in the nauell of his body he spreadeth out his taile like the Ceder trées all his veines are stiffe his shinnes are like pipes of brasse and his rydge-bone was like staues of Iron A great deceuer Leuiathan dare not thou draw out with an angle no manne is so cruell that dare stir him vp when thou thinckest to haue hold vppon him he shalbeguile thée he hath horrible téeth round about his bodie is couered with scales as it were shéelds lockt in kéept and well compact together his weysing is like the glistring fier and his eyes like the morning shine out of his mouth goe torches out of his nosthrells there goeth a smoke like as out of an hote pot his breath maketh the coles burne He is neuer wery and the flame goeth out of his mouth in his necke remaineth strength and there is nothing to laborious for him he is as fast as the stithie that the Smith beateth vppon there may neither speare Iauelen or brestplate abide him he setteth asmuch by straw as by iron he setteth asmuch by a roten sticke as by brasse a sword hurteth him not he maketh the déepe to boyle like a pot The diuel is a king ouer al chiâ—dren of pride and stirreth the sea like an oyntment vppon the earth there is no power like his for he is so made that he feareth not and he is a kinge ouer all Children of pryde The Diuell is a lyer Math. Lyer and the father of the same thing euen from the beginning From the time of his creation hée was right excellent Ezech. 31 tyll wickednesse was found in him Lucifer Zachar. 13 The Angell shewed me Iosua that hye Priest standing before the Angell of the Lorde and Sathan stood at his right hand to resist him and the Lord saide the Lord reproue thée Sathan Once an Angel but now a diuell Io. 13. A tempter Ephe. 6. The diuell put in the heart of Iudas to betray Christ We wrestle not against flesh and blood but against rule against power against wordlie rulers euen gouernours of the darkenesse of this world against spirituall craftinesse in heauenlie thinges â— Peter 5. A â—rorâ—ng â—on Your aduersarie the diuell goeth about like a roaring lyon séeking whom he may deuoure â—euel 2 Behold saith Saint Iohn the diuell shall cast some of you into prison tempt you and you shall haue tribulacion tenne daies â—euel 9 â—ferior â—â—rits I saw a star fall from heauen vnto the earth and to him was giuen the key of the bothomles pit and there came out of the smoke that arose out of the pit Locust vppon earth and to them was giuen power and they had a king ouer them of the bothomles pit And his name was called Abdon in Hebrue but in greke ApollioÌ„ a destroier A great dragon Reuel 12 The great Dragon an olde Serpent the Diuell and Sathanas the accuser of the brethren that deceaueth the world The Dragon and all the beastes that rose vp with him An accuser Reuel 13 blasphemed the God of heauen and his name and his tabernacle and them that dwell in heauen and hée had power giuen to warre with the saints and ouercome them and all people and nations worshipped him whose names were not written in the booke of life and of the lambe which was killed from the beginning of the world and to euerie one that worshipped him was giuen a marke in their hande or foreheade else they coulde not be permitted to buy or sell And thus Father you may perceaue the strength subtiltie craft and falsehood of this beast yea this deadelie enemie our aduersarie that runneth daylie through the worlde like a roaring Lion séeking whom he may deuoure Father I tremble and quake to remember this great Dragon this olde Serpent and destroyer tell mée therefore or thou procéede anie further howe I and euerie man and woman may escape his power and kéepe vs out of his hands Sonne Father as you sée that Sathan is strong and well armed so ought we to be well weaponed and besides manly souldiers fighting vnder the banner of Iesus Christ who hath ouercome and conquered this enemie in his owne person Armour of a christian wée must stande saith Saint Paull and our loynes gyrded with the truth hauing on the brestplate of righteousnesse Ephe. 6 and hauing shooes on our féete that we may be prepared for the Ghospell of peace aboue all Truth Righteousnesse Peace Faith VVord and prayer let vs take vnto vs the shielde of faith wherewith we may quench the fierie dartes of the wicked and take the helmet of saluation and the sworde of the spirit which is the worde of God and pray alwaies with al manner of prayer and supplication in the spirite 1. Thes 5 Faith and hope Loue. Iames. 4 Be watchfull and sober armed with the brestplate of faith and loue and with hope of saluation for an helmet Submitte your selues vnto GOD and resist the Diuell and hée will flie from you Be sober and watch 1. Peter 5 for our aduersarie the Diuell goeth about like a roaring Lion séeking whome he may deuoure whome resist stedfast in the fayth knowing that the same afliction is appoynted vnto your brethren that are in the world but the Lorde Iesus shall after that wée haue suffered a little afliction settle strength and stablish vs to whome therefore be prayse for euer We must fight with him 1. king 17 as Dauid did with Goliath he saide to Goliath I come vnto thée in the name of the liuing GOD and in his name I shall subdue thée and so he did Sathan will séeke to sift you like wheat Luke 22. Faith but resist him by fayth and let them that be strong saith Christ helpe their brethren Sathan will tempt you Reue. 2 but be faithfull to death and I will giue thee faith the Lorde the crowne of life The Saincts of God ouercame him by the bloud of the Lambe Reuel 12. and by the worde of his testimonie and they loued not their liues vnto the death CoÌ„clusion So that although this Dragon the Diuel maketh warre with the people and saincts of God and with all them that haue the testimonie of Iesus Christ yet if we like manlie souldiers resist him by faith we shall ouercome him by the bloud of the Lambe Iesus and that Dragon will flée away for all the souldiours of Christ are called Faith and faithfull and chosen and kéepe their garments vpon them that men sée not their filthienesse Father Blessed be that Lambe for euer through whose precious bloud wee are deliuered from this roaring Lion Those that â—ied before Christ and alwaies increase our faith so that it growe daylie more more But sonne what became of our forefathers that died before Christ suffered his death and destroyed Sathan and deliuered vs were not all in the power and handes of the Diuell before
the dewe of Pearles and the Earth shall cast them out that bée vnder her the earth shall disclose her owne bloude and shall no more hide them that are slayne in her Beholde saith the Lorde I will open your Graues Ezech. 37 and take you out of your Sepulchers and bring you out of the lande of Israell againe my spirit shall I put in you and ye shall liue Many of them that sléepe in the dust of the earth shall awake Dan. 12 some to euerlasting life some to perpetuall shame and reproofe There shall bée a resurrection both of iust and vniust Good and bad Acts. 24 For by Christ shall all menne liue 1. Cor. 13 and GOD shall giue to euerye one his owne bodye at his pleasure For when the Trumpe shall blowe the deade shall ryse incorruptable and bée chaunged Father 〈◊〉 terrible lay Iesus be mercifull vnto vs. Procéede tell me now of this terrible day of iudgement Sonne â—say 13. The day of the Lord shall come terrible full of indignation furie and wrath to make the lande wast and to roote out the sinnes thereof for the Starres and Planets of heauen shall not giue their light the Sunne shall be darkened in the morning and the Moone shall not shine with his light I shall shake the heauen and the earth shall remoue out of her place saith the Lord of hostes â—say 14 Hell be-neath trembleth to méete the Lord at his comming â—say 24. The earth shall réele too and fro like a drunken man and shall be remoued out of her place like a tent in one night and the iniquitie thereof shall be heauie vpon it it shall fall and not rise agayne in that day shall the Lorde visite the hoste that is on high aboue and the kinges that are vpon the earth and they shall bée gathered together and they that be in pryson the Moone shall be abashed and the Sunne ashamed when the Lord of hostes shall reigne in Syon and in Ierusalem with worshippe and in the sight of such as shall be of his counsell Beholde Esay 28. there commeth a vehement and sore day from the Lord like an vnmeasurable hyll and perillous tempest euen like the force of mightie and horrible waters that violentlie beareth downe all thinges The earth shall bée visited of the Lorde of hostes with Thunder Esay 29. Earthquake and a great noyse with storme and tempest and with the flame of a consuming fier The heauens shall vanish away like smoake Esay 5â— and the earth waxeth olde like a cloth and they that dwell therein shall perish in like manner The verie fishes of the Sea Ezech. 