And agayne Methusalah lyued after he begat Lamech seueÌ„ hundreth eightie and two yeres and begate sonnes and daughters 27 And all the dayes of Methuselah were nine hundreth sixtie nine yeres and he dyed 28 Lamech liued an hundreth eyghtie two yeres and begate a sonne 29 And called his name Noah saying This same shall comfort vs as concerning our worke sorowe of our handes about the earth which God cursed 30 And Lamech lyued after he begat Noah fiue huÌ„dreth ninetie fiue yeres and begate sonnes and daughters 31 And all the dayes of Lamech were seuen hundreth seuentie and seueÌ„ yeres and he dyed 32 Noah was fiue hundreth yere olde Noah begate Sem Ham Iapheth ¶ The .vj. Chapter 2 The cause of deluge 3 An hundred and twentie yeres geuen for conuersion amendement of lyfe 4 Giantes 5 The wickednesse of man prouoketh God 7 It repenteth God that he had made man 9 The generations of Noe the iust 13 God foretelleth vnto Noah hym selfe the generall deluge 15 The fashion of the arke 18 Who should enter the arke 1 AND it came to passe that when men began to be multiplied in the vpper face of the earth there were daughters borne vnto theÌ„ 2 And the sonnes of God also sawe the daughters of men that they were fayre they toke them wyues such as they liked from among them all 3 And the Lorde sayde My spirite shall not alwayes stryue with man because he is fleshe yet his dayes shal be an hundreth and twentie yeres 4 But there were Giantes in those dayes in y e earth yea after that the sonnes of God came vnto the daughters of meÌ„ and hadde begotten chyldren of them the same became myghtie men of the worlde and men of renowme 5 But God sawe that the malice of man was great in the earth and all the imagination of the thoughtes of his heart was only euyll euery day 6 And it repented the Lord that he had made man vpon the earth he was touched with sorowe in his heart 7 And the Lorde sayde I wyll from the vpper face of the earth destroy man whom I haue created from man vnto cattell vnto worme and vnto foules of the ayre For it repenteth me that I haue made them 8 But Noah founde grace in the eyes of the Lorde 9 These are the generations of Noah Noah was a iust man and perfect in his generations And Noah walked with God 10 Noah begat three sonnes Sem Ham and Iapheth 11 The earth also was corrupt before God and the same earth was fylled with crueltie 12 And God loked vpon the earth and beholde it was corrupt for all fleshe had corrupt his way vpon earth 13 And God sayd vnto Noah the ende of all fleshe is come before me for the earth is fylled with crueltie through them and beholde I wyl destroy them with the earth 14 Make thee an Arke of Pine trees Habitations shalt thou make in the arke and shalt pitch it within and with out with pitche 15 And of this fashion shalt thou make it The length of the arke shalâ—e three hundreth cubites the breadth of it fiftie cubites the height of it thirtie cubites 16 A wyndowe shalt thou make in the arke and in a cubite shalt thou finishe it aboue but the doore of the arke shalt thou set in the syde therof With three loftes one aboue another shalt thou make it 17 And beholde I euen I do bryng a fludde of waters vpon the earth to destroy all fleshe wherin is the breath of lyfe vnder heauen and euery thyng that is in the earth shall perishe 18 With thee also wyll I make my couenaunt and thou shalt come into the arke thou and thy sonnes thy wife and thy sonnes wyues with thee 19 And of euery lyuyng thyng of all fleshe payre of euery one shalt thou bryng into the arke to kepe them alyue with thee they shal be male female 20 Of fethered foules also after their kinde and of all cattell after their kinde of euery worme of the earth after his kynde two of euery one shall come vnto thee to kepe them alyue 21 And take thou with thee of all meate that is eaten and thou shalt lay it vp with thee that it may be meate for thee and them 22 * Noah therfore dyd according vnto all that God commaunded hym euen so dyd he ¶ The .vij. Chapter 1 Noah is commaunded to enter the arke 5 Noah entreth the arke 11 The ouerflowyng of the deluge 13 Who did enter with Noah 17 Howe great the waters of the fludde were 1 ANd the Lord said vnto Noah come thou and al thy house into y e arke for thee haue I seene ryghteous before me in this generation 2 Of euery cleane beast thou shalt take with thee seuen and seuen the male and his female but of vncleane cattell two the male and his female 3 Of foules also of the ayre seuen and seuen the male and the female to kepe seede alyue vpon the face of all the whole earth 4 For after seuen dayes I wyl rayne vpon the earth fourtie dayes and fourtie nightes all substaunce that I haue made wyll I destroy from the vpper face of the earth 5 Noah therfore did according vnto all that God commaunded him 6 And Noah was sixe hundreth yere olde when the fluddes of water came vpon the earth 7 And Noah came and his sonnes and his wyfe and his sonnes wyues with him to the arke because of the waters of the fludde 8 Of cleane beastes and of vncleane beastes and of foules and of euery such as creepeth vpon the earth 9 There came two two vnto Noah vnto the arke the male and the female as God had commaunded Noah 10 And so it came to passe after seuen dayes that the waters of the flud were vpon the earth 11 In the sixe hundreth yere of Noahs lyfe in the seconde moneth the seuenteene day of y e moneth in the same day were all the fountaynes of the great deepe broken vp and the wyndowes of heauen were opened 12 And the rayne was vpon the earth fourtie dayes and fourtie nightes 13 In the selfe same day entred Noah and Sem and Ham and Iapheth the sonnes of Noah and Noahs wyfe and the three wiues of his sonnes with theÌ„ into the arke 14 They and euery beast after his kinde and al the cattel after their kinde yea and euery worme that creepeth vpon the grounde after his kinde and euerye byrde after his kinde and euery fleeyng and fethered foule 15 And they came vnto Noah into the arke two and two of all fleshe wherein is the breath of lyfe 16 And they entryng in came male and female of all fleshe as God had commaunded him and
deliueraunce of his chyldren 1 AFter these deedes one tolde Ioseph beholde thy father is sicke And he toke with hym his two sonnes Manasses and Ephraim 2 Then this message was declared vnto Iacob beholde thy sonne Ioseph cōmeth vnto thee And Israel toke his strength vnto hym and sate vpon the bedde 3 And Iacob sayd vnto Ioseph God almyghtie appeared vnto me at Luz in the lande of Chanaan and blessed me and sayde vnto me 4 Beholde I wyll make thee fruiteful and cause thee to multiplie and wyll make a great number of people of thee and wyll geue this lande vnto thy seede after thee vnto an euerlastyng possession 5 And nowe thy two sonnes Manasses and Ephraim whiche were borne vnto thee in the land of Egypt before I came vnto thee into Egypt are myne euen as Ruben and Simeon are mine 6 And the children which thou hast gotten after them shal be thyne owne and shal be called after the names of their brethren in their inheritaunce 7 And when I came from Mesopotamia Rachel dyed vpon my hande in the land of Chanaan by the way when there was but a fieldes breadth to come vnto Ephratha and I buried her there in the waye to Ephratha the same is Beth-lehem 8 And Israel beheld Iosephes sonnes and sayde What are these 9 Ioseph sayde vnto his father They are my sonnes whiche God hath geuen me here And he sayde Oh bring them to me and let me blesse them 10 And the eyes of Israel were dymme for age so that he coulde not well see And he brought them to hym and he kyssed them and imbraced them 11 And Israel sayde vnto Ioseph I had not thought to haue seene thy face and yet loe God hath shewed me also thy seede 12 And Ioseph toke them away frō his lappe and he bowed hym selfe with his face towarde the earth 13 Then toke Ioseph them both Ephraim with his ryght hande towarde Israels left hande and Manasses with his left hande towarde Israels ryght hande and brought them vnto hym 14 And Israel stretched out his ryght hande and layed it vppon Ephraims head which was the younger and his left hande vpon Manasses head guydyng his hande wyttyngly for Manasses was the first borne 15 And he blessed Ioseph and sayde God in whose syght my fathers Abraham Isahac dyd walke God which hath fedde me al my lyfe long vnto this day 16 And the angell which hath deliuered me from al euyl blesse these laddes and let my name be named in them and the name of my fathers Abraham Isahac that they may growe into a multitude in the middes of the earth 17 When Ioseph sawe that his father layed his ryght hande vpon the head of Ephraim it displeased hym and he lift vp his fathers hande to haue remoued it from Ephraims head vnto Manasses head 18 And Ioseph sayde vnto his father Not so my father for this is the first borne put thy right hande vpon his head 19 And his father would not but sayde I knowe it well my sonne I knowe it well he shal be also a people and shal be great But his younger brother shal be greater then he and his seede shall become a great people 20 And he blessed them that day saide In thee let Israel blesse saye God make thee as Ephraim as Manasses And he set Ephraim before Manasses 21 And Israel said vnto Ioseph behold I dye God shal be with you bryng you againe vnto y e land of your fathers 22 Moreouer I haue geuen vnto thee a portion of lande aboue thy brethren which I gat out of the hand of the Amorite in my sworde and in my bowe ¶ The .xlix. Chapter 1 Iacob foretelleth what shall behap his sonnes 3 Ruben 5 Simeon Leui. 10 Christe to be borne of Iudas 13 Zabulon 14 Isachar 16 Dan. 18 Christe 19 Gad. 21 Nephthali 22 Ioseph 27 Beniamin 29 Iacob wylbe buryed with his fathers 33 He dyeth 1 AND Iacob called for his sonnes and sayde Come together that I may tell you what shall come on you in the last dayes 2 Gather ye together heare ye sonnes of Iacob hearken vnto Israel your father 3 Ruben my first borne thou art my myght the beginning of my strength the noblenesse of dignitie and the noblenesse of power 4 Vnstable as water thou shalt not be the chiefest because thou wentest vp to thy fathers bedde for then defiledst thou my couche with goyng vp 5 Simeon and Leui brethren are cruell instrumentes in their habitations 6 O my soule come not thou into their secretes neither into their congregations let mine honour be vnited for in their wrath they slewe a man and in their selfe wyll they dygge downe a wall 7 Cursed be their wrath for it was shamelesse and their fiercenesse for it was cruell I wyll deuide them in Iacob and scatter them in Israel 8 Iuda thou art he whom thy brethren shall prayse Thy hande shal be in the necke of thine enemies thy fathers children shall stowpe before thee 9 Iuda is a lions whelpe frō thy spoyle my sonne thou art come on hye He layed him downe and couched himselfe as a lion and as a lionesse who wyll stirre hym vp 10 The scepter shal not depart from Iuda and a law geuer from betweene his feete vntyll Silo come And vnto hym shall the gatheryng of the people be 11 He shall bynde his foale vnto y e vine and his asses colt vnto the braunche He wasshed his garment in wine and his clothes in the blood of grapes 12 His eyes shal be redde with wine and his teeth whyte with mylke 13 Zabulon shall dwell besyde the hauen of the sea nye the hauē of shippes his border shal be vnto Sidon 14 Isachar is a strong asse couchyng hym downe betweene two burthens 15 And sawe that rest was good and the lande that it was pleasaunt and bowed his shoulder to beare and became a seruaunt vnto tribute 16 Dan shall iudge his people and one of the tribes of Israel 17 Dan shal be a serpent in the way an adder in the path bytyng y e horse heeles and his ryder fell backewarde 18 I haue wayted for thy saluation O Lorde 19 Gad an hoast of men shall ouercome hym but he shall ouercome him at the last 20 Out of the fat lande of Aser shal be his bread and he shall geue pleasures for a kyng 21 Nephthalim is a hynde sent for a present geuyng goodly wordes 22 Ioseph is lyke a floryshyng bough a bough floryshyng by a well syde whose small boughes ran vpon the wall 23 The archers haue greeuously prouoked hym and shot him through with dartes they haue hated him to his hinderaunce 24 But his bowe abode fast and the armes of his handes were made strong by the
not let the people go to sacrifice vnto the Lorde 30 And Moyses went out from Pharao and prayed vnto the Lorde 31 And the Lorde did accordyng to the saying of Moyses and the flyes departed from Pharao and from his seruauntes and from his people and there remayned not one 32 And Pharao hardened his heart once more at this time and dyd not let the people go ¶ The .ix. Chapter 1 Death of cattell 8 Boyles 13 Hayle 27 Pharao acknowledgeth his offence and besecheth Moyses to pray for hym 33 When Moyses prayeth the hayle ceaseth 1 THe Lorde said vnto Moyses go in vnto Pharao and thou shalt tell hym Thus sayeth the Lorde God of the Hebrues Let my people go that they may serue me 2 If thou refuse to let them go and wylt holde them styll 3 Beholde the hande of the Lorde is vpon thy flocke which is in the fielde for vpon Horses vpon asses vpon camelles vpon oxen and vpon sheepe there shal be a mightie great morayne 4 And the Lorde shall do wonderfully betweene the beastes of Israel and the beastes of Egypt so that there shall nothyng dye of all that pertayneth to the children of Israel 5 And the Lorde appoynted a tyme saying to morowe the Lorde shall finishe this worde in the lande 6 And the Lorde dyd that thyng on the morowe and all the cattell of Egypt dyed but of the cattell of the children of Israel dyed not one 7 And Pharao sent and beholde there was not one of the cattell of the Israelites dead And the heart of Pharao heardened and he did not let the people go 8 And the Lord said vnto Moyses and Aaron take your handes full of asshes out of y e furnace Moyses shal sprinckle it vp into the ayre in y e sight of Pharao 9 And it shal be dust in all the lande of Egypt and shal be swelling sores with blaynes both on man beast throughout all the lande of Egypt 10 And they toke asshes out of the furnace and stoode before Pharao and Moyses sprinkled it vp into the ayre and there were swellyng sores with blaynes both in men and in beastes 11 And the sorcerers could not stande before Moyses because of the blaynes for there were botches vpon the enchaunters and vpon al the Egyptians 12 And the Lorde hardened the heart of Pharao and he hearkened not vnto them as y e Lord had said vnto Moyses 13 And the Lorde sayde vnto Moyses rise vp early in the morning and stande before Pharao and thou shalt tell him Thus sayeth the Lorde God of the Hebrues Let my people go that they may serue me 14 Or els I wyll at this tyme sende all my plagues vpon thine heart and vpon thy seruauntes and on thy people that thou mayest knowe that there is none lyke me in all the earth 15 For now I will stretch out my hand that I may smyte thee and thy people with pestilence and thou shalt peryshe from the earth 16 And in very deede for this cause haue I kept thee for to shewe thee my power and that my name may be declared throughout all the worlde 17 Yet exaltest thou thy selfe agaynst my people that thou wylt not let them go 18 Beholde to morowe this time I wyl sende downe a mightie great hayle euen suche a one as was not in Egypt since the foundation thereof was layde vnto this tyme. 19 Sende therfore nowe and gather thy beastes all that thou hast in the fielde For vpon all the men and the beastes whiche are founde in the fielde and not brought home shall the hayle fall and they shall dye 20 And as many as feared the worde of the Lorde amongest the seruauntes of Pharao made their seruauntes and their beastes flee into the houses 21 But he that regarded not the worde of the Lord left his seruauntes and his beastes in the fielde 22 And the Lorde sayde vnto Moyses stretche foorth thyne hande vnto heauen that there may be hayle in all the lande of Egypt vpon man and vpon beastes and vpon all the hearbes of the fielde throughout the lande of Egypt 23 And Moyses stretched foorth his rod vnto heauen and the Lord thundred and hayled and the fire ranne a long vpon the grounde and the Lorde hayled in the lande of Egypt 24 So there was hayle and fire mingled with the hayle so greeuous and such as there was none throughout al the land of Egypt since people inhabited it 25 And the hayle smote throughout all the lande of Egypt all that was in the fielde both man beast and the hayle smote all the hearbes of the fielde and broke all the trees of the fielde 26 Only in the lande of Gosen where the chyldren of Israel were was there no hayle 27 And Pharao sent and called for Moyses and Aaron and sayde vnto them I haue nowe sinned the Lorde is righteous and I my people are vngodly 28 Pray ye vnto the Lorde that these thundringes of God and hayle may be sufficient and I will let you go and ye shall tary no longer 29 Moyses sayd vnto him Assoone as I am out of the citie I wyll spreade abrode my handes vnto the Lorde and the thunder shall ceasse neyther shall there be any more hayle that thou mayest knowe howe that the earth is the Lordes 30 But I knowe that thou and thy seruauntes yet feare not the face of the Lorde God 31 And so the flaxe and the barlye were smytten for the barly was shot vp and the flaxe was boulled 32 But the wheate and the rye were not smytten for they were late sowen 33 And Moyses went out of the citie frō Pharao and spread abrode his handes vnto the Lorde and the thunder and hayle ceassed neyther rayned it vpon the earth 34 And when Pharao sawe that the rayne and the hayle and thunder were ceassed he sinned yet more and hardened his heart he and his seruauntes 35 And the heart of Pharao was hardened neyther woulde he let the chyldren of Israel go as the Lorde had sayd by the hande of Moyses ¶ The .x. Chapter 1 God hardeneth Pharao 4 Moyses threatneth Pharao locustes 16 Pharao acknowledging his sinne requireth that prayer be made for him 19 Moyses prayeth for Pharao 21 Darknesse so grosse that it might be felt 1 AND the Lorde sayde vnto Moyses go in vnto Pharao for I haue hardened his heart the heart of his seruauntes that I might shewe these my signes before hym 2 And that thou tell in the audience of thy sonne of thy sonnes sonne what thinges I haue done in Egypt and the miracles which I haue done amongest them that they may know howe that I am the Lorde 3 And so Moyses and Aaron came vnto Pharao and said vnto him Thus sayeth the Lord God of the Hebrues How long wilt thou refuse to submit thy selfe vnto
me Let my people go that they may serue me 4 Or els if thou refuse to let my people go beholde to morowe wyll I bryng greshoppers into thy coastes 5 And they shall couer the face of the earth that it can not be seene and they shall eate the residue which remayneth vnto you and is escaped from the hayle and they shall eate euery greene tree that beareth you fruite in the fielde 6 And they shall fill thy houses and all thy seruauntes houses and the houses of all the Egyptians after suche a maner as neyther thy fathers nor thy fathers fathers haue seene since the tyme they were vpon the earth vnto this day And he turned him selfe about and went out from Pharao 7 And Pharaos seruauntes sayde vnto him howe long shall he be hurtfull vnto vs Let the men go that they may serue the Lorde their God knowest thou not yet that Egypt is destroyed 8 And Moyses Aaron were brought againe vnto Pharao and he sayde vnto them Go and serue the Lorde your God but who are they that shall go 9 And Moyses aunswered we will go with our young and with our olde yea and with our sonnes with our daughters and with our sheepe and with our oxen we must go for we must holde a feast vnto the Lorde 10 And he said vnto them Let the Lord be so with you as I will let you go and your chyldren take heede for ye haue some mischiefe in hande 11 Nay not so but go they that are men and serue the Lorde for that was your desire And they were thrust out of Pharaos presence 12 And the Lorde sayde vnto Moyses Stretch out thyne hand ouer the lande of Egypt for greshoppers that they may come vpon the land of Egypt and eate all the hearbes of the lande and all that the hayle left behynde 13 And Moyses stretched foorth his rod ouer the lande of Egypt and the Lorde brought an east winde vpon the lande all that day and all that nyght and in the morning the east winde brought the greshoppers 14 And the greshoppers went vp ouer all the lande of Egypt and remayned in all quarters of Egypt very greeuouslye before them were there no suche greshoppers neither after them shal be 15 For they couered all the face of the earth so that the lande was darke and they did eate al the hearbes of the land and all the fruites of the trees whatsoeuer the hayle had lefte there was no greene thyng left in the trees hearbes of the fielde through al y e land of Egypt 16 Therefore Pharao called for Moyses and Aaron in haste and sayde I haue sinned agaynst the Lord your God and agaynst you 17 And nowe forgeue me my sinne only this once and pray vnto the Lord your God that he may take awaye from me this death only 18 And Moyses went out from Pharao and prayed vnto the Lorde 19 And the Lorde turned a myghtie strong west wynde and it toke awaye the grashoppers and cast them into the red sea so that there was not one grashopper in all the coastes of Egypt 20 And the Lorde hardened Pharaos heart so that he woulde not let the children of Israel go 21 And the Lorde sayde vnto Moyses Stretche out thy hande vnto heauen that there may be vpon the lande of Egypt darknesse which may be felt 22 And Moyses stretched foorth his hand vnto heauen and there was a thicke darkenesse vpon all the lande of Egypt three dayes long 23 No man sawe another neither rose vp from the place where he was by the space of three dayes But al the children of Israel had light where thei dwelled 24 And Pharao called for Moyses and sayde Go and serue the Lorde onlye let your sheepe your oxen abyde and let your chyldren go with you 25 And Moyses sayde Thou must geue vs also offeringes and burnt offeringes for to do sacrifice vnto the Lorde our God 26 Our cattell also shall go with vs and there shall not one hoofe be left behynd for therof must we take to serue y e Lorde our God neither do we knowe with what we must do seruice vnto the Lord vntyll we come thyther 27 But the Lorde hardened Pharaos heart and he woulde not let them go 28 And Pharao sayde vnto hym Get thee from me and take heede vnto thy selfe that thou seest my face no more for whensoeuer thou commest in my syght thou shalt dye 29 And Moyses sayde Let it be as thou hast sayde I wyll see thy face no more ¶ The .xj. Chapter 1 The Lorde commaundeth the Hebrewes to robbe the Egyptians 4 The death of the first borne of all thynges 1 AND the Lorde sayde vnto Moyses Yet wyl I brynge one plague more vpō Pharao and vpon Egypt and after that he wyll let you go hence when he shal let you go quite he shall vtterly dryue you hence 2 Speake thou therfore in the eares of the people that euery man borowe of his neighbour and euery woman of her neighbour iewels of syluer and iewels of golde 3 And the Lorde shall geue the people fauour in the syght of the Egyptians Moreouer Moyses was a very great man in the lande of Egypt in the syght of Pharaos seruauntes and in the syght of the people 4 And Moyses sayde Thus sayth the Lorde At mydnyght wyll I go out into the myddest of Egypt 5 And all the first borne in all the land of Egypt shall dye euen frō the first borne of Pharao that sytteth on his seate vnto the first borne of the mayde seruaunt that is behynde the myll and all the first gendred of the cattell 6 And there shal be a great crye throughout all the lande of Egypt such as there was neuer none lyke nor shal be 7 But amongst the chyldren of Israel shal not a dogge moue his tounge from a man vnto a beast that ye may knowe how that the Lord putteth a difference betweene the Egyptians and Israel 8 And these thy seruauntes shal al come downe vnto me and fall before me and say Get thee out and all the people that are vnder thee and then wyll I depart And he went out from Pharao with an angry countenaunce 9 And the Lorde sayde vnto Moyses Pharao shall not heare you that my wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt 10 And Moyses and Aaron dyd all these wonders before Pharao And the Lord hardened Pharaos heart so that he woulde not let the chyldren of Israel go out of his lande ¶ The .xij. Chapter 1 The charge and maner of eatyng of the Passouer 26 A charge is geuen parentes to teache their chyldren the misterie of the Passouer 29 The murder of the first borne of Egypt 31 Pharao casteth out the chyldren of Israel 35 The Iewes do robbe the Egyptians of golden and syluer vessels 37 The chyldren of Israel do go out 40 They dwelt in
Ye shoulde haue eaten it in the holy place as I commaunded 19 And Aaron sayde vnto Moyses Beholde this day haue they offered their sinne offering and their burnt offering before the Lorde and suche thinges are come vnto me if I had eaten the sinne offering to day shoulde it haue ben accepted in the sight of the Lorde 20 And when Moyses hearde that he was content ⧠The xi Chapter 1 Of beastes fisshes and byrdes whiche be cleane and whiche be vncleane 1 AND the Lorde spake vnto Moyses and Aaron and sayde vnto them 2 Speake vnto the chyldren of Israel and say These are the beastes whiche ye shall eate among all the beastes that are on the earth 3 Whatsoeuer parteth the hoofe and is clouen footed and chaweth cud among the beastes that shall ye eate 4 Neuerthelesse these shall ye not eate of them that chawe cud and deuideth the hoofe onlye as is the Camell whiche chaweth cud but he deuideth not the hoofe therefore is he vncleane vnto you 5 Euen so the Connie whiche chaweth the cud but deuideth not the hoofe he is vncleane to you 6 And the Hare though he chaweth the cud yet because he deuideth not y e hoofe he is therefore vncleane to you 7 And agayne the Swyne though he deuide the hoofe and is clouen footed yet he chaweth not the cud he is vncleane to you 8 Of their fleshe shall ye not eate and their carkasses shall ye not touche but let them be vncleane to you 9 These shall ye eate of all that are in the waters whatsoeuer hath finnes and skales in the waters seas and riuers that shall ye eate 10 And all that haue not finnes nor skales in the sea and riuers of all that moue and liue in the waters let them be abhomination vnto you 11 They I say shal be an abhomination vnto you ye shall not eate of their flesh but abhorre their carkasses 12 Let all that haue no finnes nor skales in the waters be abhominable vnto you 13 These are they whiche ye shall abhorre among the foules and that ought not to be eaten for they are an abhomination The Egle the Goshauke and the Ospray 14 The Vultur and the Kyte after his ' kinde ' 15 And all Rauens after their kinde ' 16 The Estrich the nyght Crowe the Coockowe and the Hauke after his kynde ' 17 The Falcon the Cormorant the great ' Owle ' 18 The Backe the Pellicane the Pye ' ' 19 The Storke the Iay after his kinde ' the Lapwyng and the Swalowe 20 Let all foules that creepe and go vpon all foure be an abhomination vnto you 21 Yet these may ye eate of euery creepyng thyng that hath wynges and go vpon foure feete euen those that haue not bowynges aboue vpon their feete to leape withall vpon the earth 22 Euen these of them ye may eate the Arbe after his kinde the Selaam after his kinde the Hargol after his kinde and the Hagab after his kinde 23 All other foules that creepe and haue foure feete shal be abhomination vnto you 24 In such ye be vncleane and whosoeuer toucheth the carkasse of them shal be vncleane vntyll the euen 25 And whosoeuer beareth the carkasse of them shall washe his clothes and be vncleane vntyll the euen 26 And euery beast that hath hoofe and is not clouen footed nor chaweth cud such are vncleane vnto you euery one that toucheth them shal be vncleane 27 And whatsoeuer goeth vppon his pawes among all maner beastes that go on all foure feete such are vncleane vnto you and who so doth touche their carkasse shal be vncleane vntyll the euen 28 And he that beareth the carkasse of them shall washe his clothes and be vncleane vntyll the euen for such are vncleane vnto you 29 And let these also be vncleane to you among the thynges that creepe vpon the earth the Weasel and the Mouse and the Toade after ther kinde ' 30 The Hedhogge the Stellio the ' Lacert the Snayle and the Moole 31 These are vncleane to you among all that creepe whosoeuer doth touche them when they be dead shal be vncleane vntyll the euen 32 And whatsoeuer any of the dead carkasses of them doth fall vpon shal be vncleane whether it be vessell of wood or rayment or skinne or sacke or whatsoeuer vessell it be that any worke is wrought in and it must be plunged in the water and it shal be vncleane vntyll the euen and so shall it be cleansed 33 All maner of earthen vessell wherinto any of them falleth shal be vncleane with all that therein is and it shal be broken 34 All maner meate also that is vsed to be eaten yf any such water come vpō it shal be vncleane And all maner drynke that is vsed to be drunke in all maner such vessels shal be vncleane 35 And euery thyng that their carkasse falleth vpon shal be vncleane whether it be ouen or kettle let it be broken For they are vncleane and shal be vncleane vnto you 36 Neuerthelater yet the fountaynes and welles and collection of waters shal be cleane styll but that which toucheth their carkasses shal be vncleane 37 If the dead carkasse of any such fall vpon any seede vsed to sowe it shall yet be cleane styll 38 But and yf any water be powred vpon the seede and a dead carkasse fall theron it shal be vncleane vnto you 39 If any beast of which ye may eate dye and any man touche the dead carkasse thereof he shal be vncleane vntyll the euen 40 He that eateth of the dead carkasse of it shall washe his clothes and be vncleane vntyll the euen And he also that beareth the carkasse of it shall washe his clothes and be vncleane vntyll the euen 41 Let euery creepyng thyng that creepeth vpon the earth be an abhomination and not be eaten 42 Whatsoeuer goeth vpon the brest and whatsoeuer goeth vpon foure or that hath mo feete among all creepyng thynges that creepe vpon the earth of that see ye eate not for they are abhominable 43 Ye shall not make your soules abhominable with nothyng that creepeth neither make your selues vncleane with them that ye shoulde be defyled therby 44 For I am the Lorde your God Be sanctified therfore and ye shal be holy for I am holy and ye shall not defyle your soules with any maner of creeping thyng that creepeth vpon the earth 45 For I am the Lorde that brought you out of the lande of Egypt to be your God ye shal be holy therfore for I am holy 46 This is the lawe of beastes foules and of euery lyuyng creature that moueth in the waters and of euery creature that creepeth vpon the earth 47 That there may be a difference betweene the vncleane and cleane and betweene the beast that may be eaten and the beast that ought not to be eaten ' ¶ The .xij. Chapter ' ' 2 A lawe howe women shoulde be purged after their delyueraunce '
shut not vp the doores of my mothers wombe nor hyd sorowe from myne eyes 11 Alas why died I not in the birth why dyd not I perishe assoone as I came out of my mothers wombe 12 Why set they me vpon their knees why gaue they me sucke with their brestes 13 Then should I nowe haue lyen stil I shoulde haue slept and ben at rest 14 Lyke as the kinges and lordes of the earth which haue buylded them selues speciall places 15 Or as the princes that haue had golde and their houses full of siluer 16 Or why was not I hyd as a thing borne out of time either as young children which neuer sawe the light 17 There must the wicked ceasse from their tyrannie and there such as laboured valiauntly be at rest 18 There the prisoners rest together they heare no more the voyce of the oppressour 19 There are small and great and the seruaunt is free from his maister 20 Wherefore is the light geuen to hym that is in miserie lyfe vnto them that haue heauy heartes 21 Whiche long for death and finde it not though they search more for it than for treasures 22 Which reioyce exceedingly and be glad when they can finde the graue 23 From whom their endes are hyd and consealed by God 24 For my sighes come before I eate and my roringes are powred out like the water 25 For the thing that I feared is come vpon me and the thing that I was afrayde of is happened vnto me 26 Was I not happy Had I not quietnesse Was I not in rest And nowe commeth such miserie vpon me The .iiii. Chapter â— Iob is reprehended of impatiencie â— and vniustice â–ª â— and of the presumption of his owne righteousnes 1 ANd Eliphas the Themanite aunswered sayde 2 If we assay to come with thee wilt thou be discontent But who can withhold him selfe from speaking 3 Beholde thou hast ben an instructer of many hast strenghtned the weery handes 4 Thy wordes haue set vp him that was falling thou hast refreshed the weake knees 5 But nowe it is come vpon thee and thou art greeued it toucheth thee and thou art troubled 6 Was not thy feare according to thy hope and the perfectnesse of thy wayes according to thy expectation 7 Consider I pray thee who euer perished beyng an innocent or when were the godly destroyed 8 For as I haue proued by experience they that plow iniquitie sow wretchednesse reape the same 9 With the blast of God they perishe with the breath of his nostrels are they consumed away 10 The roring of the lion and the voyce of the lion and the teeth of the lions whelpes are pulled out 11 The lion perisheth for lake of pray the lions whelpes are scattered abrode 12 But wheras a thing was hyd from me yet myne eare hath receaued a litle therof 13 In the thoughtes and visions of the night when sleepe commeth on men 14 Feare came vpon me dread which made all my bones to shake 15 The winde passed by before my presence and made the heere 's of my fleshe to stande vp 16 He stoode thereon and I knewe not his face an image there was before myne eyes and in the stilnesse hearde I a voyce 17 Shall man be more iust then God or shall a man be purer then his maker 18 Beholde he founde not trueth in his seruauntes and in his angels there was folly 19 Howe much more in them that dwel in houses of clay and whose foundation is but dust which shall be consumed as it were with a moth 20 They shal be smitten from the morning vnto the euening yea they shall perishe for euer when no man regardeth them 21 Is not their royaltie gone away with them they shall dye truely and not in wysdome The .v. Chapter 1.2 Eliphas sheweth the difference betweene the children of God and the wicked 3 The fall of the wicked 9 Gods power who destroyeth the wicked and deliuereth his 1 CRye I pray thee if there be any that will aunswere thee loke thou vpon any of the holy 2 As for the foolish maÌ„ wrathfulnesse killeth him and enuie slayeth the ignorant 3 I haue seene my selfe when the foolish was deepe rooted and sodenly I cursed his habitation 4 His children were without prosperitie and they were slayne in the gate and there was no man to deliuer them 5 His haruest was eaten of the hungrie taken from among the thornes and the thurstie drunke vp their labour It is not the earth that bringeth foorth iniquitie 6 Neither commeth sorowe out of the ground 7 But man is borne vnto labour like as the sparkes flee vp out of the hot coles 8 But I woulde aske counsell at the Lorde and talke with God 9 Whiche doth great thinges and vnsearcheable and maruels without number 10 He geueth rayne vpon the earth and powreth water vpon the streetes 11 To set vp them that be of lowe degree and that those which are in heauenesse may be exalted to saluation 12 He destroyeth the deuices of the subtyll so that their handes are not able to perfourme that which they do enterprise 13 He compasseth the wise in their owne craftinesse maketh foolishe the counsell of the wicked 14 They runne into darknesse by fayre day and grope at the noone day as in the night 15 But he deliuereth the poore from the sworde from their threatninges and from the violence of the mightie 16 He is the hope of the poore the mouth of the wicked shal be stopped 17 Behold blessed is the man whom God correcteth therefore refuse not thou the chastening of the almightie 18 For he maketh a wounde and he healeth he smiteth and his hande maketh whole againe 19 He shall deliuer thee in sixe troubles in the seuenth there shall no euil come to thee 20 In hunger he shall saue thee from death and when it is 〈…〉 power of the sworde 21 Thou shalt be hyd from the â—ge of the tongue when destruction commeth thou shalt not neede to feare 22 In destruction and dearth thou shalt be mery and shalt not be afrayde of the beastes of the earth 23 For the stones of the land shal be confederate with thee and the beastes of the fielde shal be at peace with thee 24 And thou shalt knowe that thy dwelling place shal be in rest and thou shalt visite thy habitation shalt not sinne 25 Thou shalt see also that thy seede shall be great and thy posteritie as the grasse vpon the earth 26 Thou shalt come also to thy graue in a full age like a corne sheafe cut downe in due season 27 Lo this we our selues haue proued by experience and euen thus it is Hearken thou to it also that thou mayest take heede to thy selfe The .vi. Chapter 1 Iob aunswereth
Stoupe downe that we may go ouer thee make thy body euen with the grounde and as the streete to go vpon ¶ The .lij. Chapter 1 An exhortation and comfort to the people of God 1 VP Sion vp take thy strength vnto thee put on thyne honest rayment O Hierusalem thou holy citie for from this tyme foorth there shall no vncircumcised nor vncleane person come in thee 2 Shake thee from the dust arise and stande vp O Hierusalem Plucke out thy necke from the bonde O thou captiue daughter Sion 3 For thus saith the Lorde ye are solde for naught therfore shal ye be redeemed also without any money 4 For thus saith the Lorde God My people went downe afore tyme into Egypt there to be straungers and the kyng of the Assyrians oppressed them without any cause 5 And nowe what profite is it to me saith the Lorde that my people is freely caryed away brought into heauinesse by their rulers and my name euer styll blasphemed saith the Lorde 6 But that my people may knowe my name I my selfe wyll speake in that day Beholde here am I. 7 O howe beautifull are the feete of the embassadour that bryngeth the message from the mountayne and proclaymeth peace that bryngeth the good tidinges and preacheth health and saith vnto Sion Thy God is the kyng 8 Thy watchmen shall lyft vp their voyce with loude voyce they shall reioyce together for they shall see plainly when the Lorde shall conuert Sion 9 Be glad O thou desolate Hierusalem and reioyce together for the Lord hath comforted his people he hath deliuered Hierusalem 10 The Lorde hath made bare his holy arme and shewed it foorth in the syght of all the gentiles and all the endes of the earth hath seene the sauyng health of our God 11 Away away get you out from hence and touche no vncleane thyng Go out from among such and be cleane that beare the vessell of the Lorde 12 For ye shall not escape by runnyng nor by fleeyng away but the Lorde shall go before you and the God of Israel shall gather you together 13 Beholde my seruaunt shal deale prosperously therfore shal he be magnified exalted and greatly honoured 14 Lyke as the multitude shall wonder vpon hym because his face shal be so defourmed and not as mans face his beautie like no man 15 Euen so shall the multitude of the gentiles speake of him and kynges shall shut their mouthes before hym for they haue seene that which was not tolde to them and haue vnderstande that wherof they had not hearde The .liij. Chapter 1 He prophecâ—eth euidently of the passion of our sauiour Iesus Christe 1 BVt who hath geuen credence vnto our preaching or to whom is the arme of the Lorde knowen 2 For he dyd growe before the Lorde like as a braunche and as a roote in a drye grounde he hath neither beautie nor fauour when we loke vpon hym there shal be no fairenesse we shall haue no lust vnto hym 3 He is dispised and abhorred of men he is such a man as hath good experience of sorowes and infirmities We haue reckened hym so vile that we hyd our faces from hym 4 Howbeit he only hath taken on him our infirmitie and borne our paynes Yet we dyd iudge hym as though he were plagued and cast downe of God 5 Wheras he notwithstandyng was wounded for our offences and smitten for our wickednesse for the payne of our punishment was layde vpon hym and with his stripes are we healed 6 As for vs we are all gone astray lyke sheepe euery one hath turned his owne way but the Lord hath throwen vpon hym all our sinnes 7 He suffered violence and was euyll intreated and dyd not open his mouth He shal be led as a sheepe to be slayne yet shall he be as styll as a lambe before the shearer and not open his mouth 8 From the prison and iudgement was he taken and his generation who can declare for he was cut of from the grounde of the lyuyng which punishment dyd go vpon hym for the transgression of my people 9 His graue was geuen hym with the condempned and with the riche man at his death wheras he did neuer violence nor vnright neither hath there ben any disceiptfulnesse in his mouth 10 Yet hath it pleased the Lord to smite hym with infirmitie that when he had made his soule an offeryng for sinne he might see long lastyng seede and this deuice of the Lorde shall prosper in his hande 11 Of the trauayle and labour of his soule shall he see the fruite be satisfied My righteous seruaunt shall with his knowledge iustifie the multitude for he shall beare their sinnes 12 Therfore wyll I geue hym among the great ones his part and he shall deuide the spoyle with the mightie because he geueth ouer his soule to death and is reckened among the transgressours which neuerthelesse hath taken away the sinnes of the multitude and made intercession for the misdoers The .liiij. Chapter 1 Of the great dominion of Christe 7 The indignation of God endureth but a short space but his mercie is euerlastyng 1 BE glad nowe thou baren that bearest not reioyce syng and be mery thou that art not with childe for the desolate hath mo childreÌ„ then the maryed wyfe saith the Lorde 2 Make thy tent wyder and spreade out the hanginges of thine habitation spare not lay foorth thy wardes and make fast thy stakes 3 For thou shalt be multiplied on the ryght syde and on the left and thy seede shall haue the gentiles in possession and dwell in the desolate cities 4 Feare not for thou shalt not be confounded be not ashamed for thou shalt not come to confusion Yea thou shalt forget the shame of thy youth and shalt not remember the dishonour of thy widowhead 5 For he that made thee shal be thy Lorde and husbande whose name is the Lord of hoastes and thy redeemer shal be euen the holy one of Israel the Lorde of the whole worlde 6 For the Lorde hath called thee beyng as a desolate sorowfull woman and as a young wyfe that was forsaken saith thy God 7 A litle while haue I forsaken thee but with great mercifulnesse shall I take thee vp vnto me 8 When I was angry I hyd my face from thee for a litle season but through euerlastyng goodnesse haue I pardoned thee saith the Lorde thy redeemer 9 And this is vnto me as the water of Noe for like as I haue sworne that I wyll not bryng the water of Noe any more vpon the worlde so haue I sworne that I wyll neuer be angry with thee nor reproue thee 10 The mountaynes shall remoue and the hylles shall fall downe but my louyng kyndnesse shall not moue and the bonde of my peace shall not fall downe from thee saith the Lorde thy
saying Great and marueylous are thy workes Lorde God almightie iust and true are thy wayes thou kyng of saintes 4 Who shall not feare thee O Lorde and glorifie thy name for thou only art holy And all gentiles shal come and worship before thee for thy iudgemētes are made manifest 5 And after that I loked and beholde the temple of the tabernacle of testimonie was open in heauen 6 And the seuen angels came out of the temple which had the seuen plagues clothed in pure and bryght lynnen and hauing their brestes girded with golden girdels 7 And one of the foure beastes gaue vnto the seuen angels seuen golden vials full of the wrath of God which lyueth for euermore 8 And the temple was full of the smoke of the glorie of God and of his power and no man was able to enter into the temple tyll the seuen plagues of the seuen angels were fulfylled The .xvi. Chapter ◠The angels powre out their vials full of wrath 6 and what plagues folowe therof 15 Admonition to take heede and watche 1 AND I hearde a great voyce out of the temple saying to y e seuen angels Go your wayes powre out your vials of wrath vpon the earth 2 And the first angell went and powred out his vial vpon the earth and there fell a noysome and a sore botch vpon the men which had the marke of the beast and vpon them which worshipped his image 3 And the second angell shed out his vial vpon the sea and it turned as it were into the blood of a dead man and euery lyuyng thyng dyed in the sea 4 And the thirde angell shed out his viall vpon the ryuers and fountaynes of waters and they turned to blood 5 And I hearde the angell of the waters say Lorde which art and wast thou art ryghteous holy because thou hast geuen such iudgementes 6 For they shed out the blood of saintes and prophetes and therfore hast thou geuen them blood to drynke for they are worthie 7 And I heard another out of the aulter say euen so Lorde God almightie true and ryghteous are thy iudgementes 8 And the fourth angell powred out his viall on the sunne power was geuen vnto hym to vexe men with heate of fyre 9 And men boyled in great heate and blasphemed the name of God whiche hath power ouer these plagues they repented not to geue hym glorie 10 And the fifth angell powred out his viall vpon the seate of the beast and his kyngdome waxed darke they gnewe their tongues for sorowe 11 And blasphemed the God of heauen for their sorowe and for theirs sores and repented not of their deedes 12 And the sixt angell powred out his vial vpon the great riuer Euphrates and the water dryed vp that the wayes of the kynges of y e east should be prepared 13 And I sawe three vncleane spirites like frogges come out of the mouth of y e dragon out of the mouth of the beast out of the mouth of the false prophete 14 For they are the spirites of deuyls workyng miracles to go out vnto the kynges of the earth and of the whole worlde to gather them to the battayle of that great day of God almightie 15 Beholde I come as a theefe Happie is he that watcheth and kepeth his garmentes lest he walke naked and men see his fylthynesse 16 And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrue tongue Armagedon 17 And the seuenth angell powred out his viall into the ayre And there came a great voyce out of the temple of heauen from the throne saying it is done 18 And there folowed voyces thundringes lyghtnynges and there was a great earthquake such as was not sence men were vpon the earth so mightie an earquake and so great 19 And the great citie was deuided into three partes and the cities of all nations fell And great Babylon came in remembraunce before God to geue vnto her the cup of the wyne of the fearcenesse of his wrath 20 Euery I le also fledde away and the mountaynes were not founde 21 And there fell a great hayle as it had ben talentes out of heauen vpon the men and the men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hayle for the plague therof was exceadyng great ⧠The .xvij. Chapter 3 The discription of the great whore 8 her sinnes and punishment 14 The victorie of the lambe 1 AND there came one of the seuē angels which had the seuen vials talked with me saying vnto me Come I wyll shewe vnto thee the iudgement of the great whore that sitteth vpon many waters 2 With whom haue committed fornication the kynges of the earth and the inhabiters of the earth are dronken with the wyne of her fornication 3 So he caryed me away in the spirite into the wildernesse And I sawe a woman sit vpon a scarlet coloured beast ful of names of blasphemie which had seuen heades and ten hornes 4 And the woman was arayed in purple and scarlet colour and decked with golde precious stone and pearles and had a cup of golde in her hande full of abhominations and fylthynesse of her fornication 5 And in her forehead was a name written a misterie great Babylon the mother of whoredome abhominations of the earth 6 And I sawe y e woman dronken with the blood of the martirs of Iesus And when I sawe her I wondred with great maruayle 7 And the angell sayde vnto me wherfore maruaylest thou I wyll shewe thee the misterie of the woman and of the beast that beareth her which hath seuen heades and ten hornes 8 The beast that thou seest was and is not and shall ascende out of the bottomlesse pyt and shall go into perdition and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder whose names are not written in the booke of lyfe from the begynnyng of the world when they beholde the beast that was and is not and yet is 9 And here is a mynde that hath wisdome The seuen heades are seuen mountaynes on whiche the woman sitteth They are also seuen kynges 10 Fyue are fallen one is and another is not yet come And whē he commeth he must continue a short space 11 And the beast that was and is not is euen the eyght and is one of the seuen and shall go into destruction 12 And the ten hornes which thou sawest are ten kynges which haue receaued no kyngdome as yet but shall receaue power as kynges at one houre with the beast 13 These haue one mynde and shal geue their power strength vnto the beast 14 These shall fyght with the lambe and the lambe shall ouercome them For he is Lorde of Lordes and Kyng of Kynges and they that are on his syde are called and chosen and faythfull 15 And he sayde vnto me The waters which thou sawest where the whore sitteth are people and folke nations and tongues 16 And the ten hornes which
punyshmeÌ„t according to his worde i. Cor. xi a. (c) FroÌ„ doubtyng the deuyll bryngeth to denying (d) Sathan tempteth the woman also with ambitioÌ„ (e) The acte of sinne foloweth the miscrediting of gods worde Eccle. xxv i. Tim. ii d. () The corruption of all the nature of man by sinne (f) Such are the clokes we make to couer our synne (g) The corrupcion of mans nature after synne here appeareth (h) Adam playeth the hypocrite (i) Adam burdeneth God and the woman with his fault “ Or howe (k) In the minister is y e author of this mischiefe punyshed (l) The continuall fyght of the chyldreÌ„ of God Christe (m) Victorie is promysed by Christe to mans comfort () The calamities miseries whiche continually foloweth mankynde for synne i. Cor. xiiii f (n) He shulde haue ben his wyfes schoolmaister and preferred gods voyce before his wyues (o) It is not the age of the earth but the increase of synne that maketh the earth more barayne (p) Adam setteth foorth the benefite of lyfe which he receaued at Gods hands (q) It was gods gift that Adam thus prouided for hym selfe (r) God wold haue man and his posteritie to remember the cause of their miserie (Å¿) You may supplie the sentence with these wordes let vs caste him foorth (t) Adam can neuer in this lyfe obteyne y e felicitie which he loste by sinne (a) Heua thanketh god for the blessyng of chyldren “ he a man God (b) Though Adam was Lorde of all the earth yet he brought vp his chyldren not idelly (c) These chyldren were taught to worship God of their father d The faith of Habel made his oblatioÌ„ acceptable Hebr xi a. (e) The goodnesse of God towarde the godly greueth the wicked “ Or Shall ther not be an acceptation (f) That is God wyll accept thy sacrifice also if thei be offred faithfully (g) Cain had no â—e cause of enuie seing his auctoritie ouer Habel remayned sure vnto hym (h) Hypocrites disseÌ„blingly speke fayre VVisd x. Math. xxiii i. Para. iii. Iudges xi (i) With impietie mischiefe is foolyshnesse ioyned (k) God hath great care for his holy saintes (l) The very earth abhorreth sheddyng of blood (m) A fearefull conscience fyndeth reste no where “ Or My punyshement is greater theÌ„ that I may beare (n) See the degrees by the whiche Cain fel into desperation (o) A great punyshment not to be vnder the tuition of God (p) God wold haue Cain remayne for an example of his vengeaunce vpon murtherers (q) The excomunication or banishment of Cain (r) Temporall gyfts whiche God bestowed vpoÌ„ Cain and his posteritie (Å¿) For whatsoeuer cause this was don it was against the institution of matrimonie (t) Lamech a tyrant regardeth no mans councell but thynketh that he maye more safely persecut the iust men then Cain (v) By the chief part the whole seruice of God is signified whiche the godly began nowe to restore The preseruation of the Churche (a) The rehearsall of his succession or posteritie (b) Man a lyuely image of Gods wisdome iustice (c) The husbande and the wyfe as one man (e) Moyses speaketh not of Cain and such for that they wer not of the church neither came Christe of their line i. Chro. i a. (f) Adam lyued vnto Nohas fathers dayes (g) Thus the rewarde of sin is death thorowout all ages (h) Many holy patriarkes lyued in the church at one tyme. (i) They be only rehearsed by name who were as lyghtes in the Churche (k) He lyued vntyl the .84 yere of Noahs lyfe Eccle. 44. c. Hebr. xi a. (l) He directed his lyfe not after the maners of the world then but accordyng to gods word (m) Why god toke awaye this Godly preacher from the world see wisd the .4 chapter (n) As he was a singuler patrone of godly lyfe so was he an ensample of immortall lyfe resurrection (o) He lyued 6 yeres before the floud as S. Augustine reckeneth (p) Lamech prophesieth of the relief whiche the godly loked for in those miserable tymes (q) All the holy patriarkes rehearsed before dyed in this mans dayes (a) This corruption began long before Noahs tyme. (b) The sonnes of y e godly ioyned them selues with y e daughters of the wicked without all feare of God (c) God had gone about diuers ways to call the world to repentance but mans obstinacie was such as wold not obey but waxed beastly () Tyme of repentaunce grauÌ„ted to the wicked world (d) Tirannie and oppressioÌ„ an other cause of the floud (e) God saw not only y e out warde deedes of meÌ„ naught but their heartes set vpon wickednesse altogether so that ther was no hope they would amend Gen. viii d. Mat xv b. (f) Our sinne the punyshment thereof greeueth God (g) Moyses writeth of god to our vnderstandyng (h) That is God fauoured him and was merciful vnto hym (i) In those most corrupt tymes Noah continued iust and vpright (k) To the eyes of the worlde the wycked seemed as pure as Noah (l) Because all the inhabitaunce had corrupted both religion life (m) God by his threatninges sturreth Noah to greater care and feare (n) Gopher a very lyght kinde of wood (o) The length of the windowe was a cubite (p) It sâ—emed to the worlde then â— thing vnpossible () The vse of the arke (q) That Noah should â—e safe though all the worlde perishe (r) Gods promyse made Noah more redy to do gods commaundement (Å¿) Not one payre alone as appeareth in the next Chapter (t) God could haue fed al miraculouslye but he woulde haue meanes vsed (u) The true and ful obedience of Noah (a) Temporall benefites God bestoweth vpon the chyldren for the fathers godlines sake â— Pet. ii a. (b) Not seueÌ„ payre but three and one for sacrifice (c) God wold not haue Noah to be in doubt of any circumstaunce Mat. 24. d. Luk. xvii f. i. Pet. iii. d. (d) Noah obeyed not in one thing but in all that god commaunded (e) Age dyd not make Noah the slower to obey Gods wyll (f) As to Adam so nowe to Noah god caused all cattell to come (g) In the latter ende of Aprill when all thynges were moste pleasaunt theÌ„ this destruction came (h) God in his punyshment geueth place of repentaunce (i) This is oft tyme repeted for that it seemeth vncredible to the sense of man (k) The hand of God stayed the waters out of the arke (l) Moyses fyrst declareth how the godlye is saued then the destruction of the wycked (m) Thâ— were other particuler fluddes but this was vniuersall VVisd x. a. Eccle. xl (n) The greeuous punyshment of God for sinne (o) That is all that liued (p) Of fishe there is no mention made by Moyses (q) Thus was he rewarded y t rather folowed God then the multitude of wycked i. Peter iii. (a) God sheweth him selfe mindful by declaryng his helpe (b) God createth the wyndes and bringeth them out of his
translation as that hereafter might folowe no other that might see that which as yet was not vnderstanded In this poynt it is conuenient to consider the iudgement that Iohn once byshop of Rochester was in who thus wrote It is not vnknowen but that many thinges hath ben more diligently discussed and more clearely vnderstanded by the wittes of these latter dayes aswell concerning the gospels as other scriptures then in olde tyme they were The cause whereof is saith he for that to the olde men the yse was not broken or for that their age was not sufficient exquisitely to expende the whole mayne sea of the scriptures or els for that in this large field of the scriptures a mā may gather some eares vntouched after the haruest men howe diligent soeuer they were For there be yet saith he in the gospels very many darke places whiche without all doubt to the posteritie shal be made muche more open For why should we dispayre herein seing the gospell wryteth he was deliuered to this intent that it might be vtterly vnderstanded of vs yea to the very inche VVherfore forasmuche as Christe sheweth no lesse loue to his Churche now then hitherto he hath done the aucthoritie wherof is as yet no whit diminished and forasmuch as that holy spirite the perpetuall keper and gardian of the same Church whose gyftes and graces do flowe as continually and as aboundantly as from the deginning who can doubt but that such thinges as remayne yet vnknowen in the gospell shal be hereafter made open to the latter wittes of our posteritie to their cleare vnderstanding Thus farre this wryter Only good readers let vs oft call vpon the holy spirite of God our heauenly father by the mediation of our Lorde and sauiour with the wordes of the octonary psalme of Dauid who did so importunatly craue of God to haue the vnderstanding of his lawes and testament Let vs humblye on our knees pray to almightie God with that wyse kyng Solomon in his very wordes saying thus O God of my fathers and Lorde of mercies thou that hast made all thynges with thy worde and didst ordayne man through thy wisdome that he shoulde haue dominion ouer thy creatures which thou hast made and that he shoulde order the worlde according to holinesse and righteousnesse and that he shoulde execute iudgement with a true heart geue me wisdome whiche is euer about thy seate and put me not out from among thy chyldren For I thy seruaunt and sonne of thy handmayden am a feeble person of a short time and to weake to the vnderstanding of thy iudgementes and lawes And though a man be neuer so perfect among the children of men yet if thy wisdome be not with him he shal be of no value O sende her out therfore from thy holy heauens and from the throne of thy maiestie that she may be with me and labour with me that I may knowe what is acceptable in thy sight for she knoweth and vnderstandeth all thinges and she shall leade me soberly in my workes and preserue me in her power So shall my workes be acceptable by Christe our Lorde To whom with the father and the holy ghost be all honour and glorie worlde without ende Amen ⧠A prologue or preface made by Thomas Cranmer late Archbishop of Canterburie COncernyng two sundry sortes of people it seemeth much necessarie that some thyng be sayde in the entrie of this booke by the way of a preface or prologue wherby hereafter it may be both the better accepted of them which hitherto coulde not well beare it and also the better vsed of them which heretofore haue misused it For truely some there are that be to slowe and neede the spurre some other seme to quicke and neede more of the brydle some lose their game by short shotyng some by ouer shotyng some walke to much on the left hande some to much on the ryght In the former sort be all they that refuse to reade or to heare redde the scripture in the vulgar tongue much worse they that also let or discourage the other from the readyng or hearyng therof In the latter sort be they which by their inordinate readyng vndiscrete speakyng contentious disputyng or otherwise by their licentious lyuyng slaunder and hynder the worde of God most of all other wherof they woulde seeme to be greatest furtherers These two sortes albeit they be most farre vnlyke the one to the other yet they both deserue in effect lyke reproche Neither can I well tell whether of them I may iudge the more offendour hym that doth obstinately refuse so godly and goodly knowledge or hym that so vngodly and so vngoodly doth abuse the same And as touchyng the former I woulde maruayle much that any man shoulde be so mad as to refuse in darknesse lyght in hunger foode in colde fire for the worde of God is lyght Lucerna pedibus meis verbum tuum Thy worde is a lanterne vnto my feete It is foode Non in solo pane viuit homo sed in omni verbo dei Man shall not lyue by bread only but by euery worde of God It is fire Ignem veni mittere in tertam quid volo nisi vt ardeat I am come to sende fire on the earth and what is my desire but that it be kindled I woulde maruayle I say at this saue that I consider how much custome vsage may do So that if there were a people as some write de Cymeriis which neuer sawe the sunne by reason that they be situated farre towarde the North pole and be inclosed and ouershadowed with hye mountaynes it is credible and lyke inough that yf by the power and wyll of God the mountaynes shoulde sinke downe and geue place that the lyght of the sunne myght haue entraunce to them at the first some of them woulde be offended therwith And the olde prouerbe affirmeth that after tillage of corne was first founde many delited more to feede of mast and acornes wherwith they had ben accustomed then to eate bread made of good corne Such is the nature of custome that it causeth vs to beare al thinges well and easyly wherwith we haue ben accustomed and to be offended with all thynges thervnto contrary And therfore I can well thinke them worthy pardon which at the commyng abrode of scripture doubted and drewe backe But such as wyll persist styll in their wilfulnesse I must needes iudge not only foolishe frowarde and obstinate but also peeuishe peruerse and indurate And yet if the matter shoulde be tryed by custome we myght also to aleage custome for the readyng of the scripture in the vulgar tongue and prescribe the more auncient custome For it is not muche aboue one hundred yere ago since scripture hath not ben accustomed to be read in the vulgare tongue within this realme and many hundred yeres before that it was translated and red in the Saxones tongue which at that time was our mother tongue
people after Moyses .32 yeres 2688. After Iosuah Othoniel gouerned .8 yeres Iud. 9. then Aod 80. Iud. 3. After Aod Debora fourtie Iudges 4. Then Gedeon other fourtie yeres Iudges 8. 2732. Abimelech gouerned after Gedeon three yeres Iud. 9. then Thola 23. yeres Iud. 10. Thola being deceassed the people were .18 yeres vnder the tyranny of the Ammonites Iud. 10. 2755. Iephte deliuered the people from the hands of the Ammonites gouerned .6 yeres Iud. 12. After Iephte Abessan gouerned .7 yeres Iud. 12. Then Elon 10. yeres Iud. 12. 2833. Abdon gouerned after Elon eyght yeres Iud. 12. Then Sampson .20 yeres Iud. 13. Then Eli fourtie yeres 1. Sam. 4. 2863. After Eli Samuel and Saul gouerned fourtie yeres but the scripture because of Sauls royall dignitie attributeth all this gouernment to him Actes 7. 2943. Dauid raigned after Saul 40. yeres 2. Sam. 5. Solomon his sonne raigned three yeres before the building of the temple which is .480 yeres after the departure out of Egypt 3. Kinges .6 and raigned in all .40 yeres 3. King .11 3004. Rehoboam the sonne of Solomon raigned .17 yeres 3. King 12. Also Abiam his sonne raigned three yeres 3. King 15. Then Asa 41. yeres 3. King .15 3041. Iosaphat raigned after Asa 25. yeres 3. King 15. And Ioram his sonne raigned three yeres with his father and fiue yeres alone 4. King 8. Ochozias raigned after Ioram 7. yeres 2. Chro. 22. 3117. Athalia the mother of Ochozias raigned seuen yeres 4. Reg. 11. Ioas raigned after her fourtie yeres 4. Reg. 12. After him Amasias his sonne raigned .29 yeres .4 Reg. 14. 3180. After Amasias the people were without king eleuen yeres as we may gather by the .14 and 15. chapter of the .4 Reg. Then Azarias raigned .52 yeres 4. Reg. 15. 3â—41 Ioathan raigned after Azarias sixteene yeres 4. Reg. 15. After Ahaz his sonne raigned .16 yeres 4 Reg. 16. And after him Ezechias .29 yeres 4. Reg. 18. 3323. and 3. monethes Manasses the sonne of Ezechias raigned .55 yeres 4. Reg. 21. Amon his sonne two yeres 4. Reg. 21. Then Iosia 31. yeres 4. Reg. 22. And Iehoaz three monethes 4. Reg. 23. 3340. and 6. monethes Eliachim otherwyse called Ioachin raigned eleuen yeres 4. Reg. 23. And after him Iechonias three monethes after which time he was led captiue into Babylon 4. Reg. 23. 3421. and 6. monethes Sedechias raigned .11 yeres and then was slayne the citie of Hierusalem with the temple rased downe and the people led captiue into Babylon where they remayned .70 yeres 4. Re. 25. 3975. and 6. monethes After the 70. yeres of captiuitie Cyrus the first monarke of the Persians set the people at libertie againe and suffered them to returne into their owne lande It was reuealed to Daniel the prophete that there shoulde be 70. weekes of yeres which is 490. yeres reckening from the commaundement geuen to buyld the citie vntill Iesus Christ Dani. 9. And this commaundement was geuen by Darius Longimanus the twentith yere of his empire Nehem. 2. which was .64 yeres after the aforesayde deliueraunce VVherfore reckening the sayde 64. yeres after the deliueraunce and adding therto the .70 weekes aforesayde reuealed vnto Daniel we shall finde that from the sayde deliueraunce vntill the death of Christ there is fiue hundreth fiftie and foure yeres 5510. and 6. monethes From the natiuitie of Christ to this present yere we recken a thousande fiue hundred sixtie eyght from which number if we subtract the yeres from his birth vntil his death which is three and thirtie we shall finde that from the end of the sayd seuentie weekes of Daniel vntil this present yere it is .1535 yeres  All whiche aforesayde beyng well examined and reckened ye shall finde that since the creation of the world to this present yere of .1568 the yeres amount to .5503 yeres and sixe monethes ⧠The order of the bookes of the olde Testament The first part GEnesis Exodus Leuiticus Numerus Deuteronomium The seconde part Iosuah Iudges Ruth First kinges or Samuel 2. Kinges or Samuel 3. Kinges 4. Kinges 1. Cronicle 2. Cronicle 1. Esdras 2. Esdras Hester Iob. The thirde part of the Bible The Psalter The Prouerbes of Solomon Ecclesiastes or Preacher Cantica canticorum Esai Ieremi Lamentation of Ieremi Ezechiel Daniel Osea Ioel. Amos. Abdias Ionas Micheas Nahum Habacuc Sophonias Aggeus Zacharias Malachias The fourth part of the Bible called Apocryphus 3. Esdras 4. Esdras Tobias Iudith Booke of wysdome Ecclesiasticus or the booke of Iesus Syrach The reste of the booke of Hester Baruch The song of the three children The story of Susanna The story of Bel and the Dragon The prayer of Manasses 1. Machabees 2. Machabees The order of the bookes of the newe Testament The fifth part The Gospell S. Matthewe The Gospell S. Marke The Gospell S. Luke The Gospell S. Iohn The actes of the Apostles S. Paules Epistle to the Romanes 1. To the Corinthians 2. To the Corinthians To the Galathians To the Ephesians To the Philippians To the Colossians 1. To the Thessalonians 2. To the Thessalonians 1. Timothe 2. Timothe To Titus To Philemon To the Hebrues The Epistle of S. Iames. 1. Of S. Peter 2. Of S. Peter 1. Of S. Iohn 2. Of S. Iohn 3. Of S. Iohn The Epistle of S. Iude. The reuelation of S. Iohn The first booke of Moyses called in Hebrue of the first worde of the booke Bereschith and in Greke Genesis ⧠The first Chapter 2 The earth and the deapthes 3 Lyght 6 The firmament or heauen 10 The earth and the sea 14 The sunne the moone and the starres 21 Fisshes 24 The beastes of the earth 26 The creation of man 29 God geueth vnto man the power of procreation and subdueth all thynges vnto hym 30 Gods prouision for lyuelode 1 IN the beginnyng GOD created y e heauen and the earth 2 And the earth was without fourme and was voyde darknes was vpon the face of the deepe and the spirite of God moued vpon the face of the waters 3 And God sayde let there be light and there was light 4 And God sawe the lyght that it was good and God deuided the lyght from the darknes 5 And God called the light day and the darknes night and the euenyng the mornyng were the first day 6 And God said let there be a firmament betwene the waters and let it make a diuision betwene waters and waters 7 And God made the firmament and set the diuision betwene the waters which were vnder the firmament and the waters that were * aboue the firmament and it was so 8 And God called the firmament the heauen and the euenyng and the mornyng were the seconde day 9 And God saide let the waters vnder the heauen be gathered together into one place and let the drye lande appeare and it was so 10 And God called the drie lande y e earth
and the gatheryng together of waters called he the seas and God sawe that it was good 11 And God sayde f let the earth bryng foorth both budde and hearbe apt to seede and fruitfull trees yeeldyng fruite after his kynde which hath seede in it selfe vpon the earth and it was so 12 And the earth brought forth both bud and hearbe apt to seede after his kynde and tree yeeldyng fruite whiche hath seede in it selfe after his kynde 13 And God sawe that it was good And the euenyng and the mornyng were the thirde day 14 And God sayde let there be lyghtes in the firmament of the heauen that they may deuide the day and the nyght and let them be for signes seasons and for dayes and yeres 15 And let them be for lyghtes in the firmament of the heauen that they maye geue light vpō the earth and it was so 16 And God made two great lyghtes a greater lyght to rule the day and a lesse lyght to rule the nyght and he made starres also 17 And God set them in the firmament of the heauen to shyne vpon the earth 18 And to rule the day and nyght and to make difference betweene the lyght and the darknesse and God saw that it was good 19 And the euenyng and the mornyng were the fourth day 20 And God sayde let the waters bryng foorth mouyng creature that hath lyfe and foule that may flee vpon the earth in the open firmament of heauen 21 And God created great whales and euery lyuyng mouing creature which the waters brought foorth after theyr kynde euery fethered foule after their kynde and God saw that it was good 22 And God blessed them saying Be fruiteful and multiplie and fyll the waters of the sea and let foule multiple in the earth 23 And the euenyng and mornyng were the fift day 24 And God sayde let the earth bryng foorth lyuyng creature after his kynde cattell worme and beastes of the earth after his kynde and it was so 25 God made the beast of the earth after his kynde and cattell after his kynde and euery thyng that creepeth vpon the earth after his kynde and God sawe that it was good 26 God saide let vs make man in our image after our lykenesse and let them haue rule of the fisshe of the sea of the foule of the ayre and of cattell of all the earth and of euery creepyng thyng that creepeth vpon the earth 27 So God created man in his owne image in the image of God created he him male and female created he them 28 And God blessed them and God sayde vnto them be fruitefull multiplie and replenishe the earth subdue it and haue dominion of the fisshe of the sea and foule of the ayre of euery lyuing thing that moueth vpon the earth 29 And God sayde beholde I haue geuen you euery hearbe bearing seede which is in the vpper face of all y e earth and euery tree in the which is the fruite of a tree bearing seede that they may be meate vnto you 30 To euery beast of the earth also and to euery birde of the aire and to euery such thing that creepeth vpon y e earth which doth liue I haue geuen euery greene hearbe for meate and it was so 31 And God sawe euery thyng that he had made and beholde it was exceedyng good And the euenyng the mornyng were the sixth day ¶ The .ij. Chapter 2 The day of rest is blessed 4 A repeatyng of thynges foretolde in the first 6 The cloude from the earth as a well to water it 7 He rehearseth agayne the fashionyng of man 8 Man in the paradise of pleasure 10 The wood of lyfe the wood of knowledge 11.13.14 The ryuers names 16 God forbyddeth man the tree of knowledge of good and euyll 19 Adam geueth names vnto all lyuyng thynges 22 Woman is created 23 The institution of holy mariage 1 THe heauens also the earth were finisshed all the hoast of them 2 And in the seuenth day God ended his worke whiche he had made And the seuēth day he rested from all his worke which he had made 3 And God blessed the seuenth daye sanctified it because that in it he had rested from all his worke whiche God ordeyned to make 4 These are the generations of the heauens and of the earth when they were created in the day when the Lord God made the earth and the heauens 5 And euery plant of the fielde before it was in the earth and euery hearbe of the fielde before it grewe For the Lord God had not yet caused it to rayne vppon the earth neither was there a man to tyll the grounde 6 But there went vp a miste from the earth watered the whole face of the grounde 7 The Lorde God also dyd shape man euen dust frō of the grounde breathed into his nosethrylles the breath of lyfe and man was a lyuyng soule 8 And the Lord God planted a garden eastwarde in Eden and there he put the man whom he had shapen 9 Moreouer out of the grounde made the Lorde God to growe euery tree that was fayre to syght and pleasaunt to eate The tree of lyfe in the myddest of the garden and the tree of knowledge of good and euyll 10 And out of Eden there went foorth a flood to water the garden and from thence it was deuided and became into foure heades 11 The name of y e first is Pison the same is it that compasseth the whole lande of Hauilah where there is golde 12 And the golde of the lande is very good There is also Bdellium and the Onix stone 13 The name of the seconde riuer is Gyhon the same is it that compasseth the whole lande of Ethiopia 14 The name of y e thirde ryuer is Hidekel it goeth toward the east side of Assiria the fourth ryuer is Euphrates 15 And the Lord God toke the man and put hym in the garden of Eden that he myght worke it and kepe it 16 And the Lorde God commaunded the man saying eating thou shalt eate of euery tree of the garden 17 But as touching the tree of knowlege of good and euyll thou shalt not eate of it For in what daye so euer thou eatest therof thou shalt dye the death 18 And the Lord God sayde It is not good y t the man should be alone I wyll make hym an helpe lyke vnto hym 19 And so out of the grounde the Lorde God had shapen euery beast of the field and euery foule of the ayre and brought it vnto man that he myght see howe he woulde call it For lykewyse as man hym selfe named euery lyuyng thyng euen so was the name therof 20 And the man gaue names to all
