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A03472	The holie historie of our Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christs natiuitie, life, actes, miracles, doctrine, death, passion, resurrection and ascension gathered into English meeter, and published to withdraw vaine wits from all vnsauerie and wicked rimes and fables, to some loue and liking of spirituall songs and holy scriptures. By Robert Holland maister of Arts, and minister of the Church of Prendergast.	Holland, Robert, 1557-ca. 1622.	1594 (1594)	STC 13595; ESTC S118820	155,202	360

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 t●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 stamb●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

within are not the lesse Of bribrie full and all excesse Ye fooles made not the very same The inside and the out also Giue almes therefore and leaue for shame To be so tied your toyes vnto Relieue the poore when they do craue And cleane shall be all that ye haue Woe be to you ye Scribes I say And Pharisies so full of guile Ye hypocrites is this the way To cloake your cursed craft so vile Ye keepe the least the law doth will And leaue the great things vnkept still Mint Annise and Cummin tith'd be And waightier matters left alone The law commaundeth these to thee But last of all to thinke vpon For iudgement mercy and faith are The chiefest things should be your care Woe be to you ye Scribes also The highest seats ye all do loue In Synagogues and where ye go And that men in the markets moue With reuerence to greete you there Or giue you place and praise elsewhere Woe be to you for sure ye be Like painted tombes in outward sight Appearing faire to them that see No part within how they are dight For dead mens bones lie there doubtlesse Within them full and filthinesse A Lawyer answer'd him againe Oh maister thou in saying so Rebukest vs likewise as vaine And subiect with them to like woe Christ said to him it cannot be That you of all men should go free For heauie burdens ye do binde And on mens shoulders them do lay Most greeuous to be borne in minde Intollerable eu'ry way But you your selues will not once proue With any finger them to moue Woe be to you that build so braue The Prophets tombes that were before And garnish outwardly each graue Of righteous men now more and more And more then that you verely Thus vtter your iniquitie If we had bene aliue ye say In our forefathers time had we Consented so to be the day That so much bloud then spilt should be No no the Prophets should not so Haue di'de or suffred any wo. So then ye are as witnesses Vnto your selues how that ye be Their children as ye do confesse That murdred them therefore do ye VVhat lacked of their cruelty Performe with all dexterity God said behold I will you send Both Prophets and Apostles sure To see if that you will amend Yet you will not their words endure You will them kill and crucifie And persecute most busily That on you all the bloud may come Which was shed vpon earth I say From righteous Abell Adams sonne To Zacharias bloud which lay Betweene the temple verely And the Altar slaine cruelly Martha and Marie sent Iesus word that their brother Lazarus was sicke Lazarus sure as then did lie Sore sicke and neare his death indeed This man he dwelt in Bethany His sisters both of him tooke heede Martha the first then Marie shee They were belou'd of Christ all three Christs feete annointed Mary sure And wiped with her haire the same The oyle was costlie sweete and pure Her fact Christ did defend from blame These women did for Iesus send And said come helpe thy sickly friend This sicknesse Iesus then did say Is for Gods glory not to death The sonne of God must by this way Who takes and giues men life and breath Assure your selues be glorifi'd Which thing Christ shortly verifi'd Now Iesus loued Martha well Her sister and her brother to Yet he there after this did dwell Two daies ere he to them would go And did as he had done before There heale and teach men more and more The Pharisies question of diuorcement and mariage answered of Christ As Christ departed Galily And to Iudea came againe And as he passed Iordan by While in that coast he did remaine As graciouslie he vs'd to deale Their sicke and lame he there did heale Then came to him the Pharisie Full fraughted both in heart and minde With craft and cloakt hypocrisie Hoping in Christ some fault to finde But still for all their taken toile The Pharisies receiu'd the foile May man his wife Sir put away For euerie cause he can deuise Haue ye not read then Christ did say Or Gods decree do ye despise That they were male and female fram'd When Adam the first man was nam'd Therefore a man shall loue his wife Though he his father should forsake With her he needs must lead his life They both by promise that they make Become one flesh and so remaine Though they in persons still are twaine Let no man put a sunder then All such as God hath coupled so Though Moses haue allow'd some