prepared agaynst the tyme of trouble agaynst the tyme of batell warre By what waye is the light parted the heate dealt out vpon earth Who deuydeth the abundauÌce of waters in to ryuers or who maketh a waye for the stormy wether y t it watereth moystureth y e drye baren grounde to make the grasse growe in places where no body dwelleth in the wildernes where no maÌ remayneth Who is the father of rayne Or who hath begotten the droppes of dew Out of whose woÌbe came the yse who hath gendred the coldnes of y e ayre y t the waters are as harde as stones lye congeeled aboue the depe Hast thou brought y e vij starres together Or art thou able to breake the Circle of heaueÌ CaÌst thou bringe forth the mornynge starre or the euenynge starre at coÌuenient tyme coÌueye theÌ home agayne Knowest thou the course off heaueÌ y t thou mayest set vp the ordinaunce therof vpoÌ earth Morouer caÌst thou lift vp thy voyce to y e cloudes y t they maye poure downe a greate rayne vpoÌ the Canst thou thoÌdre also y t they maye go their waye be obedieÌt vnto the sayeÌge lo here are we Who geueth sure wisdome or stedfast vnderstoÌdinge who nombreth the cloudes in wisdome who stilleth y e vehement waters of the heaueÌ who turneth the clottes to dust theÌ to be clottes agayne Huntest thou the praye froÌ the Lyon or fedest thou his whelpes lyeÌge in their deÌnes lurkinge in their couches who prouydeth meate for the rauen wheÌ his yonge ones crie vnto God aÌd fle aboute for want of meate Chap. XXXIX KNowest thou the tyme when the wilde gotes briÌge forth their yoÌge amoÌge the stony rockes Or layest thou wayte when the hindes vse to fawne Rekenest thou the moneth as after they ingendre y t thou knowest the tyme of their bearinge Or when they lye downe when they cast their yonge ones when they are delyuered off their trauayle payne How their yoÌge ones growe vp waxe greate thorow good fedinge who letteth the wilde asse go fre or who lowseth the boÌdes of the Moole Vnto whoÌ I haue geuen the wyldernes to be their house the vntilled londe to be their dwellinge place That they maye geue no force for the multitude off people in the cities nether to regarde the crienge of the dryuer but to seke their pasture aboute the mouÌtaynes to folowe vpon the grene grasse Wyll the vnicorne be so tame as to do y e seruyce or to abyde still by thy criâbe CaÌst thou bynde y e yock aboute him in thy forowes to make him plowe after the in y e valleis Mayest thou trust hiÌ because he is stroÌge or coÌmitte thy labo r vnto hiÌ Mayest thou beleue hiÌ y t he wil briÌge home y e corne or to cary eny thinge vnto y e barne The Estrich whose fethers are fayrer theÌ y e wynges of the sparow hauke wheÌ he hath layed his egges vpon the grounde he bredeth them in the dust and forgetteth them so that they might be troden with fete or broken with somme wilde beast So harde is he vnto his yong ones as though they were not his and laboureth in vayne without eny feare And that because God hath taken wisdome from him hath not geuen him vnderstondinge When his tyme is he flyeth vp an hye and careth nether for horse ner man Hast thou geuen the horse is strength or lerned him to bowe downe his neck with feare that he letteth him self be dryuen forth like a greshopper where as the stoute neyenge that he maketh is fearfull he breaketh y e grounde with the hoffes of his fete chearfully in his strength and runneth to mete the harnest men He layeth asyde all feare his stomack is not abated nether starteth he a back for eny swerde Though the quyuers rattle vpon him though the speare and shilde glistre yet russheth he in fearsly and beateth vpon the grounde He feareth not the noyse of the trompettes but as soone as he heareth the shawmes blowe tush sayeth he for he smelleth the batell afarre of y e noyse the captaynes and the shoutinge Commeth it thorow thy wysdome that the goshauke flyeth towarde the south Doth the Aegle mounte vp make his nest on hye at thy commaundement He abydeth in the stony rockes aÌd vpon the hye toppes of harde mountaynes where no man can come From thence maye he beholde his praye and loke farre aboute with his eyes His yonge ones are fed with bloude and where eny deed body lyeth there is he immediatly Morouer God spake vnto Iob and sayde Can he that stryueth with the Allmightie be at rest Shulde not he which disputeth with God geue him an answere Iob answered the LORDE sayenge Beholde I am to vyle a personne to answere the therfore will I laye my hande vpon my mouth Once or twyse haue I spoken but I will saye nomore The XL. Chapter THen spake the LORDE vnto Iob out of the storme and sayde gyrde vp y e loynes like a man and tell me the thiÌge that I will axe the. Wilt thou disanulle my iudgment Or wilt thou condemne me y t thou thy self mayest be made rightuous Is thine arme then like the arme of God Maketh thy voyce soch a souÌde as his doth Then arme thy self with thine owne power vp decke the in thy ioly araye poure out the indignacion of thy wrath se that thou cast downe all y e proude loke well that thou makest all soch as be stubburne to obeye treade all the vngodly vnder thy fete cast theÌ downe in to the myre and couer their faces with darcknesse Then will I confesse also that thyne owne right honde hath saued the. Beholde the cruell beaste whom I made w t the which eateth haye as an oxe lo how stronge he is in his loynes and what power he hath in the nauell of his body He spredeth out his tale like a Cedre tre all his vaynes are stiff His shynnes are like pipes off brasse his rygge bones are like staues of yroÌ First when God made him he ordened the wyldernesse for him y t the mountaynes shulde geue him grasse where all the beastes off the felde take their pastyme He lyeth amoÌge the redes in the Mosses the fennes hyde him with their shadowe and the wylowes of the broke couer him rounde aboute Lo without eny laboure might he drynke out the whole floude and suppe off Iordane without eny trauayle Who darre laye honde vpon him openly and vndertake to catch him Or who darre put an hoke thorow his nose aÌd laye a snare for him Darrest thou drawe out Leuiathan with an angle or bynde his tonge with a snare Canst thou put a rynge in the nose of him or bore his chaftes thorow with a naule Wyll he make many fayre wordes with the thynkest thou or flatre the Wyll he make a couenaunt with the Or art thou able
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 huÌdreth 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 coÌmaunded 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 weÌte 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 vpoÌ 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 commauÌded 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 heaueÌ 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 heaueÌ 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 weÌte 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 vpoÌ the earth Then sent he forth a doue from him to wete whether the waters were falleÌ 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 breÌâ 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 maÌs sake for the ymaginacion of mans hert is euell euen from the very youth of him Therfore from heÌce forth I wil nomore smyte all that lyueth as I haue done Nether shall sowynge tyme and haruest colde ãâã heate Sommer and wynter daye and ãâã ceasse so longe as the earth endureâ ⪠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 haÌdes All that moueth and hath life be youre meate Euen as the grene herbe so haue I geueÌ 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 maÌ wyll I requyre of mans hande yeâ euery mans soule of anothers hande He that sheddeth maÌs 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
and laboure to come before Tyre that euery heade maye be balde and euery shulder bare Yet hath Tyre geuen nether him ner his hoost eny rewarde for y e greate trauayle y t he hath taken there Therfore thus saieth y e LORDE God beholde I wil geue the loÌde of Egipte vnto Nabuchodonosor the kynge off BabiloÌ y t he maye take awaye all hir substauÌce robbe hir robberies aÌd spoyle hir spoyles to paye his hoost their wagies withall I wil geue him the londe of Egipte for his laboure that he toke for me before Tyre At the same tyme wil I cause the horne off the house of Israel to growe forth open thy mouth agayne amonge them that they maye knowe how that I am the LORDE The XXX Chapter MOrouer the worde off the LORDE came vnto me sayenge Thou sonne of man prophecy speake thus saieth the LORDE God Mourne wo worth this daye for the daye is here the daye of y e LORDE is come the darcke daye of y e HeitheÌ the houre is at honde the swearde commeth vpon Egipte When the wounded men fall downe in Egipte when hir people are taken awaye and when hir foundacioÌs are destroyed the Morians londe shal be afrayed yee the Morians londe Lybia Lydia all their comon people Chub all y t be confederate vnto theÌ shal fall w t theÌ thorow y e swearde Thus saieth y e LORDE The maynteyners of the loÌde of Egipte shal fall the pryde of hir power shal come downe eueÌ vnto the tower off Syenes shall they be slayne downe w t the swearde saieth y e LORDE God amonge other desolate countrees they shal be made desolate amoÌge other waist cities they shal be waisted And they shal knowe y t I am y e LORDE when I kyndle a fyre in Egipte when all hir helpers are destroyed At that tyme shal there messaungers go forth frome in shippes to make y e carelesse Morians afrayed and sorowe shal come vpon them in the daye of Egipte for doutles it shal come Thus saieth the LORDE God I wil make an ende of the people of Egipte thorow the honde of Nabuchodonosor kynge of Babilon He and his people with him yee and the cruell tyrauntes of the Heithen shal be brought to destroye the londe They shal drawe out their sweardes vpon Egipte and fyll the londe full of slayne men I will drye vp their floudes of water aÌd sell the loÌde in to the hondes of wicked people The loÌde and all y t is therin wil I destroye thorow the enemies EueÌ I the LORDE haue sayde it And thus saieth the LORDE God I will destroye the Idols and brynge the ymages of Noph to an ende There shal nomore be a prynce of Egypte and a fearfulnesse will I sende in to the Egipcians londe As for Pathures I wil make it desolate aÌd kyndle a fyre in Zoan Alexandria will I punysh poure my wroth full indignacioÌ vpoÌ Sin which is the strength of Egipte All the sustaunce of Alexandria will I destroye and kyndle a fyre in Egipte Sin shal be in greate heuynesse Alexandria shal be roted out and Noph shall haue daylie sorowe The best men off Heliopolis Bubasto shal be slayne with the swearde aÌd caried awaye captyue At Taphnis the daye shal be darke when I breake there the scepter of the londe of Egipte and when y e pompe of hir pow r shal haue an ende A clonde shal couer her and hir doughters shal be led a waye in to captyuyte Thus will I punysh Egipte that they maye knowe how that I am the LORDE It happened in the xi yeare vpon the seueÌth daye of y e first Moneth y t the LORDES worde came vnto me sayeÌge Beholde thou sonne of maÌ I wil breake y e arme of Pharao kynge of Egipte and lo it shal not be bouÌde vp to be healed nether shal eny playsâre be layed vpon it for to ease it or to make it so stroÌge as to holde a swearde Therfore thus saieth the LORDE God beholde I will vpon Pharao y e kinge of Egipte brusse his stroÌge arme yet is it but a broken one will smyte the swearde out of his honde As for the Egipcians I wil scatre them amonge the Heithen strowe theÌ in the londes aboute Agayne I wil strength y e arme of the kinge of BabiloÌ geue him my swearde in his hoÌde but I wil breake Pharaos arme so y t he shal holde it before him piteously like a wounded man Yee I will stablish the kynge of BabiloÌs arme the armes of Pharao shal fall downe that it maye be knowne that I am the LORDE which geue the kynge off Babilon my swearde in his hoÌde that he maye drawe it out vpon the londe of Egipte and that when I scatre the Egipcians amonge the Gentiles and strowe them in y e loÌdes aboute they maye knowe y t I am the LORDE The XXXI Chapter MOrouer it happened in the xi yeare y e first daye of the thirde Moneth that the worde of the LORDE came vnto me sayenge Thou sonne of man speake vnto Pharao the kynge of Egipte aÌd to all his people Whom art thou like in y t greatnesse Beholde Assur was like a Cedre tre vpoÌ the mount of Libanus with fayre brauÌches so thicke that he gaue shadowes and shot out very hye His toppe reached vnto the cloudes The waters made him greate and the depe set him vp an hye RouÌde aboute the rotes of him raÌne there floudes of water he sent out his litle ryuers vnto all the trees of the felde Therfore was he hyer thoÌ all the trees of the felde and thorow y e multitude of waters that he sent froÌ him he optayned many and longe braunches All foules of the ayre made their nestes in his brauÌches vnder his bowes geÌdred all the beastes of y e felde vnder his shadow dwelt all people Fayre and beutifull was he in his greatnesse and in the length of his braunches for his rote stode besyde greate waters no Cedretre might hyde him In the pleasauÌt garden of God there was no Fyrre tre like his brauÌches the playne trees were not like y e bowes of him All the trees in the garden off God might not be coÌpared vnto him in his beuty so fayre and goodly had I made him with the multitude of his braunches In so moch y t all the trees in the pleasauÌt gardeÌ of God had envye at hiÌ Therfore thus saieth the LORDE God For so moch as he hath lift vp himself so hie stretched his toppe in to the cloudes seinge his hert is proude in his highnesse I wil delyuer him in to y e hondes of y e mightiest amoÌge y e HeitheÌ which shall rote him out AcordiÌge to his wickednes will I cast him awaye the enemies shal destroye him the mighty men of the Heithen shall so scatre him that his braunches shal lye vpon all
hert hath takeÌ to moch vpon it in this worlde and thou thinkest to comprehende the waye of the Hyest Then sayde I yee my lorde And he answered me and sayde I am sent to shewe the thre wayes and to sett forth thre symilitudes before the wherof yf thou canst declare me one I wil shewe the also the waye that thou desyrest to se and I shal shewe the from wheÌce the wicked hert commeth And I sayde tell on my LORDE Then sayde he vnto me Go thy waye weye me the weight of the fyre or measure me the blast of the wynde or call me agayne the daye that is past Then answered I and sayde What man borne is able to do that Why requyrest thou soch of me And he sayde vnto me Yf I shulde axe the how depe dwellinges are in the see Or how greate water springes are vpon y e firmameÌt Or how greate water sprynges are in the begynnynge of the depe Or which are the out goinges of Paradise PeradueÌture thou woldest saye vnto me I neuer wente downe yet in to y e depe ner hell nether dyd I euer clymme vp in to heauen Neuertheles now haue I axed the but onely of fyre and wynde and of the daye where thorow thou hast trauayled and from the which thou canst not be separated and yet canst thou geue me no answere of them He sayde morouer vnto me Thine owne thinges and soch as are growne vp with y e canst thou not knowe how shulde thy vessel then be able to coÌprehende the waye of the Hyest and now outwardly in the corrupte worlde to vnderstoÌde the corrupcion y t is euydent in my sight TheÌ sayde I vnto him It were better that we were not at all theÌ that we shulde lyue in wickednesse and to suffre and not to knowe wherfore He answered me and sayde I weÌte in a wod and the trees toke soch a deuyce and sayde Come let vs go and fight agaynst the see that it maye departe awaye before vs and that we maye make vs yet more woddes The floudes of the see also in lyke maner toke this deuyce and sayde Come let vs go vp and fight agaynst the trees of the wodd that we maye make oure londe the wyder The thought and deuyce of the wodd was but vayne and nothinge worth for the fyre came and consumed the wod The thought of the floudes of the see came likewyse to naught also for the sonde stode vp and stopped them Yf thou were iudge now betwyxte these two whom woldest thou iustifie or whom woldest thou coÌdemne I answered and sayde Verely it is a foolish thought that they both haue deuysed For the grounde is geuen vnto the wod and the see also hath his place to beare his floudes Then answered he me sayde Thou hast geuen a right iudgment why iudgest thou not thy self also For like as the grounde is geuen vnto the wod and the see to his floudes euen so they that dwell vpon earth maye vnderstonde nothinge but that which is vpon earth and he that dwelleth aboue the heauens maye onely vnderstoÌde the thinges that are aboue the heauens Then answered I and sayde I beseke the O LORDE let me haue vnderstondinge for it was not my mynde to be curious of thy hye thinges but of soch as we daylie medle with all namely wherfore that Israelis blasphemed of the Heithen and for what cause the people whom thou euer hast loued is geuen ouer to be punyshed of vngodly nacioÌs and why the lawe of oure fathers is brought to naught and the wrytten couenauntes come to none effecte and we passe awaye out of the worlde as the greshopers and oure life is a very feare and we are not worthy to optayne mercy What wyl he do then vnto his name which is called vpon ouer vs Of these thinges haue I axed question Then answered he me and sayde The more thou searchest the more thou shalt maruel for the worlde hasteth fast to passe awaye and can not comprehende the thinges that are promysed for the righteous in tyme to come for this worlde is full of vnrighteousnes and weaknes But as concernynge the thinges wherof thou axest me I wyl tell the. The euell is sowne but the destruccion therof is not yet come Yf the euell now that is sowne be not turned vpsyde downe and yf the place where y e euell is sowne passe not awaye then can not the thinge come y t is sowne with y e good For the corne of euell sede hath bene sowne in the hert of man from the begynnynge and how moch vngodlynes hath he brought vp vnto this tyme and how moch shal he yet brynge forth vntyll he come in to the barne Pondre now by thyself whaÌ y e corne of euell sede is cutt downe how greate a barne shal it fyll I answered and sayde How and whaÌ shal these thinges come to passe Wherfore are o yeares few euell And he answered me sayeÌge Haist not thou to moch vpon the Hyest for thy haistynes to be aboue him is but in vayne thou makest to moch a doo Dyd not y e soules also of the righteous axe question of these thinges in their holynes sayenge How longe shal I hope of this fashion Whan commeth the frute of my barne and my rewarde And vpoÌ this Ieremiel the archangel gaue them answere and sayde EueÌ whan the nombre of the sedes is fylled in you for he hath weyed the worlde in the balaunce in measure and nombre hath he measured the tyme and moueth it not vntyll the same measure be fulfylled Then answered I and sayde O LORDE LORDE now are we all full of synne and for oure sake peraduenture it is not that the barne of the righteous shall not be fylled because of the synnes of theÌ that dwell vpon earth So he answered me sayde Go y t waye to a woman with childe and axe her when she hath fulfilled hir ix monethes yf hir childeszbed maye kepe y e byrth eny loÌger within her TheÌ sayde I No LORDE that can she not And he sayde vnto me In hell the secrete places of soules are like y e preuy chamber of a woman For like as a woman that trauayleth maketh haist whan the tyme necessite of the byrth is at hande EueÌ so doth she haist to delyuer it that is commytted vnto her Loke what thou desyrest to se it shal be shewed the from the begynnynge Then answered I and sayde Yf I haue founde fauoure in thy sight and yf it be possible and yf I be mete therfore shewe me then whether there be more to come theÌ is past or more past then is for to come What is past I knowe but what is for to come I knowe not And he saide vnto me Stonde vp vpoÌ y e right syde and I shal expounde the symilitude vnto the. So I stode beholde an whote burnynge oueÌ wente ouer before me it happened y t whan the flamme was gone
coÌsented to lett them go and had sent them out with greate diligence they wolde repente folowe vpon them For whan they were yet mournynge and makinge lameÌtacion by the graues of the deed they deuysed another foolishnes so that they persecuted them in their flienge whom they had cast out afore w t prayer Worthy necessite also brought them vnto this ende for they had cleane forgotten the thinges y t happened vnto them afore But the thinge that was wantynge of their punyshment was requysite so to be fulfilled vpon them with tormeÌtes that thy people might haue a maruelous passage thorow and that these might fynde a straunge death TheÌ was euery creature fashioned agayne of the new acordinge to the wyll of their maker obeyenge thy commaundementes y t thy children might be kepte without hurte For the cloude ouershadowed their tentes the drye earth appeared where afore was water so y t in the reed see there was a waye without impediment and the greate depe became a grene felde where thorow all y e people wente that were defended with thy hande seinge thy wonderous maruelous workes For as y e horses so were they fedd leapte like laÌbes praysinge the o LORDE which haddest delyuered them And why they were yet myndefull of the thinges that happened whyle they dwelt in the londe how the grounde brought forth flyes insteade of catell and how y e ryuer scrauled with the multitude of frogges in steade of fyszshes But at the last they sawe a new creacion of byrdes what tyme as they were disceaued with lust and desyred delicate meates For whan they were speakinge of their appetite the quales came vp vnto them from the see and punyshmentes came vpon y e synners not without the tokeÌs which came to passe afore by the vehemeÌce of y e streames for they suffred worthely acordinge to their wickednesses they dealt so abhominably churlishly with straungers Some receaued no vnknowne gestes some brought y e straungers in to bondage that dyd them good Besyde all these thinges there were some that not only receaued no straungers with their wylles but persecuted those also and dyd theÌ moch euell that receaued theÌ gladly Therfore were they punyshed with blyndnesse like as they that were couered with sodane darcknesse at the dores of the righteous so y t euery one sought y e intraunce of his dore Thus the elementes turned in to them selues like as whan one tune is chaunged vpon an instrument of musick and yet all the residue kepe their melody which maye easely be perceaued by the sight of the thinges that are come to passe The drye loÌde was turned in to a watery y e thinge that afore swamme in the water wente now vpon the drye grounde The fyre had power in the water coÌtrary to his awne vertue and the water forgatt his awne kynde to quench Agayne the flammes of the noysome beastes hurte not the flesh of them that weÌte with them nether melted they the yse which els melteth lightly In all thinges hast thou promoted thy people o LORDE and brought them to honoure thou hast not despysed them but allwaye and in all places hast thou stonde by them The ende of the boke of wyszdome Ecclesiasticus called Iesus Syrac The prologe of Iesus the sonne of Syrac vnto his boke MAny and greate meÌ haue declared wyszdome vnto vs out of y e lawe out of y e prophetes out of other that folowed theÌ In the which thinges Israel ought to be commended by the reason of doctrine and wiszdome Therfore they that haue it reade it shulde not onely theÌ selues be wyse there thorow but serue other also with teachinge and wrytinge After that my graundfather Iesus had geuen diligent laboure to reade the lawe the prophetes and other bokes that were left vs of oure fathers and had wel exercised himself therin he purposed also to wryte some thinge of wyszdome and good maners to the inteÌt that they which were wyllinge to lerne and to be wyse might haue the more vnderstandinge and be the more apte to lede a good conuersacion Wherfore I exorte you to receaue it louyngly to reade it with diligence and to take it in good worth though oure wordes be not so eloquent as the famous oratours For the thinge that is wryttin in the Hebrue tonge soundeth not so well whan it is traÌslated in to another speache Not only this boke of myne but also the lawe the prophetes and other bokes sounde farre other wyse then they do whan they are spoken in their awne language Now in the XXXVIII yeare whan I came in to Egipte in the tyme of Ptolomy Euerges and continued there all my life I gat libertie to reade and wryte many good thinges Wherfore I thought it good and necessary to bestowe my diligence and trauayle to interprete this boke And consideringe that I had tyme I laboured and dyd my best to perfourme this boke and to brynge it vnto light that the strauÌgers also which are disposed to lerne might applye them selues vnto good maners lyue acordinge to y e lawe of y e LORDE What this boke conteyneth Chap. I. All wyszdome commeth of God for he onely is wyse The frute of Gods feare Chap. II. An exortacion vnto pacience to the feare of God Chap. III. A doctryne for children how they shulde honoure father and mother how men ought to be gentle and lowly Chap. IIII. Wyszdome lerneth to be mercifull and louynge vnto euery man What rewarde wyszdome geueth to them that loue her and seke her Chap. V. Let no man trust in his riches let no man leane vpon his owne power let no man despyse the mercy longe sufferynge of God Chap. VI. Of true false frendshipe An exortacion to herken vnto wyszdome Chap. VII Many goodly lessons and documeÌtes Chap. VIII He teacheth to bewarre of strife to thincke scorne of no maÌ to avoyde suerryshipp to bewarre of branelesse and cruell people Chap. IX How meÌ shulde behaue them selues with their wyues how olde frendshipe ought nor to be broken c. with many other good lessons Chap. X. Of iudges rulers of the people How pryde ought to be eschued Chap. XI Many good instruccions Chap. XII How and to whom a maÌ shulde do good Chap. XIII How the poore shulde kepe himself from the riche Chap. XIIII The vnfaithfulnes and wickednes of rich nygardes An exortacion to do good to cleue vnto wyszdome Chap. XV. The profit that commeth of the feare of God of wyszdome which the wicked will not receaue Chap. XVI The multitude of euell children is not good for the grace of God is not amonge the vngodly The pacience mercy and wyszdome of God Chap. XVII How God made man endewed him with giftes openynge his wil lawe vnto him but chose Israel out of all people Chap. XVIII The wyszdome of God and ordre of his workes which no man maye comprehende
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 amoÌge 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 vpoÌ Libanus as a Cypers tre vpon the mount Hermon I am exalted like a palme tre in Cades as a rose plaÌte 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 heweÌ 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 coÌmitted y e promyses vnto Israel Out of Dauid his seruauÌt 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 theÌ 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 meÌ 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 theÌ 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 maÌ 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 theÌ in thine age O how pleasauÌt a thinge is it whaÌ gray headed men are discrete whan the elders can geue good councell O how coÌly 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 vnderstoÌdinge 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 whoÌ it is graunted to haue the feare of God Vnto whoÌ 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 eueÌ 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 vengeauÌce of the enemye There is not a more wicked heade then the heade of the serpeÌt 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 couÌtenaunce as it were a Beer as a sack shall she shewe it amonge the neghbours Hir husbande is
on the sonne hath euerlastinge life he that beleueth not the sonne shal not se the life but y e wrath of God abydeth vpon him The IIII. Chapter NOw whan Iesus had knowlege y t it was come to the eares of the Pharises that Iesus made and baptised mo disciples theÌ Ihon howbeit Iesus himself baptysed not but his disciples he left the londe of Iewry and departed agayne in to Galile But he must nedes go thorow Samaria Then came he in to a cite of Samaria called Sichar nye vnto y e pece of loÌde y t Iacob gaue vnto Ioseph his sonne And there was Iacobs well Now whan Iesus was weerye of his iourney he satt hiÌ downe so vpoÌ the well And it was aboute the sixte houre Then came there a woman of Samaria to drawe water Iesus sayde vnto her Geue me drynke For his disciples were gone their waye in to y e cite to bye meate So the woman of Samaria sayde vnto him How is it that thou axest drynke of me seynge thou art a Iewe and I a woman of Samaria For the Iewes medle not with the Samaritans Iesus answered and sayde vnto her Yf thou knewest the gift of God and who it is that sayeth vnto the geue me drynke thou woldest axe of him and he wolde geue the the water of life The woman sayde vnto him Syr thou hast nothinge to drawe withall and the well is depe from whence hast thou then that water of life Art thou greater then oure father Iacob which gaue vs this well And he himself dranke therof and his children and his catell Iesus answered and sayde vnto her Who so euer drynketh of this water shal thyrst agayne But whosoeuer shal drynke of the water that I shal geue him shal neuer be more a thyrst but the water that I shal geue him shal be in him a well of water which spryngeth vp in to euerlastinge life The woman sayde vnto him Syr geue me that same water that I thyrst not nether nede to come hither to drawe Iesus sayde vnto her Go call they huszbande and come hither The woman answered and sayde vnto him I haue no huszbande Iesus sayde vnto her Thou hast sayde well I haue no huszbande for thou hast had fyue huszbandes and he whom thou hast now is not thine huszbande there saydest thou right The womaÌ sayde vnto him Syr I se that thou art a prophet Oure father 's worshipped vpon this mountayne and ye saye that at Ierusalem is the place where men ought to worshippe Iesus sayde vnto her Woman beleue me the tyme commeth that ye shal nether vpon this mountayne ner at Ierusalem worshippe the father Ye wote not what ye worshippe but we knowe what we worshippe for Saluacion commeth of the Iewes But the tyme commeth and is now allready that the true worshippers shal worshippe the father in sprete and in the trueth For the father wil haue soch so to worshippe him God is a sprete and they that worshippe him must worshippe in sprete and in the trueth The womaÌ sayde vnto him I wote that Messias shal come which is called Christ. Whan he commeth he shal tell vs all thinges Iesus sayde vnto her I that speake vnto the am he And in the meane season came his disciples and they marueyled that he talked with the woman Yet sayde no man What axest thou or what talkest thou with her Then the woman let hir pot stonde and wente in to the cite and sayde vnto the people Come se a man which hath tolde me all that euer ⪠I dyd Is not he Christ Then wente they out of the cite and came vnto him In the meane whyle his disciples prayed him and sayde Master eate But he sayde vnto them I haue meate to eate that ye knowe not of Then sayde the disciples amoÌge them selues Hath eny man brought him meate Iesus sayde vnto theÌ My meate is this that I do the wyll of him that sent me and to fynish his worke Saye not ye youre selues There are yet foure monethes and then commeth the haruest Beholde I saye vnto you lift vp youre eyes and loke vpon the felde for it is whyte allready vnto the haruest And he that reapeth receaueth rewarde and gathereth frute to euerlastinge life that both he that soweth and he that reapeth maye reioyse together For herin is the prouerbe true One soweth another reapeth I haue sent you to reape that wheron ye bestowed no laboure Other haue laboured and ye are come in to their laboures Many Samaritans of the same cite beleued on him for the sayenge of the woman which testified He hath tolde me all that euer I dyd Now whan the Samaritans came to him they besought him that he wolde tary with them And he abode there two dayes and many mo beleued because of his worde and sayde vnto the woman We beleue now hence forth not because of thy sayenge we haue herde him oureselues and knowe that this of a trueth is Christ the Sauioure of the worlde After two dayes he departed thence and wente in to Galile For Iesus himself testified that a prophet is nothinge set by at home Now whaÌ he came in to Galile the GalileaÌs receaued him which had sene all that he dyd at Ierusalem in the feast for they also were come thither in the feast And Iesus came agayne vnto Cana in Galile where he turned the water vnto wyne And there was a certayne ruler whose sonne laye sicke at Capernaum This herde that Iesus came out of Iewry in to Galile and wente vnto him and besought him that he wolde come downe and helpe his sonne for he laye deed sicke And Iesus sayde vnto him Excepte ye se tokens and wonders ye beleue not The ruler sayde vnto him Come downe Syr or euer my childe dye Iesus sayde vnto him Go thy waye thy sonne lyueth The man beleued the worde that Iesus sayde vnto him and wente his waye And as he was goinge downe his seruauntes mett him and tolde him and sayde Thy childe lyueth Then enquyred he of them the houre wherin he beganne to amende And they sayde vnto him Yesterdaye aboute the seueÌth houre the feuer left him Then the father perceaued that it was aboute the same houre wherin Iesus sayde vnto him Thy sonne lyueth And he beleued with his whole house This is now the seconde token that Iesus dyd whan he came from Iewry in to Galile The V. Chapter AFterwarde there was a feast of the Iewes and Iesus wente vp to Ierusalem There is at Ierusalem by the slaughter house a pole which in Hebrue is called Bethseda hath fyue porches wherin laye many sicke blynde lame wythred which wayted whan the water shulde moue For the angell wente downe at his tyme in to the pole and stered the water Who so euer now wente downe first after that the water was stered y e same was made whole what soeuer disease he had And
Kedorlaomer the kinge of Elam Thydeal the kynge of y e Heithen That they made warre w t Bera y e kynge of Sodome and w t Birsa the kynge of Gomorra with Sineab the kynge of Adama with Semeaber the kynge of Zeboim and with the kynge of Bela which is called Zoar. These came all together in to the brode valley where now the salt see is for twolue yeares were they subiectes vnto kinge Kedorlaomer in the thirtenth yeare they fell from him Therfore in the fourtenth yeare came Kedorlaomer and the kynges y t were with him smote the Giauntes in Astaroth Karnaim Susim at Ham Emim in the felde of Kiriathaim and y e Horites in their owne mount Seir vnto the playne of Pharan which bordreth vpoÌ the wildernes And then they turned came to the well of iudgment which is Cades smote all the countre of the Amalechites and also the Amorites that dwelt in Hazezon Thamar Then wente out the kynge of Sodome the kynge of Gomorra the kynge of Adama and the kynge of Zeboim and the kynge of Bela called Zoar prepared them selues to fight in the brode valley w t Kedorlaomer the kynge of Elam with Thideal y e kynge of the Heithen with Amraphel y e kynge of Synear with Arioch the kynge of Ellasar foure kynges w t fyue And y t brode valley had many slyme pyttes But the kynge of Sodoma and Gomorra were put to flight fell there the residue fled vnto y e mountaynes Then toke they all the goodes at Sodoma and Gomorra all their vytales wente their waye They toke Lot also Abrams brothers sonne his good for he dwelt at Sodome and departed Then came one that had escaped and tolde Abram the Aleaunt which dwelt in the Okegroue of Mamre the Amoryte which was the brother of Escol Aner for these were confederate with Abram Now whan Abram herde y t his brother was taken he harnessed his bonde seruauntes borne in his owne house thre hundreth eightene folowed after them vntill Dan deuyded theÌ fell vpoÌ them by night w t his seruauntes and smote theÌ and chased them awaye vnto Hoba which lieth on y e left hande of the cite of Damascos and brought agayne all the goodes and also his brother Lot and his goodes y e wemen also and the people And as he came agayne from the slaughter of Kedorlaomer of the kinges that were with him the kynge of Sodome wente to mete him in to the playne felde which is called kynges dale But Melchisedech the kynge of Salem brought forth bred and wyne And he beynge the prest of the most hye God blessed him and sayde Blessed be thou Abram vnto the most hye God possessor of heauen and earth And praysed be God the Hyest which hath delyuered thine enemies in to thy handes And Abram gaue him tythes of all Then sayde the kynge of Sodome vnto Abram Geue me the soules and take y e goodes vnto thy self But Abram sayde vnto the kinge of Sodome I lift vp my honde vnto the LORDE the most hye God possessor of heauen and earth that I wyll not take of all that is thyne so moch as a threde or a shue lachet lest thou shuldest saye I haue made Abram ryche Saue onely that which the yonge men haue spent and the men Aner Escol and Mamre that wente with me let them take their parte The XV. Chapter IT happened after these actes y t the worde of y e LORDE came vnto AbraÌ in a vysion and sayde Feare not Abram I am thy shylde and thy exceadinge greate rewarde But Abram sayde LORDE LORDE what wilt thou geue me I go childles and the seruaunt of my house this Eleasar of Damascos hath a sonne And Abram sayde morouer Beholde vnto me hast thou geuen no sede and lo the sonne of my housholde shal be myne heyre And beholde the worde of the LORDE spake vnto him and saide He shal not be thine heyre but one that shal come out of thine owne body he shal be thine heyre And he bad him go forth and sayde Loke vp vnto heauen and tell y e starres Canst thou nombre them And he sayde vnto him Euen so shal thy sede be Abram beleued the LORDE and y t was counted vnto him for righteousnes And he sayde vnto him I am y e LORDE y t brought the from Vr out of Chaldea to geue y e this londe to possesse it But Abram sayde LORDE LORDE Wherby shall I knowe that I shall possesse it And he sayde vnto him Take a cow of thre yeare olde and a she goate of thre yeare olde and a ramme of thre yeare olde and a turtyll doue and a yonge pigeon And he toke all these and deuyded them in the myddes and layde the one parte ouer agaynst the other but the foules deuyded he not And the foules fell vpoÌ the flesh but Abram droue them awaye Now whan the Sonne beganne to go downe there fell an heuy slepe vpoÌ Abram And lo feare and greate darcknes fell vpon him And he sayde vnto Abram knowe this of a suertye that thy sede shal be a strauÌger in a londe that is not theirs And they shall make bonde men of them and intreate them euell foure hundreth yeares But the people whoÌ they shal serue wyl I iudge Afterwarde shall they go forth with greate substaunce and thou shalt departe vnto thy fathers in peace and shalt be buried in a good age And after the fourth generacion they shall come hither agayne for the wickednes of y e Amorites is not yet full So whan the Sonne was downe and it was waxed darcke Beholde there smoked a fornace and a fyre brande wente betwene y e partes The same daye made the LORDE a couenauÌt with Abram and sayde Vnto thy sede wil I geue this loÌde from the water of Egipte vnto the greate water Euphrates the Kenytes the Kenizites the Kydmonites the Hethites the Pherezites the Giauntes the Amorites the Cananites the Gergesites and the Iebusites The XVI Chapter SArai Abrams wife bare him no children but she had an handmayde an Egipcian whose name was Agar and sayde vnto Abram Beholde the LORDE hath closed me that I can not beare Go in I praye the vnto my mayde peraduenture I shal be multiplied by her more then by myself And Abram herkened vnto the voyce of Sarai Than Sarai Abrams wife toke Agar hir mayde y e Egipcian after they had dwelt ten yeare in the londe of Canaan and gaue her vnto hir huszbande AbraÌ to be his wife And he wente in vnto Agar and she conceaued Now whan she sawe y t she had conceyued she despysed hir mastresse Then sayde Sarai vnto Abram I must suffre wronge for thy sake I layde my mayde by the but now because she seyth that she hath conceaued I must be despysed
people synge a songe of thankesgeuynge vnto the LORDE and come to Marath where the bytter water is made swete Chap. XVI The LORDE sendeth quayles and the Manna to the vnpacient people Chap. XVII Water coÌmeth out of the stonye rocke They fight agaynst Amaleck Chap. XVIII Iethro bryngeth Moses his wife and children and geueth him a good councell Chap. XIX The LORDE appeareth vnto Moses vpon mount Sinai Moses sheweth the people Chap. XX. The LORDE geueth Moses the two tables of the commaundementes vnto the people Chap. XXI Lawes and statutes concernynge bodely thinges Of murthur theft and other mo Chap. XXII Of theft Of hurte that is done with wyll or vnawarres Of thinges geueÌ to kepe Of borowynge and pledges Chap. XXIII Many dyuerse lawes statutes Chap. XXIIII Of the boke and bloude of the couenaunt Chap. XXV XXVI The LORDE coÌmaundeth Moses to make the Sanctuary and the thinges belonginge therto Chap. XXVII Of the altare and the apparell therof Of the courte of the habitacioÌ Of the oyle and lampes Chap. XXVIII How the prestes were arayed and consecrated Chap. XXIX The consecratinge of Aaron of his sonnes and of the altare Chap. XXX Of the altare of incense and the brasen lauer the anoyntinge oyle and incense Chap. XXXI The workmen are called The kepynge of the Sabbath The two tables of wytnes are geuen Moses Chap. XXXII They make the golden calf Moses in his displeasure breaketh the tables and punysheth the transgressours Chap. XXXIII The people mourne Moses pitcheth the tabernacle and the LORDE talketh with him Chap. XXXIIII Moses receaueth other tables of the LORDE with certaine lawes The people are afrayed at the brightnes of his face Chap. XXXV Certaine statutes coÌcerninge thâ Tabernacle The workemen are appoynted Chap. XXXVI What the thinges be that they made Chap. XXXVII The tabernacle of witnesse with the staues Cherubins the table candelsticke Chap. XXXVIII The altare of breÌt offeriÌges with the thinges belonginge therto Chap. XXXIX Of the prestes garmentes Chap. XL. The LORDE commaundeth Moses to set vp the tabernacle to order the apparell therof The first Chapter THese are y e names of the childreÌ of Israel that came with Iacob in to Egipte euery one came in w t his house Ruben Simeon Leui Iuda Isachar ZabuloÌ Ben Iamin Dan Nephtali Gad and Aser And of all the soules that came out of the loynes of Iacob there were seuentie As for Ioseph he was in Egipte all ready Now whaÌ Ioseph was deed and all his brethren and all they that lyued at that tyme the children of Israel grewe and increased and multiplied and became exceadinge mightie so y t the lande was full of them TheÌ came there a new kynge ouer Egipte which knewe nothinge of Ioseph and sayde vnto his people Beholde the people of the children of Israel are many mightier then we Vp let vs deale wysely with them y t there be not so many of them For yf there shulde ryse vp eny warre agaynst vs they might ioyne them selues also vnto oure enemies and ouercome vs so get them out of the lande And he set worke masters ouer them to kepe them vnder with burthens For they buylded the cities Phiton and Raemses for treasuries vnto Pharao But the more they vexed them the more they multiplied and grew Therfore had they indignacioÌ at the children of Israel and the Egipcians compelled the children of Israel without mercy to do seruyce and made their lyues bytter vnto them with greuous laboure in claye and brycke and with all maner of bondage in y e felde and with all maner of laboure which they layed vpon them without mercy And the kynge of Egipte sayde vnto the mydwyues of the Hebrueswemen Of the which one was called Siphra and the other Pua Whan ye helpe the wemen of the Hebrues and se vpon the stole that it is a sonne then slaye him but yf it be a doughter let her lyue Neuertheles the mydwyues feared God dyd not as the kinge of Egipte commaunded them but let the children lyue Then the kynge of Egipte called the mydwyues and sayde vnto them Wherfore do ye this that ye let the children lyue The mydwyues answered Pharao The wemen of the Hebrues are not as the wemen of Egipte for they are sturdy wemen or euer the mydwyues come at them they are delyuered Therfore God dealt well with the mydwyues And the people multiplied and became exceadinge mightie And for so moch as the mydwyues feared God he made them houses Then Pharao commauÌded all his people and sayde All the sonnes that are borne cast in to the water but let all the doughters lyue The II. Chapter ANd there wente forth a man of the house of Leui and toke a doughter of Leui. And the wife conceaued and bare a sonne And whan she sawe y t it was a proper childe she hyd him thre monethes And whan she coude hyde him no longer she toke an Arke of redes and dawbed it ouer with slyme and pitch and layed the childe therin and set it amonge the redes by the waters brynke But his sister stode a farre of to wete what wolde come of him And Pharaos doughter came downe to wash herself in the water And hir maydens walked by the water syde and whan she sawe the Arke amonge the redes she sent one of hir maydens and caused it to be fett And whan she opened it she sawe y e childe and beholde the babe wepte Then had she pytie vpon it and sayde It is one of the Hebrues children Then sayde his syster vnto Pharaos doughter Shal I go and call the a nurse of the Hebrues wemen to nurse y e the childe Pharaos doughter sayde vnto her Go thy waye The mayde wente and called the childes mother Then sayde Pharaos doughter vnto her Take this childe and nurse it for me I wyll geue y e thy rewarde The woman toke the childe and nursed it And whan the childe was growne she brought it vnto Pharaos doughter and it became hir sonne and she called him Moses For she sayde I toke him out of the water Vpon a tyme whan Moses was greate he wente forth vnto his brethren and loked vpon their burthens and sawe that an EgipciaÌ smote one of his brethren y e Hebrues And he loked rounde aboute him and whan he sawe that there was no man he slew the Egipcian and buried him in the sonde The next daye he wente forth also and sawe two men of the Hebrues stryuynge together and sayde to the vngodly Wherfore smytest thou thy neghboure But he sayde Who made the a ruler or iudge ouer vs Wilt thou slaye me also as thou slewest the Egipcian TheÌ was Moses afrayed and sayde How is this knowne And Pharao herde of it and sought for Moses to slaye him But Moses fled from Pharao and kepte him in the lande of Madian and sat him downe by a wells syde The prest Madian had seuen doughters