3â— the foules of the ayre the beastes of the fielde and all people that are vpon the earth shall tremble for feare of mée sayth the Lord the Hilles shall be turned vpside downe the stares of stone shall fall and all the walles shall sincke to the grounde â—oel 2. The day of the Lord commeth and is harde at hande a darke day a glouming day a cloudie day yea a stormie daye before the Lord shall be a consuming fier and behinde him a burning flame Micheas 1 The mountaynes shall consume vnder him the valleys shall cleaue a sunder like as waxe consumeth and like as water runneth a pace â— Pet. 3. The world shall perish â—y fier The heauen and earth that are nowe to be kept by his worde in stoore and reserued vnto fier agaynst the daye of iudgement and perdition of vngodlye men â—opho 1 The great day of the Lord is at hand it is harde by and commeth on a pace horrible is the tidings of the Lords daye then shall the Gyants crye out for the day is a day of wrath and of trouble and heauinesse a day of vtter destruction and miserie a darke and glouming daye a cloudie and stormie daye a daye of noyse of Trumpets and Shalmes Trumpets shalms agaynst the strong Citties and high Towers â—euel 6 I sawe the Sunne as blacke as sackcloth and the Moone as bloud the Starres fell from Heauen the Heauen vanished away euen as a scrolle that rooled together and all mountaynes and Iles were remooued out of their places the great day of his wrath is come and who is able to endure Christ himselfe saith Math. 24 the Sunne shall bée darkened and the Moone shall not giue her light the Starres shall fall from heauen and the powers of Heauen shall be mooued and then shall appeare the token of the Sonne of manne in Heauen then shall all kinredes of the earth mourne when they shall sée the Sonne of manne come in the cloudes of Heauen with power and great glorie Father Mercifull God deliuer vs on that terrible and dreadefull daye of vengeance and wrath shielde vs vnder thy winges and couer vs with thy fethers But tell mée of that Iudge before whome we must make our appearances Sonne The Lorde Iesus shall shewe hymselfe 2. Theâ—â— from Heauen with his Angells of his power and with a flaming fier Math. 25 The sonne of man shall come in his glorie and all the holie Angells with him and then shall he sitte vpon the seate of his glorie and before him shall be gathered all nations Daniel 7. The olde aged satte him downe and his cloathing was as white as snowe and the haires of his heade like pure wooll his Throne like the fierie flame and his wheeles as the burning fier a thousande serued him and tenne thousande times tenne stoode before him the iudgement was set and the bookes opened Reuela 1 Beholde saith Saint Iohn hée commeth with cloudes and all eies shall sée and they also that pearsed him and all kinreds of the earth shall waile ouer him Father Oh great and mightie GOD merciful father The iudgement not â—scaped be mindefull of thy people whome thou hast bought with thy precious bloud Goe on tell mée Sonne if none can escape this iudgement neither by witte pollicie strength ritches by hiding or couering themselues nor by anie other shift Sonne No Father Reuel 20 none shall escape that euer were are or shall be to that day For S. Iohn saith I sawe the deade both small and great stand before God and the bookes were opened and the Sea gaue vppe her deade which were in her and death and Hell deliuered vp the deade that were in them There shall be Kinges of the earth Reuel 6 great men and ritch men and chiefe Captaines and mightie men We must all appeare before the iudgement seate of Christ 2. Cor. 5. that euerie man may giue accompt of his workes All mightie men and Princes of the earth Esay 14 and all Kinges of the earth shall stande vp from their seates that they may aunswere and speake vnto the Lord. The glorie of the Lorde shall appeare Esay 40 and all flesh shall at once sée it All flesh shall come to worship
say to the wicked Sonne Reuel 12 First when they are areigned ther shal stand before them a terrible most fearefull Iudge on the one side Wisd 17 Malach. 3. Reuel 14 2. Peter 3. Math. 25 their workes accusing on the other side the Diuell and all hell-hounds to draw them away with in them their conscyence crying out against them on euerie side the whole world burning vnder them hell and damnation wide open to swallow them the fier of paine therin to bunre them the sentence of Iesus thus shall be then prononced Goe you cursed of my â—ather into euerlasting fier prepared for the Diuell and his Angells after which curse they shal be preseÌ„ly cast into a lakâ— of fier brimstone Math. 3 where the fier neuer quencheth and the worme neuer dyeth and haue euerlasting paine Father Procéed tell me what shall become of the Diuell death and damned soules and bodies then Sonne Saint Iohn saith Reuel 20 that death and Hell shall be cast into a lake of fier which is the second death The beast and the false Prophetes were taken Reuel 19 and cast quicke into a ponde of fier burning with Brimstone and all that had the beasts marke The wicked shall drinke of the wine of the wrath of God Reuel 14 which is powred into the cup of his wrath and shall bée punished in fier and Brimstone VVher punishment neuer endeth before the holie Angells before the Lambe and the smoak of their tormeÌ„ts asceÌ„deth euermore The damned shall sucke the Gall of Serpents Iob. 26. the Adders tounge shall slay him so that he shall no more sée riuers of Honie and Butter The wicked shall be turned vnto hell all they that forget God Psalm 9 so that vpon theÌ„ shall the Lord raâ—â—e fier and Brimstone storme and tempest this shal be their portion to drink In that daye the Lord with his sore Esay 27. Christ conquered Sathan and destroyed his power great and mightie sworde shall visite Leuiathan the fugetiue serpent euen Leuiathan that crooked serpent shall slay the Dragon that is in the sea Esay 30. Hell in the depth prepared for Kings so that none are spared The fier of paine is ordained from the beginning yea euen for kinges it is prepared this hath the Lord set in the depth and made it wide the burning whereof is fier and much wood and the breath of the Lord which is a riuer of Brimstone doth kindle it Esay 3â— The wicked saith God shall conceaue stubble and beare straw and my spirit shal be as fier that it may consume and the people shall be burnt like lime and as thornes burne that are hewed off and cast into the fier Esay 34. They shall be so chaunged that they shall be as blacke as a pot my sword shall come downe in iudgement and vpon the people which I haue cursed for my vengeaunce The paine fier shal continue euermore thy folke shall be tâ—rned to pitch his earth to Brimstone therwith shall the land be kindled so that it â—hall not be quenched day nor night but smoake euermore Esay 66. Their carrions shall lie and be looked vpon their wormes shall not die neither shall their fier be quenched and all flesh shall abhorre them Iudeth 16 The Lord shall giue fier and wormes into their flesh that they may burne and féele it for euermore Thunder-boltes hills Wisd 5 waters of the sea flouds shall runne roughlie together a mightie winde shall stande vppe against them Their ioye shall be turned to sorrow Baruch 4 for fier shall fall vpon them from the euerlasting God long to endure and shall be inhabited of Diuells The wicked will the Lord burne with vnquenchable fier Math. 3 there shall be wéeping and gnashing of téeth Mark 13 The fearefull and vnbeléeuers Reuel 21 and abhominable murderers and whorrmongers and sorcerers and idolaters and all lyers shall haue their part in the lake that burneth with fier and Brimstone which is the second death And Christ thus concludeth that they shall be bounde â—ande and foote and cast into vtter darkenâ—sse where is wéeping and gnashing of téeth Father The Lord make our hearts stable and vnblameable 1. Thess 3 in holinesse before God our Father at the comming of our Lorde Iesus Christ with all Sainctes Amen Procéede tell mée now of the ioye prepared of God for his electe and chosen Reuel 28 I sawe saith Saint Iohn a newe heauen a new earth new Ierusalem come downe from heauen prepared as a bride garnished for her husbande â—oye and I hearde a great voyce from heauen saying beholde the Tabernacle of God is with men and he will dwell with them and they shall be his people and God himselfe shall bée with them and be their God and GOD shall wipe away al teares from their eies and there shall be no more death neyther sorrow neyther crying neither shall there be any more paine for the olde thinges are gone Reuel 21 They shall sée his face and his name shall be in their foreheadâ— where shall appeare the brightnesse of God Reuel 14 They shall drinke of the well of the water of life They shall rest from their labours Gen. 1. The Lord himselfe will be their reward Reuel 7 They shall bée in the presence of the seate of God and serue him day and night in his Temple and he that sitteth in the seate will dwell among them they shall hunger no more neither thirst neither shall the Sunne light on them neither any heate for the Lambe which is in the middest of the seate shall féede them and leade them vnto fountaines of liuing water and God shall wipe away all teares from their eies They shall stande before the seat of the Lambe Eod. cloathed with white long garments and Palmes in their hands They shall singe night and day saying Reuel 4 Holie holie holie Lord God almightie which was and is and is to come In the kingdome of heauen shall the Lord of hostes make vnto all people a feast of plenteous delicate dishes Esay 25 euen of most pleasaunt and daintie dishes The Lord of hostes shall be a crowne of glorie and diâ—mond of beautie Esay 28. vnto his faithfull people Iacob shall not bée confounded Esay 29. nor his face pale The rewarde of righteousnesse Esay 32. shall bée rest peace and quietnesse for euer There shall Sion bée séene Esay 33 the head Cittie of our solemne feast there shall thine eyes sée Ierusalem that glorious habitation and Tabernacle that neuer shall remoue â—eauen whose nayles shall not bée taken out worlde without ende the Maiestie of God shall be there present among vs Maiestie 〈◊〉 God â—ene â—dge â—aw-giuer â—ing Saâ—iour as a place where broade riuers and streames are for the Lord is a Iudge the Lord is our
