse Sela. Let theÌ„ go to fro runne aboute the cite youlinge like dogges Beholde they speake agaynst me w t their mouth swerdes are vnder their lippes for who reproueth theÌ„ But thou o LORDE shalt haue them in derision thou shalt laugh all HeitheÌ„ to scorne My streÌ„gth do I ascrybe vnto the for thou o God art my defender God sheweth me his goodnesse plenteously God letteth me se my desyre vpoÌ„ myne enemies SlayetheÌ„ not lest my people forget it but scatre theÌ„ abrode with thy power put theÌ„ downe o LORDE oure defence For y e synne of their mouth for the wordes of their lippes because of their pryde let theÌ„ be taken why their preachinge is of cursynge lyes CoÌ„sume them in y i wrath coÌ„sume theÌ„ y t they maye perish knowe y t it is God which ruleth in Iacob and in all the worlde Sela. Let theÌ„ go to fro ruÌ„ne aboute the cite youlinge like dogges Let theÌ„ runne here there for meate and grudge when they haue not ynough As for me I wil synge of thy power aÌ„d prayse thy mercy betymes in the mornynge for thou art my defence and refuge in the tyme of my trouble Vnto the o my strength wil I synge for thou o God art my defence and my merciful God The LIX A psalme of Dauid O God thou y t hast cast vs out and scatred vs abrode thou y t hast bene so sore displeased at vs coÌ„forte vs agayne Thou y t hast remoued the loÌ„de deuyded it heale the sores therof for it shaketh Thou hast shewed thy people heuy thinges thou hast geuen vs a drynke off wyne y t we sloÌ„bre withall Yet hast thou geueÌ„ a tokeÌ„ for soch as feare the y t they maye cast it vp in y e treuth Sela. That thy beloued might be delyuered helpe them with thy right hande and heare me God hath spokeÌ„ in his SaÌ„ctuary which thinge reioyseth me I wil deuyde SicheÌ„ mete out the valley 〈◊〉 Suchoth Galaad is myne Manasses is myne Ephraim is the strength of my heade Iuda is my captayne Moab is my washpotte ouer Edom wil I stretch out my shue Philistea shal be glad of me Who will lede me in to the stronge cite Who will bringe me in to Edom Shalt not thou do it o God thou y t hast cast vs out thou God y t wentest not out w t o r hoostes O be thou oure helpe in trouble for vayne is the helpe of man Thorow God we shal do greate actes for it is he that shal treade downe oure enemies The LX. A psalme of Dauid HEare my crienge o God geue hede vnto my prayer From the endes of y e earth wil I call vnto the wheÌ„ my herte is in trouble Oh set me vp vpoÌ„ an hye rocke For thou art my hope a stronge tower for me agaynst the enemie I will dwell in thy tabernacle for euer that I maye be safe vnder the couerynge of thy wynges Sela. For thou o LORDE hast herde my desyres thou hast geuen an heretage vnto those that feare thy name Thou shalt graunte the kynge a loÌ„ge life that his yeares maye endure thorow out all generacions That he maye dwell before God for euer Oh let thy louynge mercy faithfulnes preserue him So wil I allwaye synge prayses vnto thy name y t I maye daylie perfourme my vowes The LXI A psalme of Dauid MY soule wayteth only vpon God for of him commeth my helpe He only is my streÌ„gth my saluacion my defence so y t I shal not greatly fall How longe wil ye ymagin myschefe agaynst euery man ye shal be slayne all y e sorte of you
agayne Namely that the mercies of the LORDE are not clene gone that his louynge kyndnesse ceasseth not His faithfulnes is greate and renueth it self as the mornynge The LORDE is my porcion saieth my soule therfore wil I hope in him O how good is the LORDE vnto theÌ„ that put their trust in him and to the soule that seketh after him O how good is it with stilnesse to wate and tarie for the health of the LORDE O how good is it for a man to take the yock vpon him from his youth vp He sitteth alone he holdeth him still â–ª and dwelleth quietly by him self He layeth his face vpon the earth yf per case there happen to be eny hope He offreth his cheke to the smyter he will be content with reproues For the LORDE wil not forsake for euer But though he do cast of yet acordinge to y e multitude of his mercies he receaueth to grace agayne For he doth not plage cast out the children of men from his herte To treade all the presoners of the earth vnder his fete To moue the iudgment of man before the most highest To condemne a man in his cause The LORDE hath no pleasure in soch thinges What is he then that saieth there shulde somthinge be done without the LORDES coÌ„maundement Out of the mouth of the most highest goeth not euell and good Wherfore them murmureth the lyuinge man let him murmoure at his owne synne Let vs loke well vpon oure owne waies remembre oureselues and turne agayne to y e LORDE Let vs lift vp oure hertes with oure hondes vnto the LORDE that is in heauen We haue bene dyssemblers haue offended wilt thou therfore not be intreated Thou hast couered vs in thy wrath persecuted vs thou hast slayne vs without eny fauoure Thou hast hyd thy self in a cloude that oure prayer shulde not go thorow Thou hast made vs outcastes and to be despysed amonge the Heithen All oure enemies gape vpon vs. Feare and snare is come vpon vs yee despite and destruccion Whole ryuers of water guszshe out of myne eyes for the greate hurte of my people Myne eyes runne and can not ceasse for there is no rest O LORDE when wilt thou loke downe froÌ„ heauen and considre Myne eye breaketh my herte because of all the doughters of my cite Myne enemies hunted me out sharpely like a byrde yee and that with out a cause They haue put downe my life in to a pitte and layed a stone vpon me They poured water vpon my heade then thought I now am I vndone I called vpon thy name O LORDE out of the depe pitte Thou hast herde my voyce hast not turned awaye thine eares fro my sighinge and crienge Thou hast enclyned y i self vnto me wheÌ„ I called vpon the haist sayde feare not Thou O LORDE hast mayntened the cause of my soule and hast redemed my life O LORDE thou hast sene my blasphemers take thou my cause vpon the. Thou hast well considred how they go aboute to do me harme that all their councels are agaynst me Thou hast herde their despytefull wordes O LORDE yee and all their ymaginacions agaynst me The lippes of myne enemies their deuyces that they take agaynst me all the daye longe Thou seist also their sittinge downe and their rysinge vp they make their songes of nothinge but of me Rewarde them O LORDE acordinge to the workes of their hondes Geue them y e thinge that their owne herte is afrayed of euen thy curse Persecute them O LORDE with thy indignacion rote them out from vnder the heauen The IIII. Chapter O How is the golde become so dymme How is the goodly coloure of it so sore chaunged and the stones of y e Sanctuary thus scatred in the corner of euery strete The children of Sion that were allwaye in honoure clothed with y e most precious golde how are they now becomme like the erthen vessels which be made with the potters honde The Lamyes geue their yonge ones sucâ— w t bare brestes but the doughter of my people is cruel and dwelleth in the wyldernesse like the Estriches The tonges of the suckinge children cleue to y e rofe of their mouthes for very thurst The yonge children axe bred but there is noman that geueth it them They that were wonte to fayre delicatly perishe in the stretes they that afore were brought vp in purple make now moch of donge The synne of the doughter of my people is become greater then y e wickednesse of Sodome that sodeÌ„ly was destroyed and not taken with hondes Hir absâ—â—yners or Nazarees were whyter then y e snowe or mylke their coloure was fresh read as the Corall their beutie like the Saphyre But now their faces are very black In so moch that thou shuldest not knowe them in the stretes Their skynne cleueth to their bones It is wythered and become like a drye stock They that be slayne with the swearde are happier then soch as dye of honger and perishe awaye famishinge for the frutes of the felde The womeÌ„ which of nature are pitefull haue sodden their owne children with their hondes that they might be their meate in y e miserable destruccion of the doughter of my people The LORDE hath perfourmed his heuy wrath he hath poured out the furiousnes of his displeasure He hath kindled a fyre in Sion which hath consumed the foundacions therof Nether the kinges of the earth ner all y e inhabitours of the worlde wolde haue beleued that the enemie aduersary shulde haue come in at the gates of the cite of IerusaleÌ„ Which neuertheles is come to passe for y e synnes of hir prophetes and for the wickednes of hir prestes that haue shed innocentes bloude within her So that these blynde men weÌ„te stomblinge in the stretes and stayned themselues w t bloude which els wolde touche no bloudy cloth But they cried vnto euery maÌ„ fle the staynynge awaye get you heÌ„ce touch it not Yee sayde they ye must be brent ye must dwell amonge the Gentiles byde no longer here The countenaunce of the LORDE hath banyshed them shal neuer loke more vpon them For they them selues nether regarded the prestes nor pitied their elders Wherfore yet oure eyes fayle vs whyle we loke for vayne helpe seynge we be euer waitynge vpon a people that can do vs no good They laye so sharpe waite for vs that we can not go safe vpon the stretes for oure ende is come oure dayes are fulfilled oure ende is here Oure persecuters are swifter then the Aegles of the ayre they folowed vpon vs ouer the mountaynes and layed wait for vs in y
e people feared y e LORDE and beleued him and his seruaunt Moses The XV. Chapter THen sange Moses and the childrē of Israel this songe vnto the LORDE and sayde I will synge vnto y e LORDE for he hath done gloriously horse charet hath he ouer throwne in the see The LORDE is my strength and my songe and is become my saluacion This is my God I wil magnifie him He is my fathers God I wil exalte him The LORDE is the right man of warre LORDE is his name The charettes of Pharao his power hath he cast in to the see His chosen captaynes are drowned in the reed see y e depe hath couered them they fell to the grounde as a stone Thy right hande O LORDE is glorious in power thy right hāde O LORDE hath smytten the enemies And with thy greate glory thou hast destroyed thine aduersaries thou sentestout y e wrath it cōsumed them euen as stobble In the breth of thy wrath the waters fell together the floudes wente vpon a heape The depes plomped together in y e myddest of the see The enemie thought I will folowe vpon them and ouertake them and deuyde y e spoyle and coole my mynde vpon them I wil drawe out my swerde and my hande shal destroye them Thou blewest with thy wynde the see couered them and they sancke downe as leed in the mightie waters LORDE who is like vnto the amonge y e goddes Who is so glorious in holynes fear full laudable and doinge wonders Whan thou stretchedest out y e right hande the earth swalowed them vp Thou of y e very mercy hast led this people whom thou hast delyuered and with y e strength thou hast brought them vnto the dwellynge of thy Sanctuary Whan y e nacions herde this they raged sorowe came vpon the Philistynes Then were y e prynces of Edom afrayed tremblynge came vpō y e mightie of Moab all the indwellers of Canaan waxed faynte harted Let feare and drede fall vpon them thorow thy greate arme that they maye be as styll as a stone tyll thy people O LORDE be gone thorow tyll y i people whom thou hast gotten be gone thorow Brynge them in and plante them vpon the mountayne of thy enheritaunce vnto y e place that thou hast made for thyne owne dwellynge euen to y e tēple O LORDE which thy handes haue prepared The LORDE shal be kynge for euer euer For Pharao wente in to the see with horses and charettes and horsmen and the LORDE made the see fall agayne vpon them But the children of Israel wēte drye thorow the myddest of the see And Miriam the prophetisse Aarons sister toke a tymbrell in hir hande and all the women folowed out after her with timbrels in a daunse And Miriam sange before thē O let vs synge vnto the LORDE for he hath done gloriously man and horse hath he ouer throwne in the see Moses caused the children of Israel to departe out from the reed see vnto the wyldernes of Sur they wente thre dayes in y e wildernes y t they founde no water Then came they to Marath but they coude not drinke y e water for bytternes for it was very bytter Therfore was it called Marah y t is bytternes Then y e people murmured against Moses sayde What shal we drynke And Moses cried vnto y e LORDE which shewed him a tre this he put in y e water thē was it swete There he made thē a statute and a lawe and tempted them and sayde Yf thou wyl◠herken vnto the voyce of y e LORDE y e God do that which is right in his sighte and geue eare vnto his commaundementes kepe all his statutes then wyl I laye vpon y e none of the sicknesses that I layed vpon Egipte for I am the LORDE thy surgione The XVI Chapter ANd they came vnto Elim where there were twolue welles of water and seuentie palme trees and there they pitched by y e water syde From Elim they toke their iourney and the whole congregacion of the children of Israel came in to the wyldernesse of Sin which lyeth betwene Elim and Sinai vpon the fyftene daye of the seconde moneth after that they were departed out of the londe of Egipte And y e whole multitude of the children of Israel murmured agaynst Moses and Aaron in y e wildernes and saide vnto them Wolde God we had dyed in the londe of Egipte by the hande of the LORDE whan we sat by y e flesh pottes and had bred ynough to eate for ye haue brought vs out in to this wyldernes to cause this whole multitude dye of honger Thē sayde y e LORDE vnto Moses beholde I wyl rayne you bred from heauen and let the people go out and gather daylie what they nede that I maye proue whether they walke in my lawe or not But vpon the sixte daye they shal prepare thē selues that they maye brynge in twyse as moch as they gather daylie Moses and Aaron saide vnto all the children of Israel At euen ye shall knowe that the LORDE hath brought you out of the lōde of Egipte and in the mornynge shall ye se the glory of the LORDE for he hath herde youre grudginges agaynst the LORDE For what are we that ye grudge agaynst vs Moses sayde morouer At euen shall the LORDE geue you flesh to eate and in the mornynge bred ynough because y e LORDE hath herde youre grudginges that ye haue grudged agaynst him For what are we You re murmuringe is not agaynst vs but against the LORDE And Moses sayde vnto Aaron Speake vnto the whole multitude of y e children of Israel Come forth before the LORDE for he hath herde youre murmuringes And whyle Aaron spake thus vnto the whole congegacion of the childrē of Israel they turned them towarde the wyldernes and beholde the glory of the LORDE appeared in a cloude and the LORDE sayde vnto Moses I haue herde the murmuringe of y e children of Israel Tell them At euen shall ye haue flesh to eate and in the mornynge shal ye be fylled with bred ye shall knowe that I am the LORDE youre God And at euen the quayles came vp and couered the tentes and in the mornynge the dewe laye rounde aboute the tentes And whan the dew was fallē beholde there laye a thinge in the wildernes thynne and small as the horefrost vpon the grounde And whan the children of Israel sawe it they saide one to another This is Mā For they wyst not what it was But Moses sayde vnto them It is the bred that y e LORDE hath geuē you to eate This is it that y e LORDE hath commaūded Euery one gather for himself as moch as he eateth and take a Gomor for euery heade acordinge to the nombre of the soules in his tente And the children of Israel dyd so and gathered some more some lesse But whan it was measured out with
bloude of my sacrifice with sowre dowe and the fat of my feast shal not remayne till the mornynge The first of the first frutes of thy felde shalt thou brynge in to the house of the LORDE thy God And shalt not seeth a kydd whyle it is in his mothers mylke Beholde I sende an angell before the to kepe the in the waye and to brynge the vnto the place that I haue prepared Therfore be warre of his face and herken vnto his voyce and anger him not for he shall not spare youre myszdedes my name is in him But yf thou shalt herken vnto his voyce and do all that I shal tell the then wyl I be enemie vnto thy enemyes and aduersary vnto thy aduersaries Now whā myne angell goeth before the bryngeth the vnto y e Amorites Hethites Pheresites Cananites Heuites Iebusites I shall haue destroyed them then shalt thou not worshipe their goddes ner serue them nether shalt thou do as they do but shalt ouerthrowe their goddes breake thē downe But y e LORDE yo r God shal ye serue so shal he blesse thy bred thy water and I wyl remoue all sicknesse from the. There shal be nothinge baren ner vnfrutefull in thy londe and I wil fulfill the nombre of thy dayes I wil sende my feare before the and sley all the people where thou cōmest will make all thine enemies to turne their backes vpō the. I wyll sende hornettes before y e and dryue out the Heuytes Cananites and Hethytes before the ▪ In one yeare wyl I not cast thē out before the y t the londe become not waist wylde beastes multiply agaynst y t By litle litle wyll I dryue them out before the tyll thou growe haue the londe in possession And I wil set the borders of thy londe euen from the reed see vnto y e see of the Philistynes from the wyldernes vnto the water For I wil delyuer the indwellers of the londe in to thine hande y t thou shalt dryue them out before the. Thou shalt make no couenaunt w t them ner with their goddes but let thē not dwell in thy lande that they make the not synne ageynst me For yf thou serue their goddes it wil surely be thy decaye The XXIIII Chapter ANd he sayde vnto Moses Come vp vnto the LORDE thou Aaron Nadab and Abihu and the seuētie elders of Israel worshipe afarre of But let Moses onely come nye vnto the LORDE and let not them come nye and let not the people also come vp with him Moses came and tolde the people all the wordes of the LORDE all the lawes Then answered all the people with one voyce and sayde All y e wordes that the LORDE hath sayde wyl we do Then wrote Moses all the wordes of y e LORDE gat him vp bytymes in the mornynge * buylded an altare vnder y e mount with twolue pilers acordinge to the twolue trybes of Israel sent twolue yonge mē of the children of Israel to offre burnt offerynges and peace offerynges theron of bullockes vnto the LORDE And Moses toke the half parte of the bloude and put it in a basen the other half sprenkled he vpon the altare toke the boke of y e couenaunt cried in the eares of the people And whan they had sayde All y t the LORDE hath sayde wil we do herken vnto him Moses toke the bloude sprenkled it vpon the people sayde Beholde this is y e bloude of the couenaunt that the LORDE maketh w t you vpon all these wordes Then wente Moses Aaron Nadab Abihu the seuentye elders of Israel vp sawe y e God of Israel Vnder his fete it was like a stone worke of Saphyre as the fashion of heauē whā it is cleare he put not his hāde vpō the pryncipall of Israel And whan they had sene God they ate dronke And the LORDE sayde vnto Moses Come vp vnto me vpon the mount remayne there y t I maye geue the tables of stone y e lawe commaundemētes y t I haue wrytten which thou shalt teach thē Then Moses gat him vp his mynister Iosua wente vp in to the mount of God sayde vnto the elders Tary ye here tyll we come to you agayne beholde Aaron and Hur are with you yf eny mā haue a matter to do let him brynge it vnto them Now whā Moses came vp in to y e moūt a cloude couered y e mount the glory of y e LORDE abode vpon mount Sinai couered it w t the cloude sixe dayes vpon the seuēth daye he called Moses out of y e cloude And y e fashion of y e glory of y e LORDE was like a cōsumynge fyre vpon the toppe of y e mount in the sight of the children of Israel And Moses wente in to the myddest of the cloude and ascēded vp in to the mount and abode vpon the mount fourtye dayes fourtye nightes The XXV Chapter ANd y e LORDE talked w t Moses ayde Speake vnto y e childrē of Israel y t they geue me an Heue offerynge take the some of euery man that hath a frewyllynge hert therto And this is the Heue-offerynge that ye shal take of them Golde syluer brasse yalowe sylke scarlet purple whyte twyned sylke goates hayre reed skynnes of rammes doo skynnes Fyrre tre oyle for lampes spyces for the anoyntynge oyle and for swete incense Onix stones and set stones for the ouerbody cote and for the brestlappe And they shall make me a Sanctuary that I maie dwell amonge them Like as I shal shewe y e a patrone of the Habitacion and of all the ornamentes therof so shall ye make it Make an Arke of Fyrre tre two cubytes a half longe a cubyte a half brode and a cubyte an half hye this shalt thou ouerleye with pure golde within and without make an hye vpō it a crowne of golde rounde aboute and cast foure rynges of golde put them in the foure corners of it so that two rynges be vpon the one syde and two vpon the other syde And make staues of Fyrre tre and ouerlaye them with golde and put them in the rynges alonge by the sydes of the Arke to beare it withall and they shal abyde styll in the rynges not be takē out And in y e Arke thou shalt laye the wytnesse that I wyl geue the. Thou shalt make a Mercyseate also of pure golde two cubytes and a half longe and a cubyte a half brode And thou shalt make two Cherubyns of beaten golde vpō both y e endes of the Mercyseate y t the one Cherub maye be vpon the one ende the other vpon the other ende so to be two Cherubyns vpon the endes of the Mercyseate And the Cherubyns shall sprede out
this daye that whan thou hast eaten art fylled and hast buylded goodly houses dwellest therin and whan thy beestes and shepe and syluer and golde and all y t thou hast increaseth thine hert ryse not then and thou forget the LORDE thy God which brought the out of the londe of Egipte frō y e house of bondage and led y e thorow this greate terrible wyldernes where were serpentes that spouted fyre and Scorpions drouth and where there was no water and brought the water out of the hard flynte and fed the in the wyldernesse with Manna wherof y e fathers knewe not that he might chasten the and proue the to do the good afterwarde and lest thou saye in thine hert My power and the mighte of myne awne hande hath done me all this good But that thou thynke vpon the LORDE thy God For it is HE which geueth the power to exercyse strength that he maye perfourme the couenaunt which he sware vnto thy fathers as it is come to passe this daye But yf thou shalt forget the LORDE thy God and folowe other goddes and serue them and worshipe thē I testifye ouer you this daye that ye shal vtterly perishe Euen as the Heythen whom y e LORDE destroyeth before youre face so shall ye perishe also because ye are not obedient vnto the voyce of the LORDE youre God The IX Chapter HEare O Israel This daie shalt thou go ouer Iordane that thou maiest come in to conquere the nacions which are greater and mightier then thou greate cities walled vp vnto heauen a greate people and of an hye stature namely the childrē of Enakim whom thou hast knowne and of whom thou hast herde saye Who is able to stonde agaynst the children of Enakim Therfore shalt thou knowe this daye that the LORDE y e God goeth before the a cōsumynge fyre He shal destroye thē and shal◠subdue them before the and shal driue them out shortly shall he brynge thē to naught as the LORDE hath promysed the. Now whan the LORDE thy God hath expelled them out before the saye not thou thē in thine hert The LORDE hath brought me in to take possession of this lande for myne awne righteousnes sake where as y e LORDE yet dryueth out the Heithen before the because of their vngodlynes For thou commest not in to take their londe in possession for thine awne righteousnes sake and because of thy right hert but the LORDE dryueth out these Heythen for their awne vngodlynesse sake and that he maye perfourme the worde which the LORDE hath sworne vnto y e fathers Abraham Isaac and Iacob Vnderstonde now therfore that the LORDE y e God geueth not the this londe to possesse it for thine awne righteousnes sake For thou art a styffnecked people Remembre and forget not how thou displeasedest the LORDE thy God in the wildernesse Sence y e daye that thou departedst out of the londe of Egipte tyll ye came vnto this place haue ye bene dishobedient vnto the LORDE For in Horeb ye angred the LORDE so that of wrath he wolde haue destroyed you whan I was gone vp to y e mount to receaue the tables of stone namely the tables of the couenaunt which the LORDE made w t you and I abode fortye dayes fortye nightes vpon the mount and ate no bred dranke no water and the LORDE gaue me y e two tables of stone wrytten with the fynger of God and in them was acordinge to all the wordes which the LORDE sayde vnto you vpon the mount out of the fyre in the daye of the gatheringe together And after the fortye dayes and fortye nightes y e LORDE gaue me y e two tables of stone namely y e tables of the couenaunt and sayde vnto me vp get y e downe quyckly from hence for thy people whom thou broughtest out of Egipte haue marred thē selues they are soone gone out of the waye which I commaunded them and haue made them a molten ymage And the LORDE saide vnto me I se this people that it is a styffnecked people let me alone that I maye destroye them and put out their name from vnder heauē I wyl make of the a people mightier and greater thē this is And as I turned me wente downe frō the mount which brent w t fyre had y e two tables of the couenaunt in both my hādes I loked beholde ye had synned agaynst y e LORDE yo r God so y t ye had made you a molten calfe were soone turned out of y e waie which the LORDE had commaunded you Then toke I the two tables cast them out of both my handes brake thē before youre eyes I fell before the LORDE euen as at the first tyme fortye dayes fortye nightes nether ate bred ner drāke water because of all youre synnes which ye had synned whan ye dyd soch euell in the sighte of the LORDE to prouoke him vnto wrath For I was afrayed of the wrath and indignacion wherwith the LORDE was angrie w t you euen to haue destroyed you And the LORDE herde me at that tyme also Morouer the LORDE was very angrie w t Aaron so that he wolde haue destroyed him but I made intercession for Aaron also at y e same tyme. As for youre synne namely the calfe that ye had made I toke it and burnt it with the fyre and smote it a sunder grynde it in peces euen vnto dust and cast the dust in to the broke that descended from the mount Ye displeased the LORDE also at Tabera and at Massa and at the lustgraues and whā he sent you from Cades Barnea and sayde Go vp and conquere the londe which I haue geuen you And ye were disobedient vnto the mouth of the LORDE youre God and beleued not on him and herkened not vnto his voyce for ye haue bene disobediēt vnto the LORDE as longe as I haue knowne you Thē fell I before y e LORDE fortye daies and fortye nightes which I laye there For y e LORDE sayde he wolde destroye you But I made intercession vnto the LORDE and sayde O LORDE LORDE destroye not y e people and thine enheritaunce which thou thorow thy greate power hast delyuered and broughte out of Egipte with a mightie hāde Remembre thy seruauntes Abraham Isaac and Iacob Loke not vpon the stubburnesse and vngodlynesse and synne of this people that the londe wherout thou hast broughte vs saye not The LORDE was not able to bringe them in to the lande that he promysed them and because he hated them therfore hath he broughte them out to destroye thē in the wyldernesse For they are thy people thine enheritaunce which thou hast broughte out w t thy greate power and with thy stretched out arme The X. Chapter AT the same tyme sayde the LORDE vnto me Hew y e two tables
bloude without a cause and auenged thy selfe then shal y e LORDE do good vnto my lorde and thou shalt thynke vpon thy hand mayden Then saide Dauid vnto Abigail Blessed be the LORDE God of Israel which hath sent the to mete me this daye and blessed be thy speach and blessed be thou which hast kepte me backe this daye that I am not come agaynst bloude to auenge me with myne awne hande Verely as truly as the LORDE the God of Israel lyueth which hath hyndred me that I shulde do the no euell Yf thou haddest not met me in all the haist Nabal shulde not haue had lefte him vntyll y e lighte mornynge so moch as one that maketh water agaynst the wall So Dauid toke of hir hāde what she had broughte him and sayde vnto her Go vp in peace vnto y e house beholde I haue herkened vnto y e voyce and accepted thy personne But whan Abigail came to Nabal beholde he had prepared a feast in his house like a kynges feast and his hert was mery for he was very dronken And she tolde him nothinge nether small ner greate vntyll y e cleare mornynge But whan it was daye the wyne was come from Nabal his wife tolde him these thinges Then was his hert deed in his body so that he became euen as a stone and ouer ten dayes the LORDE smote him so y t he dyed Whan Dauid herde that Nabal was deed he sayde Blessed be y e LORDE which hath auenged my rebuke on Nabal and preserued his seruaunt from euell And the LORDE hath rewarded Nabal that euell vpon his heade And Dauid sent and caused to talke with Abigail y t he mighte take her to wife And whan Dauids seruauntes came to Abigail vnto Carmel they spake vnto her and saide Dauid hath sent vs vnto the that he maye take y e to wife She rose vp and worshipped vpon hir face vnto the earth and sayde beholde here is thy handmayde that she maie do seruyce vnto the seruauntes of my lorde and to waszshe their fete And Abigail made haist and gat her vp and rode vpō an asse and fyue maydens that were vnder her and wente after Dauids messaungers and became his wife Dauid toke Ahinoam of Iesrael also and they both became his wyues But Saul gaue Michol his doughter the wife of Dauid vnto Phalti y e sonne of Lais of Gallim The XXVI Chapter THey of Siph came to Saul vnto Gibeath sayde Is not Dauid hyd vpō the hill of Hachila which lyeth ouer agaynst the wyldernesse Then Saul gat him vp and wente downe to the wildernes of Siph and thre thousande chosen men of Israel with him to seke Dauid in the wildernes of Siph and pitched vpon the hill of Hachila which lyeth by the waye before the wildernes But Dauid remayned in the wyldernes and whan he sawe that Saul came after him in to the wildernes he sent out spyes and knewe of a suertie that he was come in dede And Dauid gat him vp and came to the place where Saul had pitched his tēt and sawe the place where Saul laye with his chefe captayne Abner y e sonne of Ner for Saul laye in the tent and the hoost aboute him Then answered Dauid and sayde vnto Ahimelech the Hethite and to Abisai the sonne of Ieru Ia y e brother of Ioab Who wil go downe w t me to Saul in to the hoost Abisai sayde I wil go downe with the. So Dauid and Abisai came to the people in the night season beholde Saul laye and slepte in the tent and his speare stacke in y e grounde at his heade But Abner and the people laye rounde aboute him Thē sayde Abisai vnto Dauid God hath closed thine enemye in thyne hande this daye Therfore will I now thrust him thorow once with the speare euen in to the grounde y t he shall haue ynough of it Neuertheles Dauid sayde vnto Abisai Destroye him not for who wil laye hande vpon the anoynted of y e LORDE remayne vngiltye Dauid sayde morouer As truly as the LORDE lyueth yf y e LORDE him selfe smyte him not or excepte his tyme come that he dye or that he go in to the battayll and perishe the LORDE let it be farre fro me that I shulde laye my hande on the LORDES anoynted Take y e speare now therfore at his heade the cuppe of water let vs go So Dauid toke y e speare the cuppe of water at Sauls heade they wente their waye And there was no man y t sawe it ner perceaued it nether awaked but they slepte euery one for there was a depe slepe fallen vpon them from the LORDE Now whan Dauid was come ouer on y e other syde he stode vpon the toppe of the mount a farre of so that there was a wyde space betwene them and cried vpon y e people and vpō Abner the sonne of Ner sayde Hearest thou not Abner And Abner answered and sayde Who art thou that cryest so and diseasest the kynge And Dauid sayde vnto Abner Art thou not a man And where is there soch one as thou in Israel Why hast thou not then kepte thy lorde y e kynge for there is one of y e people come in to destroye thy lorde y e kynge It is not well that thou hast done As truly as the LORDE lyueth ye are the children of death because ye haue not kepte youre lorde the LORDES anoynted Beholde now where is y e kynges speare and the cuppe of water that was at his heade Then knewe Saul the voyce of Dauid and saide Is not that thy voyce my sonne Dauid Dauid sayde It is my voyce my lorde the kynge And he sayde morouer Why doth my lorde so persecute his seruaunt What haue I done and what euell is there in my hande Yet let my lorde the kynge heare but the wordes of his seruaunt Yf y e LORDE prouoke the against me let there be smelled a meat offerynge but yf the childrē of men do it cursed be they before the LORDE because they haue thrust me out this daye that I shulde not dwell in the LORDES inheritaunce and saye Go y t waye and serue other goddes So fall not now my bloude vpon the earth from the face of the LORDE For the kynge of Israel is gone forth to seke a flee as a partriche is folowed on vpō the mountaynes And Saul sayde I haue synned Come agayne Dauid my sonne I wil do the nomore hurte because my soule hath bene deare in y e sighte this daye Beholde I haue done foolishly and very vnwysely Dauid answered and sayde Beholde here is the kynges speare let one of the yonge men come ouer here and fetch it But the LORDE shal rewarde euery one acordinge to his righteousnes and faith for y e LORDE delyuered y t this daye into my hande neuertheles I wolde not laie my hande vpō the LORDES anoynted And as y e soule hath bene greatly