What is this Thou shalt saye vnto him The LORDE brought vs out of Egipte from the house of bondage w t a mightie hande for whan Pharao was loth to let vs go the LORDE slew all the firstborne in the lande of Egipte from the firstborne of men vnto y e firstborne of the catell therfore offer I vnto the LORDE all that breaketh y e Matrice beynge a male and y e firstborne of my children I redeme And this shal be a signe vnto the in thine hande and a token to thinke vpon before thine eyes how that the LORDE brought vs out of Egipte with a mightie hande Now whan Pharao had let y e people go God led them not the waye thorow the loÌde of the Philistynes which was y e nexte for he thoughte The people might repeÌt whaÌ they se warre and so turne in agayne in to Egipte Therfore led he the people aboute euen the waye thorow the wyldernes by y e reed see And the childreÌ of Israel wente harnessed out of the londe of Egipte And Moses toke Iosephs bones with him for he toke an ooth of the children of Israel and sayde God wyll surely vyset you therfore cary awaye my bones with you from hence So they toke their iourney froÌ Suchoth pitched their teÌtes in EthaÌ in y e edge of the wildernes And y e LORDE weÌte before theÌ by daye in a piler of a cloude to lede theÌ y e right waye and by night in a piler of fyre that he might shewe theÌ light to walke both by daie and night The piler of the cloude departed neuer from the people by daye and the pyler of fyre departed not from theÌ by night The XIIII Chapter ANd the LORDE spake vnto Moses and sayde Speake vnto the children of Israel and byd them that they turne aboute pitch their tentes before the valley of Hyroth betwixte Migdol the see towarde Baal ZephoÌ and there pitch y e tentes right ouer by the see For Pharao shall saye of the children of Israel They can not tell how to get ⪠out of the londe the wyldernesse hath shut them in And I wyll harden his hert y t he shal folowe after them I wil get me honoure vpon Pharao and vpon all his power And y e EgipciaÌs shal knowe y t I am the LORDE And they dyd so And whan it was tolde y e kinge of Egipte y t y e people fled his hert his seruauntes were turned agaynst y e people saide Why haue we done this that we haue let Israel go y t they shulde not serue vs And he bounde his charettes fast and toke his people w t him and toke sixe huÌdreth chosen charettes and the other charettes besyde that were in Egipte and the captaynes ouer all his for the LORDE hardened y e hert of Pharao kynge of Egipte that he folowed after the children of Israel And the children of Israel wente out with an hye hande And the Egipcians folowed after theÌ ouertoke them where they had pitched by y e see with horses and charettes and horsmeÌ and with his power in the valley of Hyrath towarde Baal Zephon And whan Pharao came nye them the children of Israel lift vp their eyes and beholde y e Egipcians wente behinde theÌ and they were sore afrayed and cried vnto the LORDE And sayde vnto Moses Were there no graues in Egipte y t thou hast brought vs awaye to dye in the wyldernes Wherfore hast thou done this vnto vs that thou hast caried vs out of Egipte Is not this it that we sayde vnto the in Egipte Leaue of let vs serue the Egipcians for it were better for vs to serue the Egipcians then to dye in the wyldernes Moses sayde vnto the people Feare you not stonde styll and beholde what a saluacion the LORDE shall shewe vpon you this daye for these Egipcians whom ye se this daye shall ye neuer se more for euer the LORDE shal fight for you onely quyete youre selues The LORDE sayde vnto Moses Wherfofore criest thou vnto me Speake vnto y e children of Israel y t they go forwarde But lift thou vp y i staff stretch out thine haÌde ouer y e see parte it asunder y t the children of Israel maye go in thorow y e middest of it vpon the drye grounde Beholde I wyll harden y e hert of the Egipcians y t they shall folowe after you Thus wyl I get me honoure vpon Pharao vpon all his power vpoÌ his charettes and horsmen and the Egipcians shal knowe that I am y e LORDE whan I haue gotten me hono r vpon Pharao vpon his charettes and vpon his horsmen Then the angell of God y t wente before the armies of Israel remoued and gat him behynde them and the cloudy piler remoued also from before them and stode behinde theÌ and came betwixte the armies of the Egipcians and the armies of Israel It was a darcke cloude and gaue light that night so that all the night longe these and they coude not come together WhaÌ Moses now stretched forth his haÌde ouer y e see the LORDE caused it to passe awaye thorow a mightie eastwynde all that night and made the see drye and y e water deuyded it self asunder And the children of Israel wente in thorow the middest of y e see vpon the drye grounde and y e water was vn to them as a wall vpon their right hande vpoÌ their lefte And y e EgipciaÌs folowed wente in after theÌ all Pharaos horses charettes horsmeÌ eueÌ in to y e middest of y e see Now whan the mornynge watch came the LORDE loked vpoÌ the armies of the Egipcians out the piler of fire and y e cloude troubled their armies and smote the wheles from their charettes ouerthrew them w t a storme Then sayde the Egipcians Let vs flye from Israel the LORDE fighteth for theÌ agaynst the Egipcians But y e LORDE saide vnto Moses Stretch out thyne hande ouer the see that y e water maye come agayne vpon the Egipcians vpon their charettes and horsmen Then Moses stretched out his hande ouer the see and the see came agayne before daye in his course and strength and the Egipcians fled agaynst it Thus the LORDE ouerthrew them in the myddest of the see so that the water came agayne and couered y e charettes and horsmen and all Pharaos power which folowed after them in to the see so that there remayned not one of them But the children of Israel wente drye thorow y e myddest of the see and the water was vnto them as a wall vpon their right hande and vpon their lefte Thus the LORDE delyuered Israel in y t daye from the hande of the Egipcians And they sawe the Egipcians deed vpon y e see syde and the greate hande y t the LORDE had shewed vpon the Egipcians And y
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 inceÌse of spyces for y e SaÌctuary 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 loÌge 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 loÌde of Egipte w t greate power a mightie haÌde 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 seruauÌtes 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 âables 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 weÌte 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 CoÌsecrate 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
The water shal flowe out of his boket and his sede shal be a greate water His kynge shal be hyer then Agag his kyngdome shal be exalted God hath broughte hiÌ out of Egipte his strength is as of an vnicorne He shal eate vp the Heithen his enemies and grynde their bones to poulder and shute thorow them with his arowes He hath layed him downe as a Lyon and as a Lyonesse Who wyll rayse him vp Blessed be he y t blesseth the and cursed that curseth the. TheÌ was Balac furious iÌ wrath against Balaam smote his haÌdes together sayde vnto him I haue called the y t thou shuldest curse myne enemies and beholde thou hast blessed theÌ now thre tymes now get the heÌce to y e place I thoughte y t I wolde promote the vnto honoure but the LORDE hath kepte the backe from that worshipe Balaam answered him Tolde not I thy messaungers whom thou sendedst vnto me sayde Yf Balac wolde geue me his house full of syluer and golde yet coulde I not go beyonde the worde of the LORDE to do either euell or good after myne awne hert but what y e LORDE speaketh that must I speake also And now beholde for so moch as I go to my people come therfore I wyll shewe the what this people shal do vnto y e people after this tyme. And he toke vp his parable and sayde Thus sayeth Balaam the sonne of Beor Thus sayeth y e man whose eyes are opened Thus sayeth he which heareth the wordes of God y t hath the knowlege of y e hyest eueÌ he y t sawe y e visioÌ of y e Allmightie fell downe his eyes were opened I shal se him but not now I shal beholde him but not nie at haÌde There shal a starre come out of Iacob a cepter shall come vp out of Israel and shal smyte y e rulers of the Moabites and ouercome all the children of Seth. Edom shal be his possession and Seir shal be his enemies possessioÌ but Israel shal do manfully Out of Iacob shal come he y t hath dominion and shall destroye the remnaunt of the cities And whaÌ he sawe y e Amalechites he toke vp his parable sayde Amalec the first amoÌge the HeitheÌ but at y e last thou shalt perishe vtterly And whan he sawe the Kenites he toke vp his parable sayde StroÌge is y e dwellinge and on a rocke hast thou put thy nest neuertheles thou shalt be a burninge vnto Rain tyll Assur take y e presoner And he toke vp his parable agayne sayde Alas who shal lyue whaÌ God doth this And shippes out of Citim shall subdue Assur and Eber. He him self also shal perishe vtterly And Balaam gat him vp and departed and came againe vnto his place and Balac wente his waye also The XXV Chapter ANd Israel dwelt in Sittim and the people beganne to commytte whordome with the doughters of the Moabites which called the people vnto the sacrifice of their goddes And the people ate and worshipped their goddes and Israel submytted him self vnto Baal Peor Then the wrath of the LORDE waxed whote vpon Israel and he sayde vnto Moses Take all the rulers of the people and hange them vp vnto the LORDE agaynst y e Sonne that the terryble wrath of the LORDE maye be turned awaye from Israel And Moses sayde vnto the iudges of Israel Euery man slaye his captayne that haue submytted them selues vnto Baal Peor And beholde one of the childreÌ of Israel weÌte in against his brethreÌ ioyned him self to a Madianitish womaÌ in y e sighte of Moses of the whole coÌgregacion of y e childreÌ of Israel which weped before the dore of y e Tabernacle of wytnesse Whan Phineas y e sonne of Eleasar the sonne of Aaron y e prest sawe y t he rose vp out of the congregacion toke a swerde in his hande wente after the man of Israel in to the whore house thrust theÌ thorow both the man of Israel and the woman eueÌ thorow the bely of her Then ceassed the plage from the children of Israel and there were slayne in the plage foure and twentye thousande And y e LORDE spake vnto Moses saide Phineas the sonne of Eleasar the sonne of Aaron y e prest hath turned my wrath awaie from the childreÌ of Israel thorow his gelousy for my sake amonge them y t I shulde not coÌsume the childreÌ of Israel in my gelousy Wherfore sayeâ beholde I geue him my couenaunt of peace and he shal haue it his sede after him eueÌ the couenaunt of an euer lastinge presthode because he was gelous for his Gods sake and made an attonement for the children of Israel The man of Israel that was slayne with the Madianitâsh woman was called Simri the sonne of Salu a captayne of the house of the father of the Simeonites The Madianitish woman also that was slayne was called Coszbi y e doughter of Zur which was a ruler of the people of a kynred amonge the Madianites And the LORDE spake vnto Moses sayde Vexe the Madianites smyte them for they haue vexed you with their wyles wherby they haue bigyled you thorow Peor and thorow their sister Coszbi the doughter of a captayne of y e Madianites which was slayne in the daye of the plage for Peors sake and the plage came after The XXVI Chapter ANd whan the giltye bloude was shed the LORDE sayde vnto Moses vnto Eleasar y e sonne of Aaron y e prest Take the summe of the whole coÌgregacion of the childreÌ of Israel from twentye yeare aboue after their fathers houses all y t are able to go forth to the warre in Israel And Moses Eleasar the prest spake vnto them in the felde of the Moabites besyde Iordane ouer against Iericho namely vnto all theÌ that were twentye yeare olde aboue as the LORDE coÌmaunded Moses And these are y e childreÌ of Israel that came out of Egipte Ruben y e first borne sonne of Israel The childreeÌ of Ruben were Hanoch of whom coÌmeth y e kynred of the Hanochites Palluâ of whom coÌmeth the kynred of the Palluites Hesron of whom coÌmeth the kynred of the Hesronites Carmi of whom coÌmeth y e kynred of the Carmites These are the kynreds of the Rubenites And the nombre of theÌ was thre fourtye thousande seuen hundreth thirtye But the childreÌ of Pallu were Eliab And the children of Eliab were Nemuel and Dathan and Abiram This is y t Dathan AbiraÌ those famous men in the congregacion which stode vp agaynst Moses and Aaron in the coÌpany of Corah whan they rose vp agaynst the LORDE the earth opened hir mouth and swalowed theÌ w t Corah whaÌ the coÌpany dyed what tyme as the fyre consumed two hundreth fiftye men they became a tokeÌ But the children
smytten before youre enemies Whan I tolde you this ye wolde not heare were dishobedient vnto the worde of the LORDE and were presumptuous and wente vp to y e mountaines Then the Amorites that dwelt vpon the mouÌtaynes came out against you and chaced you as Bees do and smote you at Seir euen vnto Horma Now whan ye came againe and wepte before the LORDE he wolde not heare youre voyce and enclyned not his eares vnto you So ye abode in Cades a longe season The II. Chapter THen turned we vs and toke oure iourney to the wildernesse euen the waye to the reed see as the LORDE sayde vnto me and compassed mount Seir a longe season And y e LORDE saide vnto me Ye haue coÌpassed this mountayne now loÌge ynough turne you Northwarde and commauÌde the people and saye Ye shal go thorow y e coastes of youre brethren the children of Esau which dwell at Seir they shal be afrayed of you But take diligente hede to youre selues that ye prouoke them not for I wyl not geue you one fote bredth of their londe For mount Seir haue I geuen to the children of Esau to possesse Ye shal bye meate of them for moneye that ye maye eate And water shal ye bye of them for money that ye maye drynke For the LORDE thy God hath blessed the in all the workes of thy hondes He hath considered thy iourneyes thorow this greate wyldernesse and this fortye yeares hath the LORDE thy God bene with the so that thou hast wanted nothinge Now whan we were departed from o r brethren the children of Esau that dwelt vpon mount Seir by the waye of the felde from Elath Ezeon gaber we turned vs wente by the waye of the wyldernesse of y e Moabites Then sayde the LORDE vnto me Thou shalt not vexe the Moabites ner prouoke theÌ vnto battayll for I wil not geue the of their londe to possesse For Ar haue I geuen vnto the children of Lot in possession The Emims dwelt there before tyme which were a greate stronge people hye of stature as the Enakims and were taken for giauntes like as y e Enakims And y e Moabites called them Emims The Horites also dwelt in Seir afore tyme y e children of Esau droue them out and destroyed them before them dwelt in their steade like as Israel dyd in y e loÌde of his possession that the LORDE gaue them Get you vp now go ouer the ryuer Sared And we wente ouer The tyme that we were goinge froÌ Cades Barnea tyll we came ouer the ryuer Sared was eight thirtye yeares tyll all the men of warre were waysted out of the hoost as the LORDE sware vnto them The hande of the LORDE also was agaynst them to destroye theÌ out of the hoost tyll they were consumed And whan all the men of warre were coÌsumed so y t they were deed amonge the people the LORDE spake vnto me and sayde This daie shalt thou go thorow the coast of y e Moabites by Ar shalt come nye vnto y e children of Ammon whom thou shalt not vexe ner prouoke For I wyll not geue the of the loÌde of the childreÌ of Ammon to possesse for I haue geueÌ it vnto the childreÌ of Lot in possession It was takeÌ for a loÌde of giauntes also giauntes dwelt therin afore tyme. And y e Ammonites calle theÌ Samsumims which was a people that was greate many and of hye stature as the Enakims And these y e LORDE destroyed before theÌ and let them possesse the same so that they dwelt in their steade Like as he dyd with the childreÌ of Esau which dwell vpoÌ mount Seir whan he destroyed the Horites before them and let them possesse the same so that they haue dwelt in their steade vnto this daye And the Caphthorims came out of Caphther and destroyed y e Auims y t dwelt at Hazarim euen vnto Gaza there dwelt they in their steade Get you vp now and departe and go ouer the ryuer Arnon Beholde I haue geueÌ Sihon y e kynge of the Amorites at Heszbon in to thy hande go to and conquere and prouoke him vnto battayll This daye wyll I begynne so that all nacioÌs vnder all the heauen shal feare drede y e In so moch y t whaÌ they heare of the they shal tremble and quake for thy commynge Then sent I messaungers from y e wyldernesse of the East vnto Sihon the kynge at Heszbon w t peaceble wordes and caused to saye vnto him I wil go but thorow y e loÌde I wil go a longe by the hye waye I wil nether turne to the righte haÌde ner to y e lefte Thou shalt sell me meate for money that I maye eate water shalt thou sell me for money that I maye drinke Onely let me go thorow by fote as the children of Esau which dwell at Seir dyd vnto me and the Moabites that dwell at Ar vntyll I be come ouer Iordane in to the londe which the LORDE oure God shal geue vnto vs. But Sihon the kynge at Heszbon wolde not let vs go by him for the LORDE y i God herdened his mynde made his hert tough that he mighte delyuer him in to thy haÌdes as it is come to passe this daye And y e LORDE sayde vnto me Beholde I haue begonne to delyuer Sihon with his londe before the go to and coÌquere and possesse his loÌde And SihoÌ came out w t all his people to fight agaynst vs at Iahza But the LORDE oure God delyuered him in to oure handes so that we smote him with his children and all his people Then toke we all his cities at the same tyme and destroyed vtterly all the cities men wemen and children and let none remayne saue the catell which we caught to oure selues the spoyle of the cities that we wanne from Aroer which lyeth vpon the ryuer syde of Arnon and from the cite on the ryuer vnto Gilead There was no cite that coulde defende it selfe from vs the LORDE oure God delyuered vs all before vs. But vnto the londe of the children of Ammon thou camest not ner to all that was on the ryuer Iabok ner to y e cities vpoÌ y e mountaines ner vnto what so euer the LORDE oure God forbad vs. The III. Chapter ANd we turned vs wente vp y e waie vnto Basan And Og y e kynge of Basan came out w t all his people to fight agaynst vs at Edrei But the LORDE sayde vnto me Be not afrayed of him for I haue delyuered him all his people w t his londe in to thy hande thou shalt do w t him as thou dyddest w t Sihon kynge of y e Amorites which dwelt at Heszbon Thus y e LORDE oure God delyuered Og y e kynge of Basan in to oure handes also with all his people so that we smote him tyll there
to stoâde styll hangeth vp fyue kynges and taketh the cities Chap. XI The HeytheÌ kynges gather theÌ selues together agaynst Israel but they are discomfited and their cities wonne Chap. XII The names of the kynges whom Iosua and the Israelites slewe are here rehearsed euen one and thirtye Chap ⪠XIII The remnaunt of the londe on this syde Iordane Chap. XIIII The dealinge out of the londe Chap. XV. The londe that fell vnto Iuda by lott Chap. XVI The lot of Ephraim Chap. XVII The lot and porcion of Manasse Chap. XVIII Men are sent out of the seuen trybes to consyder the londe and to deale it out The porcion of Ben Iamin Chap. XIX The porcion of Simeon Zabulon Isachar Aser Nephtali and Dan. Chap. XX. The partinge out of the fre cities Chap. XXI Of the cities and suburbes of the Leuites Chap. XXII The two tribes and a halfe are senâ home agayne with a charge to be diligent in kepynge Gods commaundement Of the altare of witnesse Chap. XXIII Iosua calleth the people together before his death exorteth them to cleue fast to the commaundementes of the LORDE Chap. XXIIII He calleth the people together iâ Sichem and rehearceth the benefites of God vnto theÌ The couenauÌt with God is renewed Iosua dyeth and so doth Eleasar The first Chapter AFter the death of Moses the seruaunt of the LORDE spake the LORDE vnto Iosua y e sonne of Nun Moses mynister My seruaunt Moses is deed vp now and go ouer this Iordane thou and all this people in to the londe that I haue geuen the children of Israel All the places that the soles of youre fete shal treade vpon haue I geuen vnto you as I sayde vnto Moses From the wyldernesse and this Libanus vnto the greate water Euphrates all the londe of the Hethites vnto the greate see towarde the west shal be youre border There shall noman be able to withstonde y t all thy life longe And like as I was with Moses so wil I be with the also I will not fayle the nether forsake the. Be stronge and bolde for vnto this people shalt thou deuyde y e londe which I sware vnto their fathers to geue it them Be stroÌge therfore and very bolde that thou mayest kepe and do euery thynge acordinge to the lawe that Moses my seruaunt commaunded the. Turne not asyde from it nether to the righte hande ner to the lefte y t thou mayest deale wysely whither so euer thou goest And let not the boke of this lawe departe out of thy mouth but exercyse thy selfe therin daie and nighte that thou mayest kepe and do euery thinge acordinge to it that is wrytteÌ therin Then shalt thou prospere in thy waies and deale wysely Lo I haue commaunded the to be stronge and bolde Feare not and be not afrayed for the LORDE thy God is with y e whither so euer thou goest Then commaunded Iosua the officers of the people and sayde Go thorow the hoost and charge y e people and saye Prepare you vytayles for ouer thre dayes shal ye go ouer this Iordane that ye maye come in and take possession of the londe which the LORDE youre God shal geue you And to the Rubenites Gaddites and to the halfe trybe of Manasse sayde Iosua Thynke vpon the worde that Moses the seruaunt of y e LORDE spake vnto you and sayde The LORDE yo r God hath brought you to rest and geuen you this londe Let youre wyues and children and catell remayne in y e londe that Moses gaue you on this syde Iordane But ye youre selues as many as be fightinge men shal go forth before youre brethren in harnesse and helpe them tyll the LORDE haue broughte youre brethren to rest also as well as you that they also maye take possession of the londe which the LORDE yo r God shal geue them Then shal ye turne agayne in to the londe of youre possession that ye maye enioye it which Moses the seruaunt of the LORDE hath geuen you on this syde Iordane towarde y e Easte And they answered Iosua and sayde All that thou hast commaunded vs wyll we do and whither so euer thou sendest vs we wyl go thither Like as we haue obeyed Moses so wyl we be obedient also vnto the Onely that the LORDE thy God be with y e like as he was with Moses Who so euer disobeyeth thy mouth and herkeneth not vnto thy wordes in all that thou hast commaunded vs shal dye Onely be thou stronge and bolde The II. Chapter IOsua the sonne of Nun sent out two spyes preuely from Setim and sayde vnto them Go youre waye loke vpon the londe and Iericho They wente forth and came in to y e house of an harlot called Rahab and laye there Then was it tolde the kynge of Iericho Lo there are men come in this nighte from the childreÌ of Israel to spye the londe Then sent the kynge of Iericho vnto Rahab saynge Delyuer the men forth that are come vnto the in to thy house for they are come to spye out the whole londe Now as for the two men the woman had hyd them and sayde There came men in vnto me in dede but I knewe not whence they were And at the shuttinge in of the gate whan it was darcke they wente out so y t I can not tell whither they be gone folowe soone after them for ye shal ouertake them But she had caused them to clymme vp vnto the house toppe and hyd them vnder the stalkes of flaxe that she had prepared her vpoÌ the toppe of the house Howbeit the men folowed after them in y e waye towarde Iordane euen vnto the ferye and whan they that folowed vpon them were gone forth the gate was shut And or euer the men layed them downe to slepe she wente vp to them vnto the house toppe and sayde vnto theÌ I knowe that the LORDE shal delyuer you the londe for the feare of you is fallen vpon vs and all the inhabiters of the londe are discoraged at youre commynge For we haue herde how the LORDE dryed vp the water in the reed see before you whaÌ ye departed out of Egipte and what ye dyd vnto the two kynges of the Amorites Sihon and Og beyonde Iordane how ye roted them out and destroyed them And sence we herde therof oure hert hath failed vs nether is there a good stomacke more in eny man by the reason of youre commynge For the LORDE yo r God is both the God aboue in heaueÌ and beneth vpon earth Sweare now then vnto me euen by the LORDE for so moch as I haue dealte mercifully with you that ye wyl also shewe mercy vpon my fathers house and geue me a true token that ye wyl let my father lyue and my mother my brethren and my sisters and all that they haue and delyuer oure soules from death The men sayde vnto her Yf we shewe not mercy and faithfulnesse vpon
the well of Rogell Then goeth it vp to the valley of the sonne of Hinnam a longe besyde the Iebusite that dwelleth from y e southwarde that is Ierusalem and commeth vp vnto the toppe of the mount which lyeth before the valley of Hinnam from the westwarde that borderth on the edge of the valley of Raphaim towarde the north Then commeth it from the toppe of the same mount vnto the water well of Nephtoah and commeth out vnto the cities of mount Ephron and boweth towarde Baala that is Kiriath Iarim and fetcheth a coÌpasse aboute from Baala westwarde vnto mount Seir and goeth by the northsyde of the mount Iarim that is Chessalon and coÌmeth downe to Bethsemes and goeth thorow Thimna and breaketh out on the north syde of Acron and stretcheth forth towarde Sicron and goeth ouer mount Baala and commeth out vnto Iabueel so that their vttemost border is the see The weste border is the greate see This is the border of the children of Iuda rounde aboute in their kynreds Caleb the sonne of Iephune had his porcion geueÌ him amoÌge the children of Iuda as the LORDE coÌmaunded Iosua namely Kiriatharba of the father of Enak that is Hebron And Caleb droue from thence the thre sonnes of Enak Sesai Ahiman and Thalmas begotten of Enak And from theÌce he wente vp to the inhabiters of Debir As for Debir it was called Kiriath Sepher aforetyme And Caleb sayde Who so smyteth Kiriath Sepher and wynneth it I wyll geue him my doughter Achsa to wyfe Then Athniel the sonne of Kenas the brother of Caleb wanne it and he gaue him his doughter Achsa to wife And it fortuned whan they wente in that she was counceled of hir houszbande to axe a pece of londe of hir father And she fell downe from the asse Then sayde Caleb vnto her What ayleth the She sayde Geue me a blessynge for thou hast geueÌ me a south and drye londe geue me welles of water also Then gaue he her welles aboue and beneth This is the enheritaunce of the trybe of Iuda amonge their kynreds And the cities of the trybe of the children of Iuda from one to another by the coastes of the Edomites towarde the south were these Cabzeel Eder Iagur Kina Dimona Adada Kedes Hazor Iethnam Siph Telem Bealot Hazor Hadatha Kirioth Hezron that is Hasor AmaÌ Sema Molada Hazor Gadda Hesmon Beth palet Hazer Sual Beer Seba Bisziothia Baala Iim Azem Elthâlad Chesil Harma Ziâlag Madmanna San SaÌna Lebaoth Silhim Ain RimoÌ These are nyne and twentye cities their vyllages But in the lowe countrees was Esthaol Zaren Asna Saroah Engannim Thapna Enam Iarmoth Adullam Socho Aseka Saaraim Adithaim Gedera Giderothim These are fourtene cities their vyllages ZenaÌ Hadasa Migdal Gad Dilean Mispa Iakthiel Lachis Bazekath EgloÌ Châbon LachmaÌ Chithlis Gedâroth Beth Dagon Naama Makeda These are sixtene cities and their vyllages Libna Ether Asen Iephthah Asua Nezib Keila Achsib Maresa These are nyne cities and their vyllages * Ekron with hir doughters and vyllages From Ekron vnto the see all that reacheth vnto Asdod and the vyllages therof Asdod with the doughters and vyllages therof Gasa with hir doughters and vyllages vnto the water of Egipte And the greate see is his border But vpon the mount was Samir Iatir Socho Danna Kiriath Sanna that is Debir Anab Esthemo Annim Gosen Holen Gilo These are eleuen cities and their vyllagies Maon Carmel Siph Iuta Iesrael IakdeaÌ Sanoah Kain Gibea Thimna These are ten cities and their vyllages Halhul Bethzur Gedor Maarath Beth Anoth Elthekon These are sixe cities and their vyllages Kiriath Baal that is Kiriath Iearim Harabba two cities their vyllages And in the wyldernesse was Betharaba Middin Sechacha Nibsan and the Salt cite and Engaddi These are siâe cities and their vyllagies But the Iebusites dwelt at Ierusalem and the children of Iuda coude not dryue them awaye So the Iebusites remayne with the children of Iuda at Ierusalem vnto this daye The XVI Chapter ANd the lot fell vnto the children of Ephraim froÌ Iordane ouer agaynst Iericho vnto the water on the east syde of Iericho and the wyldernesse y t goeth vp from Iericho thorow the mountayne of Bethel and commeth out from Bethel vnto Lus and goeth thorow the coast of Arciataroth and stretcheth downe westwarde vnto y e coaste of Iaphleti to y e border of the lower Bethoron and vnto Gaser and the ende therof is by the greate see This the children of Ioseph Manasses Ephraim receaued to enheritaunce The Border of the children of Ephraim amonge their kynreds of their enheritaunce from the east was Ataroth Adar vnto the vpper Bethoron goeth out westwarde by Michmethath that lyeth towarde the north there fetcheth it a compasse towarde the east syde of the cite Thaenath Silo and goeth there thorow from the east vnto Ianoha and commeth downe from Ianoha vnto Ataroth and Naaratha and bordreth on Iericho and goeth out at Iordane From Thapuah goeth it westwarde vnto Naalkama and the out goinge of it is at the see This is the enheritaunce of the trybe of the children of Ephraim amonge their kynreds And all the borders cities with their vyllages of the childreÌ of Ephraim laye scatred amonge the enheritaunce of the children of Manasse And they droue not out y e Cananites which dwelt at Gaser So y e Cananites remayned amoÌge Ephraim vnto this daye and became tributaries The XVII Chapter ANd the lot fell vpoÌ the trybe of Manasse for he is Iosephs first sonne and it fell vpon Machir the first sonne of Manasse y e father of Gilead for he was a maÌ of armes therfore had he Gilead and Basan It fell also vnto the other children of Manasse namely vnto y e childreÌ of Abieser the children of Helek the children of Asriel the children of Sechem the children of Hepher and the children of Semida These are the childreÌ of Manasse the sonne of Ioseph males amonge their kynreds But Zelaphead the sonne of Hepher the sonne of Gilead the sonne of Machir the sonne of Manasse had no sonnes but doughters and their names are these Mahala Noa Hagla Milca Tirza and they came before Eleasar the prest and before Iosua the sonne of Nun and before the rulers and sayde The LORDE commaunded Moses to geue vs enheritaunce amonge oure brethren And so they had enheritaunce geuen them amonge their fathers brethren acordinge to the commaundement of the LORDE There fell vpon Manasse ten meetlynes without the londe of Gilead and Basan which lyeth beyoÌde Iordane For y e doughters of Manasse receaued enheritaunce amonge his sonnes but the other children of Manasse had the londe of Gilead And the border of Manasse was froÌ Asser forth vnto Michmethath that lyeth before Sichem and reacheth vnto the righte syde of them of En Tapuah for the londe of Tapuah fell vnto Manasse and the border of Manasse is vnto the childreÌ of Ephraim Then commeth it downe to Nahelkana towarde the south
Iuniper tre And beholde y e angell touched him sayde vnto him Stonde vp and eate And he loked aboute him beholde at his heade there was a bred baken on the coles a cruse w t water And whan he had eaten and dronkeÌ he layed him downe agayne to slepe And y e angell of the LORDE came agayne the seconde tyme touched him sayde Stonde vp and eate for thou hast a greate waye to go And he arose and ate and draÌke and wente on thorow the strength of that meate fortye dayes and fortye nightes eueÌ vnto Horeb y e mount of God and there he came to a caue and abode there all nighte And beholde the worde of the LORDE came to him and sayde vnto him What doest thou here Elias He sayde I haue bene zelous for the LORDE God Zebaoth for the children of Israel haue forsaken thy couenaunt and broken downe thine altares and slayne thy prophetes with the swerde and I am lefte onely they seke to take awaye my life He sayde Go forth and stonde vpon the mount before the LORDE And beholde the LORDE weÌte ouer and a greate mightie wynde which roue the mountaynes and brake the harde stones came before the LORDE but the LORDE was not in the wynde After the wynde came there an earthquake but the LORDE was not in the earthquake And after the earth quake there came a fyre but the LORDE was not in the fyre And after the fyre came there a styll softe hyssinge Whan Elias herde that he couered his face with his cloke and wente forth and stode in the dore of the caue And beholde there came a voyce vnto him and sayde What hast thou here to do Elias He sayde I haue bene zelous for the LORDE God Zebaoth for the children of Israel haue forsakeÌ thy couenaunt broken downe thine altares slayne y e prophetes w t theswerde I onely am lefte and they seke to take awaye my life But the LORDE sayde vnto him Go y e waye agayne thorow the wyldernes vnto Damascon go in anoynte Hasael kynge ouer Siria Iehu the sonne of Nimsi kynge ouer Israel Eliseus y e sonne of Saphat of Abel Mehola to be prophet in y e steade And it shal come to passe y t who so escapeth the swerde of Hasael Iehu shall slaye him who so escapeth y e swerde of Iehu Eliseus shal slaye him And I wil reserue vnto me vij M. men in Israel namely all y e knees which haue not bowed theÌ selues vnto Baal and euery mouth y t hath not kyssed him And he departed thence founde Elizeus y e sonne of Saphat plowinge w t twolue yocke of oxen before him he himselfe was amoÌge the twolue And Elias weÌte vnto him cast his cloke vpon him And he lefte the oxen ranne after Elias sayde Let me kysse my father my mother and so wil I folowe the. And he sayde vnto him Go thy waye come agayne for I haue some what to do with the. And he ranne agayne from him and toke a yock of oxen and offred it and sod y e flesh with the wod of the oxen plowes and gaue it vnto the people to eate and gat him vp folowed Elias and mynistred vnto him The XX. Chapter ANd Benadab y e kynge of Siria gathered all his power there were two thirtie kynges w t him horses charettes and he wente vp and layed sege vnto Samaria foughte agaynst it And he sent messaungers vnto Achab y e kynge of Israel in to y e cite caused to saye vnto him Thus sayeth Benadab Thy syluer thy golde is myne and thy wyues thy best children are myne also The kynge of Israel answered sayde My lorde O kynge euen as thou hast sayde I am thine and all that I haue And the messaungers came agayne sayde Thus sayeth Benadab For so moch as I haue sent vnto the sayenge Thy syluer thy golde thy wyues thy childreÌ shalt thou geue me tomorow aboute this tyme wil I sende my seruauÌtes vnto the y t they maye serch thyne house and the houses of thy subiectes loke what pleasaunt thinge thou hast y t shal they take in their handes and cary it awaye So the kynge of Israel called all y e Elders of the loÌde sayde Mark well se what myschefe this maÌ seketh He sent vnto me for my wyues children for syluer golde I haue not sayde him naye Then sayde all the Elders and all the people vnto him Thou shalt not coÌsente ner agree vnto him And he spake vnto Benadabs messauÌgers Saye vnto my lorde y e kynge All y e thynges wherfore thou dyddest sende vnto me y e seruaunt at y e first wil I do but this can I not do And y e messaungers weÌte and tolde this againe TheÌ sent Benadab vnto him sayeÌge The goddes do this and y t vnto me yf the dust of Samaria shal be ynough for euery one of my people to brynge me an handfull therof But y e kynge of Israel answered sayde Tell him Let not him y t putteth on y e harnes make his boast like him y t hath put it of WhaÌ Benadab herde y t eueÌ as he was drynkinge w t the kynges in y e pauylion he sayde vnto his seruauÌtes Set yo r selues in araye And they set theÌ selues in araie against y e cite And beholde there came a prophet vnto Achab y e kynge of Israel saide Thus sayeth the LORDE Hast thou sene all this greate multitude Beholde this daie wil I delyuer theÌ in to y e hande so y t thou shalt knowe how y t I am y e LORDE Achab sayde By whom He sayde Thus sayeth the LORDE Euen by the yonge men of the rulers of the londe He sayde Who shal order the battayl He sayde Thou Then mustered he the yonge men of the rulers of the londe there were two huÌdreth and two and thirtie of them after theÌ mustured he of the whole people of all the childreÌ of Israel seueÌ thousande men and they wente out in the noone daye As for Benadab he dranke and was dronken in the pauylion with the two thirtie kynges which were come to helpe him And the yonge men of the rulers of the londe wente forth first Benadab sent forth they brought him worde sayde There come men out of Samaria He sayde Take them alyue whether they be come forth for peace or for warre But whan the londe rulers yonge men were gone forth and the hoost behynde them euery one smote him y t came in his waye And the Sirians fled and Israel folowed after them And Benadab the kynge of Syria escaped with horses and horsmeÌ And the kynge of Israel wente forth and smote horses and charettes and dyd a greate slaughter on the Syrians Then came there a prophet vnto the
thou commest agayne in peace then hath not the LORDE spoken thorow me And he sayde herken to all ye people So the kynge of Israel and Iosaphat y e kynge of Iuda wente vp vnto Ramoth in Gilead And the kynge of Israel sayde vnto Iosaphat Chaunge thy clothes and come in to y e battayll in thine araie The kinge of Israel chaunged his clothes also and weÌte in to the battayll But the kynge of Siria commaunded the rulers of his charettes of whom there were two and thirtie and saide Ye shal fight nether agaynst small ner greate but onely agaynst the kynge of Israel And whan the rulers of the charettes sawe Iosaphat they thought it had bene the kynge of Israel and fell vpon him with fightinge But Iosaphat cried So whan the rulers of the charettes sawe that it was not y e kinge of Israel they turned back froÌ him A certayne man bended his bowe harde and shott the kynge of Israel betwene the mawe and y e longes And he sayde vnto his charetman Turne thine haÌde and cary me out of the hoost for I am wounded And y e battayll was sore the same daie And the kinge stode vpoÌ his charet agaynst the SyriaÌs and dyed in the eueninge and the bloude ranne from the wounde in to the myddes of the charet And whan the Sonne wente downe there was a proclamacion made in the hoost and sayde Euery one gett him in to his cite and to his countre Thus the kynge dyed and was broughte vnto Samaria and they buryed him in Samaria And whan they waszshed the charett in the pole of Samaria y e dogges licked his bloude but the harlottes waszshed him acordinge to the worde of y e LORDE which he spake What more there is to saye of Achab all y t he dyd and of the Yuery house which he buylded beholde it is wrytten in the Cronicles of the kynges of Israel So Achab slepte with his fathers and his sonne Ahasia was kynge in his steade And Iosaphat the sonne of Asa was kynge ouer Iuda in the fourth yeare of Achab kynge of Israel and was fyue and thirtie yeare olde whan he was made kynge and raigned fyue and twentye yeare at IerusaleÌ His mothers name was Asuba y e doughter of Silhi and he walked in all the waye of his father Asa departed not there from And he dyd that which was right in y e sighte of the LORDE yet put he not awaye y e hie places and y e people offred and brent in ceÌse yet vpon the hye places and he had peace with the kynge of Israel What more there is to saye of Iosaphat and the mighte that he exercised and how he fought beholde it is wrytten in the Cronicles of the kynges of Iuda He put out of the londe also the whoremongers that yet were lefte which remayned ouer in the tyme of his father Asa. And at that tyme there were no kynges in Edom. And Iosaphat had caused to make shippes vpon the See which shulde go to fetch golde in Ophir but they wente not for they were broken at Ezeon Gaber At that tyme sayde Ahasia the sonne of Achab vnto Iosaphat Let my seruauntes passe with thy seruauntes in the shippes But Iosaphat wolde not And Iosaphat slepte with his fathers and was buried in y e cite of Dauid And Ioram his sonne was kynge in his steade The ende of the thirde boke of the kynges The fourth boke of the kynges What this boke conteyneth Chap. I. Of the reigne of Ochosias otherwyse called Ahasia and of Ioram his brother and how the fyre coÌsumed the two captaynes with their men Chap. II. Elias is taken vp in a fyrie charet Eliseus receaueth the sprete of Elias maketh the bytter water swete and curseth the mysnurtoured children Chap. III. Of Ioram and Iosaphat and of their warre what Eliseus saide vnto them Chap. IIII. Eliseus helpeth the womaÌ that was in dett and for another woman which had no children he optayneth one of God which childe beynge deed he rayseth vp agayne Chap. V. Naaman the chefe captayne of Siria is clensed from his leprosy and Gehasi Eliseus seruaunt is made leporous Chap. VI. The yron swymmeth in the water The kynge of Siria fighteth agaynst Israel His seruauntes which go aboute to take Eliseus are smytten with blyndnes A greate honger in Samaria Chap. VII Of the foure lepers which came in to the tentes of the Syrians and how vytayles beganne to be good chepe Chap. VIII Of the seuen yeare derth Benadab is sick and areth couÌcell at Eliseus Of Ochosias the sonne of Ioram Chap. IX Of Iehu how he was anoynted kinge ouer Israel and how he roted out the houof Achab and of Iesabel Chap. X. The heades of Achabs seuentie sonnes are broughte vnto Iehu Of Ochosias brethren Iehu slayeth Baal prestes Chap. XI Atalia destroyeth all the kynges sede saue Ioas which escapeth and is made kynge by Ioiada the prest Chap. XII Ioas ruleth well whyle Ioiada is alyue but euell after his death Chap. XIII Of the kynges Ioachias Ioas Ieroboam and how the deed that was layed in Eliseus graue reuyued Chap. XIIII Of Ioas Amasias Ieroboam and Azarias Chap. XV. Of Azarias the Leper and of his sonne Ionathas Of Zacharias the kynge of Israel Of Sellum Manahem Pacea Romelia And how Teglatphalasser coÌquererh the cities of Iuda ⪠Chap. XVI Of Achas Resin and Ezechias Chap. XVII Of Osea how Salmanasar came vpon him and conquered and caried the people awaye captyue And how God punyshed those that came in their steade Chap. XVIII Of the good kynge Ezechias how Sennacherib troubleth him Chap. XIX Ezechias sendeth vnto Esay which comforreth him God defendeth Ezechias delyuereth him Chap. XX. Ezechias is deed sick but Esay at the commaundement of the LORDE promyseth him to lyue yet fyftene yeare Chap. XXI Of the reigne of the vngodly kynge Manasses how he lyued and how he dyed Of his sonne Amon. Chap. XXII Of the reigne of that noble vertuous kynge Iosias and of his goodly actes Chap. XXIII How Iosias caused the boke of the couenauÌt to be red vnto all the people and setteth vp the true honoure of God againe Of Ioachas his sonne Chap. XXIII How Nabuchodonosor coÌmeth vpon kynge Ioachim and carieth awaye Ioachim his sonne vnto Babilon Chap. XXV Nabuchodonosor layeth sege to IerusaleÌ wynneth it setteth fyre on it and caryeth awaye the kynge and the people presoners vnto Babilon The fyrst Chapter AHasia the sonne off Achab was kynge ouer Israel at Samaria in y e seuententh yeare of Iosaphat kiÌge of Iuda reigned ouer Israel two yeares dyd y t which was euell in y e sight of the LORDE and walked in the waye of his father and of his mother in the waie of Ieroboam y e sonne of Nebat which made Israel for to synne And serued Baal and worshipped him and displeased the LORDE God of Israel eueÌ as his father dyd The
