the holy ghost your mēbers of Christ the whole worlde and all thinges therein are your owne Therfore say vnto your soule O my soule arise follow God contemne this world purpose well and pursue it long for the Lordes commyng be ready and watch that he come not vpon thée vnwares And forsomuch as you must liue to Gods pleasure sée the vocation and state of your life wherunto God hath called you and pray to god for grace knowlege and habilitie to take the most profitable thinges in hand well to begin better to go on and best of all to ende the same to Gods glory and the profite of others and thinke that tyme lost wherin you speake not or do not or at tho least thinke not something to Gods glory and the commoditie of his children ⧠At the sunne going downe pray HOw vnhappy are they O Lorde on whō thy Sunne goeth downe and geueth no lyght I meane thy grace which is always cleare as the midday Darke night vnto thē is the midday which depart from thee In thee is neuer night but alwayes day light most cleare This corporall Sunne hath his courses now vp now down but thou deare Lord if we loue thee art alwayes one O that thys blocke and veile of sinne were taken away frō me that there might be alwayes cleare day in my mynde ¶ Occasion to meditate THinke that as we are not sory when the sunne goeth downe because we know it will rise agayne euen so we should not sorrow for death wherwith the soule and body do parte asunder for they shall eftsones returne and come together agayne in most glorious wise ⧠When the candels be light pray MOst thicke and darke cloudes do couer our myndes excepte thy light O Lord do driue them away Thy Sunne O most wise worker is as it were a firebrand to this worlde Thy wisdome whereby light commeth to both soule and body is a firebrand to the spirituall world After day when the night commeth thou hast geuen for the remedy of darknes a candell After sinne for the remedy of ignoraunce thou hast geuen thy doctrine which thy deare sonne hath brought vnto vs. O thou that art the author and maister of al truth and art the true lyght make vs so to see that the dimnes of our myndes may be driuen cleane away * Thy worde is a lanterne to my feete a light vnto my pathes Psal 4. * Lift thou vp the light of thy countenaunce vpon vs and send ioy and gladnes into our hartes ¶ Occasions to meditate THinke that the knowledge which God geueth vnto vs by the candel light wherby we see those thyngs in this night of our bodies which are expedient for vs should make vs to wishe much more for this spirituall light of our soules this doctrine of our saluation and when we gette it the more to esteme it and diligently to embrace it Agayne that as all would be horrour without candell light so there is nothing but meere confusion where Gods worde taketh not place ⧠When you make your selfe vnready pray THys our lyfe and weake knit body by reason of sinne by little and little shall be dissolued and so shall be restored to the earth from whence it was taken then will be an ende of this vanitie which by our folly we haue wrought to our selues O most meke father so do thou vntie loose me for thou art he that hast knit these my weak members together that I may perceiue my selfe to be loosed and dissolued so may remember both of whome I was made and also whether I must go least I be had vnprouided vnto thy tribunall seate * Put of the olde man with hys lustes and concupiscences Col. 3 Ephe. 4. ¶ Occasion to meditate THinke that as we do willingly put of our garmentes because we shall receiue them againe when the night is past so we should not vnwillingly forsake our bodies when God by death shal call vs because we shall receyue them againe in the resurrection of the iust ⧠When you enter into your bed pray THe day now ended men geue thēselues to rest in the nyght and so this lyfe finished we shall rest in death Nothing is more like this life thē euery day nothing more lyke death thē slepe nothyng more like to our graue then our bed O Lord our keper and defender graunt that I now laying me downe to rest beyng vnable to keepe my selfe may be preserued from the crafts and assaultes of the wicked enemy And graunt further that when I haue runne the race of this lyfe thou wouldest of thy mercy call me vnto thee that I may lyue and watche with thee for euermore And now gracious God geue me to take my rest in thee and bring to passe that thy goodnes may be euen in sleepe before mine eyes that slepyng I be not absent from thee but may haue my dreams to draw me vnto thee so both soule and body may be kept pure and holy for euer * I will lay me downe in peace and take my rest Psal 4. ⧠An other prayer O Lord Jesus Christ my watchman and keper take me to thy care graunt that my body slepyng my minde may watch in thee and be made mery by some sight of that celestiall and heauenly life wherin thou art the king prince together with the father and the holy ghost where the Aungels and holy spirits be most happy citizens Oh purify my soule keepe cleane my body that in both I may please thee sleping waking for euer Amen ¶ Occasion to meditate THinke that as this troublesome day is now past and night come and so rest quietnes and pleasant sléepe which maketh most excellent princes and poore wretches alike euen so after the tumultes troubles temptations and tempestes of thys life they that beleue in Christ haue prepared for them an hauen and rest most pleasant and ioyfull As you are not afraid to enter into your bedde and to dispose your selfe to sléepe so be not afraid to die but rather cherefully prepare your selfe therunto Thinke that now you are néerer your ende by one dayes iourney then you were in the morning ⧠A prayer to God the Father for the true knowledge of the mystery of our redemption in Christ. O Almighty God Father of our Lorde Jesus Christ and by him also our father the father of all mercy and God of all consolation haue mercy vpon vs and heare our prayers We most humbly beseche thee for thy deare sonne Jesus Christes sake for his merites and cruell death which he suffred to deliuer vs from eternall death and the power of darknes send into our hartes thy spirite of truth to worke in vs a true liuely and stedfast faith that the cleare light and brightnes of thy gospell the glory of Christ may shine vnto vs lighten our mindes that we may learne vnderstand the wonderfull vnspeakable riches of the mystery of our redemption
to reuerence magnifie thy godly maiestie First for that thou hast created vs to thine owne Image and similitude but chiefly because thou hast deliuered vs frō that euerlasting death and damnation into the which Sathan drew mankind by the meanes of sinne from the bondage wherof neyther man nor Angell was able to make vs free but thou O Lorde riche in mercy and infinite in goodnes hast prouided our redemption to stand in thine onely and welbeloued sonne whom of very loue thou didst geue to be made man like vnto vs in all thinges sinne excepted that in hys body he might receaue the punishment of our transgression by hys death to make satisfaction to thy iustice and by hys resurrection to destroy him that was author of death and so to bring againe life to the worlde from which the whole ofspring of Adam was most iustly exiled O Lord we acknowledge that no creature was able to comprehend the length and breadth the deepenes and height of that thy most excellent loue which moued thee to shewe mercy where none was deserued to promise and geue lyfe where death had gotten victory to receaue vs into thy grace when we could doe nothing but rebell against thy maiestie O Lord the blind dulnes of our corrupt nature will not suffer vs sufficiently to weigh these thy most ample benefites yet neuertheles at the commaundement of Jesus Christ our Lorde we present our selues to thys hys table which he hath left to be vsed in remembraunce of hys death vntill hys comming agayne to declare and witnes before the world that by hym alone we haue receaued libertie and life that by hym alone thou doest acknowledge vs to bee thy children and heyres that by hym alone we haue entrance to the throne of thy grace that by him alone we are possessed in our spirituall kingdome to eate and drinke at his table with whom we haue our conuersation presently in heauen and by whom our bodyes shall be raised vp agayne from the duste and shall bee placed with hym in that endles ioy which thou O father of mercy hast prepared for thine elect before the foundation of the world was layde And these most inestimable benefites we acknowledge and confesse to haue receaued of thy free mercy and grace by thine onely beloued sonne Jesus Christ For the which therfore we thy congregation moued by thy holy spirite render to thee all thankes praise and glory for euer and euer ¶ A thankesgeuing after the receauiug of the holy Communion TOst mercifull father we render vnto thee all prayse thankes honour glory for that it hath pleased thee of thy great mercies to graunt vs miserable sinners so excellent a gift and treasure as to receaue vs into the fellowship company of thy deare sonne Jesus Christ our Lord whom thou hast deliuered to death for vs hast geuen hym vnto vs as a necessary foode and nourishment vnto euerlasting lyfe And now we besech thee also O heauenly father to graunt vs thys request that thou neuer suffer vs to become so vnkind as to forget so worthy benefites but rather imprint and fasten them sure in our hartes that we may grow encrease dayly more and more in true fayth which continually is exercised in all maner of good workes and so much the rather O Lord confirme vs in these perillous dayes and rages of Sathan that we may constantly stand and continue in the confession of the same to the aduauncemēt of thy glory which art God ouer al things blessed for euer So be it ¶ A Prayer for wisedome to gouerne the Realme ALmightie God King of all Kinges Lorde of heauē earth by whose ordinaunce Princes haue gouernance of mortal mē wheras the wisest King Salomon plainly confesseth him self vnable to gouerne his kingdome without thy helpe assistance how much lesse shall I thy handmaide being by kinde a weake womā haue sufficient abilitie to rule these thy kingdomes of England and Ireland an innumerable warlike nation or how shall I possibly be able to beare the infinite weight of so great a burden vnlesse thou O most mercifull father as thou hast of thine own liberalitie without my deseruing and agaynst the expectation of many geuen me a kingdome and made me to reigne doe also in my reigning endue and helpe me with thy heauenly grace without which none euen the wisest among the childrē of men can once thinke a right thought Thou therefore O endlesse foūtaine of all wisedome send downe from thy holy heauen and frō the soueraigne throne of thy maiestie thy wisedome to be euer with me and alway to assist me to watch and labour with me in gouerning the common weale and that it may so teach and instruct me thy hādmaide that I may discerne betwene good euill and betwene right wronge that I may euer haue willingnes boldnes power to geue deserued punishment to the giltie louingly to defend the innocent liberally to cherish the painefull and profitable members of the common weale finally without regard of persons wtout accompt of worldly respectes take in hand execute and performe that which I shall know to please thee alone that when thou the rightfull iudge that shalt require many great thynges at their handes to whom many and great thinges are committed shalt call vs all to a straite reckening I be not condemned as giltie of euill gouernaunce but if I thy handmaide by naturall frailtie weaknes and want of cōsideration shall in any thing haue swarued from the right way it may please thee of thy great mercy most soueraigne king and most louing father for Jesus Christ thy sonnes sake to pardon me and graunt that after this earthly kingdome expired I may with thee enioy the heauenly and euerlasting kingdome through the same Jesus Christ thy sonne our Lorde and Mediator to whom with thee and with the holy ghost the only king of all worldes immortall inuisible onely wise God be all honour and glory for euer ⸫ Domine ne in furore PSALME VI. ¶ When Dauid by his sinnes had prouoked Gods wrath and now felte not onely his hand against him but also conceyued the horrors of death euerlasting he desireth forgeuenes bewailing that if God tooke him away in his indignation he should lacke occasion to prayse him as he was wont to do whiles he was among mē Then sodenly feeling Gods mercy he sharply rebuketh his enemies which reioyced in his affliction O Lorde rebuke me not in thine indignatiō neither chasten me in thy displeasure My soule is also sore troubled but Lord how long wilt thou punish me Turne thee O Lord and deliuer my soule Oh saue me for thy mercies sake For in death no man remēbreth thee and who will geue thee thankes in the pit I am wery of my groning euery night wash I my bedde and water my couch with teares My beautie is gone for very trouble and worne away because of all mine