first vnfaithfull to the lawe of the highest Eccle. 23 secondlie she hath forsaken her owne husband thereby shée hath gotten her children by another man and played the whore but a shamefull repoorte shall shée leaue behinde her and her Children shall take no déepe roote Whosoeuer séeth a woman and lusteth after her Math. 5 hath committed adulterie with her alredie in his heart ◠Cor. 6. And I will conclude with saint Paull flée fornication euerie sinne that a man doth is without the body but he that is a fornicatour sinneth against his owne bodie Father VVrath What sonne is wrath compted a sinne Sonne Ecclesi 7 Yea Father a detestable sinne bée not sayeth the wise man hastelie angrie in thy minde for wrath resteth in the bosome of fooles Eccle. 28 Be ware of anger and thou shalt make thy sinnes fewer for an angrie man kindleth varyance Eccle. 30 Zeall and anger shorten thy daies of life and carefulnesse and sorow bringeth age before the time Iames. 1 The wrath of man worketh that which is vnrighteous before God whosoeuer saith Christ is angrie with his brother vnaduisedlie shal be in danger of iudgement Math. 5. Father What is saide of enuie Sonne Father Wisd 1. wisdom entereth not into afroward and enuious soule nor dwelleth in the body subdued vnto sinne I will not haue to do with consuming enuie Wisd 6. for such a man shall not be pertaker of wisdome Let all bitternesse and fearcenesse Ephe. 4 and wrath and roaring and cursed speaking be put from you with all maliciousnesse Father Tell me somthing of gluttonie and drunkennesse Gluttony Sonne Excesse of meates bringeth sicknes Eccle. 37. and gluttony commeth at the last to an vnmeasurable heate through surfet haue manie one perished but he that dieteth himselfe temperatlie prolongeth his life Take héede to your selues Luke 21 least at anie time your hearts be ouercōmed with surfeting and drunckennesse He that hath pleasure in bankets shall be a poore man Pro. 21. and he that delighteth in wine and delycates shall not be ritch Esay 5. Wo be vnto them saith the Lord that follow drunkennesse and so continue vntil night Luke 16 For abusing Gods graces There was a certaine rich man clothed in purple and fine white and fared deliciouslie euery daie but when he dyed was tormented in hell Gal. 6. These are some of the déedes of the flesh drunkennesse and gluttonie they that commit such thinges shall not be inheretours of the kingdome of Christ and of God Father What saist thou of slouth and Idlenesse Sonne Pro. 6. The wise man saith goe to the Emit thou slougerd consider her waies and learne to be wise Luke 13. Behold saith Christ these thrée yéeres haue I sought fruit of the fig trée and finde none cut it vp why doth it trouble the ground Math. 25 The Lorde saide vnto the seruant that had one talent thou euill and slouthfull seruant thy tallent shall be taken from thée thou cast into vtter darknesse wher is wéeping and gnasshing of téeth Father What saith the scripture of swearing Swering that is almost in euerie mans mouth a common thing Sonne Let not saith the wise man thy mouth be accustomed with swearing Eccle. 23. for in it there be manie falls if he swere in vaine he shal be filled with wickednesse and the plague shall neuer goe from his house I saie vnto you saith Christ Math. 5 swere not at all neither by heauen for it is Gods seate neither by the earth for it is his foote stoole neither by Ierusalem for it is the Cittie of the great king neither by the head because thou canst not make one haire white or blacke but your communication shal be yea yea nay nay Iames. 5 and whatsoeuer is more commeth of euill Thou shalt not take the name of God in vaine Exod. 20 for the Lorde will not hold him guiltles that taketh his name in vaine The prophet saw a flying booke of xx zachary 5 cubits long tenne cubits broade this is the curse that goeth ouer the earth for all theues shal be iudged after this booke and al swerers shal be iudged after this booke it shall come into the house of the théefe and into the house of him that fastie sweareth by my name saith the Lorde and shall remaine in his house and consume it with the timber and stones Father Then it is not lawfull to sweare for anie cause Sonne Ieremi 4. No father except for the testifiyng of the truth in doubtfull causes being moued therevnto by a iudge and then they must sweare in iustice iudgement and righteousnesse Father It would be to longe to recite perticulerly euery sinne committed in the world therefore shew me the most vsuall sinnes in generall wordes Sonne Ieremi 22 In the world they despise Father and Mother in it they haue oppressed the straunger the fatherlesse widowe they haue despysed the Lords sanctuarie and vnhallowed the Sabothes murders are therein many deale shamefully with their neighbours wife guifts are receaued therin to shed bloud and vsurie haue béene committed Father Is not vsurie lawfull Vsury Sonne Lawfull No horrible Deu. 23 thou shalt not saith the Lord hurt thy brother by vsury of monie or Corne or by vsurie of anie thing that he may be hurt with all If thou lende monie to anie of my people that is poore by thée Exod. 22 thou shalt not be as a tyrant vnto him neyther shalt thou oppresse him with vsurie Thou shalt take no vsurie of thy brother nor vantage Leuiti 25. Blessed is that man that hath not laide out his monie for vsurie Psal 15. nor receaued rewards against the innocent so on the contrarie part cursed is he that lendeth out to vsurie Father Thou saiest that the Lords sabaoth is vnhallowed Saboth is it a day to be hallowed and sanctified Sonne Gen. 2. Yea Father for the seuenth day the Lord ended his worke which he had made and rested from all his worke and GOD blessed the seuenth day and sanctified it because he hadde rested from all his worke which he ordayned to make Exod. 16 No Manna fell on the Sabaoth daye for it is an holie rest vnto the Lord. Exod. 23. The seuenth day thou shalt rest thine Oxe thine Asse thy sonne thy maide and the straunger and so to be refreshed Numer 16 Let him that gathereth stickes on the Sabaoth day be stoned without the host Father Hath the Sabaoth béene sometime vnhallowed Sonne Esdras 4 Yea for Esdras sawe some treading wine presses on the Sabaoth and bringing Asses loden with grapes figges and bringing all manner of burthens vnto Ierusalem vpon the Sabaoth day and I rebuked them saide he earnestly the same day that they soulde their victualls and soulde fish and I reproued them and the rulers for breaking the Sabaoth
Reuel 13 and all that dwel vpon the earth whose names are not written in the booke of life of the Lambe He is the Captaine ouer all that worship diuels and Images of gold Reuel 19 and siluer and brasse and stone and of wood which neither can sée heare nor go of all murderers fornicatours sorcerers ImpeniteÌ„t persons are his souldiers and théeues which repent not of the déedes of their handes Father Many souldyers then hath the diuell vnder his banner if all naughtie men that repent not of the déeds of their owne handes be his but what will the Lord do to them if they amend not and come home to their God Sonne Reuel 8 Saint Iohn telleth that their plauges shall come in one day death and sorow and hunger and they shal be burnt with fier for strong is the Lord God which shal iudge them Rom. 1 There shall come tribulacion wrath and anguishe vppon euery soule of them Father Tell me who are souldyers vnder Christes banner and what reward shall they haue Sonne Reuela 16 Those that watch and kéepe their garments that they walke not naked so that men may sée their filthienesse Io. 4. He that confesseth that Iesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God They that kéepe his commaundements and doe those thinges that are pleasant in his sight and this is the commaundemeÌ„t Faith and loue are badges of Christs soldiers that we beléeue on the name of his sonne Iesus Christ and loue one another as he hath giuen commaundement They are buried by baptisme Collo 3 but raised againe by faith They haue their conuersation in heauen from whence they looke for a sauiour