God shut hym in rounde about 17 And the fludde came fourtie dayes vpon the earth and the waters were increased and bare vp the arke whiche was lyft vp aboue the earth 18 The waters also waxed strong and were encreased exceedyngly vpon the earth and so the arke went vpon the vpper face of the waters 19 And the waters preuayled exceedingly vpon the earth and al the high hilles that are vnder the whole heauen were couered 20 Fyfteene cubites vpward did the waters preuayle so that the mountaynes were couered 21 And all fleshe perished that moued vpon the earth in foule in cattell in beast and in euery worme that creepeth vpon the earth yea and euery man also 22 So that all that had the breath of lyfe in his nostrilles throughout all that was on the drye lande dyed 23 And euery substaunce was destroyed that remayned and that was in the vpper part of the grounde both man and cattell and worme and the foule of the heauen they were euen destroyed from of the earth and Noah onlye remayned aliue and they that were with him in the arke 24 But the water preuayled vpon the earth a hundreth and fiftie dayes ¶ The .viii. Chapter 1 The waters of the generall ouerflowyng do decrease 4 The arke resteth vpon a mount 7 The Rauen is sent foorth 8 Noah sendeth foorth a Doue 10 He sendeth it out againe 13 The waters are dryed 16 Noah is bydden to go out of the arke 18. He goeth out 20 He offereth an acceptable sacrifice vnto God 21 The deluge shall be no more The heart of man is euyll 1 AND God remēbred Noah and euery beast and all the cattell that was with hym in the arke and God made a wynde to passe vpon the earth and the waters ceassed 2 The fountaynes also of the deepe and the windowes of heauen were stopped and the rayne from heauen was restrayned 3 And the waters from the earth returned goyng and comming agayne and after the ende of the hundreth and fiftith day the waters were abated 4 And in the seuen moneth in the seuenteenth day of y e moneth the arke rested vpon the mountaynes of Armenia 5 And the waters were goyng and decreasing vntyll the tenth moneth In the tenth moneth and in the first day of the same moneth were the toppes of the mountaynes seene 6 And after the ende of the fourtith day it came to passe that Noah opened the wyndowe of the arke which he had made 7 And he sent foorth a Rauen whiche went out goyng foorth and returnyng vntyll the waters were dryed vp vpon the earth 8 And agayne he sent foort a Doue from him that he myght see yf the waters were abated from the vpper face of the grounde 9 And the Doue founde no rest for the sole of her foote and she returned vnto him into the arke for the waters were in the vpper face of the whole earth Then he put foorth his hande tooke her and pulled her to him into the arke 10 And he abode yet other seuen dayes and agayne he sent foorth the Doue out of the arke 11 And the Doue came to hym in the euentide and loe in her mouth was an Oliue leafe that she had pluct wherby Noah dyd knowe that the waters were abated vpon the earth 12 And he abode yet other seuen dayes and sent foorth the Doue whiche returned not vnto him any more 13 And it came to passe in the sixe hundreth and one yere in y e first moneth the first day of the moneth the waters were dryed vp from the earth and Noah remoued the coueryng of the arke and looked and beholde the vpper face of the grounde was dryed vp 14 And in the seconde moneth in the seuen and twentie day of the moneth was the earth dryed 15 And God spake vnto Noah saying 16 Go foorth of the arke thou and thy wife thy sonnes and thy sonnes wiues with thee 17 And bryng foorth with thee euery beast that is with thee of all fleshe both foule and cattell and euery worme that crepeth vpon the earth that they may breede in the earth and bring foorth fruite and multiplie vpon earth 18 And so Noah came foorth and his sonnes his wyfe and his sonnes wiues with hym 19 Euery beast also and euery worme euery foule and whatsoeuer crepeth vpon the earth after their kyndes went out of the arke 20 And Noah builded an aulter vnto y e Lorde and tooke of euery cleane beast and of euery cleane foule offred burnt offering on the aulter 21 And the Lorde smelled a sweete or quiet sauour and the Lord sayde in his heart I wyll not hencefoorth curse the grounde any more for mans sake for the imagination of mans heart is euyll euen from his youth neyther wyll I smyte any more euery thyng lyuyng as I haue done 22 Yet therefore shall not sowyng tyme and haruest colde and heate sommer and wynter day and nyght ceasse all the dayes of the earth ¶ The .ix. Capter 6 The title of the sworde The couenaunt of God with Noah that the deluge shal be no more 10 The signe confirming the couenaunt the raynebowe in the cloudes 18 The sonnes of Noah Chanaan 20 Noah an husbandman planteth a vine 22 He is mocked of his sonne beyng ouercome with wyne 25 Chanaan is cursed 26. 27 Sem and Iapheth be blessed 29 The yeres of Noah 1 ANd god blessed Noah and his sonnes saide vnto them be fruitfull and multiplie and replenishe the earth 2 The feare of you the dread of you shal be vpon euery beast of the earth and vpon euery foule of the ayre vpon al that moueth vpon the earth and vpon all the fishes of the sea into your hande are they deliuered 3 Euery thyng that moueth it selfe and that liueth shall be meate for you euen as the greene hearbe haue I geuē you all thinges 4 But flesh in the life therof which is the blood therof shall ye not eate 5 And surely your blood of your lyues wyl I require at the hande of euery beast wyll I require it and at the hand of man at the hande of mans brother wyll I require the life of man 6 Who so sheddeth mans blood by man shall his blood be shed for in the image of God made he man 7 But be fruitefull and multiplie you breede in the earth and increase therein 8 God spake also vnto Noah to his sonnes with hym saying 9 Beholde I euen I establishe my couenaunt with you and with your seede after you 10 And with euery liuing creature that is with you in foule in cattell in euery beast of the earth whiche is with you of all that go out of the arke whatsoeuer liuing thyng of the earth it be 11 And my
couenaunt I make with you that from hencefoorth euery fleshe be not rooted out with the waters of a fludde neither shall there be a fludde to destroy the earth any more 12 And God sayde this is the token of the couenaūt which I make betweene me and you and euery lyuyng creature that is with you for euer 13 I do set my bowe in the cloude and it shall be for a token betweene me and the earth 14 And it shall come to passe that when I bryng a cloude vpon the earth the bowe also shal be seene in y e same cloude 15 And I wyll thinke vpon my couenaunt whiche is betweene me and you and euery liuing creature in all fleshe and it shall no more come to passe that waters make a fludde to destroy all fleshe 16 And the bowe shal be in the cloude and I wyll loke vpon it that I may thinke vpon the euerlasting couenaunt betweene god and euery liuing creature in all fleshe that is vpon the earth 17 And God sayd vnto Noah This is the token of the couenaunt which I haue made betweene me and all fleshe that is vpon earth 18 The sonnes of Noah goyng foorth of the arke were Sem Ham Iapheth and Ham is the father of Chanaan 19 These are the three sonnes of Noah of them was the whole earth ouerspread 20 Noah also began to be an husbandman and planted a vineyarde 21 And he drynkyng of the wyne was dronken and vncouered within his tent 22 And Ham the father of Chanaan seeyng the nakednesse of his father tolde his two brethren without 23 And Sem and Iapheth takyng a garment layde it vpon their shoulders and commyng backwarde couered the nakednesse of their father namely their faces beyng turned away lest they should see their fathers nakednesse 24 And Noah awoke from his wine and knewe what his younger sonne had done vnto him 25 And he sayde cursed be Chanaan a seruaunt of seruauntes shall he be vnto his brethren 26 He sayde moreouer blessed be the Lord God of Sem and Chanaan shal be his seruaunt 27 God shall enlarge Iapheth and he shall dwell in the tentes of Sem and Chanaan shal be his seruaunt 28 Noah liued after the fludde three hundred and fiftie yeres 29 And all the dayes of Noah were nine hundred and fiftie yeres and he dyed The .x. Chapter 1 The sonnes of Iapheth 5 Of what persons landes were deuided 6 The sonnes of Ham. 8 Nimroth 9 A prouerbe 10 Babylon 11 Assur Niniue is buylt 14 The Philistines The Chanaanites 22 The sonnes of Sem. 25 Peleg 32 Of whom landes were deuided after the deluge 1 THese are the generations of the sonnes of Noah Sem Ham and Iapheth and vnto them were chyldren borne after the fludde 2 The children of Iapheth Gomer and Magog and Madai and Iauan and Thubal Mesech and Thiras ' 3 The children of Gomer Askenas and ' Ripath and Thogarma ' 4 The children of Iauan Elisa Tharsis ' Kitthim and Donanim 5 Of these were the Iles of the gentiles deuided in their landes euery one after his tongue and after his kinrede in their nations ' 6 The children of Ham Chus and Mizraim ' and Phut and Chanaan 7 And the children of Chus Seba and Hauilah and Sabthah and Raamah and Sabtheca ' 8 The children of Raamah Seba and ' Dedan Chus also begat Nimrod 9 The same began to be mightie in the earth for he was a mightie hunter before the Lorde Wherfore it is sayde Euen as Nimrod the mightie hunter before the Lorde 10 The begynnyng of his kingdome was Babel and Erech Acad and Calneh in the lande of Sinar 11 Out of that lande came Assur and builded Niniue and the citie Rehoboth and Calah 12 Resen also betweene Niniue Chalah ' and it is a great citie ' 13 Mizraim begat Ludim and Anamim and Lehabim and Nephthuim 14 Pathrusim also and Casluhim out of ' whom came Philisthiim Capthorim ' 15 Chanaan begat Sidon his first borne sonne and Heth 16 And Iebusi and Emori and Girgasi ' 17 And Hiui also and Arki and Sini ' 18 And Aruadi and Semari and Hamathi and afterwarde were the kinredes of the Chanaanites spread abrode 19 The border of the Chanaanites was from Sidon as thou commest to Gerar vnto Azah and as thou goest vnto Sodoma and Gomorra and Adama and Seboim euen vnto Lesa 20 These are the children of Ham in their kinredes in their tongues countreys and in their nations 21 Vnto Sem also the father of all the children of Heber and elder brother of Iapheth there were chyldren borne ' 22 The chyldren of Sem Elam and ' Assur Arphaxad and Lud and Aram. ' 23 The chyldren of Aram Vs and Hul ' Gether and Mas. ' 24 Arphaxad begat Selah and Selah ' begat Heber 25 Vnto Heber also were borne two sonnes the name of the one was Peleg for in his dayes was the earth deuided and his brothers name was Iactan 26 Iactan begat Almodad and Saleph ' Hazarmaueth and Ierah ' 27 And Hadoram and Vzal and Dicla ' 28 Obal also and Abimael and Seba ' 29 And Ophir and Hauilah and Iobab ' all these were the chyldren of Iactan ' 30 And their dwelling was from Mesa as thou goest vnto Sapher a mount of the east 31 These are the chyldren of Sem after their kinredes and tongues in their landes and nations 32 And so these are the kinredes of the chyldren of Noah after their generations in their peoples and of these were the nations deuided in the earth after the flood The .xj. Chapter 1 One language in the worlde 3 The towre Babel is buylt 7 The misterie of the trinitie 8 The confusion of tongues 9 Babel 10 The age of Sem Arphaxad 12 Selah Heber 16 Peleg 1 AND all the whole earth was of one language and lyke speache 2 And when they went foorth from the east they founde a playne in the lande of Sinar and there they abode 3 And one sayd to another Come let vs prepare brycke and burne them in the fire And they had brycke for stones and slyme had they in steade of morter 4 And they sayd Go to let vs buylde vs a citie and a towre whose toppe may reache vnto heauen and let vs make vs a name lest peraduenture we be scattered abrode into the vpper face of the whole earth 5 But the Lorde came downe to see the citie and towre whiche the chyldren of men buylded 6 And the Lorde sayd Beholde the people is one and they haue all one language and this they begin to do neither is there any let to them from all those thinges whiche they haue imagined to do 7 Come on let vs go downe and
and so he blessed hym 24 And he asked him art thou my sonne Esau And he sayde that I am 25 Then sayde he Bryng me let me eate of my sonnes venison that my soule may blesse thee And he brought hym and he ate and he brought hym wine also and he dranke 26 And his father Isahac said vnto him Come neare and kysse me my sonne 27 And he went vnto him kyssed him and he smelled the sauour of his rayment and blessed hym saide See the smell of my sonne is as the smell of a fielde which the Lorde hath blessed 28 God geue thee of the deawe of heauen and of the fatnesse of the earth and plentie of corne and wine 29 People be thy seruauntes and nations bowe to thee be lorde ouer thy brethren and thy mothers children stowpe with reuerence vnto thee cursed be he that curseth thee and blessed be he that blesseth thee 30 Assoone as Isahac had made an ende of blessyng Iacob Iacob was scarse gone out from the presence of Isahac his father then came Esau his brother from his huntyng 31 And he also had made a pleasaunt meate and brought it vnto his father and saide vnto his father let my father aryse and eate of his sonnes venison that thy soule may blesse me 32 Then his father Isahac sayde vnto hym who art thou He aunswered I am thy sonne thy first borne Esau 33 And Isahac was greatly astonied out of measure and sayde which is he and where is he then that hath hunted venison and brought it me and I haue eaten of al before thou camest and haue blessed hym yea he shal be blessed 34 When Esau hearde the wordes of his father he cryed aloude bitterly aboue measure and sayde vnto his father blesse me I also am thy sonne O my father 35 Who aunswered Thy brother came with subtiltie and hath taken awaye thy blessyng 36 And he said agayne Is not he rightly named Iacob for he hath vndermyned me nowe two tymes First he toke away my birthright and see nowe hath he taken away my blessyng also And he sayde hast thou kept neuer a blessyng for me 37 Isahac aunswered and sayde vnto Esau Beholde I haue made hym thy Lorde all his brethren haue I made his seruauntes Moreouer with corne and wine haue I stablisshed him what shall I do vnto thee nowe my sonne 38 And Esau sayde vnto his father hast thou but that one blessyng my father blesse me I am also thy sonne O my father So lyfted vp Esau his voyce and wept 39 Then Isahac his father aunswered and sayde vnto hym beholde thy dwellyng place shal be the fatnesse of the earth and of the deawe of heauen from aboue 40 And through thy sworde shalt thou liue and shalt be thy brothers seruaunt and it shal come to passe that thou shalt get the maisterie thou shalt loose his yoke from of thy necke 41 And Esau hated Iacob because of the blessyng that his father blessed hym withall And Esau sayde in his heart The dayes of sorowyng for my father are at hande then wyll I slaye my brother Iacob 42 And these wordes of Esau her elder sonne were tolde to Rebecca And she sent called Iacob her younger sonne saide vnto him Beholde thy brother Esau as touchyng thee doth comforte hym selfe full purposyng to kyll thee 43 Nowe therefore my sonne heare my voyce make thee redy and flee to Laban my brother at Haran 44 And tary with him awhyle vntyl thy brothers fiercenesse be swaged 45 And vntyll thy brothers wrath turne away from thee he forget the thinges which thou hast done to hym then wyll I sende and fet thee away from thence why should I be desolate of you both in one day 46 And Rebecca spake to Isahac I am weery of my lyfe for the daughters of Heth. Yf Iacob take a wyfe of the daughters of Heth such as these which are of the daughters of the lande what good shall my lyfe do me ⧠The .xxviij. Chapter 1 Isahac forbyddeth Iacob to take a wyfe of the maydens of Chanaan wherevnto Iacob obeyeth 9 Esau against his fathers wyl taketh a wife of the daughters of Ismael 11 Iacob goyng into Haran seeth a ladder in a dreame 13 Chanaan is promised to Iacob 16 God comforteth Iacob 17 The house of God 19 Bethel Luza 20 The vowe of Iacob He asketh foode and clothyng 1 AND so Isahac called Iacob and blessed him and charged him and sayde vnto hym See thou take not a wyfe of the daughters of Chanaan 2 Arise and get thee to Mesopotamia to the house of Bethuel thy mothers father and there take thee a wyfe of the daughters of Laban thy mothers brother 3 And God almyghtie blesse thee and make thee to encrease multiplie thee that thou mayest be a number of people 4 And geue the blessing of Abraham vnto thee and to thy seede with thee that thou mayest receaue to inherite y e lande wherein thou art a straunger whiche God gaue vnto Abraham 5 Thus Isahac sent foorth Iacob and he went towarde Mesopotamia vnto Laban sonne of Bethuel the Syrian and brother to Rebecca Iacob and Esaus mother 6 When Esau sawe that Isahac had blessed Iacob and sent hym to Mesopotamia to fet hym a wyfe from thence and that as he blessed him he gaue him a charge saying thou shalt not take a wyfe of the daughters of Chanaan 7 And that Iacob had obeyed his father and mother and was gone to Mesopotamia 8 And Esau seyng also that the daughters of Chanaan pleased not Isahac his father 9 Then went Esau vnto Ismael and toke vnto the wyues which he had Mahalah the daughter of Ismael Abrahams sonne the sister of Nebaioth to be his wyfe 10 Iacob departed from Beer-seba and went towarde Haran 11 And he came vnto a certayne place taryed there all night because the sunne was downe and toke of the stones of the place and put vnder his head and layde hym downe in the same place to sleepe 12 And he dreamed and beholde there stoode a lather vpō the earth and the toppe of it reached vp to heauen and see the angels of God went vp downe vpon it 13 Yea and God from aboue leaned vppon it and sayde I am the Lord God of Abraham thy father and the God of Isahac the land which thou sleepest vpon wyll I geue thee and thy seede 14 And thy seede shal be as the dust of the earth and thou shalt spreade abrode to the west to the east to the north and to the south and in thee and in thy seede shall all the kynredes of the earth be blessed 15 And see I am with thee and wyll be thy keper in all places whyther thou goest and wyll bryng thee agayne into this lande For I wyl not leaue thee
shall dye and the ryuer shall corrupt and it shall greeue the Egyptians to drinke of the water of the ryuer 19 And the Lorde spake vnto Moyses say vnto Aaron Take thy rodde and stretche out thyne hand ouer the waters of Egypt ouer their streames ouer their riuers and pondes and all pooles of water whiche they haue that they may be blood and that there may be blood throughout all y e lande of Egypt both in vesselles of wood also of stone 20 And Moyses and Aaron did euen as the Lorde commaunded and he lyfte vp the rodde and smote the waters that were in the ryuer in the sight of Pharao and in the sight of his seruauntes and all the water that was in the ryuer turned into blood 21 And the fishe that was in the ryuer dyed and the ryuer corrupted and the Egyptians coulde not drinke of the waters of the ryuer and there was blood throughout all the lande of Egypt 22 And the enchaunters of Egypt dyd lykewyse with their sorceries and he heardened Pharaos heart neyther did he hearken vnto them as the Lorde had sayde 23 And Pharao turned him selfe and went agayne into his house and set not his heart thervnto 24 And the Egyptians dygged rounde about the ryuer for water to drinke for they coulde not drinke of the water of the ryuer 25 And it continued seuen dayes after that the Lorde had smyten the ryuer ¶ The .viij. Chapter 2 Frogges 8 Pharao prayeth Moyses to pray for hym 12 Moyses prayeth for Pharao 15 Pharao is hardened 16 Lyce in man and beast 20 Flyes or all kynde of wylde fierce and noysome beastes 25 Pharao intreateth Moyses to pray for hym 32 Pharao is hardened 1 THE Lorde spake vnto Moyses go vnto Pharao tell hym Thus sayeth the Lord Let my people go that they may serue me 2 And if thou refuse to let them go beholde I wyll smyte all thy borders with frogges 3 And the riuer shall scraule with frogges whiche shall go vp and come into thine house and into thy priuie chaumber where thou slepest and vpon thy bed into the house of thy seruauntes and vpon thy people and into thyne ouens and vpon al thy vitayles in store 4 And the frogges shall come vp vppon thee and on thy people and vpon all thy seruauntes 5 And the Lorde spake vnto Moyses say vnto Aaron stretch foorth thyne hande with thy rod ouer the streames ouer the ryuers and ouer the pondes and cause frogges to come vp vpon the lande of Egypt 6 And Aaron stretched his hande ouer y e waters of Egypt the frogges came vp and couered the lande of Egypt 7 And the sorcerers did likewise with their sorcerie and brought frogges vp vpon the lande of Egypt 8 Then Pharao called for Moyses and Aaron and sayde pray ye vnto the Lorde that he maye take away the frogges from me and from my people and I will let the people go that they may do sacrifice vnto the Lorde 9 And Moyses sayde vnto Pharao glory herein because of me and appoynt when I shall pray for thee and for thy seruauntes and for thy people to dryue away the frogges from thee and thy houses and they may remayne but in the ryuer onlye 10 He sayd to morowe And he sayde euen as thou hast said that thou mayest knowe that there is none like vnto the Lorde our God 11 And so the frogges shall depart from thee and from thy houses from thy seruauntes and from thy people and shall remayne in the ryuer onlye 12 Moyses and Aaron went out from Pharao and Moyses cryed vnto the Lorde as touching the frogges whiche he had brought against Pharao 13 And the Lorde dyd accordyng to the saying of Moyses and the frogges dyed out of the houses out of the courtes and fieldes 14 And they gathered them together vppon heapes and the lande had an euill smell through them 15 But when Pharao sawe that he had rest geuen him he hardened his heart and hearkened not vnto them as the Lorde had sayde 16 And the Lord sayd vnto Moses Say vnto Aaron Stretche out thy rod and smyte the dust of the lande that it may be turned to lyce throughout all the lande of Egypt 17 And they did so for Aaron stretched out his hande with his rodde and smote the dust of the earth whiche turned to lyce in man and beast so that all the dust of the lande turned to lyce throughout all the lande of Egypt 18 And the enchaunters assayed likewise with their enchauntmētes to bring foorth lyce but they coulde not and the lyce were both vpon men beastes 19 Then said the enchaunters vnto Pharao this is the finger of God And Pharaos heart remayned obstinate and he hearkened not vnto them euen as the Lorde had sayde 20 And the Lorde sayde vnto Moyses ryse vp early in the mornyng and stand before Pharao lo he wyll come foorth vnto the water and thou shalt say vnto him Thus sayeth the Lorde Let my people go that they may serue me 21 Els if thou wylt not let my people go behold I will send all maner of flyes both vpon thee and thy seruauntes and thy people into thy houses and the houses of the Egyptians shal be full of flyes and the ground wheron they are 22 And the land of Gosen where my people are will I cause to be wonderfull in that day so that there shal no flyes be there wherby thou shalt know that I am the Lorde in the myddest of the earth 23 And I will put a diuision betweene my people and thine and euen to morowe shall this miracle be done 24 And the Lord dyd euen so there came an intollerable swarme of flyes into the house of Pharao and into his seruauntes houses and into all the land of Egypt and the land was corrupt with these flyes 25 And Pharao called for Moyses and Aaron and sayd Go and do sacrifice vnto your God in this lande 26 And Moyses aunswered It is not meete that we so do for we must offer vnto the Lorde our God that which is an abhomination vnto the Egyptians Lo if we sacrifice that which is an abhomination vnto the Egyptians before theyr eyes wyl they not stone vs 27 We wyll go three dayes iourney into the desert and sacrifice vnto the Lorde our God as he hath cōmaunded vs. 28 And Pharao sayd I will let you go that ye may sacrifice vnto the Lorde your God in the wyldernesse but go not farre away pray for me 29 And Moyses sayd beholde I will go out from thee and pray vnto the Lord that the flyes may depart from Pharao and from his seruauntes and from his people to morowe but let Pharao from hence foorth deale deceiptfully no more that he wyll
Chapter 2 The people murmure agaynst God 10 And woulde haue stoned Caleb and Iosuah 37 The searchers of the lande dye 45 Amalech kylleth the Israelites 1 AND all the multitude of the people cried out and wept throughout that nyght 2 And all the chyldren of Israel murmured agaynst Moyses and Aaron and the whole congregation sayde vnto them Woulde God that we had dyed in the lande of Egypt either that we had dyed in this wyldernesse 3 Wherfore hath the Lorde brought vs vnto this lande to fall vpon the sworde and that our wyues and our chyldren should be a pray Were it not better that we returne vnto Egypt agayne 4 And they sayd one to another Let vs make a captayne and returne vnto Egypt agayne 5 Then Moyses Aaron fell on their faces before all the assemblie of the congregation of the chyldren of Israel 6 And Iosuah the sonne of Nun and Caleb the sonne of Iephune whiche were of them that searched the lande rent their clothes 7 And spake vnto al the companie of the chyldren of Israel saying The lande whiche we walked through to searche it is a very good lande 8 If the Lord haue a loue to vs he will bryng vs into this lande and geue it vs whiche is such a lande as floweth with mylke and hony 9 But in any wyse rebell not ye agaynst the Lorde neither feare the people of the lande for they are but bread for vs Their shielde is departed from them and the Lorde is with vs feare them not therfore 10 But all the congregation bade stone them with stones And the glory of the Lorde appeared in the tabernacle of the congregation before all the chyldren of Israel 11 And the Lorde sayde vnto Moyses Howe long do this people prouoke me and how long wyll it be yer they beleue me for all the signes which I haue shewed among them 12 I will smyte them with the pestilence and destroy them and wyll make of thee a greater nation and mightier then they 13 And Moyses sayde vnto the Lorde Then the Egyptians shall heare it for thou broughtest this people in thy might from among them 14 And it wylbe tolde to the inhabiters of this lande also for they haue hearde lykewyse that thou Lorde art among this people and that thou Lorde art seene face to face and that thy cloude standeth ouer them that thou goest before them by day tyme in a pyller of a cloude and in a pyller of fire by nyght 15 If thou shalt kyll all this people as they were but one man then the nations whiche haue hearde the fame of thee wyll say 16 Because the Lord is not able to bryng in this people into the lande whiche he sware vnto them therefore he hath slaine them in the wyldernesse 17 And nowe I beseche thee let the power of my Lord be great accordyng as thou hast spoken saying 18 The Lorde is long yer he be angrie and of great mercy and suffreth iniquitie and sinne and leaueth no man innocent and visiteth the vnrighteousnesse of the fathers vpon the chyldren in the thirde and fourth generations 19 Be mercyfull I beseche thee vnto the sinne of this people accordyng vnto thy great mercy as thou hast forgeuen this people from Egypt euen vntyll nowe 20 And the Lorde sayde I haue forgeuen it according to thy request 21 But as truely as I liue all the earth shal be filled with the glory of the Lord. 22 But all those men whiche haue seene my glory and my miracles whiche I did in Egypt and in the wildernesse and haue tempted me nowe this ten tymes and haue not hearkened vnto my voyce 23 Shall not see the lande whiche I sware vnto their fathers neither shall any of them that prouoked me see it 24 But my seruaunt Caleb because he had another maner of spirite and because he hath folowed me vnto the vtmost hym wyll I bryng into the lande which he hath walked in and his seede shall inherite it 25 And also the Amalechites and Chanaanites remayne in the valley To morowe turne you and get you into the wyldernesse euen by the way of the red sea 26 And the Lorde spake vnto Moyses and Aaron saying 27 Howe long doth this euyll multitude murmure agaynst me I haue hearde the murmuringes of the children of Israel with the whiche they murmure agaynst me 28 Tell them therefore As truely as I liue sayeth the Lorde I wyll do vnto you euen as ye haue spoken in myne eares 29 Your carkasses shall fall in the wyldernesse And all you that were tolde throughout your numbers from twentie yeres and aboue whiche haue murmured against me 30 Shall not come into the lande ouer which I lifted vp myne hand to make you dwell therin saue Caleb the sonne of Iephune and Iosuah the sonne of Nun. 31 But your chyldren whiche ye sayde shoulde be a pray them I wyll bryng in and they shall knowe the lande whiche ye haue refused 32 And your carkasses shall fall in this wyldernesse 33 And your chyldren shall wander in the wildernesse fourtie yeres and suffer for your whordome vntyll your carkasses be wasted in the wyldernesse 34 After the number of the dayes in whiche ye searched out the lande euen fourtie dayes euery day for a yere shal ye beare your vnrighteousnesse euen fourtie yeres and ye shall knowe my breache of promise 35 I the Lorde haue sayde that I wyll do it vnto all this euyll congregation that are gathered together against me For in this wildernesse they shal be consumed and there they shall dye 36 And the men whiche Moyses sent to searche the lande and whiche when they came agayne made all the people to murmure against hym and brought vp a sclaunder vpon the lande 37 Euen those men that dyd bryng vp that sclaunder vpon it as though it had ben euill dyed in a great plague before the Lorde 38 But Iosuah the sonne of Nun and Caleb the sonne of Iephune whiche were of the men that went to searche the lande liued styll 39 And Moyses tolde these sayinges vnto all the chyldren of Israel and the people toke great sorowe 40 And they rose vp early in the morning and gate them vp into the toppe of the mountayne saying lo we be here and wyll go vp vnto the place of which the Lorde sayde For we haue sinned 41 And Moyses sayde Wherfore transgresse ye thus the worde of the Lorde it wyll not come well to passe 42 Go not vp therefore for the Loâ—e is not among you that ye be not slayne before your enemies 43 For the Amalechites and the Chanaanites are there before you ye wyll fall vpon the sworde because ye are turned away from the Lorde the Lorde wyll not be with you 44 But they presumed â—â—stinatly to go vp into the hyll top Neuer the later the arke of the couenaunt of the Lorde and Moyses departed not
Ye shall number the people From twentie yeres aboue as the Lorde commaunded Moyses and the children of Israel when they were come out of Egypt 5 Ruben the eldest sonne of Israel The chyldren of Ruben Hanoch of whom commeth the kinred of the Hanochites and Pallu of whom commeth the kinred of the Palluites 6 Of Hesron commeth the kinred of the Hesronites of Charmi commeth the kinred of the Charmites 7 These are the kinredes of the Rubenites and they were in number fourtie and three thousand seuen hundred and thirtie ' 8 And the sonnes of Pallu Eliab 9 And the sonnes of Eliab Nemuel Dathan Abiram This is that Dathan and Abiram which were famous in the congregation and stroue against Moyses and Aaron in the company of Corah when they stroue agaynst the Lorde 10 And the earth opened her mouth swalowed them vp Corah also was in the death of that multitude what tyme the fire consumed two hundred and fiftie men and they became a signe ' 11 Notwithstanding the chyldren of Corah ' dyed not 12 And the chyldren of Simeon after their kinredes were Nemuel of whom cōmeth the kinred of the Nemuelites Iamin of whom commeth the kinred of the Iaminites Iachin of whom commeth the kinred of the Iachinites 13 Of Zareh commeth the kinred of the Zarehites And of Saul commeth the kinred of the Saulites 14 These are the kinredes of Simeon euen twentie and two thousande and two hundred 15 The chyldren of Gad after their kinredes were Zephon of whom cōmeth the kinred of the Zephonites Haggi of whom commeth the kinred of the Haggites Suni of whom commeth the kinred of the Sunites 16 Of Ozni commeth the kinred of the Oznites and of Eri commeth the kinred of the Erites 17 Of Arod commeth the kinred of the Arodites Of Ariel commeth the kinred of the Arielites 18 These are the kinredes of the children of Gad according to their numbers fourtie thousande and fiue hundred 19 The children of Iuda Er and Onan and Er and Onan dyed in the lande of Chanaan 20 But the chyldren of Iuda after their kinredes were Sela of whom cōmeth the kinred of the Selanites Phares of whom commeth the kinred of the Pharezites Zareh of whom cōmeth the kinred of the Zarehites 21 And the children of Phares were Hesron of whom commeth the kinred of the Hesronites Hamul of whom commeth the kinred of the Hamulites 22 These are the kinredes of Iuda after their numbers threscore and sixteene thousande and fiue hundred 23 The chyldren of Isachar after their kinredes were Thola of whom commeth the kinred of the Tholaites Phuua of whom commeth the kinred of the Phuuaites 24 Of Iasub commeth the kinred of the Iasubites of Simron commeth the kinred of the Simronites 25 These are the kinredes of Isachar after their numbers threscore and foure thousande and three hundred 26 The chyldren of Zabulon after their kinredes were Sered of whom commeth y e kinred of the Seredites Elon of whom commeth the kinred of the Elonites Iaheliel of whom commeth the kinred of the Iahelelites 27 These are the kinredes of the Zabulonites after their numbers threscore thousande and fiue hundred 28 The chyldren of Ioseph throughout their kinredes were Manasse and Ephraim 29 The chyldren of Manasse Machir of whom commeth the kinred of the Machirites And Machir begat Gilead and of Gilead commeth the kinred of the Giliadites 30 And these are the chyldren of Gilead Hiezer of whom commeth the kinred of the Hiezerites Helech of whom commeth the kinred of the Helechites 31 And Asriel of whom commeth the kinred of the Asrielites and Sechem of whom commeth the kinred of the Sechemites 32 Semida of whom commeth the kinred of the Semidites and Hepher of whom commeth the kinred of the Hepherites 33 And Zalphaad the sonne of Hepher had no sonnes but daughters And the names of the daughters of Zalphaad were Mahela Noa Hagla Milcha and Thirza 34 These are the kinredes of Manasse and the number of them fiftie and two thousande and seuen hundred 35 These are the chyldren of Ephraim after their kinredes Suthelah of whom commeth the kinred of the Suthelahites Becher of whom commeth the kinred of the Becherites Thahen of whom commeth the kinred of the Thahenites 36 And these are the chyldren of Suthelah Eran of whom commeth the kinred of the Eranites 37 These are the kinredes of the children of Ephraim after their numbers thirtie and two thousande and fiue hundred And these are the chyldren of Ioseph after their kinredes 38 These are the chyldren of Beniamin after their kinredes Bela of whom commeth the kinred of the Belaites Asbel of whom commeth the kinred of the Asbelites Ahiram of whom commeth the kinred of the Ahiramites 39 Supham of whom commeth the kinred of the Suphamites Hupham of whō came the kinred of y e Huphamites 40 And the chyldren of Bela were Ard and Naaman from whence commeth the kinred of the Ardites and of Naaman the kinred of the Naamites 41 These are the chyldrē of Beniamin after their kinredes after their numbers fourtie fiue thousande sixe hundred 42 These are the chyldren of Dan after their kinredes Suham of whom commeth the kinred of the Suhamites These are the housholdes of Dan after their kinredes 43 All the kinredes of the Suhamites were after their numbers threscore and foure thousande and foure hundred 44 The chyldren of Aser after their kinredes were Iemna of whom cōmeth the kinred of the Iemnites Iesui of whom commeth the kinred of the Iesuites Bria of whom cōmeth the kinred of the Brites 45 The chyldren of Bria were Heber of whom commeth the kinred of the Heberites Malchiel of whom came the kinred of the Malchielites 46 And the daughter of Aser was called ' Sarah ' 47 These are the kinredes of Aser after their numbers fiftie and three thousand and foure hundred 48 The children of Nephthali after their kinredes were Iaheziel of whom came the kinred of the Iahezielites Guni of whom came the kinred of the Gunites 49 Iezer of whom came the kinred of the Iezerites Sellem of whom came the kinred of the Sellemites 50 These are the kinredes of Nephthali accordyng to their housholdes whose numbers is fourtie and fiue thousande and foure hundred 51 These are the numbers of the children of Israel sixe hundred thousande and a thousande seuen hundred and thirtie 52 And the Lorde spake vnto Moyses ' saying ' 53 Vnto these the lande shal be deuided to inherite accordyng to the number of names 54 To many thou shalt geue the more inheritaunce and to fewe the lesse to euerie tribe shall the inheritaunce be geuen according to the number therof 55 Notwithstanding the lande shal be deuided by lot according to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherite 56 According to the lot shall the possession thereof be deuided betweene many and fewe 57 * These are the numbers of
dwel in Ar dyd vnto me vntyll I be come ouer Iordane into the lande which the Lorde our God geueth vs. 30 But Sehon y e kyng of Hesbon woulde not let vs passe by hym for the Lorde thy God hardened his spirite and made his heart obstinate because he woulde deliuer him into thy hande as it is come to passe this day 31 And the Lord said vnto me Beholde I haue begunne to geue Sehon his lande before thee begunne to possesse and inherite his lande 32 Then both Sehon and all his people came out agaynst vs to fight at Iaza 33 And the Lorde set hym before vs and we smote hym and his sonnes and all his people 34 And we toke all his cities the same season and slue the men women and children of all the cities and let nothyng remayne 35 Saue the cattell onely we caught vnto our selues and the spoyle of the cities which we toke 36 From Aroer which is by the brinke of the riuer of Arnon and from the citie that is in the riuer vnto Gilead there was not one citie to strong for vs The Lorde our God deliuered all vnto vs. 37 Only vnto the lande of the children of Ammon thou camest not nor vnto euery place of the riuer Iabock nor vnto the cities in the mountaynes nor vnto whatsoeuer the Lorde our God forbad vs. ¶ The .iij. Chapter Thynges that chaunsed from the victorie of the two kynges Sehon and Og ▪ vnto the institution of Iosuah in Moyses steade 1 THen we turned and went vp the way to Basan And Og the kyng of Basan came out agaynst vs he and all his people to fyght at Edrai 2 And the Lorde sayde vnto me Feare hym not for I wyll deliuer hym and all his people and his lande into thy hande and thou shalt do vnto hym as thou diddest vnto Sehon kyng of the Amorites which dwelt at Hesbon 3 And so the Lorde our God deliuered into our handes Og also the kyng of Basan and all his folke And we smote hym vntyll none was left hym alyue 4 And we toke all his cities the same season neither was there a citie which we toke not from them euen threescore cities throughout the region of Argob of the kyngdome of Og in Basan 5 All these cities also were made strong with hye walles gates barres beside vnwalled townes a great meany 6 And we vtterly destroyed them as we dyd vnto Sehon kyng of Hesbon bryngyng to naught all the cities with men women and children 7 But all the cattell and the spoyle of the cities we toke for our selues 8 And thus we toke the same season out of the hande of two kynges of the Amorites the land that was on the other side Iordane from the riuer of Arnon vnto mount Hermon 9 Which Hermon the Sidons call Sirion and the Amorites call it Senir 10 All the cities that lay in the playne and all Gilead and all Basan vnto Selcha and Edrai cities of the kyngdome of Og in Basan 11 For only Og kyng of Basan remayned of the remnaunt of the giauntes whose bed was a bed of iron And is it not yet at Rabbath among y e children of Ammon Nine cubites doth the length therof contayne and foure cubites the breadth of it after the cubite of a man 12 And so we conquered this lande the same tyme from Aroer which is by the riuer of Arnon vnto halfe mount Gilead and the cities therof gaue I vnto the Rubenites and Gadites 13 And the rest of Gilead and all Basan of the kyngdome of Og gaue I vnto the halfe tribe of Manasse euen all the region of Argob with all Basan which is called the lande of giauntes 14 Iair the sonne of Manasse toke all the countrey of Argob vnto the coastes of Gessuri Maachati and called them after his owne name Basan Hauoth Iair vnto this day 15 And I gaue Gilead vnto Machir 16 And vnto the Rubenites and Gadites I gaue Gilead vnto the riuer of Arnon halfe the valley and beyonde euen vnto the riuer Iabock which is the border of the children of Ammon 17 The playne also and Iordane and the coast therof from Cenereth euen vnto the sea which is in the playne euen the salt sea vnder the springes of the hyll eastwarde 18 And I commaunded you the same tyme saying The Lorde your God hath geuen you this lande to enioy it ye shall go harnessed before your brethren the children of Israel all that are meete for the warre 19 Your wyues only your children and your cattell for I knowe that ye haue much cattell shall abyde in your cities which I haue geuen you 20 Vntyll the Lorde haue geuen rest vnto your brethren as well as vnto you and vntyll they also possesse the lande which the Lorde your God hath geuen them beyonde Iordane and then shall ye returne agayne euery man vnto his possession which I haue geuen you 21 And I commaunded Iosuah hym selfe the same tyme saying Thyne eyes haue seene all that the Lorde your God hath done vnto these two kynges euen so shall he do vnto all kyngdomes whither thou goest 22 Ye shall not feare them for the Lorde your God he shall fyght for you 23 And I besought the Lorde the same tyme saying 24 O Lorde God thou hast begunne to shewe thy seruaunt thy greatnesse and thy mightie hande for where is there a God in heauen or in earth that can do after thy workes and like to thy power 25 I pray thee let me go ouer and see the good lande that is beyonde Iordane that goodly mountayne Libanon 26 * But the Lorde was angry with me for your sakes and woulde not heare me And the Lorde sayde vnto me Be content speake no more vnto me of this matter 27 Get thee vp into the top of the hyll lift vp thyne eyes westwarde northwarde southwarde and eastwarde and beholde it with thyne eyes for thou shalt not go ouer this Iordane 27 But charge Iosuah and encourage hym and bolden hym For he shall go before this people and he shall deuide vnto thē the lande which thou shalt see 29 And so we abode in the valley ouer agaynst the house of Peor ¶ The .iiij. Chapter 1 An exhortation to obserue the lawe without addyng therto or diminisshyng 6 Therin standeth our wisdome 9 We must teache it to our children 15 No image ought to be made to worship 26 Threatninges agaynst them that forsake the lawe of God 37 God chose the seede because he loued their fathers 43 The three cities of refuge 1 NOwe therfore harken O Israel vnto the ordinaunces and lawes which I teache you for to do them that so ye may lyue and go in possesse the lande which the Lorde God of your fathers geueth you 2 Ye shall put nothyng vnto the word which I commaunde you neither shall
you take ought from it that ye may kepe the cōmaundementes of the Lord your God which I commaunde you 3 Your eyes haue seene what y e Lorde dyd agaynst Baal Peor for all the men that folowed Baall Peor the Lorde thy God hath destroyed from among you 4 But ye that cleaue vnto the Lord your god are aliue euery one of you this day 5 Beholde I haue taught you ordinaunces and lawes such as the Lorde my God cōmaunded me that ye should do euen so in the lande whither ye go to possesse it 6 Kepe them therfore and do them for that is your wisdome and vnderstandyng in the syght of the people that they may heare all these ordinaunces and say Surely it is a wise and vnderstandyng people it is a great nation 7 For what other nation is so great that gods come so nye vnto as the Lorde our God is nye vnto vs in all thinges as oft as we call vnto hym 8 Yea and what nation is so great that hath ordinaunces lawes so righteous as all this lawe which I set before you this day 9 Take heede to thy selfe therefore and kepe thy soule diligently that thou forget not the thynges which thyne eyes haue seene and that they depart not out of thy heart all the dayes of thy life but teache them thy sonnes thy sonnes sonnes 10 Specially the day that thou stoodest before the Lorde thy God in Horeb when the Lorde sayd vnto me Gather me the people together I wyll make them heare my wordes that they may learne to feare me all the dayes that they shall lyue vpon the earth and that they may teache their children 11 Ye came and stoode also vnder the mountayne and the mountayne burnt with fire euen vnto the middes of heauen and there was darknesse cloudes and mist 12 And the Lorde spake vnto you out of the middes of the fire and ye hearde the voyce of the wordes but sawe no similitude saue hearde a voyce only 13 And he declared vnto you his couenaunt which he commaunded you to do euen ten commaundementes which he wrote vpon two tables of stone 14 And the Lorde commaunded me that same season that I shoulde teache you ordinaunces lawes which ye ought to do in the lande whyther ye go to possesse it 15 Take therfore good heede vnto your selues as pertaynyng vnto your soules for ye sawe no maner of image in the day that the Lorde spake vnto you in Horeb out of the middes of fire 16 Lest ye marre your selues make you a grauen image picture of any maner of figure whether it be the likenesse of man or woman 17 The likenesse of any maner of beast that is on the earth or the likenesse of any maner fethered foule that fleeth in the ayre 18 Or the likenesse of any maner worme that creepeth on the earth or the likenesse of any maner fishe that is in the waters beneath the earth 19 Yea and lest thou lift vp thyne eyes vnto heauen and when thou seest the sunne the moone and the starres with all the hoast of heauen shouldest be driuen to worship them serue them and shouldest worship and serue the thynges which the Lorde thy God hath made to serue all nations vnder the whole heauen 20 But the Lorde hath taken you and brought you out of the iron furnace euen out of Egypt to be vnto hym a people inheritaunce as ye be this day 21 Furthermore the Lorde was angry with me for your wordes and sware that I shoulde not go ouer Iordane and that I shoulde not go in vnto that good lande which the Lorde thy God geueth thee to inheritaunce 22 But I must dye in this lande and shal not go ouer Iordane But ye shall go ouer and possesse that good lande 23 Take heede vnto your selues that ye forget not y e appoyntment of the Lorde your God which he made with you that ye make you no grauen image or likenesse that the Lorde thy God hath forbidden thee 24 For the Lorde thy God is a consumyng fire and a ielous God 25 When thou shalt beget children and thy children beget children and shalt haue remayned long in the lande ye do wickedly make any maner of grauen * image and worke euyll in the sight of the Lorde thy God to prouoke hym to anger 26 I call heauen and earth to recorde agaynst you this day that ye shall shortly perishe from of y e lande whervnto you go ouer Iordane to possesse it Ye shall not prolong your dayes therin but shall vtterly be destroyed 27 And the Lord shall scatter you among the people and ye shal be left fewe in number among the nations whyther the Lorde shall bryng you 28 And there ye shall serue gods which are the worke of mans hande wood and stone which neither see nor heare nor eate nor smell 29 If from thence thou shalt seke the Lorde thy God thou shalt finde hym if thou seke hym with all thy heart and with all thy soule 30 When thou art in tribulation when all these thynges that be here spoken of are come vpon thee euen in the latter dayes yf thou turne to the Lorde thy God shalt be obedient vnto his voyce 31 For the Lorde thy God is a mercifull God he wyll not forsake thee neither destroy thee nor forget the appoyntment of thy fathers which he sware vnto them 32 For aske of the dayes that are past which were before since the day that God created man vpon the earth and aske from the one side of heauen vnto the other if euer there came to passe such a great thyng or whether any such lyke thyng hath ben hearde as this 33 Dyd euer any people heare the voyce of God speakyng out of the middes of a fire as thou hast hearde and yet lyued 34 Or hath God assayed to go and take hym a people from among nations by temptations by signes by wonders by warre by a mightie hand by a stretched out arme by great sightes accordyng vnto all that the Lorde your God dyd vnto you in Egypt before your eyes 35 Vnto thee it was shewed that thou mightest knowe that the Lord is God and that there is none other but he 36 Out of heauen he made thee heare his voyce that he might instruct thee vpon earth he shewed thee his great fire and thou heardest his worde out of the middes of the fire 37 And because he loued thy fathers he chose their seede after them brought thee out in his sight with his mightie power out of Egypt 38 To thrust out nations great and mightier then thou before thee and to bryng thee in and to geue thee their lande to inheritaunce as it is come to passe this day 39 Vnderstande therfore this day and consider it in thine heart that
would not destroy thee 11 And the Lorde sayde vnto me Arise and go foorth in the iourneys before the people that they may go in and possesse the lande whiche I sware vnto their fathers to geue vnto them 12 And now Israel what doth the Lord thy God require of thee but to feare the Lorde thy God and to walke in all his wayes to loue hym and to serue the Lord thy God with all thyne heart and with all thy soule 13 Namely that thou kepe the cōmaundementes of the Lorde and his ordinaunces whiche I commaunde thee this day for thy wealth 14 Beholde heauen and the heauen of heauens is the Lordes thy God and the earth with all that therin is 15 Notwithstandyng the Lorde had a delight in thy fathers to loue them and chose their seede after them euen you aboue all nations as thou seest this day 16 Circumcise therefore the foreskinne of your heart and be no more stifnecked 17 For the Lorde your God is God of Gods and Lorde of Lordes a great God a mightie and a terrible whiche regardeth no mans person nor taketh rewarde 18 He doth right vnto the fatherlesse and wydowe and loueth the straunger to geue hym foode and rayment 19 Loue ye therfore the straunger also for ye were straungers your selues in the lande of Egypt 20 Thou shalt feare the Lord thy God and hym only shalt thou serue to hym shalt thou cleaue and sweare by his name 21 He is thy prayse thy God that hath done for thee these great and terrible thinges whiche thyne eyes haue seene 22 Thy fathers went downe into Egypt with threscore and ten persons and nowe the Lorde thy God hath made thee multiplied thee as the starres of heauen your God ye and your sonnes and your daughters your seruauntes and your maydens and the Leuite that is within your gates forasmuche as he hath no part nor inheritaūce with you 13 Take heede that thou offer not thy burnt offeringes in euery place that thou seest 14 But in the place which the Lord shall choose in one of thy tribes there thou shalt offer thy burnt offeringes and there thou shalt do al that I cōmaunde thee 15 Notwithstanding thou mayest kyll and eate fleshe in all thy cities whatsoeuer thy soule lusteth after accordyng to the blessing of the Lorde thy God whiche he hath geuen thee * both the vncleane and the cleane may eate therof euen of the Roe bucke and of the Hart. 16 Only ye shall not eate the blood but powre it vpon the earth as water 17 Thou mayest not eate within thy gates the tithe of thy corne of thy wine and of thy oyle and the first borne of thy kine and of thy sheepe neither any of thy vowes which thou vowest nor thy freewill offeringes or heaue offering of thyne hande 18 But thou must eate them before the Lorde thy God in the place whiche the Lorde thy God hath chosen thou and thy sonne thy daughter thy seruaunt and thy mayde and the Lenite that is within thy gates and thou shalt reioyce before the Lorde thy God in all that thou puttest thyne hande to 19 Beware that thou forsake not the Leuite as long as thou liuest vpon the earth 20 If when the Lorde thy God shall enlarge thy border as he hath promised thee thou say I will eate flesh because thy soule longeth to eate fleshe thou mayest eate fleshe whatsoeuer thy soule lusteth 21 If the place whiche the Lorde thy God hath chosen to put his name there be to farre from thee then thou shalt kil of thy oxen and of thy sheepe which the Lord gath geuen thee as I haue commaunded thee and thou shalt eate in thyne owne and whatsoeuer thy soule lusteth 22 And as the Roe bucke and the Hart is eaten euen so thou shalt eate them both the cleane and the vncleane shall eate of them 23 But be strong that thou eate not the blood for the blood is the life and thou mayest not eate the life with the fleshe 24 Thou shalt not eate it but powre it vpon the earth as water 25 Thou shalt not eate it that it may go well with thee and with thy chyldren after thee But thou shalt do that whiche is ryght in the sight of the Lorde 26 But thy holy thynges whiche thou hast and thy vowes thou shalt take and come vnto the place whiche the Lorde hath chosen 27 And thou shalt offer thy burnt offeringes both fleshe and blood vpon the aulter of the Lorde thy God and the blood of thyne offeringes shal be powred out vpon the aulter of the Lord thy God and thou shalt eate the fleshe 28 Take heede heare all these wordes which I commaunde thee that it may go well with thee and with thy chyldren after thee for euer if thou doest that whiche is good and ryght in the sight of the Lorde thy God 29 When the Lord thy God shall destroy the nations before thee whyther thou goest to possesse them and thou succeedest in their inheritaunce and dwellest in their lande 30 Beware that thou be not taken in a snare after them after that they be destroyed before thee and that thou aske not after their gods saying Howe do these nations serue their gods I wyll do so likewise 31 Nay thou shalt not do so vnto the Lorde thy God for all abhominations and that whiche the Lorde hateth the same haue they done vnto their gods 32 For they haue burned both their sonnes and their daughters with fire before their gods Therefore whatsoeuer I commaunde you take heede ye do it and put thou naught therto nor take ought there from ⧠The .xiij. Chapter 5 The inticers to idolatrie must be slayne seeme they neuer so holy 6 so neare of kinred or frendship 12 Or great in multitude or power 1 IF there aryse among you a prophete or a dreamer of dreames and geue thee a signe or a wonder 2 And that signe or wonder whiche he hath sayde come to passe and then say Let vs go after straunge gods which thou hast not knowen and let vs serue them 3 Hearken not thou vnto the wordes of that prophete or dreamer of dreames For the Lorde thy God proueth you to knowe whether ye loue the Lorde your God with all your heart and with all your soule 4 Ye shall walke after the Lorde your God and feare him kepe his commaundementes and hearken vnto his voyce you shall serue hym cleaue vnto hym 5 And that prophete or dreamer of dreames shal die because he hath spoken to turne you away from the Lorde your God whiche brought you out of the lande of Egypt and deliuered you out of the house of bondage to thrust thee out the way which the Lorde thy God commaunded thee to walke in and therefore thou shalt put the euyll away from
for a remembraunce 5 Also to buylde an aulter 12 The blessinges are geuen on mount Garizim 13 The cursinges are geuen on mount Ebal 1 ANd Moyses with the elders of Israel commaunded the people saying Kepe al y e commaundements which I commaunde you this day 2 And in that day when you shall passe ouer Iordane vnto the lande whiche the Lord thy God geueth thee thou shalt set thee vp great stones and plaster them with plaster 3 And wryte vpon them all the wordes of this lawe when thou art come ouer because thou art come into the lande whiche the Lord thy God geueth thee a lande that floweth with mylke and honie as the Lorde God of thy fathers hath promised thee 4 Therfore when ye be come ouer Iordane ye shal set vp these stones which I commaunde you this day in mount Ebal and thou shalt plaster them with plaster 5 And there shalt thou buylde vnto the Lorde thy God an aulter of stones and lift vp no iron vpon them 6 Thou shalt make the aulter of the Lorde thy God of whole stones and offer burnt offeringes thereon vnto the Lorde thy God 7 And thou shalt offer peace offeringes and shalt eate there and reioyce before the Lorde thy God 8 And thou shalt wryte vpon the stones all the wordes of this lawe manifestly and well 9 And Moyses and the priestes the Leuites spake vnto all Israel saying Take heede and heare O Israel this day thou art become the people of the Lorde thy God 10 Thou shalt hearken therfore vnto the voyce of the Lorde thy God and do his commaundementes and his ordinaunces which I commaunde thee this day 11 And Moyses charged the people the same day saying 12 These shall stande vpon mount Garizim to blesse the people when ye are come ouer Iordane Simeon Leui Iuda Isachar Ioseph Beniamin 13 And these shall stande vpon mount Ebal to curse Ruben Gad Aser Zabulon Dan Nephthali 14 And the Leuites shall aunswere and say vnto all the men of Israel with a loude voyce 15 Cursed be the man that maketh any carued or moulten image an abhomination vnto the Lorde the worke of the handes of the craftesman and putteth it in a secrete place and all the people shall aunswere and say Amen 16 Cursed be he that curseth his father and his mother and all the people shall say Amen 17 Cursed be he that remoueth his neighbours marke and all the people shall say Amen 18 Cursed be he that maketh the blynde to go out of his way and all the people shall say Amen 19 Cursed be he that hindreth the ryght of the straunger fatherlesse and widdowe all the people shall say Amen 20 Cursed be he that lyeth with his fathers wyfe and vnhealeth his fathers couering and all the people shall say Amen 21 Cursed be he y e lieth with any maner of beast all the people shal say Amen 22 Cursed be he that lieth with his sister the daughter of his father or y e daughter of his mother and al the people shal say Amen 23 Cursed be he that lieth with his mother in lawe and al the people shall say Amen 24 Cursed be he that smyteth his neighbour secretly and all the people shall say Amen 25 Cursed be he that taketh a rewarde to slay the soule of innocent blood and all the people shall say Amen 26 Cursed be he that continueth not in all the wordes of this lawe to do them and all the people shall say Amen ¶ The .xxviij. Chapter 1 The promises to them that obay the commaundementes 15 The threatninges to the contrary 1 IF thou shalt hearken diligently vnto the voyce of the Lord thy God and obserue and do all his commaūdementes which I commaunde thee this day the Lorde wyll set thee on hye aboue all nations of the earth 2 And all these blessinges shall come on thee and ouertake thee if thou shalt hearken vnto the voyce of the Lord thy God 3 Blessed shalt thou be in the citie and blessed in the fielde 4 Blessed shal be the fruite of thy body and the fruite of thy grounde and the fruite of thy cattell the increase of thy kine and the flockes of thy sheepe 5 Blessed shal be thy basket thy store 6 Blessed shalt thou be when thou goest out blessed when thou commest in 7 The Lord shall geue ouer thyne enemies that ryse agaynst thee that they may fall before thy face They shall come out against thee one way and flee before thee seuen wayes 8 The Lord shall commaunde the blessing vpon thee in thy storehouses and in all that thou settest thyne hande to and wyll blesse thee in the lande whiche the Lorde thy God geueth thee 9 The Lorde shall make thee an holy people vnto him self as he hath sworne vnto thee if thou shalt kepe the commaundementes of the Lorde thy God and walke in his wayes 10 And all nations of the earth shall see that the name of the Lorde is called vpon ouer thee and they shal be afraide of thee 11 And the Lord shall make thee plenteous in goodes in the fruite of thy body in the fruite of thy cattell in the fruite of thy grounde in the lande whiche the Lorde sware vnto thy fathers to geue thee 12 The Lorde shall open vnto thee his good treasure euen the heauen to geue rayne vnto thy land in due season to blesse all thy labours of thy hande And thou shalt lende vnto many nations but shalt not borowe thy selfe 13 And the Lorde shall make thee chiefest and not the lowest and thou shalt be aboue only and not beneath if that thou hearken vnto the commaundementes of the Lorde thy God which I commaunde thee this day to kepe and to do them 14 And see that thou bow not aside from any of these wordes whiche I commaund thee this day either to the right hande or to the left that thou wouldest go after straunge gods to serue them 15 But and if thou wilt not hearken vnto the voyce of the Lorde thy God to kepe and to do all his commaundementes and his ordinaunces whiche I commaunde thee this day all these curses shal come vpon thee and ouertake thee 16 Cursed shalt thou be in the citie and cursed in the fielde 17 Cursed shal be thy basket thy store 18 Cursed shal be the fruite of thy body and the fruite of thy lande and the increase of thy kine and the flockes of thy sheepe 19 Cursed shalt thou be when thou goest in and cursed when thou goest out 20 The Lorde shal sende vpon thee cursing destruction and rebuke in all that thou settest thine hand to and that thou doest vntyll he destroy thee and bryng thee to naught quickly because of the wickednesse of thyne inuentions and because thou hast
And he offered a burnt sacrifice 19 And assoone as he had made an ende of offering the burnt sacrifice beholde Samuel came and Saul went against him to salute him 11 And Samuel sayde What hast thou done Saul sayde Because I sawe that the people skattered from me and that thou camest not within the dayes appointed and that the Philistines gathered them selues together to Michmas 12 Therfore sayde I The Philistines shal come downe nowe vpon me to Gilgal and I haue not made supplication vnto the Lord I was bolde therfore offred a burnt offring 13 And Samuel sayd to Saul Thou art become a foole thou hast not kept the commaundemēt of the Lord thy God which he commaūded thee For at this time woulde the Lorde haue stablished thy kingdome vpon Israel for euer 14 But nowe thy kingdome shal not continue The Lorde hath sought him a man after his owne heart and the Lord hath commaunded him to be captayne ouer his people because thou hast not kept that whiche the Lorde commaunded thee 15 And Samuel arose gate him vp from Gilgal in Gibea of Beniamin and Saul numbred the people that were found with him and they were about a sixe hundred men 16 And Saul and Ionathan his sonne the people that were found with them had their abiding in Gibea of Beniamin but y e Philistines pitched in Michmas 17 And there came out of the hoast of the Philistines three cōpanies to destroye one companie turned vnto the way that leadeth to Ophra vnto y e lande of Sual 18 And another companie turned the way to Bethoron And the thirde companie turned to the way of the coast that is seene aboue y e valley of Zeboim toward the wildernesse 19 There was no smith founde throughout all the lande of Israel For the Philistines sayde Lest the Hebrues make them swordes or speares 20 But all the Israelites went downe to the Philistines to mende euery man his share his mattocke his axe weeding hooke 21 Yet they had a file for the shares for the mattockes for the pickforkes and for the axes and for to sharpen to goades 22 And so in time of battel there was neither sword nor speare found in the handes of any of the people that were with Saul and Ionathan But with Saul Ionathan his sonne was there found 23 And the garison of the Philistines came out to go ouer vnto Michmas The .xiiii. Chapter 14 Ionathan and his harnesse bearer put the Philistines to flight 24 Saul bindeth the people by an othe not to eate till euening 32 The people eate with the blood 38 Saul would put Ionathan to death 45 The people deliuer him 1 THen on a time Ionathan the sonne of Saul sayde vnto his young man that bare his harnesse Come let vs go ouer to the Philistines garison that are yonder on the other syde and he tolde not his father 2 And Saul taried in the vttermost part of Gibea vnder a pomegranate tree which is in Migron and the people that were with him were vpō a sixe hundred men 3 And Ahia the sonne of Ahitob Ichabods brother the sonne of Phinehes the sonne of Eli was the Lordes priest in Silo and ware an Ephod And the people wist not that Ionathan was gone 4 And in the middes of the passage by which Ionathan sought to go ouer vnto the Philistines garison there was a sharpe rocke on the one syde a sharpe rocke on the other syde the one called Bozez and the other Sene. 5 The forefront of the one leaned northwarde towarde Michmas the other was southward toward Gibea 6 And Ionathan sayd to the young man that bare his harnesse Come and let vs go ouer vnto the garison of these vncircumcised it may be that the Lorde will worke with vs for it is no hardnesse with the Lord to saue either in manie or in fewe 7 And his harnesse bearer said vnto him Do all that is in thyne heart Go where it pleaseth thee behold I am with thee as thyne heart lusteth 8 Then sayd Ionathan Beholde we go ouer vnto these men and shall shewe our selues vnto them 9 Yf they say on this wyse to vs Tarie vntil we come to you then we wil stand still in our place not go vp vnto them 10 But and if they say Come vp vnto vs then we wil go vp for the Lorde hath deliuered them into our handes And this shal be a signe vnto vs. 11 And they both shewed them selues vnto the garison of the Philistines And the Philistines sayde See the Hebrues come out of the holes where they had hyd them selues in 12 And the men of the garison aunswered Ionathan his harnesse bearer sayd Come vp to vs and we will shewe you a thing And Ionathan sayde vnto his harnesse bearer Come vp after me for the Lorde hath deliuered them into the hande of Israel 13 And Ionathan clymed vp vpon handes and feete and his harnesse bearer after him And they fell before Ionathan his harnesse bearer slue the after him 14 And that first slaughter whiche Ionathan his harnesse bearer made was vpon a twentie men within the compasse as it were about an halfe aker of land which two oxen plowe 15 And there was a feare in the hoast in the field among al y e people insomuch that they that were gone out of the garrison to robbe were afrayde also the earth trembled for the feare that was sent of God 16 And the watchmen of Saul in Gibea Beniamin sawe And behold the multitude were discomfited were smitten as they went 17 Then sayd Saul vnto the people that was with him Searche and see who is gone away from vs. And when they had numbred beholde Ionathan and his harnesse bearer were not there 18 And Saul sayd vnto Ahia Bring hyther the arke of God For the arke of God was at time with the children of Israel 19 And while Saul talked vnto y e priest the noyse that was in the hoaste of the Philistines spred farther abrode and encreased And Saul sayd vnto the priest Withdrawe thyne hande 20 And Saul ioyned him selfe vnto al the people that were with him they came to the battell and behold euery mans sword was against his felow and there was a very great discomfiture 21 Moreouer the Hebrues that were with the Philistines before that tyme were come with them into all partes of the hoaste turned to be with the Israelites that were with Saul and Ionathan 22 And all the men of Israel also whiche had hyd thē selues in mount Ephraim assoone as they hearde howe that the Philistines were fled they folowed after them in the battel 23 And so the Lorde saued Israel that day and the battel continued vnto Bethauen 24 And when the men of Israel were kepte downe with hunger that day Saul charged the people with an oth saying
to be fauourable to his 1 WHen Saul was come againe froÌ„ folowing after y e Philistines there were which told him saying Behold Dauid is in the wildernesse of Engadi 2 Then Saul toke three thousand chosen men out of all Israel and went to seke Dauid and his men in the heyght of the rockes where wilde goates remayne 3 And he came to the sheepe coates by the way where there was a caue Saul went in to do his easement And Dauid and his men remayned in the inward partes of the caue 4 And the men of Dauid sayd vnto him See the day is come of which the Lord sayde vnto thee Behold I will deliuer thyne enemie into thyne hand and thou shalt do to him as it shall seeme good in thy sight Then Dauid arose and cut of the lappe of Sauls garment priuily 5 And afterwarde Dauids heart smote him because he had cut of the lap of Sauls garment 6 And he sayd vnto his men The Lorde kepe me from doyng that thing vnto my maister the lordes annoynted to lay myne hande vpon him seing he is the annoynted of the Lorde 7 And so Dauid kept of his seruauntes with these wordes and suffred them not to rise against Saul But Saul rose vp out of the caue and went away 8 Dauid also arose afterward and went out of the caue and cryed after Saul saying My Lorde king And when Saul loked behind him Dauid stowped with his face to the earth and bowed him selfe 9 And Dauid sayde to Saul Wherfore geuest thou an eare to mens wordes that say beholde Dauid seketh euyll against thee 10 Behold this day thyne eyes haue seene howe that the Lord hath deliuered thee this day into myne hande in the caue And some bad me kill thee but I had compassion on thee and sayd I will not lay myne handes on my maister for he is the Lordes annoynted 11 And moreouer my father beholde and see yet the lap of thy garment in my hand Inasmuch as I killed thee not when I cut of the lap of thy garment vnderstand therfore see that there is neither euyll nor wickednesse in me and that I haue not sinned against thee And yet thou huntest after my soule to take it 12 The Lorde be iudge betweene thee and me the Lorde auenge me of thee but myne hande be not vpon thee was mery within hym for he was very drunken Wherfore she tolde him nothyng neither lesse nor more vntyll the morowe mornyng 37 But in the morning when the wine was gone out of Nabal his wyfe tolde him these wordes and his heart dyed within him and he became as a stone 38 And vpon a ten dayes after the Lord smote Nabal that he dyed 39 And when Dauid heard that Nabal was dead he sayd Blessed be the Lord that hath iudged y e cause of my rebuke of the hand of Nabal hath kept his seruaunt from euill For the Lord hath recompenced the wickednes of Nabal vpon his owne head And Dauid sent to commune with Abigail to take her to his wyfe 40 And when the seruauntes of Dauid were come to Abigail to Carmel they spake vnto her saying Dauid sent vs vnto thee to take thee to his wyfe And she arose bowed her selfe on her face to the earth and saide Beholde let thy handmayd be a seruaunt to washe the feete of the seruauntes of my lorde 41 And Abigail hasted and arose gate her vpon an Asse with fiue damosels of hers that went at her feete and she went after the messengers of Dauid became his wyfe 42 Dauid also toke Ahinoam of Iezrael and they were both his wyues 43 But Saul had geuen Michol his daughter Dauids wyfe to Phalti the sonne of Lais which was of Gallim ¶ The .xxvi. Chapter 1 Dauid was discouered vnto Saul by the Ziphites 12. Dauid taketh away Sauls speare and a cruse of water that stoode at his head 21. Saul confesseth his sinne 1 THE Ziphites came againe vnto Saul to Gibea saying Doth not Dauid hide him selfe in the hill of Hachilâ—a which is before Iesimon 2 Saul arose went downe to the wildernes of Ziph hauing three thousand chosen men of Israel with him for to seke Dauid in the wildernesse of Ziph. 3 And Saul pitched in the hil of Hachilia which is before Iesimon by the way side But Dauid dwelt in the wildernesse and he sawe that Saul came after him into the wildernesse 4 Dauid therefore sent out spies vnderstoode that Saul was come in very deede 5 And Dauid arose came to the place where Saul had pitched Dauid beheld the place where Saul lay Abner the sonne of Ner which was his chiefe captayne for Saul lay in the fort the people pytched rounde about him 6 Then aunswered Dauid and spake to Ahimelech the Hethite and to Abisai the sonne of Zaruia brother to Ioab saying Who wyll go downe with me to Saul to the hoast And Abisai saide I wyll go downe with thee 7 And so Dauid and Abisai came downe to the people by night and behold Saul lay sleepyng within the fort and his speare stacke in y e grounde at his head but Abner and the people lay rounde about hym 8 Then saide Abisai to Dauid God hath closed thyne enemie into thyne hand thys day Nowe I pray thee let me smite him once with my speare to the earth I will not smite him the second tyme. 9 And Dauid saide to Abisai Destroye him not For who can laye his hand on the Lordes annoynted and be giltlesse 10 And Dauid sayd furthermore As the Lorde lyueth the Lorde shall smyte him or his day shall come to dye or he shall descend into battaile and perishe 11 The Lorde kepe me from laying myne hand vpon the Lordes annoynted But I praye thee take thou nowe the speare that is at his head and the cruse of water and let vs go 12 And so Dauid toke the speare and the cruse of water from Sauls head and they gat them away and no man sawe it nor marked it neither awaked For they were all asleepe because the Lorde had sent a dead sleepe vpon theÌ„ 13 Then Dauid went ouer to the other syde and stoode on the toppe of an hill a farre of a great space being betweene them 14 And Dauid cryed to the people and to Abner the sonne of Ner saying Hearest thou not Abner Abner aunswered and sayd Who art thou that cryest to the king 15 And Dauid sayde to Abner Art not thou a man and who is lyke to thee in Israel Wherefore then hast thou not kept thy lorde the king For there came one of the folke in to destroye the king thy lorde 16 It is not well done of thee As the Lorde lyueth ye are worthy to dye because ye haue not kept the Lordes annoynted And nowe see where the kinges