in Christ and by Christ O father of glory geue vnto vs the spirite of wisdom and bryng vs into the true knowledge of this thy beloued sonne Jesus Christ and the knowledge of thy selfe Open and lighten the eyes of our myndes and vnderstandyng that we may know what the hope is whereunto thou hast called vs and how riche the glory of thine enheritance is vpon thy saintes and the excedyng greatnes of thy power towards vs that by true faith by vnderstanding and knowledge of thine eternal wisdom which is Jesus Christ we may be in dede as we are called true christians and vnfeyned professoures of thy holy name to worship thee in spirite and truth and to set forth the glory of thy grace geuen vnto vs in Christ Jesus our Lord Amen O deare Father wryte in our hartes loue of thy law hate to all sinne thankfulnes of hart and continuall heat of thy holy spirite for thy sonne Jesus christes sake To whom with thee and thy holy spirit be all honour maiestie glory thankes rule empire and dominion for euermore ⧠A forme of thanks-geuing for our redemption and prayer for strength and encrease of faith ETernal praise thanks bee geuen vnto thee deare God father of our Lord Jesus Christ which hast blessed vs with all spirituall blessinges in heauenly thinges by Christ in that thou hast chosen vs in hym before the foundation of the worlde was layd that we should be wythout blame before thee through him by whome we haue redemption through hys bloud euen the forgeuenes of our sinnes In whom after we heard the worde of truth the Gospell of our saluation wherein we beleued we were sealed with the holy spirite of promise which is the earnest of our inheritance which spirite hath and doth beare witnes vnto our spirites that we are thy children and therefore cryeth in our hartes Abba Father And thus most gracious father when thou hast once geuen the earnest peny of our saluatiō into our hartes thou doost not repent of thy gift calling neither wilt thou at any time breake thy couenant of grace and mercy in Christ thy sonnes merites confirmed in vs by that seale and loue token For what though we be weake in our beliefe shall our vnbeliefe make thy promise of no effect No thou wilt alwayes be found true but all men be liers And yet Lorde thou doost most graciously behold and accept be it neuer so little a sparke of fayth We say therefore cry vnto thee with one that wept and said I beleue Lord helpe my vnbeliefe Yea that little be it neuer so little is thy mere gift also The which as thou hast begon so most merciful Lord encrease the same more and more to the peace and comfort of our conscience and the glory of thy name through Jesus Christ Amen ⧠A meditation for the exercise of true mortification HE that wil be ready in waighty matters to deny hys owne will and to be obedient to the will of God the same had neede to accustome himselfe to deny his desires in matters of lesse waight and to exercise the mortificatiō of his owne wil in trifles For if that our affections by this daily custome be not as it were halfe slaine surely surely whē the plunge shall come we shall finde the more to do If we cannot watch with Christ one houre as he sayth to Peter we vndoutedly can much lesse go to death with him Wherfore that in great temptatiōs we may be ready to say wyth Christ Not my wyll but thyne be done in that this commonly commeth not to passe but where the rootes of our lustes by thy grace deare father are almost rotten and rooted out by a daily deniall of that they desire I humbly beseche thee for Christes sake to helpe meherein First pardon me my cherishing and as it were watering of mine affectiōs obeying them in their deuises and superfluous desires wherethrough in that they haue taken deepe roote and are to liuely in me I secondly do beseche thee to pull them vp by the rootes out of my hart and so henceforthe to order me that I may continually accustome my self to weaken the principall roote that they by rootes and braunches may loose all their power Graunt me I beseche thee that thy grace may daily mortify my concupiscence of pleasure in thinges that is of wealth riches glory liberty fauour of mē meates drinkes apparel ease yea and life it selfe that the horror and impaciency of more greuous things may be weakened and I made more pacient in aduersitie Wherunto I further desire and pray thy goodnes dere father that thou wilt adde this namely that I may for euer become obedient and ready to do thy good will in all things hartely and willingly to serue thee and do whatsoeuer may pleà se thee For doubtles although we accustome our selues in the pleasaunt thinges of this life to a mortification and deniall of our selues yet we shal finde enough to do when more bitter and weighty crosses come For if thy sonne our Sauiour euer wont to obey thy good will prayed so hartely and often Not my will but thy will be done wherby he declareth him selfe to be very man how can it be but we whose nature is corrupt not only in natiuitie but in the rest of our whole life also shal find both our handes full in great and greuous temtations wholy to resigne our selues vnto thee Graunt therfore deare father for thy christes sake I most hartely beseche thee thy grace and holy spirite to be effectuall in me that daily I may accustome my selfe to deny my will in more easy and pleasant things of this lyfe that when neede shal be I may come vnto thee with a resigned will alwayes stedfastly expecting thy mercy and in the meane season cōtinually obeying thee with readines and willïngnes doing whatsoeuer may most please thee through Christ our lord which liueth with thee c ¶ A meditation of the comming of Christ to iudgement and of the rewarde both of the faithful vnfaithful OH Lord Jesus Christ the sonne of the euerliuing God by whō all thinges were made are ruled and gouerned as of thy loue for our redemption thou didst not disdaine to be our mediatour and to take vppon thee our nature in the wombe of a virgine purely and without sinne by the operation of the holy spirite that both thou mightest in thine owne person wōderfully beautifie and exalte our nature and worke the same in vs also first abolishing the giltines of sinne by remission then sinne it selfe by death and last of all death by raysing vp againe these our bodies that they may be like vnto thyne owne glorious and immortall body according to the power wherewith thou art able to subiect all thinges vnto thee as I say of thy loue for our redemption thou becamest man and that most poore and afflicted vpon earth by the space of xxxiii yeres at the least in most
euerlasting life is no man is able to conceiue much lesse able to vtter For the peace of god which is eternall life passeth all vnderstanding The eye hath not seene the eare hath not heard neither can mans harte conceiue those thinges which thou deare God hast prepared for them that loue thee Whatsoeuer therfore can be spoken or imagined of thy kingdom of the clearenes ioy and felicitie of the same is nothyng in comparison as we may see by the Prophets which because they could not otherwise vnder corporall things haue shadowed the same So that the confidence of eternall life what a thing it is can in no wise be told Howbeit some what we may be brought into some sight of it by earthly thinges to thinke on this sort If God hath geuē here so many thinges in a strange place how many are the great good thinges that be at home If in a prison are so many mercies how many are they in the palace If the wicked haue so many benefites what is the store prepared for thy seruāts O Lord If thy children finde such comfortes in the day of teares and mournyng what shall they finde in the day of the mariage If with beastes men beyng haue the vse of so innumerable blessings oh how many are the blessinges whiche they shall enioy with thy Angels and with thee thy selfe O dere God when they shal see thee and haue the fruition of thee in whome is fulnes without lothing of all good faire thinges so that nothyng can be more desired and that for euermore This thy children do not so see as they now beleue it I say that euen in their bodies they shal see it for euer as Job sayd They heleue that they shall see thee and their owne eyes beholde thee when these our corporall eyes our bodies beyng raised shall do their duties Such a knowledge of thee they beleue to haue as shall not be onely intellectuall and by faith as now it is but euen a full sight and fruition yea a comunction and felowship with thee Now they see but in a glasse euen in a darke speaking but thē they shal see face to face For faith though it be the substaunce of thinges hoped for and a certain darke sight of thee yet it may not be compared to the rewarde of faith glorious sight which we shall see in the life to come when fayth hope shall cease Now thy children know that they be thy children though it yet appeare not what they shall be We know say they that whē our Christ God and man shall appeare then shall we be lyke vnto hym for we shall see him euen as he is Oh great prerogatiue to see Christ as he is Which is not to be considered so much for the māhoode as for the Godhead it self as Paule doth also write that when all thinges are subiect vnto the sonne then shall he be subiect vnto thee deare Father also that God may be all in all And therfore Christ our sauiour praied for vs that we might know thee the onely true God Not that our Christ thy sonne is not with thee the true coequal and substanciall god but that we might know how that after the iudgement such a mystery of hys mediatourship shall not be in heauē as is now in earth Then thou blessed trinitie God the Father God the sonne and God the holy ghost shalt be all in all thou shalt be the end of our desires thou shalt be loked vpon without ende thou shalt be loued without lothyng thou shalt bee praysed without wearinesse Althoughe lothsomues be wont to folow fulnes yet our fulnes in the contemplatiō of thy pleasures shall bring with it no kinde at all of lothsomnes Sacietie of ioyes shall be in the beholding of thee Pleasures are on thy right hand for euer We shal be satiffied when we arise after thyne image I meane in the resurrection Oh deare father shew thy self vnto vs and we aske no more Oh graunt vs with thy Saintes in euerlasting lyfe to prayse wyth perpetual prayses thy holy name Happy then and happy again wer we if that day wer come that we myght sing wyth thy aungels elders and innumerable thousandes a new song say thou Christ Jesu which wast slayne art worthy to receyue power and riches and wisdome and strength honour and glory and blessyng In thys blessed lyfe all kynde of maladies griefes sorrowes and euils be farre away and all ful of all kinde of mirth ioy pleasure Oh that we might see now a litle with S. John that holy Citie new Jerusalē descending frō heauen prepared of god as a bride trimmed for her husbande Oh that we might now somethyng heare the great voyce speakyng out of the throne behold the tabernacle of God is with men and he will dwell with them and they shall be hys people and he shal be vnto them their god he will wipe away all teares from their eies and death shal be no more nor wepyng nor crying nor sorrow for the former thinges are gone ¶ An other meditation of the blessed state and felicitie of the life to come THis body is but a prison wherein the soule is kept and that verely not beautifull nor bright but most foule and darke disquiet fraile and filled vp with much vermine and venemous vipers I meane it cōcerning our affections standing in an ayre most vnwholesome and prospect most lothsome if a man consider the excrementes of it by the eyes nose mouth eares hands feete and all the other partes So that no Bocardo no Little ease no Dungeon no Bishops prison no gatehouse no sincke no pit may be cōpared in any point to be so euill a prison for the body as the body is for and of the soule wherethrough the children of God haue bene occasioned to cry lament their long being in it Oh saith Dauid how long shall I lye in this prison Oh wretch that I am sayth Paule who shall deliuer me out of this body of sinne which is an heauie burden vnto the soule as the wise man sayth And therefore the godly cry now let thy seruant depart in peace Oh that I were dissolued and had put of this earthly and fraile tabernacle Take me vnto thee and bring my soule out of thys prison that it may geue thankes vnto thee O Lord. For so long as we be in thys body we can not see the Lord yea it is as an heauy habitation and depresseth downe sore the spirite fro the familiaritie which it els should haue with God This world life is an exile a vale of misery a wildernes of it self being voide of all vertues and necessaryes for eternall life full of ennemies sorrowes sighings sobbings gronings miseries c In daunger to hūger cold heate thirst sores sicknes tentations trouble death and innumerable calamities being momentanye short vnstable and nothing but vaine and therfore is cōpared to a warfare a womās trauaile a