thousande guldens ten chaunge of rayment broughte the letter vnto the kynge of Israel with these wordes Whan this letter commeth vnto the beholde thou shalt vnderstonde y t I haue sent my seruaunt Naaman vnto the that thou mayest heale him of his leprosy And whan the kynge of Israel red the letter he rente his clothes sayde Am I God then that I can kyll and quyckeÌ agayne y t he sendeth vnto me to heale the man froÌ his leprosy Considre and se how he seketh an occasion vnto me Whan Eliseus the man of God herde y t the kynge of Israel had rente his clothes he sent vnto him sayenge Why hast thou rente thy clothes Let him come to me that he maye knowe y t there is a prophet in Israel So Naaman came with horses and charettes and helde still at the dore of Eliseus house Then sent Eliseus a messaunger vnto him sayenge Go thy waye and waszshe the seuen tymes in Iordane so shal thy flesh be restored the agayne be clensed Then was Naaman wroth wente his waye sayde I thoughte he shulde haue come forth vnto me to haue stoÌde here to haue called vpoÌ the name of the LORDE his God to haue touched the place with his hande so to haue put awaye the leprosy Are not y e waters of Amana and Pharphar at Damascon better then all the waters in Israel y t I might waszshe me therin be cleÌsed and he turned him and weÌte his waye in displeasure Then his seruauntes gat theÌ to him and sayde Father yf the prophet had coÌmaunded the eny greate thinge shuldest thou not haue done it moch more theÌ yf he saye vnto the Wasshe the thou shalt be cleane Then weÌte he downe waszshed him selfe in Iordane seueÌ tymes as the man of God sayde his flesh was restored him agayne euen as the flesh of a yonge childe and he was clensed And he turned agayne to y e man of God with all his armye And whan he came in he stode before him and sayde Beholde I knowe that in all londes there is no God but in Israel Take now therfore this blessynge I praye the of thy seruaunt Neuertheles he sayde As truly as the LORDE lyueth before whom I stonde I wil not take it And he wolde nedes haue him to take it but he wolde not Then sayde Naaman Mighte there not a burtheÌ of this earth be geueÌ vnto y e seruaunt as moch as two Mules maye beare For thy seruaunt wyll nomore do sacrifice and offer burnt offerynges vn to other goddes but vnto the LORDE That the LORDE maye be gracious vnto thy seruaunt yf I worshippe in the house of Rimmon whaÌ my lorde goeth there in to y e house to worshippe leaneth vpon my hande He sayde vnto him Go thy waye in peace And as he was gone frâm him a felde bredth in the londe Gehasi the seruaunt of Eliseus y e man of God thoughte beholde my lorde hath spared NaamaÌ this Syrian so that he hath not taken from him y t which he broughte As truly as y e LORDE lyueth I wil ruÌne after him take somthinge of him So Gehasi folowed Naaman And whaÌ Naaman sawe y t he ranne after him he lighte downe from the charet to mete him sayde Are all thinges well He sayde Yee But my lorde hath sent me caused to saye vnto the Beholde there are now come to me fro mount Ephraim two yonge men of the prophetes childreÌ geue them a taleÌte of siluer I praye the two chaunge of rayment NaamaÌ saide Go to take two taleÌtes And he coÌpelled him bande two talentes in two bagges and two chaunge of rayment and delyuered it vnto two of his seruauntes which bare it before him And whan he came in y e darcke he toke it from their handes layed it a syde in the house let the men go And whan they were gone their waye he stode before his lorde And Eliseus sayde vn to him Whence commest thou Gehasi He sayde Thy seruaunt wente nether hither ner thither But he sayde vnto him Wente not my hert w t the whan the man turned backe from his charet to mete the ⪠Now thou hast takeÌ the syluer the rayment olyue trees vynyardes shepe oxen seruauntes maydens But the leprosy of Naaman shal cleue vnto the to thy sede for euer Then weÌte he forth from him leporous as snowe The VI. Chapter THe children of y e prophetes sâyde vn to Eliseus Beholde the place where we dwell before y e is to narow for vs let vs go vnto Iordane euery one fetch tymbre there y t we maye there buylde vs a place to dwell in He saide Go yo r waye And one sayde Go to then come w t thy seruauntes He sayde I wil go with you And he weÌte with them And whan they came to Iordane they hewed downe tymber And as one was fellynge downe a tre the yron fell in to the water and he cried and sayde Alas my lorde it is burowed But the man of God sayde Where fell it in And whan he had shewed him the place he cut downe a sticke and thrust it in there Then swaÌme the yron And he sayde Take it vp So he put forth his hande and toke it And the kynge of Syria warred agaynst Israel and toke councell at his seruauntes and sayde There there will we lye But the man of God sent to y e kynge of Israel sayenge Bewarre y t thou go not vnto that place for the Syrians rest there So the kynge of Israel sent vnto y e place wherof y e man of God tolde him kepte it helde watch there dyd that not once or twyse onely TheÌ was y e kynge of Syrias herte vexed therfore and called his seruauntes and sayde vnto them Wyll ye not tell me which of oure men is fled vnto the kynge of Israel Then sayde one of his seruauntes Not so my lorde O kynge but Eliseus the prophet in Israel telleth the kynge of Israel all that thou speakest in thy chamber where thou lyest He sayde Go youre waye theÌ and loke where he is that I maye sende and cause him be fetched And they shewed him and sayde Beholde he is at Dothan TheÌ sent he thither horses charetes a greate power And whaÌ they came thither by nighte they compased the cite aboute And the mynister of the maÌ of God arose early to get him vp And as he weÌte forth beholde there laye an hoost of men aboute y e cite with horses and charettes Then saide his childe vnto him Alas syr how wyll we now do He sayde Feare not for there are mo of them y t are with vs then of those that are with them And Eliseus prayed sayde LORDE open his eyes y t he maye se. Then the LORDE opened y e childes eyes y t he sawe beholde
y e mount was full of fyrie horses charettes rouÌde aboute Eliseus And whaÌ they came downe vnto him Eliseus made his prayer sayde LORDE smyte this people w t blyndnes And he smote theÌ with blyndnes acordinge to the worde of Eliseus And Eliseus saide vnto them This is not y e waye nor the cite folowe me I wil brynge you to the man whom ye seke And he broughte them vnto Samaria And whan they came to Samaria Eliseus sayde LORDE open these mens eyes y t they maye se. And the LORDE opened their eyes y t they sawe beholde they were in the myddes of Samaria And whan the kynge of Israel sawe them he saide vnto Eliseus My father shal I smyte theÌ He saide Thou shalt not smyte theÌ loke whom thou takest with thy swerde and bowe smyte those Set bred and water before them that they maye eate and drynke and let them departe vnto their lorde TheÌ was there a greate dyner prepared And whan they had eaten and dronken he let them go to departe vnto their lorde From that tyme forth came the men of warre of the Syrians nomore in to the londe of Israel After this is fortuned that Benadab the kynge of Syria gathered all his hoost and weÌte vp layed sege vnto Samaria there was a greate derth at Samaria But they layed sege to the cite so longe tyll an Asses heade was worth foure score syluer peÌs and the fourth parte of a Cab of doues donge worth fyue syluer pens And whan the kynge of Israel wente vnto the wall a woman cried vnto him and sayde Helpe me my lorde O kynge He sayde Yf the LORDE helpe the not wherwith shal I helpe the with y e barne or with the wyne presse And the kynge sayde vnto her What ayleth y e She sayde This woman sayde vnto me Geue vs y e sonne that we maye eate him tomorow wyll we eate my sonne So we sod my sonne haue eaten him and I sayde vnto her on y e thirde daye Geue vs thy sonne and let vs eate him but she hath hyd him awaye Whan the kynge herde the womans wordes he rente his clothes whyle he was goynge to the wall TheÌ sawe all the people that he had a sackcloth vnder vpon his body And he sayde God do this and that vnto me yf the heade of Eliseus the sonne of Saphat shal this daye stonde vpon him As for Eliseus he sat in his house the Elders sat by him And he sent a man before him but or euer the messaunge came to him he sayde vn to y e Elders Haue ye not sene how this childe of murthure hath sent hither to take awaye my heade Take hede whan the messaunger coÌmeth y t ye holde him at the dore Beholde y e noyse of his lordes fete foloweth him Whyle he was thus talkynge w t them beholde y e messaunger came to him sayde Beholde this euell coÌmeth of y e LORDE and what more shal I loke for of the LORDE The VII Chapter ELiseus sayde Heare the worde of the LORDE Thus sayeth the LORDE Tomorow aboute this tyme shal a buszshel of fyne meel be solde for one Sycle and two buszshels of barly for one Sycle vnder the porte of Samaria Then a knyghte vpon whose hande the kynge leaned answered the maÌ of God and sayde And though the LORDE made wyndowes in heaueÌ how coulde soch a thinge come to passe He saide Beholde thou shalt se it with thine eyes shalt not eate therof And there were foure leporous men at y e dore before the porte and one sayde vnto another Why tary we here whyle we dye Though we thoughte to come in to the cite yet is there derth in y e cite and there shulde we be fayne to dye And yf we tary here we must dye also Let vs go now and flye vnto the hoost of the Syrians Yf they let vs lyue we shall lyue yf they slaye vs then are we deed And so they gat them vp early to come vnto the hoost of the Syrians And whan they came to the vttemost ende of y e tentes beholde there was no body For the LORDE had made the Syrians to heare a noyse of horses charettes and of a mightie greate hoost so that they sayde one to another amonge theÌselues Beholde the kynge of Israel hath hyred the kynge of the Hethites and the kynge of the Egipcians agaynst vs to come vpoÌ vs. And they gat them vp and fled early in the twylight and lefte their bothes and horses and Asses in the tentes as they stode fled euery man where he mighte saue his life Now whan the lepers came to the place of the tentes they wente in to the tentes ate and dronke and toke syluer golde and rayment and wente and hyd it came agayne entred in to another tent and toke therout and wente and hyd it But one of them saide vnto another Let vs not do thus this daye is a daye of good tidynges Yf we kepe this secrete and byde tyll the lighte mornynge oure trespace wyl be founde out Let vs go now therfore that we maye come tell the kynges house And whan they came they cried at the porte of the cite and tolde them and sayde We came to the tentes of the Sirians and beholde there is no maÌ there nether yet eny mans voyce but horses and asses bounde and the bothes as they stonde Then cried y e porters and tolde it within in y e kynges house And the kynge arose in the nighte sayde vnto his seruauntes I will tell you how y e Syrians deale with vs they knowe y t we suffer honger and are gone out of the teÌtes to hyde them selues in the felde and thynke thus whan they go out of the cite we wyll take them alyue come in to the cite Then answered one of his seruauntes and sayde Let vs take the fyue horses that remayne which yet are lefte in the cite beholde these are left therin for all y e multitude in Israel which is destroyed let vs sende these and se. TheÌ toke they two charettes with y e horses And the kynge sent them vnto the tentes of the Syrians and sayde Go youre waye and se. And whan they wente after theÌ vnto Iordane beholde the waye laye full of garmentes and vessels which the Syrians had cast from theÌ whyle they made haist And whan the messaungers came agayne and tolde the kynge the people wente forth and spoyled the tentes of the Syrians And a buszshel of fyne meell was solde for a Sycle and two buszshels of barlye for a Sycle also acordinge to the worde of the LORDE But the kynge appoynted the knyghte vpon whose hande he leened to be at the gate the people trode vpon him so that he dyed euen as the man of God sayde whan the kynge came downe vnto him And it came to passe euen as y e man of God
bullockes and ten thousande shepe And many of the prestes sanctified them selues And the whole congregacion of Iuda reioysed the prestes and Leuites and all the congregacion that came out of Israel and the straungers that were come out of the londe of Israel and they that dwelt in Iuda and greate ioye was there at Ierusalem for sence the tyme of Salomon the sonne of Dauid the kynge of Israel was there no soch ioye at IerusaleÌ And the prestes and Leuites stode vp and blessed the people and their voyce was herde and their prayer came in to his holy habitacion in heauen The XXXI Chapter ANd whan all this was fynished all the Israelites that were founde in y e cities of Iuda wente out and brake the pilers and hewed downe the groues and brake downe the hye places and altares out of all Iuda Ben Iamin Ephraim and Manasses tyll they had destroyed theÌ And all the children of Israel wente agayne euery one to his possession vnto their cities But Ezechias set the prestes and Leuites in their ordinaunces euery one after his office both the prestes and Leuites for the burntsacrifices and thank offerynges to mynister to geue thankes and prayse in the gates of the hoost of the LORDE And the kynge gaue his porcion of his substauÌce for the burnt offerynges in the mornynge and euenynge and for the burnt offerynges of the Sabbath and of the newmone and of the feastes as it is wrytten in the lawe of the LORDE And he spake vnto y e people which dwelt at Ierusalem that they shulde geue porcioÌs vnto the prestes and Leuites y t they mighte the more stedfastly endure in the lawe of the LORDE And whaÌ y e worde came forth the childreÌ of Israel gaue many fyrst frutes of corne wyne oyle hony and allmaner increace of the felde and broughte in moch of all maner tithes And the children of Israel and Iuda which dwelt in the cities of Iuda broughte the tithes also of oxen and shepe and the tithes of soch thinges as were sanctifyed which they had halowed vnto the LORDE their God and made here an heape and there an heape In the thirde moneth begaÌne they to laye vpon heapes and in the seuenth moneth dyd they fynishe it And whaÌ Ezechias with the rulers wente in and sawe the heapes they praysed the LORDE and his people of Israel And Ezechiâs axed the prestes and Leuites concernynge the heapes And Asaria the prest the chefe in the house of Sadoc sayde vnto him Sence the tyme that they beganne to brynge the Heue offerynges in to y e house of the LORDE we haue eaten and are satisfied and yet is there lefte ouer for the LORDE hath blessed his people therfore is this heape lefte ouer Then commaunded the kynge that they shulde prepare chestes in the house of the LORDE And they prepared them ⪠and put in the Heue offerynges and tithes and that which was halowed faithfully And the ouersighte of the same had Chanania the Leuite and Simei his brother the seconde and Iehiel Asasia Naglath Asahel Ierimoth Iosabad Eliel Iesmachia Mahath and Benaia ordeyned of the hande off Chanania and Simei his brother acordinge to the commaundement of kynge Ezechias But Asaria was prynce in the house of God And Core y e sonne of Iemna the Leuite the power of the Eastgate was ouer the frewyllinge giftes of God which were geuen for Heue offerynges vnto the LORDE and ouer the Most holy And vnder his hande were Eden Miniamin Iesua Semaia Amaria and Sachania in the cities of the prestes vpon credence that they shulde geue vnto their brethreÌ acordinge to their courses to the leest as to the greatest And vnto them that were counted for men childreÌ from thre yeare olde and aboue amonge all theÌ that weÌte in to the house of the LORDE euery one vpoÌ his daye to their office in their attendaunces after their courses And they that were rekened for prestes in the house of their fathers and the Leuites from twentye yeare and aboue in their attendaunces after their courses And they that were rekened amonge their children wyues sonnes and doughters amoÌge the whole congregacion for that which was halowed sanctifyed they vpon credence There were men also named by name amonge Aarons children the prestes vpon the feldes of the suburbes in all y e cities that they shulde geue porcions vnto all the men children amoÌge the prestes and to all them that were nombred amonge the Leuites Thus dyd Ezechias in all Iuda and dyd that which was good righte and true in the sighte of the LORDE his God And in all the busynes that he toke in haÌde concernynge the seruyce of the house of God acordinge to the lawe and commaundement to seke his God that dyd he with all his hert and therfore prospered he well The XXXII Chapter AFter these actes and faithfulnes came Sennacharib the kynge of Assur and wente in to Iuda and pitched before the stroÌge cities and thoughte to plucke them vnto him And whan Ezechias sawe that Sennacherib came and that his face stode to fighte agaynst Ierusalem he deuysed with his rulers and mightie men to couer the waters of the welles that were without the cite and they helped him and there gathered together a greate people and couered all y e welles and water brokes in the myddes of the londe and sayde Lest the kynges of Assur fynde moch water whaÌ they come And he toke a corage vnto him and buylded all the walles where they were in decaye and made towres theron and buylded yet another wall without and strengthed Millo in the cite of Dauid And made moch ordinaunce and shyldes and set captaynes of warre ouer the people And gathered them vnto him vpon the brode strete by the gate of the cite and spake hertely vnto them and sayde Be stronge and bolde feare not and be not afrayed for the kynge of Assur ner all y e multitude that is with him for there is one greater with vs then with him With him is a fleshly arme but with vs is the LORDE oure God to helpe vs and to fighte for vs. And y e people trusted vnto the wordes of Ezechias kynge of Iuda Afterwarde sent Sennacherib the kynge of Assur his seruauntes vnto Ierusalem for he laye before Lachis all his hoost w t him to Ezechias y e kinge of Iuda to all Iuda that was at IerusaleÌ sayenge Thus sayeth Sennacherib y e kynge of Assur Wherin put ye youre trust ye that dwell in the beseged Ierusalem Ezechias disceaueth you that he maye delyuer you vnto death hoÌger and thyrst and sayeth The LORDE oure God shal delyuer vs from the hande of the kynge of Assur Is it not Ezechias that hath put awaye his hye places and altares and sayde vnto Iuda and Ierusalem Before one altare shal ye worshippe and burne incense theron Knowe ye not what I and my fathers haue done to all y e people in the londes Haue the
glad that thou iudgest the folke rightuously and gouernest the nacions vpoÌ earth Let the people prayse the o God let all people prayse the. God euen oure owne God geue vs his blessinge that the earth maye bringe forth hir increase God blesse vs and let all the endes of y e worlde feare him The LXVII A psalme of Dauid LEt God aryse so shal his enemies be scatered and they that hate him shal fle before him Like as the smoke vanisheth so shalt thou dryue them awaye and like as waxe melteth at the fyre so shall the vngodly perish at the presence off God But the rightuous shal be glad reioyse before God they shal be mery ioyful Oh synge vnto God synge prayses vnto his name magnifie him y e rydeth aboue the heaueÌs whose name is y e LORDE reioyse before hiÌ He is a father of y e fatherlesse he is a defender of widdowes eueÌ God in his holy habitacioÌ He is the God y t maketh meÌ to be of one mynde in a house bryngeth y e presoners out of captiuite in due season but letteth y e rennagates coÌtinue in scarcenesse O God when thou weÌtest forth before y e people wheÌ thou weÌtest thorow y e wildernes Sela. The earth shoke y e heauens dropped at the presence of God in Sinai at y e presence of God which is y e God of Israel Thou o God sendest a gracious rayne vpon thyne enheritauÌce refreshest it when it is drye That thy beastes maye dwell therin which thou of thy goodnes hast prepared for the poore The LORDE shal geue the worde w t greate hoostes of EuaÌgelistes Ringes w t their armies shal fle they of y e housholde shal deuyde y e spoyle Yf so be y t ye lye amoÌge the pales the doues fethers shal be couered with syluer hir winges of the colo r of golde When the All mightie setteth kynges vpoÌ the earth it shal be cleare euen in the darcknesse The hill of Basan is Gods hill the hill of Basan is a pleÌteous hill Why hoppe ye so ye greate hilles It pleaseth God to dwell vpoÌ this hill yeâ the LORDE wil abyde in it for euer The charettes of God are many M. tymes a thousande the LORDE is amoÌge them in the holy Sinai Thou art gone vp an hye thou hast led captyuite captyue receaued giftes for meÌ Yee euen for thy enemies that they might dwell with the LORDE God Praysed be the LORDE daylie eueÌ y e God which helpeth vs poureth his benefites vpoÌ vs. Sela. The God y t is o r Sauio r eueÌ God the LORDE by whoÌ we escape death The God that smyteth his enemies vpoÌ the heades vpon the hayrie scalpes soch as go on still in their wikednes The LORDE hath sayde some wil I bringe agayne from Basan some wil I bringe agayne froÌ the depe of the see That thy fote maye be dipped in the bloude of thine enemies that thy dogges maye licke it vp It is well seâe o God how thou goest how thou my God and kynge goest in the Sanctuary The syngers go before and then the mynstrells amonge the maydens with the tymbrels O geue thankes vnto God the LORDE in the congregacion for the welles of Israel There litle Beniamin the prynces of Iuda the prynces of ZabuloÌ and the prynces of Nephthali beare rule amoÌge them Thy God hath coÌmitted streÌgth vn to the stablish the thinge o God that thou hast wrought in vs. For thy teÌples sake at Ierusalem shal kynges brynge presentes vnto the. Reproue the beestes amonge the redes the heape of bulles with the calues those that dryue for money Oh scaâre the people that delyte in batayle The prynces shal come out of Egipte the Morians loÌde shal stretch out hir hondes vnto God Synge vnto God o ye kyngdomes of the earth o synge prayses vnto the LORDE Sela. Which sytteth in the heauens ouer all froÌ the begynnge Lo he shal sende out his voyce yee and that a mightie voyce Ascrybe ye the power vnto God his glory is in Israel and his might in the cloudes God is wonderfull in his Sanctuary he is the God of Israel he will geue strength and power vnto his people Blessed be God The LXVIII A psalme of Dauid HElpe me o God for the waters are come in eueÌ vnto my soule I sticke fast in the depe myre where no grounde is I am come in to depe waters and the floudes wil drowne me I am weery of crienge my throte is drye my sight fayleth me for waytinge so longe vpon my God They y t hate me without a cause are mo then the hayres of my heade ⪠they that are myne enemies wolde destroye me giltlesse are mightie I am fayne to paye the thinges y t I neuer toke God thou knowest my symplenesse and my fautes are not hyd from the. Let not them that trust in the o LORDE God of hoostes be ashamed for my cause let not those y t seke the be confounded thorow me o God oâ Israel And why for thy sake do I suffre reprofe shame couereth my face I am become a straunger vnto my brethren and an aleaunt vnto my mothers children For the zele of thine house hath euen eaten me and the rebukes of them that rebuked the is fallen vpon me I wepte and chastened my self w t fastinge and that was turned to my reprofe I put on a sacke cloth and therfore they iested vpon me They that satt in the gate spake agaynst me and the dronckardes made songes vpon me But LORDE I made my prayer vnto the in an acceptable tyme Heare me o God with thy greate mercy sure helpe Take me out of the myre y t I syncke not Oh let me be delyuered froÌ theÌ y t hate me out of y e depe waters ãâ¦ã floude drowne me that the ãâ¦ã not vp y t the pitte shut not hir mouth vpon me Heare me o LORDE for thy louynge kyndnesse is confortable turne the vnto me acordinge vnto y e greate mercy Hyde not thy face from thy seruauÌt for I am in trouble O haist y e to helpe me Drawe nye vnto my soâle and saue it Oh delyuer me because of ãâã enemies Thou knowest my reprofe my shame my dishono r my aduersaries are all in thy sight The rebuke breaketh my hert maketh me heuy I loke for some to haue pitie vpon me but there is no man for some to coÌforte me but I fynde none They gaue me gall to eate wheÌ I was thurstie they gaue me vyneger to drynke Let their table be made a snare to take them selues withall an occasion to fall a rewarde vnto them Let their eyes be blynded that they se not euer bowe downe their backes Poure out thy indignacion vpon them let thy wrothfull displeasure take holde of them Let their habitacion be voyde no man to dwell in their tentes
I was in heuynesse I thought vpoÌ God wheÌ my hert was vexed then dyd I speake Sela. Thou heldest myne eyes waâââge I was so feble that I coude not speake Then remembred I the tymes of olde the yeares that were past I called to remembraunce my songe in the night I commoned with myne owne herte and sought out my spâete Wil the LORDE cast out for euer Wil he be nomore intreated Is his mercy cleane gone Is his promyse come vtterly to an ende for euermore Hath the LORDE forgotten to be gracious Or hath he shut vp his louynge kyndnesse in displeasure Sela. At the last I came to this poynte that I thought O why art thou so foolish the right honde of the most hyest can chaunge all Therfore wil I remembre the workes of the LORDE and call to mynde thy wonders of olde tyme. I wil speake of all thy workes and my talkynge shal be of thy doinges Thy waye o God is holy who is so greate mightie as God Thou art the God that doth wonders thou hast declared thy power amonge the people Thou with thine arme hast delyuered thy people euen the sonnes of Iacob and Ioseph Sela. The waters sawe y e o God y e waters sawe y e were afrayed y e depthes were moued The thicke cloudes poured out water y e cloudes thoÌdered and thy arowes wente abrode Thy thonder was herde rounde aboute the lighteninges shone vpon the grounde the earth was moued and shoke withall Thy waye was in the see and thy pathes in the greate waters yet coude no man knowe thy fotesteppes Thou leddest thy people like a flocke of shepe by the honde of Moses and Aaron The LXXVII A psalme of Asaph HEare my lawe o my people encline yo r eares vnto y e wordes of my mouth I wil open my mouth in parables and speake of thinges of olde Which we haue herde and knowne and soch as oure fathers haue tolde vs. That we shulde not hyde them from the children of the generacions to come but to shewe the honoure of the LORDE his might and wonderfull workes that he hath done He made a couenaunt with Iacob and gaue Israel a lawe which he coÌmaunded oure forefathers to teach their children That their posterite might knowe it and the children which were yet vnborne To the intent y t when they came vp they might shewe their children the same That they also might put their trust in God not to forget what he had done but to kepe his coÌmaundementes And not to be as their forefathers a frowarde and ouerthwarte generacion a generacion that set not their herte a right and whose sprete was not true towarde God Like as the children of Ephraim which beynge harnessed and carienge bowes turned them selues backe in the tyme of battayll They kepte not the couenauÌt of God wolde not walke in his lawe They forgat what he had done and the wonderfull workes that he had shewed for them Maruelous thinges dyd he in the sight of their fathers in the londe of Egipte euen in the felde of Zoan He deuyded the see and let them go thorow it and made the waters to stonde like a wall In the daye tyme he led them with a cloude and all the nâght thorow with a light of fyre He cloaue the hard rockes in the wildernesse and gaue them drynke therof as it had bene out of the greate dââpth He brought waters out of the ãâã rocke so that they gushed out like ãâ¦ã Yet for all this they synned agaynst him and prouoked the most hyest in the wildernesse They tempted God in their hertes and requyred meate for their lust For they spake agaynst God and sayde Yee yee God shal prepare a table in the wyldernesse shall he Lo he smote the stony rocke that the watery streames gushed out and the streames flowed withall but how can he geue bred and prouyde flesh for his people When the LORDE herde this he was wroth so the fyre was kyndled in Iacob and heuy displeasure agaynst Israel Because theâ beleued not in God and put not their trust in his helpe So he commauÌded the cloudes aboue and opened the dores of heauen He rayned downe Manna vpoÌ them for to eate and gaue them bred from heauen Then ate they angels fode for he sent them meate ynough He caused the east wynde to blowe vnder the heauen and thorow his power he brought in the south wynde He made flesh to rayne vpon them as thicke as dust and fethered foules like the sonde of y e see He let it fall amoÌge their teÌtes rouÌde aboute their habitacioÌs So they ate were fylled for he gaue them their owne desyre They were not dispoynted of their lust But whyle y e meate was yet in theyr mouthes The heuy wrath of God came vpoÌ theÌ slewe y e welthiest of theÌ smote downe y e chosen men of Israel But for all this they synned yet more and beleued not his woÌderous workes Therfore their dayes were consumed in vanite and sodenly their yeares were gone When he slewe them they sought him and turned them âarly vnto God They thought then that God was their socoure and that the hye God was their redemer Neuerthelesse they dyd but flater him in their mouthes and dissembled with him in their tonges For their herte was not whole with him nether continued they in his couenaunt But he was so mercifull that he forgaue their mysdedes and destroyed them not Yee many a tyme turned he his wrath awaye and wolde not suffre his whole displeasure to aryse For he considered y t they were but flesh euen a wynde that passeth awaye and commeth not agayne O how oft haue they greued him in the wildernesse How many a tyme haue they prouoked him in the deserte They turned backe tempted God and moued the holy one in Israel They thought not of his haÌde in y e daye when he delyuered them from the hande of y e enemie How he had wrought his miracles in Egipte and his woÌders in the londe of Zoan How he turned their waters in to bloude so that they might not drynke of the ryuers How he sent lyse amonge them to eate them vp and frogges to destroye them How he gaue their frutes vnto the catirpiller and their laboure vnto the greshopper How he bett downe their vynyardes with hayle stones and their Molbery trees with the frost How he smote their catell with haylestones and their flockes with hote thoÌder boltes How he sent vpon them y e furiousnesse of his wrath anger displeasure with trouble and fallinge in of euel angels When he made a waye to his fearfull indignacioÌ and spared not their soules from death yee and gaue their catell ouer to the pestilence When he smote all the firstborne in Egipte the most principall and mightiest in y e dwellinges of Ham. But as for his owne people
agaynst me fro my youth vp maye Israel now saie Yee many a tyme haue they fought agaiÌst me fro my youth vp but they haue not ouercome me The plowers plowed vpoÌ my backe made loÌge forowes But the rightous LORDE hath hewen y e yocke of y e vngodly in peces Let them be confounded turned backwarde as many as haue euell will at Sion Let theÌ be eueÌ as the haye vpon the house toppes which wythereth afore it be pluckte vp Wherof the mower fylleth not his hande nether he that byndeth vp the sheaues his bosome So that they which go by saye not so moch as the LORDE prospere you we wish you good lucke in the name of the LORDE The CXXIX psalme OVt of the depe call I vnto the o LORDE LORDE heare my voyce Oh let thine eares considre well the voyce of my complaynte Yf thou LORDE wilt be extreme to marcke what is done amysse Oh LORDE who maye abyde it But there is mercy with the that thou mayest be feared I loke for the LORDE my soule doth wayte for him and in his worde is my trust My soule doth paciently abyde the LORDE froÌ the one mornynge to the other Let Israel trust in the LORDE ⪠for with the LORDE there is mercy and plenteous redempcion And he shal redeme Israel from all his synnes The CXXX A psalme of Dauid LORDE I am not hye mynded I haue no proude lokes I do not exercise myself in greate matters which are to hye for me But I refrayne my soule and kepe it lowe like as a childe y t is weened from his mother yee my soule is euen as a weened childe Let Israel trust in the LORDE froÌ this tyme forth for euermore The CXXXI Psalme LORDE remembre Dauid and all his trouble How he swore vnto y e LORDE vowed a vowe vnto y e mightie one of Iacob I wil not come within the tabernacle of my house ner clymme vp iÌ to my bedde I wil not suffre myne eyes to slepe ner myne eye lyddes to sloÌber Vntill I fynde out a place for the LORDE an habitacioÌ for the mightie one of Iacob Lo we herde of the same at Ephrata fouÌde it in y e wod We wil go in to his tabernacle ⪠fall downe before his fotestole Arise o LORDE in to thy restinge place thou y e arke of y e streÌgth Let thy prestes be clothed with rightuousnesse and let thy sayntes reioyse For thy seruaunte Dauids sake turne not awaye the presence of thine anoynted The LORDE hath made a faithfull ooth vnto Dauid he shal not shrenke from it Of the frute of thy body shal I set vpon thy seate Yf thy children wil kepe my couenaunt my testimony y t I shal lerne theÌ their childreÌ also shal syt vpoÌ thy seate for euermore For the LORDE hath chosen SioÌ to be an habitacioÌ for him self hath he chosen her This shal be my rest here wil I dwel for I haue a delite therin I will blesse hir vytales w t increase wil satisfie hir poore with bred I wil decke hir prestes with health hir sayntes shal reioyse be glad There shall I make the horne of Dauid to florish I haue ordened a lanterne for myne anoynted As for his enemies I shal clothe theÌ w t shame but vpon himself shal his crowne florish The CXXXII A psalme of Dauid BEholde how good ioyfull a thinge it is brethreÌ to dwell together in vnite It is like y t precious oyntment vpon the heade that ranne downe vnto the beerd eueÌ vnto Aarons beerd weÌte downe to the skyrtes of his clothinge Like the dewe of Hermon which fell vpon the hill of Sion For there the LORDE promised his blessynge and life for euermore The CXXXIII psalme BEholde O prayse the LORDE all ãâã seruauntes of the LORDE ye that ãâã night stoÌde in the house of the LORDE ãâã lift vp youre handes in the Sanctuaââ ãâã prayse the LORDE The LORââ ãâ¦ã heauen earth blesse the out ãâ¦ã The CXXXIIII psalââ ⪠O Prayse y e name ãâ¦ã o ye seruauÌteâ ãâ¦ã in y e ãâ¦ã of the house of ãâ¦ã LORDE for the ãâ¦ã For I knowe y t y e LORDE is greate y t o r LORDE is aboue all goddes What so euer y e LORDE pleaseth y t doth he in heaueÌ in earth in the see in all depe places He bryngeth forth the cloudes from the endes of the worlde he turneth y e lighteniÌges vnto rayne bringiÌge the wyndes out of their treasuries Which smote the firstborne of Egipte both of man and beest He hath sent tokens and wonders in to the myddest of the o thou londe of Egipte vpon Pharao and all his seruauntes Which smote dyuerse nacions slewe mightie kynges Sihon kynge of y e Amorites Og the kynge of Basan and all the kyngdomes of CanaaÌ And gaue their loÌde for an heretage for an heretage vnto Israel his people Thy name o LORDE endureth foreuer so doth thy memoriall o LORDE from one generacion to another For the LORDE wil aueÌge his people be gracious vnto his seruauÌtes As for the ymages of the HeitheÌ they are but syluer and golde the worke of mens haÌdes They haue mouthes speake not eyes haue they but they se not They haue eares and yet they heare not nether is there eny breth iÌ their mouthes They that make them are like vnto them so are all they that put their trust in theÌ Prayse the LORDE ye house of Israel prayse the LORDE ye house of Aaron Prayse the LORDE ye house of Leui ye that feare y e LORDE prayse the LORDE Praysed be the LORDE out of Sion which dwelleth at IerusaleÌ Halleluya The CXXXV psalme O Geue thankes vnto the LORDE for he is gracious and his mercy endureth for euer O geue thaÌkes vnto the God of all goddes for his mercy endureth for euer O thanke the LORDE of all lordes for his mercy endureth for euer âhich only doth greate wonders for his ãâ¦ã endureth for euer Which by his ãâ¦ã soome made the heauens for his mercy ãâ¦ã for euer Which layed out the earth ãâ¦ã waters for his mercy endureth for ãâ¦ã hath made greate lightes for ãâ¦ã for euer The Sonne ãâ¦ã his mercy endureth for ãâ¦ã the starres to gouerne ãâ¦ã endureth for euer ãâ¦ã their firstborne ãâ¦ã for euer And ãâ¦ã them for ãâ¦ã reed see in to partes for his mercy endureth for euer And made Israel to go thorow y e myddest of it for his mercy endureth for euer But as for Pharao and his hoost he ouer threwe them in the reed see for his mercy endureth for euer Which led his people thorow the wyldernesse for his mercy endureth for euer Which smote greate kynges for his mercy endureth for euer Yee and slewe mightie kynges for his mercy endureth for euer Sihon kynge of the Amorites
marchauÌt StreÌgth and honoure is hir clothinge in the latter daye she shal reioyse She openeth hir mouth with wyszdome in hir toÌge is the lawe of grace She loketh wel to the wayes of hir housholde eateth not hir bred with ydilnes Hir children arise call hir blessed hir huszbande maketh moch of her Many daughters there be y t gather riches together but thou goest aboue theÌ all As for fauo r it is disceatfull and beutie is a vayne thinge but a woman that feareth the LORDE she is worthy to be praysed Geue her of the frute of hir handes and let hir owne workes prayse her in the gates The ende of the prouerbes of Salomon Ecclesiastes What this boke conteyneth Chap. I. All thinges yf a maÌ wyl coÌsidre them wel are but vanite Neuertheles amoÌge them all there is nothiÌge weaker and more vnstedfast then man him self Chap. II. In this chapter and in the other also he maketh oft tymes meÌsion of the wordes and coÌuersacioÌ of the vngodly that by this meanes he maye the better cause men to despyse all creatures in respecte of the only euerlastinge God Chap. III. Euery thinge hath a tyme. There is no thiÌge but God hath put tedyousnesse and trauayle in it to exercise men withall What so euer a man enioyeth of his laboure the same is a gift of God geuen to the intent that men shulde feare him Chap. IIII. A coÌsideracion of diuerse thinges There is nothinge so excellent and hye but yf it do not the deuty and office where vnto it is ordened it shal be brought lowe Chap. V. Agaynst foolish and temerarious vowes Let no man maruayle that so moch euell is done for the wicked are many Agaynst the riche and agaynst riches Chap. VI. Agaynst those riche meÌ that darâe not enioye their riches how mad and foolish they be Chap. VII No man knoweth what is for to come How worthy a thiÌge it is to haue a good name The profit of wyszdome Chap. VIII Of the obedieÌce which men owe vnto God and to their heades The loÌge sufferaunce of God is not to be despised It is not possible for eny maÌ to coÌprehende the workes that be in the worlde Chap. IX Like thinges happen vnto all men therfore with myrth and thankfulnesse shulde men enioye the giftes of God Wyszdome passeth all thinges Chap. X. XI In these two chapters are many wyse and profitable sentences wel worthy to be considered of euery man Chap. XII In this chapter the preacher sheweth his whole meanynge as though he wolde saye As for all the thinges that be vnder the Sonne wher of I haue spoken I haue coÌsidered them and proued them metely wel by experience And this is the conclucion that there is nothynge stedfast and durable but God himself whoÌ men ought to feare and to haue his coÌmaundementes before their eyes euen from their youth vp The first Chapter These are the wordes of the Preacher the sonne of Dauid kynge of Ierusalem ALl is but vanite saieth y e preacher all is but playne vanite For what els hath a maÌ of all the labo r y t he taketh vnder the Sonne One generacioÌ passeth awaye another commeth but the earth a bydeth still The SoÌne aryseth the Sonne goeth downe returneth to his place y t he maye there ryse vp agayne The wynde goeth towarde y e South fetcheth his coÌpase aboute vnto the North so turneth in to himself agayne All floudes runne in to the see yet the see is not fylled for loke vnto what place the ââters runne thence they come agayne All thinges are so harde y t no maÌ can expresse them The eye is not satisfied w t sight the eare is not fylled w t hearinge The thinge y t hath bene coÌmeth to passe agayne y e thinge y t hath bene done is done agayne there is no new thinge vnder the Sonne Is there eny thinge wherof it maye be sayde so this is new For it was loÌge agoo in the tymes y t haue bene before vs. The thinge y t is past is out of remeÌbraunce EueÌ so the thiÌges that are for to come shal no more be thought vpoÌ amoÌge theÌ that come after I myself y e Preacher beynge kynge of Israel IerusaleÌ applyed my mynde to seke out search for the knowlege of all thiÌges y t are done vnder heaueÌ Soch trauayle labo r hath God geueÌ vnto y e childreÌ of meÌ to exercyse theÌ selues theriÌ Thus I haue considered all the thinges that come to passe vnder the SoÌne lo they are all but vanite vexacion of mynde The croked can not be mayde straight the fautes caÌ not be noÌbred I coÌmoned w t myne owne herte sayeÌge lo I am come to a greate estate and haue gotteÌ more wyszdome theÌ all they y t haue bene before me in Ierusalem Yee my hert had greate experieÌce of wyszdome knowlege for there vnto I applyed my mynde y t I might knowe what were wyszdome vnderstoÌdinge what were erro r foolishnes And I perceaued y t this also was but a vexacion of mynde for where moch wyszdome is there is also greate trauayle disquietnes y e more knowlege a man hath the more is his care The II. Chapter THeÌ sayde I thus in my hert Now go to I wil take myne ease haue good dayes But lo that was vanite also in so moch that I sayde vnto laughter thou art madd and to myrth what doest thou So I thought in my herte to withdrawe my flesh from wyne to applye my mynde vnto wyszdome and to compreheÌde foolishnes vntill the tyme that amonge all y e thinges which are vnder y e Sonne I might se what were best for men to do so longe as they lyue vnder heauen I made gorgious fayre workes I buylded me houses and planted vynyardes I made me ortchardes and gardens of pleasure and planted trees in them of all maner frutes I made poles of water to water y e grene and frutefull trees withall I bought seruauntes and maydeÌs and had a greate housholde As for catell and shepe I had more substaunce of them then all they y t were before me in Ierusalem I gathered syluer golde together euen a treasure of kynges londes I prouided me syngers and womeÌ which coude playe of instrumentes to make men myrth and pastime I gat me drynkynge cuppes also and glasses Shortly I was greater in more worshipe then all my predecessours in IerusaleÌ For wyszdome remayned with me loke what so euer myne eyes desyred I let them haue it wherin so euer my herte delyted or had eny pleasure I with helde it not froÌ it Thus my hert reioysed in all y t I dyd and this I toke for the porcion of all my trauayle But whan I considered all the workes y t my handes had wrought and all the labours that I had taken
eyes heare not with their eares and vnderstonde not with their hartes and conuerte and be healed Then spake I LORDE how longe he answered vntil the cities be vtterly without inhabitours and y e houses without men till the loÌde be also desolate and lye vnbuylded For the LORDE shal take the men farre awaye so that the londe shal lye waist Neuertheles the tenth parte shal remayne therin for it shal conuerte and be fruteful And like wise as the Terebyntes and Oketrees bringe forth their frutes so shal the holy sede haue frute The seuenth Chapter IT happened in the tyme of Ahas the sonne of Ionathas which was the sonne of Ioathan Kynge of Iuda that Rezin the Kinge of Siria and Poca Rome lies sonne Kynge of Israel wente vp toward Ierusalem to besege it but wanne it not Now when the house of Dauid that is Ahas herde worde therof y t Siria and Ephraim were confederate together his herte quaked yee and y e hertes also of his people like as a tre in the felde that is moued with the wynde Then sayde God vnto Esay go mete Ahas thou and thy sonne Sear Iasub at the heade of y e ouer pole in the fote path by the fullers grounde and saye vnto him take hede to thy self and be still but feare not nether be faynt harted for these two tales that is for these two smokynge fyre brandes the wrath and furiousnes of Rezin the Sirian and Romelies sonne because that the Kynge of Siria Ephraim and Romelies sonne haue wekedly conspyred agaynst the sayenge We will go downe in to Iuda vexe theÌ and brynge them vnder vs and set a Kynge there euen the sonne of Taball For thus saieth the LORDE God therto It shall not so go forth nether come so to passe for the head citie of y e Sirians is Damascus but the head of Damascus is Rezin And after fyue and threscore yeare shal Ephraim be nomore a people And the chefe citie of Ephraim is Samaria but the head of Samaria is Rome lies sonne And yf ye beleue not there shall no promyse be kepte with you Morouer God spake vnto Ahas sayenge requyre a token of the LORDE thy God whether it be towarde the depth beneth or towarde y e hight aboue TheÌ sayde Ahas I will requyre none nether will I tempte the LORDE The LORDE answered Then he are to ye of the house of Dauid Is it not ynough for you that ye be greuous vnto men but ye must greue my God also And therfore the LORDE shal geue you a token of himself Beholde a virgin shal coÌceaue and beare a sonne and shal call his name Emanuel Butter and hony shal he eate y t he maye knowe the euel and chose y e good But or euer that childe come to knowlege to eschue the euel and chose the good The londe that thou art so afrayde for shal be desolate of both hir kynges The LORDE also shal sende a tyme vpon the vpon thy people and vpoÌ thy fathers house soch as neuer came sence the tyme y t Ephraim departed from Iuda thorow y e kynge of the Assirians For at the same tyme shal the LORDE whistle for the flyes y t are aboute the water of Egipte and for y e Beyes in the Assirians londe These shall come and shal light all in the valeyes in y e vowtes of stone vpon all grene thinges and in all corners At the same tyme shal the LORDE shaue the hayre of the heade and the fete and the beerd clene of with the rasoure that he shall paye them withall beyonde the water namely with y e kynge of the Assirians At the same tyme shall a man lyue with a cowe and two shepe Then because of the aboundaunce of mylck he shal make butter and eat it So that euery one which remayneth in the londe shal eate butter and hony At the same tyme all vynyardes though there be a thousand vynes in one and were solde for a thousand siluerlinges shal be turned to brears and thornes Like as they shal come in to the londe with arowes and bowes so shal all the londe become brears and thornes And as for all hilles that now are hewen downe thou shalt not come vpoÌ them for feare of brears and thornes But the catel shal be dryuen thither and the shepe shal fede there The viij Chapter MOrouer the LORDE sayde vnto me Take the a greate leaf and wryte in it as men do with a penne that he spede him to robbe and haist him to spoyle And Inmediatly I called vnto me faithful wytnesses Vrias the prest and Zacharias y e sonne of Barachias After that went I vnto the prophetisse that now had conceaued and borne a sonne Then sayde the LORDE to me geue him this name Maherschalal haschbas that is a spedierobber an hastie spoyler For why or euer the childe shal haue knowlege to saye Abi and Im y t is father and mother shal y e riches of Damascus and y e substaunce of Samaria be takeÌ awaye thorow the kynge of y e Assirians The LORDE spake also vnto me sayenge for so moch as the people refuseth the stiârenninge water of Silo and put their delite in Rezin and Romelies sonne Beholde the LORDE shal bringe mightie and great floudes of water vpon them namely y e kynge of the Assirians with all his power Which shall poure out his furyousnes vpoÌ euery man and renne ouer all their bankes And shal breake in vpon Iuda increasinge in power till he get him by the throte He shal fyl also the wydenesse of thy londe w t his brode wynges O Emanuel Go together ye people and gather you herken to all ye of farre countrees Mustre you and gather you mustre you and gather you take youre councel together yet must youre councel come to nought go in honde withal yet shal it not prospere Excepte Emanuel that is God be with us For the LORDE chastised me and toke me by y e honde and warned me sayenge vnto me that I shulde not walcke in the waye of this people He sayde morouer rounde with none of theÌ who so euer saye yonder people are bounde together Neuertheles feare them not nether be afrayde of them but sanctifie the LORDE of hoostes let him be youre feare and drede For he is the sanctifienge and stone to stomble at y e rock to fall vpon a snare and net to both the houses to Israel and the inhabitours of Ierusalem And many shal stomble fall and be brokeÌ vpon him yee they shal be snared and taken Now laye the witnesses together sayde the LORDE and seale the lawe with my disciples Thus I waite vpon the LORDE that hath turned his face from the house of Iacob and I loke vnto him But lo as for me and the children which the LORDE hath geuen me we are a token and a wondre in Israel for the LORDE of hoostes sake which
