be If Sergeant thee in prison set Thence till thou pay thou shalt not get Of Adultery It was of old time also said Commit not thou adultery But I say looke you be affrayd To gaze on women lustfully Who so doth so doth for his part Commit adult'rie in his hart If thy right eye or hand offend Plucke out or cut and cast away For it is to a better end One member perish and decay Then all thy body thou know'st well Should wholly so be cast to hell Of Diuorcement It hath bene said who so had sent His wife away he giuing her A letter of their diuorcement Had not bene then an offender Except the wife a whore be found To liue with her the man is bound Who so commits adultery The man or woman doth amisse And for that fault may verely Diuorced be as reason is No such offender may therefore While th'other liues match any more Of Othes Againe of old they did forbid Forswearing for the same is ill Of othes each man his house should rid So to obay Iehouahs will Othes rightly made do not delay For to performe the same alway But otherwise sweare not at all No not by heau'n the throne of God Nor by the earth for so ye fall In danger to deserue his rod. Nor by Ierusalem for this The Citie of the king it is Nor by thine head thou canst not make One haire thereof as blacke or white Most vaine are they that othes do take And vaine those that in othes delight Let ye and nay declare your will What so is more doth come of ill Of Reuenge Reuenge not though the law be so That eye or tooth must be repayde When one doth smite thee as a foe Vse patience be not dismay'd And he that for thy coate will sue Giue him thy cloake and more then due If one compell thee for a myle Do thou at least go with him twaine The asker do thou not reuile Giue thou and lend without disdaine To do men good be ready still And slow to do thy neighbour ill Loue thine enemie Loue thou say they thy neighbour well Thine enemy thy selfe may hate Of vertues loue doth all excell What so the Pharisies do prate Your enemies loue not the worse And blesse you them that do you curse Do good to them that do you hate Pray for them that you persecute They sure shall haue a blessed state My fathers will that execute He makes his sunne and rayne to fall On good and bad alike to all If man do loue or frendly be To him that doth to him the same What thankes for that deserueth he Each sinner must do this for shame Haue you therefore regard of this Be perfit as your father is Almes By sound of trumpe and in mens sight As hypocrites are wont to do To giue thine almes is not aright They gape for prayse and get no mo In secret giue what God hath sent God will reward thy good intent Prayer Pray not as hypocrites do pray All open to be seene of men But when thy prayers thou will say Shut close in chamber be thou then Pray to thy father secretly He will reward thee openly Much babling see thou do not vse Nor repetitions they are vaine The heathen hope for like abuse Some great reward thereby to gaine Be not like them for God in deed Before ye aske doth know your need The Lordes Prayer Pray thus when ye do pray therefore Our father which in heauen art Thy name be hallow'd euermore Thy kingdome we desire in hart Thy will in earth make vs to do As it in heau'n is euen so Giue vs this day our dayly bread Our debtes forgiue vs we thee pray As we our debters do and lead Vs not Oh Lord by any way Into temptation but see From euill we deliu'red be For thine good Lord the kingdome sure The power and the glorie is For euermore for to endure Which liuest in eternall blisse Let this be done oh Lord we pray In heart whereto Amen we say To forgiue one another If ye mens trespasses forgiue Your heau'nly father will againe Forgiue you yours you while you liue In loue and concord must remaine If you forgiue not other men Your faultes God will not forgiue then Fast Moreouer when that ye do fast Looke not sowre as the hypocrite That time as vayne they vainly wast For God therein hath no delite Their faces they disfigure to That men may see what then they do When thou doest fast annoint thy head And let thy face then washed be Seeme not to men as one halfe dead Let God thy deedes in secret see Thy heau'nly father both regards Thy fast and theirs haue their rewards The carefull seeking of worldly things forbidden On earth hoord vp no treasure so Where moath and canker eate apace Lest with them you do heape on woe There theeues men voyde of better grace Breake vp thus they for riches deale When digging through mēs wealth they steale But lay your treasures vp aboue In heau'n where none of these are found You on your treasures set your loue Lay not your loue so on this ground But lay it where is no decay Earth will corrupt and fade away The eye doth giue the body light And reason rules the inner man If cleare and sound remaine the sight No darknesse hurt that body can If thine eye wicked be then marke Sure all thy body shall be darke Two masters well no man can serue For truly he the one will hate And for the other loue reserue This of mans life is right the state God and your riches disagree They may not both then serued be Set not your care on meate and drinke Nor yet on your apparell so You with your selues must alwayes thinke That howsoeuer here ye go He that gaue life and body will Prouide you meate and clothing still The fowles of heau'n ye may behold To sow or reape they haue no care They neither want nor suffer cold Much better farre then them ye are Your heau'nly father feedeth these And so will you if you him please Which of you can by taking care One cubite ad vnto his length Clothing you know what things they are Who giueth them and giueth strength Learne of the lyllies how they grow To spinne or carde they do not know Yet Salomon to you I say Was not aray'd like one of theafe The grasse if God do so aray Can he not cloth you if he please The faithfull neuer fayle to speed God more regards you then a weed For meate for drinke for cloth alway Take ye no thought at all therefore The Gentiles seeke these day by day Your heau'nly father euermore Will all your wants relieue in deed He knoweth well what things ye need Gods kingdome if ye do seeke first You can not wish but you