Philistines make warre against me and God is departed from me and aunswereth me no more neither by prophets nor by dreames And therefore I haue called thee that thou mayest tell me what I shall do 16 Then saide Samuel Wherefore doest thou aske of me while the Lord is gone from thee and is become thyne enemie 17 Trulie the Lord hath done to him euen as he spake by my hand * For the Lorde hath rent the kingdome out of thyne hand and geuen it thy neyghbour Dauid 18 Because thou obeyedst not the voyce of the Lorde nor executedst his fierce wrath vpon the Amalekites therefore hath the Lord done this vnto thee this day 19 And moreouer the Lord will deliuer Israel with thee into the handes of the Philistines * To morrowe shalt thou and thy sonnes be with me and the Lorde shall geue the hoast of Israel into the handes of the Philistines 20 Then Saul fell straightway all along on the earth and was sore afrayde because of the wordes of Samuel And there was no strength in him for he had eaten no bread all the day nor all the night 21 And the woman came vnto Saul sawe that he was sore troubled sayde vnto him See thyne handmayde hath obeyed thy voyce haue put my soule in my hand and haue hearkened vnto thy wordes which thou sayedst vnto me 22 Nowe therefore I pray thee hearken thou also vnto the voyce of thyne handmayde and let me set a morsell of bread before thee that thou mayest eate and get thee strength then go on thy iourney 23 He refused and sayde I will not eate But his seruauntes and the woman together compelled him and he hearkened vnto their voyce And so he arose from the earth and sat on a bed 24 The woman had a fat calfe in the house and she hasted and killed it and tooke floure and kneded it and did bake vnleauened bread thereof 25 And brought them before Saul and before his seruauntes And when they had eaten they stoode vp went away the same night The .xxix. Chapter 4 The princes of the Philistines cause Dauid to be sent backe from the battaile against Israel because they mistrusted him 1 SO the Philistines were gathered together with all their armies in Aphec and the Israelites pytched by Ain which is in Iezrael 2 And the princes of the Philistines went foorth by hundreds and thousandes But Dauid and his men came behinde with Achis 3 Thē sayd the princes of the Philistines what do these Ebrues here Achis said vnto the princes of the Philistines Is not this Dauid the seruaunt of Saul the king of Israel which hath ben with me these dayes or these yeres and I haue found no fault in him since he fell vnto me vnto this day 4 And the princes of the Philistines were wroth with hym and the princes of the Philistines sayde vnto hym Make this felowe returne that he may go againe to his place which thou hast appoynted hym and let hym not go downe with vs to battayle lest in the battayle he be an aduersarie to vs For wherewith shoulde he obtayne the fauour of his maister shoulde it not be with the heades of these men 5 Is not this Dauid to whom they sang in daunces saying Saul slue his thousande Dauid his ten thousande 6 Then Achis called Dauid and sayde vnto him As the Lorde lyueth thou hast ben honest and good in my sight when thou wentest out and in with me in the hoast neither haue I founde euyll with thee sence thou camest to me vnto this day Neuerthelesse the princes fauour thee not 7 Wherefore nowe returne and go in peace that thou displease not the princes of the Philistines 8 And Dauid sayde vnto Achis And what haue I done what hast thou founde in thy seruaunt as long as I haue ben with thee vnto this day that I may not go fight against the enemies of my lorde the king 9 Achis aunswered and sayd to Dauid I know that thou art good in my sight as an angell of God Notwithstanding the princes of the Philistines haue sayde Let him not go vp with vs to battaile 10 Wherefore now ryse vp earlie in the morning with thy maisters seruaūtes that are come to thee and whē ye be vp earlie assoone as ye haue lyght departe 11 And so Dauid his men rose vp earlie to depart in the morning and to returne into the land of the Philistines And the Philistines wēt vp to Iezrael ¶ The .xxx. Chapter 1 The Amalekites burne Ziklag 5. Dauids two wiues are taken prisoners 6. The people would stone him 8. He asked councell of the Lorde and pursuing his enemies recouereth the pray 24. He deuideth it equally 26. And sendeth part to his frendes 1 BVt when Dauid and his men were come to Ziklag the third day the Amalekites had inuaded vppon the south euen vnto Ziklag and had smitten Ziklag and burnt it with fyre 2 And had taken the women that were therein prisoners both small and great but slue not a man saue carryed them away and went their wayes 3 So Dauid and his men came to the citie and beholde it was burnt with fyre and their wiues their sonnes and their daughters were taken prisoners 4 Then Dauid the people that were with him lift vp their voyces and wept vntill they could weepe no more 5 And Dauids two wiues were taken prisoners also Ahinoam the Iezrahelite and Abigail the wyfe of Nabal the Carmelite 6 And Dauid was in great cumbraunce For the people entended to stone him because the heartes of all y e people were vexed euery man for his sonnes and for his daughters But Dauid toke a good courage to him in the Lorde his God 7 And sayde to Abiathar the priest Ahimelechs sonne I pray thee bring me the Ephod And Abiathar brought the Ephod to Dauid 8 And Dauid asked councel at the Lord saying Shall I follow after this company shall I ouertake them And he aunswered him Folowe for thou shalt suerlie ouertake them and recouer all 9 So Dauid and the sixe hundred men that were with him went and came to the ryuer Besor where a parte of them abode 10 But Dauid and foure hundred men folowed For two hundred abode behinde being to weery to go ouer the ryuer Besor 11 And they founde an Egyptian in the fielde and brought him to Dauid and gaue him bread he did eate and water to drinke 12 And gaue him a fewe fygges and two clusters of reasinges And when he had eaten his spirite came againe to him For he had eaten no bread nor druncke any water in three dayes and three nightes 13 And Dauid said vnto him To whom belongest thou and whence art thou He sayd I am a young man of Egypt and seruaunt to an Amalekite and my maister left me because three dayes agone I fell sicke
Abiathar the priestes Of this that maner did Ahithophel and the elders of Israel counsel Absalom and thus thus haue I counsayled 16 Nowe therfore send quickly shewe Dauid saying Tarie not this night in y e fieldes of the wildernesse but get thee ouer lest the king be deuoured all the people that are with him 17 Now Ionathan and Ahimaaz abode by the well Rogel for they might not be seene to come into the citie and a wench went and told them And they went and shewed king Dauid 18 Neuerthelesse a lad sawe them and tolde it to Absalom But they went both of them away quickly came to a mans house in Bahurim which had a well in his yarde into the whiche they went downe 19 And the wyfe toke and spread a couerlet ouer the welles mouth spread ground corne theron and the thing was not spied 20 And when Absaloms seruauntes came to the wyfe to the house they sayde Where is Ahimaaz Ionathan The woman aunswered thē They be gone ouer the brooke of water And whē they had sought them and coulde not finde them they returned to Hierusalem 21 And assoone as they were departed the other came out of the wel and went and tolde king Dauid and sayde vnto him Vp and get you quickly ouer the water for suche counsel hath Ahithophel geuen against you 22 Then Dauid arose and all the people that were with him they were come ouer Iordane by that it was day so that there lacked not one of them that was not come ouer Iordane 23 And when Ahithophel sawe that his counsel was not folowed he sadled his Asse and arose and gate him home to his owne house and to his owne citie put his housholde in order and hanged him selfe and died and was buried in the sepulchre of his father 24 Then Dauid came to Mahanaim And Absalom passed ouer Iordane he and all the men of Israel with him 25 And Absalom made Amasa captaine of the hoast in stede of Ioab which Amasa was a mans sonne named Iethra an Israelite that went into Abigail the daughter of Nahas sister to Zaruia Ioabs mother 26 So Israel and Absalom pitched in the land of Gilead 27 And when Dauid was come to Mahanaim Sobi the sonne of Nahas out of Rabba of the children of Ammon Machir the sonne of Ammiel out of Lodeber and Barzellai the Gileadite out of Rogelim 28 Brought beddes basens earthen vessels wheat and barly floure parched corne beanes lentiles parched pulse 29 Hony butter sheepe cheese of kyne for Dauid and for the people that were with him to eate For they sayde The people is hungry weery and thirstie in the wildernesse The .xviii. Chapter 2 Dauid deuideth his armie into three partes 9 Absalom is hanged slayne and cast in a pit 33 Dauid lamenteth the death of Absalom 1 AND Dauid numbred the people that were with him and set captaynes of thousandes and of hundredes ouer them 2 And Dauid sēt foorth the third part of the people vnder the hande of Ioab and the third part vnder the hand of Abisai the sonne of Zaruia Ioabs brother and the other third part vnder the hand of Ithai the Gethite And the king said vnto the people I will go with you my selfe also 3 And the people aunswered Thou shalt not go foorth for if we flee away they wil not care for vs neither shal they regard vs though halfe of vs were slaine but thou art nowe worth ten thousande of vs Wherfore it is better that thou succour vs out of the citie 4 And the king sayde vnto them What seemeth you best that wil I do And the king stoode by the gate syde and all the people came out by hundredes and by thousandes 5 And the king commaunded Ioab and Abisai and Ithai saying Intreate the young man Absalom gently for my sake And all the people hearde that the king gaue all the captaynes charge concerning Absalom 6 And so the people wēt out into the fielde against Israel and the battel was in the wood of Ephraim 7 Where the people of Israel were slaine before the seruauntes of Dauid there was a great slaughter that day euen of twentie thousande men 8 For the battell was scattered ouer al the countrey And the wood deuoured mo people that day then dyd the sword 9 And Absalom mette the seruauntes of Dauid ryding vpon a mule whiche caried him vnder the thycke bowes of a great oke and his head was caught of the oke and he was lift vp betweene the heauen and the earth and the mule that was vnder him went away 10 And one that sawe it tolde Ioab saying Beholde I sawe Absalom hange in an oke 11 And Ioab sayd vnto the man that told him If thou diddest see him why diddest not thou there smite him to the ground and I would haue geuen thee ten sicles of siluer and a gyrdle 12 The man sayd vnto Ioab Though I should receaue a thousande sicles of siluer in myne hande yet woulde I not stretche out myne hand against y e kinges sonne For we heard with our eares when the king charged thee Abisai and Ithai saying Beware that none touche the young man Absalom 13 Moreouer if I had done it I shoulde haue done against mine owne lyfe for there is no matter hyd from the king yea thou thy selfe wouldest haue ben against me 14 Then sayde Ioab I may not stand thus tarying with thee And he toke three dartes in his hande thrust them through Absalom whyle he was yet alyu◠in the middes of the oke 15 And ten seruauntes that bare Ioabs weapons turned and smote Absalom and slue him 16 And Ioab blew the trumpet and the people returned from folowing Israel for Ioab held backe the people 17 And they toke Absalom and cast him into a great pyt in the wood and layed a mightie great heape of stones vpon him And all Israel fled euery one to their tentes 18 And this Absalom yet in his lyfe time toke and reared vp a piller whiche is in the kinges dale For he sayd I haue no sonne to kepe my name in remembraunce and he called the piller after his owne name and it is called vnto this day Absaloms place 19 Then sayd Ahimaaz the sonne of Sadoc Let me runne nowe and beare the king tydinges how that the Lord hath iudged him quyte of the hande of his enemies 20 And Ioab sayd vnto him Thou art no man to beare tidinges to day thou shalt beare tydinges another time but to day thou shalt beare none because the kinges sonne is dead 21 Then sayd Ioab to Chusi Go and tell the kyng what thou hast seene And Chusi bowed him selfe vnto Ioab and ranne 22 Then sayd Ahimaaz the sonne of Sadoc againe to Ioab What I pray thee if I also runne after Chusi And Ioab sayde Wherfore
cryed with a lowde voyce in the Iewes language and spake saying Heare the wordes of the great king euen of the king of Assyria 29 Thus sayth the king Let not Hezekia beguile you for he shal not be able to deliuer you out of myne hande 30 Neither let Hezekia make you to trust in the Lorde saying The Lorde shall surely deliuer vs this citie shall not be geuen ouer into the hande of the king of Assyria 31 Hearken not vnto Hezekia For thus sayth the king of Assyria Deale kindely with me and come out to me and then eate euery man of his owne vine and of his owne figge tree and drincke euery man of the water of his owne well 32 Till I come and fet you to as good a lande as yours is a lande of corne and wine a lande of bread and vineyardes a lande of oyle of olyue trees and of hony that ye may liue and not dye And hearken not vnto Hezekia for he beguileth you saying The Lorde shall deliuer vs. 33 Hath euery one of the gods of the nations deliuered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria 34 Where is the god of Hamath of Arphad and where is the god of Sepharuaim Hena and Iua Dyd they deliuer Samaria out of myne hande 35 And what god is among al the gods of the nations that hath deliuered his land out of myne hande Shall the Lorde deliuer Hierusalem out of myne hande 36 But the people held their peace and aunswered not him a word for the king had commaunded saying Aunswere hym not 37 Then Eliakim the sonne of Helkia which was the steward of the houshold and Sobna the scribe Ioah the sonne of Asaph the recorder came to Hezekia with their clothes rent and tolde him the wordes of Rabsakeh The .xix. Chapter 6 God promiseth Isai victorie to Hezekia 35 The angel of the Lord killeth an hundreth and fourescore and fiue thousand men of the Assyrians 37 Sennacherib is killed of his owne sonnes 1 SO it came to passe that when king Hezekia hearde it he rent his clothes put on sacke came into the house of the Lorde 2 And sent Eliakim which was the steward of the houshold and Sobna the scribe and the elders of the priestes clothed in sacke to Isai the prophete the sonne of Amoz 3 And they sayd vnto him thus sayth Hezekia This day is a day of tribulation of rebuke and blasphemie For the children are come to the byrth and there is no strength to be deliuered 4 Peraduenture the Lorde thy God will heare al the wordes of Rabsakeh whō the king of Assyria his maister hath sent to rayle on the lyuing God to rebuke him with wordes which the Lorde thy God hath hearde And lift thou vp thy prayer for the remnaunt that are left 5 So the seruauntes of king Hezekia came to Isai 6 And Isai sayde vnto them So shall ye say to your maister Thus sayth the Lorde Be not afrayde of the wordes which thou hast heard with which the young men of the king of Assyria haue rayled on me 7 Beholde I will put hym in another mynde and he shall heare tydinges and so returne to his owne land and I will bring to passe that he shall fall vpon the sworde euen in his owne land 8 And Rabsakeh went backe againe and founde the king of Assyria fighting against Libna for he had hearde howe that he was departed from Lachis 9 And when he hearde men say of Thirhaka king of the blacke Mores Behold he is come out to fight against thee he departed and sent messengers vnto Hezekia saying 10 Thus speake to Hezekia king of Iuda saying Let not thy God deceaue thee in whom thou trustest saying Hierusalem shall not be deliuered into the hand of the king of Assyria 11 Beholde thou hast hearde what the kinges of Assyria haue done to all landes how they haue vtterly destroyed them And shalt thou escape 12 Haue the gods of the heathen deliuered them whiche myne auncestours haue destroyed As Gozan and Haran and Rezeph and the children of Eden which were in Thelassar 13 Where is the king of Hamath and the king of Arphad the king of the citie of Sepharuaim and of Hena and Iua 14 And Hezekia receaued the letter of the hand of the messengers and read it And Hezekia went vp into the house of the Lorde and layde it abrode before the Lorde 15 And Hezekia prayed before the Lord and sayd O Lord God of Israel which dwellest betweene y e Cherubs thou art God alone ouer al the kingdomes of the earth thou hast made heauen earth 16 Lorde bowe downe thyne eare and heare Open Lorde thyne eyes I besech thee and see and heare the wordes of Sennacherib whiche hath sent this man to rayle on the lyuing God 17 Of a trueth Lorde the kinges of Assyria haue destroyed nations and their landes 18 And haue set fire on their gods For they were no gods but the worke of the handes of man euen of wood and stone and they destroyed them 19 Nowe therfore O Lord our God I besech thee saue thou vs out of his hande that all the kingdomes of the earth may knowe that thou onely art the Lorde God 20 And Isai the sonne of Amoz sent to Hezekia saying Thus sayth the Lorde God of Israel That whiche thou hast prayed me concerning Sennacherib king of Assyria I haue hearde it 21 This is therefore the worde that the Lorde hath sayd of him The virgin euen the daughter of Sion hath despised thee and laughed thee to scorne O thou king of Assyria the daughter of Hierusalem hath shaken her head at thee 22 Whom hast thou rayled on and whom hast thou blasphemed Against whom hast thou exalted thy voyce and lyfted vp thyne eyes so hye Euen against the holy of Israel 23 By the hande of thy messengers thou hast rayled on the Lord and sayd With the multitude of my charets I am come vp to the toppes of the mountaynes euen along by the sides of Libanon and I will cut downe the hye Cedar trees and the lusty fyrre trees therof and I will go into the lodging of his borders and into the wood of his Carmel 24 I haue digged and druncke straunge waters with the steppe of my goyng wil I drye al the water pooles that are besieged 25 Hast thou not heard howe I haue ordeyned such a thing a great whyle ago and haue prepared it from the beginning And shall I not nowe bring it foorth that it may destroy and bring strong cities into wast heapes of stones 26 And the inhabiters of them shal be of litle power and faynt hearted and confounded and shal be lyke the grasse of the field or greene hearbe or as the hay on the toppes of the houses or as the corne that is vnripe smitten with blasting 27 I knowe thy dwelling thy comming out and thy
blowers and the singers so agreed that it seemed but one voyce in praysing thanking the Lorde And when they lift vp their voyce with the trumpets cymbales and other instrumentes of musicke and when they praysed the Lord How that he is good and that his mercie lasteth euer the house of God was filled with a cloude 14 So that the priestes coulde not endure to minister by the reason of the cloude For the maiestie of the Lorde had filled the house of God The .vi. Chapter 3 Solomon blesseth the people 4 He prayseth the Lorde 14 He prayeth vnto God for those that shall pray in the temple 1 THen Solomon sayde The Lord hath spoken howe that he wil dwell in the darcke cloude 2 And I haue buylt thee an house of habitation for thee and a place for thy dwelling for euer 3 And the king turned his face and blessed the whole congregation of Israel all the congregation of Israel stoode 4 And he sayde Blessed be the Lord God of Israel which hath with his handes fulfilled it that he spake with his mouth to my father Dauid saying 5 Since the day that I brought my people out of the lande of Egypt I chose no citie among all the tribes of Israel to buylde an house in that my name might be there neither chose I any man to be a ruler ouer my people Israel 6 Sauing that I haue chosen Hierusalem that my name might be there and haue chosen Dauid to be ouer my people Israel 7 And when it was in the heart of Dauid my father to buylde an house for the name of the Lorde God of Israel 8 The Lorde sayde to Dauid my father Forasmuch as it was in thyne heart to buylde an house for my name thou diddest well that thou thoughtest in thyne heart 9 Notwithstanding thou shalt not buyld the house but thy sonne which is proceeded out of thy loynes he shall buylde an house for my name 10 The Lorde therefore hath made good his saying that he hath spoken and I am rysen vp in the roome of Dauid my father and am set on the seate of Israel as the Lorde promised and haue buylt an house for the name of the Lord God of Israel 11 And in it haue I put the arke wherein is the couenaunt of the Lorde that he made with the children of Israel 12 And the king stoode before the aulter of the Lorde in the presence of all the congregation of Israel and stretched out his handes 13 For now Solomon had made a brasen scaffold of fyue cubites long and fyue cubites brode and three of heyght and had set it in the middes of the great courte and vpon it he stoode and kneeled downe vpon his knees before al the congregation of Israel and stretched out his handes towarde heauen 14 And sayde O Lorde God of Israel there is no god like thee in heauen and earth which kepest couenaunt shewest mercie vnto thy seruauntes that walke before thee with al their heartes 15 Thou whiche hast kept with thy seruaunt Dauid my father the thinges that thou promisedst him thou saydest it with thy mouth hast fulfilled it with thyne handes as it is to see this day 16 And nowe Lorde God of Israel kepe with thy seruaunt Dauid my father the thinges that thou promisedst him saying Thou shalt in my sight not be without a man that shall sit vpon the seate of Israel so that thy children take heede to their wayes to walke in my lawe as thou hast walked before me 17 And nowe Lord God of Israel let thy saying be true whiche thou spakest vnto thy seruaunt Dauid 18 And wil God in verie deede dwel with men on earth Beholde heauen and heauen aboue all heauens do not contayne thee howe much lesse the house which I haue buylded 19 Let it be thy pleasure therfore to turne to the prayer of thy seruaunt and to his supplication O Lorde my God to hearken vnto the voyce and prayer whiche thy seruaunt prayeth before thee 20 And let thyne eyes be open towarde this house day night ouer this place wherof thou hast sayde that thou wouldest put thy name there to hearken vnto the prayer whiche thy seruaunt prayeth in this place 21 Hearken vnto the prayers of thy seruaunt and of thy people Israel which they pray in this place heare thou I say out of thy dwelling place euen out of heauen heare and be mercifull 22 If a man sinne against his neyghbour and take an oth agaynst hym and make him to sweare and they both come before thyne aulter in this house 23 Then heare thou from heauen and do and iudge thy seruauntes that thou rewarde the vngodly recompence hym his way vpon his head and iustifie the righteous and geue him according to his righteousnes 24 And if thy people Israel be put to the worse before the enemie because they haue sinned against thee Yet if they turne geue thankes vnto thy name and make intercession and pray before thee in this house 25 Then heare thou from heauen and be merciful vnto the sinne of thy people Israel and bryng them againe vnto the lande which thou gauest to them and to their fathers 26 When heauen is shut vp and there be no rayne because they haue sinned against thee yet if they pray in this place and confesse thy name and repent from their sinne for the which thou chastenest them 27 Then heare thou in heauen and be merciful vnto the sinne of thy seruauntes of thy people Israel and guyde thou them into the good way to walke in and send rayne vpon thy lande whiche thou hast geuen vnto thy people for an inheritaunce 28 And if ther be dearth in the land or pestilence corruption or blasting of corne grashoppers or caterpillers or that their enemies besiege them in the cities of their land or whatsoeuer plage or sickenesse it be 29 Then what supplications and prayers soeuer shal be made of any man and of all thy people Israel which shall know euery man his owne sore and his owne griefe shall stretche out their handes towarde this house 30 Thou shalt heare from heauen euen from thy dwelling place and shalt be mercifull and geue euery man according vnto all his wayes euen as thou doest know euery mans heart for thou only knowest the heartes of the children of men 31 That they may feare thee walke in thy wayes as long as they liue in y e land which thou gauest vnto our fathers 32 Moreouer the straunger whiche is not of thy people Israel if he come from a farre lande for thy great names sake and thy mightie hande and thy stretched out arme If they come I say and pray in this house 33 Thou shalt heare from heauen euen from thy dwelling place and shalt do according to all that the straunger calleth to thee for That all people of the earth
that his payne is more greeuous then his fault 8 He wisheth death 14 He complayneth of his friendes 1 BVT Iob aunswered and sayde 2 O that my complaynt were truely wayed and my punishment layde in the balaunces together 3 For nowe it woulde be heauier then the sande of the sea and this is the cause that my wordes fayle me 4 For the arrowes of the almightie are vpon me the poyson therof hath drinke vp my spirite and the terrible feares of God are set against me 5 Doth the wild asse rose when he hath grasse or loweth the oxe when he hath fodder inough 6 That which is vnsauerie shall it be eaten without salt or is there any taste in the whyte of an egge 7 The thinges that sometime I might not away withal are nowe my meate for very sorowe 8 O that I might haue my desire and that God woulde graunt me the thing that I long for 9 O that God would begin and smite me â–ª that he would let his hand go and take me cleaue away 10 Then shoulde I haue some comfort yea I woulde desire him in my payne that he would not spare for I wil not be against the wordes of the holy one 11 For what powre haue I to endure And what is myne end that my soule might be patient 12 Is my strength the strength of stones or is my fleshe of brasse 13 Is it not so that there is in me no helpe that my substaunce is taken from me 14 He that is in tribulation ought to be comforted of his neyghbour but the feare of the almightie is cleane away 15 Myne owne brethren passe ouer by me as the water brooke as the ouerflowing of waters whiche do hastly go away 16 Whiche are blackish be reason of the ice and wherin the snowe is hyd 17 Which when they haue passed by do vanishe and when the heate commeth they fayle out of their place â—8 They depart from the course of their wonted chanell to other places they runne in vayne and perishe 19 They that went to The man considered them and they that went to Saba wayted for them 20 But they were confounded in their hope they came thyther and were ashamed 21 Euen such truely are ye nowe that ye see my miserie ye are afrayde 22 Did I desire you to bring vnto me or to geue me any of your substaunce 23 To deliuer me from the enemies hand or to saue me from the hande of the tyrauntes 24 Teache me and I will hold my tong and wherin I haue erred cause me to vnderstande 25 How strong are the wordes of trueth and which of you can rebuke or reproue them 26 Do ye imagine to reproue wordes that the talke of the afflicted shoulde be as the winde 27 Ye fall vpon the fatherlesse and digge a pit to ouerthrowe your owne frende 28 And therfore be content loke now vpon me and I will not lye before your face 29 Turne I pray you be indifferent iudges turne agayne and ye shall see myne vngiltinesse whether there be any vnrighteousnes in my tongue or vayne wordes in my mouth The .vii. Chapter 1 Iob sheweth the shortnesse and miserie of mans lyfe 1 IS ther not an appoynted time to man vpon earth Are not his dayes also like the dayes of an hired seruaunt 2 For like as a bonde seruaunt desireth the shadowe and as an hyreling woulde fayne haue the rewarde of his worke 3 Euen so haue I laboured whole monethes long in vayne and many a carefull night haue I tolde 4 When I layde me downe to sleepe I sayde O when shall I arise and measuring the euening I am euen full with tossing to and fro vnto the dawning of the day 5 My fleshe is clothed with wormes and dust of the earth my skinne is withered and become horrible 6 My dayes passe ouer more spedyly then a weauers shuttle and are spent without hope 7 O remember that my lyfe is but a winde and that myne eye shall no more see pleasures 8 Yea and the eye that hath seene me shal see me no more for yer thou fasten thyne eye vpon me I come to naught 9 The cloude is consumed and vanished away so he that goeth downe to the graue shall come no more vp 10 Nor turne againe into his house neither shall his place knowe him any more 11 Therfore I wil not spare my mouth but I will speake in the trouble of my spirite and muse in the bitternesse of my mynde 12 Am I a sea or a whale fish that thou kepest me so in prison 13 When I say My bed shal comfort me I shall haue some refreshing by talking to my selfe vpon my couch 14 Then fearest thou me with dreames makest me so afrayde through visions 15 That my soule wisheth rather to perishe and die then my bones to remayne 16 I can see no remedy I shall liue no more O spare me then for my dayes are but vanitie 17 What is man that thou doest magnifie him and that thou settest thy heart vpon him 18 Thou visitest him early and euery day euery moment doest thou trie him 19 Why goest thou not fro me nor lettest me alone so long till I may swalowe downe my spyttle 20 I haue offended what shall I do vnto the O thou preseruer of men Why hast thou set me as a marke against thee so that I am a burden to my selfe 21 Why doest thou not pardon my trespasses and take away myne iniquitie Behold nowe must I sleepe in the dust and if thou sekest me to morowe in the morning I shal not be The viii Chapter 1 Bildad sheweth that â—ob is a sinner bâ—cause God 〈…〉 and preserueth the good 1 THen aunswered Bildad the Suhite said 2 Howe long wilt thou talke of such thinges howe long shall the wordes of thy mouth be as a mightie wind 3 Doth God paruert the thing that is lawfull or doth the almightie destroy the thing that is right 4 For seyng that thy sonnes sinned against him did not he send them into the place of their iniquitie 5 If thou wouldest nowe resorte vnto God be times and make thy prayer to the almightie 6 If thou wouldest liue a pure and godly life shoulde he not awake vp vnto thee immediatly and make the habitation of thy righteousnesse prosperous 7 In so much that wherin so euer thou haddest litle afore thou shouldest haue nowe great aboundaunce 8 Enquire I pray thee of the former age and search diligently among their fathers 9 For we are but of yesterday and consider not that our dayes vpon earth are but a shadowe 10 Shall not they shew thee and tel thee yea and gladly confesse the same and vtter the wordes of their heart 11 May a rushe be greene without moystnesse or may the grasse growe with
no eye had seene me 19 And that I were as though I had not ben but brought from the wombe to the graue 20 Are not my dayes fewe Let him then leaue of fro me and let me a lone that I may comfort my selfe a litle 21 Afore I go thyther from whence I shall not turne againe euen to the lande of darknesse and shadowe of death 22 Yea a lande as darke as darknesse it selfe and into the shadowe of death where is none order but the light is there as darknesse The .xi. Chapter 1 Iob is vniustly reprehended of Sophar 7 God is incomprehensible 14 He is mercifull to the repentaunt 18 Their assuraunce that liue godlie 1 THen aunswered Sophar the Naamathite and sayde 2 Shoulde not he that maketh many wordes be aunswered Shoulde he that bableth much be commended therin 3 Shoulde thy lies make men holde their peace and when thou mockest others shall no man make thee ashamed 4 For thou hast sayde my doctrine is pure and I am cleane in thyne eyes 5 But O that God woulde speake and open his lippes against thee 6 That he might shewe thee the secretes of wysdome howe thou hast deserued double according to right Know therfore that God hath forgotten thee for thyne iniquitie 7 Art thou able to finde out the secretes of God Or wilt thou attayne to the perfectnesse of the almightie 8 It is hier then heauen what art thou able to do deeper then the hel how wilt thou then knowe it 9 The measure of it is longer then the earth and broder then the sea 10 Though he turne all thinges vpsyde downe close them in gather them together who will turne hym from his purpose 11 For it is he that knoweth vayne men he seeth their wickednesse also shoulde he not then consider it 12 Yet vayne man would be wyse though man newe borne is lyke a wilde asses coulte 13 If thou preparedst thyne heart and liftedst vp thyne handes towarde hym 14 If thou wouldest put away the wickednes whiche thou hast in hande so that no vngodlinesse dwell in thy house 15 Then mightest thou lift vp thy face without shame then shouldest thou be sure and haue no neede to feare 16 Then shouldest thou forget thy miserie and thinke no more vpon it then vpon the waters that runne by 17 Then should thy lyfe be as cleare as the noone day thou shouldest shine forth and be as the morning 18 Then mightest thou be bolde because there is hope and take thy rest quietly as compassed with a trenche 19 Then mightest thou lye downe and none to make thee afrayde yea many one should make suite vnto thee 20 As for the eyes of the vngodly they shall faile and they shal not escape and their hope shal be sorowe of minde The .xij. Chapter 1 Iob accuseth his friendes of ignoraunce 7 He declareth the might and power of God 17 And how he chaungeth the course of thinges 1 SO Iob aunswered saide 2 Then no doubt ye are the men alone and wysdome shall perishe with you 3 But I haue vnderstanding aswell as ye and am not inferior to you Yea who knoweth not these thinges 4 I am as one mocked of his neighbour who calleth vpon God he heareth him The iust the vpright is laughed to scorne 5 Being as alight despised in the heartes of the riche and as one redy to fall 6 The houses of robbers are in wealth and prosperitie and they that maliciouslie meddle against God dwell without care in those thinges that God hath geuen richely with his hande 7 Aske the cattaile and they shall enfourme thee the foules of the ayre and they shall tell thee 8 Or the encrease of the earth and it shall shew thee or the fishes of the sea and they shall certifie thee 9 What is he but he knoweth that the hande of the Lorde made all these 10 In whose hande is the soule of euery liuing thing and the breath of all mankinde 11 Haue not the eares pleasure in hearing and the mouth in tasting the thing that it eateth 12 Among olde persons there is wysedome and in age is vnderstanding 13 Yea with God is wysdome and strength it is he that hath counsell and foreknowledge 14 Beholde if he breake downe a thing who can set it vp againe yf he shut a thing who wyll open it 15 Beholde if he withholde the waters they drye vp yf he let them go they destroy the earth 16 With him is strength and wysdome both the deceauer and he that is deceaued are his 17 He carieth away the wyse men as it were a spoyle and bringeth the iudges out of their wittes 18 He taketh away the subiection of the people from their kinges and girdeth their loynes with a bonde 19 He leadeth away the great men into captiuitie and turneth the mightie vpside downe 20 He stoppeth the mouth of them that speake trueth disapoynteth the aged of their reason 21 He powreth contempt vpon princes and maketh the strength of the mightie weake 22 Loke what lyeth hid in darkenesse he declareth it openly and the very shadowe of death bringeth he to light 23 He both increaseth the people and destroyeth them he maketh them to multiplie and diminisheth them 24 He taketh away the hearte of them that be heades of y e people of the earth and causeth them to wander in the wildernesse out of the way 25 They grope in the darke without light and he maketh them to stacker like a drunken man ¶ The .xiii. Chapter 1 Iob compareth his knowledge with the experience of his friendes 16 The penitent shal be saued and the hypocrite condempned 20 He prayeth vnto God that he would not handle him rigorously 1 LO all this haue I seene with mine eye heard with mine eare and vnderstande it 2 What ye knowe that same do I know also neither am I inferior vnto you 3 Neuerthelesse I talke with the almightie and my desire is to commune with God 4 As for you ye are workmaisters of lyes and vnprofitable phisitians altogether 5 Woulde God ye kept your tongue for then might ye be taken for wise men 6 Now heare my reasoning and ponder the argument of my lippes 7 Wyll you speake wickedlie for gods defence and talke deceitfully for his cause 8 Wyll ye accept the person of him or wyll ye contende for God 9 Shall that helpe you when he calleth you to reckening For as one man mocketh an other so do ye mocke him 10 He shall punishe you and reproue you if ye do secretly accept any person 11 Shall not his excellencie make you afrayde Shall not his terrible feare fall vpon you 12 Your remembraunce is lyke vnto a sparke and your bodies lyke the claye 13 Holde your tongues for my sake that I also may speake and my sorowe shal be the lesse 14
1 Iob declareth how the prosperitie of the wicked maketh them proude 15 insomuch that they blaspheme God 16 Their destruction is at hande 23 None ought to be iudged wicked for affliction neither good for prosperitie 1 IOb aunswered and saide 2 O heare diligently my wordes and that shal be in steede of your consolations 3 Suffer me that I may speake and when I haue spoken mocke on 4 Is it for mans sake that I make this disputation Which if it were so shoulde not my spirite then be in sore trouble 5 Marke me well and be abashed and lay your hande vpon your mouth 6 For when I consider my selfe I am afrayde and my fleshe is smitten with feare 7 Wherefore do wicked men liue come to their olde age and increase in richesse 8 Their children lyue in their sight and their generation before their eyes 9 Their houses are safe from all feare and the rod of God is not vpon them 10 Their bullocke gendreth and that not out of time their cowe calueth and is not vnfruitfull 11 They sende foorth their children by flockes their sonnes leade the daunce 12 They beare with them tabrets and harpes and reioyce in the sounde of the organs 13 They spend their dayes in wealthines but sodainely they go downe to the graue 14 They say also vnto God Go from vs we desire not the knowledge of thy wayes 15 Who is the almightie that we should serue him And what profite should we haue if we should pray vnto him 16 Lo there is vtterly no goodnesse in their hande therefore wyll I not haue to do with the counsaile of the vngodly 17 How oft shall the candell of the wicked be put out and their destruction come vpon them O what sorowe shall God geue them for their part in his wrath 18 Yea they shal be euen as hay before the winde and as chaffe that the storme carieth away 19 God wyll lay vp the sorowe of the father for his children when he rewardeth him he shall know it 20 Their owne miserie shal they see with their eyes and drinke of the fearefull wrath of the almightie 21 For what careth he for his house after his death when the number of his monethes is cut short 22 Seeing God hath the highest power of all who can teache him any knowledge 23 One dyeth in his full strength being in all ease and prosperitie 24 His breastes are full of milke and his bones runne full of marowe 25 Another dyeth in the bitternes of his soule and neuer eateth with pleasure 26 They shall sleepe both alyke in the earth and the wormes shall couer them 27 Beholde I know what ye thinke yea and the subtiltie that ye imagine against me 28 For ye say where is the princes palace and where is the dwelling of the vngodly 29 Haue ye not asked them that go by the way Doubtlesse ye cannot denie their tokens 30 That the wicked is kept vnto the day of destruction and the vngodly shal be brought foorth to the day of wrath 31 Who dare declare his way to his face who wil rewarde him for that he doth 32 Yet shall he be brought to his graue and dwell among the heape of the dead 33 Then shal the slymie valley be sweet vnto him all men also must folowe him as there are innumerable gone before him 34 Howe vayne then is the comfort that ye geue me seyng falshood remayneth in all your aunsweres The .xxii. Chapter 2 Eliphas affirmeth that Iob is punished for his sinnes 6 He accuseth him of vnmercifulnesse 13 and that he denied gods prouidence 21 He exhorteth hym to repentaunce 1 SO Eliphas the Themanite gaue aunswere and sayde 2 May a man be profitable vnto God as he that is wise may be profitable vnto him selfe 3 Is it any aduauntage to the almightie that thou art righteous or shall it profite him that thou makest thy wayes perfect 4 Is he afrayde to reproue thee and to step foorth with thee into iudgement 5 Is not thy wickednesse great and thy vngratious deedes innumerable 6 For thou hast taken the pledge from thy brother for naught and robbed the naked of their clothing 7 To such as were weery hast thou geuen no water to drinke hast withdrawen bread from the hungrie 8 But the mightie man had the earth and he that was in auctoritie dwelt in it 9 Thou hast sent wydowes away emptie and the armes of the fatherlesse were broken 10 Therefore art thou compassed about with snares sodenly vexed with feare 11 Shouldest thou then see no darknesse shoulde not the water studde run ouer thee 12 Is not God on high in the heauen beholde the heyght of the starres how hie they are 13 Wilt thou therfore say Tushe howe should God know can he iudge through the darke cloude 14 Tushe the cloudes couer him that he may not see and he walketh on the top of heauen 15 Hast thou marked the way of the world wherin wicked men haue walked 16 Whiche were cut downe out of time and whose foundation was as an ouerflowing ryuer 17 Whiche sayd vnto God Go from vs and asked what the almightie coulde do for them 18 He filled their houses with good things but the counsell of the vngodly be farre from me 19 The righteous sawe it and were glad and the innocent laughed them to scorne 20 Is our substaunce hewen downe As for the remnaunt of them the fire hath consumed 21 Therefore reconcile thee vnto God and be at peace so shall all thinges prospere with thee right well 22 Receaue I pray thee the lawe at his mouth and lay vp his wordes in thyne heart 23 For if thou wilt turne to the almightie thou shalt be buyld vp and put all vnrighteousnes from thy dwelling 24 Thou shalt lay vp golde as plentyful as the dust and the golde of Ophir as the flyntes of the riuers 25 Yea almightie God his owne selfe shal be be thy defence and thou shalt haue plentie of siluer 26 Then shalt thou haue thy delite in the almightie and lift vp thy face vnto God 27 Then shalt thou make thy prayer vnto him and he shall heare thee and thou shalt kepe thy promises 28 Thou shalt also decree a thing and he shall establishe it vnto thee and the light shall shine in thy wayes 29 When the wicked be cast downe thou shalt say I am lifted vp and God shall saue the humble person 30 The innocent shal deliuer the Ilande it shal be preserued by the purenesse of thyne handes The .xxiii. Chapter 2 Iob affirmeth that he both knoweth and feareth the power and sentence of the iudge 10 and that he is not punished only for his sinnes 1 IOb aunswered said 2 Though my talke be this day in bitternesse and my plague greater then my groning 3 O that
perfectnesse of Iod. 13 The reward of the wicked and of the tirauntes 1 AND Iob proceeded and went foorth in his parable saying 2 As God lyueth whiche hath taken away my iudgement and the almightie that hath vexed my minde 3 Whyle my breath is in me and the winde that God hath geuen me is in my nostrels 4 My lippes shall talke of no vanitie and my tongue shall speake no disceite 5 God forbyd that I should graunt your cause to be right As for me vntill myne end come will I neuer go fro myne innocentie 6 My righteous dealing kepe I fast which I will not forsake my heart shal not reproue me of my dayes 7 Therfore myne enemie shal be founde as the vngodly and he that taketh part against me as the vnrighteous 8 For what hope hath the hypocrite though he haue great good if God take away his soule 9 Will God heare his crye when trouble commeth vpon him 10 Hath he such pleasure and delite in the almightie that he dare alway call vpon God 11 I wil teache you in the name of God and the thing of the almightie will I not kepe from you 12 Behold all ye your selues haue seene it why then do ye thus vanishe in vanitie 13 Saying This is the portion that the wicked haue of God and the heritage that tyrauntes shall receaue of the almightie 14 If he get many children they shall perishe with the sworde and his posteritie shall haue scarcenesse of bread 15 His remnaunt shal be buried in death and his widowes shall not weepe 16 Though he heape vp siluer as the dust and prepare rayment as the clay 17 He may well prepare it but the godly shall put it on and the innocent shall deale out the money 18 He buyldeth his house as the moth as a booth that the watchman maketh 19 When the riche man sleepeth he shall not be gathered to his fathers they opened their eyes and he was gone 20 Terrour taketh holde vpon hym as a water fludde and the tempest stealeth him away in the night season 21 A vehement east winde caryeth him hence and he departeth a storme hurleth him out of his place 22 God shal cast vpon him and not spare though he woulde fayne flee out of his hande 23 Then clap men their handes at hym and hisse at him out of his place The .xxviii. Chapter 1 Iob sheweth that the wysdome of God is vnsearcheable 1 THere is a place wher siluer is brought out of and where golde is tryed 2 Where yron is digged out of the grounde stones resolued to me tall 3 The darkenesse shall once come to an ende he can seke out the grounde of all thinges the stones the darke and the shadowe of death 4 He causeth the fluddes to breake out against the inhabitant and the waters forgotten of the foote beyng hygher then man are gone away 5 Out of the same earth commeth bread and vnder it as it were fire is turned vp 6 The stones of it are a place of Saphires and the dust of it is golde 7 There is a way that the birdes knowe not that no vultures eye hath seene 8 Wherin the lions whelpes walke not and where no lion commeth 9 There putteth he his hande vpon the stonie rockes and ouerthroweth the mountaynes by the rootes 10 Riuers flowe out of the rockes loke what is pleasaunt his eye seeth it 11 He bindeth the fluddes that they do not ouerflow and the thing that is hid bringeth he to light 12 Where then is wysdome founde and where is the place of vnderstanding 13 Veryly no man can tell howe worthy a thing she is neither is she found in the lande of them that lyue 14 The deepe sayth She is not in me the sea sayth She is not with me 15 She can not be gotten for golde neither may the price of her be bought with any siluer 16 No wedges of gold of Ophir no precious Onir stones no Saphires may be valued with her 17 No neither golde nor christall shall be equall vnto it nor her exchaunge shal be for the plate of fine golde 18 No mention shal be made of Corall nor of the Gabis for wisdome is more pretious then pearles 19 The Topas of Ethiopia shall not be equall vnto it neither shall it be valued with the wedge of pure golde 20 Whence then commeth wysdome and where is the place of vnderstanding 21 She is hid from the eyes of all men liuing yea from the foules of the ayre 22 Destruction and death say We haue hearde the fame therof with our eares 23 But God seeth her way and knoweth her place 24 For he beholdeth the endes of the worlde and loketh vpon all that is vnder heauen 25 When he wayed the windes and measured the waters 26 When he made a decree for the rayne and a way for the lightninges of the thunder 27 Then dyd he see her then declared he her prepared her and knewe her 28 And vnto man he sayd To feare the Lorde is wysdome and to forsake euyll is vnderstanding The .xxix. Chapter 1 Iob complayneth of the prosperitie of the time past 7. His auctoritie 12 iustice and equite 1 SO Iob proceeded and went foorth in his parable saying 2 O that I were as I was in the monethes by past and in the daies when God preserued me 3 When his light shined vpon my head when I went after the same light and shining euen through the darknesse 4 As it stoode with me when I was young when God prospered my house 5 When the almightie was yet with me when my children stoode about me 6 When my wayes ranne ouer with butter and when the stonie rockes gaue me riuers of oyle 7 When I went out to the gate euen to the iudgement seate and when I prepared my seate in the streete 8 The young men saw me and hid them selues and the aged arose and stoode vp 9 The princes left of their talking and layed their hand to their mouth 10 The mightie kept still their voyce and their tongue cleaued to the roofe of their mouth 11 When the eare heard me it blessed me when the eye sawe me it gaue witnesse to me 12 For I deliuered the poore when he cryed and the fatherlesse and hym that had none to helpe hym 13 The blessing of him that was redy to perishe came vpon me and I caused the widowes heart to reioyce 14 And why I put vpon me righteousnesse which couered me as a garment and equitie was my crowne 15 I was an eye to the blinde and a foote to the lame 16 I was a father to the poore and when I knewe not the cause I sought it out diligently 17 I brake the iawes of the vnrighteous man and pluckt the
at the prosperitie of the wicked or withdrawen therby from godlynes as though God had no regarde of iustice innocencie and vpright dealing when they see commonly the worst sort of men to haue the world at their wyll abounding in health riches and aucthoritie He sheweth that the condition of the godly and the vngodly be diuers and how that God at the last rooteth out those that do euill notwithstanding all their posteritie and defendeth those that put their trust in him God guydeth the faythfull and neuer forsaketh them or their seede ¶ Of Dauid 1 FRet not thy selfe because of the vngodly neither be thou enuious against the euyll doers 2 For they shall soone be cut downe like the grasse and be withered euen as the greene hearbe 3 Put thou thy trust in God and be doing good dwell in the land and feede in trueth 4 Delight thou also in God and he shall geue thee thy heartes desire 5 Commit thy way vnto God and put thy trust in hym and he shall bryng it to passe 6 He shall make thy righteousnesse appeare as cleare as the light and thy iust dealing as the noone tyde 7 Holde thee still in God and wayte paciently vpon him fret not thy selfe at him whose way doth prosper at the man that doth abhominations 8 Leaue of from wrath and let go displeasure fret not thy selfe lest thou be moued to do euill 9 For the malitious doers shal be rooted out and they that paciently wayte after God they shall inherite the lande 10 Looke at them yet a litle whyle and the vngodly shal be cleane gone thou shalt looke after his place and he shall not be there 11 But the meeke spirited shall possesse the earth and shal be delighted in the aboundaunce of peace 12 The vngodly busieth his head all against the iust and gnasheth vpon him with his teeth 13 The Lorde shall laugh him to scorne for he seeth that his day is comming 14 The vngodly haue drawen out the sworde and haue bended their bowe to cast downe the poore and needie and to sâ—ay such as be of right conuersation 15 But their sworde shal go thorow their owne heart their bow shal be broken 16 A small thing that the righteous hath is better then great riches of y e vngodly 17 For the armes of the vngodly shal be broken and God vpholdeth the righteous 18 God knoweth the dayes of them that be perfect and their inheritaunce shall endure for euer 19 They shall not be confounded in the perilous tyme and in the dayes of dearth they shall haue inough 20 As for the vngodly they shall perishe and the enemies of God shall consume as the fat of lambes yea euen with the smoke they shall vanishe away 21 The vngodly boroweth and payeth not agayne but the righteous geueth mercifully and liberally 22 Suche as be blessed of God shall possesse the lande and they that be cursed of hym shal be rooted out 23 The pathes of man is directed by God and his way pleaseth 24 Though he fall he shall not be vndone for God vpholdeth him with his hande 25 I haue ben a young chylde and nowe I am olde and yet sawe I neuer the righteous forsaken nor his seede begyng bread 26 The righteous is euer mercifull and lendeth and his seede is blessed 27 Flee from euill do good and dwell for euer 28 For God loueth iudgement he forsaketh not his saintes they are preserued for euermore but the seede of the vngodlye shal be rooted vp 29 The righteous shal inherite the land and dwell therin for euer 30 The mouth of the righteous is exercised in wysdome and his tongue wyll be talking of iudgement 31 The lawe of his God is in his heart therfore his feete shall not slide 32 The vngodly spyeth the righteous and seeketh occasion to slay hym 33 God wyll not leaue him in his hande nor suffer hym to be condemned when he is iudged 34 Wayte thou on God kepe his way and he wyll promote thee that thou mayest possesse the lande when the vngodly shal be cut of thou shalt see it 35 I my selfe haue seene the vngodly in great power and florishing lyke a greene bay tree 36 And he vanished away so that he could be no more seene I sought hym but he coulde no where be founde 37 Marke hym that is perfect and beholde him that is iust for the ende of suche a man is peace 38 As for wicked transgressours they shal be destroyed all together and the ende of the vngodly shal be rooted vp at the last 39 But saluation of the righteous commeth of God whiche is also their strength in time of trouble 40 And God wyll ayde them and deliuer them he wyl deliuer them from the vngodly and he wyll saue them because they put their trust in him The argument of the .xxxviii. psalme ¶ Dauid greeuously sicke besecheth God to turne away his wrath from hym and to helpe hym He complayneth of his afflictions of the greeuousnes of his disease of the great burden of his sinnes and of the vnfaythfulnes of his frendes He also declareth his trust in God Finally he sheweth that beyng chastened of God he forgetteth not what he suffereth wherfore how long with how much torment and what helpe he receaued at Gods hande ¶ A psalme of Dauid to reduce in remembraunce 1 REbuke me not O God in thyne anger neither chasten me in thy heauie displeasure 2 For thyne arrowes sticke fast in me and thy hande presseth me sore 3 There is no helath in my flesh through thy displeasure neither is there any rest in my bones by reason of my sinne 4 For my manyfolde wickednes is gone ouer my head and like a sore burthen is to heauie for me to beare 5 My woundes stinke and are corrupt through my foolishnes 6 I am become crooked and am exceedingly pulled downe I go a mourning all the day long 7 For my loynes are filled with heate and there is no whole part in my body 8 I am feeble and sore smitten I haue rored for the very disquietnesse of my heart 9 Lorde thou knowest all my desire and my gronyng is not hyd from thee 10 My heart panteth my strength hath fayled me and the lyght of myne eyes is gone from me 11 My louers and my neygbours dyd stande on the other syde lokyng vpon my plague and my kinsmen stoode a farre of 12 They also that sought after my lyfe layde snares for me and they that went about to do me euyll talked of wickednesse and imagined deceipt all the day long 13 As for me as one deafe I woulde not heare and I was as one that is dumbe who coulde not open his mouth 14 I became euen as a man that heareth not and who hath no replies in his mouth 15 For on thee O God I haue wayted thou shalt aunswere for me O Lorde my God 16 For I
the beautie eloquence strength power successe administration of iustice aboundaunce of riches and maiestie of kyng Solomon with his wife and children setteth foorth Iesus Christe and his espouse the Churche whose eternal kingdome agaynst sinne death and hell is notably figured here in this psalme ¶ To the chiefe musition on the instrument Sosannim to be song of the children of Corach A song of loue geuyng wise instructions 1 MY heart is endityng of a good matter I wyll dedicate my workes vnto the king my tongue is as the penne of a redy writer 2 Thou art fayrer then the children of men full of grace are thy lippes because the Lorde hath blessed thee for euer 3 Girde thee with thy sworde vpon thy thygh O thou most mightie that is with thy glorie and thy maiestie 4 Prosper thou with thy maiestie ryde on the worde of trueth and of affliction for ryghteousnesse sake and thy ryght hande shall teache thee terrible thynges 5 Thyne arrowes are sharpe a people the kynges enemies shall submit in heart them selues vnto thee 6 Thy throne O Lorde endureth for euer and euer the scepter of ryghteousnesse is the scepter of thy kyngdome 7 Thou hast loued iustice and hated vngodlynesse wherfore the Lorde euen thy Lorde hath annoynted thee with the oyle of gladnesse more then thy felowes 8 All thy garmentes smell of Myrre Aloes and Cassia out of the iuorie palaces wherby they haue made thee glad 9 Kynges daughters are amongst thy honourable women vpon thy ryght hande standeth the queene in a vesture of golde of Ophir 10 Hearken O daughter and consider encline thine eare forget also thine owne people and thy fathers house 11 So shall the kyng haue pleasure in thy beautie for he is thy Lorde and worship thou hym 12 And the daughter of Tyre shall come with a present the riche among the people shall make their earnest prayer before thee 13 The kynges daughter is all glorious within her clothyng is of wrought golde 14 She shal be brought vnto the kyng in rayment of needle worke the virgins that folowe her and her company shal be brought vnto thee 15 With ioy and gladnesse shall they be brought and shal enter into the kinges palace 16 In steade of thy fathers thou shalt haue children whom thou mayst make princes in all landes 17 I wyll remember thy name from one generation vnto another therfore shall the people prayse thee worlde without ende ¶ The argument of the .xlvj. Psalme ¶ The prophete acknowledgeth God to haue deliuered Hierusalem so notably out of perilles that they all haue a cause to conceaue a full hope not for to feare any aduersitie in tyme to come He exhorteth other to beholde the great workes of God and turneth his speache to his aduersaries ¶ To the chiefe musition a song to be song of the children of Corach vpon Alamoth 1 THe Lorde is our refuge strength a helpe very easyly founde in troubles 2 Therfore we wyll not feare though the earth be transposed and though the hilles rushe into the middest of the sea 3 Though the waters thereof rage and swell and though the mountaynes shake at the surges of the same Selah 4 Yet the fludde by his ryuers shall make glad the citie of God the holy place of the tabernacles of the most hyghest 5 God is in the myddest of her therfore she can not be remoued the Lorde wyll helpe her and that ryght early 6 The heathen make much a do and the kyngdomes are moued but God shewed his voyce and the earth melted away 7 The God of hoastes is with vs the Lorde of Iacob is our refuge Selah 8 O come hither and beholde the workes of God what distructions he hath brought vpon the earth 9 He maketh warres to ceasse in all the worlde he breaketh the bowe knappeth the speare in sunder and burneth the charettes in the fire 10 Be styll then and knowe that I am the Lorde I wyll be exalted among the heathen I wyll be exalted in the earth 11 The God of hoastes is with vs the Lorde of Iacob is our refuge Selah The argument of the .xlvij. psalme ¶ The prophete inciteth the faythfull to prayse God with all kynde of melody for that he subdueth their enemies vnder them He also declareth that the heathen with their princes shall receaue the fayth ¶ To the chiefe musition a psalme to be song of the children of Corach 1 CLap your handes all ye people make a noise vnto the Lorde with a ioyfull voyce 2 For God is hygh and terrible he is the great king vpō all the earth 3 He wyll subdue the people vnder vs and the nations vnder our feete 4 He hath chosen for vs our inheritaunce the glorie of Iacob whō he loued Selah 5 The Lorde ascendeth in a triumph and God with the sounde of a trumpet 6 Syng psalmes to the Lorde syng psalmes syng psalmes to our kyng sing psalmes 7 For the Lorde is kyng of all the earth * syng psalmes all you that haue skyll 8 God raigneth ouer the heathen God sitteth vpon his holy throne 9 The princes of the people are assembled together for to be the people of the God of Abraham for the shieldes of the earth be Gods who is hyghly exalted ¶ The argument of the .xlviii. Psalme ¶ The prophete magnifieth the maiestie of God for his goodnesse benefites fayth and wonderfull defence towardes his Churche which he commendeth vnder the name of the citie of God of mount Sion of the holy hyll and palaces of the north syde ¶ A song the psalme of the children of Corach 1 GReat is God and hyghly to be praysed in the citie of our Lorde his holy hyll 2 The hyll of Sion is fayre in situation and the ioy of the whole earth vpon the north syde lyeth y e citie of the great king 3 God is well knowen in her palaces as a most sure refuge 4 For lo kinges did assemble and passe by together they them selues sawe it * lykewyse they marueyled they were astonyed with feare and sodenly in haste they were gone away 5 A feare came there vpon them and sorowe as vpon a woman in her childe trauayle 6 Thou didst breake the shippes of the sea through the east wynde 7 Lyke as we haue hearde so haue we seene in the citie of God of hoastes in the citie of our Lorde God vpholdeth the same for euer Selah 8 O Lorde we haue wayted for thy louyng kindnesse in the myddest of thy temple 9 O Lorde accordyng to thy name so is thy prayse vnto the worldes ende thy ryght hande is full of iustice 10 Mount Sion shall reioyce and the daughters of Iuda shal be glad because of thy iudgementes 11 Compasse about Sion and go rounde about her and tell the towres therof 12 Marke well her bulwarkes beholde her hygh palaces that ye may tell it to your posteritie
tyme of aduersitie vntyll the pyt be digged vp for the vngodly 14 For God wyll not reiect his people neither wil he forsake his inheritaunce 15 For iudgement shal be reduced vnto iustice and after it shall all such as be vpryght of heart be iudged 16 Who will ryse vp with me agaynst the malicious or who wyll take my part agaynst workers of wickednesse 17 If God had not ben an ayde vnto me it had not fayled much but my soule had dwelled in silence 18 But when I sayde my foote hath slypped thy mercy O God helde me vp 19 In the multitude of my cogitations from the bottome of my heart thy comfortes dyd recreate my soule 20 Shall the seate of wickednesse haue any thyng to do with thee which seate maketh wrong to be enacted for a law 21 They flocke together agaynst the soule of the ryghteous and condemne the innocent blood 22 But God is to me a refuge and my Lorde is the rocke of my confidence 23 And he wyll recompence them their wickednesse and destroy them in their owne malice God our Lorde wyll destroy them The argument of the .xcv. psalme ¶ The prophete stirreth vp mens heartes both to prayse God for that he is the mightiest kyng maker of this worlde and also to worshyp God with all humblenesse for that he is our sheephearde and we be his sheepe He also aduertiseth all men to geue eare to Gods voyce and without delay to be obedient vnto his wyll lest after the example of their disobedient fathers they beyng destitute of Gods fauour neuer come to eternall ioy and rest 1 COme let vs syng vnto God let vs make an heartie reioysyng with a loude voyce vnto the rocke of our saluation 2 Let vs make speede to come before his face with a confession let vs expresse vnto hym outwardly a heartie gladnesse with syngyng of psalmes 3 For God is a great Lorde and a great kyng aboue all gods 4 In his hande are all the deepe corners of the earth and the hygh toppes of hylles be his also 5 The sea is his and he made it and his handes fashioned the drye lande 6 Come let vs worshyp and fall downe let vs kneele before the face of God our maker 7 For he is our Lorde and we are the people of his pasture and the sheepe of his hande 8 To day yf ye wyll heare his voyce harden not your heartes as in the tyme of contention as in the day of temptation in the wildernesse 9 Whē your fathers tempted me proued me yea after they had seene my worke 10 Fourtie yeres long was I greeued with that generation and I sayde this people erreth in heart and they haue not knowen my wayes 11 Vnto whom I sware in my wrath that they shoulde not enter at all into my rest ¶ The argument of the .xcvi. Psalme ¶ The prophete most earnestly moueth not only the Israelites but also all nations throughout the worlde to prayse God to glorifie God to worshyp God and to set foorth his workes He prophecieth also of the tyme of Christes commyng and of his kyngdome and gouernment 1 SYng you vnto God a newe song sing ye vnto God all that be in the earth 2 Syng ye vnto God and blesse his name set foorth in wordes from day to day his saluation 3 Declare his glory amongst the heathē and his wonderous actes amongst all the people 4 For God is great and worthy of all prayse he is more to be feared then all gods 5 As for all the gods of the heathen they be but idoles and it is God that made the heauens 6 Honour and maiestie be before hym power and excellentnesse be in his sanctuarie 7 Geue vnto God O ye families of the people geue vnto God glorie power 8 Geue vnto God glorie due vnto his name bryng an offeryng and come into his courtes 9 Worshyp you God in the maiestie of holynesse be you in dread of his face all that be in the earth 10 Set it foorth in wordes among the heathen that God raigneth and that the worlde is set of a sure foundation it shall not be remoued he wyll iudge the people accordyng to equitie 11 The heauens shall reioyce and the earth be glad the sea shall make a noyse and all that is therin 12 The fielde shal be ioyfull and all that is in it then shall all the trees of the wood reioyce before the face of God 13 For he commeth for he commeth to iudge the earth he will iudge the world accordyng to iustice and the people accordyng to his trueth ⧠The argument of the .xcvii. psalme ¶ The prophete setteth foorth the glorie of God and his power agaynst the vngodly Gentiles who therby as Gods people be comforted so they be confounded beyng worshippers of images He also exhorteth such as loue God to flee from sinne to prayse God and to be mery 1 GOD raigneth the earth shal be glad the multitude of the Iles shal be glad therof 2 Cloudes and thicke darknesse are rounde about hym iustice and iudgement are the habitation of his throne 3 There goeth a fire before his face and burneth his enemies on euery syde 4 His lightninges gaue a lyght vnto the worlde the earth sawe it and trembled 5 The hylles melted lyke waxe at the presence of God at the presence of the Lorde of the whole earth 6 The heauens haue declared his iustice and all the people haue seene his glorie 7 Confounded be all they that do seruice vnto carued images and that do glorie in idols but O gods you all shall worshyp hym 8 Sion hearde of it and reioyced and the daughters of Iuda be glad because of thy iudgementes O God 9 For thou art a God hygher then all that are in the earth thou art exalted farre aboue all gods 10 You that loue God hate the thyng which is euyll he preserueth the soules of his saintes he wyll delyuer them from the hande of the vngodly 11 There is sowen a lyght for the ryghteous and gladnesse for such as be vpryght of heart 12 Reioyce in God O ye ryghteous and prayse hym at the remembraunce of his holynesse ¶ The argument of the .xcviij. Psalme ¶ The prophete calleth vpon all men and also vpon the earth water and vpon all that is in them to prayse God with songes psalmes instrumentes of musicke expressyng all kinde of mirth for the singular benefites that he had bestowed vpon the Israelites ¶ A psalme 1 SYng vnto God a newe song for he hath done marueylous thynges 2 With his owne right hande and with his holy arme he hath gotten to hym selfe the victorie 3 God hath declared his saluation he hath openly shewed his iustice in the syght of the heathen 4 He hath remembred his mercie and trueth towarde the house of Israel and all the endes of the worlde haue seene the saluation of our
Lorde 5 Shewe your selues ioyfull vnto God all ye in the earth make a ioly noyse reioyce you chearfully syng psalmes 6 Syng psalmes vnto God playing vpon an harpe vpon an harpe and with the sounde of a psalterie 7 Shewe your selues ioyfull before the kyng eternall with trumpettes and sounde of shawmes 8 Let the sea make a noyse and that is within it the rounde worlde and they that dwell therin 9 Let the fluddes clappe their handes and let the hylles be ioyfull altogether before the face of God 10 For he commeth to iudge the earth he wyll iudge the worlde accordyng to iustice the people accordyng to equitie The argument of the .xcix. psalme ¶ The prophete setteth foorth the exceedyng fauour of God towardes the Israelites in that he raigned most mightily ouer them defended them dwelled amongst them and most gently hearde them and their fathers callyng vpon hym for helpe in their neede to the great discouragement of their aduersaries Wherfore he wylleth all to prayse God and to worshyp God 1 GOD raigneth the people be in a rage he sitteth betweene the Cherubims the earth quaketh 2 God is great in Sion and high aboue all people 3 They shall prayse thy name great dreadfull for it is holy and a kynges * power that loueth iudgement 4 Thou hast ordeyned all thynges accordyng to equitie thou hast caused iudgement and iustice to be in Iacob 5 Magnifie God our Lorde and kneele downe before his footstoole for it is holy 6 Moyses Aaron among his priestes and Samuel among such as call vpon his name these called vpon God and he hearde them 7 He spake vnto them out of the cloudy pyller for they kept his testimonies and the lawe that he gaue them 8 O God our Lord thou heardest them O Lorde thou didst forbeare them and thou tokest auengement for their owne inuentions 9 Magnifie God our Lorde and kneele downe before his holy hyll for God our Lorde is holy ¶ The argument of the C. psalme ¶ The prophete moueth all the people of God to frequent Gods temple and to come thyther chearfully with all kynde of ioy seruyng praysyng and thankyng hym for that he only is the God that hath made vs and so gratious that we shal be partakers of his benefites and goodnesse for euer ¶ A psalme for to confesse 1 BE ye ioyfull in God all that be in the earth serue God with gladnesse and come before his face with a ioyfull noyse 2 Be ye sure that God is the Lorde it is he that hath made vs and not we our selues we are his people and the sheepe of his pasture 3 Go your way into his gates with thankesgeuyng and into his courtes with prayse be thankfull vnto hym and blesse his name 4 For God is gratious his mercie is euerlastyng and his trueth endureth from generation to generation ⧠The argument of the .cj. psalme ¶ Dauid settyng foorth the duetie of a good ruler declareth that in his gouernment aboue all thynges he wyll acknowledge Gods benefites goodnesse He wyll study to lyue vprightly to do no wrong or euyll nor to beare any malice at all in his heart but he wyll employ hym selfe most zelouslie to confounde the wicked and to promote the godly and vertuous ¶ A psalme of Dauid 1 I Will sing of mercie and iudgement I wyll syng vnto thee O God psalmes 2 I wyll endeuour my selfe to be fully instructed in the way of perfectnesse when thou wylt come vnto me I wil go vp and downe in the middest of my house in the perfectnesse of my heart 3 I wyll neuer set before myne eyes any deuillishe thyng I wyll detest to do the worke of transgressours it shall take no holde of me 4 A frowarde heart shall depart from me I wyll not once knowe any euyll 5 I will destroy him who priuily slaundereth his neighbour I wyll not suffer hym who hath a proude loke and a great stomacke 6 Myne eyes shal be vpō such in the lande as haue a true meanyng that they may sit with me he that leadeth a perfect lyfe shall minister vnto me 7 There shall no deceiptfull person haue any seate in my house he that telleth lyes shall not tary long in my syght 8 I wyll euery mornyng destroy all the vngodly in the lande that I may roote out from the citie of God all workers of wickednesse ¶ The argument of the .cii. Psalme ¶ The prophete desireth God to heare hym vtteryng his godly affect and great griefe for the calamities of the people of God desolation of the citie of Sion He setteth foorth the reproches and outragious behauiours of the enemies and his affliction of mynde for it He wisheth that the people may returne home agayne and that Sion may be reedified that Gods glorie may therin be set foorth And he consideryng the eternitie of God assureth hym selfe that God wyll perfourme his promises in grauntyng that the children of his people shall lyue for euer ¶ A prayer of the afflicted when he was ouerwhelmed and when he did powre out his petition before the face of God 1 HEare my prayer O God and let my crying come in vnto thee 2 Hyde not thy face from me in y e day of my distresse encline thine eare vnto me heare me spedyly in the day that I call 3 For my dayes are consumed away like smoke and my bones are burnt vp as though they were a firebrande 4 My heart is smitten downe and wythered lyke grasse because I did forget to eate my bread 5 Through the noyse of my gronyng my bones wyll scase cleaue to my fleshe 6 I am become lyke a Pellicane of the wildernesse and like an Owle that is in the desert I watch and am as it were a sparrowe that sitteth alone vpon the house toppe 7 Myne enemies reuile me all the day long and they that are in a rage against me make their oth by me 8 For I haue eaten asshes as it were bread and mingled my drynke with weepyng because of thine indignation and wrath for thou hast set me vp and cast me downe 9 My dayes fade away lyke a shadowe and I am wythered lyke grasse 10 But thou O God endurest for euer and thy remembraunce throughout all generations 11 Thou wylt aryse vp thou wylt haue compassion vpon Sion for it is tyme that thou haue mercie vpon her for the tyme appoynted is come 12 For thy seruauntes be well affected towarde her stones and it pitieth them to see her in the dust 13 And the heathen wyll feare thy name O God and all the kynges of the earth thy glorious maiestie 14 For God wyll buylde vp Sion to be seene in his glorious maiestie 15 He wyll regarde the prayer of the humble destitute of all helpe and he wyll not dispise their prayer 16 This shal be written for those that come