euen the Lorde Iesus Christ Phillip 3 They beléeue onely in Christ Iesu Gall. 3. I beheld saith Saint Iohn Reuel 7 a great multitude which no man could number of all nacions people and tongues that stood before the seat and the Lambe clothed with loÌ„g white garmeÌ„ts palmes in their handes they are they that came out of tribulation and made their garmentes white with the blood of the Lambe therfore are they in the presence of God and serue him day and night in his temple and he that sitteth vppon the seat will dwell among them they shall hunger no more neither thirst neither shall the sunne light on theÌ„ any more neither any heat for the Lambe which is in the middest of the seat shall féed them and lead them vnto fountaines of liuing water and God shall wipe away all teares from theire eyes Father Let vs pray against these enimies the Diuell world and the flesh Sonne A prayer O Lord God and mercifull father the diuell goeth about like a roaring Lyon séeking whome he may deuouer the flesh lusieth against the spirit the world perswadeth vnto vainities that we may forget thée and so for euer â—e damned thus are we myserablie beset be séeged on euerie side with cruel and restles enimies and like at euerie moment to perish if we be not defended by thy mightie hand against their tiranny we therefore poore and wretched sinners disparing of our owne strengthes which in déede is none most heartely pray thée to endue vs with strength from aboue that we may be able with strong faith to resist Sathan with feruent prayer to mortifie the luste of the flesh with continuall meditation of thy holy Law to auoide the foolish vanities transitory pleasures of this wicked world and béeing set at libertie from the power of these our mortall enimes may serue thée in true holynesse and righteousnesse after be partakers of thine euerlasting ioies prepared for thy Children which as they are great and vnspeakable so are they few that do enioye theÌ„ for straite is the way narrow is the gate that leadeth therevnto and few therebe that finde it Notwithstanding thou hast a little flocke to whom it is thy pleasure to giue that ioyfull kingdome whose names are written in the booke of lyfe make vs of that number for Iesus Christ his sake place vs amongst those shéepe that shall stand on thy right hand and receiue that blessed inheritance and dwell with thée for euermore Amen Father Iudgement generall Graunt this O Lord for Iesus Christ his sake Well procéede sonne is there once a reckning to be made and an accompt to be giuen before whom shall that reckning be and who shall recken Sonne That straight accompt and reckning shal be before the maiestie of that terryble and fearful God iudge Iesus Christ and they that shall recken are all people kindreds and tongues good and bad that haue béene are or shal be till the ende of the world come and that fearefull iudgement bée Father Resurrection How shall the dead be raised vp if all shal be iudged Sonne Trumpe 1. Cor. 15 With the sound of Gods trumpet father for the trumpe shall blowe and the deade shall rise incorruptable and we shal be chaunged for this corruptable must put on incorruption and this mortall shal put on immortalitie In that day shall the great Trumpet be blowen Esay 23 so that they which were lost in the land of Assyria and those that were banished into the lande of Egypt shal come and worship the Lord in the holy mount at Ierusalem The Lord shall crie with a great shout from his court regall Ieremi 2 he shall giue a great voyce like the grape gatherers and the sounde thereof shall be heard to the ende of the world The Lord shall roare out of Sion Amos. 1 and shew his voice out of Ierusalem that the heauens and earth shall quake withall He shall sende his Angells with the great voice of a Trumpet Math. 24 and they shall gather together his chosen from the foure winds euen from the highest partes of heauen to thendes thereof The Lord God shall blowe out the Trumpet zachary shall come foorth as a storme out of the south The Lorde shall disend from heauen with a shout 2 Thess and the voice of the Archangell and trump of God I will blow for them zachar 1 and gather them together saith the Lorde for I will redéemed them Thus by the sounde of the Trumpet shall all be raysed vp from death Father The Lorde be mercifull vnto vs. The remembraunce of the voyce of the Trumpet terrifieth mée which shall bée hearde in Heauen Earth and Hell but procéede howe shall men rise Sonne â—ob 19 Iob saith I knowe that my redéemer liueth and that I shall rise out of the earth at the last daye and shall bée cloathed agayne with my skinne and shall sée GOD in my fleshe yea and I my selfe shall beholde him not with other but with these same eyes â—say 26 The deade menne shall lyue sayeth GOD euen with their bodies shall they ryse agayne awake and singe thou that dwellest in the dust for thy dewe is euen as
gaue mée drinke Blessed when I was harbourlesse you lodged mée when I was naked you cloathed mée when I was sicke and in pryson ye came vnto mée and visited mée Father And shall they aunswere any thing Sonne Yea father for the Lord saith Esay 14 there shall be all mightie men of the earth areigned and Princes and kinges and small and great shall stand from their seates that they may all aunswere and speake vnto the Lorde They shall aunswere Math. 25 Lorde Iesus when sawe we thée an hungered and féed the thirstie and gaue the drinke harbourles and lodged thée naked and clothed thée sicke and in prison and cam vnto thée he shall aunswere and say in asmuch as ye haue done it to the least of these my bretheren you haue done it vnto mée Father What speach shall his Maiestie vse to the wicked on his left hand Sonne Oh ye cursed of my father Cursed when I was an hungrie you gaue mée no meate when I was a thirst ye gaue me no drinck when I was harbourlesse ye lodged mée not when I was naked yée clothed mée not when I was sicke and in prison ye came not vnto mée to visit mée and they shall aunswere Lorde when saw we thée an hungrie or a thirst or harbourlesse or naked or sicke or in prison came not vnto thée he shall say in asmuch as ye did it not to these my brethren ye did it not to mée Father Iesus God if the Lord coÌ„demne them that helpe not their bretheren what will he do to the vnmercifull that robbe him that taketh meate drinke apparell lodging relefe and all from him euen fleaing the skin from the bone as much as lyeth in them Sonne The Lorde or they passe away will reward them for all as you shall heare afterwardes Father Well sonne who shal be present to heare all causes pleaded and what witnesse shall there be against the wicked for I am sure that the Lorde will haue all men sée that hée dealeth iustly and vprightlie withall Sonne True it is father VVitnesses 2. Cor. 5 there shal be present all Angells Archangels all the hosts of heauen there shal be all Saints and righteous all wicked and vngodlie that euer were vppon the face of the earth young and olde There shal be the great Dragon the diuell Sathanas with all the rable of hell-houndes and damned spirits for Saint Iohn saith Reuel 20. that he sawe the dead both great and small stand before God and the bookes were opened which is the booke of life and an other booke was opened and the dead were iudged of those thinges that were written in the booke according to their déedes Wherby we may learne that the bookes wer their coÌ„ciences layd abroad to al the world ConscieÌ„ces It is a sore thing wheÌ„ a man 's owne coÌ„cience beareth witnesse and recorde of his wickednesse and condemmeth him Wisd 17 He that speaketh vnrighteous thinges cannot be hidde and why Wisd 1. inquisition shall bée made for the thoughts of the vngodly and the reporte of his wordes shal come vnto God so that his wickednesse shal be punished Eod. There is nothing so hid that shall not be reueled Luke 22 There is nothing so couered saith Christ that shall not be vncouered neither hid that shall not be knowen Father I sée then that euerie thing shal be opened for I haue heard that a mans concience is quasi millie testis As a thousand witnesse but what other witnesses will there be Sonne God himselfe a witnesse GOD himselfe who séeth all thinges from the beginning shall be both the iudge and witnesse Malachi 3 I my selfe saith the Lord will be a swift witnesse against al witches against aduoulterers against false swerers against those that wrongfully kéepe backe the hyrelinges dutie which oppresse the stranger and hurt the widowes and Fatherlesse Cor. 10. The Lorde will come and open the thinges that are in darkenesse and declare the counsell of Princes and then shall euery one haue praise of God Father What other witnesses will there bée against the wicked VVorks Sonne Their owne workes in fine hominis denunciatio operum illius at the ende of man there is a declaration of their works Blessed are the dead that dye in the Lord Reuel 14 euen so saith the spirit that they rest from their labours but their workes followe them The Appostle Saint Paull teacheth all men that they learne to excell in good works Titus 3 that they be not