a shadow a warfare a bubble of water a worde grasse a flower That we shall die it is most certaine but the time no mā can tell when The longer in this life we do remaine the more wee synne which will turne to our further paine By cogitation of death our mindes be often in a maner oppressed with darkenes because we do but remember the nyght of the body forgetting the light of the mynde and of the resurrection Hereto remember the good thinges that after thys life shall ensue in certaintie of faith without wauering and so shall the passage of death be more desired It is like a sayling ouer the sea to your home and countrey it is like a medicine or purgation to the health of soule and body it is the best Phisicion it is lyke a womās trauaile For as the chylde beyng deliuered commeth into a more large place then the wombe wherin it did lye before so the soule beyng deliuered out of the body commeth into a much more larger and fayrer place euen into heauen ⧠A meditation concerning the sober vsage of the body and pleasures in this life THe beginning of all euill in our kynde of liuyng springeth out of the deprauation and corruptnes of our iudgement because our will alwayes followeth that which reason iudgeth to be folowed Now that which euery man taketh to be frendly and agreyng to his nature the same doth he iudge necessarily to be good for hym and to be desired This is meate drinke apparel riches fauour dignitie rule knowledge and such lyke because they are thought good agreeyng either to the body or to the mind or to both for they helpe either to the conseruation or to the pleasure of man accompted of euery one amongest good thinges Howbeit such is the weaknes of our witte on the one parte and the blindnes and too much rage of our lustes on the other part that we beyng left to our selues can not but in the desire of thynges which we iudge good and agreeyng to our nature by the iudgement of our senses and reason we cannot I say but ouerpasse the boundes wherby they myght be profitable vnto vs and so we make them hurtfull to vs which of themselues are ordayned for our health What is more necessary then meate and drynke or more agreeyng to nature but yet how few be there which do not hurt themselues by thē In lyke maner it goeth with riches estimation frends learning c. Yea although we be in these most temperate yet when there wanteth the spirit our regeneratour we are so drowned in them that we vtterly neglect to lift vp our myndes to the good pleasure of God to the ende we might imitate and follow God our maker by yelding our selues ouer duly to vse his gyftes to the common and priuate vtility of our neighbours But now God onely is life and eternity and cannot but demaunde of vs hys handiworke that we should render our selues and all we haue to the ende wherefore we were made that is to resemble for our portion his goodnes as those which be nothing els but witnesses instrumēts of his mercy So that when we wholy do naturally striue against that kind of life wherto he hath create vs by seking alwayes our selues what other thing ought to ensue but that he should againe destroy vs take away his notable giftes wherwith he therfore indued vs that by all kinde of wel doyng we should resemble his image yea what other thyng may ensue but that he should leaue vs that eternally that we might feele and by experience proue how bitter a thing it is to leaue the lord in whom is all goodnes Oh that I might therfore find such fauor in thy sight deare father that thou wouldest worke in me by thy holy spirite a true knowledge of all good thynges and harty loue to the same through Christ Jesus our lord and only Sauiour Amen ⧠A meditation vpon the passion of our Sauiour Iesus Christ. OH Lord Jesus Christ the sonne of the almighand euerliuyng God by whome all thynges were made and be ruled and gouerned thou the liuely image of the substaunce of the Father the eternall wisedom of God the brightnes of his glory god of God light of light coequal coeternall and consubstancial with the father thou which of the loue thou hadst to mankynde when he was fallen from the felowship of God into the societie of Sathan and all euil didst vouchsafe for our redemption to become a Mediatour betwene God man taking to the Godhead our nature as concerning the substaunce of it and so becamest man also the heire of all and most merciful Messias which by the power of thy Godhead merites of thy manhode hast made purgatiō of our synnes euē by thine owne self whilest thou wast here on earth being now set on the right hand of thy father for vs euen concernyng our nature in maiesty glory and power infinite I pray and humbly besech thy mercy to graunt me at thys present to rehearse some of thy passions and suffringes for me the last night that thou wast here before thy death that thy good spirite myght therby be effectual to worke in me faith as well of the pardon of my synnes by them as mortification of myne affections comfort in my crosses and paciēce in afflictions Amen In the midst of thy last supper with thy deare Apostles these thynges could not but be before thee namely that they all would leaue thee the most earnest would forsweare thee and one of the xij should most traitrously betray thee which were no small crosses vnto thee Judas was admonished of thee to beware but when he tooke no heede but wilfully went out to finish his work contemnyng thy admonition and counsell he could not but vexe thy most louyng hart After supper there was contention amongs thy disciples who should be greatest after ter thee yet dreamyng carnally of thee and thy kyngdome and hauyng this affection of pryde and ambition busie amonges them notwithstandyng thy diligence in reprouyng and teachyng them After thy admonition to thē of the crosse that would come therby to make them more vigilant so grosse wer they that they thought they could wyth their two swordes put away all perils which was no little griefe vnto thee After thy cōmyng to Gethsemane heauines oppressed thee therfore thou wouldest thy disciples to pray Thou didst tell to Peter and his fellowes that thy hart was heauy to death Thou didst wyll them to pray being carefull for them also lest they should fall into tēptation After this thou wentest a stones cast from thē and didst pray thy selfe falling flat and groueling vppon the earth but alas thou feltest no comfort and therfore thou camest to thy disciples which of all others were most sweete deare vnto thee but lo to thy further discomfort they passe neither of thy perils nor of their owne and therfore sleepe apace After thou hadst
plainly see our saluation past recouerie Shew vs the way wherein we may safely go and teach vs the manner how to performe thy wyll and with thy holy spirit that procedeth from thee gouerne all our doings thoughts through Iesus Christ our lord Amen * §§* ⧠Here beginneth the Letany and Suffrages O God the father of heauen haue mercy vpon vs miserable sinners O God the father of hea c. O God the sonne redemer of the world haue mercy vpon vs miserable sinners O God the sonne redemer of c. O God the holy Ghost proceding from the father and the sonne haue mercy vpō vs miserable sinners O God the holy Ghost proceding c. O holy blessed and glorious Trinity thre persons and one God haue mercy vpon vs miserable sinners O holy blessed and glorious c. Remember not Lord our offences nor the offences of our forefathers neyther take thou vengeance of our sins Spare vs good Lord spare thy people whom thou hast redemed with thy most precious bloud and be not angry with vs for euer Spare vs good Lord. From all euill and mischiefe from sinne from the craftes and assaultes of the deuill frō thy wrath and from euerlasting damnation Good Lord deliuer vs. From all blindnes of hart frō pride vayne glory and hipocrisy from enuy hatred and malice all vncharitablenes Good Lord deliuer vs. From fornicatiō and all other deadly sinne and from all the deceites of the world the flesh and the Deuill Good Lord deliuer vs. From lightninges and tempestes from plague pestilence and famine from battaile and murder from sodaine death Good Lord deliuer vs. From all sedition and priuie conspiracie from all false doctrine and heresy frō all hardnes of hart and contempt of thy word commaundement Good Lord deliuer vs. By the mistery of thy holy incarnation by thy holy Natiuitie and circumcision by thy Baptisme fasting and temptation Good Lord deliuer vs. By thyne agony and bloudy sweat by thy crosse and passion by thy precious death and buriall by thy glorious resurrection and ascension and by the comming of the holy Ghost Good Lord deliuer vs. In al time of our tribulation in all tyme of our wealth in the houre of death and in the day of iudgement Good Lord deliuer vs. Me sinners do beseche thee to heare vs O Lorde God and that it may please thee to rule and gouerne thy holy Church vniuersally in the right way We beseech thee to heare vs good Lord. That it may please thee to keepe and strengthen in the true worshipping of thee in righteousnes and holynes of life thy seruant Elizabeth our most gracious Queene and gouernour We beseech thee to heare vs. c. That it may please thee to rule her hart in thy faith feare and loue that she may euermore haue affiaunce in thee and euer seeke thy honor and glory We beseech thee to heare vs. c. That it may please thee to be her defender and keeper geuing her the victory ouer all her enemyes We beseech thee to heare vs. c. That it may please thee to illuminate all Bishoppes Pastoures and ministers of the Church wyth true knowledge vnderstanding of thy word and that both by their preachyng and lyuyng they may set it forth and shew it accordingly We beseech thee to heare vs. c. That it may please thee to indue the Lordes of the Counsell and all the nobility with grace wisdome and vnderstanding We beseech thee to heare vs. c. That it may please thee to blesse and keepe the Maiestrates geuing them grace to execute iustice and to mayntayne truth We beseech thee to heare vs. c. That it may please thee to blesse and keepe all thy people We beseech thee to heare vs. c. That it may please thee to geue to al nations vnity peace and concord We beseech thee to heare vs. c. That it may please thee to geue all thy people encrease of grace to heare meekely thy worde and to receiue it with pure affection and to bring forth the fruites of the spirit We beseech thee to heare vs. c. That it may please thee to bring into the way of truth all such as haue erred and are deceaued We beseech thee to heare vs. c. That it may please thee to strenghthen such as do stand and to comfort and helpe the weake harted and to rayse vp them that fall and finally to beate downe Sathan vnder our feete We beseech thee to heare vs. c. That it may please thee to succour helpe and comfort all that be in daunger necessitie and tribulation We beseech thee to heare vs. c. That it may please thee to preserue all that trauell by land or by water all women labouring with childe al sicke persons and yong children and to shew thy pitie vpon all prisoners and captiues We beseech thee to heare vs. c. That it may please thee to defend and prouide for the fatherles children and widowes and all that be desolate and oppressed We beseech thee to heare vs. c. That it may please thee to haue mercy vpon all men We beseech thee to heare vs. c. That it may please thee to forgeue our enemyes persecutors and slaunderers and to turne their hartes We beseech thee to heare vs. c. That it may please thee to geue and preserue to our vse the kindly fruites of the earth so as in due tyme we may enioy them We beseech thee to heare vs. c. That it may please thee to geue vs true repentance to forgeue vs al our sinnes negligēces and ignorances and to endue vs with the grace of thy holy spirite to amend our liues according to thy holy worde We beseech thee to heare vs. c. ¶ Sonne of God we beseche thee to heare vs. Sonne of God we beseech thee to heare vs. O lambe of God that takest away the sinnes of the world Graunt vs thy peace O lambe of God that takest away the sinnes of the world Haue mercy vpon vs. O Christ heare vs. O Christ heare vs. Lord haue mercy vpon vs. Lord haue mercy vpon vs. Christ haue mercy vpon vs. Christ haue mercy vpon vs. Lord haue mercy vpon vs. Lord haue mercy vpon vs. ¶ Our father which art c. And lead vs not into tēptatiō But deliuer vs from euill Amen ¶ The virsicle O Lord deale not with vs after our sinnes Aunswere Neither reward vs after our iniquities Let vs pray O God mercifull father that dispisest not the sighing of a contrite hart nor the desire of such as be sorowfull mercfully assist our prayers that we make before thee in al our troubles aduersities whensoeuer they oppresse vs and gratiously heare vs that those euils which the craft and subtiltie of the Deuil or mā worketh agaynst vs may be brought to nought by the prouidence of thy goodnes they may be dispersed that we thy seruauntes