out thy spirite they be recreated and thou reuiuest the face of the earth 31 The glorious maiestie of God shal endure for euer God wyll reioyce in his workes 32 He beholdeth the earth it trembleth he toucheth the hilles and they smoke 33 I wyll syng vnto God as long as I liue I will sing psalmes vnto my Lord so long as I shall be 34 My meditations of hym shal be very pleasaunt for all my ioy shal be in God 35 As for sinners they shal be consumed out of the earth and the vngodly shall come to an ende blesse thou God O my soule and prayse you the Lorde The argument of the .cv. psalme ¶ The prophete exhorteth all men to acknowledge God to call vpon God for helpe to seeke God and to preache God but especially he moueth the Israelites to remember the promises that God made to their forefathers Abraham Isahac Iacob and also the benefites that he had bestowed on them aboue all other nations For God had such care of them beyng pilgrimes in forraine lands that he would not suffer any once to touch them yea he rebuked kinges for their sakes and he preserued them in famine and other aduersitie as Ioseph was solde into Egypt but it had a good successe The entring of the children of Israel into Egypt is set foorth and what happened vnto them whyles they were there Likewise their ioyfull departing out of Egypt their doyng by the way in the wyldernesse and at length their entring into the lande of promise where God placed them that they should kepe his commaundementes is most amply declared 1 COnfesse you it vnto God call vppon his name cause the people to vnderstande his deuises 2 Sing vnto hym sing psalmes vnto him talke you of all his wonderous workes 3 Glory ye in his holy name let the heart of them reioyce that do seeke God 4 Seeke God and his strength seeke his face euermore 5 Remember the meruaylous workes that he hath done his wonders and the iudgementes of his mouth 6 O ye seede of Abraham his seruaunt ye his chosen chyldren of Iacob he is God our Lord his iudgementes are in all the earth 7 He hath ben mindfull alwayes of his couenaunt for he promised a worde to a thousande generations euen of his couenaunt that he made with Abraham and of his othe vnto Isaac 8 And he appointed the same vnto Iacob for a law and to Israel for an euerlasting couenaunt 9 Saying vnto thee I wyll geue the lande of Chanaan the lot of your inheritaunce 10 When they were a fewe men in number and had ben straungers but a litle whyle in it and when they went from one nation to another from one kingdome to another people 11 He suffred no man to do them wrong yea he reproued euen kynges for their sakes 12 Touche not mine annoynted and triumph not ouer my prophetes 13 Moreouer he called for a famine vpon the lande and he made all maner of foode to fayle 14 But he had sent a man before them euen Ioseph who was solde to be a bonde seruaunt 15 Whose feete they dyd hurt in the stockes the iron entred into his soule 16 Vntill the tyme came that his cause was knowen the worde of the Lorde tryed hym 17 The king sent and caused hym to be let go yea the prince of the people opened a way foorth for hym 18 He made him Lorde of his house and ruler of all his substaunce 19 That he might enfourme his princes according to his minde and teache his senatours wysdome 20 Israel also came into Egypt Iacob was a straunger in the lande of Cham. 21 And he encreased his people exceedinglye and made them stronger then their enemies 22 Whos 's heart so turned that they hated his people and dealt subtilly with his seruauntes 23 Then he sent Moyses his seruaunt and Aaron whom he had chosen they did their message workyng his signes among them and wonders in the lande of Cham. 24 He sent darknes it was darke and they went not from his wordes 25 He turned their waters into blood and slue their fishe 26 Their lande brought foorth frogges yea euen in their kinges chaumbers 27 He spake the worde and there came a swarme of all maner of flyes and of lyce in all their quarters 28 He gaue them haylestones for rayne and flambes of fire in their lande 29 He smote their vines also figge trees and he destroyed the trees that were in their coastes 30 He spake the worde and the grashoppers came caterpillers innumerable 31 And they did eate vp all the grasse in their lande and deuoured the fruite of their grounde 32 He smote al the first borne in their land euen the first fruites of all their concupiscence 33 He also brought them foorth with siluer and golde there was not one feeble person in their tribes 34 Egypt was glad at their departing for they were smytten with dread of them 35 He spred out a cloude to be a couering and fire to geue light in the night season 36 The people required and he brought quayles and he filled them with the bread of heauen 37 He opened the rocke of stone and the waters flowed out so that streames ranne in drye places 38 For he remembred his holy worde spoken◠vnto Abraham his seruaunt 39 And he brought foorth his people with gladnes and his chosen with a ioyfull noyse 40 And he gaue them the landes of the Heathen and they toke to inheritaunce the labours of the people 41 To the intent that they shoulde kepe his statutes and obserue his lawes Prayse ye the Lorde The argument of the .cvi. psalme ¶ The prophete exhorteth all men to prayse God and to do iustly He maketh his prayer acknowledging his owne sinnes and the sinnes of the forefathers of the Israelites who not considering the great benefites of God rebelled against God at the red sea Afterwarde in the wyldernes they did tempt God Core Dathan and Abiram conspiring against Moyses and Aaron were swalowed vp of the earth They worshipped a calfe made of golde They murmured against them that viewed the land of promise abhorring to heare of it They sacrifised to Baal Peor They grudged at God for lacke of water Finally when they came to the holy lande they committed idolatrie and al kinde of wickednes of life so that they were geuen vp vnto their enemies handes but God most mercyfully deliuered them for his promise sake ¶ Prayse ye the Lorde 1 COnfesse you it vnto god for he is gratious and his mercy endureth foreuer 2 Who can expresse the valiaunt actes of God who can publishe abrode all his prayse 3 Blessed are they that kepe iudgement and do iustice at all times 4 Remember me O God according to the fauour that thou bearest vnto thy people O visite me with thy saluation 5 That I may see the
felicitie of thy chosen that I may reioyce at the gladnes of thy people and that I may glorie with thyne inheritaunce 6 We haue sinned with our fathers we haue done amisse and dealt wickedly 7 Our fathers did not well consider thy wonders in Egypt neither did they remember thy manifolde great goodnes but they rebelled at the sea euen at the red sea 8 Neuerthelesse he saued them for his names sake that he myght make his power to be knowen 9 And he rebuked the red sea and it was dryed vp so he led them through the deepe as through a wyldernesse 10 And he saued them from the hande of suche as hated them redeemed them from the hande of the enemie 11 As for their aduersaries the waters ouerwhelmed them there was not one of them left remayning 12 Then beleued they his wordes and song prayse vnto him 13 But within a very short whyle they forgat his workes they woulde not wayte for his counsell 14 And they were taken with a great lust in the wyldernesse and they tempted God in the desert 15 And he gaue them their desire and sent leannes withal into their soule 16 They enuied also at Moyses in the tentes and at Aaron the saint of God 17 So the earth opened and swalowed vp Dathan and couered the company of Abiram 18 And the fire was kindled in their company the flambe brent vp the vngodly 19 They made a calfe in Horeb and worshipped the moulten image 20 Thus they turned their glory into the similitude of a calfe that eateth hay 21 They forgat God their sauiour who had done so great thynges in Egypt wonderous workes in y e land of Cham and terrible thinges at the red sea 22 Wherfore he appointed to destroy them had not Moyses his chosen stand in the breache before hym to turne away his wrathful indignation lest he should destroy them 23 Yea they thought scorne of the lande most to be desired they gaue no credite vnto his worde 24 But they murmured in their tentes they would not hearken vnto the voyce of God 25 Then lift he vp his hand against them to geue them an ouerthrowe in the wildernesse to geue their seede an ouerthrowe amongst the nations and to scatter them in sundry landes 26 They ioyned them selues vnto Baal Peor they also did eate of the sacrifices of the dead 27 And they prouoked the Lorde vnto anger with their owne inuentions and a plague fell mightily amongst them 28 Then stoode vp Phinehes he executed iustice and so the plague ceassed 29 And that was imputed vnto hym for righteousnesse in generation and generation for euermore 30 They also prouoked God at the waters of strife and all was not well with Moyses for their sakes 31 For they had caused an alteration to be of his spirite so that he spake vnaduisedly with his lippes 32 Moreouer they destroyed not the Heathen as God commaunded them 33 But they were mingled amongst the Heathen and learned their workes 34 Insomuch that they dyd seruice vnto their idols whiche were to theÌ„ a snare 35 Yea they sacrifised their sonnes and their daughters vnto deuils 36 And they shed innocent blood euen the blood of their sonnes and of their daughters whom they sacrifised vnto the idols of Chanaan and the lande was defiled with blood 37 Thus were they stayned with their owne workes and went a whoryng with their owne inuentions 38 Therfore was the wrath of God kindeled against his people insomuch that he abhorred his owne inheritaunce 39 And he gaue them ouer into the hand of the Heathen and they that dyd hate them were lordes ouer them 40 Their enemies oppressed them and brought them into subiection vnder their hande 41 Many a time dyd God deliuer them but they rebelled against hym with their owne inuentions and were brought downe for their wickednes 42 Neuerthelesse he did beholde them in their aduersitie in geuing eare to their complaint 43 And he remembred his couenaunt and repented according to the multitude of his mercies 44 Yea he made all those that led them away captiue to pitie them 45 Saue vs O God our Lorde and gather vs from among the Heathen that we may geue thankes to thy holy name and glory of thy prayse 46 Blessed be God the Lord of Israel froÌ„ world to world without end and let all people say so be it Prayse ye the Lord. The argument of the .cvii. psalme ¶ The prophete exhorteth all men to prayse God and to thanke God for it is he that helpeth them in all distresses when they crye vnto him He prouideth houses and cities for them that els would wander as vagabondes in wyldernesse He satisfieth the hungry and the thirstie He setteth at libertie prisoners and captiues He healeth the sicke and diseased He comforteth and helpeth those that be in ieoperdie of seas He maketh a fruitfull lande barren a barren grounde fruitfull He bringeth princes to lowe estate setteth vp the poore in honour At these things the godly reioyseth the mouth of the wicked is stopped 1 COnfesse you it vnto God for he is gratious and his mercy endureth for euer 2 Let such as God did redeme speake whom he hath redeemed from the hande of the enemie 3 And whom he gathered out of the landes from the east and from the west from the north and from the south 4 They went astray out of the way in solitarines â—andâ— in wildernes and found no citie to dwell in they were hungry and thirstie their soule fainted in them 5 And they cry vnto god in their trouble who deliuereth them froÌ„ their distresse 6 And he leadeth them foorth by the right way that they might go to the citie inhabited 7 O that men would confesse vnto God his louyng kindnesse and his marueylous actes done to the chyldren of men 8 For he satisfieth the greedie soule and filleth the hungry soule with goodnes 9 Suche as fit in darknesse and in the shadowe of death beyng fast bounde in miserie and iron 10 Because they went from the wordes of the Lorde and lightly regarded the counsayle of the most highest 11 Therfore he humbled their heart thorowe heauines they fall downe and there is none to helpe them 12 And they cry vnto god in their trouble who deliuereth theÌ„ out of their distresse 13 For he bringeth them out of darknesse and out of the shadowe of death and breaketh their bondes in sunder 14 O that men would confesse vnto God his louing kindnes and his marueylous actes done to the chyldren of men 15 For he breaketh the gates of brasse smyteth the barres of iron in sunder 16 Foolish men are plagued for their mischeuous wayes for their wickednes 17 Their soule abhorreth all maner of meate and they be euen harde at deathes doore 18 And they crye vnto God in their trouble who deliuereth them
theirs shal be for euer blessed 1 GEue praise not vnto vs O God not vnto vs but vnto thy name for thy louing mercy and for thy truethes sake 2 Wherfore shal the Heathen say where is nowe their God 3 Truely our Lorde is in heauen he hath done whatsoeuer pleased him 4 Their idols are siluer and gold euen the workes of mens handes 5 They haue a mouth and speake not they haue eyes and see not 6 They haue eares and heare not they haue noses and smell not 7 They haue handes and handle not they haue feete and walke not and they vtter no sounde out of their throtes 8 They that make them are lyke vnto them euery one that putteth his trust in them 9 But Israel trust thou in God he is their ayde and their shielde 10 Ye house of Aaron trust you in God he is their ayde and their shielde 11 Ye that feare God trust ye in God he is their ayde and their shielde 12 God hath ben myndfull of vs he wyll blesse vs he wyll blesse the house of Israel he wyll blesse the house of Aaron 13 He wyll blesse those that feare God the small with the great 14 God wyll encrease you more and more both you and also your children 15 Ye are the blessed of God which made heauen and earth 16 The heauen the heauen I say is Gods and he hath geuen the earth vnto the children of men 17 The dead prayse not thee O Lorde neither all they that go downe into the place of scilence 18 But we wyll prayse the Lord from this tyme foorth for euermore Prayse ye the Lorde The argument of the .cxvi. psalme ¶ The prophete sayth that he must nedes loue God for that he heard hym and deliuered hym out of wonderfull extreme afflictions of death and hell He acknowledgeth the benefites of God and that he can geue no rewarde for them but bare thankes when he is in the congregation and in worshyppyng hym all the dayes of his lyfe 1 I Haue loued because God hath hearde my voyce and my prayers 2 Because he hath enclined his eare vnto me therfore I wyll call vpon hym as long as I lyue 3 The snares of death compassed me rounde about and the paynes of hell toke holde on me 4 I founde anguishe and heauinesse but I called vpon the name of God saying O God I beseche thee deliuer my soule 5 Gratious is God and ryghteous our Lorde is mercifull 6 God gardeth the simple I was brought to the extremitie and he preserued me 7 Returne O my soule vnto thy rest for God hath rewarded thee 8 For thou O Lorde hast deliuered my soule from death myne eyes from teares and my feete from fallyng 9 I wyll walke before the face of God in the lande of the lyuyng 10 I beleued therfore I wyll speake I was sore afflicted insomuch that I said in my rashnesse euery man is a lyer 11 What rewarde shal I geue vnto God for all the benefites that he hath done vnto me 12 I wyll take the cuppe of saluation and I wyll call vpon the name of God 13 I wyll pay my vowes nowe vnto God in the presence of all his people 14 The death of his saintes is precious in the eyes of God 15 It is euen so O God for I am thy seruaunt and the sonne of thy handemayde thou hast loosed my bondes in sunder 16 I wyll offer vnto thee the sacrifice of thankesgeuyng and I wyll call vpon the name of God 17 I wyll pay my vowes vnto God in the sight of all his people in the courtes of Gods house euen in the myddest of thee O Hierusalem Prayse ye the Lorde ⧠The argument of the .cxvij. psalme ¶ The prophete exhorteth the Gentiles to prayse God for that he hath extended his mercie vpon them in Christe aswell as vpon the Iewes 1 O Prayse God all ye heathen prayse hym all ye nations 2 For his mercifull kyndnesse is euer more and more towarde vs and the trueth of God endureth for euer Prayse ye the Lorde ¶ The argument of the .cxviij. Psalme ¶ Dauid woulde haue God praysed and thanked for that by his meanes only he was deliuered from extreme perilles and made kyng of that people who with their kyng had a litle before persecuted hym reiect hym and droue hym out of the realme He wylleth the priestes to sacrifice in remembraunce therof 1 O Confesse you it vnto God for he is gratious and his mercie endureth for euer 2 Let Israel nowe confesse that his mercie endureth for euer 3 Let the house of Aaron nowe confesse that his mercie endureth for euer 4 Let them nowe that feare God confesse that his mercie endureth for euer 5 I called vpon the Lorde beyng in distresse and the Lorde hath hearde me at large 6 God is with me I wyll not feare what man can do vnto me 7 God is with me amongst them that ayde me therfore I shall see my desire vpon them that hate me 8 It is better to trust in God then to put any confidence in man ◠It is better to trust in God then to put any confidence in princes 10 All nations compassed me rounde about but I trusted in the name of God that I shoulde destroy them 11 They kept me in on euery syde they kept me in I say on euery syde but I trusted in y e name of God that I shoulde destroy them 12 They swarmed about me lyke bees and they be extinguished as the fire made of thornes for I trusted in the name of God that I should destroy thē 13 Thou hast thrust sore at me that I might fall but God dyd ayde me 14 The Lorde is my strength and my song and he is become my saluation 15 The voyce of a ioyfull noyse of saluation is in the dwellynges of the ryghteous saying the ryght hande of God bryngeth mightie thynges to passe 16 The ryght hande of God is on hygh the right hande of God bryngeth mightie thynges to passe 17 I shall not as yet dye but I shal liue and I wyll declare the workes of the Lorde 18 The Lorde hath greatly chastened me but he hath not geuen me ouer vnto death 19 Open me the gates of ryghteousnesse I wyll enter in by them that I may geue thankes vnto the Lorde 20 This is the gate of God the ryghteous shall enter in by it 21 I wyll thanke thee for that thou hast heard me and art become my saluation 22 The same stone which the buylders refused is become the head stone of the corner 23 This was the doyng of God and it is marueylous in our eyes 24 This is the day whiche God hath made we wyll reioyce and be glad in it 25 O God I pray thee nowe saue vs O God I pray thee nowe geue vs prosperous successe 26 Blessed be he that commeth in the name of God we do blesse
endureth for euer 6 Who layde out the earth aboue the waters for his mercy endureth for euer 7 Who hath made great lightes for his mercy endureth for euery 8 The sunne to rule in the day for his mercy endureth for euer 9 The moone the starres to gouerne in the night for his mercy endureth for euer 10 Who smote Egypt with their first borne for his mercy endureth for euer 11 And brought out Israel from among them for his mercy endureth for euer 12 With a mightie hande and a stretched out arme for his mercy endureth for euer 13 Who deuided the red sea in partes for his mercy endureth for euer 14 And made Israel to passe through the mydst of it for his mercy endureth for euer 15 He ouerthrewe Pharao and his hoast in the red sea for his mercy endureth for euer 16 Who led his people through the wyldernesse for his mercy endureth for euer 17 Who smote great kinges for his mercy endureth for euer 18 And he slue mightie kynges for his mercy endureth for euer 19 Sihon king of the Amorites for his mercy endureth for euer 20 And Og the king of Bashan for his mercy endureth for euer 21 And he gaue away their lande for an heritage for his mercy endureth for euer 22 For an heritage vnto Israel his seruaunt for his mercy endureth for euer 23 Who remembred vs when we were brought lowe for his mercy endureth for euer 24 And he deliuered vs from our aduersaries for his mercy endureth for euer 25 Who geueth foode vnto al creatures for his mercy endureth for euer 26 Confesse you it vnto the Lord of heauen for his mercy endureth for euer The argument of the .cxxxvij. psalme The prophete declareth the great griefe and lamentation of the children of Israel for that they beyng led prisoners vnto Babylon were prouoked to sing as they vsed to do at Sion He protesteth that he can not forget Hierusalem He prayeth God to remember the Idumites who malitiously incensed their enemies against them He prophesieth of the destruction of Babylon 1 BY the waters of Babylon we set downe there also we wept when we remembred Sion 2 We hanged vp our harpes on the Salou trees in the mydst of it 3 For there they that led vs away captiue required of vs some matter of a song and for our waylynges myrth saying sing vs one of the songes of Sion 4 We aunswered howe can we sing one of the songes of God in another lande besides our owne 5 If I forget thee O Hierusalem let my right hande forget her cunning 6 Let my tongue cleaue to the roofe of my mouth if I do not remember thee yea if I preferre not thee O Hierusalem aboue my most myrth 7 Remember the chyldren of Edom in the day of Hierusalem they sayde downe with it downe with it euen to the grounde 8 O daughter of Babylon who must lye wasted happy shall he be that rewardeth thee as thou hast serued vs. 9 Blessed shall he be that taketh throweth thy litle children against the stone The argument of the .cxxxviij. psalme ¶ Dauid thanketh God for his goodnes towardes hym in that he dyd heare hym in aduersitie and deliuered hym from his enemies whereby he trusteth in time to come in all distresses to be helped ¶ Of Dauid 1 I Wyll geue thankes vnto thee O God with my whole heart I wyll sing psalmes vnto thee before the gods 2 I wyll make my lowe obeysaunce towarde thy holy temple and I wyll prayse thy holy name in respect of thy louing kindnes and trueth 3 For thou hast magnified thy name and thy worde aboue all thinges 4 In the day of myne aduersitie I called vpon thee and thou heardest me thou enduedst my soule more and more with strength 5 All the kinges of the earth will prayse thee O God for they haue hearde the wordes of thy mouth 6 Yea they wyll sing of the wayes of God for great is the glory of God 7 For though God be on high yet he will haue respect vnto the lowly and he wyll knowe the proude a farre of 8 If I shall walke in the midst of trouble thou wylt make me to lyue thou wylt stretche foorth thyne hande vpon the furiousnes of mine enemies and thy right hande shall saue me 9 God wyll finishe that he hath begun by me O God thy louing kindnes endureth for euer thou wylt not forsake the workes of thyne owne handes The argument of the .cxxxix. psalme ¶ Dauid falsly accused calleth to witnesse of his innocencie God who knoweth hym throughly and vnto whom nothing is vnknowen of that is sayd done or thought out of whose handes he can not escape in any place Finally he pronounceth that he hateth the wicked to the intent that he may declare that he hath nothing to do with them ¶ To the chiefe musition a psalme of Dauid 1 O GOD thou hast searched me to the quicke and thou hast knowen me 2 Thou knowest my downe sitting mine vprising thou vnderstandest my thoughtes long before they be 3 Thou compassest about my path and my iourney into all coastes and thou vsest all my wayes 4 For there is not a word in my tongue but beholde thou O Lorde knowest it altogether 5 Thou hast fashioned me behinde and before and layde thyne hande vpon me 6 The knowledge that thou hast of me is marueylous it is so high that I can not attayne vnto it 7 Whyther can I go from thy spirite or whyther can I flee away from thy face 8 If I ascende vp into heauen thou art there if I lay me downe in hell thou art there also 9 If I take the wynges of the morning and go to dwell in the vttermost part of the sea 10 Euen there also thy hande shall leade me and thy ryght hande shal holde me 11 And yf I say peraduenture the darknesse shall couer me and the night shal be day for me 12 Truely the darknesse shall not darken any thing from thee and the night shal be as lightsome as the day darknesse and lyght to thee are both alike 13 For thou hast my reynes in thy possession thou didst couer me in my mothers wombe 14 I wyll confesse it vnto thee for that thy doynges are to be dreaded I am made after a marueylous sort thy workes be marueylous and that my soule knoweth ryght well 15 The substaunce of my body was not hyd from thee when I was made in secrete and fashioned with distinct members in my mothers wombe 16 Thyne eyes dyd see me when I was most imperfect and in thy booke * were written euery day of them wherin the partes of my body were shaped and no one of them were knowen vnto thee 17 Howe precious be thy cogitations towardes me O God howe greatly be the summe of them increased 18 I go about to count them I fynde that they
them vnto another man that commeth after me 19 And who knoweth whether he shal be a wise man or a foole And yet shall he be lorde of all my laboures which I with such wisdome haue taken vnder the sunne This is also a vayne thyng 20 So I turned me to refrayne my mynde from all such trauayle as I toke vnder the sunne 21 Forsomuch as a man shoulde weery hym selfe with wisdome with vnderstandyng and oportunitie and yet be fayne to leaue his labours vnto another that neuer sweat for them This is also a vayne thyng and great miserie 22 For what getteth a man of all the labour and trauayle of his mynde that he taketh vnder the sunne 23 But heauinesse sorowe and disquietnesse all the dayes of his life Insomuch that his heart can not rest in the nyght This is also a vayne thyng 24 Is it not better then for a man to eate and drynke and his soule to be mery in his labour yea I sawe that this also was a gift of God 25 For who wyll eate or go more lustyly to his worke then I 26 And why God geueth to the man that is good before hym wisdome vnderstandyng and gladnesse but vnto the sinner he geueth weerinesse that he may gather and heape together the thyng that afterwarde shal be geuen vnto hym whom it pleaseth God This is nowe a vayne thyng yea a very disquietnesse and vexation of mynde The .iij. Chapter 1 All thynges haue their tyme. 14 The workes of God are perfect and cause vs to feare hym 17 God shall iudge both the iust an vniust 1 EVery thyng hath a tyme yea all that is vnder the heauē hath his conuenient season 2 There is a tyme to be borne and a tyme to dye there is a tyme to plant and a tyme to plucke vp the thyng that is planted 3 A tyme to slay and a tyme to make whole a tyme to breake downe and a tyme to builde vp 4 A tyme to weepe and a tyme to laugh a tyme to mourne a tyme to daunce 5 A tyme to cast away stones and a tyme to gather stones together A tyme to imbrace and a tyme to refrayne from imbracyng 6 A tyme to wynne and a tyme to lose A tyme to spare and a tyme to spende 7 A tyme to cut in peeces and a tyme to sowe together A tyme to kepe scilence and a tyme to speake 8 A tyme to loue and a tyme to hate A tyme of warre and a tyme of peace 9 What hath a man els that doth any thyng but weerinesse and labour 10 For as touchyng the trauayle and carefulnesse which God hath geuen vnto men I see that he hath geuen it them to be exercised in it 11 All this hath he ordeyned marueilous goodly to euery thyng his due tyme He hath planted ignoraunce also in the heartes of men that they shoulde not comprehende the ground of his workes which he doth from the begynnyng to the ende 12 So I perceaued that in those thinges there is nothyng better for a man then to be mery and to do well as long as he lyueth 13 For all that a man eateth drynketh yea whatsoeuer a man enioyeth of all his labour that same is a gyft of God 14 I considered also that whatsoeuer God doth it continueth for euer And that nothyng can be put vnto it nor taken from it that God doth it to the intent that men shoulde feare hym 15 The thyng that hath ben is nowe and the thyng that is for to come hath ben afore time for God restoreth againe the thyng that was past 16 Moreouer I sawe vnder the sunne vngodlynes in the steade of iudgement iniquitie in steade of righteousnesse 17 Then thought I in my mynde God shall separate the ryghteous from the vngodly and then shal be the tyme and iudgement of all counsayles workes 18 I communed with myne owne heart also concernyng the children of men howe God hath chosen them and yet letteth them appeare as though they were beastes 19 For it happeneth vnto men as it doth vnto beastes euen one condition vnto them both as the one dyeth so dyeth the other yea they haue both one maner of breath so that in this a man hath no preeminence aboue a beast but are all subdued vnto vanitie 20 They go all vnto one place for as they be all of dust so shall they all turne vnto dust agayne 21 Who knoweth the spirite of man that goeth vpwarde the breath of the beast that goeth downe to the earth 22 Wherfore I perceaue that there is nothyng better for a man then to be ioyfull in his labour for that is his portion But who wyll bryng hym to see the thyng that shall come after hym The .iiij. Chapter 1 The innocent are oppressed 4 Mens labours are full of abuse and vanitie 9 Mans societie is necessarie 13 A young man poore and wise is to be preferred before an olde kyng that is a foole 1 SO I turned me and considered all the violent wrong that is done vnder the sunne and behold the teares of such as were oppressed and there was no man to comfort them or that woulde deliuer and defende them from the violence of their oppressours 2 Wherfore I iudged those that are dead to be more happy then those that be alyue 3 Yea hym that is yet vnborne to be better at ease then they both because he seeth not the miserable workes that are done vnder the sunne 4 Agayne I sawe that all trauayle and diligence of labour that euery man taketh in hande was done of enuie agaynst his neyghbour This is also a vayne thing and a vexation of mynde 5 The foole foldeth his handes together and eateth vp his owne fleshe 6 One handfull sayth he is better with rest then both the handes full with labour and trauayle of mynde 7 Moreouer I turned me and beholde yet another vanitie vnder the sunne 8 There is one man no mo but hym selfe alone hauyng neither childe nor brother yet is there no ende of his careful trauayle his eyes can not be satisfied with riches yet sayth he not for whom do I take such trauayle For whose pleasure do I thus consume away my life This is also a vayne and miserable thyng 9 Therfore two are better then one for they may well enioy the profite of their labour For yf one of them fall his companion helpeth hym vp agayne 10 But wo is hym that is alone for yf he fal he hath not another to helpe him vp 11 Agayne when two sleepe together they are warme but howe can a body be warme alone 12 One may be ouercome but two may make resistaunce A three folde gable is not lightly broken 13 A poore childe beyng wise is better then an olde king that doteth and can not beware in tyme to come 14 Some one commeth out of
that be in pryson and they shal be shut vp in warde and after many dayes shall they be visited 23 The moone shal be abashed and the sunne ashamed when the Lorde of hoastes shal raigne in mount Sion and in Hierusalem with worship and in the sight of suche as shal be of his counsell The .xxv. Chapter 1 A thankes geuing to God for his workes 1 THou art my Lorde my God I wyll magnifie thee I will geue thankes vnto thy name for thou hast brought wonderfull thinges to passe according to thine olde counsels truely faythfully 2 Thou hast made a citie a heape of stones and brought a strong towne into decay the habitation of straungers hast thou made to be no citie neither shall it be buylded any more 3 Therefore shall the mightie people geue glory vnto thee the citie of the valiaunt heathen shall feare thee 4 For thou hast ben a strength vnto the poore and a succour for the needie in his trouble a refuge against euill weather a shadow against the heate for the blast of raging men is like a storme that casteth downe a wall 5 Like as the heate in a drye place wasteth all thinges so shalt thou suppresse the noyse of aliantes the heate is abated with the shadowe of the cloude euen so shall God asswage the noyse of the cruel tirauntes 6 And in this mountaine shal the Lord of hoastes make vnto all people a feast of plenteous and delicate thinges euen of most pleasaunt and daintie disshes 7 And in this mountaine shall the Lord destroy the couering that all people are wrapped in and the hanging that is spread vpon all nations 8 As for death he hath destroyed it for euer and the Lorde God shall wype away teares from all faces and the rebuke of his people shall he take away out of all the earth for so the Lorde hath sayde 9 And in that day it shal be sayde lo this is our God we haue wayted for hym and he shall saue vs this is the Lorde in whom we haue hoped we wyll be merie and reioyce in the saluation that commeth of hym 10 For in this mountaine shall the hande of the Lorde ceasse and Moab shal be threshed vnder hym euen as strawe is troden to doung on the dounghill 11 And he shall stretche out his hande in the middes of them as he that swimmeth casteth out his hands to swimme and with the strength of his handes shall he bring downe their pryde 12 The strong holde also and defence of thy walles hath he ouerthrowne and cast downe and brought them to the grounde euen vnto dust The .xxvi. Chapter 1 A song of deliueraunce of the people 1 IN that day shall this song be song in the land of Iuda we haue a strong citie saluation shal God appoint in steede of walles and bulwarkes 2 Open ye the gates that the righteous people whiche kepeth the trueth may enter in 3 By an assured purpose wylt thou preserue perfect peace because they put their trust in thee 4 Put ye your trust alway in the Lord for in the Lorde God there is strength for euermore 5 For he hath brought downe the high minded citizens as for the proude citie he hath brought it lowe euen to the ground shall he cast it downe and bring it vnto dust 6 The foote euen the foote of the poore and the steppes of suche as be in necessitie shall treade it downe 7 The path of equitie wylt thou graunt vnto the iust O thou most righteous thou shalt order the path of hym that is righteous 8 Yea in the way of thy iudgementes O Lord haue we put our trust in thee thy name also and the remembraunce of thee is the thing that our soule longeth for 9 My soule hath longed for thee all the night and with my spirite whiche is within me wyll I seeke thee early in the morning For when thy iudgementes are in the earth the inhabiters of the worlde shall learne righteousnesse 10 Shall the vngodly man be fauoured which hath not learned righteousnesse but doth wickedly in the earth where nothing ought to be done but that which is righteous he shall not see the glory of the Lorde 11 Lorde when thy hande is lyft vp to strike they see it not but they shall see it and be confounded with the zeale of the people and the fire that consumeth thyne enemies shall deuour them 12 Lorde vnto vs thou shalt prouide peace for thou also hast wrought all our workes in vs. 13 O Lord our God other lordes beside thee hath subdued vs but we wyll be mindfull only of thee and of thy name 14 The dead wyll not liue they that be out of life will not ryse agayne therfore hast thou visited and rooted them out and destroyed all the memorie of them 15 Thou hast increased the people O Lorde thou hast increased the people thou art glorious thou hast sent them farre of vnto all the coastes of the earth 16 Lorde in trouble haue they visited thee they powred out their prayer whē thy chastening was vpon them 17 Like as a woman with chylde that draweth nye towardes her trauayle is sorie and cryeth in her paynes euen so haue we ben in thy sight O Lorde 18 We haue ben with chylde and suffred paine as though we had brought forth winde for there is no saluation in the earth neither do the inhabiters of the worlde submit them selues 19 Thy dead men shall liue euen as my body shall they rise againe Awake and sing ye that dwell in dust for thy deawe is euen as the deawe of hearbes and the earth shall cast out them that be vnder her 20 Come my people enter thou into thy chambers and shut thy doores about thee * hide thy selfe for a litle whyle vntill the indignation be ouerpast 21 * For beholde the Lorde is comming out of his place to visite the wickednesse of suche as dwell vpon earth the earth also shall disclose her bloods and shall no more hide them that are slayne in her ¶ The .xxvij. Chapter 1 A prophecie of the comming of Christe and destruction of idolatrie 1 IN that day the Lord with his sore great and mightie sworde shall visite Leuiathan the fugitiue serpent euen Leuiathan that crooked serpent and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea 2 In that day see that ye sing of the congregation which is the vineyarde that bringeth foorth the best wine 3 Euen I the Lorde do kepe it in due seasons shall I water it and lest the enemie do it any harme I wyll both night and day preserue it 4 There is no displeasure in me els when the vineyarde bringeth me foorth bryers and thornes I woulde go thorowe it by warre and burne it vp together 5 Let it take holde of my strength and it shal be at one with me euen at one shall
seede and planted with vineyardes 18 Let not Hezekia deceaue you when he saith vnto you the Lorde shall deliuer vs Myght the gods of the gentiles kepe euery mans lande from the power of the kyng of the Assyrians 19 Where is the god of Hemath and Arphad where is the god of Sepharuaim and who is able to defende Samaria out of my hande 20 Or which of all the gods of these landes hath deliuered their countrey out of my power Is the Lord in deede able to deliuer Hierusalem from my hande 21 Vnto this Hezekias messengers helde their tongues and aunswered not one worde for the kyng had charged them that they should geue him no aunswere 22 So came Eliakim Helkias sonne the chiefe ouer the householde Sobna the scribe and Ioah Asaphes sonne the secratarie vnto Hezekia with rent clothes and tolde hym the wordes of Rabsakeh The .xxxvij. Chapter 1 Hezekia humbleth hym selfe before the Lorde 36 The armie of Sennacherib is slayne of the angell of the Lorde 38 and he hym selfe is kylled of his owne sonnes 1 WHEN Hezekia hearde that he rent his clothes and put on sackcloth and went into the temple of the Lorde 2 But he sent Eliakim the chiefe ouer the householde Sobna the scribe with the eldest priestes clothed in sacke vnto the prophete Esai the sonne of Amos 3 And they sayde vnto hym Thus saith Hezekia This is the day of trouble of plague and of blasphemie for the children are come to the place of birth but there is no power to bryng them foorth 4 The Lorde thy God no doubt hath well considered the wordes of Rabsakeh whom his lorde king of the Assyrians hath sent to defie and blaspheme the lyuyng God with such wordes as the Lorde thy God hath hearde ryght well and therfore lyft vp thy prayer for the remnaunt that yet are left 5 So the seruauntes of the kyng Hezekia came to Esai 6 And Esai gaue them this aunswere Say thus vnto your lorde Thus saith the Lord Be not afraide of the wordes that thou hast hearde wherwith the kyng of the Assyrians seruauntes haue blasphemed me 7 Beholde I wyll rayse vp a wynde agaynst him he shall heare a rumour and he shall go agayne into his countrey there wyll I destroy hym with the sworde in his owne lande 8 Nowe when Rabsakeh returned he founde the kyng of Assyria laying siege to Libnas for he had vnderstandyng that he was departed from Lachis 9 And there came a rumour that Tharakas kyng of Ethiopia was come foorth to warre agaynst hym and when the king of Assyria hearde that he sent other messengers to kyng Hezekia with this commaundement 10 Say thus to Hezekia kyng of Iuda Let not thy God deceaue thee in whom thou hopest and sayest Hierusalem shall not be geuen into the handes of the kyng of Assyria 11 For lo thou knowest well howe the kynges of Assyria haue handled all the landes that they haue subuerted and hopest thou to escape 12 Were the people of the gentiles whom my progenitours conquered deliuered at any tyme through their gods As namely Gosan Haran Rezeph and the children of Eden which were at Thalassar 13 Where is the king of Hemath and the king of Arphad and the king of the citie Sepharuaim Ena and Aua 14 Nowe when Hezekia had receaued the letter of the messengers and read it he went vp into the house of the Lorde and opened the letter before the Lorde 15 And Hezekia prayed vnto the Lorde on this maner 16 O Lorde of hoastes thou God of Israel which dwellest vpon Cherubim thou art the God that only is God of all the kingdomes of the world for thou only hast created heauen and earth 17 Encline thine eare Lorde and consider open thine eyes Lorde and see and ponder all the wordes of Sennacherib which hath sent his embassage to blaspheme the lyuyng God 18 It is true O Lorde that the kynges of Assyria haue conquered all kyngdomes and landes 19 And cast their gods in the fire for those were no gods but the workes of mens handes of wood or stone therfore haue they destroyed them 20 Nowe therfore deliuer vs O Lord our God from the handes of Sennacherib that all the kyngdomes of the earth may knowe that thou only art the Lorde 21 Then Esai the sonne of Amos sent vnto Hezekia saying Thus saith the Lorde God of Israel Wheras thou hast made thy prayer vnto me as touching Sennacherib the king of Assyria 22 This is the aunswere that the Lorde hath geuen concernyng hym Dispised art thou and mocked O daughter Sion he hath shaken his head at thee O daughter of Hierusalem â—3 But thou Sennacherib whom hast thou defied and blasphemed Agaynst whom hast thou lifted vp thy voyce and exalted thy proude lokes euen agaynst the holy one of Israel 24 Thou with thy seruauntes hast blasphemed the Lorde and thus holdest thou of thy selfe I wyll couer the hye mountaynes and sydes of Libanus with my horsemen and there wyll I cut downe the hye Cedar trees and the fayrest Firre trees I wyll vp in the heyght of it and into the chiefest of his tymber woods 25 If there be no water I wyll graue and drynke and as for waters of defence I wyll drye them vp with the feete of myne hoast 26 Yea hast thou not hearde what I haue taken in hande and brought to passe of olde tyme That same wyll I do nowe also and waste destroy and bryng strong cities vnto heapes of stones 27 For their inhabitours shal be like lame men brought in feare and confounded they shal be lyke grasse and greene hearbes in the fielde lyke the hay vpon house toppes that wythereth before it be growen vp 28 I knowe thy wayes thy going foorth and thy commyng home yea and thy madnesse agaynst me 29 Therfore thy furiousnesse agaynst me and thy pride is come before me I wyll put my ryng in thy nose and my bridle bit in the iawes of thee and turne thee about euen the same way thou camest 3 I wyll geue thee also this token O Hezekia this yere shalt thou eate such as groweth of it selfe and the seconde yere that which spryngeth agayne of the same in the thirde yere ye shall sowe and reape yea ye shall plant vineyardes and enioy the fruites therof 31 And such of the house of Iuda as are escaped shall come together and the remnaunt shall take roote beneath and bryng foorth fruite aboue 32 For the escaped shall go out of Hierusalem and the remnaunt from the mount Sion and this shall the zeale of the Lorde of hoastes bryng to passe 33 Therfore thus saith the Lorde concernyng the kyng of the Assyrians He shall not come into this citie and shall shoote no arrowe into it there shall no shielde hurt it neither shall they cast ditches about it 34 The same way he came he shall returne and not come at this citie saith the Lorde
wayes are so crooked that whosoeuer goeth therein knoweth of no peace 9 And this is the cause that equitie is so farre from vs and that righteousnesse commeth not nie vs We loke for light lo it is darknesse for the morning shine see we walke in the darke 10 We grope lyke the blinde vpon the wall we grope euen as one that hath none eyes we stumble at the noone day as though it were towarde night in the falling places lyke men that are halfe dead 11 We roare all like beares and mourne still like doues we looke for equitie but there is none for health but it is farre from vs. 12 For our offences are many before thee and our sinnes testifie against vs yea we must confesse that we offende and knowledge that we do amisse 13 Namely transgresse and dissemble against the Lorde and fall away from our God vsing presumpteous and trayterous imaginations and casting false matters in our heartes 14 And therefore is equitie gone aside and righteousnesse standeth farre of trueth is fallen downe in the streete and the thing that is playne and open may not be shewed 15 Yea the trueth is taken away and he that refraineth hym selfe from euyll must be spoyled When the Lorde sawe this it displeased hym sore that there was no equitie 16 He sawe also that there was no man righteous and he wondred that there was no man to helpe hym wherefore he helde hym by his owne power and he sustayned hym by his owne righteousnesse 17 He put righteousnesse vpon hym for a brest plate he set the helmet of health vpon his head He put on wrath in the steade of clothing and toke ielousie about him for a cloke 18 Euen as when a man goeth foorth wrathfully to recompence his enemies and to be auenged of his aduersaries he wyll recompence and rewarde the Ilandes 19 They shall feare the name of the Lorde from the rising of the sunne and his maiestie vnto the going downe of the same for he shall come as a violent water streame which the winde of the Lorde hath moued 20 But vnto Sion there shall come a redeemer and vnto them in Iacob that turne from wickednesse saith the Lord. 21 I wyll make this couenaunt with them saith the Lord My spirite that is vpon thee and the wordes whiche I haue put in thy mouth shall neuer go out of thy mouth nor out of the mouth of thy childers chyldren from this time foorth for euermore worlde without ende saith the Lorde The .lx. Chapter 1 A consolation and confort to Hierusalem 5 The Churche is gathered together among the gentiles by preaching of the gospell 16 and aboundeth with all good thinges 1 GEt thee vp betymes and be bright O Hierusalem for thy light commeth and the glorie of the Lord is risen vp vpon thee 2 For lo whyle the darknesse cloude couereth the earth and the people the Lorde shall shewe thee light and his glory shal be seene in thee 3 The gentiles shall come to thy light kinges to the brightnesse that springeth foorth vpon thee 4 Lift vp thyne eyes and loke rounde about thee all these gather them selues and come to thee thy sonnes shall come vnto thee from farre and thy daughters shall gather them selues to thee on euery side 5 Then thou shalt see this and be glorious thou shalt maruayle exceedingly and thyne heart shal be opened when the aboundaunce of the sea shal be conuerted vnto thee that is when the riches of the gentiles shall come vnto thee 6 The multitude of camels shall couer thee the dromedaries of Madian and Epha all they of Saba shall come bringing gold and incense and shewing the prayse of the Lorde 7 All the cattell of Cedar shal be gathered vnto thee the rammes of Nabaioth shall serue thee to be offred acceptablie vpon mine aulter and the house of my glory wyll I garnishe 8 But what are these that flee here like the cloudes and as the doues fleing to their windowes 9 The Isles also shall wayte for me and specially the shippes of Tharsis that they may bryng thy sonnes from farre and their siluer and their golde with them vnto the name of the Lorde thy God vnto the holy one of Israel that hath glorified thee 10 Straungers shall buylde vp thy walles and their kynges shall do thee seruice for whē I was angrie I smote thee and of my mercy I pardoned thee 11 Thy gates shall stande open still both day and night and neuer be shut that the hoast of the gentiles may come and that their kynges may be brought vnto thee 12 For euery people and kingdome that serueth not thee shall perishe and be destroyed with vtter destruction 13 The glory of Libanus shall come vnto thee the Firre trees Boxes and Cedars together to garnishe the place of my sanctuarie for I wyll glorifie the place of my feete 14 Moreouer those shall come kneeling vnto thee that haue vexed thee and all they that despised thee shall fall downe at thy foote Thou shalt be called the citie of the Lorde Sion the citie of the holy one of Israel 15 Because thou hast ben forsaken and hated so that no man went thorowe thee I wyl make thee glorious for euer and euer and ioyfull throughout all posterities 16 Thou shalt sucke the milke of the gentiles and kinges breastes shall feede thee and thou shalt knowe that I the Lorde am thy sauiour and redeemer the mightie one of Iacob 17 For brasse wyll I geue thee golde and for iron siluer for wood brasse and for stones iron I wyll turne thyne oppression into peace and thyne exactions into righteousnesse 18 Violence and robberie shall neuer be hearde of in thy lande neither harme and destruction within thy borders thy walles shal be called health and thy gates the prayse of God 19 The sunne shall neuer be thy day light and the light of the moone shall neuer shine vnto thee but the Lorde him selfe shal be thyne euerlasting light and thy God shal be thy glory 20 Thy sunne shall neuer go downe and thy moone shall not be hid for the Lorde hym selfe shal be thyne euerlasting light and thy sorowfull dayes shal be ended 21 Thy people shal be all righteous and possesse the lande euer the floure of my planting the worke of my hands wherof I wyll reioyce 22 The youngest and least shall growe into a thousande and the simplest into a strong people I the Lorde shall shortlye bryng this thing to passe in his tyme. ¶ The .lxj. Chapter 1 He prophesieth that Christe shal be annoynted and sent to preache 1 THe spirite of the Lord is vpon me for the Lord hath annoynted me and sent me to preache good tidinges vnto the poore that I might binde vp the wounded heartes that I might preache deliueraunce to the captiue and open the prison to thē that are bounde 2 That I might declare
our God The .iiii. Chapter 1 The true repentaunce or returnyng to God 4 he exhorteth to the circumcision of the heart 5 The destruction of Iurie is prophecied for the malice of their heartes 1 O Israel yf thou wylt turne thee then turne vnto me saith y e Lord and yf thou wylt put away thine abhominations out of my sight thou shalt not be moued 2 And shalt sweare The Lord lyueth in trueth in equitie and righteousnesse and all people shal be fortunable and ioyfull in hym 3 For thus saith the Lorde to all Iuda and Hierusalem Plowe your lande and sowe not among the thornes 4 Be circumcised in the Lorde and cut away the foreskynne of your heartes all ye of Iuda and all the indwellers of Hierusalem * that myne indignation breake not out lyke fire and kindle so that no man may quenche it because of the wickednesse of your imaginations 5 Preach in Iuda and Hierusalem crye out and speake blowe the trumpettes in the lande crye that euery man may heare and say Gather you together and we wyll go into strong cities 6 Set vp the token in Sion speede you and make no tarying for I wyll bring a great plague and a great destruction from the north 7 For the spoyler of the gentiles is broken vp from his place as a lion out of his denne that he may make thy lande waste and destroy the cities so that no man may dwell therin 8 Wherfore girde your selues about with sackcloth mourne and weepe for the fearefull wrath of the Lorde is not withdrawen from vs. 9 At the same tyme saith the Lord the heart of the kyng of the princes shal be gone the priestes shal be astonished and the prophetes shal be sore afrayde 10 Then sayde I Oh Lorde God hast thou then deceaued this people and Hierusalem saying Ye shall haue peace and nowe the sworde goeth through their lyues 11 Then shall it be sayde to the people and Hierusalem A strong winde in the hye places of the wildernesse commeth through the way of my people but neither to fanne nor to cleanse 12 After that shall there come vnto me a strong wynde from those places then wyll I also geue sentence vpon them 13 For lo he ariseth like a cloude and his charrets are like a stormie wynde his horses are swifter then the Egle Wo vnto vs for we are destroyed 14 O Hierusalem washe thine heart from wickednesse that thou mayest be helped Howe long shall thy vayne thoughtes remayne with thee 15 For a voyce from Dan and from the hill of Ephraim speaketh out and telleth of a destruction 16 Remember the heathen and geue Hierusalem warning and preache vnto her that watchers ouer her are commyng from farre countries they haue cryed out against the cities of Iuda 17 And they haue beset her about in euery place lyke as the watchmen in the fielde For they haue prouoked me to wrath saith the Lorde 18 Thy wayes and thy thoughtes haue brought thee vnto this such is thine owne wickednesse and disobedience and because it is a bitter thyng it hath stricken thee to the heart 19 Ah my belly ah my belly shalt thou crie howe is my heart so sore my heart panteth within me I can not be styll for I haue hearde the crying of the trumpettes and peales of warre 20 They crye murther vpon murther the whole lande shall perishe Immediatly my tentes were destroyed and my hanginges in the twincklyng of an eye 21 Howe long shall I see the tokens of warre and heare the noyse of the trumpettes 22 Neuerthelesse this shall come vpon them because my people is become foolishe and hath not knowen me they are the children of foolishnesse and without any discretion To do euyll they haue wit inough but to do well they haue no wisdome 23 I haue loked vpon the earth and see it was waste and voyde I loked towarde heauen and it had no shine 24 I behelde the mountaynes and lo they trembled and all the hylles were in a feare 25 I loked about me and there was no body and all the birdes of the ayre were away 26 I marked well and the plowed fielde was become waste yea all their cities were broken downe at the presence of the Lord and indignation of his wrath 27 For thus hath the Lorde saide The whole lande shal be desolate yet wyll I not then haue done 28 And therfore shall the earth mourne and the heauen be sorie aboue for the thyng that I haue spoken to the prophetes purposed and taken vpon me to do shall not repent me and I wyll not go from it 29 The whole lande shall flee for the noyse of horsemen and bowmen they shall runne into dennes into wooddes and climbe vp the stonye rockes all the cities shal be voyde and no man dwellyng therin 30 What wylt thou nowe do thou being destroyed For though thou clothest thy selfe with scarlet and deckest thee with golde though thou payntest thy face with colours nowe yet shalt thou trimme thy selfe in vayne For those that hitherto haue ben thy louers shall abhorre thee and go about to slay thee 31 For I heare a noyse lyke as it were of a woman trauaylyng one labouryng of her first childe Euen the voyce of the daughter Sion that casteth out her armes and sowneth saying Ah wo is me howe sore vexed and faynt is my heart for feare of the murtherers The .v. Chapter 1 In Iurie is there no righteous or faithfull man founde either amongst the people or the rulers for whose sake the Lorde shoulde spare the citie 15 wherfore Iurie is destroyed of the Assyrians 1 LOke through Hierusalem beholde and see seeke through her streetes also within yf ye can fynde one man that doth equall and ryght or seketh for the trueth and I shall spare that citie saith the Lorde 2 * For though they can say the Lorde lyueth yet they sweare to deceaue 3 Wheras thou O Lorde lokest only vpon faith and trueth Thou hast scourged them but they toke no repentaunce thou hast corrected them for amendement but they refused thy correction they made their faces harder then a stone and woulde not amende 4 Therfore I thought in my selfe peraduenture they are so simple foolishe that they vnderstande nothyng of the Lordes way and iudgementes of their God 5 Therfore will I go vnto their heades and rulers and talke with them if they knowe the way of the Lord and iudgementes of their God But these in lyke maner haue broken the yoke and burst the bondes in sunder 6 Wherfore a lion out of the wood hath hurt them and a woolfe in the euenyng shall destroy them the Leoparde doth lye lurkyng by their cities to teare in peeces all them that come therout for their offences are multiplied and their departyng away is encreased 7 Shoulde I then for all this haue mercie vpon thee Thy children
in his wrath As for the honour of Israel he hath cast it downe frō heauen vnto the earth and he remembred not his owne footestole when he was angry 2 The Lorde hath cast out all the habitations of Iacob without any fauour all the strong places of the daughter of Iuda hath he broken in his wrath and throwen them downe to the grounde her kingdome and her princes hath he prophaned 3 In the wrath of his indignation he hath broken all the horne of Israel he hath withdrawen his right hande from the enemie yea a flambe of fire is kindled in Iacob and hath consumed vp all rounde about 4 He hath bent his bowe like an enemie he hath fastened his ryght hande as an aduersarie and euery thyng that was pleasaunt to see he hath slayne he hath powred out his wrath like a fire into the tabernacle of the daughter of Sion 5 The Lorde is become like as it were an enemie he hath deuoured Israel and all his palaces yea all his strong holdes hath he destroyed and fylled the daughter of Iuda with much sorowe and heauinesse 6 His tabernacle as a garden hath he destroyed his solempne meetinges hath he put downe the Lord hath brought it so to passe that the hye solempne feastes and Sabbathes in Sion are cleane forgotten in his heauy displeasure hath he dispised the kyng and priestes 7 The Lorde hath forsaken his owne aulter and hath abhorred his owne sanctuarie and hath geuen the walles of their towres into the handes of the enemie their enemies made a noyse in the house of the Lorde as it had ben in a solempne feast day 8 The Lorde thought to breake downe the walles of the daughter of Sion he spread out his line and drewe not in his hande tyll he had destroyed them therfore mourne the turrettes the broken walles fall downe together 9 Her gates are suncke downe to the grounde her barres are broken and smitten in sunder the kyng and princes are caryed away to the gentiles they haue neither lawe nor prophetes nor yet any vision from the Lorde 10 The senatours of the daughter Sion sit vpon the grounde in scilence they haue strawed asshes vpon their heads and gyrded them selues with sackcloth the maydens of Hierusalem hang downe their heades to the grounde 11 Mine eyes begin to fayle me through weeping my body is disquieted my liuer is powred vpon the earth for the great hurt of the daughter of my people seeing the chyldren and babes dyd swowne in the streetes of the citie 12 Euen when they spake to their mothers Where is meate and drinke for whyle they so sayde they fell downe in the streetes of the citie like as they had ben wounded and some dyed in their mothers bosome 13 What shall I say vnto thee O thou daughter Hierusalem to whom shal I liken thee To whom shall I compare thee O thou daughter Sion to comfort thee withall thy heart is lyke a mayne sea who may heale thee 14 Thy prophetes haue looke dout vayne and foolish thinges for thee they haue not shewed thee of thy wickednesse to kepe thee from captiuitie but they haue seene out for thee burthens of vanitie and banishment 15 All they that go by thee clappe their handes at thee hissing and wagging their heades vpon the daughter Hierusalem and say Is this the citie that men call so faire wherein the whole lande reioyceth 16 All thyne enemies gape vpon thee whispering and grinding their teeth saying let vs deuour for the tyme that we looked for is come we haue founde and seene it 17 The Lorde hath fulfilled the thing that he was purposed to do and perfourmed that he had deuised long ago he hath destroyed and not spared he hath caused thyne aduersarie to triumph ouer thee and set vp the horne of thyne enemie 18 Their heart cryed vnto the Lorde O thou citie of the daughter Sion let thy teares runne downe like a riuer day and night rest not and let not the apple of thyne eye leaue of 19 Stand vp and make thy prayer in the first watche of the night powre out thine heart like water before the Lord lift vp thyne handes for the liues of thy young chyldren that dye of hunger in the streetes 20 Beholde O Lorde and consider to whom thou hast done thus Shall the women then eate their owne fruite euen chyldren of a spanne long shall the priestes and prophetes be slayne in the sanctuarie of the Lorde 21 Young and olde lye thorowe the streetes vpon the grounde my maydens and young men are slayne with the sworde whom thou in the day of thy wrathfull indignation hast put to death yea euen thou hast put them to death and not spared them 22 My neighbours that are rounde about me hast thou called as it were to a feast day so that in the day of the lordes wrath none escaped neither was any left behinde those that I haue brought vp and nourished hath myne enemie destroyed The .iij. Chapter 1 I Am the man that thorowe the rodde of his wrath haue experience of miserie 2 He droue me foorth and led me yea into darknesse but not into light 3 Against me is he turned he turneth his hande dayly against me 4 My flesh and my skinne hath he made olde and my bones hath he bruised 5 He hath buylded rounde about me and closed me in with gall and trauaile 6 He hath set me in darknesse as they that be dead for euer 7 He hath so hedged me in that I can not get out and hath layde heauie linkes vpon me 8 Though I crye and call pitiously yet heareth he not my prayer 9 He hath stopped vp my wayes with foure squared stones and made my pathes crooked 10 He layeth wayte for me lyke a beare and as a lion in a hole 11 He hath marred my wayes and broken me in peeces he hath layde me waste altogether 12 He hath bent his bowe and made me as it were a marke to shoote at 13 The arrowes of his quiuer hath he shot euen into my reynes 14 I am laughed to scorne of all my people they make songues vpon me all the day long 15 He hath filled me with bitternesse and geuen me wormewood to drinke 16 He hath smitten my teeth in peeces with stones and roulled me in the dust 17 He hath put my soule out of rest I forget all good thinges 18 I thought in my selfe I am vndone there is no hope for me in the Lorde 19 O remember yet my miserie and my trouble the wormewood and the gall 20 Yea thou shalt remember them for my soule melteth away in me 21 Whyle I consider these thinges in my heart I get a hope agayne 22 Namely it is of the Lordes mercies that we are not vtterly consumed for truely his pitifull compassion hath not ceassed 23 Newe mercyes shall the Lord shewe vpon thee early in the day springing O Lorde great is
shall pollute it 22 My face wyll I turne from them my secrete place shal be defiled for burglers shall go into it and pollute it 23 Make a chayne for the lande is full of the iudgement of blood and the citie is full of extortion 24 Wherfore I wyll bryng the most wicked of the heathen to take their houses in possession I wyll make the pompe of the mightie to ceasse and their sanctuaries shal be defyled 25 When destruction is come they shall seeke peace but they shall haue none 26 One mischiefe shall folowe another and one rumour shall come after another then shall they seeke a vision in vayne at their prophete the lawe shall perishe from the priest and counsayle from the auncientes 27 The kyng shall mourne the prince shal be clothed with desolation and the handes of the people in the lande shal be troubled I wyll do vnto them after their owne wayes accordyng to their owne iudgementes wyll I iudge them and they shall knowe that I am the Lorde The .viii. Chapter ◠An appearaunce of the similitude of God 3 Ezechiel is brought to Hierusalem in the spirite 6 The Lord sheweth the idolatries of the house of Israel chiefly of the priestes 1 AND it was in the sixt yere in the sixt moneth in the fift day of the moneth I sate in my house and the elders of Iuda sate before me and the hande of the Lorde God fell there vpon me 2 Then I behelde and lo there was a likenesse as the appearaunce of fire from the appearaunce of his loynes downewarde fire and from his loynes vpwarde as the appearaunce of brightnesse lyke the colour of amber 3 And he stretched out the likenesse of an hande and toke me by an heery locke of my head and the spirite lift me vp betwixt earth and heauen and brought me in a diuine vision to Hierusalem into the entry of the inner gate that lyeth towarde the north where remayned the image of emulation and of gayne 4 And beholde the glorie of the Lorde God of Israel was in the same place euen as I had seene it afore in the fielde 5 And he sayde vnto me Thou sonne of man lift vp thine eyes nowe towarde the north then lift I vp mine eyes towarde the north and beholde northwarde at the gate of the aulter this image of emulation was in the entry 6 And he sayde furthermore vnto me Thou sonne of man seest thou what these do seest thou the great abhominations that the house of Israel commit in this place to driue me from my sanctuarie but turne thee about and thou shalt see yet greater abhominations 7 And with that brought he me to the court gate and when I loked beholde there was a hole in the wall 8 Then sayde he vnto me Thou sonne of man digge nowe in the wall and when I digged in the wall beholde there was a doore 9 And he sayde vnto me Go thy way in and loke what wicked abhominations they do here 10 So I went in and sawe and beholde there were al maner of creeping beastes and abhominable beastes and all the idols of the house of Israel paynted vpon the wall rounde about 11 There stoode also before the images threescore and ten men of the auncientes of the house of Israel and in the middest of thē stoode Iaazaniah the sonne of Shaphan with euery man his censor in his hande and the smoke of the insence ascended as a cloude 12 Then sayde he vnto me Thou sonne of man hast thou seene what the auncientes of the house of Israel do secretly euery one in the chaumber of his imagerie for they say The Lorde seeth vs not the Lorde hath forsaken the earth 13 And he sayde vnto me Turne thee yet agayne and thou shalt see greater abhominations that they do 14 And with that he brought me to the doore of the gate of the Lordes house towarde the north and beholde there sate womē mourning for Thammuz 15 Then sayd he vnto me Hast thou seene this thou sonne of man turne thee yet about and thou shalt see greater abhominations then these are 16 And so he brought me into the inward court of the Lordes house and beholde at the doore of the Lordes house betwixt the porche and the aulter there were about twentie and fiue men that turned their backes vpon the temple of the Lorde and their faces towarde the east and these worshipped the sunne eastwarde 17 And he sayde vnto me Hast thou seene this thou sonne of man Thinketh the house of Iuda that it is but a trifle to do these abhominations which they do here for they haue fylled the lande full of wickednesse and haue returned to prouoke me to anger and lo they are puttyng the braunches to their noses 18 Therfore wyll I also do somethyng in my wrathful displeasure so that mine eye shall not spare them neither wyll I haue pitie yea and though they crye in mine eares with a loude voyce yet wyll I not heare them ¶ The .ix. Chapter 1 The destruction of the citie 4 They that shal be saued are marked 8 A complaynt of the prophete for the destruction of the people 1 HE cryed also with a loude voyce in mine eares saying Drawe neare ye visitations of the citie euery man with a destroying weapon in his hande 2 And beholde then came there sixe men out of the streete of the vpper gate towarde the north and euery man a slaughter weapon in his hande There was one amongest them that had on hym lynnen rayment and a writers inckhorne by his syde these went in and stoode besyde the brasen aulter 3 And the glorie of the Lorde of Israel was gone from the Cherub whervpon it was to the doore of the house and he called to the man that had the lynnen rayment vpon hym and the writers inckhorne by his syde 4 And the Lorde sayde vnto hym Go through the citie euen through Hierusalem set a marke vpon the foreheades of them that mourne and are sory for all the abhominations that be done therin 5 And to the other he sayd that I might here Go ye after hym through the citie and smite let your eye spare none neither haue ye any pitie 6 Kyll and destroy both olde men and young maydens children and women but as for all those that haue the marke vpon them see that ye touche them not and begyn at my sanctuarie Then they began at the auncient men which were before the house 7 And he sayde vnto them Defyle ye the temple fyll the courtes with the slayne then go your way foorth So they went out and slue downe through the citie 8 Nowe when they had done the slaughter and I yet escaped I fell downe vpon my face and cryed saying Ah Lorde God wylt thou then destroy all the residue of Israel in powryng out thy wrath vpon Hierusalem 9 Then sayde