vnfruiteful in the Lords daie My deare brethren be stedfast and vnmoueable 1. Cor. 15. alwaies rich in the works of the Lorde forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vaine in the Lorde Father What are there any more witnesses Sonne The Diuell that great dragon as saith saint Iohn which deceiued all the world Diuell a witnesse the accuser of our brethren which accuse them before God day and night 1. Peter 1 That aduersary the diuel like a roareing Lyon séeketh whom he may deuoure Father Lorde God what shal the worme-eaten conscience then doe what shall the vnmercifull and couetous man say Sonne Luke 23. Decent montibus cadite super nos they shall say to the mountaines fal vppon vs and to the hills couer vs from the face of the Lorde Oseas 10 Esay 2 Then shall they séeke to crepe into holes and caues and rockes for feare of God but they cannot escape Reue. 6 They shall couet to hiâ—e themselues in dennes and Rockes of the Hills and shall say vnto the rockes fall on vs and hide vs from the presence of him that sitteth on the seate and from the wrath of the Lambe For the great day of his wrath is come and who is able to endure Reuel 9 At that time shall men séeke for death and shall not finde it they shall desire to dye and death shall flée from them Father Can there none hide themselues Sonne I tould you before father Amos. 9 that although they were buryed in hell the hand of the Lorde would fetch them from thence though they clyme vp to heauen yet will hée cast them downe though they hide themselues vppon the tope of Carmell yet will he séeke them out and bring theÌ„ from thence though they could créepe into the déepe of the sea yet hée will commaund the Serpent there to byte them Father Father of heauen be mercifull to vs. Well goe on seeing that euerie one must abyde the sentence of God and his straite iudgement tell mée now what will folow Sonne Then shall the Lorde Iesus Christ call those on his right hand and say come ye blessed of my Father Math. 25 inherite the kingdome of heauen prepared for you from the beginning of the worlde Father I perceiue that the faithfull mercifull and righteous shall then be blessed and without all feare But what shall he
A rule how TO BRING VP Children A treatise wherein is declared how the Father apposeth his Sonne in the holy Scripture whereby all Parents may be taught a rule how to bring vp their Children briefelie collected into a short volume Psalme 119. Where-withall shall a young man clense his waies euen by ruling himselfe after the word of God Iohn 5. Non quero gloriam meam sed glorïam Patris qui me misit Rom. 4. By faith is the inheritāce giuen that it might come of fauour Rom. 14. Whatsoeuer is not of faith the same is sinne ¶ To the right honorable my very singuler good Lord the Earle of Huntingdon Knight of the noble order of the Garter Lord President of her Maiesties honorable counsell established in the North partes your Lordshippes daylie Oratour and humble suppliant Iohn Lyster Clarke late Cutate of Leedes and nowe Vicar of Thorpeach wisheth good health long life much encrease of honour and after a godly and faithfull ende IN most humble wise shewing your good Lordshippe that by your lordships good meanes I obtained the benefice whereof I am now resident and remembring a saying of that worthie Philosopher SENECA that there be three degrees of thankefulnesse one recognoscere beneficium an other gratias et laudes agere and the thirde pro loco et tempore secundam suam facultatem retribuere or rather considering the Samaritan in the Ghospel healed by Christ of his Leprosie returned and acknowledged Christes mercie towardes him prostrate himselfe before him and with a loud voice gaue him thanks so likewise good my Lord I returning doe acknowledge your Lordships great goodnesse vnto mee render most hartie and humble thankes vnto your honour for the same and not being able to make anye recompence vnto your Lordshippe as Seneca teacheth although I haue meditated with my selfe sundrie times how to doe the same Yet notwithstanding that your Lordship may perceaue that I am not forgetfull or negligent of your Lordshipps great good will vnto mee I haue drawen in Dialogue wise out of scripture which is able to make one learned to saluation the dutie of all states and degrees of people howe a Christian life is to bee ledde what thinges are needefull to saluation the ende of manne and the straight accompt in the day of iudgement with the punishment of the wicked and reward of the righteous briefelie sette downe and plaine for the capacitie of the ignoraunt putting or adding nothing therevnto which I doe present vnto your good Lordshippe in remembrance of my humble duetie and obedient seruice vnto your Honour beseeching your Lordshippe to accept of my good and simple meaning and to beare with my boldnesse and small knowledge to write any thing to such a Noble personage as your Lordship And I shall incessauntlie entreate the eternall and euerliuing God till ATRAPOS shall cutte my fatall thred for the preseruation of your good Lordshippe whome the King of glorie Lord of hostes and Father of all mercie blesse saue and keepe for euer more Amen Your Lordshipps poore suppliant IOHN LYSTER To all Ministers fellow labourers in the Lords vine-yarde salutations in Iesu Christ IT is not vnknowen vnto you my brethern that the Lord hath elected vs before we were fashioned in our mothers wombe sanctified vs or euer we were borne ordained vs to be stewards of his secrets watchmen ouer his people shepperds of the sheepe of his pasture to the edifiyng of the saincts to the worke and ministration euen to the edifiyng of the bodie of Christ till we all come to the vnitie of faith and knowledge of the sonne of God vnto a perfect man euen vnto the measure of the full perfect age of Christ And knowing my selfe to be the meanest among you in respect of my knowledge not worthie to be of that calling although the grace of God hath otherwise dealt with mee in calling me to that function and hath giuen one talent vnto mee for the instructing a little number of his flocke which he hath bought with his bloud of whome he hath made me an ouerseer and therefore it is not meete for me to passe ouer the sum of this life with the singing Grashopper till the stormie nightes and Boriall blastes of winter come vpon mee neither to let the cleare day passe idlelie till the darke night come when none can trauell neither to followe the drone Bee eating the labours of others but rather to studie to discharge in some measure my selfe according to my function and to profite others Seeing that I perceaue the greatest number of you my brethren to followe the example of the Emmit working in the day and busie as the Bees in the spring of the yeere to gather their home so you to accomplish the worke wherevnto you are called the Lord prosper you and continue your proceedings I haue therefore for my parte drawen a shorte treatise in Dialogue manner betwixt the Father and the Sonne out of Scripture wherein may fullie and perfectlye be perceaued the duties of all sortes of people how a Christian life is to be ledde what thinges are needefull to saluation the ende of man and straite accompt in the fearefull iudgement with a punishment of the wicked and reward of the righteous not seeking any prayse for the same but Gods glorie which all men ought to doe seeing we are oftentimes tryed by our cheife Diocesan according to our gracious Princesse commaundement how we profet Gods people cōmitted vnto vs within his graces prouince but especyally seeing we shall appeare before the great shepperd and Bishop of our soules Iesus Christ to giue accompts of the bestowing of our Talents that wee may receiue an incorruptable crowne of glorie where they that haue taught others shall bee as the shining of heauen and they that haue instructed the multitude vnto Godlynesse shall bee lyke the starres world without ende and thus not doubting of your great care and dyligence in your functions I beseech the eternall God from whome all good gruiftes doe proceede encrease you with wisdome and knowledge in this life and with eternal happinesse in the world to come Thorpearche within the ancienty or lyberties of Yorke the 12. day of Iunne 1587. Your faithfull yokefellow in the Lord Iohn Lyster The Father examineth his sonne how he hath profited in the word of Saluation Father MY Sonne séeing it is the duty of parents not only to educate and bring vp their Children with meate and apparel but also to enstruct and teach them in the feare of God and Christian religion for which cause I haue cōmitted thée to the gouernement of a learned and Godlie Maister these seauen yéeres past Wherefore my will and minde is to know how thou hast profited in the same and what thy profession is Sonne Good Father 1. Peter 3 séeing it is your pleasure to demaunde of mée a reason of my faith I must follow the exhortation of the Appostle Saint Peter that I be ready to giue