sayde vnto them Tolde not I you that ye shulde not go And the men of the cite sayde vnto Eliseus Beholde there is good dwellynge in this cite as my lorde seyth but the water is euell and the londe vnfrutefull He sayde Bringe me hither a new vessell put salt in it And they broughte it him Then wēte he forth vnto the well of water and cast the salt therin sayde Thus sayeth the LORDE I haue healed this water from hence forth shal there no deed ner vnfrutefulnes come of it So the water was healed vnto this daye acordinge to the worde of Eliseus which he spake And he wēte vp towarde Bethel And as he was goynge vp by the waye there came litle boyes out of the cite and mocked him sayde Come vp here thou balde heade come vp here thou balde heade And he turned him aboute And whā he sawe them he cursed them in the name of the LORDE Then came there two Beeres out of the wod and tente two and fortye of the children From thence wēte he vp vnto mount Carmel and from it turned he backe to Samaria The III. Chapter IOram the sonne of Achab was kynge ouer Israel at Samaria in y e eightenth yeare of Iosaphat kynge of Iuda raigned xij yeares dyd y t which was euell in y e sighte of y e LORDE but not as his father his mother for he put awaye y e pilers of Baal which his father caused to make Neuertheles he cleued vnto y e synnes of Ieroboā y e sonne of Nebat which made Israel for to synne departed not there frō Mesa y e kynge of the Moabites had many shepe payed tribute vnto the kynge of Israel w t the woll of an hundreth thousande lābes of an hūdreth thousande rāmes But whan Achab was deed the kynge of y e Moabites fell awaye frō the kynge of Israel At y e same tyme wēte kynge Ioram frō Samaria mustered all Israel sent vnto Iosaphat kynge of Iuda sayenge The kynge of the Moabites is fallen awaye fro me come thou w t me to fighte agaynst y e Moabites He sayde I wil come vp I am euen as thou and my people as y e people and my horses as thy horses And sayde morouer Which waye wil we go vp He sayde by the waye in the wyldernesse of Edom. So the kynge of Israel the kynge of Iuda the kynge of Edom wente forth And whan they had gone aboute seuē dayes iourney y e hoost the catell y t were amonge thē had no water Then sayde the kynge of Israel Alas the LORDE hath called these thre kynges to delyuer thē into the hande of the Moabites But Iosaphat sayde Is here no prophet of y e LORDE y t we maye axe coūcell at y e LORDE by him Then answered one of y e kynge of Israels seruauntes saide Here is Eliseus y e sonne of Saphat which poured water vpon Elias handes Iosaphat sayde The worde of y e LORDE is with him So the kynge of Israel Iosaphat and y e kynge of Edom wente downe vnto him But Eliseus sayde vnto the kynge of Israel What hast thou to do w t me go to the prophetes of thy father to y e mothers prophetes The kinge of Israel saide vnto him No for y e LORDE hath called these thre kynges to delyuer them in to the handes of the Moabites Eliseus sayde As truly as the LORDE Zebaoth lyueth before whom I stōde yf I regarded not Iosaphat the kynge of Iuda I wolde not regarde the ner set oughte by ye. So bringe me now a mynstrell And whan the mynstrell played vpō the instrument the hande of the LORDE came vpō him And he sayde Thus sayeth the LORDE Make pittes by this broke For thus sayeth the LORDE Ye shal se nether wynde ner rayne yet shall the broke be full of water that ye and youre housholdes youre catell maie drynke Yee and that is but a small thinge in the sighte of the LORDE And the Moabites shal he delyuer in to youre handes so y t ye shal smyte all the stronge cities and all y e chosen cities shal fell downe all the good trees and stoppe all the welles of water and all the good feldes shall ye make waist with stones On the morow whan the meat offerynge is offered beholde there came water y e waye from Edom and fylled y e londe with water But whan the Moabites herde y t the kynges came vp to fighte agaynst thē they called all y e harnessed men their rulers stode on y e border And whan they rose early in y e mornynge the Sonne wēte vp vpon y e water the Moabites thoughte the water ouer agaynst thēto be euē as reed as bloude they sayde It is bloude y e kynges haue destroyed them selues w t the swerde one hath smytten another Now Moab get the vp to the spoyles But whan they came to the tentes of Israel the Israelites gat vp smote the Moabites they fled before them Neuertheles they came in smote Moab brake downe the cities euery one cast his stone vpon all the good feldes and made them full and stopped all y e welles of water and felled downe all the good trees tyll there remayned but the stones in the brick-wall and they compased them aboute with slynges and smote them But whā the kynge of y e Moabites sawe y t the battayll was to strōge for him he toke to him seuen C. men which drue y e swerde to fall vpon the kynge of Edom neuertheles they were not able Then toke he his first sonne which shulde haue bene kynge in his steade and offred him for a burnt offerynge vpon the wall Then came there a greate wrath ouer Israel that they departed from him and turned agayne in to their londe The IIII. Chapter ANd there cried a woman amōge the wyues of the prophetes children vnto Eliseus and sayde Thy seruaunt my huszbāde is deed and thou knowest that thy seruaunt feared the LORDE Now commeth the man that he was detter vnto and wyll take awaye both my children to be bonde seruauntes Eliseus sayde vnto her What shal I do forthe Tell me what hast thou in the house She sayde Thy handmayden hath nothinge in the house but a pitcher w t oyle He sayde Go y t waye borowe without of all thy neghboures emptye vessels that not a fewe and go in and shut y e dore behynde the with thy sonnes and poure of it in to all y e vessels whan thou hast fylled them delyuer them forth She wente and shut the dore vnto her with hir sonnes which broughte her the vessels and so she poured in And whan the vessels were full she sayde vnto hir sonne Brynge me yet one vessell He sayde vnto her There is not one vessell more here Then stode y e oyle styll And she sent and tolde the
the commaundementes of the LORDE their God and made them two molten calues and groues and worshipped all the hoost of heauen serued Baal and caused their sonnes and doughters to go thorow the fyre and medled w t soythsayers and witches and gaue them selues ouer to do that which was euell in the sighte of the LORDE to prouoke him vnto wrath Then was the LORDE very wroth at Israel and put them awaye froÌ„ his presence so y t there remayned nomo but onely y e trybe of Iuda Nether dyd Iuda kepe the commaundemeÌ„tes of the LORDE their God but walked after the customes of Israel which they dyd Therfore dyd y e LORDE cast awaye all y e sede of Israel and troubled them and delyuered them in to the handes of the spoylers tyll he had cast them out of his presence for Israel was deuyded from the house of Dauid And they made theÌ„ a kynge one Ieroboam the sonne of Nebat which turned Israel back from y e LORDE caused theÌ„ to synne so sore Thus walked the childreÌ„ of Israel in all y e synnes of Ieroboam which he had done departed not froÌ„ them vntyll y e LORDE put Israel out of his presence acordinge as he had spokeÌ„ by all his seruauntes y e prophetes So Israel was caried awaye out of their awne londe to Assiria vnto this daye The kynge of Assiria caused men to come froÌ„ Babilon from Cutha froÌ„ Aua from Hemath Sepharuaim caused theÌ„ to inhabite y e cities in Samaria in steade of the children of Israel And they toke possession of Samaria dwelt in y e same cities But whaÌ„ they begaÌ„ne to dwell there feared not y e LORDE the LORDE sent lyons amoÌ„ge theÌ„ which slewe them And they caused it be sayde vnto y e kynge of Assiria The HeytheÌ„ whom thou hast broughte hither caused them to inhabite the cities of Samaria knowe not the lawe of y e God of the londe Therfore hath he sent lyons amoÌ„ge them beholde they slaye theÌ„ because they knowe not the ordinaunce of the God of the londe The kinge of Assiria coÌ„maunded saide Bringe thither one of y e prestes y t were caried awaye froÌ„ thence let him go thither dwell there teach theÌ„ the ordinauÌ„â—e of the God of y e londe Then came one of â— prestes which were caried awaye from Samaria dwelt at Bethel taughte them how they shulde feare y e LORDE But euery people made theÌ„ goddes put theÌ„ in the houses vpon y e hye places which the Samaritanes had made euery people iÌ„ their cities wherin they dwelt They of BabiloÌ„ made Sochoth Benoth They of Chut made Nergel They of Hemath made Asima They of Aua made Nibehas Tharthak They of Sepharuaim burnt their sonnes vnto Adramelech and Anamelech y e goddes of theÌ„ of Sepharuaim And whyle they feared y e LORDE they made prestes in y e hye places of y e lowest amonge them put them in y e houses of y e hye places thus they feared y e LORDE serued y e goddes also acordinge to y e custome of euery nacion from whence they were broughte And vnto this daye do they after y e olde fashion so y t they nether feare y e LORDE ner yet kepe their awne ordinaunces and lawes after the lawe and commaundement that the LORDE coÌ„maunded the childreÌ„ of Iacob vnto whom he gaue y e name of Israel and made a couenaunt with them and commaunded them and sayde Feare none other goddes and worshipe them not and serue them not and offer not vnto them â–ª but the LORDE which broughte you out of the loÌ„de of Egipte with greate power and outstretched arme Him feare him worshippe vnto him do sacrifice and the statutes ordinaunces lawe coÌ„maundement which he hath caused to be wrytten vnto you those se that ye kepe that ye allwaye do therafter and feare none other goddes And forget not the couenaunt which he hath made with you lest ye feare other goddes But feare y e LORDE youre God he shall delyuer you from all youre enemies Neuertheles they wolde not herken but dyd after their olde custome Thus these Heythen feared the LORDE and serued their Idols also and so dyd their children and childers childreÌ„ likewyse EueÌ„ as their fathers haue done before them so do they vnto this daye The XVIII Chapter IN the thirde yeare of Oseas y e sonne of Ela kynge of Israel reigned Ezechias y e sonne of Achas kynge of Iuda And he was fyue and twentie yeare olde whan he was made kynge reigned nyne twentye yeare at Ierusalem His mothers name was Abi the doughter of Zachary And he dyd that which was righte in the sighte of the LORDE acordinge vnto all as dyd Dauid his father He put awaye the hye places and brake downe the pilers roted out the groues and brake the brasen serpente which Moses had made For vnto that tyme had the children of Israel brent inceÌ„se vnto it And it was called Nehusthan He put his trust in the LORDE God of Israel so that after him there was not his like amoÌ„ge all the kynges of Iuda nether had bene before him He cleued vnto the LORDE and departed not backe from him and kepte his commaundementes which the LORDE had coÌ„maunded Moses And the LORDE was w t him And whither so euer he weÌ„te forth he behaued him selfe wysely He resisted the kyn of Assiria and was not subdued vnto him He smote the Philistynes also vnto Gasa and their borders from the castels vnto the stronge cities In the fourth yeare of Ezechias kynge of Iuda y t was the seuenth yeare of Oseas the sonne of Ela kynge of Israel came Salmanasar the kynge of Assiria vp agaynst Samaria and layed sege vnto it and wanne it after thre yeares in the sixte yeare of Ezechias that is in the nyenth yeare of Oseas kynge of Israel theÌ„ was Samaria wonne And the kynge of Assiria caried Israel awaye vnto Assiria and set them at Halah and Habor by the water Gosan and in the cities of the Meedes And all because they herkened not vnto the voyce of the LORDE their God and had transgressed his couenaunt And as for all that Moses the seruaunt of the LORDE had commaunded theÌ„ they had nether herkened vnto eny of those ner done them In the fourteÌ„th yeare of kynge Ezechias dyd Sennacherib y e kynge of Assiria come vp agaynst all the stronge cities of Iuda coÌ„quered theÌ„ Then sent Ezechias the kynge of Iuda to y e kynge of Assiria vnto Lachis sayenge I haue offended turne back fro me loke what thou layest vnto me I wil beare it TheÌ„ the kynge of Assiria layed vnto Ezechias the kynge of Iuda thre hundreth talentes of syluer thirtie talentes of golde So Ezechias gaue all y e syluer y t was fouÌ„de in y e house of the LORDE in
all them that seke him and his violence and wrath vpon all them that forsake him So we fasted and soughte this at oure God and he herde us And I toke out twolue of the chefe prestes Serebia and Hasabia and ten of their brethren with them and weyed them there the syluer and golde and vessels for the Heue offeringe vnto the house of oure God which the kynge and the lordes of his councell and prynces and all Israel that were at hande had geuen to the Heue offerynge and there weyed I them vnder their hande sixe hundreth and fiftye talentes of syluer and in syluer vessell an hundreth talentes and in golde an hundreth talentes twentye cuppes of golde of a thousande guldens and two costly ornamentes of good brasse as cleare as golde and sayde vnto them Ye are holy vnto the LORDE therfore are the vessels holy also and so is the syluer and golde that is geuen of a good wyll vnto the LORDE God of youre fathers Watch ye therfore and kepe it tyll ye weye it downe before the chefe prestes and Leuites and awncient fathers of Israel at Ierusalem in the chestes of the house of the LORDE Then toke the prestes and Leuites that weyed syluer and golde vessell to brynge it to Ierusalem vnto y e house of oure God So we brake vp from the water of Ahena on the twolueth daye of the first moneth to go vnto Ierusalem and the hande of oure God was vpon us and delyuered us frō the hande of the enemies and preuy waytinges by the waye And we came to Ierusalem and abode there thre dayes But on y e fourth daye was the syluer and golde and vessell weyed in the house of oure God vnder the hande of Meremoth the sonne of Vrias the prest and with him Eleasar the sonne of Phineas and with them Iosabad the sonne of Iesua and Noadia y e sonne of Benui the Leuites acordinge to the nombre weight of euery one And the weight was all wrytten vp at the same tyme. And the children of the captiuyte which were come out of preson offred burnt offeringes vnto y e God of Israel twolue bullockes for all Israel sixe and nynetye rammes seuen and seuentye lambes and twolue goates for a syn offerynge all to the burnt offeringe of the LORDE And they delyuered the kynges commyssion vnto the kynges officers to the Debytes on this syde the water And they promoted the people and the house of God The IX Chapter WHan all this was perfourmed the rulers came to me and sayde The people of Israel and the prestes Leuites are not separated from the nacions in the londes as touchinge their abhominacions namely of the Cananites Hethites Pheresites Iebusites Ammonites Moabites Egipcians and Amorites For they haue taken the doughters of the same their sonnes and haue myxte the holy sede with y e nacions in the londes and the hande of the rulers and lordes of councell hath bene principall in this trespace Whan I herde this I rente my clothes and my rayment and plucte out the heer of my heade and of my beerd and sat mournynge And there resorted vnto me all soch as feared the worde of the LORDE God of Israel because of the greate transgression And I sat mournynge vntyll the euenynge sacrifyce And aboute the euenynge sacrifice I rose vp fro my heuynes and rente my clothes and my raiment and fell vpon my knees and spred out my handes vnto the LORDE my God and sayde My God I am ashamed and darre not lifte vp mine eies vnto the my God for oure wickednesses are growne ouer oure heade oure trespaces are waxen greate vnto y e heauē Sence the tyme of oure fathers haue we bene in greate trespace vnto this daie and because of oure wickednesses haue we and o r kynges bene delyuered in to the hande of y e kynges of the nacions in to the swerde in to captiuyte in to spoyle and in to confusion of face as it is come to passe this daye But now is there a litle and sodane graciousnes come from the LORDE oure God so that some of vs are escaped that he maie geue vs a nayle in his holy place that oure God maye lighte oure eyes and geue vs a litle lyfe in oure bondage For we are bondmen and o r God hath not forsakē vs though we be bondmen and hath enclyned mercy vnto vs in the sighte of the kynges of Persia that they shulde geue vs lyfe and promote the house of oure God and to sett vp the desolacion therof and to geue vs an hedge in Iuda and Ierusalem O oure God what shall we saye now after this that we haue forsaken thy commaundementes which thou hast commaunded by thy seruauntes the prophetes and saide The londe wherin ye shal come to possesse it is an vncleane londe thorow the fylthines of the people of the londes in their abhominacions wherwith they haue made it full of vnclennes on euery syde * Therfore shal ye not geue youre doughters vnto their sonnes and their doughters shall ye not take vnto youre sonnes and seke not their peace and welth for euer that ye maye be stronge and enioye the good in the londe and y t ye and youre children maye haue the inheritaunce of it for euermore And after all this that is come vpon vs because of oure euell dedes and greate trespace thou oure God hast spared oure wickednesses and hast geuen vs a delyueraunce as it is come to passe As for vs we haue turned backe haue let go thy commaundementes to make contracte with the people of these abhominacions Wilt thou then be wroth at vs tyll we be vtterly consumed so that nothynge remayne and tyll there be no delyueraunce O LORDE God of Israel thou art righteous for we remaine yet escaped as it is this daie Beholde in thy presence are we in oure trespace for because of it is there no stondinge before the. The X. Chapter ANd whan Eszdras prayed after this maner and knowleged wepte and laie before the house of God there resorted vnto him out of Israel a very greate congregacion of men and wemen and children for the people wepte very sore And Sachania the sonne of Iehiel one of the children of Elam answered and sayde vnto Eszdras We haue trespaced agaynst the LORDE oure God in that we haue taken straunge wyues of all the people of the londe Now there is hope yet in Israel cōcerninge this therfore let vs make a couenaūt now with oure God that we shal put awaye all the wyues and soch as are borne of them acordynge to the councell of y e LORDE and of them that feare the commaundement of oure God y t we maye do acordynge to the lawe Get the vp therfore for the matter belongeth vnto the. We wyll be with the be of good comforte and do it Then rose Eszdras and toke an ooth of the rulers prestes and Leuites and of all Israel that
al people and the coueringe wherwith all Gentiles are couered As for death he shal vtterly coÌ„sume it The LORDE God shal wipe awaye the teares from all faces and take awaye the confucioÌ„ of his people thorow y e whole worlde For y e LORDE himself hath sayde it At the same tyme shal it be sayde lo this is oure God in whoÌ„ we put oure trust and he hath healed vs. This is the LORDE that we haue wayted for Let vs reioyse delyte in his health For the hoÌ„de of y e LORDE ceaseth vpoÌ„ this hil But Moab shal be throssheÌ„ downe vnder him like as the straw is trodeÌ„ vnder fete in a doÌ„ge hill For he shal stretch out his hoÌ„des vpon him like as a swimmer doth to swymme And w t the power of his hondes shal he cast downe his hie pompe As for his stroÌ„ge holdes hie walles he shal burâ—e them cast theÌ„ downe and fell theÌ„ to the grounde in to dust The xxvj Chapter THen shal this songe be sunge in the londe of Iuda We haue a stroÌ„ge citie the walles tâ—e ordinauÌ„ce shal kepe vs. OpeÌ„ y e gates y t the good people maye go in which laboureth for the treuth And thou which art the doer and hast the matter in honde shalt prouyde for peace eueÌ„ the peace y t meÌ„ hope for in the. Hope stil in the LORDE for in the LORDE God is euerlastinge streÌ„gth For why it is he y t bringeth lowe the hie mynded citesyns casteth downe the proude cities He casteth theÌ„ to the grouÌ„de yee eueÌ„ in to y e myre y t they maye be trodeÌ„ vnder the fete of the symple with the steppes of the poore Thou LORDE coÌ„sidrest the path of y e rigtuous whether it be right whether the waye of y e rightuous be right Therfore LORDE we haue a respecte vnto the waye of thy iudgmentes thy name and thy remeÌ„braunce reioyse the soule My soule lusteth after the all the night loÌ„ge my mynde haisteth frely to the. For as soone as thy iudgment is knowne to the worlde theÌ„ the inhabitours of the earth lerne rightuousnesse But the vngodly though he haue recaued grace yet lerneth he not rightuousnesse but in that place where he is punished he offendeth feareth not the glory of the LORDE LORDE they wil not se thine hie honde but they shal se it and be confounded wheÌ„ thou shalt deuoure them with the wrath of the people and with the fyre of thine enemies But vnto vs LORDE prouyde for peace for thou workest in vs all o r workes O LORDE oure God though soch lordes haue dominacion vpon vs as knowe not the yet grauÌ„te that we maye only hope in the and kepe thy name in remembraunce The malicious Tyrauntes wheÌ„ they die are nether in life nor in the resurrectioÌ„ for thou visitest theÌ„ and rootest theÌ„ out and destroyest all the memoryall of them Agayne thou increacest the people o LORDE thou increacest the people thou shalt be praysed and magnified in all y e endes of the worlde The people that seke vnto the in trouble that same aduersite which they complane of is vnto theÌ„ a chastenynge before the. Like as a wife w t childe wheÌ„ hir trauayle coÌ„meth vpoÌ„ her is ashamed crieth and suffreth the payne EueÌ„ so are we o LORDE in thy sight We are with childe we trauayle beare with the sprete we bringe forth health where thorow the earth is vndestroyed and the inhabitours of the worlde perish not But as for thy dead men and ours that be departed they are in life and resurrection They lie in the earth they wake haue ioye for y t dew is a dew of life light But y e place of the malicious Tyrauntes is falleÌ„ awaye So go now my people in to thy chaÌ„bre and shut the doore to the and suffre now y e twiÌ„cklinge of an eye till the wrath be ouerpast For beholde the LORDE wil go out of his habitacion vyset the wickednes of theÌ„ that dwell vpon earth He wil discouer the bloude that she hath deuoured she shal neuer hyde theÌ„ that she hath murthured The xxvij Chapter THen the LORDE with his heuye great and loÌ„ge swearde shal vyset LeuiathaÌ„ that invincible serpeÌ„t eueÌ„ LeuiathaÌ„ y t croked serpent and shal slaye the Wallfish in y e see At the same tyme shal meÌ„ synge of the vynyarde of Muscatel I the LORDE kepe it and water it in due season I watch daye night that no man breake in to it I beare no euel wil in my mynde Who will compell me that I greatly forgettinge all faith fulnesse shulde burne it vp at once w t thornes bushes Or who will enforce me to kepe or make peace It wil come to this poynte y t Iacob shal be rooted againe and Israel shal be grene beare floures they shal fyll y e whole worlde w t their frute Smyteth he not his smyter as euel as he is smytteÌ„ him self Destroieth he not y e murtherers as he is murthured Euery maÌ„ recoÌ„penseth w t y e measure y t he receaueth He museth vpoÌ„ his sore wynde as vpoÌ„ the dayes of extreme heate And therfore shal the iniquite of Iacob be thus reconciled And so shal he take awaye all y e frute of his synnes As for aulter stones he shal make them all as stones beaten to poulder the Groues and Idols shal not stonde The stronge cities shal be desolate and y e fayre cities shal be left like a wildernes The catel shal fede and lie there and the shepe shal eate it vp Their haruest shal be brent their wyues which were their bewtie when they came forth shal be defyled For it is a people without vnderstoÌ„dinge and therfore he y t created them shal not fauoure them and he y t made them shal not be merciful to theÌ„ In y t tyme shal y e LORDE shute from y e swifte water of Euphrates vnto y e ryuer of Egipte And there shal the children be chosen out one by one Then shal the greate trompet be blowen so that those which haue bene destroyed in the Assirians londe and those that be scatred abrode in Egipte shal come worshipe the LORDE at IerusaleÌ„ vpoÌ„ the holy mount The xxviij Chapter WO be to y e crowne of pryde to y e dronkeÌ„ Ephraemites and to the faydinge floure to the glory of his poÌ„pe y t is vpoÌ„ the toppe of the pleÌ„teous valley which meÌ„ be ouerladen w t wyne Beholde the strength and power of the LORDE shal breake in to the londe on euery syde like a tempest of hale that beareth downe stronge holdes and like an horrible mightie and ouer flowinge water And the proude crowne of the dronken Ephraemites shal be troden vnderfoote And as for the faydinge floure the glory of his pompe which is vpon the toppe of the plenteous valley
Chapter MOrouer thus saied the LORDE vnto me go thy waye get the a lynnen breche and gyrde it aboute thy loynes and let it not be wet Then I got me a brech acordinge to the commaundemeÌ„t of the LORDE and put it aboute my loynes After this the LORDE spake vnto me agayne Take the breche that thou hast prepared put aboute the and get the vp and go vnto Euphrates and hyde it in a hole off the rock So weÌ„t I and hydde it â—s the LORDE commaunded me And it happened longe after this that the LORDE spake vnto me Vp and get the to Euphrates and fet the breche from thence which I commaunded the to hyde there Then went I to Euphrates and digged vp and toke the brech from the place where I had hyd it and beholde the brech was corrupte so that it was profitable for nothinge Then sayde the LORDE vnto me Thus saieth the LORDE Euen so will I corruppe the pryde off Iuda â–ª and the hie mynde off IerusaleÌ„ This people is a wicked people they will not heare my worde they folowe y e wicked ymaginacions off their owne hert hange vpon strauÌ„ge goddes theÌ„ haue they serued worshipped and therfore they shal be as this brech that serueth for nothinge For as strately as a brech lieth vpon a maÌ„s loynes so strately dyd I bynde y e whole house of Israel and the whole house of Iuda vnto me saieth the LORDE that they might be my people that they might haue a glorious name y t they might be in honoure but they wolde not obeye me Therfore laye this ryddle before them and saye Thus saieth the LORDE God of Israel euery pot shal be fylled with wyne And they shal saye thinkest thou we knowe not y t euery pot shal be fylled with wyne Then shalt thou saye vnto them Thus saieth the LORDE Beholde I shal fyll all the inhabitours of this loÌ„de w t dronckeÌ„nes the kynges that syt vpoÌ„ Dauids stole the prestes and prophetes with all y t dwell at Ierusalem And I will shute them one agaynst another yee y e fathers agaynst the sonnes saieth the LORDE I wil not pardon them I wil not spare them ner haue pitie vpon them but destroye them Be obedient geue eare take no diszdayne at it for it is the LORDE himself that speaketh Honoure y e LORDE youre God herein or he take his light from you and or euer youre fete stomble in darknesse at y e hill lest wheÌ„ ye loke for the light he turne it in to y e shadowe and darknesse of death But yf ye wil not heare me that geue you secrete warnynge I will mourne fro my whole herte for youre stubburnesse Piteously will I wepe and the teares shall guszhe out of myne eyes For the LORDES flocke shal be caried awaye captiue Tell the kinge the rulers Humble yo r selues set you downe lowe for y e crowne of yo r glory shal fall from youre heade The cities towarde the south shal be shut vp no man shal open theÌ„ All Iuda shal be caried awaye captyue so that none shall remayne Lift vp youre eyes and beholde theÌ„ that come from the North Like a fat flocke shal they fall vpon the. To whom wilt thou make thy mone when they come vpon the for thou hast taught theÌ„ thy self and made theÌ„ masters ouer the. Shal not sorowe come vpoÌ„ the as on a woman trauelinge with childe And yf thou woldest saye theÌ„ in thine hert Wherfore come these thinges vpoÌ„ me EueÌ„ for the multitude of thy blasphemies shall thy hynder partes thy fete be discouered For like as the man of Iude maye chaunge his skynne the cat of the mountayne hir spottes so maye yet that be exercised in euell do good Therfore will I scatre you lyke as y e stobble that is takeÌ„ awaye with y e south wynde This shal be youre porcion and the porcion of youre measure wher with ye shal be rewarded of me saieth the LORDE because ye haue forgotten me and put youre trust in disceatful thinges Therfore shall I turne thy clothes ouer thy heade and discouer thy thees that thy preuyties maye be sene y e aduoutrie thy deedly malice thy beastlynes and thy shamefull whordome For vpon the feldes and hilles I haue sene thy abhominacions Wo be vnto the o IerusaleÌ„ wheÌ„ wilt thou euer be clensed enymore The XIIII Chapter The worde of the LORDE shewed vnto Ieremy coÌ„cernynge y e derth off the frutes IVda shal mourne men shall not go moch more thorow his gates the londe shal be nomore had in reputacion the crie of IerusaleÌ„ shal breake out The lordes shall sende their seruauntes to fetch water when they come to the welles they shal fynde no water but shal carie their vessels home emptie They shal be ashamed aÌ„d confounded shal couer their heades For the grouÌ„de shal be dried vp because there coÌ„meth no rayne vpon it The plowmen also shal be ashamed aÌ„d shal couer their heades The Hynde shal forsake the yonge fawne that se briÌ„geth forth in y e felde because there shal be no grasse The wilde Asses shall stonde in the Mosse and drawe in their wynde like the DragoÌ„s their eyes shal fayle for waÌ„t of grasse Doutles oure owne wickednesse rewarde vs But LORDE do thou acordinge to y i name though oure transgressions and synnes be many For thou art the comforte helpe of Israel in the tyme of trouble Why wilt thou be as a straunger in the Londe and as one that goeth ouer the felde aÌ„d coÌ„meth in only to remayne for a night Why wilt thou make thy self a cowarde and as it were a giauÌ„te that yet maye not helpe For thou arâ—ours o LORDE and we beare thy name therfore forsake vs not Then spake the LORDE concernynge this people y t haue pleasure to go so nembly w t their fete and leaue not of and therfore displease the LORDE in so moch that he will now bringe agayne to remembraunce all their myszdedes aÌ„d punysh all their synnes Yee euen thus sayde the LORDE vnto me Thou shalt not praye to do this people good For though they fast I will not heare their prayers And though they offre burnt offriÌ„ges sacrifices yet wil not I accepte them For I will destroye them with the swearde honger and pestilence Then answerde I O LORDE God the prophetes saye vnto them Tush ye shal se no swearde and no honger shall come vpon you but the LORDE shal geue you continuall rest in this place And the LORDE sayde vnto me The prophetes preach lies vnto them in my name I haue not spoken with them nether gaue I them eny charge nether dyd I sende theÌ„ yet they preach vnto you false visions charmynge vanite and disceatfulnesse of their owne herte Therfore thus saieth the LORDE As for those prophetes that preach in my name whom I neuertheles haue not sent and y â—
vexed of all kingdomes to be cursed abhorred laughed to scorne put to confucion of all the people amonge whom I haue scatred them that because they haue not bene obedient vnto my commaundementes saieth the LORDE which I sent vnto them by my seruauntes the prophetes I stode vp early and sent vnto them but they wolde not heare saieth the LORDE Heare therfore the worde of the LORDE all ye presoners whom I sent from IerusaleÌ„ vnto Babilon Thus hath the LORDE of hoostes the God of Israel spoken of Achab y e sonne of Colaias of Sedechias the sonne of Maasia which prophecie lies vnto you in my name Beholde I wil delyuer them in to the honde of Nabuchodonosor the kinge of Babilon that he maye slaye them before youre eyes And all y e presoners of Iuda that are in Babilon shal take vpoÌ„ them this terme of cursinge and saye Now God do vnto the as he dyd vnto Sedechias Achab whom the kinge of Babilon rosted in the fyre because they synned shamefully in Israel For they haue not onely defiled their neghbours wyues but also preached lyenge wordes in my name which I haue not commaunded them This I testifie assure saieth the LORDE But as for Semeia the Nehelaâ—â—te thou shalt speake vnto him Thus saieth the LORDE of hoostes the God of Israel Because thou hast sealed lettres vnder thy name vnto all the people that is at Ierusalem to Sophonias the sonne of Maasia the prest yee and sent them to all the prestes where in thou wrytest thus vnto him The LORDE hath ordened the to be prest in steade of Ioiada the prest that thou shuldest be the chefe in the house of the LORDE aboue all prophetes preachers that thou mightest put them in preson or in y e stockes How happeneth it then that thou hast not reproued Ieremy of Anathot which neuer leaueth of his prophecienge And beside all this he hath sent vs worde vnto Babilon and tolde vs planely that oure captiuyte shal longe endure that we shulde buylde vs houses to dwell therin to plante vs gardens that we might enioye the frutes therof Which lettre Sophonias the prest dyd rede and let Ieremy the prophet heare it Then came the worde of the LORDE vnto Ieremy sayenge Sende worde to all them that be in captiuyte on this maner Thus hath the LORDE spoken concernynge Semeia y e Nehelamite Because that Semeia hath prophecied vnto you without my commyssion brought you in to a false hope therfore thus the LORDE doth certifie you Beholde I wil vyset Semeia the Nehelamite his sede so that none of his shall remayne amonge this people none of them shall se the good y t I will do for this people saieth the LORDE For he hath preached falsely of the LORDE The XXX Capter THese are the wordes that the LORDE shewed vnto Ieremy saienge Thus saieth the LORDE God of Israel Wryte vp diligently all the wordes that I haue spoken vnto the in a boke For lo the tyme commeth saieth the LORDE that I will bringe agayne the presoners of my people of Israel and Iuda saieth the LORDE For I will restore them vnto the londe that I gaue to their fathers and they shall haue it in possession Agayne these wordes spake the LORDE coÌ„cernynge Israel and Iuda Thus saieth the LORDE We heare a terrible crie feare and disquietnesse For what els doth this signifie that I se Namely that all stronge men smyte euery man his honde vpon his loynes as a woman in the payne of hir trauayle Who euer sawe a man trauayle with childe Enquere therafter se. Yee all their faces are maruelous pale Alas for this daye which is so dredefull that none maye be lickened vnto it and alas for the tyme of Iacobs trouble from the which he shall yet be delyuered For in that daye saieth the LORDE I will take his yock from of thy neck breake thy bondes They shall nomore serue straunge goddes vnder him but they shall do seruyce vnto God their LORDE and to Dauid their kinge whom I will rayse vp vnto them And as for the o my seruaunt Iacob feare not saieth y e LORDE and be not afrayed o Israel For lo I will helpe the also from farre thy sede from the londe of their captiuyte And Iacob shall turne agayne he shal be in rest and haue a prosperous life and no man shall make him afrayed For I am with the to helpe the saieth the LORDE And though I shal destroye all the people amonge whom I haue scatred the yet will I not destroye the but correcke the and that with discrecion For I knowe that thou art in no wise without faute Therfore thus saieth y e LORDE I am sory for thy hurte and woundes There is no man to medle with thy cause or to bynde vp thy woundes there maye no man helpe the. All thy louers haue forgotten the and care nothinge for the. For I haue geuen the a cruell stroke and chastened the roughly and that for the multitude of thy myszdedes for thy synnes haue had the ouer hande Why makest thou mone for thy harme I my self haue pite of thy sorowe but for the multitude of thy myszdedes and synnes I haue done this vnto the. And therfore all they that deuoure the shal be deuoured and all thine enemies shal be led in to captiuyte All they that make the waist shal be waisted them selues and all those that robbe the will I make also to be robbed For I will geue the thy health agayne and make thy woundes whole saieth the LORDE because they reuyled the as one cast awaye vnd despised o Sion For thus saieth the LORDE Beholde I will set vp Iacobs tentes agayne and defende his dwellinge place The cite shal be buylded in hir olde estate and the houses shal haue their right foundacion And out of them shall go thankesgeuynge and the voyce of ioye I will multiplie them and they shall not mynishe I shall endue them with honoure and no man shall subdue them Their children shal be as a fore tyme and their congregacion shal coÌ„tinue in my sight And all those that vexe them will I viset A captayne also shall come of them and a prynce shall springe out from the myddest of them him will I chalenge to my self and he shall come vnto me For what is he that geueth ouer his herte to come vnto me saieth the LORDE Ye shal be my people also and I wil be youre God Beholde on the other syde shall the wrath of the LORDE breake out as a stormy water as a mightie whyrle wynde and shal fall vpoÌ„ the heades of the vngodly The terrible displeasure of the LORDE shall not leaue of vntill he haue done perfourmed the intent of his herte which in the latter dayes ye shal vnderstonde At the same tyme saieth the LORDE shal I be the God of all