beyng hurt by no persecutions may euermore geue thankes vnto thee in thy holy Church thorough Jesu Christ our Lord. O Lord arise helpe vs and deliuer vs for thy names sake O God we haue heard wyth our eares our Fathers haue declared vnto vs the noble workes that thou didest in theyr dayes and in the olde time before them O Lord arise helpe vs and deliuer vs for thy honour Glory be to the father and to the sonne and to the holy Ghost as it was in the beginning is now c. Amen From our enemies defend vs O Christ Gratiously looke vpon our afllictions Pitifully behold the sorrowes of our hartes Mercifully forgeue the sinnes of thy people Fauorably with mercy heare our prayers O Sonne of Dauid haue mercy vpon vs. Both now and euer vouchsafe to heare vs O Christ Gratiously heare vs O Christ gratiously heare vs O Lord Christ. O Lord let thy mercy be sheshed vpon vs. As we do put our trust in thee Let vs pray WE humbly besech thee O father mercifully to looke vpon our infirmities and for the glory of thy names sake turne from vs all those euils that we most righteously haue deserued and graunt that in al our troubles we may put our whole trust and confidence in thy mercy and euermore serue thee in holines and purenes of liuing to thy honor and glory through our onely mediatour and aduocate Jesus Christ our lord Amen A prayer for the Queenes Maiestie O Lord our heauenly father high and mighty king of kings Lord of Lords the only ruler of Princes which doest frō thy throne behold all the dwellers vpon the earth most hartely we besech thee with thy fauour to beholde our most gracious soueraigne Lady Queene Elizabeth so replenish her with the grace of thy holy spirite that she may alway incline to thy will walke in thy way Indue her plentifully with heauenly giftes Graunt her in health and wealth long to liue Strēgthen her that she may vanquishe and ouercome all her enemies and finally after thys life she may attaine euerlasting ioy felicitie through Christ our Lord Amen In the tyme of any common plague or sicknes O Almighty God which in thy wrath in the tyme of king Dauid diddest slea with the plague of pestilence three score and ten thousand and yet remembring thy mercy diddest saue the rest haue pitie vpon vs miserable sinners that now are visited with great sicknes and mortalitie that like as thou diddest then commaunde thyne Aungell to cease from punishing So it may please thee to withdraw frō vs this plague and greuous sicknes through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen A prayer of Chrisostome ALmighty God which hast geuen vs grace at this tyme with one accorde to make our common supplications vnto thee and doost promise that when two or three be gathered together in thy name thou wilt graunt theyr requestes fulfil now O Lord the desires and petitions of thy seruauntes as may be most expedient for them graunting vs in this worlde knowledge of thy truth and in the world to come life euerlasting Amen ¶ In time of sicknes MOst mercifull redemer thou art alwais merciful who art alwaies the Sauiour whether thou doest send health or sicknes wealth or aduersitie ioy or sorow For it is of great mercy whē by outward afflictions as it were by bitter but yet wholsome medicines thou doest heale the inward diseases of the soule and by temporarie troubles which do last but for a short time doest prepare vs to eternall ioyes which endure for euer And thy self O gratious Sauiour passing into thy glory through the greatest afflictions of thys worlde hast trodē out vnto vs by thy steps that way to true and perfect felicitie in the which no humble and true seruant ought eyther to disdaine or to shrincke to followe after hys Lord and Master so going before hym But for so much as without thee we can doe nothyng that good is I besech thee to endue me with thy heauenly grace that I may take vp willingly obediently thys crosse which thou hast appoynted vnto me and folow after thee and that I may drinke of as it were this medicinable cup though bitter vnto the flesh which thou the heauenly phisitian doest thus offer vnto me patiently without grndging or murmuring agaynst thee and that I may with thy faithfull seruant Job and with vnfayned lips and hart say the Lord hath geuen the Lord hath taken away as it hath pleased the Lorde so is it come to passe blessed be the name of the Lord. For if I haue receiued gladly youth health riches honour and ioy at thy handes O lord why should I refuse patiently to take age sicknes aduersitie and sorrowe at thy handes also These thinges be in dede very greuous vnto fraile nature and fleshe but thou my Lorde though most perfectly innocent infinitely hast suffered more greuous thinges for me and I haue deserued infinitely more greuous thinges who haue so oft deserued hell But yet thou knowest the frailtie of our humane condition and nature Wherefore I besech thee as thou pourest sharpe wine into our woūdes to bite away the corruption of our sinnes so after the example of the mercifull Samaritane set forth in thy holy Gospell to resemble thy selfe adde vnto the sharpe wyne of thy correction the suppling oyle of thy mercifull comfort wherby I may be able to suffer things which otherwise are intolerable vnto me And if it bee thy pleasure to encrease sorow vpon me encrease also thy grace and gift of patience in me and turne these worldly and bodily afflictions to the profite of my soule by mine acknowledging of thy iustice in punishing me worthely and thy mercy in correcting me graciously euen like as a father hath pitie vpon hys children whē he beateth them and by my submitting of my owne will vnto thy holy will patiently taking of this thy prouing and trying of me whether I loue thee or no may offer that sacrifice of obedience which is acceptable vnto thee And when thy fatherly pietie shall be contented with thy meeke chastising of me then I besech thee send calme after thys tempest quietnes after thys trouble and ioy after thys sorrow that I may render thākes vnto thee for double causes both that thou hast first corrected and amended me an vnprofitable seruaunt and afterward hast taken away the bitternes of affliction with the softnes of thy comfort in the one hauing regard of necessitie in the other not forgetting my infirmitie and in both as in all thinges alwaies remembring thy mercy vnto the which I doe commend and betake my self both body and soule now and for euer Vnto thee with the father and the holy ghost one God of most excellent maiestie be all prayse honour and thankesgeuing for euer and euer Amē ¶ An other in sicknes ALmightie God and most mercifull father who doest correct all those whō thou doest receaue bringing euen vnto the very
gates of death and yet reducing backe againe I besech thee that as thou hast with thy sharpe visitation and greuous sicknes already corrected me thy disobedient seruaunt so thou wilt also after thys thy fatherly correction mercifully relieue and restore me if it may so stand with thy gratious goodnes euen as thy beloued sonne our Sauiour Jesus Christ vppon earnest sute and prayer as in hys holy Gospell is mentioned relieued and restored vnto health the rulers sonne being in extreme sicknes and at the very poynt of death which my most humble sute I likewise entirely make vnto thee most mercifull father in the name of the same thy dearlybeloued sonne our Sauiour Jesus Christ who liueth and reigneth with thee and the holy Ghost world without end Amen ¶ In time of sicknes O Most mightie most mercifull Sauior Jesu Christ the onely sonne of the liuing God who being here vpon the earth amongest mortall men by the healing of all diseases and pardoning of the sinnes of such as put theyr trust in thee diddest declare vnto the world that thou art that onely heauenly and perfect Physition as well of our soules as of our bodyes and when such as trusted in theyr owne righteousnes did lay it to thy charge as a fault that thou diddest keepe company with sinners thou diddest expressely testifie that not such as were in health but such as were sicke had nede of the Physitian Beholde O heauenly Physitian here in me a matter most worthy of thy diuine cure most meete to shew both thy power and mercy vppon Behold a person sore oppressed both with the sickenes of my soule and body Beholde me thy handmaiden vpon whom from my tender yeares vnto thys day thou hast heaped so great so many and almost infinite benefites of thy gratious goodnes whom being borne of a king and Queene thou hast not onely endued with giftes of grace meete for a kingdome but also hast deliuered me from many great daungers out of the handes of my enemies from the snares of death which they had set for my life hast exalted me vnto the dignitie of a Queene and placed me in the high estate of honour amongest mortall persons and that not through any my deseruyng but onely of thy free goodnes and mere liberalitie But now O Lord either lest too much worldly prosperitie should cary my minde astray and cause me to forget my selfe and my boūden dutie towardes thee or els for that I being by thee made a Queene ouer thy people haue neuer as I ought to doe from my hart acknowledged and confessed my self to be the subiecte and handmaiden of thy Maiestie neither behaued my selfe towardes thee accordingly as became thy bond maiden neither being thankfull towardes thee as my most gratious Sauiour nor obedient vnto thee as my most dreadfull Lord or els for other causes vnto thy diuine wisedome best knowen now I say eyther wholesomly to admonish or most iustly to punishe thy disobedient seruant and so gratiously to correcte and amend me thou hast stricken me with a greuous sicknes of my body and very daūgerous vnto my life and also troubled abashed my minde with terrours and anguishes of my soule and withall thou hast by my daunger sore flighted and amased thy people of England whose safetie quietnes next after thee seemeth to stay vppon me aboue all other worldly creatures and vpon my life and continuance amongest them Wherfore as well I as thy people cōmitted ▪ vnto me bowing the knees of our hartes before thy maiestie do hūbly besech thee most gratious Sauiour in thy iudgement to remember thy mercy and according to thy accustomed goodnes to deliuer me thy handmaiden from thys present perill of daungerous sicknes And first O heauenly Physitian I besech thee heale my soule pardoning my vnkindnes towardes thee forgeuing my forgetfulnes of thee and of my selfe vtterly blotting out and putting cleane away all other my sinnes committed agaynst thy Maiestie Heale my minde reforming and instructing me with thy heauenly grace that I may take thys sicknes which thou hast most iustly punished me withall contentedly and paciently as a bitter but wholesome medicine of all the diseases of my minde offered vnto me by thee as it were by the handes of the best Physician And withall heale my body also making it sound and pure frō all infirmities remnantes of sicknes that I may be throughly cured by the hauing of a whole minde in a whole body and that I hauing obteyned perfect health of both by thy only benefite not onely my self but also all thy people of England with me may both be taught by the perill past hereafter to geue due reuerence and obedience vnto thy maiestie and for the deliuerie from so great a daunger and benefite of perfect health may magnifie thy goodnes and mercy with perpetuall prayses and continuall thankesgeuing who with thy heauenly father and the holy Ghost are one immortall and most glorious God to whom belongeth all Empyre power and maiestie worlde without end Amen ¶ A Prayer to be sayd after sicknes or any other kinde of crosse or affliction ALmightie most mercifull father I thy poore creature worke of thyne handes acknowledge and confesse vnto thee my manifolde sinnes and offences which I frō my youth vp vnto thys day haue cōmitted agaynst thee in thought word and deede am taught and moued by thy worde and grace to be hartely sory for the same beseching thee for Jesus Christ thy deare sonnes sake to haue mercy vpon me and to forgeue me all these myne offences according to thy great mercy and promise which hast sayd At what time so euer a sinner doth repent him of his sinne frō the bottome of hys hart I will put all hys wickednes out of my remembraunce Ezech. xviij O Lord I confesse that I was borne in sinne and conceaued in wickednes and am by nature a childe of wrath for in my fleshe dwelleth no good thyng and of my selfe I am not able to thinke a good thought much lesse to do that thou in thy lawe requirest of me which hast sayd Cursed is he that continueth not in all thinges that are written in the lawe to doe them Again thy law is spirituall but I am carnall sold vnder sinne Therfore O Lorde I come vnto thee for grace which hast sayd Aske ye shall haue seeke and ye shall finde knocke and it shall bee opened vnto you to preuent and draw my will vnto all goodnes for none can come vnto thee except he bee drawen and except we bee borne from aboue we can not see the kingdome of God Therfore O Lorde renue in me a right spirite that I may receaue strength and ablenes to do thy righteous will Assist me with thy grace that I may be strengthened with power in the inward man and be armed with thy holy armour which is the brestplate of righteousnes the shield of fayth the hope of