spyrite of errour Math. 10. When Christe sent his Desciples to preach he said whosoeuer will not receaue you nor heare your preaching when you depart out of that house or that Cittie shake of the dust of your féete agaynst them Recusants worse then Sodomits verely I say vnto you it shall be easier for the Land of Sodom and Gomorra in the day of iudgement then for that Cittie Cōclusion Whereby you may perceaue Father that the Recusantes to heare the blessed woorde of OOD taught by his true preachers are alreadie condemned with the Cities of Sodom and Gomorra Io. 8. Except they repent and a mend for he that beléeueth not saith Christ is alreadie condemned because he beléeueth not in the onelie begotten sonne of God Father If those that refuse to heare the worde of God be in such perill of condemnation why are they so bewitched that they deny their owne saluation Sonne They are so taught by the Priestes of Baall who cause diuision Seminarie◠and giue occasions of euill Rom. 16 contrarie to the wholesome doctrine which wée haue learned and therefore auoyde them for they that are such serue not the Lorde Iesus but their owne bellies and with swéete and flattering woords deceaue the hartes of the Innocents The Apostle S. Paull Prophecyeth and foretelleth 2. Tim. 4 that the time shall come when they shall not suffer wholesome doctrine but after their owne lustes shall they gette them an heape of teachers and shall withdraw there eares from the truth and shal be turned vnto fables Acts. 20. He sheweth further hat after his departing should come gréeuous woolues among the people not sparing the flocke and speake peruerse thinges to drawe disciples after them Father What is the practise of these seducers and Seminaryes goe about and what punishment hath happened to some of them Sonne Acts. 17. The Appostle sheweth that the Iewes which beleeued not had indignation and tooke vnto them euill men which were vagabounds Seminaries wold make rebellion and gathered a companye and sette an vprore amongst the people Acts. 13. One Sergius Paullus a prudent man and ruler of the Countrie called Paull Barnabas and desyred to heere the word of GOD but Elymas the sorcerer withstood them and sought to turne the ruler from the Faith Then Paull béeing full of the holie Ghost looked on him and saide oh full of subtyltie and deceipte thou Childe of the Diuill A seducer smitten with blindnesse thou enymie of righteousnesse wilt thou not cease to peruert the streight wayes of the Lorde and the Lord smote him that he was blinde Corah Dathan and Abyron Numer 16 going about to seduce the people of Israell from the lawe of GOD taught by Moyses and Aron the earth opened her mouth and they there wiues children famely cattell and all that they had Sunck to hell quick went downe quicke into hell Whereby you may sée Father that vtter ruyne and perpetuall desolation is ordained of the almighty for al Seminaries of false doctrine and seducers of his people from his holy Lawes Father Séeing that the Scripture is the word of saluation and that there bee many that goe about to seduce vs from the same tell me in what language or kinde of speache ought that word to bée Seruice in a knowne tongue Sonne Euen in such a spéech or language that euery one may learne the same Deu. 4. for the Lord commanded that the people should teach their children euen their sonnes and their sonnes sonnes the ordinances and Lawes which he sette before them Deu. 6. Moyses sayde vnto the people the Lord your God commanded me to teach you his cōmandements ordinances and laws that they might do them in the land which they go to possesse it Esay 28. If he that speaketh to the people be euen as one the vseth rudenesse of speach and a strange language whom then shall such one teach knowledge Mark 4. The candle sayth Christ is not lighted to be putte vnder a Bushell or vnder the Table but it is lighted to be put on a Candlesticke for there is nothing so priuye that shall not be opened neither so secret but it shall come abroad Acts. 8. The chāberlaine of Candice Quéene of the Ethiopeans although he red the Prophet Esay yet he confessed he coulde not be profited thereby The way to be expounded except he hadde a guide and the spirit of God caused Philip the Apostle to reade and expound it vnto him in his owne language Acts. 2. There were at Ierusalem of euerie nation of them that were vnder heauen and after they had receyued the Holie Ghost euerie one of them hearde them speake in his owne language the great workes of God Saint Paull sayeth 1. Cor. 14. greater is he that prophecieth then he that speaketh with tongues Except he expound it that the congregation may haue edifiyng let all things be done to edifiyng For when thou blessest with the spirit how shal he that occupieth the rowme of the vnlearned say Amen at the geuing of thankes séeing he vnderstandeth not what thou sayest thou verelie giuest thankes well but the other is not edified I had rather sayth the same Appostle in the congregation to speake fyue words with my vnderstanding to the informacion of others Eod. rather then tenne thousand wordes with the tongue Conclusion And therefore you may well perceiue Father that the sacred word of our mercyfull God and louing Father hath béene kéept to long hidde vnder avayle from vs his people who now imbrace it with ioye and gladnesse as it is in déede the worde of saluation Father Thou saydest my Sonne that the written word of God contained not onely all thinges necessarie to saluation as thou proued but also all things néedfull for the gouernment of a christian life Sonne 2. Tim. 3 I said so Father for saint Paull sayth all scripture giuen by inspiration of God is profitable to teach to improue to amēd and to instructe in righteousnes that the man of God may be perfect and prepared vnto all good workes Father Shew vnto me then Sonne how euery perticuler person ought to behaue himself towards God his creator towards his owne soule and conscience and towards all men generally Sonne I am most willing to do your cōmaundement louing Father but first I bescéeh you declare vnto me whether I shall béeginne with the inferiour lowest degrée or with the supreme chiefe head and gouernour Father Sonne beginne at the superiours and so discend shewing first who is the supreme head Sonne Christ that anoynted of the Lord God 1. Cor. 12 is supreme head ouer all people and the faithfull and elect are his body and members one of another Father Declare that the Church is the bodie of Christ with some definition thereof that the better the Church of God may bee knowen Church Sonne
soeuer is iust but sinneth seauen tims a day but what sayest thou of the electe Saints of God Sonne Iob. 15. Iob that iust man in respect of others saith behold the Lorde doth not trust his saints yea the very heauens are not cleane in his sighte Iob. 25 How may a man compared to God be iustified how can he be cleane that is born of a woman the stars are corrupt in his sight Father What sayst thou of that Virgen Mary Mother of Iesus Christ Virgin Marie for some say that she is coequall with God some affirme that shée may bée compared to a sacke that when the meall is out is nothing better Sonne I for my part Exod. 20. thinke well of neither of these for the one speaketh blasphemie to make any like God who created and made all thinges and the Lorde is a Iellious God and I will haue none to be compared to him as for the other they speake vnreuerently to compare that elect and chosen of God Marie blessed that blessed among women to a sacke or filthie vesture for she is called of the Angell Gods messenger vnto her blessed for thus he saith Luke 1. Haill full of grace our lord is with thée blessed art thou among women for thou hast found grace with God The mother of Iohn the baptist that holie woman full of the holie ghost Luke 1 cryed with a loud voice saide blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruite of thy wombe Luke 11 Euen a simple woman cryed before Christ and said blessed is the wombe that bare thée and the paps that gaue the sucke She was called blessed because she was elected to saluation by faith in her sauyour she was called blessed because shée was chosen of God to beare Iesus that anoynted of the father she is called blessed by reason she obayed the Lordes commaundement and yéelded to his will Luke 1. And she was most blessed that the Lord imputed no sinne vnto her and as touching this her blessednesse she saith her selfe Behould from hence foorth all generations shall call me blessed so that this blessed and elect of God is neither Goddesse for she exalteth not her selfe so hie neither to be compared so vnreuerentlie séeing that it pleaseth the Lord our God and sauiour to be borne of her Father Math. 1 Then thou makest her without sinne Sonne As touching the conception and byrth of Christ she was a most pure Virgen in al respects touching the same vndefiled but as touching her owne conception and byrth Psal 51. she will say and confesse with Dauid behold I was gotten in wickednesse and in sinne my mother conceaued mée How can he be cleane that is borne of a woman Iob. 25. the starres are not cleane in his sight Looke at her owne words She saith Luke 1. my soule doth magnifie the