but vse no deadly lamentacion Holde on thy bonet and put on thy shues vpon thy fete couer not thy face and eate no mourners bred So I spake vnto the people bytymes in the mornynge and at euen my wyfe dyed then vpon the nexte morow I dyd as I was cōmaunded And y e people sayde vnto me wilt thou not tell vs what that signifieth which thou doest I answered them the worde off the LORDE came vnto me sayēge Tell the house of Israel thus saieth y e LODDE God beholde I wil suspende my Sanctuary evē the glory of youre power the pleasure of yo r eyes and the thinge that ye love youre sonnes and doughters whom ye haue left shal fall thorow the swerde Like as I haue done so shall ye do also Ye shal not hyde youre faces ye shal eate no mourners bred youre bonettes shal ye haue vpon youre heades shues vpon youre fete Ye shal nether mourne ner wepe but in youre synnes ye shal be soroufull and one repēte with another Thus Ezechiel is youre shew tokē For loke as he hath done so when this commeth ye shall do also that ye maye lerne to knowe that I am y e LORDE God But beholde O thou sonne of man In the daye when I take from them their power their ioye and honoure the lust off their eyes the burthē of their bodies namely their sonnes and doughters Thē shall there one escape and come vnto the for to shewe the. In that daye shal y i mouth be opened to him which is escaped that thou mayest speake and be nomore domme Yee and thou shalt be their shew tokē that they maye knowe how that I am the LORDE The XXV Chapter THe worde of the LORDE came vnto me sayenge Thou sonne of man set thy face agaynst y e Ammonites prophecy vpon them and saye vnto the Ammonites Heare the worde off the LORDE God Thus saieth the LORDE God for so moch as thou speakest ouer my Sanctuary A ha I trow it be now suspended and ouer the londe of Israel I trow it be now desolate yee ād ouer the house of Iuda I trow they be now led awaye presoners Beholde I will delyuer y e to the people of the east y t they maye haue the in possession these shal set their castels and houses in the. They shall eate thy frute and drynke vp thy mylcke As for Rabath I wil make of it a stall for camels and of Ammon a shepefolde and ye shal knowe that I am the LORDE For thus saieth the LORDE God In so moch as thou hast clapped with thine hondes and stamped with thy fete yee reioysed in thine herte ouer the londe of Israel with despyte beholde I wil stretch out myne hōde ouer the also and delyuer the to be spoyled off the Heithen and rote the out from amonge the people and cause the be destroyed out off all londes yee I will make the be layed waist that thou mayest knowe that I am the LORDE Thus saieth y e LORDE God For so moch as Moab and Seir do saye As for the house off Iuda it is but like as all other Gētiles be Therfore beholde I will make the cities off Moab weapenlesse and take awaye their strength their cities and chefe coastes off their londe which are the pleasures off the countre As namely Betiesimoth Baalmeō and Cariathaim these will I open vnto thē off the east y t they maye fall vpon the Ammonites and will geue it them in possession so that the Ammonites shal no more be had in remēbraunce amonge the Heithen Euen thus will I punysh Moab also that they maye knowe how that I am the LORDE Morouer thus sayeth the LORDE God Because that Edom hath avenged eased himself vpon the house off Iuda therfore thus saieth the LORDE I will reach out myne honde vpon Edom and take awaye man and beest out off it From Themā vnto Dedan wil I make it desolate they shal be slayne with the swearde Thorow my people of Israel wil I avenge me agayne vpō Edō they shal hādle him acordinge to my wrath and indignaciō so that they shal knowe my vengeaunce saieth the LORDE God Thus saieth y e LORDE God For so moch as the Philistynes haue done this namely taken vengeaunce with despitefull stomackes and off an olde euell will set them selues to destroye Therfore thus saieth the LORDE God Beholde I wil stretch out myne hōde ouer the Philistynes and destroye the destroyer and cause all the remnaunt off the see coast to perish A greate vengeaunce will I take vpon them and punysh them cruelly that they maye knowe how that I am the LORDE which haue avenged me off them The XXVI Chapter IT happened that in the xi yeare the first daye off the Moneth the worde of the LORDE came vnto me sayenge Thou sonne of man Because that Tyre hath spoken vpon Ierusalem A ha now I trow the portes of the people be broken and she turned vnto me for I haue destroyed my bely full Yee therfore saieth y e LORDE God Beholde O Tyre I will vpō the I wil bringe a greate multitude off people agaynst y e like as whē the see aryseth with his wawes These shal breake the walles off Tyre and cast downe hir towres I wil scrape the grounde from her and mate her a bare stone yee as the dryenge place where the fyshers hange vp their nettes by the see syde Euen I haue spoken it sayeth the LORDE God The Gētiles shal spoyle her hir doughters vpon the felde shall perish with the swearde y t they maye knowe how that I am the LORDE For thus saieth the LORDE God Beholde I will brynge hither Nabuchodonosor which is the kynge off Babilon a kynge of kynges from the North vpō Tyre with horses charettes horsmen and with a greate multitude of people Thy doughters that are in the londe shal be slaye with y e swearde But agaynst y e he shall make bullworkes graue vp dyches aboute the lift vp his shylde agaynst ye. His slynges batelrāmes shal he prepare for thy walles w t his wrapēs breake downe thy towres The dust of his horses shal couer y e they shal be so many y i walles shal shake at the noyse of y e horse men charettes wheles when he cōmeth to thy portes as men do into an open cite With the hoffes off his horse fete shal he treade downe all thy stretes He shal slaye thy people w t the swearde breake downe the pilers of thy strength They shal waist awaye thy riches spoyle y i marchaūdise Thy walles shal they breake downe destroye thy houses of pleasure Thy stones thy tymbre foundacions shall they cast in the water Thus wil I brynge the melody of thy songes the voyce of thy mynstrelsy to an ende so that they shal no more be herde I wil make a bare stone off the yee a
well The V. Chapter THen answered Tobias his father sayde father all that thou hast commaunded me wil I do and that diligently But how I shal requyre this money I can not tell Nether doth he knowe me ner I him What token shal I geue him ▪ And as for the waye thither I neuer knew it Then his father answered him and sayde I haue his handwritinge by me which whan thou shewest him immediatly he shall paye the. But go thy waye now get the some faithfull man to go with y e for an hyre that thou mayest receaue y e money whyle I am yet lyuynge Then wente Tobias out vpon the strete he founde a fayre yonge man stondinge gyrded vp and as it were one ready to take his iourney And he knew not that it was an angell of God but saluted him and sayde From whence art thou thou good yonge man He answered Of the children of Israel And Tobias sayde vnto him knowest thou the waye that ledeth vnto the countre of y e Medes He answered I knowe it well and all those stretes haue I gone oft tymes and haue lodged with oure brother Gabelus that dwelleth in Rages a cite of y e Medes which lyeth vpon the mount Egabthanis Tobias sayde vnto him I praye the tary for me tyll I haue tolde my father these thinges Then wēte Tobias in and tolde his father all At y e which his father marueled prayed that he wolde come in vnto him Now whan the angell came in he saluted him and sayde ioye be with the for euermore And olde Tobias saide what ioye can I haue that syt here in darcknes se not the light of heauen The yonge man sayde vnto him Be of good cheare God shal helpe the shortly And Tobias sayde vnto him Canst thou brynge my sonne to Gabelus vnto the cite of Rages in Media And whan thou commest agayne I shal paye the thy hyre And the angell sayde vnto him I shal lede thy sonne and brynge him to the agayne Then Tobias answered him Tell me I praye the of what house or of what trybe art thou The angell Raphael sayde vnto him Axest thou after the kynred of an hyrelinge or sekest thou a gyde for thy sonne to go with him But that I make the not carefull I am Azarias the sonne of greate Hananias And Tobias answered Thou art come of a greate kynred but I praye y e be not displeased that I desyred to knowe thy kynred The angell sayde vnto him Thy sonne shal I lede forth safely and brynge him whole to the agayne Then answered Tobias and sayde well go on youre waie and God be in youre iourney and his angell beare you company So whan they had prepared all thinges y t they wolde take with them in their iourney Tobias bad his father his mother fare well and they wente on their waye both together Now whan they were gone his mother beganne to wepe and sayde The staff of oure age hast thou taken awaye and sent him from vs. Wolde God that money had neuer bene for the which thou hast sent him awaye Yf we had bene content w t o r pouerte this had bene greate riches vnto vs that we sawe oure sonne here Then sayde Tobias vnto her wepe not oure sonne shall come to vs agayne safe and sounde thine eyes shall se him For I trust that y e good angell of God shal beare him cōpany and ordre well all the thinges that he doth so that he shal come to vs agayne with ioye At these wordes his mother left of frō wepynge helde hir tonge The VI. Chapter SO Tobias wente on his waye and a dogg folowed him and y e first night they abode by the water of Tigris Then wente he out to wash his fete and beholde there came forth an horrible fish to deuoure him Of whom Tobias was afrayed and cried with a loude voyce sayenge LORDE he commeth vpon me And the angell sayde vnto him Take him by the cheke blade and drawe him to the. And he dyd so and drew him vpō the londe and the fish beganne to leape at his fete Thē sayde the angell vnto him Take out the bowels of this fish and as for the hert the gall and the leuer kepe them by the. For these thinges are necessary and good for medicyne Tobias dyd so and rosted the fish and they toke him with them in their iourney the residue they salted as moch as was sufficient for them till they came to Rages Then Tobias axed the angell and sayde vnto him I praye y e brother Azarias tell me wher to are these thinges good of the fish that thou hast bydden me kepe The angell answered him and sayde Yf thou layest a pece of the hert vpon the coales the smoke therof dryueth awaye all maner of euell spretes whether it be from man or from woman so that from thence forth y e same shal come nomore vnto them The gall is good to anoynte or to strake y e eyes withall where as there is eny blemish in them so shal they be whole And Tobias sayde vnto him where wilt thou that we remayne The angell answered and saide Here is a nye kinsman of thine one Raguel by name which hath a daughter called Sara hath nether sonne ner daughter but her All his good belōgeth vnto the and thou must mary his daughter and therfore desyre her at her father and he shal geue her the to wife Then answered Tobias sayde As I vnderstonde she hath bene maried vnto seuen huszbandes and they all are deed and I haue herde saye that the deuell slew them I am afrayed therfore lest soch thinges happen vnto me also which yf it came to passe seinge I am the onely sonne of my father and my mother I shulde brynge thē in their age w t sorow to their graues Then sayde y e angell Raphael vnto him Heare me and I will tell the what they be of whom the deuell hath power Namely they that receaue mariage of soch a fashiō that they shut God out from thē and from their hert and geue them selues to their owne lust euen as it were an horse and Moole which haue no vnderstondinge vpon soch hath y e deuell power But whan thou takest her and art come in to the chamber witholde thy self from her thre dayes and geue thy diligence vnto nothinge but vnto prayer with her And in the first night rost the leuer of the fish and the deuell shal be dryuē awaye The secōde night shalt thou be receaued in to the company of the holy patriarkes The thirde night shalt thou opteyne the blessinge of God so that whole children shal be borne of you After the thirde night take the mayden in the feare of God and more for the desyre of children then for eny fleshly lust that in the sede of Abraham thou mayest optayne the blessinge in children The VII Chapter THen wente they
seuen and seuen the male and his female that there maye besede left a lyue vpon the whole earth For yet after seuen dayes I wil sende raine vpon the earth fourtie dayes and fourtie nightes and wyll destroye all maner of thinges that I haue made from of the face of the earth And Noe dyd all that the LORDE commaunded him Sixe hūdreth yeare olde was he whan the water floude came vpon earth And he wente in to the Arcke with his sonnes his wyfe and his sonnes wyues for the waters of the floude Of cleane beastes and of vncleane of all fethered foules of all that crepeth vpon earth wente in vnto him to the Arcke by pares a male and a female as y e LORDE cōmaunded him And whan the seuen dayes were past the water floude came vpon the earth In the sixe hundreth yeare of Noes age vpon the seuentene daye of the seconde moneth that same daye were all y e fountaynes of the greate depe broken vp and the wyndowes of heauen were opened and there came a rayne vpon y e earth fourtie dayes and fourtie nightes Vpon the selfe same daye wēte Noe in to the Arcke with Sem Ham and Iaphet his sonnes and with his wyfe and the thre wyues of his sonnes and all maner of beastes after their kynde all maner of catell after their kynde all maner of crepynge thinges that crepe vpō the earth after their kynde and all maner of foules what so euer coude flye what so euer had fethers after their kynde These wente all vnto Noe in to the Arcke by cooples of all flesh in whom was the breth of life And these were the male the female of all maner of flesh and wente in acordinge as God commaūded him And the LORDE shut the dore vpon him Then came the water floude fourtie dayes vpon the earth and the water increased and bare vp the Arcke and lift it vp ouer y e earth Thus the water preuayled and increased sore vpon the earth so that the Arcke wente vpon the waters Yee the waters preuayled and increased so sore vpon earth that all the hye mountaynes vnder the whole heauen were couered Fyftene cubytes hye preuayled y e waters ouer the mountaynes which were couered Then all flesh that crepte vpon earth perished both foules catell beastes and all y t moued vpon earth and all men What so euer had the breth of life vpon the drye londe dyed Thus was destroyed all that was vpon the earth both man and beast both wormes and foules vnder y e heauē all these were destroyed from the earth Saue Noe onely remayned and they that were with him in the Arcke And the waters preuayled vpon the earth an hundreth and fiftie dayes The VIII Chapter THen God remembred Noe and all the beastes and all the catell that were with him in the Arcke and caused a wynde to come vpon the earth and y e waters ceassed and the fountaynes of the depe and the wyndowes of heauen were stopte and the rayne of heauē was forbydden and the waters ranne styll awaye from y e earth and decreased after an hundreth and fiftye dayes Vpon the seuentene daye of the seuenth moneth rested the Arcke vpon the mountaynes of Ararat And the waters wēte awaye and decreased vntyll the tenth moneth for the first daye of the tenth moneth the toppes of the mountaynes appeared After fourtie dayes Noe opened y e wyndow of the Arcke which he had made ▪ sent forth a rauen which flew out and came agayne vntyll the waters were dryed vp vpō the earth Then sent he forth a doue from him to wete whether the waters were fallē vpon the earth But when y e doue coude fynde no restynge place for hir fete she came agayne vnto him in to the Arcke for the waters were yet vpon the face of all the earth And he put out his hande and toke her to him in to the Arke Then he abode yet seuen dayes mo sent out the doue agayne out of the Arke she returned vnto him aboute the euen tyde and beholde she had broken of a leaf of an olyue tre bare it in hir nebb Then Noe perceaued that the waters were abated vpon the earth Neuertheles he taried yet seuen other dayes and sent forth the doue which came nomore to him agayne In the sixte hundreth and one yeare of Noes age vpon the first daye of y e first moneth the waters were dryed vp vpon the earth Then Noe toke of the hatches of the Arke and sawe y t the face of the earth was drye So vpon the seuen and twentye daye of the seconde moneth the whole earth was drye Then spake God vnto Noe and sayde Go out of the Arke thou and thy wyfe and thy sonnes and thy sonnes wyues with the. As for all the beastes that are with the what so euer flesh it be both foule catell and all maner of wormes that crepe vpon the earth let them go out with the and be ye occupied vpon the earth growe and multiplye vpon the earth So Noe wente out with his sonnes and with his wife and with his sonnes wyues All the beastes also and all the wormes and all the foules and all that crepte vpon the earth wente out of the Arke euery one vnto his like And Noe buylded an altare vnto y e LORDE and toke of all maner of cleane beastes of all maner of cleane foules and offred brē◠sacrifices vpon y e altare And y e LORDE smelled the swete sauo r sayde in his hert I wyl hence forth curse the earth nomore for mās sake for the ymaginacion of mans hert is euell euen from the very youth of him Therfore from hēce forth I wil nomore smyte all that lyueth as I haue done Nether shall sowynge tyme and haruest colde 〈◊〉 heate Sommer and wynter daye and 〈◊〉 ceasse so longe as the earth endure◠▪ The IX Chapter ANd God blessed Noe and his sonnes and sayde vnto them increace multiplye and fyll the earth The feare also and drede of you be vpon all beastes of the earth vpon all foules vnder the heauen and vpon all that crepeth on the earth and all fyshes of the see be geuen in to youre hādes All that moueth and hath life be youre meate Euen as the grene herbe so haue I geuē you all Onely eate not the flesh with the bloude wherin the soule is For the bloude of you wherin youre soule is wyll I requyre of the hande of all beastes and the soule of mā wyll I requyre of mans hande ye◠euery mans soule of anothers hande He that sheddeth mās bloude his bloude shal be shed by man agayne for God made man after his owne licknesse As for you be ye frutefull and increase and be occupied vpon the earth that ye maye multiplye therin Farthermore God sayde vnto Noe and to his sonnes w t him Beholde I make my
wyszdome in to the hertes of all that are wyse that they shall make all that I haue commaunded the the Tabernacle of wytnesse the Arke of wytnesse the Mercyseate theron and all the ornamentes of y e Tabernacle the table and his apparell the candilsticke and all his apparell the altare of incense the altare of burnt offerynges w t all his apparell the lauer with his fote the mynistrynge vestimentes of Aaron y e prest and the garmentes of his sonnes to serue like prestes the anoyntinge oyle and the inceÌ„se of spyces for y e SaÌ„ctuary All that I haue commaunded the shal they make And the LORDE talked vnto Moses and sayde Speake vnto the children of Israel and saye Kepe my Sabbath for it is a token betwene me and you and youre posterities that ye maye knowe how that I am the LORDE which haloweth you therfore kepe my Sabbath for it shal be holy vnto you Who so vnhaloweth it shall dye the death For who so doth eny worke therin shal be roted out from amonge his people Sixe dayes shall men worke but vpon the seuenth daye is the Sabbath the holy rest of the LORDE Who so doth eny worke vpon the Sabbath daye shall dye the death Therfore shal the children of Israel kepe the Sabbath that they maye kepe it also amonge their posterities for an euerlastynge couenaunt An euerlastynge token is it betwixte me and the children of Israel For in sixe dayes made the LORDE heaueÌ„ earth but vpon y e seuenth daye he rested and was refreshed And whan the LORDE had made an ende of talkinge with Moses vpon the mount Sinai he gaue him two tables of witnesse which were of stone and wrytten with the fynger of God The XXXII Chapter BVt whan the people sawe that Moses made loÌ„ge taryenge to come downe froÌ„ the mount they gathered theÌ„ together agaynst Aaron sayde vnto him Vp and make vs goddes to go before vs for we can not tell what is become of this man Moses that brought vs out of Egipte Aaron sayde vnto them Plucke of the golden earynges from the eares of youre wynes of yo r sonnes of yo r doughters brynge them vnto me Then all the people pluckte of their golden earynges from their eares brought them vnto Aaron And he toke them of their handes fashioned it w t a grauer And they made a molten calfe and sayde These are thy goddes O Israel that brought the out of the londe of Egipte Whan Aaron sawe that he buylded an altare before him and caused it be proclamed and sayde Tomorow is the LORDES feast And they arose vp early in the mornynge and offred burnt offerynges and brought dead offerynges also Then the people sat them downe to eate and drynke rose vp to playe But the LORDE sayde vnto Moses Go get the downe for thy people whom thou broughtest out of the londe of Egipte haue marred all they are soone gone out of the waie which I commaunded them They haue made them a molten calfe and haue worshipped it offred vnto it sayde These are thy goddes O Israel that brought the out of the lande of Egipte And the LORDE sayde vnto Moses I se that it is a styffnecked people and now suffre me that my wrath maye waxe whote ouer them that I maye consume them so wil I make a greate people of the. But Moses be sought the LORDE his God sayde Oh LORDE wherfore wil thy wrath waxe whote ouer thy people whom thou hast brought out of the loÌ„de of Egipte w t greate power a mightie haÌ„de Wherfore shulde the Egipcians speake saye He hath brought theÌ„ for their myschefe to slaye them in the mountaynes and to destroye theÌ„ vtterly from the earth O turne the from the fearcenesse of y e wrath be gracious ouer the wickednesse of thy people Remembre thy seruauÌ„tes Abraham Isaac and Israel vnto whoÌ„ thou swarest by thyne owne self and saydest I wil multiplye youre sede as the starres of heauen and all the londe that I haue promysed you wil I geue vnto youre sede they shall inheret it for euer Thus the LORDE repented of the euell which he sayde he wolde do vnto his people Moses turned him wente downe from the mount and in his hande he had the two tables of wytnesse which were wrytteÌ„ vpon both the sydes and were Gods worke the wrytinge was the wrytinge of God therin Now whan Iosua herde the noyse of y e people as they shouted he sayde vnto Moses This is a noyse of warre in the hoost He answered It is not a noyse of them that haue the victory and of them that haue the worse but I heare a noyse of synginge at a daunse Whan he came nye vnto the hoost and sawe the calfe and the daunsynge he was moued with wrath and cast the â—ables out of his hande and brake them beneth the mount And he toke the calfe that they had made and brent it with fyre and stamped it vnto poulder and strowed it in the water gaue it vnto the children of Israel to drynke sayde vnto Aaron What dyd this people vnto the that thou hast brought so greate a synne vpon them Aaron sayde Let not the wrath of my lorde waxe fearce thou knowest that this is a wicked people They sayde vnto me Make vs goddes to go before vs for we can not tell what is become of this man Moses y t brought vs out of the londe of Egipte I sayde vnto them Who so hath golde let him plucke it of and geue it me and I cast it in the fyre therof came this calfe Now whan Moses sawe that the people were naked for Aaron whan he set them vp made them naked to their shame he weÌ„te in to the gate of the hoost and sayde who so belongeth vnto the LORDE let him come hither vnto me Then all the children of Leui gathered them selues vnto him and he sayde vnto them Thus sayeth the LORDE the God of Israel Euery man put his swerde by his syde and go thorow in and out from one gate to another in the hoost and slaye euery man his brother frende neghboure The children of Leui dyd as Moses sayde vnto them And there fell of the people the same daye thre thousande men TheÌ„ sayde Moses CoÌ„secrate youre handes this daie vnto the LORDE euery man vpon his sonne and brother that the prayse maye be geuen ouer you this daye On the morow Moses sayde vnto the people Ye haue done a greate synnne Now I wil go vp vnto the LORDE yf peraduenture I maye make an attonement for youre synnes Now whaÌ„ Moses came agayne vnto y e LORDE he saide Oh this people haue done a greate synne haue made them goddes of golde Now for geue them their synne yf not theÌ„ wype me out of y e boke that thou hast wrytten The LORDE sayde
violently awaye or gat wrongeously or that was geuen him to kepe or that he hath founde or what so euer it be aboute y e which he hath sworne falsely he shal restore it againe whole alltogether and geue the fifth parte more therto euen to him that it belonged vnto the same daye that he geueth his trespace offerynge But for his trespace he shall brynge for the LORDE euen vnto the prest a ramme from the flocke without blemysh that is worth a trespace offerynge Then shall the prest make an attonement for him before the LORDE and all that he hath synned in shal be forgeuen him The VI. Chapter ANd the LORDE spake vnto Moses and sayde Commaunde Aaron and his sonnes and saye This is the lawe of the burnt offerynge The burnt offerynge shall burne vpon the altare all night vntyll the mornynge But the fyre of the altare onely shal burne theron And y e prest shal put on his lynen albe and his lyuen breches vpon his flesh and shal take vp the aszshes that the fyre of the burnt offerynge vpon the altare hath made and shall poure them besyde the altare Then shall he put of his rayment and put on other rayment and cary out the aszshes without the hoost into a cleane place The fyre vpon the altare shal burne and neuer go out The prest shal kyndle wod theron euery mornynge and dresse the burnt offerynge vpon it and burne the fat of the deed offerynges theron The fyre shall euer burne vpon the altare and neuer go out And this is the lawe of the meat offerynge which Aarons sonnes shall offre before the LORDE vpon the altare One of them shall Heue his handfull of fyne floure of y e meat offerynge and of the oyle and all the frankencense that lyeth vpon the meat offerynge and shall burne it vpon the altare for a swete sauoure a remembraunce vnto the LORDE As for the remnaunt Aaron and his sonnes shal eate it and vnleuended shal they eate it in the holy place namely in the courte of the Tabernacle of witnesse With leueÌ„ shal they not bake their porcion which I haue geuen them of my offerynges It shal be vnto them most holy as the syn offerynge and trespace offerynge All the males amonge the children of Aaron shall eate of it Let this be a perpetuall lawe for youre posterities in the sacrifices of the LORDE No man shall touch it excepte he be consecrated And the LORDE spake vnto Moses and sayde This shal be the offerynge of Aaron and of his sonnes which they shall offre vnto the LORDE in the daie of their anoyntinge The tenth parte of an Epha of fyne floure for a meat offerynge daylie the one half parte in the mornynge the other half parte at euen In the panne with oyle shall thou make it and brynge it fryed and in peces shalt thou offer it for the swete sauoure of the LORDE And the prest which amonge his sonnes shal be anoynted in his steade shall do this This is a perpetuall dewtye vnto the LORDE It shal be burnt alltogether for all the meat offerynges of the prest shal be consumed with the fyre and not be eaten And y e LORDE talked with Moses and sayde Speake vnto Aaron and his sonnes and saye This is the lawe of the syn offerynge In the place where thou slayest y e bunrt offerynge shalt thou slaye the syn offerynge also before the LORDE This is most holy The prest that offereth the syn offerynge shal eate it in the holy place in the courte of y e Tabernacle of wytnesse No man shal touch y e flesh therof excepte he be halowed And yf eny garment be sprenkled with the bloude of it it shal be washeÌ„ in the holy place And the eartheÌ„ pot that it is sodden in shal be broken But yf it be a brasen pot it shal be scoured and reÌ„sed with water All y e males amonge the prestes shall eate therof for it is most holy Notwithstondinge all y e syn offerynge whose bloude is brought in to the Tabernacle of wytnesse to make an attonement shall not be eaten but burnt with fyre The VII Chapter ANd this is the lawe of the trespace-offerynge and it shal be most holy In the place where the burnt offerynge is slayne shall the trespace offerynge be slayne also there shall of his bloude be sprenkled rounde aboute vpon the altare And all his fat shal be offered the rompe and the fat y t couereth the bowels the two kydneys with the fat y t is theron vpon the loynes and the net on the leuer vpon the kydneys also And the prest shal burne it vpon the altare for an offerynge vnto the LORDE This is a trespace offerynge All the males amonge the prestes shal eate it in the holy place for it is most holy euen as the syn offerynge so shall the trespace offerynge be also they shall both haue one lawe and it shal be the prestes that reconcyleth ther wt. Loke which prest offereth eny mans burnt offorynge the skynne of the same burnt offrynge that he hath offered shal be his And euery meat offerynge that is baken in the ouen rosted vpon the gredyron or fryed in the panne shal be the prestes y t offereth it And euery meat offerynge y t is myngled with oyle or drye shal belonge vnto all Aaron sonnes vnto one as well as another And this is y e lawe of the health offeringe that is offered vnto the LORDE Yf they wyll offre a sacrifice of thankesgeuynge then shal they offre vnleueÌ„ded cakes meÌ„gled with oyle and swete wafers straked ouer with oyle and fryed cakes of fyne floure mengled with oyle This offerynge also shall they brynge vpon a cake of leuended bred to the thank offerynge of his health-offerynge and of them all he shall offre one for an Heue offerynge vnto the LORDE And it shal be the prestes that sprenkleth the bloude of the health offerynge And the flesh of the thank offerynge in his healthofferynges shal be eaten the same daye that it is offred and there shall nothinge be left ouer vntyll the mornynge And whether it be a vowe or a fre wyl-offerynge â—it shal be eaten the same daye that it is offred yf ought be left ouer vntyll the mornynge yet maye it be eaten But loke what remayneth vnto y e thirde daye of the flesh that is offred it shal be brent with the fyre And yf eny man vpon the thirde daie eate of y e offred flesh of his health offerynge he shall not be accepted that offred it Nether shall it be rekened vnto him but it shal be refused And loke which soule eateth therof the same is giltie of a mysdede And the flesh that toucheth eny vncleane thinge shal not be eaten but burnt with the fyre But who so euer is cleane of body shal eate of the flesh and the soule that eateth of y e flesh of y e health offerynge which belongeth vnto the LORDE
