with Samaria disagree And water askest thou of me Then Iesus said oh woman see If thou the gift of God didst know And who it is that asketh thee Thou woldest not then seeme so slow To aske of him for he can giue Water of life if thou beleeue The woman said the well is deepe And thou hast nought to draw withall Where doest thou then thy water keepe Or doest of me for water call This well our father Iacob gaue Whose name in reu'rence here we haue Art thou greater then Iacob was He dranke of it and so did then His children in this very place His cattell and his houshold men But Iesus said who so doth drinke Of this will thirst thou so must thinke The water I giue who drinke will Thirsteth no more while he doth liue It shall in him be springing still To euerlasting life this giue That I thirst not oh sir said she Nor to draw here more driuen be Then Iesus said thy husband call And come againe with him to me Husband I haue now none at all To Iesus then thus answered she Thou hast well said thou hast had fiue This is not thine that is aliue Thou art a Prophet I do see Our fathers worshipt in this mount But now Ierusalem say ye To worship in men most account The houre is come now shines the light Yet here nor there ye worship right Ye worship that ye do not know We worship that we know and see Saluation is I say to you Come of the Iewes and now said he In truth and spirite men haue need The father to adore in deed God is a spirite and they must In spirite and in truth withall Worship him that in him trust And on his name for mercy call Messiah comes said she againe And he will teach vs all things plaine He said to her lo I am hee And his Disciples came with that When Christ so talke with her they see They all did maruaile much thereat They of their meate did offer make But he as then no meat would take His meat was to accomplish then His fathers will and worke to end The haruest is among all men Most ripe where to God did you send The reaper wages shall receiue And sower ioy thereof perceiue Herein the prouerbe true is found That one doth sow another reape You reape where other tild the ground Their labours all on you I heape The woman all this while was gone And left Christ there though not alone She went into the Citie then Come see said she one that told me All I haue done and straight the men Went out our Sauiour Christ to see Whom when they saw they did beleeue For wordes that she to them did giue When the Samaritanes were come They prayed him to tarie there And he abode as saith some Two dayes with them and they with feare When they had heard and seene also His wordes and workes beleeued tho Then said they to the woman we Do now beleeue not for thy sake But for the wordes and workes we see For Christ the Sauiour we him take So two dayes after thence he went To Galilie for so he ment Christ passing from Samaria to Galilie turned aside to Nazareth where he preached on the Sabboth day c. When from Samaria he was gone To Nazareth he tooke his way Christ knew what best was to be done No time he would at all delay About his fathers worke he went In which his time he wholy spent Then to their Sinagogue to preach Vpon the Sabboth day he came Esayas booke they did him reach That he might reade vpon the same Whereout he taught them what he was What he should teach and bring to passe Christ reproueth the ingratitude of his countreymen affirming that a Prophet is esteemed least in his owne countrey His doctrine so astonied some That they did wonder at his words Whence doth say they this wisedome come Or who to him these works affoords Is not that Iosephes sonne we pray The Carpenter we heard this day His mother Marie we do call His brethren be they not with vs As men amazed were they all To heare him so that text discusse Saue in his countrey then said he A Prophet sure shall honor'd be Wherefore he said to them againe When famine plagued Israell And they for three yeares wanted rayne And moneths six as stories tell Eliah then was sent to none Saue in Sarepta vnto one Oh Israëll thy leprosie Was great in Eliseus time Yet none could find a remedie But Naaman was cur'de by him When they heard this it grieu'd them sore And they deuisde his death therefore So rising they out thrust him all And lead him on that verie hill Where they might geue him such a fall As might haue pleasde their wicked will He freely yet from them did go Escaping for all they could do Christ went from Nazareth to Cana in Galilie where he restored the rulers sonne to health the noble man and all his houshold beleeued To Cana Christ from Naz'reth came The Galileans him receiu'd And ioyfully they did the same His Godhead there was well perceiu'd Of water wine he made before Now one to life he did restore A ruler that thereby did dwell At Capernaum had a sonne Sore sicke when he of Christ heard tell And what he eu'ry where had donne He came to Christ and him did pray To go with him without delay His sonne was ready now to dye Therefore he made the greater hast Your vnbeliefe assuredly Doth make you many wordes to wast But go thy way thy sonne doth liue He went and did Christs word beleeue And as he iourneyd by the way He heard his sonne recouered And by accompt that houre and day That Iesus health had promised So he and his beleeued all Christ when he will can thus men call Christ hearing of Iohns imprisonmēt went to Capernaū after he called sundry of his Apostles preached the Gospell in Galilie and healed the diseased When Iohn was then imprisoned Or much about that tyme I say Christ went and he inhabited Capernaum and there did stay The sea of Zabulon was nye And Nepthalim assuredly Esayas Prophecid before That there the Gentiles should haue light Whose darknesse still increased more Vntill of Christ they had a sight Who doth vnto all that beleeue Eternall life most freely giue Christ passing throughout Galilie As he did walke by the sea side Apostles called verely Of such men as did there abide Poore fisher men without respect By whom he would his works effect With whom about from place to place Throughout all Galilie he went Heaping on his all gifts of grace And teaching them with like intent He made those foolish weaklings rise For to confound the worldly wise And as he past continually He euery where did dayly teach Their Synagogues to openly He went the Gospell for to preach Amend
brought the lame the blind The deaffe the dumbe and maymed sort These had as they did hope to find Their former health to their comfort So that the people did reioyce And praysed God with heart and voyce Which caused Christ to pitie these As he before had done also When in the desert to their ease He fed fiue thousand men and mo This did he that they might perceaue That Christ would not his chosen leaue Wherefore he fed now once againe Foure thousand men sure at the least Neare Galilie on that mountaine Where he had healed all the rest With seu'n loaues and few fishes small Christ Iesus fed those men withall The Pharisies and Saduces tempted Christ and desired him to shew them a signe To Magdala when this was done By ship our Sauiour did sayle To whom the Saducees did soone And Pharisies without all fayle Resort which faine a figne would see From heau'n aboue if it would be They could discerne the outward face And each appearance in the skie These hypocrites had yet no grace But needs they would Christ Iesus trie Those that by tempting Christ assayle Do most in all their fetches fayle For those no figne at all could haue But that of Ionas which we reade That lay three dayes as in a graue Within a whale as he were dead The sonne of man shall euen so Lye in the graue and rise therefro Christ commanded his Disciples to beware of the leauen of the Pharisies They thence went to the other side But had forgot to buy them bread So farre mens fancies wander wide When they do stray from Christ their head These minded not that Iesus could Prouide them meate when that he would Christ warning them to shunne alway The leauen of the Pharisie Made them conceiue this doth he say Sith we forgot some bread to buy They neuer thought how he had fed Foure thousand men with litle bread This leauen of the Pharisie The Saducees and Herod to Then his disciples warned he They should in any wise forgo False teachers and their doctrine flee For they mens soules do slay yee see Christ healed a blind man in Bethsayda Then Iesus to Bethsayda came Where they vnto him brought one blind Desiring him to heale the same For other helpe they could not finde Out of the towne the blind led he Where afterward he made him see Christ Iesus spat his eyes into And put his hands vpon him then And said now tell it if thou do See any thing among