men Their maried wiues for to forgo From the beginning sure I say It was not as it is this day Truly for whoredome she may be Diuorced and so may the man If he commit adultery Nor afterward well mary can For which of both this part doth play Should single liue till death say nay If it be so of man and wife It were not good to mary then Yet some so borne chast lead their life Some are made chast also by men Some chast themselues who can perceiue Let him this doctrine so receiue Iesus among other other things that he taught his Disciples declared vnto them the parable of the rich man that so much delighted and trusted in his riches While Iesus his Disciples taught The Leauen of the Pharisie To shunne with care for it was naught He called it Hypocrisie And will'd them to teach openly What he had taught them priuatly Feare ye not man but God sayd he Before men likewise me confesse And you shall well assured be I will to you like loue expresse Before Gods Angels verily I will confesse you constantly Blasphemous words auoide withall And for your selues take ye no care God will heare you when ye shall call Of him your haires all numbred are When Princes vexe you for my sake In worth do you your troubles take Then sayd one of the company Maister command I do pray thee The liuing now immediatly My brother may deuide with me A Iudge or a deuider who Made me sayd Christ I should do so Wherefore said Christ to them againe Take heed beware of greedinesse Abundance here is all but vaine It worketh man but heauinesse A man for all his riches may Prolong his life no not a day The grounds of a rich man said he Brought him forth fruites most plenteously Therefore he thought what then might be Done in such great prosperity I haue said he no roome to lay My fruits such store I haue to day This thing sayd he sure will I do I will now all my barnes downe pull And greater build and thereunto Gather my fruits till they be full I haue deuised this therefore Because my grounds do yeeld such store I to my soule will also say Soule thou hast much goods layd in store For many yeares liue now I may At more ease then I did before From henceforth soule eate drinke

right hand till I make Thy foes thy foote-stoole for thy sake If Dauid cal'd him Lord how then Is he his sonne do you declare And none of all those busie men Could answer him as witnesse are Their works they durst not this is plaine From that day aske him ought againe The doctrine of the Scribes and Pharisies sitting in Moses chaire was to be heard but their liues and manners not to be followed Iesus spake to the multitude And his Disciples likewise then Not waighing the ingratitude Of such malitious wicked men Commending of the Scribes their place Though they themselues were voyde of grace The Scribes and Pharisies do sit In Moses seat Christ Iesus sayd All therefore what they bid is fit That you obserue it vndelayd But what they do do not the same They say and do not to their shame For heauie burdens they do bind And on mens shoulders them they lay Most grieuous to be borne in mind Intollerable eu'ry way But they themselues will not once proue With any finger them to moue All that they do is to be seene To haue of men a prayse therefore It is not now as it hath beene They do dissemble more and more For God would haue his word well knowne And not vpon their clothes so showne But they haue broad Philacteries And Gods commandements in those Not in their hearts these misteries Their fowle dissembling do disclose What they about them written beare The heart to haue it fittest were And other vanities among That th●se men vse continually They fringe their garments all along For outward show assuredly They loue the chiefest place and seate In all assemblies and at meate And greetings in the market place And masters to be call'd of men Be not so call'd least you disgrace Your call and doctrine euen then Christ onely master you may call And ye your selues are brethren all On earth your father no man call For one your father is in deed He is in heau'n farre aboue all And giueth you what you haue need Be not call'd Doctours for one is Your Doctour euen Christ iwis Let him that is the greatest be As seruant vnto all the rest Himselfe who so exalteth he Shall be brought low but this is best That ye your selues do humble so To be exalted where ye go Christ cryed wo against the Scribes Pharisies and Lawyers Wo be to you ye Scribes therefore And Pharisies withall I say You hypocrites do euermore Shut men from heauen all that ye may For in your selues ye do not go Nor suffer them that would do so Wo be to you for ye deuoure The widowes houses craftily Your prayers longer by an houre Ye make to worke your trechery Wherefore without compassion You shall receiue damnation Wo be to you I say againe For ye do compasse sea and land To seeke one Proselite to gaine That he your law may vnderstand Which when he learnes then sure is he Much more the child of hell then ye Wo 〈◊〉 to you ye guides so blind