without end Amen Certayne sentences taken out of the scripture ⧠Of the kingdome of God and how all kinges ought to seeke his glory Psalme 10. b. 16. GOd is king for euer and euer but the heathen shal perish out of the land Psalme 11. b. 5. 6. 7. God will trie the righteous but his soule abhorreth the vngodly and him that delighteth in wickednes Upon the vngodly he will rayne snares fire and brimstone and tempestes stormes shal be their portion and drinke For God most righteous loueth righteousnes his countenance wil beholde the iust Micheas 4. b. 7. The Lord himselfe shal be their king vppon the mount Sion from this tyme for euermore Esay 33. d. 22. The Lord is our iudge the Lorde is our lawe geuer the Lord is our king and he himselfe shal be our Sauiour Psalme 47. a. 1. Clappe your handes all ye people make a noyse vnto the Lord with a ioyful voyce For God is high and terrible he is the great king vpon all the earth He will subdue the people vnder vs and the nations vnder our feete He hath chosen for vs our inheritaunce the glory of Jacob whom he loued The Lord ascendeth in a triumph and God with the sounde of a trumpet Sing Psalmes to the Lorde sing Psalmes sing psalmes to our king sing Psalmes For the Lord is king of all the earth sing Psalmes all you that haue skill God reigneth ouer the heathen God sitteth vpon his holy throne The Princes of the people are assembled together for to be the people of the God of Abraham for the fieldes of the earth be Gods who is highly exalted Psalme 146. 6. 10. God thy Lorde shall raigne O Sion to the worldes end throughout all generations Prayse ye the Lord. Psalme 68. a. 4. 5. b. 8. 12. c. 17. 18. 19. 20. 32. Sing vnto the Lord sing Psalmes vnto his name magnifie hym that rideth vpon the heauens as it were vpon an horse in hys name euerlasting and reioyce before his face He is a father of the fatherles and the iudge of widowes he is the Lord in hys holy habitation The earth shooke and the heauens dropped at the presence of the Lord euen Sinay it selfe shooke at the presēce of the Lord Lord of Israell Kinges with their armies did flie they did flee and the ornament of an house deuided the spoyle The charettes of the Lord are twenty thousand euen thousandes of Aungels and the Lord is among them in holy Sinay Thou wenst vp on hie thou hast led captiuitie captiue thou hast receaued giftes for men yea euen for those that be disobedient that God the Lord might dwell among them Blessed be the Lord who day by day powreth hys benefites vpō vs and is God of our saluation The Lord is our Lord for to saue vs and all maner of wayes for death pertayneth to God the Lord. Sing vnto the Lorde O ye kingdomes of the earth O sing Psalmes vnto the Lord who rideth vpon the most highest eternall heauens loe he sendeth out a mighty voyce in hys voyce Acknowledge the Lorde to be mighty hys maiesty is ouer Israell and might in the cloudes O Lord thou art terrible out of thy holy places the God of Israell geueth might and strēgth vnto hys people Blessed be the Lord. Psalme 44 a. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Thou art my king O God commaund that Jacob be saued Through thee we will ouerthrow our enemyes and in thy name we wyll treade them vnder that rise against vs. For I will not trust in my bow and it is not my sworde that can saue me But it is thou that sauest vs from our enemyes and thou puttest thē to confusion that hate vs. We make our boast of God all the day long and we will confesse thy name for euer Psalme 45. a. 6. b. 7. 10. 11. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. Thy throne O Lord endureth for euer and euer the scepter of righteousnes is the scepter of thy kingdome Thou hast loued iustice and hated vngodlines wherfore the Lord euen thy Lord hath anointed thee with the oyle of gladnes more then thy fellowes Harken O daughter and consider incline thyne eare forget also thine owne people and thy fathers house so shall the kyng haue pleasure in thy beutie for he is thy Lorde and worship thou hym The kings daughter is all glorious within her clothing is of wrought golde She shal be brought vnto the king in raymēt of nedle work the virgins that follow her and her cōpany shal be brought vnto thee With ioy and gladnes shal they be brought and shall enter into the kinges palace In steede of thy fathers thou shalt haue childrē whom thou mayst make princes in all landes I will remember thy name from one generatiō vnto an other therefore shall the people praise thee world without ende Psalme 48. b. 9. O Lorde according to thy name so is thy prayse vnto the worldes ende thy right hand is full of iustice Psalme 99. God raigneth the people be in a rage he sitteth betwene the Cherubins the earth quaketh God is great in Sion and high aboue all people They shall prayse thy name great and dreadfull for it is holy and a kings power that loueth iudgement Thou hast ordayned all things according to equitie thou hast caused iudgement and iustice to be in Jacob. Magnifie God our Lord and kneele downe before hys foote stoole for it is holy Moses and Aaron among his Priestes and Samuell among such as call vppō hys name these called vppō god and he heard them He spake vnto them out of the cloudy piller for they kept his testimonies and the law that he gaue them O God our Lord thou heardest them O Lord thou didest forbeare thē and thou tookest auengement for their owne inuentions Magnifie God our Lord and kneele downe before hys holy hill for God our Lord is holy Psalme 100. a. Be ye ioyful in God all that be in the earth serue God with gladnes and come before hys face with a ioyfull noyse Be ye sure that God is the Lord it is he that hath made vs and not we our selues we are hys people and the sheepe of hys pasture Goe your way into his gates with thanksgeuing and into hys courtes wyth prayse be thankefull vnto him and blesse his name For God is gracious his mercy is euerlasting and his truth from generation to generation Psalme 101. a. I will syng of mercy and iudgement I will sing vnto thee O God Psalmes I will endeuor my selfe to be fully instructed in the way of perfectues when thou wylt come vnto me I will goe vp and downe in the midst of my house in the perfectnes of my hart I will neuer set before myne eyes any deuilish thyng I will detest to do the worke of transgressours it shall take no holde of me A froward hart shall depart from me I will not once know any euill I will destroy hym who priuily slaundreth hys neyghbour I wyll not
Lord is become glorious in power thy right hand Lorde hath al to dashed the enemies And in thy great glory thou hast ouerthrowen them that rose vp against thee thou sendest forth thy wrath which cōsumed them euen as stubble Who is like vnto thee O Lord amongst Goddes Who is like to thee so glorious in holines fearefull in prayses shewing wonders The Lorde shall raigne for euer euer Sing ye vnto the Lord for he hath triumphed gloriously the horse and his ryder hath he ouerthrown in the sea For sickenes Exodus 15. d. 26. IF thou wilt harken vnto the voyce of the Lord thy God and wylt do that which is right in his sight and wilt gene eare vnto his commaundementes and keepe all his ordinaunces then will I put none of these diseases vpō thee which I haue brought vpon the Egiptians for I am the Lord that healeth thee 2. Chronicles 2. a. 5. 6. b. 11. 9. b. 8. Great is our God aboue all Goddes But who is able to builde hym an house when that heauen and heauen aboue all heauens is not hable to receiue hym what am I then that shoulde builde hym an house nay but euen to burne sacrifice before him shal this building be The Lorde setteth a wyse kyng ouer the people whome he loueth that they may longe endure and prosper Blessed be the Lord thy God which hast lust to thee to set thee king on his seat that thou mightest be king for the Lord thy God because thy God loueth Israell and hath delite to make them continue euer therefore made he thee king ouer them to do right and equitie Exodus 18. c. 18. d. 21. d. 23. Thou canst not alone sustaine the burthen of ruling a whole kingdome but heare my wordes and counsell and the Lord shal be with thee Moreouer thou shalt seeke out among all the people men of actiuitie and such as feare God true men hating coueteousnes place of these ouer the people rulers of thousandes rulers of hundrethes rulers offifties and rulers of tennes And let them iudge the people at all seasons and euery great matter that commeth let thē bring vnto thee but let them iudge all small causes themselues and so shall it be easier for thy selfe they shall beare a burthen with thee If thou shall do this thing and God charge thee withall thou shalt be able to endure and yet the people shal come to theyrplace in peace 1. Reg. 12. b. 13. 14. 15. c. 20. d. 24. 25. Samuel said vnto the people Beholde the king whome ye haue chosen and whom ye haue desired loe the Lorde hath set a king ouer you If ye will feare the Lord and serue hym and heare hys voyce and not disobey the word of the Lord both ye and the king that raig neth ouer you shall follow the Lord your God If ye wyll not harken vnto the voyce of the Lord but disobey the Lordes mouth then shall the hand of the Lord be vppon you and on your fathers Yet depart not from following of the Lord but serue the Lorde wyth all your hartes Therefore feare ye the Lord and serue him in the truth and with all your hartes and cōsider how great thinges he hath done for you But if ye do wickedly then shall ye perishe both ye and yourking The wordes of Samuell to be truely spoken by all good rulers 1. Reg. 12. a. 3. 4. 5. BEholde here I am beare recorde of me before the Lorde and before hys annoynted whose Oxe haue I taken or whose Asse haue I takē who haue I done wrong to whom haue I hurt or of whose hand haue I receaued any bribe to blind myne cyes therewith and I wil restore it you They sayde Thou hast done vs no wrong nor hurt vs neyther hast thou taken ought of any mans hand He sayd vnto thē agayne The Lord is witnes agaynst you and his annomted is witnes this day that ye haue founde naught in my handes And they aunswered he is witnes 1. Reg. 13. b. 13. 14. Samuell sayde to Saule Thou art become a foole thou hast not kept the commaundement of the Lorde thy God which he commaunded thee For at this tyme woulde the Lord haue stablished thy king dome vppon Israell for euer But now thy kingddme shall not continue The Lord hath sought him a man after hys owne hart and the Lord hath commaunded to be captayne ouer his people because thou hast not kept that which the Lord commaunded thee 2. Reg. 14. b. 9. 11. c. 17. d. 20. The king and hys throne should be giltlesse and ought to remember the Lorde hys God and not to suffer much bloudshed The king is as an Angell of God in hearing of the good and bad therefore the Lorde God is with hym The king is wise according to the wisedome of an Angell of God to vnderstand all thinges thac are in earth 2. Paral. 9. b. 7. 8. Happy are the mē and people vnto whom God geueth a wise king God maketh one a king that he shoulde do according to right and equitie Esay 32. a. 12. A good and godly king shal gouerne after the rule of righteousnes and the princes shall rule according to the balance of equitie And that man shall be vnto men as a defence for the winde and as a refuge for the tempest like as a riuer of water in a thirsty place and the shadow of a great rocke in a dry land Ieremy 22. a. 1. c. b. 9. Thus sayth the Lorde Goe downe into the house of the king of Juda speake there these wordes and say Heare the word of the Lord thou king of Juda that sittest in the kingly seat of Dauid thou and thy seruaunts and thy people that goeth in out at these gates Thus the Lord commandeth keepe equitie and righteousnes deliuer the oppressed frō the power of the violent do not greue nor oppresse the straunger the fatherles nor the widow and shed no innocent bloud in this place And if ye keepe these thinges faithfully then shall there come in at the dore of thys house kinges to sit vpon Dauides seat they shal be caried in charetes and ride vppon horses both they and their seruaunts and their people But if ye will be obedient vnto these commaundemētes I sweare by my owne selfe saith the Lord this house shal be wast For thus hath the Lord spokē vpon the kinges of Juda thou Giliad art vnto me the head of Libanus shall I not make thee so wast as the Cities that no men dwell in I wyl prepare a destroyer with his wepōs for thee to hew down thy especial Cedar trees to cast them in the fire And all the people that goe by thys Citie shall speake one to an other wherefore hath the Lord done thus vnto thys noble Citie Then shall it be aunswered because they haue broken the couenaunt of the Lorde theyr God and haue worshipped serued straunge Gods Psalme