him that ruleth it That were euen like as yf the rod dyd exalte it self agaynst him that beareth it or as though y e staff shulde magnifie it self as who saye it were no wodd Therfore shal the LORDE of hoostes sende him pouerte in his riches and burne vp his power as it were with a fyre But the light of Israel shal be y t fyre and his Sanctuary shal be the flame and it shal kyndle and burne vp his thornes and breyers in one daye yee all the glory of his woddes and feldes shal be consumed with body and soule As for himself he shal be as one chased awaye The trees also of his felde shal be of soch a nombre that a childe maye tell them After y t daye shal the remnaunt of Israel and soch as are escaped out of the house of Iacob seke no more coÌforte at him that smote them but shal conforte themselues with faithfulnesse and treuth in the LORDE the holy one of Israel The remnaunt yee and the Posteryte of Iacob shal coÌuerte vnto God the mighty one For though thy people o Israel be as the sonde of the see yet shal but the remnaunt of them only conuerte vnto him Perfecte is the iudgmeÌt of him that floweth in rightuousnesse and therfore y e LORDE of hoostes shal perfectly fulfil the thinge that he hath determyned in the myddest of the whole worlde Therfore thus saieth the LORDE God of hoostes Thou my people that dwellest in Sion be not afrayde for the kinge of the Assirians He shal wagg his staff at the yee and beate the with the rodd as the EgiptiaÌs dyd sometyme But soone after shal my wrath and my indignacion be fulfylled agaynst their blasphemies Morouer the LORDE of hoostes shal prepare a scourge for him like as was the punyshmeÌt of MadiaÌ vpoÌ y e mount of Oreb And he shal lift vp his rod ouer the see as he dyd somtyme ouer the Egiptians Their shal his burthen be taken from thy shulders and his yock from thy neck yee the same yock shal corrupte for very fatnesse He shal come to Aiath and go thorow toward Migron But at Machmas shal he muster his hooste and go ouer y e foorde Gaba shal be their restinge place Rhama shal be afrayde Gabea Saul shal fle awaye The voyce of y e noyse of thy horses o doughter Gallim shal be herde vnto lais and to Anathoth which also shal be in trouble Madmena shal tremble for feare but the citesyns of Gahim are maÌly yet shal he remayne at Nob that daye After that shal he lift vp his honde agaynst the mount Sion and agaynst the hill of Ierusalem But se the LORde God of hoostes shal take awaye the proude from thence w t feare He shal hew downe the proude and fel the hie mynded The thornes of the wod shal be rooted out w t yron and Libanus shal haue a mightie fal The xj Chapter AFter this there shal come a rod forth of y e Kynrede of Iesse and a blossome out of his rote The sprete of the LORDE shal light vpon it the sprete of wysdome and vnderstondinge the sprete of councel and strength y e sprete of knowlege and of the feare of God and shal make him feruent in the feare of God For he shal not geue senteÌce after the thinge y t shal be brought before his eies nether reproue a matter at the first hearinge but with rightousnesse shal he iudge the poore and with holynes shal he refourme the symple of the worlde He shal smyte y e worlde with y e staff of his mouth with y e breath of his mouth shal he slaye the wicked Rightuousnesse shal be the gyrdle of his loynes treuth and faithfulnesse the gyrdinge vp of his raynes TheÌ shal y e wolfe dwel with the laÌbe and the leopârde shal lye downe by the gote Bullokes lyons and catel shal kepe company together so that a litle childe shal dryue them forth The cowe and the Bere shal fede together and their yongones shal lye together The lyoÌ shal eate strawe like the oxe or the cowe The childe whyle he sucketh shal haue a desyre to the serpentes nest and wheÌ he is weened he shal put his hande in to the Cockatryce denne No man shal do euel to another no man shal destroâ another in all the hill of my Sanctuary For the earth shal be ful of y e knowlege of y e LORDE euen as though the water of the see flowed ouer the earth Then shal the Gentiles enquere after the rote of Iesse which shal be set vp for a token vnto the Gentiles for his dwellinge shal be glorious At the same tyme shal the LORDE take in honde agayne to conquere y e remnaunt of his people which are lefft alyue From the AssiriaÌs Egiptians Arabians Morians Elamites Caldeyes AntiochiaÌs and IloÌdes of the see And he shal set vp a tokeÌ amonge the Gentiles and gather together y e dispersed of Israel yee and the outcastes of Iuda from the foure corners of y e worlde The hatred of Ephraim and y e enmyte of Iuda shal be clene rooted out Ephraim shal beare no euel wil to Iuda and Iuda shal not hate Ephraim but they both together shal flye vpoÌ the shulders of the Philistynes toward the West and spoyle them together that dwell toward the East The Idumytes and the Moabites shal let their hoÌdes fall and the Ammonites shal be obedient vnto them The LORDE also shal cleue the tunges of the EgipciaÌs see and with a mightie wynde shal he lift vp his honde ouer Nilus and shal smyte his seueÌ streames and make men go ouer drye shod And thus shal he make a waye for his people y t remayneth from the Assirians like as it happened to y e Israelites what tyme they departed out of the londe of Egipte The xij Chapter SO that then thou shalt saye O LORDE I thanke the for thou wast displeased at me but thou hast refrayned thy wrath and hast mercy vpon me Beholde God is my health in whom I trust and am not afrayde For the LORDE God is my strength and my prayse he also shal be my refuge Therfore with ioye shal ye drawe water out of the welles of the Sauioure and then shal ye saye Let vs geue thankes vnto the lorde and call vpon his name and declare his councels amonge the people and kepe them in remembraunce for his name is excelleÌt O synge praises vnto the LORDE for he doth greate thinges as it is knowne in all the worlde Crie out and be glad thou that dwellest in Sion for greate is thy prince the holy one of Israel The XIII Chapter THis is y e heuy burtheÌ of BabiloÌ which Esaye the sonne of Amos dyd se. Make some tokeÌs to the hie hilles call vnto them holde vp youre hoÌde that the prynces maye go in at the
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 diligeÌtly 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 coÌmynge 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 bâed that are fled For thei shal runne awaye from the weapen from the draweÌ swerde from the beÌt 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 coÌforte 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 VisioÌs 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 wheÌce 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 couÌtre 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 haÌge 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
al people and the coueringe wherwith all Gentiles are couered As for death he shal vtterly coÌsume 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 hoÌde 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 doÌge hill For he shal stretch out his hoÌdes 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 stroÌge holdes hie walles he shal burâe 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 stroÌge citie the walles tâe ordinauÌce 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 streÌgth For why it is he y t bringeth lowe the hie mynded citesyns casteth downe the proude cities He casteth theÌ to the grouÌde 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 coÌsidrest 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 remeÌbraunce reioyse the soule My soule lusteth after the all the night loÌge 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 grauÌte 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 coÌmeth 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 chaÌbre and shut the doore to the and suffre now y e twiÌcklinge 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 loÌge swearde shal vyset LeuiathaÌ that invincible serpeÌt 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 recoÌpenseth 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 vnderstoÌdinge 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 poÌpe y t is vpoÌ the toppe of the pleÌteous 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
it shal happen vnto him as to an vntymely frute before the haruest come Which as soone as it is sene is by and by deuoured or euer it come well in a mans honde And then shal the LORDE of hoostes be a ioyful crowne and a glorious garlaÌde vnto the remnaunt of his people Vnto the lowly he shal be a sprete of iudgment and vnto them that dryue awaye the enemies from y e gates he shal be a sprete of streÌgth But they go wronge by y e reason of wyne they fall and stacker because of stroÌge drynke Yee eueÌ the prestes and prophetes them selues go amisse they are dronken with wyne and weake braned thorow stronge drynke They erre in seinge and in judgmeÌt they fayle For all tables are so ful of vomyte and fylthynes y t no place is clene What is he amonge them y t can teach instructe or enfourme the childreÌ which are weened from suck or taken from the brestes of eny other fashion then Commaunde y t maye be commaunded byd y t maye be byddeÌ forbyd that maye be forbyddeÌ kepe backe y t maye be kepte backe here a litle there a litle And therfore the LORDE also shal speake w t lispinge lippes and w t a straunge laÌguage vnto this people to whom he spake afore of this maner This shal bringe rest yf one refresh the weery ye this shal bringe rest But they had no will to heare And therfore the LORDE shal answere their stubbournes CoÌmaunde y t maye be coÌmaunded byd y t maye be bydden forbyd y t maye be forbyddeÌ kepe backe y t maye be kepte backe here a litle there a litle That they maye go forth fall backwarde be brussed snared and taken Wherfore heare the worde of the LORDE ye mockers that rule the LORDEs people which is at IerusaleÌ For ye coÌforte yo r selues thus Tush death we are at a poynte as for hell we haue made a coÌdicion with it that though there breake out eny sore plage it shal not come vpon vs. For with disceate wil we escape and with nymblenes will we defende o r selues Therfore thus saieth the LORDE God Beholde I wil laye a stone in Sion a greate stone a costly corner stone for a sure foundacion y t who so putteth his trust in him shal not be confouded Rightuousnes wil I set vp agayne in y e balaunce and iudgment in the weightes The teÌpest of hale shal take awaye yo r refuge that ye haue to disceaue withal and y e ouerflowinge waters shal breake downe yo r stroÌge holdes of dissimulacioÌ Thus the appoyntmeÌt that ye haue made w t death shal be done awaye and the coÌdicion that ye made with hell shal not stoÌde When the greate destructioÌ goeth thorow it shal all to treade you It shal take you quyte awaye before it For it shal go forth early in the mornynge and contynue only y t daye and y t night And the very feare only shal teach you when ye heare it For y e bedde shal be so narow y t a maÌ caÌ not lye vpon it And the coueringe to small that a maÌ maye not wynde him self therin For the LORDE shal steppe forth as he dyd vpon the mount Perazim and shal take on as he dyd vpoÌ the dale of Gabaon that he maye bringe forth his deuyce his straunge deuyce and fulfil his worke his wonderful worcke And therfore make no mockes at it that youre captiuyte increase not for I haue herde the LORDE of hoostes saye that there shal come a soden destruction and plage vpon the whole earth Take hede and heare my voyce pondre and merck my wordes wel Goeth not the husbonde man euer in due season earnestly to his londe he moweth ploweth his grounde to sowe And wheÌ he hath made it playne he soweth it with fitches or comyn He soweth y e wheate and Barlye in their place Milium and Rye also in their place And y t he maye do it right his God teacheth him and sheweth him For he treadeth not the fitches out with a wayne nether bringeth he the cart here and there ouer the comyn but he throssheth y e fitches out with a flale and the comyn with a rod. As for the wheate he gryndeth it to make bred therof In as moch as he can not bringe it to passe w t treadinge out For nether the brussinge that the cart wheles make ner his beastes can grynde it This and soch like thinges come of the LORDE of hostes which is maruelous in councel and greate in rightuousnesse The xxix Chap. WO vnto the o Ariel Ariel thou cite that Dauid waÌne Take yet some yeares and let some feastes yet passe ouer then shal Ariel be beseged so that she shal be heuy and sorouful and shal be vnto me euen as a lyon For I wil laye sege to the rounde aboute and kepe y e in with towers and graue vp dykes agaynst ye. And thou shalt be brought lowe and speake out of the earth and thy wordes shal go humbly out of y e grounde Thy voyce shal come out of the earth like the voyce of a witch and thy talkinge shal groane out of the myre For the multitude of thine enemies shal be like mealdust And the nombre of Tyrauntes shal be as y e dust that the wynde taketh awaye sodenly Thou shalt be visited of the LORDE of hoostes with thondre earth quake and with a greate crack with the whyrle wynde tempest and with the flame of a consumynge fyre But now the multitude of all the people that went out agaynst Ariel the whole hooste the stronge holdes and sege is like a dreame which apeareth in the night It is like as when an hungrie man dreameth that he is eatynge and when he awaketh he hath nothinge like as when a thurstie man dreameth that he is drinkinge and when he awaketh he is faynt and his soule vnpacient So is the multitude of all people that mustre them selues agaynst the hill of Sion But ye shal be at youre wittes ende ye shal be abasshed ye shal stackre and rele to and fro Ye shal be dronken but not of wyne Ye shal fall but not thorow dronkenes For the LORDE shal geue you an hard slepinge sprete and holde downe youre eyes namely yo r prophetes and heades which shulde se them shal he couer And all visions shal be vnto you as the wordes that stonde in a sealed lettre when one offreth it to a man that is lerned and sayeth rede vs this lettre TheÌ he answereth I caÌ not rede it for it is shutt But yf it be geueÌ to one y t is not lerned or sayde vnto him rede this lettre Then sayeth he I can not rede Therfore thus sayeth the LORDE For so moch as this people draweth nye me w t their mouth and prayseth me highly with their lippes where as there herte neuertheles is farre fro me and the feare
reioyse from youre hert as they that come with the pipe when they go vp to the mount of the LORDE vnto y e rock of Israel The LORDE also shal set vp the power of his voyce and declare his terrible arme with his angrie countenaunce yee and the flame of the consumynge fyre with earth quake tempest of wynde and hale stones Then shal the Assirian feare also because of the voyce of the LORDE which shal smyte him with the rodde And the same rodde which the LORDE wil sende vpon him shal moue the whole foundacion with trompet with noyse of warre and batell to destroye For he hath prepared the fyre of payne from the begynnynge yee euen for kynges also This hath he made depe wyde y e norishinge therof is fyre and wodde innumerable which the breath ofte LORDE kyndleth as it were a match of brymstone The xxxj Chapter WO vnto them that go downe in to Egipte for helpe and trust in horses and conforte them selues in Charettes because they be many and in horse meÌ because they be lustie and stronge But they regarde not the holy one of Israel and they aske no question at the LORDE Where as he neuertheles plageth y e wicked and yet goeth not from his worde whaÌ he steppeth forth and taketh the victory agaynst the housholde of the frauwerde and against the helpe of euel doers Now the Egiptians are men and not God and their horses flesh and not sprete And as soone as the LORDE stretcheth out his honde then shal the helper fall and he that shulde haue bene helped and shal altogether be destroyed For thus hath the LORDE spokeÌ vnto me Like as the Lyon or lyoÌs whelpe roareth vpon the pray that he hath gotten and is not afrayde though y e multitude of shepardes crie out vpon him nether abashed for all the heape of them So shal the LORDE of hoostes come downe from the mount Sion and defende his hill Like as byrdes flotre aboute their nestes so shal the LORDE of hoostes kepe saue defende and deliue Ierusalem Therfore o ye childreÌ of Israel turne agayne like as ye hahaue exceaded in youre goinge back For in y t daye euery man shal cast out his Idols of syluer and golde which ye haue made with youre synful hondes Assur also shal be slayne with the swerde not w t a mans swerde ⪠A swerde shal deuoure him but not a mans swerde And he shal fle from the slaughter and his seruauntes shal be taken prisoners ⪠He shal go for feare to his stronge holdes and his prynces shal fle from his badge This hath y e LORDE spokeÌ whose light burneth in Sion and his fyre in Ierusalem The xxxij Chapter BEholde the kinge shal gouerne after y e rule of rightuousnes and y e princes shal rule acordinge to the balaunce of equite He shal be vnto meÌ as a defence for the wynde and as a refuge for the tempest like as a ryuer of water in a thurstie place and y e schadowe of a greate rock in a drie loÌde The eyes of the seinge shall not be dymme and the eares of them that heare shal take diligeÌt hede The hert of the vnwise shal attayne to knowlege and the vnparfite tuÌge shal speake planely and distinctly Then shal the nygarde be no more called gentle ner the churle lyberall But the churle wil be churlishly mynded and his hert wil worke euell and playe the ypocrite and ymagyn abhominacioÌs agaynst God to make the hungrie leane and to with holde drinke from the thurstie These are the perlous weapons of the cuvetous these be his shameful councels that he maye begyle the poore with disceatful workes yee euen there as he shulde geue sentence with the poore But the liberall person ymagineth honest thinges and commeth vp with honesty Vp ye rich and ydle cities harken vnto my voyce Ye careles cities marcke my wordes After yeares and dayes shal ye be brought in feare o ye carelesse cities For Haruest shal be out and the grape gatheringe shal not come O ye rich ydle cities ye that feare no parell ye shal be abashed and remoued when ye se the barennesse the nakednesse and preparinge to warre Ye shal knock vpoÌ youre brestes because of the pleasaunt felde and because of the fruteful vynyarde My peoples felde shal bringe thornes and thistels for in euery house is voluptuousnes in the cities wilfulnes The palaces also shal be broken and the greatly occupide cities desolate The towers and bulwerckes shal be become dennes for euermore the pleasure of Mules shal be turned to pasture for shepe Vnto the tyme that y e sprete be poured vpon vs from aboue Then shal the wildernesse be a fruteful felde the plenteous felde shal be rekened for a wodde Then shal equyte dwel in the deserte and rightuousnesse in a fruteful londe And the rewarde of rightuousnesse shal be peace and hir frute rest and quietnesse for euer And my people shal dwel in the ynnes of peace in my tabernacle and pleasure where there is ynough in theÌ all And wheÌ the hale falleth it shal fall in the wodde and in the citie O how happy shal ye be wheÌ ye shal safely sowe youre sede besyde all waters dryue thither the fete of youre oxeÌ asses The xxxiij Chapter THerfore wo vnto the o robber shalt not thou be robbed also and vnto the that laiest wait as who saye there shulde no waite be layde for the Wo vnto the which doest hurte euen so shalt thou be hurt also And as thou layest waite so shal wait be layde for the also LORDE be merciful vnto vs we wait for the. Thine arme is at a poynte to vyset vs but be thou oure health in the tyme of trouble GrauÌte that the people maye fle at the anger of thy voyce that at thy vpstondinge the Gentiles maye be scatred abrode and that their spoyle maye be gathered as the greshoppers are comonly gathered together in to the pyt Stonde vp LORDE thou that dwellest on hie Let SioÌ be fylled with equyte and rightuousnesse Let treuth and faithfulnesse be in hir tyme power health wisdome knowlege the feare of God are hir treasure Beholde their aungels crie with out the messaungers of peace wepe bytterly The stretes are waist there walketh no man therin the appoyntmen is broken the cities are despised they are not regarded the desolate earth is in heuynes Libanus taketh it but for a sporte that it is hewen downe Saron is like a wyldernes BasaÌ Charmel are turned vpside downe And therfore saieth y e LORDE I wil vp now wil I get vp now wil I aryse Ye shal conceaue stubble and beare strawe youre sprete shal be the fyre that it maye consume you the people shal be burnt like lyme as thornes burne that are hewen of cast in the fyre Now herken to ye that are farre of how
off water It is Egipte that ryseth vp like the floude and casteth out the waters with so greate noyse For they saye We will go vp and will couer the earth we wil destroye y e cities with them that dwell therin Get you to horse backe roll forth y e Charettes come forth ye worthies ye Morians ye Libeans with youre buclers ye Lideans with youre bowes So shall this daye be vnto the LORDE God of hoostes a daye of veÌgeaunce that he maye aveÌge him of his enemies The swearde shal deuoure it shal be satisfied and bated in their bloude For the LORDE God off hoostes shall haue a slayne offringe towarde the North by the water of Euphrates Go vp o Galaad bringe triacle vnto the doughter off Egipte But in vayne shalt thou go to surgery for thy wounde shall not be stopped The Heithen shall heare off thy shame and the londe shal be full of thy confucion for one stronge man shall stomble vpon another how then shulde they not fall both together These are the wordes that the LORDE spake to the prophet Ieremy concernyge y e hoost of Nabuchodonosor the kynge of Babilon which was to destroye the londe off Egipte Preach out thorow the londe of Egipte and cause it be proclamed at Migdal Memphis and Taphnis and saye Stonde still make the redie for the swearde shal consume the rounde aboute How happeneth it that thy mightie worthies are fallen why stode they not fast Euen because the LORDE thrust them downe The slaughter was greate for one fell euer still vpon another One cried vpon another Vp let vs go agayne to oure owne people and to oure owne naturall countre from the swearde of oure enemie Crie euen there O Pharao kynge of Egipte the tyme will bringe sedicion As truly as I lyue saieth the kynge whose name is the LORDE of hoostes it shall come as y e mount of Thabor and as Libanus yf it stode in the see O thou doughter of Egipte make redy thy geer to flyt For Memphis shal be voyde and desolate so that no maÌ shal dwell therin The londe of Egipte is like a goodly fayre calfe but one shall come out of the north to dryue her forwarde Hir wagied souldyers that be with her are like fat calues They also shall fle awaye together and not abyde for the daye off their slaughter and the tyme of their visitacion shall come vpon them The crie off their enemies shall make a noyse as the blast of a trompet For they shall entre in with their hooste and come w t axes as it were hewers downe of wod And they shall cut downe hir wod saieth the LORDE with out eny discrecion For they shal be mo in noÌbre then the greshoppers so that no man shal be able to tell theÌ The doughter of Egipte shal be confouÌded wheÌ she shal be delyuered in to the hondes off the people off the north Morouer thus saieth the LORDE of hoostes the God of Israel Beholde I will vyset that restlesse people off Alexandria Pharao and Egipte yee both their goddes and their kynges euen Pharao and all them y t litten vnto him Yee I will delyuer them in to the hondes off those that seke after their lyues Namely in to the power off Nabuchodonosor the kynge off Babilon and in to the power off his seruauÌtes And after all these thinges it shal be inhabited as afore tyme saieth the LORDE But be not thou afrayed o my seruaunt Iacob feare not thou o Israel For lo I wil helpe the from farre and thy sede from the londe of thy captiuyte Iacob also shall come agayne and be in rest he shall be rich and no man shall do him harme Feare thou not o Iacob my seruaunt saieth the LORDE for I am with the and will destroye all nacions amonge whom I haue scatred the. Neuertheles I will not consume the but chasten the and correcke the yee and that with discrecion nether wil I spare the as one that were fautlesse The XLVII Chapter THese are the wordes that the LORDE spake vnto Ieremy the prophet agaynst the Phylistines before that Pharao smote the cite off Gaza Thus saieth the LORDE Beholde there shall waters arise out off the north and shall growe to a greate floude runnynge ouer and couerynge the londe the cities and them that dwell therin And the men shall crie and all they that dwell in the londe shall mourne at the noyse and stampynge off their stronge barded horses at the shakynge off their charettes and at the remblinge off the wheles The fathers shall not loke to their children so feable and weery shall their hondes be at the same tyme when he shal be there to destroye the whole londe off the Phylistynes He shall make waist both Tirus Sidon aÌd all other that are sworne vnto them For the LORDE will destroye all Palestina and the other Iles that be deuyded froÌ the countre Baldnesse is come vpon Gaza Ascalon with hir other valleys shall kepe hir peace How longe wilt thou slaye O thou swearde off the LORDE Turne agayne in to y e sheeth reste and leaue off But how can it ceasse when the LORDE himselff hath geuen it a charge agaynst Ascalon and raysed it vp agaynst the cities off the see coast The XLVIII Chapter THus saieth y e LORDE off hoostes y e God of Israel against Moab Wo be to y e cite of Nebo for it shal be layed waist brought to confucion and taken Yee y e stroÌge cite of Cariatharim shal be brought to shame and afrayed Moab shall nomore âe had in honoure Wicked councell shal be taken vpon Hesebon Come shall they saye let vs rote them out that they maye be nomore amonge the nombre of the Gentiles yee that they maye nomore be thought vpon Thus the swearde shall persecute ye. A voyce shall crie from Horonaim With greate waistinge and destruction is Moab made desolate And this crie shal be herde in all hir cities At the goinge vp vnto Luhtih there shall arise a lameÌtacion and downe towarde Horonaim there shall be herde a cruell and a deedly crie Get you awaye saue youre lyues be like vnto the heeth in y e wildernes For because thou hast trusted in thy stronge holdes and treasure thou shalt be taken Chamos with his prestes and prynces shall go awaye in to captiuyte The destroyer shal come vpon all cities none shall escape The valleys shal be destroyed and the feldes shall be layed waist like as the LORDE hath determed Make a token vnto Moab that she get hir awaye spedely for hir cities shal be made so desolate that no man shall dwell therin Cursed be he that doth the worke of the LORDE necligently and cursed be he that kepeth backe his swearde from sheddynge off bloude Moab hath euer bene rich and carlesse from hir youth vp she hath sytten and takeÌ hir ease with hir treasure She was
the londe of the Caldees The leest amoÌge the people shal teare them in peces loke what pleasaunt thinge they haue they shal laye it waist ⪠The noyse at y e wynnynge of Babilon shââ moue the earth the crie shal be herde amonge the GeÌtiles The LI. Chapter THus hath the LORDE sayde Beholde I will rayse vp a perlous wynde agaynst Babilon hir citesens y t beare euell will agaynst me I wil sende also in to BabiloÌ fanners to fanne her out to destroye hir londe for in the daye of hir trouble they shal be aboute her on euery syde Morouer the LORDE hath sayde vnto the bowe men to them y t clymme ouer the walles in brest plates Ye shal not spare hir yongemeÌ kyll downe all hir hoost Thus the slayne shal fall downe in the londe of the Caldees and the wounded in the stretes As for Israel Iuda they shall not be forsakeÌ of their God of the LORDE of hoostes of the holyone of Israel no though they haue fylled all their londe full of synne Fle awaye from Babilon euery man saue his life Let no man holde his tunge to hir wickednes for the tyme of the LORDES vengeaunce is come yee he shal rewarde her agayne Babilon hath bene in the LORDES honde a golden cuppe y t maketh all londes droncken Of hir wyne haue all people droncken therfore are they out of their wittes But sodenly is Babilon fallen and destroyed Mourne for her brynge plasters for hir woundes yf she maye peraduenture be healed agayne We wolde haue made Babilon whole saye they but she is not recouered Therfore wil we let her alone go euery maÌ in to his owne countre For hir iudgmeÌt is come in to heauen is gone vp to the cloudes And therfore come on we will shewe Sion the worke of the LORDE oure God Make sharpe the arowes and fyll the quyuers for the LORDE shall rayse vp the sprete of the kynge of the Meedes which hath allready a desyre to destroye Babilon This shal be the vengeaunce of the LORDES and the vengeaunce of his temple Set vp tokens vpon the walles of Babilon make youre watch stronge set yo r watch men in araye yee holde preuye watches yet for all that shall the LORDE go forth with the deuyce which he hath taken vpon them that dwell in Babilon O thou that dwellest by the greate waters o thou that hast so greate treasure and riches thyne ende is come the rekenynge of thy wynnynges The LORDE of hoostes hath sworne by himself that he wil ouerwhelme the with men like greshoppers in nombre which with a corage shall crie Alarum Alarum agaynst the. Yee euen the LORDE of hoostes that with his power made the earth with his wiszdome prepayred y e rounde worlde with his discrecion spred out the heauens As soone as he letteth his voyce be herde the waters in the ayre waxe fearce He draweth vp the cloudes from the endes of the earth He turneth y e lightenynges to rayne he bringeth the wyndes out of their secrete places By the reason of wyszdome all men are become fooles Confounded be all the casters of ymages for y e thinge that they make is but disceate hath no breath Vayne is it worthy to be laughed at in the tyme of visitacion it shal perish Neuertheles the porcion of Iacob is none soch but he that made all thinges whose name is the LORDE of hoostes he is the rodde of his enheritaunce Thou breakest my weapens of warre yet thorow the I haue scatred the nacions kyngdomes Thorow the haue I scatred horse horse man yee the charettes soch as sat vpon them Thorow the I haue scatred man woman olde and yonge bacheler mayden Thorow the I haue scatred the shepherde his flocke the husbond man his catell the prynces the rulers Therfore wil I rewarde the cite of Babilon all hir citesyns the Caldees with all the euell which they haue done vnto Sion Yee that ye youre selues shall se it saieth the LORDE Beholde I come vpon the thou noysome hill saieth the LORDE thou that destroyest all londes I wil stretch out my honde ouer the cast the downe from the stony rockes wil make the a brente hill so that nether corner stones ner pinnacles ner foundacion stones shal be taken eny more out of the but waist desolate shalt thou lie foreuermore saieth the LORDE Set vp a tokeÌ in the londe blowe the trompettes amonge the Heithen prouoke the nacions agaynst her call the kyngdomes of Ararat Menni Ascanes agaynst her nombre out Taphsar agaynst her bringe as greate a sorte of horses agaynst her as yf they were greshoppers Prepare agaynst them y e people of the Meedes w t their kynges prynces all their chefe rulers yee and the whole londe that is vnder them The londe also shal shake be afrayed when the deuyce of the LORDE shall come forth agaynst Babilon to make the londe of Babilon so waist that no maÌ shal dwell eny more therin The Worthies of Babilon shal leaue the batell kepe them selues in stronge holdes their strength hath fayled them they shal be like women Their dwellinge places shal be brent vp their barres shal be broken One purseuaunt shal mete another yee one poste shal come by another to bringe the kinge of Babilon tydinges that his cite is taken in on euery syde the foordes occupyde the fennes brent vp and the souldyers sore afrayed For thus saieth the LORDE of hoostes the God of Israel The doughter of Babilon hath bene in hir tyme like as a threszshinge floore but shortly shal hir haruest come Nabuchodonosor the kinge of Babilon hath deuoured and distroyed me he hath made me an emptie vessell He swalowed me vp like a Dragon and fylled his bely with my delicates he hath cast me out he hath takeÌ my substaunce awaye the thinge that was left me hath he caried vnto Babilon saieth the doughter that dwelleth in Sion Yee my bloude also vnto the Caldees saieth Ierusalem Therfore thus saieth the LORDE Beholde I wil defende thy cause avenge the I will drynke vp hir see drye vp hir water sprynges Babilon shal become an heape of stones a dwellinge place for dragons a fearfulnes wondringe because no man dwelleth there They shall roare together like lyons as the yonge lyons when they be angrie so shal they beÌde them selues In their heate I shal set drynke before theÌ they shal be droncken for ioye Then shal they slepe an euerlastinge slepe neuer wake saieth the LORDE I shal carie them downe to be slayne like shepe like wethers gootes O how was Sesah wonne O how was the glory of y e whole londe taken how happeneth it that Babilon is so wondred at amonge the HeitheÌ The see is rysen ouer Babilon hath
couered her with his greate wawes Hir cities are layed waist the londe lieth vnbuylded and voyde it is a londe where no man dwelleth where no maÌ traueleth thorow Morouer ⪠I wil vyset Bel at BabiloÌ the thinge that he hath swalowed vp that same shal I plucke out of his mouth The Gentiles also shall runne nomore vnto him yee and the walles of Babilon shal fall O my people come out of Babilon that euery man maye saue his life from the fearfull wrath of the LORDE Be not faynte herted feare not at euery rumoure that shal be herde in the londe for euery yeare bringeth new tydinges yee straunge wickednes and lordshipe And lo the tyme commeth that I wil vyset the ymages of BabiloÌ and the whole londe shal be confounded yee and hir slayne shal lie in the myddest of her Heauen and earth with all that is therin shall reioyce ouer Babilon when the destroyers shal come vpon her from the north saieth y e LORDE Like as BabiloÌ hath beaten downe and slayne many out of Israel so shal there fall many and be slayne in all hir kyngdome Ye that haue escaped the swearde haist you stoÌde not still remembre the LORDE afarre of and thinke vpon Ierusalem for we were ashamed to heare the blasphemies oure faces were couered with shame because the straunge aleauntes came in to the Sanctuary of the LORDE Wherfore beholde saieth the LORDE the tyme commeth that I wil vyset the ymages of Babilon and thorow the whole loÌde they shal mourne and fall Though Babilon clymmed vp in to heaueÌ and kepte her power an hie yet shal I sende her destroyers saieth the LORDE A piteous crie shall be herde from Babilon and a greate mysery from the londe of the Caldees when the LORDE destroyeth them and when he dryueth out the hie stomack proude boostinge where with they haue bene as furious as the wawes of greate water floudes and made greate crakes with their wordes For the destroyers shall come vpon her euen vpon Babilon which shal take hir worthies and brake their bowes for God is disposed to avenge him self vpon them sufficiently to recompence theÌ Yee saieth the LORDE I will make their prynces their wyse men their chefe rulers all their worthies dronckeÌ so that they shal slepe an euerlastinge slepe and neuer wake Thus saieth the kinge whose name is y e LORDE of hoostes Morouer thus saieth the LORDE of hoostes The thicke wall of Babilon shal be broken and hir proude gates shal be brente vp And the thinge that the GeÌtiles and the people haue wrought with greate trauayle and laboure shal come to naught and be consumed in the fyre This is the charge that Ieremy gaue vnto Sarias the sonne of Nerias the sonne of Maasia when he wente towarde Babilon with Sedechias the kinge of Iuda in the fourth yeare of his reigne Now this Sarias was a peaceable prynce Ieremy wrote in a boke all the misery that shulde come vpon Babilon yee and all these sermons that be written agaynst Babilon and gaue Sarias this charge When thou commest vnto Babilon se that thou rede all these wordes and saye O LORDE thou art determed to rote out this place so that nether people ner catell shal dwell there eny more but to lie waist for euer and when thou hast redde out the boke bynde a stone to it and cast it in the myddest of Euphrates and saye EueÌ thus shal Babilon syncke be thrust downe with the burthen of trouble that I will bringe vpon her so that she shal neuer come vp agayne Thus farre are y e preachinges of Ieremy The LII Chap. SEdechias was xxj yeare olde when he was made kynge he raigned xj yeare in Ierusalem His mothers name was Hamithal Ieremies doughter of Lobna He lyued wickedly before the LORDE euen as Ioachim dyd Wherfore the LORDE was angrie at Ierusalem Iuda so longe till he had cast theÌ out of his presence And Sedechias fel from the kynge of Babilon But in y e ix yeare of his raigne In the teÌth Moneth the tenth daye of the Moneth it happened that Nabuchodonosor kynge of Babilon with all his hooste came before Ierusalem beseged it made them bulworkes rounde aboute it And this beseginge of the cite endured vnto the xj yeare of kynge Sedechias And in the fourth Moneth the ix daye of the Moneth there was so greate honger in the cite that there were no more vitayles for the people of the londe So all the souldyers brake awaye and fled out of the cite by night thorow the waye of the porte betwene the two walles by the kynges garden Now y e Caldees had coÌpassed the cite rounde aboute yet wente these men their waye towarde the wildernesse And so the Caldees folowed vpon them and toke Sedechias the kinge in the felde of Iericho when his hoost was runne from him So they caried the kynge awaye presoner to Reblatha vnto the kinge of Babilon in the londe of Hemath where he gaue iudgment vpon him The kinge of BabiloÌ also caused Sedechias sonnes be slayne before his face yee put all the prynces of Iuda to death at Reblatha Morouer he put out the eyes of Sedechias caused him be bounde with cheynes to be caried vnto Babilon let him lie in preson till he dyed Now y e tenth daye of the fyfth Moneth in the xix yeare of Nabuchodonosor kynge of Babilon Nabusaradan the chefe captayne and the kinge of Babilons seruauntes came vnto Ierusalem brent vp the house of the LORDE He brent vp also the kinges palace all the houses all the gorgeous buyldinges in IerusaleÌ And the whole hoost of the Caldees y t were with the chefe captayne brake downe all the walles of Ierusalem rounde aboute As for the poore people soch folke as yet was left in the cite which also were fallen to the kinge of Babilon yee what people as yet remayned Nabusaradan the chefe captayne caried them awaye presoners But y e poore people of the countre dyd Nabusaradan the chefe captayne leaue in the londe to occupie the vynyardes feldes The Caldees also brake the brasen pilers that were in the house of the LORDE yee the seate and the brasen lauer that was in the house of y e LORDE caried all the metall of them vnto Babilon They toke awaye also the Cauldrons shouels flesh hokes sprinklers spones all the brasen vessell that was occupide in the seruyce with the basens colepannes sprinklers pottes candilstickes spones and cuppes wherof some were of golde and some of syluer The chefe captayne toke also the two pilers the lauer the xij brasen bullockes y t stode vnder y e seate which kinge Salomon made in the house of the LORDE all the vessell conteyned so moch metall that it might not be weyed For euery piler was xviij cubites hie the rope that went aboute it
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 ⪠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 coÌmaundement 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 sodeÌly was destroyed and not taken with hondes Hir absââyners 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 weÌte 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 heÌce 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
anothers Chap. XIX The captiuyte off the kyngâs 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 ãâã 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 aÌd the temple Wherby is descrybed the mystery off the church off christ and saluacion of the faithfull in hiâ ⪠The first Chapter IT chauÌsed 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 countenauÌce 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 weÌte 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 weÌte 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 weÌte 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 amoÌge 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 WheÌ 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 theÌ 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 vpoÌ 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 huÌger after him and spred out his braunches towarde him to water his frutes Neuertheles it was plaÌted 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 childreÌs 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 violeÌce he parteth his mete with the hongrie he clotheth the naked he lendeth