in deed Go thou and do thâ—â— thou shalt liue But he in hope of better speed A new assault to Christ would giue Who is my neighbour then said he This thing I would faine learne of thee Then Iesus answering said so A certaine man went by the way That leadeth downe to Iericho Where among theeues he fell â—hat day Robbed and wounded there he was And left halfe dead so on the grasse By chance a Priest came by that way Which when he saw him passed by Likewise a Leuite where he lay Did looke on him and let him lye But a Samaritan by chaunce Came by and saw him in his traunce Which sight so mouing then his heart He tooke on him compassion Whereof before he did depart He made full declaration He powred in and also bound Both wine and oyle into his wound And not contented yet with this He set him vp on his owne beast And brought him to an inne of his Where he prouided for his rest And on the morow ere he went He told the host his whole intent Lo take these two pence that I giue Haue care of this man I thee pray His wants therewith do thou relieue What more he spends I will thee pay Which thinkest thou now of these three To him most neighbour like to be The Lawyer answering did say The mercifull was euen he Go thou said Christ then hence away And do as this man teacheth thee To eu'ry one in miserie Shew thou like liberalitie Marie and Martha entertaine Christ Now as they further passed on Into a certaine towne they came Where was the habitation Of one that Martha had to name Who to her house receiued tho Christ and those that with him did go Her sister Marie men did call Which also sate at Iesus feete And heard his preaching as then all Most heedfully as it was meete But Martha was most busily Prouiding for the company Martha therefore to Iesus said Master regardest not thou this That all the care on me is layd And that my sister sitting is Bid her therefore that she helpe me So shalt thou better serued be And Iesus answerd her againe Oh Martha Martha thou hast care For many things put thee to paine And helpers very needfull are The good part Marie chose in deed And she there after sure shall speed Christ rising from prayer was requested of one of his Disciples to teach them as Iohn taught his Disciples to pray As Iesus was praying with his In the desert as some suppose Which vnto Ephraim nearest is And from his prayers as he rose Of his Disciples one did say Teach vs as Iohn taught his to pray He soone of him had his request He was not long enforc'd to craue Christs readinesse this well exprest As he to them example gaue In their distresse both night and day That they as he them taught should pray Our father which in heauen art Thy name be euer sanctified Thy kingdome come withall my heart I wish the same accomplished Thy will in earth be done we pray As thine in heau'n do it alway Our daily bread giue vs this day Our sinnes also to vs forgiue As we our debters do I say That vs in any wise do grieue Let vs by no illusion Be lead into temptation But Lord from euill vs defend And gratiously deliuer all That we which do on thee depend By frailtie from thee neuer fall Graunt these requests oh Lord we pray To vs and thy whole Church alway Amen Moreouer Christ vnto them said Which of you all shall haue a friend And shall when he in bed is layd Haue cause to go to him or send And say a friend to me is come Bread I haue none now lend me some And he within should answer so Why doest thou trouble me I say I pray thee to some other go I must at this time say thee nay The doore is shut my children be In bed I cannot come to thee I say though he would not arise Nor thee regard as should a friend Yet when he seeth thee in such wise Importunat he will thee lend Of bread or meate what thou doest craue Or what thy need requires to haue Aske then it shall be giuen thee And they that seeke shall surely finde Knock I will open then said he For God to them that call is kinde He loueth such men verely As pray vnto him heartely If you for bread giue not a stone Nor for a fish a serpent send When that your sonnes for want do mone If good things you do giue and lend How much more shall the father he Giue good gifts if thou aske to thee Christ cast out a deuill and the dumbe man spake Then they brought vnto Iesus one Possessed with a deuill that day And him for helpe they call vpon The man was dumbe withall I say Though these impediments had he Yet with a word Christ made him free The multitude amazed were And pâ—aâ—â—ed God with heart and voice The sonne said they of Dauid here Doth giue vs cause for to reioyce And now assured all we be That Christ the Lord the same is he A woman that his workes did see And heard how he taught great and small â—â—id blest is the wombe that bare thee And pappes that gaue thee suck withall But Christ said blest they rather are That Gods word heare and keepe with care The Iewes required asigne Christ to the people said againe This wicked generation Adulterous and verie vaine Though signes they do depend vpon No signe to them shall giuen be But that of Ionas they shall see As to the Niniuites was he That three dayes in the Whale did lie The sonne of man shall shortly be The like to these assuredly The signe that Ionas to them gaue I shall giue these so long in graue The men of Niniuie shall rise And these condemne assuredly They did not Ionas words despise But did repent immediatly A greater then Ionas is here Yet small repentance doth appeare The Queene of Saba she shall rise In iudgement with these men also And them she shall condemne likewise That so farre from her home would go To heare king Solomon I say His greater you do heare this day Christ dining with one of the Pharisies and misliked for eating with vnwashen hands answered them and rebuked their hypocrisie As Iesus taught the people then There came to him a Pharisie Requesting him and all his men To dine with him immediatly Then he went in with him to meate And sitting downe began to eate But when the Pharisie did see That Christ sat downe vnwasht before He maruaild what the cause might be For they did vse it euermore They sit not downe at all to meate But first they wash before they eate Indeed said Christ to him againe Ye do make cleane the vtter side Of cup or platter all in vaine Bewraying still your foolish pride But they
lifted vp his eyes On his Disciples saying this Ye poore are blessed euen thrise For yours Gods kingdome surely is Ye that now hunger blessed are You shall be sure of better fare And ye that weepe yet blessed are For ye shall likewise laugh againe When men hate you take ye no care And when they do procure your paine Nor yet when they you separate Reuiling at your base estate If for the sonne of mans sake they Your names put out as euill men Reioyce ye greatly God obay And be in heart glad of it then Behold in heau'n reward haue ye The Prophets were as now ye be But woe to them that rich are here And do repose thereon their trust The day will come it shall appeare They dearly bought vile earth and dust In heau'n true treasure may be found Each thing corrupts that growes in ground Woe be to you that now are full For yee shall hunger after this If you were not exceeding dull For meate ye would not morgage blisse Woe be to you that now laugh so For you shall waile and weepe for wo. Woe be to you whom men do praise And speake well of deseruing ill When yee haue spent out all your dayes You shall bewray what was your will False Prophets were by like deuise Among your elders had in price But vnto you which heare I say Your enemies see that yee loue To them that hate you if ye may Shew how my doctrine doth you moue To do them good and blesse withall And pray for them that wish your fall To him that smiteth thee also Vpon one cheeke the other giue Who so thy cloake would take thee fro Giue him thy coate and do not grieue To purchase so a quiet life And stirre thou no debate or strife Giue eu'ry man that asketh thee And he that takes thy goods away By force or fraude how so it be Aske thou them not againe I say