he vnto me The wickednesse of the house of Israel and Iuda is exceedyng great so that the lande is full of blood the citie full of reuoltyng from God for they say The Lorde hath forsaken the earth and the Lorde seeth it not 10 As touchyng me also mine eye shall not spare them neither wyll I haue pitie but wyll recompence their wayes vpon their heades 11 And beholde the man that had the lynnen rayment vpon hym and the writers inckhorne by his syde reported the matter and sayde As thou hast commaunded me so haue I done ⧠The .x. Chapter 2 Of the man that toke hotte burnyng coales out of the middle of the Wheeles of the Cherubims 8 A rehearsall of the vision of the wheeles of the beastes and of the Cherubims 1 AND as I loked beholde in the firmament that was aboue the head of the Cherubims as it were a Saphir stone made lyke the similitude of a throne was seene ouer them 2 Then spake he to hym that had the lynnen rayment vpon hym and sayde Crepe in betwene the wheeles that are vnder the Cherub and take thine hand full of hotte coales out from betwene the Cherubims and scatter them ouer the citie And he crept in that I myght see 3 Nowe the Cherubims stoode vpon the ryght syde of the house when the man went in and the cloude fylled the inner court 4 And the glorie of the Lorde remoued from the Cherubims and came vpon the doore of the house so that the temple was full of cloudes and the court was full of the shine of the Lordes glorie 5 Yea and the sounde of the Cherubims winges was hearde into the fore court lyke as it had ben the voyce of the almightie God when he speaketh 6 Nowe when he had bidden the man that was clothed in lynnen saying Take fire from the middest of the wheeles which were vnder the Cherubims he went and stoode besyde the wheeles 7 Then one Cherub reached foorth his hande from betwene the Cherubims vnto the fire that was betwene the Cherubims and toke therof and gaue it into the handes of hym that had on the lynnen rayment which toke it and went out 8 And vnder the wynges of the Cherubims there appeared the likenesse of a mans hande 9 I loked also and behold foure wheeles beside the Cherubims one wheele by one Cherub and another by another Cherub and the wheeles were to loke vpon after the fashion of the precious stone Tharsis 10 As touchyng their appearaunce they were all foure of one fashion as yf one wheele had ben in another 11 When they went foorth they went vpon their foure sides not turnyng backe in their goyng for which way the head of the first loked after it they went so that they turned not backe in their goyng 12 And their whole bodyes their backes their handes and wynges yea and the wheeles also were full of eyes rounde about the foure wheeles 13 And to the wheeles he cryed to them in my hearyng O wheele 14 Euery one of them had foure faces so that the face of the first was the face of a Cherub and the face of the seconde the face of a man and of the thirde the face of a lion and of the fourth the face of an egle 15 And the Cherubims were lyfted vp This is the beast that I sawe at the water of Chebar 16 Nowe when the Cherubims went the wheeles went by them and when the Cherubims lyft vp their wynges to mount vp from the earth the same wheeles also turned not from besides them 17 Shortly when they stoode these stoode also and when they were lifted vp the wheeles lift vp them selues also with them for the spirite of the beast was in the wheeles 18 Then the glorie of the Lorde departed from aboue the doore of the temple and remayned vpon the Cherubims 19 And the Cherubims flackered with their wynges and lyft them selues vp from the earth so that I sawe when they went the wheeles besides them and they stoode at the doore of the east gate of the house of the Lorde so the glorie of the God of Israel was vpon them on hye 20 This is the beast that I sawe vnder the God of Israel by the riuer of Chebar and I perceaued that it was the Cherubims 21 Euery one had foure faces and euery one foure wynges and vnder their wynges the likenesse of mens handes 22 Touchyng the similitude of their countenaunces they were the very same countenaunces which I sawe at the riuer Chebar and the selfe same appearaunces euery one in his goyng went strayght forwarde The .xj. Chapter 1 Who they were that seduced the people of Israel 5 Agaynst these he prophecieth shewyng them howe they shal be dispersed abrode 19 The renuyng of the heart commeth of God 21 He threatneth them that leane vnto their owne counsayles 1 MOreouer the spirite lift me vp and brought me vnto the east gate of the Lordes house which lyeth eastwarde and beholde at the entry of the gate were fiue and twentie men among whom I sawe Iaazaniah the sonne of Azur and Pheltiah the sonne of Banaiahu the rulers of the people 2 Then sayde he vnto me Thou sonne of man these men imagine mischiefe a wicked counsayle take they in this citie 3 Saying It is not neare let vs builde houses this Hierusalem is the cauldron and we be the fleshe 4 Therfore shalt thou prophecie against them yea prophecie O sonne of man 5 And with that fell the spirite of the Lorde vpon me and sayde vnto me Speake thus saith the Lorde On this maner haue ye spoken O ye house of Israel and I knowe the imaginations of your heartes 6 Many one haue ye murthered in this citie and fylled the streetes full of the slayne 7 Therfore thus saith the Lorde God The slayne men that ye haue layde on the grounde in the citie are the fleshe and this citie is the cauldron but I wyll bryng you out of it ye haue feared the sworde and I wyll bring a sworde ouer you saith the Lorde God 8 And I wyll bryng you out of the middest therof and deliuer you into the handes of straungers and wyll execute iudgementes among you 10 Ye shall fall by the sworde in the borders of Israel wyll I iudge you and ye shall knowe that I am the Lorde 11 This citie shall not be your cauldron neither shall ye be the fleshe therin but in the borders of Israel wyll I punishe you 12 That ye may knowe that I am the Lorde in whose commaundementes ye haue not walked nor kept my lawes but haue done after the customes of the heathen that lye rounde about you 13 Nowe when I prophecied Pheltiah the sonne of Banaiahu dyed then fell I downe vpon my face and cryed with a loude voyce saying Ah Lorde God wylt thou then vtterly destroy all the remnaunt in Israel 14 And so the worde
temple 21 The postes of the temple were foure squared and the fashion of the sanctuarie was appearaunce lyke appearaunce 22 The aulter of wood was three cubites hye and two cubites long the corners the length and the walles thereof were of wood And he sayd vnto me This is the table that shal be before the Lorde 23 The temple and the holiest of all had either of them two doores 24 And the doores had two doores a peece euen two folding doores two for the one doore and two doores for the other 25 And vpon the doores of the temple there were made Cherubims paulme trees lyke as was made vpon the walles thicke beames vpon the forefront of the porche without 26 And there were narow windowes and paulme trees on the one side and on the other side by the sides of the porche and vpon the sides of the house and thicke beames The .xlii. Chapter 1 Of the chambers of the temple for the priestes and the holy thinges 1 THen led he me into the vtter court by the way toward the north and he brought me into the chamber that was ouer against the separate place whiche was before the buylding towarde the north 2 Before the length of a hundred cubites was the north doore and the breadth was fiftie cubites 3 Ouer against the twentie cubites which were for the inner court and ouer against the pauement which was for the vtter court was chamber against chamber three orders 4 And before the chambers ther was a walking place of ten cubites wyde inwarde the way of one cubite and their doores towarde the north 5 Thus the vpper chambers were alway narower for those chambers seemed to eate vp these to wit the lower and the middlemer of the buylding 6 For they were in three orders but had no pillers as the pillers of the courtes therfore were they smaller then the nethermost and the middlemost to recken from the grounde 7 And the wall that was without ouer against the chambers towarde the vtter court on the forefront of the chambers the length therof was fiftie cubits 8 For the length of the chambers that were in the vtter court was fyftie cubites and lo before the temple was a hundred cubites 9 And vnder these chambers was the entrie from the east as one goeth vnto them from the vtter court 10 In the thicknesse of the wall of the court towarde the east before the separate place and before the building of the chambers 11 And the way before them after the appearaunce of the chambers which were toward the north as their length so was their breadth and all their entries were according to their fashion and according to their doores 12 And according to the doores of the chambers that were toward the south was a doore in the head of the way euen the way directly before the wall towarde the east as one entreth 13 Then sayd he vnto me The chambers toward the north and the chambers towarde the south whiche are before the separate place those be holy chambers wherin the priestes that approche vnto the Lorde must eate the most holy thinges there must they lay the most holy thinges and the meate offring and sinne offering and trespasse offering for it is a holy place 14 When the priestes come therein they shall not go out of the holy place into the vtter court but there they shall lay vp their garmentes wherin they minister for they are holy shall put on other garmentes and so shall approche to those which are for the people 15 Now when he had finished the measuring of the house within he led me foorth toward the gate whose prospect is towarde the east and he measured it rounde about 16 He measured the east side with the measuring cane fiue hundred canes euen with the measuring cane round about 17 And he measured the north side fyue hundred canes euen with the measuring cane round about 18 The south side also measured he fiue hundred canes by the measuring cane 19 He turned about also to the west side and measured fiue hundred canes by the measuring cane 20 So he measured it by the foure sides it had a wall round about fyue hundred canes long and fiue hundred broade to make a separation betweene the sanctuarie and the prophane place The .xliii. Chapter 1 He seeth the glorie of God goyng into the temple from whence it had before departed 7 He mencioneth the idolatrie of the children of Israel for the whiche they were consumed and brought to naught 10 He is commaunded to call them againe to repentaunce 1 SO he brought me to the gate euen the gate that turneth towarde the east 2 And beholde then came the glorie of the God of Israel from out of the east whose voyce was lyke a great noyse of waters and the earth was lightened with his glorie 3 And according to the appearaunce of the vision which I saw euen according to the vision which I sawe when I came to destroy the citie and the visions were like the visions whiche I sawe by the riuer Chebar I fell vpon my face 4 And the glorie of the Lorde came into the house by the way of the gate whose prospect is towarde the east 5 So a winde toke me vp and brought me into the innermer court and behold the house was full of the glorie of the Lorde 6 And I heard one speaking vnto me out of the house there stoode a man by me 7 And he sayd vnto me O thou sonne of man this roome is my seate the place of my foote steppes wheras I wil dwel among the children of Israel for euermore so that the house of Israel shal no more defile my holy name neither they nor their kinges thorowe their whordome and thorowe the dead bodies of their kinges in their hye places 8 Albeit they haue set their thresholdes by my thresholdes and their postes by my postes and a wal betwixt me and them yet haue they defiled my holy name with their abominations that they haue committed wherfore I haue consumed them in my wrath 9 But nowe let them put away their whordome and the dead bodies of their kinges out of my sight and I will dwel among them for euermore 10 Therfore O thou sonne of man shewe thou the house of Israel this house that they may be ashamed of their wickednesse measure them selues an example therat 11 And if they be ashamed of all their workes then shew them the fourme of the house and patterne thereof the going out the comming in all the maner therof yea all the ordinaunces thereof the figures and all the lawes thereof and write it in their sight that they may kepe the whole fashion thereof and all the ordinaunces thereof and do them 12 This is the lawe of the house Vpon the top of the mount shall all the limits thereof be rounde about
ye tell me the dreame and the interpretation therof ye shall receaue of me giftes rewardes and great honour therefore shewe me the dreame and the interpretation therof 7 They aunswered againe and said The king must shewe his seruauntes the dreame and so shal we declare the interpretation therof 8 Then the king aunswered saying I perceaue of a trueth that ye would redeeme the time for so much as ye see the thing is gone fro me 9 Therfore if ye wil not tel me the dreame this is your only purpose ye haue prepared liyng corrupt wordes to speake before me til the time be chaunged therfore tell me the dreame that I may knowe that ye can declare me the interpretation therof 10 Vpon this the Chaldees gaue aunswere before the king and sayde There is no man vpon earth that can tell the thing which the king speaketh of yea there is neither king prince nor lorde that euer asked such thinges at a wyse man soothsayer or Chaldean 11 For it is a rare matter that the king requireth neither is there any that can certifie the king therof except the gods whose dwelling is not with fleshe 12 For the which cause the king was wroth with great indignation commaunded to destroy al the wise men at Babylon 13 So the decree went foorth and the wise men were slayne they sought also to slay Daniel with his companions 14 Then Daniel stayed the counsell and decree with Arioch the captayne of the kinges garde who was gone foorth to put to death the wise men of Babylon 15 He aunswered and sayde vnto Arioch the kinges captayne why is the sentence so hastie from the king Then Arioch tolde Daniel the matter 16 Vpon this went Daniel and desired the king that he woulde geue him leysure and that he would shewe the king the interpretation 17 Then Daniel went to his house and shewed the thing to Ananias Misael and Azarias his companions 18 That they shoulde beseche the God of heauen for grace in this secrete that Daniel and his felowes with other such as were wyse in Babylon perished not 19 Then was the secrete reuealed vnto Daniel in a vision by night then Daniel praysed the God of heauen 20 Daniel also aunswered and said The name of God be praysed for euer euer for wysdome and strength are his 21 He chaungeth the times and seasons he taketh away kinges he setteth vp kinges he geueth wysdome vnto the wyse and vnderstanding to those that vnderstande 22 He reuealeth the deepe secrete thinges he knoweth the thing that lieth in darknesse for the light dwelleth with him 23 I thanke thee and prayse thee O thou God of my fathers that thou hast geuen me wisdome and strength and hast shewed me now the thing that we desired of thee for thou hast declared the kinges matter vnto vs. 24 Vpon this went Daniel in vnto Arioch whom the king had ordeined to destroy the wise men at Babylon he went and sayde thus vnto him Destroy not the wyse men of Babylon but bring me before the king and I shall shewe the king the interpretation 25 Then Arioch brought Daniel before the king in all the haste and sayde thus vnto him I haue founde a man among the children of Iuda that were brought captiues that will declare vnto the king the interpretation 26 Then aunswered the king and sayd vnto Daniel whose name was Baltassar Art thou able to shewe me the dreame which I haue seene and the interpretation therof 27 Daniel aunswered in the presence of the king and sayd As for this secrete for the whiche the king maketh inquisition there can neither the men of vnderstanding nor soothsayers nor the wyse men nor readers of destinies declare it vnto the king 28 But there is a God in heauen that reuealeth secretes sheweth the king Nabuchodonozor what is for to come in the latter dayes Thy dreame and that whiche thou hast seene in thyne head vpon thy bed is this 29 O king when thou wast in thy bed thoughtes came into thy mynde what should come hereafter so he that is the opener of misteries telleth thee what is for to come 30 As for me this secrete is not shewed me for any wysdome that I haue more then any other liuing but onely that I might shew the king the interpretation and that thou mightest knowe the thoughtes of thyne owne heart 31 Thou king sawest and beholde there was a great image this great image whose brightnesse was excellent stoode before thee and the fourme therof was terrible 32 This images head was of fine gold his brest and armes of siluer his belly and his thighes of brasse 33 His legges were of iron his feete were part of iron and part of clay 34 Thou beheldest it till a stone was cut without handes which smote the image vpon his feete that were of iron clay and brake them to peeces 35 Then was the iron the clay the brasse the siluer and gold broken al together became like y e chaffe of sommer floores and the winde caryed them away that no place was found for them the stone that smote the image became a great mountayne and filled the whole earth 36 This is the dreame and now will we shew before the king what it meaneth 37 O king thou art a king of kinges for the God of heauē hath geuen vnto thee a kingdome power strength glorie 38 And in all places whersoeuer the children of men dwell the beastes of the fielde and the foules of the aire hath he geuen into thy hande and hath made thee ruler in them all thou art this head of golde 39 After thee shall arise another kingdome inferior to thee another third kingdome shal be of brasse whiche shall beare rule ouer all the earth 40 The fourth kingdome shal be strong as iron for as iron breaketh in peeces and subdueth all thinges and as iron bruiseth all these thinges so shall it breake in peeces and bruise all 41 Where as thou sawest the feete toes parte of potters clay part of iron the kingdome shal be deuided but there shal be in it of the strength of the iron for so much as thou sawest the iron mixt with the clay and earth 42 And as the toes of the feete were part of iron and part of clay so shal the kingdome be part strong and part broken 43 And wheras thou sawest iron mixt with clay and earth they shall mingle themselues with the seede of men and yet not ioyne one with another as iron will not be mixt with clay 44 And in the dayes of these kinges shall the God of heauen set vp a kingdome which shall neuer be destroyed and this kingdome shall not be geuen ouer to another people but it shall breake and destroy al these kingdomes and it shal stand for euer 45 Like as thou sawest that without any handes
they would serue or worship any God except their owne God onely 29 Therfore I make a decree that euery people nation language which speake any blasphemie against the God of Sidrach Misach and Abednego shal be drawen in peeces and their houses shal be made a iakes because there is no God that can deliuer after this sort 30 So the king promoted Sidrach Misach and Abednego in the prouince of Babylon The .iiii. Chapter 4 Nabuchodonozor dreameth againe 8 Daniel interpreth it 29 Nabuchodonozor it put out of his realme and eateth with beastes 34 He confesseth the power of God and is restored vnto his kingdome 1 NAbuchodonozor king vnto all people natiōs and languages that dwel vpon the whole earth peace be multiplied among you 2 I thought it good to shewe the signes marueylous workes that the hie God hath wrought vpō me 3 O how great are his signes and howe mightie are his wonders his kingdome is an euerlasting kingdome his dominion is frō generation to generation 4 I Nabuchodonozor beyng at rest in my house and florishing in my palace 5 Sawe a dreame whiche made me afrayde and the thoughtes vpon my bed with the visiōs of my head troubled me 6 Therfore made I a decree that they shoulde bring all the wyse men of Babylon before me that they might declare vnto me the interpretatiō of the dreame 7 So came the wyse men the soothsayers the Chaldeans and wisardes to whom I tolde the dreame but they coulde not shewe me the interpretation therof 8 Till at the last Daniel came before me whose name was Baltassar according to the name of my God which hath the spirite of the holy gods in hym before him I tolde the dreame saying 9 O Baltassar thou prince of wyse men forsomuch as I knowe that thou hast the spirite of the holy gods no secrete troubleth thee tell me therefore the visions of my dreame that I haue seene and the interpretation therof 10 Thus were the visions of my head vpon my bed And behold I saw a tree in the mids of the earth and the heyght therof was great 11 A great tree and strong and the heyght therof reached vnto the heauen and the sight thereof to the endes of all the earth 12 The leaues therof were fayre and the fruite therof much and in it was meate for all the beastes of the fielde had shadowes vnder it and the foules of the aire dwelt in the bowes therof al fleshe fed of it 13 I sawe in the visions of my head vpon my bed and beholde a watcher and a holy one came downe from heauen 14 And cryed mightily saying thus Hew downe the tree breake of his braunches shake of his leaues scatter his fruite abroade that the beastes may get them away from vnder hym and the foules from his braunches 15 Neuerthelesse leaue the stumpe of his rootes still in the earth and with a band of iron and brasse binde it among the grasse of the fielde let it be wet with the deawe of heauen and let his portion be with the beastes among the grasse of the fielde 16 Let his heart be chaunged from mans nature and let a beastes heart be geued vnto hym and let seuen times be passed ouer hym 17 This sentence is according to the decree of the watchers and the request according to the word of the holy ones because liuing men should knowe that the hyghest hath power ouer the kingdome of men and geueth it to whom it liketh hym and setteth vp ouer it the basest among men 18 This is the dreame that I king Nabuchodonozor haue seene therfore thou O Baltassar declare the interpretation therof forsomuch as al the wyse men of my kingdome are not able to shewe me what it meaneth but thou caust do it for the spirite of the holy gods is in thee 19 Then Daniel whose name was Baltassar held his peace by the space of one houre and his thoughtes troubled him So the king spake and sayde O Baltassar let neither the dreame nor the interpretation thereof trouble thee Baltassar aunswered saying O my Lord this dreame be to them that hate thee the interpretation therof to thyne aduersaries 20 As for the tree that thou sawest which was great and mightie whose heyght reached vnto the heauen and the sight therof through all the world 21 Whose leaues were fayre and the fruite therof much and in it was meate for all vnder the which the beastes of the fielde had their habitation and vpon whose braunches the foules of the aire did sit 22 It is thou O king whiche art great and mightie for thy greatnesse increaseth reacheth vnto the heauen so doth thy dominion to the endes of the earth 23 But wheras the king saw a watcher and a holy one that came downe from heauen and sayd Hewe downe the tree destroy it yet leaue the stumpe of the rootes therof in the earth and with a band of iron brasse binde it among the grasse of the fielde let it be wet with the dewe of the heauen and let his portion be with the beastes of the fielde till seuen times passe ouer him 24 This O king is the interpretation yea it is y e very decree of hym that is hyghest of al and it toucheth my lord the king 25 Thou shalt be cast out from men and thy dwelling shal be with the beastes of the fielde with grasse shalt thou be fed like oxen thou must be wet with the deawe of the heauen yea seuē times shall passe ouer thee till thou knowe that the hyghest hath power ouer the kingdome of men geueth it to whom he list 26 Moreouer where as it was sayd that the stumpe of the roote of the tree should be left still it betokeneth that thy kingdome shall remayne whole vnto thee after thou hast learned to knowe that the power commeth from heauen 27 Wherfore O king let my counsel be acceptable vnto thee and breake of thy sinnes by righteousnesse and thyne iniquities by mercie towarde the poore lo let there be a healing of thyne errour 28 All these thinges touche the king Nabuchodonozor 29 So after twelue monethes the king walked in the palace of the kingdome of Babylon 30 And the king spake sayd Is not this great Babylon that I haue buylt for the house of the kingdome by the might of my power and for the honour of my maiestie 31 Whyle these wordes were yet in the kinges mouth there fell a voyce from heauen saying O king Nabuchodonozor to thee be it spoken Thy kingdome is departed from thee 32 And thou shalt be cast out of mens companie thy dwelling shal be with the beastes of the fielde so that thou shalt eate grasse like oxen and seuen times shal passe ouer thee vntil thou knowest that the hyghest hath power vpon the kingdome of men and geueth it vnto whom it pleaseth
another lyke vnto a leopard this had winges as a foule euen foure vpon the backe this beast had foure heads and there was power geuen him 7 After this I saw in a vision by night beholde the fourth beast was grimme and horrible and marueylous strong ▪ it had great iron teeth it deuoured destroyed stamped the residue vnder his feete it was vnlike y e other beastes that were before it for it had ten hornes 8 As I considered the hornes beholde there came vp among them another little horne before whom there were three of the first hornes pluckt away and behold this horne had eyes lyke the eyes of a man a mouth speaking presumptuous thinges 9 I behelde till the thrones were set vp the auncient of dayes did sit whose garment was white as snowe and the heere 's of his head lyke the pure wooll his throne was like the firie flambe and his wheeles as burning fire 10 There issued foorth a firie streame and went out from before him a thousand thousandes ministred vnto him and ten thousand thousandes stoode before him the iudgement was set the bookes opened 11 Then toke I heede therunto because of the voyce of the proude words which the horne spake I behelde till the beast was slaine and his body destroyed and geuen to be brent in the fire 12 As concerning the other beastes they had their dominion taken away but their liues were prolonged for a certaine time and season 13 I saw in visions by night and behold there came one in the cloudes of heauen lyke the sonne of man which went vnto the aūcient of dayes before whom they brought him 14 And he gaue him dominion honour and a kingdome that al people nations and languages should serue him his dominion is an euerlasting dominion which shall neuer be taken away and his kingdome shall neuer be destroyed 15 I Daniel was troubled in my spirite in the midst of my body and the visions of my head made me afrayde 16 I gate me vnto one of them that stoode by and asked him the trueth concerning all these thinges so he tolde me and made me vnderstand the interpretation of these thinges 17 These great beastes which are foure are foure kinges which shall arise out of the earth 18 But the high saintes shall receaue a kingdome and possesse a kingdome for euer euen for euer and euer 19 After this I required to knowe the trueth concerning y e fourth beast which was so vnlyke the other beastes and so horrible whose teeth were of iron and his nayles of brasse which deuoured and destroyed and stamped the residue vnder his feete 20 I desired also to knowe the trueth as touching the ten hornes that he had vpon his head and this other which came vp afterwarde before whose face there fell downe three which horne had eyes and a mouth that spake presumptuous thinges and loked with a grimmer visage then his felowes 21 I behelde and the same horne made battaile against the sainctes yea preuayled against them 22 Vntil the auncient of dayes came that the iudgement was geuen to the high sainctes and till the time came that the sainctes had the kingdome in possession 23 He gaue me this aunswer That fourth beast shal be the fourth kingdome vpon earth it shal be vnlike to all the kingdomes it shall deuour treade downe and destroy all other landes 24 The ten hornes are ten kinges that shall arise out of that kingdome after whom there shall stande vp another which shal be vnlike to the first and he shall subdue three kinges 25 And he shall speake wordes against the highest of all he shall destroy the high sainctes and thinke that he may chaunge times and lawes they shal be geuen into his hande vntill a time and times and the deuiding of a time 26 But the iudgement shall sit and they shall take away his dominion to consume and destroy it vnto the ende 27 And the kingdome and dominion the greatnes of the kingdome vnder the whole heauē shal be geuen to the people of high sainctes whose kingdome is an euerlasting kingdome and all powers shal serue and obey it 28 Hitherto the ende of the wordes I Daniel had many cogitations which troubled me my coūtenaūce chaunged in me but the wordes I kept still in my heart ¶ The .viii. Chapter 1 A vision of a strife betweene a ramme and a hee goate 20 The vnderstanding of the vision is of the battaile betweene the king of Persia and the king of the Grecians 1 IN the third yere of the raigne of king Balthasar there appeared a vision vnto me euen vnto me Daniel after that which I had seene in the beginning 2 I saw in a vision and when I saw it I was in the palace of Susis which is in the prouince of Elam and in the vision me thought I was by the riuer of Vlai 3 Then I loked vp and saw beholde there stoode before the riuer a ramme which had two hornes and these two hornes were hye but one was hyer then the other the hyest came vp last 4 I saw that this ramme pushed with his hornes against the west against the north and against the south so that no beastes might stand before him nor defend them from his power but he did as him lifted and became great 5 And as I considered beholde there came a hee goate from the west ouer the whole earth and touched not the grounde and this goate had a horne appeared betwixt his eyes 6 And he came vnto the ramme that had the two hornes whom I had seene standing by the riuer and ranne fiercely vpon him with his might 7 And I sawe him drawe nye vnto the ramme being very fierce vpon him yea he smote the ramme and brake his two hornes neither had the ramme so much strength as to stande before him but he cast him downe to the grounde trode him vnder his feete there was none able to deliuer the ramme out of his power 8 Therefore the goate waxed exceeding great when he was at the strongest his great horne was broken Then grew there other foure notable ones in the steade of it towarde the foure windes of the heauen 9 And out of one of them came foorth a litle horne which waxed very great toward the south toward the east and toward the pleasaunt lande 10 It grewe vp vnto the hoast of heauen whereof it did cast some downe to the grounde and of the starres also and trode them vnder foote 11 Yea it grewe vp against the prince of the hoast from whom the dayly sacrifice was taken away and the places of his sanctuarie caste downe 12 And power was geuen vnto it ouer the dayly sacrifice for the iniquitie and it shall cast downe the
the fire shall deuoure thee the sword shall cut thee of shall deuoure as the locust though thou be multiplied as the locust though thou be as many as the grashopper 16 Thou hast increased thy marchauntes as the starres of heauen the locust spoyleth and fleeth away 17 Thy princes are as grashoppers and thy rulers as great locustes they swarme in hedges in cold weather the sunne ariseth and they flee and the place where they were is not knowen 18 Thy sheepheardes O king of Assur slumber thy noble men shall dwell in death thy people is scattered vpon the mountaynes there is none to gather them together 19 Thy wound shall not be healed thy plague is great all that heare of thee clap their handes For to whom hath not thy euil dealing pearsed continually ⧠The booke of the prophete Habacuc The first Chapter 1 A complaynt against the wicked that persecute the iust 6 He sheweth that the Chaldeans are raysed vp of the Lorde for the chastisement of the Iewes and describeth their armie 12 He comforteth the faythfull declaring that God will also destroy the Babylonians because they shall abuse their victorie and become proude and insolent attributing the prayse therof to their idoles 1 THe burdē which Habacuc the prophete dyd see 2 O Lorde howe long shall I crye and thou wilt not heare euen crye out vnto thee for violence and thou wilt not helpe 3 Why doest thou shew me iniquitie and cause me to beholde sorowe for spoyling and violence are before me there are that rayse vp stryfe and contention 4 Therfore the law is dissolued iudgement doth neuer go foorth for the wicked doth compasse about the righteous therfore wrong iudgement proceedeth 5 Behold among the heathen and regarde and wonder and marueyll for I will worke a worke in your dayes ye will not beleue it though it be tolde you 6 For lo I rayse vp the Chaldeans that bitter and furious nation whiche shall go vpon the breadth of the land to possesse the dwelling places that are not theirs 7 They are terrible and fearfull their iudgement and their dignitie shall procede of them selues 8 Their horses also are swifter then the leopardes and are more fierce then the wolues in the euening and their horsemen shall come from farre they shall flee as the Egle hasting to meate 9 They come all to spoyle before their faces shal be an eastwinde and they shall gather the captiuitie as the sande 10 And they shall mocke the kinges and the princes shal be a scorne vnto them they shall deride euery strong hold for they shall gather dust and take it 11 Then shall they take a courage and transgresse and do wickedly imputing this their power vnto their god 12 Art not thou of olde O Lord my God my holy one we shall not dye O Lord thou hast ordeined them for iudgement and O God thou hast established them for correction 13 Thou art of pure eyes and canst not see euyl thou canst not behold wickednesse wherfore then doest thou loke vpō the transgressours and holdest thy tongue when the wicked deuoureth the man that is more righteous then he 14 And makest men as the fishe of the sea and as the creeping thinges that haue no ruler ouer them 15 They take vp all with the angle they catche it in their net and gather it in their yarne wherof they reioyce and are glad 16 Therfore they sacrifice vnto their net and burne incense vnto their yarne because by them their portion is fat and their meate plenteous 17 Shall they therfore stretche out their net and not spare continually to slay the nations The .ii. Chapter A vision against pryde couetousnesse drunkennesse and idolatrie 1 I Will stande vpon my watche and set me vpon the towre will loke and see what he will say vnto me and what I shall aunswere to him that rebuketh me 2 And the Lord aunswered me and said write the vision and make it plaine vpon tables that he may run that readeth it 3 For the vision is yet for an appoynted time but at the last it shall speake and not lye though it tary wayte for it shall surely come and shall not stay 4 Behold he that lifteth vp him selfe his minde is not vpright in him but the iust shall liue by his fayth 5 Yea in deede the proude man is as he that transgresseth by wine therfore shall he not endure because he hath enlarged his desire as the hell is as death and can not be satisfied but gathereth vnto him all nations and heapeth vnto him all people 6 Shall not all these take vp a parable against him and a taunting prouerbe against him and say Wo he that increaseth that which is not his how long and he that ladeth him selfe with thicke clay 7 Shall they not rise vp sodenly that shall byte thee and awake that shall stirre thee thou shalt be their pray 8 Because thou hast spoyled many nations all the remnaunt of the people shall spoyle thee because of mens blood and for the wrong done in the lande in the citie and vnto all that dwell therin 9 Wo he that coueteth an euyll couetousnesse to his house that he may set his nest on hie to escape from the power of euyll 10 Thou hast consulted shame to thyne owne house by destroying many people hast sinned against thyne owne soule 11 For the stone shall crye out of the wal and the beame out of the timber shall aunswere it 12 Wo vnto him that buyldeth a towne with blood and erecteth a citie by iniquitie 13 Behold is it not of the Lord of hoastes that the people shall labour in the very fire the people shall euen weery them selues for very vanitie 14 For the earth shal be filled with the knowledge of the glorie of the Lorde as the waters couer the sea 15 Wo vnto him that geueth his neyghbour drinke thou ioynest thy heate and makest him drunken also that thou mayest see their priuities 16 Thou art filled with shame for glorie drinke thou also and be made naked the cup of the Lordes right hand shal be turned vnto thee and shamefull spuyng shal be for thy glorie 17 For the crueltie of Libanus shall couer thee so shal the spoyle of the beastes which he made afrayde because of mens blood and for the wrong done in the land in the citie and vnto all that dwell therin 18 What profiteth the image for the maker therof hath made it an image and a teacher of lyes though he that made it trust therin when he maketh dumbe idoles 19 Wo vnto hym that sayth to the wood Awake and to the dumbe stone Rise vp it shall teache thee beholde it is layde ouer with gold and siluer there
is no breath in it 20 But the Lord is in his holy temple let all the earth kepe scilence before hym The .iij. Chapter A prayer for the faythfull 1 A Prayer of Habacuc the prophete for the ignoraunces 2 O lord I haue heard thy voyce and was afrayde O Lorde reuiue thy worke in the middes of the yeres in the middes of the yeres make it knowen in wrath remember mercie 3 God commeth from Theman and the holy one from mount Paran Selah his glorie couereth the heauens and the earth is full of his prayse 4 And his brightnesse was as the light he had hornes comming out of his handes and there was the hyding of his power 5 Before him went the pestilence and burning coales went foorth before his feete 6 He stoode and measured the earth he behelde and dissolued the nations and the euerlasting mountaynes were broken and the auncient hilles did bowe his wayes are euerlasting 7 For iniquitie I saw the tentes of Chusan and the curtaynes of the lande of Madian dyd tremble 8 Was the Lorde angry against the riuers or was thyne anger against the â—oodes or was thy wrath against the sea that thou diddest ryde vpon thy horses thy charets brought saluation 9 Thy bow was manyfestly reuealed and the othes of the tribes were a sure word Selah thou diddest cleaue the earth with riuers 10 The mountaynes sawe thee and they trembled the streame of the water passed by the deepe made a noyse and lift vp his handes on hye 11 The sonne and moone stoode still in their habitation at the light of thyne arrowes they went and at the bright shining of thy speares 12 Thou trodest downe the land in anger and dyddest threshe the heathen in displeasure 13 Thou wentest foorth for the saluation of thy people euen for saluation with thyne annoynted thou hast wounded the head of the house of the wicked and discoueredst the foundations vnto the necke Selah 14 Thou diddest strike thorow with his owne staues the heades of his villages they came out as a whirlewinde to scatter me their reioycyng was as to deuour the poore secretly 15 Thou diddest walke in the sea with thyne horses vpon the heape of great waters 16 When I hearde my belly trembled my lippes shoke at the voice rottennesse entred into my bones I trembled in my selfe that I might rest in the day of trouble for when he commeth vp vnto the people he shall destroy them 17 For the figgetree shall not floorish neither shall fruite be in the vines the labour of the oliue shall fayle the fieldes shall yelde no meate the sheepe shal be cut of from the folde and there shal be no bullocke in the stalles 18 But I will reioyce in the Lord I will ioy in the God of my saluation 19 The Lord God is my strength he wil make my feete like hindes feete he wil make me to walke vpon my hye places To the chiefe singer on Neginothai or vpon the instrumentes of musicke ⧠The booke of the prophete Sophonia The first Chapter Threatninges against Iuda and Hierusalem because of their idolatrie 1 THe worde of the Lord which came vnto Sophoni the sonne of Chusi the sonne of Gedaliah the sonne of Amariah the sonne of Hezekiah in the time of Iosia the sonne of Amon king of Iuda 2 I will surely destroy all thinges in the land sayth the Lorde 3 I will destroy man and beast I will destroy the foules in the ayre and the fishe in the sea and great ruine shall fall on the wicked and I wil vtterly destroy the men out of the land sayth the Lorde 4 I wil stretch out myne hand vpon Iuda and vpon all such as dwell at Hierusalem thus will I roote out the remnaunt of Baal from this place and the names of the Kemurins and priestes 5 Yea such as vpon their house toppes worship and bowe them selues vnto the hoast of heauen whiche sweare by the Lorde and by their Malchom also â–ª 6 Which start backe from the Lorde and neither seke after the Lorde nor regard hym 7 Be still at the presence of the Lorde God for the day of the Lord is at hand yea the Lord hath prepared a sacrifice and called his ghestes therto 8 And thus shall it happen in the day of the Lordes sacrifice I will visite the princes and the kinges children and al such as weare straunge clothing 9 In the same day also will I visite all those that leape ouer the thresholde so proudly whiche fill their lordes house with robberie and falshood 10 At the same time sayth the Lord there shal be hearde a great crye from the fishe porte and an howling from the seconde porte and a great destruction from the hylles 11 Howle ye that dwel in the lowe places for al the marchaunt people are destroyed and all they that were laden with siluer are rooted out 12 At the same time will I searche Hierusalem with lanternes and visite them that continue in their dregges and say in their heartes Tush the Lorde will do neither good nor euyll 13 Therfore their goodes shal be spoyled their houses layed waste they shall buylde houses and not dwell in them they shall plante vineyardes but not drinke the wine therof 14 For the great day of the Lorde is at hande it is harde by and commeth on a pace euen the bitter voyce of the Lordes day then shall the strong man crye out 15 That day is a day of wrath a day of trouble and heauinesse a day of vtter destruction and miserie a darke glowming day a cloudy and stormie day 16 A day of the trumpet and alarum against the strong cities and hie towres 17 I will bring the people into such vexation that they shall go about like blinde men because they haue sinned against the Lorde their blood shal be powred out as dust their bodies as the myre 18 Neither their siluer nor their gold shal be able to deliuer them in that wrothful day of the Lorde but the whoâ—e lande shal be consumed thorowe the fire of his ielousie for he shall soone make cleane riddaunce of all them that dwell in the lande The .ii. Chapter 1 He moueth to returne to God 5 prophesying vnto the one destruction and to the other deliueraunce 1 GAther your selues eueÌ„ gather you O nation not worthy to be loued 2 Before the decree go foorth that God hath concluded and ye be as chaffe that passeth in a day before the fearfull wrath of the Lorde come vpon you before the day of the Lordes sore displeasure come vpon you 3 Seke the Lorde all ye meeke hearted vpon earth ye that worke after his iudgement seke righteousnesse seke lowlinesse that ye may be defended in the wrothfull day of the Lorde
touchyng thy lyfe I am not sent to shewe thee for I do not knowe it The .v. Chapter 1 In the latter tymes trueth shal be hyd 6 Vnrighteousnesse and all wickednesse shall raigne in the worlde 23 Israel is reiected and God deliuereth them 35 God doth all thyng in season 1 NEuerthelesse as concernyng the tokens marke this Behold the dayes shall come that they which dwell vpon earth shal be taken in a great number and the way of the trueth shal be hyd and the lande shal be barren from faith 2 But iniquitie shal be increased aboue that which nowe thou seest or that thou hast hearde long ago 3 And the lande that thou seest nowe to haue rule shalt thou shortly see waste 4 But yf God graunt thee to lyue thou shalt see after the thirde trumpet that the sunne shall sodaynly shyne agayne in the night and the moone three tymes in the day 5 And blood shall droppe out of wood and the stone shall geue his voyce and the people shal be vnquieted 6 And euen he shall rule whom they hope not that dwell vpon earth and the foules shall flitte 7 And the Sodomitishe sea shall cast out the fishe and make a noyse in the nyght which many haue not knowen but they shal all heare the voyce therof 8 There shal be a confusion also in many places and the fire shal be oft sent out agayne and the wylde beastes shall chaunge their places and menstruous women shall beare monsters 9 And salt waters shal be founde in the sweete and all friendes shall fyght one agaynst another then shall all wyt and vnderstandyng be hyd and put asyde into their secrete places 10 And shal be sought of many and yet not be founde then shall vnryghteousnesse and voluptuousnesse haue the vpper hande vpon earth 11 One lande also shall aske another and say Is ryghteousnesse that maketh a man righteous gone through thee And it shall say no 12 At the same tyme shall men hope but nothyng obteyne they shall labour but their wayes shall not prosper 13 To shewe thee such tokens I haue leaue and if thou wylt pray agayne and weepe as nowe and fast seuen dayes thou shalt heare yet greater thynges 14 Then I awaked and a fearfulnesse went through all my body my mynde was feeble so that I almost sowned withall 15 So the angel that was come to talke with me helde me comforted me and set me vp vpon my feete 16 And in the seconde nyght it came to passe that Salathiel the captayne of the people came vnto me saying Where hast thou ben and why is thy countenaunce so heauy 17 Knowest thou not that Israel is committed vnto thee in the lande of their captiuitie 18 Vp then and eate and forsake vs not as the sheephearde that leaueth his flocke in the handes of wicked wolues 19 Then sayde I vnto hym Go thy wayes fro me and come not nye me And he hearde it and as I sayde so went he his way from me 20 And so I fasted seuen dayes mournyng and weepyng lyke as Vriel the angell commaunded me 21 And after seuen dayes so it was that the thoughtes of my heart were very greeuous vnto me agayne 22 And my soule receaued the spirite of vnderstandyng and I began to talke with the most hyghest agayne 23 And sayde O Lorde Lorde of euery wood of the earth and of all the trees thereof thou hast chosen thee one only vineyarde 24 And of all landes of the whole worlde thou hast chosen one pyt and of all floures of the grounde thou hast chosen thee one lilie 25 And of all the deapthes of the sea thou hast fylled thee one ryuer and of all builded cities thou hast halowed Sion vnto thy selfe 26 And of all the foules that are created thou hast named thee one doue and of all the cattell that are made thou hast prouided thee one sheepe 27 And among all the multitudes of peoples thou hast gotten thee one people vnto this people whom thou louedst thou gauest a lawe that is proued of all 28 And nowe O Lorde why hast thou geuen this one people ouer vnto many and vpon the one roote thou hast prepared others and why hast thou scattered thy one only people among many 29 Which treade them downe yea which haue euer withstande thy promises and neuer beleued thy couenauntes 30 If thou didst so much hate thy people yet shouldest thou punishe them with thine owne handes 31 Nowe when I had spoken these wordes the angell that came to me the nyght afore was sent vnto me 32 And sayde vnto me Heare me and I wyll instruct thee hearken to the thyng that I say and I shall tell thee more 33 And I sayde Speake on my Lorde Then sayde he vnto me Thou art sore troubled in mynde for Israels sake Louest thou that people better then he that made them 34 And I sayde No Lorde but of very griefe and compassion haue I spoken for my reynes payne me euery houre because I woulde haue experience of the way of the most hyest and seke out part of his iudgement 35 And he sayde vnto me That thou mayest not And I sayde Wherfore Lorde wherunto was I borne then or why was not my mothers wombe then my graue that I myght not haue seene the miserie and trouble of Iacob and the wearyng out of the stocke of Israel 36 And he sayde vnto me Number me the thynges that are not yet come gather me together the droppes that are scattered abroade make me the floures greene agayne that are withered 37 Open me the places that are closed and bring me foorth the wyndes that in them are shut vp shewe me the image of a voyce and then I wyll declare to thee the thyng that thou labourest to knowe 38 And I sayde O Lorde Lorde who may knowe these thynges but he that hath not his dwellyng with men 39 As for me I am vnwise howe may I then speake of these thynges wherof thou askest me 40 Then sayd he vnto me Lyke as thou canst do none of these thynges that I haue spoken of euen so canst thou not fynde out my iudgement or in the ende the loue that I haue promised vnto my people 41 And I sayde Beholde O Lorde yet art thou nye vnto them that be reserued tyll the ende and what shal they do that haue ben before me or we that be nowe or they that shall come after vs 42 Aâ— sayde vnto me I wyll lyken my iudâ—ment vnto a ryng Lyke as there is no slacknesse of the last euen so there is no swiftnesse of the first 43 So I aunswered and sayde Couldest thou not make those that haue ben made and be nowe and that are for to come at once that thou mightest shewe thy iudgement the sooner 44 Then aunswered he me and sayde The creature may not haste aboue the maker neither may the worlde holde them at once that
shal be created therin 45 And he sayde As thou hast sayd vnto thy seruaunt that thou which quickenest all thynges hast geuen lyfe at once to the creature or worke that thou hast created and the creature beare it euen so myght it nowe also beare them that nowe be present at once 46 And he sayd vnto me Aske the wombe of a woman and say vnto her If thou bringest foorth children why doest thou it not together but one after another Pray her therfore to bryng foorth ten children at once 47 And I sayde She can not but must do it by distaunce of tyme. 48 Then sayde he vnto me Euen so haue I deuided by distaunce of tyme the childbed of the earth for those that be sowen vpon her 49 For lyke as a young childe may not bryng foorth the thynges that belong to the aged euen so haue I ordeyned the worlde which I created 50 And I asked and sayde Seyng thou hast nowe geuen me the way I wyll proceede to speake before thee for our mother of whom thou hast tolde me that she is young draweth she nowe nye vnto age 51 He aunswered me and sayde Aske a woman that beareth children and she shall tell thee 52 Say vnto her Wherfore are not they whom thou hast nowe brought foorth lyke those that were before thee but lesse of stature 53 And she shal aunswere thee They that be borne in the youth of strength are of one fashion and they that are borne in the tyme of age when the wombe fayleth are otherwyse 54 Consider nowe thy selfe howe that ye are lesse of stature then those that were before you 55 And so are they that come after you lesse then ye as the creatures which nowe begyn to be olde and haue passed ouer the strength of youth 56 Then sayde I Lorde I beseche thee yf I haue founde fauour in thy syght shewe thy seruaunt by whom thou visitest thy creature The .vj. Chapter 1 God hath foreseene all thynges in his secrete counsayle and is aucthour therof and hath created them for his children 25 The felicitie of the age to come 1 ANd he sayde vnto me In y e begynnyng when the grouÌ„de was made before the borders of the worlde stoode or euer the windes blewe 2 Before it thundred and lyghtened or euer the foundations of Paradise were layde 3 Before the faire floures were seene or euer the moueable powers were stablisshed before the innumerable multitude of angels were gathered together 4 Or euer the hyghnesses of the ayre were lyfted vp afore the measures of the firmament were named or euer the chimneys in Sion were hotte 5 And or the present yeres were sought out and or euer the inuentions of them that nowe sinne were put aside before they were sealed that haue gathered fayth for a treasure 6 Then dyd I consider and ponder all these thynges and they all were made through me alone and through none other by me also they shal be ended and by none other 7 Then aunswered I and sayde What shal be the partyng asunder of the tymes or when shal be the ende of the first and the begynnyng of it that foloweth 8 And he sayd vnto me From Abraham vnto Isahac when Iacob and Esau were borne of him Iacobs hande helde first the heele of Esau 9 For Esau is the ende of this worlde and Iacob is the begynnyng of it that foloweth 10 The hande of man betwixt the heele and the hande Other question Esdras aske thou not 11 I aunswered then and sayd O Lord Lorde yf I haue founde fauour in thy syght 12 I beseche thee shewe thy seruaunt the ende of thy tokens wherof thou shewedst me part the last nyght 13 So he aunswered and sayde vnto me Stande vp vpon thy feete and heare a perfect voyce and sounde 14 There shall come a great motion but the place where thou standest shall not be moued 15 And therfore when thou hearest the wordes be not afraide for of the ende shall the worde be and of the foundation of the earth shall it be vnderstande 16 And why the worde therof trembleth and quaketh for it knoweth that it must be chaunged at the ende 17 And it happened that when I had hearde it I stoode vp vpon my feete and hearkened and beholde there was a voyce that spake and the sounde of it was lyke the sounde of many waters 18 And it sayde Beholde the dayes come that I wyll begyn to drawe nye and to visite them that dwell vpon earth 19 And wyll begyn to make inquisition of them what they be that haue hurt vniustly with their vnryghteousnesse and when the lowe estate of Sion shal be fulfylled 20 And when the worlde that shall vanishe away shal be ouersealed then wâ—ll I do these tokens The bookes shal be opened before the firmamenâ— and they shall see altogether 21 And the children of a yere olde shall speake with their voyces the women with childe shall bring foorth vntymely children of three or foure monethes olde and they shal liue and be raised vp 22 And sodaynely shall the sowen places appeare as the vnsowen the full store houses shall sodaynly be founde emptie 23 And the trumpet shall geue a sounde which when euery man heareth they shal be hastely afraide 24 At that tyme shall friendes fyght one agaynst another lyke enemies and the earth shall stande in feare with them The springes of the welles shall stande styll and in three houres they shall not runne 25 Whosoeuer remayneth from all these thynges that I haue tolde thee shall escape and see my saluation and the ende of your worlde 26 And the men that are receaued shall see it they that haue not tasted death from their birth and the heart of the indwellers shal be chaunged turned into another meanyng 27 For euyll shal be put out and deceipt shal be quenched 28 As for faith it shall florishe corruption shal be ouercome and the trueth which hath ben so long without fruite shal be declared 29 And when he talked with me beholde I loked a litle and a litle vpon hym before whom I stoode 30 And these wordes sayde he vnto me I am come to shewe thee the tyme of the nyght for to come 31 If thou wylt pray yet more and fast seuen dayes agayne I shall tell thee more thynges and greater then before which I haue hearde by the day 32 For thy voyce is hearde before the hyest for why the mightie hath seene thy ryghteous dealyng he hath seene also thy chastitie which thou hast had euer since thy youth 33 And therfore hath he sent me to shewe thee all these thynges and to say vnto thee Be of good comfort and feare not 34 And haste not with the tymes that are past to thynke vayne thynges that thou mayest not hasten from the latter tymes 35 And it came to passe after this that I wept agayne
not his wayes 24 But his lawe haue they despised and denied his promises in his statutes and ordinaunces haue they not ben faythful and stedfast and haue not perfourmed his workes 25 And therefore Esdras for the emptie are the emptie thinges and for the full are the full thinges 26 Beholde the tyme shall come that these tokens whiche I haue tolde thee shall come to passe and the bryde shall appeare and she comming foorth shal be seene that nowe is vnder the earth 27 And whosoeuer is deliuered from the foresayde euils shall see my wonders 28 For my sonne Iesus shal be openly declared with those that be with him and they that remayne shal be merie within foure hundred yeres 29 After these same yeres shall my sonne Christe dye and all men that haue life 30 And the world shal be turned into the olde scilence seuen dayes like as in the foreiudgementes so that no man shall remayne 31 And after seuen dayes the world that yet awaketh not shal be raysed vp and that shall dye that is corrupt 32 And the earth shall restore those that haue slept in her and so shall the dust those that dwell therein in scilence and the secrete places shall deliuer those the soules that were committed vnto them 33 And the most highest shal be openly declared vpon the seate of iudgement all miserie shall vanishe away and long suffering shal be gathered together 34 But the iudgement shall continue the trueth shall remayne and fayth shall waxe strong 35 The worke shall folowe and the rewarde shal be shewed the righteousnesse shall watch and the vnrighteousnesse shall beare no rule 26 Then sayd I Abraham prayed first for the Sodomites and Moyses for the fathers that sinned in the wyldernesse 37 And they that came after him for Israel in the time of Achas and Samuel 38 And Dauid for the destruction and Solomon for them that came into the sanctuarie 39 And Helias for those that receaued rayne for the dead that he might liue 40 And Ezechias for the people in the time of Sennacherib and diuers other in like maner whiche haue prayed for many 41 Euen so now seing the corrupt is growen vp and wickednesse increased and the righteous haue prayed for y e vngodly wherfore shall it not be so nowe also 42 He aunswered me and sayde This present life is not the ende oft times honour is retayned in it therefore haue they prayed for the weake 43 But the day of doome shal be the ende of this tyme and the beginning of the immortalitie for to come wherein all corruption shal be vanished 44 Intemperauncie shal be loosed infidelitie be cut of righteousnesse growe and the veritie spring vp 45 Then shall no man be able to saue hym that is destroyed nor to oppresse hym that hath gotten the victorie 46 I aunswered then and sayd This is my first and last saying that it had ben better not to haue geuen the earth vnto Adam or els when it was geuen hym to haue kept hym that he shoulde not haue sinned 47 For what profite is it for men nowe in this present time to liue in heauines and after death to looke for punishment 48 O thou Adam what hast thou done For though it was thou that sinned thou art not fallen alone but we all that come of thee 49 For what profite is it vnto vs if there be promised vs an immortall tyme where as we do the workes that bryng death 50 And that there is promised vs an euerlasting hope where as our selues are euyll and vayne 51 And that there are layde vp for vs dwellinges of health and safetie where as we haue liued wickedly 52 And that the glory of the highest is kept to defende them which haue led a pacient life where as we haue walked in the most wicked wayes of all 53 And that there shal be shewed a paradise whose fruite endureth for euer wherein is freedome and medicine whereas we shall not go in 54 For we haue walked in vnpleasaunt places 55 And that the faces of them whiche haue abstayned shall shine aboue the starres whereas our faces shal be blacker then darknesse 56 For whyle we liued and dyd vnrighteously we considered not that we shoulde suffer therfore after death 57 Then aunswered he me and sayde This is the maner of the battayle which man that is borne vpon the earth shall fight 58 That if he be ouercome he shall suffer as thou hast sayd But if he get the victorie he shal receaue y e thing that I say 59 For this is the life whereof Moyses spake vnto the people whyle he liued saying Choose thee lyfe that thou mayest liue 60 Neuerthelesse they beleued hym not neither the prophetes after hym no nor me whiche haue sayde vnto them 61 That heauinesse should not so be vnto their destruction like as ioy is for to come ouer those that haue suffred thē selues to be enfourmed in saluation 62 I aunswered then and sayd I know Lorde that the highest is called mercyfull in that he hath mercy vpon them whiche are not yet come vnto that worlde 63 And vpon those also that walke in his lawe 64 And that he is pacient for he long suffreth those that haue sinned as his creatures 65 And that he is liberall to geue where as it requireth 66 And that he is of great mercie for he passeth in mercy much both those that are present and that are paste and also them whiche are for to come 67 For if he multiplied not his mercies the worlde coulde not continue his beyng with those that haue inheritaunces therein 68 He geueth also for if he gaue not of his goodnesse that they whiche haue done euyll myght be eased from their wickednesse the ten thousandth part of men should not remayne liuing 69 And if he beyng iudge forgaue not those that be healed with his worde and toke not away the multitude of contentions 70 There should be very fewe left peraduenture in an innumerable multitude ¶ The .viij. Chapter 1 The number of the godly is small 6 The workes of God are excellent 20 Esdras prayer for hym and his people 39 The promise of saluation to the iust 55 The destruction of the vniust 1 ANd he aunswered me saying The most hyest made this world for many but the worlde to come for fewe 2 I wyll tell thee a similitude Esdras As when thou askest the earth it shall say vnto thee that it geueth much moulde wherof earthen vessels are made but litle of it that golde commeth of Euen so is it with the worke of this worlde 3 There be many created but fewe shal be saued 4 Then aunswered I and sayd Then swalowe vp the wit O my soule and deuour the vnderstanding 5 For thou art agreed to hearken and to geue care and wyllyng to prophecie for thou hast no longer space but this
comfort her 42 Neuerthelesse nowe seest thou the likenes of the womā no more but there appeared vnto thee a citie buylded 43 And where she tolde thee of the fall of her sonne so is this the solution of it 44 This woman whom thou sawest is Sion and where as she tolde thee euen she whom thou seest nowe as a citie buylded 45 And as touching that she sayde vnto thee that she hath ben thirtie yeres vnfruitefull and baren those are the thirtie yeres wherein there was no offering made in her 46 But after thirtie yeres Solomon builded the citie and offred offeringes and then bare the baren a sonne 47 And where as she tolde thee that she nourished hym with labour that was the dwelling in Hierusalem 48 But where as she tolde thee that her sonne dyed as his chaunce was when she came into her chaumber that is the fall that is come to Hierusalem 49 And beholde when thou sawest her like one that mourned for her sonne and begannest to comfort her of these things whiche haue chaunced these are to be opened vnto thee 50 For nowe the most hyghest seeth that thou art sory in thy minde and suffrest from thy whole heart for her and so hath he shewed thee her clearenesse and the fayrenesse of her beautie 51 And therefore I bad thee remayne in the fielde where no house was builded 52 For I knewe that the highest would shewe this vnto thee 53 Therfore I commaunded thee to go into the fielde where no foundation nor buylding is 54 For in the place where the highest beginneth to shewe his citie there can no mans buylding be able to stande 55 And therefore feare not and let not thyne heart be afraide but go thy way in and see the beautie and greatnes of the buylding as much as thyne eyes be able to see 56 And then shalt thou heare as muche as thyne eares may comprehende 57 For thou art blessed aboue many other and art called with the highest as the fewe 58 But to morowe at night thou shalt remayne here 59 And so shall the highest shewe thee visions of the hye thinges which he wyll do vnto them that dwell vpon earth in the last dayes So I slept y e same night another like as he commaunded me The .xi. Chapter 1 The vision of an Egle comming foorth of the sea and of her fethers 37 Of a Lion comming out of the forest 1 THen saw I a dreame and beholde there came vp from the sea an Egle whiche had xii fethered winges and three heades 2 And I sawe and beholde she spread her wynges ouer all the earth and al the wyndes of the ayre blew on her gathered them together 3 And I behelde and out of her fethers there grew other contrary fethers and they became litle fethers and small 4 But her heades remayned styll the head in the middest was greater then the other yet rested it with the residue 5 Moreouer I saw that the Egle flewe with her wynges and raigned vpon earth and ouer all them that dwelt vppon the earth 6 And I sawe that all thinges vnder heauen were subiect vnto her and no man spake against her no not one creature vpon earth 7 I sawe also that the Egle stoode vp vpon her clawes and gaue a sounde with her fethers and a voyce saying after this maner 8 Watche not altogether sleepe euery man in his owne place and watche by course 9 But let the heades be preserued for the last 10 Neuerthelesse I sawe that the voyce went not out of her heades but from the myddest of her body 11 And I numbred her contrary fethers and beholde there were eyght of them 12 And I loked and beholde vpon the ryght syde there arose one fether and raigned ouer all the earth 13 And so it was that when it raigned the ende of it came and the place therof appeared no more So the next folowyng stoode vp and raigned and had a great tyme. 14 And it happened that when it raigned the ende of it came also lyke as the first so that it appeared no more 15 Then came there a voyce vnto it and sayde 16 Heare thou that hast kept the earth so long this I say vnto thee before thou begynnest to appeare no more 17 There shall none after thee attayne vnto thy tyme neither vnto the halfe therof 18 Then arose the thirde and raigned as the other afore and appeared no more also 19 So went it with all the residue one after another so that euery one raigned and then appeared no more 20 Then I loked and beholde in processe of tyme the fethers that folowed stoode vp on the ryght syde that they myght rule also and some of them ruled but within a whyle they appeared no more 21 For some of them were set vp but ruled not 22 After this I loked and beholde the twelue fethers appeared no more nor the two wynges 23 And there was no more vpon the Egles body but two heades that rested and sixe wynges 24 Then sawe I also that two wynges deuided them selues from the sixe and remayned vnder the head that was vpon the right side for the foure continued in their place 25 So I loked and beholde the fethers that were vnder the wyng thought to set vp them selues and to haue the rule 26 Then was there one set vp but shortly it appeared no more 27 And the seconde was sooner away then the first 28 And I behelde and lo the two that remayned thought also in them selues to raigne 29 And when they so thought beholde there awaked one of the heades that were at rest namely it that was in the myddest for that was greater then the two other heades 30 And then I sawe that the two heades were ioyned with hym 31 And the head was turned with them that were with hym and dyd eate vp the two vnder wynges that woulde haue raigned 32 But this head put the whole earth in feare and bare rule in it ouer all those that dwelt vpon the earth with much labour and he had the gouernaunce of the worlde ouer all the wynges that had ben 33 After this I loked and beholde the head that was in the myddest sodaynly appeared no more lyke as the wynges 34 But there remayned the two heades which ruled vpon earth and ouer those that dwelt therin 35 And I behelde and lo the head vpon the ryght syde deuoured it that was vpon the left syde 36 Then I hearde a voyce which sayde vnto me loke before thee and consider the thyng that thou seest 37 Then I sawe and beholde as it were a lion that roareth runnyng hastyly out of the wood and I sawe that he sent out a mans voyce vnto the Egle and sayde 38 Heare thou I wyll talke with thee and the hyest shall say vnto thee 39 Is it not thou that hast the victorie of the foure beastes whom I made to raigne vpon earth and in my worlde
had ben burnt with Sion 45 For we are not better then they that dyed there And they wept with loude voyce Then aunswered I them said 46 Be of good comfort O Israel and be not heauy thou house of Iacob 47 For the hyest hath you in remembraunce and the mightie hath not forgotten you in temptation 48 As for me I haue not forsaken you neither am I departed from you but am come into this place to pray because of the miserie of Israel that I myght seeke mercie for the lowe estate of your sanctuarie 49 And nowe go your way home euery man and after these dayes will I come vnto you 50 So the people went their way into the citie lyke as I commaunded them 51 But I remayned styll in the fielde seuen dayes as the angell bad me and dyd eate only of the floures of the fielde and had my meate of the hearbes in those dayes The .xiij. Chapter 2 The vision of a wynde commyng foorth of the sea â— which became a man 5 His propertie power agaynst his enemies 21 The declaration of this vision 1 AND after the seuen dayes I dreamed a dreame by nyght 2 And beholde there arose a wynde from the sea that it moued all the waues therof 3 And I loked and beholde there was a strong man with the thousandes of heauen and when he turned his countenaunce to loke all the thynges trembled that were seene vnder hym 4 And when the voyce went out of his mouth all they burnt that hearde his voyce lyke as the earth fayleth when it feeleth the fire 5 After these I sawe and beholde there was gathered together a multitude of men out of number from the foure wyndes of the heauen to fyght agaynst the man that came out of the sea 6 And I loked and beholde he graued hym selfe a great mountayne and flewe vp vpon it 7 But I woulde haue seene the region or place wherout the hyll was grauen and I coulde not 8 I sawe after these that all they which came to fyght agaynst hym were sore afraide and yet durst they fyght 9 Neuerthelesse when he sawe the fiercenesse and violence of the people that came he neither lyft vp his hande nor helde sworde nor any weapon 10 But only as I sawe he sent out of his mouth as it had ben a blast of fire and out of his lippes the wynde of the flambe and out of his tongue he cast out sparkes and stormes 11 And they were all mixt together the blast of fire the wynde of the flambes and the great storme and fell with a rushe vpon the people which was prepared to fight and burnt them vp euery one so that of the innumerable multitude there was nothing seene but only dust and smell of smoke When I sawe this I was afraide 12 Afterwarde sawe I the same man come downe from the mountayne and callyng vnto hym another peaceable people 13 And there came much people vnto hym some were glad some were sorye some of them were bounde and other some brought of them that were offered Then was I sicke through great feare and I awaked and sayde 14 Thou hast shewed thy seruaunt these wonders from the begynnyng and hast counted me worthy that thou myghtest receaue my prayer 15 Shewe me nowe yet the interpretation of this dreame 16 For thus I consider in my vnderstandyng wo vnto them that shal be left in those dayes and much more wo vnto them that are not left behynde 17 For they that were not left were in heauinesse 18 Nowe vnderstande I the thynges that are layde vp in the latter dayes which shall happen vnto them and to those that are left behynde 19 Therfore are they come into great perilles and many necessities like as these dreames declare 20 Yet is it easyer that he which is in daunger fall into these and nowe to see that which shall chaunce hereafter then to passe out of this worlde as a cloude Then aunswered he me and sayde 21 The interpretation of the syght shall I shewe thee and I wyll open vnto thee the thyng that thou hast required 22 Wheras thou hast spoken of them that are left behynde this is the interpretation 23 He that beareth the peril in that tyme hath kept him selfe They that be fallen into daunger are such as haue workes and fayth vnto the most mightie 24 Knowe this therfore that they which be left behynde are more blessed then they that be dead 25 This is the meanyng of the vision Wheras thou sawest a man commyng vp from the deepe of the sea 26 The same is he whom God the hyest hath kept a great season which by his owne selfe shall deliuer his creature and he shall order them that are left behynde 27 And wheras thou sawest that out of his mouth there came as a blast of wynde fire and storme 28 And howe that he lift vp neither sword nor weapon but that the russhyng in of hym destroyed the whole multitude that came to fight agaynst hym it signifieth 29 That the dayes come when the most hyest wyll begyn to deliuer them that are vpon earth 30 And in a traunce of mynde shall he come vpon them that dwel in the earth 31 And one shall vndertake to fyght agaynst another one citie agaynst another one place agaynst another one people agaynst another and one realme agaynst another 32 When this commeth to passe then shall the tokens come that I shewed thee before and then shall my sonne be declared whom thou sawest clymbe vp as a man 33 And when all the people heare his voyce euery man shall in their owne lande leaue the battayle that they haue one agaynst another 34 And an innumerable multitude shal be gathered together as they that be wyllyng to come and to ouercome hym by fyghtyng 35 But he shall stande vpon the toppe of the mount Sion 36 And Sion shall come shal be shewed to all men beyng prepared and builded lyke as thou sawest the hyll grauen foorth without any handes 37 And this my sonne shall rebuke those nations which are fallen into the tempest for their wickednesse and euyll imaginations 38 And into tormentes lyke to flambe wherwith they shal be punished and without any labour shall he destroy them euen by the lawe which is compared vnto the fire 36 And wheras thou sawest that he gathered another peaceable people vnto hym 40 Those are the ten tribes which were caryed away prisoners out of their owne lande in the tyme of Oseas the kyng whom Salmanasar the kyng of Assyria toke prisoner and caryed them ouer the water and so came they into another lande 41 But they toke this counsayle among them selues that they woulde leaue the multitude of the heathen and to go foorth into a farther countrey where neuer mankynde dwelt 42 That they myght there kepe their statutes which they neuer kept in their owne lande 43