dicato grege arce Quin gregem ipsum nouis tuis beneficijs ita orna vt tibi tuum supremum honorem nobis tua in hac parte vice fungentibus obsequentiam sibi inter se mutuam charitatem nusquam deneget Conserua porro tua bonitate mihi partam pacem ab omni belli impetu assere patriam regnum potissimum ab intestinis domesticis tumultibus quibus bona iam orbis Christiani pars quatitur immunes nos prolege Et quoniaÌ„ pauperrimi cuiusque atque abiectissimae conditionis hominis afflictio ad nos qui tui sumus attinet etiam afflictorum omnium qui tua opera promptiori egere videntur vt te misereat supplex oro obtestor Idque meritis nomine filij tui domini nostri Iesu Christi qui tecuÌ„ viuit regnat in omnem aeternitatem Fiat Alia precatio SVmme Deus qui me iam ab ineunte aetate antequam in lucem essem aedita admirabili potentia incredibilique prouidentia a capitali humani generis inimico eiusque sceleratis administris hactenus tutam incolumemque coÌ„seruasti concede itidem vt tua singulari benignitate freta cum ab omnibus clandestinis insidiis tum etiam a domesticis exterisque hostibus eripiar ea libertate mentisque quieto tranquilloque statu consistam vt populum regnumque meae fidei ac tutelae commendatum sartum tectum ab omnibus periculis tuearis cum ex hac vita migrauero tecum immortali fruar beatitudine in omnes aeui aeternitates Amen § § 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ΘΕὸς 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ΚΎÏιε ὠδεὸς 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ΥΠÎÏτατε Ï€Î¬Ï„ÎµÏ ã€ˆâ—Šã€‰ 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 E R HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE The birth of blessed Mary the virgine the mother of Christ c. There shall come a rod forth of the stocke of Jesse and a graffe c. Esay 11. There shall come a star of Jacob and a scepter shall rise of Israell c. Num. 24. Mary the mother of Jesu betrothed to Joseph her husband before they came together was founde with childe by the holy ghost TheÌ„ Joseph her husband being a iust man c Math. 1. But thou shalt go vnto my fathers house and to my kinred and take a wife c. Gen. 24. I will speake for her that she may be geuen thee to wife For to thee doth the right of her c. Tob. 6 And in the vi month the angell Gabriell was sent froÌ„ God to a citie in Galile named Nazareth to a virgine affianced to a man whose name was Joseph of the house of Dauid c. Luke 1. The seede of the woman shall tread vppon the head of the serpent Gen. 3. The angel said to him the Lord is with thee thou valiaunt man Judges 6. And Mary arose and went with hast into the hilly contrey to a citie of Juda and entred into the house of Zacharias and saluted Elizabeth And it came to passe c. Luke 1. And Moyses returned to Jethro his father in law and said to him I pray c. Exo. 4. My soule doth magnify the Lord and my sprite doth reioyce in God my sauiour Luke 1. When the dayes were accomplished Mary brought forth her first begotten sonne and wrapped him in swadling clothes and layd him in the manger because there was no roume c. Lu. 2. Put thy shoes of thy feete for the place wheron thou standest is holy ground Exod. 3. Aarons rod being put in the tabernacle did blossom and I will make cease c. Num. 17. And when the viii dayes were accomplished that they should circumcise the childe his name was then called Jesus which was so named of the Angel before he was conceiued c. Luke 2. Abraham circumcised his sonne Isaac when he was eight dayes old as God had coÌ„maunded him c. Gen. 21 Let euery manchild among you be circumcised That is ye shall circumcise the foreskin of your flesh c. Gen. 17 Where is the king of the Jewes that is borne for we haue sene his starre in the East and are come to worship him When Herode the king heard this he was troubled all Jerusalem c. Math. 2. Abner said to Dauid make couenant with me and behold mine hand shall be with thee c. 2. Sam. 3. The Quene of Saba bring giftes to Jerusalem to Salomon with a very great trayne c. 3. Reg. 10. Then the dayes of Purification after the law of Moses were accomplished they brought Jesus to Jerusalem to preseÌ„t him to the lord as it is written in the law of the lord Luke 2. God sayd to Moses sanctify vnto me all the first borne that open all maner matrices among the childreÌ„ c. Exo. 13. Anna bare a sonne brought him into the house of the Lord in Siloh and the childe was yong c. 1. Sam. 1. Arise and take the babe and his mother and flie into Egipt and be there till I bring thee word for Herode will seeke the babe to destroy him So he arose toke the babe his mother c. Math. 2 Behold thy brother Esau is coÌ„forted against thee meaning to kill thee Gen. 27. Michaell spake vnto Dauid If thou saue not thy self this night to morrow c. 1. Sa. 19 He shall breake downe their altars he shal destroy their images For now they shall say we haue no king because we feared not the Lord and what should a king do to vs Ose 10. Moses cast the tables out of his handes and brake them in pieces because of their idolatry c. Exo. 32. The Philistines finde Dagon fallen downe before the arke of the Lord c. 1. Sam. 5. Herode caused all male children to be slaine that were in Bethlehem and in all the costes therof from two yeare olde and vnder according to the tyme which he had diligently searched c. Mat. 2. Saul sayd to Doeg turne thou and fall vpon the priestes And Doeg the Edomite turned c. 1. Sa. 22 Athalia seyng her sonne to be dead destroyed all the kinges seede But Jehosheba c. 4. Reg. 11. And Jesus when he was baptised came straight out of the water And lo the heauens were opened vnto him and John saw the spirite of God descending like a doue c. Math. 3. Lift vp thy rodde and stretch out thine hande vpon the sea c. Exodus 14 They cutte downe a branche with one cluster of grapes and beare it vpon c. Num. 13. The Angel sayd to Joseph Arise and take the babe and his mother and go into the land of Israel for they are dead which sought the babes life Then he arose and toke the babe c. Mat. â— God spake to Jacob Get thee out of this
he had hewen out euen in the rock and rolled a great stone to the dore St. Math. 27. Assone as the sunne was downe Josue commaundeth that they c. Josu 8 Then they arose and went all night and toke the body c. 1. Sam. 31 There was Mary Magdalene and the other Mary sitting ouer against the sepulchre The next day that followed the day of preparing the hie priestes and Pharises c. Math. 27. She wepeth continually in the night and her teares c. Lamen 1. Call me not Naomi but call me Mara for the lord hath geuen c. Ruth 1. He layd it in a tomb hewen out of a rocke wherin was neuer man yet layd And that day was the preparing of the Saboth the Saboth drue on The women that folowed after c. Luke 23. When Joseph was come to his brethren they stript him c. Gen. 37. So they toke vp Jonas and cast him into the sea and the sea ▪ c. Jonas 1 For feare of him the kepers were astonied became as dead men But the Angell sayd to the women Feare not for I know you seeke Jesus which was crucified c. Math. 28. Samson arose at midnight and toke the dores c. Judicum 16. And the Lord spake vnto the fish and it cast out Jonas c. Jonas 2. Jesus appeared first to Mary Magdalene out of whom he had cast vij deuils And she went and told them that had bene with him which mourned c. Mar. 16 The king said vnto Daniell O Daniel the seruaunt c. Daniel 6. When I had past a litle from them then I found him c. Cant. 3. Jesus said to Thomas put thy finger here and see my hands and put forth thy hand and put it into my side and be not faythlesse c. John 20. And Jacob called the name of the place Peniell c. Gen. 32. Gedeon aunswered the Lord be with vs why then c. Jud. 6. So after the Lord had spoken vnto them he was receiued into heauen and sate at the right hand of God And they went forth and preached c. Mar. 16 And Enoch walked with God and he was no more sene for God tooke him away c. Gen. 5. There appeared a charet of fire and horses of fire so Elias went vp by a whirlewinde c. 2. Reg. 2. The birth of blessed Mary the virgine the mother of Christ c. There shall come a rod forth of the stocke of Jesse and a graffe c. Esay 11. There shall come a star of Jacob and a scepter shall rise of Israell c Num. 24. Mary the mother of Jesu betrothed to Joseph her husband before they came together was founde with childe by the holy ghost Thē Joseph her husband being a iust man c Math. 1. But thou shalt go vnto my fathers house and to my kinred and take a wife c. Gen. 24. I will speake for her that she may be geuen thee to wife For to thee doth the right of her c. Tob. 6 And in the vi month the Angell Gabriell was sent frō God to a citie in Galile named Nazareth to a virgine affianced to a man whose name was Joseph of the house of Dauid c. Luke 1. The seede of the woman shall tread vppon the head of the serpent Gen. 3. The angel said to him the Lord is with thee thou valiaunt man Judges 6. And Mary arose and went with hast into the hilly contrey to a citie of Juda and entred into the house of Zacharias and saluted Elizabeth And it came to passe c. Luke i. And Moyses returned to Jethro his father in law and said to him I pray c. Exo. 4. My soule doth magnify the Lord and my sprite doth reioyce in God my sauiour Luke 1. When the dayes were accomplished Mary brought forth her first begotten sonne and wrapped him in swadling clothes and layd him in the manger because there was no roume c. Lu. 2. Put thy shoes of thy feete for the place wheron thou standest is holy ground Exod. 3. Aarons rod being put in the tabernacle did blossom and I will make cease c. Num. 17. And when the viii dayes were accomplished that they should circumcise the childe his name was then called Jesus which was so named of the Angel before he was conceiued c. Luke 2. Abraham circumcised his sonne Isaac when he was eight dayes old as God had cōmaunded him c. Gen. 21 Abner said to Dauid make couenant with me and behold mine hand shall be with thee c. 2. Sam. 3. Where is the king of the Jewes that is borne for we haue sene his starre in the East and are come to worship him When Herode the king heard this he was troubled all Jerusalem c. Math. 2. Abuer said to Dauid make coueuant with me and behold mine hand shall be with thee c. 2. Sam. 3 The Quene of Saba bring giftes to Jerusalem to Salomon with a very great rayne c. 3. Reg. 10. When the dayes of Purification after the law of Moses were accomplished they brought Jesus to Jerusalem to presēt him to the lord as it is written in the law of the lord Luke 2. God sayd to Moses sanctify vnto me all the first borne that open all maner matrices among the childrē c. Exo. 13. Anna bare a sonne brought him into the house of the Lord in Siloh and the childe was yong c. 1. Sam. 1. Arise and take the babe and his mother and flie into Egipt and be there till I bring thee word for Herode will seeks the babe to destroy him So he arose toke the babe his mother c. Math. 2 Behold thy brother Esau is cōforted against thee meaning to kill thee Gen. 27. Michaell spake vnto Dauid If thou saue not thy self this night to morrow c. 1. Sa. 19 He shall breake downe their altars he shal destroy their images For now they shall say we haue no king because we feared not the Lord and what should a king do to vs Ose 10. Moses cast the tables out of his handes and brake them in pieces because of their idolatry c. Exo. 32 The Philistines finde Dagon fallen downe before the arke of the Lord c. 1. Sam. 1. Herode caused all male children to be slaine that were in Bethlehem and in all the costes therof from two yeare olde and vnder according to the tyme which he had diligently searched c. Mat. 2. Saul sayd to Doeg turne thou and fall vpon the priestes And Doeg the Edomite turned c. 1. Sa. 22 Athalia seyng her sonne to be dead destroyed all the kinges seede But Jehosheba c. 4. Reg. 11. And Jesus when he was baptised came straight out of the water And lo the heauens were opened vnto him and John saw the spirite of God descending like a doue c. Math.
with a speare pearced his side forthwith ran there out bloud and water And he that saw it bare record and his recorde is true And he that c. John 19. With the ribbe which the Lord God had taken from the man c Gen. 2. The Lord said to Moses Thou shalt smite the rocks and water c Exo. 17 Joseph toke the body and wrapped it it in a cleane linnen cloth and layd it in his new tombe which he had hewen out euen in the rock and rolled a great stone to the dore c. Math. 27. Assone as the sunne was downe Josne commaundeth that they c. Josu 8 Then they arose and went all night and toke the body c. 1. Sam. 31 There was Mary Magdalene and the other Mary sitting ouer against the sepulchre The next day that followed the day of preparing the hie priestes and Pharises c. Math. 27. She wepeth continually in the night and her teares c. Lamen 1. Call me not Naomi but call me Mara for the lord hath geuen c. Ruth 1. He layd it in a tomb hewen out of a rocke wherin was neuer man yet layd And that day was the preparing of the Saboth the Saboth drue on The women that folowed after c. Luke 23. When Joseph was come to his brethren they script him c. Gen. 37. So they toke vp Jonas and cast him into the sea and the sea c. Jonas 1 For feare of him the kepers were astonied became as dead men But the Angell sayd to the women Feare not for I know you seeke Jesus which was crucified c. Math. 28. Samson arose at midnight and toke the dores c. Judicum 16. And the Lord spake vnto the fish and it cast out Jonas c. Jonas 2. Jesus appeared first to Mary Magdalene out of whom he had cast vij deuils And she went and told them that had bene with him which mourned c. Mar. 16 The king said vnto Daniell O Daniel the seruaunt c. Daniel 6. When I had past a litle from them then I found him c. Cant. 3. Jesus said to Thomas put thy finger here and see my hands and put forth thy hand and put it into my side and be not faythlesse c. John 20. And Jacob called the name of the place Peniell c. Gen. 32. Gedeon aunswered the Lord be with vs why then c. Jud. 6. So after the Lord had spoken vnto them he was receiued into heauen and sate at the right hand of God And they went forth and preached c. Mar. 16 And Enoch walked with God and he was no more sene for God tooke him away c. Gen. 5. There appeared a charet of fire and horses of fire so Elias went vp by a whirlwinde c. 2. Reg. 2 The birth of blessed Mary the virgine the mother of Christ c. There shall come a rod forth of the stocke of Jesse and a graffe c. Esay 11. There shall come a star of Jacob and a scepter shall ryse of Israell c Num. 24. Mary the mother of Jesu betrothed to Joseph her husband before they came together was founde with childe by the holy ghost Thē Joseph her husband being a iust man c Math. 1. But thou shalt go vnto my fathers house and to my kinred and take a wife c. Gen. 24. I will speake for her that she may be geuen thee to wife For to thee doth the right of her c. Tob. 6 And in the vi month the Angell Gabriell was sent frō God to a citie in Galile named Nazareth to a virgine affianced to a man whose name was Joseph of the house of Dauid c. Luke 1. The seede of the woman shall tread vppon the head of the serpent Gen. 2. The angel said to him the Lord is with thee thou valiaunt man Judges 6. And Mary