But vnto other men so do As thou wouldst be of them done to If that ye loue do good or lend To them that do requite the same Each sinner so doth for his friend You should do more then such for shame Be mercifull to such as need For so your father is indeed Christ healed the Centurions seruant being absent the Centurions faith After that Christ had finished His Sermon as you heard before From thence he likewise hastened For he desired more and more The worke he had in hand to end Which for our good did wholly tend As Capernaum he came to A Captaine there a Gentile borne Made for his seruant much adoe That seemed then a man forlorne He su'd by meanes his health to haue Christ with a word his life did saue The Captaines great humility And faith our Sauiour did commend In Israëll then certainly Like praise to none he did extend Of these said Christ shall many come To heau'n and haue the childrens roome Christ raised from death the widowes sonne at Naijm The next day after Christ did raise The widows sonne to life againe And all the people gaue God praise That present then did there remaine All they did spread abroad his fame That either saw or heard the same Iohn Baptists message to Christ by two of his disciples Iohn Baptist was in prison cast Herodias had obtaind the same And his disciples came in hast And told him there of Iesus fame Yet he in prison as before Would winne to Christ disciples more For when his workes to him were told That his disciples might beleeue In Iesus Christ Iohn said behold A message vnto you I giue Iohn knew him well assuredly As he oft times did testifie But that his might also perceiue That Christ the true Messiah was Of whom they should all grace receiue In whom they might all truth embrace Go ye and say Iohn sent to thee To aske if thou be euen he They went and both to Iesus came And said to him our maister sent To know if thou be sure the same Or else another that is meant Men knew as then that Christ should come How when or where that knew but some Christs answer sent backe to Iohn by his disciples Go back said Christ to Iohn againe Shew him what yee do heare and see The blinde and halt are rid of paine The leapers and the deafe go free The dead are raised vp this day The poore the gospell beare away And therewithall to them he gaue A gentle admonition His humblenesse that they might haue In reu'rent estimation Blessed said Christ shall that man be That taketh no offence by me Christs testimonie of Iohn Baptist When they were gone then Christ began To speake vnto the company What went yee out to see a man Infected with inconstancie Iohn you in wildernesse did finde Not as a reede shakt with the winde What went ye then out for to see A man cloathed in soft raiment Such men in kings courts vse to be Iohn is with meaner weed content Iohns raiment showes him to be plaine He flattred not he could not faine But what went yee out then to see A prophet I say to you more Of whom is written this is he My messenger shall go before This is Elias whom they say Should come for to prepare the way No greater among men did rise Then Iohn the Baptist verely Not any that you can deuice Yet this I say assuredly The least in heau'n goes him before And doth enioy Gods graces more Gods kingdome suffreth violence Since Iohns time to this very day The Gentiles with all diligence Without the law new cald obay The lawe and Prophets haue their end For he is come whom yee attend He that hath eares to heare may heare Marke what I say therefore amend Sith that Elyas did appeare The law and Prophets made an end Yet you remaine both deafe and blind That may your true Messiah find Christ reprooueth his auditorie This generation it is Like children that their fellowes call And say we piped haue iwis And yet yee daunced not at all So you deferre from day to day For to repent for all we say Hard was the life that Iohn did lead For meate and drinke he tooke no care He had a deuill men supposed The sonne of man they do compare With gluttons and with drunkards when He eateth meat as other men Christ vpbraideth the vnthankefull citties wherein he had taught and done so many miracles and yet they repented not Then Christ began for to vpbraid The citties that so oft had seene His workes and yet for all delaid For to repent as they had beene Cleane void of sinne or had no will To learne the good and leaue the ill Chorazin wo be vnto thee And to Bethsayda woe likewise The great works that were done by me In you yee greatly did despise If they in Tyrus had bene done It had repented long agone If Tyre and Sidon had I say
that paine Striue not so for that meate said he Striue for the meate I shall giue thee Then said they all what shall we do That worke the works of God we might Christ Iesus answered thereto And taught them how to do it right The worke of God with good intent Is to beleeue in whom he sent Shew vs some signe that we may see And so beleeue in thee they say Our fathers Manna had to be Their meate in the desert alway God gaue them bread from heau'n to eat And it was long our fathers meat And Iesus then said verely Not Moses but my father he Doth giue to you assuredly True bread from heau'n beleeue yee me The bread of God came downe I say And to the world giues life alway Then they againe to Iesus said Giue vs this bread Lord euermore The bread of life be not affraid I am he shall not hunger sore Nor thirst that doth beleeue in me So do not you for all you see They come to me whom God doth giue And them I do not cast away I loose not one that doth beleeue But raise him vp at the last day My fathers will not mine to do I came from heau'n this earth vnto The Iewes did murmure he said so I am the bread that downe did come What is this Iosephs sonne or no Is not he knowne to vs said some No man can come be sure said he But whom the father drawes to me Whom God hath taught come vnto me Not that the father sure hath bene Of any one saue onely he Which is of God said Iesus seene To him that doth in me beleeue Life euerlasting I do giue I am the bread of life in deed Your fathers Manna long did eate Yet are they dead so shall not speed Such as feed on this heau'nly meate My flesh it is the bread I giue Which is life to all that beleeue How can this man giue vs to eate His flesh say they can it so be My flesh except it be your meate Add that ye drinke my bloud said he Eternall life I say againe Doth not at all in you remaine Who so doth eate my flesh I say And drinkes my bloud hath life in deed Him I will raise at the last day But so shall not the wicked speed My flesh and bloud is faithfully Both meate and drinke assuredly He that doth eate my flesh is he And he that drinkes my bloud withall In whom I dwell and he in me As God the Father eternall Hath sent me so by him I liue And life to others I do giue From heau'n aboue came downe this bread Not as your fathers that did eate The Manna sent them yet are dead For he that eateth of this meate Shall liue and he shall neuer dye As sinners do eternally At Capernaum spake he this Where some of his Disciples were That said a hard thing sure it is