to make agremēt for them before the LORDE Beholde the bloude of it came not in to the Sanctuary Ye shulde haue eaten it in the Sanctuary as I was commaunded Aaron sayde vnto Moses Beholde this daye haue they offred their syn offerynge their burnt offerynge before y e LORDE And it is chaunsed me after this maner And shulde I eate of the syn offerynge to daye be mery before the LORDE Whan Moses herde that he was content The XI Chapter ANd y e LORDE talked w t Moses Aaron sayde Speake vnto y e childrē of Israel and saye These are the beestes which ye shal eate amōge all y e beestes vpō earth What so euer hath hoffe deuydeth it in to two clawes cheweth cud amonge the beestes that shal ye eate But loke what cheweth cud hath hoffe deuydeth it not as the Camell the same is vncleane vnto you ye shal not eate it The Conyes chewe cud but they deuyde not the hoffe in to two clawes therfore are they vncleane vnto you The Hare cheweth cud also but deuydeth not y e hoffe in to two clawes therfore is he vncleane vnto you And the Swyne deuydeth y e hoffe in to two clawes but cheweth not the cud therfore is it vncleane vnto you Of the flesh of these shall ye not eate ner touch their carcases for they are vncleane vnto you These shall ye eate of all that are in the waters What so euer hath fynnes and scales in the waters sees ryuers that shal ye eate But what so euer hath not fynnes and scales in the sees and ryuers amonge all y t moue in the waters of all that lyue in the waters it shal be an abhominacion vnto you so that ye eate not of their flesh and that ye abhorre their carcases For all that haue not fynnes scales in the waters shall ye abhorre And these shal ye abhorre amonge y e foules so that ye eate them not The Aegle the Goshauke the Cormoraunte the Vultur y e Ryte and all his kynde and all Rauens w t their kynde the Estrich y e Nightcrow the Cocow the Sparow hauke with his kynde the litle Oule the Storke the greate Oule y e Backe the Pellycane the Swanne the Pye the Heron y e Iaye with his kynde the Lap wynge and y e Swalowe And whatso euer crepeth amonge the foules and goeth vpon foure fete shal be an abhominaciō vnto you Yet these shal ye eate of the foules that crepe and go vpon foure fete euen those that haue no knyes aboue vpon y e legges to hoppe withall vpon earth Of these maye ye eate as there is the Arbe with his kynde and the Selaam with his kynde the Hargol with his kynde the Hagab w t his kynde But what so euer els hath foure fete amonge the foules it shal be an abhominacion vnto you and ye shal take it for vncleane Who so euer toucheth the carcase of soch shall be vncleane vntill y e euen and who so euer beareth the carcase of eny of these shall wash his clothes and shal be vncleane vntyll the euen Therfore euery beest that hath hoffe and deuydeth it not in to two clawes cheweth not cud shal be vncleane vnto you Who so euer toucheth soch shal be vncleane And what so euer goeth vpon handes amonge y e beestes that go vpon foure fete shal be vncleane vnto you Who so euer toucheth the carcases of thē shal be vncleane vntyll euen And he y t beareth their carcase shall wash his clothes and be vncleane vntyll the euē For soch are vncleane vnto you These shal be vncleane vnto you also amonge the beestes that crepe vpon earth y e Wesell the Mouse the Tode euery one with his kynde the Hedgehogge the Stellio the Lacerte the Snale and the Moule these are vncleane vnto you amonge all that crepe Who so euer toucheth the deed carcase of thē shal be vncleane vntyll the euen And what so euer eny soch deed carcase falleth vpon it shal be vncleane what so euer vessell of wodd it be or rayment or skynne or bagge And euery vessell that eny thinge is occupyed withall shal be put in the water and is vncleane vntyll the euen and then shal it be cleane All maner of earthen vessell that eny soch carcase falleth in to shal all be vncleane that therin is ye shal breake it All meate which is eatē that eny soch water commeth in to is vncleane all maner of drynke that is dronkē in all maner of soch vessell is vncleane And what so euer eny soch carcase falleth vpō it shal be vncleane whether it be ouen or kettell so shal it be brokē for it is vncleane and shal be vncleane vnto you Neuertheles the fountaynes welles poundes of water are cleane But who so euer toucheth their carcases is vncleane And though the deed carcase of eny soch fell vpon the sede that is sowne yet is it cleane But whan there is water poured vpon the sede and afterwarde eny soch deed carcase falleth theron then shall it be vncleane vnto you Whan a beest dyeth that ye maye eate he that toucheth the deed carcase therof is vncleane vntyll euen Who so eateth of eny soch carcase shall wash his clothes and be vncleane vntyll the euen Likewyse he that beareth eny soch carcase shal wash his clothes and be vncleane vntyll the euen What so euer crepeth vpon earth shall be an abhominacion vnto you and shall not be eaten And what so euer crepeth vpon y e bely or all that goeth vpon foure or mo fete amōge all that crepeth vpon earth shall ye not eate for it shal be an abhominacion vnto you Make not youre soules abhominable and defyle you not in them to stayne youre selues for I am the LORDE youre God Therfore shal ye sanctifie youre selues that ye maye be holy for I am holy And ye shal not defyle youre selues on eny maner of crepynge beest that crepeth vpon earth for I am the LORDE which brought you out of the londe of Egipte that I might be youre God therfore shal ye be holy for I am holy This is the lawe ouer y e beestes and foules all maner of soules of crepynge beestes in the waters and all maner of soules y t crepe vpon earth that ye maie knowe to discerne what is vncleane cleane and what maner of beestes are to be eaten and which are not to be eaten The XII Chapter ANd the LORDE talked with Moses and sayde Speake vnto the children of Israel and saye Whan a woman hath conceaued and beareth a manchilde she shal be vncleane seuen dayes so longe as she suffreth hir disease and in y e eight daye shal y e flesh of his foreskynne be cut awaie And she shal byde at home thre and thirtie dayes in y e bloude of hir purifienger she shal touch no holy thinge ner come in to y e
be vncleane vntyll the euen Whan he toucheth an erthen vessell it shal be broken but the treen vessell shal be rensed w t water And whā he is cleane of his yssue he shal nombre vij dayes after y t he is made cleane wash his clothes bathe him self w t sprynginge water thē is he cleane And vpon the eight daye shal he take two turtill doues or two yonge pigeōs and brynge them before the LORDE before the dore of the Tabernacle of wytnesse and geue them vnto the prest And the prest shal make of the one a syn offeringe of the other a burnt offerynge and make an attonement for him before the LORDE as concernynge his yssue Whan a mans sede departeth from him in slepe the same shal bathe all his flesh w t water and be vncleane vntyll the euen And all clothes and euery skynne that is stained with soch sede shall he wash with water be vncleane vntyll the euen A woman by whom soch one lyeth shall bathe hir self w t water and be vncleane vntyll the euen Whan a woman hath the bloude yssue of hir flesh she shal be put a parte vij daies in to a sundrie place Who so euer toucheth her shal be vncleane vntyll the euē And all that she lyeth vpon as longe as she is put aparte shal be vncleane And that she sytteth vpō shal be vncleane And who so euer toucheth hir bed shal wash his clothes and bathe him self with water and be vncleane vntyll the euen And who so euer toucheth eny maner thinge that she hath sytten vpō shal wash his clothes and bathe him self with water and be vncleane vntyll the euē And yf a man lye with her whyle she is put a parte he shal be vncleane seuen dayes and the bed that he laye vpon shal be vncleane But whan a woman hath hir bloude yssue a longe season not onely at the tyme of hir naturall course but also out of the tyme of hir naturall course then shall she be vncleane so longe as she hath the yssue euē as she is at the tyme whan she is put aparte so shall she be vncleane here also What so euer she lyeth vpon all the tyme of hir yssue shal be as hir bed whan she is put aparte And all that she sytteth vpon shal be vncleane as is hir vnclennesse whan she is put aparte Who so euer toucheth eny of them shal be vncleane and shal wash his clothes and bathe him self with water be vncleane vntyll the euen But yf she be cleane of hir yssue thē shal she nombre seuen dayes afterwarde shall she be cleane and vpon the eight daye shall she take two turtill doues or two yonge pigeons and brynge them vnto the prest before the dore of the Tabernacle of wytnesse And the prest shall make of the one a synofferynge of the other a burnt offerynge and make an attonement for her before the LORDE as concernynge the yssue of hir vnclennesse Thus shal ye se that the childrē of Israel kepe them selues from their vnclēnesse that they dye not in their vnclennesse whan they defyle my habitacion which is amōge you This is the lawe ouer him that hath a runnynge sore him whose sede departeth from him in slepe so that he is vncleane ther of And ouer her that hath hir bloude yssue and who so euer hath a runnynge sore whether it be man or woman and whan a man lyeth with her that is vncleane The XVI Chapter ANd the LORDE spake vnto Moses after that Aarons two sonnes were deed whan they offered before the LORDE sayde Speake vnto Aaron thy brother y t he go not at all tymes in to y e ynnermer Sanctuary within the vale before the Mercyseate which is vpon the Arke y t he dye not for I wyll appeare in a cloude vpon y e Mercyseate But herewithall shal he go in euen with a yonge bullocke for a syn offerynge and with a ramme for a burntofferynge and shal put on the holy lynnen albe and haue lynnen breches vpon his flesh and gyrde him with a lynnē girdell and haue the lynnen myter vpon his heade For these are y e holy garmentes he shal bathe his flesh with water put them on of the cōgregacion of the childrē of Israel he shal take two he goates for a syn offerynge and a ramme for a burnt offerynge And Aaron shal brynge the bullocke his owne syn offerynge and make an attonemēt for himself and his house and afterwarde shall he take the two goates and present them before the LORDE euen before the dore of the Tabernacle of witnesse and shall cast lottes ouer the two goates the lot of the one goate for the LORDE and the other for the fre goate And the goate that y e LORDES lot fell vpon shal he offre for a syn offerynge But the goate that the fre goates lot fell vpon shal he present alyue before y e LORDE to make an attonement for him and to let the fre goate go into y e wyldernes And so shal he brynge the bullocke of his syn offerynge and make an attonement for him and his housholde and shal kyll him And he shall take a censor full of coales from the altare that stondeth before the LORDE and his handfull of beaten incense and brynge them in within y e vayle and put the incense vpon the fyre before y e LORDE that the cloude of the incense maye couer the Mercyseate which is vpon the witnesse that he dye not And he shall take of the bloude of the bullocke and sprenkle it with his fynger towarde the Mercyseate on the foresyde Seuen tymes shall he sprenkle of the bloude thus with his fynger before the Mercyseate Thē shal he kyll the goate which is the peoples syn offerynge brynge in of his bloude within the vayle shall do with his bloude as he dyd with the bloude of the bullocke and sprenkle therwith also on the foresyde towarde the Mercyseate and so shal he reconcyle the Sāctuary from the vnclennesse of the childrē of Israel and frō their trespaces in all their synnes Thus shal he do vnto the Tabernacle of wytnesse which is the habitacion with them amōge their vnclennesses No man shal be in the Tabernacle of witnesse whan he goeth in to make an attonement in the Sāctuary vntyll he go out and so shall he make an attonement for him self and his house and for the whole congregacion of Israel And whā he goeth forth vnto the altare that stondeth before the LORDE he shal reconcyle it and shal take of y e bullockes bloude and of the goates bloude put it vpon the hornes of the altare rounde aboute And with his fynger shal he sprēkle of the bloude theron seuen tymes and halowe it and consecrate it from the vnclennesse of the children of Israel And whan he hath made an ende of reconcylinge the Sanctuary and the Tabernacle of witnesse and the altare
dorekepers were appointed towarde the foure wyndes towarde the East towarde the West towarde the North towarde y e South But their brethreÌ„ were in their vyllages that they might come allwaye on the seuenth daye to be with them for vnto these foure maner of chefe dorrkepers were the Leuites committed And they had the ouersight of the chestes and treasures in y e house of God In the nighte season also remayned they aboute the house of God for their dewtye was to geue attendaunce to open euery mornynge And some of them had the ouersight of the mynistrynge vessell for they bare the vessell out and in And some of theÌ„ were appoynted ouer the vessell and ouer all the holy vessell ouer the fine wheate floure ouer y e wyne ouer the oile ouer the frankencense ouer the swete odoures but some of y e prestes children made the incense Vnto Mathithia one of the Leuites the fyrst sonne of Sallum the Corahite were y e pannes coÌ„mytted And certayne of the Kahathites their brethren were appointed ouer the shewbred to prepare it euery Sabbath daye These are the heades of the singers amoÌ„ge the fathers of the Leuites chosen out ouer the chestes for daye and night were they in worke withall These are the heades of y e fathers amonge y e Leuites in their kinreds These dwelt at Ierusalem At Gibeon dwelt Ieiel the father of Gibeon his wiues name was Maecha and his fyrst sonne Abdon Zur Cis Baal Ner Nadab Gedor Ahaio Sacharia Mikloth Mikloth begat Simeam And they dwelt also aboute their brethren at Ierusalem amonge theirs Ner begat Cis Cis begat Saul Saul begat Ionathas Malchisua Abinadab Esbaal The sonne of Ionathas was Meribaal Meribaal begat Micha The children of Micha were Pithon Melech and Thaherea Ahas begat Iaera Iaera begat Alemeth Asmaueth and Simri Simri begat Moza Moza begat Binea whose sonne was Raphaia whose sonne was Eleasa whose sonne was Azel Azel had sixe sonnes whose names were Asrikam Bochru Iesmael Searia Obadia Hanan These are the children of Azel The XI Chapter THe Philistynes foughte agaynst Israel And they of Israel fled before the Philistynes and y e wounded fell vpon mount Gilboa And the Philistynes folowed vpon Saul and his sonnes and smote Ionathas Abinadab and Malchisua y e sonnes of Saul And the battayll was sore agaynst Saul And the archers came vpon him so that he was wounded of the archers Then sayde Saul vnto his weapenbearer Drawe out thy swerde and thrust it thorow me that these vncircumcysed come not and deale shamefully with me Neuertheles his weapenbearer wolde not for he was sore afrayed Then toke Saul his swerde and fell therin Whan his weapenbearer sawe that Saul was deed he fell vpon his swerde also and dyed Thus died Saul and his thre sonnes and all his housholde together And whan the men of Israel which were in y e valley sawe that Saul and his sonnes were deed they lefte their cities and fled and the Philistynes came and dwelt therin On the morowe came the Philistynes to spoyle the slayne and founde Saul and his sonnes lyenge vpon mount Gelboa and stryped him out and toke his heade and his harnesse and sent it aboute in to y e londe of the Philistynes and caused it to be shewed before their Idoles and the people And his weapens layed they in the house of their god and styckte vp his heade vpon the house of Dagon But whan all they of Iabes in Gilead herde of euery thinge that the Philistynes had done vnto Saul they gat them vp as many as were men of armes and toke the body of Saul and of his sonnes and broughte them vnto Iabes and buryed their bones vnder the Oke at Iabes and fasted seuen dayes Thus dyed Saul in his trespace which he commytted agaynst the LORDE because he kepte not the worde of the LORDE because he axed councell at the soythsayer and axed not at the LORDE therfore slewe he him turned the kyngdome vnto Dauid The XII Chapter ANd all Israel resorted to Dauid vnto Hebron and sayde Beholde we are y e bone and thy flesh And afore tyme whan Saul reigned thou leddest Israel out and in So the LORDE thy God hath sayde vnto the Thou shalt kepe my people of Israel and thou shalt be the prynce ouer my people of Israel And all the Elders of Israel came to the kynge vnto Hebron And Dauid made a couenaunt with them at Hebron before the LORDE And they anoynted Dauid to be kynge ouer Israel acordynge to the worde of the LORDE by Samuel And Dauid and all Israel weÌ„te vnto Ierusalem that is Iebus for the Iebusites dwelt in the loÌ„de And the citesyns of Iebus saide vnto Dauid Thou shalt not come in hither Howbeit Dauid waÌ„ne y e castell of SioÌ„ which is y e cite of Dauid And Dauid sayde who so euer smyteth y e Iebusites first shal be a prynce captayne TheÌ„ Ioab y e sonne of Zerâ—ia clymmed vp first was made captayne So Dauid dwelt in y e castell therfore was it called y e cite of Dauid And he buylded y e cite rouÌ„de aboute fro Millo forth on euery syde As for y e remnaunt of y e cite Ioab buylded it repayred it And Dauid weÌ„te forth grewe the LORDE Zebaoth was w t him These are y e chefe amoÌ„ge y e mightie meÌ„ of Dauid which dealt valeauntly w t him in his kyngdome w t all Israel to make him kynge acordinge to the worde of y e LORDE ouer Israel And this is y e nombre of Dauids mightie men Iesabeam the sonne of Hachmoni the chefest amoÌ„ge thirtie He lifte vp his speare smote thre C. at one tyme. After him was Eleasar the sonne of Dodo the Ahohite and he was amoÌ„ge the thre mightie This man was w t Dauid whaÌ„ they blasphemed the Philistynes gathered theÌ„ selues there to y e batayll And eueÌ„ ther â–ª was there a pece of londe full of barly the people fled before the Philistynes And they stode in the myddes of the londe and rescued it and smote the Philistynes And the LORDE gaue a greate health And thre of the chefest thirtie weÌ„te downe to the rocke vnto Dauid in to the caue of Adullam But the Philistynes hoost laye in the valley of Rephain As for Dauid he was in the castell And the Philistynes people were then at Bethleem And Dauid was desyrous and sayde O that some wolde geue me to drynke of the water out of the well at Bethleem vnder the gate TheÌ„ brake those thre in to the Philistynes hoost and drue of the water out of the well at Bethleem vnder the gate and caried it and broughte it vnto Dauid Neuertheles he wolde not drynke it but poured it vnto the LORDE and sayde God let this be farre fro me y t I shulde do it and drynke the bloude of these men in y e parell of their life for with the
Be it knowne vnto the kynge that we came in to Iewry to the house of y e greate God which is buylded with all maner of stone and balckes are layed in the walles and y e worke goeth fast forth and prospereth in their handes Neuertheles we axed the Elders and sayde vnto them Who hath cōmaunded you to buylde this house and to make vp the walles therof We axed their names also that we might certifye the and haue wrytten the names of the men that were their rulers But they answered vs w t these wordes and sayde We are the seruaūtes of the God of heauen and earth and buylde the house y t was buylded many yeares agoo which a greate kynge of Israel buylded and set vp Howbeit whan oure fathers prouoked the God of heauen vnto wrath he gaue them ouer in the hande of Nabuchodonosor the kynge of Babilon the Caldee which brake downe this house caried y e people awaye vnto Babilon Neuertheles in the first yeare of Cyrus the kynge of Babilon y e same kynge Cyrus commaunded to buylde this house of God for the vessels of golde and siluer in the house of God which Nabuchodonosor toke out of the temple at Ierusalē and broughte thē in to y e temple at Babilon those dyd Cyrus the kynge take out of y e temple at Babilon and delyuered them vnto Seszbazer by name whom he made Debyte and sayde vnto him Take these vessels go thy waye and brynge them vnto the temple at Ierusalem and let the house of God be buylded in his place Then came the same Seszbazar and layed y e foundacion of the house of God at Ierusalem Sence that tyme hath it bene in buyldinge and yet is it not fynished Yf it please y e kynge now let there be search made in y e kynges treasure house which is at Babilon whether it haue bene kynge Cyrus commaundement that the house of God at Ierusalem shulde be buylded sende vs y e kynges mynde concernynge the same The VI. Chapter THen cōmaunded kinge Darius that search shulde be made in y e library of y e kynges treasure house which laye at Babilon So at Egbathanis in a castell that lyeth in the londe of the Meedes there was founde a boke in it was there an acte wrytten after this maner In the first yeare of kynge Cyrus cōmaunded the same kynge Cyrus to buylde y e house of God at Ierusalem in the place where the sacrifice is made to laye the foundacion to beare thre score cubites heyght thre score cubites bredth thre walles of all maner of stones and one wall of tymber the expences shal be geuen of the kynges house And the goldē and syluer vessell of y e house of God which Nabuchodonosor toke out of the temple at Ierusalem and broughte vnto Babilon shal be restored agayne y t they maye be broughte vnto the temple at Ierusalē to their place in to the house of God Get you farre from them therfore thou Thathnai Debyte beyonde the water and Sethar of Bosen youre councelers which are beyonde the water Let them worke in y e house of God that the Debyte of y e Iewes and their Elders maye buylde the house of God in his place I haue commaunded also what shal be done to y e Elders of Iuda for the buyldinge of the house of God that there shal diligently be takē of the kynges goodes euen of the rentes beyonde the water geuen vnto the men and that they be not hyndered And yf they haue nede of calues lambes or goates for the burnt offrynge vnto y e God of heauen wheate salt wyne and oyle after the custome of the prestes at Ierusalem there shal be geuen them daylie as is acordinge and se that this be not done necligētly that they maye offre swete sauoures vnto y e God of heauen and praye for the kynges lyfe and for his children This commaundement haue I geuē And what man so euer he be that altereth these wordes there shal a balke be taken from his house and set vp and he shal be hanged theron and his house shal be prysed for the dede But the God that dwelleth in heauen destroye all kynges and people that put to their hāde to alter and to breake downe the house of God at Ierusalem I Darius haue commaunded that this be diligently done Then Thathnai y e Debyte beyonde y e water and Sethar of Bosen with their councelers to whom kynge Darius had sent dyd their diligence And y e Elders of the Iewes buylded and they prospered thorow the prophecienge of Aggeus the prophet and Zachary the sonne of Iddo and they buylded and set vp the worke acordinge to the commaundement of the God of Israel and after the commaundement of Cyrus Darius and Artaxerses kynges of Persia. And they perfourmed the house vnto the thirde daye of the moneth Adar that was the sixte yeare of the reigne of kynge Darius And the children of Israel the prestes the Leuites and the other children of y e captyuite helde the dedicacion of the house of God with ioye and offred at the dedicacion of the house of God an hundreth calues two hundreth lambes foure hundreth goates and for the syn offerynge for all Israel twolue he goates acordinge to the nombre of the trybes of Israel and set the prestes in their courses and y e Leuites in their offices to mynister vnto God which is at Ierusalē as it is wrytten in the boke of Moses And the children of the captyuite helde Passeouer vpon the fourtenth daye of the first moneth for y e prestes and Leuites had purified them selues so y t they were all cleane as one man and kylled Passeouer for all the children of the captyuite and for their brethrē the prestes and for them selues And the childrē of Israel which were come agayne out of captiuyte and all soch as had separated them selues vnto them from the fylthinesse of the Heythen in the londe to seke the LORDE God of Israel ate helde the feast of vnleuēded bred seuen dayes with ioye for the LORDE had made them glad and turned the hert of the kynge of Assur vnto thē so that their handes were strengthed in the worke of the house of God which is y e God of Israel The VII Chapter AFter these actes in the reigne of Artaxerses kynge of Persia there wente vp from Babilon Eszdras the sonne of Seraia the sonne of Asaria the sonne of Helchias the sonne of Sallum the sonne of Sadoc the sonne of Achitob the sonne of Amaria the sonne of Asaria the sonne Meraioth the sonne of Serahia y e sonne of Vsi the sonne of Buki the sonne of Abisua the sonne of Phineas the sonne of Eleasar the sonne of Aaron the chefe prest which was a quycke scrybe in the lawe of Moses which the LORDE God of Israel dyd geue And y e kynge gaue him all that he
flesh and ioyned me together with bones synowes Thou hast graunted me life and done me good and the diligent hede that thou tokest vpon me hath preserued my sprete Though thou hydest these thinges in thine hert yet am I sure that thou remembrest thē all Wherfore didest thou kepe me when I synned and hast not clensed me fro myne offence Yf I do wickedly wo is me therfore Yf I be rightuous yet darre I not lift vp my heade so full am I of confucion and se myne owne misery Thou huntest me out beynge in heuynesse as it were a Lyon and troublest me out of measure Thou bringest fresh witnesses agaynst me thy wrath increasest thou vpon me very many are the plages that I am in Wherfore hast thou brought me out of my mothers wombe O that I had perished that no eye had sene me Yf they had caried me to my graue as soone as I was borne then shulde I be now as though I had neuer bene Shall not my short life come soone to an ende O holde the fro me let me alone that I maye ease my self a litle afore I go thyther from whence I shal not turne agayne Namely to that londe of darcknesse shadowe of death yee in to that darck clowdy londe deadly shadowe where as is no ordre but terrible feare as in the darcknesse The XI Chapter THen answered Sophar the Naamathite and sayde Shulde not he that maketh many wordes be answered Shulde he that bableth moch be commended therin Shulde men geue eare vnto the only Thou wilt laugh other men to scorne shal no body mocke the agayne Wilt thou saye vnto God The thinge that I take in honde is perfecte I am clene in thy sight O that God wolde speake and open his lippes agaynst the that he might shewe the out of his secrete wyszdome how many folde his lawe is then shuldest thou knowe that God had forgotten the because of thy synnes Wilt thou fynde out God with thy sekynge wilt thou attayne to the perfectnesse of the Allmightie He is hyer thē heauē what wilt thou do Deper thē hell how wilt thou then knowe him His length exceadeth the length of the earth and his bredth y e bredth of the see Though he turne all thinges vp syde downe close them in or thrust thē together who darre check him therfore For it is he that knoweth the vanite of men he seyth their wickednesse also shulde he not then considre it A vayne body exalteth him self and the sonne of man is like a wylde asses foale Yf thou haddest now a right herte liftest vp thine hondes towarde him yf thou woldest put awaye the wickednesse which thou hast in honde so that no vngodlynesse dwelt in thy house Then mightest thou lift vp thy face without shame thē shuldest thou be sure and haue no nede to feare Then shuldest thou forget thy misery and thynke nomore vpon it then vpon the waters that runne by Then shulde thy life be as cleare as the noone daye and sprynge forth as the mornynge Then mightest thou haue comforth in the hope that thou hast slepe quyetly when thou art buried Then shuldest thou take thy rest and no mā to make the afrayed yee many one shulde set moch by the. As for the eyes of the vngodly they shal be consumed and not escape their hope shal be misery and sorow of mynde The XII Chapter SO Iob answered and sayde Then no doute ye are the men alone and wyszdome shal perish with you But I haue vnderstōdinge as well as ye and am no lesse then ye Yee who knoweth not these thinges Thus he that calleth vpō God and whom God heareth is mocked of his neghboure the godly innocent man is laughed to scorne Godlynesse is a light despysed in y e hertes of the rich is set for them to stomble vpon The houses of robbers are in wealth and prosperite they that maliciously medle agaynst God dwel without care yee God geueth all thinges richely with his honde Axe the catell they shal enfourme the the foules of the ayre and they shall tell y e Speake to the earth and it shall shewethe Or to the fyshes of the see and they shal certifie the. What is he but he knoweth that y e hōde of the LORDE made all these In whose honde is the soule of euery lyuynge thinge and the breth of all men Haue not the eares pleasure in hearinge and the mouth in tastinge the thinge that it eateth Amonge olde personnes there is wyszdome and amonge the aged is vnderstōdinge Yee with God is wyszdome and strength it is he that hath councell foreknowlege Yf he breake downe a thinge who can set it vp agayne Yf he shutt a thinge who wil open it Beholde yf he witholde the waters they drye vp Yf he let thē go they destroye the earth With him is strength and wyszdome he knoweth both the disceauer and him that is disceaued He carieth awaye the wyse men as it were a spoyle and bryngeth the iudges out of their wyttes He lowseth the gyrdle of kynges and gyrdeth their loynes with a bonde he ledeth awaye the prestes in to captiuyte and turneth the mightie vp syde downe He taketh the verite from out of the mouth disapoynteth y e aged of their wyszdome He poureth out confucion vpon prynces and cōforteth them that haue bene oppressed Loke what lyeth hyd in darcknesse he declareth it opēly and the very shadowe of death bringeth he to light He both increaseth the people and destroyeth them He maketh them to multiplie and dryueth them awaye He chaungeth the herte of the prynces and kynges of the earth and disapoynteth them so that they go wādringe out of the waye and grope in the darcke without light stackeringe to and fro like droncken men The XIII Chapter LO all this haue I sene with myne eye herde with myne eare vnderstonde it Loke what ye knowe that same do I knowe also nether am I inferior vnto you Neuerthelesse I am purposed to talke with the Allmightie and my desyre is to comon with God As for you ye are work masters of lyes and vnprofitable Phisicians alltogether Wolde God ye kepte youre tonge that ye might be taken for wyse men Therfore heare my wordes and pondre the sentence of my lippes Will ye make answere for God with lyes and māteyne him with disceate Wil ye accepte y e personne of God and intreate for him Shal that helpe you when he calleth you to rekenynge Thynke ye to begyle him as a man is begyled Punysh you shall he and reproue you yf ye do secretly accepte eny personne Shall he not make you afrayed when he sheweth himself Shal not his terrible feare fall vpō you youre remembraunce shal be like the dust youre pryde shal be turned to claye Holde youre tonges now and let me speake for there is some thinge come
kepe them from colde So that when the showers in the mountaynes haue rayned vpon them they be all wett they haue none other sucoure but to kepe them amonge the rockes They spoyle the suckinge fatherlesse children and put the poore in preson In so moch that they let them go naked without clothinge and yet the 〈◊〉 beare the sheeues The poore are 〈◊〉 to laboure in their oyle mylles yee 〈…〉 treade in their wyne presses and yet 〈…〉 thyrst The whole cite crieth vnto tâ—e LORDE with sighinge the soules of the â—layne make their complaynte But God destroyeth them not for all this where as they not w t stoÌ„dinge are rebellious and disobedient enemies which seke not his light and waye ner turne agayne in to his path Tymely in the mornynge do they aryse to murthur the symple and poore in the night they go a stealinge The eye of the vngodly is like the aduouterer that wayteth for the darcknesse and sayeth thus in him self Tush there shal no maÌ„ se me so he disgyseth his face In the night season they search the houses and hyde them selues in the daye tyme but wil not knowe y e light For as soone as the daye breaketh the shadowe of death commeth vpoÌ„ them and they go in horrible darcknesse The vngodly is very swyft O y t his porcioÌ„ also vpoÌ„ earth were swyfter then y e runnynge water which suffreth not y e shipmaÌ„ to beholde the fayre pleasauÌ„t vyniardes O y t they for the wickednesse which they haue done were drawen to the hell sooner theÌ„ snowe melteth at the heate O y t all coÌ„passion vpon theÌ„ were forgotteÌ„ y t their daynties were wormes that they were clene put out of remembraunce vtterly heweÌ„ downe like an vnfrutefull tre For they manteyne the baren make them y t they can not beare vnto wyddowes they do no good They plucke downe the mightie w t their power when they them selues are gotten vp they are neuer without feare as longe as they liue And though they might be safe yet they wil not receaue it for their eyes loke vpon their owne wayes They are exalted for a litle but shortly are they gone brought to extreme pouerte takeÌ„ out of the waye yeâ— vtterly plucte of as the eares of corne Is it not so Who wil theÌ„ reproue me as a lyar saye y t my wordes are nothinge worth The XXV Chapter THen answered Baldad the Suhite sayde Power feare is with him aboue that maketh peace sittinge in his hynesse whose men of warre are innumerable and whose light aryseth ouer all But how maye a man coÌ„pared vnto God be iustified Or how can he be clene that is borne of a woman Beholde the Moone shyneth nothinge in comparison to him the starres are vnclene in his sight How moch more theÌ„ maÌ„ that is but corrupcion and the sonne of man which is but a worme The XXVI Chapter IOb answered and sayde O how helpest thou the weake what comforte geuest thou vnto him that hath no streÌ„gth Where is y e couÌ„cell y t thou shuldest geue him which hath no wyszdome Wilt thou so shewe thine excellent rightuousnes Before whom hast thou spoken those wordes Who made the breth to come out of y e mouth The giauntes worthies y t are slayne lye vnder y e worlde w t their coÌ„panions yee all they which dwell beneth in the hell are not hyd froÌ„ him the very destruccion it self caÌ„ not be kepte out of his sight He stretcheth out y e north ouer the emptie haÌ„geth y e earth vpoÌ„ nothinge He byndeth y e water in his cloudes that they fall not downe together He holdeth back his stole that it caÌ„not be sene and spredeth his cloudes before it He hath coÌ„pased the waters w t certayne boundes vntill the daye night come to an ende The very pilers of heaueÌ„ treÌ„ble quake at his reprofe He stilleth the see with his power thorow his wyszdome hath he set forth y e worlde With his sprete hath he garnished the heaueÌ„s with his hande hath he wounded the rebellious serpeÌ„t This is now a shorte summe of his doynges But who is able sufficiently to rehearce his workes Who can perceaue and vnderstonde y e thondre of his power The XXVII Chapter IOb also proceaded and weÌ„te forth in his communicacion sayeÌ„ge As truly as God lyueth which hath taken awaye my power fro me the Allmightie that hath vexed my mynde My lippes shall talke of no vanite and my tonge shal speake no disceate whyle my breth is in me and as longe as the wynde that God hath geuen me is in my nostrels God forbydde that I shulde graunte youre cause to be right As for me vntill myne ende come wil I neuer go fro myne innocency My rightuous dealynge wil I kepe fast not forsake it For my conscience reproueth me not in all my conuersacion Therfore myne enemy shal be founde as the vngodly he y t taketh parte agaynst me as the vnrightuous What hope hath y e Ypocrite though he haue greate good and though God geue him riches after his hertes desyre Doth God heare him the sooner wheÌ„ he crieth vnto him in his necessite Hath he soch pleasure delyte in the Allmightie that he darre allwaye call vpon God I wil teach you in the name of God the thinge that I haue of y e Allmightie wil I not kepe from you Beholde ye stonde in yo r owne conceate as though ye knew all thinges Wherfore then do ye go aboute w t soch vayne wordes sayeÌ„ge This is the porcion that the wicked shall haue of God the heretage that Tyrauntes shal receaue of y e Allmightie Yf he get many childreÌ„ they shal perish w t the swearde his posterite shall haue scarcenesse of bred Loke whom he leaueth behinde him they shal dye be buried no man shall haue pite of his wyddowes Though he haue as moch money as the dust of the earth raymeÌ„t as ready as the claye he maye well prepare it but the godly shal put it vpon him and the innoceÌ„t shal deale out the money His house shal endure as the moth as a bothe that the watch man maketh When the rich man dyeth he carieth nothinge with him he is gone in y e twincklynge of an eye Destruccion taketh holde vpoÌ„ him as a water floude y e teÌ„pest stealeth him awaye in the night season A vehement wynde carieth him hence departeth a storme plucketh him out of his place It ruszsheth in vpon him and spareth him not he maye not escape from the power therof Than clappe meÌ„ their hoÌ„des at him yee and ieast of him wheÌ„ they loke vpon his place The XXVIII Chapter THere are places where syluer is molteÌ„ where golde is tryed where yron is dygged out of the grounde stones resolued to metall