Lord and my spirit reioyceth in God my sauiour if she had béene cleane from all sinne then shée might haue béene saued by the lawe and Christ Iesus although her Sonne should haue profited her nothing therefore you may sée that she findeth somthing in her selfe that causeth her to confesse with ioye gladnesse of soule that her owne sonne must be her sauiour For why there is none that commeth vnto the Father of heauen but those that are brought by Christ for hée saith Nemo venit ad patrem nisi per me There is none that commeth vnto the father but by mée Father May wée not lawfully woorshippe and praye vnto this blessed Virgin and other Saincts Prayer to Saints Sonne Noe Father for Christ saith Dominum deum tuum adorabis et illi soli feruies Thou shalt worship the Lorde thy God and him onely shalt thou serue Reuel 19 Iohn fell downe at the Angels féete to worship but hée saide vnto him sée thou doe it not for I am thy fellow seruant and one of thy brethren euen of them that haue the testimonie of Christ Iesu but worship God Acts. 10 Cornelius fell downe at Peters féete and worshipped him but Peter tooke him by the hande and saide stande vp I my selfe am also a man Acts. 14 Iupiters Priestes brought Oxen and garlands vnto the Porch and would haue done sacrifice with the people which when the Apostles Barnabas and Paull hearde they rent their clothes and ranne among the people and saide sirs why doe ye this wée are mortall menne like vnto you and preach vnto you that yée shoulde turne from these vanities to the liuing God 4. king 17 Feare serue bow and doe sacrifice to God and to none els The Lord charged that they shoulde feare none other God nor bowe them selues vnto them nor serue them nor sacrifice to them but feare God that brought them out of Egypt him feare and to him bowe and to him doe sacrifice And as touching praier Christ teacheth his Disciples to pray Prayer Our Father which art in heauen hallowed be thy name c. When thou prayest Math. 6 Pray to the father of heauen enter into thy Chamber and shut the doore and pray to thy Father which is in secret and he will reward thée openly I cry vnto the Lorde with my voyce saith Dauid Psalm 77 euen vnto God will I crye with my voyce and he shall harken vnto mée Looke vnto whome Abrahams seruaunt prayed Lord God of my Maister Abrahā Gene. 24 send mée good spéede this day and shewe mercy vnto my Maister Abraham Abraham praied for Abimelech vnto the Lorde Gen. 20. and the Lorde healed Abimelech He that offereth to any but to the Lord onelie let him be rooted out Exod. 22 Serue where thou wilt saith Iosua Iosua 24 I and my house will serue the Lord God The Angell sayde Iudg. 13. if thou wilt offer an offering thou must offer it vnto the Lorde Elcana went euerie festiuall day to pray and to offer vnto the Lord God of hostes in Silo. Anna prayed and saide I haue powred out my soule before the Lord wherby you may perceaue father that none is to bée worshipped bowed vnto feared sacrificed before prayed vnto but onely the God of heauen and earth Father May we not pray thus and say GOD and our Ladie helpe mée or God and S. Iohn Peter or Iames Sonne Esay 59 None can helpe but God That is to make others equall with God For Esay sayth that the Lord sawe that none was righteous and he wondred that there was none to helpe him wherefore he helde him by his owne power and susteyned him by his owne righteousnesse And I tould you before that it was blasphemie to compare any with GOD and besides such are enemies to those Saincts for they wish that the Lord in his ielousie shoulde plague them by reason that they attribute that vnto them 2. King 6. that belongeth onely to the Lord. Vsa as we réede when he saw the Oxen
our peace which hath made of both one and hath broken downe the wall that was a stop betwéene vs and hath also put away through his flesh the cause of hatred euen the lawe of commaundements contained in the lawe written All thing crucified with châ— for to make of twaine one newe man in him selfe to make peace and to reconcile both vnto God in one body through the crosse and slue hatred thereby came and preached peace to you that were farre off and to them which were nigh All one now both Iewes anâ— Ientiles for by him we haue both one entrance vnto God the Father It pleased the father that in him should all fulnesse dwell Collo 1. Blood of the crossâ— and by him to reconcile all things to himselfe and to set at peace by him through the bloud of the crosse both thinges in heauen and thinges in earth This we know that the father sent the sonne to be the sauiour of the worle 1. Io. 4 And concluding to speake further of the benefites we receaue by the death and passion of Christ Iesu Acts. 3. because no tongue is able to expresse the same for there is no other name vnder heauen by whome we must be saued but onelie in the name of Iesus Christ Father If we be purged saued redéemed deliuered iustified made the children of God and fellow heyres with Iesus Christ by his death and passion tell me to what ende was the law ordayned Sonne â—all 3 It was added because of transgression till the séede came to whome the promise was made â—om 7 To reueale sinne for I knowe not saith saint Paull sinne but by the lawe I had not knowen what lust had meant except the Lord had saide vnto me thou shalt not lust â—ll 3. The Law was our scholemaster vnto Christ that we should be iustified by faith but after that faith is come we are no longer vnder the scholemaster â—b 7. The lawe brought nothing to perfection but was an introduction to a better hope by the which we drawe nigh vnto God Father Then the law saueth none Sonne No for none fulfilleth it Gall. 3 therefore bringeth a curse vpon the transgressours for it is written cursed is euerie one that continueth not in all thinges which are written in the booke of the lawe to fulfill them Father How are we then deliuered from this curse séeing that none fulfill the lawe Sonne Christ Iesus hath deliuered vs from the curse of the law Gall. 3. in asmuch as he was accursed for vs for it is written Leuiti 18 cursed is euerie one that is hanged on trée that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Iesus Christ that wée might receaue the promise of the spirite through faith Father What sayest thou to the ceremoniall law wherein were sacrifices oblations Ceremoniall law burnt offerings sinne offerings heaue offerings peace offerings sprinckling water and many such like ordinaunces of God Sonne Heb. 9. In the olde Testament were ordinances and seruings of God and worldlie holinesse Heb. 10. The law hauing but a shadow of good thinges to come and not the verie fashion of things themselues can neuer by those sacrifices that they offer yéere by yéere continually make the commers therevnto perfect Father Was the law therefore abolished Sonne Heb. 10 Yea for it did but prefigure the sacrifice death passion and other thinges fulfilled by Christ Iesu for the Lord saide sacrifice and offering and burnt sacrifice and sinne offerings thou wouldest not haue neither hast thou allowed them which are yet offered by the lawe then saide he To do gods will is the best sacrifice loe I am héere to doe thy will oh God he taketh away the first to establish the latter Father Was Christ but once offered and was that offering perfect how chaunceth it that Priestes in some places affirme that in their masses they offer Christ stil vnto the Father for the sinnes of the quicke and deade Sonne It is not in mans power to offer Christ Heb. 9. for Christ Iesus fréed himselfe once not euerie day Christ was once offred saith S. Paull to take away sinnes and not to offer himselfe often as the hye Priestes doth for theÌ„ must he oft haue suffered since the world beganne Christ néedeth not daylie first for his owne sinnes and then for the sinnes of the people to offer vp sacrifice Heb. 7. for that did he once when he offred vp himselfe and therefore perfect for euermore Christ loued vs and gaue himselfe for vs an offring and a sacrifice of a swéete sauour vnto God Father Can not then our annoynted Priests offer Christ in their masses euery daie Ephe. 5. Sonne No father for sée what Saint Paull saith we haue an hye Priest in heauen that sitteth on the right hand of God and is a minister of holie thinges and of the true Tabernacle which God pight not man Heb. 10. this man after he hath offered one sacryfice for sinnes is set downe on the right hand of God for Vnica oblatione profectos imperpet effecit eos qui sanctificantur with one offering he hath made perfect for euer those that are sanctified Heb. 1 So that father now after that he hath purged our sinnes with this sacryfice he is set downe on the right hand of the maiestie on hye no more to be offered Father Is he set on the right hand of his father no more to be offered what profit haue we by him being there Sonne Heb. 13 Sacrifice of praise He doth alwaies offer to God his father the sacryfice of praise that is the fruite of those lipes wherewith wée confesse his name Heb. 9. Christ entred into verie heauen for to appeare in the sight of God for vs. Io. 2. If anie man sinne we haue an aduocate with the father Iesus Christ the righteous Aduocate to purchase mercie for vs. and he it is that obtaineth grace for our sinnes and not for our sinnes onelie but for the sinnes of the whole world He sitteth on the right hand of God and maketh intercession for the saints according to the pleasure of God Rom. 8. He is saith saint Paull at the right hand of his father to make intercession for vs. I sawe an Angell saith S. Iohn Reuel 8 that stoode before the Alter offering the praiers of Saints vppon the golden Alter which was before the seat and the smoke of the odours which came of the praiers of all saintes ascended vp before God out of the Angells hand This Angell father is Iesus Christ that praieth for vs and presenteth the God of heauen with our praiers whereby they are accepted and for whose sake our peticions graunted Father Thou saist that Christ Iesus sitteth at the right hand of his father to pray for vs to offer vp our praiers and sacrificeâ— of thanks giueing to him to be our