Who can abide the same to heare Doth this offend you then said he What if I should ascend will ye It is the spirit that in deed Doth quicken not the flesh be sure In spirit this both life doth breed And nourish euer to endure For what I speake to end all strife To you is spirit and is life Yet some of you beleeue not this He knew them and the traitour to Therefore I told you how it is That come vnto me any do The father onely giues this grace To him that doth enioy the place So some went cleane from him away Then Iesus said vnto the rest Will ye depart from me this day And walke as they where you thinke best Shall we said Peter then at last Words of eternall life thou hast And we beleeue and know thou art The Christ the Sonne of God in deed And if we did from thee depart We should be sure full ill to speed Christ did againe the traitour note Least his Apostles should forgote Christ rebuked the Scribes and Pharisies for trangressing Gods commandements and answered their accusation against his Disciples for eating meate with vnwashen hands The Scribe and faithlesse Pharisie Came then our Sauiour Christ vnto Supposing by their subtiltie For to deface what he would do They from Hierusalem then came That so faine would his works defame Why thy Disciples do transgresse Of elders the tradition Do thou now vnto vs expresse This was at first their question For they say they wash not a hand When they eate meate we vnderstand O hypocrites said Christ againe You do Gods word still disobay Supposing you shall scape the paine That you do merite day by day He that his parents sure saith God Dishonoreth shall feele my rod. In words you worship but in vaine Lip labour liketh not the Lord A double heart he doth disdaine When words and deeds do well accord Then prayse and prayer he will heare Which neuer doth in you appeare It is not meate that hurteth man Which with the mouth he doth consume But euill thoughts which now and than Do moue the heart to fret and fume Or else deuise some euill deed Of this ye should take greatest heed Each plant my father planteth not Shall by the roote be pluckt againe Our God will not all his forgot When hypocrites do suffer paine These blindly still the blind do lead You haue no cause their craft to dread Christ cast a deuill out of the daughter of a woman of Canaan and healed many other From thence likewise did Iesus passe Of Tyre and Sydon through the cost Of such great care our Sauiour was To saue that else might there be lost He ceassed not but day by day Did good to all that would him pray Behold a woman came to him That did within those borders dwell Whose daughter was in eu'ry lymme Sore vexed with a deu'll of hell Christ she most earnestly did pray From her to driue the deu'll away Whose suite though seeming to deny Christ graunted vnto her at last When that he saw how faithfully She hop't his fauour for to tâ—st He gaue to her to do her good Some portion of the childrens food Christ returned thence againe into the costes of Galilie healed a deaffe man that stammered in his speach and many others and fed 4000. men besides women and children with seuen loaues Christ did returne yet then againe Into the costes of Galilie Their late contempt and deepe disdaine Withdrew not so his pietie Among the middest of wolues he still Protecteth safe his flocke from ill A deaffe man vnto Christ they brought That stambâ—ed in his speach also He graunted them what then they sought And healed him and let him go So that amazed in great feare They gaue God prayse all that were there He then vp to a mountaine went And sate him downe vpon the same And the people with full intent By multitudes vnto him come To heare his doctrine and to craue That they some helpe of him might haue They thither
your liues for now said he Gods kingdome is at hand you see He also healed each disease And sicknesse that the people had Afflicted folke by him found ease And eu'ry one of him was glad When once abroad was spread Christs fame In multitudes they to him came From all the regions round about Those then that had infirmities As palsie gripings or the gowt Came to him in great companies And each was eased of his sore To God alone be prayse therefore Amen THE THIRD PART OF THE HISTORIE OF OVR LORD AND SAVIOVR IESVS CHRIST containing those things which he did the second yeare after his Baptisme which was the xxxj yeare of his age according to the foure Euangelistes the yeare after the creation of the world 4172. beginning at the Sermon which Christ made in the mount CODOMANNVS To the tune of the Lordes Prayer vt sup CHrist did prepare all his in mind To seeke for treasure vp on hye In heau'n where as the godly find All happinesse eternally It is not health wealth shape or age That brings men to the heau'nly stage Therefore cleane contrary to those That taught true happinesse to be In earthly things this heau'nly rose A sweeter sent hath giuen thee To trace the tract that leadeth sure Where happinesse doth still endure When Christ the multitude did see A mountaine he went vp into When he was set where he would be To his Disciples he spake tho 1 The poore in spirite blessed are A kingdome God did them prepare 2 Blessed are they that mourne for good For they shall surely comfort haue Such to their power ill withstood And for amendment dayly craue 3 Blessed are they that meeke are found The earth they shall inherite round 4 Blessed are they which suffer thirst And hunger after righteousnesse For they said Christ shall as the first Be filled with all happinesse 5 The mercifull are blessed all They shall haue mercy when they call 6 Blessed are all the pure in heart They shall see God vndoubtedly 7 Peace makers they play such a part As pleaseth God assuredly Blessed are they therefore said he Gods children they shall called be 8 Blessed are they which patiently Do suffer persecution For righteousnesse they verely Shall after their affliction Gods kingdome in heauen possesse For so he will their griefes redresse 9 When men reuile you most of all And persecute you for my sake And falsly speaking ill withall If patiently you do it take You shall therefore find happinesse The salue to ease your heauinesse Reioyse also I say be glad When they haue done you greatest wrong You haue no cause for to be sad In heau'n shall you the Saints among Rewarded be as were before The Prophets whom they grieued sore Christ contrarie to the opinion of flesh and bloud and the doctrine of the Philosophers pronounceth a woe to those whom they thought happie But woe to them that are rich here And do therein repose their trust The day will come it shall appeare They dearely bought such drosse and dust True treasure in the heau'ns are found Each thing corrupteth in the ground Woe be to you that now are full For ye shall hunger after this If you were not exceeding dull For meate ye would not morgage blisse Woe be to you that now laugh so For you shall waile and weepe for wo. Woe be to you whom men do prayse And speake well of deseruing ill When you haue driuen out your dayes You shall bewray your wicked will False Prophets were by like