Which say that who so vse to sweare By the temple this oth doth bind No man thereof ●e need not feare But by the gold thereof say ye Who so do sweare offenders be Of both these things which do you deeme To be in deed the holyest The gold which you so much esteeme Or temple of the mightiest The gold it doth it beautifie The temple it doth sanctifie And who doth by the altar sweare It is nothing as you do say But so to do ye make men feare By the offring in any way The gift or altar which thinke ye The holiest of them both to be Ye fooles and blind the offering Is by the altar sanctifi'd Who sweares by it for any thing Of this you may be certifi'd He sweares by it and all things there Therefore take heed how ye do sweare Who by the temple sweareth he By it and by him sure doth sweare That dwels therein and likewise ye That sweare by heau'n without all feare Of God ye do sweare by the throne And him that sitteth thereupon Wo be to you ye Scribes I say And Pharisies so full of guile Ye hypocrites is this the way To cloake your cursed craft so vile The least things that the law doth will You keepe and leaue the greatest still Mint annise and cummin tith ye And waightier matters leaue alone The law commandeth these to thee But last of all to thinke vpon For iudgement mercy and faith are The chiefest things should be your care Ye blind and wicked guides which straine A gnat as if ye could not well Deuour the same except with paine And swallow vp a great cammell Ye hypocrites for cloaking so Your craftinesse you heape on wo. Wo be to you I say againe For ye make cleane the vtter side Of cup and platter all in vaine It doth bewray your foolish pride But they within are not the lesse Of briberie full and all excesse Thou blind and foolish Pharisie Cleanse first the inside of the same And then the out-side verily Thou mayst make cleane without all blame If that the inner man be pure The outward man is cleane be sure Wo be to you for sure ye be Like painted tombes in outward sight Appearing fayre to them ●hat see No part within how they are dight For dead mens bones are there doubtlesse Remaining with much filthinesse So ye also for outwardly Ye do as righteous men appeare But are full of hypocrisie And vices it is very cleare The outward man is fayre in show And fowle within as God doth know Wo be to you that build so braue The Prophets tombes that were before And garnish outwardly each graue Of righteous men now more and more And more then that you verily Thus vtter your iniquitie If we as then had bene ye say In our forefathers time had we Consented so to see the day That guiltlesse bloud then spilt should be The Prophets had not dyed so Nor any godly man with wo. So then ye are as witnesses Vnto your selues how that ye be Their children as ye do confesse That murthred them therefore do ye What lacked of their crueltie Fulfill with all dexteritie O Serpents the ofspring in deed And bloudy generation Of vypers and their very seed By nature and opinion How ye should scape no man can tell The great damnation of hell Wherefore behold to you Ile send Prophets wisemen and Scribes surely To see if that ye will amend Whom ye will kill and crucifie And scourge in Synagogues apace And persecute from place to place That on you all the bloud may come Which was shed vpon earth alway From righteous Abell Adams sonne To Zacharias bloud which lay Betweene the temple verily And altar slaine most cruelly All these things shall assuredly Come on this generation This ag● shall beare this penaltie And righteous condemnation That all their vayne hypocrisie

mount Thabor verily Had seene before his maiestie Where they as witnesse chosen were By him of his diuinitie And now that likewise may appeare To them his great humilitie He chose no more because by three All things well witnessed may be Then to waxe heauie he began And sorowfull as all affrayd Sore troubled was the outward man He thus to his Disciples sayd My soule is heauie verily Yet I must needs now yeeld to dye Now tary here and watch with me While I go yonder for to pray A litle further then went he And falling on his face did say Let this cup passe ô father mine Yet not my will be done but thine And there from heauen did appeare Him comforting an Angell then The waight of sinne that he did beare So pressed him for mortall men That he sweat drops of bloud a pace Which trickled downe along his face Then vp from prayer he arose And his Disciples came vnto But he all sleeping there found those For heauinesse opprest them so Why sleepe ye then sayd Christ I say Arise watch earnestly and pray The flesh is weake and fraile also But yet the spirit ready is Pray least ye enter now into Temptation in any wise And so againe he went away Where he then as before did pray At his returne to them againe The second time they were a sleepe Their eyes were heauie they in vaine Did labour waking them to keepe They knew they had deserued blame And could not answer him for shame So he left them and