these men I see them walke as trees said he Though perfectly I cannot see Christ put his hands on him againe And bad him looke then all about He looked and saw each thing plaine He stood of nothing then in doubt Go home said Christ sith thou art well Of this in towne to no man tell Peter in the name of all the Apostles confessed Christ to be the sonne of the liuing God to which confession Christ answered and in his name promised vnto them all the keyes of the kingdome of heauen When to Caesarea Iesus came Called Philippi as we reade Of his disciples then what fame He askt of him abroad was spread The sonne of man I am said he What do men say therefore of me Iohn Baptist some name thee they say Elias some do thee suppose Or Ieremias or some way That of the Prophets one of those That in the elder times haue beene Is rise againe and of them seene But whom say ye said Christ againe That I the sonne of man should be Then Simon Peter said certaine The sonne of God we knowledge thee Then Christ said Simon verely Blessed thou art and worst thou why To mens opinions subiect I Most willingly my selfe do giue Yet mine do know me perfectly And as they know do so beleeue This knowledge thou couldst neuer haue Of flesh and bloud but God it gaue O Peter this confession The ground worke of my Church shall be For vpon that foundation I meane to build a Church for me The gates of hell shall not preuaile Against the same but still shall fayle To you of heau'n I giue the key That is the preaching of my word All men that will not it obey Against all such draw out this sword What so in earth ye loose or bind The like in heau'n the same shall find Then charged he that they should tell As then to no man what he were Eâ—â— Christ we learne to know full well We may not preach him without feare For though no more but man we see Yet must we know him God to be Christ taught the faithfull to beare his Crosse and rebuked Peter for disswading his death From that time forth Iesus began To shew that he himselfe must go Vnto Ierusalem for man To suffer and abide much wo The elders Priests and Scribes had plaine Deuised all to haue him slaine And though he told them this before The third day I will rise againe Yet Peter thought it wisedome more To keepe him thence to shunne the paine And therefore he tooke him aside But Christ would not his words abide So he that late reueal'd by God Did know and knowledge Christ his sonne Doth straightway here deserue a rod Not knowing yet what he had donne When selfe-will casts Gods word behind Our weaknesse then we quickly find Here Peter doth presume to teach His master Christ himselfe to saue Christ him of follie did appeach And so a sore rebuke him gaue Oh Sathan come said he behind On earth not heau'n thou set'st thy mind The faithfull must beare the Crosse Then Iesus said to them againe If any man will follow me He must forsake himselfe at vaine And beare my Crosse though vext he be If his afflictions shall be sore Yet in the same I go before Who so would liue still lothing paine And yet doth seeke his life to saue Doth loose his labour this is plaine Life without me he cannot haue He that for my sake yeelds to dye Shall saue his life eternally What profit shall that man obtaine That winnes the world his soule to loose When he hath reckned all his gaine Most vaine it is that he doth choose For he that will not for me dye Shall dye a death perpetually For sure the sonne of man he shall In glorie of his father deare The Angels him attending all In iudgement here againe appeare And then according to his deed Shall eu'ry man be sure to speed Yet truly vnto you I say That some of them which here do stand Shall not by death be fetcht away Vntill the time be neare at hand That in his kingdome they do see The sonne of man so come to be Christ was transfigured on mount Thabor in the presence of Peter Iames and Iohn talked with Moses and Elyas Saint Mathew after sixe daies said That Iesus was transfigured The order of it made affraid All such as saw what happened For
loue In them you dye departing hence Except your faith vnfained be And ye beleeue that I am he Who art thou then said they againe The same said he I told before And many things of you remaine To say and iudge that grieue me sore Yet true is he that sent me here Whose words to speake I do not feare They vnderstood not he spoke this To them as of the father then When ye lift vp the sonne iwis Then shall I be well knowne to men That of my selfe I do nor say But as my father makes the way For he that sent me is with me The father left me not alone My doings all directeth he Him please I and we both are one As he spake these things many were That then beleeued on him there Christ said to those that did beleeue In my word if ye do abide Ye my Disciples are I giue You knowledge of the truth beside And the same truth shall make you free That are so ioynd in league with me They said we be of Abrahms seed And neuer yet to any bound Why sayst thou then ye shall be freed As we had bene in slau'rie found I say said he who so doth sinne Sinnes seruant is it wraps him in Of freedome or the difference betweene the sonne and the seruant The seruant doth but soiourne here The sonne doth in the house abide They that the sonne shall free are cleare And shall be free at eu'ry tide I know ye are of Abrahms seede Ye seeke to kill me yet in deede And why in you can take no place My words I speake that I haue seene With my father you voyde of grace With your father to long haue beene Ye follow him the deuill I say And therefore seeke ye me to slay Abrah'm said they our father is Christ said if ye his children were Ye would his works then do not this Ye would to kill me stand in feare This did not Abraham sure I haue Told you the truth which God me gaue Your fathers works you do in deed They said of fornication We were not borne we are Gods seed And other father haue we none If God were he ye would loue me For I came forth from God said he I came not of my selfe but sent My talke why do you not perceiue Because my word with good intent Ye do not heare nor yet receiue The deu'll your father is whose lust You do and in him onely trust A murtherer he euer was And did the truth most deadly hate For lyes all other he doth passe This is your fathers dreadfull state Because I tell the truth said he Ye wickedly beleeue not me Who can of sinne rebuke me here The truth why do ye not beleeue He heareth Gods word with much feare That is of God and so doth liue Ye heare it not therefore said he Because of God none of you be The Iewes then answering said againe Samaritan deuill thou hast I haue no deuill I tell you plaine My father whom away ye cast I honour ye dishonour me Which your decay no doubt will be And I seeke not so much my prayse But there is one that seeks the same And iudgeth you and all your wayes Whose iudgement you may neuer blame The man that keeps my word I say Shall see no death nor dying day A deu'll we know thou hast in deed For Abraham is dead and gone So did the Prophets likewise speed And yet thou sayst there shall not one That keeps thy word death tast or see But from his dart thou keepst him free Then Abraham which now is dead And all the Prophets dead also Whose fame so farre abroad was spread Art thou greater then they or no Whom makest thou thy selfe to be Tell vs that we may honour thee Iesus said if I honour me My honour is nought worth at all My father doth the same said he Which you your God in vaine do call Ye know him not but him know I If I said no then should I lye I know him and his word I keepe Your father Abrahm did reioyce To see before he fell on sleepe My day and so to heare my voyce He saw it and thereof was glad Ye want the grace your father had Thou art not old yet fiftie yeare Hast thou our father Abrahm seene Though this so strange to you appeare Before he was I sure haue beene They tooke vp stones to stone him then But Iesus hid him from those men Christ gaue sight to one that was borne blind And as Christ Iesus passed by When he out of the Temple went Where then the Iewes most cruelly To stone our Sauiour Christ had ment He saw a blind man by the way That had bene blind from his birth day And his Disciples asked thus Oh master who did sinne we pray He or his parents tell it vs That he is blind what doest thou say Then Iesus said nor they nor he But that all men Gods works might see His works I must worke that sent me While it is day the night comes on I am the light while here I be When I go hence the light is gone And so he spat and made the clay Which curde his blindnesse cleane that day Then Christ said go in Siloam wash Lo I haue sent thee so to do Which