deuice Among your elders had in price Christ teacheth his Disciples and in them all other Ministers what liues they should leade seeing they were appointed to be the salt of the earth and light of the whole world Next his Disciples he did teach What they should be in word and deed Lest when to others they did preach They to be taught should stand in need In life and manners he would haue Them honest wise and very graue Ye are the salt the earth doth yeeld If in the salt no sauour be It doth no good in house or field Men cast such out of doores we see As it could salt nothing before So it cannot be seasoned more Of all the world ye are the light A Citie set vpon an hill Can not be hid by wile or might And light a candle no man will To hide it with a bushell then When it should giue most light to men Let your light shine before men so That your good workes they all may see Your modest manners where ye go Example must to others be Your father that doth sit on hye In heau'n see you so glorifie Christ came to fulfill the law I am not come for to destroy The law or Prophets but fulfill I take in nothing so much ioy As to obey my fathers will Till heau'n and earth do all decay The law shall not be done away The least commandement exprest Who breakes and teacheth other so In heau'n he shall be counted least The contrarie who so will do Obseruing them and teach the same In heau'n he 〈◊〉 receiue a name I say except your righteousnesse Exceede the rigeteousnesse of these You shall be voyde of happinesse And heau'n as they for euer leese The Pharisies are verely Full fraught with all hypocrisie Christ interpreteth certaine Commandements or Lawes and first thou shalt not kill correcting the false interpretations of the Scribes and Pharisies Here Christ correcteth very well The doctrine of the Pharisie Ye haue ofttimes said he heard tell How they expounded sensuallie These wordes which haue bene said of old To kill another be not bold Who so say they doth kill shall be By iudgement therefore punished But maâ—ke what I say vnto thee Without cause who so is moued Against his brother angerly Is subiect to iudgement thereby Who Racha saith his brother to By counsell shall be punished Take heede therefore before ye do Ye may hereby be terrified Who so his brother foole will call In daunger of hell fire doth fall With hand with hart and so in word We often spill our neighbours life The hand doth vse to weild a sword The heart deuiseth bate and strife And wordes when one disdainfuâ— Reuileth as an enemy Christ would haue men to reconcile them selues one to another The greedy Pharisies they say That offrings and oblations please Which now men offer day by day Yet no man knowes his owne disease I say who doth his brother hate His gift is naught and worse his state If to the altar thou do bring Thy gift remembring some offence Against thy brother the lest thing Leaue there thy gift departing thence Go reconcile thy selfe againe Thine offring then is not in vaine Agree while thou art in the way With him that is at strife with thee Lest to the iudge without delay Deliuered by him thou
Deuided so in any land If Sathan cast out Sathan sure Or I by Beelzebub do so His kingdome cannot long endure One thing I aske you and no mo By whom do your sonnes cast them out They shall you iudge in this no doubt If through God cast out the same Then is his kingdome come this day If one man to a strong man came To spoile his house and runne away Can he his purpose bring to passe Ere he be bound that owner was But I by force gaue him the foyle Whose helpe you say I daily vse The more for you that I do toyle The more you still do me abuse He that on my side is not he Against me fully sure must be Blasphemie Each sinne and so each blasphemy Shall be forgiuen men I say If they repent it hartely And for remission do pray Except against the holy Ghost Of all this sinne offendeth most The sinne against the sonne of man Which oftentimes doth hap and chance Both francke and free remit I can For it may come of ignorance The works Gods spirit works are such That they cannot be hidden much Take heed ye do not then offend Or sinne against the holy Ghost God will not sure world without end Forgiue that sinne he hates it most The tree and fruit make good I say Or make both â—it to cast away As by the fruit we know the tree So by your wordes ye knowen are Oh vipers you that euill be Your speaches do your workes declare The hart it storeth good or ill Whereof the mouth doth sauour still Both good men and the euill show What treasure they haue hid in hart At the last iudgement you shall know How well or ill you plaide your part Vaine talke who so doth here affoord Shall answer for each idle word Christ denied the Iewes any signe sauing onely the signe of Ionas The Scribes and Pharisies withall Came tempting Christ and sought a signe As if on sight thereof they all From former faults would then decline But Christ that knew the inward mind With words they could not so make blind Christ answered and said againe Thou wicked generation Adulterous and very vaine Though signes thou doest depend vpon No signe shall geuen be to thee But that of Ionas thou shalt see As three dayes and three nights he was Within the whale all couered So shortly it will come to passe I shall in earth be buried Three dayes and three nights verely In graue the sonne of man shall lye Christ argued the Iewes of impenitencie The men of Niniuie shall rise With these and shall condemne them to They Ionas words did not despise But did repent as you should do One greater then Ionas is here Yet small repentance doth appeare The Queene of Saba she shall rise In Iudgement with these men also And them she shall condemne likewise That so farre from her home would go To heare king Salomon I say His greater yet you heare this day Christ prnounced an heauie sentence against such as reuolt from the truth receiued They which are once deliuered From vncleane spirits free and well Are after iustly punished If in them they againe do dwell Their last end sure farre worse shalbe Then was the first take this of me The vncleane spirit places dry Doth walke throughout seeking a rest Where faith where hope where charitie Is setled sure within mans brest It is so dried with Gods grace That deuils haue there no resting place Then he returneth home againe Into the house from whence he went For all this while he walkt in vaine And missed still of his intent This house he findeth swept within Cleane voide of vertue deckt with sinne Then taketh he seauen spirits more As ill as he in euery thing And dwels where he did dwell before His end is worse then beginning So shall it with this people be They mend not for all that they see This spirit is the deuill indeed His house is man where he doth dwell The drie place where he cannot speed Mans heart it is heat by God well With godly zeale and hate of sinne He rests not there though he come in Christ shewed who his mother sisters and brethren are While Christ spake to the company His mother and his brethren were Without desiring earnestly To talke with him as