arose and went with hast into the hilly contrey to a citie of Juda and entred into the house of Zacharias and saluted Elizabeth And it came to passe c. Luke i. And Moyses returned to Jethro his father in law and said to him I pray c. Exo. 4. My soule doth magnify the Lord and my sprite doth reioyce in God my sauiour Luke 1. When the dayes were accomplished Mary brought forth her first begotten sonne and wrapped him in swadling clothes and layd him in the manger because there was no roume c. Lu. 2. Put thy shoes of thy feete for the place wheron thou standest is holy ground Exod. 3. Aarons rod being put in the tabernacle did blossom and I will make cease c. Num. 17. And when the viii dayes were accomplished that they should circumcise the childe his name was then called Jesus which was so named of the Angel before he was concerned c. Luke 2. Abraham circumcised his sonne Isaac when he was eight dayes old as God had cōmaunded him c. Gen. 21 Abner said to Dauid make couenant with me and behold mine hand shall be with thee c. 2. Sam. 3. Where is the king of the Jewes that is borne for we haue sene his starre in the East and are come to worship him When Herode the king heard this he was troubled all Jerusalem c. Math. 2. Abuer said to Dauid make coueuant with me and behold mine hand shall be with thee c. 2. Sam. 3 The Quene of Saba bring giftes to Jerusalem to Salomon with a very great trayne c. ◠Reg. 10. When the dayes of Purification after the law of Moses were accomplished they brought Jesus to Jerusalem to presēt him to the lord as it is written in the law of the lord Luke 2. God sayd to Moses sanctify vnto me all the first borne that open all maner matrices among the childrē c. Exo. 13. Anna bare a sonne brought him into the house of the Lord in Siloh and the childe was yong c. 1. Sam. 1. Arise and take the babe and his mother and flie into Egipt and be there till I bring thee word for Herode will seeke the babe to destroy him So he arose toke the babe his mother c. Math. 2 Behold thy brother Esau is cōforted against thee meaning to kill thee Gen. 27. Michaell spake vnto Dauid If thou saue not thy self this night to morrow c. 1. Sa. 19 He shall breake downe their altars he shal destroy their images For now they shall say we haue no king because we feared not the Lord and what should a king do to vs Ose 10. Moses cast the tables out of his handes and brake them in pieces because of their idolatry c. Exo. 32 The Philistines finde Dagon fallen downe before the arke of the Lord c. 1. Sam. 5. Herode caused all male children to be slaine that were in Bethlehem and in all the costes therof from two yeare olde and vnder according to the
criest to the king c. 1. Sam. 26. Pilate toke water and washed hys handes before the multitude saying I am innocent of the death of this iust man looke you to it Then answered all the people c. Math. 27. Jezabell sent a messenger vnto Helias saying The Gods do so to me c. 3. Reg. 19. Then the king commaunded and they brought Daniel and cast c. Dan. 6. And Jesus bare his crosse and came into a place named Golgotha where they crucified him and two other with him on either side one and Jesus in the midst of them c. John 19. Abraham tooke the wood of the burnt offring and layd it vpon Isaac his sonne c. Gene. 22. Behold the widow was there gathering sticks and Eliah called her and said c. 3. Reg. 17. And when they were come to the place which is called Caluarie there they crucified him and the euil doers one on the right hand and the other on the left c. Luke 23. Tubultaim wrought cunningly euery craft of brasse and iron c. Gen. 4. Esay the prophet was cut in the midst with a saw and fasted on a tree c. One of the souldiours with a speare pearced his side forth with ran there out bloud and water And he that saw it bare record and his recorde is true And he that c. John 19. With the ribbe which the Lord God had taken from the man c Gen. 2. The Lord said to Moses Thou shalt smite the rocke and water c Exo. 17 Joseph toke the body and wrapped it it in a cleane linnen cloth and layd it in his new tombe which he had hewen out euen in the rock and rolled a great stone to the dore c. Math. 27. Assone as the sunne was downe Josne commaundeth that they c. Josu 8 Then they arose and went all night and toke the body c. 1. Sam. 31 There was Mary Magdalene and the other Mary sitting ouer against the sepulchre The next day that followed the day of preparing the hie priestes and Pharises c. Math. 27. She wepeth continually in the night and her teares c. Lamen 1. Call me not Naomi but call me Mara for the lord hath geuen c. Ruth 1. He layd it in a tomb hewen out of a rocke wherin was neuer man yet layd And that day was the preparing of the Saboth the Saboth drue on The women that folowed after c. Luke 23. When Joseph was come to his brethren they stript him c. Gen. 37. So they toke vp Jonas and cast him into the sea and the sea c. Jonas For feare of him the kepers were astonied became as dead men But the Angell sayd to The women Feare not for I know you seeke Jesus which was crucified c. Math. 28. Samson arose at midnight and toke the dores c. Judicum 16. And the Lord spake vnto the fish and it cast out Jonas c. Jonas 2. Jesus appeared first to Mary Magdalene out of whom he had cast vii deuils And she went and told them that had bene with him which mourned c. Mar. 16 The king said vnto Daniell O Daniel the seruaunt c. Daniel 6. When I had past a litle from them then I found him c. Cant. 3. Jesus said to Thomas put thy finger here and see my hands and put forth thy hand and put it into my side and be not faythlesse c. John 20. And Jacob called the name of the place Peniell c. Gen. 32. Gedeon aunswered the Lord be with vs why then c. Jud. 6. So after the Lord had spoken vnto them he was receiued into heauen and sate at the right hand of God And they went forth and preached c. Mar. 16 And Enoch walked with God and he was no more sene for God tooke him away c. Gen. 5. There appeared a charet of fire and horses of fire so Elias went vp by a whirlwinde c. 2. Reg. 2 Behold a woman a Cananite came out of the sea coastes and cried saying vnto him Haue mercy on me O Lord c. Math. 15. A certayne man was diseased 38. yeares when Jesus saw him lie and knew c. John 5. And in the fourth watch of the night Jesus went vnto them walkyng on the sea c. Math. 14. Mary stoode at the sepulcher wepyng and as she wept she bowed her selfe into the sepulchre and saw two aungels in white sitting the one c. John 20. Ruben returned to the pit and behold Joseph was not in the pit c. Gen. 37. I will seeke him that my soule loueth I sought him but I found him not c. Cant. 3. The birth of blessed Mary the virgine the mother of Christ c. There shall come a rod forth of the stocke of Jesse and a graffe c. Esay 11. There shall come a star of Jacob and a scepter shall rise of Israell c. Num. 24. Mary the mother of Jesu botrothed to Joseph her husband before they came together was founde with childe by the holy ghost Thē Joseph her husband being a iust man c Math. 1. But thou shalt go vnto my fathers house and to my kinred and take a wife c. Gen. 24. I will speake for her that she may be geuen thee to wife For to thee doth the right of her c. Cob. 6. And in the vi month the Angell Gabriell was sent frō God to a citie in Galile named Nazareth to a virgine affianced to a man whose name was Joseph of the house of Dauid c. Luke 1. The seede of the woman shall tread vppon the held of the serpent Gen. 3. The angel said to him the Lord is with thee thou valiaunt man Judges 6. And Mary arose and went with hast into the hilly contrey to a citie of Juda and entred into the house of Zacharias and saluted Elizabeth And it came to passe c. Luke i. And Moyses returned to Jethro his father in law and sayd to hym I pray c. Exo. 4. My soule doth magnify the Lord and my sprite doth reioyce in God my sauiour Luke 1. When the dayes were accomplished Mary brought forth her first begotten sonne and wrapped him in swadling clothes and layd him in the manger because there was no roume c. Lu. 2. Put thy shoes of thy feete for the place wheron thou standest is holy ground Exod. 3. Aarons rod being put in the tabernacle did blossom and I will make cease c. Num. 17. And when the viii dayes were accomplished that they should circumcise the childe his name Was then called Jesus which was so named of the Angel before he was concerned c. Luke 2. Abraham circumcised his sonne Isaac when he was eight dayes old as God had cōmaunded him c. Gen. 21 Let euery manchild among you be circumcised That is ve shall circumcise the foreskin of
angel said to him the Lord is with thee thou valiaunt man Judges 6. And Mary arose and went with hast into the hilly contrey to a citie of Juda and entred into the house of Zacharias and saluted Elizabeth And it came to passe c. Luke 1. And Moyses returned to Jethro his father in law and said to him I pray c. Exo. 4. My soule doth magnify the Lord and my sprite doth reioyce in God my sauiour Luke 1. When the dayes were accomplished Mary brought forth her first begotten sonne and wrapped him in swadling clothes and layd him in the manger because there was no roume c. Lu. 2. Put thy shoes of thy feete for the place wheron thou standest is holy ground Exod. 3. Aarons rod being put in the tabernacle did blossom and I will make cease c. Num. 17. And when the viii dayes were accomplished that they should circumcise the childe his name was then called Jesus which was so named of the Angel before he was conceiued c. Luke 2. Abraham circumcised his sonne Isaac when he was eight dayes old as God had cōmaunded him c. Gen. 21 Let euery manchild among you be circumcised That is ye shall circumcise the foreskin of your flesh c. Gen. 17 Where is the king ▪ of the Jewes that is borne for we haue sene his starre in the East and are come to worship him When Herode the king heard this he was troubled all Jerusalem c. Mark 2. Abner said to Dauid make couenant with me and behold mine hand shall be with thee c. 2. Sam. 3. The Quene of Saba bring giftes to Jerusalem to Salomon with a very great trayne c. 3. Reg. 10. When the dayes or Purification after the law of Moses were accomplished they brought Jesus to Jerusalem to presēt him to the lord as it is written in the law of the lord Luke 2. God sayd to Moses sanctify vnto me all the first borne that open all maner matrices among the childrē c. Exo. 13. Anna bare a sonne brought him into the house of the Lord in Siloh and the childe was yong c. 1. Sam. 1. Arise and take the babe and his mother and flie into Egipt and be there till I bring thee word for Herode will seeke the babe to destroy him So he arose toke the babe his mother c. Math. 2 Behold thy brother Esau is cōforted against thee meaning to kill thee Gen. 27. Michaell spake vnto Dauid If thou saue not thy self this night to morrow c. 1. Sa. 19 He shall breake downe their altars he shal destroy their images For now they shall say we haue no king because we feared not the Lord and what should a king do to vs Ose 10. Moses cast the tables out of his handes and brake them in pieces because of their idolatry c. Exo. 32 The Philistines finde Dagon fallen downe before the arke of the Lord c. 1. Sam. 5. Herode caused all male children to be slaine that were in Bethlehem and in all the costes therof from two yeare olde and vnder according to the tyme which he had diligently searched c Mat. 2. Saul sayd to Doeg turne thou and fall vpon the priestes And Doeg the Edomite turned c. 1. Sa. 22 Athalia seyng her sonne to be dead destroyed all the kinges seede But Jehosheba c. 4. Reg. 11. And Jesus when he was baptised came straight out of the water And lo the heauens were opened vnto him and John saw the spirite of God descending like a doue c. Math. 3. Litt vp thy rodde and stretch out thine hande vpon the sea c. Exodus 14. They cutte downe a branche with one cluster of grapes and beare it vpon c. Num. 13. The Angel sayd to Joseph Arise and take the babe and his mother and go into the land of Israel for they are dead which sought the babes life Then he arose and toke the babe c. Mat. 2 God spake to Jacob Get thee out of this countrey Jacob toke all his goodes and cattell c. Gen. 31. Dauid asked counsell of the Lord saying Shall I go vp into any cities of Judah c. 2. Sam. 2. The tempter came to Christ saying If thou be the sonne of God commaunde that these stones be made bread But he aunswering sayd it is written Man shal not liue by bread only c. Math. 4. Esau selleth his birth right for a messe of pottage c. Gen. 25. The woman seyng the tree to be pleasaunt toke of the fruit c. Gen. 3. Christ cried with a loud voyce Lazarus come forth Then he that was dead came forth bound hand foote with bandes and his face was bound with a napkin Jesus said vnto them c. John 11. Helias stretched himselfe vpon the childe and the Lord heard the voyce of Helias c. 3. Reg. 17. Heliseus comming into the house and behold the childe was dead and he stretched c. 4. Reg. 4. He was transfigured before them and his face did shine as the sunne and his clothes were as white as the light And beholde there appeared vnto them Moses and Elias c. Math. 17. Abraham said Lord if I haue now found fauour in thy sight c. Gen. 18. Nabuchadnesee aunswered Lo I see foure men loose walking in the midst of the fire Dan. 3. Jesus sayd Many sinnes are forgeuen her for she loued much To whom a little is forgeuen he doth loue a litle And he said vnto her Thy sinnes are forgeuen thee c. Luke 7 Dauid said to Nathan I haue sinned against the Lord c. 2. Sam. 12 Baron looked vpon Miriam and behold she was leprous Num. 12 When Christ came nere Jerusalem he beheld the citie and wept for it saying O if thou hadst euen knowen at the lest in this thy day those thinges which belong vnto thy peace c. Luke 19. Who shall haue pitie then vpon thee O Jerusalem or who c. Jere. 15. Their feastes are turned into lamentation their altars c 1. Macha 1. Christ riding to Jerusalem many spred their garmentes in the way other cut downe branches of the trees strawed them in the way And they that went before and they that folowed c Mark. 11 The women sang by course in their play and said c. 1. Sam. 28 The children of the propheres came to meete Helisha c. 4. Reg. 2. Jesus went into the temple and began to cast out them that sold and bought saying vnto them it is written Myne house is the house of prayer but ye haue made it a den of theues Luke 19 Is this house become a denue of theeues wherupon c. Jere. 7. Mine house shall be called a house of prayer for all people c. Esay 56. The chiefe priestes and the Scribes and the Elders of the people consulted how they might take Jesus by