mountaynes in all valleys his bowes shall be broken downe to the grounde thorow out the londe Then all the people of the londe shal go from his shadowe and forsake him When he is falleÌ all y e foules of y e ayre shal syt vpon him and all wilde beestes of the felde shal go aboute amonge his brauÌches so that from hence forth no tre in the water shall attayne to his hyenesse nor reach his toppe vnto the cloudes nether shall eny tre off the water stonde so hye as he hath done For vnto death shall they all be delyuered vnder the earth and go downe to y e graue like other men Morouer thus saieth the LORDE God In the daye when he goeth downe to the graue I wil cause a lamentacion to be made I will couer the depe vpon him I will staunch his floudes and the greate waters shal be restrayned I shall cause Libanus to be soroufull for his sake and all the trees off the felde shall be smytteÌ I wil make the Heithen shake at the sounde of his fall when I cast him downe to hell with them y t descende in to the pytte All the trees of Eden w t all the chosen and besttrees of Libanus yee and all they that are planted vpon the waters shal mourne with him also in the lower habitacioÌs for they shal go downe to hell w t him vnto theÌ that be slayne with the swearde which dwelt afore vnder the shadow off his arme amoÌge the HeitheÌ To whom shalt thou be lickened that art so glorious greate amonge the trees off Eden Yet art thou cast downe vnder y e earth amonge the trees off Eden where thou must lye amonge the vncircumcised with them that be slayne w t the swearde Euen thus is it with Pharao all his people saieth the LORDE God The XXXII Chapter IN the xij yeare the first daye of the xij Moneth the worde of the LORDE came vnto me sayenge Thou sonne of man take vp a lamentacion vpoÌ Pharao the kynge of Egipte saye vnto him Thou art reputed as a Lyon of the Heithen as a whalfish in the see Thou castest y t waters aboute the thou troublest the waters w t thy fete and stampest in their floudes Thus sayeth the LORDE God I wil sprede my net ouer y e namely a greate multitude of people these shal dryue the into my yarne for I will cast the vpoÌ the loÌde and let the lye vpoÌ the felde that all the foules of the ayre maye syt vpoÌ the I wil geue all the beastes of the felde ynough off the. Thy flesh will I cast vpoÌ the hilles and fyll the valleys with thy hyenesse I will water the londe with the abundaunce off thy bloude euen to the mouÌtaynes y e valleys shal be full off the. When thou art put out I will couer the heauen and make his starres dymme I will sprede a cloude ouer the Sonne aÌd the Moone shall not geue hir light All the lightes off heauen will I put out ouer the and bringe darcknesse vpon thy londe saieth y e LORDE God I wil trouble the hertes off many people when I bringe thy destruccion amoÌge the Heithen and countrees whom thou knowest not Yee I will make many people with their kynges so afrayed thorow y e that their hayre shal stonde vp wheÌ I shake my swearde at their faces Sodenly shal they be astonnyed euery man in him self at y e daye of thy fall For thus saieth the LORDE God the kynge of Babilons swearde shal come vpon y e with y e sweardes of the worthies will I smyte downe thy people All they that be mightie amonge the GeÌtiles shal waist the proude pompe of Egipte and brynge downe all hir people All the catell also of Egipte wil I destroye that they shal come nomore vpoÌ the waters so that nether maÌs fote ner beastes clawe shal stere them eny more Then wil I make their waters cleare and cause their floudes to runne like oyle sayeth the LORDE God when I make the londe of Egipte desolate and when y e countre with all that is therin shal be layde waist and wheÌ I smyte all theÌ which dwell in it that they maye knowe that I am the LORDE This is the mournynge that the doughters off the Heithen shall make Yee a sorow and lamentacioÌ shal they take vp vpon Egipte and all hir people saieth the LORDE God In the xij yeare the xv daye of the Moneth came the worde off the LORDE vnto me sayenge Thou sonne of man Take vp a lamentacion vpon the people of Egipte and cast them downe yee aÌd the mightie people of the HeitheÌ also euen with theÌ that dwell beneth and with them that go downe in to the graue Downe how fayre so euer thou be and laye the with the vncircircumcised AmoÌge those that be slayne with the swearde shal they lye The swearde is geuen alredy ⪠he shal be drawen forth and all his people The mightie worthies and his helpers y t be gone downe and lye with the vncircumcised and with them that be slayne with y e swearde shal speake to him out of the hell Assur is there also with his company aÌd their graues rounde aboute which were slayne aÌd fell all with the swearde whose graues lye besyde him in the lowe pytte His comoÌs are buried rounde aboute his graue alltogether wounded and slayne with the swearde which men afore tyme brought feare into y e londe off the lyuynge There is Elam also with all his people and their graues rounde aboute which all beynge wounded and slayne with the swearde are gone downe vncircumcised vnder the earth which neuertheles somtyme brought feare in to the londe off the lyuynge for the which they beare their shame with the other that be gone downe to y e graue Their buryall is geuen them and all their people amonge them that be slayne Their graues are rounde aboute all them which be vncircumcised and with them that be slay ⪠thorow the swearde for seynge that in tymes past they made the londe off the lyuynge afrayed they must now beare their owne shame with them that go downe to the pytte and lye amonge them that be slayne There is Mesech also and Tubal and their people and their graues rounde aboute These all are amonge the vncircuÌcised and them that be slayne with the swearde because afore tyme they made the londe off the lyuynge afrayed Shulde not they then lye also amonge y e worthies and vncircumcised Giauntes which w t their weapens are gone downe to hel whose sweardes are layed vnder their heades whose wickednesse is vpon their bones because that as worthies they haue brought feare in to y e loÌde of y e lyuinge Yee amoÌge the vncircuÌcised shalt thou be destroyed and slepe with them that perished thorow the swearde There is the loÌde off Edom with hir kynges and prynces also which w t
in his honde wente out vnto the east dore he measured a M. cubites theÌ he brought me thorow y e water eueÌ to the ancles so he measured yet a thousande brought me thorow y e water agayne vnto the knees yet measured he a thousande and brought me thorow the water vnto the loynes After this he measured a thousande agayne then was it soch a ryuer y t I might not wade thorow it The water was so depe that it was nedefull to haue swymmed for it might not be waded ouer And he sayde vnto me hast thou sene this o thou sonne of man and with that he brought me to the ryuer banck agayne Now when I came there there stode many trees vpon ether syde of the ryuer baÌcke Then sayde he vnto me This water that floweth out towarde the east and runneth downe in to the playne felde commeth into the see and from the see it runneth out maketh the waters whole Yee all that liue and moue where vnto this ryuer commeth shal recouer And where this water coÌmeth there shal be many fysh For all that commeth to this water shall be lusty and whole By this riuer shal the fyszshers stonde from Engaddi vnto En Eglaim there sprede out their nettes for there shal be greate heapes of fysh like as in the mayne see As for his claye and pyttes they shal not be whole for why it shal be occupide for salt By this ryuer vpon both the sydes of the shore there shall growe all maner of frutefull trees whose leaues shall not fall of nether shal their frute perish but euer be rype at their monethes for their water runneth out of the Sanctuary His frute is good to eate and his leaf profitable for medycine Thus sayeth the LORDE God Let this be the border wherin ye shall deuyde the londe vnto the xij trybes of Israel with the lyne Parte it indifferently vnto one as vnto another of the which loÌde I swore vnto youre fathers that it shulde fall to youre enheritaunce This is the border of the londe vpon the northsyde from the mayne see as men go to Zadada namely Hemath Berotha Sabarim from the borders of Damascus and Hemath vnto Hazar Tichon that lieth vpon the coastes of HaueraÌ Thus the borders froÌ the see forth shal be Hazar Euan the border of Damascus the north and the borders of Hemath that is the north parte The east syde shal ye measure from Haueran and Damascus from Galead and the londe of Israel by Iordane and so forth from the see coast that lieth eastwarde and this is the east parte The south syde is from Thamar forth to the waters of strife vnto Cades the ryuer to the mayne see and that is the south parte The west parte namely the greate see from the borders therof till a man come vnto Hemath this is the west parte This londe shal ye parte amonge you acordinge to the trybes of Israel and deuyde it to be an heretage for you and for the strauÌgers that dwel amoÌge you and begette children For ye shal take them amonge the childreÌ of Israell like as though they were of youre owne housholde and countre and they shal haue heretage with you amonge the childreÌ of Israel Loke in what trybe the straunger dwelleth in the same trybe shal ye geue him his heretage saieth the LORDE God The XLVIII Chapter THese are y e names of the trybes that lye vpon the northsyde by the waye of Hetlon tyll thou commest vnto Hemath and Hazar Enam the borders of Damascus towarde the north besyde Hemath Dan shal haue his porcioÌ from the east quarter vnto the west Vpon the borders of Dan from the east syde vnto the west shal Asser haue his porcion Vpon the borders of Asser froÌ the east parte vnto the west shal Nephtali haue his porcion Vpon the borders of Nephtali from the east quarter vnto the west shal Manasses haue his porcion Vpon the borders of Manasses from the east syde vnto the west shal Ephraim haue his porcion Vpon the borders of Ephraim from the east parte vnto the west shal Ruben haue his porcion VpoÌ the borders of Ruben from the east quarter vnto the west shal Iuda haue his porcion Vpon the borders of Iuda from the east parte vnto the west ye shal set a syde one porcioÌ of xxv M. meteroddes longe and brode like as another porcion from the east syde vnto the west wherin the Sanctuary shal stoÌde As for the porcion that ye shal separate out for the LORDE it shal be xxv M. longe and x. M. brode Which separated holy porcion shal belonge vnto these namely to the prestes towarde the north xxv M. towarde the west x. M. brode towarde the east x. M. brode also towarde the south xxv M. longe wherin the Sanctuary of the LORDE shal stonde Yee this same place shal be the prestes y t are of the childreÌ of Sadoch haue kepte my holy ordinaunce which wente not astraye in the erroure of the children of Israel like as the Leuites are gone astraye and this separated pece that they haue of the londe shal be the most holy harde vpon the borders of the Leuites And nexte vnto the prestes shal the Leuites haue xxv M. loÌge and x. M. brode This shal be on euery syde xxv M. longe and x. M. brode Of this porcioÌ they shal sell nothinge ner make eny permutacion therof lest the chefe of the londe fall vnto other for it is halowed vnto the LORDE The other v. M. after the bredth y t lyeth by the xxv M shal be comon it shal belonge to the cite and to the suburbes for habitacions and y e cite shal stonde in the myddest therof Let this be the measure towarde y e north parte v. C. iiij M towarde the south parte v. C. iiij M towarde the east parte v. C. and iiij M towarde y e west parte v. C. and iiij M. The suburbes harde vpon the cite shall haue towarde the north L. and ij C towarde the south L. and two C towarde the east L. and two C towarde the west also L. and two C. As for the residue of the length that lyeth hard vpon the separated holy grounde namely x. M. towarde the east and x. M. towarde the west next vnto the holy porcioÌ it and the increase therof shal serue for their meate that laboure in the cite They that laboure for the welth of the cite shall manteine this also out of what tribe so euer they be in Israel All that is separated of the xxv M. longe and xxv M. brode on the foure partes y t shall ye put a syde for the separated porcion of the Sanctuary for the possession of y e cite The resydue vpon both the sydes of the Sanctuary and possession of the cite shall belonge to the prynce before the place of y e xxv M. vnto the east
III. Chapter WO to that bloudthursty cite which is all full of lyes and robbery wil not leaue of from rauyszshinge There a man maye heare scourginge ruszshinge the noyse of the wheles the crienge of the horses the rollinge of the charettes There the horse men get vp with naked swerdes and glisterynge speares There lyeth a multitude slayne and a greate heape of deed bodies There is no ende of deed coarses yee men fall vpon their bodies And that for the greate and many folde whordâme of the fayre and beutifull harlot which is a mastresse of wychcraft yee and selleth the people thorow hir whordome and the nacions thorow hir wichcraft Beholde I wil vpon the saieth the LORDE of hoostes and wil pull thy clothes ouer thy heade that I maye shewe thy nakednes amonge the Heithen and thy shame amonge the kingdomes I wil cast dyrte vpon y t to make the be abhorred and a gasynge stocke Yee all they that loke vpon the shal starte backe saye Niniue is destroyed Who wil haue pyte vpoÌ the where shal I seke one to conforte the Art thou better then the greate cite of AlexaÌdria that laye in the waters and had the waters rounde aboute it which was strongly fenced walled with the see Ethiopia and Egipte were hir streÌgth that exceadinge greate aboue measure Aphrica and Lybia were hir helpers yet was she dryuen awaye brought in to captiuyte hir yonge children were smytten downe at the heade of euery strete the lottes were cast for the most awncient men in her and all hir mightie men were bounde in chaynes Euen so shalt thou also be droncken and hyde thy self and seke some helpe agaynst thine enemy All thy stronge cities shal be like fyge trees w t rype fyges which wheÌ a maÌ shaketh they fall in to the mouth of the eater Beholde thy people with in the are but wâmen the portes of thy londe shal be opened vnto thine enemies and the fyre shal deuoure y e barres Drawe water now agaynst thou be beseged make vp thy stroÌge holdes go in to the claye tempre the morter make stronge bricke yet the fyre shal consume the the swerde shal destroye the yee as y e locuste doth so shal it eate the vp It shal fall heuely vpon the as the locustes yee right heuely shal it fall vpon the euen as the greshoppers Thy marchauntes haue bene mo then the starres of heaueÌ but now shal they sprede abrode as the locustes and fle their waye Thy lordes are as the greshoppers thy captaynes as the multitude of greshoppers which wheÌ they be colde remayne in y e hedges but when the Sonne is vp they fle awaye and no maÌ can tell where they are become Thy shepherdes are aslepe o kinge of Assur thy worthies are layed downe y e people is scatred abrode vpon the mountaynes and no man gathereth them together agayne Thy wounde can not be hyd thy plage is so sore All they that heare this of the shall clappe their handes ouer the. For what is he to whoÌ thou hast not allwaye bene doynge hurte The ende of the prophet Naum. The Prophet Abacuc What Abacuc conteyneth Chap. I. He complayneth vnto God of the wickednes of the people and threateneth them with the plage of God Chap. II. He reproueth the cuvetous and vnrightuous men Chap. III. A prayer of the prophet The first Chapter THis is the heuy burtheÌ which the prophet Abacuc dyd se. O LORDE how longe shal I crie thou wilt not heare How longe shall I complayne vnto the suffrynge wronge and thou wilt not helpe Why lettest thou me se weerynesse and laboure TyraÌny and violence are before me power ouergoeth right for the lawe is torne in peces and there can no right iudgment go forth And why the vngodly is more set by then the rightuous this is the cause y t wronge iudgment procedeth Beholde amonge the Heithen and loke wel wondre at it and be abaszshed for I wil do a thinge in youre tyme which though it be tolde you ye shal not beleue Forlo I wil rase vp y e Caldees that bytter and swifte people which shal go as wyde as the londe is to take possession of dwellinge places that be not their owne A grymme boysteous people is it these shal syt in iudgment punyshe Their horses are swifter then the cattes of the mountayne byte sorer then y e wolues in y e euenynge Their horsmen come by greate heapes from farre they fle hastely to deuo r as the Aegle They come all to spoyle out of them commeth an east wynde which bloweth and gathereth their captyues like as the sonde They shall mocke the kinges and laugh the prynces to scorne They shal not set by eny stronge holde for they shal laye ordinaunce agaynst it and take it Then shal they take a fresh corage vnto them to go forth to do more euell so ascrybe that power vnto their God But thou o LORDE my God my holy one thou art from the begynnynge therfore shal we not dye O LORDE thou hast ordened them for a punyshmeÌt and set them to reproue the mightie Thine eyes are clene thou mayest not se euell thou canst not beholde y e thinge that is wicked Wherfore then dost thou loke vpon the vngodly and holdest thy tunge when the wicked deuoureth the man that is better theÌ himself Thou makest men as the fish in the see and like as the crepinge beestes that haue no gyde They take vp all with their angle they catch it in their net gather it in their yarne wherof they reioyce and are glad Therfore offre they vnto their net and do sacrifice vnto their yarne because that thorow it their porcion is become so fat and their meate so pleteous Wherfore they cast out their net agayne neuer ceasse to slaye the people The II. Chapter I Stode vpon my watch and set me vpon my bulworke to loke se what he wolde saye vnto me and what answere I shulde geue him y t reproueth me But the LORDE answered me and sayde Wryte the vision planely vpon thy tables that who so commeth by maye rede it for y e visioÌ is yet farre of for a tyme but at y e last it shal come to passe not fayle And though he tary yet wait thou for him for in very dede he wil come and not be slacke Beholde who so wil not beleue his soule shal not prospere but the iust shal lyue by his faith Like as the wyne disceaueth the dronckarde euen so the proude shal fayle not endure He openeth his desyre wyde vp as the hell is as vnsaciable as death All Heithen gathereth he to him heapeth vnto him all people But shall not all these take vp a prouerbe agaynst him and mocke him with a byworde and saye Wo vnto him that heapeth vp other mens goodes How
you euerlastinge rest for he is nye at hande that shal come in the ende of the worlde Be ready to the rewarde of the kyngdome for the euerlastinge light shall shyne vpon you for euermore Fle the shadowe of this worlde receaue the ioyfulnes of youre glory I testifie my sauioure openly O receaue the gift y t is geuen you and be glad geuynge thankes vnto him that hath called you to the heauenly kyngdome Aryse vp and stonde fast beholde the nombre of those that be sealed in the feast of the LORDE which are departed from the shadowe of the worlde and haue receaued glorious garmeÌtes of the LORDE Take thy nombre O Sion and shutt vp thy purified which haue fulfilled the lawe of the LORDE The nombre of thy children whom thou longedest for is fulfilled beseke the power of the LORDE that thy people which haue bene called from the begynnynge maye be halowed I Eszdras sawe vpon the mount Sion a greate people whom I coude not nombre they all praysed the LORDE with songes of thankesgeuynge And in the myddest of theÌ there was a yonge maÌ of an hye stature mâre excellent then all they and vpon euery one of their heades he sett a crowne and was euer hygher and hygher which I marueled at greatly So I axed y e angell sayde Syr what are these He answered and sayde vnto me These be they that haue put of the mortall clothinge and put on the immortall and haue testified knowleged the name of God Now are they crowned and receaue the rewarde Then sayde I vnto the angell what yonge personne is it that crowneth them geueth them the palmes in their handes So he answered and sayde vnto me It is y e sonne of God whom they haue knowleged in the worlde Then beganne I greatly to commende them that stode so stifly for the name of the LORDE And so the angell sayde vnto me Go thy waye and tell my people what maner of thinges and how greate wonders of the LORDE thy God thou hast senâ The III. Chapter IN the thirtie yeare of the fall of the cite I was at Babilon laye troubled vpoÌ my bed my thoughtes came vp ouer my hert for I sawe y e desolacion of Sion the plenteous wealth of them y t dwelt at Babilon my sprete was sore moued so that I begaÌne to speake fearfull wordes to the most hyest and sayde O LORDE LORDE thou spakest at the begynnynge whan thou plantedst y e earth and that thy self alone and gauest commaundement vnto y e people and a body vnto Adam which was a creature of thy handes and hast brethed in him the breth of life and so he lyued before the and thou leddest him in to paradyse which gardeÌ of pleasure thy right hande had planted or euer the earth was made And vnto him thou gauest commaundemeÌt to loue y e waye which he transgressed immediatly thou appoyntedest death in him and in his generacions Of him came nacions trybes people kynreddes out of nombre And euery people walked after their owne wil and dyd nyce thinges before the and as for thy commaundementes they despysed them But in processe of tyme thou broughtest the water floude vpon those that dwelt in the worlde and destroydest them And like as the death was in Adam so was the water floude also in these Neuertheles one of them thou leftest namely Noe with his housholde of whom come all righteous meÌ And it happened that whan they y t dwelt vpon the earth beganne to multiplie and had gotten many children and were a greate people they beganne to be more vngodly then the first Now whan they all lyued so wickedly before the thou didest chose the a man from amonge them whose name was Abram Him thou louedest and vnto him only thou shewdest thy wyll and maydest an euerlastinge couenaunt with him promisinge him that thou woldest neuer forsake his sede And vnto him thou gauest Isaac vnto Isaac also thou gauest Iacob and Esau. As for Iacob thou didest chose him and put backe Esau. And so Iacob became a greate multitude And it happened that whaÌ thou leddest his sede out of Egipte thou broughtest theÌ vp to the mount Sion bowinge downe the heauens settinge fast the earth mouynge the grounde makynge the depthes to shake and troublynge the worlde And thy glory wente thorow foure portes of fyre and earth quakes and wyndes and colde that thou mightest geue the lawe vnto the sede of Iacob and diligence vnto the generacioÌ of Israel And yet tokest thou not awaye from theÌ that wicked hert that thy lawe might brynge forth frute in them For the first Adam bare a wicked hert transgressed and was ouercome and so be all they y t are borne of him Thus remayned weaknes with the lawe in the hert of the people with the wickednesse of the rote so that the good departed awaye and the euell abode still So the tymes passed awaye and the yeares were brought to an ende Then didest thou rayse the vp a seruaunt called Dauid whom thou commaundedst to buylde a cite vnto thy name and to offre vp incense and sacrifice vnto the therin This was done now many yeares Then the inhabiters of the cite forsoke the and in all thinges dyd eueÌ as Adam and all his generacions had done for they also had a wicked hert And so thou gauest thy cite ouer in to the handes of thine enemies Are they of Babilon then better and more righteous then thy people y t they shal therfore haue the domynion of Sion For whan I came there and sawe their vngodlynes and so greate wickednesse that it coude not be noÌbred yee whan my soule sawe so many euell doers in y e xxx yeare my hert fayled me for I sawe how thou suffrest them in soch vngodlynes and sparest y e wicked doers but thine owne people hast thou roted out and preserued thine enemies this hast thou not shewed me I can not perceaue how this happeneth Do they of Babilon then better then they of Sion Or is there eny other people y t knoweth the sauynge the people of Israel Or what generacion hath so beleued y e couenauÌtes as Iacob And yet their rewarde appeareth not and their labo hath no frute For I haue gone here and there thorow the HeitheÌ I se y t they be rych wealthy thynke not vpon y e commaundementes Weye thou therfore oure wickednesse now in y e balaunce and theirs also that dwell in the worlde and so shal thy name be nowhere founde but in Israel Or where is there a people vpon earth y t hath not synned before the Or what people hath so kepte thy commaundementes Thou shalt fynde that Israel by name hath kepte thy preceptes but not the other people and Heithen The IIII. Chapter ANd the angell that was sent vnto me whose name was Vriel gaue me answere and sayde Thy
and I sayde O LORDE thou spakest vnto thy creature from the begynnynge euen the first daye and saydest Let heauen and earth be made and thy worde was a perfecte worke And then was there the sprete and the darcknesses were yet on euery syde and sylence there was no mans voyce as yet from the. Then commaundedst thou a fayre light to come forth out of thy treasures that thy worke might appeare and be sene Vpon the seconde daye thou maydest the sprete of the firmament and commaundedst it to parte asunder to make a deuysion betwixte the waters that the one parte might remayne aboue and the other beneth Vpon the thirde daye thou broughtest to passe y t the waters were gathered in the seuenth parte of the earth Sixe partes hast thou dryed vp and kepte them to the inteÌt y t men might sowe and occupie huszbandrie therin As soone as thy worde wente forth the worke was made For immediatly there was greate in numerable frute many dyuerse pleasures desyres of temptacion floures of chaungeable coloure and smell and this was done the thirde daye Vpon the fourth daye thou coÌmaundedst that the Sonne shulde geue his shyne and y e Moone hir light the starres didest thou sett in ordre and gauest them a charge to do seruyce euen vnto man that was for to be made VpoÌ the fifth daye thou saydest vnto the seuenth parte where the waters were gathered that they shulde bringe forth diuerse beastes foules and fishes And so it came to passe that the domme water and without soule brought forth lyuynge beastes at the commaundement of God that all people might prayse thy wonderous workes Then didest thou preserue two soules y e one thou calldest Enoch and the other Leuiathan and didest separate the one from the other for the seuenth parte namely where the water was gathered together might not holde them both Vnto Enoch thou gauest one parte which was dryed vp the thirde daye that he shulde dwell in the same parte wherin are a thousande hilles But vnto LeuiathaÌ thou gauest the seuenth parte namely the moyst and hast kepte him to deuoure what thââ wylt and whan Vpon the sixte daye thou gauest coÌmaundement vnto the earth that before the it shulde brynge forth beastes catell and all y e crepe besydes this Adam also whom thou maydest lorde of all thy creatures Of him come we all and the people also whom thou hast chosen specially vnto thy self All this haue I sayde now and spoken before the that I might shewe how that the worlde is made for oure sakes As for the other people which also come of Adam thou hast sayde that they are nothinge but be like a spetle and hast lickened the abundauÌce of them vnto a droppe that falleth from the rofe of the house And now O LORDE the HeitheÌ which haue euer bene reputed as nothinge haue begoÌne to be lordes ouer vs and to deuoure vs but we thy people whom thou hast called y e first borne thy only begotten and thy feruent louer are geuen in to their handes and power Yf the worlde now be made for oure sakes why haue we not the inheritaunce in possession with the worlde How longe shal this endure The VII Chapter ANd it happened after that I had spoken out these wordes there was sent vnto me an angell which had bene by me also the nightes afore and he sayde vnto me Vp Eszdras and heare the wordes that I am come to tell the. And I sayde speake on LORDE my God TheÌ sayde he vnto me The see is sett in a wyde place y t it might be depe and greate but the intrauÌce is narow and small like a ryuer For who wolde go in to the see to loke vpon it and to rule it Yf he wente not thorow the narow how might he come in to the brode Item another A cite is buylded and sett vpon a brode felde and is full of all goodes the intraunce is narow and sodane like as yf there were a fyre at the right hande and a depe water at the left and as it were onely one strate path betwixte theÌ both so small that there coude but one man go there Yf this cite now were geuen to an heyre he neuer wente thorow this parlous waye how wolde he receaue his inheritauÌce And I sayde It is so LORDE Then sayde he Euen so is Israel also a porcion And why for their sakes haue I made the worlde whan Adam traÌsgressed my statutes then was y e thinge iudged that was done ⪠Then were y e intraunces of the worlde made narow full of sorow and trauayle They are but few euell full of parels and laboure For the intraunces of the fore worlde were wyde and sure and brought immortall frute Yf they now which are entred in to this worlde maye not comprehende these strayte and vayne thinges moch lesse maye they coÌprehende and vnderstonde the secrete thinges Why disquietest thou thy self then seynge thou art but a corruptible maÌ And what woldest thou knowe where as thou art but mortall And why hast thou not receaued in to thine hert the thinge that is for to come but that is present TheÌ sayde I O LORDE LORDE thou hast ordened in thy lawe that the righteous shulde inheret these thinges but that the vnfaithfull and vngodly shulde perishe Neuertheles the righteous shall suffre strayte thinges and hope for wyde for they that haue lyued vngodly suffred strayte thinges shal not se the wyde And he saide vnto me There is no iudge aboue God and none that hath vnderstondinge aboue the Hyest For there be many y t perish because they despyse y e lawe of God that is sett before them For God hath geuen strayte commaundement to soch as come that they knowe what they do and how they shulde lyue and yf they kepte this they shulde not be punyshed Neuertheles they were not obedient vnto him but spake agaynst him ymagined vayne thinges purposed to synne and sayde morouer that there was no God that God regarded it not His wayes haue they not knowne his lawe haue they despysed denyed his promyses in his statutes ordinaunces haue they not bene faithfull stedfast and haue not perfourmed his workes And therfore Eszdras vnto the full plenty and to the emptye emptynesse Beholde the tyme shal come y t these tokens which I haue tolde the shal come to passe the bryde shall appeare the earth y t now passeth awaye shal be shewed whoso euer is delyuered from y e foresayde euels shal se my woÌders For my sonne Iesus shal be openly declared w t those y t be w t him they y t remayne shal be mery in foure hundreth yeares After these same yeares shall my sonne Christ dye and all men that haue life and y e worlde shal be turned in to the olde sylence seuen dayes like as in the fore iudgmentes so that no man shall
that tyme hath kepte himself They that be fallen in to harme are soch as haue workes saith vnto the Most mightie Knowe this therfore that they which be left behynde are more blessed then they that be deed This is the meanynge of the vision Where as thou sawest a man commynge vp from the depe of the see y e same is he whom God the Hyest hath kepte a greate season which by his owne self shall delyuer his creature he shal ordre theÌ that are left behynde And where as thou sawest y t out of his mouth there came a blast of wynde fyre storme how y t he lift vp nether swerde ner weapen but y t the ruszshinge in of him destroyed the whole multitude y t came to fight agaynst him it signifieth that the dayes come whan God wyll delyuer theÌ y t are vpon earth in a traunce of mynde shall he come vpon theÌ y t dwell in the earth And one shal vndertake to fight agaynst another one cite agaynst another one place agaynst another one people agaynst another one realme agaynst another Whan this commeth to passe then shal the tokens come that I shewed the before and theÌ shal my sonne be declared whoÌ thou sawest clymme vp as a maÌ And whan all y e people heare his voyce euery man shal in their owne loÌde leaue the battayll y t they haue one agaynst another and an innumerable multitude shall be gathered together as they that be willinge to come and to ouer come him by fightinge But he shal stoÌde vpon the toppe of the mount Sion Neuertheles Sion shall come shall be shewed beynge prepared buylded for all men like as thou sawest the hill grauen forth without eny haÌdes But my sonne shal rebuke the people y t are come for their wickednes with the tempest and for their euell ymaginacions and their paynes wherwith they shal be punyshed are lickened vnto the flamme and with out eny laboure shal he destroye them euen by the lawe which is coÌpared vnto the fyre And where as thou sawest that he gathered another peaceable people vnto hiÌ those are the ten trybes which were caried awaye presoners out of their owne londe in the tyme of Oseas the kynge whom Salmanasar the kinge of Assiria toke presoner and caried them ouer y e water and so came they in to another londe But they gaue them this councell y t they shulde leaue the multitude of the HeitheÌ and to go forth in to a farther countre where neuer mankynde dwelt that they might there kepe their statutes which they neuer kepte in their owne lande And so they entred in at the narow passages of the water of Euphrates and God shewed tokens for theÌ and helde styll the floude tyll they were passed ouer for thorow that countre there was a greate waye namely of a yeare and an half iourney for the same region is called Asareth Then dwelt they there vnto the latter tyme and when they come forth agayne y e Hyest shall holde styll the sprynges of the streame agayne that they maye go thorow therfore sawest thou the multitude with peace And they that be left behynde of thy people are those that be founde within my border Now whan he destroyeth the multitude that is gathered together he shal defeÌde his people that remayne and then shal he shew them greate wonders Then sayde I O LORDE LORDE shew me this wherfore haue I sene the man commynge vp from the depe of the see And he sayde vnto me Like as thou caÌst nether seke out ner knowe these thinges that are in the depe of the see euen so maiest thou not se my sonne or those that be with him but in the tyme of the daye This is the interpretacion of the dreame which thou sawest therfore thou onely art here lightened for thou hast forsaken thine owne lawe and applied thy diligence vnto myne and sought it Thy life hast thou ordred in wyszdome and hast called vnderstondinge thy mother and therfore haue I shewed the y e treasure of the Hyest After thre dayes I wil shew the more and talke with the at more large yee heuy and wonderous thinges wyl I declare vnto the. Then wente I forth in to y e felde geuynge prayse and thankes greatly vnto God because of his wonders which he dyd in tyme and because he gouerneth the same and soch ãâã is in tyme and there I satt thre dayes The XIIII Chapter VPon the thirde daye I satt vnder an oke tre then came there a voyce vnto me out of the bush sayde Eszdras Eszdras And I sayde here I am LORDE and stode vp vpon my fete TheÌ spake he vnto me In the bush dyd I appeare vnto Moses talked w t him whaÌ my people serued in Egipte and I sent him and led my people out of Egipte brought him vpoÌ y e mount Sion where I helde him by me a longe season and tolde him my wonderous workes and shewed him y e secretes of the tymes and the ende and commaunded him sayeÌge These wordes shalt thou declare not hyde theÌ And now I saye vnto the that thou laye vp in thine hert the dreames that thou hast sene and the interpretacions which I haue shewed the for thou shalt be receaued of all thou shal be turned and remayne w t my councell and with soch as be like the vntyll y e tymes be ended For the worlde hath lost his youth and the tymes begynne to waxe olde For the tyme is deuyded in to twolue partes and ten partes of it are gone all ready and half of the tenth parte yet remayneth there that which is after y e half of y e tenth parte Therfore prepare and ordre thy house and refourme thy people comforte soch of thou as be in trouble and tell now of the destruccion let go from the mortall thoughtes cast awaye the burthens of man put of the weake nature laye vp in some place y e thoughtes that are most heuy vnto the and haist the to flyt from these tymes for soch euell wickednesse as thou hast now sene happeÌ shal they do yet moch worse For the weaker that the worlde and the tyme is the more shal ãâ¦ã wickednesse increase in them that dwell vpoÌ earth For the trueth is fled farre awaye lesynge is hard at hande For now haââteth the vision to come that thou hast sene Then answered I and sayde Beholde LORDE I wyl go as thou hast commaunded me and refourme the people which are present But they y t shal be borne afterwarde who wyl exhorte or rebuke theÌ Thus the worlde is set in darcknes and they y t dwel therin are without light for thy lawe is kyndled becâuse no man knoweth the thinges that are done of the or that shal be done Yf I haue fouÌde grace before the sende the holy goost in to me and I shall wryte all that hath bene done
continued in a good life and holy conuersacion so that they were loued accepted both of God and men and of all the people of the londe The ende of the boke of Tobias The boke of Iudith What this boke conteyneth Chap. I. Of the noble cite Egbathanis Of Nabuchodonosor the kynge of the Assirians of his victory and power Chap. II. The vnsaciable desyre that Nabuchodonosor had to raigne of his hoost tyraÌnye Chap. III. Dyuerse kynges and prynces yelde themselues for feare The tyranny of Holofernes and pryde of the kynge Chap. IIII. The Iewes are afrayed and carefull for Ierusalem and the temple make their londe stroÌge prepare them selues to the battayll call vpon God and Eliachim the prest comforteth them Chap. V. Holofernes taketh indignacion at the children of Israel because they go aboute to defende them selues Achior beareth wytnesse to the trueth Chap. VI. Achior for tellynge the trueth is takeÌ âª and delyuered vnto the people of the Iewes vnto whom he telleth all the matter which moueth the people to crye vpon God Chap. VII Holofernes layeth sege to Bethulia The children of Israel crye vpon God Holofernes taketh the water from them so that they in the cite haue greate thyrst and are vnpacient Osias comforteth them and appoynteth fyue dayes to the grace of God Chap. VIII Iudith reproueth the elders that setâ a tyme to the mercy of God she exorteth the people to ameÌdemeÌt to praier rehearseth the benefites of God and telleth them hir deuyce Chap. IX Iudith goeth in to hir oratory and prayeth feruently vnto God for the deliuerauÌce of hir people Chap. X. Iudith decketh herself of the best fashioÌ taketh hir maydeÌ with her goeth forth by night in to Holofernes tent Chap. XI Iudith telleth Holofernes the cause of hir coÌmynge which pleaseth him well Chap. XII Holofernes commaundeth to intreate hir well and geueth hir liberty to go in and out to hir prayer maketh a greate supper byddeth hir to it and is dronken Chap. XIII Iudith seketh oportunite prayeth vnto God for streÌgth smyteth of the heade of droÌken Holofernes and bryngeth it in to the cite where the people reioyse and prayse God Chap. XIIII Holofernes heade is stickte vp vpon the walles the children of Israel fall vpon their enemies which take their flight Achior coÌmeth in to the nombre of the people of God Chap. XV. Holofernes hoost are out of their wyttes after his death the Israelites folowe vpoÌ theÌ the other cities of Israel helpe them they wynne greate spoyles coÌmeÌde Iudith Chap. XVI Iudith syngeth prayse vnto the LORDE The people come together vnto IerusaleÌ to geue thankes and prayse vnto the LORDE How Iudith made hir ende The first Chapter ARphaxat the kynge of the Medes subdued many people vnto his dominion buylded a noble stroÌge cite which he called Egbathanis The walles of it made he of fre stone foure squared seueÌtie cubites hye and thirtie cubites brode He made towres therevpon of an hundreth cubites hye But vpon the foure corners euery syde was twentie fote brode He made the portes in the heith like as the towres This kynge trusted in his mightie hoost in his glorious charettes So in y e twolft yeare of his raigne it happened that Nabuchodonosor y e kynge of the Assirians which raigned in the greate cite of Niniue fought agaynst Arphaxat and ouercame hiÌ in y e greate felde called Ragau besyde Euphrates and Tigris and Iadason in the felde of Erioth the kinge of the Elikes Then was the kyngdome of Nabuchodonosor exalted and his hert was lift vp and he sent vnto all them that dwelt in Celicia in Damascus in Libanus and vnto the Heithen that dwelt in Carmel and Cedar and to soch as dwelt in Galile in the greate felde of EszdreloÌ to all them that were in Samaria and beyonde the water of Iordane vnto Ierusalem and the whole londe of Iesse vnto the mountaynes of Ethiopia Vnto all these dyd Nabuchodonosor the kynge of y e Assirians sende messaungers But they all w t one consent wolde not agree vnto him and sent the messaungers agayne emptie and put theÌ awaye without honoure Then Nabuchodonosor the kynge toke indignacioÌ at all those londes and sware by his trone by his kyngdome that he wolde be auenged of all these countrees The II. Chapter IN the xiij yeare of kynge Nabuchodonosor vpon the xxij daye of y e first moneth it was deuysed in the courte of Nabuchodonosor y e kynge of the AssiriaÌs that he wolde defende himself So he called vnto him all y e elders all his captaynes and men of warre and shewed them his secrete councell and tolde them that his purpose was to brynge the whole earth vnder his domynion Now whan they were all content with this sayenge Nabuchodonosor the kinge called Holofernes the chefe captayne of his warres and saide vnto him Go thy waye forth agaynst all the kyngdomes of the west and specially agaynst those that haue despysed my commaundement Thou shalt spare no realme all stronge cities shalt thou brynge in subieccion vnto me Then Holofernes called together all the captaynes rulers of all the power in Assiria and mustred the soudyers vnto the hoost like as the kynge commaunded him namely an hundreth and tweÌtye thousande fightinge men vpon fote and twolue thousande archers vpon horsebacke All his ordinaunce sent he before with an innumerable multitude of camels so that the hoost was well prouyded for with oxen and small catell and y t without nombre He caused corne to be prepared out of all Syria for his hoost Moch golde and syluer also toke he out of the kynges house So he toke his iourney he and all his hoost with charettes horsmen and archers of whom there were so many that they couered the grounde of the lande like the greshoppers And whan he was gone past the borders of the Assirians he came towarde the greate mountaynes of Ange which lye vpon the left syde of Celicia and so he wente vp in to all their castels and wanne euery stroÌge holde As for y e welthy cite of Melothus he brake it downe spoyled all the childreÌ of Tharsis and the Ismaelites which laye towarde the wyldernes and vpon the south syde of y e londe of Chelon He wente ouer Euphrates also and came in to Mesopotamia and brake downe all the hye cities that were there from the broke of Mambre tyll a man come to the see and he toke the borders in from Celicia vnto the coastes of Iaphet towarde the south He caried awaye all the Madianites and spoyled all their goodes who so euer withstode him he slew them with the swerde After this he wente downe in to the felde of Damascus in the tyme of haruest and brent vp all the corne and all the trees and caused the vynes to be cutt downe And the feare of him fell vpon all them that dwelt in y e earth The III. Chapter
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 childreÌ 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 coÌmaunded 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 meÌ to kepe the welles that they drawe no water out of them so shalt thou destroye theÌ 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 woÌne for so moch as it lieth in the mouÌtaynes 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 spokeÌ 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 maydeÌs 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 WhaÌ 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 maÌ 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 coÌforte let vs tary with mekenesse He shall requyre and make inquisicion for oure