And so they entred in at the narowe passages of the ryuer of Euphrates 44 For the most hyghest then shewed tokens for them and helde styll the fludde tyll they were passed ouer 45 For through the countrey there was a great way namely of a yere a halfe iourney and the same region is called Arsareth 46 Then dwelt they there vntyll the latter tyme and when they come foorth agayne 47 The hyest shall holde stil the springes of the streame agayne that they may go through therfore sawest thou the multitude with peace 48 But they that be left behynde of thy people are those that are founde within my borders 49 Nowe when he destroyeth the multitude of the nations that are gathered together he shall defende his people that remayne 50 And then shall he shewe them great wonders 51 Then said I O Lorde Lorde shewe me this wherfore haue I seene the man commyng vp from the deepe of the sea 52 And he sayde vnto me Lyke as thou canst neither seeke out nor knowe these thynges that are in the deepe of the sea euen so can no man vpon earth see my sonne or those that be with hym but in the tyme of the day 53 This is the interpretation of the dreame which thou sawest wherby thou only art here lyghtned 54 For thou hast forsaken thine owne lawe and applied thy diligence vnto myne and sought it 55 Thy lyfe hast thou ordered in wisdome and hast called vnderstandyng thy mother 56 And therfore haue I shewed thee the treasures of the hyest After other three dayes I wyll shewe thee more talke with thee more at large yea heauy and wonderous thynges wyll I declare vnto thee 57 Then went I foorth into the fielde geuyng prayse thankes greatly vnto God because of his wonders which he dyd in tyme 58 And because he gouerneth the same and such thinges as fall in their seasons and there I sate three dayes The .xiiij. Chapter 3 Howe God appeared to Moyses in the bushe 10 All thynges decline to age 16 The latter age worse then the former 29 The ingratitude of Israel 35 The resurrection and iudgement 1 VPon the thirde day I sate vnder an oke tree then came there a voyce vnto me out of the bushe and sayde Esdras Esdras 2 And I sayde Here am I Lorde and stoode vp vpon my feete 3 Then saide he vnto me In the bushe did I appeare vnto Moyses and talked with hym when my people serued in Egypt 4 And I sent hym and led my people out of Egypt and brought hym vp to the mount Sina where I helde hym by me a long season 5 And tolde hym many wonderous workes and shewed hym the secretes of the tymes and the ende and commaunded hym saying 6 These wordes shalt thou declare and these shalt thou hyde 7 And nowe I say vnto thee 8 That thou lay vp in thine heart the signes that I haue shewed and the dreames that thou hast seene and the interpretations which thou hast heard 9 For thou shalt be taken away from among all and hencefoorth thou shalt remayne with my counsayle and with such as be like thee vntyll the tymes be ended 10 For the worlde hath lost his youth and the tymes begynne to waxe olde 11 For the worlde is deuided into twelue partes and tenne partes of it are gone alredy and halfe of a tenth part 12 And there remayneth there that which is after the halfe of the tenth part 13 Therfore set thine house in order and refourme thy people comfort such of them as be in trouble and nowe renounce corruption 14 Let go from thee mortall thoughtes cast away the burthens of men put of the weake nature 15 And set aside the thoughtes that are most heauy vnto thee and haste thee to flee from these tymes 16 For as for such euyll and wickednesse as thou hast nowe seene happen they shall do yet much worse 17 For the weaker that the worlde is by reason of age the more shall euils increase vpon them that dwell therin 18 For the trueth is fled farre away and leasyng is hearde at hande For nowe hasteth the vision to come that thou hast seene 19 Then aunswered I before thee and sayde 20 Beholde Lorde I wyll go as thou hast commaunded me and refourme the people which are present but they that shal be borne afterwarde who will admonishe them Thus the worlde is set in darknesse and they that dwell therin are without lyght 21 For thy lawe is burnt therfore no man knoweth the thynges that are done of thee or the workes that shal be done 22 But yf I haue founde grace before thee sende the holy ghost into me and I shall write all that hath ben done in the worlde since the begynnyng which was written in thy lawe that men may finde the path and that they which will lyue in the latter dayes may lyue 23 And he aunswered me saying Go thy way gather the people together and say vnto them that they seke thee not for fourtie dayes 24 But loke thou gather thee many bore trees and take with thee Sarca Dabria Selemia Ecanus and Asiel these fyue which are redy to write swiftly 25 And come hyther and I shall lyght a candel of vnderstandyng in thine heart which shall not be put out till y e thinges be perfourmed which thou shalt begyn to write 26 And then shalt thou declare some thynges openly vnto the perfect and some thynges shalt thou shewe secretly vnto the wise To morowe this houre shalt thou begyn to write 27 Then went I foorth as he commaunded me and gathered all the people together and sayde 28 Heare these wordes O Israel 29 Our fathers at the begynnyng were staungers in Egypt from whence they were deliuered 30 And receaued the lawe of lyfe which they kept not which ye also haue transgressed after them 31 Then was the lande euen the lande of Sion parted among you by lot to possesse But your fathers and ye your selues also haue done vnrighteousnesse and haue not kept the wayes which the hyest commaunded you 32 And for so much as he is a righteous iudge he toke from you in tyme the thyng that he had geuen you 33 And nowe are ye here and your brethren among you 34 Therfore yf so be that ye wyll subdue your owne vnderstandyng refourme your heart ye shal be kept alyue and after death shall ye obteyne mercie 25 For after death shall the iudgement come when we shall liue agayne then shall the names of the righteous be manifest and the workes of the vngodly shal be declared 26 Let no man therfore come nowe vnto me nor seke after me these fourtie dayes 37 So I toke the fyue men as he commaunded me and we went into the fielde and remayned there 38 The next day a voyce called me saying Esdras open thy mouth and drynke that I geue thee to drynke 39 Then
opened I my mouth and beholde he reached me a full cuppe which was full as it were with water but the colour of it was lyke fire 40 And I toke it and dranke And when I had drunken it my heart had vnderdandyng and wisdome grewe in my brest for my spirite was strenthened in remembraunce 41 And my mouth was opened and shut no more 42 The hyest gaue vnderstandyng vnto the fyue men that they wrote the hye thynges of the nyght which they vnderstoode not 43 But in the nyght they dyd eate bread as for me I spake in the day and helde not my tongue by nyght 44 In fourtie dayes they wrote two hundred and foure bookes 45 And it came to passe when the fourtie dayes were fulfylled that the hyest spake saying The first that thou hast written publishe openly that the worthy and vnworthy may reade it 46 But kepe the seuentie last that thou mayest deliuer them only to such as be wise among thy people 47 For in them is the spring of vnderstandyng the fountayne of wisdome and the streame of knowledge 48 And I dyd so The .xv. Chapter 1 The prophecie of Esdras is certayne 5 The euils that shall come on the worlde 9 The Lord wyll auenge the innocent blood 12 Egypt shall lament 16 Sedition 20 and punishment vpon the kynges of the earth 24 Cursed are they that sinne 29 Troubles warres vpon the whole earth 53 God is the reuenger of his elect 1 BEholde speake thou in the eares of my people the wordes of prophecie which I wyll put in thy mouth sayth the Lorde 2 And cause them to be written in a letter for it is the trueth 3 Feare not the imaginations agaynst thee Let not the vnfaythfulnesse of them trouble thee that speake agaynst thee 4 For all the vnfaythfull shall dye in their vnfaythfulnesse 5 Beholde saith the Lorde I will bring plagues vpon the worlde the sworde hunger death and destruction 6 For wickednesse hath the vpper hande in all the earth and their shamefull workes are fulfylled 7 Therfore sayth the Lorde 8 I wyll holde my tongue no more of their wickednesse which they do so vngodly neither wyll I suffer them in the thynges that they deale withall so wickedly Beholde the innocent and ryghteous blood cryeth vnto me and the soules of the iust complaine continually 9 And therfore sayth the Lorde I wyll surely auenge and receaue vnto me all the innocent blood from among them 10 Beholde my people is led as a flocke of sheepe to be slayne I wyll not suffer them nowe to dwell in the lande of Egypt 11 But wyll bryng them out with a mightie hande and a stretched out arme and smite it with plagues as afore and wyll destroy all the lande of it 12 Egypt shall mourne and the foundations of it shal be smitten with the plague and punishment that God shall bryng vpon it 13 They that tyll the grounde shall mourne for their seedes shal be destroyed through the blastyng and hayle and by an horrible starre 14 Wo worth the worlde and them that dwell therin 15 For the sworde and their destruction draweth nye and one people shal stande vp to fyght agaynst another swordes in their handes 16 For men shal be vnstedfast and some shall do violence vnto other they shall not regarde their kyng and the princes shall measure the way of their doinges by their power 17 A man shall desire to go into a citie and shall not be able 18 For because of their pride the cities shal be troubled the houses shall tremble and men shal be afrayde 19 A man shall haue no pitie vpon his neyghbour but shall destroy their houses with the sword and spoyle their goodes because of the hunger of bread and because of the great trouble 20 Beholde sayth God I call together all the kynges of the earth to reuerence me which are from the vprisyng from the south from the east and Libanus to turne vpon them and restore the thynges that they haue done to them 21 Lyke as they do yet this day vnto my chosen so wyll I do also and recompence them in their bosome Thus saith the Lorde God 22 My ryght hande shall not spare the sinners and my sworde shall not ceasse ouer them that shed the innocent blood vpon earth 23 The fire is gone out from his wrath hath consumed the foundations of the earth and the sinners lyke the strawe that is kyndled 24 Wo worth them that sinne and kepe not my commaundementes sayth the Lorde 25 I wyll not spare them Go your way ye children from the power defile not my sanctuarie 26 For the Lorde knoweth all them that sinne agaynst him therfore deliuereth he them vnto death and destruction 27 For nowe are the plagues come vpon the worlde and ye shall remayne in them For God shall not deliuer you because ye haue sinned agaynst hym 28 Beholde an horrible vision commeth from the east 29 Where generations of dragons of Arabia shal come out with many charettes the multitude of them shal be caryed as the wynde vpon earth that all they which heare them may feare tremble 30 Euen the Carmanies raging in wrath shall go foorth as the wylde boores of the forrest and with great power shall they come and stande fyghtyng with them and shall waste a portion of the lande of the Assyrians 31 And then shall the dragons haue the vpper hande and remembring their nature shall turne about conspiryng together in great power to persecute thē 32 Then these shal be troubled and kepe scilence in their power and shall flee 33 And from the lande of the Assyrians shall the enemie besiege them and consume some of them and in their hoast shal be feare and dread and strife among their kynges 34 Beholde cloudes from the east and from the north vnto the south and they are very horrible to loke vpon full of wrath and storme 35 They shall smite one vpon another and they shal smite downe a great multitude of starres vpon the earth euen their owne starre and the blood shal be from the sworde vnto the belly 36 And the doung of man vnto the Camels litter 37 And there shal be great fearfulnesse and tremblyng vpon earth and they that see the wrath shal be afraide and a tremblyng shall come vpon them 38 And then shal there come great raynes from the south and from the north and part from the west 39 And strong wyndes shall aryse from the east and shall open it and the cloude which he raysed vp in wrath and the starre stirred to cause feare towarde the east and west wind shal be destroyed 40 The great cloudes shal be lift vp and the mightie cloudes full of wrath and the starre that they may make all the earth afrayde and them that dwell therin and that they may powre out ouer euery high place an horrible starre 41 Fire and hayle and fleing
swordes and many waters that all fieldes may be full and all riuers with the aboundaunce of great waters 42 And they shal breake downe the cities and walles mountaynes and hilles trees of the wood and the grasse of the medowes and all their corne 43 And they shall go stedfast vnto Babylon and make her afrayde 44 They shall come to her and besiege her the starre and all wrath shall they powre out vpon her then shall the dust and smoke go vp vnto the heauen and all they that be about her shall bewayle her 45 And they that remayne vnder her shal do seruice vnto them that haue put her in feare 46 And thou Asia that comfortest thy selfe also vpon the hope of Babylon and art the glorie of her person 47 Wo be vnto thee thou wretch because thou hast made thy selfe like vnto her and hast deckte thy daughters in whordome that they might triumphe and please thy louers which haue alway desired to commit whordome with thee 48 Thou hast folowed the abominable citie in all her workes and inuentions therfore sayth God 49 I will sende plagues vpon thee widdowhood pouertie hunger warres pestilence to waste thy houses with destruction and death 50 And the glorie of thy power shal be dried vp as a floure whē the heate riseth that is sent ouer thee 51 Thou shalt be sicke as a poore wife that is plagued and beaten of women so that the mightie and louers shall not be able to receaue thee 52 Would I so hate thee sayth the Lord 53 If thou haddest not alway slayne my chosen exalting the stroke of thy handes and sayde ouer their death when thou wast drunken 54 Set foorth the beautie of thy countenaunce 55 The rewarde of thy whordome shal be recompenced thee in thy bosome therefore shalt thou receaue rewarde 56 Like as thou hast done vnto my chosen sayth the Lord euen so shal God do vnto thee and shall deliuer thee into the plague 57 Thy children shall dye of hunger and thou shalt fall through the sworde Thy cities shal be broken downe and al thyne shal perishe with the sword in the fielde 58 They that be in the mountaynes shall dye of hunger and eate their owne flesh and drinke their owne blood for very hunger of bread and thirst of water 59 Thou as vnhappie shalt come through the sea and receaue plagues againe 60 In the passage they shall cast downe the slayne citie and shall roote out one part of thy lande and consume the portion of thy glorie and shal returne to her that was destroyed 61 They shal treade thee downe like stubble and they shal be thy fire 62 And shall consume thee thy cities and thy lande and thy mountaynes all thy woodes and thy fruitefull trees shall they burne vp with the fire 63 Thy children shall they cary away captiue and loke what thou hast they shall spoyle it and marre the beautie of thy face The .xvi. Chapter 1 Against Babylon Asia Egypt and Syria 18.38 Of the euils that shal come vpon the world with admonition how to gouerne them selues in afflictions 54 To acknowledge their sinnes and to commit them selues to the Lorde 55 whose mightie prouidence and iustice is to be reuerenced 1 WO be vnto thee Babylon and Asia wo be vnto thee Egypt Syria 2 Girde your selues with clothes of sacke and heare mourne your children be sory for your destruction is at hande 3 A sword is sent vpon you and who will turne it backe 4 A fire is sent among you and who will quench it 5 Plagues are sent vnto you and what is he that will dryue them away 6 May any man dryue away an hungry lion in the wood Or may any man quench the fire in stubble when it hath begunne to burne 7 May one turne againe the arrowe that is shot of a strong archer 8 The mightie Lord sendeth the plagues what is he that wil dryue them away 9 The fire is kindled and gone foorth in his wrath and what is he that may quench it 10 He shal cast lighteninges and who shal not feare He shall thunder and who shall not be afrayde 11 The Lord shall threaten and who shal not vtterly be beaten to powder at his presence 12 The earth quaketh and the foundations therof the sea ariseth vp with waues from the deepe and the waues of it are vnquiete and the fishes therof also before the Lorde and before the glorie of his power 13 For strong is his right hande that bendeth the bowe his arrowes that he shoteth are sharpe and shall not misse when they begin to be shot into the endes of the worlde 14 Behold the plagues are sent shall not turne againe till they come vpon earth 15 The fire is kindled and shall not be put out till it consume the foundations of the earth 16 Like as an arrowe whiche is shot of a mightie archer returneth not backward euen so the plagues that shall be sent vpon the earth shall not turne againe 17 Wo is me wo is me who will deliuer me in those dayes 18 The beginning of sorowes and great mourning the beginning of dearth and great death the beginning of warres and the powers shall stande in feare the beginning of euyls and they shall tremble euery one 19 What shal I do in these thinges when the plagues come 20 Beholde hunger and plague trouble and anguishe are sent as scourges for amendement 21 But for all these thinges they shall not turne from their wickednesse nor be alway mindefull of the scourges 22 Behold vittayles shal be so good cheape vpon earth that they shall thinke them selues to be in good case and euen then shall mischiefe growe vpon earth warres dearth and great disquietnes 23 For many of them that dwell vpon earth shall perishe of hunger and the other that escape the hunger shall the sword destroy 24 And the dead shal be cast out as doung and there shal be no man to comfort them For the earth shal be wasted and the cities shal be cast downe 25 There shal be no man left to till the earth and to sowe it 26 The trees shall geue fruite and who shall plucke them of and gather them 27 The grapes shal be ripe and who shall treade them For all places shal be desolate of men 28 So that one man shall desire to see another or to heare his voyce 29 For of one whole citie there shall be ten left and two of the fielde whiche shall hyde them selues in the thycke busshes and in the cliftes of stones 30 Like as when there remayne three or foure oliues in the place were oliues growe or among other trees 31 Or as when a vineyarde is gathered there are left some grapes of them that diligently sought through the vineyard 32 Euen so in those dayes there shal be three of foure left by them that search their houses with the sworde 33 And the
to come in to my lorde that she may be honoured before him that she may eate and drinke wine and be mery with him 13 Vnto whom Iudith aunswered Who am I that I shoulde say my lorde nay 14 Whatsoeuer is good and best before his eyes I shal do it and looke what is his pleasure that shall I thinke well done as long as I lyue 15 So she stoode vp and deckt her selfe with her apparell and went in stoode before him 16 And Holophernes heart was whole moued for he brent in desire towarde her 17 And Holophernes saide vnto her Drinke nowe and sit downe be mery for thou hast founde fauour before me 18 Then saide Iudith Syr I wyll drinke for my minde is meryer to day then euer it was in all my lyfe 16 And she toke and did eate and dranke before him the thinges that her mayden had prepared for her 20 And Holophernes was mery with her and dranke more wine then euer he did afore in his lyfe ¶ The .xiii. Chapter 7 Iudith prayeth for strength 10 She smyteth of Holophernes head 12 She returneth to Bethulia and reioyceth her people 1 NOw when it was late in the night his seruauntes made haste euery man to his lodging And Vagao shut the chamber doores went his way 2 For they were al ouerladen with wine 3 So was Iudith alone in the chamber 4 As for Holophernes he lay vpon the bed all drunken and of very drunckennesse fell asleepe 5 Then commaunded Iudith her mayden to stande without before the doore and to wayte 6 And Iudith stoode before the bed making her prayer with teares moued her lyppes secretly 7 And saide Strengthen me O Lorde God of Israel and haue respect vnto the workes of myne handes in this houre that thou mayest set vp thy citie of Hierusalem lyke as thou hast promysed And graunt that I may perfourme the thing which in hope that it may be done by thee I haue deuised 8 And when she had spokē this she went to the piller that was at Holophernes beddes head and loosed his sword that hanged vpon it and drewe it out 9 And when she had taken it out of the scabberd she tooke holde of the heery lockes of his head and sayde Strengthen me O Lorde God in this houre 10 And with that she gaue him two strokes vpon the necke smote of his head Then tooke she the canapie away from the pillers and roulled the dead body asyde 11 Immediatly she gat her foorth and deliuered the head of Holophernes vnto her mayden and bad her put it in her wallet 12 And so these two went foorth together after their custome as though they would pray and so passed by the hoast and came about through the valley vnto the porte of the citie 13 And Iudith cryed a farre of vnto the watchmen vpon the walles Open the gates saide she for God is with vs which hath shewed his power in Israel 14 And when they heard her voyce they called the elders of the citie together 15 And they came all to meete her litle great young olde for they thought not that she should haue come so soone 16 So they lighted candels and gathered about her euery one but she went vp into an high place and caused scilence to be proclaymed 17 And when euery man now held his peace Iudith saide O prayse the Lord our God for he hath not despised nor forsaken them that put their trust in him 18 And in me his handmayden he hath perfourmed his mercy which he promised vnto the house of Israel Yea in my hand this same night hath he slaine the enemie of his people 19 And with that she tooke foorth the head of Holophernes out of the wallet and shewed it them saying Behold the head of Holophernes the captayne of the armie of the Assyrians and this is his canapie wherin he lay in his drunkennes where the Lord our God hath slaine him by the hande of a woman 20 But as the Lorde liueth his angell hath kept me going thither remayning there and comming hither againe from thence And the Lorde hath not suffred me his handmayden to be defiled but without any defiling of sinne hath he brought me againe vnto you and that with great victorie so that I am escaped and ye deliuered 21 O geue thankes vnto him euery one for he is gratious and his mercy endureth for euer 22 So they praysed the Lorde altogether and gaue thankes vnto him and to her they saide The Lorde hath blessed thee in his power for through thee he hath brought our enemies to naught 23 And Osias the chiefe ruler of the people of Israel saide vnto her Blessed art thou of the Lorde the high God aboue all women vpon earth 24 Blessed be the Lorde the maker of heauen and earth which hath guided thee aright to wounde and to smyte of the head of the captayne of our enemies 25 For this day he hath made thy name so honorable that thy prayse shall neuer come out of the mouth of men which shal alway remember the power of the Lord seeing thou hast not spared thyne owne selfe but put thee in ieopardie considering the anguishe and trouble of thy people and so hast helped their fall before God our Lorde 26 And all the people said Amen Amen 27 Achior also was called and he came Then said Iudith vnto him The God of Israel vnto whom thou gauest witnesse that he would be auenged of his enemies euen he hath this night through my hande smitten of the head of all the vnfaithfull 28 And that thou mayst see that it so is behold this is the head of Holophernes which in his presumptuous pride despised the God of the people of Israel and threatened thee with destruction saying When the people of Israel is taken I shall cause thee also to be stickt with the sword 29 When Achior saw Holophernes head he fell downe vpon his face to the grounde for very anguishe and feare so that he sowned withall 30 But after that he was come againe to him selfe he fell downe before her and praysed her saying 31 Blessed art thou of thy God in all the tabernacles of Iacob for all the people that heare of thy name shall prayse the God of Israel because of thee The .xiiij. Chapter 1 Iudith causeth to hang vp the head of Holophernes 6 Achior ioyneth him selfe to the people of God 7 The Israelites go out against the Assyrians 1 IVdith saide vnto al the people Brethren heare me Sticke vp this head vpon our walles 2 And when the sunne aryseth take euery man his weapon and fall out violently not as though ye would go beside them but to runne vpon them with violence 3 When the spies see this they shall of necessitie be compelled to flee backward and to rayse vp their captayne to the battaile 4 So when their captaynes come into Holophernes pauilion and finde the dead body
can haue knowledge of thy vnderstandyng and meanyng except thou geue wisdome and sende thy holy ghost from aboue 18 For so the wayes of them which liued on the earth were refourmed and men haue learned the thynges that are pleasaunt vnto thee and were preserued through wisdome The .x. Chapter The deliueraunce of the ryghteous and destruction of the enemies commeth through wisdome 1 SHe preferred the first fourmed father of the worlde that was created alone and brought hym out of his fall 2 And gaue him power to rule all thynges 3 But when the vnrighteous went away in his wrath from her he perished by the furious desire to murther his brother 4 For whom when the water destroyed the whole worlde wisdome agayne preserued it her selfe gouernyng the iust man by no costly worke of wood 5 Moreouer when the nations were confounded or ioyned together in their malicious confederacie she founde out the righteous and preserued hym faultlesse vnto God and kept hym strong agaynst the loue of his sonne 6 She preserued the ryghteous when he fled from the vngodly that perished what tyme as the fire fell downe vpon the fiue cities 7 Like as yet this day the vnfruitfull waste and smokyng lande geueth testimonie of their wickednesse yea the vnripe vntymely fruites that growe vpon the trees and for a token of a remembraunce of the vnfaythfull soule there standyng a pyller of salt 8 For all such as regarded not wisdome gat not only this hurt that they knewe not the thynges which were good but also left behynde them vnto men a memoriall of their foolishnesse so that in the thynges wherin they sinned they coulde not be hyd 9 But as for such as toke heede vnto wisdome she hath deliuered them from sorowe 10 When the ryghteous fled because of his brothers wrath wisdome led hym the ryght way shewed hym the kyngdome of God gaue hym knowledge of holy thynges made hym riche in his labours brought to passe the thynges that he went about 11 In the disceiptfulnesse of such as defrauded hym she stoode by hym and made hym riche 12 She saued hym from the enemies and defended him from the deceauers In a strong battayle she gaue hym the victorie that he myght knowe howe that the feare of God is stronger then all thynges 13 When the ryghteous was solde she forsoke hym not but delyuered hym from sinne She went downe with hym into the dungeon 14 And fayled hym not in the bandes till she had brought hym the scepter of the realme and power agaynst those that oppressed hym As for them that had accused hym she declared them to be lyers and brought hym to perpetuall worshyp 15 She deliuered the ryghteous people and faultlesse seede from the nations that oppressed them 16 She entred into the soule of the seruaunt of the Lorde and stoode by hym in wonders and tokens agaynst the dreadfull kynges 17 She gaue the ryghteous the reward of their labours and led them foorth a marueylous way on the day tyme she was a shadowe vnto them and a lyght of starres in the nyght season 18 She brought them through the red sea and caryed them through the great water 19 But she drowned their enemies in the sea but brought them out of the bottome of the deepe 20 So the ryghteous toke the spoyles of the vngodly praysed thy holy name O Lorde and magnified thy victorious hande with one accorde 21 For wisdome openeth the mouth of the dumbe and maketh the tongues of babes to be eloquent The .xj. Chapter 1 The miracles done for Israel 13 The vengeaunce of sinners 28 The great power and mercie of God 1 SHe ordered their workes in the handes of the holy prophete 2 So that they went through the wildernesse that was not inhabited and pitched their tentes in the waste desert 3 They stoode agaynst their enemies and were auenged of their aduersaries 4 When they were thirstie they called vpon thee and water was geuen them out of the most hye rocke their thirst was quenched out of the harde stone 5 For by the thynges wherthrough their enemies were punished were the children of Israel helped in their neede 6 For in steede of a fountaine of the perpetuall runnyng flud all troubled with gorie blood 7 In reproche of the commaundement published to murther the infantes thou gauest vnto them aboundaunce of water and that not loked for neither 8 Declaryng by that thirst then howe thou hadst punished thine aduersaries 9 For when they were tryed and nurtured with fatherly mercie they knewe howe the vngodly were iudged and punished in the wrath of God 10 For these hast thou exhorted as a father and proued them but vnto the other thou hast ben a boystuous kyng layed harde to their charge and condempned them 11 Whether they were absent or present their punishment was a lyke 12 For their griefe was double and mournyng for the remembraunce of thynges past 13 For when they perceaued that their punishmentes dyd them good they thought vpon the Lorde 14 For whom in his castyng out before as an abiect they had denied with derision him in the ende when they sawe what happened they wondered at for they were of another thirst then was the iust 15 But for the foolishe deuises of their wickednesse wherwith being deceaued they worshipped serpentes that had not the vse of reason and vile beastes thou sentest a multitude of vnreasonable beastes vpon them for reuengeaunce 16 That they myght knowe that loke wherewithall a man sinneth by the same also shall he be punished 17 For vnto thy almightie hande that made the worlde of naught it was not vnpossible to sende among them an heape of beares or wood lions 18 Or cruell beastes of a straunge kynde such as are vnknowen or spout fire or cast out a smokyng breath or shoote horrible sparkes out of their eyes 19 Which myght not only destroy them with hurtyng but also kyll them with their horrible syght 20 Yea without these beastes might they haue ben slayne with one wynde being persecuted by the reuengeaunce and scattered abroade through the breath of thy power Neuerthelesse thou hast ordered all thinges in measure number and wayght 21 For thou hast euer had great strength and myght and who may withstande the power of thyne arme 22 For why lyke as the small thyng that the ballaunce wayeth so is the worlde before thee yea as a drop of the mornyng deawe that falleth downe vpon the earth 23 But thou hast mercie vpon all for thou hast power of all thynges and makest thee as though thou sawest not the sinnes of men because they shoulde amende 24 For thou louest all the thynges that are and hatest none of them whom thou hast made for thou wouldest not haue made any thyng yf thou hadst hated it 25 Yea howe
that his workes might be knowen vpon the earth vnder the heauen 16 His mercie is knowen to all creatures he hath seperated his light from the darkenesse with an adamant 17 Say not thou I wyll hide my selfe from God for who wyll thinke vpon me from aboue I shall not be knowen in so great an heape of people for what is my soule among so many creatures 18 Beholde the heauen yea the heauen of heauens of God the deepe the earth and all that therein is shal be moued at his presence 19 The mountaynes the hilles and the foundations of the earth shall shake for feare when God visiteth them 20 These thinges doth no heart vnderstand worthyly but he vnderstandeth euery heart 21 And who vnderstandeth his wayes No man seeth his stormes and the most part of his workes are secrete 22 Who wyll declare the workes of his righteousnesse or who shal be able to abide them For the couenaunt is farre from some and trying out of men is in the ende 23 He that is humble of heart thinketh vpon such thinges but an vnwyse and erronious man casteth his minde vnto foolishe thinges 24 My sonne hearken thou vnto me and learne vnderstanding and marke my wordes with thyne heart I wyll geue thee a sure doctrine and plainely shall I instruct thee 25 Marke my wordes then in thyne heart for in righteousnesse of the spirite do I speake of the wonders that God hath shewed among his workes from the beginning in the trueth do I shew the knowledge of him 26 God hath set his workes in good order from the beginning part of them hath he sundred from the other 27 He hath garnished his workes from euerlasting and their beginninges according to their generations they are not hungrie nor weeried in their labours nor ceasse from their offices 28 None of them hindred another neitheir was any of them disobedient vnto his wordes 29 After this God loked vpon the earth and filled it with his goodnesse 30 With all maner of liuing beastes hath he couered the grounde and they all shal be turned vnto earth againe ¶ The .xvii. Chapter 1 The creation of man and the goodnesse that God hath done vnto him 20 Of almes 26 and repentaunce 1 GOd shaped man of the earth made him after his owne image and turned him vnto earth againe and cloathed him with his owne strength 2 He gaue him the number of dayes and certaine time yea and gaue him power of the thinges that are vpon earth 3 He made all fleshe to stand in awe of him so that he had the dominion of all beastes and foules 4 He made out of him an helper lyke vnto to him selfe gaue them discretion and tongue eyes and eares and a heart to vnderstande 5 He gaue them a spirite and a speache to declare his workes filled them with instruction and vnderstanding 6 He created for them also the knowledge of the spirite filled their heartes with vnderstanding and shewed them good and euill 7 He set his eye vpon their heartes declaring vnto them his great and noble workes 8 That they should prayse his holy name together reioyce of his wonders and be telling of his noble actes 9 Beside this he gaue them instruction and the lawe of life for an heritage that they might now know that they were mortall 10 He made an euerlasting couenaunt with them and shewed them his righteousnesse and iudgementes 11 They sawe the maiestie of his glorie with their eyes and their eares heard the maiestie of his voyce and he saide vnto them beware of all vnrighteous thinges 12 He gaue euery man also a cōmaundement concerning his neighbour 13 Their wayes are euer before him and are not hid from his eyes 14 Euery man from his youth is geuen to euill and their stony heartes can not become fleshe 15 He hath set a ruler vpon euery people but Israel is the Lordes portion 16 Whom he nourisheth with discipline as his first borne and geueth him most louing light and doth not forsake him 17 All their workes are as the sunne in the sight of God his eyes are alway looking vpon their wayes 18 All their vnrighteousnesses are manifest vnto him and al their wickednesses are open in his sight 19 And as he is mercifull and knoweth his worke he doth not leaue them nor forsake them but spareth them 20 The mercie that a man sheweth is as a seale with him and the grace that is geuen to man preserueth him as the apple of an eye and geueth repentaunce to their sonnes and daughters 21 At the last shall he awake and reward euery man vpon his head shall turne them together into the neathermost partes of the earth 22 But vnto them that wyll repent he hath geuen the way of righteousnesse As for such as be weake he comforteth them suffereth them and sendeth them the portion of the veritie 23 O turne then vnto the Lorde forsake thy sinnes make thy prayer before the Lorde do the lesse offence 24 Turne againe vnto the Lorde for he wyll bring thee from darkenesse vnto holsome light forsake thyne vnrighteousnesse be an vtter enemie to abhomination 25 Learne to know the righteousnesse and iudgementes of God stand in the portion that is set foorth for thee and in the prayer of the most hye God 26 Go in the portion of the holy worlde with such as be lyuing geue thankes vnto God 27 Who wil prayse the Lorde in the hel abide not thou in y e errour of the vngodlie but geue him thankes before death 28 As for the dead thankfulnes perisheth from him as nothing Geue thou thankes in thy lyfe yea whyle thou art lyuing and whole shalt thou geue thankes and prayse God and reioyce in his mercie 29 O how great is the louing kindnesse of the Lorde and his mercifull goodnes vnto such as turne vnto him 30 For all thinges may not be in man and why the sonne of man is not immortal and he hath pleasure in the vanitie of wickednesse 31 What is more cleare then the sonne yet shall it fayle 32 Or what is more wicked then the thyng that fleshe and blood hath imagined and that same shal be reproued 33 The Lorde seeth the power of the hye heauen and al are but earth and asshes The .xviii. Chapter 1 The marueylous workes of God 6 The miserie and wretchednes of man 9 Against God ought we not to complaine 21 The perfourming of vowes 1 HE that lyueth for euermore made al thinges together God onely is righteous and there is none other but he and remaineth a victorious king for euer 2 He ordereth the worlde with the power of his hande and all thinges obey his wyl for he gouerneth all thinges by his power and deuideth the holy thinges from the prophane 3 Who shal be able to expresse the workes of him who wyll seeke out the grounde of his
heareth the prayer of the oppressed 14 He despiseth not the desire of the fatherlesse nor the wydowe when she powreth out her prayer before him 15 Doth not God see the teares that runne downe the cheekes of the wydowe or heareth he not the complaint ouer such as make her to weepe For from her cheekes do the teares go vp vnto heauen and the Lord which heareth them doth accept them 16 Who so serueth God after his pleasure shal be accepted and his prayer reacheth vnto the cloudes 17 The prayer of him that humbleth him selfe goeth through the cloudes tell she come nye she wyll not be comforted nor go her way tyll the highest God haue respect vnto her geue true sentēce and perfourme the iudgement 18 And the Lorde wyll not be slacke in comming nor tary long tyll he haue smitten in sunder the backes of the vnmercifull and auenged him selfe of the heathen tyll he haue taken away the multitude of the cruell and broken the scepter of the vnrighteous tyll he geue euery man after his workes and rewarde them after their doinges tyll he haue delyuered his people maintayned their cause and reioyced them in his mercie 19 O how faire a thing is mercie in the time of anguishe and trouble it is lyke a cloude of rayne that commeth in the time of drouth ¶ The .xxxvi. Chapter 1 A prayer to God in the person of all faithfull men 22 The prayse of a good woman 1 HAue mercie vpon vs O Lorde thou God of all thinges haue respect vnto vs shewe vs the light of thy mercies 2 And sende thy feare among the heathen and straungers which seeke not after thee that they may knowe that there is no God but thou and that they may shew thy wonderous workes 3 Lyft vp thyne hande ouer the outlandishe heathen that they may learne to knowe thy might and power 4 Lyke as thou art halowed in vs before them so bring to passe that thou mayst be magnified also in them before vs. 5 That they may know thee lyke as we know thee for there is none other God but onely thou O Lorde 6 Renue the tokens and chaunge the wonderous workes shew thyne hand and thy right arme gloriouslie 7 Rayse vp thyne indignation and poure out thy wrath take away the aduersarie and smite the enemie 8 Make the time shorte remember thy couenaunt that thy wōderous workes may be praysed 9 Let the wrath of the fyre consume them that lyue so carelesse and let them perishe that do thy people hurt 10 Smyte in sunder the head of the princes that be our enemies and say there is none other but we 11 Gather all the tribes of Iacob together againe that they may knowe how that there is none other God but onely thou that they may shewe thy wonderous workes and be thou thy peoples heritage lyke as from the beginning 12 O Lorde haue mercie vpon the people that hath thy name and vpon Israel whom thou hast lykened to a first borne sonne 13 O be mercifull vnto Hierusalem the citie of thy sanctuarie the citie of thy rest 14 Fill Sion with thyne vnspeakable vertues and thy people with thy glorie 15 Geue witnesse vnto thy creature whō thou madest from the beginning and rayse vp the prophesies that haue ben shewed in thy name 16 Rewarde them that wayte for thee that thy prophetes may be founde faithfull 17 O Lorde heare the prayer of thy seruauntes according to the blessing of Aaron ouer thy people and guide thou vs in the way of righteousnes that al they which dwell vpon the earth may know that thou art the Lorde the eternall God which is from euerlasting 18 The belly deuoureth all meates yet is one meate better then another 19 Lyke as the tongue tasteth venison so doth an heart of vnderstandyng marke false wordes 20 A froward heart geueth heauines but a man of experience lyfteth him vp againe 21 The woman receaueth euery man yet is one daughter better then another 22 A faire wyfe reioyceth her husband and a man loueth nothing better 23 If there be in her tongue gentlenes meekenes and holsome talke then is not her husband lyke other men 24 He that hath gotten a vertuous woman hath a goodlie possession she is vnto him a helpe and piller wherevpon he resteth 25 Where no hedge is there the goodes are spoyled and where no huswyfe is there the frendles mourneth 26 Lyke as there is no credence geuen to a robber that goeth from one citie to another so is not the man beleued that hath no nest and must turne in where he may abide in the night The .xxxvii. Chapter 1 Howe a man should knowe friendes and counsellers 12 and searche the company of an holy man 1 EVery friende sayth I wyll be friendly vnto him also but there is some friend which is onely a frende in name 2 Remaineth not there heauines vnto death when a companion and friend is turned to an enemie 3 O most wicked presumption from whence art thou sprong vp to couer the earth with falshood and disceite 4 There is some companion which in prosperitie reioyceth with his friend but in the time of trouble he taketh part against him 5 There is some companion that mourneth with his friend for the bellies sake but when trouble commeth he taketh holde of the shielde 6 Forget not thy friend in thy minde thinke vpon him in thy riches 7 Seeke no counsell at thy kinsmen and hide thy counsel from such as beare thee no good wyll 8 Euery counseller prayseth his counsell neuerthelesse there is some that counselleth but for his owne profite 9 Beware of the counseller and be aduised afore whereto thou wylt vse him for he wyll counsaile for him selfe fest he cast the lot vpon thee 10 And say vnto thee Thy way and purpose is good and afterwarde he stande against thee and loke what shal become of thee 11 Aske no counsaile at him that suspecteth thee for an enemie hide thy counsaile from such as hate thee aske no counsell for religion of him that is without religion nor for iustice of him that hath no iustice aske no counsel at a woman touching her of whō she is ielous nor at a fearefull and faint harted body in matters of warre or at a marchaunt how deare he wyl cheape thy wares toward his or at a byer of selling or at an enuious man of thankesgeuing or at the vnmerciful of louing kindnesse or at an vnhonest man of honestie or at the slothfull of working or at an hyreling which hath no house of profit or wealth or at an idle body of much labour take no such folkes to counsell 12 But be diligent to seeke counsaile at a vertuous man that feareth God such a one as thou knowest to be a keper of the commaundementes which hath a minde after thyne owne minde and is sory for thee when thou stumblest 13 And holde thy
yere and as lylies by the riuers of water like as the braūches vpon the mount Libanus in the time of summer 9 As a fire and incense that is kindled lyke as an whole ornament of pure gold set with all maner of precious stones 10 And as an Oliue tree that is fruiteful and as a Cypres tree which groweth vp an hye 11 When he put on the garment of honour and was clothed with al beawtie when he went to the holy aulter he made the garment of holynes honorable 12 When he toke the portions out of the priestes hande he him selfe stoode by the hearth of the aulter and his brethren rounde about in order as the braunches of Cedar tree vpō the mount Libanus so stoode they rounde about him 13 And as the braunches of the Oliue tree so stoode all the sonnes of Aaron in their glory and the oblations of the Lorde in their handes before al the congregation of Israel 14 And that he might sufficiently perfourme his seruice vpon the aulter and garnishe the offering of the highest god 15 He stretched out his hande and toke of the drinke offering and powred in of the wine so he poured vpon the bottome of the aulter a good smell vnto the highest prince 16 Then began the sonnes of Aaron to sing and to blow with trumpettes and to make a great noyse for a remembraunce and prayse vnto the Lorde 17 Then al the people together were hasted and fell downe to the earth vpon their faces to worship the Lorde their God to geue thankes to the almightie God 18 They song goodly also with their voyces so that there was a pleasaunt noyse in the great house of the Lorde 19 And the people in their prayer besought the Lorde the highest that he would be mercifull tyll the honour of the Lorde were perfourmed and they had ended their ministration and seruice 20 Then went he downe and stretched out his handes ouer the whole multitude of the people of Israel that they shoulde geue prayse and thankes out of their lippes vnto the Lorde and to reioyce in his name 21 He began yet once also to pray that he might openly shewe the thankesgeuing before the highest 22 Namely thus O geue prayse and thankes all ye vnto the Lord our God which hath euer done noble and great thinges which hath increased our dayes from our mothers wombe and dealt with vs according to his mercie 23 That he wyll geue vs the ioyfulnes of heart and peace for our time in Israel 24 Which faithfully kepeth his mercie for vs euermore and alway deliuereth vs in due season 25 There be two maner of people that I abhorre from my heart as for the third whom I hate it is no people 26 They that sit vpon the mountaine of Samaria the Philistines and the foolishe people that dwelt in Sichimis 27 I Iesus the sonne of Sirach Eleazarus of Hierusalem haue tokened vp these informations and documentes of wysdome and vnderstanding in this booke and poured out the wysdome of my heart 28 Blessed is he that exerciseth him selfe therein who so taketh such to heart shal be wyse for euer 29 If he do these thinges he shal be strong in all for the lyght of the Lorde leadeth him which geueth wysdome to the godlie The Lorde be praysed for euermore so be it so be it ¶ The .lj. Chapter The prayer of Iesus the sonne of Sirach 1 I Wyll thanke thee O Lorde and king and prayse thee O God my sauiour I wyll yeelde prayse vnto thy name 2 For thou art my defender and helper and hast preserued my body from destruction from the snares of trayterous tongues and from the lippes that are occupied with lyes 3 Thou hast ben my helper from such as stoode vp against me and hast deliuered me after the multitude of thy mercie and for thy holy names sake from the roring of them that prepared them selues to deuour me out of the handes of such as sought after my lyfe from the multitude of them that troubled me 4 And from them that went about to set fyre vpon me on euery side so that I am not brent in the middest of the fyre 5 From the deepe of hell from an vncleane tongue from lying wordes from false accusation to the king and from an vnrighteous tongue 6 My soule shall prayse the Lorde vnto death for my lyfe drewe nye vnto hell downewarde 7 They compassed me round about on euery syde and there was no man to helpe me I loked about me if there were any man that would succour me but there was none 8 Then thought I vpon thy mercie O Lorde and vpon thy actes that thou hast done euer of olde namely that thou deliuerest such as put their trust in thee and riddest them out of the handes of the heathen 9 Thus lyft I vp my prayer from the earth and prayed for deliueraunce from death 10 I called vpon the Lorde the father of my Lorde that he would not leaue me without helpe in the day of my trouble and in the time of the proude 11 I wyll prayse thy name continually yeelding honour and thankes vnto it and so my prayer was heard 12 Thou sauedst me from destruction and deliueredst me from the vnrighteous time therefore wyll I acknoweledge and prayse thee and magnifie the name of the Lorde 13 When I was yet but young or euer I went astray I desired wysdome openly in my prayer 14 I came therfore before the temple and sought her vnto the last then florished she vnto me as a grape that is soone rype 15 My heart reioyced in her then went my foote the right way yea from my youth vp sought I after her 16 I bowed downe myne eare and receaued her I founde me much wysdome and prospered greatly in her 17 Therfore wyll I ascribe the glory vnto him that geueth me wysdome 18 For I am aduised to do thereafter I wyll be gelous to cleaue vnto the thing that is good so shall I not be confounded 19 My soule hath wrestled with her and I haue ben diligent to be occupied in her I lift vp myne handes on hye then was my soule lightened through wysdome that I knowledged my foolishnes 20 I ordered my soule after her she and I were one heart from the beginning and I found her in cleannesse and therfore shall I not be forsaken 21 My heart longed after her and I gat a good treasure 22 Through her the Lorde hath geuen me a new tongue wherewith I wyll prayse him 23 O come vnto me ye vnlearned and dwell in the house of wysdome 24 Withdrawe not your selues from her but talke commune of these thinges for your soules are very thirstie 25 I opened my mouth and spake O come and bye wysdome without money 26 Bowe downe your necke vnder her yoke and your soule shall receaue wysdome she is harde at hande and is content to be founde 27 Beholde with your eyes
turned againe in all the haste and the elders that is the principall heades saide vnto him Come sit downe here among vs and shewe vs this matter seeing God hath geuē thee as great honour as an elder 51 And Daniel saide vnto them put these two asyde one from an other and then shall I examine them 52 When they were put asunder one from an other he called one of them and saide vnto him O thou olde cankarde carle that hast vsed thy wickednes so long thyne vngratious deedes which thou hast done afore are now come to light 53 For thou hast geuen false iudgementes thou hast oppressed the innocent and letten the giltie go free where as yet the Lorde saith The innocent and righteous see thou slay not 54 Well then if thou hast seene her tel me vnder what tree sawest thou them companying together He aunswered vnder a Mulbery tree 55 And Daniel saide Very well nowe thou lyest euen vpon thyne head lo the messenger of the Lorde hath receaued the sentence of him to cut thee in two 56 Then put he him aside and called for the other and saide vnto him O thou seede of Chanaan but not of Iuda fairenes hath deceaued thee and lust hath subuerted thyne heart 57 Thus dealt ye afore with the daughters of Israel and they for feare consented vnto you but the daughter of Iuda would not abide your wickednes 58 Now tel me then vnder what tree diddest thou take them companying together He aunswered vnder a Pomegranate tree 59 Then saide Daniel vnto him Very well nowe thou lyest also euen vpon thyne head the messenger of the Lord standeth wayting with the sword to cut thee in two and slay you both 60 With that all the whole multitude gaue a great shoute and praysed God which alway deliuered them that put their trust in him 61 And they came vpon the two elders whom Daniel had conuict with their owne mouth that they had geuen false witnesse 62 And dealt with them euen lykewyse as they woulde haue done with their neighbours yea they did according to the law of Moyses and put them to death Thus the innocent blood was saued the same day 63 Then Helcias and his wyfe praysed God for their daughter Susanna with Ioacim her husband and al the kinred that there was no dishonestie founde in her 64 From that day foorth was Daniel had in great reputation in the sight of the people 65 And king Astyages was layde with his fathers and Cyrus of Persia raigned in his steede ¶ The ende of the story of Susanna ¶ The story of Bel and of the Dragon which is the fourteenth Chapter of Daniel after the Latine 1 DAniel did eate at the kinges table and was had in reuerence aboue all his friendes 2 There was at Babylō an image called Bel and there were spent vpon him euery day twelue cakes fourtie sheepe and sixe great pottes of wine 3 Him did the king worship him selfe and went dayly to honour him but Daniel worshipped his owne God And the king saide vnto him why doest not thou worship Bel 4 He aunswered and saide * Because I may not worship thinges that be made with handes but the liuing God which made heauen and earth and hath power vpon all fleshe 5 The king said vnto him Thinkest thou not that Bel is a lyuing God or seest thou not how much he eateth and drinketh euery day 6 Daniel smyled and saide O king deceaue not thy selfe for this is but made of clay within and of brasse without neither eateth he euer any thing 7 Then the king was wroth and called for his priestes and saide vnto them If ye tell me not who is this that eateth vp these expences ye shall dye 8 But if ye can certifie me that Bel eateth them then Daniel shall dye for he hath spoken blasphemie against Bel. And Daniel said vnto the king Let it so be according as thou hast saide 9 The priestes of Bel were threescore and ten besides their wyues and children And the king went with Daniel into the temple of Bel. 01 So Bels priestes saide Lo we wyl go out set thou the meate there O king and poure in the wine then shut the doore fast and seale it with thyne owne signet 11 And to morowe when thou commest in if thou findest not that Bel hath eaten vp all we wyll suffer death or els Daniel that hath lyed vpon vs. 12 The priestes thought them selues sure inough for vnder the aulter they had made a priuy entraunce and there went they in euer and did eate vp what there was 13 So when they were gone foorth the king set meates before Bel Now Daniel had commaunded his seruauntes to bring asshes these he sifted throughout all the temple that the king might see then went they out and sparred the doore scaling it with the kinges signet and so departed 14 In the night came the priestes with their wyues and children as they were wont to do and did eate and drinke vp all 15 In the morning betimes at the breake of the day the king arose and Daniel with him 16 And the king said Daniel are the scales whole yet He aunswered yea O king they be whole 17 Now assoone as he had opened the doore the king loked vnto the aulter cryed with a loude voyce Great art thou O Bel and with thee is no deceite 18 Then laughed Daniel and held the king that he should not go in and saide Beholde the pauement marke well whose footesteps are these 19 The king saide I see the footesteps of men women and children 20 Therefore the king was angry and toke the priestes with their wyues and children and they shewed him the priuie doores where they came in and dyd eate vp such thinges as were vpon the aulter 21 For the which cause the king slue thē and deliuered Bel into Daniels power which destroyed him and his temple 22 And in that same place there was a great Dragon which they of Babylon worshipped 23 And the king said vnto Daniel Sayest thou that this is but a god of brasse also Lo he lyueth he eateth drinketh so that thou canst not say that he is no lyuing God therfore worship him 24 Daniel saide vnto the king I wyll worship the Lorde my God * he is the true lyuing God as for this he is not the God of lyfe 25 But geue me leaue O king and I shal destroy this Dragon without sworde or staffe The king said I geue thee leaue 26 Then Daniel toke pitch fat and heary wooll and did seeth them together and made lumpes thereof this he put in the Dragons mouth and so the Dragon burst in sunder And Daniel saide Lo there is he whom ye worshipped 27 When they of Babylon heard that they toke great indignation and gathered them together against the king saying The king is become a Iewe and he hath
an hoast which gaue them battaile slue many of them led away their wynes and children captiue spoyled them toke possession of their lande and destroyed their strong holdes and subdued them to be their bondmen vnto this day 11 Moreouer how that as for other kingdomes and Iles which sometime with stoode them they destroyed them and brought them vnder their dominion 12 But kept amitie with their owne frendes and those that were confederate with them and conquered kingdomes both farre and nye that whosoeuer heard of their renowme was afrayde of thē 13 For whom they woulde helpe to their kingdomes those raigned and whom it lyked not them to raigne they put them downe And howe they were come to great preheminence 14 Hauing no king among them neither any man clothed in purple to be magnified therethrough 15 But had ordained them selues a parliament wherin there fat three hundred and twentie senatours dayly vpon the counsell to dispatch euer the busines of the people and to kepe good order 16 And howe that euery yere they chose a Maire to haue the gouernaunce of al their lande to whom euery man was obedient and there was neither euill wyll nor discention among them 17 Then Iudas chose Eupolemus the sonne of Iohn the sonne of Iacob and Iason the sonne of Eleazar and sent them to Rome for to make frendship and a bonde of loue with them 18 That they might take from them the bondage of the Grekes for the Iewes saw that the Grekes would subdue the kingdome of Israel 19 So they went vnto Rome a very great iourney came vnto the parliament and saide 20 Iudas Machabeus with his brethren and the people of the Iewes hath sent vs vnto you to make a bond of frendship and peace with you and ye to note vs as your louers and friendes 21 And that matter pleased the Romanes right well 22 Wherefore it was written vp of the which the Romanes made a writing in tables of brasse and sent it to Hierusalem that they might haue by them a memoriall of the same peace and bonde of frendship after this maner 23 God saue the Romanes and the people of the Iewes both by sea by lande and kepe the sworde and enemie from them for euermore 24 If there come first any warre vpon the Romanes or any of their friendes throughout all their dominion 25 The people of the Iewes shall helpe them as the time requireth and that with all their heartes 26 Also they shall neither geue nor send vnto their enemies vitailes weapons money nor shippes but fulfil their couenauntes at the Romanes pleasure taking nothing of them therefore 27 Againe if the people of the Iewes happen first to haue warre the Romanes shal stand by them with a good wyl according as the time wyll suffer 28 Neither shall they geue vnto the Iewes enemies vitailes weapons money or shippes Thus are the Romanes content to do and shall fulfill their charge without any disceite 29 According to these articles the Romanes made y e bond with the Iewes 30 Now after these articles saide they if any of the parties wyll put to them or take any thing from them they shall do it with the consent of both and whatsoeuer they adde vnto them or take from them it shall stande fast 31 And as touching the euill that Demetrius hath done vnto the Iewes we haue writtē vnto him saying Wherfore layest thou thy heauie yoke vpon the Iewes our friendes and louers 32 If they make any complaint of thee againe vnto vs we shall defende them and fight with thee by sea and by lande according to iustice The .ix. Chapter 1 After the death of Nicanor Demetrius sendeth his armie against Iudas 18 Iudas is slaine 34 Ionathas ▪ is put in the steade of his brother 47 The strife betweene Ionathas and Bacchides 55 Alcimus is taken with the paulsie and dyeth Bacchides returneth againe vnto the king 68 He commeth vpon Ionathas by the counsell of certaine wicked persons and is ouercome 70 The truice of Ionathas with Bacchides 1 IIn the meane season whē Demetrius heard that* Nicanor and his hoast was slaine in the fielde he proceeded further to send Bacchides and Alcimus againe into Iurie the chiefe strength of his hoast with them 2 So they went foorth by the way that leadeth vnto Galgala and pitched their tentes before Masalothw hich is in Arbellis and wan the citie and slue much people 3 In the first moneth of the hundred fiftie and two yere they brought their hoast and layde their siege against Hierusalem 4 But raysing their campe they came to Berea with twentie thousand footemen and two thousand horsemen 5 Nowe Iudas had pitched his tent at Laisa with three thousand chosen men 6 And when they sawe the multitude of the other armie that it was so great they were sore afrayde and many conueyed them selues out of the hoast insomuch that there abode no mo of them but eyght hundred men 7 When Iudas sawe that his hoast failed him and that he must needes fight it brake his heart that he had no time to gather them together wherefore the man was in extreme trouble 8 Neuerthelesse he saide vnto them that remayned with him Vp let vs go against our enemies peraduenture we shall be able to fight with them 9 But they woulde haue stopped him saying We shall not be able therefore now let vs saue our lyues and turne againe to our brethren for shoulde we fight against them being so fewe 10 And Iudas saide God forbyd that we should flee from them wherefore if our time be come let vs dye manfully for our brethren and let vs not stayne our honour 11 Then the hoast remoued out of the tentes and stoode against them and the horsemē were deuided in two partes the sling casters and archers went before the hoast and all the mightie men were formost in the fielde 12 Bacchides him selfe was in the right wing of the battaile and the hoast drew nye in two partes and blewe the trumpettes 13 They of Iudas side blewe the trumpettes also and the earth shooke at the noyse of the hoastes and they strake a fielde from the morowe till night 14 And when Iudas sawe that Bacchides hoast was strongest of the right side he toke with him all the hardie men 15 And brake the right wing of their order folowed vpon them vnto mount Azot 16 Now when they which were the left wing sawe that the right side was discomfited they persecuted Iudas and them that were with him hard at the heeles 17 Then was there a sore battaile for many were slaine wounded on both the partes 18 Iudas also him selfe was killed and the remnaunt fled 19 So Ionathas and Simon toke Iudas their brother and buried him in his fathers sepuchre in the citie of Modin 20 And al the people of Israel made great lamentatiō for him and mourned long saying 21
Ionathas sent hym three thousande strong men vnto Antioch they came vnto the king wherefore the king was very glad at their comming 45 But they that were of the citie euen an hundred and twentie thousand men gathered them together in the middest of the citie would haue slaine the king 46 Whiche fled into his court and the citezins kept the streetes of the citie and began to fight 47 Then the king called for the Iewes helpe which came vnto him altogether and went abrode thorowe the citie 48 And slue the same day an hundred thousand men set fire vpon the citie and gat many spoyles in that day and deliuered the king 49 So when the citezins sawe that the Iewes had gotten their will of the citie and they them selues disapointed of their purpose they made their supplication vnto the king saying 50 Graunt vs peace and let the Iewes ceasse from troubling vs and the citie 51 And vpon this they cast away their weapons Thus they made peace and the Iewes gat great worship in the sight of the king and in the sight of all that were in his realme and were spoken of throughout the kingdome and so they came againe to Hierusalem with great goodes 52 So the king Demetrius sate in the throne of his kingdome and had peace in his lande 53 Neuerthelesse he dissembled in all that euer he spake and withdrewe hym selfe from Ionathas neither rewarded him according to the benefites which he had done for hym but troubled hym very sore 54 After this came Tryphon againe with young Antiochus which raigned was crowned king 55 Then there gathered vnto him all the men of warre whom Demetrius had put away these fought against Demetrius whith fled and turned his backe 56 So Tryphon toke the Elephantes and wan Antioche 57 And young Antiochus wrote vnto Ionathas saying I confirme thee in thy pristhood and make thee ruler of foure countreys that thou mayst be a friende of the kinges 58 Vpon this he sent hym golden vessels to be serued in and gaue hym leaue to drinke in golde to be clothed in purple and to weare a coller of golde 59 He made his brother Simon also captayne from the coastes of Tyrus vnto the borders of Egypt 60 Then Ionathas toke his iourney and went thorowe the cities beyonde the water of Iordane and all the men of warre of Syria gathered them vnto hym for to helpe hym So he came vnto Ascalon they of the citie receaued hym honorably 61 And from thence went he to Gaza but they woulde not let hym in wherefore he layed siege vnto it burning vp and spoyling the places that were about the citie 62 And the citezins of Gaza submitted them selues vnto Ionathas whiche made peace with them but toke of their sonnes to pledge sent them to Hierusalem and went thorow the countrey vnto Damascus 63 Now when Ionathas heard that Demetrius princes were come into Cades which is in Galilee with a great hoast purposing to dryue him out of the countrey 64 He came against them and left Simon his brother in the lande 65 And Simon came to Bethsura and layed siege to it a long season and discomfited them 66 So they desired to haue peace with hym whiche he graunted them afterwarde put them out from thence toke the citie and set men to kepe it 67 And Ionathas with his hoast came to the water of Genesar and betimes in the morning gat them to the playne fielde of Azor 68 And behold the hoastes of the heathen mette them in the fielde layed watch for them in the mountaynes 69 So that when Ionathas came against them the other whiche were layed to watch rose out of their places and fought 70 And they that were of Ionathas side fled euery man there was not one of them left except Mathathias the sonne of Absalomus and Iudas the sonne of Calphi the captayne of the hoast 71 Then Ionathas rent his clothes layde earth vpon his head made his prayer 72 And turned againe to them in the fielde where they fought together and he put them to flight 73 Now when his owne men that were fled sawe this they turned againe vnto him and helped him to folowe vpon all their enemies vnto their tentes at Cades and there they camped 74 So there were slaine of the heathen the same day three thousand men and Ionathas turned againe to Hierusalem The .xij. Chapter 1 Ionathas sendeth Ambassadours to Rome 2 and to the people of Sparta to renue their couenaunt of frendship 20 Ionathas putteth to flight the princes of Demetrius 40 Tryphon taketh Ionathas by deceite 1 IOnathas seeing that the time was meete for him chose certaine men and sent them vnto Rome for to stablish and to renue the frendship with them 2 He sent letters also vnto Sparta and to other places in lyke maner 3 So they went vnto Rome and entred into the counsel and saide Ionathas the hie priest the people of the Iewes sent vs vnto you for to renue the olde frendship and bonde of loue 4 Vpon this the Romanes gaue them free pasportes that men shoulde leade them home into the land of Iuda peaceably 5 And this is the copie of the letters that Ionathas wrote vnto the Spartians 6 Ionathas the hie priest with the elders priestes and the other people of the Iewes sende greeting vnto the Spartians their brethren 7 There were letters sent long ago vnto Onias the hie priesâ— from Arius which then raigned among you that ye are our brethren as the copie here vnder written doth specifie 8 And Onias entreated the Ambassadour that was sent honorably and receaued the letters wherein there was mention made of the bonde of loue and frendship 9 But as for vs we neede no such wrytinges for why we haue y e holy bookes of scripture in our handes to our comfort 10 Neuerthelesse we had rather sende vnto you for the renuing of the brotherhood and frendship lest we shoulde be straunge vnto you for it is long since the time that ye sent worde vnto vs. 11 Wherfore in the sacrifices that we offer and other ceremonies vpon the hie solempe dayes and other we alway remember you without ceassing lyke as reason is and as it becommeth vs to thinke vpon our brethren 12 Yea and are right glad of your prosperous honour 13 And though we haue had great troubles and warres so that the kinges about vs haue fought against vs 14 Yet woulde we not be greeuous vnto you nor to other of our louers frendes in these warres 15 For we haue had helpe from heauen that hath succoured vs so that we are deliuered and our enemies subdued 16 Wherefore we chose Numenius the sonne of Antiochus and Antipater the sonne of Iason and sent them vnto the Romanes for to renue the olde bonde of frendship and loue with them 17 We commaunded them also to come vnto you to salute you and to
only shalt thou serue 11 Then the deuyll leaueth him and beholde the Angels came and ministred vnto hym ☜ 12 When Iesus had hearde that Iohn was delyuered vp he departed into Galilee 13 And left Nazareth and went dwelt in Capernaum whiche is a citie vpon the sea coast in the borders of Zabulon and Nephthalim 14 That it myght be fulfylled whiche was spoken by Esayas the prophete saying 15 The lande of Zabulon Nephthalim by the way of the sea beyonde Iordane Galilee of the Gentiles 16 The people which sate in darknesse sawe great lyght And to them whiche sate in the region and shadowe of death lyght is sprong vp 17 From that tyme Iesus began to preache and to saye Repent for the kyngdome of heauen is at hande ☜ 18 ☞ And Iesus walkyng by the sea of Galilee sawe two brethren Simon which was called Peter and Andrewe his brother castyng a nette into the sea for they were fysshers 19 And he saith vnto them Folowe me and I wyl make you fysshers of men 20 And they strayghtwaye lefte their nettes and folowed hym 21 And when he was gone foorth from thence he sawe other two brethren Iames the sonne of Zebedee Iohn his brother in the shippe with Zebedee their father mendyng their nettes and he called them 22 And they immediatly left the shippe and their father and folowed hym ☜ 23 ☞ And Iesus went about all Galilee teaching in their synagogues and preachyng the Gospell of the kingdome and healyng all maner of sicknesse and all maner of disease among the people 24 And his fame spread abrode throughout all Syria and they brought vnto hym all sicke people that were taken with diuers diseases and grypynges and them that were possessed with deuyls and those which were lunaticke and those that had the paulsie and he healed them 25 And there folowed him great multitudes of people from Galilee and from the ten cities and from Hierusalem and from Iurie and from the regions that lye beyonde Iordane ⧠The .v. Chapter ¶ In this Chapter and in the two next folowyng is conteyned the most excellent and louyng Sermon of Christe in the mount Which Sermon is the very key that openeth the vnderstandyng into the lawe In this fifth Chapter specially 3 he preacheth of the eyght beatitudes or blessynges 21 of manslaughter 22 wrath and anger 27 of adultrie 33 of swearyng 39 of sufferyng wrong 44 and of loue euen towarde a mans enemies 1 WHen he saw the multitude he went vp into a mountayne when he was set his disciples came to hym 2 And he opened his mouth taught them saying 3 Blessed are the poore in spirite for theirs is the kyngdome of heauen 4 Blessed are they that mourne for they shal be comforted 5 Blessed are the meke for they shall inherite the earth 6 Blessed are they which do hunger and thirste after righteousnes for they shal be satisfied 7 Blessed are the mercyfull for they shall obteyne mercy 8 Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God 9 Blessed are the peace makers for they shal be called the chyldren of God 10 Blessed are they which suffer persecution for righteousnes sake for theirs is the kyngdome of heauen 11 Blessed are ye wheÌ„ men reuyâ—e you and persecute you and lying shall say all maner of euyll saying agaynst you for my sake 12 Reioyce and be glad for great is your rewarde in heauen ☜ For so persecuted they the prophetes whiche were before you 13 ☞ Ye are the salt of the earth But yf the salt become vnsauery where in shall it be salted It is thencefoorth good for nothing but to be caste out and to be troden vnder foote of men 14 Ye are the lyght of the worlde A citie that is set on an hyll can not be hyd 15 Neyther do men lyght a candell and put it vnder a busshell but on a candelsticke and it geueth lyght vnto all that are in the house 16 Let your lyght so shyne before men that they may see your good workes and glorifie your father whiche is in heauen 17 Thynke not that I am come to destroy the lawe or the prophetes I am not come to destroy but to fulfyll 18 For truely I say vnto you tyll heauen and earth passe one iotte or one title of the lawe shall not scape tyll all be fulfylled 19 Whosoeuer therfore breaketh one of these least commaundementes and teacheth men so he shal be called the leaste in the kyngdome of heauen But who so euer doeth and teacheth so the same shal be called great in the kyngdome of heauen 20 For I say vnto you except your righteousnes excede the righteousnes of the Scribes and Pharisees ye shall not enter into the kyngdome of heauen 21 Ye haue hearde that it was sayde to them of the olde tyme thou shalt not kyll who so euer kylleth shal be in daunger of iudgement 22 But I say vnto you that who so euer is angry with his brother vnaduisedly shal be in daunger of iudgement And who so euer shall say vnto his brother racha shal be in daunger of a councell But whosoeuer shall saye thou foole shal be in daunger of hell fire 23 Therfore if thou bring thy gyft to the aulter and there remembrest that thy brother hath ought agaynst thee 24 Leaue there thy gyft before the aulter and go thy way first and be reconciled to thy brother and then come and offer thy gyft ☜ 25 ☞ Agree with thyne aduersarie quicklye whyles thou art in the waye with him lest at any tyme the aduersarie deliuer thee to the iudge and the iudge deliuer thee to the minister and then thou be cast into pryson 26 Veryly I say vnto thee thou shalt not come out thence tyll thou hast payde the vtmost farthyng 27 Ye haue hearde that it was sayde vnto them of olde tyme Thou shalt not commit adultry 28 But I say vnto you that whosoeuer loketh on a woman to luste after her hath committed adultry with her alredy in his heart 29 If thy ryght eye offende thee plucke it out and cast it from thee For better it is vnto thee that one of thy members perishe theÌ„ that thy whole body should be cast into hell 30 And yf thy ryght hande offende thee cut it of and cast it from thee For better it is vnto thee that one of thy members perishe then that all thy body shoulde be cast into hell ☜ 31 It is saide whosoeuer putteth away his wyfe let hym geue her a wrytyng of diuorcement 32 But I say vnto you that whosoeuer doeth put awaye his wyfe except it be for fornication causeth her to commit adultry And whosoeuer maryeth her that is diuorced committeth adultry 33 Agayne ye haue hearde that it was sayde vnto them of olde tyme Thou shalt not forsweare thy selfe