when he did his eyes as glasse Were made as cleare and seeing to The neighbours that knew him before To see him see did wonder sore Some said and thought that it was he Some other thought him like the same But he confest himselfe to be Borne blind and spread Christ Iesus fame For whom said he you Iesus call Hath made me see as you see all They said how op'ned he thine eyes Mine eyes he did annoint with clay And then he said to me arise Go wash the same from thee away I washt and then receiued sight Which neuer saw before the light Where Christ was then he could not tell They brought him to the Pharisies Though Christ had done but all things well In opening the blind mans eyes They chaft that Christ should worke the clay To heale him on the Sabboth day The Pharisees askt him the same He answer'd as he did before From God said they he neuer came That makes not of the Sabboth more Some said how can he sinfull be That workes such workes as we do see Then asked they the blinde againe Tell vs of him what doest thou say He said he is a Prophet plaine That wrought this worke on me this day They scarse beleeu'd he had beene blind Till they had knowne his parents mind Of them his parents were afraid Because they had decreed so Who so confessed Christ they said Out of their Sinagogue should go Our sonne he is borne blinde he was Let him tell how this came to passe Then called they the blind againe And said to God the glory giue He is a sinner this is plaine Though he thy griefe did
he is come he will reproue The world of sinne because men do Distrust in me whom thy should loue Of righteousnesse because I go To my father from hence away You shall see me no more I say Of iudgement shall the world likewise Reproued be by him as then Because their Prince then iudged is And righteousnesse restor'd to men For Sathans empire hath a fall And Gods annointed ruleth all I haue yet many things to say But ye cannot them now well beare The comforter will not delay To tell you all things do not feare He shall shew you mine verily And so he shall me glorifie A litle while and surely ye Sall not see me and yet againe After a while ye shall see me For I go where I must remaine But they had not as then the reach For to perceiue what Christ did teach Therefore he sayd to them againe Assuredly to you I say You shall weepe and be full of paine Yet shall the world reioyce that day Though sorow do you much annoy Your sorow shall be turn'd to ioy A woman when she trauaileth Hath sorow that her houre is nye As soone as she deliuereth Her child then she immediatly Her anguish doth not thinke vpon For ioy of him her paine is gone So now ye sorow at the heart But I will see you sure againe Though for a time I do depart Ile come to ease you of your paine And then your ioy shall be so great As you may neuer it forget Ye shall aske nothing then of me But of my father in my name And what ye aske shall giuen be Be most assured of the same In my name ye askt nothing yet Aske ye shall haue nothing shall let In Parables these things I spake But sure the time will come when I A plainer speach to you shall make And preach the father openly What in my name ye aske that he Will giue because ye loued me For from the father out I came Into the world and out againe I do depart and leaue the same And go to him thereto remaine Thou speakest now so plaine we see That no man more needs aske of thee Now we beleeue thou cam'st from God The houre is come then Iesus sayd Ye shall tast of a bitter rod And scattred be be not affrayd From me though you be fled and gone The father leaues me not alone These things I speake to comfort you And that in me you might haue peace For in the world assured now Afflictions for you do increase B◠of good comfort verily The world now ouercome haue I. The prayer of Christ vnto the father for his elect After that Christ had preached long To his Disciples of the crosse He mingled comforts all among Lest they dispayr'd for such a losse He prayed God them to protect And this his doctrine to effect And Iesus lift his eyes on hye And sayd the houre ô father deare Is come thy sonne then glorifie That so thy glorie may appeare As thou him power gau'st of all So he gaue his life eternall And this is sure eternall life That they the onely God know thee And whom thou has◠sent without strife Acknowledge Iesus Christ to be The worke thou gauest me to do I to thy glorie finish'd to Now glorifie thou me againe With thine owne selfe ô father deare As when I did with thee remaine Ere heau'n and earth did first appeare Thy name to those declared I Thou gauest me accordingly They kept thy word and know withall That all I haue are come of thee They did obay when I did call Beleeuing that thou hast sent me For those thou gauest me alway For them not for the world I pray As they and else all mine are thine And I in them am glorified So thine vndoubtedly are mine Thou hast thy sonne so fauored I in the world am now no more But they are as they were before O father keepe them in thy name Those that thou hast so giuen me As one in deed we both became That so they may for euer be I kept them safe I lost not one Saue that child of perdition I speake these things and come to thee That they in them might haue my ioy Thy word is giuen them of me Yet will the world much them annoy It hates them for both they and I Are not of this world verily Out of the world I do not pray That thou shouldst take them by and by But that from euill night and day Thou keepe and giue them victory In all their combats when they craue Thy helpe ô father let them haue They are not of this world nor I Thy word it is the truth in deed Therewith do thou them sanctifie And helpe them father at all need As to the world thou didst send me So these of me sent likewise be And for their sakes I sanctifie My selfe that through the truth they may Be sanctified assuredly For them I do not onely pray But for them also which affoord Firme faith in me Lord through thy word That they all may be one as thou O father art in me and I In thee was and am present now So they may all be verily Made one in vs that the world may Beleeue thou hast sent me this day The glory that thou gauest me I gaue them that they may be one As we are one that they might be Knowne the Disciples of thy sonne And that as me thou louest those Whom so out of this world I chose I will ô father that they be With me where euer that I am That there the glory they may see Which thou hast giuen to my name Thou louedst me ere thou began To make this world and create man The world ô father knowes not thee But I haue knowne thee and so these Haue knowne in deed that thou sentst me Thy name to them whom thou doest please I will declare thereby to moue There may in them be perfect loue The Passion of our Sauiour Iesus Christ and first of his prayers in mount Oliuet where he sweat drops of bloud and an Angell came and comforted him When Iesus these things spoken had Ouer brooke Cedron then he went With his Disciples who were sad When they perceiued what he ment Some Gethsemane do name the place This garden in mount Oliues was And Iudas which did him betray Did likewise know the place full well And knew that Christ would walke that way As then most truly it befell For thither oft to their comfort With his Christ vsed to resort When he was come into the place He chose of his Disciples three To watch and pray with him a space To whom he sayd go ye with me And so he went aside to pray And left the rest behind to stay And these were Peter Iames and Iohn That he tooke then with him apart They so with sleepe were ouer gone That they perciu'd not all his smart These on