The darcknes shal once come to an ende he can seke out the grounde of all thinges the stones the darcke the horrible shadowe w t the ryuer of water parteth he a sunder the straunge people y t knoweth no good neghbourheade soch as are rude vnmanerly boysteous He bryngeth foode out of the earth y t which is vnder consumeth he with fyre There is founde a place whose stones are clene Saphirs and where y e clottes of the earth are golde There is a waye also that the byrdes knowe not that no vulturs eye hath sene wherin y e proude hye mynded walke not where no lyon commeth There putteth he his honde vpon the stony rockes ouerthroweth the mountaynes Ryuers flowe out of the rockes loke what is pleasaunt his eye seyth it Out of droppes bryngeth he greate floudes together the thinge that is hyd bryngeth he â—o light How commeth a man then by wyszdome Where is the place that men fynde vnderstondinge Verely no man can tell how worthy a thinge she is nether is she fouÌ„de in the loÌ„de of the lyuynge The depe sayeth she is not in me The see sayeth she is not with me She can not be gotten for the most fyne golde nether maye the pryce of her be bought with eny moneye No wedges of golde of Ophir no precious Onix stones no Saphirs maye be compared vnto her No nether golde ner Christall nether swete odours ner golden plate There is nothinge so worthy or so excelleÌ„t as once to be named vnto her for parfecte wyszdome goeth farre beyonde theÌ„ all The Topas that coÌ„meth out of Inde maye in no wyse be lickened vnto her yee no maner of apparell how pleasaunt and fayre so euer it be From wheÌ„ce then commeth wyszdome where is the place of vnderstondinge She is hyd from the eyes of all men yee froÌ„ the foules of the ayre Destruccion death saie we haue herde tell of her w t oure eares But God seyth hir waie knoweth hir place For he beholdeth the endes of the worlde and loketh vpon all that is vnder the heaueÌ„ When he weyed the wyndes measured y e waters when he set the rayne in ordre and gaue the mightie floudes a lawe Then dyd he se her theÌ„ declared he her prepared her and knewe her And vnto man he sayde Beholde to feare the LORDE is wyszdome to forsake euell is vnderstondinge The XXIX Chap. SO Iob proceaded and weÌ„te forth in his communicacion sayenge O y t I were as I was in the monethes by past in the dayes wheÌ„ God preserued me when his light shyned vpon my heade wheÌ„ I wente after the same light shyne eueÌ„ thorow the darcknesse As it stode w t me wheÌ„ I was welthy had ynough wheÌ„ God prospered my house when the allmightie was with me when my housholde folkes stode aboute me wheÌ„ my wayes ranne ouer w t butter when the stony rockes gaue me ryuers of oyle when I wente thorow the cite vnto the gate wheÌ„ they set me a chayre in y e strete wheÌ„ the yonge meÌ„ as soone as they sawe me hyd theÌ„ selues when the aged arose stode vp vnto me wheÌ„ the princes left of their talkinge laied their haÌ„de to their mouth wheÌ„ the mightie kepte still their voyce and wheÌ„ their tonges cleued to the rofe of their mouthes When all they y t herde me called me happie when all they y t sawe me wysshed me good For I delyuered y e poore wheÌ„ he cried the fatherlesse y t wanted helpe He y t shulde haue bene lost gaue me a good worde y e widdowes hert praised me And why I put vpon me rightuousnes which couered me as a garmeÌ„t equite was my crowne I was an eye vnto the blynde a fote to the lame I was a father vnto the poore wheÌ„ I knew not their cause I sought it out diligeÌ„tly I brake the chaftes of y e vnrightuous plucte the spoyle out of their teth Therfore I thought verely y t I shulde haue dyed in my nest y t my dayes shulde haue bene as many as the sondes of the see For my rote was spred out by the waters syde the dew laye vpoÌ„ my corne My hono r encreased more more and my bowe was euer the stronger in my hande Vnto me men gaue eare me they regarded w t sylence they taried for my couÌ„cell Yf I had spoken they wolde haue it none other wayes my wordes were so well taken amonge theÌ„ They wayted for me as the earth doth for the rayne gaped vpon me as the grouÌ„de doth to receaue the latter shower When I laughed they knew well it was not earnest this testimony of my couÌ„tenaunce pleased theÌ„ nothinge at all When I agreed vnto their waye I was the chefe sat as a kynge amonge his seruauntes Or as one that comforteth soch as be in heuynesse The XXX Chapter BVt now they that are my inferiours yonger then I haue me in derision yee eueÌ„ they whose fathers I wolde haue thought scorne to haue set w t the dogges of my catell The power streÌ„gth of their haÌ„des might do me no good as for their age it is speÌ„t past awaye without eny profit For very misery honger they wente aboute in the wildernesse like wretches beggers pluckynge vp herbes from amonge the buszshes the Iumpers rote was their meate And when they were dryuen forth men cried after them as it had bene after a thefe Their dwellinge was beside foule brokes yee in the caues dennes of the earth VpoÌ„ the drye heeth weÌ„te they aboute crienge in the brome hilles they gathered them together They were the children of fooles vylanes which are deed awaye froÌ„ the worlde Now am I their songe am become their iestinge stocke they abhorre me they fle farre fro me stayne my face w t spetle For y e LORDE hath opened his quyuer he hath hytt me put a brydle in my mouth Vpon my right haÌ„de they rose together agaynst me they haue hurte my fete made awaye to destroye me my path haue they clene marred It was so easy for them to do me harme that they neded no man to helpe theÌ„ They fell vpon me as it had bene y e breakynge in of waters came in by heapes to destroye me Fearfulnesse is turned agaynst me Myne honoure vanâ—sheth awaye more swiftly then wynde my prosperite departeth heÌ„ce like as it were a cloude Therfore is my mynde poured full of heuynesse y e dayes of trouble haue takeÌ„ holde vpon me My bones are pearsed thorow in y e night season my synewes take no rest With all their power haue they chaunged my garmeÌ„t gyrded me therwith as it were w t a coate I am eueÌ„ as it were claye am become like aszshes dust WheÌ„ I crie vnto the thou
yee as a tottringe wall shal ye be like a broken hedge Their deuyce is only how to put him out their delyte is iÌ„ lyes they geue good wordes w t their mouth but curse w t their herte Sela. Neuertheles my soule abydeth only vpon God for he is my God He only is my streÌ„gth my saluacion my defence so y t I shal not fall In God is my health my glory my might in God is my trust O put yo r trust in him allwaye ye people poure out yo r hertes before him for God is oure hope Sela. As for men they are but vayne meÌ„ are disceatfull vpoÌ„ the weightes they are al together lighter then vainte itself O trust not in wronge robbery geue not yo r selues vnto vanite yf riches increase set not yo r herte vpon them God spake once a worde twyse haue I herde the same that power belongeth vnto God That thou LORDE art mercifull that thou rewardest euery man acordinge to his workes The LXII A psalme of Dauid O God thou art my God early wil I seke the. My soule thursteth for the my flesh longeth after the in a bareÌ„ drie loÌ„de where no water is Thus do I loke for the in thy SaÌ„ctuary that I might beholde y e power glory For thy louynge kyndnesse is better then life my lyppes shal prayse the. As loÌ„ge as I liue wil I magnifie the lift vp my hondes in thy name My soule is satisfied eueÌ„ as it were with marry fatnesse when my mouth prayseth the with ioyfull lippes In my bedde wil I remembre y e wheÌ„ I wake my talkynge shal be of the. For thou hast bene my helper vnder the shadowe of y e wynges wil I reioyse My soule hangeth vpon the thy right honde vp holdeth me They seke after my soule but in vayne for they shal go vnder the earth They shal fall into the swerde be a porcioÌ„ for foxes But y e kynge shal reioyse in God all they that sweare by hym shal be commeÌ„ded for the mouth of lyers shal be stopped The LXIII A psalme of Dauid HEare my voyce o God in my coÌ„playnte preserue my life froÌ„ feare of y e enemie Hyde me from the gatheringe together of y e frowarde froÌ„ y e heape of wicked doere Which whette their tuÌ„ges like a swerde shute w t their venimous wordes like as w t arowes That they maye preuely hurte y e innoceÌ„t sodeÌ„ly to hit him w t out eny feare They haue deuysed myschefe and commoned amonge them selues how they maye laye snares tush saye they who shall se them They ymagin wickednesse and kepe it secrete amonge them selues euery man in y e depe of his herte But God shall sodenly shute with an arowe y t they shall be wounded Yee their â—wne tunges shall make them fall In so moch that who so seyth theÌ„ shal laugh theÌ„ to scorne And all men that se it shal saye this hath God done for they shal perceaue y t it is his worke The rightuous shal reioyse in the LORDE and put his trust in him and all they y t are true off herte shal be glad therof The LXIIII. A psalme of Dauid THou o God art praysed in Sion and vnto the is the vowe perfourmed Thou hearest the prayer therfore coÌ„meth all flesh vnto the. Oure myszdedes preuayle agaynst vs oh be thou mercyfull vnto â—ure synnes Blessed is the man whoÌ„ thou chosest and receauest vnto the that he maye dwell in thy courte he shall be satisfied with the pleasures of thy house euen off thy holy temple Heare vs acordinge vnto thy woÌ„derfull rightuousnesse o God oure saluacioÌ„ thou that art the hope of all the endes of y e earth and off the brode see Which in his strength setteth fast the mouÌ„taynes is gyrded aboute with power Which stilleth y e ragiÌ„ge of the see the roaringe off his wawes and the woodnes of the people They that dwell in y e vttemost partes are afrayed at thy tokens thou makest both the mornynge and euenynge starres to prayse ye. Thou visetest the earth thou watrest it and makest it very plenteous The ryuer of God is full of waters thou preparest man his corne aÌ„d thus thou prouydest for the earth Thou watrest hir forowes thou breakest the harde clottes therof thou makest it soft with y e droppes of rayne and blessest the increase of it Thou crownest the yeare with thy good and thy fotesteppes droppe fatnesse The dwellinges of the wildernes are fatt also y t they droppe withall the litle hilles are pleasaunt on euery syde The foldes are full of shepe the valleys stonde so thicke with corne y t they laugh and synge The LXV A psalme off Dauid O Be ioyfull in God all ye loÌ„des synge prayses vnto the hono r of his name make his prayse to be glorious Saye vnto God O how wonderfull are thy workes thorow the greatnesse of thy power shal thine enemies be confouÌ„ded O y t all the worlde wolde worshipe the synge of the and prayse thy name Sela. O come hither and beholde the workes of God which is so wonderfull in his doinges amonge the children of men He turned the see in to drye loÌ„de so that they wente thorow the water on fote therfore wil we reioyse in him He ruleth with his power for euer his eyes beholde the people the rennagates shal not be able to exalte them selues Sela. O magnifie o r God ye people make y e voyce off his prayse to be herde Which holdeth o r soule in life and suffreth not oure fete to slippe For thou o God hast proued vs thou hast tried vs liâ—â— as syluer is tried Thou hast brought vs in to captiuyte and layed trouble vpon o r loâ—nes Thou hast suffred men to ryde ouer o r heades we weÌ„te thorow fyre and water 〈◊〉 thou hast brought vs out and refreshed 〈◊〉 Therfore will I go in to thy house w t 〈◊〉 offeringes to paye the my vowes which I promised w t my lippes and spake with my mouth when I was in trouble I wil offre vnto the fatte brentsacrifices with the smoâ—e of raÌ„mes I will offre bullockes and goateâ— Sela. O come hither and herkeÌ„ all ye that feare God I wil tell you what he hath done for my soule I called vnto hiÌ„ w t my mouth and gaue him prayses with my tuÌ„ge Yff I enclyne vnto wickednes with my herte y e LORDE wil not heare me Therfore God hath herde me aÌ„d considred the voyce off my prayer Praysed be God which hath not cast out my prayer ner turned his mercy fro me The LXVI psalme GOd be mercifull vnto vs blesse vs shewe the light off his countenauÌ„ce apon vs. Sela. That we maye knowe y e waye vpoÌ„ earth y e sauynge health amonge all Heithen Let the people prayse the o God yee let all people prayse the. O let the people reioyse and be
and vnrigthuousnesse Their eyes swell for fatnesse they do euen what they lyst Corrupte are they and speake blasphemies maliciously proude and presumptuous are their wordes They stretch forth their mouth vnto the heauen their tonge goeth thorow the worlde Therfore fall the people vnto them and there out sucke they no small auauntage Tush saye they how shulde God perceaue it is there knowlege in the most hyest Lo these are the vngodly these prospere in the worlde these haue riches in possession Shulde I then clense my hert in vayne thought I wash my hondes in innocency Wherfore shulde I be then punyshed daylie be chastened euery mornynge â–ª Yee I had allmost also sayde euen as they but lo then shulde I haue condemned the generacion of thy children Then thought I to vnderstonde this but it was to harde for me Vntill I weÌ„te in to y e Sanctuary of God considered the ende of these men Namely how thou hast set theÌ„ in a slippery place that thou maiest cast theÌ„ downe headlynges destroye theÌ„ O how sodenly do they consume perish come to a fearfull ende Yee euen like as a dreame when one awaketh so makest thou their ymage to vanish out of the cite Thus my hert was greued it wente euen thorow my reynes So foolish was I and ignoraunt and as it were a beest before the. Neuerthelesse I am allwaye by the thou hold est me by my right hande Thou ledest me with thy couÌ„cel and afterwarde receauest me vnto glory O what is there prepared for me in heauen there is nothinge vpoÌ„ earth that I desyre in comparison of the. My flesh and my herte fayleth but God is the strength of my hert and my porcion for euer For lo they that forsake the shal perishe thou destroyest all them that committe fornicacion agaynst the. But it is good for me to holde me fast by God to put my trust in the LORDE God and to speake of all thy workes The LXXIII A psalme of Asaph O God wherfore doest thou cast vs so cleane awaye why is y e wrath so hote agaynst y e shepe of y e pasture O thynke vpon thy congregacion whom thou hast purchased froÌ„ the begynnynge the staff of thine inheritaunce whom thou hast redemed euen this hill of Sion wherin thou dwellest Treade vpon them with thy fete cast them downe to the grounde for the enemie hath destroyed alltogether in the SaÌ„ctuary Thy aduersaries roare in thy houses set vp their banners for tokens Men maye se the axes glister aboue like as those that hewe in the wod They cutt downe all the sylinge worke of y e SaÌ„ctuary w t bylles axes They haue set fyre vpon y e SaÌ„ctuary they haue defiled y e dwellynge place of y e name eueÌ„ vnto the grouÌ„de Yee they saye in their hertes Let vs spoyle theÌ„ all together thus haue they brent vp all the houses of God in the londe We se oure tokens nomore there is not one prophet more no not one that vnderstondeth enymore Oh God how loÌ„ge shal the aduersary do this dishonoure how loÌ„ge shal the enemie blaspheme thy name foreuer Why withdrawest thou thine honde why pluckest thou not thy right hoÌ„de out of thy bosome to consume thine enemies But God is my kynge of olde the helpe that is done vpon earth he doth it himself Thou deuydest y e see thorow thy power thou breakest the heades of the dragoÌ„s in the waters Thou smytest the heades of Leuiathan in peces geuest him to be meate for the people in the wildernesse Thou dyggest vp welles brokes thou dryest vp mightie waters The daye is thyne the night is thine thou hast prepared the lightes the Sonne Thou hast set all y e borders of the earth thou hast made both Sommer wynter Remembre this o LORDE how the enemie rebuketh how the foolish people blaspheme thy name O delyuer not the soule of thy turtle doue vnto the beestes forget not the congregacon of the poore for euer Loke vpon the couenaunt for the darcke houses of the earth are full of wickednesse O let not the symple go awaye ashamed for the poore nedy geue prayses vnto thy name Aryse o God manteyne thine owne cause remembre how the foolishmaÌ„ blasphemeth the daylie Forget not the voyce of thine enemies for the presumpcion of them that hate the increaseth euer more more The LXXIIII A psalme of Asaph UNto the o God will we geue thaÌ„kes yee vnto the wyll we geue thankes seynge thy name is sonye we will tell of thy wonderous workes When I maye get a conuenient tyme I shal iudge acordinge vnto right The earth is weake all that is therin but I beare vp hir pilers Sela. I sayde vnto the madde people deale not so madly to the vngodly set not vp youre hornes Set not vp youre hornes an hye speake not with a stiff necke For promocioÌ„ commeth nether from the east ner from the west ner yet froÌ„ the wyldernesse And why God is the iudge he putteth downe one setteth vp another For in the honde of the LORDE there is a cuppe full of stronge wyne he poureth out of the same As for the dreggeâ— therof all y e vngodly of the earth shal drynke them sucke them out But I wil talke of the God of Iacob prayse him for euer All the hornes of the vngodly will I breake y e hornes of the rightuous shal be exalted The LXXV A psalme of Asaph IN Iuda is God knowne his name is greate in Israel At Salem is his tabernacle his dwellinge in Sion There breaketh he the arowes of the bowe y e shylde the swerde the whole battaâ—ll Sela. Thou art of more honoure might theÌ„ the hilles of robbers The proude shal be robbed slepe their slepe y e mightie shal be able to do nothinge with their hoÌ„des WheÌ„ thou rebukest them o God of Iacob both the charettes horsmen shal fall on slepe Thou art feareful for who maye abyde in y e sight when thou art angrie When thou lattest thy iudgment be herde from heauen the erth trembleth is still Yee when God aryseth to geue iudgment to helpe all them that be in aduersite vpon earth Sela. When thou punyshest one man he must knowlege that thou art redy to punysh other mo Loke what ye promyse vnto the LORDE youre God se that kepe it all ye that be rouÌ„de aboute him brynge presentes vnto him y t ought to be feared Which taketh awaye the breth of prynces is wonderfull amoÌ„ge the kynges of the earth The LXXVI A psalme of Asaph I Cried vnto God with my voyce yet euen vnto God cried I with my voyce he herde me In the tyme of my trouble I sought the LORDE I helde vp my hondes vnto him in the night season for my soule refused all other comforte When
earth vpon hir foundacion that it neuer moueth at eny tyme. Thou couerest it with the depe like as with a garmeÌ„t so that the waters stonde aboue the hilles But at thy rebuke they fle at the voyce of thy thonder they are afrayed Then are the hilles sene alofte the valleys beneth in their place which thou hast appoynted for theÌ„ Thou hast set them their boundes which they maie not passe that they turne not agayne to couer y e earth Thou causest the welles to sprynge vp amonge the valleys and the waters runne amonge y e hilles That all the beastes of the felde maye haue drynke that the wylde asses maye quench their thyrste Aboue vpon the hilles haue the foules of the ayre their habitacion and synge amonge the braunches Thou watrest the hylles from aboue the erth is fylled with y e frutes of thy workes Thou bryngest forth grasse for the catell and grene herbe for the seruyce of men Thou bryngest fode out of the earth wyne to make glad y e herte of maÌ„ oyle to make him a chearfull countenaunce bred to strength mans herte The trees of the LORDE are full of sappe euen the trees of Libanus which he hath planted There make the byrdes their nestes and the fyrre trees are a dwellinge for the storcke The hilles are a refuge for the wylde goates and so are the stony rockes for y e conyes Thou hast appoynted the Moone for certayne seasons the Sonne knoweth his goinge downe Thou makest darcknesse that it maye be night wherin all the beastes of the forest do moue Yee and the yonge lyons which roare after the praye and seke their meate at God But when the Sonne ariseth they get them awaye together and lye them downe in their dennes Then goeth man forth to his worke and to till his londe vntill the euenynge O LORDE how manifolde are thy workes right wysely hast thou made theÌ„ all yee the earth is full of thy riches So is this greate and wyde see also wherin are thinges crepinge innumerable both small and greate beastes There go the shippes â—uer and there is that Leuiathan whom thou hast made to take his pastyme therin They wayte all vpoÌ„ the that thou mayest geue them meate in due season WheÌ„ thou geuest it them they gather it wheÌ„ thou openest thine honde they are fylled with good But when thou hydest thy face they are soroufull yf thou takest awaye their breth they dye are turned agayne to their dust Agayne when thou lattest thy breth go forth they are made and so thou renuest the face of the earth The glorious magesty of the LORDE endureth for euer and the LORDE reioyseth in his workes The earth treÌ„bleth at the loke of him he doth but touch y e hilles and they smoke I will synge vnto the LORDE as longe as I lyue I wil prayse my God whyle I haue my beinge O that my wordes might please him for my â—oye is in the LORDE As for synners they shal be coÌ„sumed out of the earth and the vngodly shal come to an ende but prayse thou the LORDE o my soule Halleluya The CIIII. psalme O Geue thankes vnto the LORDE and call vpon his name tell the people what thinges he hath done O let youre songes be of him prayse him and let youre talkynge be of all his wonderous workes Geue his holy name a good reporte let their hertes reioyse that seke the LORDE Seke the LORDE and his strength seke his face euermore Remembre the maruelous workes that he hath done his wonders and the iudgmentes of his mouth O ye sede of Abraham his seruaunt ye children of Iacob his chosen He is the LORDE oure God whose punyshmentes are thorow out all the worlde He is allwaye myndfull of his couenaunt and promyse that he made to a thousande generacions Yee the couenaunt that he made w t Abraham and the ooth that he swore vnto Isaac And apoynted the same vnto Iacob for a lawe and to Israel for an euerlastinge testament Sayenge vnto the wil I geue the londe of Canaan the lott of youre heretage When there was yet but a fewe of them and they straungers therin What tyme as they wente from one nacion to another from one kyngdome to another He suffred no man to hurte them but reproued euen kynges for their sakes Touch not myne anoynted do my prophetes no harme Morouer he called for a derth vpon the loÌ„de and destroyed all the prouysion of bred But he had sent a man before them euen Ioseph which was solde to be a bonde seruaunt They hurte his fete in the stockes the yron pearsed his herte Vntill the tyme that his worde came and till the worde of y e LORDE had tried him Then sent the kinge and caused him be delyuered the prynce of the people bad let him go He made him lorde of his house ruler of all his substaunce That he might enfourme his prynces after his wil and teach his Senatours wysdome Israel also came in to Egipte and Iacob was a straunger in the loÌ„de of Ham. But he increased his people exceadingly and made them stronger then their enemies Whose hert turned so that they hated his people and dealt vntruly with his seruauntes Then sent he Moses his seruaunt and Aaron whom he had chosen These dyd his tokens amoÌ„ge them and wonders in the londe of Ham. He sent darcknesse and it was darcke for they were not obedient vnto his worde He turned their waters in to bloude and slewe their fishe Their londe brought forth frogges yee euen in their kynges chambers He spake the worde their came all maner of flies lise in all their quarters He gaue them hale stones for rayne and flammes of fyre in their loÌ„de He smote their vynyardes fige trees and destroyed the trees that were in their coastes He spake y e worde and their came greshoppers catirpillers innumerable These ate vp all the grasse in their loÌ„de and deuoured the frutes of their grouÌ„de He smote all y e first borne in their loÌ„de euen the chefe of all their substaunce He brought them forth w t syluer golde there was not one feble personne amoÌ„ge their tryâ—es Egipte was glad of their departinge for they were afraied of theÌ„ He spred out a cloude to be a couerynge and fyre to geue light in the night season At their desyre there came quales and he fylled them with the bred of heaueÌ„ He opened the rocke of stone the waters flowed out so that ryuers ranne in the wildernesse For why he remembred his holy promyse which he had made vnto Abraham his seruaunt Thus he brought forth his people with ioye and his chosen with gladnesse And gaue them the loÌ„des of the HeitheÌ„ where they toke the labours of the people in possession That they might kepe his statutes and obserue his lawes Halleluya
his waies to be clene but it is y e LORDE y t fashioneth y e myndes Commytte thy workes vnto y e LORDE and loke what thou deuysest it shal prospere The LORDE doth all thinges for his owne sake yee when he kepeth y e vngodly for y e daye of wrath The LORDE abhorreth all presumptuous proude hertes there maye nether strength ner power escape With louynge mercy faithfulnesse synnes be forgeuen and who so feareth y e LORDE eschueth euell When a mans wayes please y e LORDE he maketh his very enemies to be his frendes Better is it to haue a litle thinge w t rightuousnes theÌ„ greate rentes wrongeously gotten A maÌ„ deuyseth a waye in his herte but it is y e LORDE y t ordreth his goinges When y e prophecy is in y e lippes of y e kynge his mouth shal not go wroÌ„ge in iudgment A true measure a true balauÌ„ce are y e LORDES he maketh all weightes It is a greate abhominacioÌ„ when kynges are wycked for a kynges seate shulde be holden vp w t righteousnesse Righteous lippes are pleasauÌ„t vnto kynges and they loue him y t speaketh y e trueth The kynges displeasure is a messaunger of death but a wyse man wyl pacifie him The cherefull countenauÌ„ce of y e kynge is life and his louynge fauo r is as the euenynge dewe To haue wyszdome in possession is better then golde and to get vnderstondynge is more worth then syluer The path of y e righteous eschueth euell who so loketh well to his wayes kepeth his owne soule Presumptuousnes goeth before destruccion and after a proude stomake there foloweth a fall Better it is to be of humble mynde w t the lowly then to deuyde y e spoyles w t y e proude He y t handleth a matter wysely opteyneth good blessed is he y t putteth his trust in y e LORDE Who so hath a wyse vnderstondinge is called to councell but he y t can speake fayre getteth more riches Vnderstondinge is a well of life vnto him y t hath it as for y e chastenynge of fooles it is but foolishnesse The herte of the wyse enfourmeth his mouth and amendeth y e doctryne in his lyppes Fayre wordes are an hony combe a refreshinge of y e mynde health of y e bones There is a waye y t men thinke to be right but the ende therof leadeth vnto death A troublous soule disquyeteth hir selfe for hir owne mouth hath brought her therto An vngodly personne stereth vp euell and in his lippes he is as an whote burnynge fyre A frowarde body causeth strife and he y t is a blabbe of his tonge maketh deuysion amonge prynces A wicked maÌ„ begyleth his neghbo r ledeth him y e waye y t is not good He that wyncketh w t his eyes ymagineth myschefe and he y t byteth his lippes wyl do some harme Age is a crowne of worshipe yf it be founde in the waye of righteousnes A pacient man is better then one that is stroÌ„ge and he that can rule him selfe is more worth then he y t wynneth a cite The lottes are cast in to the lappe but their fall stoÌ„deth in the LORDE The XVII Chapter BEtter is a drye morsell w t quyetnesse theÌ„ a full house and many fatt catell w t stryfe A discrete seruauÌ„t shal haue more rule then the sonnes y t haue no wysdome and shal haue like heretage w t the brethren Like as syluer is tried in the fyre and golde in the fornace euen so doth the LORDE proue the hertes A wicked body holdeth moch of false lippes a dyssemblynge persone geueth eare to a disceatfull toÌ„ge Who so laugheth y e poore to scorne blasphemeth his maker and he y t is glad of another mans hurte shal not be vnpunyshed Childers children are a worshipe vnto the elders and the fathers are the hono r of the children An eloquent speach becoÌ„meth not a foole a dyssemblinge mouth also besemeth not a prynce Liberalite is a precious stone vnto him that hath it for where so euer he becoÌ„meth he prospereth Who so couereth another mans offence seketh loue but he y t discloseth the faute setteth frendes at variaunce One reprofe only doth more good to him y t hath vnderstoÌ„dinge then an C. stripes vnto a foole A sedicious personne seketh myschefe â—ut a cruell messaunger shal be sent agaynst him It were better to come agaynst a she Bere robbed of hir whelpes then agaynst a foole in his foolishnes Who so rewardeth euell for good the plage shal not departe froÌ„ his house He y t soweth discorde strife is like one y t dyggeth vp a water broke but an open enemie is like the water y t breaketh out reÌ„â—eth abrode The LORDE hateth as well him y t iustifieth y e vngodly as him y t condempneth the innoceÌ„t What helpeth it to geue a foole money in his hoÌ„de where as he hath no mynde to bye wyszdome He is a frende that all waye loueth and in aduersite a man shal knowe who is his brother Who so promiseth by the hande is suertie for another he is a foole He y t loueth strife delyteth in synne who so setteth his dore to hye seketh after a fall Who so hath a frowarde herte opteyneth no good and he y t hath an oueÌ„rthâ—â—â—â— tonge shal fall in to myschefe An 〈◊〉 body bryngeth himselfe in to sorowe and y e father of a foole can haue no ioye A mâ—â—y herte maketh a lusty age but a sorowfull â—â—â—de dryeth vp y e bones The vngodly taketh giftes out of the bosome to wraist the wayeâ—â— of iudgment Wyszdome shyneth in y e face of him y t hath vnderstondinge but y e eyes â—â— fooles wandre thorow out all loÌ„des An 〈◊〉 discrete sonne is a grefe vnto his father 〈◊〉 heuynesse vnto his mother y t bare him 〈◊〉 punysh y e innocent and to smyte y e prynces â— geue true iudgmeÌ„t are both euell He is 〈◊〉 and discrete y t tempereth his wordes 〈◊〉 he is a maÌ„ of vnderstoÌ„dinge y t maketh moâ—â— of his sprete Yee a very foole when he holâ—deth his tonge is counted wyse and to 〈◊〉 vnderstoÌ„dinge when he shutteth his lippes The XVIII Chapter WHo so hath pleasure to sowe disâ—â—de piketh a quarell in euery thingâ— â–ª A foole hath no delyte in vnderâ—â—â—â—dinge but only in those thinges wherin 〈◊〉 herte reioyseth Where vngodlynes is theâ—re is also diszdayne so there foloweth shaâ—me dishonor. The wordes of a maÌ„s 〈◊〉 are like depe waters and the well of wyszdoâ—me is like a full streame It is not good 〈◊〉 regarde y e personne of the vngodly or to 〈◊〉 backe y e righteous in iudgmeÌ„t A fooles lipâ—pes are euer brawlinge and his mouth proâ—uoketh vnto batayll A fooles mouth is 〈◊〉 owne destruccion and his lippes are y e 〈◊〉 for his owne soule The wordes of a slaunâ—derer are very wouÌ„des and go thorow