daye they stickte vp Holofernes heade vpon the walles and euery man toke his weapen and so they wente out with an horrible crye Whan the spyes sawe that they ranne vnto Holofernes tent And they that were within the teÌt came before his chamber and made a greate russzhinge to wake him vp because they thought with the noyse to haue raised him For there durst not one of the Assirians knocke go in ner to open But whan the captaynes and prynces and all the chefe in the kynge of the Assirians hoost came together they saide vnto the chamberlaynes Go youre waye in and wake him vp for the myse are crepte out of their holes and darre prouoke vs vnto battayll Then wente Vagao in to his chamber stode before the bed and clapped with his handes for he thought he had bene slepynge with Iudith But whaÌ he had herkened perfectly with his eares and coude perceaue no sterynge he wente nyer to the bed and lift it vp and then sawe he the deed body of Holofernes lyenge there without a heade weltred in his bloude vpon the earth Then cried he with loude voyce and with wepynge rent his clothes and wente in to Iudiths tent and founde her not And so he leapte out vnto the people and sayde one womaÌ of y e Iewes hath brought all Nabuchodonosors people to shame For lo Holofernes lyeth vpoÌ the grounde and hath no heade Whan the chefe of the assirians hoost herde that they rente their clothes and there fell an intollerable feare and tremblinge vpoÌ them so y t theyr myndes were sore afrayed And there was an exceadynge greate crye in the whole hoost The XV. Chapter NOw whan all the hoost herde that Holofernes was headed their mynde and councell fell from them and soch a feare came vpon them that they vndertoke to defende themselues by flyenge awaye one spake not to another but hanged downe their heades left all behynde them and made haist to escape from the Hebrues for they herde that they were haistinge to come after with their weapens and so they fled by the wayes of the feldes and thorow all the fote pathes of the dales And whan y e children of Israel sawe that they fled they folowed vpon them and wente downe with troÌpettes blowinge and makynge a greate crie after theÌ As for the Assirians they had no ordre and kepte not theÌ selues together but fled their waye Neuerthelesse the children of Israel fell vpon them with one company and ordre and discomfited as many as they might gett And Osias sent messaungers vnto all the cities and couÌtrees of Israel So all the regions and euery cite sent out their best men after them in harnesse smote them with the swerde tyll they came to y e vttemost parte of their borders And the other that were in Bethulia came into the teÌtes of the Assirians and toke all that they which were fled had left behynde them and so they founde greate good And they that came agayne to Bethulia from the battayll toke with them soch thinges as had bene theirs there was no noÌbre of the catell and of all costly Iewels so that from the lowest vnto the hyest they were all made riche of the spoyles of them And Ioachim the Hye prest at IerusaleÌ came to Bethulia with all the elders that they might se Iudith Now whan she came out vnto them they beganne all to prayse her with one voyce sayenge thou worshipe of the cite of Ierusalem thou ioye of Israel thou hono r of oure people thou hast done manly and thy hert is comforted because thou hast loued clenlynes and chastyte hast knowne no man but thine owne huszbande therfore hath the haÌde of the LORDE comforted the and blessed shalt thou be for euer And all people sayde so be it so be it In thirtie dayes coude the people of Israel scarse gather vp the spoyles of the Assirians But all that belonged vnto Holofernes and had bene his specially whether it were of golde of syluer precious stones clothinge and all ornamentes they gaue it vnto Iudith And all the people reioysed both wemen maydens and yonge people with pipes and harpes The XVI Chapter THen sange Iudith this songe vnto the LORDE Begynne vnto the LORDE vpon the tabrettes singe vnto the LORDE vpon the cymbals O synge vnto him a new songe of thankesgeuynge be ioyfull and call vpon his name It is the LORDE that destroyeth warres euen the LORDE is his name Which hath pitched his tentes in the myddest of his people that he might delyuer vs from the hande of all oure enemies Assur came out of the mountaynes in the multitude of his strength His people stopped the water brokes and their horses couered the valleys He purposed to haue breÌt vp my londe and to slaye my yonge men with the swerde He wolde haue caryed awaye my children and virgins in to captiuyte but the allmightie LORDE hurte him and delyuered him in to the handes of a woman which brought him to confucion For their mightie was not destroyed of the yonge men It was not the sonnes of Titan that slew him nether haue the greate giauntes sett them selues agaynst him but Iudith the daughter of Merari w t hir fayre bewtye hath discomfited him and brought him to naught For she layed awaie hâr widdowes garment and put on the appared of gladnesse in the reioysinge of the children of Israel She anoynted hir face and bounde vp hir hayre in an hooue to begyle him Hir slippers rauyshed his eyes hir bewtye captyuated his mynde with the swerde smote she of his neck The Persians were astonnyed at hir sted fastnesse and the Medes at hir boldnes Then howled the armyes of y e Assirians whan my symple appeared drye of thyrst The sonnes of the daughters haue pearsed them thorow and slayne them as fugityue childreÌ they peryshed in the battayll for the very feare of the LORDE my God Let vs synge a songe of thaÌkesgeuynge vnto the LORDE a new songe of prayse wyl we synge vnto oure God LORDE LORDE thou art a greate God mightie in power whom no man maye ouercome All thy creatures shulde serue the for thou spakest but the worde they were made thou sente thy sprete they were created and no man maye withstonde thy voyce The mountaynes shal moue from the foundacions with the waters the stony rockes shal melt before the like waxe But they that feare the shal be greate with y e in all thinges Wo vnto the people that ryse vp against my generacion for the allmightie LORDE wyll auenge him self of them in the daye of iudgmeÌt wyl he vyset them For he shall geue fyre wormes in to their flesh that they maye burne and fele it for euermore After this it happened that after the victory all the people came to Ierusalem to geue prayse and thankes vnto the LORDE And whaÌ they were purified they offred all their brent sacrifices and their
maketh a god of the same claye this doth euen he which a litle afore was made of earth himself and within a litle whyle after whan he dyeth turneth to earth agayne Notwithstandinge he careth not y e more because he shal labo r ner because his life is shorte but stryueth to excell goldsmythes y e syluer smythes copper smithes and taketh it for an hono r to make vayne thinges For his hert is ashes his hope is but vaine earth his life is more vyle then claye for so moch as he knoweth not his awne maker that gaue him his soule to worke and brethed in him the breth of life They counte oure life but a pastyme and oure conuersacion to be butt a market and that men shulde euer be gettinge yee and that by euell meanes Now he y t of earth maketh frayle vessell and ymages knoweth himself to offende aboue all other All the enemies of thy people and y t holde them in subieccion are vnwyse vnhappie and exceadinge proude vnto their owne soules for they iudge all the Idols of the HeitheÌ to be goddes which nether haue eyesight to se ner noses to smell ner eares to heare ner fingers of handes for to grope as for their fete they are to slowe to go For man made them and he that hath but a borowed sprete fashioned them But no man can make a God like vnto him for seinge he is but mortall himself it is but mortall that he maketh with vnrighteous handes He himself is better then they whom he worshippeth for he lyued though he was mortall but so dyd neuer they Yee they worshippe beestes also ⪠which are most miserable for compare thinges that can not fele vnto them they are worse then those Yet is there not one of these beestes that with his sight caÌ beholde eny good thinge nether haue they geuen prayse ner thankes vnto God The XVI Chapter FOr these and soch other thinges haue they suffred worthy punyshment thorow y e multitude of beestes are they roted out Insteade of y e which punishmentes thou hast graciously ordred thine awne people geuen them their desyre that they loÌged for a new straunge taist preparinge them quales to be their meate to the intent y t by the thinges which were shewed and sent vnto them they y t were so gredy of meate might be withdrawen euen from the desyre that was necessary But these within shorte tyme were brought vnto pouerte and taisted a new meate For it was requisite y t without eny excuse destruccion shulde come vpoÌ those which vsed tyraÌny to shewe onely vnto the other how their enemies were destroyed For whan the cruell woodnesse of the beestes came vpon them they peryshed thorow the stinges of the cruell serpentes ⪠NotwithstoÌdinge y i wrath endured not perpetually but they were put in feare for a litle season y t they might be refourmed hauynge a token of saluacion to remembre the coÌmaundement of thy lawe For he y t coÌuerted was not healed by the thinge y t he sawe but by THE O sauio of all So in this thou shewdest thine enemies y t it is thou which deliuerest froÌ all euell As for theÌ whan they were bytten w t greshoppers and flyes they died for they were worthy to perish by soch But nether the teth of dragons ner of venymous wormes ouer came y e children for thy mercy was euer by them helped theÌ Therfore were they punyshed to remeÌbre thy wordes but hastely were they healed agayne lest they shulde fall in to so depe forgetfulnesse that they might not vse thy helpe It was nether herbe ner plaster y t restored theÌ to health but thy worde o LORDE which healeth all thinges It is thou o LORDE y t hast the power of life death thou ledest vnto deathes dore bringest vp agayne But man thorow wickednes slayeth his owne soule when his sprete goeth forth it turneth not agayne nether maye he call agayne y e soule y t is takeÌ awaye It is not possible to escape y i hande For y e vngodly y t wolde not knowe y e were punyshed by y e streÌgth of thine arme w t strauÌge waters hales and raynes were they persecuted thorow fyre were they coÌsumed For it was a wonderous thinge that fyre might do more then water which queÌcheth all thinges but y e worlde is y e aueÌger of the righteous Some tyme was y e fyre so tame y t the beestes which were sent to punysh y e vngodly brent not y t because they shulde se knowe y t they were persecuted w t the punyshmeÌt of God And somtyme brent the fyre in the water on euery syde y t it might destroye y e vnrighteous nacioÌ of the earth Againe thou hast fed thine awne people w t angels fode sent theÌ bred ready from heaueÌ without their labo beynge very pleasauÌt well gusted And to shewe thy riches swetnesse vnto thy childreÌ thou gauest euery one their desyre so y t euery man might take what liked him best But the snowe yse abode the violeÌce of the fyre melted not y t they might knowe y t the fyre burninge in the hale rayne destroied y e frute of y e enemies y e fyre also forgatt his streÌgth agayne y t y e righteous might be norished For y e creature y t serueth y e which art y e maker is fearse in punyshinge y e vnrighteous but it is easy geÌtle to do good vnto soch as put their trust in the. Therfore dyd all thinges alter at the same tyme were all obedieÌt vnto thy grace which is y e norse of all thinges acordinge to y e desyre of theÌ y t had nede therof y t y e childreÌ O LORDE whoÌ thou louest might knowe y t it is not nature the growinge of frutes y t fedeth meÌ but y t it is y e worde which preserueth theÌ y t put their trust in the. For loke what might not be destroyed w t the fyre as soone as it was warmed w t a litle Sonne beame it melted y t all men might knowe y t thankes ought to be geuen vnto y e before y e Sonne ryse y t thou oughtest to be worshipped before y e daye sprynge For y e hope of y e vnthankfull shal melt awaie as the wynter yse perishe as water y t is not necessary The XVII Chapter GReate are thy iudgmeÌtes o LORDE thy councels can not be expressed therfore men do erre y t wil not be refourmed w t thy wyszdome For whan the vnrighteous thought to haue thy holy people in subiecioÌ they were bounde w t the bandes of darcknes longe night shutt vnder y e rofe thinkinge to escape y e euerlaâtinge wiszdome And whyle they thought to be hyd in y e darcknesse of their synnes they were scatered abrode
in y e very myddest of the darck coueringe of forgetfulnes put to horrible feare wonderously vexed For the corner where they were might not kepe them from feare because y e sounde came downe and vexed them yee many terryble and straunge visions made them afrayed No power of the fyre might geue them light nether might the cleare flaÌmes of the starres lighteÌ y t horrible night For there appeared vnto theÌ a sodane fyre very dredeful At y e which whan they sawe nothinge they were so afrayed that they thought y e thinge which they sawe to be the more fearfull As for the sorcery enchauntemeÌt y t they vsed it came to derisioÌ and the proude wyszdome was brought to shame For they y t promysed to dryue awaie the fearfulnes drede froÌ y e weake soules were sick for feare theÌ selues and that w t scorne And though none of y e woÌders feared theÌ yet were they afrayed at the beestes which came vpon theÌ at y e Hissynge of the serpeÌtes In so moch that with treÌblinge they swowned sayde they sawe not y e ayre which no maÌ yet maye escape For it is an heuy thinge whaÌ a man 's owne conscieÌce beareth recorde of his wickednes condeÌpneth him And why a vexed wounded conscieÌce taketh euer cruell thinges in haÌde Fearfulnes is nothinge els but a declaringe y t a maÌ seketh helpe defence to answere for him self And loke how moch lesse the hope is within the more is y e vn certaynte of the matter for the which he is punished But they y t came in y e mightie night slepte y e slepe y t fell vpoÌ theÌ froÌ vnder froÌ aboue somtyme were they afrayed thorow y e feare of y e wonders somtyme they were so weake y t they swowned withall for an hastie sodane fearfulnes came vpon theÌ Afterwarde yf eny of theÌ had falleÌ he was kepte shutt in preson but without chaynes But yf eny dwelt in a vyllage yf he had bene an hyrd or huszbandman he suffred intollerable necessite for they were all bounde with one chayne of darcknesse Whether it were a blasynge wynde or a swete songe of y e byrdes amonge the thicke braunches of the trees or the vehemence of haistie ruÌnynge water or greate noyse of y e fallynge downe of stones or the playenge ruÌnynge of beastes whoÌ they sawe not or y e mightie noyse of roaringe beestes or y e sownde y t answereth agayne in the hye mountaynes it made theÌ swowne for very feare For all the earth shyned w t cleare light no maÌ was hyndered in his labor. Onely vpon theÌ there fell a heuy night an ymage of darcknesse that was to come vpon them Yee they were vnto them selues the most heuy horrible darcknesse The XVIII Chapter NEuertheles thy sayntes had a very greate light and the enemies herde their voyce but they sawe not the figure of them And because they suffred not y e same thinges they magnified the and they y t were vexed afore because they were not hurte now thanked the and besought y e o God y t there might be a difference Therfore had they a burnynge piler of fyre to lede them in the vnknowne waye thou gauest them the Sonne for a fre gift without eny hurte Reason it was that they shulde want light to be put in the preson of darcknes which kepte thy childreÌ in captiuyte by whom the vncorrupte light of the lawe of y e worlde was for to be geuen Whan they thought to slaye the babes of the righteous one beinge laied out and yet preserued to be leder vnto the other thou broughtest out the whole multitude of the children and destroydest these in the mightie water Of that night were oure fathers certified afore that they knowinge vnto what oothes they had geuen credeÌce might be of good cheare Thus thy people receaued y e health of the righteous but the vngodly were destroied For like as thou hast hurte oure enemies so hast thou promoted vs whom thou calledest afore For the righteous children of the good men offred secretly ordred the lawe of righteousnes vnto vnite y t the iust shulde receaue good and euell in like maner singinge prayses vnto y e father of all men Agayne there was herde an vnconuenient voyce of the enemies a piteous crie for childreÌ that were bewayled The master and the seruauÌt were punyshed alike the meane man and the kynge suffred in like maner For they all together had innumerable that dyed one death Nether were y e lyuinge sufficient to bury y e deed for in y e twincklinge of an eye the noblest nacion of theÌ was destroyed As oft as God helped theÌ afore yet wolde it not make theÌ beleue but in y e destruccion of y e first borne they knowleged that it was y e people of God For whyle all thinges were still whaÌ y e night was in y e myddest of hir course thy Allmightie worde o LORDE leapte downe froÌ heaueÌ out of y e royall trone as a rough maÌ of warre in y e myddest of y e londe y t was destroyed y e sharpe swerde perfourmed y i straite coÌmaundemeÌt staÌdinge fyllinge all thinges w t death yee it stode vpoÌ y e earth reached vnto the heauen Then the sight of the euell dreames vexed them sodenly and fearfulnesse came vpon them vnawarres Then laye there one here another there half deed half quyck and shewed the cause of his death For the visions that vexed theÌ shewed theÌ these thinges afore so that they were not ignoraunt wherfore they perished The tentacion of death touched the righteous also and amonge the multitude in the wyldernesse there was insurreccion but thy wrath endured not longe For the fautlesse man wente in all the haist and toke the battayll vpon him brought forth the weapâ of his ministracion euen prayer and y e ceÌsours of recoÌcilinge set himself agaynst y e wrath and so brought the misery to an ende declaringe therby that he was thy seruaunt For he ouercame not the multitude with bodely power ner with weapeÌs of might but with the worde he subdued him that vexed him puttinge the in remembraunce of the ooth couenauÌt made vnto the fathers For whan the deed were fallen downe by heapes one vpon another he stode in the myddest pacified the wrath and parted y e waye vnto the lyuynge And whyâ in his longe garmeÌt was all the beuty and in the foure rowes of the stones was the glory of the fathers graueÌ and thy maiesty was written in the crowne of his heade Vnto these the destroyer gaue place and was afrayed of them for it was only a tentacion worthy of wrath The XIX Chapter AS for the vngodly the wrath came vpoÌ them without mercy vnto the ende For he knew before what shulde happeÌ vnto them how that whan they had
pleasure of his goodes There is no thinge worse then whan one disfauoureth himself this is a rewarde of his wickednes Yf he do eny good he doth it not knowinge therof and agaynst his will and at the last he declareth his vngraciousnes A nygarde hath a wicked eye he turneth awaye his face and despyseth his owne soule A couetous mans eye hath neuer ynough in the porcion of wickednes vntyll the tyme that he wither awaye and haue lost his owne soule A wicked eye spareth bred there is scarcenesse vpoÌ his table My sonne do good to y e self of y t thou hast geue y e LORDE his due offeringes Remembre y t death tarieth not how y t the couenaunt of the graue is shewed vnto the for the couenaunt of this worlde shal dye the death Do good vnto y t frende before thou dye and acordinge to thy abylite reach out thine hande and geue vnto y e poore Be not dispoynted of y e good daye let not y e porcion of y e good daie ouerpas the. Shalt thou not leaue thy trauayles and labours vnto other men In the deuydinge of the heretage geue and take and sanctifie thy soule Worke thou righteousnes before thy death for in y e hell there is no meate to fynde All flesh shal fade awaye like grasse like a florishinge leaf in a grene tre Some growe some are cast downe euen so is y e generacion of flesh and bloude one commeth to an ende another is borne All transitory thinges shall fayle at the last and the worker therof shal go withall Euery chosen worke shall be iustified and he y t medleth withall shal haue honoure therin Blessed is the man y t kepeth him in wyszdome and exercyseth himself in vnderstandinge with discrecion shal he thinke vpon the fore knowlege of God Which considereth y e wayes of wyszdome in his hert hath vnderstandinge in hir secretes goeth after her as one that seketh hir out contynueth in hir wayes He loketh in at hir windowes herkeneth at hir dores He taketh his rest besyde hir house festeneth his stake in hir walles He shall pitch his tent nye vnto hir hande and in his tent shal good thinges rest for euermore He shal sett his children vnder hir coueringe shal dwell vnder hir braunches Vnder hir coueringe shal he be defended from the heate and in hir glory shall he rest The XV. Chapter HE that feareth God wil do good and who so kepeth the lawe shal optayne wyszdome As an honorable mother shal she mete him and as a vyrgin shall she receaue him With y e bred of life and vnderstandinge shall she fede him and geue him the water of wholsome wyszdome to drynke Yf he be constant in her he shall not be moued and yf he holde him fast by her he shal not come to coÌfucion She shall brynge him to honoure amonge his neghbours and in the myddest of the congregacion shall she open his mouth With the sprete of wyszdome and vnderstaÌdinge shal she fyll him and clothe him with the garment of glory She shal heape the treasure of myrth ioye vpoÌ him and geue him an euerlastinge name to heretage Foolish men wyll not take holde vpon her but soch as haue vnderstandinge wil mete her for she is farre from pryde and disceate Men that go aboute with lyes wil not remembre her but men of trueth shall be founde in her euen vnto the beholdinge of God Prayse is not semely in the mouth of y e vngodly for he is not sent of y e LORDE For of God commeth wyszdome the prayse shall stonde by the wyszdome of God and shal be plenteous in a faithfull mouth and the LORDE shal geue her vnto him Saye not thou It is the LORDES faute that I am gone by for thou shalt not do y e thinge that God hateth Saye not thou he hath caused me to go wronge for he hath no nede of the vngodly God hateth all abhominacion of erroure they that feare God wyl loue no soch God made man from the begynnynge left him in the hande of his councell He gaue him his commaundementes and preceptes yf thou wilt obserue the commaundementes kepe acceptable faithfulnes for euer they shal preserue ye. He hath set water and fyre before the reach out thine hande vnto which thou wilt Before man is life and death good and euell loke what him liketh shal be geuen him For the wyszdome of God is greate and mightie in power and beholdeth all men contynually The eyes of the LORDE are vpon them that feare him and he knoweth all the workes of man ⪠He hath commauÌded no man to do vngodly nether hath he geuen eny man leue to synne The XVI Chapter DElyte not thou in the multitude of vngodly children and haue no pleasure in them yf they feare not God Trust not thou to their life and regarde not their labours for one sonne y t feareth God is better theÌ a thousande vngodly And better it is for a man to dye without childreÌ theÌ to leaue behynde him soch children as are vngodly For by one y t hath vnderstandinge maye a whole cite be vpholden but though the vngodly be many yet shal it be waysted thorow them Many soch thinges hath myne eye sene and greater thinges then these haue I herde with myne eares In the congregacion of the vngodly shal a fyre burne amonge vnfaithfull people shal the wrath be kyndled The olde giauÌtes optayned no grace for their synnes which were destroyed trustinge to their owne streÌgth Nether spared he them amoÌge whom Loth was a straunger but smote them and abhorred them because of the pryde of their wordes He had no pitie vpoÌ them but destroyed all the people that were so stoute in synne And for so moch as he ouersawe not the sixe hundreth thousande that gathered them selues together in y e hardnesse of their hert it were maruell yf one beynge hardnecked shulde be fre For mercy wrath is with him he is both mightie to forgeue and to poure out displeasure Like as his mercy is greate eueÌ so is his punyshment also he iudgeth a man acordinge to his workes The vngodly shal not escape in his spoyle and the longe pacience of him that sheweth mercy shal not byde behynde All mercy shall make place vnto euery man acordinge to the deseruynge of his workes and after the vnderstandinge of his pilgremage Saye not thou I wyl hyde my self from God for who wyl thinke vpon me from aboue I shal not be knowne in so greate a heape of people for what is my soule amonge so many creatures Beholde the heauen yee the heauen of heauens the depe the earth and all that therin is shall be moued at his presence the mountaynes the hilles and the foundacions of the earth shal shake for feare whan God vysiteth them These
whole hert and mouth geue thankes vnto his name The XL. Chapter A Greate trauayle is created for all meÌ and an heuy yock vpon all mens children from the daye that they go out of their mothers wombe tyll they be buried in the earth the mother of all thinges namely their thoughtes and ymaginacions feare of the hert councell meditacions longinge and desyre the daye of death from the hyest that sytteth vpon the glorious seate vnto the lowest and most symple vpon the earth from him that is gorgiously arayed and weereth a crowne vntyll him that is but homely and symple clothed There is nothinge but wrath zele fearfulnes vnquietnes and feare of death rigorous anger and stryfe And in the night whan one shulde rest and slepe vpon his bedd the slepe chaungeth his vnderstandinge and knowlege A litle as nothinge is his rest in y e slepe as well as in the daye of laboure He feareth and is disquyted in the vision of his hert as one that renneth out of a battayll and in the tyme of health he awaketh and marueleth that the feare was nothinge Soch thinges happen vnto all flesh both man and best but seuenfolde to the vngodly Morouer death bloudsheddinge strife swerde oppression honger destruccion and punyshment these thinges are all created agaynst the vngodly and for their sakes came the floude also All that is of the earth shal turne to earth agayne and all waters ebb agayne in to the see All brybes and vnrighteousnes shal be put awaye but faithfulnes and trueth shal endure for euer The substauÌunce and goodes of y e vngodly shal be dried vp and syncke awaye as a water floude and they shall make a sounde like a greate thonder in the rayne Like as the righteous reioyseth whan he openeth his hande so shall the traÌsgessours be faynte whan their goodes vanysh and consume awaye The children of the vngodly shal not optayne many braunches and y e vncleane rotes vpoÌ the hye rockes shal be roted out before the gras by the water syde vpon the ryuer bankes Frendlynes and liberalite in the increase and blessynge of God is like a paradise garden of pleasure soch mercy also kindnes endureth for euer To labo to be content with that a man hath is a swete pleasaunt life that is to fynde a treasure aboue all treasures To beget children and to repayre the cite maketh a perpetuall name but an honest woman is more worth theÌ they both Wyne and mynstrals ye reioyse the hert but the loue of wyszdome is aboue them both Pypinge and harpinge make a swete noyse but a frendly tonge goeth beyonde them both Thine eye desyreth fauoure and bewtie but a grene sede tyme rather theÌ they both A frende and companyon come together at oportunyte but aboue them both is a wife that agreeth with hir huszbande One brother helpeth another in the tyme of trouble but allmes shal deliuer more then they both Golde and syluer fasten the fete but a good councell is more pleasaunt then they both Temporall substaunce and strength lift vp the mynde but the feare of the LORDE more then they both The feare of the LORDE wanteth nothinge and nedeth no helpe The feare of y e LORDE is as a pleasaunt gardeÌ of blessynge and nothinge so bewtyfull as it is My sonne lede not a beggers life for better it were to dye theÌ to begg Who so loketh to another mans table taketh no thought for his owne lyuynge how to vpholde his life for he fedeth himself with other mens meate But a wyse and well nurtoured man wyll bewarre therof Beggynge is swete in the mouth of the vnshamefast but in his bely there burneth a fyre The XLI Chapter O Death how bytter is the remembraunce of the to a man that seketh rest and comforte in his substaunce and riches vnto the man that hath nothinge to vexe him and that hath prosperite in all thinges yee vnto him that yet is able to receaue meate O death how acceptable and good is thy iudgment vnto the nedefull and vnto him whose strength fayleth that is now in his last age and that in all thinges is full of care and fearfulnes vnto him also that is in dispayre and hath no hope ner pacience Be not thou afrayed of death remembre them y t haue bene before the and y t come after y e this is the iudgmeÌt of y e LORDE ouer all flesh And why woldest hou be agaiÌst this pleasure of y e Hiest ⪠Whether it be ten an hundreth or a thousande yeares death axeth not how longe one haue lyued The children of the vngodly are abhominable children and so are they that kepe company with the vngodly The inheretaunce of vngodly children shall come to naught and their posterite shal haue perpetuall shame and confucion The children complayne of an vngodly father and why for his sake they are rebuked and despysed Wo be vnto you O ye vngodly which haue forsakeÌ the lawe of y e hyest God Yf ye be borne ye shal be borne to cursynge yf ye dye y e curse shal be youre porcion All that is of y e earth shal turne to earth agayne so go the vngodly also out of y e curse in to destruccion The sorow of men is in their body but y e name of the vngodly shal be put out for it is nothinge worth Laboure to get the a good name for that shall contynue suâer by the then a thousande greate treasures of golde A good life hath a noÌbre of dayes but a good name endureth euer My children kepe wyszdome in peace for wiszdome that is hyd and a treasure that is not sene what profit is in theÌ both A man that hydeth his foolishnes is better then a man that hydeth his wyszdome Therfore be ye turned at my wordes for it is not good in all thinges and allwaie to be ashamed True faith must proue and measure it Be ashamed of whordome before father and mother Be ashamed of lesynge before the prynce and men of auctorite Of synne before the iudge and ruler Of offence before the congregacion and people Of vnrighteousnes before a companyon and freÌde Of theft before y e neghbours As for the trueth of God and his couenaunt be not ashamed therof Be ashamed to lye with thyne elbowes vpon the bred Be ashamed to loke vpoÌ harlottes Be ashamed to turne awaye thy face from thy frende Be ashamed to take not to geue Be ashamed also to loke vpon anothers mans wyfe and to make many tryflinge wordes with hir mayden or to stonde by hir bedsyde Be ashamed to vpbrade thy freÌde and whan thou geuest eny thinge cast him not in the teth withall The XLII Chapter EEhearse not a thinge twyse and disclose not the wordes that thou hast herde in secrete Be shamefast well manered in dede so shall euery man fauoure the. Of these thinges be not
yet are ye in no wyse able sufficiently to prayse him Who hath sene him that he might tell vs Who can magnifie him so greatly as he is For there are hyd yet greater thinges theÌ these be as for vs we haue sene but few of his workes For the LORDE hath made all thinges and geuen wyszdome to soch as feare God The XLIIII Chapter A commendacion of the olde vertuous fathers LEt vs commende the noble famous men and the generacion of oure foreelders and fathers Many more glorious actes hath the LORDE done and shewed his greate power euer sens y e begynnynge The noble famous men raigned in their kyngdomes and bare excellent rule In their wyszdome and vnderstondinge they folowed the councell shewed in the prophecies They led the folke thorow the councell and wyszdome of the scrybes of the people Wyse sentences are founde in their instruccion They sought the swetenes and melody of Musick and brought forth the pleasaunt songes in scripture They were riche also coude comforte and pacifie those that dwelt with them All these were very noble and honorable men in their generacions and were well reported of in their tymes These haue left a name behynde them so that their prayse shal allwaye be spokeÌ of Afterwarde there were some whose remembraunce is gone They came to naught and perished as though they had neuer bene and became as though they had neuer bene borne yee their children also with them Neuertheles these are louynge men whose righteousnes shal neuer be forgotten but contynue by their posterite Their children are an holy good heretage Their sede endured fast in y e couenaunt For their sakes shal their childreÌ sede contynue for euer their prayse shal neuer be put downe Their bodies are buried in peace but their name lyueth for euermore The people can speake of their wyszdome the congregacion can talke of their prayse Enoch walked right acceptably before the LORDE therfore was he traÌslated for an example of amendemeÌt to y e generacions Noe was a stedfast righteous man in the tyme of wrath he became a recoÌcylinge Therfore was he left a remnaunt vnto the earth whan the floude came An euerlastinge couenaunt was made w t him that all flesh shulde perishe nomore with y e water Abraham was a greate father of many people in glory was there none like vnto him He kepte the lawe of the Hyest came in to a couenaunt with him He set the couenaunt in his flesh and whan he was tempted he was founde faithfull Therfore swore God vnto him with an ooth that he wolde blesse all people in his sede that he wolde multiplie and increase him as the dust of the earth and to exalte his sede as the starres yee and that his sede shulde haue y e possession and inheretaunce of the londe from see to see and from the ryuer vnto y e borders of the londe With Isaac dyd he stablish y e same couenauÌt for AbrahaÌ his fathers sake Yee y t gracious blessynge and health of all men and couenaunt dyd he stablysh with Isaac and made it to rest vpon the heade of Iacob He knew him in that he prospered him so well and richely and gaue him an heretage and sundered his porcion by it self and parted it amonge the twolue trybes Mercifull men brought he out of him which founde fauo r before all flesh The XLV Chapter MOses beloued of God and meÌ whose remembraunce is in hye prayse him hath the LORDE made like in the glory of the sayntes and magnified him so that the enemies stode in awe of him thorow his wordes he dyd greate wonders He made him greate in the sight of kynges gaue him commaundement before his people and shewed him his glorious power He stablyshed him with faithfulnes and mekenes and chose him out of all men For he herde his voyce and led him in the darcke cloude and there he gaue him the commaundementes yee the lawe of life and wyszdome that he might teach Iacob the couenaunt and Israel his lawes He chose Aaron his brother also out of y e trybe of Leui exalted him made him soch like An euerlastinge couenaunt made he w t him and gaue him the presthode in the people He made him glorious in bewtifull araye and clothed him with the garment of honoure He put perfecte ioye vpoÌ him and gyrded him with strength He deckte him with syde clothes and a tunycle with an ouerbody cote also and gyrdle Rounde aboute made he him belles of golde and that many that whan he wente in the sounde might be herde that they might make a noyse in the Sanctuary and geue the people warnynge The holy garment was wrought broderd with golde yalow sylke and purple And in the brestlappe there was a goodly worke wherin was fastened light and perfectnesse Vpon y e same also there was a worke fastened and set with costly precious stones all bounde with golde and this he brought in his mynistracion The stones also were fastened for a remembraunce after the twolue trybes of Israel Vpon his mytre there was a plate of pure golde a grauen ymage of holynes a famous and noble worke garnished and pleasaunt to loke vpon Before him were there sene no soch fayre ornameÌtes and these it behoued hiÌ allwaye to vse There might none other put them on but onely his children and his childers children perpetually Daylie perfourmed he his burnt offeringes two tymes Moses fylled his handes and anoynted him w t holy oyle This was now confirmed him with an euerlastinge couenaunt and to his sede as y e dayes of heaueÌ namely that his childreÌ shulde allwaye mynistre before him and perfourme the office of the presthode and wysh the people good in his name Before all men lyuynge chose he him that he shulde offre before the LORDE and make odours for a swete sauoure and remembrauÌce that he shulde reconcyle the people of the LORDE with him agayne He gaue him auctorite also in his commaundementes and in y e couenauÌt that he shulde teach Iacob the statutes and testimonies and to enfourme Israel in his lawe Therfore there stode vp certayne agaynst him and had envye at him in the wyldernes namely they that were of Dathan Abirams syde and the furious congregacioÌ of Chore. This the LORDE sawe and it displeased him and in his wrothfull indignacion were they consumed A greate wonder did he vpon them and consumed them with the fyre Besydes this he made Aaron yet more honorable and glorious He gaue him an heretage and parted the first frutes vnto him Vnto him specially he appoynted the bred for sustenaunce for the prestes ate of y e offerynges of the LORDE this gaue he vnto him his sede Els had he no heretage ner porcion in y e londe and with the people For the LORDE himself is
posterite As for y e sede y t came vpon him which he loued he brought it not vtterly to naught but gaue yet a remnaunt vnto Iacob and a rote vnto Dauid out of him Thus rested Salomon with his fathers and out of his sede he left behynde him a very foolishnes of the people and soch one as had no vnderstoÌdinge namely RoboaÌ which turned awaye the people thorow his councell and Ieroboam y e sonne of Nabat which caused Israel to synne and shewed Ephraim the waye of vngodlynes In so moch that their synnes myszdedes had the vpper hande so sore that at the last they were dryuen out of the londe for the same Yee he sought out brought vp all wickednes tyll the vengeaunce came vpon them The XLVIII Chapter THen stode vp Elias the prophet as a fyre and his worde brâât like a creshett He brought an hoÌger vpon theÌ and in his zele he made them few in nombre For they might not awaye w t the commauÌdementes of the LORDE Thorow the worde of the LORDE he shut the heauen and thre tymes brought he the fyre downe Thus became Elias honorable in his wonderous dedes Who maye make his boost to be like him One that was deed raysed he vp from death in the worde of y e Hyest he brought him out of the graue agayne He cast downe kynges and destroyed them and the honorable from their seate Vpon the mount Syna he herde the punyshment vpon Horeb the iudgmeÌt of the vengeaunce He prophecied recompensynge vnto kynges and ordeyned prophetes after him He was taken vp in the storme of fyre in a charett of horses of the LORDE He was ordeyned in the reprouynges in tyme to pacifie the wrath to turne y e hertes of the fathers vnto the children to set vp the trybes of Iacob agayne Blessed were they that saw the and were garnished in loue for we lyue in life Elias was couered in the storme but Heliseus was fylled with his mouth Whyle he lyued he was afrayed of no prynce and no man might ouercome him There coude no worde disceaue him after his death his body prophecied He dyd wonders in his life in death were his workes maruelous For all this the people amended not nether departed they from their synnes tyll they were caried awaye presoners out of the londe and were scatred abrode in all countrees so that of them there remayned but a very litle people and a prynce vnto y e house of Dauid Howbeit some of them dyd right some heaped vp vngodlynes Ezechias made his cite stronge conveyed water in to it dygged thorow the stony rock with yron made vp a well by the water syde In his tyme came Sennacherib vp and sent Rabsaches lift vp his hande agaynst Sion defyed them with greate pryde TheÌ trymbled their hertes and handes so y t they sorowed like a woman trauaylinge with childe So they called vpoÌ the LORDE which is mercyfull lift vp their haÌdes before him Immediatly the LORDE herde theÌ out of heauen and delyuered them by the hande of Esay He smote the hoost of the Assirians his angell destroyed theÌ For Ezechias had done the thinge that pleased the LORDE remayned stedfastly in the waye of Dauid his father Which Esay was greate faithfull in his visions In his tyme y e Sonne weÌte backwarde he lengthened the kynges life With a right sprete prophecied he what shulde come to passe at the last to soch as were soroufull in Sion he gaue consolacion wherwhith they might coÌforte them selues for euermore He shewed thinges y t were for to come secrete or euer they came to passe The XLIX Chapter THe remembrauÌce of Iosias is like as whan the Apotecary maketh many precious swete smellynge thinges together His remembraunce shal be swete as hony in all mouthes and as the playenge of Musick by the wyne He was appoynted to turne the people agayne to take awaye all abhominacions of y e vngodly He directed his hert vnto the LORDE in the tyme of the vngodly he set vp the worshipe of God agayne All kynges excepte Dauid Ezechias Iosias coÌmitted wickednes for euen y e kynges of Iuda also forsoke y e lawe of God For they gaue their horne vnto other their hono worshipe also to a straunge people Therfore was the electe cite of the SaÌctuary brent with fyre and the stretes therof laye desolate waist for they intreated Ieremy euell which neuertheles was a prophet ordeyned from his mothers wombe that he might rote out breake of destroye that he might buylde vp plante agayne Ezechiel sawe the glory of the LORDE in a vision which was shewed him vpon the charet of the Cherubins For he thought vpon the enemies in y e rayne to do good vnto soch as had ordred their wayes a right And the bones of the twolue prophetes florish from out of their place for they gaue comforte consolacion vnto Iacob and delyuered theÌ faithfully How shall we prayse Zorobabel which was as a ringe in the right hande So was Iesus also the sonne of Iosedec these men in their tymes buylded the house set vp the Sanctuary of y e LORDE agayne which was prepared for an euerlastinge worshipe And Nehemias is allwaye to be coÌmended which set vp for vs the walles y t were broken downe made the portes barres agayne and buylded oure houses of the new But vpon earth is there no man created like Enoch for he was taken vp from y e earth And Ioseph which was lorde of his brethren the vpholder of his people His bones were couered kepte Seth Sem were in greate honoure amonge y e people and so was Adam aboue all the beastes whaÌ he was created The L. Chapter SYmon the sonne of Onias the hye prest which in his life set vp the house agayne in his dayes made fast the teÌple The heyth of y e temple also was founded of him the dubble buyldinge the hye walles of the temple In his dayes the welles of water flowed out and were exceadinge full as the see He toke care for his people delyuered them from destruccion He kepte his cite made it stronge that it shulde not be beseged He dwelt in honoure and worshipe amonge his people and enlarged the intraunce of the house and the courte He geueth light as the mornynge starre in the myddest of the cloudes and as y e Moone whan it is full He shyneth as the Sonne in the temple of God He is as bright as y e rayne bowe in y e fayre cloudes florisheth as the floures and roses in the sprynge of y e yeare as the lilies by the ryuers of water Like as the braunches vpon the mount Libanus in tyme of Sommer as a fyre inceÌse that is
batels w t the Heithen whom he discomfited and folowed vpon them vnto the porte of Ptolomais And there were slayne of the Heithen allmost iij. thousande men So he toke the spoyles of them and caried awaye the Israelites that were in Galilee and Arbatis with their wyues their children and all that they had and brought them in to Iewry with greate gladnesse Iudas Machabeus also and his brother Ionathas wente ouer Iordane and trauayled iij. dayes iourney in the wyldernesse Where the Nebuthees met them and receaued them louyngly and tolde theÌ euery thinge that had happened vnto their brethren in Galaadithim and how that many of them were beseged in Barasa Bosor Alimis Casphor Mageth and Carnaim all these are stronge walled and mightie greate cities and y t they were kepte in other cities of Galaad also and tomorow they are apoynted to brynge their hoost vnto these cities to take them and to wynne them in one daye So Iudas and his hoost turned in all the haist in the wildernesse towarde Bosor and wanne the cite slewe all the males with the swearde toke all their goodes and set fyre vpon the cite And in the night they toke their iourneye from thence and came to the castell And by tymes in the mornynge when they loked vp beholde there was an innumerable people bearynge laders and other instrumeÌtes of warre to take the castell and to ouercome them When Iudas sawe that the battayll beganne and that the noyse therof wente vp and range in to the Heauen and that there was so greate a crie in the cite He sayde vnto his hoost fight this daye for youre brethren And so came behynde their enemies in thre companies and blewe vp the trompettes and cried in their prayer to God But as soone as Tymothis hoost perceaued that Machabeus was there they fled from him and y e other slewe them downe right sore so that there were kylled of them that same daye allmost eight thousande men Then departed Iudas vnto Maspha layed sege vnto it and wanne it slewe all the males in it spoyled it and set fyre vpon it From thence wente he and toke Casbon Mageth Bosor and the other cities in Galaad After this gathered Timothy another hoost which pitched their tentes before Raphon beyonde the water Iudas sent to spye the hoost and they brought him worde againe sayenge All the Heithen that be rounde aboute vs are gathered vnto him and the hoost is very greate Yee they haue hyred the Arabians to helpe them haue pitched their tentes beyonde the water and are ready to come and fight agaynst the. So Iudas wente on to mete them And Timothy sayde vnto the captaynes of his hoost when Iudas and his hoost come nye the ryuer yf he go ouer first we shall not be able to withstonde him for why he wil be to stronge for vs. But yf he darre not come ouer so that he pitch his tente beyonde the water then will we go ouer for we shal be stronge ynough agaynst him Now as soone as Iudas came to the ryuer he appoynted certayne scrybes of the people and commaunded them sayenge se that ye leaue none behynde vpon this syde of y e ryuer but let euery man come to the battayll So he wente first ouer vnto them and his people after him And all the Heithen were discomfited before him and let their weapens fall and ranne in to the temple that was at Carnaim Which cite Iudas wanne and brent the temple with all y t were in it So was Carnaim subdued and might not withstoÌde Iudas Then Iudas gathered all the Israelites that were in Galaadithim from y e leest vnto the most with their wyues and their children a very greate hoost for to come in to the londe of Iuda So they came vnto Ephron which was a mightie greate and stronge cite and laye in their waye For they coude not go by it nether of the right honde ner of the left but must go thorow it Neuerthelesse they that were in the cite wolde not let them go thorow but walled vp the portes with stones And Iudas sent vnto theÌ with peaceable wordes sayenge Let vs passe thorow youre londe that we maye go in to oure owne couÌtre there shal no body do you harme we wil but only go thorow But they wolde not let them in Wherfore Iudas commauded a proclamacion to be made thorow out the hoost that euery man shulde kepe his ordre and so they dyd their best like valeaunt men And Iudas beseged the cite all that daie and all that night and so wanne it where they slewe as many as were males and dââtroyed the cite and spoyled it and weÌte thorow all the cite ouer them that were slayne Then wente they ouer Iordane in to the playne felde before Bethsan And Iudas helped those forwarde that came behynde and gaue the people good exortacion all y e waye thorow till they were come in to the londe of Iuda Thus they wente vp vnto the mount Sion where they offred with myrth and thankesgeuynge because there were none of them slayne but came home agayne peaceably Now what tyme as Iudas and Ionathas were in the londe of Galaad and Symon their brother in Galilee before Ptolomais Then Iosephus the sonne of Zachary and Asarias the captaynes hearinge of the actes that were done and of the battels that were stroken sayde Let vs get vs a name also and go fight agaynst the Heithen that are rounde aboute vs. So they gaue their hoost a commaundement and wente towarde Iamnia Then came Gorgias and his men out of the cite to fight agaynst them Iosephus also and Asarias were chased vnto y e borders of Iewry there were slayne y t daye of y e people of Israel ij M. men so y t there was a greate misery amoÌge y e people all because they were not obedieÌt vnto Iudas his brethren but thought they shulde quyte them selues man fully Neuertheles they came not of the sede of these men by whom Israel was helped But the men that were with Iudas were greatly commended in the sight of all Israel and all Heithen where so euer their name was herde vpoÌ and the people came vnto them byddinge them welcome After this wente Iudas forth with his brethren and fought agaynst the children of Esau in the londe y t lieth towarde the south where he wanne the cite of Hebron and the townes that lye besyde it and as for the walles and towres rounde aboute it he brent them vp Then remoued he to go in to the loÌde of the Philistines and wente thorow Samaria At the same tyme were there many prestes slaine in y e battayll which wilfully without advysement wente out for to fight to get them honoure And when Iudas came to Azot in the Philistynes londe he brake downe their altares brent the ymages of their Idols spoyled the cities and came agayne in to the londe of Iuda