Law-giuer the Lord is our King and he himselfe is our Sauiour the lame menne runne after the pray there lyeth no man that sayeth I am sicke but all euill is taken away from the people that dwell there â—say 35 They shall florish pleasauntly and bée ioyfull and euer be giuing of thanks more and more â—hanks â—ueing euerlasting ioye shal they haue pleasure and gladnesse shall be among them and as for all sorrow and heauines shall vanish away â—say 60. The Lord himselfe shall be their euerlasting light and their God shall be their glorie â—zech 37 Their children and their childers children shall dwell in that lande for euermore â—hrist and my seruant Dauid shall be their euerlasting prince and I will be among them for euermore â—uke 5 Reioyce and be glad for great shall your reward be in heauen They shal be equall saith Iesus Christ with the Angells Luke 20. and are the sonnes of God for asmuch as they are the children of the resurrection for all men liue vnto him They shall eate and drinke with Iesu Christ in his kingdome Eod. 23 and sit on seats iudgeing the twelue Tribes of Israell They shall giue prayse glorie Rom. 2 and immortalitie to God They shall alwaies be with the Lord saith Saint Paull 1. Thess 4 They shall be Kinges and Priestes of Christ Reuel 20 and shall raigne with him a thousande yeares And concluding that which hath no ende with the words of Saint Paull 1. Cor. 2. the eye hath not â—â—â—e the eare hath not heard neyther hath it entred into the heart of man the ioye that God hath prepared for them that loue him Father Thou hast brought euerie thing to perfection which I desired to knowe let vs ende therefore with makyng ouâ— humble hartie prayers vnto God thanking his Maiestie for all his gracious and mercifull benefites therfore beginne thou and I will pray with thée Sonne A Prayer O Lorde Iesus Christ the Sonne of the euerliuing God by whom all things were made are ruled and gouerned as of thy loue for our redemption thou diddest not disdayne to be our mediatour and to take vpon thée our nature in the wombe of a most blessed Virgin purelie and without sinne by the operation of the holy spirit that both â—hou mightest in thine owne person woâ—derfully beautifie and exalt our nature and worke the same in vs also for abolishing the guiltinesse of sinne by redemption then sinne it selfe by death and last of al death by raising again these our bodies that they may be like to thine owne glorious and immortall bodie according to the power wherewith thou art able to subiect all thinges vnto thée And as of thy loue for our redemption thou becamest manne and that most poore and afflicted vppon earth by the space of thrée and thirtie yéeres in most humilitie payest the price of our raÌ„some by thy most bitter death passion for the which I giue most heartlie thanckes vnto thée so of the same thy loue towards vs in thy good time thou wilt come againe in the cloudes of heauen with power and great glorie with flaming fire with thousandes of Saints with Angels of power with a mightie crye shout of an Archangell and blast of a Trumpe sodenlie as a lightning that shineth from the East when men thincke least euen as a thefe in the night when men be a sléepe Thou wilt so come â—â—us sodenlie in the twinckling of an eye all men that euer haue béene be or shalâ—â— with women and Children appearing before thy tribunall seate to render an accompt of all thinges which they haue thought spoken or done against thy Lawe openly and before all Angels Saints and Diuells and so to receiue the iust rewarde of thy vengance if they haue not repented and obeyed thy Ghospell and so depart from thée to the Diuell and his Angells into hell fire which is vnquenchable and of paines intollerable easeles endles hopels euen from the face of thy glorious and mightie power But if they haue repented and beléeued thy Ghospell if they bée found watching with their lampes and oyle in their handes if they be found redie appareled with the wedding garment of innocencie if they haue not hardened their hearts and hourded vp the treasure of thy vengance in the daye of wrath to be reueled but haue vsed the time of grace the acceptable time the time of saluation that is the time of this life in the which thou stretchest out thine hand and spreadest thine armes calling and crying vnto vs to come vnto thée which art méeke in heart and lowlie for thou wilt ease all that labour and bée heauie laden If they haue visited the sicke and prisoners comforted the comfortlesse féed the hungrie clothed the naked lodged the harborles If they haue not lodened their hearts with gluttonie and surfeting and carelesnesse of this life If they haue not digged and hid their Tallent in the ground doing no good therwith but haue béene faithfull to occupye thye guiftes to thy glorie and haue washed their garments in thy blood by harty repentance Then shall thy Angels gather them to gether not as the wicked which shall bée collected as fagots and cast into the fire but as the good wheate that is gathered into thy barne Then shall they be caught vp to méete the in the Cloudes then shall their corruptable bodie put on incorruption then shall they bée endued with immortalitie and glorie thâ—â— shall they bée with thée and goe wheythâ—r thou goest then shall they hreae come â—lessed of my Father possesse the kingdome of heauen prepared for you from the beginning and then shall they bée sette on seates of Maiestie iudgeing the whole worlde then shall they reigne with thée for euer then shall God bée all in all with them to them then shall they enter and inherite heauenlie Ierusalem and the glorious restfull land of Canaan wher it shal alwaies be day and neuer night where is no manner of wéeping teares infirmities hunger cold sicknesse enuie mallice nor sinne but alwaies ioye without sorrow mirth without measure pleasure without paine heauenlie harmony most pleasant melody saying and singing holie holy holie Lord God of hosts finally the eye hath not séene the eare hath not heard neither hath it entred into the heart of man that they shall then inherite and most surelie enioye although héere they be tormented prisoned solicited of Sathan tempted of the flesh and entaÌ„gled with the world where through they are enforced to crye come Lord Iesu oh gracious GOD let vs finde such mercie with thée that we may repent beléeue hope and looke for these thinges with full fruition of those heauenlie ioyes which thou hast prepared for al them the feare thée And so rest with thee for euermore graunt this oh Lord and sauiour Iesu Christ for thine owne name sake Amen Father I Thought it my dutie sonne to bring thée vp in vertue and knowledge and in the feare of God whereof I haue apposed thée and I thanck GOD thou hast profited well God graunt that thou increase from vertue to vertue vntill thou be a perfect member of Iesus Christ so that through thée God our heauenly father may be glorified his kingdome increased Sathan abolished superstition and Idolatary rooted out the coÌ„mon welth beautified thy brethren and neighbours releaued and I comforted and graunt that all people kindreds and tongues may in the fearefull day of the Lorde be found stable and vnblameable in holinesse and so reigne with thée God our heauenlie father in his eternall kingdome through the blood of the laâ—be Iesus Christ who liueth and â—igneth one true eternall immortall and euerliing GOD world without ende Amen Sonne Graunt this O Lorde and heauenlie father for Iesus Christ his sake Amen Father Well sonne depart apply thy studye the God of my fathers Abraham Isaac and Iacob blesse the and prosper thy labour in the Lorde Amen FINIS Aucthor Elizabetha diu valeat vigeatque regendo O Lord of Hosts defend with hand The gracious princesse of this land Keepe her from all her foes bloody I the beseech most hartelie And graunt her strength power might Vertue and grace to hauâ— a sight Of the O king of glory good That for vs all shed or thy blood And thus I stay my hand and penne Beseeching all to say Amen EINIS quod Lister Printed at London by Thomas East 1588.