more about this speed Christ went thence to Ierusalem to the feast of the passeouer and there droue the buyers and sellers out of the Temple From Capernaum Christ did go Vp to Ierusalem for he As other alwayes vsed so Not sayling at that feast to be The passeouer was then at hand A feast obserued through the land When Christ came there as he did vse Into the Temple then he went Where he reprouing their abuse All such out of the Temple sent As did therein then buy or sell And told them plaine they did not well A whip of cordes Christ Iesus made Wherewith both oxen sheepe and men He droue out he low'd there no trade No not money strangers then Those thence he forst to packe away And suffred none of them to stay Such as sold doues they had a check He did command them quickly thence Perforce they must obey his beck He not regardes their ware or pence But said my fathers house make ye No house of marchandise to be They were amazed all at this Yet none of them durst disobay Resist or say thou doest amisse They yeelded all and went away But his Disciples thought in mind This zeale God ioyes in him to find When this was donne the Iewes began To question with him thus againe What signe shew'st thou oh sonne of man That thou doest this declare it plaine Destroy this Temple in three dayes The same againe I will vp raise The Temple-sixe and thirtie yeares In building was thus answer they This vnto vs no truth appeares That did thy wordes and workes obey They meant the Church of lyme and stone Christ meant his body flesh and bone When he was risen from the dead Then his Disciples cal'de to mind What he foretold and how he spread A truth in him they still did find The ground of their beliefe they make The Scripture and the word he spake While he did at that feast remaine Many beleeued in his name They saw his workes they were not vaine His wonders wanted not their fame He gaue to them no credit then For he knew well that vaine were men Christ instructeth Nicodemus in the regeneration by water and the holy Ghost There was a man a Pharisie A ruler one of chiefest fame Nam'd Nicodemus verely This man by night to Iesus came He had a minde for to amend Yet men he feared to offend Master he said we know thou art A teacher come from God aboue Such signes and workes none can impart But such a one as God doth loue Those miracles that he had donne Approued him to be Gods sonne Said Iesus I do say to thee Except a man be borne againe Of water and the spirite he Shall not Gods kingdome sure obtaine Can this be true as thou hast told May man be borne that once is old Assuredly except a man Be borne as I haue said to thee Heauen be neuer enter can Gods kingdome he shall neuer see Of flesh but flesh is borne ywis The spirite yeeldes that spirite is Thou know'st not whence commeth the wind Whose going in and out to thee Though by thine eare the sound thou find The seate thereof thou doest not see Who of the spirite is borne heare Is so though strange it doth appeare Nicodemus said how can these things be A teacher greater things should know I testifie that I haue seene When earthly things to thee I show If dull and faithlesse thou hast bene What wilt thou be when I declare Of heau'nly things and what they are No man ascendeth vp aboue But he that did descend from thence The sonne of man whom God doth loue And is in heau'n in his presence He must be lift as by Moses The Serpent was in wildernesse That who so doth in him beleeue Eternall life the same may haue For God his onely sonne did giue The faithfull from hell fire to saue The world to saue Gods sonne was sent It to condemne God was not bent Condemned shall he neuer be That doth beleeue in him the same Condemned is already he Whose faith is not firme in his name The light is come yet darknesse more Do worldly men loue then before The euill euer hate the light By it their deeds reproued are He loues the truth that with his might His deedes by day seekes to declare Oh Nicodemus all I say A faithfull heart must beare away Christ returning into Iudea preached the Gospell and Baptised the people by his Disciples neare Iohn of purifying a question did then arise After this donne came Christ againe With his Disciples as we reade Into Iudea this is plaine Where he Baptising taried Iohn did Baptise in Enon by And ply'de his office carefully Of water there they had great store And Iohn was not in prison cast But as the number waxed more Of Disciples strife grew as fast The Iewes and Iohns Disciples craue Of purifying the truth to haue Iohns testimonie againe of Iesus They also came to Iohn and said Most men to Christ Baptising go Iohn bad them be no whit dismayd From heau'n it is appointed so Ye know I said I am not he Christ must increase as you do see He that is come from God on hye Doth testifie what he hath seene He that receiues it verely Doth seale how true our God hath beene Whom God sent speakes Gods word Iohn saith And plenteously Gods spirite hath The Father lou'd the sonne and gaue All things he had into his hand He that beleeues in him shall haue Eternall life this vnderstand They dead are that him disobay The wrath of God all such will slay Iesus to auoyde danger departed out of Iudea into Galilie When he that knew of all things well Perceiued by relation Or of himselfe for he could tell His enemies intention How that the Pharisies did heare That he was famous eu'ry wheare And that he made Disciples more And more Baptised then likewise Then Iohn that had gone him before Marke ye now well Christ Iesus guise He did his office earnestly Yet voyded danger warily Christ passing through Samaria towardes Galilie conferred with a woman at the well of Sichar and conuerted many Samaritanes Christ leauing Iurie did depart And went againe to Galilie He knew what loue or hate in heart Men bare him hidden outwardly Christ through Samaria needs would go He had himselfe decreed so What workes for him did there abide To bring the Gentiles to the light He did foreknow and then did guide His companie to Siâ—har right Neare to the place that Iacob gaue Where Ioseph should possession haue And there on faithfull Iacobs well Christ Iesus sate about midday A woman that thereby did dwell For water came while he did stay But his Disciples they were gone Into the Citie eu'ry one Then to the woman Iesus said For me to drinke some water giue So she againe then vndelayd Said thou a Iew art I beleeue Iewes
Deuided so in any land If Sathan cast out Sathan sure Or I by Beelzebub do so His kingdome cannot long endure One thing I aske you and no mo By whom do your sonnes cast them out They shall you iudge in this no doubt If through God cast out the same Then is his kingdome come this day If one man to a strong man came To spoile his house and runne away Can he his purpose bring to passe Ere he be bound that owner was But I by force gaue him the foyle Whose helpe you say I daily vse The more for you that I do toyle The more you still do me abuse He that on my side is not he Against me fully sure must be Blasphemie Each sinne and so each blasphemy Shall be forgiuen men I say If they repent it hartely And for remission do pray Except against the holy Ghost Of all this sinne offendeth most The sinne against the sonne of man Which oftentimes doth hap and chance Both francke and free remit I can For it may come of ignorance The works Gods spirit works are such That they cannot be hidden much Take heed ye do not then offend Or sinne against the holy Ghost God will not sure world without end Forgiue that sinne he hates it most The tree and fruit make good I say Or make both â—it to cast away As by the fruit we know the tree So by your wordes ye knowen are Oh vipers you that euill be Your speaches do your workes declare The hart it storeth good or ill Whereof the mouth doth sauour still Both good men and the euill show What treasure they haue hid in hart At the last iudgement you shall know How well or ill you plaide your part Vaine talke who so doth here affoord Shall answer for each idle word Christ denied the Iewes any signe sauing onely the signe of Ionas The Scribes and Pharisies withall Came tempting Christ and sought a signe As if on sight thereof they all From former faults would then decline But Christ that knew the inward mind With words they could not so make blind Christ answered and said againe Thou wicked generation Adulterous and very vaine Though signes thou doest depend vpon No signe shall geuen be to thee But that of Ionas thou shalt see As three dayes and three nights he was Within the whale all couered So shortly it will come to passe I shall in earth be buried Three dayes and three nights verely In graue the sonne of man shall lye Christ argued the Iewes of impenitencie The men of Niniuie shall rise With these and shall condemne them to They Ionas words did not despise But did repent as you should do One greater then Ionas is here Yet small repentance doth appeare The Queene of Saba she shall rise In Iudgement with these men also And them she shall condemne likewise That so farre from her home would go To heare king Salomon I say His greater yet you heare this day Christ prnounced an heauie sentence against such as reuolt from the truth receiued They which are once deliuered From vncleane spirits free and well Are after iustly punished If in them they againe do dwell Their last end sure farre worse shalbe Then was the first take this of me The vncleane spirit places dry Doth walke throughout seeking a rest Where faith where hope where charitie Is setled sure within mans brest It is so dried with Gods grace That deuils haue there no resting place Then he returneth home againe Into the house from whence he went For all this while he walkt