went away He saw they could not well awake And as before againe did pray Thus thrise he did his prayers make To his Disciples then sayd he Take rest and sleepe henceforth may ye Behold the houre is now at hand And ready come assuredly This you shall shortly vnderstand That sure the sonne of man shall dye Into the hands of sinners he Shall presently deliu'red be Iudas the traitour with a band of men and officers which he receiued of the high Priests and Pharisies came thither with lanternes torches and weapons to take Iesus Now let vs go I say arise He commeth that doth me betray The traitour Iudas on this wise Was then set forward in his way And neare approching to the place Where Christ with his Disciples was He had receiu'd a band of men And officers also withall That the high Priests allow'd him then The number of them was not small They with their weapons came all night With lanterns and with torches light The high Priests in all things were prest Christ Iesus for to crucifie The Pharisies they would not rest Till Christ were slaine most cruelly Therefore with Iudas they did send By night men armed to that end All which with Iudas then were come As Christ to his Disciples spake A token Iudas gaue to some That they might know whom they should take He whom I kisse it is the same Lay hold on him least you haue blame But Christ whose might they could not match If he had ment them to withstand Whom they by fraud or force would catth Went forth to meete them our of hand Who with his word their weapons all And they themselues did cause to fall When Christ sayd to them whom seeke ye Iesus of Nazareth they say He answer'd and sayd I am he And so they all went backe away And to the ground they did thereat As men amazed fall downe flat Then he sayd vnto them againe Whom seeke ye after tell it me Iesus of Nazareth certaine They answered is euen he Then Iesus sayd sure here I am For whom ye say you hither came If you seeke me let these men go And quietly depart away This was that his word might proue so Which he of them before did say Of them which thou hast giuen me I haue not sure lost one sayd he Then Simon Peter drew a sword And smote the high Priests seruant there He minded to reuenge his Lord And therefore cut of Malchus eare For so they called him by name He was one that with Iudas came Put vp thy sword in sheath sayd he What sayest thou ô Peter now The cup my father giueth me Shall I not drinke of thinkest thou The Scripture thus I must fulfill That saith it is my fathers will Doest thou suppose I cannot pray My father that he would giue me Twelue legions as well he may Of Angels with me still to be Then pressed Iudas Christ to kisse Betray'st thou me sayd Christ with this Then to the multitude he sayd The high Priests and the Captains there Ye be come out as men affrayd Or as against a theefe it were With swords and staues when I sayd he Did dayly teach you tooke not me Iesus was taken bound and brought to Anna● first and then to Cayphas The Captaine officers and band Tooke Iesus and they bound him then And thence they led him out of hand Among a sort of armed men To Annas first he father was To her that was wife of Cayphas This Cayphas was high Priest that yeare He to the Iewes this counsell gaue How it expedient did appeare That they the man as then should haue Which there must for the people dye Lest they should perish vtterly This of himselfe then spake not he But being high Priest propheci'd As Balam did the Lords decree Which he would faine haue contrari'd But both or them were bridled so They must obay would they or no. Now Simon Peter followed His master and another then Of the Disciples acquainted With the high Priests and with their men This therefore by acquaintance went Into the hall where Christ was sent But Peter stood out at the doore He was not friended there so well The other that went in before Came out to him as it befell And spake to her that kept the gate And so brought Peter in thereat The high Priests the Elders and the whole Counsell sought false witnesse against Iesus Peter denieth him thrise Then sayd the mayd that kept the gate Thou one of his Disciples art But he deny'd it verie flat And so from her he did depart Then came he where the seruants were And sate him downe among there The high Priests and the Elders all That then were met in Counsell there Within the high Priest Cayphas hall Sought such as would false witnesse beare Whereby they might make Iesus dye But they found none assuredly Though many came that witnesse bare Their witnesse yet did not agree At last are found two men that dare False witnesses against him be They vndertooke to iustifie More then was true assuredly They sayd that they had heard him say That he Gods temple could destroy And build a fayrer eu'ry way Within three dayes without annoy Yet these as Marke doth testifie Did not agree so perfectly Then the chiefe Priest from seate arose And asked Iesus on this wise Why answerest thou not to those Thou seest what