And his disciples came to hym and awoke hym saying Lorde saue vs we peryshe 26 And he sayth vnto them Why are yet fearefull O ye of litle fayth Then he arose and rebuked the windes and the sea and there folowed a great calme 27 But the men marueyled saying What maner of man is this that both wyndes and sea obey hym ☜ 28 And when he was come to the other syde into the countrey of the Gergesenes there met hym two possessed with deuyls which came out of the graues and were very fierce so that no man myght go by that way 29 And beholde they cryed out saying O Iesu thou sonne of God what haue we to do with thee Art thou come hyther to torment vs before the tyme 30 And there was a good way of from them a hearde of many swyne feedyng 31 So the deuyls besought hym saying Yf thou cast vs out suffer vs to go away into the hearde of swyne 32 And he sayde vnto them go Then went they out and departed into the hearde of swyne And beholde y e whole hearde of swyne russhed headlong into the sea and peryshed in the waters 33 Then they that kept them fledde and went theyr wayes into the citie and tolde euery thyng and what was done of the possessed with the deuyls 34 And beholde the whole citie came out to meete Iesus and when they sawe hym they besought hym that he woulde depart out of theyr coastes ¶ The .ix. Chapter ¶ 2 He healeth the paulsie 9 Calleth Matthewe from the custome 11 Aunswereth for his disciples 22 Healeth the woman of the blooddy issue 25 Helpeth Iairus daughter 29 Geueth two blynde men theyr syght 33 Maketh a dumbe man to speake and dryueth out a deuyll 1 AND he entred into a shippe passed ouer came into his owne citie 2 And beholde they brought to him a man sicke of the paulsie lying in a bedde And when Iesus sawe the fayth of them he sayde vnto the sicke of the paulsie Sonne be of good cheare thy sinnes be forgeuen thee 3 And beholde certayne of the Scribes sayde within them selues This man blasphemeth 4 And whē Iesus saw their thoughtes he sayde Wherefore thynke ye euyll in your heartes 5 Whether is easyer to say thy sinnes be forgeuen thee Or to say aryse and walke 6 But that ye may knowe that the sonne of man hath power to forgeue sinnes in earth then sayde he to the sicke of the paulsie Aryse take vp thy bedde and go vnto thyne house 7 And he arose and departed to his house 8 But when the multitudes sawe it they marueyled glorified God which had geuen such power vnto men ☜ 9 ☞ And as Iesus passed foorth from thence he sawe a man named Matthewe syttyng at the receipte of custome he sayth vnto hym folowe me And he arose and folowed hym 10 And it came to passe as Iesus sate at meate in his house beholde many publicans also and sinners came and sate downe with Iesus and his disciples 11 And when the Pharisees sawe it they sayde vnto his disciples Why eateth your maister with publicans and sinners 12 But when Iesus hearde that he sayde vnto them They that be whole nede not the phisition but they that are sicke 13 Go ye and learne what that meaneth I wyll haue mercie and not sacrifice for I am not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentaunce ☜ 14 ☞ Then came the disciples of Iohn vnto hym saying Why do we and the Pharisees fast oft but thy disciples fast not 15 And Iesus sayde vnto them Can the chyldren of the bryde chaumber mourne as long as the brydegrome is with them But the dayes wyll come when the brydegrome shall be taken from them and then shall they fast 16 No man putteth a peece of newe cloth in an olde garment for then the peece taketh away somethyng from the garment and the rent is made worse 17 Neither do men put newe wine into olde vessels els the vessels breake and the wyne runneth out and the vessels peryshe But they put newe wyne into newe vessels and both are preserued together ☜ 18 ☞ Whyle he spake these thynges vnto them beholde there came a certayne ruler and worshypped hym saying My daughter is euen nowe dead but come and lay thy hande vpon her and she shall lyue 19 And Iesus arose and folowed hym and so dyd his disciples 20 And beholde a woman which was diseased with an issue of blood twelue yeres came behynde hym and touched the hemme of his vesture 21 For she sayde within her selfe If I may touche but euen his vesture only I shal be safe 22 But Iesus turned hym about and when he sawe her he saide Daughter be of good comfort thy faith hath made thee safe And the woman was made whole from that same houre ☜ 23 And when Iesus came into the rulers house and sawe the minstrels and the people makyng a noyse 24 He sayde vnto them Geue place for the maide is not dead but slepeth And they laughed hym to scorne 25 But when the people were put foorth he went in and toke her by the hande and the mayde arose 26 And the fame of this went abrode into all that lande 27 And when Iesus departed thence two blynde men folowed hym crying and saying O thou sonne of Dauid haue mercy on vs. 28 And whē he was come into the house the blynde came to hym And Iesus sayth vnto them Beleue ye that I am able to do this They sayde vnto hym yea Lorde 29 Then touched he their eyes saying Accordyng to your fayth be it vnto you 30 And their eyes were opened And Iesus straytly charged them saying see that no man knowe of it 31 But they when they were departed spread abrode his name in all that lande 32 As they went out beholde they brought to him a dumbe man possessed with a deuyll 33 And when the deuyll was cast out the dumbe spake and the multitudes marueyled saying that it was neuer so seene in Israel 34 But the Pharisees sayde He casteth out deuils through the prince of deuils 35 And Iesus went about all cities and townes teachyng in their synagogues and preachyng the Gospell of the kyngdome and healyng euery sicknesse and euery disease among the people 36 But when he sawe the multitudes he was moued with compassion on them because they were destitute and scattered abrode euen as sheepe hauing no shephearde 37 Then sayth he vnto his disciples the haruest truely is plenteous but the labourers are fewe 38 Pray ye therfore the lorde of the haruest that he wyl thrust foorth labourers into the haruest ⧠The .x. Chapter ¶ 5 Christe sendeth out his twelue Apostles to preache in Iurie 7 He geueth them charge teacheth them and comforteth them agaynst persecution and trouble 1 ANd when he had called his twelue
begynnyng of the worlde to this tyme nor shal be 22 Yea and except those dayes shoulde be shortened there shoulde no fleshe be saued but for the chosens sake those dayes shal be shortened 23 Then yf any man saye vnto you lo here is Christe or there beleue it not 24 For there shall aryse false Christes and false prophetes and shall shewe great signes and wonders In so much that yf it were possible the very elect shoulde be deceaued 25 Beholde I haue tolde you before 26 Wherfore yf they say vnto you beholde he is in the desert go not foorth Beholde he is in the secrete places beleue it not 27 For as the lyghtnyng commeth out of the east and shineth into the west so shall the commyng of the sonne of man be 28 For whersoeuer a dead carkas is euen there wyll the Egles also be gathered together 29 Immediatly after the tribulation of those dayes shal the sunne be darkened and the moone shall not geue her lyght and the starres shall fall from heauen and the powers of heauen shal be shaken 30 And then shall appeare the signe of the sonne of man in heauen And then shall all the kynredes of the earth mourne and they shall see the sonne of man comming in the cloudes of heauen with power and great glory 31 And he shall sende his Angels with the great sounde of a trumpet and they shall gather together his chosen from the foure wyndes euen from one ende of heauen to the other 32 Learne a parable of the fygge tree when his braunche is yet tender and the leaues sprong ye knowe that sōmer is nye 33 So lykewyse ye when ye see all these thynges be ye sure that it is neare euen at the doores 34 Veryly I say vnto you this generation shall not passe tyll all these thynges be fulfylled 35 Heauen and earth shall passe away but my wordes shall not passe away 36 But of that day and houre * knoweth no man no not the Angels of heauen but my father only 37 But as the dayes of Not were so shall also the commyng of the sonne of man be 38 For as in the dayes that went before the fludde they dyd eate and drynke marry and geue in maryage euen vntyll the day that Noe entred into the Arke 39 And knewe not tyll the fludde came and toke them all away So shall also the commyng of the sonne of man be 40 Then shall two be in the fielde the one receaued and the other refused 41 Two women shal be gryndyng at the myll the one receaued and the other refused 42 Watch therfore for ye knowe not what houre your Lorde doth come 43 Of this yet be sure that yf the good man of the house knewe what watche the thiefe woulde come he woulde surely watche and not suffer his house to be broken vp 44 Therfore be ye also redy for in such an houre as ye thynke not the sonne of man commeth 45 Who is a faythfull and wise seruaunt whom his Lorde hath made ruler ouer his householde to geue them meate in season 46 Blessed is that seruaunt whom his Lorde when he commeth shall fynde so doyng 47 Veryly I say vnto you that he shall make hym ruler ouer all his goodes 48 But and yf that euyll seruaunt say in his heart my Lorde wyll be long a commyng 49 And so begyn to smyte his felowes yea and to eate and drynke with the dronken 50 The same seruauntes Lorde shall come in a day when he loketh not for hym and in an houre that he is not ware of 51 And shall hewe hym in peeces geue hym his portion with hypocrites there shal be wepyng and gnasshyng of teeth ¶ The .xxv. Chapter ¶ 1 The ten virgins 14 the talentes delyuered to the seruauntes 32 and of the generall iudgement 1 THen shall the kyngdome of heauen be lykened vnto ten virgins which toke their lampes and went to meete the brydegrome 2 But fyue of them were foolyshe and fyue were wyse 3 They that were foolyshe toke their lampes but toke none oyle with them 4 But the wise toke oyle in their vessels with their lampes also 5 Whyle the brydegrome taryed they all slumbred and slept 6 And euen at mydnyght there was a crye made beholde the brydegrome commeth go out to meete hym 7 Then all those virgins arose and prepared their lampes 8 So the foolyshe sayde vnto the wyse geue vs of your oyle for our lampes are gone out 9 But the wyse aunswered saying not so lest there be not mough for vs you but go ye rather to them that sell and bye for your selues 10 And whyle they went to bye the brydegome came and they that were redy went in with hym to y e maryage and the gate was shut vp 11 Afterwarde came also the other virgins saying Lorde Lorde open to vs. 12 But he aunswered and sayde veryly I say vnto you I knowe you not 13 Watch therfore for ye knowe neither the day nor yet the houre wherin the sonne of man shall come ☜ 14 ☞ Lykewyse as a certayne man redy to take his iourney into a straunge countrey called his owne seruauntes and delyuered vnto them his goodes 15 And vnto one he gaue fyue talentes to another two and to another one to euery man after his habilitie strayght way departed 16 Then he that had receaued the fyue talentes went and occupyed with the same made them other fyue talentes 17 And lykewyse he that receaued two he also gayned other two 18 But he that receaued that one went and digged in the earth and hyd his Lordes money 19 After a long season the Lorde of those seruauntes commeth and reckeneth with them 20 And so he that had receaued fyue talentes came and brought other fyue talentes saying Lorde thou delyueredst vnto me fyue talentes beholde I haue gayned with them fyue talentes mo 21 His Lorde saide vnto him Well done thou good and faythfull seruaūt Thou hast ben faythfull ouer fewe thynges I wyll make thee ruler ouer manye thynges enter thou into the ioy of thy Lorde 22 He also that had receaued two talentes came and sayde Lorde thou delyueredst vnto me two talentes beholde I haue wonne two other talētes with them 23 His Lorde saide vnto him Well done good and faithfull seruaunt Thou hast ben faythfull ouer fewe thinges I wyl make thee ruler ouer many thynges enter thou into the ioy of thy Lorde ☜ 24 Then he which had receaued the one talent came and saide Lorde I knew thee that thou art an harde man reapyng where thou hast not sowen gatheryng where thou hast not strowed 25 And therfore was I afrayde went and hid thy talent in the earth loe there thou hast that thyne is 26 His Lorde aunswered and sayde vnto hym Thou euyll and slouthfull seruaūt thou knewest that I reape where I sowed not and
abrode throughout all the hyll countrey of Iurie 66 And all they that hearde them layde them vp in their heartes saying What maner of chylde shall this be And the hande of the Lorde was with hym 67 And his father Zacharias was filled with y e holy ghost prophesied saying 68 Praysed be y e Lord God of Israel for he hath visited redeemed his people 69 And hath raysed vp an horne of saluation vnto vs in the house of his seruaunt Dauid 70 Euen as he promised by the mouth of his holy prophetes whiche were sence the worlde began 71 That he would saue vs from our enemies and from the hande of all that hate vs. 72 That he would deale mercyfully with our fathers and remember his holy couenaunt 73 And that he woulde perfourme the oth which he sware to our father Abraham for to geue vs. 74 That we beyng deliuered out of the handes of our enemies might serue him without feare 75 All the dayes of our life in such holynesse and righteousnes as are accepted before hym 76 And thou childe shalt be called the prophete of the hyghest for thou shalt go before the face of the Lorde to prepare his wayes 77 To geue knowledge of saluation vnto his people by the remission of their sinnes 78 Through y e tender mercy of our God wherby the day spryng from an hygh hath visited vs. 79 To geue lyght to them that sitte in darknesse and in the shadowe of death to guide our feete into the way of peace 80 And the chylde grewe and waxed strong in spirite and was in wildernesse till the day came when he should shewe hym selfe vnto the Israelites ¶ The seconde Chapter ¶ 1 The taskyng of the worlde by Augustus Cesar 7 Christe is borne 10 he is shewed vnto the sheepheardes 14 The songue of the Angels 21 The circumcision of Christ 28 Simeon and Anna prophesie of hym 40 Christe increaseth in wysdome 46 disputeth with the doctours 51 and was obedient to his parentes 1 AND it came to passe in those dayes y t there went out a commaundement froÌ„ Augustus Cesar â–ª that all the world should be taxed 2 And this first taxing was made when Syrenius was liefetenaunt in Syria 3 And euery man went vnto his owne citie to be taxed 4 And Ioseph also went vp from Galilee out of the citie Nazareth into Iurie vnto the citie of Dauid whiche is called Bethlehem because he was of the house and â—mage of Dauid 5 To be tared with Marie his spoused wyfe which was with chylde 6 And so it was that whyle they were there the dayes were accomplysshed that she shoulde be deliuered 7 And she brought foorth her first begotten sonne and wrapped him in swadlyng clothes layde hym in a manger because there was no rowme for them in the Inne 8 There were in y e same countrey sheepheardes abydyng in the fielde watchyng their flocke by nyght 9 And loe the Angel of the Lorde stoode harde by them and the glorie of the Lorde shoue rounde about them they were sore afrayde 10 And the Angel sayde vnto them be not afrayde For beholde I bryng you tydynges of great ioy that shall come to all people 11 For vnto you is borne this daye in the citie of Dauid a sauiour which is Christ the Lorde 12 And take this for a signe Ye shal finde the childe wrapped in swadling clothes and layde in a manger 13 And straightway there was with the Angel a multitude of heauenly souldiers praysyng God and saying 14 Glorie to God on hye and peace on the earth and vnto men a good wyll ☜ 15 Audit came to passe assoone as the Angels were gone away from them into heauen ☞ the sheepheardes said one to another Let vs go nowe euen vnto Bethlehem and see this thyng that is come to passe whiche the Lorde hath shewed vnto vs. 16 And they came with haste and founde Marie and Ioseph and the babe layde in a manger 17 And when they had seene it they publisshed abrode the saying whiche was tolde them of that childe 18 And all they that hearde it wondred at those thinges which were tolde them of the sheepheardes 19 But Marie kept al those sayinges and pondered them in her heart 20 And the sheepheardes returned praysyng laudyng God for all the thinges that they had hearde and seene euen as it was tolde vnto them ☜ 21 ☞ And when the eygth day was come that the chylde shoulde be circumcised his name was called Iesus whiche was so named of the Angel before he was conceaued in the wombe ☜ 22 ☞ And when the dayes of her purification after the lawe of Moyses were accomplished they brought hym to Hierusalem to present him to the Lord. 23 As it is written in the lawe of y e Lord Euery man chylde that firste openeth the wombe shal be called holy to y e lord 24 And to offer as it is sayde in the lawe of the Lorde a payre of turtle doues or two young pigions 25 And beholde there was a man in Hierusalem whose name was Simeon and the same man was iust and godlye and loked for the consolation of Israel and the holy ghost was vpon hym 26 And a reuelation was geuen hym of the holy ghost not to see death before he had seene the Lordes Christe 27 And he came by inspiration into the temple And when the father mother brought in the chylde Iesus to do for hym after the custome of the lawe 28 Then toke he hym vp in his armes praysed God and sayde 29 Lord nowe lettest thou thy seruauÌ„t depart in peace accordyng to thy promise 30 For mine eyes haue seene thy saluatioÌ„ 31 Whiche thou hast prepared before the face of all people 32 A light to be reuealed to the gentiles and the glory of thy people Israel ☜ 33 ☞ And Ioseph and his mother marueyled at those thinges which were spoken of hym 34 And Simeon blessed them saide vnto Marie his mother beholde this chylde is set to be the fall vprysyng agayne of many in Israel for a signe which is spoken agaynst 35 And moreouer the sworde shall pearce thy soule that the thoughtes of many heartes may be opened 36 And ther was a prophetisse one Anna the daughter of Phanuel of the tribe of Aser which was of a great age and had lyued with an husbande seuen yeres from her virginitie 37 And she had ben a wydowe about fourescore and foure yeres whiche departed not from the temple but serued God with fastynges and prayers nyght and day 38 And she commyng at the same instant vpon them confessed lykewise the Lorde and spake of hym to all them that loked for redemptioÌ„ in Hierusalem 39 And when they had perfourmed all thynges accordyng to the lawe of the Lorde they returned into Galilee to their owne citie Nazareth 40 And
howe is he then his sonne 45 Then in the audience of all the people he saide vnto his disciples 46 Beware of the scribes whiche wyll go in long robes and loue greetinges in the markets and the hyest seates in the synagogues and the chiefe rowmes at feastes 47 Which deuour widowes howses vnder colour of longe prayers The same shall receaue greater dampnation ¶ The .xxj. Chapter 2 The liberalitie of the poore wydowe 6 He forewarneth of the destruction of Hierusalem 8 of false teachers 9 of tokens troubles to come 27 of the ende of the worlde 34 of ryot and dronkennesse 36 he taught in the temple 1 AS he beheld he sawe the ryche men whiche caste their gyftes into the treasurie 2 He saw also a certaine poore wydowe which caste in thyther two mites 3 And he sayde Of a trueth I say vnto you that this poore wydowe hath put in more then they all 4 For they all haue of their superfluitie added vnto the offerynges of God but she of her penurie hath cast in al the substaunce that she had 5 And vnto some that spake of the temple howe it was garnisshed with goodlie stones and gyftes he sayde 6 Are these the thynges whiche ye loke vpoÌ„ The dayes wyll come in y e which there shall not be left one stone vpoÌ„ another that shall not be throwen downe 7 And they asked him saying Maister when shall these thynges be and what signe wyll there be when these thynges shall come to passe 8 And he sayde Take heede that ye be not deceaued For many shall come in my name saying I am Christe and the tyme draweth neare Folowe ye them not therfore 9 But when ye heare of warres and seditioÌ„s be not afraide For these thinges must first come to passe but the ende foloweth not by and by 10 Then sayde he vnto them Nation shall ryse agaynst nation kyngdome agaynst kyngdome 11 And great earthquakes shal be in diuers places and hunger and pestilence and fearefull thynges and great signes shall there be from heauen 12 But before all these they shall laye their handes on you and persecute you deliueryng you vp to the synagogues into prisons and shall bryng you vnto kynges and rulers for my names sake 13 And it shall turne to you for a testimoniall 14 Be at a sure poynt therefore in your heartes not to studie before what ye shall aunswere 15 For I wyll geue you a mouth and wysedome where agaynst all your aduersaries shall not be able to speake nor resist 16 Yea ye shal be betrayed also of your parentes and brethren and kynsfolke and friendes and some of you shal they put to death 17 And hated shal ye be of all men for my names sake 18 And there shall not one heere of your head peryshe 19 Possesse ye your soule by patience 20 * And wheÌ„ ye see Hierusalem besieged with an hoast then be sure that the desolation of the same is nye 21 Then let them which are in Iurie flee to the mountaynes and let them which are in the myddes of it depart out and let not them that are in other countreys enter therm 22 For these be the dayes of vengeaunce that all thinges which are written may be fulfylled 23 But wo vnto theÌ„ that are with childe to them that geue sucke in those days For there shal be great distresse in the lande and wrath ouer this people 24 And they shall fall through the edge of the sworde and shal be led away captiue into all nations And Hierusalem shal be troden downe of the gentiles vntyll the tyme of the gentiles be fulfylled 25 ☞ And there shal be signes in the sunne and in the moone in the starres and vpon the earth trouble among the nations with perplexitie The sea and the water shall rore 26 And mens heartes shal fayle them for feare and for loking after those thinges which shall come on the world For the powers of heauen shal be shaken 27 And then shall they see the sonne of man come in a cloude with power and great glorie 28 And when these thynges begyn to come to passe then loke vp and lyft vp your heades for your redemptioÌ„ draweth nye 29 And he shewed them a similitude Behold the figge tree all the trees 30 When they shoote foorth their buddes ye see and knowe of your owne selues that summer is then nye at hande 31 So likewise ye when ye see these thinges come to passe be ye sure that the kyngdome of God is nye 32 Veryly I say vnto you this generation shall not passe tyll all be fulfylled 33 Heauen and earth shall passe but my wordes shall not passe ☜ 34 ☞ Take heede to your selues lest at any tyme your heartes be ouercome with surfettyng and dronkennesse and cares of this lyfe and so the daye come vpon you vnwares 35 For as a snare shall it come on al them that dwell on the face of y e whole earth 36 Watche ye therfore and pray continually that ye may be accompted worthy to escape all these thinges y t shall come that ye may stand before y e sonne of man 37 In the day time he taught in the temple and at nyght he went out abode in the mount that is called Oliuete 38 And all the people came in y e mornyng to hym in the temple for to heare hym ¶ The .xxij. Chapter â— Iudas selleth Christe â— They eate the Passouer 1â— The institution of the Lordes supper 24 They stryue who shoulde be greatest â—1 Satan tempteth them 42 Christe prayeth in the mount and sweateth blood 4â— Iudas betrayeth him with a kisse â—â— Christe setteth on Malchus eare â—â— Peter denieth Christe thrise and repenteth hym â—â— Christe is mocked and confesseth hym selfe to be the sonne of God â—_THe * feast of sweete breade drewe nye which is called the Passouer 2 And y e hie priestes and scribes sought howe they myght kyll hym for they feared the people 3 Then entred Satan into Iudas whose sirname was Iscariot whiche was of the number of the twelue 4 And he went his waye and communed with the hye priestes and officers howe he myght betray him vnto them 5 And they were glad and promised to geue him money 6 And he consented and sought oportunitie to betray him vnto them when the people were away 7 Then came the day of sweete breade when of necessitie the Passouer must be offered 8 And he sent Peter and Iohn saying Go and prepare vs the Passouer that we may eate 9 They sayde vnto hym Where wytt thou that we prepare 10 And he sayde vnto them Beholde when ye enter into the citie there shall a man meete you bearyng a pitcher of water hym folowe into the same house that he entreth in 11 And ye shall say vnto the good man of the house the maister saith vnto
When the ruler of the feast had tasted the water that was made wyne and knewe not whence it was but the ministers which drewe the water knewe the gouernour of the feast calleth the brydegrome 10 And sayth vnto hym Euery man at the begynnyng doth set foorth good wine and when men haue well dronke then that which is worse But thou hast kept the good wyne vntyll nowe 11 This begynnyng of miracles dyd Iesus in Cana of Galilee and shewed his glory his disciples beleued on hym ☜ 12 After this he went downe to Capernaum he and his mother and his brethren and his disciples and there continued not many dayes 13 ☞ And the Iewes Passouer was at hande Iesus went vp to Hierusalem 14 And founde sittyng in the temple those that solde oxen and sheepe and doues and chaungers of money 15 And when he had made as it were a scourge of small cordes he droue them all out of the temple with the sheepe oxen and powred out the chaungers money and ouerthrewe the tables 16 And saide vnto them that solde doues Haue these thinges hence and make not my fathers house an house of marchaundize 17 And his disciples remembred that it was written The zeale of thine house hath euen eaten me 18 Then aunswered the Iewes sayde vnto hym What token shewest thou vnto vs seeyng that thou doest these thynges 19 Iesus aunswered sayde vnto them Destroy this temple in three dayes I wyll reare it vp 20 Then sayde the Iewes fourtie and sixe yeres was this temple a buildyng and wilt thou reare it vp in three dayes 21 But he spake of the temple of his body 22 Assoone therfore as he was rysen from death agayne his disciples remembred that he thus had sayde And they beleued the scripture the wordes which Iesus had sayde 23 When he was in Hierusalem at the Passouer in the feast day many beleued on his name when they sawe his miracles which he dyd 24 But Iesus dyd not commit hym selfe vnto them because he knewe all men 25 And neded not that any shoulde testifie of man For he knewe what was in man ☜ ¶ The .iij. Chapter ¶ Christe teacheth Nicodemus 15 Of fayth 16 The loue of God towarde the worlde â—â— Condemnation 25 Iohn baptizeth 27 Iohn teacheth his disciples 1 THere was a man of the pharisees named Nicodemus a ruler of the Iewes 2 The same came to Iesus by night said vnto him Rabbi we knowe that thou art a teacher come from God for no man coulde do these miracles that thou doest except God were with him 3 Iesus aunswered sayde vnto hym Veryly veryly I say vnto thee except a man be borne agayne he can not see the kyngdome of God 4 Nicodemus sayth vnto hym Howe can a man be borne when he is olde can he enter into his mothers wombe and be borne agayne 5 Iesus aunswered Veryly veryly I say vnto thee except a man be borne of water and of the spirite he can not enter into the kyngdome of God 6 That which is borne of the fleshe is fleshe and that which is borne of the spirite is spirite 7 Maruayle not thou that I sayde to thee ye must be borne agayne 8 The wynde bloweth where it listeth and thou hearest the sounde therof but canst not tell whence it commeth and whither it goeth So is euery one that is borne of the spirite 9 Nicodemus aunswered and sayde vnto hym howe can these thynges be 10 Iesus aunswered sayde vnto hym Art thou a maister in Israel and knowest not these thynges 11 Veryly veryly I say vnto thee we speake that we do knowe testifie that we haue seene and ye receaue not our witnesse 12 If I haue tolde you earthly thynges and ye beleue not howe shall ye beleue yf I tell you of heauenly thynges 13 * And no man ascendeth vp to heauen but he that came downe from heauen euen the sonne of man which is in heauen 14 * And as Moyses lyft vp the serpent in the wyldernesse euen so must the sonne of man be lyft vp 15 That whosoeuer beleueth in hym perishe not but haue eternall lyfe ☜ 16 ☞ * For God so loued the worlde that he gaue his only begotten sonne that whosoeuer beleueth in hym shoulde not perishe but haue euerlastyng lyfe 17 For God sent not his sonne into the worlde to condempne the worlde but that the worlde through hym myght be saued He that beleueth on hym is not condempned 18 But he that beleueth not is condempned alredy because he hath not beleued in the name of the only begotteÌ„ sonne of God 19 And this is the condempnation that lyght is come into the worlde and men loued darknesse rather then lyght because their deedes were euyll 20 For euery one that euyll doeth hateth the lyght neither commeth to the light lest his deedes shoulde be reproued 21 But he that doeth trueth coÌ„meth to the lyght y t his deedes may be knowen howe that they are wrought in God ☜ 22 After these thynges came Iesus and his disciples into the lande of Iurie and there he taryed with theÌ„ * baptized 23 And Iohn also baptized in Enon besides Salim because there was much water there and they came and were baptized 24 For Iohn was not yet cast into prison 25 ☞ And there arose a question betwene Iohns disciples and the Iewes about purifiyng 26 And they came vnto Iohn and sayde vnto hym Rabbi he that was with thee beyonde Iordane to whom thou barest witnesse beholde the same baptizeth and all men come to hym 27 Iohn aunswered and sayde A man can receaue nothyng except it be geuen hym from heauen 28 Ye your selues are witnesses howe that I sayde I am not Christe but am sent before hym 29 He that hath y e bride is the bridegrome But the friende of the brydegrome which standeth heareth him reioyceth greatly because of y e brydegromes voyce This my ioy therfore is fulfylled 30 He must increace but I must decreace 31 He that commeth from an hye is aboue all He that is of the earth is earthlye and speaketh of the earth He that commeth from heauen is aboue all 32 And what he hath seene and hearde that he testifieth and no man receaueth his testimonie 33 He that hath receaued his testimonie hath set to his seale that God is true 34 For he whom God hath sent speaketh the wordes of God For God geueth not the spirite by measure vnto hym 35 The father loueth the sonne and hath geuen all thynges into his hande 36 He that beleueth on the sonne hath euerlastyng lyfe He that beleueth not the sonne shall not see life but the wrath of God abydeth on hym ☜ ⧠The .iiij. Chapter ¶ 7 Christe weryed asketh water of the woman of Samaria 10 The liuely water 24 He teacheth true worshippe 26
guyde And he desired Philip that he woulde come vp and sit with hym 32 The tenour of the scripture which he read was this He was ledde as a sheepe to the slaughter lyke a lambe dumbe before his shearer so opened he not his mouth 33 In his humilitie his iudgement is exalted But who shall declare his generation For his lyfe is taken from the earth 34 And the Eunuche aunswered Philip and sayde I pray thee of whom speaketh the prophete this Of hym selfe or of some other man 35 Then Philip opened his mouth and began at the same scripture and preached vnto hym Iesus 36 And as they went on their way they came vnto a certayne water and the Eunuche sayde See here is water what doth let me to be baptized 37 Philip sayde vnto hym If thou beleuest with all thine heart thou mayest And he aunswered and saide I beleue that Iesus Christe is the sonne of God 38 And he commaunded the charet to stande styll and they went downe both into the water both Philip and also the Eunuche and he baptized hym 39 And assoone as they were come out of the water the spirite of y e Lorde caught away Philip that the Eunuche sawe hym no more And he went on his way reioycyng 40 But Philip was founde at Azotus And he walked throughout the countrey preachyng in all the cities tyll he came to Cesarea ☜ ⧠The .ix. Chapter 3 The conuertion of Saule 25 Paule escapeth the Iewes conspiracies 26 he goeth vp to the Apostles 34 Peter healeth Eneas 40 and rayseth vp Tabitha 1 AND Saul yet breathyng out threatnings and slaughter agaynst the disciples of y e Lord went vnto y e hie priest 2 And desired of him letlers to carrye to Damascus to the synagogues * that yf he founde any of this waye whether they were men or women he myght bryng them bounde vnto Hierusalem 3 And when he iourneyed it came to passe that as he was come nye to Damascus sodenly there shyned rounde about hym a lyght from heauen 4 And he fell to the earth and hearde a voyce saying to him Saul Saul why persecutest thou me 5 And he sayde Who art thou Lorde And the Lorde said I am Iesus whō thou persecutest It is harde for thee to kicke agaynst the prickes 6 And he both tremblyng and astonyed sayde Lord what wylt thou haue me to do And the Lorde sayde vnto hym Aryse and go into the citie and it shal be tolde thee what thou must do 7 The men also which iourneyed with him stoode amased hearing a voyce but seyng no man 8 And Saul arose from the earth and when he opened his eyes he sawe no man But they ledde him by the hande and brought hym into Damascus 9 And he was three dayes without syght and neither dyd eate nor drynke 10 And there was a certayne disciple at Damascus named Ananias to him sayde the Lorde in a vision Ananias And he said Behold I am here Lorde 11 And the Lorde sayde vnto hym aryse and go into the streate whiche is called strayght and seeke in the house of Iudas after one called Saul of Tarsus for beholde he prayeth 12 And hath seene in a vision a man named Ananias commyng in to hym and puttyng his handes on hym that he myght receaue his syght 13 Then Ananias aunswered Lorde I haue heard by many of this man how much euyll he hath done to thy saintes at Hierusalem 14 And here he hath aucthoritie of y e hye priestes to bynde all y e call on thy name 15 The Lord sayde vnto hym Go thy way for he is a chosen vessell vnto me to beare my name before the gentiles kynges and the chyldren of Israel 16 For I wyl shew hym how great thinges he must suffer for my names sake 17 And Ananias went his way and entred into the house and put his handes on hym and sayde Brother Saul the Lorde euen Iesus that appeared vnto thee in the waye as thou camest hath sent me that thou myghtest receaue thy syght be fylled with the holy ghost 18 And immediatly there fell from his eyes as it had ben scales he receaued syght foorthwith and arose and was baptized 19 And receaued meate and was comforted Then was Saul certaine dayes with the disciples whiche were at Damasco 20 And strayghtway he preached Christe in the synagogues that he was y e sonne of God 21 But all that hearde hym were amased and sayde Is not this he that destroyed them which called on this name in Hierusalem and came hyther for that intent that he myght bryng thē bounde vnto the hye priestes 22 But Saule increased the more in strength and confounded the Iewes whiche dwelt at Damasco affirmyng that this was very Christe ☜ 23 And after that many dayes were fulfilled the Iewes toke counsell together to kyll hym 24 But their laying awayte was knowen of Saule And they watched y e gates day and nyght to kyll hym 25 Then the disciples toke him by night and put hym through the wall and let hym downe in a basket 26 And when Saule was come to Hierusalem he assayde to couple hym selfe to the disciples but they were all afrayde of hym beleued not that he was a disciple 27 But Barnabas toke hym brought hym to the Apostles and declared to them howe he had seene the Lorde in the way that he had spoken to hym and howe he had done boldely at Damasco in the name of Iesu 28 And he had his conuersation with thē at Hierusalem 29 Speakyng boldly in the name of the Lorde Iesu And he spake and disputed agaynst the Grekes but they went about to slea hym 30 Which whē the brethren knewe they brought hym to Cesarea and sent hym foorth to Tarsus 31 Then had the Churches rest throughout all Iurie and Galilee and Samaria and were edified and walked in the feare of the Lorde multiplied by the comfort of the holy ghost 32 And it came to passe as Peter walked throughout all quarters he came also to the Saintes which dwelt at Lydda 33 And there he founde a certayne man named Eneas which had kept his bed eyght yeres was sicke of the paulsie 34 And Peter sayde vnto hym Eneas Iesus Christe make thee whole aryse and make thy bedde And he arose immediatly 35 And all that dwelt at Lydda and Saron sawe hym and turned to the Lorde 36 There was also at Ioppa a certayne woman a disciple named Tabitha which by interpretatiō is called Dorcas the same was full of good workes and almes deedes which she dyd 37 And it came to passe in those dayes that she was sicke and dyed Whom when they had wasshed they layde her in an vpper chamber 38 And forasmuch as Lydda was nye to Ioppa and the disciples hadde hearde that Peter was there they sent vnto hym two men desyryng hym that he woulde
and in the market dayly with them that came vnto hym by chaunce 18 Then certaine philosophers of the Epicures and of the Stoickes disputed with hym And some saide What wyll this babler say Other some he seemeth to be a setter foorth of newe gods because he preached vnto them Iesus and the resurrection 19 And they toke hym and brought him into Marce streate saying Maye we not knowe what this newe doctrine wherof thou speakest is 20 For thou bryngest certaine straunge thinges to our eares We would knowe therfore what these thynges meane 21 For all the Athenians and straungers which were there gaue them selues to nothing els but either to tell or to heare some newe thyng 22 Then Paul stoode in the myddes of Marce streate and sayde ye men of Athens I perceaue that in all thynges ye are to superstitious 23 For as I passed by and behelde the maner howe ye worship your gods I founde an aulter wherin was written vnto the vnknowē god Whom ye then ignorauntly worship him shewe I vnto you 24 God that made the worlde all that are in it seing that he is Lorde of heauē and earth dwelleth not in temples made with handes 25 Neither is worshipped with mens handes as though he needed of any thing seing he him selfe geueth life and breath to all euery where 26 And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all y e face of the earth hath determined the tymes before appoynted and also the boundes of their habitation 27 That they shoulde seke the Lorde yf perhappes they myght haue felt and founde hym though he be not farre frō euery one of vs. 28 For in hym we liue and moue haue our beyng as certaine of your owne poetes sayde for we are also his ofspryng 29 Forasmuch then as we are the ofspring of God we ought not to thynke that the Godhead is lyke vnto golde siluer or stone grauen by art and mans deuice 30 And the tyme of this ignoraunce God wyncked at but nowe byddeth all men euery where to repent 31 Because he hath appoynted a day in the which he wyll iudge the worlde in ryghteousnesse by that man by whom he hath appoynted and hath offered fayth to all men in that he hath raysed hym from the dead 32 And when they hearde of the resurrection from the dead some mocked and other sayde we wyll heare thee agayne of this matter 33 So Paul departed from among them 34 Howe be it certaine men claue vnto hym and beleued among the whiche was Denys Areopagita and a woman named Damaris other with them ¶ The .xviij. Chapter 3 Paul preacheth at Corinth 19 Paul goeth agayne into Syria and commeth to Ephesus and Antioche 24 Of Apollos 26 Aquila and Priscilla 1 AFter these thynges Paul departed frō Athens came to Corinth 2 And found a certaine Iewe named Aquila borne in Ponthus lately come frō Italie with his wyfe Priscilla because that Claudius had commaunded all Iewes to depart from Rome and he came vnto them 3 And because he was of the same craft he abode with them and wrought for their craft was to make tentes 4 And he disputed in the synagogue euery Sabboth and exhorted the Iewes and the Grekes 5 And when Silas and Timotheus were come frō Macedonia Paul was constrayned by the spirite to testifie to the Iewes that Iesus was Christe 6 And when they sayde contrary and blasphemed he shoke his rayment said vnto them Your blood be vpon your owne heades From hencefoorth wyll I go blamelesse vnto the gentiles 7 And he departed thence and entred into a certaine mans house named Iustus a worshipper of God whose house ioyned harde to the synagogue 8 And one Crispus the chiefe ruler of the synagogue beleued on the Lorde with all his housholde and many of the Corinthians hearyng beleued and were baptized 9 Then spake the Lorde to Paul in the nyght by a vision Be not afrayde but speake and holde not thy peace 10 For I am with thee and no man shal inuade thee to hurt thee For I haue much people in this citie 11 And he continued there a yere and sixe monethes and taught the word of God among them 12 And when Gallio was the deputie of Achaia the Iewes made insurrection with one accord against Paul brought hym to the iudgement seate 13 Saying This felow counselleth men to worship God contrary to the lawe 14 And when Paul nowe was about to open his mouth Gallio sayde vnto the Iewes Yf it were a matter of wrong or an euyll deede O ye Iewes reason woulde that I shoulde beare with you 15 But yf it be a question of wordes and names or of your lawe loke ye to it your selues for I wyll be no iudge of such matters 16 And he braue them frō the iudgement seate 17 Then all the Grekes toke Sostenes the chiefe ruler of y e synagogue smote hym before the iudgement seate And Gallio cared for none of those thinges 18 And Paul after this taried there yet a good whyle and then toke his leaue of the brethren sayled thence into Syria Aquila Priscilla accompanying him And he shore his head in Cenchrea for he had a vowe 19 And he came to Ephesus and left thē there but he hym selfe entred into the synagogue reasoned with y e Iewes 20 When they desired him to tary longer tyme with them he consented not 21 But bade them farewell saying I must needes at this feast that commeth be in Hierusalem but I wyll returne agayne vnto you yf God wyll And he sayled from Ephesus 22 And whē he was come vnto Cesarea and ascended vp saluted the Churche he went to Antioche 23 And whē he had taried there a while he departed and went ouer al the countrey of Galatia and Phrygia by order strengthyng all the disciples 24 And a certaine Iewe named Apollos borne at Alexandria came to Ephesus an eloquent man and myghtie in the scriptures 25 The same was infourmed in the way of the Lorde and spake feruently in the spirite taught diligently the thynges of the Lorde and knewe but the baptisme of Iohn only 26 And the same began to speake boldly in the synagogue Whom when Aquila and Priscilla had hearde they toke him vnto them and expounded vnto him the way of God more perfectly 27 And when he was disposed to go into Achaia the brethrē wrote exhorting the disciples to receaue hym Which when he was come helped them much which had beleued through grace 28 For he ouercame the Iewes myghtilye and that openly shewyng by the scriptures that Iesus was Christe ¶ The .xix. Chapter 3 Of baptisme 6 Of the holy ghost geuen by Paules handes 9 The Iewes blaspheme the doctrine of Paul 13 The punyshment of the coniurers 24 Demetrius rayseth sedition 41 God delyuereth his and appeaseth the sedition
vp to Hierusalem 16 There went with vs also certayne of the disciples of Cesarea brought with them one Mnason of Cyprus an olde disciple with whom we shoulde lodge 17 And when we were come to Hierusalem the brethren receaued vs gladly 18 And on the morowe Paule went in with vs vnto Iames and all the elders came together 19 And when he had saluted them he tolde by order all thinges that God had wrought among the gentiles by his ministerie 20 And when they hearde it they glorified the Lorde sayde vnto hym Thou seest brother howe many thousande Iewes there are which beleue they are all earnest folowers of the lawe 21 And they are infourmed of thee that thou teachest all the Iewes whiche are among the Gentiles to forsake Moyses and sayest that they ought not to circūcise their chyldren neither to walke after the customes 22 What is it therefore The multitude must needes come together For they shall heare that thou art come 23 Do therfore this that we saye to thee We haue foure men which haue a vow on them 24 Them take purifie thy selfe with them and do coste on them that they may shaue their heades And all shall knowe that those thynges whiche they haue hearde concernyng thee are nothyng but that thou thy selfe also walkest and kepest the lawe 25 As touchyng the Gentiles which beleue we haue written and concluded that they obserue no suche thyng saue only that they kepe them selues from thynges offered to idoles from blood and from strangled from fornication 26 Then Paul toke the men and the next day purifiyng hym selfe with them entred into the temple declaryng the accomplishement of the dayes of the purification vntyll that an offeryng should be offered for euery one of them 27 And when the seuen dayes were almost ended the Iewes which were of Asia when they sawe hym in the temple moued al the people layde handes on hym 28 Crying Men of Israel helpe This is the man that teacheth all men euery where against the people and the lawe and this place He hath also brought Grekes into the temple and hath polluted this holy place 29 For they had seene before with hym in the citie Trophimus an Ephesian whom they supposed that Paul had brought into the temple 30 And all the citie was moued and the people swarmed together And they toke Paul drewe hym out of the temple foorthwith the doores were shut 31 And as they went about to kyll hym tydynges came vnto the hye captaine of the souldiers that all Hierusalem was in an vprore 32 Which immediatly toke souldiers and vnder captaines and ran downe vnto them And when they sawe the vpper captaine and the souldiers they left smytyng of Paul 33 Then the chiefe captaine came neare toke hym and cōmaunded hym to be bounde with two chaynes demaunded who he was what he had done 34 And some cryed one thyng some another among the people And when he coulde not knowe the certaintie for the rage he commaunded him to be caryed into the castle 35 And when he came vpon the stayres it was so that he was borne of the souldyers for the violence of the people 36 For the multitude of the people folowed after crying away with hym 37 And when Paul began to be caryed into the castle he saide vnto the hye captaine May I speake vnto thee Who sayde Canst thou speake Greke 38 Art not thou that Egyptian which before these dayes madest an vprore and leddest out into the wyldernesse foure thousande men that were murtherers 39 But Paul saide I am a man which am a Iewe of Tarsus a citie in Cilicia a citezin of no vyle citie and I beseche the suffer me to speake vnto the people 40 And when he had geuen hym licence Paul stoode on the stayres beckened with y e hande vnto the people And whē there was made a great scilēce he spake vnto them in the Hebrue tongue saying ¶ The .xxij. Chapter 3 Paul rendereth an accompt of his lyfe and doctrine 25 he escapeth the whyppe by reason he was a citezin of Rome 1 MEn brethren fathers heare ye mine aunswer whiche I make vnto you 2 And when they heard that he spake in the Hebrue tongue to thē they kept y e more scilence And he saith 3 I am verily a man which am a Iewe borne in Tarsus in Cilicia and yet brought vp in this citie at y e feete of Gamaliel and infourmed accordyng to the perfect maner of the lawe of y e fathers and was zelous towarde God as ye all are this same day 4 And I persecuted this way vnto the death byndyng delyueryng into prison both men and women 5 As also the chiefe priest doth beare me witnesse and all the estate of the elders of whom also I receaued letters vnto the brethren and went to Damascus to bryng them whiche were there bounde vnto Hierusalem for to be punisshed 6 And it came to passe that as I made my iourney was come nye vnto Damascus about noone sodeinly there shone from heauen a great light rounde about me 7 And I fell vnto the earth and hearde a voyce saying vnto me Saul Saul why persecutest thou me 8 And I aunswered Who art thou Lorde And he sayde vnto me I am Iesus of Nazareth whom thou persecutest 9 And they that were with me sawe veryly a lyght and were afrayde but they hearde not the voyce of hym that spake with me 10 And I saide What shall I do Lord And the Lorde sayde vnto me Aryse and go into Damascus there it shal be tolde thee of all thynges whiche are appoynted for thee to do 11 And when I sawe nothyng for the bryghtnesse of the lyght I was ledde by the hande of thē that were with me and came into Damascus 12 And one Ananias a deuout man as perteynyng to the lawe hauyng a good report of all the Iewes whiche there dwelt 13 Came vnto me and stoode and sayde vnto me Brother Saul receaue thy syght And the same houre I receaued my syght and sawe hym 14 And he said The God of our fathers hath ordeyned thee before that thou shouldest knowe his wyll and see that iuste one and shouldest heare the voyce of his mouth 15 For thou shalt be his witnesse vnto all men of those thynges which thou hast seene and hearde 16 And nowe why taryest thou aryse be baptized wasshe away thy sinnes in callyng on the name of the Lorde 17 And it came to passe that whē I was come agayne to Hierusalem and prayed in the temple I was in a traunce 18 And sawe him saying vnto me Make haste and get thee quickly out of Hierusalem for they wyl not receaue thy witnesse concernyng me 19 And I sayde Lord they knowe that I prisoned and beat in euery synagogue them that beleued on
spoken parteyneth vnto another tribe of which no man stoode at the aulter 14 For it is euident that our Lord sprong out of Iuda of which tribe spake Moyses nothyng concernyng priesthood 15 And it is yet a farre more euidēt thing yf after the similitude of Melchisedech there aryse another priest 16 Which is not made after the lawe of the carnall commaundement but after the power of the endlesse lyfe 17 For he testifieth that thou art a priest for euer after the order of Melchisedech 18 For there is truely a disanulling of the commaundement goyng before for the weakenesse and vnprofitablenesse therof 19 For the lawe made nothyng perfect but was the bryngyng in of a better hope by the whiche we drawe nygh vnto God 20 And in as much as that was not without an oth For those priestes were made without an oth 21 But this priest with an oth by hym that saide vnto him The Lord sware and wyll not repent thou art a priest for euer after the order of Melchisedech 22 By so much was Iesus made a suertie of a better testament 23 And among them many were made priestes because they were forbidden by death to endure 24 But this man because he endureth euer hath an vnchaungeable priesthood 25 Wherefore he is able also euer to saue them to the vttermost that come vnto God by hym seyng he euer lyueth to make intercession for them 26 For such an hye priest became vs whiche is holy harmelesse vndefyled seperate from sinners and made hygher then heauens 27 Whiche nedeth not dayly as those hie priestes to offer vp sacrifice first for his owne sinnes and then for the peoples for that dyd he once when he offered vp hym selfe 28 For the lawe maketh men hye priestes which haue infirmitie but the word of the oth which was after the lawe maketh the sonne whiche is perfecte for euermore ⧠The .viij. Chapter 6 He proueth the abolisshyng aswell of the Leuiticall priesthood as of the olde couenaunt by the spirituall and euerlastyng priesthood of Christe 8 and by the newe couenaunt 1 BVt of the thinges whiche we haue spoken this is y e summe We haue such an hye priest that sitteth on y e ryght hand of y e throne of the maiestie in the heauēs 2 A minister of holy thynges and of the true tabernacle which the Lord pight and not man 3 For euery hye priest is ordeyned to offer gyftes and sacrifices Wherefore it is of necessitie that this man haue somewhat also to offer 4 For he were not a priest yf he were on the earth seyng there are priestes that accordyng to the lawe offer gyftes 5 Who serue vnto the example and shadowe of heauenly thinges as Moyses was admonished of God when he was about to finishe the tabernacle For see saith he that thou make all thynges accordyng to the patterne shewed to thee in the mount 6 But nowe hath he obteyned a more excellent office by howe much also he is the mediatour of a better couenaunt whiche was confirmed in better promises 7 For yf that first couenaunt had ben founde fautlesse then shoulde no place haue ben sought for the seconde 8 For in rebukyng them he saith Beholde the dayes come saith the Lord and I wyll finishe vppon the house of Israel and vppon the house of Iuda a newe couenaunt 9 Not lyke that that I made with their fathers in the day when I toke them by the hande to leade them out of the lande of Egypt because they continued not in my couenaunt and I regarded them not saith the Lorde 10 For this is the couenaunt that I wyll make with the house of Israel after those dayes saith the Lord geuyng my lawes into their mynde and in their heart I wyl write them and I wyll be to them a God and they shal be to me a people 11 And they shall not teach euery man his neyghbour and euery man his brother saying knowe the Lorde for all shall knowe me from the litle of them to the great of them 12 For I wyll be mercyfull to their vnrighteousnes and their sinnes and their iniquities wyll I thynke vpon no more 13 In that he sayth a newe couenaunt he hath worne out the first For that which is worne out and waxed olde is redie to vanishe away The .ix. Chapter 1 Howe that the ceremonies and sacrifices of the lawe are abolisshed 11 by the eternitie and perfection of Christes sacrifice 1 THe first couenaunt then had verylye iustifiyng ordinaunces seruinges of God and worldlye holynesse 2 ☞ For there was a fore tabernacle made wherein was the lyght and the table and the shewe bread whiche is called holy 3 But after the seconde vayle was a tabernacle which is called holyest of al 4 Which had the golden senser and the arke of the couenaunt ouerlaide rounde about with golde wherin was the golden pot hauyng Manna and Aarons rodde that had budded and the tables of the couenaunt 5 And ouer it the Cherubins of glorie shadowyng the mercie seate Of which thynges we can not nowe speake particulerlie 6 When these thynges were thus ordeyned the priestes went alwayes into the first tabernacle accomplishyng the seruice of God 7 But into y e seconde went the hye priest alone once euery yere not without blood which he offered for hym selfe for the ignorauncies of the people 8 The holy ghost this signifiyng that the waye of holy thinges was not yet opened whyle as yet the first tabernacle was standyng 9 Whiche was a similitude for the tyme then presēt in which were offred giftes and sacrifices that coulde not make the worshipper perfect as parteining to the conscience 10 With only meates and drynkes and diuers wasshynges and iustifiynges of the flesshe which were layde vp vntyll the tyme of reformation 11 ☞ But Christe beyng come an hye priest of good thynges that shoulde be by a greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with handes that is to say not of this buyldyng 12 Neither by the blood of Goates and Calues but by his owne blood he entred in once into the holy place founde eternall redemption ☜ 13 For if the blood of Oxen of Goates and the asshes of a young Cowe sprinklyng the vncleane sanctifieth to the purifiyng of the flesshe 14 Howe much more the blood of Christe which through the eternall spirite offered hym selfe without spot to God shall purge your conscience frō dead workes to serue the lyuyng God 15 And for this cause is he the mediatour of the newe couenaunt that through death which was for the redemption of the transgressions that were vnder the first couenaunt they whiche are called myght receaue the promise of eternall inheritaunce ☜ 16 For where as is a testament there must also of necessitie be the death of him that maketh it 17 For a
the wyll of man but holy men of God spake as they were moued by the holy ghost ¶ The .ij Chapter 1 He prophesieth of false teachers and sheweth their punishement 1 THere were false prophetes also among the people euē as there shal be false teachers among you whiche pryuyly shal bryng in damnable heresies euen denying the Lorde that hath bought them and bryng vpō them selues swyft damnation 2 And many shall folowe their damnable wayes by whom the way of trueth shal be euyll spoken of 3 And through couetousnesse shall they with fayned wordes make marchaūdize of you whose iudgement is nowe not farre of and their damnation sleepeth not 4 For if God spared not the angels that sinned but cast them downe into hell and delyuered them into chaynes of darknesse to be kept vnto iudgement 5 Neither spared the olde worlde but saued Noe the eyght person a preacher of ryghteousnesse and brought in the flood vpon the worlde of the vngodly 6 And turned their cities of Sodome Gomorrhe into asshes ouerthrewe thē dampned them and made of them an ensample vnto those that after shoulde lyue vngodly 7 And iust Lot vexed with y e vncleane conuersatiō of the wicked deliuered he 8 For he beyng ryghteous dwellyng among them in seyng and hearyng vexed his ryghteous soule from daye to daye with their vnlawfull deedes 9 The Lorde knoweth howe to delyuer the godly out of temptation and to reserue the vniust vnto the day of iudgement for to be punished 10 But chiefely them that walke after the fleshe in the lust of vncleanenesse and despise auctoritie Presumptious are they and stande in their owne conceyte whiche feare not to speake euyl of them that excell in worship 11 When the Angels whiche are greater both in power and might geue not raylyng iudgement against them before the Lorde 12 But these as bruite beastes ledde with sensualitie and made to be taken and destroyed speake euyll of the thynges that they vnderstande not and shall perishe through their owne corruption 13 And receaue the rewarde of vnryghteousnesse they count it pleasure to lyue deliciouslye for a season Spottes they are and blottes delighting them selues in their deceauynges in feastyng with you 14 Hauyng eyes full of adulterie that can not ceasse from sinne begylyng vnstable soules Heartes they haue exercised with robberie they are cursed chyldren 15 Which haue forsaken the ryght waye and are gone astray folowyng the way of Balaam the sonne of Bosor which loued the rewarde of vnrighteousnesse 16 But was rebuked of his iniquitie The dumbe beast and vsed to the yoke speaking with mans voyce forbad the madnesse of the prophete 17 These are welles without water cloudes that are caryed with a tempest to whom the mist of darknesse is reserued for euer 18 For when they haue spoken the great swellyng wordes of vanitie they entice through lustes in the voluptuousnesse of the fleshe them that were cleane escaped from them whiche are wrapped in errour 19 Whyle they promise them libertie where as they them selues are y e bonde seruauntes of corruption For of whom a man is ouercome vnto the same is he brought in bondage 20 For yf they after they haue escaped from the fylthynesse of the worlde thorowe the knowledge of the Lord the sauiour Iesus Christe are yet tangled agayne therein and ouercome then is the later end worse with them then the begynnyng 21 For it had ben better for them not to haue knowen the way of righteousnes then after they haue knowen it to turne from the holy commaundement that was geuen vnto them 22 But the same is happened vnto them that is vsed to be spoken by the true prouerbe The dogge is tourned to his owne vomite againe and the sowe that was wasshed is turned againe to her wallowyng in the myre The .iij. Chapter 1 He sheweth the impietie of them which mocke at Gods promises 7 After what sort the ende of the worlde shal be 8 That they prepare them selues therevnto 16 Who they are which abuse the wrytynges of S. Paul the rest of the scriptures 18 Concludyng with eternall thankes to Christe Iesus 1 THis is the seconde epistle that I now wryte vnto you dearely beloued wherwith I stirre vp warne your pure myndes 2 By puttyng you H. L. in remembraunce that ye may be myndfull of the wordes which were tolde before of the holy prophetes and also the commaundement of vs whiche be Apostles of the Lorde and sauiour 3 This first vnderstande that there shall come in the laste dayes mockers whiche wyll walke after their owne lustes 4 And say Where is the promise of his commyng For sence the fathers dyed all thynges continue a lyke from the begynnyng of the creation 5 For this they knowe not and that wylfully howe that the heauens were of olde and the earth that was of the water and by the water by the worde of God 6 By the which thinges the world that then was perisshed beyng then ouerrunne with water 7 But the heauens and earth whiche are nowe be kept by his worde in store and reserued vnto fire agaynst the day of iudgement and perdition of vngodly men 8 Dearely beloued be not ignoraunt of this one thyng howe that one day is with the Lorde as a thousande yere a thousande yere as one day 9 The Lorde that hath promised is not slacke as some men count slacknesse but is pacient to vswarde forasmuch as he woulde haue no man lost but wyll receaue all men to repentaunce 10 Neuerthelesse the day of the Lorde wyll come as a theefe in the nyght in the which the heauens shal passe away with a noyse and the elementes shall melt with heate the earth also and the workes that are therein shall burne 11 Seyng then that all these thynges shall perisshe what maner persons ought ye to be in holy conuersation and godlynesse 12 Lokyng for and hastyng vnto the cōmyng of the day of God by whom the heauens shall perishe with fire and the elementes shall melt with heate 13 Neuerthelesse we accordyng to his promise loke for a newe heauen and a newe earth wherein dwelleth ryghteousnesse 14 Wherfore dearely beloued seyng that ye loke for such thynges be diligent that ye may be founde of hym in peace without spot and vndefyled 15 And suppose that the long suffering of the Lord is saluatiō euen as our dearely beloued brother Paul also accordyng to the wisedome geuen vnto hym hath written vnto you 16 Yea almost in euery epistle speakyng of such thinges among which are manye thynges harde to be vnderstande which they that are vnlearned and vnstable peruert as they do also the other scriptures vnto their owne destruction 17 Ye therfore beloued seyng ye be warned afore hande beware lest ye with other men be also plucked away through the errour of the wicked and fall from your owne
also which kept not their first estate but left their owne habitation he hath reserued in euerlastyng chaynes vnder darkenesse vnto the iudgement of the great day 7 Euen as Sodome and Gomorrhe and the cities about them which in lyke maner defiled them selues with fornication and folowed straunge fleshe are set foorth for an ensample and suffer the payne of eternall fyre 8 Lykewyse these beyng deceaued by dreames defyle the flesh despise rulers and speake euyll of them that are in aucthoritie 9 Yet Michael the Archangel when he stroue agaynst the deuyll and disputed about the body of Moyses durst not geue raylyng sentence but sayde the Lorde rebuke thee 10 But these speake euyl of those thinges which they knowe not what thinges they know naturally as beastes which are without reason in those thynges they corrupt them selues 11 Wo be vnto thē for they haue folowed the way of Cain and are vtterly geuen to the errour of Balaam for lucres sake and perishe in the gaynsaying of Core 12 These are spottes in your feastes of charitie whē they feast with you without al feare feedyng thēselues cloudes they are without water caryed about of windes corrupt trees and without fruite twise dead and plucked vp by the rootes 13 They are the ragyng waues of the sea fomyng out their owne shame They are wandryng starres to whom is reserued the mist of darknes for euer 14 Enoch the seuenth from Adam prophesied before of such saying Beholde the Lorde shall come with thousandes of saintes 15 To geue iudgement agaynst all men and to rebuke all that are vngodly among them of all their vngodly deedes which they haue vngodly committed and of all their cruel speakynges which vngodly sinners haue spoken agaynst hym 16 These are murmurers complayners walkyng after their owne lustes whose mouthes speake proude thynges They haue men in great reuerence because of aduantage 17 But ye beloued remember the wordes which were spoken before of the Apostles of our Lorde Iesus Christe 18 Howe that they tolde you that there shoulde be begilers in y e last tyme which should walke after their owne vngodly lustes 19 These are makers of sectes fleshlie hauyng not the spirite 20 But ye dearely beloued edifie your selues in your most holy fayth praying in the holy ghost 21 And kepe your selues in the loue of God lokyng for the mercie of our Lord Iesus Christe vnto eternall lyfe 22 And haue compassion of some seperatyng them 23 And other saue with feare pullyng them out of the fyre and haue compassion on the other and hate euen the garment spotted by the fleshe 24 Vnto him that is able to kepe you free from sinne and to present you faultlesse before the presence of his glory with ioy 25 To God our sauiour which only is wyse be glorie maiestie dominion and power nowe and euer Amen ⧠The reuelation of Saint Iohn the diuine ¶ The first Chapter 1 The cause of this reuelation 3 Of them that reade it 4 Iohn writeth to the seuen Churches 5 The maiestie and office of the sonne of God 20 The vision of the candlestickes and starres 1 THE reuelation of Iesus Christ which God gaue vnto hym for to shewe vnto his seruaūtes thyngs which must shortlye come to passe ☞ And when he had sent he shewed by his Angel vnto his seruaunt Iohn 2 Which bare recorde of the worde of God and of the testimonie of Iesus Christe and of all thinges that he sawe 3 Happy is he that readeth and they that heare the wordes of this prophesie and kepe those thynges which are written therin for the tyme is at hande 4 Iohn to the seuen Churches in Asia Grace be vnto you and peace from him which is and which was and which is to come and from the seuen spirites which are before his throne 5 And from Iesus Christe which is a faythfull witnesse and first begotten of the dead and Lorde ouer the kynges of the earth Vnto hym that loued vs and wasshed vs from our sinnes in his owne blood ☜ 6 And made vs kynges and priestes vnto God his father be glorie and dominion for euermore Amen 7 Beholde he commeth with cloudes and all eyes shall see hym and they also which pearsed hym And all kinredes of the earth shall wayle before hym Euen so Amen 8 I am Alpha and Omega the begynnyng and the endyng sayth the Lorde almyghtie which is and which was and which is to come 9 I Iohn your brother and companion in tribulation and in the kingdome and patience of Iesus Christe was in the I le that is called Pathmos for y e worde of God and for the witnessyng of Iesus Christe 10 I was in the spirite on the Lordes day and hearde behynde me a great voyce as it had ben of a trumpe 11 Saying I am Alpha and Omega the first and the last That thou seest write in a booke and sende it vnto the seuen Churches which are in Asia vnto Ephesus and vnto Smyrna and vnto Pergamos and vnto Thyatira and vnto Sardis and vnto Philadelphia and vnto Laodicea 12 And I turned backe to see the voyce that spake to me And whē I was turned I sawe seuen golden candlestickes 13 And in y e middes of the candlestickes one lyke vnto the sonne of man clothed with a garment downe to the feete and girde about the pappes with a golden girdle 14 His head and his heere 's were whyte as whyte wooll and as snowe and his eyes were as a flambe of fyre 15 And his feete lyke vnto fine brasse as though they brent in a furnace and his voyce as the sounde of many waters 16 And he had in his ryght hande seuen starres And out of his mouth went a sharpe two edged sworde And his face shone euen as the sunne in his strength 17 And when I sawe hym I fell at his feete euen as dead And he layde his ryght hande vpon me saying vnto me feare not I am the first and the last 18 And am alyue and was dead And beholde I am alyue for euermore Amen and haue the keyes of hell and of death 19 Write therfore the thinges which thou hast seene and the thynges which are and the thinges which must be fulfilled hereafter 20 The misterie of the seuen starres which thou sawest in my ryght hande and the seuen goldē candlestickes The seuen starres are the Angels of the seuē Churches And the seuen candlestickes whiche thou sawest are the seuen Churches The .ij. Chapter 1 He exhorteth foure Churches 5 to repentaunce 10 to perseueraunce patience and amendement 14.20.23 aswel by threatninges 7.10.17.26 as promises of rewarde 1 VNto the Angel of the Churche at Ephesus write these thynges sayth he that holdeth the seuen starres in his ryght hande and that walketh in the middes of the seuen golden candlestickes 2 I knowe thy workes and thy labour and thy patience and howe thou canst not forbeare