in vaine And missed still of his intent This house he findeth swept within Cleane voide of vertue deckt with sinne Then taketh he seauen spirits more As ill as he in euery thing And dwels where he did dwell before His end is worse then beginning So shall it with this people be They mend not for all that they see This spirit is the deuill indeed His house is man where he doth dwell The drie place where he cannot speed Mans heart it is heat by God well With godly zeale and hate of sinne He rests not there though he come in Christ shewed who his mother sisters and brethren are While Christ spake to the company His mother and his brethren were Without desiring earnestly To talke with him as may appeare Then one of them that was there came And told our sauiour of the same But he preferring farre before The worke that he then had in hand Encreasing daily more and more He said to such as there did stand My mother and brethren be they That do my doctrine still obey My mother whom I loue so well My brethren whom I like also Are these and they marke what I tell For brother and sister shall go My friends they are who so do still Performe and keepe my fathers will The state of the kingdome of God set forth by seauen parables and first of the seed By parables Christ taught men plaine The state nature and worthinesse Of Gods word he did not disdaine To shew alwaies his readinesse His chosen in all things he may To helpe and winne them eu'ry way Christ though of late he had bene let And interrupted by his friends His office he did not forget For their great fault he made amends To the sea side from thence he went To preach againe with like intent And the same place was the sea side That by Genezaret doth lie Where he sat downe for to abide But preased on with company He tooke a ship wherein he sate And taught them as he had done late The people standing on the shore With diligence did giue him eare The multitude encreasing more The more of him did stand in feare Whose words and workes they all did see In eu'ry thing so well agree Behold said Christ a sower went To sowe his seed but some seed fell Farre otherwise then he had meant By the way side which could not well Yeeld fruite the fowle without delay Deuour'd them all so cleane away Some fell on stonie ground also Where they of earth had little store They sprung the rather there but lo The sunne rose vp and parcht them sore And so for lack of roote I say Anon they witherd all away Among the thornes some other fell Which springing vp were choakt withall Some fell in good ground and did well The same brought fruite where they did fall One corne an hundreth fold or moe Some sixtie some thirty also He that hath eares to heare may heare For herein the condition Of Gods word may to thee appeare The rule of thy saluation Three sorts decayed all you see The fourth yeelds onely fruite to me Then his disciples askt him why By parables he taught them then To you said Christ this verely Giu'n is to know not to those men The secrets of Gods kingdome ye Shall learne and know alwaies of me To you that haue
more will I giue That you may haue abundance still He that hath not although he greeue Shall loose all that against his will For seeing they shall neither see Nor hearing heare as you heare me This Prophesie Esayas spake Which now in them fulfilled is I will this people surely make By hearing so to heare iwis That they shall not yet vnderstand Nor thinke on that which is at hand This peoples heart is waxen fat Their eares of hearing deaffe and dull They with their eyes haue winked at The truth least they should see it full Heare and perceiue it as yee doe And turne that I might heale them to But blessed are your eyes they see Your eares also do heare the same All you thereto appointed be For you and such I surely came The rest of sinne are very full And shall remaine both blind and dull Christ interpreted to his disciples the parable of the seed This Parable heare yee therefore When that a man Gods word doth heare And vnderstands thereof no more Then ere he heard it may appeare The deuill did catch the word away That seed by the way side it lay He that had seed in stonie ground Did heare the word and that with ioy Yet had no roote he was not sound He dured not for eu'ry toy When trouble for the word shall be Offended very soone is he He that receiueth seed also Among the thornes are they that heare The word of God yet go it fro For worldly cares in them appeare Deceitfulnesse of riches make Gods word in them no place can rake But he that doth receiue the seed In the good ground is euen he That heares the word and doth indeed Gods word perceiue it for to be This beareth fruite an hundreth fold Some sixtie some thirtie be bold The second parable of the good seed and of the tares declaring likewise the state and condition of Gods word Another parable Christ spake The kingdom of heau'n is I say Much like one that good seed did take And sowed it and went away But while men slept the enemy Did sowe tares there immediatly And when the blade sprung vp in sight And brought forth fruite then did appeare The tares that he had fowne by night The seruants seeing said with feare Didst not thou Maister sowe good seed Whence commeth then this filthie weede He said the enuious man it is That hath done this the seruants say Wilt thou that we go gather this And plucke it vp to cast away Nay while about the tares ye go Lest ye plucke vp the wheate also Let both grow till the haruest come Then will I to the reapers say The tares now gather to one roome And binde them in the fire to lay My wheate see yee that reapers are It be brought to my barne with care This parable declareth well The state and the condition Of Gods word writ in the Gospell The doctrine of saluation The housholder soweth the seeed The deu'll sowes tares and other weed The 3. parable of the mustard seed wherein is set foorth the nature of Gods word Another parable againe Christ put forth to them saying this Gods kingdome like vnto a graine Of mustard seed assured is Which man doth sow within his field That it some fruit to him may yeeld This seed of seedes is least of all Of hearbes it growes the greatest one And is a tree though not so tall Yet birds may breed his branch vpon The nature of Gods word iwis Is very well comparde to this For though this seed is very small And subiect to contempt therefore Yet it of hearbes growes great'st of all And birds therein do breed some store Gods word at first seemes so I say Yet groweth great each day by day And sharpe in tast is mustard seed Yet heateth man though bitingly So is Gods word in very deed Sharpe to the minde yet soule healthy Of him that takes of this a graine It sharply heateth eu'ry vaine The fourth parable of the leauen declaring also thereby the nature of Gods word A parable then like the last Iesus put forth to them againe To proue the nature force and tast That in Gods word doth sure remaine It is like leauen laide in meale That leaueneth it eu'ry deale As little leauen leaueth not Till it haue leauened the meale So Gods word searcheth eu'ry knot Or vaine in man his sores to heale The one makes bread tast well in deed The other man which most hath need In parables spake Iesus then Vnto the people that were there He would not speake vnto those men This otherwise as may appeare That it might be fulfilled so Which Dauid spake so long ago My mouth I will open saith he In parables and shew to man The things that now so hidden be And haue bene since the world began Then Iesus sent the men away For there he made no longer stay Christ went into the house where he declared to his Disciples desiring it the meaning of the two parables of the tares When Christ into the house was come Then his Disciples to him say Declare to vs the very summe And certaine meaning we thee pray Of the same tares so in the field We can no reason of them yeeld Then Christ did answer them againe He that there sowed the good seed It was the sonne of man certaine The field it is the world in deed The good seed are Gods children sure The tares the wicked and vnpure The enemie the deuill it is The haruest of the world is end The Angels are reapers iwis Which to his haruest God will send And as the tares are burnt in deed The wicked so in hell shall speed The sonne of man then forth shall send His Angels for to gather all That in his kingdome do offend And still from sinne to sinne do fall These to hell fire shall be cast tho Where they shall gnash their teeth for wo. Then shall the iust men shining be As is the Sunne in greatest light In the kingdome of heau'n said he Abiding in their fathers sight See ye these words receiue in feare With humble heart and open eare The fift parable of the treasure hid in the field declareth the worthinesse of Gods word While Christ did in the house remaine As he had done by the sea side He spake in parables againe To such as did with him abide The worthinesse declared he And of what price Gods word should be Like treasure hid within a field Gods kingdome is which when one found In hope it would much profit yeeld He hid the same within the ground For ioy and hope such wealth to wield That man sold all to buy that field The sixt parable of the pearles declaring as before the worthinesse of Gods word Againe he said Gods kingdome is Like to a warie marchant man That sought pearles and found one of price To buy the which this marchant can