Ethiopia And shal dyscouer y e shame of Egipte They shal be also at their wittes ende and ashamed one of another the Egipcians of the Moryans and the Morians of the Egipcians at the sight of their glory Morouer they that dwel in y e Iles shal saye euen the same daye beholde this is oure hope to whom we fled to seke helpe that we might be delyuered from the kinge of y e Assirians How will we escape The xxj Chapter THis is the heuy burtheÌ„ of the waist see A greuous visioÌ„ was shewed vnto me like as when a storme of wynde and rayne russheth in from the wyldernesse that terrible londe Who so maye disceaue sayde the voyce let him disceaue Who so maye distroye let him distroye Vp Elam besege it o Madai for I will still all their gronynges With this the raynes of my backe were ful of payne Panges came vpon me as vpon a woman in hir trauayle When I herde it I was abasshed and wheÌ„ I loked vp I was afrayde Myne herte paunted I trembled for feare The darcknesse made me fearfull in my mynde Yee soone make redy the table sayde this voyce kepe the watch eate and drynke Vp ye captaynes take you to youre shylde for thus the LORDE hath charged me go thy waye and set a watchmaÌ„ that he maye tell what he seyth And wheÌ„ he had wayted diligeÌ„tly he sawe two horsmen the one rydinge vpon an Asse the other vpon a camel And the lyon cried LORDE I haue stonde waytinge all the whole daye and haue kepte my watch all the night With y t came there one rydinge vpon a charet which answered and sayde Babilon is fallen she is turned vpsyde downe and all y e ymages of hir goddes are smytten to y e grounde This o my felowe throsshers and fanners haue I herde of the LORDE of hoostes the God of Israel to shewe it vnto you The heuy burthen of Duma One of Seir cried vnto me watchman what hast thou espied by night Watchman what hast thou espied by night The watchman answered The daye breaketh on and the night is coÌ„mynge Yf youre request be earnest then axe and come agayne The heuy burthen vpon Arabia At euen ye shal abyde in the wod in the waye toward Dedanim Mete the thurstie with water o ye citisens of Hema mete those with bâ—ed that are fled For thei shal runne awaye from the weapen from the draweÌ„ swerde from the beÌ„t bowe and from the greate batell For thus hath the LORDE spoken vnto me ouer a yeare shal all the power of Cedar be gone like as when the office of an hyred seruaunte goeth out And the remnaunt of the good Archers of Cedar shal be very few For the LORDE God of Israel hath spoken it The xxij Chapter The heuy burthen apon the valley of Visions WHat hast thou there to do that thou clymnest vp in to the house toppe o thou citie of miracles sedicious and wilfull seinge thy slayne meÌ„ are nether killed w t swerde ner deed in batel For all thy captaynes gat them to their horses from the ordinaunce yee they are altogether rydden awaye and fled farre of When I perceaued y t I sayde awaye fro me y t I maye wepe bytterly Take no laboure for to coÌ„forte me as touchinge the destruction of my people For this is y e daye of the LORDE of hoostes wherin he will plage treade downe and wede out the valley of VisioÌ„s and breake downe the walles with soch a crack that it shal geue a sownde in the mountaynes I sawe the Elamites take the quyuers to carte and to horse and that the walles were bare from harnesse Thy goodly valleys were ful of Charettes the horse men made them soone to besege the gates Then was the coueringe of Iuda put from thence and then was sene the sege of the tymbre house There shal ye se the riftes in the walles of the cite of Dauid wherof there shal be many Ye shal gather together the waters of the lower pole and tel the houses of IerusaleÌ„ and break of some of theÌ„ to kepe y e walles And ye shal make a pyt betwyxte y e twayne walles of the water of the olde pole and nothinge regarde him that toke it in honde and made it And at the same tyme shal y e LORDE of hoostes cal meÌ„ to wepinge mourninge to baldnesse and puttinge on of sack clothe But they to fulfil their lust and wilfulnes slaugter oxeÌ„ they kyll shepe they eate costly meate drynke wyne let vs eate and drinke tomorow we shal die Neuertheles wheÌ„ the LORDE of hoostes herde of it he sayde yee yf this wickednes of yours shal be remitted ye must die for it This hath y e LORDE God of hoostes spoken Thus sayeth the LORDE God of hoostes Go in to the treasury vnto Sobna the gouernoure and saye vnto him What hast thou here to do from wheÌ„ce comest thou that thou hast made the a graue here For he had caused a costly tombe of stone to be made for himself and a place to lye in to be hewen out of a rock Beholde the LORDE shal cast the out by violence he will deck the of another fashion and put vpon the a straunge clothe He shal carie y e in to a farre couÌ„tre like a ball with his hondes There shalt thou die there shal the pompe of thy charettes haue an ende thou vylleyne of the house of thy LORDE I wil shute the out of thine office and put the from thine estate After this wil I cal my seruaunt Eliakim y e sonne of Helkia and araye him with thy cote and gyrde him with thy gyrdle and I wil geue thy power in to his honde He shal be a father of the citisens of Ierusalem and of the Kynred of Iuda I will also laye the keye of Dauids house vpon his shulders and yf he open no man shal shit and yf he do shyt no man shal open I wil fasten him to a nale in the place of the most hie faithfulnesse and he shal be vpon the glorius trone of his fathers house They shal haÌ„ge vpon him all the glory of his fathers house of the children and childers childreÌ„ all apparel small and great all instrumentes of measure musike This shal come to passe saieth the LORDE of hoostes when the nale y t is fastened to the place of the highest faithfulnesse shal be pluckt of And wheÌ„ the weight that hangeth vpon it shal fall be broken and hewen in peces For the LORDE himself hath sayde it The xxiij Chapter AN heuy burthen vpon Tirus Mourne ye shippes of Tharsis for she is throwne downe to the grounde and conquered of them that are come from Cithim The Indwellers of the Ilondes the marchauntes of Sidon and they that occupied the see of whom thou wast ful somtyme are at a poynte For by see were there frutes brought vnto the and all
which they owe vnto me that turne they to mens lawes and doctrynes therfore wil I also shewe vnto this people a maruelous terrible and greate thinge Namely this I wil destroye the wisdome of their wise and the vnderstoÌ„dinge of their lerned men shal perish Wo be vnto them that seke so depe to hyde their ymaginacion be fore the LORDE which rehearce their couÌ„cels in y e darknes and saye who seith vs or who knoweth vs Which ymaginacion of yours is euen as when the potters claye taketh advisemeÌ„t as though the worke might saye to y e worke master make me not or as when an erthen vessel saieth of the potter he vnderstondeth not Se ye not that it is hard by that Libanus shal be turned in to Charmel and that Charmel shal be taken as a wodde Then shal deaf men vnderstonde the wordes of the boke and the eyes of the blynde shal se without eny cloude or darknes The oppressed shal holde a mery feast in the LORDE and the poore people shal reioyse in the holy one of Israel Then shal the furious people ceasse and y e mockers shal be put awaye and all they y t do wronge shal be rooted out soch as laboure to drawe meÌ„ vnto synne and y t disceaue him which reproueth them in the gate soch as turne good personnes to vanite And therfore the LORDE euen the defender of Abraham saieth thus vnto the house of Iacob Now shal not Iacob be ashamed nor his face coÌ„founded when he seith amonge his children whom my hondes haue made soch as halowe my name amonge them that they maye sancifie the holy one of Iacob and feare the God of Israel and that they which afore tyme were of an erroneous sprete haue now vnderstondinge and y t soch as before coude not speake are now lerned in my lawe The xxx Chapter WO be to those shrenkinge children saieth the LORDE which seke councel but not at me which take a webbe in honde but not after my will that they maye heape one synne vpon another They go downe in to Egipte and axe me no councel to seke helpe at the power of Pharao and coÌ„forte in the shadowe of the EgipciaÌ„s But Pharaos helpe shal be youre coÌ„fucion and the comforte in the Egipcians shadowe shal be youre owne shame You re rulers haue bene at Zoan and yo r messaungers came vnto Hanes But ye shal all be ashamed of the people y t maye not helpe you which shal not bringe you strength or comforte but shame and confucion Youre beastes haue borne burthens vpoÌ„ their backes towarde the South thorow the waye that is ful of parell and trouble because of the lyoÌ„ and lyones of the Cockatrice and shutynge dragon Yee the Mules bare youre substaunce and the Camels brought yo r treasure vpon their croked backes vnto a people that can not helpe you For the Egipcians helpe shal be but vane and lost Therfore I tolde you also y t youre pryde shulde haue an ende Wherfore go heÌ„ce and write them this in their tables and note it in a booke that it maye remayne by their posterite and be stil kepte For it is an obstinate people vnfaithful children children that will not heare the lawe of the LORDE They darre saye to the prophetes Intro mitte youre selues with nothinge and vnto y e Soythsayers tell us of nothinge for to come but speake frendly wordes vnto vs and preach vs false thinges Treade out of the waye go out of the path turne the holy one of Israel from vs. Therfore thus saieth the holy one of Israel In as moch as ye haue cast of youre bewtie and conforted youre selues with power and nymblenesse and put youre confidence therin therfore shal ye haue this myschefe agayne for youre destruction and fall like as an hie wall that falleth because of some rift or blast whose breakinge cometh sodenly And youre destruction shal be like as an ertheÌ„ pot which breaketh no man touchinge it yee and breaketh so sore that a man shal not fynde a sheuer of it to fetch fyre in or to take water with all out of the pyt For the LORDE God euen the holy one of Israel hath promised thus With stilsittinge and rest shal ye be healed In quyetnesse and hope shal youre strength lie Notwithstondinge ye regarde it not but ye will saie No for thus are we coÌ„strayned to fle vpoÌ„ horses And therfore shall ye fle we must ryde vpon swift beastes and therfore youre persecutours shal yet be swifter A thousand of you shal fle for one or at the most for fyue which do but only geue you euell wordes vntil ye be desolate as a ship mast vpon an hie mountayne and as a beaken vpon an hill Yet stondeth the LORDE waitinge that he maye haue mercy vpon you and lifteth him self vp that he maye receaue you to grace For the LORDE God is rightuous Happie are all thei that wate for him For thus o thou people of Sion and ye citisens of Ierusalem shal ye neuer be in heuynes for doutlesse he will haue mercy vpon the. As soone as he heareth the voyce of thy crie he will helpe the. The LORDE geueth you the bred of aduersite and the water of trouble But thine instructer fleyth not farre from the yf thine eyes loke vnto thine instructer and thine eares harken to his worde that crieth after the and saieth This is the waye go this and turne nether to the right honde nor the leffte Morouer yf ye destroye the syluer workes of youre Idols and cast awaye the golden coapes that ye deckt them withall as fylthynes and saie get you hence TheÌ„ wil he geue rayne to the sede that ye shal sowe in the earth and geue you breade of the encrease of the earth so that all shal be plenteous and abundaunt Thy catel also shal he fede in the brode medowes yee thyne oxeÌ„ and Muâ—es that till the grounde shal eate good fodder which is pourged w t y e fanne Goodly ryuers shal flowe out of all his mountaynes and hilles In the daye of the greate slaughter when the towers shal fall the Moone shal shyne as the Sonne and y e SoÌ„ne shyne shal be seueÌ„ folde and haue as moch shyne as in seuen dayes beside In that daye shal the LORDE bynde vp y e brussed sores of his people and heale their woundes Beholde the glory of the LORDE shal come from farre his face shal burne that no man shal be able to abyde it his lippes shal wagge for very indignacion and his tunge shal be as a consumynge fyre His breath like a vehement floude of water which goeth vp to the throte That he maye take awaye y e people which haue turned them selues vnto vanite and the brydle of erroure that lieth in other folkes chawes But ye shal synge as the vse is in y e night of the holy solempnite Ye shal
anothers Chap. XIX The captiuyte off the kyngâ—s of Iuda The crueltie of kinges and princes Chap. XX. The greate vnthanfulnesse off the people Agayne the merciful longe sufferaunce of God Chap. XXI The swearde prophecyed to come vpon Israel and the Ammonites by the kynge of Babilon Chap. XXII The synnes wherfore IerusaleÌ„ was punished both the prophetes prestes rulers and comon people Chap. XXIII The Idolatry or whordome of Samaria and Ierusalem Chap. XXIIII The destruccion off Ierusalem and captiuyte of the people signified by the pot Chap. XXV Agaynst Ammon Moab Seir and the Palestynes Chap. XXVI He mourneth vpon the cite off Tyre otherwyse called Zor for the destruccion that was to come vpon her Chap. XXVII XXVIII Agaynst the prince of Tyre and agaynst Sidon Chap. XXIX XXX.XXXI.XXXII Plages vpon Egipte and the kynges therof Chap. XXXIII The office off a preacher The worde of God must be folowed in very 〈◊〉 and not only in mouth Chap. XXXIIII Agaynst euell shepherdes Christ the only true shepherde is promised Chap. XXXV Agaynst the mount Seir that is agaynst the Edomites Chap. XXXVI A promyse of the delyueraunce of Israel Chap. XXXVII A consolacion for the Israelites and a figure of the generall resurreccioÌ„ signified by the drye bones Chap. XXXVIII XXXIX Of Gog and Magog with their destruccion Chap. XL. From this chapter vnto the ende the prophet seith in a vision the buyldinge agayne of IerusaleÌ„ aÌ„d the temple Wherby is descrybed the mystery off the church off christ and saluacion of the faithfull in hiâ— â–ª The first Chapter IT chauÌ„sed in the xxx yeare the fifth daye off the fourth Moneth that I was amonge the presoners by the ryuer off Cobar where the heauens opened I sawe a vision of God Now the fifth daye off the Moneth made out the fyfth yeare off kynge Ioachims captiuyte At the same tyme came y e worde off the LORDE vnto Ezechiel the sonne off Buzi prest in the londe off the Caldees by the water of Cobar where the honde off the LORDE came vpoÌ„ him And I loked beholde a stormy wynde came out off the north with a greate doude full of fyre which w t his glistre lightened all rounde aboute And in y e myddest off the fyre it was all cleare and as it were the licknesse of foure beastes which were fashioned like a man sauynge that euery one had foure faces and foure wynges Their legges were straight but their fete were like bullockes fete and they glistred as it had bene fayre scoured metall Vnder their wynges vpon all the foure corners they had mens hondes Their faces and the it wynges were towarde the foure corners yet were the wynges so that one euer touched another When they wente they turned them not aboute but ech one wente straight forwarde Vpon the rightside off these foure their faces were like the face off a man and the fa off a Lyon But vpon the left side they had the face off an oxe and the face off an Aegle Their faces also and their wynges werespred out aboue so that two wynges off one touched euer two wynges off another and with the other two they couered their bodie Euery one when it wente it wente straight forwarde Where as the sprete led them thither they wente and turned not aboute in their goynge The fashion and countenauÌ„ce of the beestes was like hote coales off fyre euen as though burnynge cresshettes had bene amonge the beestes and the fyre gaue a glistre and out off the fyre there wente lighteninge WheÌ„ y e beestes weÌ„te forwarde backwarde one wolde haue thought it had lightened Now wheÌ„ I had well considered the beestes I sawe a worke off wheles vpon the earth with foure faces also like the beestes The fashion worke of the wheles was like the see The foure wheles were ioyned and made to loke vpon as it had bene one whele in another When one wente forwarde they wente all foure and turned theÌ„ not aboute iÌ„ their goinge They were large greate and horrible to loke vpon Their bodies were full off eyes rounde aboute them all foure WheÌ„ the beestes weÌ„te the wheles wente also with them And when the beestes lift them selues vp from y e earth the wheles were lift vp also Whyther so euer the sprete wente thither wente they also y e wheles were lift vp folowed theÌ„ for y e sprete of life was in the wheles When y e beestes weÌ„te forth stode still or lift them selues vp from the earth then the wheles also wente stode still were lift vp for y e breth off life was in the wheles Aboue ouer y e heades of the beestes there was a firmament which was fashioned as it had bene off the most pure Christall that was spred out aboue vpon their heades vnder the same firmament were their wynges layed abrode one towarde another and two wynges couered the body of euery beest And when thy wente forth I herde the noyse off their wynges like the noyse of greate waters as it had bene the voyce off the greate God and a russhinge together as it were off an hoost off men And when they stode still they let downe their winges Now when they stode still and had letten downe their wynges it thondred in the firmament that was aboue their heades Aboue the firmament that was ouer their heades there was the fashion off a seate as it had bene made off Saphir Apon the seate there sat one like a maÌ„ I behelde him and he was like a cleare light as it had bene all of fyre with in from his loynes vpwarde And beneth when I loked vpon him vnder y e loynes me thought he was like a shyninge fyre that geueth light on euery syde Yee the shyne and glistre y t lightened rounde aboute was like a raynbowe which in a raynie daye apeareth in the cloudes EueÌ„ so was the similitude wherin the glory off the LORDE apeared WheÌ„ I sawe it I fell vpon my face and herkened vnto the voyce off him that spake The II. Chapter THen sayde he vnto me Stonde vp vpon thy fete O thou sonne of maÌ„ and I will talke with the. And as he was commonynge with me the sprete came in to me and set me vp vpon my fete so that I marcked the thinge that he sayde vnto me And he sayde Beholde thou sonne off man I will sende the to the children off Israel to those runnagates and obstinate people for they haue takeÌ„ parte agaynst me and are runne a waye fro me both they and their forefathers vnto this daye Yee I will sende y e vnto a people y t haue rough vysages and stiff stomackes vnto whom thou shalt saye on this maner This the LORDE God himselff hath spoken y t whether they be obedient or no for it is a frauwarde housholde they maye knowe yet that there hath bene a prophet amonge them Therfore thou sonne off man feare theÌ„ not
Therfore beare thine owne shame thou that in synne hast ouercome thy sisters seinge thou hast done so abhominably that they were better then thou Be ashamed therfore I saye and beare thine owne confucion thou that makest thy sisters good women As for their captiuyte namely the captiuyte of Sodoma and hir dougters the captiuyte of Samaria and hir doughters I wil bringe them agayne so will I also bringe agayne thy captiuyte amōge them that thou mayest take thine owne confucion vpon the and be ashamed of all that thou hast done and to comforte them Thus thy sisters namely Sodoma and hir doughters Samaria and hir doughters with y e self thy doughters shal be brought agayne to youre olde estate Whē thou wast in thy pryde and before thy wickednesse came to light thou woldest not heare speake of thy sister Sodoma vntill the tyme that the Sirians with all their townes and the Philistynes with all that lye rounde aboute them brought the to shame and confucion that thou mightest beare thine owne fylthynes and abhominacion saieth the LORDE For thus saieth the LORDE God I shulde by right deale with the as thou hast done Thou hast despysed the ooth and broken the couenaunte Neuertheles I wil remembre the couenaunt that I made with them thy youth in so moch that it shall be an euerlastinge couenaunt So that thou also remembre thy wayes and be ashamed of thē then shalt thou receaue of me thy elder and yonger sisters whom I wil make thy doughters and that besyde thy couenaunt And so I wil renue my couenaunt with the y t thou mayest knowe that I am the LORDE that thou mayest thincke vpō it be ashamed and excuse thine owne confucion nomore when I haue forgeuen the all that thou hast done saieth the LORDE God The XVII Chapter THe worde of the LORDE came vnto me sayenge Thou sonne of man put forth a darcke speakynge and a parable vnto the house of Israel and saye Thus saieth the LORDE God There came a greate Aegle with greate wynges yee w t mightie longe wynges and full of fethers of dyuerse colours vpon the mount of Libanus and toke a braunch from a Cedre tre and brake of the toppe of his twygge and caried it in to the londe of Canaan and set it in a cite of marchauntes He toke also a braunch of the londe and planted it in a frutefull grounde he brought it vnto greate waters set it as a will ye tre therby Then dyd it growe and was a greate wyne stocke but lowe by the grounde thus there came of it a vyne and it brought forth blossomes spred out braunches But there was another Aegle a greate one which had greate wynges and many fethers and beholde y e rotes of this vyne had an hūger after him and spred out his braunches towarde him to water his frutes Neuertheles it was plāted vpon a good grounde besyde greate waters so that by reason it shulde haue brought out braunches and frute and haue bene a goodly vyne Speake thou therfore thus saieth the LORDE God Shal this vyne prospere shal not his rotes be pluckte out his frute broken of his grene braunches wythereed and fade awaye yee without ether stronge arme or many people shal it be plucked vp by the rotes Beholde it was planted shall it prospere therfore Shall it not be dryed vp and withered yee euen in the shutinge out of his blossomes as soone as y e east wynde bloweth Morouer the worde of the LORDE came vnto me sayenge Speake to that frauwarde housholde knowe ye not what these thinges do signifie Tell them Beholde the kinge of Babilon came to Ierusalem and toke the kinge his prynces and ledde them to Babilon He toke of the kinges sede and made a couenaunt with him and toke an ooth of him The prynces of the londe toke he with him also that the londe might be holden in subieccion and not to rebelle but kepe the couenaunt and fulfill it But he fell from him sent his Embassitours in to Egipte that he might haue horses moch people Shulde that prospere Shulde he be kepte safe that doth soch thinges Or shulde he escape that breaketh his couenaunt As truly as I lyue saieth the LORDE God He shal dye at Babilon in y e place where the kinge dwelleth that made him kinge whose ooth he hath despised and whose couenaunt he hat broken Nether shall Pharao with his greate hoost and multitude of people maynteyne him in the warre when they cast vp diches and set vp bulworkes to destroye moch people For seinge he hath despysed the ooth and broken the couenaunt where as he yet gaue his honde thervpon and done all these thinges he shall not escape Therfore thus saieth the LORDE God As truly as I lyue I will bringe myne ooth that he hath despysed and my couenaunt that he hath broken vpon his owne heade I wil cast my net aboute him and catch him in my yarne To Babilon will I cary him there will I punysh him because of the greate offence that he made me As for those y t fle from him out of y e hoost they shal be slayne with the swearde The residue shal be scatred towarde all the wyndes and ye shal knowe that I the LORDE haue spoken it Thus saieth the LORDE God I will also take a braunch from an hie Cedre tre and will set it and take the vppermost twygge that yet is but tendre and plante it vpon an hie hill Namely vpon the hie hill of Sion will I plante it that it maye bringe forth twygges and geue frute and be a greate Cedre tre so that all maner of foules maye byde in it and make their nestes vnder the shadowe of his braunches And all the trees of the felde shall knowe that I the LORDE haue brought downe the hie tre and set the lowe tre vp that I haue dryed vp the grene tre and made the drye tre to florish Euen I the LORDE y t spake it haue also brought it to passe The XVIII Chapter THe worde of the LORDE came vnto me on this maner what meane ye by this comon prouerbe that ye vse in the londe of Israel sayenge The fathers haue eaten soure grapes and the childrēs teth are set on edge As truly as I lyue saieth y e LORDE God ye shal vse this by worde nomore in Israel Beholde all soules are myne Like as the father is myne so is y e sonne myne also The soule that synneth shal dye Yf a man be godly and do the thinge that is equall right he eateth not vpon the hilles he lifteth not his eyes vp to the Idols of Israel he defyleth not his neghbours wife he medleth w t no menstruous woman he greueth no body he geueth his detter his pledge agayne he taketh none other mans good by violēce he parteth his mete with the hongrie he clotheth the naked he lendeth
mercy to those that wil repente Chap· III. The mercifull loue of God towarde the same vnthankful people Chap. IIII. The synnes of the prestes and of the people with reprofe for the same Chap. V. Against the prestes that disceaue the people Chap. VI. The vnthankfulnes of the People Agayne the louynge kyndnesse of God Chap. VII No medycine can helpe so sore are they wounded with ydolatry Chap. VIII Idolatry in Samaria and Israel Chap. IX Punyszhment vpon Israel for Idolatry Chap. X. The vnthankfulnesse of Israel The calfe in Samaria for the which and soch like abhominacions he telleth them of destruccion Cha. XI.XII. God calleth them agayne with rehearsinge his benefites done to them afore Chap. XIII He sheweth them their wickednesse and punyszhment for the same Chap. XIIII He crieth and exorteth the people to conuerte promisynge swetely and louyngly to receaue them This is the worde of the LORDE that came vnto Oseas the sonne of Beeri in the dayes of Osias Ioathan Achas Ezechias kinges of Iuda and in the tyme of Ieroboam the sonne of Ioas kynge of Israel The first Chapter FIrst when the LORDE spake vnto Oseas he saide vnto him Go thy waye take an harlot to thy wife and get childreÌ„ by her for the â—ode hath coÌ„mitted greate whordome agaynst the LORDE So he wente and toke Gomer y e doughter of Deblaim which conceaued and brought forth a sonne And the LORDE sayde vnto him call his name Iesrael for I wil shortly auenge the bloude of Iesrael vpon the house of Iehu and will bringe the kingdome of the house of Israel to an ende Then will I breake the bowe of Israel in the valley of Iesrael She conceaued yet agayne and bare a doughter And he sayde vnto him Call hir name Loruhama that is not opteyninge mercy ofr I wil haue no pyte vpon the house of Israel but forget them and put them clene out of remembraunce Neuerthelesse I wil haue mercy vpon the house of Iuda wil saue them euen thorow the LORDE their God But I wil not delyuer them thorow eny bow swearde batel horses or horsmen Now when she had weened Loruhama she conceaued agayne bare a sonne Then sayde he call his name Lo Ami that is to saye not my people For why ye are not my people therfore will not I be yours And though the nombre of the children of Israel be as the sonde of the see which can nether be measured ner tolde Yet in the place where it is sayde vnto them ye be not my people euen there shall it be thus reported of them they be y e childreÌ„ of the lyuynge God Then shal the children of Iuda and the childreÌ„ of Israel be gathered together agayne chose them selues one heade and then departe out of the londe for greate shal be the daye of Iesrael The II. Chapter TEll youre brethren that they are my people and youre sisteren that they haue optayned mercy As for youre mother ye shal chyde with her and reproue her for she is not my wife nether am I hir huszboÌ„de vnlesse she put awaye hir whordome out of my sight and hir aduoutry from hir brestes Yf no I shal strype her naked set her euen as she came in to y e worlde Yee I shal laye hir waist and make her like a wildernesse and slaye her for thyrste I shal haue no pite also vpon hir children for they be the children of fâ—rnicacion Their mother hath broken hir wedlocke and she that bare them is come to coÌ„fucion For she sayde I wil go after my louers that geue me my water and my bred my woll my flax my oyle and my drynke But I will hedge hir waye with thornes and stoppe it that she shal not fynde hir fotestoppes and though she runne after hir louers yet shall she not get them she shal seke them but not fynde them Then shal she saye well I will go turne agayne to my first huszbonde for at y t tyme was I better at ease then now But this wolde she not knowe where as I yet gaue her corne wyne oyle syluer and golde which she hath hanged vpon Baal Wherfore now will I go take my corne wyne agayne in their season and fet agayne my woll and my flax which I gaue her to couer hir shame And now will I dyscouer hir foolishnesse euen in the sight of hir louers and no man shal delyuer her out of my hondes Morouer I wil take awaye all hir myrth hir holy dayes hir newmoones hir Sabbathes and all hir solempne feastes I will destroye hir vynyardes and fyge trees though she saieth lo here are my rewardes that my louers haue geuen me I wil make it a wodde and the wylde beestes shall eate it vp I will punysh her also for the dayes of Baal wherin she censed him deckynge him with hir earynges and cheynes when she folowed hir louers and forgat me saieth the LORDE Wherfore beholde I wil call her againe bringe her in to a wildernes and speake frendly vnto her there wil I geue her hir vynyardes agayne yee and the valley of Achor also to shewe hir hope comforte Then shal she synge there as in the tyme of hir youth like as in the daye when she came out of the londe of Egipte Then saieth the LORDE she shal saye vnto me O my houszbande shal call me nomore Baal for I wil take awaye those names of Baal from hir mouth yee she shal neuer remembre their names eny more Then will I make a couenaunt with them with the wylde beastes with the foules of the ayre with euerythinge that crepeth vpon the earth As for bowe swerde and batel I will destroye soch out of the londe wil make them to slepe safely Thus wil I mary the vnto myne owne self for euermore yee euen to my self wil I mary the in rightuousnesse in equyte in louynge kyndnesse and mercy In faith also will I mary the vnto my self thou shalt knowe the LORDE At the same tyme wil I shewe my self frendly and gracious vnto y e heauens saieth the LORDE the heauens shal helpe the earth and the earth shal helpe the corne wyne and oyle and they shal helpe Iesrael I wil sowe them vpoÌ„ earth for a sede to myne owne self wil haue mercy vpon her y t was without mercy And to theÌ„ which were not my people I wil saye thou art my people And he shal saye thou art my God The III. Chapter THen sayde y e LORDE to me Go yet y e waye wowe an aduouterous womaÌ„ whoÌ„ thy neghboure loueth as y e LORDE doth the childreÌ„ of Israel how be it they haue respecte to straunge goddes and loue the wyne kannes So I gat her for xv syluerlinges and for an Homer and an half of barlye sayde vnto her Thou shalt byde with me
longe wil he lade himself with thicke claye O how sodenly wil they stonde vp y t shal byte the awake that shal teare y e in peces yee thou shalt be their pray Seinge thou hast spoyled many Heithen therfore shall the remnaunt of the people spoyle the because of mens bloude for the wronge done in the londe in the cite vnto all them that dwel therin Wo vnto him that couetously gathereth euell gotten goodes in to his house that he maye set his nest an hye to escape from the power of mysfortune Thou hast deuysed y e shame of thine owne house for thou hast slayne to moch people and hast wilfully offended so that the very stones of the wall shal crie out of it and the tymbre that lieth betwixte the ioyntes of the buyldinge shall answere Wo vnto him y t buyldeth the towne with bloude and maynteneth y e cite with vnrightuousnes Shal not the LORDE of hoostes bringe this to passe that the laboures of the people shal be brent with a greate fyre and that the thinge wher vpon the people haue weeried them selues shall be lost For the earth shal be full of knowlege of the LORDES honoure like as the waters that couer the see Wo vnto him that geueth his neghboure dryncke to get him wrothfull displeasure for his dronckennesse that he maye se his preuyteâ—s Therfore with shame shalt then be fylled in steade of honoure Dryncke thou also till thou slombre withall for the cuppe of the LORDES right hoÌ„de shall compasse the aboute and shamefull spewinge in steade of thy worshipe For the wroÌ„ge that thou hast done in Libanus shal ouerwhelme the and the wilde beastes shal make the afrayed because of mens bleude and for the wronge done in the londe in the cite and vnto all soch as dwel therin What helpe than wil y e ymage do whom the workman hath fashioned Or the vayne cast ymage wherin because the craftesman putteth his trust therfore maketh he domme Idols Wo vnto him that saieth to a pece of wod arise and to a domine stone stonde vp For what instruccioÌ„ maye soch one geue Beholde it is layed ouer with golde and syluer there is no breth in it But the LORDE in his holy teÌ„ple is he whom all the worlde shulde feare The III. Chapter A prayer of the prophet Abacuc for the ignoraunt O LORDE when I herde speake of y e I was afrayed The worke y t thou hast taken in honde shalt thou perfourme in his tyme O LORDE and when thy tyme commeth thou shalt declare it In thy very wrath thou thinkest vpon mercy God commeth from Theman and the holy one from the mount of Pharan Sela. His glory couereth the heauens and the earth is full of his prayse His shyne is as y e sonne beames of light go out of his hondes there is his power hid DestruccioÌ„ goeth before him and burnynge cressettes go from his fete He stondeth measureth the earth He loketh the people consume awaye the mouÌ„taynes of y e worlde fall downe to powlder and the hilles are fayne to bowe them selues for his goinges are euerlastinge and sure I sawe that the pauilions of the Morians and the tentes of the londe of Madian were vexed for weerynesse Wast thou not angrie o LORDE in the waters was not thy wrath in the floudes and thy displeasure in the see yes wheÌ„ thou sattest vpon thine horse and when thy charettes had the victory Thou shewdest thy bowe opeÌ„ly like as thou haddest promised with an ooth vnto the trybes Sela. Thou didest deuyde the waters of the earth When the mountaynes saw the they were afrayed y e water streame weÌ„te awaye the depe made a noyse at the liftinge vp of thine honde The Sonne and Mone remayned still in their habitacion Thine arowes wente out glisteringe and thy speares as the shyne of the lightenynge Thou trodest downe the londe in thine anger and didest throâ—â— she the Heithen in thy displeasure Thou câ—â—mest forth to helpe thy people to helpe thiâ—â— anoynted Thou smotest downe the heade in the house of the vngodly discoueredest his foundacions eueÌ„ vnto y e necke of him Sela. Thou cursest his septers the captayne of his men of warre which come as a stormy wynde to sâ—atre me abrode are glad when they maye eat vp y e poore secretly Thou makest a waye for thine horses in the see euen in the mudde of greate waters WheÌ„ I heare this my body is vexed my lippes tremble at y e voyce therof my bones corruppe I am afrayed where I stonde O that I might rest in the daye of trouble that I might go vp vnto oure people which are alredy prepared For the fyge trees shal not be grene the vynes shal beare no frute The laboure of y e olyue shal be but lest and the londe shall brâ—nge no corne the shepe shal be taken out of y e folde and there shal be no catell in y e stalles But as for me I wil be glad in the LORDE and will reioyce in God my Sauioure The LORDE God is my strength he shall make my fete as the fete of hertes he which geueth y e victory shal bringe me to my hye places synginge vpon my psalmes The ende of the prophet Abacuc The Prophet Sophony What Sophony conteyneth Chap. I. He prophecieth of plages for to come vpon Iuda Chap. II. He exorteth them to ameÌ„de that they maye escape the wrath of God and sheweth the Gentiles their punyshment Chap. III. Punyshment because of the wickednesse of the Iewes whom God therfore refused and chose the Heithen The first Chapter THis is the worde of the LORDE which came vnto Sophony the sonne of Chusi the sonne of Gedolias the sonne of Amarias y e sonne of Hezechias in the tyme of Iosias the sonne of Amonkinge of Iuda I will gather vp all thinges in the londe saieth the LORDE I wil gather vp man and beest I wil gather vp the foules in the ayre and the fysh in the see to the greate decaye of the wicked wil vtterly destroye the men out of the londe saieth the LORDE I wil stretch out myne honde vpon Iuda and vpon all soch as dwel at Ierusalem Thus wil I rote out the remnaunt of Baal from this place and the names of the Kemuryns and prestes yee soch as vpon their house toppes worshipe bowe them selues vnto the hoost of heauen which sweare by the LORDE and by their Malchom also which starte a backe from y e LORDE and nether seke after the LORDE ner regarde him Be still at y e presence of the LORDE God for the daye of the LORDE is at honde yee the LORDE hath prepared a slayne offeringe and called his gestes therto And thus shall it happen in the daye of the LORDES a slaynofferynge I will vyset the prynces the kinges children all soch as weere strauÌ„ge