This saith Amen the faythfull and true witnesse the begynnyng of the creatures of God 15 I knowe thy workes that thou arte neither colde nor hotte I woulde thou were colde or hotte 16 So thē because thou art luke warme and neither colde nor hotte I wyll spewe thee out of my mouth 17 Because thou sayest I am riche and increased with goodes and haue neede of nothyng knowest not howe that thou art wretched and miserable and poore and blynde and naked 18 I counsel thee to bye of me gold tryed in the fyre that thou mayest be riche and whyte rayment that thou mayest be clothed that thy fylthie nakednesse do not appeare and annoynt thyne eyes with eye salue that thou mayest see 19 As many as I loue I rebuke and chasten Be feruent therfore repent 20 Beholde I stande at the doore and knocke If any man heare my voyce and open the doore I wyll come in to hym and wyll suppe with hym and he with me 21 To hym that ouercommeth wyll I graunt to sitte with me in my throne euen as I ouercame and haue sitten with my father in his throne 22 Let hym y t hath an eare heare what the spirite sayth vnto the Churches ¶ The .iiij. Chapter 1 The vision of the maiestie of God 2 He seeth the throne and one syttyng vpon it 8 and .xxiiii. seates about it with .xxiiii. elders syttyng vppon them and foure beastes praysyng God day and nyght 1 AFter this I loked and beholde a doore was open in heauē and the first voyce which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me which saide Come vp hyther and I wyll shewethee thynges which must be fulfylled hereafter 2 And immediatly I was in the spirite and behold a throne was set in heauen and one sate on the throne 3 And he that sate was to loke vppon like vnto a Iasper stone and a Sardine stone and there was a raynebowe about the throne in sight like to an Emeralde 4 And about y e throne were .xxiiij. seates and vpon the seates .xxiiij. elders sitting clothed in whyte rayment and had on their heades crownes of golde 5 And out of the throne proceaded lightnynges and thundrynges and voyces and there were seuē lampes of fire burnyng before the throne whiche are the seuen spirites of God 6 And before the throne there was a sea of glasse lyke vnto cristall and in the myddest of the throne rounde about the throne were foure beastes full of eyes before and behynde 7 And the first beast was lyke a Lion and the seconde beast lyke a Calfe the thirde beast had a face as a Man and the fourth beast was like a fleyng Egle. 8 And the foure beastes had eche one of them sixe wynges about hym and they were full of eyes within and they had no rest day neither night saying Holy holy holy Lorde God almightie which was and is and is to come 9 And when those beastes gaue glorie and honour and thankes to hym that sate on the throne which lyueth for euer and euer 10 The xxiiij elders fell downe before him that sate on the throne and worshipped hym that lyueth for euer and cast their crownes before the throne saying 11 Thou art worthy O Lord to receaue glorie and honour and power for thou hast created all thynges and for thy pleasures sake they are were created ¶ The .v. Chapter 1 He seeth the lambe openyng the booke 8.14 and therfore the foure beastes the xxiiii elders and the angels prayse the lambe and do hym worship 9 for their redemption and other benefites 1 ANd I sawe in the right hande of hym that sate on the throne a booke written within and on the backe syde sealed with seuen seales 2 And I sawe a strong angell whiche preached with a loude voyce Who is worthy to open the booke and to loose the seales therof 3 And no man in heauen nor in earth neither vnder the earth was able to open the booke neither to loke theron 4 And I wept muche because no man was founde worthy to open to reade the booke neither to loke theron 5 And one of the elders sayde vnto me wepe not behold a Lion of the tribe of Iuda the roote of Dauid hath obteyned to open the booke and to loose the seuen seales therof 6 And I behelde and loe in the middes of the throne and of the foure beastes and in the middes of the elders stoode a lambe as though he had ben kylled hauyng seuen hornes seuen eyes whiche are the seuen spirites of God sent into all the worlde 7 And he came and toke the booke out of the right hande of him that sate vpon the throne 8 And when he had taken the booke the foure beastes and .xxiiij. elders fell downe before the lambe hauyng euery one of them harpes and golden vyals full of odours which are the prayers of saintes 9 And they song a newe song saying Thou art worthy to take the booke and to open the seales therof for thou wast kylled and hast redeemed vs to God by thy blood out of al kinrede and tongue and people and nation 10 And hast made vs vnto our God kinges and priestes and we shall raigne on the earth 11 And I beheld and I heard the voyce of many angels about the throne and about the beastes and the elders and hearde thousande thousandes 12 Saying with a loude voyce Worthy is the lambe that was kylled to receaue power and richesse and wisedome and strength and honor and glorie and blessyng 13 And all the creatures whiche are in heauen and on the earth and vnder the earth and in the sea and all that are in them hearde I saying Blessyng honour glorie and power be vnto hym that sitteth vpon the throne and vnto the lambe for euermore 14 And the foure beastes sayde Amen And the .xxiiij. elders fell vpon their faces and worshipped hym that lyueth for euermore ¶ The .vj. Chapter The lambe openeth the fire seales and many thynges folowe the openyng therof so that this conteyneth a generall prophesie to the ende of the worlde 1 AND I sawe when the lambe opened one of the seales and I heard one of the foure beastes say as it were the noyse of thunder come and see and I sawe 2 And behold there was a whyte horse and he that sate on hym had a bowe a crowne was geuen vnto hym and he went foorth conqueryng and for to ouercome 3 And when he had opened the seconde seale I hearde the seconde beast saye come and see 4 And there went out another horse that was redde and power was geuen to him that sate theron to take peace from the earth and that they should kyll one another and there was geuen vnto hym a great sworde 5 And when he had opened the thirde seale I hearde the third beast say come and see And I behelde and loe a blacke horse and he
that sate on hym hadde a payre of balaunces in his hande 6 And I hearde a voyce in the myddes of the foure beastes saye A measure of wheate for a penie and three measures of barly for a penie and oyle and wine see thou hurt not 7 And when he had opened the fourth seale I hearde the voyce of the fourth beast say come and see 8 And I loked and behold a pale horse his name that sate on him was death and hell folowed after hym and power was geuen vnto them ouer the fourth part of the earth to kyll with sworde with hunger and with death and with the beastes of the earth 9 And when he had opened the fift seale I sawe vnder the aulter the soules of them that were kylled for the worde of God and for the testimonie which they had 10 And they cryed with a loude voyce saying Howe long taryest thou Lorde holy and true to iudge and to auenge our blood on thē that dwell on y e earth 11 And long whyte garmentes were geuen vnto euery one of them and it was sayde vnto them that they should reste yet for a litle season vntyll the number of their felowes and brethren and of them that shoulde be kylled as they were were fulfylled 12 And I behelde when he had opened the sixt seale and loe there was a great earthquake the sunne was as blacke as sackcloth made of heere the moone waxed all euen as blood 13 And the starres of heauen fell vnto the earth euen as a figge tree casteth her vntimely figges when she is shaken of a myghtie wynde 14 And heauen vanished awaye as a scroule when it is roulled together and all mountaynes and yles were moued out of their places 15 And the kynges of the earth and the great men and the ryche men and the chiefe capitaines and the myghtie men and euery bonde man and euery free man hyd them selues in dennes and in rockes of the hylles 16 And sayde to the hylles rockes fall on vs and hyde vs from the presence of him that sitteth on the throne and from the wrath of the lambe 17 For the great day of his wrath is come and who is able to endure ⧠The .vij. Chapter 4.9 He seeth the seruauntes of God sealed in their forheades out of all nations and people 15 which though they suffer trouble yet the lambe feedeth them leadeth them to the fountaynes of lyuyng water 17 and God shall wype awaye all teares from their eyes 1 AND after that I sawe foure angels stande on the foure corners of the earth holding the foure wyndes of y e earth that the wynde shoulde not blowe on the earth neither on the sea neither on any tree 2 ☞ And I sawe another angell ascende from the rysing of the sunne which had the seale of the lyuyng God and he cryed with a loude voyce to the foure angels to whom power was geuen to hurt the earth and the sea 3 Saying Hurt not the earth neither the sea neither the trees tyll we haue sealed the seruaūtes of our God in their foreheades 4 And I hearde the number of them which were sealed And there were sealed an C. and xliiii thousande of all the tribes of the chyldren of Israel 5 Of the tribe of Iuda were sealed .xij. thousande Of the tribe of Ruben were sealed .xij. thousande Of the tribe of Gad were sealed .xij. thousande 6 Of the tribe of Aser were sealed .xij. thousande Of the tribe of Nephthali were sealed .xij. thousande Of y e tribe of Manasses were sealed .xij. thousande 7 Of the tribe of Simeon were sealed xij thousande Of y e tribe of Leui were sealed .xij. thousande Of y e tribe of Isachar were sealed .xij. thousande 8 Of the tribe of Zabulon were sealed xii thousande Of the tribe of Ioseph were sealed .xii. thousande Of the tribe of Beniamin were sealed xii thousand 9 After this I behelde and we a great multitude which no man could number of all nations and kinredes and people and tongues stoode before the throne and before the lambe clothed with long whyte garmentes and palmes in their handes 10 And cryed with a loude voyce saying Saluation be ascribed to hym that sitteth vpon the throne of our God and vnto the lambe 11 And all the angels stoode in the compasse of the throne and of the elders of the foure beastes and fell before the throne on their faces and worshypped God 12 Saying Amen Blessyng and glorie and wisedome and thankes honour and power and myght be vnto our God for euermore Amen ☜ 13 And one of the elders aunswered saying vnto me What are these which are arayed in long whyte garmentes and whence came they 14 And he sayde vnto hym Lorde thou wotest And he sayde to me These are they which came out of great tribulation and haue wasshed their long robes and made them whyte by the blood of the lambe 15 Therefore are they in the presence of the throne of God and serue hym daye and nyght in his temple and he that sitteth in the throne wyll dwell among them 16 They shall hunger no more neither thirst neither shall the sunne lyght on them neither any heate 17 For the lambe which is in the myddes of the throne shall feede them and shall leade them vnto fountaynes of lyuyng water and God shall wype awaye all teares from their eyes ¶ The .viij. Chapter 1 The seuenth seale is opened there is scilence in heauen 6 The foure angels blowe their trumpettes and great plagues folowe vpon the earth 1 AND when he had opened the seuenth seale ther was scilence in heauē about the space of halfe an houre 2 And I sawe the seuen angels standyng before God and to them were geuen seuen trumpets 4 And the smoke of the odours whiche came of the prayers of all sainte◠ascended vp before God out of the angels hande 5 And the angel toke the senser and fylled it with fire of the aulter and cast it into the earth and voyces were made and thundrynges and lyghtnynges earthquake 6 And the seuen angels whiche had the seuen trumpettes prepared them selues to blowe 7 The first angell blewe there was made hayre fire mingled with blood and they were cast into the earth and the thirde part of trees was burnt and all greene grasse was burnt 8 And the seconde angell blewe and as it were a great mountayne burnyng with fire was cast into the sea and the thirde part of the sea turned to blood 9 And the thirde part of the creatures whiche were in the sea and hadde lyfe dyed and the thirde part of shippes were destroyed 10 And the third angell blewe and there fell a great starre from heauen burning as it were a lampe and it fell into the thirde part of the ryuers and into fountaynes of waters ▪ 11 And the 〈◊〉 of the stares is called wormewood and the thirde part was turned to
for it is geuen vnto the gentiles and the holy citie shall they treade vnder foote fourtie and two monethes 3 And I wyl geue power vnto my two witnesses and they shall prophesie a thousande two hundred and threescore dayes clothed in sackcloth 4 These are two oliue trees and two candle stickes standyng before the God of the earth 5 And yf any man wyll hurt them fyre shal proceade out of their mouthes cōsume their enemies And if any man wil hurt them this wyse must he be kylled 6 These haue power to shut heauen that it rayne not in the dayes of their prophesiyng and haue power ouer waters to turne them to blood and to smite the earth with all maner plagues as often as they wyll 7 And whē they haue finished their testimonie the beast that commeth out of the bottomlesse pit shall make warre against them and shal ouercome them and kyll them 8 And their bodyes shall lye in y e streates of the great citie which spiritually is called Sodome and Egypt where our Lorde was crucified 9 And they of the people and kinredes and tongues and they of the nations shall see their bodyes three dayes and an halfe shall not suffer their bodyes to be put in graues 10 And they that dwell vpon the earth shal reioyce ouer them and be glad and shall sende gyftes one to another for these two prophetes vexed them that dwelt on the earth 11 And after three dayes and an halfe the spirite of lyfe commyng from God shall enter into them And they shall stande vp vpon their feete great feare shall come vpon thē which sawe them 12 And they shall heare a great voyce from heauen saying vnto them come vp hyther And they shall ascende vp to heauen in a cloude and their enemies shall see them 13 And the same houre shall there be a great earthquake and the tenth part of the citie shall fall and in the earthquake shal be slaine names of men seuen thousande and the remnaunt shal be afraide and geue glorie to the God of heauen 14 The seconde wo is past and beholde the thirde wo wyll come anone ◠And the seuenth angell blewe there were made greate voyces in heauen saying the kyngdomes of this worlde are our Lordes and his Christes and he shall raigne for euermore 16 And the .xxiiii. elders which sit before God on their seates fel vpon their faces and worshipped God 17 Saying we geue thee thankes O Lorde God almyghtie which art and wast and art to come for thou hast receaued thy great myght hast raigned 18 And the nations were angrie and thy wrath is come and the tyme of the dead that they shoulde be iudged and that thou shouldest geue rewarde vnto thy seruauntes the prophetes and saintes and to them that feare thy name small and great and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth 19 And the temple of God was opened in heauen and there were seene in his temple the arke of his testament and there folowed lyghtninges and voyces and thundringes and earthquake and much hayle ¶ The .xij. Chapter 1 There appeareth in heauen a woman clothed with the sunne 7 Michael fyghteth with the Dragon which persecuteth the woman 11 The victorie is gotten to the comfort of the faythfull 1 AND there appeared a great wonder in heauen A woman clothed with the sunne the moone vnder her feete and vpō her head a crowne of twelue starres 2 And she was with chylde and cryed trauaylyng in birth and payned redy to be delyuered 3 And there appeared another wonder in heauen for beholde a great redde dragon hauing seuen heades and tenne hornes and seuen crownes vpon his heades 4 And his tayle drue the thirde part of the starres of heauen and cast them to the earth And the dragon stoode before the woman which was redie to be deliuered for to deuoure her chylde assoone as it were borne 5 And she brought foorth a man chylde which shoulde rule all nations with a rodde of yron And her sonne was taken vp vnto God and to his throne 6 And the woman fled into wildernesse where she had a place prepared of God that they should feede her there a thousande two hundreth and threscore days 7 And there was a battayle in heauen Michael and his angels fought with the dragon and the dragon fought and his angels 8 And preuayled not neither was their place founde any more in heauen 9 And the great dragon that olde serpent called the deuyll Satanas was cast out which deceaueth all the world And he was cast into the earth and his angels were cast out with hym 10 And I hearde a loude voyce saying in heauen Nowe is made saluation strength the kingdome of our God the power of his Christ For the accuser of our brethren is cast downe which accused them before our God day nyght 11 And they ouercame hym by the blood of the Lambe and by the worde of their testimonie and they loued not their lyues vnto the death 12 Therfore reioyce heauens and ye that dwell in them Wo to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea for the deuyll is come downe vnto you which hath great wrath because he knoweth that he hath but a short tyme. 13 And when the dragon sawe that he was cast vnto the earth he persecuted the woman which brought foorth the man chylde 14 And to the woman were geuen two winges of a great Egle that she myght flee into the wildernesse into her place where she is norished for a tyme tymes and halfe a tyme from the presence of the serpent 15 And the serpent cast out of his mouth water after the woman as it had ben a fludde that he myght cause her to be caryed away of the fludde 16 And the earth holpe the woman and the earth opened her mouth and swalowed vp the ryuer which the dragon cast out of his mouth 17 And the dragon was wroth with the woman and went and made warre with the remnaunt of her seede which kepe the commaundementes of God haue the testimonie of Iesus Christe 18 And I stoode on the sea sande The .xiij. Chapter 1.8 The beast deceaueth the reprobate 2.4.12 and is confirmed by another 17 The priuiledge of the beastes marke 1 AND I sawe a beast ryse out of the sea hauing seuen heades and ten hornes vpon his hornes ten crownes and vpon his head the name of blasphemie 2 And the beast which I sawe was like a Leoparde and his feete were as the feete of a Beare and his mouth as the mouth of a Lion And the dragon gaue hym his power and his seate and great aucthoritie 3 And I sawe one of his heades as it were wounded to death and his deadly wounde was healed And all the world wondred after the beast 4 And they worshipped the dragon which gaue power vnto the beast and they worshipped the beast saying Who is lyke
vnto the beast who is able to warre with hym 5 And there was geuen vnto hym a mouth that spake great thynges and blasphemies and power was geuen vnto hym to do .xlij. monethes 6 And he opened his mouth vnto blasphemie agaynst God to blaspheme his name and his tabernacle and them that dwell in heauen 7 And it was geuen vnto hym to make warre with the saintes to ouercome them And power was geuen him ouer all kinredes and tongues and nations 8 And al y t dwel vpon the earth worshipped him whose names are not writteÌ„ in the booke of lyfe of y e lambe which was killed from the beginnyng of the world 9 If any man haue an eare let hym heare 10 He that leadeth into captiuitie shall go into captiuitie He that kylleth with a sworde must be kylled with a sworde Here is the patience and the fayth of the saintes 11 And I behelde another beast commyng vp out of the earth and he had two hornes lyke a lambe and he spake as dyd the dragon 12 And he dyd all that y e first beast coulde do in his presence he caused the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast whose deadly wound was healed 13 And he dyd great wonders so that he made fyre come downe from heauen on the earth in the syght of men 14 And deceaued them that dwelt on the earth by the meanes of those signes which he had power to do in the syght of the beast saying to them that dwelt on the earth that they shoulde make the image of the beast which had the wounde of a sworde and dyd lyue 15 And he had power to geue a spirite vnto the image of the beast that the image of the beast shoulde speake and shoulde cause that as many as woulde not worship the image of the beast shoulde be kylled 16 And he made all both smal great rich poore free bonde to receaue a marke in their right hand or in their forheads 17 And that no man myght bye or sell saue he that had the marke or y e name of the beast other y e number of his name 18 Here is wisdome Let hym that hath witte count y e number of the beast For it is the number of a man his number is sixe hundred threescore and sixe ¶ The .xiiij. Chapter 1 The notable companie of the lambe 6 One angel announceth the Gospel 8 Another the fall of Babylon 9 And the thirde warneth to flee from the beast 13 Of their blessednesse which dye in the Lorde 18 Of the Lordes haruest 1 AND I loked and lo a lambe stoode on the mount Sion and with hym an hundreth fourtie and foure thousande hauyng his fathers name written in their foreheades 2 And I hearde a voyce from heauen as the sounde of many waters and as the voyce of a great thunder And I hearde the voyce of harpers harpyng with their harpes 3 And they song as it were a newe song before the throne and before the foure beastes the elders and no man coulde learne that song but the hundreth and fourtie foure thousande which were redeemed from the earth 4 These are they which were not defiled with womeÌ„ for they are virgins These folowe the lambe whither soeuer he goeth These were redeemed froÌ„ men beyng the first fruites vnto God and to the lambe 5 And in their mouthes was founde no guile For they are without spot before the throne of God 6 And I sawe another angell flee in the middes of heauen hauyng the euerlastyng Gospell to preache vnto them that sit and dwel on the earth and to all nations and kinredes and tongues and people 7 Saying with a loude voyce Feare God and geue honour to hym for the houre of his iudgement is come and worshippe hym that made heauen and earth and the sea and fountaynes of water 8 And there folowed another angell saying Babylon is fallen is fallen that great citie for she made all nations drinke of the wyne of the wrath of her fornication 9 And the thirde angell folowed them saying with a loude voyce If any man worshippe the beast and his image and receaue his marke in his foreheade or on his hande 10 The same shall drynke of the wyne of the wrath of God yea of the pure wyne which is powred in y e cup of his wrath And he shal be punisshed in fyre brimstone before the holy angels and before the lambe 11 And the smoke of their torment ascendeth vp euermore And they haue no rest day nor nyght which worship the beast and his image and whosoeuer receaueth the prynt of his name 12 Here is the pacience of the saintes Here are they that kepe the commaundementes of God and the fayth of Iesus 13 And I hearde a voyce from heauen saying vnto me write Blessed are the dead which hereafter dye in the Lorde Euen so sayth the spirite that they rest from their laboures and their workes folowe them 14 And I loked and beholde a whyte cloude and vpon the cloude one sittyng lyke vnto the sonne of man hauyng on his head a golden crowne and in his hande a sharpe sickle 15 And another angell came out of the temple crying with a loude voyce to hym that sate on the cloude Thrust in thy sickle reape for the time is come to reape for the haruest of y e earth is ripe 16 And he that sate on the cloude thrust in his sickle on the earth and the earth was reaped 17 And another angell came out of the temple which is in heauen hauâ—ng also a sharpe sickle 18 And I sawe another angell came out from the aulter which had power ouer fyre and cryed with a loude crye to hym that had the sharpe sickle and sayde Thrust in thy sharpe sickle and gather the clusters of the vineyarde of y e earth for her grapes are ripe 19 And the angell thrust in his sharpe sickle on the earth and cut downe the grapes of the vineyarde of the earth and cast them into the great wynefat of the wrath of God 20 And the wynefat was troden without the citie and blood came out of the fat euen vnto the horse bridles by the space of a thousand sixe hundreth furlonges â–ª ¶ The .xv. Chapter 1 Seuen angels haue the seuen last plagues 3 The song of them that ouercome the beast 7 The seuen vials full of Gods wrath 1 AND I sawe another signe in heauen great marueylous seuen angels hauyng the seuen last plagues for in them is fulfylled the wrath of God 2 And I sawe as it were a glassie sea mingled with fyre and them that had gotten the victorie of the beast and of his image and of his marke and of the number of his name stande on y e glassie sea hauyng the harpes of God 3 And they sang the song of Moyses the seruaunt of God and the song of the lambe
thou sawest vpon the beast are they that shall hate the whore and shall make her desolate and naked and shall eate her fleshe and burne her with fire 17 For God hath put in their heartes to fulfyll his wyll and to do with one consent for to geue their kyngdome vnto the beast vntyll the wordes of God be fulfylled 18 And the woman which thou sawest is that great citie which raigneth ouer the kynges of the earth ⧠The .xviij. Chapter â— The louers of the worlde are sory for the fall of the whore of Babylon 4 An admonition to the people of God to flee out of her dominioÌ„ 20 But they that be of God haue cause to reioyce for her destruction 1 AND after that I sawe another angell come from heauen â–ª hauyng great power and the earth was lyghtened with his glorie 2 And â—e tryed myghtyly with a strong voyce saying Great Babylon is fallenâ—s fallen and is become the habitation of deuyls and the holde of all foule spirites and a cage of â—ll vncleane and hatefull byrdes 3 For all nations haue dronken of the wine of the wrath of her fornication the kinges of the earth haue committed fornication with her the marchauntes of the earth are waxed riche of the aboundaunce of her pleasures 4 And I hearde another voyce from heauen say Come awaye from her my people that ye be not partakers of her sinnes and that ye receaue not of her plagues 5 For her sinnes are gone vp to heauen and God hath remembred her wickednesse 6 Rewarde her euen as she rewarded you and geue her double accordyng to her workes and powre in double to her in the same cuppe which she fylled vnto you 7 And as much as she glorified her selfe lyued wantonly so much powre ye in for her of punishement sorowe for she said in her heart I sit being a queene and am no wydowe and shall see no sorowe 8 Therefore shall her plagues come in one day death and sorowe and hunger and she shal be brent with fire for strong is the Lorde whiche shall iudge her 9 And they shal bewayl her the kinges of the earth shall lament for her which haue committed fornication with her haue lyued wantonly with her when they shal see the smoke of her burnyng 10 And shall stande a farre of for feare of her punishment saying Alas alas that great citie Babylon that myghtie citie for at one houre is thy iudgement come 11 And the marchauntes of the earth shall wepe and wayle ouer her for no man wyll bye their ware any more 12 The ware of golde and siluer and precious stones neither of pearle raynes and purple and sylke and skarlet and all thinne wood and all maner vessels of yuorie and all maner vessels of most precious wood and of brasse and yron and marble 13 And synamon and odours and oyntmentes and frankensence and wine and oyle and fine floure and wheate beastes and sheepe and horses charrets and bodies and soules of men 14 And the apples that thy soule lusted after are departed from thee and all thynges which were daintie and had in price are departed from thee and thou shalt fynde them no more 15 The marchauntes of these thynges whiche were waxed ryche shall stande a farre of froÌ„ her for feare of the punishment of her wepyng and waylyng 16 And saying Alas alas that great citie that was clothed in raynes and purple and skarlet and decked with golde and precious stones and pearles 17 For at one houre so great ryches is come to naught And euery shippe gouernour all they that occupie shippes and shippemen which worke in the sea stoode a farre of 18 And cryed when they sawe the smoke of her burnyng saying what citie is lyke vnto this great citie 19 And they cast dust on their heades cryed wepyng waylyng and saying Alas alas that great citie wherein were made riche all that had shippes in the sea by reason of her costlynesse for at one houre is she made desolate 20 Reioyce ouer her thou heauen and ye holy apostles and prophetes for God hath geuen your iudgement on her 21 And a myghtie angell toke vp a stone lyke a great mylstone and cast it into the sea saying With suche violence shall that great citie Babylon be cast shal be founde no more 22 And the voyce of harpers and musitions of pypers and trumpetters shall be heard no more in thee and no craftes man of whatsoeuer craft he be shall be founde any more in thee and the sounde of a myll shall be heard no more in thee 23 And the lyght of a candle shall shyne no more in thee and the voyce of the brydegrome and of the bryde shall be hearde no more in thee for thy marchaunts were the great men of y e earth and with thyne inchauntment were deceaued all nations 24 And in her was founde the blood of the prophetes and of the saintes and of all that were slayne vpon the earth ¶ The .xix. Chapter 1 Prayses are geuen vnto God for iudgyng the whore and for auengyng the blood of his seruauntes 10 The angell wyll not be worshipped 17 The fowles byrdes are called to the slaughter 1 ANd after that I heard a great voyce of much people in heauen saying Alleluia Saluation and glory and honour and power be ascribed to the Lorde our God 2 For true and ryghteous are his iudgementes for he hath iudged the great whore which dyd corrupt y e earth with her fornication and hath auenged the blood of his seruauntes of her hande 3 And agayne they sayde Alleluia and her smoke rose vp for euermore 4 And the xxiiij elders the foure beastes fell downe worshipped God that sate on the throne saying Amen Alleluia 5 And a voyce came out of the throne saying Praise our Lord God all ye that are his seruauntes ye that feare hym both small and great 6 And I hearde the voyce of much people euen as the voyce of many waters and as the voyce of strong thundringes saying Alleluia for the Lorde our God omnipotent raigneth 7 Let vs be glad reioyce geue honor to hym for the mariage of the lambe is come his wyfe made her selfe redy 8 And to her was graunted that she should be arayed with pure and goodly raynes For the raynes is the ryghteousnes of saintes 9 And he sayde vnto me write Happy are they which are called vnto the supper of the lambes mariage And he said vnto me These are the true sayinges of God 10 And I fell at his feete to worship him And he saide vnto me See thou do it not for I am thy felowe seruaunt and of thy brethren euen of them that haue the testimonie of Iesus Worship God For the testimonie of Iesus is the spirite of prophesie 11 And I sawe heauen open beholde a white horse and he that
sate vpon him was called faythfull and true and in ryghteousnesse he doth iudge and make battayle 12 His eyes were as a flambe of fire and on his head were many crownes and he had a name written that no man knewe but he hym selfe 13 And he was clothed with a vesture dipt in blood and his name is called the worde of God 14 And the warryers which were in heauen folowed hym vppon whyte horses clothed with whyte and pure raynes 15 And out of his mouth went a sharpe sworde that with it he shoulde smyte the heathen and he shall rule theÌ„ with a rodde of yron And he trode the wine-fat of fiercenesse and wrath of almightie God 16 And hath on his vesture and on his thygh a name written King of kinges and Lorde of lordes 17 And I sawe an angell stande in the sunne and he cryed with a loude voyce saying to all the fowles that flee by the myddes of heauen Come and gather your selues together vnto the supper of the great God 18 That ye may eate the fleshe of kinges and the fleshe of hye capitaynes and the fleshe of myghtie men and the fleshe of horses and of them that syt on them and the fleshe of all free men and bonde men and of small and great 19 And I sawe the beast and the kinges of the earth and their warryers gathered together to make battayle agaynst hym that sate on the horse and agaynst his souldyers 20 And the beast was taken and with hym that false prophete that wrought miracles before hym with which he deceaued them that receaued the beastes marke and them that worshipped his image These both were cast quicke into a ponde of fire burnyng with brymstone 21 And the remnaunt were slayne with the sworde of hym that sate vppon the horse whiche sworde proceaded out of his mouth and all the fowles were fylled with their fleshe ¶ The .xx. Chapter 2 Satan beyng bounde for a certayne tyme 7 and after let loose â—ereth the Churche greeuouslye 10.14 And after the worlde is iudged he and his are cast into the lake of fire 1 AND I sawe an angel come downe from heauen hauyng the key of the bottomelesse pytte and a great chaine in his hand 2 And he toke the dragon that olde serpent which is the deuyll and Satanas and he bounde hym a thousand yeres 3 And cast hym into the bottomlesse pit and he shut hym vp and set a seale on hym that he shoulde deceaue the people no more tyll the thousande yeres were fulfylled and after that he must be loosed for a litle season 4 And I sawe thrones and they sate vpon them and iudgement was geuen vnto them and I sawe the soules of them that were beheaded for the witnesse of Iesus and for the word of God and whiche had not worshipped the beast neither his image neither had taken his marke vpon their foreheades or in their handes and they lyued and raigned with Christe a thousand yeres 5 But the other of the dead men shall not lyue agayne vntyll the thousande yeres be finished This is the first resurrection 6 Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection For on such shal the seconde death haue no power but they shal be the priestes of God and of Christe and shall raigne with hym a thousande yeres 7 And when the thousande yeres are expired Satan shal be loosed out of his pryson 8 And shall go out to deceaue the people which are in the foure quarters of the earth Gog and Magog to gather them together to battayle whose number is as the sande of the sea 9 And they went vp in the playne of the earth and compassed the tentes of the saintes about and the beloued citie and fire came downe from God out of heauen and deuoured them 10 And the deuyll that deceaued them was cast into a lake of fire brymstone where the beast and the false prophete shal be tormented day nyght for euermore 11 And I sawe a great whyte throne and him that sate on it froÌ„ whose face fledde away both the earth and heauen and their place was no more founde 12 And I sawe the dead both great and small stand before God and the bookes were opened and another booke was opened which is the booke of lyfe and the dead were iudged of those thynges whiche were written in the bookes accordyng to their deedes 13 And the sea gaue vp her dead whiche were in her and death and hell delyuered vp the dead whiche were in them and they were iudged euery man accordyng to his deedes 14 And death and hell were cast into the lake of fyre This is the seconde death 15 And whosoeuer was not founde written in the booke of lyfe was cast into the lake of fire ¶ The .xxj. Chapter 3.14 The blessed estate of the godly 8.27 and the miserable condition of the wicked 11 The discription on the heauenly Hierusalem and of the wyfe of the Lambe 1 AND I sawe a newe heauen a new earth for the first heauen the first earthwere vanisshed awaye there was no more sea 2 ☞ And I Iohn sawe the holy citie newe Hierusalem come downe from God out of heauen prepared as a bride garnisshed for her husbande 3 And I hearde a great voyce out of heauen saying Beholde the tabernacle of God is with men and he wyll dwell with them and they shal be his people and God hym selfe shal be with them and be their God 4 And God shall wype away all teares from their eyes and there shal be no more death neither sorowe neither crying neither shall there be any more payne for the former thynges are gone 5 And he that sate vpon the throne said Beholde I make all thynges newe ☜ And he sayde vnto me write for these wordes are faythfull and true 6 And he sayde vnto me it is done I am Alpha and Omega the begynnyng and the ende I wyll geue to hym that is a thirst of the well of the water of lyfe freely 7 He that ouercommeth shall inherite all thynges and I wyl be his God and he shal be my sonne 8 But the fearefull and vnbeleuing and the abhominable and murtherers and whoremongers and sorcerers and idolaters all lyers shall haue their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brymstone which is the seconde death 9 And there came vnto me one of the seuen angels whiche had the seuen vyals full of the seuen last plagues and talked with me saying Come hyther I wyll shewe thee the bryde the lambes wyfe 10 And he caryed me away in the spirite to a great and an hye mountayne and he shewed me the great citie holy Hierusalem descendyng out of heauen froÌ„ God 11 Hauing the glorie of God and her shining was lyke vnto a stone most precious euen lyke a Iasper cleare as Cristall 12 And had walles great and hye had xij gates and at
homely house of clay which before was not contented with a kingly palace (a) The whole course of this Chapter is that man compared to god is vniust and therfore ought to repent (b) They knowe not that Iob had so greatly offended but they coniectured because god so plagued him which was not for his sinnes so much as for to proue him and therfore all their concluâ—ions are falâ—e (c) Thou hast ben vncharitable vniust (d) That is therfore art thou thus plagued euery way (e) Trouble (f) That is vnsure and vnstable (g) Meaning the euyl and vngodly persons (h) Eliphas exhorteth Iob to repentaunce by the great goodnesse that commeth therof “ Or render thy vowes (i) That is the fauour of God (k) The place fareth the bâ—tter where the righteous 〈◊〉 (a) In this chapter is expressed howe hard yea how impossible it is to come to God without a mediatour Iob being admonished before to returne to God sayth If I shoulde come to him where is he or where might I find him to pleade my cause before him (c) That is gods wayes prouing therfore him selfe not to deserue such greeuous plagues and afflictions for his faultes (d) For God is immutable and his decrees stande fast (e) That is he hath decreed thus to punishe me appoynted here vnto although I can not attayne to the secrete iudgement of God therein and therfore I to feare his presence (f) That is maketh it so â—eake that it can not but be in feare (g) Out of paynes troubles and afflictions (h) That is cleared my eyes that I may see the end of my troubles This speaketh Iob in his extreme passions according to worldly wit in maÌ„sfeeble nature â–ª which is foolyshnes before God â–ª wherby he woulde proue that God considereth not the times b The cursed crueltie of tyrauntes toward the poore folowing (c) That is they lyue by robberie and thefte Not only the titant but also the adulterer escapeth free â–ª and is not corrected (e) Although such abhominable sinners liue vncorrected in this worlde yet at the length hell shall deuour them sodenly (f) Because they pitied not others they shall not be pitied at all (g) That is when they haue plagued and ouerrun the poore and weake they will oppresse the strong mightie also (h) Then I lye not none of you can reproue me (a) Bildâ—d would proue here that god plageth thee iust yet afterward he prospereth and because God dealt not so with Iob he concludeth that he was wicked That is ordereth and ruleth all thinges (c) For he is called the god of Sabaoth that is the god of hoastes (d) For the sunne moone are darke compared to him and how much more man beyng borne in sinne and corruption and being but a worme “ Or worme (a) Here Iob reprehendeth Bildad for y t he speaketh not inough to gods prayse to no needeth for mans wordes neither coÌ„forteth him beyng voyde of comfort That is such thinges are in the waters without lyfe as mettals and such lyke wherin is expressed gods great power (c) That is it is open and most plaine in his sight for he seeth all thinges The most excellent and mightie power of god e His throne of mâ—iestie which are the heauens he couereth from vs. (f) That is â–ª so long as the worlde endureth Not that heauen hath pillers â–ª but by the pillers he vnderstandeth al things vnder heauen h That is the winde breâ—kyng the cloudes the heauens are cleare (i) That is a circle in heaueÌ„ winding round like a serpent called Iacteus circulus For though these fewe thinges or his power be wonderful yet they are nothing in comparison of the rest of his works which mas capacitie can not reach to This was the order of the Hebrues to sweare My afflictions are so greeuous that men iudge me only by outwarde shewe to be wicked (c) That is as long as I lyue I will not resist the trueth and offend God contrarie to my promise though men say neuer so euyll of me (d) That is I will not confesse that God plagues me for myne offence (e) Of my former life past That is because they reprehended me vnworthyly they rather might be accompted wicked and the plague shal light on them and be â—d from me g What auayleth it a man if he 〈◊〉 all the world â–ª lose 〈…〉 We haue 〈◊〉 greater 〈◊〉 of God 〈…〉 vs. 〈…〉 Or hande (k) Gods secret workes is layde before you and yet your blindnes will not permit you to see it (l) That is not only the wicked shal be plagued but also their posteritie shal be rooted out (m) As it is sayde in the lawe thou shalt buyld an house and not dwell in it thy selfe which is the plague of the wicked (n) Meaning it shal be weake of smal estimation and beyng lothed shall soone decay (o) That is most aboundantly (p) That is he shall sodenly be blowen away by death nor after death shal he be honorablie buried this is the end of the tyrauntes 〈…〉 men 〈◊〉 to 〈…〉 secretes of nature yet tâ—ey are neuer able to reche to the wysdome of God which is vnsearcheable b For brasse 〈◊〉 groweth in the stones whiche beyng mâ—ned vp is called ore and by vehement fiâ—e molteÌ„ the metall is separate from the stones c Here he describeth gods secret workes therby meaning that all thinges shall haue an ende sauing the vnâ—ercheable wysdome of God As the fruitful fields tylled and plowed bryngeth foorth corne â—o it beyng depely digged ther are founde stones out of the whiche are is stâ—oken The Saphirs do â—hine with golden poyntes so that here by Saphires is meÌ„t câ—ddes of gold All theâ—e thinges are found but gods wisdome who can reache (f) Here he sheweth gods powre the earth may be digged hilles ouerthrowen a fountayne made among stones riuers turned from thâ—ir course but gods wisdome is not to be founde g Gods wisdome is partly seene in these worldly thinges but his heauenly wysdome and seâ—rete iudgement is hyd and vnknoweÌ„ to al men (h) That is it passeth mans capacitie to attayne to it Ophir is the region by Ganges the riuer of India so called of Ophir the sonne of Laketan who possessed the same with his children This stone is founde in Ganges the riuer of India (l) Thus the wysdome of gods maiestie doth farre excel al things Or heauen Meaning by this that man hath so much of this excelling wysdome of God as he doth shew in vertue of lyuing due obedience and feare of him That is when as his sauour preserued me (b) That is when I had all thinges most aboundantly For milke and oyle signifie all plentifulnes and here Iob describeth his felicitie in 〈…〉 past to the 〈…〉 of his 〈◊〉 â—s wâ—â—hed at his countinaunce and ashamed of their youthful â—htnesse d Knowing dâ—th wyâ—dome and estimation (e) â—ulâ— to 〈…〉 for 〈…〉 patience that appeared in him â—râ—elling them caused
â— and xxvâ—â—â— Exod. xxi c Leui. xx b. Deut. 37 c. ii Reg. xv a Math. v. e. Rom. xii â— Pro. xxiiii d Iere. x. d. i. Reg. xv c. Prou. xix b iiii Reg. â— c. Mich vi b. “ Or and the light of the wicked or â–ª the workes of the vngodlye Pro. xxv d. Prox. xix d Mat xviii d Or a man that loueth pleasure shal be poore Or oyle Eccle. 25. c Prou. xii b. “ Or howe muche more when it is offred with an euyll minde Prou. xix a. Esai i. d. and .xlvi. b. Psal 33 c. “ Or safetâ— is of the Lorde 〈◊〉 xâ—iâ— b 〈◊〉 â—v â— Eccl. xxxi d Pro. xxiii c Or thou therefore take heede “ Or three tymes Prou. vi a. and .xi. b. xxxvii c. “ Or dettes “ Or why causest thou hym to take Pro. xxiii a Deut. 27. c. Iere. xvii b. Eccle. 27 â—â— Or 〈◊〉 notâ—â—ng Meaning the enâ—â—ous and couetous men Prou xii d. Deut. 27. c. Prou xiii d. Eccle 30. a. (b) From â—â—â—truction Prou 24 â–ª a. c Prou. xxi c. Pro. xxii â— Or murmuring “ Some readâ— straunge â—â—â—onâ— Pro. xxiii d and .xxiiii. c Or 〈◊〉 a A duersitie doth trye a man what he is Psal 37. a. Prou. xvii a “ Or rewarde Iob. xxi b. Prou. xx a. “ Or of them both Pro. xviii b “ Or the man Prou. xii b. Prou. vi a. “ Or stande not â—n Luk. xiiii b. Eccle. viii b. Math. v. c. “ Or be not hastie to striue “ Or of false liberalitie Prou. xv a. Ge. xxxii a. i. Re. xxv c. “ Or bones are “ Or 〈◊〉 maule “ Or saltyeter or sope or nitre Rom. xii c. i. Re. xxx b Prou. xxi b “ Or his spirite Psa xxxii b Or woulde hide a pretious stone in an heape oâ— stones 〈…〉 d Prou xxii d Prou xix c. Or hydeth “ Or that can render a reason Eccl. xxiii b Or a contentious Or as flatteringes “ Or many Eccle. x. b. Ecc. xxvii b Luk. xii c. Eze. xviii a Iam. iiii b. Or deceiptfull Or bitter “ Or neyghbour Prou. xxii Prou. x. c. “ Or he that prayseth his frende with a loude voyce rising early in the morning it shal be counted to hym as a disprayse Prou. xix b xxi xxv “ 〈…〉 of another Eccle i. a. Eccle. xâ—ii a and xvii c. Leui. xxvi e “ Or men “ Or foode i. Cor. ii d. Pro. xix a. “ Or feedeth gluttons Pro i. b. “ Or can trye hym Eccle. x. a. Pro. 29. c. Iob. xiii c. Psal 32. c. i. Iohn i. b Gene â—â—i b Prou. 〈…〉 Prou. xii â— Eccle. xx â— i. Tim. vi â— Prou. xxâ—â— Matâ—â— xv a. Or of a murderer ii Cor. ix b Prou 28 b. Or and not be cured Prou 28. b. Eccle. x a. Prou. v. â— Luk. xv â— (a) That is deliuer his soule or saue his lyfe Or vsurer Or truely “ Or his sonne “ Or a mans pryde shall bryng hym lowe “ Or cursing “ Or shal be exalted ☞ Psal xix e. Deut. xiii a. “ Or feede me with foode conuenient for me Exod. v. a. Deut. viii c. Iob xx d. “ Or whose eyes are hauâ—e Exo. xxi b. Deu. xxvii e “ Or of the brooke Prou v◠◠“ Or houses “ Or a kyng (a) Lamuel signifieth God with hym or with them For when Solomon builded the temple to god and promoted his honour god was with hym and the Israelites Neither is it any straunge thyng in the scriptures one man to haue many names “ Or ordinaunce Or of all the afflicted children “ Or he shall haue no neede of spoyles that is he shal not neede to get his liuyng vnlawfully Or brâ—â—d “ Or know◠“ Or prayse her (a) He doth not condemne the creatures and gyftes of God as euyll but the carefull sekyng of them and the pride truste that man hath in worldly thynges He proueth by sixe reasons that true felicitie is not to be put in any worldly thing (b) The first reason is that nothyng can be attayned in this life without labour care (c) 2 Mans lyfe is but short and vncertayne And though the earth it selfe continueth for a longer time yet it coÌ„meth to an ende at the last (d) 3 Neither astronomie nor any other science is perfectly knowen oâ— this lyfe (e) 4 Man in this lyfe is so desirous to see and heare news always that he is neuer satisfied nor content with his estate (f) 5 The first clause is vnderstanded of thynges made by nature y e seconde of thynges 〈…〉 (g) 6 It is the reward of the sinne of curiositie of our forefather Adam that knowledge can not be attayned vnto without great trauayle the ende of all which knowledge is for to teach man humilitie (h) Man is not able of his owne power to refourme that is amisse and is ryse vp from sinne nor to knowe his imperfection wekenesse to do any thyng that is good without the grace of God He preue◠〈◊〉 â—re câ—â—s â–ª that true 〈…〉 câ—nâ—â—h not in any worldlye â—fute (a) 〈◊〉 There is no long contentatioÌ„ in any â—st or plesure with â— lyfe (b) â— The mother of vaine pleasure and muche laughter is foolyshnes (c) 3 He that arriveth hym self to the studie of godly wisedome may not haue to much pleasure in drynkyng oâ— wyne (d) 4 The more plentie of gorgious buyldyng apparell riches or worldly pleasure the more vexation of minde and all are but vanitie in comparisoÌ„ of godly felicitie as Solomon affirmeth of his owne experience (e) God hath appoynted that man should be obedient to godly reason as to his kyng and not to be ledde with carnall affection (f) They both suffer like aduersitie in this world or as touching the corruption of the body they dye both a lyke (g) Meaning in this world (h) That he myght seke the true felicitie whiche is in God (i) He rebuketh men that maketh careful prouidence to enrich their heires by vnlawful meanes to their owne dampnation not knowyng who or what they shal be eyther good or euyll (k) As it is the blessyng of God to obteyne ryches honestly so is it no lesse blessing to refresh him selfe with the fruites therof in measure Of both whiche blessinges Solomon confesseth hym selfe to haue tasted largely and yet not happy thereby (a) Although true felicitie is not to be put in any worldlye thing yet God hath appoynted al necessarie thinges to be done in due tyme order and measure (b) God hath appoynted y t euery man shoulde diligently trauayle take paynes in his vocation to the ende he woulde haue hym humble feare God Eccle. i. d. (c) There is no difference betwixt a man and a beast as touchyng the body whych of them both dyeth but the soule of man liueth immortally and the body of man riseth vp agayne by the mighty power of the spirite of God The immortalitie of the soule is not knowen by carnall reason or
where thou hast scatered vs. 14 Heare our prayers O Lorde and our petitions bring vs out of captiuitie for thyne owne sake get vs fauour in the sight of them which haue led vs away 15 That all landes may know that thou art the Lorde our God and that Israel and his generation calleth vpon thy name 16 O Lorde loke downe from thy holy house vpon vs encline thyne eare and heare vs. 17 Open thyne eyes and beholde for the dead that be gone downe to their graues whose soules are out of their bodies ascribe vnto the Lorde neither prayse nor righteousnes 18 But the soule that is vexed for the multitude of her sinnes which goeth on heauyly and weakly whose eyes begin to faile yea such a soule ascribeth prayse and righteousnes vnto the Lorde 19 For we poure out our prayers before thee and require mercie in thy sight O Lorde our God not for any godlynes of our fathers 20 But because thou hast sent out thy wrath and indignation vpon vs according as thou diddest threaten vs by thy seruauntes the prophetes saying 21 Thus saith the Lorde Bowe downe your shoulders and neckes and serue the king of Babylon so shall ye remaine still in the lande that I gaue vnto your fathers 22 But if ye wyll not heare the voyce of the Lorde your God to serue the king of Babylon 23 I wyll destroy you in the cities of Iuda within Hierusalem and without I wyll also take from you the voyce of mirth and the voyce of ioy the voyce of the bridegrome and the voyce of the bride and there shal no man dwel more in the lande 24 But they would not hearken vnto thy voyce to do the king of Babylon seruice and therefore hast thou perfourmed the wordes that thou spakest by thy seruauntes the prophetes namely that the bones of our kinges and the bones of our fathers should be translated out of their places 25 And lo nowe are they layde out in the heate of the sunne and in the colde of the night and dead in great miserie with hunger with sword with pestilence and are cleane cast foorth 26 As for the temple wherein thy name was called vpō thou hast layd it waste as it is to see this day and that for the wickednesse of the house of Israel and the house of Iuda 27 O Lorde our God thou hast intreated vs after all thy goodnes and according to all that great louing mercie of thyne 28 Lyke as thou spakest by thy seruaunt Moyses in the day when thou diddest commaunde him to write thy lawe before the children of Israel saying 29 If ye wyl not hearkē vnto my voyce then shall this great multitude be turned into a very small people among the nations for I wyll scatter them abrode 30 Notwithstanding I am sure that this folke wyl not heare me for it is an hard necked people but in the lande of their captiuitie they shall remember them selues 31 And learne to know that I am the Lorde their God when I geue them an heart to vnderstande and eares to heare 32 Then shal they prayse me in the lande of their captiuitie and thinke vpon my name 33 Then shal they turne them from their harde backes and from their vngodlines then shall they remember the thinges that happened vnto their fathers which sinned against me 34 So wyll I bring them againe into the lande which I promysed with an oth vnto their fathers Abraham Isahac and Iacob and they shal be lordes of it yea I wyll encrease them and not minishe them 35 And I wyll make an other couenaunt with them such one as shall endure for euer namely that I will be their God and they shal be my people and I will no more dryue my people the children of Israel out of the lande that I haue geuen them The .iii. Chapter 1 The people continueth in their prayer begun for their deliueraunce 9 He prayseth wysdome vnto the people shewing that so great aduersities came vnto them for the despising therof 36 Only God was the finder of wysdome 37 Of the incarnation of Christ 1 ANd nowe O Lorde almightie thou God of Israel our soule that is in trouble and our spirite that is vexed cryeth vnto thee 2 Heare vs O Lord and haue pitie vpon vs for thou art a mercifull God be gracious vnto vs for we haue sinned before thee 3 Thou endurest for euer shoulde we then vtterly perishe 4 O Lorde almightie thou God of Israel heare nowe the prayer of the dead Israelites and of their children whiche haue sinned before thee and not hearkened vnto the voyce of the Lorde their God for the whiche cause these plagues hang nowe vpon vs. 5 O Lord remember not the wickednesse of our forefathers but thinke vpon thy power and name nowe at this time 6 For thou art the Lorde our God and thee O Lorde will we prayse 7 For thou hast put thy feare in our heartes to the intent that we should call vpon thy name and prayse thee in our captiuitie that we might turne from the wickednesse of our forefathers that sinned before thee 8 Behold we are yet this day in our captiuitie where as thou hast scattered vs to be an abhomination curse and subiect to exactions like as it hath happened vnto our fathers also because of al their wickednesse and departing from thee 9 O Israel heare the commaundementes of lyfe ponder them well with thyne cares that thou maiest learne wisdome 10 But howe happeneth it Israel that thou art in thyne enemies lande thou art waxen olde in a straunge countrey and defiled with the dead 11 Why art thou become lyke them that go downe to their graues 12 Euen because thou hast forsaken the well of wysdome 13 For if thou hadst walked in the way of God truely thou shouldest haue remayned still safe in thyne owne lande 14 O learne then where is wysdome where vertue is where vnderstanding is that thou mayest knowe also from whence commeth long continuaunce and lyfe the light of the eyes and quietnesse 15 Who euer founde out her place or who came euer into her treasures 16 Where are the princes of the heathen become and such as ruled the beastes vpon the earth 17 They that had their pastime with the foules of the ayre they that hoorded vp siluer gold wherin men trust so much and made no end of their gathering 18 What is become of them that coyned siluer and were so carefull and coulde not bring their workes to passe 19 They be rooted out and gone downe to hell and other men are come vp in their steades 20 Young men haue seene light and dwelt vpon earth but the way of reformation haue they not knowen 21 Nor vnderstande the pathes thereof neither haue their children receaued it yea right farre is it from them 22 It hath not ben heared of in the land of Chanaan neither hath it
ben seene at Theman 23 The Agarenes sought after wisdome but that whiche is earthly like as the marchauntes of the lande do they of Theman are cunning also they labour for wysdome vnderstanding but the way of true wysedome they knowe not neither do they thinke vpon the pathes therof 24 O Israel howe great is the house of God and howe large is the place of his possession 25 Great is he and hath none ende yea hye and vnmeasurable 26 What is become of those famous giauntes that were so great of bodies and so worthy men of warre 27 Those hath not the Lorde chosen neither haue they founde the way of reformation 28 Therfore were they destroyed and for so much as they had no wysdome they perished because of their foolishenesse 29 Who hath gone vp into heauen to take wisdome there and brought her downe from the cloudes 30 Who hath gone ouer the sea to fynde her and hath chosen her aboue golde and so brought her hyther 31 No man knoweth the wayes of wysedome neither is there any that can seke out her pathes 32 But he hath woteth all thinges knoweth her and hath founde her out with his foreknowledge this same is he whiche prepared the earth at the beginning and filled it with all maner of foules and beastes 33 When he sendeth out the light it goeth and when he calleth it againe it obeyeth him with feare 34 The starres kepe their watch and geue their light yea and that gladly When he calleth them they say Here we be and so with chearfulnesse they shewe light vnto him that made them 35 This is our God and there shal none other be compared vnto him 36 It is he that hath founde out all wysedome and hath geuen her vnto Iacob his seruaunt and to Israel his beloued 37 Afterwarde did he shewe hym selfe vpon earth and dwelt among men The .iiii. Chapter 1 The reward of them that kepe the lawe and the punishment of them that despise it 12 A comforting of the people beyng in captiuitie 19 A complaynt of Hierusalem and vnder the figure therof of the church 25 A consolation and comforting of the same 1 THis is the booke of the commaundementes of God and the law that endureth for euer all they that kepe it shall come to lyfe but such as forsake it shall come to death 2 Turne thee O Iacob and take holde of it walke by this way thorowe his brightnesse and shyne 3 Geue not thyne honour to another and thy worship to a straunge people 4 O Israel howe happy are we seyng that God hath shewed vs such thinges as are pleasaunt vnto hym 5 Be of good cheare thou people of God O thou auncient Israel 6 Now are ye solde among the heathen howbeit not for your vtter destruction but because ye prouoked God the Lorde to wrath and displeasure therfore were ye deliuered vnto your enemies 7 For ye displeased the euerlasting God that made you offering vnto deuils and not to God 8 Ye haue forgotten hym that brought you vp and ye haue greeued Hierusalem that nursed you 9 When she sawe that the wrath of God was comming vpon you she said Hearken O ye that dwell about Sion for God hath brought me into great heauinesse 10 And why I see the captiuitie of my people of my sonnes and daughters which the euerlasting God will bring vpon them 11 With ioy dyd I norishe them but nowe must I leaue them with weeping and sorowe 12 Let no man reioyce ouer me wyddowe and forsaken which for the sinnes of my children am defolate of euery man For why they departed from the lawe of God 13 They woulde not know his righteousnesse nor walke in the way of his commaundementes and as for the pathes of trueth and godlinesse they had no lust to go in them 14 O ye dwellers about Sion come and let vs call to remembraunce the captiuitie that the euerlasting God hath brought vpon my sonnes my daughters 15 He hath brought a people vpon them from farre an vncurteous people and of a straunge language whiche neither regarde the olde nor pitie the young 16 These haue caried away the deare beloued of my widdowes leauing me alone both desolate and childlesse 17 But alas what can I helpe you 18 Nowe he that brought these plagues vpon you deliuer you also from the handes of your enemies 19 Go your way O my children go your way for I am desolate and forsaken 20 I haue put of the clothing of peace put vpon me the sacke cloth of prayer and for my time I will call vpon the most hyghest 21 Be of good cheare O my children crye vnto the Lorde and he shall deliuer you from the power of the princes your enemies 22 For veryly I haue euer a good hope of your prosperous health yea a very gladnesse is come vpon me from the holy one because of the mercie that ye shal haue of our euerlasting sauiour 23 With mourning and weeping dyd I let you go fro me but with ioy and perpetuall gladnesse shall the Lorde bring you againe vnto me 24 Like as the neyghbours of Sion saw your captiuitie from God euen so shall they also see shortly your health in God which shall come on you with great honour and euerlasting worship 25 O my children suffer patiently the wrath that shal come vpon you for the enemie hath persecuted thee but shortly thou shalt see his destruction and shalt treade vpon his necke 26 My dearlinges haue gone rough hard wayes for they are led away as a flocke that is scattered abrode with the enemies 27 But be of good comfort O my children and crye vnto the Lorde for he that led you away hath you yet in remembraunce 28 And like as ye haue ben mynded to swarue from your God so shall ye now endeuour your selues ten times more to turne againe and to seke him 29 For he that hath brought these plagues vpon you shall bring you euerlasting ioy againe with your health 30 Take a good heart vnto thee O Hierusalem for he whiche gaue thee that name exhorteth thee so to do 31 The wicked doers that now put thee to trouble shall perishe such as haue reioyced at thy fall shal be punished 32 The cities whom thy children serue and that haue caryed away thy sonnes shal be corrected 33 For like as they be nowe glad of thy decay and reioyce at thy fal so shal they mourne in their owne destruction 34 The ioy of their multitude shal be taken away and their cheare shal be turned to sorowe 35 For a fire shall fall vpon them from the euerlasting God long to endure it shal be inhabited of deuyls for a great season 36 O Hierusalem loke about thee toward the east and beholde the ioy that commeth vnto thee from God 37 For lo thy sonnes whom thou hast forsaken and that were scattered abrode come gathered
neither the power of God 25 For when they shall ryse agayne from the dead they neither marry nor are geuen in maryage but are as the Angels which are in heauen 26 As touchyng the dead that they ryse agayne haue ye not read in the booke of Moyses howe in the bushe God spake vnto him saying I am the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Iacob 27 He is not the God of the dead but God of the lyuyng Ye therefore do greatly erre 28 And when there came one of the scribes had heard them disputyng together and perceaued that he had aunswered them well he asked him which is the first of all the cōmaundementes 29 Iesus aunswered hym the first of all the commaundementes is Heare O Israel The Lorde our God is one Lorde 30 And thou shalt loue the Lorde thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soule and with all thy mynde and with all thy strength This is the first commaundement 31 And the seconde is lyke vnto this Thou shalt loue thy neyghbour as thy selfe There is none other commaundement greater then these 32 And the scribe sayde vnto hym well maister thou hast sayde the trueth for there is one God there is none but he 33 And to loue hym with all the heart and with all the vnderstandyng with all the soule and with all the strength and to loue a mans neyghbour as hym selfe is greater then all the burnt offerynges and sacrifices 34 And when Iesus sawe that he aunswered discretely he sayde vnto hym Thou art not farre from the kingdome of God And no man after that durst aske hym any question 35 And Iesus aunswered and sayde teachyng in the temple howe say the scribes that Christe is y e sonne of Dauid 36 For Dauid hym selfe inspired with the holy ghost sayde The Lorde saide to my Lorde sit on my right hande tyll I make thyne enemies thy footestoole 37 Dauid hym selfe calleth hym Lorde and howe is he then his sonne And much people hearde hym gladly 38 And he sayde vnto them in his doctrine beware of the scribes whiche desire to go in long clothyng and salutations in the market places 39 And the chiefe seates in the congregations and the vppermost rowmes at feastes 40 Which deuoure widdowes houses vnder a pretence make long prayers These shal receaue greater dampnatiō 41 ☞ And when Iesus sate ouer agaynst the treasurie he behelde howe the people put money into the treasurie And many that were rich cast in much 42 And there came a certayne poore widdowe she threwe in two mites which make a farthyng 43 And he called vnto hym his disciples and sayth vnto them Veryly I say vnto you that this poore widdowe hath cast more in then all they which haue cast into the treasurie 44 For they all dyd cast in of their superfluitie but she of her pouertie dyd cast in all that she had euen all her lyuyng ☜ ¶ The .xiij. Chapter ¶ 2 The destruction of the temple 24 signes before Christes commyng 32 the day and houre thereof is vnknowen 31 Gods worde shall not passe away 35 watche and pray 1 AND as he went out of the temple one of his disciples sayde vnto hym Maister see what stones what buildynges are here 2 And Iesus aunswered sayde vnto hym Seest thou these great buildynges There shall not be left one stone vpon another that shall not be throwen downe 3 And as he sate vpon the mount of Oliues ouer agaynst the temple Peter and Iames and Iohn and Andrewe asked hym secretely 4 Tell vs when shall these thynges be And what shal be the signe when all these thynges shal be fulfylled 5 And Iesus aunswered them and began to say take heede lest any man deceaue you 6 For many shall come in my name saying I am Christe and shall deceaue many 7 When ye shall heare of warres and tidynges of warres be ye not troubled For such thynges must nedes be but the ende is not yet 8 For there shall nation aryse agaynst nation and kyngdome agaynst kyngdome And there shal be earthquakes in diuers places and famine shall there be and troubles These are the begynnyng of sorowes 9 But take ye heede to your selues For they shall deliuer you vp to councels and to synagogues and ye shal be beaten yea and shal be brought before rulers kynges for my sake for a testimoniall vnto them 10 And the Gospel must first be published among all nations 11 But when they leade you and present you be not carefull aforehande neither take thought what ye shall speake but whatsoeuer is geuen you in the same houre that speake ye For it is not ye that speake but the holy ghost 12 The brother shall betray the brother to death and the father the sonne and the chyldren shall ryse agaynst their fathers and mothers and shall put them to death 13 And ye shal be hated of all men for my names sake But who so endureth vnto the ende the same shal be safe 14 Moreouer when ye see the abhomination of desolation wherof is spoken by Daniel the prophete stande where it ought not let hym that readeth vnderstande then let them that be in Iurie flee to the mountaynes 15 And let hym that is on y e house toppe not go downe into the house neither enter therin to fetch any thyng out of his house 16 And let hym that is in the fielde not turne backe agayne vnto the thynges which he left behynde hym for to take his garmente with hym 17 Wo shal be then to them that are with chylde and to them that geue sucke in those dayes 18 But pray ye that your flyght be not in the Wynter 19 For there shal be in those dayes such tribulation as was not from the begynnyng of creatures which God created vnto this tyme neither shal be 20 And except that the Lorde shoulde shorten those dayes no fleshe shoulde be saued But for the electes sake whom he hath chosen he hath shortened those dayes 21 And then yf any man say to you lo here is Christe lo he is there beleue not 22 For false Christes and false prophetes shall ryse and shall shewe signes and wonders to deceaue yf it were possible euen the elect 23 But take ye heede Beholde I haue shewed you all thynges before 24 Moreouer in those dayes after that tribulation the sunne shall waxe darke and the moone shall not geue her light 25 And the starres of heauen shall fall and the powers which are in heauen shal be shaken 26 And then shall they see the sonne of man commyng in the cloudes with great power and glory 27 And then shall he sende his Angels and shall gather together his elect from the foure wyndes from the ende of the earth to the vtmost part of heauen 28 Learne a parable of the fygge tree
When his braunche is yet tender and hath brought foorth leaues ye knowe that sommer is neare 29 So ye in lyke maner when ye see these thynges come to passe vnderstand that he is nye euen at the doores 30 Veryly I say vnto you that this generation shall not passe tyll all these thynges be done 31 Heauen and earth shall passe away but my wordes shall not passe away 32 But of that day and tyme knoweth no man no not the Angels which are in heauen neither the sonne him selfe saue the father only 33 Take heede watche and pray for ye knowe not when the tyme is 34 As a man which is gone into a straunge countrey and hath left his house and geuen auctoritie to his seruauntes and to euery man his worke and commaunded the porter to watche 35 Watche ye therfore for ye knowe not whē the maister of the house wyl come at euen or at mydnyght whether at the cocke crowyng or in the dawnyng 36 Lest yf he come sodenly he fynde you slepyng 37 And that I say vnto you I say vnto all watche ¶ The .xiiij. Chapterr ¶ 1 The hygh priestes conspire agaynst Christe 3 A woman powreth precious oyntment on Christes head 10 Iudas for money betrayeth Christe 12 the Passouer is prepared and eaten 22 the institution of the Lordes Supper 25 Christes prayers and agonie in Gethsemani 46 the takyng and examinyng of Christe before the hygh priest 67 Peter denieth Christe 72 and weepeth 1 AFter two dayes was the feaste of the Passouer of vnleuened bread And the hye priestes and the scribes sought howe they myght take him by craft and put hym to death 2 But they sayde not in the feast day lest any busines arise among the people 3 And when he was at Bethanie in the house of Simon the leper euen as he sate at meate there came a woman hauyng an alabaster boxe of very precious oyntment called Narde pistike and she brake the boxe and powred it on his head 4 And there were some that had indignation within them selues and sayde what neded this waste of oyntment 5 For it myght haue ben solde for more then three hundred pence and haue ben geuen to the poore And they grudged agaynst her 6 And Iesus sayde let her alone why trouble ye her She hath done a good worke on me 7 For ye haue poore with you alwayes and whensoeuer ye wyll ye may do thē good but me haue ye not alwayes 8 She hath done that she coulde she came aforehande to annoynt my body to the burying 9 Veryly I say vnto you whersoeuer this Gospel shal be preached throughout the whole worlde this also that she hath done shal be rehearsed in remembraunce of her 10 And Iudas Iscariot one of the twelue went away vnto y e hye priestes to betray hym vnto them 11 When they hearde that they were glad and promised that they woulde geue hym money And he sought howe he myght conueniently betray hym 12 And the first day of vnleuened bread when they dyd sacrifice the Passouer his disciples sayde vnto hym Where wylt thou that we go and prepare that thou mayest eate the Passouer 13 And he sendeth foorth two of his disciples and sayth vnto them Go ye into the citie there shall meete you a man bearing a pitcher of water folowe him 14 And whyther soeuer he goeth in say ye to the good man of the house the maister sayth Where is the ghest chaumber where I shall eate the Pasouer with my disciples 15 And he wyll shewe you a large vpper chaumber paued and prepared there make redy for vs. 16 And his disciples went foorth came into the citie founde as he had sayd vnto them they made redy the Passouer 17 And when it was nowe euen tyde he came with the twelue 18 And as they sate at boord dyd eate Iesus sayde Veryly I say vnto you one of you that eateth with me shall betray me 19 And they began to be sory and to say to hym one by one is it I And another sayde is it I 20 He aunswered and sayde vnto them It is one of the twelue euen he that dyppeth with me in the platter 21 The sonne of man truely goeth as it is written of hym but wo to that man by whom the sonne of man is betrayed Good were it for that man yf he had neuer ben borne 22 And as they dyd eate Iesus toke bread and whē he had blessed he brake it and gaue to them and sayde Take eate this is my body 23 And he toke the cup and when he had geuen thankes he toke it to them and they all dranke of it 24 And he sayde vnto them This is my blood of the newe Testament which is shed for many 25 Veryly I say vnto you I wyll drinke no more of the fruite of the vine vntyll that day that I drinke it newe in the kyngdome of God 26 And when they had praysed God they went out into y e mount of Oliues 27 And Iesus sayth vnto them All ye shal be offended because of me this nyght For it is written I wyll smyte the sheepehearde and the sheepe shal be scattered 28 But after that I am risen agayne I wyll go into Galilee before you 29 Peter sayde vnto hym Although all men be offended yet wyll not I. 30 And Iesus sayth vnto hym Veryly I say vnto thee that this day euen in this night before the cocke crowe twise thou shalt deny me three tymes 31 But he spake more vehemently no yf I shoulde dye with thee I wyll not deny thee Likewise also sayde they all 32 And they came into a place which was named Gethsemani and he sayth to his disciples Sit ye heare whyle I shall pray 33 And he taketh with hym Peter and Iames and Iohn and began to waxe abasshed and to be in an agonie 34 And sayth vnto them My soule is heauie euen vnto the death tarry ye here and watche 35 And he went foorth a litle and fell flat on the grounde and prayed that yf it were possible the houre myght passe from hym 36 And he sayde Abba father all thynges are possible vnto thee take away this cup from me Neuerthelesse not that I wyll but that thou wylt be done 37 And he came founde them slepyng and sayth vnto Peter Simon slepest thou Couldest not thou watche one houre 38 Watche ye and pray lest ye enter into temptation the spirite truely is redy but the fleshe is weake 39 And agayne he went asyde prayed and spake the same wordes 40 And he returned and founde them a slepe agayne For their eyes were heauie neither wist they what to aunswere hym 41 And he came the thirde tyme sayde vnto them slepe hencefoorth and take your ease it is inough The houre is come beholde the sonne of man is betrayed into the handes of sinners