may appeare Then one of them that was there came And told our sauiour of the same But he preferring farre before The worke that he then had in hand Encreasing daily more and more He said to such as there did stand My mother and brethren be they That do my doctrine still obey My mother whom I loue so well My brethren whom I like also Are these and they marke what I tell For brother and sister shall go My friends they are who so do still Performe and keepe my fathers will The state of the kingdome of God set forth by seauen parables and first of the seed By parables Christ taught men plaine The state nature and worthinesse Of Gods word he did not disdaine To shew alwaies his readinesse His chosen in all things he may To helpe and winne them eu'ry way Christ though of late he had bene let And interrupted by his friends His office he did not forget For their great fault he made amends To the sea side from thence he went To preach againe with like intent And the same place was the sea side That by Genezaret doth lie Where he sat downe for to abide But preased on with company He tooke a ship wherein he sate And taught them as he had done late The people standing on the shore With diligence did giue him eare The multitude encreasing more The more of him did stand in feare Whose words and workes they all did see In eu'ry thing so well agree Behold said Christ a sower went To sowe his seed but some seed fell Farre otherwise then he had meant By the way side which could not well Yeeld fruite the fowle without delay Deuour'd them all so cleane away Some fell on stonie ground also Where they of earth had little store They sprung the rather there but lo The sunne rose vp and parcht them sore And so for lack of roote I say Anon they witherd all away Among the thornes some other fell Which springing vp were choakt withall Some fell in good ground and did well The same brought fruite where they did fall One corne an hundreth fold or moe Some sixtie some thirty also He that hath eares to heare may heare For herein the condition Of Gods word may to thee appeare The rule of thy saluation Three sorts decayed all you see The fourth yeelds onely fruite to me Then his disciples askt him why By parables he taught them then To you said Christ this verely Giu'n is to know not to those men The secrets of Gods kingdome ye Shall learne and know alwaies of me To you that haue
houre When he can make thereof no more Or when he heares one mocking say This man did worke well for a day What king also will purpose warre Ere he know what his strength may proue And will not rather send so farre And see if he some peace may moue He my Disciple that will be Forsaking all must follow me And sure what salt this earth doth yeeld If in the same no sauour be It doth no good in house or field Men cast it out at doores we see In salt of man this doth appeare He that hath eares to heare may heare The parable of the lost sheepe and the groat Then to Christ Iesus did resort Both Publicans and sinners to Such in his doctrine found comfort As still the penitent may do The Scribes and Pharisies disdain'd That Christ with sinners so remain'd Then Iesus said I came to saue That which my dearest bloud must cost How thinke ye if a rich man haue An hundred sheepe if one be lost Will he not leaue the rest behind And seeke that one till that he find Or else what woman doth not so If she ten siluer peeces had And loose but one will she not go Search till she finde and found is glad The Angels ioy as these in heart When that one sinner doth conuert The historie of the prodigall sonne Moreouer marke ye this said he Two sonnes a certaine rich man had Who cared much that they might be A cause to make his last age glad The younger led by lust would go To trauell farre his father fro Wherefore he to his father sayd Giue me that is my portion My suite let it not be denayd But make a iust diuision His substance he diuided tho And gaue him his and let him go This younger sonne did gather all His father gaue and went away From place to place as did befall In countreys strange this sonne did stray Till riot wasted all his wealth As whordome had impaird his health When he had spent all wilfully There rose a dearth throughout the land And he there pincht with penurie Was forc'd to go then out of hand To serue nor durst the man repine To keepe and feede his masters swine Where oft for want of better food Huskes with the swine this youth did eate And then the same thought very good For no man gaue him better meate And sometimes in his misery He wanted huskes assuredly Then came he to himselfe and sayd How many hired seruants be That finde my fathers house an ayde And there haue meate inough said he While I do liue thus lothsomely And neare for hunger daily dye I will vnto my father go And say to him I sinned haue Against both heau'n and thee also Forgiue me father now I craue And me receiue yet I thee pray No sonne but seruant from this day So he vnto his father went Who did his sonne from farre espy And ran to him incontinent Much pitying his misery And then vpon his necke he fell And kist him that he lou'd so well The sonne then to his father there Sayd I haue sinned against thee And am not worthie to be here Or call'd thy sonne that I should be For heau'n and earth can witnesse this That I haue runne my race amisse The father said his seruants to Bring forth my best robe vnto me To put on him this ring also And shoes on his feete I will see The fat calfe kill and make vs meate That this my sonne and we may eare For this my sonne of late was dead And now he is aliue againe The lost I found so well I sped He shall henceforth with me remaine This they performed speedily And past the time most merily Abroad the elder brother was And comming home he heard a noyse Yet knew not who was in the place Nor why his father did reioyce He onely heard the mynstrelsie With dauncing and much melodie He call'd and bad a seruant come And tell him what all those things ment Thy brother is said he come home And was receiu'd incontinent Thy father spareth for no cost To welcome him that late was lost All angrie when he heard the same He would not in vnto them go Therefore to him his father came Requesting him not to do so Now he vnto his sonne doth stand That should command with cap in hand The sonne his father answered I haue vnto thee seruice donne Yet hast thou not considered How though I were thy eldest sonne And many yeares now night and day I still at thy command did stay Yet all this time I neuer had A kid of thee that I might spend When I was willing to be glad And welcome any honest friend Yet thou the fat calfe killed hast For him that worse thy goods did wast Sonne vnto him againe said he All that I haue is thine in deed Thou euer didst abide with me And shalt therefore the better speed Yet should we ioy and mery be The dead aliue and lost to see The parable of the vniust Steward And Christ to his Disciples then Said that a certaine rich man had A Steward charged by some men That he did vse his office bad For he said they doth day by day Consume and wast thy