greate power shal they come and stonde fightinge with theÌ„ and shal waist the porcion of the londe of the Assirians And then shal the Dragons haue the vpper hande not remembringe their byrth and shal turne aboute swearinge together in greate power to persecute them But these shal be afrayed and kepe sylence at their power and shal fle and one out of the londe of the Assirians shal besege theÌ„ and consume one of theÌ„ and in their hoost shal be feare and drede and strife amonge their kynges Beholde cloudes from the east and from the north vnto the south and they are very horrible to loke vpon full of wrath and storme They shal smyte one vpon another and they shal smyte at y e greate starre vpon earth and their starre and the bloude shal be from the swerde vnto the bely and the smoke of maÌ„ vnto y e Camels lytter And there shal be greate fearfulnes and tremblinge vpoÌ„ earth and they that se the wrath shal be afrayed and a tremblinge shal come vpon them And then shal there come greate raynes from y e south and from the north and parte from the west and from the stormy wynde from the east and shal shutt them vp agayne the cloude which he raysed vp in wrath and the starre to cause feare towarde y e east and west wynde shal be destroyed the greate cloudes shal be lift vp and y e mightie cloudes full of wrath and the starre that they maye make all the earth afrayed and theÌ„ y t dwell therin and that they maye poure out ouer all places an horrible starre fyre and hâ—le and flyenge swerdes and many waters y t all feldes maye be full and all ryuers they shal breake downe the cities walles mountaynes hylles all trees wod and the grasse of the medowes and all their frute And they shal go stedfast vnto Babilon and mâ—ke her afrayed they shal come to her and besege her the starre and all wrath shal they poure out vpon her Then shal the dust and smoke go vp vnto the heauen and all they that be aboute her shal bewayle her and they that remayne vnder her shal do seruyce vnto them that haue put her in feare And thou Asia y t coÌ„fortest thyself also vpoÌ„ the hope of Babilon and art a worshipe of hir personne Wo be vnto the thou wretch because thou hast made thyself like vnto her hast decte y e daughters iÌ„ whoâ—dome that they might tryumphe and please thy louers which haue allwaye desyred to coÌ„mytte whordome w t the thou hast folowed the abhominable cite in all hir workes and invencions Therfore sayeth God I wyl sende plages vpon the wyddowhode pouerte hoÌ„ger warres and pestilence to waist thy houses with destruccion and death and the glory of thy power shal be dryed vp as a floure whan y e heate aryseth y t is sent ouer the. Thou shalt be sick as a poore wife that is plaged beateÌ„ of wemen so y t the mightie and louers shal not be able to receaue the. Wolde I so hatâ— the saieth the LORDE Yf thou haddest not allwaye slayne my chosen exaltinge the stroke of thy handes and sayde ouer their death whan thou wast dronkeÌ„ set forth the betwâ—â— of thy countenaunce The rewarde of thy whordome shal be recompensed the in thy bosome therfore shalt thou receaue rewarde Like as thou hast done vnto my chosen sayeth the LORDE euen so shal God do vnto the and shal delyuer the in to the plage Thy childreÌ„ shal dye of honger thou shalt fall thorow y e swerde Thy cities shal be broken downe all thine shal perish w t the swerde in y e felde They y t be in y e mouÌ„taynes shal dye of honger eate their owne flesh drinke their owne bloude for very hoÌ„ger of bred thyrst of water Thou vnhappie shalt come thorow the see receaue plages agayne In the passage they shall cast downe the slayne cite shal rote out one parte of y e londe coÌ„sume the porcion of thy glory They shal treade the downe like stuble they shal be thy fyre and shal consume the thy cities and thy londe thy wod thy frutefull trees shal they burne vp with the fyre Thy children shal they cary awaye captyue and loke what thou hast they shal spoyle it and marre the bewtie of thy face The XVI Chapter WO vnto the Babilon Asia wo vnto y e Egipte Syria gyrde yo r selues w t clothes of sack hayre and mourne for youre childreÌ„ be sory for yo r destruccion is at honde A swerde is sent vpon you who wil turne it back A fyre is kyndled amoÌ„ge you who wil quench it Plages are sent vnto you what is he that wil dryue them awaye Maye eny man dryue awaye an hoÌ„grie lyon in the wod Or maye eny maÌ„ quench the fyre in the stubble whan it hath begonne to burne Maye one turne agayne the arowe y t is shot of a stronge archer The mightie LORDE sendeth the plages what is he that wil dryue them awaye The fyre is kyndled gone forth in his wrath what is he that will quench it He shall cast lightenynges who shal not feare He shal thonder and who shall not be afrayed The LORDE shal threaten who shal not vtterly be beaten to poulder at his presence The earth quaketh the foundacions therof y e see aryseth vp w t wawes from the depe and the floudes of it are vnquyete the fishes therof also before the LORDE before the glory of his power For stronge is his right hande that holdeth the bowe his arowes that he shuteth are sharpe shall not mysse whan they begynne to be shot in to y e endes of the worlde Beholde y e plages are sent shal not turne agayne tyll they come vpon earth The fyre is kyndled shall not be put out tyll it consume the foundacions of the earth Like as an arowe which is shot of a mightie archer returneth not bacwarde euen so y e plages y t shal be sent vpon earth shal not turne agayne Wo is me wo is me who wyl delyuer me in those dayes The begynnynge of sorowes greate mourninge the begynnynge of derth greate death the begynnynge of warres the powers shal stonde in feareâ— the begynnynge of euels they shal tremble euery one What shal I do in these thinges whan the plages come Beholde hoÌ„ger and plage trouble anguysh are sent as scourges for amendement But for all these thinges they shal not turne froÌ„ their wickednesses ner be allwaye myndefull of y e scourges Beholde vitayles shal be so good cheape vpon earth y t they shal thinke themselues to be in good case and euen then shal myschefe growe vpoÌ„ earth warres derth greate disquietnes For many of them that dwell vpoÌ„ earth shall perish of hoÌ„ger the other that escape
vnto the battayll agaynst the Israelites and came on by the hyll syde vnto the topp that loketh ouer agaynst Dothaim from the place which is called Belma vnto Chelmon y t lyeth towarde Eszdrelon Now whan the childrē of Israel sawe so greate a multitude of the Assirians they fell downe flat vpon y e grounde strowed aszshes vpon their heades prayed w t one acorde y t the God of Israel wolde shew his mercy vpon his people And so they toke their weapens sat betwixte the mountaynes in y e narow place kepte the waye daye night But whyle Holofernes was goinge aboute he founde the water springe which from the south syde was conueyed in to the cite by a condyte this cōmaunded he to be directe another waye to cut their condite in sunder There were welles also not farre from the walles which they vsed secretly more for pleasure then for necessite Then wente the Ammonites the Moabites vnto Holofernes and sayde The children of Israel trust nether in speare ner arowe but haue taken in and kepe the mountaynes and hilles That thou mayest ouercome them therfore without y e strykynge of eny battayll sett mē to kepe the welles that they drawe no water out of them so shalt thou destroye thē without swerde or at the least they shall be so feble that they must be fayne to geue ouer the cite which they thinke not able to be wōne for so moch as it lieth in the moūtaynes These wordes pleased Holofernes well and all his men of warre and he set an hundreth men at euery well rounde aboute And whan this watch had endured twentye dayes the Cisternes and all that had water fayled them that dwelt in the cite of Bethulia so that in y e whole cite they had not drynke ynough for one daye for the people had water geuen them daylie in a measure Then came the men and women yonge personnes and children all vnto Osias and sayde all with one voyce God be iudge betwixte vs and the for thou hast dealt euell with vs thou woldest not speake peaceably with the kynge of the Assirians therfore hath God solde vs in their handes and there is no man to helpe vs where as we are brought downe before their eyes in thirst and greate destruccion Therfore gather now together all the people that be in the cite that we maye all yelde oure selues wyllingly vnto y e people of Holofernes for better it is y t we be captyue and prayse the LORDE with oure lyues then to be slayne and perishe and to be laughed to scorne shamed of euery man whan we se oure wyues and children dye before oure eyes We take heauen earth this daye to recorde and the God of oure fathers which punysheth vs acordinge to the deseruynge of oure synnes and geue you warnynge y t ye geue vp the cite now in to y e power of Holofernes hoost that oure ende maye be shorte with the swerde which els shal endure longe for wante of water and for thirst Whan they had spokē out these wordes there was a greate wepynge and howlynge in the whole congregacion and that of euery man and they cryed an whole houre longe vnto God with one voice sayenge we haue synned with oure fathers we haue done amysse we haue dealt wickedly Thou y t art gracious haue mercy vpon vs punysh oure vnrighteousnes with thine owne scourge and geue not those ouer that knowlege the vnto a people which knoweth the not lest they saye amonge the Heithen where is their God And whan they were so weery with this crienge and wepynge that they helde their tunges Osias stode vp with watrye eyes and sayde O take good hertes vnto you deare brethren and be of good cheare and let vs wayte yet these fyue dayes for mercy of the LORDE peraduenture he shal cut awaye his indignacion and geue glory vnto his name But yf he helpe vs not whan these fyue dayes are past we shall do as ye haue sayde The VIII Chapter ANd it happened whan these wordes came to the eares of Iudith a wyddow which was the daughter of Merari the sonne of Idox the sonne of Ioseph the sonne of Osias the sonne of Elai y e sonne of Iammor the sonne of Iedeon the sonne of Raphoim the sonne of Achitob the sonne of Melchia the sonne of Euam y e sonne of Nathania the sonne of Salathiel y e sonne of Symeon the sonne of Ruben And hir huszbande was called Manasses which dyed in the dayes of the barlye haruest For whyle he was byndinge y e sheeues together in the felde the heate came vpon his heade and he dyed at Bethulia his cite and there was he buried beside his fathers Now was Iudith his desolate wyddow thre yeares six monethes And in the hyer partes of hir house she made hirself a preuy chambre where she dwelt beynge closed in with hir maydēs She ware a smock of hayre and fasted all the dayes of hir life excepte the Sabbathes and new moones the solempne dayes that the people of Israel kepte She was a very fayre and beutyfull personne Hyr husbande also had left her greate riches a plenteous housholde greate vnmoueable possessions and many catell This Iudith was a woman of a very good reporte with euery one for she feared the LORDE greatly and there was no body that speake an euell worde of her Whā this Iudith herde how Osias had promised the people that after the fyffte daye he wolde geue vp y e cite vnto the Assirians she sent for the elders Chambri and Charmin and whan they came to her she sayde what thinge is this wherin Osias hath consented y t yf God helpe not within fyue dayes he wil geue ouer the cite to the Assirians What are ye that ye tempte the LORDE This deuyce optayneth no mercy of God but prouoketh him vnto wrath and displeasure Wyl ye set the mercy of y e LORDE a tyme appoynte him a daye after youre wyll Neuertheles for so moch as the LORDE is pacient let vs rather amende oure selues pouringe out teares and besekynge him of grace For God threateneth not as a mā nether wyll he be prouoked vnto wrath as the children of men And therfore let vs hertely fall downe before him and serue him with a meke sprete and with wepynge eyes saye vnto the LORDE that he deale with vs acordinge to his owne wyll and mercy that like as oure hert is now vexed brought lowe thorow the pryde of them it maye so be comforted thorow his grace in so moch as we folowe not the synnes of oure fathers which forsoke their God worshipped other goddes for the which synne they perished with the swerde were spoyled brought to shame of all their enemies As for vs we knowe none other God but onely him for whose cōforte let vs tary with mekenesse He shall requyre and make inquisicion for oure
nacion with my power haue I troden downe the hertes of all both hye and lowe In all these thinges also I sought rest a dwellinge in some enheritaunce So y e creator of all thinges gaue me a commaundement he that made me appoynted me a tabernacle and saide vnto me Let thy dwellinge be in Iacob and thy inheritaunce in Israel rote thy self amōge my chosen I was created from the begynninge and before the worlde shal not leaue of vnto the worlde to come In the holy habitacion haue I serued before him and so was I stablished in Sion In y e holy cite rested I in like maner in Ierusalem was my power I toke rote in an honourable people euen in the porcion of y e LORDE in his heretage kepte me in y e fulnes of the sayntes I am sett vp an hye like a Ceder vpō Libanus as a Cypers tre vpon the mount Hermon I am exalted like a palme tre in Cades as a rose plāte in Iericho As a fayre olyue tre in the felde am exalted like as a plantayne tre by the water syde I haue geuen a smell in the stretes as y e Cynamom and Balme that hath so good a sauoure yee a swete odoure haue I geuen as it were Myrre of the best I haue made my dwellinges to smell as it were of rosyn Galbanum of Clowes and Incense as Libanus whan it is not hewē downe mine odoure is as the pure Balme As the Terebynte haue I stretched out my braunches and my braunches are the braunches of honoure and louynge fauoure As y e vyne haue I brought forth frute of a swete sauoure and my floures are y e frute of hono and riches I am the mother of bewtye of loue of feare of knowlege of holy hope In me is all grace of life and trueth In me is all hope of life and vertue O come vnto me all ye that be desyrous of me and fyll youre selues with my frutes for my sprete is sweter then hony so is my inheritaunce more then the hony combe the remembraunce of me endureth for euermore They that eate me shal haue the more honger and they that drynke me shal thyrste the more Who so herkeneth vnto me shall not come to confucion and they that worke in me shal not offende They that make me to be knowne shal haue euerlastinge life All these thinges are the boke of life the couenaunt of the Hyest and the knowlege of the trueth Moses commaunded the lawe in the preceptes of righteousnes for an heretage vnto the house of Iacob and cōmitted y e promyses vnto Israel Out of Dauid his seruaūt HE ordened to raise vp a most mightie kinge syttinge in the seate of honoure for euermore This fylleth with wyszdome like as the floude of Phison as y e floude of Tigris whan the new frutes are a growinge This bringeth a plenteous vnderstandinge like Euprates fylleth it vp as Iordane in the time of haruest This maketh nurto r to breake forth as the light as the water Gihon in y e haruest The first hath not knowne her perfectly nomore shal the last seke out y e grounde of her For hir thought is fuller thē the see and hir councell is profounder then the greate depe I wyszdome haue cast out floudes I am as a greate waterbroke out of y e riuer I am as the ryuer Dorix and as a water condyte am I come out of the garden of pleasure I sayde I wyl water the garden of my yonge plantes and fyll the frute of my byrth So my waterbroke became exceadinge greate and my ryuer approched vnto the see For I make doctryne to be vnto all mē as light as the fayre mornynge and I shall make it to be euer the clearer I will pearse thorow all the lower partes of the earth I wyll loke vpon all soch as be a slepe and lighten all thē that put their trust in the LORDE I shal yet poure out doctrine like as prophecy and leaue it vnto soch as seke after wyszdome and their generacions shal I neuer fayle vnto the holy euerlastinge worlde Beholde how that I haue not laboured for my self onely but for all them y t seke after y e trueth The XXV Chapter THre thinges there are y t my sprete fauoureth which be also alowed before God and men The vnyts of brethren the loue of neghbours and man wyfe that agree well together Thre thinges there be which my soule hateth and I vtterly abhorre the life of them A poore man that is proude A rich mā that is a lyar and an olde body that doteth and is vnchaste Yf thou hast gathered nothinge in thy youth what wylt thou fynde thē in thine age O how pleasaūt a thinge is it whā gray headed men are discrete whan the elders can geue good councell O how cōly a thinge is wyszdome vnto aged men yee vnderstondinge and councell is a glorious thinge The crowne of olde men is to haue moch experience y e feare of God is their worshipe There be ix thinges which I haue iudged in my hert to be happie and the tenth wil I tell forth vnto men with my tonge A man y t whyle he lyueth hath ioye of his children and seith y e fall of his enemies Well is him that dwelleth with an houswife of vnderstōdinge and that hath not fallen with his tonge and y t hath not bene faine to serue soch as are vnmete for him Wel is him y t fyndeth a faithfull frende wel is him which talketh of wiszdome to an eare y t heareth him O how greate is he y t fyndeth wyszdome knowlege Yet is he not aboue him that feareth the LORDE The feare of God hath sett itself aboue all thinges Blessed is y e man vnto whō it is graunted to haue the feare of God Vnto whō shal he be lickened y t kepeth it fast The feare of God is the begynnynge of his loue and the begynnynge of faith is to cleue fast vnto it The heuynes of the hert is all the punyshment and the wickednes of a woman goeth aboue all All punyshment plage is nothinge in comparison of the plage of the hert euē so all wickednes is nothinge to the wickednes of a woman What so euer happeneth vnto a man is nothinge in comparison of it y t his euell willers do vnto him and all vengeaunce is nothinge to the vengeaūce of the enemye There is not a more wicked heade then the heade of the serpēt and there is no wrath aboue y e wrath of a woman I wyl rather dwell with a lyon and dragon then to kepe house with a wicked wyfe The wickednesse of a woman chaungeth hir face she shal moffell hir coūtenaunce as it were a Beer as a sack shall she shewe it amonge the neghbours Hir husbande is
gretinge vnto y e SparciaÌ„s their brethreÌ„ There were lettres sente loÌ„ge agoo vnto Onias y e hye prest from Arius which than raigned amonge you that ye are oure brethren as the wrytinge made thervpon specifieth And Onias intreated the embassitoure that was sent honorably and receaued y e lettres wherin there was mencion made of the bonde of loue frendshipe But as for vs we nede no soch writinges for why we haue the holy bokes of scripture in oure hondes to oure comforte Neuerthelesse we had rather sende vnto you for the reâ—uynge of y e brotherhode and frendshipe lest we shulde be straunge vnto you for it is longe sens y e tyme y t ye sent worde vnto vs. Wherfore in y e sacrifices y t we offre other ceremonies vpon y e hye solempne dayes and other we allwaye remembre you without ceassynge like as reason is and as it becommeth vs to thynke vpon oure brethren yee and are right glad of youre prosperous honoure And though we haue had greate troubles and warres so that the kynges aboute vs haue foughten agaynst vs yet wolde we not be greuous vnto you ner to other of oure louers and frendes in these warres For we haue had helpe froÌ„ heaueÌ„ so that we are delyuered and oure enemies subdued Wherfore we chose Numenius the sonne of Antiochus and Antipater the sonne of Iason and sente them vnto the Romaynes for to renue the olde bonde of frendshipe and loue with them We commaunded them also to come vnto you to salute you and to delyuer you o r lettres concerninge the renouacion of o r brotherhode And now ye shal do right wel to geue vs an answere there vnto And this is the copy of the wrytinge which Arius the kynge of Sparta sente vnto Onias Arius kinge of the Sparcians sendeth gretynge vnto Onias the hye prest It is founde in wrytynge that the Sparcians and Iewes are brethren and come of the generacion of Abraham And now for so moch as this is come to oure knowlege ye shal do wel to wryte vnto vs of youre prosperite As for vs we haue wrytten o mynde vnto you Oure catell and goodes are yours and yours ours These thinges haue we coÌ„maunded to be shewed vnto you When Ionathas herde that Demetrius priÌ„ces were come forth to fight against him with a greater hoost theÌ„ afore he wente froÌ„ Ierusalem met theÌ„ in the loÌ„de of Hemath for he gaue them not space to come in to his owne countre And he sent spyes vnto their tentes which came agayne and tolde him that they were appoynted to come vpoÌ„ him in the night season Wherfore when the SoÌ„ne was gone downe Ionathas coÌ„maunded his men to watch all y e night to be ready w t weapens for to fight and set watchmen rounde aboute the hoost But when the aduersaries herde that Ionathas was reâ—â—y w t his men to the battayll they feared were afrayed in their hertes kyndled fyres in their tentes brake vp and gat them awaye Neuertheles Ionathas and his company knewe it not till the morninge for they sawe the fyres burnynge Then Ionathas folowed vpon theÌ„ but he might not ouertake them for they were gone ouer the water Eleutherus So Ionathas departed vnto y e ArabiaÌ„s which were called Zabadei slewe them toke their goodes He proceded furthur also and came vnto Damascus wente thorow all that countre But Simon his brother toke his iourney and came to Ascalon and to the nexte stronge holdes departinge vnto Ioppa and wanne it For he herde that they wolde stonde of Demetrius partie wherfore he sent meÌ„ of warre in the cite to kepe it After this came Ionathas home agayne called the elders of the people together and deuysed with theÌ„ for to buylde vp the stroÌ„ge holdes in Iewry and the walles of Ierusalem to set vp an hye wall betwixte the castell and y e cite for to separate it from the cite that it might be alone and that men shulde nether bye nor sell in it VpoÌ„ this they came together for to buylde vp the cite and for moch as the wall vpoÌ„ the broke of the west syde called Caphetheta was fallen downe they repayred it And Symon set vp Adiada in Sephela and made it stronge settinge portes lockes vpoÌ„ it Now when Triphon purposed to raigne in Asia to be crowned and to slaye the kynge Antiochus he was afrayed that Ionathas wolde not suffre him but fight against him Wherfore he wente aboute to take Ionathas and to kyll him So he departed and came vnto Bethsan Then wente Ionathas forth against him to the battayll with fourtye thousande chosen men and came vnto Bethsan also But wheÌ„ Triphon sawe that Ionathas came with so greae an hoost to destroye him he was afrayed and therfore he receaued him honorably commended him vnto all his frendes gaue him rewardes and commaunded his men of warre to be as obedieÌ„t vnto him as to himself And saide vnto Ionathas why hast thou caused this people to take soch trauayle seynge there is no warre betwixte vs Therfore sende them home agayne chose certaine meÌ„ to waite vpon the come thou w t me to Ptolomais for I wil geue it the w t the other stroÌ„ge holdes men of warre and their officers As for me I must departe this is only y e cause of my coÌ„mynge Ionathas beleued him dyd as he sayde puttinge awaye his hoost which wente in to y e londe of Iuda He kepte but iij. M. by him wherof he sente ij M. in to Galilee one M. wente with himself Now as soone as Ionathas entred in to Ptolomais the citesyns sparred the gates of the cite and toke him and slewe all them with the swerde that came in with him Then sent Triphon an hoost of fote meÌ„ and horsmen in to Galilee and in to the greate playne felde to destroye all Ionathas company But when they knew that Ionathas was taken and all they slayne that wayted vpon him they toke councell together and came forth ready to the battayll So when they which folowed vpon them sawe that it was a matter of life they turned backe agayne As for the other they wente in to y e londe of Iuda peacealy bewayled Ionathas them that were with him right sore And Israel made greate lamentacion TheÌ„ all the Heithen y t were rounde aboute them sought to destroye theÌ„ For they sayde now haue they no captayne nor eny man to helpe them Therfore let vs ouercome them and rote out their name from amonge men The XIII Chapter NOw whan Symon herde that Triphon gathered a greate hoost to come in to y e londe of Iuda and to destroye it and sawe y t the people was in greate fearfulnesse and care He came vp to Ierusalem and gathered the people together gaue theÌ„ exortacion sayenge Ye knowe what greate battayls I and my brethren my fathers house haue stryken for the lawe the SaÌ„ctuary
them I and my brethren my fathers house haue euer from oure youth vp vnto this daye foughten agaynst the enemies of Israel God gaue vs good fortune to delyuer Israel oft tymes And now for so moch as I am olde be ye in steade of me my brother to go forth fight for oure people the helpe of God be w t you So he chose xx M. fightingemen of the countre with horsmen also which wente forth agaynst Cendebeus and rested at Modin In the mornynge they arose wēte in to y e playne felde and beholde a mightie greate hoost came agaynst thē both of fotemen horsmen Now was there a water broke betwixte them Ihon remoued the hoost towarde them And when he sawe that the people was afrayed to go ouer y e water broke he wente ouer first him self and the men seynge this folowed him Then Ihon set his horsmen fote men in ordre the one by the other for their enemies horsmen were very many But when they blewe vp the prestes trompettes Cendebeus fled w t his hoost wherof many were slayne and the remnaunt gat them to their stronge holde Iudas also Ihōs brother whas woūded at y e same tyme. And Ihon folowed still vpon y e enemies till he came to Cedrō which he buylded The enemies fled also vnto the towres y t were in y e feldes of Azotus those dyd Ihon burne vp Thus there were slayne ij M. men of them Ihon turned agayne peaceably in to Iewry And in the felde of Iericho was Ptolomy the sonne of Abobus made captayne which because he had abundaunce of syluer golde for he had maried the doughter of Symon the hye prest waxed proude in his mynde thought to conquere the lōde ymageninge falsed agaynst Symō his sonnes to destroye thē Now as Symon was goynge aboute thorow the cities y t were in y t coūtre of Iewry and carynge for them he came downe to Iericho with Matathias Iudas his sonnes in the Clxxvij yeare in y e xj moneth called Sabat Then Ptolomy y e sonne of Abobus receaued them but w t disceate into a stronge house of his called Doch which he had buylded where he made them a bancket So when Symon his sonnes were mery had dronken well Ptolomy stode vp w t his men whō he had hyd there toke their weapens entred in to the banckethouse slewe Symon w t his two sonnes certayne of his seruaūtes Soch greate vnfaithfulnesse dyd Ptolomy in Israel and recōpensed euell for good Then wrote this Ptolomy y e same vnto kynge Antiochus requyringe him that he shulde sende him an hoost to helpe him so shulde he delyuer him the londe w t the cities tributes of the same He sent other men also vnto Gaza for to take Ihon wrote vnto the captaynes to come to him he shulde geue them syluer golde and rewardes And to Ierusalem he sent other to take it and the Sanctuary Thē ranne there one before tolde Ihon in Gaza that his father his brethren were slayne and how that Ptolomy had sent to slaie him also Whē Ihon herde this he was sore abaszshed and layed hōdes of them that were come to destroye him and slewe them for he knowe that they wente aboute to kyll him As for other thinges concernynge Ihon of his warres of his noble actes wherin he behaued him self manfully of the buyldinge of walles which he made and other of his dedes They are written in the cronicles of his presthode from the tyme forth y t he was made hye prest after his father The ende of the first boke of the Machabees The seconde boke Of the Machabees What this boke conteyneth Chap. I. The Iewes wryte vnto Aristobolus of the clensynge of the temple and of the feast of tabernacles Of the fyre that was hyd in the pyt Chap. II. What Ieremy requyred of the Iewes that were in preson and of their stories Chap. III. The Heithē kynges helde the temple at Ierusalem in honoure The variaunce betwixte Simon and Onias What Appollonius Heliodorus dyd at Ierusalem The punyshment of Heliodorus Chap. IIII. The wickednes of Symon The faithfulnesse of Onias Iason laboureth to be hye prest Of his wickednesse and how he was dryuen awaye The alteracion of the presthode Andronicus destroyeth Onias and God striketh him therfore Chap. V. Wonderous thinges done at Ierusalem Iason falleth vpon the cite handleth abhominably and yet is fayne to fleat the last The kynge of Egipte taketh the cite agayne with greate bloudsheddynge Chap. VI. The kynge procedeth forth in his tyranny as well in other cities where the lawe of God is kepte as at Ierusalem All this sendeth God for the wickednes of the people The stedfastnesse of Eleazar Chap. VII The death of the vij brethrē their mother How constante they are to suffre rather then to obeye the wicked kynge Chap. VIII The manlynesse of Iudas Machabeus and how Philippe medleth against him Iudas conforteth his people and ouercommeth Nicanor Chap. IX Of Antiochus and his pryde how God punyshed him Chap. X. Machabeus wynneth the holy cite agayne and clenseth it Eupator foloweth his father Antiochus Iudas Machabeus ordreth him self well Chap. XI What Lysias purposeth Iudas with stondeth him God taketh his parte Lysias Iudas are at one Chap. XII Timotheus Appolonius and other ymagin treason Iudas Machabeus punysheth them wynneth Caspin other cities Chap. XIII Antiochus Lysias make thē forth agaynst the Iewes Iudas gathereth the people byddeth them call vpon God goeth on and besyde Modin striketh a greate batell Chap. XIIII Of Demetrius the sonne of Seleucus The trayterous dealinge of Alcimus Nicanor breaketh falsely the bonde made with Iudas Machabeus Of the mālynes of Razis Chap. XV. Nicanors wicked purpose Iudas geueth his people godly consolacion Of his dreames and visions and how Nicanor perished The first Chapter THe brethrē of y e Iewes which be at Ierusalem in the londe of Iewry wish vnto those brethrē of y e Iewes that are thorow out Egipte good fortune health and peace God the LORDE be gracious vnto you thynke vpon his couenaunt y t he made w t Abraham Isaac Iacob his faithfull seruauntes and geue you all soch an herte that ye maye loue and serue him yee and perfourme his wyll with an whole herte and of a wyllinge mynde He opē youre hertes in his lawe and in his commaundementes sende you peace heare youre prayers be at one with you and neuer forsake you in tyme of trouble This is heare oure prayer for you What tyme as Demetrius raigned in the Clxix yeare we Iewes wrote vnto you in y e trouble and violence that came vpon vs. In those yeares after that Iason departed out of the holy londe and kyngdome they brent vp the portes and shed innocent bloude Then made we oure prayer vnto y e LORDE and were herde we offred