with God and he was no more sene for God tooke him away c. Gen. 5. There appeared a charet of fire and horses of fire so Elias went vp by a whirlwind c 2. Reg. 2 Behold a woman a Cananite came out of the sea coastes and cried saying vnto him Haue mercy on me O Lord c. Math. 15. A certayne man was diseased 38. yeares when Jesus saw him lie and knew c. John 5. And in the fourth watch of the night Jesus went vnto them walkyng on the sea c Math. 14 Mary stoode at the sepulcher wepyng and as she wept she bowed her selfe into the sepulcher and saw two aungels in white sitting the one c. John 20. Ruben returned to the pit and behold Joseph was not in the pit c. Gen. 37. I will seeke him that my soule loueth I sought him but I found him not c. Cant. 3. And he tooke the v. loaues and two fishes and looked vp to heauen and blessed and brake and gaue the loaues to his disciples and the disciples c. Math. 14. He that is without fault let him cast the first stone c. John 8. Jesus seyng their faith said to the sicke of the palsey sonne c. Math. 9. The birth of blessed Mary the virgine the mother of Christ c. There shall come a rod forth of the stocke of Jesse and a graffe c. Esay 11. There shall come a star of Jacob and a scepter shall ryse of Israell c Num. 24. Mary the mother of Jesu betrothed to Joseph her husband before they came together was founde with childe by the holy ghost Thē Joseph her husband being a iust man c Math. 1. But thou shalt go vnto my fathers house and to my kinred and take a wife c. Gen. 24. I will speake for her that she may be geuen ther to wife For to thee doth the light of ber c. Tob. 6 And in the vi month the Angell Gabriell was sent frō God to a citie in Galile named Nazareth to a virgine affianced to a man whose name was Joseph of the house of Dauid c. Luke 1. The seede of the woman shall tread vppon the head of the serpent Gen. 3. The angel said to him the Lord is with thee thou valiaunt man Judges 6 And Mary arose and went with hast into the hilly contrey to a citie of Juda and entred into the house of Zacharias and saluted Elizabeth And it came to passe c. Luke 1. And Moyses returned to Jethro his father in law and said to him I pray c. Ero. 4. My soule doth magnify the Lord and my sprite doth reioyce in God my sauiour Luke 1. When the dayes were accomplished Mary brought forth her first begotten sonne and wrapped him in swadling clothes and layd him in the manger because there was no roume c. Lu. 2. Put thy shoes of thy feete for the place wheron thou standest is holy ground Exod. 3. Aarons rod being put in the tabernacle did blossom and I will make cease c. Num. 17. And when the viii dayes were accomplished that they should circumcise the childe his name was then called Jesus which was so named of the Angel before he was conceiued c. Luke 2. Abraham circumcised his sonne Isaac when he was eight dayes old as God had cōmaunded him c. Gen. 21 Let euery manchild among you be circumcised That is ye shall circumcise the foreskin of your flesh c. Gen. 17 Where is the king of the Jewes that is borne for we haue sent his starre in the East and are come to worship him When Herode the king heard this he was troubled all Jerusalem c. Math. 2. Abner said to Dauid make couenant with me and behold mine hand shall be with thee c. 2. Sam. 3. The Quene of Saba bring giftes to Jerusalem to Salomon with a very great trayne c. 3. Reg. 10. When the dayes of Purification after the law of Moses were accomplished they brought Jesus to Jerusalem to presēt him to the lord as it is written in the law of the lord Luke 2. God sayd to Moses sanctify vnto me all the first borne that open all maner matrices among the childrē c. Exo. 13. Anna bare a sonne brought him into the house of the Lord in Siloh and the childe was yong c. 1. Sam. 1. Arise and take the babe and his mother and flie into Egipt and be there till I bring thee word for Herode will seeke the babe to destroy him So he arose toke the babe his mother c Math. 2 Behold thy brother Esau is cōforted against thee meaning to kill thee Gen. 27. Michaell spake vnto Dauid If thou saue not thy self this night to morrow c. 1. Sa. 19 He shall breake downe their altars he shal destroy their images For now they shall say we haue no king because we feared not the Lord and what should a king do to vs Ose 10. Moses cast the tables out of his handes and brake them in pieces because of their idolatry c. Exo. 32 The Philistines finde Dagon fallen downe before the arke of the Lord c. 1. Sam. 5. Herode caused all male children to be slaine that were in Bethlehem and in all the costes therof from two yeare olde and vnder according to the tyme which he had diligently searched c. Mat. 2. Saul sayd to Doeg turne thou and fall vpon the priestes And Doeg the Edomite turned c. 1. Sa. 22 Athalia seyng her sonne to be dead destroyed all the kinges seede But Jehosheba c. 4. Reg. 11. And Jesus when he was baptised came straight out of the water And lo the heauens were opened vnto him and John saw the spirite of God descending like a doue c. Math. 1. Lift vp thy rodde and stretch out thine hands vpon the sea c. Exodus 14. They cutte downe a branche with one cluster of grapes and beare it vpon c. Num. 13. The Angel sayd to Joseph Arise and take the babe and his mother and go into the land of Israel for they are dead which sought the babes life Then he arose and toke the babe c. Mat. 2 God spake to Jacob Get thee out of this countrey Jacob toke all his goodes and cattell c. Gen. 31. Dauid asked counsell of the Lord saying Shall I go vp into any cities of Judah c. 2. Sam. 2. The tempter came to Christ saying If thou be the sonne of God commaunde that these stones be made bread But he aunswering sayd it is written Man shal not liue by bread only c. Math. 4. Esau selleth his birth right for a messe of pottage c. Gen. 25. The woman seyng the tree to be pleasaunt toke of the fruit c. Gen. 3. Christ cried with a loud voyce Lazarus come forth Then he that was dead came forth bound hand
i. And Moyses returned to Jethro his father in law and said to him I pray c. Exo. 4. My soule doth magnify the Lord and my sprite doth reioyce in God my sauiour Luke 1. When the dayes were accomplished Mary brought forth her first begotten sonne and wrapped him in swadling clothes and layd him in the manger because there was no roume c. Lu. 2. Put thy shoes of thy feete for the place wheron thou standest is holy ground Exod. 3. Aarons rod being put in the tabernacle did blossom and I will make cease c. Num. 17. And when the viii dayes were accomplished that they should circumcise the childe his name was then called Jesus which was so named of the Angel before he was conceiued c. Luke 2. Abraham circumcised his sonne Isaac when he was eight dayes old as God had coÌ„maunded him c. Gen. 21 Let euery manchild among youâ—â— circumcised That is ye shall circumcise the foreskin of your flesh c. Gen. 17 Where is the king of the Jewes that is borne for we haue sene his starre in the East and are come to worship him When Herode the king heard this he was troubled all Jerusalem c. Math. 2. Abner said to Dauid make couenaut with me and behold mine hand shall be with thee c. 2. Sam. 3. The Quene of Saba bring giftes to Jerusalem to Salomon with a very great trayne c. 3. Reg. 10. When the dayes of Purification after the law of Moses were accomplished they brought Jesus to Jerusalem to preseÌ„t him to the lord as it is written in the law of the lord Luke 2. God sayd to Moses sanctify vnto me all the first borne that open all maner matrices among the childreÌ„ c. Exo. 13. Anna bare a sonne brought him into the house of the Lord in Siloh and the childe was youg c. 1. Sam. 1. Arise and take the babe and his mother and flie into Egipt and be there till I bring thee word for Herode will seeke the babe to destroy him So he arose toke the babe his mother c. Math. 2. Behold thy brother Esau is coÌ„forted against thee meaning to kill thee Gen. 27. Michaell spake vnto Dauid If thou saue not thy self this night to morrow c. 1. Sa. 19 He shall breake downe their altars he shal destroy their images For now they shall say we haue no king because we feared not the Lord and what should a king do to vs Ose 10. Moses cast the tables out of his handes and brake them in pieces because of their idolatry c. Exo. 32. The Philistines finde Dagon fallen downe before the arke of the Lord c. 1. Sam. 5. Herode caused all male children to be slaine that were in Bethlehem and in all the costes therof from two yeare olde and vnder according to the tyme which he had diligently searched c. Mat. 2. Saul sayd to Doeg turne thou and fall vpon the priestes And Doeg the Edomite turned c. 1. Sa. 22 Athalia seyng her sonne to be dead destroyed all the kinges seede But Jehosheba c. 4. Reg. 11. The angel sayd to Joseph Arise and take the babe and his mother â–ª and go into the land of Israel for they are dead which sought the babes life Then he arose and toke the babe c. Mat. 2 God spake to Jacob Get thee out of this countrey Jacob toke all his goodes and cattell â–ª c. Gen. 31. Dauid asked counsell of the Lord saying Shall I go vp into any cities of Judah c. 2. Sam. 2. And Jesus when he was baptised came straight out of the water And lo the heauens were opened vnto him and John saw the spirite of God descending like a doue c. Math. 3. Lift vp thy rodde and stretch out thine hande vpon the sea c. Exodus 14. They cutte downe a branche with one cluster of grapes and beare it vpon c. Num. 13. The tempter came to Christ saying If thou be the sonne of God commaunde that these stones be made bread But he aunswering sayd it is written Man shal not liue by bread only c. Math. 4. Esauselleth his birth right for a messe of pottage c. Gen. 25. The woman seyng the tree to be pleasaunt toke of the fruit c. Gen. 3. Christ cried with a loud voyce Lazarus come forth Then he that was dead came forth â–ª bound hand foote with bandes and his face was bound with a napkin Jesus said vnto them c. John 11. Helias stretched himselfe vpon the childe and the Lord heard the voyce of Helias c. 3. Reg. 17. Heliseus comming into the house and behold the childe was dead and he stretched c. 4. Reg. 4. He was transfigured before them and his face did shine as the sunne and his clothes were as white as the light And beholde there appeared vnto them Moses and Elias c. Math. 17. Abraham said Lord if I haue now found fauour in thy sight c. Gen. 13. Nabuchadneser aunswered Lo I see foure men loose walking in the midst of the fire Dan. 3. Jesus sayd Many sinnes are forgeuen her for she loued much To whom a little is forgeuen he doth loue a litle And he said vnto her Thy sinnes are forgeuen thee c. Luke 7. Dauid said to Nathan I haue sinned against the Lord c. 2. Sam. 12 Aaron looked vpon Miriam and behold she was leprous Num. 12 When Christ came nere Jerusalem he beheld the citie and wept for it saying O if thou hadst euen knowen at the lest in this thy day those thinges which belong vnto thy peace c. Luke 19. Who shall haue pitie then vpon thee O Jerusalem or who c. Jere. 15. Their feastes are turned into lamentation their altars c. 1. Macha 1. Christ riding to Jerusalem many spred their garmentes in the way other cut downe branches of the trees strawed them in the way And they that went before and they that folowed c Mark. 11 The women sang by course in their play and said c. 1. Sam. 28 The children of the prophetes came to meete Helisha c. 4. Reg. 2. Jesus went into the temple and began to cast out them that sold and bought saying vnto them it is written Myne house is the house of prayer but ye haue made it a den of theues Luke 19 Is this house become a denne of theeues wherupon c. Jere. 7. Mine house shall be called a house of prayer for all people c. Esay 56. The chiefe priestes and the Scribes and the Elders of the people consulted how they might take Jesus by suttletie and kil him But they said not on the feast day least any vprore c. Math. 26 When Josephes brethren saw him a farre of c. Gen. 37 Absolon rose vp early and stode hard by the c. 2. Sam. 15. They appointed vnto