besyde mount Sion Morouer the kynge toke truce with them that were in Bethsura But when they came out of the cite because they had no vytales within and the londe laye vntylled the kynge toke Bethsura and set men to kepe it turned his hoost to the place of the Sanctuary and layed sege to it a greate whyle Where he made all maner ordinaunce handbowes fyrie dartes rackettes to cast stones scorpions to shute arowes and slynges The Iewes also made ordinaunce agaynst theirs and fought a longe season But in the cite there were no vytayles for it was the seuenth yeare of the warres and those Heithen that remayned in Iewry had eaten vp all their stoare And in the Sanctuary were few men lefte for the hunger came so vpon them that they were scatered abrode euery man to his owne place So when Lysias herde that Philippe whom Antiochus the kynge whyle he was yet lyuinge had ordened to bringe vp Antiochus his sonne that he might be kynge was come agayne out of Persia and Media with the kynges hoost and thought to optayne the kyngdome He gat him to the kynge in all the haist and to the captaynes of the hoost and sayde we decrease daylie and oure vytales are but small Agayne the place that we laye sege vnto is very stronge and it were oure parte to se for the realme Let vs agre with these men and take truce with them and with all their people and graunte them to lyue after their lawe as they dyd a fore For they be greued and do all these thinges agaynst vs because we haue despysed their lawe So the kynge and the prynces were content and sent vnto them to make peace and they receaued it Now wheÌ the kynge and the prynces had made an ooth vnto them they came out of the castel and the kynge weÌte vp to mount Sion But when he sawe that y e place was wel fenced he brake the ooth that he had made and commaunded to destroye the wall rounde aboute Then departed he in all the haist and returned vnto Antioche where he founde Philippe hauynge dominion of the cite So he fought agaynst him and toke the cite agayne in to his hondes The VII Chapter IN the Clj. yeare came Demetrius y e sonne of Seleucus from y e cite of Rome w t a small company of men vnto a cite of the see coast and there he bare rule And it chaunced that when he came to Antioch the cite of his Progenitours his hoost toke Antiochus and Lysias to bâynge them vnto him But when it was tolde him he saide let me not se their faces So the hoost put them to death Now when Demetrius was set vpon the trone of his kyngdome there came vnto him wicked and vngodly men of Israel whose captayne was Alcimus that wolde haue bene made hye prest These men accused the people of Israel vnto the kynge sayenge Iudas and his brethren haue slayne thy frendes and dryuen vs out of oure owne londe Wherfore sende now some man to whom thou geuest credence that he maye go and se all the destruccion which he hath done vnto vs and to the kynges londe and let him be punished with all his freÌdes and fauourers Then the kynge chose Bachides a frende of his which was a man of greate power in the realme beyonde the greate water and faithfull vnto the kynge and sent him to se the destruccion that Iudas had done And as for that wicked Alcimus he made him hye Prest and commaunded him to be auenged of the children of Israel So they stode vp and came with a greate hoost in to y e londe of Iuda sendinge messauÌgers to Iudas his brethreÌ speakinge vnto them w t peaceable wordes but vnder disceate Therfore Iudas his people beleued not their saieÌge for they sawe y t they were come w t a greate hoost After this came y e scribes together vnto Alcimus Bachides trustinge the best vnto them And first y e Assideans requyred peace of them sayenge Alcimus y e prest is come of the sede of AaroÌ how can he disceaue vs So they gaue them louiÌge wordes swore vnto them and sayde we wil do you no harme nether youre frendes and they beleued them But the very same daye toke they lx men of them slewe theÌ acordinge to y e wordes y t are writteÌ They haue cast y e flesh of y e sanctes shed their bloude rouÌde aboute IerusaleÌ there was nomaÌ y t wolde bury theÌ So there came a greate feare and drede amonge the people sayenge there is nether treuth nor righteousnesse in them for they haue brokeÌ the appoyntment and ooth that they made And Bachides remoued his hoost from Ierusalem and pitched his tente at Bethzecha where he sent forth and toke many of them that had forsaken him He slewe many of the people also and cast them in to a greate pytt Then committed he the londe vnto Alcimus and left men of warre with him to helpe him and Bachides himself wente vnto the kynge And thus Alcimus defended his hie presthode and all soch as vexed Israel resorted vnto him In so moch that they optayned the loÌde of Iuda and dyd moch euell vnto the Israelites Now when Iudas sawe all the myschefe that Alcimus and his company had done yee more then the HeitheÌ them selues vnto the Israelites He wente forth rounde aboute all the borders of Iewry and punyshed those vnfaithfull rennagates so that they came no more out in to the countre So wheÌ Alcimus sawe that Iudas and his people had gotten the vpperhande and that he was not able to abyde them he wente agayne to the kynge and sayde all the worst of them that he coude Then the kynge sent Nicanor one of his chefe prynces which bare euell wyl vnto Israel and commaunded him that he shulde vtterly destroye the people So Nicanor came to Ierusalem with a greate hoost and sent vnto Iudas and his brethren with frendly wordes but vnder disceate sayenge there shal be no warre betwixte me and you I wil come with a few men to se how ye do with frenshipe Vpon this he came vnto Iudas and they saluted one another peaceably but the enemies were appoynted to take Iudas by violence Neuertheles it was tolde Iudas y t he came vnto him but vnder disceate wherfore he gat him awaie from him and wolde se his face nomore When Nicanor perceaued y t his councell was bewrayed he wente out to fight agaynst Iudas besyde Capharsalama Where there were slayne of Nicanors hoost v. M. men the residue fled vnto the castell of Dauid After this came Nicanor vp vnto mouÌt Sion and the prestes with the elders of the people wente forth to salute him peaceably to shewe him y e burnt sacrifices y t were offered for the kynge But he laughed theÌ to scorne mocked theÌ defyled their offeringes and spake diszdanedly yee and swore
and lighted the candels settinge forth cakes and bred And now come ye vnto the feast of tabernacles in the moneth Casleu In the Clxxxviij yeare y e people y t was at Ierusalem and in Iewry the councell and Iudas himself sent this wholsome salutacioÌ vnto Aristobolus kynge Ptolomys master which came of the generacion of the anoynted prestes and to the Iewes that were in Egipte In so moch as God hath delyuered vs from greate parels we thanke him hylie In that we resisted so mightie a kynge And why he brought men out of Persis by heapes to fight agaynst vs and the holy cite For as he was in Persis namely y e captayne w t the greate hoost he perished in the temple of Naneas beynge disceaued thorow the deuyce of Naneas prestes For as he was purposed to haue dwelt there Antiochus his freÌdes came thither to receaue moch moneye for a dowry So wheÌ Naneas prestes had layed forth y e moneye he entred with a small company in to the compasse of the temple and so they shut the temple Now when Antiochus entred by openynge the preuy intraunce of the temple y e prestes stoned y e captayne to death hewed theÌ in peces that were with him smote of their heades and threwe them out In all thinges God be praysed which hath delyuered the wicked in to oure hondes Where as we now are purposed to kepe the purificacion of the temple vpon y e xxv daye of the moneth Casleu we thought necessary to certifie you therof that ye also might kepe the tabernacles feast daye the daye of the fyre which was geuen vs when Nehemias offred after that he had set vp y e temple the aulter For what tyme as o r fathers were led awaye vnto Persis y e prestes which then sought the hono r of God toke y e fyre priuely from y e aulter hyd it in a valley where as was a depe drye pyt therin they kepte it because the place was vnknowne to euery man Now after many yeares when it pleased God y t Nehemias shulde be sent from the kynge of Persia he sent the childers children of those prestes which had hyd the fyre to seke it And as they tolde vs they founde no fyre but thicke water TheÌ coÌmaunded he them to drawe it vp to brynge it him y e offerynges withall Now when y e sacrifices were layed on ordred the prest Nehemias commaunded to sprenkle them the wod w t the water WheÌ this was done the tyme come y t the Sonne shone which afore was hyd in the cloude there was a greate fyre kyndled In so moch y t euery man marueled Now all the prestes prayed whyle the sacrifice was a makynge Ionathas prayed first and y e other gaue answere And Nehemias prayer was after this maner O LORDE God maker of all thinges thou fearfull stronge thou righteous mercifull thou y t art onely a gracious kynge onely lyberall onely iust Allmightie and euerlastinge thou y t delyuerest Israel from all trouble thou y t hast chosen the fathers halowed them receaue the offeringe for the whole people of Israel preserue thine owne porcion halowe it Gather those together y t are scatred abrode from vs delyuer them y t are vnder the HeitheÌs bondage loke vpon them which are despysed abhorred y t the Heithen maie knowe se how y t thou art o r God Punyshe them y t oppresse and proudly put vs to dishonoure Set y e people agayne in thy holy place like as Moses hath spokeÌ And the prestes songe Psalmes of thankesgeuynge so loÌge as the sacrifice endured Now when the sacrifice was brent Nehemias commaunded the greate stones to be sprenkled w t the resydue of the water Which when it was done there was kyndled a flamme of theÌ also but it was consumed thorow the light y t shyned from the aulter So wheÌ this matter was knowne it was tolde the kynge of Persia that in the place where the prestes which were led awaye had hyd fyre there apeared water in steade of fyre that Nehemias his company had purified the sacrifices withall Then the kynge considerynge ponderynge y e matter diligently made him a temple to proue the thinge y t was done And wheÌ he founde it so in dede he gaue the prestes many giftes dyuerse rewardes yee he toke them w t his owne hoÌde gaue theÌ And Nehemias called the same place Nephthar which is as moch to saye as a clensynge but many men call it Nephi The II. Chapter IT is founde also in the writinges of Ieremy the prophet y t he commaunded them which were caried awaye to take fyre as it is sayde afore He coÌmaunded them also y t they shulde not forget the lawe coÌmaundementes of the LORDE y t they shulde not erre in their myndes wheÌ they se ymages of syluer golde w t their ornamentes These soch other thinges commaunded he them exorted them that they shulde not lett the lawe of God go out of their hertes It is wrytten also how the prophet at y e commaundement of God charged them to take the tabernacle the arke w t them he wente forth vnto the mountaine where Moses clymmed vp sawe y e heretage of God And when Ieremy came there he founde an open caue wherin he layed the tabernacle y e arke the aulter of incense so stopped the hole There came certayne men together also folowinge him to marck the place but they coude not fynde it Which when Ieremy perceaued he reproued theÌ sayenge As for that place it shal be vnknowne vntill y e tyme that God gather his people together againe receaue theÌ vnto mercy Then shal God shewe them these thinges the maiesty of the LORDE shall appeare the cloude also like as it was shewed vnto Moses like as when Salomon desyred y t the place might be sanctified it was shewed him For he beynge a wyse man handled honorably wysely offerynge vnto God in y e halowinge of the temple when it was fynisshed And like as when Moses prayed vnto the LORDE the fyre came downe from heauen consumed the burnt offeringe Euen so prayed Salomon also the fyre came downe from heauen coÌsumed the burnt offeringe And Moses sayde because the syn offerynge was not eaten therfore it is coÌsumed In like maner Salomon kepte the dedicacion or halowynge eight dayes In y e Annotacions wrytynges of Ieremy were these thinges put also how he made a lybrary how he gathered out of all countrees the bokes of the prophetes of Dauid the epistles of the kynges and of the presentes Euen so Iudas also loke what he lerned by experieÌce of warre soch thinges as hath happened vnto vs he gathered theÌ all together so we haue them by vs. Yf ye
those dayes there shal be soch trouble as was not from the begynnynge of y e creatures which God created vnto this tyme nether shal be And yf y e LORDE had not shortened those dayes there shulde no man be saued But for the electes sake whom he hath chosen he hath shortened those dayes Now yf eny man shal saye vnto you at y t tyme Lo here is Christ lo he is there beleue it not For there shal aryse false Christes and false prophetes which shal do tokens wonders to disceaue euen the very chosen yf it were possyble But take ye hede Beholde I haue tolde you all before But at the same tyme after this trouble the Sonne and Mone shal lose their light and the starres shall fall from heauen and the powers of the heauens shal moue and then shal they se the sonne of man commynge in the cloudes with greate power and glory And theÌ shal he sende his angels and shal gather together his chosen froÌ the foure wyndes from one ende of the earth to the other Lerne a symilitude of the fyge tre WhaÌ his braunch is yet teÌder and hath brought forth leaues ye knowe that the Sommer is nye So lykewyse whaÌ ye se all these thinges come to passe be ye sure that it is nye euen at the dores Verely I saye vnto you this generacioÌ shal not passe tyll all these be fulfilled Heauen and earth shal perishe but my wordes shal not perishe But of that daye and houre knoweth no man nether the angels in heauen no not the sonne him self but the father onely Take hede watch praye for ye knowe not whan the tyme is Like as a man that wente in to a straunge countre and left his house and gaue his seruauntes auctorite vnto euery one his worke and commaunded y e porter that he shulde watch Watch ye therfore for ye knowe not whaÌ the master of y e house coÌmeth whether he coÌmeth in the euenynge or at mydnight or aboute the cock crowynge or in the mornynge that he come not sodenly and fynde you slepynge Loke what I saye vnto you that saye I vnto all Watch. The XIIII Chapter ANd after two dayes was Easter and the daies of swete bred And y e hye prestes scrybes sought how they might take him with disceate put him to death But they sayde Not in the feast daye lest there be an vproure in the people And when he was at Bethanye in the house of Symon the leper and sat at the table there came a woman which had a boxe of pure and costly Nardus oyntment And she brake y e boxe poured it vpoÌ his heade Then were there some y t disdayned and sayde Where to serueth this waist This oyntment might haue bene solde for more then thre hundreth pens bene geueÌ to y e poore And they grudged agaynst her But Iesus sayde let her be in rest Why trouble ye her She hath done a good worke vpoÌ me Ye haue allwaye the poore with you and whaÌ so euer ye wil ye maye do theÌ good but me haue ye not allwaie She hath done what she coulde she is come before to anoynte my body for my buriall Verely I saye vnto you Where so euer this gospell shal be preached in all the worlde there shal this also that she hath now done be tolde for a remembraunce of her And Iudas Iscarioth one of the twolue wente vnto the hye prestes to betraye him vnto them Whan they herde y t they were glad promysed that they wolde geue him money And he sought how he might coÌueniently betraye him And vpon y e first daye of swete bred whaÌ the Easter Iambe was offered his disciples sayde vnto him Where wilt thou y t we go and prepare y t thou mayest eate y e Easter laÌbe And he sent two of his disciples and sayde vnto them Go youre waye into the cite and there shal mete you a maÌ bearinge a pitcher with water folowe him where so euer he goeth in there saye ye to the good man of the house The Master sendeth the worde Where is the gest house wherin I maye eate the Easter laÌbe w t my disciples And he shal shewe you a greate parlour which is paued prepared there make readye for vs. And y e disciples weÌte forth came in to y e cite fouÌde it as he had sayde vnto theÌ And they prepared y e Easter lambe At euen he came w t the twolue And as they sat at the table ate Iesus sayde Verely I saye vnto you One of you y t eateth w t me shal betraye me And they were sory sayde vnto hiÌ one after another Is it I another sayde is it I He answered saide vnto theÌ One of the twolue euen y e same y t dyppeth with me in y e platter The sonne of man truly goeth forth as it is wrytteÌ of hiÌ But wo vnto that maÌ by whom the sonne of man is betrayed It were better for the same man that he had neuer bene borne And as they ate Iesus toke the bred gaue thankes brake it and gaue it theÌ sayde Take eate this is my body And he toke the cuppe thaÌked and gaue it theÌ and they all dranke therof And he sayde vnto them This is my bloude of the new Testament which shal be shed for many Verely I saye vnto you that from hence forth I wil not drynke of the frute of the vyne tyll y e daye y t I drynke it new in y e kyngdome of God And whaÌ they had sayde grace they weÌte forth vnto mount Oliuete And Iesus sayde vnto them This night shal ye all be offended in me for it is wrytten I wil smyte the sheperde the shepe shal be scatred abrode Neuertheles after y t I am rysen agayne I wil go before you in to Galile But Peter sayde vnto him And though all men shulde be offended yet wolde not I be offended And Iesus sayde vnto him Verely I saye vnto y e Todaye in this same night before y e cock crowe two tymes shalt thou denye me thryse But he saide yet more Yee though I shulde dye w t y e yet wil I not denie ye. So saide they all iÌ like maner And they came in to y e felde called Gethsemane and he saide vnto his disciples Syt ye here tyll I go yonder and praye And he toke with him Peter Iames Ihon and begaÌne to waxe fearefull to be in an agonye sayde vnto theÌ My soule is heuy eueÌ vnto y e death tary ye here and watch And he wente forth a litle fell vpon the grounde and prayed that yf it were possyble y e houre might passe froÌ him and sayde Abba my father all thinges are possyble vnto the take this cuppe awaye fro me Neuertheles not what I wyl but what thou wilt And he came
ioye in heauen ouer one synner that doth pennaunce more then ouer nyne and nyentye righteous which nede not repenâtaunce Or what woman is it that hath ten grotes yf she loose one of them that lighteth not a candell and swepeth the house and seketh diligently tyll she fynde it And whan she hath founde it she calleth hir frendes neghbouresses and sayeth Reioyce with me for I haue fouÌde my grote which I had lost Euen so I tell you shal there be ioye before the angels of God ouer one synner y t doth pennaunce And he sayde A certayne man had two sonnes and the yonger of them sayde vnto the father Father geue me the porcion of y e goodes that belongeth vnto me And he deuyded the good vnto them And not longe therafter gathered the yonger sonne all together toke his iourney in to a farre countre and there waisted he his goodes with ryotous lyuynge Now whan he had spent all that he had there was a greate derth thorow out all the same loÌde And he begaÌne to lacke and wente his waye and claue to a cytesin of that same countre which sent him in to his felde to kepe swyne And he wolde fayne haue fylled his bely with the coddes that the swyne ate And noman gaue him them Then came he to him self and sayde How many hyred seruauntes hath my father which haue bred ynough and I perish of honger I wil get vp and go to my father and saye vnto him Father I haue synned agaynst heauen and before the and am nomore worthy to be called thy sonne make me as one of thy hyred seruauntes And he gat him vp came vnto his father But whan he was yet a greate waye of his father sawe him and had coÌpassion and ranne and fell aboute his neck and kyssed him Then sayde the sonne vnto him Father I haue synned agaynst heaueÌ and before the I am no more worthy to be called thy sonne But the father sayde vnto his seruauntes Brynge forth the best garment and put it vpon him and geue him a rynge vpon his hande and shues on his fete and brynge hither a fed calfe and kyll it lat vs eate and be mery for this my sonne was deed and is alyue agayne he was lost and is founde And they beganne to be mery But the elder sonne was in the felde And whan he came and drewe nye to the house he herde y e mynstrelsye and daunsynge and called one of the seruauntes vnto him and axed what it was He sayde vnto him Thy brother is come and thy father hath slayne a fed calfe because he hath receaued him safe and sounde Then was he angrie and wolde not go in Then wente his father out and prayed him But he answered and sayde vnto his father Lo thus many yeares haue I done the seruyce nether haue I yet broken thy commaundement and thou gauest me neuer one kydd y t I might make mery with my frendes But now that this thy sonne is come which deuoured his goodes with harlottes thou hast slayne a fed calfe But he sayde vnto him My sonne thou art allwaye with me and all that is myne is thine thou shuldest be mery and glad for this y e brother was deed and is alyue agayne he was lost and is founde agayne The XVI Chapter HE sayde also vnto his disciples There was a certayne riche man which had a stewarde that was accused vnto him that he had waisted his goodes And he called him and sayde vnto him How is it that I heare this of the geue a comptes of y e stewardshipe for thou mayest be no longer stewarde The stewarde sayde within himself What shal I do My lorde wil take awaye the stewardshipe fro me I caÌ not dygge and to begg I am ashamed I wote what I wil do that whaÌ I am put out of the stewardshipe they maye receaue me in to their houses And he called vnto hiÌ all his lordes detters and sayde vnto the first How moch owest thou vnto my lorde He sayde an hundreth tonnes of oyle And he sayde Take y e byll syt downe quyckly wryte fiftiâ Then sayde he vnto another How moch owest thou He sayde an hundreth quarters of wheate And he sayde vnto him Take thy byll and wryte foure score And the lorde coÌmended the vnrighteous stewarde because he had done wysely For the children of this worlde are in their kynde wyser theÌ the children of light And I saye vnto you Make you frendes with the vnrighteous Mammon y t whan ye shal haue nede they maye receaue you in to euerlastinge Tabernacles He that is faithfull in the least is faithfull also in moch and he that is vnrighteous in the least is vnrighteous also in moch Yf ye then haue not bene faithfull in the vnrighteous Mammon who wyll beleue you in that which is true And yf ye haue not bene faithfull in anothers mans busynesse who wil geue you that which is youre awne No seruaunt can serue two masters for either he shal hate the one and loue y e other or els he shal leane to the one and despyse the other Ye can not serue God and Mammon All these thinges herde the Pharises which were couetous and they mocked hiÌ And he sayde vnto them Ye are they that iustifie yo r selues before men but God knoweth youre hertes For y t which is hye amonge men is an abhominacion before God The lawe and y e prophetes prophecied vnto Ihon and from that tyme forth is y e kyngdome of God preached thorow y e Gospell and euery man pâeasseth in to it by violence But easier is it for heauen and earth to perishe then one tittle of y e lawe to fall Who so euer putteth awaye his wife marieth another breaketh matrimonye and he that marieth her which is deuorced froÌ hir huszbande breaketh wedlocke also There was a certayne riche man which clothed him self with purple and costly lynnen and fared deliciously euery daye And there was a poore man named Lazarus which laye at his gate full of sores and desyred to be fylled with the crommes that fell from the riche mans table Yet came the dogges and licked his sores But it fortuned that the poore man dyed and was caried of the angels in to Abrahams bosome The riche man dyed also and was buried Now whan he was in the hell he lift vp his eyes in the payne and sawe Abraham afarre of and Lazarus in his bosome and he cried and sayde Father Abraham haue mercy vpon me and sende Lazarus that he maye dyppe the typpe of his fynger in water coole my tonge for I am tormeÌted in this flaÌme But AbrahaÌ saide RemeÌbre sonne y t thou hast receaued good in y e life contrary wyse Lazarus receaued euell But now is he comforted and thou art tormented And beside all this there is a greate space set betwene vs and you so y t they which wolde go
is he then his sonne Now whyle all the people gaue audience he sayde vnto his disciples Bewarre of the scrybes which wyl go in longe garmentes and loue to be saluted vpon the market and desyre to syt hyest in the synagoges and at the table They deuoure wedowes houses and that vnder a culoure of longe prayenge These shal receaue the greater daÌnacion The XXI Chapter ANd he loked vp and behelde y e riche how they put in their offerynges in to the Gods chest He sawe also a poore wedowe which put in two mytes and he sayde Verely I saye vnto you This poore wedowe hath put in more theÌ they all For these all haue of their excesse put in vnto the offerynge of God but she of hir pouerte hath put in all hir lyuynge that she had And whaÌ some spake of the temple that it was garnished with goodly stones and Iewels he saide The time shal come wher in of all this that ye se there shal not be left one stone vpon another which shal not be broken downe They axed him and sayde Master whaÌ shal these be and what shal be the token whan these shal come to passe He sayde Take hede that ye be not disceaued For many shal come in my name and saye I am he the tyme is come hard by Folowe them not But whan ye heare of warres and insurreccions be not ye afrayed for soch must come to passe but the ende is not yet there so soone Then sayde he vnto them One people shal ryse agaynst another and one realme ageynst another shal be greate earthquakes here and there pestilence and derth and fearfull thinges And greate tokeÌs shal there be froÌ heaueÌ But before all these they shal laye handes vpon you and persecute you and delyuer you vp in to their synagoges and presons and brynge you before kynges prynces for my names sake But this shal happen vnto you for a wytnesse Be at a poynt therfore in youre hertes that ye take no thought how ye shal answere for I wil geue you mouth wyszdome âgaynst the which all youre aduersaries shal not be able to speake ner to resist But ye shal be delyuered vp euen of youre elders brethren kynszfolkes and frendes and some of you shal they put vnto death and ye shal be hated of euery man for my names sake and yet shal not one hayre of youre heade perishe Holde fast youre soules with pacience But whan ye shal se Ierusalem beseged with an hoost then vnderstonde that the desolacion of it is nye Then let them which be in Iewry flye vnto the mountaynes ⪠ând let soch as be in the myddest therof departe out and let soch as be in the countrees not come therin For these are the dayes of vengeaunce that euery thinge which is wrytten maye be fulfilled But wo vnto them that are with childe and to them that geue sucke in those dayes for there shal be greate trouble vpon earth and wrath ouer this people and they shal fall thorow the edge of the swerde and be led captyue amoÌge all nacions And IerusaleÌ shal be troden downe of the Heithen ⪠vntyll the tyme of the Heithen be fulfilled And there shal be tokens in the Sonne and Mone and starres and vpon earth the people shal be in soch perplexite that they shal not tell which waye to turne them selues And the see and the waters shal roare and men shal pyne awaye for feare and for lokynge after the thinges which shal come vpoÌ earth For euen the very powers of heauen shal moue And then shal they se the sonne of man commynge in the cloude with power and greate glory But whan these thinges begynne to come to passe theÌ loke vp and lift vpp youre heades for youre redempcion draweth nye And he tolde them a symilitude Beholde the fygge tre and all tre trees whaÌ they now shute forth their buddes ye se by them and perceaue that Sommer is now at hande So likewyse ye whan ye se all these thinges come to passe be sure that the kyngdome of God is nye Verely I saye vnto you This generacioÌ shal not passe tyll all be fulfilled Heauen and earth shal passe but my wordes shal not passe But take hede vnto youre selues that yo hertes be not ouerladeÌ with excesse of eatinge and with dronkennes and with takinge of thought for lyuynge and so this daye come vpoÌ you vnawares For as a snare shal it come on all them that dwell vpon earth Watch therfore coÌtynually and praye that ye maye be worthy to escape all this that shal come to stoÌde before y e sonne of man And on the daye tyme he taught in the temple but in the night season he wente out and abode all night vpon mount Oliuete And all the people gat them vp early vnto him in the temple for to heare him The XXII Chapter THe feast of swete bred which is called Easter drue nye And y e hye presstes and Scrybes sought how they might put him to death and were afrayed of the people But Satan was entred in to Iudas named Iscarioth which was of y e nombre of y e twolue and he weÌte his waye and talked with the hye prestes and with y e officers how he wolde betraye him vnto them And they were glad and promysed to geue him money And he coÌsented sought oportunite y t he might betraye hiÌ without eny rumoure Then came y e daye of swete bred wherin the Easter lambe must be offered And he sent Peter and Ihon and sayde Go youre waye prepare vs the Easter lambe that we maye eate But they sayde vnto him Where wilt thou that we prepare it He saide vnto them Beholde whaÌ ye come in to y e cite there shal mete you a man bearinge a pitcher of water folowe him in to the house y t he entreth in and saye vnto the good man of the house The master sendeth y e worde Where is y e gesthouse wherin I maye eate the Easter laÌbe with my disciples And he shal shewe you a greate parlour paued They wente their waye and founde as he had sayde vnto them and made ready the Easter lambe And whan the houre came he sat him downe and the twolue Apostles with him and he sayde vnto them I haue hertely desyred to âate this Easter laÌbe with you before I suffre For I saye vnto you that hence forth I wil eate nomore therof tyll it be fulfilled in the kyngdome of God And he toke the cuppe gaue thankes and sayde Take this and deuyde it amonge you For I laye vnto you I wil not drynke of the frute of y e vyne vntyll the kyngdome of God come And he toke the bred gaue thankes and brake it and gaue it them and sayde This is my body which shal be geuen for you This do
seyth not And this coÌmaundement haue we of him that he which loueth God shulde loue his brother also The V. Chapter WHo so euer beleueth that Iesus is Christ is borne of God And who soeuer loueth him that begat loueth him also which was begotten of him By this we knowe that we loue Gods children whan we loue God and kepe his commaundementes For this is the loue of God that we kepe his commaundementes and his commaundemeÌtes are not greuous For all that is borne of God ouer commeth the worlde and this is the victory that ouercommeth the worlde eueÌ oure faith Who is it y t ouercommeth the worlde but he which beleueth that Iesus is the sonne of God This is he that coÌmeth with water and bloude euen Iesus Christ not with water onely but with water and bloude And it is the sprete that beareth wytnes for the sprete is the trueth For there are thre which beare recorde in heauen the father the worde and the holy goost these thre are one And there are thre which beare recorde in earth the sprete water and bloude and these thre are one Yf we receaue the witnesse of men the witnesse of God is greater for this is the wytnesse of God which he testifyed of his sonne He that beleueth on y e sonne of God hath the wytnes in him selfe He that beleueth not God hath made him a lyar And this is that recorde euen y t God hath geueÌ vs euerlastinge life And this life is in his sonne He that hath the sonne of God hath life He that hath not the sonne of God hath not life These thinges haue I wrytteÌ vnto you which beleue on the name of the sonne of God that ye maye knowe how that ye haue eternall life and that ye maye beleue on y e name of the sonne of God And this is the fre boldnesse which we haue towarde him that yf we axe eny thinge acordinge to his wyll he heareth vs. And yf we knowe that he heareth vs what so euer we axe then are we sure that we haue y e peticions which we haue desyred of him Yf eny man se his brother synne a synne not vnto death let him axe and he shal geue him life for theÌ y t synne not vnto death There is a synne vnto death for the which saye I not that a man shulde praye All vnrighteousnes is synne and there is synne not vnto death We knowe that whosoeuer is borne off God synneth not but he that is begotteÌ of God kepeth himselfe y t wicked toucheth him not We knowe that we are of God the worlde is set alltogether on wickednes But we knowe that the sonne of God is come and hath geuen vs a mynde to knowe him which is true and we are in him y t is true in his sonne Iesu Christ. This is the true God and euer lastinge life Babes kepe youre selues from ymage The seconde Epistle of S. Ihon. The summe of this epistle He wryteth vnto a certayne lady reioyseth that her children walke in the trueth exhorteth theÌ vnto loue warneth them to bewarre of soch disceauers as denye that Iesus Christ came in the flesh prayeth them to contynue in the doctryne of Christ and to haue nothinge to do with them that bringe not this lernynge THE Elder To y e electe lady and hir childreÌ whom I loue in the trueth not I onely but all they also that haue knowne the trueth for the truthes sake which dwelleth in vs and shal be with vs for euer Grace mercy and peace be with you froÌ the LORDE Iesus Christ y e sonne of the father in the trueth and in loue I am greatly reioysed that I haue founde amonge thy children them that walke in y e trueth as we haue receaued a commaundement of the father And now lady I beseke the not as though I wrote a new commaundement vnto the but the same which we haue had from the begynnynge that we loue one another And this is the loue that we walke after his commaundementes This is the commaundement as ye haue herde froÌ the begynnynge that we shulde walke therin For many disceauers are come in to the worlde which confesse not y t Iesus Christ is come in the flesh this is a disceauer and an Antechrist Take hede to youre selues that we lose not that which we haue wrought but that we maye receaue a full rewarde Who so euer transgresseth and abydeth not in the doctryne of Christ hath not God he that abydeth in y e doctryne of Christ hath both the father and the sonne Yf eny man come vnto you and brynge not this doctryne receaue him not in to the house nether salute him for he that saluteth him is partaker of his euell dedes I had ãâã any thinges to wryte vnto you neuertheââââ I wolde not wryte w t papyre and ynke ãâ¦ã to come vnto you and to ãâ¦ã mouth that oure ioye ãâ¦ã âhildren of thy electe sister The thirde Epistle of S. Ihon. The summe of this epistle He is glad of Gaius that he walketh in the trueth exhorteth him to be louynge vnto the poore christen in their persecucion sheweth the vnkynde dealynge of Diotrephes and the good reporte of Demetrius THE Elder To the beloued Gaius whom I loue in the trueth My beloued I wysshe in all thinges that thou prospere and fare well euen as thy soule prospereth I reioysed greatly whan the brethren came and testified of the trueth that is in y e how thou walkest in the trueth I haue no greater ioye theÌ to heare that my childreÌ walke in the trueth My beloued thou doest faithfully what so euer thou doest to the brethren and to strauÌgers which haue borne witnesse of thy loue before the congregacion and thou hast done well that thou dyddest brynge them forwarde on their iourney worthely before God For because of his names sake they wente forth and toke nothinge of the Heythen We therfore oughte to receaue soch that we mighte be helpers vnto the trueth I wrote to the congregacion but Diotriphes which loueth to haue the preemynence amonge them receaued vs not Wherfore yf I come I wil declare his dedes which he doeth ieastinge vpoÌ vs with malicious wordes nether is he therwith coÌtent Not onely he himselfe receaueth not the brethreÌ but also he forbyddeth them that wolde and thrusteth them out of the congregacion My beloued folowe not y t which is euell but that which is good He that doeth well is of God but he that doeth euell seyth not God Demetrius hath good reporte of all men and of the trueth yee and we oure selues also beare recorde and ye knowe that oure recorde is true I had many thinges to wryte but I wolde not with ynke and pen wryte vnto the. But I trust shortly to se the and so wyl we speake together mouth to mouth Peace be with the. The louers salute the. Grete the louers
wryteth to the seuen congregacioÌs in Asia seyth seueÌ candilstickes and in the myddest of them one like vnto the sonne of man Chap. II. He exhorteth foure congregacions to amende and sheweth the rewarde of him that ouer commeth Chap. III. He instructeth and enfourmeth the angels of thre coÌgregacions declaringe also the rewarde of him that ouercommeth Chap. IIII. He seyth the heauen open and the seate and one syttinge vpon it and xxiiij seates aboute it with xxiiij elders syttinge vpon theÌ and foure beastes praysinge God daye and night Chap. V. He seyth the laÌbe openynge the boke and therfore the foure beastes the xxiiij elders and the angels prayse the lambe and do him worshipe Chap. VI. The lambe openeth the vi seales many thinges folowe the openynge therof Chap. VII He seyth the seruauntes of God sealed in their foreheades out of all nacions and people which though they suffre trouble yeâ the lambe fedeth theÌ ledeth them to the fountaynes of lyuynge water and God shal wype awaye all teares from their eyes Chap. VIII The seuenth seale is opened there is sylence in heauen the foure angels blowe their trompettes and greate plages folowe vpon the earth Chap. IX The fifth and sixte angell blowe their tompettes the starre falleth from heauen the locustes come out of the smoke The first wo is past the foure angels that were bounde are lowsed and the thirde parte of meÌ is kylled Chap. X. The angell hath the boke open he sweareth there shal be nomore tyme he geueth the boke vnto Ihon which eateth it vp Chap. XI The temple is measured The seconde wo is past Chap. XII The seuenth angel bloweth his troÌpet There apeareth in heauen a woman clothed with the Sonne Michael fighteth with the dragon which persecuteth the woman Chap. XIII A beest ryseth out of the see with seuen heades and ten hornes Another beest commeth out of the earth with two hornes Chap. XIIII The laÌbe stondeth vpon the mount Sion and the vndefyled congregacion with him The angell exhorteth to the feare of God and telleth of the fall of Babilon Chap. XV. He seyth seuen angels hauynge seuen vyalles full of wrath Chap. XVI The angels poure out their vyalles Chap. XVII He descrybeth the woman syttinge vpon the beast with ten hornes Chap. XVIII The louers of the worlde are sory for the fall off Babilon but they that be off God haue cause to reioyse for hir destruccion Chap. XIX Prayse and thankes are geueÌ vnto God for iudginge the whore and for auenginge the bloude of his seruauÌtes The angel wyl not be worshipped The foules and byrdes are called to the slaughter Chap. XX. The dragon is bâuÌde for a thousande yeares The deed arise and receaue iudgment Chap. XXI In this chapter is descrybed the new and spirituall Ierusalem Chap. XXII The ryuer of the water of life the frutefulnesse and light of the cite of God The LORDE geueth euer his seruauntes warnynge of thinges for to come The angel wyl not be worshipped To the worde of God maye nothinge be added ner mynished there from The first Chapter THE reuelacion of Iesus Christ which God gaue vnto him for to shewe vnto his seruauÌtes thiÌges which muste shortly come to passe And he sent and shewed by his angel vnto his seruaunt Ihon which bare recorde of the worde of God and of the testimony of Iesus Christe and of all thinges that he sawe Happy is he y t readeth and they that heare the wordes of the prophesy and kepe thoo thinges which are wrytten therin For the tyme is at honde Ihon to the seuen coÌgregacions in Asia Grace be with you peace froÌ him which is and which was and which is to come froÌ the seuen spretes which are present before his trone and from Iesus Christ which is a faithfull witnes and first begotten of the deed LORDE ouer y e kinges of the earth Vnto him that loued vs and weszhed vs froÌ synnes in his awne bloud and made vs kinges Prestes vnto God his father be glory and dominion for euer more Amen Beholde he commeth with cloudes and all eyes shall se him they also which peersed him And all kinredes of the earth shal wayle Euen so Amen I am Alpha and Omega the begynninge and the endinge sayeth y e LORDE almighty which is and which was and which is to come I Ihon youre brother and coÌpanyon in tribulacion and in the kyngdome and pacieÌce which is in Iesu Christe was in the yle of Pathmos for the worde of God and for y e witnessynge of Iesu Christe I was in the sprete on a sondaye and herde behynde me a gret voyce as it had bene of a trompe sayenge I am Alpha and Omega the fyrst and y e laste That thou seist write in a boke and sende it vnto the coÌgregacions which are in Asia vnto Ephesus and vnto Smyrna and vnto Pargamos and vnto Thiatira and vnto Sardis and vnto Philadelphia and vnto Laodicia And I turned backe to se the voyce that spake to me And wheÌ I was turned I sawe seueÌ goldeÌ candestyckes and in the myddes of the candelstyckes one like vnto the sonne of man clothed with a lynnin garmeÌt downe to the ground and gyrd aboute the brest with a golden gyrdle His heed and his heares were whyte as whyte woll as snowe and his eyes were as a flamme of fyre and his fete like vnto brasse as though they breÌt in a fornace and his voyce as the sounde of many waters And he had in his right honde seueÌ starres And out of his mouth went a sharpe two edged swearde And his face shone euen as the sonne in his strength And when I sawe him I fell at his fete euen as deed And he layde his right honde vpon me sayenge vnto me feare not I am the fyrst and the laste and am alyue and was deed And beholde I am alyue foreuer more and haue the kayes of hell of deth Wryte therfore the thinges which thou hast sene and the thinges which are and y e thinges which shal be fulfylled here after the mistery of the seuen starres which thou sawest in my right honde and the seuen golden candelstickes The seuen starres are the angels of the seueÌ congregacions And the seuen candelstyckes which thou sawest are the seuen congregacions The II. Chapter VNto the angell of the congregacion of Ephesus wryte These thinges sayth he that holdeth the seuen starres in his righthonde and walketh in the myddes of the seuen goldeÌ candelstickes I knowe thy workes and thy labour and thy pacience howe thou cannest not for beare them which are euell and examinest them which saye they are Apostles and are not hast founde theÌ lyars and hast suffred And hast pacieÌce and for my names sake hast laboured and hast not faynted Neuerthelesse I haue somwhat agaynst the for thou hast lefte thy fyrst loue Remember therfore froÌ whence