borne And they sayde vnto hym at Bethleem in Iury. For thus it is written by the Prophet And thou Bethleem in the londe of Iury art not the leest amonge the Princes of Iuda For out of y e shall come vnto me the captayne that shall gouerne my people Israel Then Herod preuely called the wyse men and dyligently enquyred of them what tyme the starre appered and sent them to Bethleem sainge Go and searche dyligently for the chylde And when ye haue founde hym bringe me worde agayne that I maye come and worshippe hym also When they had heard the kynge they departed and lo the starre which they sawe in the east went before them tyll it came and stode ouer the place where the chylde was When they sawe the starre they were maruelously glad and went into the house and found the chylde with Mary his mother and kneled downe and worshipped hym opened ther treasures and offred vnto hym gyftes gold franckynsence and myrre And after they were warned of God in a dreame that they shuld not go ageine to Herod they returned into their awne countre another waye When they were departed beholde the angell of the LORDE appered to Ioseph in a dreame sayinge aryse and take the chylde â–ª and his mother and flye into Egypte and abyde there tyll I brynge the worde For He rod wyl seke the chylde to destroye hym TheÌ„ he arose and toke the chylde and his mother by night and departed into Egypte and was there vnto y e deeth of Herod that the thinge might be fulfylled which was spokeÌ„ of the LORDE by the Prophet which sayeth out of Egypte haue I called my sonne Then Herod perceauynge y t he was disceaued of the wyse men was excedynge wroth and sent forth and slue all the chyldren that were in Bethleem and in all the coastes there of as many as were two yere olde and vnder accordynge to the tyme which he had diligently searched out of the wyse men Then was y t fulfilled which was spoken by y e Prophet Ieremy sayinge On y e hilles was a voyce herde greate mournynge wepynge lamentacion Rachel wepynge for her chyldren and wolde not be conforted because they were not When Herode was deed beholde an angell of the LORDE appered in a dreame to Ioseph in Egypte sayinge arise and take the chylde and his mother go into y e londe of Israel For they are deed which sought the chyldes life And he arose vp and toke y e chylde and his mother came into the londe of Israel But wheÌ„ he herde that Archelaus did raygne in Iury in y e rowme of his father Herode he was afrayde to go thither Notwithstondinge after he was warned of God in a dreame he turned asyde into the parties of Galile and went and dwelt in a cite called Nazareth to fulfill y t which was spoken by the Prophetes he shal be called a Nazarite The III. Chapter IN those dayes Ihon the Baptyst came and preached in the wildernes of Iury saynge AmeÌ„de youre selues the kyngdome of heuen is at honde This is he of whom it is spokeÌ„ by y e Prophet Esay which sayeth The voyce of a cryer in y e wyldernes prepare the LORDES waye and make his pathes straight This Ihon had his garment of camels heer and a lethreÌ„ gerdell aboute his loynes Hys meate was locustes and wylde hony Then went out to hym Ierusalem and all Iury and all the region rounde aboute Iordan and were baptised of him in Iordan coÌ„fessynge their synnes Now when he sawe many of the Pharises and of y e Saduces come to hys baptim he sayde vnto them ye generacioÌ„ of vipers who hath certified you that ye shal escape y e vengeaunce to come Bewarre brynge forth due frutes of pennaunce Thinke not now to saye in your selues we haue Abraham to oure father For I saye vnto you that God is able of these stones to rayse vp chyldren vnto Abraham Euen now is the axe put vnto y e rote of the trees therfore euery tre which bringeth not forth good frute shal be heweÌ„ downe and cast into the fyre I baptise you with water to repentaunce but he that coÌ„meth after me is myghtier theÌ„ I whose shues I am not worthy to beare He shall baptise you with y e holy goost w t fyre which hath also his fan in his hond and will pourge his floore and gadre the wheet into his garner will burne y e chaffe with vnquencheable fyre Then came Iesus from Galile to Iordan vnto Ihon to be baptised of hym But IhoÌ„ forbade hym saynge I haue nede to be baptysed of the and commest thou to me Iesus answered sayd vnto hym Let it be so now For thus it becommeth vs to fulfyll all righteousnes Then he suffred hym And Iesus assone as he was baptised came straight out of the water And lo heueÌ„ was opeÌ„ ouer hym and Ihon sawe the spirite of God descende lyke a doue and lyght vpon hym And lo there came a voyce froÌ„ heueÌ„ sayng Thys ys that my beloued sonne in whom is my delyte The IIII. Chapter THen was Iesus ledd awaye of the spirite in to wildernes to be tempted of the deuyll And when he had fasted fourtye dayes and fourtye nightes he was afterward an hungred And the teÌ„pter came to him and sayde yf thou be the sonne of God commaunde that these stones be made breed He answered sayde yt is wrytteÌ„ Man shall not lyue by bred onlye but by euery worde that proceadeth out of the mouth of God Then the deuyll toke hym vp into the holy cite and set hym on a pynacle of the temple and sayde vnto hym yf thou be y e sonne of God cast thy sylfe downe For it is wrytten he shall geue his angels charge ouer the and with their handes they shal holde the vp that thouâ—dashe not thy fote agaynst a stone And Iesus sayde vnto hym it ys wrytten also Thou shalt not tempte thy LORDE God Agayne the deuyll toke hym vp and led hym into an excedynge hye mountayne and shewed hym all the kyngdomes of the worlde and all the glorie of them and sayde vnto hym all these wil I geue the yf thou wilt fall downe and worship me Then sayde Iesus vnto hym Auoyde SataÌ„ For it ys wrytteÌ„ thou shalt worshyp the LORDE thy God and hym onely shalt thou serue Then the deuell left hym and beholde the angels came and ministred vnto hym When Iesus had herde that Ihon was taken he departed into Galile and left Nazareth and went and dwelt in Capernaum which is a cite apon the see in the coostes of zabulon and Neptalim y t the thinge might be fulfilled whiche was spoken by Esay the Prophet sayinge The londe of zabulon and Neptalim the waye of the see beyonde Iordan and Galile of the Gentyls the people which sat in darknes
heauen and in earth Go ye youre waye therfore and teach all nacions and baptyse them in the name of the father and of the sonne and of the holy goost and teach them to kepe all thinges what soeuer I haue commaunded you And lo I am with you euery daye vnto the ende of the worlde The ende of the gospell of S. Mathew The gospell of S. Marke What S. Marke conteyneth Chap. I. The office of Ihon the baptist The baptyme of Christ his fastynge his preachinge and the callynge of Peter Andrew Iames and Ihon. Christ healeth the man with the vncleane sprete helpeth Peters mother in lawe and clenseth the leper Chap. II. He healeth the man of the palsye calleth Leui the customer eateth with open synners and excuseth his disciples Chap. III. He helpeth the man with the dryed hande choseth his apostles and casteth out the vncleane sprete which the Pharises ascrybe vnto the deuell The brother sister and mother of Christ. Chap. IIII. The parable of the sower Christ stilleth the tempest of the see which obeyeth him Chap. V. He delyuereth the possessed from the vncleane sprete the woman from the bloudye yssue and rayseth the captaynes doughter Chap. VI. Christ preacheth at home and is not regarded He sendeth out his disciples Ihon baptist is taken and headed Christ fedeth fyue thousande men with fyue loaues and two fiszhes He walketh vpon the see Chap. VII The Pharises are not cōtent that the disciples eate with vnwaszhen handes but Christ rebuketh thē selues for breakinge the commaundementes of God healeth the woman of Canaans daughter and maketh the domme to speake Chap. VIII He fedeth foure thousande mē with vij loaues reproueth the Pharises that are so desyrous of tokens warneth his disciples to bewarre of their leuen maketh a blynde man to see axeth his disciples what men holde of him reproueth Peter telleth his disciples of his passion and exorteth them to folowe him ▪ Chap. IX The transfiguracion of Christ which healeth the childe that was possessed of a domme sprete teacheth his disciples to be lowly and to auoyde occasions of euell Chap. X. Christ geueth his answere concernynge mariage and that it is harde for th◠rich to come in to heauē reproueth the disdayne of his disciples lerneth thē to be meke and restoreth blynde Barthimeus to his sight Chap. XI Christ rydeth in to Ierusalem dryueth the marchauntes out of the temple curseth the fyge tre and confoundeth the Pharises Chap. XII He rebuketh the synne and vnthankfulnesse of the Iewes with a goodly symilitude taketh thē in their owne disceatfull questions exorteth to bewarre of their doctryne and lyuynge and commendeth the good wyll of the poore wyddowe Chap. XIII He warneth his disciples to bewarre of false teachers and disceauers comforteh them agaynst the trouble for to come tellinge them of the horrible destruccion of Ierusalem of his commynge and ende of the worlde Chap. XIIII The Magdalene anoynteth Christ. They eate the easter lambe and the supper of the LORDE Christ is taken and brought in to Caiphas house Peter denyeth him Chap. XV. The crucifienge of Christ and how he was buried Chap. XVI The resurreccion of Christ which appeareth vnto Mary Magdalene and to his disciples whom he sendeth forth in to the worlde to preach the gospell and ascēdeth vp in to heauen himself The gospell of S. Marke The first Chapter THis is the begynnynge of the gospell of Iesus Christ the sonne of God as it is wryttē in the prophetes Beholde I sende my messaūger before thy face which shal prepare thy waye before the. The voyce of a cryer is in the wyldernes Prepare the waye of the LORDE make his pathes straight Ihon was in the wyldernes and baptysed and preached the baptyme of amendment for the remyssion of synnes And there wente out vnto him the whole londe of Iewry and they of Ierusalem and were all baptysed of him in Iordan and knowleged their synnes Ihon was clothed with Camels heer and with a lethron gerdell aboute his loynes and ate locustes and wylde hony and preached and sayde There commeth one after me which is stronger then I before whom I am not worthy to stoupe downe and to lowse vp y e lachet of his shue I baptyse you with water but he shal baptyse you with the holy goost And it happened at the same tyme that Iesus came out of Galile from Nazareth and was baptysed of Ihon in Iordan And as soone as he was come out of the water he sawe that the heauens opened and the goost as a doue cōmynge downe vpon him And there came a voyce from heauē Thou art my deare sonne in whom I delyte And immediatly the sprete droue him in to the wyldernes and he was in the wyldernes fourtye dayes and was tempted of Sathan and was with the wylde beestes And the angels mynistred vnto him But after that Ihon was taken Iesus came in to Galile and preached the gospell of the kyngdome of God and sayde the tyme is fulfylled and the kyngdome of God is at hande Amende youre selues and beleue the gospell So as he walked by the see of Galile he sawe Symon and Andrew his brother castinge their nettes in the see for they were fyszhers And Iesus sayde vnto thē Folowe me and I wil make you fyszhers of mē And immediatly they left their nettes and folowed him And when he was gone a lytle further from thence he sawe Iames the sonne of Zebede and Ihon his brother as they were in the shyppe mendynge their nettes And anone he called them And they left their father Zebede in the shyppe with the hyred seruauntes and folowed him And they wente in to Capernaum and immediatly vpon the Sabbathes he entred in to the synagoge and taught And they were astonnyed at his doctryne for he taught them as one hauynge power and not as the Scrybes And in their synagoge there was a man possessed with a foule sprete which cried and sayde Oh what haue we to do with the thou Iesus of Nazareth Art thou come to destroye us I knowe that thou art euen y t holy one of God And Iesus reproued him and sayde holde thy tonge and departe out of him And the foule sprete tare him and cried with a loude voyce and departed out of him And they were all astonnyed in so moch that they axed one another amonge thē selues sayde What is this What new lernynge is this For he cōmaundeth the foule spretes with power and they are obedient vnto him And immediatly the fame of him was noysed rounde aboute in the coastes and borders of Galile And forth with they wente out of the synagoge and came in to the house of Symō and Andrew w t Iames and Ihon. And Symons mother in lawe laye had the feuers and anone they tolde him of her And he came to her and set her vp and toke her by y e hande and the feuer
my cote haue they cast lottes This dyd the soudyers in dede There stode by the crosse of Iesus his mother and his mothers sister Mary the wife of Cleophas and Mary Magdalene Now whan Iesus sawe his mother and the disciple stondynge by whō he loued he sayde vnto his mother Woman beholde that is thy sonne Then sayde he to the disciple beholde that is thy mother And from that houre the disciple toke her vnto him After that whan Iesus knewe that all was perfourmed that the scripture might be fulfylled he sayde I am a thyrst There stode a vessell full of vyneger They fylled a sponge with vyneger and wonde it aboute with ysope and helde it to his mouth Now whan Iesus had receaued the vyneger he sayde It is fynished and bowed his heade and gaue vp the goost The Iewes then for so moch as it was the daye of preparinge that y e bodies shulde not remayne vpon the crosse on the Sabbath for y e same Sabbath daye was greate besought Pilate that their legges might be broken and that they might be taken downe Then came the soudyers and brake the legges of the first and of the other that was crucifyed with him But whan they came to Iesus and sawe that he was deed allready they brake not his legges but one of the soudyers opened his syde with a speare And immediatly there wente out bloude and water And he that sawe it bare recorde and his recorde is true And he knoweth that he sayeth true that ye might beleue also For this is done y t the scripture might be fulfylled Ye shal not breake a bone of him And agayne another scripture sayeth They shal se him whom they haue pearsed After that Ioseph of Arimathia which was a disciple of Iesus but secretly for feare of the Iewes besought Pilate y t he might take downe the body of Iesus And Pilate gaue him lycence There came also Nicodemus which afore came vnto Iesus by night brought of Myrre Aloes mingled together aboute an hūdreth poūde weight Thē toke they the body of Iesus wonde it with lynnen clothes and with the spyces as the maner of the Iewes is to burye And by y e place where Iesus was crucified there was a gardē and in the garden a new sepulchre where in was neuer man layed there layed they Iesus because of the preparinge daye of y e Iewes for the sepulcre was nye at hande The XX. Chapter VPon one daye of the Sabbath came Mary Magdalene early whē it was yet darcke vnto the sepulcre sawe that the stone was takē from the sepulcre Then ranne she came to Symon Peter and to y e other disciple whom Iesus loued and sayde vnto them They haue takē awaye the LORDE out of the sepulcre we can not tell where they haue layed him Thē wēte Peter forth and the other disciple and came to the sepulcre They rāne both together and that other disciple outrāne Peter and came first to the sepulcre and loked in and sawe the lynnen clothes layed But he wēte not in Thē came Symon Peter after him and wente in to the sepulcre sawe the lynnē clothes lye and the napkyn that was bounde aboute Iesus heade not layed with the lynnen clothes but wrapped together in a place by it self Thē wēte ī also y t other disciple which came first to y e sepulcre he sawe beleued for as yet they knewe not y e scriptures y t it behoued hī to ryse agayne frō y e deed Thē wēte y e disciples againe together As for Mary she stode before y e sepulcre wepte without Now as she wepte ▪ she loked in to the sepulcre and sawe two angels in whyte garmentes syttinge y e one at the heade the other at y e fete where they had layed the body of Iesus And they sayde vnto her Womā why wepest thou She saide vnto thē They haue taken awaye my LORDE I wote not where they haue layed hī And whan she had sayde y t she turned her self backe sawe Iesus stondinge knewe not y t it was Iesus Iesus sayde vnto her Woman why wepest thou Whom sekest thou She thought y t it had bene y e gardener sayde vnto him Syr yf thou hast borne him hence then tell me where thou hast layed him and I wil fetch hī Iesus sayde vnto her Mary Then turned she her aboute sayde vnto him Rabboni y t is to saye Master Iesus sayde vnto her Touche me not for I am not yet ascended vnto my father But go thou y e waye vnto my brethrē saye vnto thē I ascēde vp vnto my father and yo father to my God yo God Mary Magdalene came tolde y e disciples I haue sene the LORDE soch thinges hath he spoken vnto me The same Sabbath at euē whā y e disciples were gathered together and the dores were shut for feare of y e Iewes came Iesus and stode ī y r myddes sayde vnto thē Peace be w t you And whā he had so sayde he shewed thē his hādes his syde Thē were y e disciples glad y t they sawe y e LORDE Thē sayde Iesus vnto thē agayne Peace be with you Like as my father sent me euē so sēde I you And whan he had sayde y t he brethed vpō thē and sayde vnto thē Receaue the holy goost Whose synnes soeuer ye remytte they are remytted vnto thē and whose synnes so euer ye retayne they are retayned But Thomas one of the twolue which is called Didimus was not w t thē whā Iesus came Thē sayde the other disciples vnto him We haue sene the LORDE But he sayde vnto thē Excepte I se in his handes the prynte of the nales and put my hāde in to his syde I wil not beleue And after eight dayes agayne were his disciples with in Thomas w t thē Thē came Iesus whā y e dores were shutt stode in the myddes sayde Peace be w t you After y t sayde he vnto Thomas Reach hither y i fynger and se my handes and reach hither y i hāde put it ī to my syde be not faithlesse but beleue Thomas answered sayde vnto him My LORDE and my God Iesus sayde vnto him Thomas because thou hast sene me thou hast beleued Blessed are they that se not and yet beleue Many other tokēs dyd Iesus before his disciples which are not wryttē in this boke But these are wryttē y t ye shulde beleue y t Iesus is Christ the sonne of God that ye thorow beleue might haue life in his name The XXI Chapter AFter that shewed Iesus himself agayne at the see of Tiberias But on this wyse shewed he himself There were together Symō Peter Thomas which is called Didimus Nathanael of Cana a cite of Galile the sonnes of Zebede two other of his disciples
his mouth water after the womā as it had bene a ryuer that he might cause her to be caught of y e floud And the earth holpe the woman and the earth opened her mouth and swalowed vp the ryuer which the dragon cast out of his mouth And the dragon was wroth with the womā and went and made warre with the remnaunt of hyr sede which kepe the cōmaundementes of God and haue the testimony of Iesus Christ. And I stode on the see sonde The XIII Chapter ANd I sawe a beest rise out of the see hauinge seuen heades and x. hornes and vpon his hornes x. crownes and vpō his heed the names of blasphemy And the beest which I sawe was lyke a catt of the mountayne and his fete were as the fete of a bear and his mouth as the mouthe of a lyon And y e dragō gaue him his power and his seate and greate auctorite and I sawe one of his heades as it were wounded to death and his dedly wounde was healed And all the worlde wōdred at the beest and they worshipped the dragon which gaue power vnto the beest and they worshipped the beest sayenge who is like vnto the beest who is able to warre with him And there was geuen vnto him a mouth to speake greate thinges blasphemies and power was geuen vnto him to do xlij monethes And he opened his mouth vnto blasphemy agaynst God to blaspheme his name and his tabernacle and them that dwell in heauen And it was geuen vnto him to make warre with the sayntes and to ouercome them And power was geuen him ouer all kynred tonge and nacion and all that dwell vpon the earth worshipt him whose names are not wrytten in the boke of life of the lambe which was kylled from the beginnynge of the worlde Yf eny man haue an eare let him heare He that leadeth in to captiuite shal go in to captiuite he that killeth with a swearde must be killed with y e swearde Heare is the pacience and the faith of the saynctes And I behelde another beest commynge vp out of the earth and he had two hornes like a lambe and he spake as dyd the dragō And he dyd all that the first beest coulde do in his presence and he caused the earth and them which dwell therin to worshippe the fyrst beest whose deedly woūde was healed And he dyd greate wonders so that he made fyre come downe from heauē in the sight of men And deceaued them that dwelt on the earth by y e meanes of those signes which he had power to do in the sight of the beest sayenge to them that dwelt on the earth that they shulde make an ymage vnto the beest which had the wounde of a swearde and dyd liue And he had power to geue a sprete vnto the ymage of the beest and that the ymage of the beest shulde speake and shulde cause that as many as wolde not worshippe the ymage of the beest shulde be kylled And he made all bothe smale and greate ryche and poore fre and bond to receaue a marke in their right hondes or in their forheades And that noman might by or sell saue he y t had y e marke or the name of the beest ether the nombre of his name Here is wiszdome Let him that hath wyt count the nombre of the beest For it is the nombre of a man and his nombre is sixe hondred thre score and sixe The XIIII Chapter ANd I loked and lo a lambe stode on the moūt Syon and with him C. and xliiij thousande hauynge his fathers name wrytten in their forheades And I herde a voyce from heauen as the sounde of many waters and as the voyce of a greate thondre And the voyce that I herde was as the harpers that playe vpon their harpers And they songe as it were a newe songe before the seate before y e foure beestes and the elders and no man coulde learne y t songe but the hondred and xliiij M. which were redemed from the earth These are they which were not defyled with wemen for they are virgyns These folowe the lambe whither soeuer he goeth These were redemed from men beynge the fyrst frutes vnto God and to the lambe and in their mouthes was founde no gyle For they are withoutē spot before the trone of God And I sawe an angell flye in the myddes of heauen hauinge an euerlastinge Gospell to preache vnto them that syt and dwell on the earth and to all nacions kinreddes and tōges and people sayēge with a lowde voyce Feare God and geue honour to him for the houre of his iudgement is come and worshippe him that made heauen and earth and the see and the fountaynes off water And there folowed another angell sayenge She is fallen she is fallen euē Babilon that greate cite for she made all nacions drynke off the wyne off hyr whordome And the thyrde angel folowed thē sayenge with a loude voyce Yf eny man worshippe the beest and his ymage and receaue his marke in his forhed or on his honde the same shall drynke of the wyne of the wrath of God which is powred in the cuppe of his wrath And he shal be punyszhed in fyre and brymstone before the holy Angels and before the lambe And the smoke of their torment ascendeth vp euermore And they haue no res◠daye ner nyght which worshippe the beast and his ymage and whosoeuer receaueth the prynt of his name Here is the pacience of sayntes Heare are they that kepe the commaundementes and the faith off Iesu. And I herde a voyce from heauen sayenge vnto me wryte Blessed are y e deed which here after dye in the LORDE Yee the sprete sayeth that they rest from their laboures for their workes folowe them And I loked and beholde a whyte cloude and vpō y e cloude one syttynge like vnto the sonne of man hauinge on his heed a golden crowne and in his hōde a sharpe sykle And another angell came out of the temple cryenge with a loude voyce to him that sat on the cloude Thruste in thy sycle and reepe for the tyme is come to reepe for the corne of the earth is rype And he that sat on y e cloude thrust in his sykle on the earth and the earth was reeped And another angell came out of the temple which is in heauen hauinge also a sharpe sykle And another angel came out from the aultre which had power ouer fyre and cryed with a loude crye vnto hym that had the sharpe syckle and sayde Thruste in thy sharpe syckle and gather the clusters of y e earth for hir grapes are rype And the angell thrust in his syckle on the erthe and cut downe the grapes of the vynyarde of the earth and cast them in to the greate wynefat of y e wrath of God the wynefat was trodden without the cite and bloude came out of the fat euen vnto the
thou sawest where y e whore sytteth are people and folke and nacions and tonges And the ten hornes which thou sawest vpon the beest are they that shal hate the whore and shal make her desolate and naked and shall eate hir fleszhe and burne her with fyre For God hath put in their hertes to fulfill his wyll and to do with one consent for to geue hir kyngdome vnto the beest vntill the wordes of God be fulfylled And the womā which thou sawest is that greate cite which raigneth ouer the kynges of the earth The XVIII Chapter ANd after that I sawe another angel come downe frō heauē hauinge greate power and y e earth was lyghtned with his bryghtnes And he cryed mightely with a stronge voyce sayenge She is fallen she is fallen euen greate Babilon and is become the habitacion of deuels and y e holde of all fowle spretes and a cage of all vncleane and hatefull byrdes for all naciōs haue dronken of the wyne of the wrath of her whordome And the kynges of the earth haue committed fornicacion with her and her marchauntes are wexed ryche of the abundaunce of her pleasures And I herde another voyce from heauen saye come awaye from her my people that ye be not partakers of her synnes lest ye receaue of her plages For her synnes are gone vp to heauen and the LORDE hath remembred her wyckednes Rewarde her euen as she rewarded you and geue her dubble acordinge to her workes And poure in dubble to her in the same cuppe which she fylled vnto you And as moche as she gloryfied her selfe and lyued wantanly so moch poure ye in for her of punyszhmēt and sorowe for she sayeth in her herte I syt beinge a quene and am no wyddowe and shall se no sorowe Therfore shal her plages come at one daye death and sorowe and honger and she shal be brēt with fyre for stronge is the LORDE God which shal iudge her And the kynges of the earth shal bewepe her and wayle ouer her which haue committed fornicacion and lyued wantanly with her when they shal se the smoke of her burnynge and shal stonde a farre of for feare of her punyszhment sayenge Alas Alas that greate cite Babylon that mighty cite For at one houre is thy iudgment come And the marchauntes off the earth shall wepe and wayle in them selues because no man will bye their ware eny more the ware of golde and syluer and of precious stones off pearle sylke and purple and skarlet all Thynen wod and all manner vessels of yuery and all manner vessels of most precious wod and of brasse and of yron synomom and odours and oyntmentes and frank ynsence and wyne and oyle and fyne floure and wheate and catell and shepe and horses and charrettes and bodies and soules of men And the apples that thy soule lusted after are departed from the. And all thinges which were deyntie and had in pryce are departed from the and thou shalt fynde them no more The marchauntes of these thinges which were wexed ryche by her shall stonde afarre of for feare of the punyszhment of her wepynge and waylinge and sayenge alas alas that greate cite that was clothed in sylke and purple and scarlet and decked with golde and precious stone and pearles for at one houre so greate ryches is come to naught And euery shippe gouerner and all they that occupie shippes and shippmen which worke in the see stode a farre of and cryed when they sawe the smoke of her burnynge and sayde what cite is like vnto this greate cite And they cast dust on their heades and cryed wepynge and waylinge and sayde Alas Alas the greate cite wher in were made ryche all that had shippes in the see by the reason of her wares for at one houre is she made desolate Reioyce ouer her thou heauē and ye holy Apostles and prophetes for God hath geuen youre iudgmēt on her And a mighty angell toke vp a greate stone lyke a mylstone and cast it in to the see sayenge with suche violēce shal that greate cite Babylon be cast and shal be founde nomore And the voyce of harpers and musicions and of pypers and trompetters shal be herde no more in the and no craftes man of what soeuer craft he be shal be founde eny more in the and the sounde of a myll shal be herde no more in the and the voyce of the brydegrome and of the bryde shal be herde nomore in the for thy marchauntes were prynces of the earth And with thyne inchaūtment were deceaued all nacions and in her was founde the bloude of the prophetes and of the sayntes and of all that were slayne vpō the earth The XIX Chapter ANd after that I herde the voyce of moch people in heauen sayenge Alleluia Saluacion and glory and honour and power be ascribed to the LORDE o r God for true and righteous are his iudgmentes because he hath iudged the greate whore which did corrupt y e earth with her fornicacion and hath auenged the bloud of his seruaūtes of her hond And agayne they sayde Alleluia And smoke rose vp for euermore And y e xxiiij elders the foure beestes fell downe and worshipped God that sat on the seate sayenge Amen Alleluia And a voice came out of the seate sayenge prayse o r LORDE God all ye that are his seruaūtes 〈◊〉 that feare him both small and greate And I herde the voyce of moch people 〈◊〉 y e voyce of many waters as y e voyce of stronge thondrynges sayenge Alleluia for God omnipotent raigneth Let vs be glad and reioyce and geue honour to him for the mariage of the lābe is come and his wife made her selfe ready And to her was graunted that she shulde be arayed with pure and goodly sylke As for the sylke it is the rightewesnes of sayntes And he sayde vnto me Blessed are they which are called vnto the Lambes supper And he sayde vnto me these are the true sayenges of God And I fell at his fete to worshippe him And he sayde vnto me Se thou do it not For I am thy felowe seruaunt and one of thy brethren and of them that haue the testimony of Iesus Worshippe God For the testimony of Iesus is y e sprete of prophesy And I sawe heauē open beholde a whyte horss◠and he y t sat vpon him was called 〈◊〉 and true in rightewesnes dyd 〈…〉 make battayle His eyes were 〈…〉 fyre and on his heade were 〈…〉 he had a name wrytten 〈…〉 but him selfe And he was 〈…〉 vesture dipt in bloude and his name is called y e worde of God And y e warriers which were in heauen folowed him vpon whyte horsses clothed with whyte and pure sylke and out of his mouthe wante a sharppe swerde that with it he shulde smyte the Heithen And he shall rule them with a rodde of yron and he trode the wynefatte of the fearcenesse
dryenge place for nettes and shalt neuer be buylded agayne For eueÌ„ I y e LORDE haue spoken it sayeth the LORDE God thus hath the LORDE God spoken concernynge Tyre The Iles shall be moued at the noyse off thy fall at the crie of the slayne y t shal be murthured in the. All kynges off the see shall come downe from their seates regall they shal laye awaye their roabes and put off their costly clothinge Yee with tremblinge shal they be clothed they shall syt vpoÌ„ the grounde they shal be afrayed at thy sodane fall and be abasshed at the. They shal mourne for the and saye vnto the O thou noble cite y t hast bene so greatly occupyed off olde thou that hast bene the strongest vpon the see w t thine inhabitours off whom all men stode in feare How art thou now so vtterly destroyed Now at the tyme off thy fall the inhabitours off the Iles yee and the Iles them selues shall stonde in feare at thine ende For thus sayeth the LORDE God when I make the a desolate cite as other cities be that no man dwell in and when I brynge the depe vpon the y t greate waters maye couer the Then will I cast the downe vnto them that descende in to y e pytte vnto a people that hath bene loÌ„ge deed and set the in a londe y t is beneth like the olde wyldernes with them which go downe to their graues so y t no maÌ„ shal dwell more in the. And I wil make the to be no more in hono r in the loÌ„de of the lyuynge I wil make an ende off the aÌ„d thou shalt be gone Though thou be sought for yet shalt thou not be founde for euermore saieth y e LORDE God The XXVII Chapter THe worde off the LORDE came vnto me sayenge O thou soâ—ane off maÌ„ make a lamentable coÌ„playnte vpon Tyre saye vnto Tyre which is a porte off the see y t occupieth with moch people and many Iles thus speaketh y e LORDE God O Tyre thou hast sayde what I am a noble cite thy borders are in the myddest of the see and thy buylders haue made the maruelous goodly All y i tables haue they made of Cipâ—e trees of the mount Senir FroÌ„ Libanus haue they takeÌ„ Cedre trees to make the mastes the Okes of Basan to make the rowers Thy boordes haue they made of yuery of costly wod out of the I le of Cethim Thy sale was of whyte small nedle worke out off the londe of Egipte to haÌ„ge vpoÌ„ thy mast thy hanginges of yalow sylcke purple out of y e Iles of Elisa They of SidoÌ„ Arnad were thy maryners the wysest in Tyre were thy shypmasters The eldest and wysest at Gebal were they that mended stopped thy shippes All shippes off the see with their shipmeÌ„ occupied their marchaundies in the. The Perses Lydians and Lybians were in thyne hoost and helped the to fight these hanged vp their shildes helmettes with the â–ª these set forth thy beuty They off Arnad were with thine hoost rouÌ„de aboute thy walles were thy watchmen vpon thy towres these hanged vp their shildes rouÌ„de aboute thy walles and made the maruelous goodly Tharsis occupide with the in all maner of wares in syluer yron tynne and lead and made thy market greate Iauan Tubal and Mesech were thy marchauntes which brought the men ornamentes off metall for thy occupyenge They off the house of Thogarma brought vnto the at the tyme off thy Marte horse horsmen and mules They off Dedan were thy marchauÌ„tes and many other Iles that occupyed with the brought the wethers elephaÌ„t bones and Paycockes for a present The Sirians occupied with the because of thy dyuerse workes and increased thy marchaundies with Smaragdes with scarlet with nedle worke w t whyte lynninge cloth with sylcke and with Christall Iuda and the londe off Israel occupide with the and brought vnto thy markettes wheate balme hony oyle triacle Damascus also vsed marchauÌ„dies with the in the best wyne and whyte woll because thy occupienge was so greate and thy wares so many Dan Iauan and Meusal haue brought vnto thy markettes yron redy made with Casia and Calamus acordinge to thyne-occupienge Dedan occupied with the infayre tapestry worke and quyszhyns Arabia all the princes off Cedar haue occupied w t the in shepe wethers and goates The marchauntes off Seba and Rema haue occupied also with the in all costly spices in all precious stones and golde which they brought vnto thy marckettes Haran Chene and Eden the marchauntes off Saba Assiria and Chelmad were all doers with y e and occupied with the In costly rayment off yalow sylke and nedle worke very precious therfore packte bouÌ„de together w t roapes Yee and in Cedâ—e wodde at the tyme off y e marckettes The shippes of Tharsis were the chefe off thy occupienge Thus thou art full and in greate worshipe euen in the myddest off the see Thy maryners were euer brynginge vnto the out of many waters But y e easte wynde shal ouerbeare the in to the myddest off the see so y t thy wares thy marchauÌ„dies thy ryches thy maryners thy shipmasters thy helpers thy occupiers that brought the thinges necessary the men off warre that are in the yee and all thy comons shall perish in the myddest off the see in the daye off thy fall The suburbes shall shake at the loude crie-off thy shippmen All whirry men and all maryners vpoÌ„ the see shall leape out of their bootes and set them selues vpon the loÌ„de They shal lift vp their voyce because off the and make a lamentable crye They shall cast dust vpon their heades aÌ„d lye downe in the asshes They shal shaue them selues put sacke cloth vpon them for thy sake They shall mourne for the with hertfull sorow and heuy lamentacion yee their children also shall wepe forthe Alas what cite hath so bene destroyed in the see as Tyre is When thy wares marchaundies came froÌ„ the sees thou gauest all people ynough The kynges off the earth hast thou made rich thorow the multitude off thy wares and occupienge But now art thou cast downe is to the depe of the see all thy resorte of people is perished with the. All they that dwell in the Iles are abasshed at the and all their kynges are afrayed yee their faces haue chaunged coloure The marchauntes of the nacions wondre at the In that thou art so clene brought to naught coÌ„mest nomore vp The XXVIII Chapter THe worde of the LORDE came vnto me sayenge Thou sonne of man tell the prynce of Tyre Thus saieth the LORDE God because thou hast a proude hert and hast sayde I am a God I haue my seate in the myddest off the see like a god where as thou art but a man not God yet stondest in thine owne coÌ„ceate that thou art God Beholde thou thynkest thy selfe wyser then Daniel that