that paine Striue not so for that meate said he Striue for the meate I shall giue thee Then said they all what shall we do That worke the works of God we might Christ Iesus answered thereto And taught them how to do it right The worke of God with good intent Is to beleeue in whom he sent Shew vs some signe that we may see And so beleeue in thee they say Our fathers Manna had to be Their meate in the desert alway God gaue them bread from heau'n to eat And it was long our fathers meat And Iesus then said verely Not Moses but my father he Doth giue to you assuredly True bread from heau'n beleeue yee me The bread of God came downe I say And to the world giues life alway Then they againe to Iesus said Giue vs this bread Lord euermore The bread of life be not affraid I am he shall not hunger sore Nor thirst that doth beleeue in me So do not you for all you see They come to me whom God doth giue And them I do not cast away I loose not one that doth beleeue But raise him vp at the last day My fathers will not mine to do I came from heau'n this earth vnto The Iewes did murmure he said so I am the bread that downe did come What is this Iosephs sonne or no Is not he knowne to vs said some No man can come be sure said he But whom the father drawes to me Whom God hath taught come vnto me Not that the father sure hath bene Of any one saue onely he Which is of God said Iesus seene To him that doth in me beleeue Life euerlasting I do giue I am the bread of life in deed Your fathers Manna long did eate Yet are they dead so shall not speed Such as feed on this heau'nly meate My flesh it is the bread I giue Which is life to all that beleeue How can this man giue vs to eate His flesh say they can it so be My flesh except it be your meate Add that ye drinke my bloud said he Eternall life I say againe Doth not at all in you remaine Who so doth eate my flesh I say And drinkes my bloud hath life in deed Him I will raise at the last day But so shall not the wicked speed My flesh and bloud is faithfully Both meate and drinke assuredly He that doth eate my flesh is he And he that drinkes my bloud withall In whom I dwell and he in me As God the Father eternall Hath sent me so by him I liue And life to others I do giue From heau'n aboue came downe this bread Not as your fathers that did eate The Manna sent them yet are dead For he that eateth of this meate Shall liue and he shall neuer dye As sinners do eternally At Capernaum spake he this Where some of his Disciples were That said a hard thing sure it is Who can abide the same to heare Doth this offend you then said he What if I should ascend will ye It is the spirit that in deed Doth quicken not the flesh be sure In spirit this both life doth breed And nourish euer to endure For what I speake to end all strife To you is spirit and is life Yet some of you beleeue not this He knew them and the traitour to Therefore I told you how it is That come vnto me any do The father onely giues this grace To him that doth enioy the place So some went cleane from him away Then Iesus said vnto the rest Will ye depart from me this day And walke as they where you thinke best Shall we said Peter then at last Words of eternall life thou hast And we beleeue and know thou art The Christ the Sonne of God in deed And if we did from thee depart We should be sure full ill to speed Christ did againe the traitour note Least his Apostles should forgote Christ rebuked the Scribes and Pharisies for trangressing Gods commandements and answered their accusation against his Disciples for eating meate with vnwashen hands The Scribe and faithlesse Pharisie Came then our Sauiour Christ vnto Supposing by their subtiltie For to deface what he would do They from Hierusalem then came That so faine would his works defame Why thy Disciples do transgresse Of elders the tradition Do thou now vnto vs expresse This was at first their question For they say they wash not a hand When they eate meate we vnderstand O hypocrites said Christ againe You do Gods word still disobay Supposing you shall scape the paine That you do merite day by day He that his parents sure saith God Dishonoreth shall feele my rod. In words you worship but in vaine Lip labour liketh not the Lord A double heart he doth disdaine When words and deeds do well accord Then prayse and prayer he will heare Which neuer doth in you appeare It is not meate that hurteth man Which with the mouth he doth consume But euill thoughts which now and than Do moue the heart to fret and fume Or else deuise some euill deed Of this ye should take greatest heed Each plant my father planteth not Shall by the roote be pluckt againe Our God will not all his forgot When hypocrites do suffer paine These blindly still the blind do lead You haue no cause their craft to dread Christ cast a deuill out of the daughter of a woman of Canaan and healed many other From thence likewise did Iesus passe Of Tyre and Sydon through the cost Of such great care our Sauiour was To saue that else might there be lost He ceassed not but day by day Did good to all that would him pray Behold a woman came to him That did within those borders dwell Whose daughter was in eu'ry lymme Sore vexed with a deu'll of hell Christ she most earnestly did pray From her to driue the deu'll away Whose suite though seeming to deny Christ graunted vnto her at last When that he saw how faithfully She hop't his fauour for to tâ—st He gaue to her to do her good Some portion of the childrens food Christ returned thence againe into the costes of Galilie healed a deaffe man that stammered in his speach and many others and fed 4000. men besides women and children with seuen loaues Christ did returne yet then againe Into the costes of Galilie Their late contempt and deepe disdaine Withdrew not so his pietie Among the middest of wolues he still Protecteth safe his flocke from ill A deaffe man vnto Christ they brought That stambâ—ed in his speach also He graunted them what then they sought And healed him and let him go So that amazed in great feare They gaue God prayse all that were there He then vp to a mountaine went And sate him downe vpon the same And the people with full intent By multitudes vnto him come To heare his doctrine and to craue That they some helpe of him might haue They thither
in deed Go thou and do thâ—â— thou shalt liue But he in hope of better speed A new assault to Christ would giue Who is my neighbour then said he This thing I would faine learne of thee Then Iesus answering said so A certaine man went by the way That leadeth downe to Iericho Where among theeues he fell â—hat day Robbed and wounded there he was And left halfe dead so on the grasse By chance a Priest came by that way Which when he saw him passed by Likewise a Leuite where he lay Did looke on him and let him lye But a Samaritan by chaunce Came by and saw him in his traunce Which sight so mouing then his heart He tooke on him compassion Whereof before he did depart He made full declaration He powred in and also bound Both wine and oyle into his wound And not contented yet with this He set him vp on his owne beast And brought him to an inne of his Where he prouided for his rest And on the morow ere he went He told the host his whole intent Lo take these two pence that I giue Haue care of this man I thee pray His wants therewith do thou relieue What more he spends I will thee pay Which thinkest thou now of these three To him most neighbour like to be The Lawyer answering did say The mercifull was euen he Go thou said Christ then hence away And do as this man teacheth thee To eu'ry one in miserie Shew thou like liberalitie Marie and Martha entertaine Christ Now as they further passed on Into a certaine towne they came Where was the habitation Of one that Martha had to name Who to her house receiued tho Christ and those that with him did go Her sister Marie men did call Which also sate at Iesus feete And heard his preaching as then all Most heedfully as