his mouth water after the womaÌ 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 womaÌ and went and made warre with the remnaunt of hyr sede which kepe the coÌmaundementes 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 vpoÌ 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 dragoÌ 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 woÌdred 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 dragoÌ 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 wouÌde was healed And he dyd greate wonders so that he made fyre come downe from heaueÌ 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 mouÌt 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 withouteÌ 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 toÌges and people sayeÌge 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 eueÌ Babilon that greate cite for she made all nacions drynke off the wyne off hyr whordome And the thyrde angel folowed theÌ 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 resâ 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 vpoÌ y e cloude one syttynge like vnto the sonne of man hauinge on his heed a golden crowne and in his hoÌde 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
my hande I wolde kyll the. The Asse sayde vnto Balaam Am not I thine Asse which thou hast rydden vpon in y e tyme vnto this daye Was I euer wonte to do so vnto the He sayde No. Then opened the LORDE the eyes of Balaam y t he sawe y e angell of the LORDE stondinge in y e waye a draweÌ swerde in his haÌde And he enclyned him selfe bowed downe w t his face And the angell of the LORDE sayde vnto him Wherfore hast thou smytteÌ thine Asse now thre tymes Beholde I am come out to resiste y e for y t waye is frowarde coÌtrary vnto me And y e Asse sawe me auoyded fro me thre tymes or els yf she had not turned asyde fro me I had slayne the saued the Asse alyue Then sayde Balaam vnto y e angell of y e LORDE I haue synned for I wyst not that thou stodest in the waye agaynst me And now yf it displease y e I wil turne agayne The angell of y e LORDE saide vnto him Go with the meÌ but thou shalt speake nothinge els then y t I shal saye vnto ye. So Balaam wente forth w t the princes of Balac Whan Balac herde y t Balaam came he wente out to mete him in the cite of the Moabitâs y t lieth on the coaste of Arnon which is on y e vttemost border sayde vnto him Dyd not I sende for y t to call the Wherfore camest thou not then vnto me Thinkest thou y t I am not able to promote y e vnto hono r Balaam answered him Lo I am come vnto y e But how can I saye eny thinge els theÌ y t God putteth in my mouth y t I must speake So Balaam wente with Balac and they came vnto the cite on the vttemost border of his lande And Balac slewe oxen and shepe and sent for Balaam and for the pâââces that were with him The XXIII Chapter ANd in the mornynge Balac toke Balaam and they weÌte vp to the hye place of Baal that from theÌce he might se vnto the vttemost parte of y e people And Balaam sayde vnto Balac Buylde me here seuen altares and prouyde me here seuen bullockes and seueÌ rammes Balac dyd as Balaam sayde And both Balac and Balaam offred on euery altare a bullocke a ramme And Balaam sayde vnto Balac Stonde thou by y t burnt offerynge I wil go yf happly the LORDE wil mete me call me y t I maye tell the what so euer he sheweth me And he wente his waye as he sayde And y e LORDE mett Balaam And Balaam saide vnto him Seuen altares haue I prepared and offred on euery altare a bullocke and a ramme The LORDE put y e worde in Balaams mouth and sayde Go agayne vnto Balac and saye on this wise And whan he came agayne vnto him beholde he stode by his burnt offerynge with all y e prynces of the Moabites Then toke he vp his parable sayde Balac the kynge of the Moabites hath caused to âet me out of Syria from the mouÌtaynes towarde the East sayde Come curse me Iacob come defye me Israel How shall I curse whom God curseth not How shal I defye whom y e LORDE defyeth not For froÌ y e toppe of y e stonye rockes I se him from the hilles I beholde him Beholde y e people shal dwell by theÌselues shal not be rekened amoÌge the HeitheÌ Who can tell the dust of Iacob the nombre of the fourth parte of Israel My soule die y e death of y e righteous and my ende be as the ende of these TheÌ saide Balac vnto Balaam What doest thou vnto me I caused to fet y e for to curse myne enemies beholde thou blessest theÌ He answered saide Must I not kepe speake y t which the LORDE putteth in to me mouth Balac saide vnto him Come w t me yet vnto another place froÌ whence thou mayest se y e vttemost parte of them not se them all and curse me them there And he toke him vp to a fre place eueÌ vnto the toppe of Pisga buylded seuen altares and offered on euery altare a bullocke a ramme And he sayde vnto Balac Stonde so by thy burnt offrynge whyle I go yonder And thâ LORDE mett Balaam put the worde in his mouth sayde Go agayne vnto Balaâ saye on this wyse And whan he came to him agayne beholde he stode by his burnt offârynge with the prynces of the Moabites And Balac sayde vnto him What hath the LORDE sayde And he toke vp his parable sayde Ryse vp Balac heare marke my testimony w t thine eares thou sonne of Ziphor God is not a man y t he shulde lye ner a mans childe y t eny thinge shulde repente him Shulde he saye and not do Shulde he speake not make it good Beholde I am brought hither to blesse I blesse can not go backe there fro There is no weerynesse sene in Iacob nether eny laboure in Israel The LORDE his God is w t him the kynges trompet is amoÌge theÌ God hath brought theÌ out of Egipte his streÌgth is as of an Vnicorne For there is no Sorcerye in Iacob no Soyth sayer in Israel Whan the tyme coÌmeth it shal be saide vnto Iacob to Israel what God doth Beholde the people shall ryse vp as a Lyonesse heue vp him self as a Lyon He shal not lye downe tyll he eate of the pray and drynke the bloude of the slayne Then sayde Balac vnto Balaam Thou shalt nether curse him ner blesse him Balaam answered sayde vnto Balac Haue I not tolde the All y t the LORDE speaketh y t must I do Balac saide vnto him Oh come I wil brynge y t to another place yf it maye happly please God y t thou mayest curse theÌ there And he brought him vp to the toppe of mount Peor y t boweth towarde the wyldernesse And Balaam sayde vnto Balac Buylde me here seuen altares and prouyde me seuen bullockes and seuen rammes Balac dyd as Balaam sayde and offered on euery altare a bullocke vnd a ramme The XXIIII Chapter NOw whan Balaam sawe y t it pleased the LORDE that he shulde blesse Israel he wente not as he dyd before to seke witches but set his face straight towarde the wyldernesse lifte vp his eyes and sawe Israel how they laye acordinge to their trybes and the sprete of God came vpon him and he toke vp his parable and sayde Thus sayeth Balaam the sonne of Beor Thus sayeth the man whose eyes are opened Thus sayeth he which heareth the wordes of God which sawe the vision of y e Allmightie which fell downe and his eyes were opened How goodly are thy teÌtes O Iacob and thy habitacions O Israel Euen as the brode valleys as the gardens by the waters syde as y e tentes which the LORDE hath plaÌted as the Ceder trees vpon y e water
and Makeda And whan they fled before Israel the waye downe to Bethoron the LORDE caused a greate hayle from heauen to fall vpon them vnto Aseka so that they dyed many mo of them dyed of the hayle then the children of Israel slewe with the swerde Then spake Iosua vnto the LORDE the same daye that the LORDE gaue ouer the Amorites before the children of Israel and sayde in the presence of Israel Sonne holde styll at Gibeon and thou Moone in the valley of Aialon Then the Sonne helde styll and y e Moone stode vntyll the people had auenged theÌselues on their enemies Is not this wrytten in the boke of the righteous Thus the Sonne stode styll in the myddes of heauen and dyfferred to go downe for the space of a whole daye after And there was no daye like vnto this nether before ner after whan the LORDE herkened vnto the voyce of one man for the LORDE fought for Israel And Iosua wente agayne to Gilgall in to the teÌtes and all Israel with him As for the fyue kynges they were fled and had hyd theÌ selues in the caue at Makeda Then was it tolde Iosua We haue fouÌde the fyue kynges hyd in the caue at Makeda Iosua sayde Rolle greate stones then before the hole of the caue and set men there to kepe them As for you stonde not ye styll but folowe after youre enemies and smyte them behynde and let them not come in their cities for the LORDE youre God hath delyuered theÌ in to youre hande And whan Iosua and y e children of Israel had ended the sore greate slaughter vpoÌ them so y t they were brought to naught the remnaunt of them came in to the stronge cities So all the people came agayne to the hoost vnto Iosua to Makeda in peace and no man durst moue his tunge agaynst the children of Israel Iosua sayde Open the mouth of the caue and brynge the fyue kynge forth vnto me They dyd so and broughte the kynges vnto him out of the caue the kinge of Ierusalem the kynge of HebroÌ the kynge of Iarmuth the kynge of Lachis the kinge of Eglon. Whan these fyue kynges were broughte forth vnto him Iosua called euery man of Israel and sayde vnto the rulers of the men of warre that wente with him Come forth and treade vpon the neckes of these kynges with youre fete And they came forth and trode vpon their neckes with their fete And Iosua saide vnto them Be not afrayed and feare not be stronge and bolde for thus shal the LORDE do vnto all yo r enemies agaynst whom ye fighte And Iosua smote them afterwarde and put them to death and hanged them vpon fyue trees And they hanged styll vpon the trees vntyll the euenynge But whan the Sonne was gone downe he commaunded to take them of from the trees and they cast them in the caue wherin they had hyd them selues before the hole of the caue they layed greate stones which are there yet vnto this daye The same daye wanne Iosua Makeda also and smote it with the edge of the swerde and the kynge therof and damned it and all the soules that were therin and let none remayne escaped and dyd vnto the kynge of Makeda as he dyd vnto the kynge of Iericho Then Iosua and all Israel with him departed fro Makeda vnto Lybna foughte agaynst it And the LORDE gaue it with y e kynge therof into the hande of Israel and smote it and all the soules that were therin with the edge of the swerde and let not one remayne in it and dyd vnto the kinge therof as he had done vnto the kynge of Iericho Afterwarde wente Iosua and all Israel with him from Lybna vnto Lachis and layed sege vnto it and fought agaynst it And the LORDE delyuered Lachis also in to the hande of Israel so that they wanne it vpon the seconde daye and smote it with y e edge of the swerde and all the soules that were therin acordinge to all as he had done vnto Lybna At the same tyme Horam y e kynge of Gazer wente vp to helpe Lachis But Iosua smote him with all his people tyll there remayned not one And Iosua wente with all Israel from Lachis vnto Eglon and layed sege vnto it and fought agaynst it and wanne it the same daye and smote it with the edge of the swerde and damned all the soules that were therin the same daye acordynge vnto all as he had done vnto Lachis After that wente Iosua with all Israel from Eglon vnto Hebron and foughte agaynst it and wanne it and smote it with y e edge of the swerde and the kynge of it ãâã all the cities therof and all the soules ãâã were therin and let not one remayne acoââdynge vnto all as he had done vnto Egâââ and damned it and all the soules that ãâã therin Then turned Iosua agayne with all Iâârael towarde Debir and fought agaynst ãâã and wanne it with the kinge of it and all y e cities therof and smote them with the edgâ of the swerde and damned all y e soules that were therin and let not one remayne ouer ⪠Euen as he had done vnto HebroÌ and Lâââna with their kynges so dyd he also vnto Dââbir and the kynge therof Thus Iosua smote all the londe vpon the mountaynes and towarde the south and in the lowe countrees and by the ryuers with all their kynges and let not one remaine ouer and damned all that had breth * as the LORDE God of Israel had commaunded And Iosua smote them from Cades Bernea vnto Gaza and all the londe of Gosen vnto Gibeon and toke all these kynges with their loÌde at one tyme for the LORDE God of Israel foughte for Israel And Iosua wente agayne withall Israel to the tentes vnto Gilgal The XI Chapter WHan Iabin the kynge of Asor herde this he sent vnto Iabob the kynge of Madon and to the kynge of Samron and to the kynge of Achsaph and to the kynges that dwelt towarde the north vpon the mountaynes and in the playne on the southsyde of Cineroth and in the loââ countrees and in the lordshippes of Dor by the see syde and to the Cananites towarde y e east and west to y e Amorites Hethites Pheresites and Iebusites vpon the mountaynes and to the Heuites vnder mount Hermon in the londe of Mispa These weÌte out with all their armies a greate people as many as y e sonde of the see and exceadinge many horses and charettes All these kinges gathered theÌ selues and came and pitched together by y e water of Meram to fighte with Israel And the LORDE sayde vnto Iosua Feare them not for tomorow aboute this tyme wil I delyuer them all slayne before the children of Israel thou shalt lame their horses and burne their charettes with fire And Iosââ came sodenly vpon them and all the men of warre with him by the water of Meroââ fell vpon them And the LORDE delyuered
them into y e handes of Israel and they smote them and chaced them vnto greate SidoÌ and to the warme water and to the playne of Mispa towarde y e east and smote them vntyll there remayned not one Then dealte Iosua with them as y e LORDE had saide vnto him lamed theis horses brent their charettes And he turned backe at the same tyme wanne Hasor smote y e kynge of it w t the swerde for Hasor was afore tyme y e head cite of all these kyngdomes and smote all the soules that were therin w t the edge of the swerde and damned it let nothinge remayne that had breth damned Hasor with fyre All the cities of these kyngdomes waÌne Iosua also and smote theÌ with the edge of the swerde and damned them acordinge as Moses the seruaunt of the LORDE commaunded Howbeit the cities that stode vpon the hilles dyd not the children of Israel burne with fyre but Hasor onely dyd Iosua burne And all the spoyles of these cities and the catell dyd the children of Israel deale amonge them but smote all the men with the edge of the swerde tyll they had destroyed them and let nothinge remayne that had breth As the LORDE commaunded his seruaunt Moses and as Moses commaunded Iosua euen so dyd Iosua so that there was nothinge vndone of all that the LORDE coÌmaunded Moses So Iosua toke all this loÌde vpon y e mouÌtaynes all y t lyeth towarde the south all the londe of Gosen and the lowe countre the playne felde and the mountayne of Israel with the valley therof from the mountayne that parteth the londe vp towarde Seir vnto Baalgad in the playne of mouÌt Libanus beneth mount Hermon All their kynges toke he and smote them and put theÌ to death Howbeit he warred a longe season with these kynges Yet was there not one cite that yelded it selfe peaceably vnto the children of Israel excepte the Heuites which dwelt at Gibeon but they wanne them all with battayll And this was done so of the LORDE that their hert was so hardened to come against the children of Israel with battayll y t they mighte be daÌned no fauoure to be shewed vnto them but to be destroyed as the LORDE commaunded Moses At the same tyme came Iosua and roted out the Enakims from y e mountayne from Hebron from Debir from Anab from euery mountayne of Iuda and from euery mountayne of Israel and damned theÌ with their cities and let none of the Enakims remayne in the londe of the children of Israel saue at Gasa at Gaâth at Asod there remayned of them Thus Iosua conquered all the londe acordinge vnto all as the LORDE sayde vnto Moses gaue it vnto Israel to enheritaunce vnto euery trybe his porcion and y e londe rested from warre The XII Chapter THese are y e kynges of the londe whoÌ the childreÌ of Israel smote conquered their loÌde beyonde Iordane eastwarde froÌ the water of Arnon vnto mount Hermon and vnto all y e playne felde towarde the east Sihon the kynge of the Amorites which dwelt at Heszbon and had dominion from Aroer that lieth by the water syde of Arnon and vnto the myddes of y e water and ouer halfe Gilead vnto the water of Iabok which is the border of the childreÌ of Ammon and ouer the playne felde vnto the see of Cynneroth eastwarde and vnto the see of the playne felde namely the Salt see towarde the east the waye vnto Beth Iesimoth and from the south beneth by the ryuers of mount Pisga And the border of Og the kynge of Basan which remayned yet of Raphaim and dwelt at Astaroth and Edrei and had the dominion ouer mouÌt Hermon ouer Salcha and ouer all Basan vnto the border of Gessuri Maachati of halfe Gilead which was the border of Sihon the kynge at Hesbon Moses the seruaunt of the LORDE and the childreÌ of Israel smote them And Moses the seruaunt of y e LORDE gaue it vnto the Rubenites Gaddites and to the halfe trybe of Manasse in possession These are the kynges of the loÌde whom Iosua the children of Israel smote on this syde Iordane westwarde froÌ Baalgad vpoÌ the playne of mount Libanus vnto y e mouÌt that parteth the londe vp towarde Seir that Iosua gaue vnto the trybes of Israel in possession vnto euery one his parte what so euer was in y e mouÌtaynes valleyes playne feldes by the ryuers in y e wyldernesses towarde the south the Hethites Amorites Cananites Pheresites Heuites and Iebusites The kynge of Iericho the kynge of Hai which lyeth besyde Bethel the kynge of Ierusalem the kynge of Hebron the kynge of Iarmoth the kynge of Lachis the kynge of Eglon the kynge of Geser the kynge of Debir the kynge of Geder the kynge of Horma the kynge of Arad y e kynge of Libna the kynge of Adulla the kynge of Makeda the kynge of Bethel the kynge of Tapnah the kynge of Hepher the kynge of Aphek the kynge of Lasaron the kynge of Madan the kynge of Hasor the kynge of Simron Meron the kynge of Achsaph the kynge of Tahenah the kynge of Megido the kynge of Cades the kynge of Iakneam by Carmel the kynge in the lordshippes of Dor the kynge of the Heithen at Gilgall the kynge of Thirza These are one and thirtie kynges The XIII Chapter NOw whan Iosua was olde and wel stricken in age the LORDE sayde vnto him Thou art olde well aged and there remayneth yet moch of the londe to conquere namely all Galile of the Philistynes and all Gessuri from Sihor which floweth before Egipte vnto the border of Ekron northwarde which is rekened vnto the Cananites fyue lordes of the Philistynes namely the Gasites the Aszdodites the Ascalonites the Gethites the Ekronites the Hauites But from the north it is all y e londe of the Cananites and Maara of the Sidonians vnto Aphek euen vnto the border of the Amorites Morouer the londe of the Giblites eastwarde from Baalgad vnder mount Hermon tyll a maÌ come vnto Hamath All they that dwell vpon the mount from Libanus vnto the warme waters and all the Sidonians I wyl dryue them out before the children of Israel Onely let them be dealte out amonge Israel as I haue commaunded the. Deuyde thou this loÌde now to enheritauÌce amonge the nyne trybes and y e halfe trybe of Manasse For the Rubenites Gaddites with y e halfe trybe of Manasse haue receaued their enheritauÌce which Moses gaue theÌ beyonde Iordane Eastwarde acordinge as Moses the seruaunt of the LORDE gaue them the same from Arâer which lieth vp by the water syde of Arnon and the cite in the myddes of the water all the coasteâ of Medba vnto Dibon and all the cities of Sihon the kynge of the Amorites which dwelt at Heszbon vnto the border of the children of Ammon and Gilead and y
of God at Ierusalem in the seconde moneth beganne Zorobabel the sonne of Salathiel and Iesua the sonne of Iosedec and the remnaunt of their brethren the prestes and Leuites and all they that were come out of the captiuyte vnto Ierusalem and appoynted the Leuites froÌ twentye yeare olde and aboue to se that the worke of the house of the LORDE weÌte forwarde And Iesua stode with his sonnes and brethren and Cadmiel with his sonnes and the children of Iuda to furthur the workmen of the house of God namely the childreÌ of Henadad with their children and their brethren the Leuites And whan the buylders layed the foundacion of the temple of the LORDE the prestes stode in their araye with trompettes And the Leuites the children of Asaph with Cimbales to prayse y e LORDE with the Dytie of Dauid kynge of Israel And they sunge together geuynge prayse thankes vnto y e LORDE because he is gracious and because his mercy endureth for euer vpon Israell And all the people shouted londe in praysinge the LORDE because the foundacion of y e house of the LORDE was layed Neuertheles many of the olde prestes and Leuites and awncient fathers which had sene the house afore in his foundacion and this was now before their eyes wepte loude But many shouted with ioye so that the noyse gaue a greate sounde in so moch that the people coulde not knowe y e ioyfull sounde for the noyse of the wepinge in the people for the people shouted loude so that the noyse was herde farre of The IIII. Chapter BVt whan the aduersaries of Iuda and Ben Iamin herde that the children of the captiuyte buylded the teÌple vnto the LORDE God of Israel they came to Zorobabel to the pryncipall fathers and sayde vnto them We wyl buylde with you for we seke the LORDE youre God like as ye do And we haue done sacrifice vnto him sence the tyme that Assar Hadon the kynge of Assur broughte vs vp hither But Zorobabel and Iesua and the other awncieÌt fathers of Israel answered them It is not mete for vs and you to buylde the house of oure God but we wyl buylde alone vnto the LORDE God of Israel as Cyrus the kynge of Persia hath commaunded vs. Then the folke of the londe hyndered the people of Iuda and made them afrayed to buylde and hyred councelers aganst them and hyndered their deuyce as longe as Cyrus the kynge of Persia lyued vntyll the reigne off Darius kynge off Persia. But whan Ahasuerus was kynge in the begynnynge off his reigne wrote they vnto him a complaynte agaynst them of Iuda and Ierusalem And in the tyme of Artaxerses wrote Bisellam Mithridath Tabeel and the other of their councell vnto Artaxerses the kynge of Persia. But the scripture of y e letter was wrytten in the Syrians speach and was interpretated in the langage of the Syrians Rehum y e chaunceler and Simsai the scrybe wrote this letter agaynst Ierusalem to Artaxerses the kynge We Rehum the chaunceler and Simsai the scribe and other of the councell of Dina off Arphasath off Tarplat off Persia off Arach of Babilon of Susan of Deha and of Elam and other of the people whom the greate and noble Asnaphar broughte ouer and set in the cities of Samaria and other on this syde the water and in Canaan And this is y e summe of the letter that they sent vnto kynge Artaxerses Thy seruauntes the men on this syde the water and in Canaan Be it knowne vnto y e kynge that the Iewes which are come vp from the to vs vnto IerusaleÌ in to that sedicious wicked cite buylde the same and make vp y e walles of it brynge it out of y e foundacion Be it knowne now therfore vnto y e kynge y t yf this cite be buylded the walies made vp agayne theÌ shal not they geue tribute toll and yearly custome and their deuyce shal do y e kynge harme But now that we all are therby which destroyed the temple we wolde no longer se the kynges dishonoure Therfore sent we out and caused the kynge to be certified therof That it maye be soughte in y e Cronicles of thy progenitours and so shalt thou fynde in the same Cronicles and perceaue that this cite is sedicious and noysome vnto kynges and londes and that they cause other also to rebell of olde and for the same cause was this cite destroyed Therfore do we certifie the kynge that yf this cite be buylded and the walles therof made vp thou shalt kepe nothinge on this syde the water by the reason of it Then sent y e kynge an answere vnto Rehum the chaunceler and Simsai the Scrybe and to the other of their councell that dwelt in Samaria and vnto the other beyonde y e water Peace and salutacion The letter which ye sent vnto vs hath bene opeÌly red before me and I haue commaunded to make search and it is founde that this cite of olde hath made insurreccion agaynst kynges how y t vpro r and rebellion hath bene commytted therin There haue bene mightie kynges also at IerusaleÌ which haue reigned ouer all that is beyonde the water and toll tribute and yearly custome was geuen vnto them Do ye now after this commaundemeÌt forbyd the same men that the cite be not builded tyll I haue geueÌ coÌmaundemeÌt Take hede now that ye be not necligent here in lest the kynge haue harme there thorow Now whaÌ kynge Artaxerses letter was red before Rehum the chaunceler and Simsai the Scrybe and their councell they wente vp in all the haist to Ierusalem vnto the Iewes and forbad them with the arme and auctorite Then ceassed the worke of the house of God at Ierusalem and continued so vnto the seconde yeare of Darius kynge of Persia. The V. Chapter THe prophetes Aggeus and Zachary y e sonne of Iddo prophecied vnto y e Iewes that were in Iuda and IerusaleÌ in the name of the God of Israel Then gat vp Zorobabel the sonne of Salathiel and Iesua the sonne of Iosedec and beganne to buylde the house of God at Ierusalem and with them the prophetes of God which strengthed theÌ At the same tyme came to theÌ Thathnai the debite on this syde the water and Sethar of Bosen and their councelers and sayde thus vnto them Who hath commaunded you to buylde this house and to make vp the walles therof Then tolde we them the names of the men that made this buyldinge But the eye of their God came vpon the Elders of the Iewes that they were not inhibyte tyll the matter was brought before Darius and tyll there came a wrytinge therof agayne This is the summe of the letter y t Thathnaithe Debyte on this syde the water and Sethar of Bosen and their councellers of Apharsach which were on this syde the water sent vnto kynge Darius And these are the wordes that they sent vnto him Vnto Darius the kynge all peace
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 coÌmaunded 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 seruauÌtes 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 IerusaleÌ and broughte theÌ 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 coÌmaunded 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 coÌmaunded 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 goldeÌ 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 IerusaleÌ 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 takeÌ 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 necligeÌtly 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 geueÌ 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 haÌde 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 IerusaleÌ 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 brethreÌ the prestes and for them selues And the childreÌ 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 vnleueÌded bred seuen dayes with ioye for the LORDE had made them glad and turned the hert of the kynge of Assur vnto theÌ 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
my God lighten myne eyes that I slepe not in death Lest myne enemie saye I haue preuayled agaynst hiÌ for yf I be cast downe they that trouble me will reioyse at it But my trust is in thy mercy and my hert is ioyfull in thy sauynge health I wil synge of the LORDE that dealeth so louyngly with me Yee I wil prayse the name of the LORDE the most hyest The XIII A psalme of Dauid THe foolish bodyes saye in their hertes Tush there is no God They are corrupte aÌd become abhominable in their doynges there is not one â doth good The LORDE loked downe froÌ heaueÌ vpoÌ the children of men to se yf there were eny that wolde vnderstonde seke after God But they are all gone out of the waye they are alltogether become vnprofitable there is none that doth good no not one Their throte is an open sepulcre with their tonges they haue disceaued the poyson of Aspes is vnder their lippes Their mouth is full of cursinge and bytternes their fete are swift to shed bloude Destruccion wretchednes are in their wayes aÌd the waye of peace haue they not knowne there is no feare off God before their eyes How can they haue vnderstondinge y t worke myschefe eatinge vp my people as it were bred call not vpoÌ y e LORDE Therfore shal they be brought in greate feare for God stondeth by the generacion of the rightuous As for you ye haue made a mocke at the couÌcell of the poore because he putteth his trust in the LORDE Oh y t the sauynge health were geuen vnto Israel out off Sion Oh that the LORDE wolde delyuer his people out of captiuyte TheÌ shulde Iacob reioyse and Israel shulde be right glad The XIIII A psalme of Dauid LORDE who shall dwell in thy tabernacle who shal rest vpoÌ y i holy hill Euen he y t ledeth an vncorrupte life that doth the thinge which is right aÌd that speaketh the treuth from his herte He y t vseth no disceat in his tonge he that doth no euell to his neghboure slaundreth not his neghbours He y t setteth not by the vngodly but maketh moch of theÌ that feare the LORDE he y t sweareth vnto his neghboure dispoynteth him not He that geueth not his money vpon vsury and taketh no rewarde agaynst the innoceÌt Who so doth these thiÌges shal neuer be remoued The XV. A psalme of Dauid PReserue me o God for in the do I trust I haue sayde vnto y e LORDE thou art my God my goodes are nothinge vnto the. All my delyte is vpon the sanctes that are in the earth and vpon soch like But they y t runne after another shall haue greate trouble Their drynk offerynges of bloude wil not I offre nether make mencion of their name in my mouth The LORDE himself is my good and my ãâã thou manteynest my enheritauÌce ãâ¦ã is fallen vnto me in a fayre groundâ ãâ¦ã a goodly heretage I wil thanke ãâ¦ã for geuynge me warnynge my ãâ¦ã so haue chastened me in the night ãâ¦ã Afore honde sawe I God allwayes ãâ¦ã me for he is on my right honde that I shulde not be moued Therfore dyd my hert reioyce my tunge was glad my flesh also shall rest in hope For why thou shalt not leaue my souâe in hell nether shalt thou suffre thy saynte to se corrupcion Thou hast shewed me the wayes off life thou shalt make me full of ioye w t thy countenaunce At thy right hande there is pleasure and ioye for euermore The XVI A psalme of Dauid HEare y e right O LORDE coÌsidre my coÌâplaynte herken vnto my prayer thaâ goeth not out of a fayned mouth Leâ my sentence come forth froÌ thy presence and loke vpon the thinge that is equall Thoâ hast proued visited myne herte in the nighâ season thou hast tried me in the fyre hasâ founde no wickednes in me for I vtterly puââposed that my mouth shulde not offende Because of the wordes of thy lippes I haue kepte me froÌ the workes of men in y e wayâ off the murthurer Oh ordre thou my goynâges in thy pathes that my fote steppes slippe not For vnto the I crie heare me o Godâ enclyne thine eares to me and herkeÌ vnto my wordes Shewe y i maruelous louinge kindnesse thou that sauest them which put their trust in the from soch as resist thy right honde Kepe me as the apple of an eye defende me vnder the shadowe of thy wynges From the vngodly that trouble me fro myne enemies which compasse my soule rounde aboute Which manteyne their owne welthynesse with oppression their mouth speaketh proude thinges They lye waytinge in o r waye on euery syde turnynge their eyes downe to the grounde Like as a lyon that is gredy of his pray as it were a lyons whelpe lurckynge in his denne Vp LORDE dispoynte him cast him downe delyuer my soule with thy swerde from the vngodly FroÌ the men of thy honde o LORDE from the men off the worlde which haue their porcion in this life whose belies thou fyllest with thy treasure They haue children at their desyre and leaue the reste of their substauÌce for their babes But as forme I will beholde thy presence in rightuousnes and when thy glory appeaââ shal be satisfied ãâã XVII A psalme of Dauid when he is delyuered from the honde off Saul ãâ¦ã loue the o LORDE my streÌgth ãâ¦ã The LORDE is my suco r my refuge ãâã my Sauio r my god my helper iÌ whoÌ ãâ¦ã my buckler y e horne of my health my proteccioÌ I wil prayse y e LORDE call vpon him so shal I be safe fro myne enemies The sorowes of death coÌpassed me the brokes of vngodlynes made me afrayed The paynes of hell came aboute me the snares of death toke holde vpoÌ me Yet in my trouble I called vpoÌ the LORDE coÌplayned vnto my God So he herde my voyce out off his holy teÌple my coÌplaynte came before hiÌ yee eueÌ in to his eares TheÌ the earth trembled quaked the very fouÌdacioÌs of the hilles shoke were remoued because he was wrothe There weÌte a smoke out of his nostrels aÌd a coÌsumynge fyre out of his mouth so y e coales were kyndled at it He bowed the heaueÌs came downe it was darcke vnder his fete He rode vpoÌ the Cherubins dyd fle he came flyenge with the wynges of the wynde He made darcknesse his pauylion rounde aboute hiÌ with darcke water thicke cloudes to couer him At the brightnes off his presence the cloudes remoued with hale stones coales of fyre The LORDE also thondred out of y e heaueÌ the heyth gaue his thondre w t hale stones coales of fyre He sent out his arowes scatred theÌ he cast sore lighteninges destroyed theÌ The springes of waters were sene the foundacioÌs of the rouÌde worlde were discouered
at y i chiding o LORDE at the blastinge breth of thy displeasure He sent downe froÌ the heyth to fetch me toke me out of greate waters He delyuered me fro my stronge enemies and fro my foes which were to mightie forme They preuented me in the tyme of my trouble but y e LORDE was my defence He brought me forth also into lyberte delyuered me because he had a fauo r vnto me The LORDE shall rewarde me after my rightuous dealynge acordinge to the cleÌnesse of my hoÌdes shal he recoÌpense me For I haue kepte the wayes of the LORDE haue not behaued myself wickedly agaynst my God I haue an eye vnto all his lawes cast not out his commaundemeÌtes fro me Vncorrupte will I be before hiÌ wil eschue myne owne wickednes Therfore shal y e LORDE rewarde me after my rightuous dealinge acordinge vnto y e cleÌnesse of my hoÌdes in his eye sight With the holy thou shalt be holy w t y e innoceÌt thou shalt be innoceÌt With the clene thou shalt be clene with the frowarde thou shalt be frowarde For thou shalt saue the poore oppressed briÌge downe the hye lokes of the proude Thou lightest my caÌdle o LORDE my God thou makest my darcknesse to be light For in the I can discoÌfit an hoost of meÌ yee in my God I caÌ leape ouer the wall The waye of God is a perfecte waye the wordes of the LORDE are tried in the fyre he is a shylde of defence for all them that trust in him For who is God but the LORDE Or who hath eny strength but oure God It is God that hath gyrded me with streÌgth and made my waye vncorrupte He hath made my fete like hartes fete and set me vp an hye He teacheth myne hondes to fight and maketh myne armes to breake euen a bowe off stele Thou hast geueÌ me the defence of thy health thy right hande vpholdeth me and thy louynge correccion maketh me greate Thou hast made rowme ynough vnder me for to go that my fote steppes shulde not slyde I will folowe vpon myne enemies and take them I will not turne till they be discomfited I will smyte them they shall not be able to stonde but fall vnder my fete Thou hast gyrded me with strength vnto y e batell thou hast throweÌ them all downe vnder me that rose vp agaynst me Thou hast made myne enemies to turne their backes vpon me thou hast destroyed theÌ y t hated me They cried but there was none to helpe theÌ yee euen vnto the LORDE but he herde theÌ not I will beate them as small as the dust before the wynde I will cast them out as y e claye in the stretes Thou shalt delyuer me from the stryuinges of the people thou shalt make me the heade of the HeitheÌ A people whom I haue not knowne shall serue me As soone as they heare of me they shall obeye me but the straunge childreÌ dyssemble with me The straunge children are waxeÌ olde and go haltinge out of their pathes The LORDE lyueth aÌd blessed be my helper praysed be the God of my health EueÌ y e God which seyth that I be auenged and subdueth the people vnto me It is he that delyuereth me fro my cruell enemies thou shalt lift me vp from them that ryse agaynst me thou shalt ryd me from the wicked man For this cause I wil geue thankes vnto y e o LORDE amonge the Gentiles and synge prayses vnto thy name Greate prosperite geueth he vnto his kynge and sheweth louinge kyndnesse vnto Dauid his anoynted yee vnto his sede for euermore The XVIII A psalme of Dauid THe very heaueÌs declare the glory off God aÌd the very firmameÌt sheweth his haÌdye worke One daye telleth another and one night certifieth another There is nether speach ner laÌguage but their voyces are herde amoÌge theÌ Their souÌde is gone out in to all londes and their wordes in to the endes of the worlde In theÌ hath he sett a tabernacle for y e SoÌne which coÌmeth forth as a brydegrome out of his chambre reioyseth as a giaunte to ruÌne his course It goeth forth froÌ the one ende of the heauen and runneth aboute vnto the same ende agayne there maye no maÌ hyde himself froÌ the heate therof The lawe of the LORDE is a perfecte lawe it quickeneth the soule The testimony of y e LORDE is true geueth wisdome euen vnto babes The statutes of the LORDE are right reioyse the herte y e coÌmaundemeÌt of y e LORDE is pure and geueth light vnto the eyes The feare of the LORDE is cleane endureth for euer the iudgmentes of the LORDE are true and rigtuous alltogether More pleasunt are they then golde yee then moch fyne golde sweter then hony the hony combe These thy seruaunt kepeth for kepinge of them there is greate rewarde Who can tell how oft he offendeth Oh cleÌse thou me fro my secrete fautes Kepe thy seruauÌte also from presumptuous synnes lest they get the dominion ouer me so shal I be vndefyled innoceÌt froÌ the greate offence Yee the wordes of my mouth the meditacioÌ of my herte shal be acceptable vnto the o LORDE my helper and my redemer The XIX A psalme of Dauid THe LORDE heare the in the tyme off trouble the name of the God of Iacob defende the. Sende the helpe froÌ the Sanctuary strength y e out of Sion Remembre all thy offerynges and accepte thy brent sacrifice ⪠Sela. Graunte the thy hertes desyre fulfill all thy mynde We will reioyse in thy health triuÌphe in y e name of the LORDE oure God the LORDE perfourme all thy peticioÌs Now knowe I that the LORDE helpeth his anoynted and will heare him froÌ his holy heauen mightie is the helpe of his right hoÌde Some put their trust in charettes some in horses but we wil remeÌbre y e name of the LORDE oure God They are brought downe and fallen but we are rysen and stonde vp right Saue LORDE helpe vs o kynge when we call vpon the. The XX. A psalme of Dauid LORDE how ioyfull is the kynge in y e strength O how exceadinge glad is he of thy sauynge health Thou hast geuen him his hertes desyre hast not put him froÌ the request of his lippes ⪠Sela. For thou hast preueÌted him w t liberall blessinges set a crowne of golde vpon his heade He asked life of the thou gauest him a longe life eueÌ foreuer euer His honoure is greate in thy sauynge health glory and greate worshipe shalt thou laye vpon him For thou shalt geue him euerlastiÌge felicite make him glad w t the ioye of y e couÌtenauÌce And why ⪠because the kinge putteth his trust in the LORDE in the mercy of the most hiest he shal not myscary Let all thine enemies fele
the God off Israel I am stedfastly advysed and determed to punysh you and to rote out all Iuda As for the remnaunt off Iuda that purposly wente in to Egipte there to ease them off their mysery I will take them and they shall all be destroyed In y e londe of Egipte shall they perishe beynge consumed with the swearde and with honger For from y e leest vnto y e most they shal perishe with the swearde and with honger Morouer they shal be reuyled abhorred shamed and confounded For I will viset them that dwell in Egipte as I haue visited Ierusalem with the swearde with honger and with pestilence So that none off the remnaunt off Iuda which are gone to dwell in Egipte shall be left to come agayne in to y e londe off Iuda all though they thynke to come thither agayne and to dwell there For none shal come agayne but soch as are fled awaye Then all the men which knewe that their wyues had offred vnto straunge goddes a greate sorte off wyues that stode there yee and all the people that dwelt there in Egipte in the cite of Patures answerde Ieremy sayde As for the wordes that thou hast spoken vnto vs in the name of the LORDE we will in no wyse heare them but what so euer goeth out of oure owne mouth that wil we do We will do sacrifice and offre oblacions vnto the Quene off heauen like as we and o r forefathers oure kynges and oure heades haue done in the cities off Iuda and in the stretes and feldes of Ierusalem For then had we plenteousnesse off vytales then were we in prosperite and no myszfortune came vpon vs. But sens we left of to offre and to do sacrifice vnto the Quene of heauen we haue had scarcenes of all thinges and perish w t the swearde and honger Last of all when we womeÌ did sacrifice and offred vnto the Quene of heaueÌ did we make her cakes aÌd poure vnto her drink offeringes to do her seruyce without oure huszbondes wylles Then sayde Ieremy vnto all the people to the men to the women and to all the folââ which had geuen him that answere Dyd not the LORDE remembre the sacrifices that ye yo r forefathers youre kiÌges rulers w t all the people haue offred in the cities of Iuda in the stretes and londe off Ierusalem and hath he not considered this in his mynde In so moch that the LORDE might no longer suffre the wickednes off youre inuencions and the abhominable thynges which ye dyd Is not youre londe desolate voyde yee and abhorred so that no maÌ dwelleth therin eny more as it is come to passe this daye Dyd not all this happen vnto you because ye made soch sacrifice and synned agaynst the LORDE Ye haue not folowed his voyce to walke in his lawe in his ordinaunces and statutes Yee this is the cause that all mysfortune happened vnto you as it is come to passe this daye Morouer Ieremy spake vnto all the people and to all the women Heare the worde off the LORDE all Iuda ye that be in the londe off Egipte Thus saieth the LORDE off hoostes the God of Israel Ye and youre wyues haue spoken with youre owne mouth the thinge that ye haue fulfilled in dede Yee thus haue ye sayde We will not fayle but do the thynge that pleaseth vs we wil do sacrifice and poure out drynk offringes to the Quene of heauen Purposly haue ye set vp youre owne good meanynges hastely haue ye fulfilled youre owne intente And therfore heare the worde of the LORDE all Iuda ye that dwell in the londe off Egipte Beholde I haue sworne by my greate name saieth the LORDE that my name shal not be rehearsed thorow eny mans mouth of Iuda in all the londe of Egipte to saye The LORDE God lyueth for I wil watch to plage them and not for their wealth And all the men of Iuda that be in the loÌde of Egipte shal perish with the swearde and with hoÌger vntill they be vtterly destroyed Neuertheles those that fled awaye for y e swearde shal come agayne in to the loÌde of Iuda but there shal be very fewe of them And all the remnaunt off Iuda that are gone in to Egipte there to dwell shall knowe whose wordes shal be founde true theirs or myne Take this for a token that I wil viset you in this place saieth the LORDE and that ye maye knowe how that I without doute wil perfourne my purpose vpon you to punysh you Beholde saieth the LORDE I wil delyuer Pharao Ophram kynge of Egipte in to the hondes of his enemies y t seke after his life euen as I gaue Sedechias the kynge of Iuda in to the hondes of Nabuchodonosor kiÌge of BabiloÌ which sought after his life The XLV Chapter THese are the wordes y t Ieremy the prophet spake vnto Baruch the sonne of Nerias after that he had written these SermoÌs in to a boke at the mouth of Ieremy In the fourth yeare of Ioachim the sonne of Iosias kynge of Iuda Thus saieth the LORDE God of Israel vnto the O Baruch In so moch as thou thoughtest thus when thou wa st writinge Wo is me the LORDE hath geuen me payne for my trauayle I haue weeried my self w t sighinge and shall I fynde no rest Therfore tell him O Ieremy y t the LORDE saieth thus Beholde The thiÌge that I haue buylded wil I breake downe agayne and rote out the thinge that I haue planted yee this whole londe And sekest thou yet promocioÌ Loke not for it and desyre it not For I will bringe a miserable plage vpoÌ all flesh saieth the LORDE But thy life will I geue the for a pray where so euer thou goest The XLVI Chapter HEre folowe the wordes off the LORDE to the prophet Ieremy which he spake vnto the Gentiles These wordes folowinge preached he to the EgipciaÌs concernynge the hoost off Pharao Necho kynge off Egipte when he was in Charcamis besyde the water off Euphrates what tyme as Nabuchodonosor the kynge of Babilon slewe him In the fourth yeare off Ioachim the sonne off Iosias kynge off Iuda Ye make redy buckler and shylde ye go forth to fight Yee harnesse youre horses set youre selues vpon them Ye set youre salettes fast on ye bringe forth speares ye scoure youre sweardes put on youre brest plates But alas how happeneth it that I se you so afrayed why shreÌcke ye backe where fore are youre worthies slayne Yee they runne so fast awaye that none off them loketh behynde him Fearfulnesse is fallen vpon euerychone off them saieth the LORDE The lightest off fote shall not fle awaye and the worthies shall not escape Towarde the north by the water of Euphrates they shall stomble and fall But what is he this that swelleth vp as it were a floude roaringe raginge like the streames