wealth away He called him and said withall How do I heare this ill of thee For thine accounts I needs must call Thou mayst no longer Steward be The Steward then began to muse How he might best the matter vse What shall I do my master will Mine office take from me away I cannot digge nor delue but ill And begge for shame I neuer may Wherefore I must deuise sayd he That I of some receiued be His masters debters he did call And askt the first what owest thou Declare at once the summe of all For I must loose mine office now Of oyle an hundreth measures he Confest at least his debts to be The Steward said to him againe Vpon thy bill downe fiftie lay The next in debted did remaine And hundreth measures he did say Of wheate to whom the Steward sayd Write fourescore downe be not affrayd The Stewards wisdome Christ did prayse Though he vniustly dealt in deed For when he knew none other wayes He this deuisd to helpe his need The worldlings in their kind said he Are wiser then the godly be Make you so friends Christ to them sayd With riches of iniquity That when ye want they may giue ayde And then receiue you readily The iust or vniust in the small Will proue the very same in all If then ye haue not faithfull bene In wicked riches who will trust That you whose triall men haue seene In treasures true may be found iust If false to other men ye were Who shall giue you that yours is there Two masters well no man can serue For truly he the one will hate And for the other loue reserue This of mans life is right the state God and your riches disagree
backe againe Of ten returned but this man Though all were eased of their paine This in Samaria verily By Christ was done or Galilie Are not ten cleansed Iesus sayd The other nine where be they gone Arise therefore go vnaffrayd Thy faith sau'd thee that cam'st alone Of all the ten this stranger came To giue God praise that wrought the same The Pharisies demanded of Christ when the kingdome of God should come and his answer Then of the Pharisies when some Demanded Christ when it would be That the kingdome of God would come To them againe thus answerd he With obseruation verily It comes not though with maiestie Men shall not say lo here lo there Behold the same among you is His kingdome is spread eu'ry where In faithfull hearts abideth this In truth and righteousnesse I say Find out Gods kingdome well ye may To his Disciples then said he The dayes will come you shall desire As now ye are with me to be And shall not haue what ye require The sonne of man must suffer wo And for a time depart you fro If any then to you do say Lo here is Christ or Christ is there Beleeue it not for at that day False Christs and Prophets shall appeare And shall shew signes and wonders such As will deceiue men very much For as the lightning from the East Doth come and that most suddainly And shineth forth into the West So shall it be most certainly The sonne of man shall come I say In like sort at the iudgement day And as it was before the flood They did both eate and drinke also And maried wiues as they thought good Till Noah the arke had entred tho Where he and his from flood were free Though all men else were drownd said he In Lots dayes likewise it befell They ate they dranke they bought they sold They built and thought that all was well Nor would heare Lot for all he told Till fire and brimstone from aboue Destroyed all that there did moue So shall it in the latter day When I shall then reuealed be Let him that on the house doth stay Not fetch his stuffe below said he Nor from the field but haue in mind Lots wife that looked so behind Who so his soule doth seeke to saue If not through me shall loose the same And life he likewise then shall haue When life he looseth for my name For he shall liue eternally That dyeth so here willingly Two in one bed or field shall then Whereof but one receiu'd shall be The other of those very men To be refused sure is he Two women grinding then at mill The good receiu'd but not the ill Where Lord where the carcasse doth rest The eagles will resort thereto If that it be by East or West Such fowle vnto their pray will go Gods chosen shall resort that day To Christ as these vnto their pray The parable of the vnrighteous Iudge and the widow teaching men to pray continually By parable Christ spake that day To his Disciples to this end That they ought alwayes for to pray And not to faint while they attend For they shall surely mercie haue That instantly for mercie craue There was a Iudge which had no feare Nor reuerence of God or men A widow woman dwelling there Did moue this Iudge not now and then But dayly crying mightely Auenge me of mine enemie Though for a time he would not heare Her sute thus the poore widow sped At last said he though without feare Of God or man my life I lead Her instancie doth vexe me so Ile do her right and let her go If this vnrighteous Iudge thus do For his elect will not God care That day and night cry him vnto Though for a time their foes he spare He will reuenge ech iniurie That they receiue assuredly The Parable of the Pharisie and the Publicane that went into the Temple to pray A parable he spake againe To some infected with selfe trust For they did other men disdaine And did account them selues for iust Into the Temple for to pray Two men went vp both in one day The one of them a Pharisie The other was a Publican The first full of hypocrisie The other was a simple man Their prayers sheweth what they were Of whom Christ maketh mention here The first stood vp and prayed so Oh God this day I do thanke thee This I as other neuer do Extort or robbe as some said he I am not an adulterer Nor as this man is a sinner Twise in the weeke also I fast I giue tith of all I possesse The Publican poore man at last Began his sinnes for to confesse This man in great humilitie Acknowledged his miserie He stood farre of and did not there Lift vp his eyes to looke on hye The poore man was in such a feare For to offend Gods maiesty Be mercifull oh God said he Most wretched sinner vnto me This man said Christ went thence away More iust then did the Pharisie For eu'ry one that doth delay To knowledge his infirmitie Shall be brought low the humble he Likewise exalted sure shall be The parable of the Talents The kingdome of heau'n much like is Vnto a king that went from home To a strange countrey farre from his But made his seruants first to come To whom he did deliuer tho His goods ere he from home would go To one man gaue he Talents fiue And to another onely two The third had one therewith to thriue Each one had some-thing for to do As they were able then straight-way He went from home that very day Then he that the fiue Talents had Went and did occupie the same And gainde to make his master glad Fiue Talents more before he came He that likewise receiued two Did therewith gaine as many mo But he that had receiued one Within the earth did digge the same And hid the money with a stone To keepe vntill his master came Thus eu'ry one did occupie Their masters Talents diuersly And after a long season came The master of those seruants home And reckned with them for the same One after other as they come To giue accounts from first to last They all were call'd till all was past Then came he that fiue Talents had And brought with him fiue Talents mo And sayd oh master heare be glad Thy money is and gaynes also For I haue gayned as much more As I receiu'd of thee before To him his master sayd againe Thou good and faithfull seruant hast Well done therewith to take such paine Thou shalt receiue reward at last Thy masters ioy enter and take Of much I will thee ruler make He came also that did receiue Two Talents and thus could he say Oh master here thou mayst perceiue My gaynes since thou went'st hence away Here is thy money that I had And as much more that I haue made His master vnto him then sayd Good