it was meete But Martha was most busily Prouiding for the company Martha therefore to Iesus said Master regardest not thou this That all the care on me is layd And that my sister sitting is Bid her therefore that she helpe me So shalt thou better serued be And Iesus answerd her againe Oh Martha Martha thou hast care For many things put thee to paine And helpers very needfull are The good part Marie chose in deed And she there after sure shall speed Christ rising from prayer was requested of one of his Disciples to teach them as Iohn taught his Disciples to pray As Iesus was praying with his In the desert as some suppose Which vnto Ephraim nearest is And from his prayers as he rose Of his Disciples one did say Teach vs as Iohn taught his to pray He soone of him had his request He was not long enforc'd to craue Christs readinesse this well exprest As he to them example gaue In their distresse both night and day That they as he them taught should pray Our father which in heauen art Thy name be euer sanctified Thy kingdome come withall my heart I wish the same accomplished Thy will in earth be done we pray As thine in heau'n do it alway Our daily bread giue vs this day Our sinnes also to vs forgiue As we our debters do I say That vs in any wise do grieue Let vs by no illusion Be lead into temptation But Lord from euill vs defend And gratiously deliuer all That we which do on thee depend By frailtie from thee neuer fall Graunt these requests oh Lord we pray To vs and thy whole Church alway Amen Moreouer Christ vnto them said Which of you all shall haue a friend And shall when he in bed is layd Haue cause to go to him or send And say a friend to me is come Bread I haue none now lend me some And he within should answer so Why doest thou trouble me I say I pray thee to some other go I must at this time say thee nay The doore is shut my children be In bed I cannot come to thee I say though he would not arise Nor thee regard as should a friend Yet when he seeth thee in such wise Importunat he will thee lend Of bread or meate what thou doest craue Or what thy need requires to haue Aske then it shall be giuen thee And they that seeke shall surely finde Knock I will open then said he For God to them that call is kinde He loueth such men verely As pray vnto him heartely If you for bread giue not a stone Nor for a fish a serpent send When that your sonnes for want do mone If good things you do giue and lend How much more shall the father he Giue good gifts if thou aske to thee Christ cast out a deuill and the dumbe man spake Then they brought vnto Iesus one Possessed with a deuill that day And him for helpe they call vpon The man was dumbe withall I say Though these impediments had he Yet with a word Christ made him free The multitude amazed were And pâ—aâ—â—ed God with heart and voice The sonne said they of Dauid here Doth giue vs cause for to reioyce And now assured all we be That Christ the Lord the same is he A woman that his workes did see And heard how he taught great and small â—â—id blest is the wombe that bare thee And pappes that gaue thee suck withall But Christ said blest they rather are That Gods word heare and keepe with care The Iewes required asigne Christ to the people said againe This wicked generation Adulterous and verie vaine Though signes they do depend vpon No signe to them shall giuen be But that of Ionas they shall see As to the Niniuites was he That three dayes in the Whale did lie The sonne of man shall shortly be The like to these assuredly The signe that Ionas to them gaue I shall giue these so long in graue The men of Niniuie shall rise And these condemne assuredly They did not Ionas words despise But did repent immediatly A greater then Ionas is here Yet small repentance doth appeare The Queene of Saba she shall rise In iudgement with these men also And them she shall condemne likewise That so farre from her home would go To heare king Solomon I say His greater you do heare this day Christ dining with one of the Pharisies and misliked for eating with vnwashen hands answered them and rebuked their hypocrisie As Iesus taught the people then There came to him a Pharisie Requesting him and all his men To dine with him immediatly Then he went in with him to meate And sitting downe began to eate But when the Pharisie did see That Christ sat downe vnwasht before He maruaild what the cause might be For they did vse it euermore They sit not downe at all to meate But first they wash before they eate Indeed said Christ to him againe Ye do make cleane the vtter side Of cup or platter all in vaine Bewraying still your foolish pride But they
bow'd her long she could no way Lift vp her selfe then certainly Christ said be loosd of thy disease Laying on his hand she straight found ease The ruler of the Synagogue Was fill'd with indignation As if his conscience had a clogge Or of a proud presumption Six dayes ye may well healed be And rest the Sabboth day said he Then said the Lord thou hypocrite Do ye not on the Sabboth day Your oxe and asse without respite Loose from the stall and driue away And should not she whom Sathan bound The Sabboth day go safe and sound When Christ said this his enemy Was sore ashamed and the rest Reioycing did God glorifie Which by their words was well exprest For they gaue God the onely prayse That wrought such works in those their dayes The parable of the mustard seede and of the leauen What is the kingdome of God like Or whereto shall I it compare Christ saw that some did not mislike His deeds and doctrine which were rare It is like to a mustard seed That man doth sow to serue his need This seed of seeds though sure the least Yet sowne it waxeth to a tree Wherein the litle birds may neast As oftentimes we do them see Or leauen in three peckes of flowre Till all be leauend and made sowre This mustard seed that is so small And therefore subiect to disdaine And eke the leauen there withall Doth signifie Christs Gospell plaine Gods word though weake it seeme to be Works great effects in some we see The parable of the strait and broad way And as through eu'ry towne he went And taught going to Hierusalem That few be saued is it ment Said they thus answerd Christ to them The strait gate striue to enter to Though many faile that so would do The goodman of the house when he Is risen vp and shuts the gate Your might or merite litle be To cry Lord open is to late Depart saith he hence speedily You workers of iniquitie We eaten haue say you againe And dronke oh Lord so oft with thee And thou hast taught vs but in vaine Depart saith he away from me Your sinnes are onely cause of this That you shall loose eternally blisse There ye then weeping all shall be And gnashing of your teeth full sore When Abraham in heau'n ye see And ye shut out as is before The Patriarks and the Prophets rest In heau'n aboue for they are blest And many shall come from the East And from the North and South also And many likewise from the West The heau'nly kingdome come vnto And then the first the last shall be And so the last first you shall see Christ called Herod a soxe and cryed against Hierusalem The Pharisies to Christ did say King Herod doubtlesse will thee kill Depart therefore and get away Ere he do worke on thee his will Thus would they seeme his friends to be That sought his death aswell as he Go tell the foxe said Christ from me Behold I cast out deu'ls to day And eke to morow I make free And heale the sicke that do me pray The third day I do make an end I care not what the foxe intend To morow as to day I must And yet the third day walke also It cannot be you may giue trust To this that now declare I do Saue at Ierusalem alone Shall of the Prophets perish none Hierusalem that oft doest kill And stone those that are sent to thee Thy childrens good I wished still Yet canst not thou thy saftie see But from thee when I shall be rest Thy house then desolate is left Christ healed one of the dropsie on the Sabboth day Againe as Iesus would eate meate With one of the chiefe Pharisies They friendly seeme him to intreate To colour out some braue deuise Their snares and traps for him they lay And watch him on the Sabboth day Behold a certaine man was there Infected with a dropsie sore Some Lawyers there at that time were Which watched him so much the more Christ asked if it lawfull be The man on that day to make free They held their peace for to reproue His words and deeds they did intend The matter he no more did moue But healed him and made an end Who doth said Christ his oxe espy In pit this day and lets him lye Christ forbad men to presse for the highest roomes at feasts taught men lowlinesse and to vse liberalitie vnto the poore A parable Christ Iesus spake When he the guests had marked well How each the highest roome would take See that saith Christ you do not mell With chiefest roomes when you are bid Least thence your betters do you rid When thou art bidden to a feast Go and sit lowest in the place Then saith the master come my guest Sit higher vp this giueth grace For who so him exalteth hye Shall be brought low reprochfully When thou doest make a feast command To call the poore the maim'd the lame And blind to such stretch forth thy hand This will gaine thee deserued fame And thou thy recompence this trust Shalt haue in heau'n among the iust And one of them that then there sate Said he is blest that eateth bread In heau'n and happy are their state That their liues there might alwayes lead In heau'n as this man doth confesse Sure resteth all true happinesse Christ declared how a certaine man made a great supper and bade many of the excuses of certaine guestes and their vnworthinesse Christ Iesus said a certaine man Made a great supper or a feast Come ye as soone now as ye can His seruants said vnto each guest For all things are now readie made To welcome whom our maister bade But they began to make excuse The first said I haue bought a farme I must go see it as they vse Thou maist excuse me without harme The next of Oxen bought yokes fiue And must go proue how they do thriue The third had married then a wife Sure he might well excused be For he was bound to lead his life With her and liue no longer free You know what wilfull men deserue All their excuses may not serue The seruants told their maister these Whom thou hast bid come not at all Which did him verie much displease And said another sort goe call Go bid the poore the lame the blinde And such as in the streetes ye finde The seruants said Lord it is done Yet there are roomes vnfurnished In the high waies seeke some out soone That my house be replenished For those men that were bid before Shall neuer tast my supper more Then to the multitude that went With him Christ turned backe and sayd If any man with good intent Come after me now vnaffrayd He must hate father and each friend To beare my crosse vnto the end Who meanes to build a stately towre And doth not cast the cost before He may repent him in that
men to pray And not for marchandise to stay The Scribes and high Priests hearing this Sought how they might him then destroy Though he had done nothing amisse But gaue them cause of greatest ioy They sought his life that life doth giue To all men that in him beleeue They feared him for they did see They could no way resist his will And did perceiue most men to be Astonied at his doctrine still When euen came Iesus did hye And got him backe to Bethany Christ returning the next day the Disciples seeing the figge tree withered tell him of it The next day as they passed by Then the Disciples all did see The figge tree dryed verily And that vp from the roote to be Then Peter sayd master see this The figge tree throughly with'red is Then Iesus answering did say If ye haue faith vnfainedly Ye may this mountaine moue away And lay it in the sea to lye See that your hearts be cleane and pure And that your faith be firme and sure Then what ye do desire I say By prayer shall be done in deed Faithfull requests haue wings alway To flye vnto the Lord with speed Forgiue when ye do pray also That on your faults God thinke no mo Then to Hierusalem they came And to the temple went againe Where walking then within the same The high Priests fraught with foule disdaine And all the Scribes and Elders were To see Christ Iesus comming there They askt by what authoritie Christ did those things so lately there Who is of so great dignitie As may appoint thee ruler here Our elders left vs long ago All power here and to no mo Then Iesus answered and sayd I will aske you one question And answer me now vndelayd Therein your iust opinion And I by what authoritie Haue done these things will testifie Iohns Baptisme tell me certainly Was it from heau'n or else of men Now answer me vnfainedly And you shall haue your answer then Like doubtfulnesse there is in this As in their former question is They thought if we confesse it came From heau'n then will he surely say Why did ye not beleeue for shame His doctrine and his words obay But if we say of men we feare The people that are standing here For Iohn accounted was in deed A mightie Prophet of them there When they perceiu'd how they should speed To answer him they stood in feare They answer'd then they knew not well He answer'd them he would not tell The Parable of the two sonnes What thinke ye then sayd Christ againe Two sonnes a certaine rich man had Vnto the elder of the twaine The father came and thus he bad Go sonne said he and worke I say Within my vineyard all this day The sonne then answered and sayd I will not worke therein at all But afterward as all affrayd To disobay his fathers call His frowardnesse he did repent And then into the vineyard went Then came he to the second sonne And sayd to him such words likewise Thy will sayd he shall sure be done Yet did his fathers hests despise For this sonne neuer laboured In his worke as he promised Now whether of the twaine say ye Performed best the fathers will The first or last tell this to me The first sayd they did it fulfill The Publicans and harlots then Shall go to heau'n before these men For in the way of righteousnesse Iohn came to you I say said he As did his doctrine well expresse Yet ye beleu'd not him I see The Publicans and harlots they Beleeuing did his words obey Though ye his words and works did find So well agreeing certainly None to repentance gaue his mind Among you all assuredly His doctrine that beleeuing ye Might for your sinnes much grieued be Another Parable of the vineyard let out 〈◊〉 the vnfaithfull husband-men Another Parable heare ye A certaine housholder did plant A vineyard and round hedged he The same that nothing it did want And therein this man builded tho A wine-presse and a towre also All this he let to husband-men And traueld to a strange countrey For thence he went to soiourne then In hope his farmours would obey His will and well performe also Their promise made ere he did go But when the time of fruit drue nye And he had sent for to receiue The fruits of them his seruants by As promise was when he tooke leaue His seruants they did beate and kill Litle regarding their Lords will Againe he sent vnto them mo Which seruants they did kill likewise At last his sonne he causd to go His sonne also they did despise His onely sonne which he sent there Of whom he hop'd they stood in feare But when the husband-men did see The sonne this is the heire they sayd Come let him likewise killed be All shall be ours be not affrayd They slue the sonne himselfe at last And him out of the vineyard cast Now Iesus sayd what thinke ye then For these offences that your heare What shall their Lord do to those men Whose faults so manifest appeare They slue his seruants one by one And lastly slue his onely sonne They sayd the Lord will sure destroy Most cruelly those wicked men And others shall his farme enioy To whom the Lord will let it then That fruit in season will him yeeld Of eu'ry sort within his field Then Iesus sayd haue ye not read The â—one the builders did refuse Is of the corner made the head And so put there to chiefest vse The Lord his doing it is this And in our eyes a maruell is Therefore I say to you againe The kingdome of God sure shall be Taken from you this thing is plaine And giuen others francke and free Which will the fruits thereof forth bring And yeeld increase in eu'ry thing And who so on this stone shall fall Shall broken be this you shall find But on whom it shall fall withall To powder him the stone will grind The first he may be heald againe This last shall labour but in vaine When the chiefe Priests and Pharisie These Parables of Christ did heare They did perceiue then by and by Of whom he spake as did appeare For they on him sought hands to lay Yet did for feare their purpose stay The people that were standing by A Prophet they tooke Christ to be This feared them that did espy Their readinesse to set him free And eke his houre was not come then Which was a let vnto those men Another Parable of the King that made a mariage for his sonne whose bidden guests refused to come although they were called to the wedding Another Parable he spake As then before the multitude That vnexcused he might make The Iewes for their ingratitude To whom the Lord so bounteously Had offred so much clemency Gods kingdome is like to a King That made a mariage for his sonne And when he had for his wedding Prepared what was to