fowle vnto their pray will go Gods chosen shall to Christ that day Resort as these vnto their pray After those dayes immediatly And all those troubles then forth-right The sunne shall darken by and by And eke the moone shal◠not giue light The starres of heauen they shall fall And powres thereof shall shake withall And lo in heau'n shall sure appeare The signe of Christ his comming then And much shall mourne then eu'ry where All kindreds and all tribes of men Then in the clouds Christ comming he Most glorious all men shall see And he his Angels foorth shall send With sound of trumpe that is so shrill On the elect they shall attend And gather them as he doth will From the foure winds and eu'rie where In one together to appeare The Parable of the Figge tree Now learne the parable I say Of the figge tree whose boughs shut out And bearing leaues do well bewray Sommer at hand without all doubt So all these things when ye do see Gods kingdome neare know then to be This generation verily Passeth not vntill all be done As you haue heard effectually The Lord will it accomplish soone Both heau'n and earth shall passe away But my words sure shall not decay Christs comming shall be as the dayes of Noa◠were sudden and vnlooked for No man doth know that houre or day No not the Angels be ye sure My father onely this I say Doth onely know that day and houre For as the dayes of Noë haue bene So shall Christs comming then be seene As in the dayes before the flood They did both eare and drinke also Marrie and else what they thought good Till he the Arke had gone into All this we may in Moses see How he and his from flood were free And all the rest did nothing know Till that the flood tooke them away It shewes how they were verie slow For to repent their sinnes that day Christs comming shall as suddenly Be seene as that was verily Two men shall in the field be then The one of them receiu'd shall be The other of those verie men To be refused sure is he Two women grinding then at mill The good receiu'd but not the ill A warning to all men to be watchfull Wake therefore and be warie men For ye know not what houre or day Your maister comes lest sleeping then You with the reprobate decay Watch that with the elected sort Receiu'd ye be to your comfort Of this be sure if the good man The houre the theefe will come may know He will keepe watch all that he can To saue his house from hurt I trow Be likewise readie alwayes then For Christ will come ye know not when A faithfull seruant and a wise Made ruler of his masters men His masters trust will not despise But feedeth them in season then When he is absent as he were Still present with his seruants there That seruant blessed is in deed Whom his master when he doth come Shall find so doing he shall speed Be sure of some especiall roome His master will make him therefore Ruler of all he hath in store But if the euill seruant say My master will not come as yet And smite his fellowe day by day And still with drunkards drinke and eate His master will come when that he Expecteth not him for to see Him he will cut off from the rest And giue to him his portion With hypocrites this is the least That after condemnation He shall both weepe and gnash for wo His teeth that he applied so The Parable of the ten Virgines The kingdome sure of heau'n shall be Vnto ten virgines likened Which tooke their lampes and went to see If they could meete as happened The bridgrome comming by that way For whom all they together stay Yea virgines they were all in deed Such find this spouse assuredly As chastly haue in heart decreed On Christ to call vnfainedly And not on idols for they must Repose in Christ their onely trust Yet onely fiue were wise of these And fiue were foolish certainly Which had their lampes the bride to please And went to meete him solemnely The former fiue had oyle all night The last had none to saue their light Now while the bridegrome taried long All slumbred and slept heauily There was at midnight heard among The Vingins sodainly this cry Behold the bridgrome comes this way Go meete him forth without delay Then all those Virgins quickly rose And trym'd their lampes away to go The foolish Virgins sayd to those That wiser were giue vs also Some of your oyle our lampes to saue Our lampes are out no oyle we haue The wise thus answer'd them againe Lest there be not inough we feare For vs and you therefore take paine To go and buy some oyle elsewhere Their foolishnesse deserued blame For while they went the bridegrome came And they that then were ready went Into the wedding with the bride And they that there were not present Were shut out at that very tyde And when they came and knocked fast This answer they receiu'd at last I know you not that cry and call Lord Lord do open vs this gate Nor you may not come in at all Your knocking now is to to late Sith ye know not the houre or day That Christ doth come watch still and pray The Parable of the Talents For the kingdome of heau'n it is Like to a man that went from home To a strange countrey farre from his But causd his seruants first to come To whom he did deliuer tho His goods ere he from home would go To one he gaue then Talents fiue And to another onely two He one vnto the third did giue Each one had something then to do As they were able and straight way He did depart that very day Then he that the fiue Talents had Went and did occupie the same And gayn'd to make his master glad Fiue Talents more before he came He that likewise receiued two Did gayne therewith as many mo But he that had receiued one Within the earth did digge the fame And hid the money with a stone To keepe vntill his master came Thus eu'ry one did occupy Their masters Talents diuersly And after a long season came Their master home to them againe They reckned with him for the same And gaue accounts of all their gaine One after other as they could What they had done to him they told He came first that fiue Talents had And brought with him fiue Talents mo And sayd ô master here be glad Thy money is and gaines also For I haue gained as much more As I haue receiu'd of thee before To him his master said againe Well done good seruant sure thou hast That thou therewith did'st take such paine Thou shalt receiue reward at last Enter thy masters ioy to take Of much I will thee ruler make He came that did receiue